RealTimeData/bbc_alltime
This dataset contains BBC News articles from 2017 to 2022. The articles are arraged by month. Access the specific month by using the format "YYYY-MM" as config. Such as load_dataset("RealTimeData/bbc_alltime", "2021-1").
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1{"title": ["Africa is a hostage of Russia's war on Ukraine, Zelensky says - BBC News", "Hong Kong: Iconic floating Jumbo restaurant sinks - BBC News", "Boots criticised over pill boxes for the elderly - BBC News", "'World’s biggest' freshwater fish found in Mekong, Cambodia - BBC News", "Israel heading to polls as coalition moves to dissolve parliament - BBC News", "Ros Atkins on… Why rail strikes are happening - BBC News", "Rail strike: Grant Shapps dismisses calls for government involvement as a 'stunt' - BBC News", "Transgender athletes: Lord Coe hints athletics could follow swimming in banning trans women - BBC Sport", "UN sexual abuse claims 'must be investigated' - BBC News", "French elections: Cleaner defeats former minister in parliamentary vote - BBC News", "Capitol riot hearing: Vote workers detail death threats - BBC News", "Ofgem blamed as supplier failures lead to higher energy bills - BBC News", "Windrush Day: Queen praises pioneers as Waterloo statue unveiled - BBC News", "Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father - BBC News", "Ex-soldier Collin Reeves jailed for life for murdering neighbours - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee's family can appeal life-support ruling - BBC News", "No 10 spoke to Times before Carrie Johnson story dropped - BBC News", "Asda says some shoppers asking cashiers to stop at £30 - BBC News", "Rail strike costs remote Highlands hotel majority of bookings - BBC News", "Assam: India floods destroy millions of homes and dreams - BBC News", "Chelsea Bridge: Man who died after Taser was holding firelighter - BBC News", "Cookstown: Murder investigation begins after woman's body found - BBC News", "Ryan Giggs: Ex-Manchester United winger resigns as Wales manager - BBC Sport", "Sexual offences: Dozens of cases have faced five-year court wait - BBC News", "Network Rail strike: Passengers stay away as nine in 10 trains cancelled - BBC News", "Commonwealth: Row over report into secretariat's finances - BBC News", "Food bills are set to soar by £380 this year - BBC News", "Cookstown: Man charged with murdering woman - BBC News", "Is Dominic Raab's quest to reform human rights law almost over? - BBC News", "Uvalde shooting: Gunman could have been stopped within three minutes - safety official - BBC News", "Dr Michael Watt: Neurology patient recall report published - BBC News", "Sturgeon to set out indyref2 'route map' next week - BBC News", "National Care Service for Scotland will 'end postcode lottery' - BBC News", "Rail strikes: Agency staff could cover striking staff under new law - BBC News", "Michael Watt: Trust failed to intervene on neurology misdiagnoses - BBC News", "Train strike as it happened: Union praises rail strikers but fresh talks due - BBC News", "As it happened: US Capitol riots - Targeting 'affected my life in a major way' says election worker - BBC News", "The Scottish Police Federation's governing body rejects £565 pay increase - BBC News", "Joe Lycett asked to explain comedy show joke to police - BBC News", "Bill Cosby assaulted teen at Playboy Mansion, jury finds - BBC News", "Union rejects Rolls-Royce £2,000 living-cost bonus - BBC News", "Paddy Power beheading: Coroner highlights authority 'failures' - BBC News", "France elections: Macron rejects prime minister's offer to resign - BBC News", "Rail strikes: Parties struggle to deal with the politics of pain - BBC News", "EasyJet Spain cabin crew set to strike in July - BBC News", "AstraZeneca: Vaccine death payout of £120k 'inadequate' - fiancée - BBC News", "US Supreme Court: The woman who helped to end Roe v Wade - BBC News", "Four Tet wins royalty battle over streaming music - BBC News", "Transport at a crossroads as strikes hit London - BBC News", "Kaliningrad: Russia warns Lithuania of consequences over rail transit sanctions - BBC News", "Strava app flaw revealed runs of Israeli officials at secret bases - BBC News", "Stonehenge summer solstice: Thousands welcome back celebrations - BBC News", "Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctions Nobel medal for $103m - BBC News", "Labour loses vote on giving MPs power to appoint new ethics chief - BBC News", "Champions League: Disabled fans treated like animals - French Senate told - BBC News", "Monkeypox jab to be offered to at-risk gay and bisexual men - BBC News", "Are Llandudno's wild goats a positive or a plague? - BBC News", "Stereo Kicks star Tom Mann 'broken' as fiancee Danielle dies on wedding day - BBC News", "Dr Michael Watt will not appear at neurological inquiry - BBC News", "Dementia patients not allowed to use toilet - BBC News", "Brewdog approached Heineken about partial sale - BBC News", "Transgender women banned from women's international rugby league - BBC Sport", "Woman and boy, 5, found stabbed to death in Barnet - BBC News", "Dr Michael Watt: Almost 20% of patients misdiagnosed - BBC News", "Shepherd's Bush tower fire started by charging e-bike battery - BBC News", "Britons wary of impending rail strikes - BBC News", "Plan to reverse European Court Rwanda rulings - BBC News", "Yorkshire helicopter crash: Two dead near Burton in Lonsdale - BBC News", "Boy with rare heart condition returns home after year in hospital - BBC News", "Arrest in Pakistan over 1995 Blackwood market murder - BBC News", "Prince William turns 40: Birthday photos show duke's priorities - BBC News", "World's largest freshwater fish found in Mekong, scientists say - BBC News", "French Open: Amelie Mauresmo apologises for 'out of context' comments - BBC Sport", "Platinum Jubilee: Queen celebrated at service for 'staying the course' - BBC News", "Nations League: Northern Ireland lose scrappy opener to Greece as dismal run continues - BBC Sport", "Cardigan: Anger of fishermen at safety pontoon closure - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Highlights from the Queen's church service - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Crowds cheer Queen at palace as Jubilee begins - BBC News", "Monkeypox: Nigeria bans bushmeat to prevent virus spread - BBC News", "Champions League final: Uefa apologises to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans - BBC Sport", "Platinum Jubilee: Queen pulls out of St Paul's Cathedral service - BBC News", "Imperial measures drive will add costs for businesses, Asda boss says - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia achieving success in Donbas, says Ministry of Defence - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Zelensky says Russia controls a fifth of Ukrainian territory - BBC News", "Johnny Depp gigs in Gateshead after Amber Heard libel case win - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Queen seen on Buckingham Palace balcony - BBC News", "French Open: Rafael Nadal through to final after Alexander Zverev fall - BBC Sport", "Former pupil secures £400,000 settlement from Fettes College over abuse claims - BBC News", "Pride month: Kuwait criticises US embassy over pro-LGBT tweets - BBC News", "In pictures: The Royal Family at Jubilee celebrations - BBC News", "Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill back in top 10 thanks to Stranger Things - BBC News", "London's iconic Camden Market put up for sale - BBC News", "Investigation as man dies after Norfolk Police A47 chase - BBC News", "Michaela McAreavey: Two men apologise for video mocking bride's murder - BBC News", "CCTV released after Margaret Thatcher statue damaged - BBC News", "Delays to Ajax armoured vehicles risk national security, MPs warn - BBC News", "Canada says China 'buzzing' military flights in Asia - BBC News", "As it happened: Platinum Jubilee: Archbishop praises Queen for 'staying the course' - BBC News", "Corgis: How the Queen fell in love and started a phenomenon - BBC News", "Champions League Final: Harrowing accounts of post-match violence spark debate - BBC News", "Bavaria train crash: At least four killed in German rail accident - BBC News", "Anti-extremism Prevent strategy 'failing to engage Muslim communities' - BBC News", "JK Rowling firm in row over right-to-roam access - BBC News", "Wales-Ukraine: Some refugees get free World Cup play-off tickets - BBC News", "In pictures: Harry and Meghan join royals for National Service of Thanksgiving - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest: Ukraine claims fight back in key eastern city - BBC News", "North Korea assumes leadership of top disarmament group - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Queen to miss Derby but celebrations continue - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Marriott hotel chain to leave Russia after 25 years - BBC News", "Wales-Ukraine: 100 tickets for refugees for World Cup play-off - BBC News", "Operation Brock: M20 traffic controls to be lifted after Jubilee - BBC News", "Ukraine lifts interest rate to highest in Europe - BBC News", "Investors seek millions from Woodford fund collapse - BBC News", "Real Madrid ask for answers into 'unfortunate events' at Champions League final - BBC Sport", "Driving tests: DVSA closing down booking accounts not linked to instructors - BBC News", "Prince Harry and Meghan remain low-key at Jubilee events - BBC News", "Depp-Heard trial: Why Johnny Depp lost in the UK but won in the US - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Highlights from Queen's Jubilee celebrations - BBC News", "Shoppers not returning to Scotland's stores - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Joy and tears among Trooping the Colour crowd - BBC News", "As it happened: June heatwave in England and Wales - BBC News", "Scotland experiencing new wave of Covid infections, expert says - BBC News", "Loved ones were cut adrift in care homes, say families - BBC News", "Apple battery lawsuit: Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action - BBC News", "Nepal to move Everest base camp from melting glacier - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 10-17 June - BBC News", "Airlines told to cancel flights to stop travel chaos - BBC News", "US Open: Rory McIlroy and England's Callum Tarren one behind leader Adam Hadwin - BBC Sport", "England appoints ambassador to shake up women's health - BBC News", "As it happened: Russia aiming to bring front-line to Kharkiv - Ukraine - BBC News", "Government set to miss air pollution goals - report - BBC News", "Second homes: Tenby rappers vent second home frustration - BBC News", "Republican Senate gun negotiator walks out of talks - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum policy: Deportee says plan would have deterred him - BBC News", "'The Russians said beatings were my re-education' - BBC News", "Eurovision: UK in talks to host 2023 contest instead of Ukraine - BBC News", "UK weather: Hottest day of the year as temperatures to rise further - BBC News", "Ed Sheeran tickets cancelled for NHS and emergency staff - BBC News", "Julian Assange can be extradited, says UK home secretary - BBC News", "Heathrow Terminal 2 baggage piles up after malfunction - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Boris Johnson travels to Kyiv to meet Volodymyr Zelensky - BBC News", "Drone test for delivering school meals - BBC News", "UK interest rates raised to 1.25% by Bank of England - BBC News", "Fears grow for summer holidays after flight cancellations - BBC News", "'Long Covid' risk lower with Omicron, study finds - BBC News", "As it happened: Cost of living - Your questions answered - BBC News", "Cosmetics maker Revlon files for bankruptcy in US - BBC News", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Family speak of heartbreak over killings - BBC News", "Lord Geidt: PM's ex-ethics adviser reveals more about why he quit - BBC News", "Ukraine war: EU leaders back immediate candidate status for Kyiv - BBC News", "Ex-Surrey banker faked cancer as part of £1.8m fraud - BBC News", "Coeliac patient died days after being fed Weetabix, inquest hears - BBC News", "Ex-soldier Collin Reeves guilty of murdering neighbours in parking row - BBC News", "Gymnastics abuse: Whyte Review finds physical and emotional abuse issues were 'systemic' - BBC Sport", "What weapons are being given to Ukraine by the UK? - BBC News", "Asylum: Iranian mum 'can't forgive' over family's relocation - BBC News", "Pontypridd: Woman arrested on suspicion of Steven Davies' murder - BBC News", "UK heatwave: Hottest day of the year again for third day in a row - BBC News", "Russian GRU spy tried to infiltrate International Criminal Court - BBC News", "Sign language 999 BSL service launched for deaf people - BBC News", "Archbishop of Canterbury apologises over Church fund's link to slavery - BBC News", "Labour's Starmer and Rayner return police questionnaire over lockdown drink - BBC News", "Russia's Putin condemns 'mad and thoughtless' Western sanctions - BBC News", "Babushka Z: The woman who became a Russian propaganda icon - BBC News", "Johnson is ally and I'm happy he's still PM, Ukraine's president says - BBC News", "Europe heatwave: Outdoor events banned in parts of France - BBC News", "Diabetes: Warning that missing eye test appointments risks sight loss - BBC News", "Gatwick: Passenger with restricted mobility dies after leaving flight - BBC News", "Pig feed deaths: Managers jailed after yard workers drowned - BBC News", "'The Russians said beatings were my re-education' - BBC News", "Kate Bush is number one, thanks to Stranger Things - BBC News", "Pensions: Millions receive wrong amount 'for decades' - BBC News", "People cut back on food, fuel and clothes as prices rise, BBC survey suggests - BBC News", "Lavrov: Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed - BBC News", "GCSE and A-levels: Mistakes in papers caused ‘pupil distress’, Ofqual says - BBC News", "Big pay rises could push prices up, says minister - BBC News", "Covid infections up after Platinum Jubilee celebrations - BBC News", "The Northern Ireland Protocol: What does each side want? - BBC News", "Phil Bennett: Legendary Wales and British and Irish Lions fly-half dies aged 73 - BBC Sport", "Can video calls ease the pressure on Scotland's A&Es? - BBC News", "Fears for UK economy grow as higher prices bite - BBC News", "Sniffer dogs to search for rogue island hedgehogs on Barra - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum plan: Number of people on first flight close to single figures - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee treatment should stop, judge rules - BBC News", "Where does US gun control go from here? - BBC News", "UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear? - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Evidence shows widespread use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv - BBC News", "Man found in car at bottom of cliffs in Cornwall - BBC News", "Rebel Wilson: Paper denies outing actress amid storm of criticism - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: British man Scott Sibley killed - BBC News", "Sir Mick Jagger tests positive for Covid - BBC News", "Fuel prices: Petrol stations face urgent review of fuel duty cut - BBC News", "House of Commons to be 'menopause friendly', Speaker Lindsay Hoyle vows - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Every bridge leading to key city Severodonetsk destroyed - BBC News", "Sebastian Kalinowski tortured by mum and partner, murder trial told - BBC News", "Life after Guantanamo: 'We are still in jail' - BBC News", "Africa Eye: Racism for sale - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum: Iranian policeman who defied orders says he fears for his life - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Former British soldier Jordan Gatley killed in fighting - BBC News", "Prince Andrew out of view as Tony Blair receives royal honour - BBC News", "French election: Left surge threatens Macron majority in France - BBC News", "Dom Phillips: Family and friends demand answers - BBC News", "Gymnastics abuse: Eloise Jotischky becomes first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics - BBC Sport", "NI Protocol: Does Boris Johnson have support for bill? - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum plan: Court allows first flight to go ahead - BBC News", "Bournemouth beach rape: Man arrested after girl attacked in sea - BBC News", "Don't go to Ukraine, military boss tells Britons - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon to launch fresh Scottish independence campaign - BBC News", "Pembroke Dock murder: Accused man Matthew Harris dies - BBC News", "As it happened: Human cost of eastern city battle 'simply terrifying' - Zelensky - BBC News", "Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings - BBC News", "Man 'murdered wife and hid body in septic tank 40 years ago' - BBC News", "Hywel Morgan: Poppit Sands hero 'fiercely intelligent' - BBC News", "UK’s biggest GP chain replacing doctors with less qualified staff - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia earns $97bn on energy exports since invasion - BBC News", "Kevin Spacey to appear in UK court on sex assault charges - BBC News", "January 6 hearing: Trump was 'detached from reality', says Bill Barr - BBC News", "US gun control: Cautious welcome to bipartisan deal on new safety measures - BBC News", "Absent UK soldiers may have travelled to Ukraine, British Army says - BBC News", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Police deny bodies found in Amazon search - BBC News", "Humza Yousaf says pandemic has left NHS staff completely knackered - BBC News", "Food strategy criticised by government's own adviser - BBC News", "Rebel Wilson: Australian paper offers apology but denies outing actress - BBC News", "Amber Heard speaks about social media 'hate and vitriol' of Johnny Depp trial - BBC News", "Queen Elizabeth II becomes second-longest serving monarch - BBC News", "Fans ask Lizzo to remove song over offensive lyric - BBC News", "Lysychansk: Russia erasing history in Ukraine's 'dead city' - BBC News", "Scottish wildcat: Seized Conwy cat not endangered species - BBC News", "Arron Banks loses Russia libel case against Carole Cadwalladr - BBC News", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Police find belongings of missing pair - BBC News", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: 'A tragedy foretold' - BBC News", "SNP minister Jenny Gilruth and former Labour leader Kezia Dugdale marry - BBC News", "US gun control: Cross-party group of senators agree limited safety measures - BBC News", "Huge plan to map the DNA of all life in British Isles - BBC News", "Dragons' Den star Hilary Devey dies aged 65 - BBC News", "Starmer investigated by standards watchdog over late gift registrations - BBC News", "NI Protocol: UK reveals plans to ditch parts of EU Brexit deal - BBC News", "Long Covid patients face lottery over treatment - BBC News", "Londonderry 'boob watch': Concert firm apologises for big screen message - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Five ways Russia's invasion may play out - BBC News", "Tiger Woods to miss US Open to give himself time to 'get stronger' - BBC Sport", "British geologist jailed in Iraq after taking artefacts - BBC News", "Boris Johnson: What threats does he now face to his job? - BBC News", "Bob Seely: Tory MP says he backed PM after council funding assurances - BBC News", "As it happened: Truss tells Tory MPs it is time to move on - BBC News", "UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable - BBC News", "Boris Johnson welcomes 'convincing' confidence vote - BBC News", "Top Gun maker Paramount sued over copyright breach - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Captured Britons appear in Donetsk rebel court - BBC News", "Rangers, JD Sports and Elite Sports accused of fixing kit prices - BBC News", "Law makes monkeypox a notifiable disease in England - BBC News", "John Paul McDonagh: My son was murdered in front of me, mum tells jury - BBC News", "Boris Johnson vote: Douglas Ross says PM has to think about resigning - BBC News", "Dustin Johnson resigns from PGA Tour to play LIV Golf - BBC Sport", "National Action: Swansea Nazi Alex Davies jailed - BBC News", "Channel migrants: More than 10,000 people cross in 2022 - BBC News", "MPs condemn chaotic scenes at Paris final - BBC News", "Where does the U-turn journey end for Douglas Ross? - BBC News", "Johnson is ally and I'm happy he's still PM, Ukraine's president says - BBC News", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson wins Tory confidence vote - BBC News", "'I watched from afar Russia’s latest merciless assault on Severodonetsk' - BBC News", "Scottish government publishes indyref2 legal advice - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Severodonetsk and Lysychansk are dead cities - Zelensky - BBC News", "Ukraine War: Why I risk my life to provide aid in Ukraine - BBC News", "Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns - BBC News", "Tiger King's Doc Antle charged with money laundering - BBC News", "Isle of Man TT: NI rider Davy Morgan killed in Supersport race crash - BBC Sport", "Cost to fuel a lorry is up £20,000 a year, says haulage boss - BBC News", "Germany 1-1 England: Harry Kane scores 50th Three Lions goal with late penalty - BBC Sport", "Mariupol: Azovstal defenders' bodies arrive in Kyiv - families - BBC News", "Michaela McAreavey: Man attends police station over mocking video - BBC News", "Partygate: Sir Patrick Vallance says it is 'disappointing' No 10 broke rules - BBC News", "Avian flu kills birds at St Kilda World Heritage Site - BBC News", "Family of British journalist missing in Amazon urges action - BBC News", "Mark Adams: Ex-airport policeman jailed over seized cash - BBC News", "Emma Raducanu: Injured British number one faces race to be fit for Wimbledon - BBC Sport", "Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal - BBC News", "Geologist Jim Fitton jailed in Iraq 'shell shocked' over verdict - BBC News", "Harry and Meghan share photo of Lilibet on first birthday - BBC News", "As it happened: Conflict settling into 'WW1-style trench warfare' - BBC News", "Ukraine war: EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout - BBC News", "England: Seven fans arrested in Munich - three for making a Nazi salute - BBC Sport", "Boris Johnson confidence vote: Which Tory MPs want the PM to go? - BBC News", "Fines for parents rise as schools try to reach absent kids - BBC News", "Matthew McConaughey brings dead girl's shoes to White House - BBC News", "Ukraine war: World Bank warns of 'human catastrophe' food crisis - BBC News", "Brad Pitt says Angelina Jolie 'sought to inflict harm' with vineyard sale - BBC News", "Apple announces buy now pay later, among iOS 16 plans - BBC News", "Innovative Medicines Fund launched to fast-track drugs - BBC News", "Buy now, pay later: Warning over use of credit cards to cover payments - BBC News", "Ballot win for Boris Johnson doesn't mean political escape - BBC News", "Money laundering: MPs call for closure of NI corporate loophole - BBC News", "Boris Johnson: Authority 'diminished' after confidence vote - BBC News", "Money laundering: Assets seized in £215m money laundering operation - BBC News", "Bangladesh officials say depot fire exacerbated by mislabelled chemicals - BBC News", "Arizona police placed on leave after watching man drown - BBC News", "Brenda Edwards says son Jamal's death was due to cardiac arrhythmia - BBC News", "Fears grow for summer holidays after flight cancellations - BBC News", "Shoppers rein in spending as incomes squeezed - BBC News", "Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman: Met apologises on anniversary of murders - BBC News", "Minimum unit price not changing alcoholics' habits - BBC News", "Kamila Valieva: Skating minimum age to be raised to 17 following Olympic controversy - BBC Sport", "World Cup 2022: LGBT Wales fans vow to boycott Qatar tournament - BBC News", "Dom Phillips: Missing journalist's wife in tearful plea to step up search - BBC News", "What weapons are being given to Ukraine by the UK? - BBC News", "Time to draw a line under Partygate, Boris Johnson tells cabinet - BBC News", "Stuck Brits scramble to get home after axed flights - BBC News", "London Tube strike: Services running as industrial action ends - BBC News", "Boris Johnson will know his opponents are thwarted, not defeated - BBC News", "HS2: Government scraps plans for £3bn West Coast Main Line link - BBC News", "Harry Gration: Tributes pour in for Ex-BBC Look North presenter - BBC News", "Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen join Paul McCartney at Glastonbury - BBC News", "Gareth Bale: Los Angeles FC confirm signing of Wales captain after Real Madrid exit - BBC Sport", "By-election results: Six takeaways for Tories from the doorsteps - BBC News", "USS Samuel B Roberts: World's deepest shipwreck discovered - BBC News", "Roe v Wade: US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion - BBC News", "Severodonetsk: Russia has full control of eastern city, Ukraine says - BBC News", "Lauren Laverne pulls out of Glastonbury after her mother dies - BBC News", "Oslo shooting: Norway attack being treated as Islamist terrorism, police say - BBC News", "U2 singer Bono discusses discovering he has a half-brother - BBC News", "G7 face battle for unity as cost of Ukraine war mounts - BBC News", "Duchess of Cambridge releases photos of visit to army training - BBC News", "Covid: UK infections continuing to rise - BBC News", "Boris Johnson admits by-election results 'not brilliant' but vows to go on - BBC News", "Boris Johnson faces new Tory rebellion after by-election losses - BBC News", "Taiwo Awoniyi: Nottingham Forest sign Nigeria forward from Union Berlin for club-record fee - BBC Sport", "Paul McCartney fans get up early to claim Glastonbury front row spots - BBC News", "Fathers share their final conversations with sons - BBC News", "Billie Eilish protests against US abortion ruling at Glastonbury - BBC News", "The villagers who bought their own petrol pumps - BBC News", "Harry Gration: Ex-BBC Look North presenter dies, aged 71 - BBC News", "Wimbledon: Emma Raducanu & Andy Murray set for Centre Court on day one - BBC Sport", "Liam Gallagher fans face rail strike disruption for Glasgow gig - BBC News", "Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada - BBC News", "Row over M&S plan to redevelop flagship store - BBC News", "Roe v Wade: Why this is a seismic day in America - BBC News", "Russia promises Belarus Iskander-M nuclear-capable missiles - BBC News", "Petra Kvitova prepares for Wimbledon with Eastbourne win over Jelena Ostapenko - BBC Sport", "US abortion ruling: Supreme Court has made some terrible decisions, says Biden - BBC News", "Russia in debt default as payment deadline passes - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Kyiv orders forces to withdraw from Severodonetsk - BBC News", "Greta Thunberg delivers a climate warning at Glastonbury - BBC News", "PM: I will not undergo psychological transformation after poll defeat - BBC News", "Boris Johnson is interviewed by Today's Mishal Husain - BBC News", "Afghanistan earthquake: hospital struggles to help survivors - BBC News", "LGBT awards: Adele Roberts named role model of the year - BBC News", "Boris Johnson 'actively thinking about' third term as PM - BBC News", "Where do by-election defeats leave Boris Johnson's future? - BBC News", "Yorkshire Three Peaks walkers removing stones from walls and slopes - BBC News", "What's the political mood following by-election dramas? - BBC News", "Beautiful Gwynedd beaches fail to entice one job applicant - BBC News", "GB Row Challenge: Sixteen rescued after hitting bad weather - BBC News", "Thousands take part in Glasgow and Edinburgh Pride marches - BBC News", "At least 23 die trying to cross into Spanish enclave of Melilla - BBC News", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak defends likely pensions rise - BBC News", "Champions League: Disabled fans treated like animals - French Senate told - BBC News", "Upskirt photos shared in Facebook groups, BBC finds - BBC News", "Second homes: Gwynedd Council could buy empty houses - BBC News", "Afghanistan earthquake: 'Every street you go you hear mourning' - BBC News", "First openly gay judge to lead LGBT veterans probe - BBC News", "Boots criticised over pill boxes for the elderly - BBC News", "As it happened: Johnson and Starmer spar over rail strikes at - BBC News", "Twitter tests 'notes' feature with 2,500 word limit - BBC News", "Ukraine refugees: UK set to admit lone teenagers after rule change - BBC News", "Uvalde shooting: Robb Elementary School to be demolished - mayor - BBC News", "Sexual exploitation: Rise in at-risk young people missing from care - BBC News", "Kaliningrad row: Lithuania accuses Russia of lying about rail 'blockade' - BBC News", "Victims abused by referee Hugh Stevenson say the SFA is blocking justice - BBC News", "Capitol riot hearing: Vote workers detail death threats - BBC News", "Ofgem blamed as supplier failures lead to higher energy bills - BBC News", "Subsea internet cables could help detect earthquakes - BBC News", "Welsh opera singer flies to Sussex in helicopter to save show - BBC News", "River Taff: One in hospital after Cardiff river search - BBC News", "Windrush Day: Queen praises pioneers as Waterloo statue unveiled - BBC News", "Afghan earthquake: At least 1,000 people killed and 1,500 injured - BBC News", "The tiny mites that have sex on our faces have a problem - BBC News", "The Glasgow vegan who teamed up with Kourtney Kardashian - BBC News", "Cost of living: Inflation pressures squeezing food producers - BBC News", "Joe Lycett asked to explain comedy show joke to police - BBC News", "Bill Cosby assaulted teen at Playboy Mansion, jury finds - BBC News", "Johnson hints that new coal mine for Cumbria will get go-ahead - BBC News", "Prince Charles meets Rwandan Genocide survivors - BBC News", "Commonwealth: Row over report into secretariat's finances - BBC News", "Afghanistan earthquake: Injured carried to rescue helicopter - BBC News", "Benefits in Northern Ireland: Warning not to 'gamble' on Universal Credit move - BBC News", "Afghanistan quake: Many children feared dead in disaster - BBC News", "Welsh Health Minister Eluned Morgan apologises to Senedd for driving ban - BBC News", "Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall reportedly to divorce - BBC News", "Britons wary of impending rail strikes - BBC News", "Plan to reverse European Court Rwanda rulings - BBC News", "Aiden Aslin: Ukraine Briton told execution will go ahead - BBC News", "AstraZeneca: Vaccine death payout of £120k 'inadequate' - fiancée - BBC News", "Polio virus detected in London sewage samples - BBC News", "Police Scotland urged to improve equality and diversity training - BBC News", "Half Russian separatist force dead or wounded - UK - BBC News", "Rail strike: Second day of action under way after talks collapse - BBC News", "Uvalde shooting: Gunman could have been stopped within three minutes - safety official - BBC News", "White House unveils plans to reduce nicotine in cigarettes - 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37-year-old man has been arrested over the deaths, the Metropolitan Police said.", "A report finds 181 of the high-risk patients seen by Dr Michael Watt were given a wrong diagnosis.", "Resident Liiban Shakat feared he was \"going to die\" when his flat became engulfed in flames.", "Rail users are braced for days of disruption across England, Scotland and Wales ahead of the biggest rail strike in 30 years.", "Ministers could ignore injunctions on asylum seekers set by European judges, under new proposals.", "The aircraft came down in a field near Burton in Lonsdale at about midday on Monday, police say.", "Cairon Barry-Edwards was admitted after having a cardiac arrest at home aged six months.", "Market trader Jaswant Singh Sandhu was shot near his stall in south Wales 27 years ago.", "As he turns 40, the duke conveys his focus on issues like homelessness and the environment.", "A 300kg stingray found in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish on record, scientists say.", "French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo apologises for saying women's matches were less appealing than men's and says she was quoted \"out of context\".", "The Archbishop of York refers to the Queen's love of racing as royals attend Jubilee event in her absence.", "Northern Ireland's search for a first-ever Nations League win stretches to 11 matches after a deflating 1-0 home defeat by Greece.", "The pontoon was introduced to keep fishermen safe - but it has now been closed on safety grounds.", "Royals, politicians and Commonwealth officials gathered in St Paul's Cathedral to give thanks to the Queen.", "Four generations of royals join the monarch on Buckingham Palace's balcony for Trooping the Colour.", "Experts say it is possible that the virus can be caught by eating meat from an infected animal.", "Uefa apologises to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans \"who had to experience or witness frightening and distressing events\" at last Saturday's Champions League final.", "The Queen will miss the St Paul's service but joined a beacon lighting ceremony on Thursday evening.", "Supermarket chief says a review of how shops could use pounds and ounces again is \"utter nonsense\".", "On the war's 100th day, UK Defence Intelligence says Russia has the initiative in the country's east.", "Russian forces are intensifying attacks on the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern Donbas region.", "The actor makes his first public appearance since the verdict in his court case against Amber Heard.", "The Queen watched the Trooping the Colour parade from the royal balcony.", "Rafael Nadal reaches the French Open final after his opponent Alexander Zverev is taken off court in a wheelchair following a nasty fall.", "The man told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was beaten and sexually abused at the school.", "Two rainbow flag posts for Pride month were condemned by Kuwait officials for \"supporting homosexuality\".", "Prince George, Prince Louis, and Princess Charlotte were among those at the Trooping the Colour.", "Running Up That Hill runs back up the UK charts after being used in the Netflix drama's new series.", "The market's billionaire owner is reportedly hoping a deal will net him as much as £1.5bn.", "Police were pursuing a car when it left the road and overturned, investigators say.", "The video appears to show a group of people mocking the killing of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius.", "Red paint was thrown over the statue of the former prime minister shortly before it was unveiled.", "Defence officials are urged to either scrap or fix a controversial Ajax armoured vehicle programme.", "Canada called the incidents unprofessional and potentially hazardous to aircrew in the Pacific.", "The Archbishop of York tells a Jubilee service he is sorry the monarch, who is resting, could not attend.", "How a young princess's love for her dog turned into a life's passion.", "UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett tells French media men with weapons were attacking and robbing fans.", "At least four people die and some 30 are injured after a train derails in the state of Bavaria.", "The UK is failing to explain its counter-extremism programme to Muslim communities, an advisor says.", "Walkers claim access to a historical right-of-way is hampered by the Harry Potter author's firm.", "Officials are in talks on how many tickets will go to Ukrainian refugees for Sunday's crucial clash.", "They were among hundreds of guests paying tribute to the Queen.", "Ukrainian forces recapture part of Severodonetsk that was lost to Russian troops, a regional governor says.", "Critics have questioned Pyongyang's temporary elevation when it has been test-firing missiles all year.", "The Queen will watch the Epsom horse race on TV, while senior royals attend celebrations across the UK.", "Marriott says Western sanctions have made it \"impossible\" to continue to remain in Russia.", "Ukrainian refugees in Wales are to be given 100 free tickets for the countries' World Cup play-off.", "The Kent Resilience Forum says it will be safe to remove the system as half term and the Jubilee end.", "In a bid to fight off high inflation, the war-torn country's central bank has lifted borrowing costs.", "A claim representing 1,500 investors wants £18m from the 'referee' of Neil Woodford's fund.", "Real Madrid have asked for answers into the \"series of unfortunate events\" at the Champions League final against Liverpool in Paris.", "The DVSA is closing down accounts on its booking site that are not linked to driving instructors.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined the Queen's Jubilee celebrations but kept a low-profile.", "Experts say key factors included having a jury trial and his lawyers using a specific legal tactic.", "Thousands gather in London for the start of a long weekend of festivities for the Platinum Jubilee.", "Scottish shopper footfall was 16.4% down on the same month in the year before the pandemic.", "Thousands crammed into The Mall for Trooping the Colour - and many felt the emotion of the moment.", "Temperatures are forecast to get as high as 34C (91.4F) in parts of south-east of England on Friday.", "Prof Linda Bauld said virus cases are rising as cases of two Omicron variants increase.", "A report found care home residents were discriminated against by Covid restrictions.", "The tech giant is accused of secretly slowing down the performance of older models.", "Nepal is preparing to move its Everest base camp as the glacier it stands on becomes less stable.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 June.", "Ministers says airlines must ensure summer schedules are deliverable to prevent more travel disruption.", "Rory McIlroy makes a strong start to the US Open to sit one shot behind first-round leader Adam Hadwin.", "The aim of the role for England is to help tackle decades of health inequalities.", "The situation north of Ukraine's second largest city is quite difficult, an adviser to the interior minister says.", "People cannot easily find out how dirty the air is where they live, the National Audit Office says.", "Will and Niall Mills' music describes the \"collapse\" of a seaside town's working class community.", "\"We're about run out of our rope here,\" a frustrated Senator John Cornyn said as he left Washington.", "But the man - taken off a deportation flight - says he didn't know about the policy before reaching the UK.", "Ukrainian citizens have told the BBC they were punched and electrocuted before being allowed to leave Mariupol.", "The organisers say the event cannot be held in the war-torn Ukraine - but Kyiv is planning an appeal.", "A high of 29.5C (85.1F) is recorded in west London as people flock to enjoy the warm weather outdoors.", "Organiser AEG Presents said the Glasgow ticket allocation for NHS and emergency staff was oversold.", "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US is approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel.", "Passengers post pictures on social media as piles of luggage fill the airport's Terminal 2.", "The PM announces training for Ukraine forces after he pulls out of a conference in Doncaster to visit Kyiv.", "A Scottish council is trailing delivering meals to more remote schools by drone.", "The Bank of England increases rates to 1.25% and forecasts inflation could surpass 11% this year.", "Travel agents say staff are dealing with calls from holidaymakers anxious about their plans.", "Last winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause lingering symptoms, researchers say.", "With prices rising for food and fuel, our correspondent answers your questions about the cost of living crisis.", "The 90-year-old firm says supply chain disruptions have driven up the cost of raw materials.", "A suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.", "Lord Geidt says he resigned over the government's \"openness\" to breaking international law.", "Ukraine belongs to the European family, the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania say in Kyiv.", "Rajesh Ghedia said he had pancreatic cancer and he would be dead within a year in an insurance scam.", "An 80-year-old coeliac patient was given the cereal in hospital and died four days later.", "Collin Reeves stabbed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple inside their home after a long parking row.", "Issues of physical and emotional abuse within British gymnastics were \"systemic\", an independent investigation finds.", "Ukraine and the UK have been discussing weapons supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive", "The family are \"very distressed\" after being relocated from Belfast to Londonderry at short notice.", "A 34-year-old is arrested after Steven John Davies' body was found by a neighbour.", "Britons go to the beach as they enjoy the heatwave as UK temperatures reach highs of 32.7C.", "The man used a fake name and pretended to be Brazilian, but security officials say he is a deep-cover spy.", "Deaf people can make 999 calls via a service connecting them to a British Sign Language interpreter.", "Church of England research reveals its £10bn investment fund has 18th Century links to the slave trade.", "The Labour leader and his deputy attended a gathering in an MP's office during lockdown.", "The Russian president says the economic restrictions are \"more harmful\" to those who imposed them.", "A video of an elderly woman brandishing a Soviet flag went viral, but what really happened?", "Volodymyr Zelensky hails Boris Johnson as an \"important ally\" after the UK PM survives an attempt to oust him.", "France forced to import electricity as air-conditioners and fans switched on for record heatwave.", "The RNIB warns that attendance rates at eye test clinics are \"alarmingly low\".", "The man, a restricted mobility passenger, left an EasyJet plane and later fell on an escalator.", "Gavin Rawson, 35, died trying to save Nathan Walker, 19, whose son was born 15 days after he died.", "Ukrainian citizens have told the BBC they were punched and electrocuted before being allowed to leave Mariupol.", "Running Up That Hill, released in 1985, tops the UK singles chart after featuring in the TV show.", "The errors, mostly worth a few pence a week, are thought to have been discovered in the 1990s.", "More than eight in 10 people say they are worried about the cost-of-living, a BBC survey suggests.", "Russia's foreign minister tells the BBC that the West is pressing UN officials to amplify fake news.", "Exam boards have apologised for mistakes in this year's A-level and GCSE papers.", "Treasury minister Simon Clarke warns bosses to be \"very careful\" in setting wage increases.", "The latest UK figures cover the long weekend of partying and suggest one in 45 has Covid.", "Can the UK, the EU and parties in Northern Ireland find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol?", "Legendary Wales, British and Irish Lions and Llanelli fly-half Phil Bennett has died at the age of 73.", "Virtual consultations with patients are being used to stop unnecessary trips to Scotland's A&Es.", "The economy contracted by 0.3% in April after it shrank by 0.1% in March, official figures show.", "Experts are trying to find out if there are any more on Barra, where it is not a native species.", "Campaigners are trying to stop the first removals on Tuesday, with 11 people due to fly currently.", "The family of Archie Battersbee,12, say they are \"devastated\" as a court rules life support can end.", "Some familiar obstacles - and some new ones - will make any reform difficult, says the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in Kharkiv with indiscriminate weapons, according to a new report.", "Police say a body is recovered after a vehicle is found at the bottom of Pendeen cliff.", "The Sydney Morning Herald says it \"simply asked questions\" after being accused of outing the actress.", "Scott Sibley is the first Briton to have been confirmed to have died in Ukraine since the invasion.", "The singer thanks fans for their patience as The Rolling Stones cancel a show in Amsterdam.", "The business secretary wants to know if a 5p fuel duty cut is being passed on quickly enough to drivers.", "Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle signs a pledge to actively support staff going through the menopause.", "Severodonetsk is now effectively cut off from the rest of the country, the local governor says.", "Sebastian Kalinowski endured weeks of escalating torments and abuse before his death, a court hears.", "Years after release, former detainees say classified resettlement deals have kept them in a kind of prison.", "Africa Eye investigates a Chinese video-making industry which exploits children across Africa.", "An Iranian policeman set to be deported under the UK's new scheme says his life will be in danger.", "Jordan Gatley was killed as Ukrainian forces fought for control of Severodonetsk, his family said.", "Sir Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall and Baroness Amos are installed in the Order of the Garter.", "A strong showing by a left-green alliance jeopardises the French president's parliamentary majority.", "Journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in the Amazon rainforest.", "A former acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport.", "The bid to change post-Brexit trade procedures is set to prompt a row, writes our political editor.", "The UK government's first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda will now go ahead tomorrow evening.", "A 15-year-old girl was attacked off Bournemouth beach on one of the hottest days of last summer.", "The head of the UK's armed forces also rejects Ukraine's call for a no-fly zone, saying it will not help.", "Scotland's first minister says she still plans to hold a referendum by the end of next year.", "Matthew Harris was due to appear in court to offer a plea on a charge of killing Lisa Fraser.", "The battle for Severodonetsk is taking a high toll, the Ukrainian president says, as they city's bridges fall.", "One of the firm's software engineers believes chats with an AI system suggest it has feelings.", "David Venables killed wife Brenda in 1982 and her remains were not found for decades, jurors hear.", "Hywel Morgan gave his life to save two children who were caught in a rip current.", "BBC Panorama went undercover at a surgery run by the UK's biggest provider of GP services to the NHS.", "A report warns of potential loopholes in efforts to limit use of Russian oil and gas.", "He is due to appear in court on Thursday charged with four counts of sexual assault, police say.", "Witnesses painted a picture of a chaotic and deeply divided Trump White House after the 2020 election.", "Shootings survivors say the planned reforms - although limited - are a step in the right direction.", "The Army says it's \"actively and strongly encouraging\" the soldiers to return to the UK.", "British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in Brazil on 5 June.", "One junior doctor describes the situation in Scotland's A&Es as \"frankly dangerous\".", "England's future food strategy is released amid criticism from campaigners that it lacks ambition.", "Australian reporter apologises after he was accused of trying to \"out\" the actor last week.", "The actress gives her first interview since the verdict in her defamation trial against Johnny Depp.", "In two years, she would overtake Louis XIV of France who reigned for more than 72 years.", "The US star has prompted anger after using an ableist slur in her new single Grrrls.", "The fabric of Lysychansk is being destroyed by intense Russian bombardment, writes Orla Guerin.", "This endangered species once roamed Great Britain, but is now only found in parts of Scotland.", "The Brexit campaigner says he will \"likely\" appeal against the High Court judgement.", "UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing on 5 June in the Amazon.", "Indigenous community members in the Javari Valley say they feel abandoned by Brazilian authorities.", "Transport minister Jenny Gilruth and former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale wed on Saturday.", "Joe Biden says the plans are a step in the right direction, but they fall far short of what he called for.", "Scientists are planning to sequence the genomes of all species, including plants, animals, fungi, found in Britain and Ireland.", "Hilary Devey died at her holiday home in Morocco after a long illness, her publicist confirms.", "The Labour leader appears to have missed the deadline in declaring Arsenal tickets and an oil painting.", "The UK publishes plans to ditch parts of Northern Ireland Protocol but the EU says the move would break international law.", "Nurse leaders are concerned about access to care and support for those with long-term problems.", "A message during a gig in Londonderry suggested a camera would zoom in on women's chests.", "As the offensive intensifies in the country's east, what will happen next? Here are some potential scenarios.", "Tiger Woods confirms he will not play at next week's US Open, but still plans to compete at the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews next month.", "Jim Fitton, 66, is sentenced to 15 years for attempting to smuggle 12 stones and broken pottery.", "The mood among Tory MPs suggests the PM's woes are far from over, writes Nick Eardley.", "Bob Seely says he voted for Boris Johnson after talks about money for his Isle of Wight constituency.", "The foreign secretary backs the prime minister after he won a vote of confidence among his own MPs on Monday night.", "The EU has provisionally agreed new mobile devices must, by autumn 2024, use the same type of charger.", "The prime minister says backing by 211 out of 359 Tory MPs will allow his government to \"do our job\".", "The lawsuit claims the film studio did not have the rights to release Top Gun: Maverick.", "The pair, who fought for Ukraine, are accused by Russian-backed separatists of acting as mercenaries.", "UK competition watchdog warns Rangers, JD Sports and Elite Sports can expect fines if found guilty.", "Doctors will be required to notify their local council or health protection team about suspected cases.", "John Paul McDonagh, 18, died after sustaining a fatal leg wound in a street fight in April 2020.", "The Scottish Tory leader says Boris Johnson should consider his position after the confidence vote.", "Two-time major champion Dustin Johnson resigns from the PGA Tour in order to play in the Saudi Arabian-funded LIV Invitational Series.", "He was called a \"terrorist hiding in plain sight\" and forced out of university due to his extremism.", "A group of 79 migrants are brought ashore at Dover on Tuesday.", "Concerns over France's suitability to host sporting events have been raised in the Commons.", "Political editor Glenn Campbell says questions are being asked about the Scottish Tory's leadership qualities.", "Volodymyr Zelensky hails Boris Johnson as an \"important ally\" after the UK PM survives an attempt to oust him.", "Sir Graham Brady announces that Boris Johnson has won his leadership confidence vote over by 211 votes to 148.", "Quentin Sommerville describes relentless artillery bombardment in Donbas ahead of Russian forces entering Severodonetsk.", "The paper does not mention any advice on whether it has the power to hold a referendum without UK government consent.", "Ukraine's president says fighting in the key cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk has been intense.", "The British volunteers helping Ukrainians escape Russian attacks.", "UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that developing countries face disaster due to rising prices.", "Bhagavan \"Doc\" Antle has been charged with laundering more than half a million dollars.", "Northern Ireland rider Davy Morgan is killed in a crash during the Supersport race at the Isle of Man TT.", "Customers are having to pay more for goods as truck firms pass on higher fuel prices, a freight boss says.", "Harry Kane scores his 50th England goal with a late penalty to earn a Nations League draw with Germany in Munich.", "The soldiers' families say they were returned as part of a swap with Russia - 160 bodies on each side.", "Police confirmed a man was interviewed voluntarily in relation to the social media video.", "The government's chief scientific adviser says it was \"really important\" everyone stuck to the rules.", "The National Trust for Scotland said the archipelago's great skua population had been badly affected.", "The journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert had received threats before they disappeared.", "Mark Adams was stopped at Belfast International Airport with 180,000 euros in his hand luggage.", "Emma Raducanu says she has \"no idea\" whether she will be fit for Wimbledon after she retired from her Nottingham Open opener against Viktorija Golubic.", "The billionaire accuses the company of \"thwarting\" his requests to learn more about spam accounts.", "Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced to 15 years for attempting to smuggle 12 stones and broken pottery.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex release an image of their daughter at a picnic they hosted in Windsor.", "Heavy fighting continues in Donbas with a military analyst saying Russia is struggling to make major gains.", "Ukraine is a major exporter of grain and cooking oil but the war has cut off supplies at ports.", "Seven England fans were arrested in Munich on Monday, including three for making a Nazi salute, local police have confirmed.", "More than 30 Conservative MPs have so far broken cover to urge the PM to step down over Partygate.", "The £60 penalty wasn't used much in lockdown - but now some children have a habit of missing school.", "The actor backed \"responsible gun ownership\" after a school shooting in his Texas hometown.", "The World Bank chief says hundreds of millions more people could be pushed into poverty.", "The actor is suing his ex-wife for selling her stake in the French vineyard they bought together.", "The tech giant is introducing the controversial service as part of its iOS 16 update.", "Patients in England will be able to get early access to promising new treatments.", "Millions of young shoppers are borrowing money to make buy now pay later repayments, says Citizens Advice.", "Confidence votes are almost always bad news for political leaders, the BBC's political editor Chris Mason explains.", "BBC Spotlight examined the use of NI Limited Partnerships as part of a probe into money laundering.", "Politicians in NI say Boris Johnson is now on borrowed time without any political authority.", "Seven people arrested during the raids on Monday and Tuesday are released on bail.", "Officials say hydrogen peroxide containers were mislabelled, exacerbating a blaze that killed dozens.", "Three Arizona officers watched a man who was begging for help drown in a reservoir.", "His mum Brenda says she was in a \"state of shock\" after finding out how her son died.", "Travel agents say staff are dealing with calls from holidaymakers anxious about their plans.", "Shoppers are buying footwear and beauty items, but not furniture and electronics, industry figures suggest.", "Two Met officers took and shared images of the bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry in 2020.", "A report shows some of the poorest drinkers cut back on food when the unit price was set at 50p.", "The International Skating Union will raise the minimum age for competitors in senior events from 15 to 17 after the controversy surrounding Kamila Valieva at the Beijing Olympic Games.", "Members of Wales' LGBTQ+ supporters group refuse to travel to Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.", "Two days after Dom Phillips disappeared, his wife appeals to Brazil to locate \"the love of my life\".", "Ukraine and the UK have been discussing weapons supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive", "Boris Johnson's Tory critics regroup after narrowly failing to oust him in confidence vote.", "Many travellers are taking drastic action to get home after being stranded due to flight cancellations.", "The industrial action which saw all lines affected with closures for 24 hours has ended.", "Boris Johnson may have won last night's confidence vote, but his problems remain, our political editor says.", "Rail bosses react angrily to the scrapping of plans for the line in Cheshire and Greater Manchester.", "A round of applause by cricket fans at Headingley was among the tributes to the \"Yorkshire legend\".", "It is the star's first public appearance since the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins.", "Gareth Bale \"cannot wait to get started\" as Los Angeles FC confirm his signing on a 12-month deal following his departure from Real Madrid.", "BBC regional political editors on the view from the ground in two very different constituencies.", "The US Navy ship \"Sammy B\" sank off the Philippines in a ferocious WWII battle with the Japanese.", "States can decide to ban abortion after the Supreme Court overrules the landmark Roe v Wade case.", "The mayor of the eastern city says Russian troops are in control after Ukrainian forces withdrew.", "The presenter says she is \"utterly heartbroken\", adding \"Mam, I love you forever\".", "Witnesses hid in a gay bar's basement as a gunman fired on a crowd, killing two and injuring 21.", "The star discusses for the first time how his dad had another son, who he didn't know about for years.", "The Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably dominate the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria.", "Marking Armed Forces Day, she pays tribute to the \"brave men and women\" serving around the world.", "The increase, with an estimated one in 35 people testing positive, is being driven by newer variants.", "Boris Johnson promises to \"listen and learn\" but ex-leader Michael Howard calls for him to quit.", "Two Conservative MPs say they are seeking election to the body which oversees leadership contests.", "Nottingham Forest sign Nigeria international Taiwo Awoniyi for club-record fee from Union Berlin.", "Fans woke up at the crack of dawn to ensure they could be in the front row when the star plays.", "Steve Phillip and Mike McCarthy both lost their sons, Ross and Jordan, to suicide.", "The 20-year-old calls the decision to end the constitutional right to abortion a \"dark day\".", "Residents of Newcastleton in the Borders used to face a lengthy round-trip to get their fuel.", "The 71-year-old broadcaster's wife pays tribute to her husband, saying \"he will forever be with us\".", "Britain's Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray are set for Centre Court when Wimbledon gets under way on Monday.", "ScotRail is urging those attending the ex-Oasis star's Hampden gig on Sunday to consider their travel options.", "A whole baby woolly mammoth is dug up at a Yukon gold mine - a first for North America.", "The government is calling a review of the plans which include a smaller shop, offices and a gym.", "The divide in America has become even deeper after this Supreme Court ruling, writes Sarah Smith.", "The Iskander-M systems can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads, with a range of up to 500 km.", "Petra Kvitova enjoys the perfect preparation for Wimbledon, while Taylor Fritz wins his second Eastbourne men's title.", "Demonstrators are on the streets in the US again after the landmark ruling to end the right to abortion.", "The country fails to make $100m interest payment due to sanctions and is reported to be in default.", "Severodonetsk is the current focus of Russia as it tries to take control of eastern Ukraine.", "The activist gives a stark message, while AJ Tracey criticises the lack of action over Grenfell.", "Boris Johnson tells the BBC he has to distinguish between criticism that matters and that doesn't.", "Boris Johnson tells Radio 4's Today there will be no \"psychological transformation\" from him.", "Caring for victims is a challenge in a country already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.", "The Radio 1 presenter receives \"role model\" award for opening up the conversation around bowel cancer.", "The PM says he will lead his party into the next election and beyond, despite criticism of his leadership.", "Boris Johnson once again faces questions about his leadership following two defeats and a resignation.", "Walkers are being reminded not to take stones from walls and slopes in the Dales.", "The verdict of voters can't be ignored and there are challenges ahead for the UK's big political parties.", "Why can't a council get anyone to apply for role which includes patrolling \"beautiful\" beaches?", "The crews, who are taking part in a rowing challenge around GB, are rescued near NI and Wales.", "Pride Edinburgh celebrates its 25th anniversary while the Pride Glasgow event is held for the first time in three years.", "A huge crowd of migrants storm a fence into Melilla in North Africa, with 23 killed and many injured.", "There's criticism of the move as ministers warn workers not to expect pay rises to match increasing costs.", "Liverpool supporters accuse the French interior minister of lying about the behaviour of English fans.", "Meta says it has removed accounts and groups showing upskirting, after a BBC investigation.", "The council with the most second homes in Wales is writing to the owners of 1,200 empty properties.", "Witnesses describe desperate scenes after a powerful earthquake hits Afghanistan.", "Campaigners hope the outcome of review into the pre-2000 ban will entitle them to compensation.", "Some pharmacies run by the chain have stopped providing weekly pill organiser packs for patients.", "Today's Prime Minister's Questions comes as prices reach record highs and more rail strikes planned.", "The trial will allow some users to share \"notes\" beyond the normal 280-character limit for tweets.", "A rule change will mean UK visas for some young people after months in limbo, the BBC understands.", "A gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in May.", "A total of 37 young people at risk of sexual exploitation went missing from care in NI last year.", "The prime minister says talk of a blockade is untrue and a tiny amount of goods are affected.", "Peter Haynes and Stuart McMillan say the SFA is refusing to accept any liability for what happened to them.", "One woman, who Trump called a \"hustler\", said she was bombarded with death threats and racist abuse.", "Billpayers are hit with £94 extra a year after 28 companies collapsed due to energy price hikes.", "Optical-fibre cables could spot tsunamis or the effect of climate change on currents, researchers say.", "Freelance opera singer Adam Gilbert \"drops everything\" to race from west Wales to Sussex.", "Rescue teams search a river in Cardiff on Tuesday afternoon with one person taken to hospital.", "The monarch says she hopes the monument will \"inspire present and future generations\".", "The country's deadliest quake in two decades strikes in the night as many people sleep in their beds.", "The 0.3mm long organisms live deep in the pores of our faces but may be about to go extinct.", "Four years after Ross Mackay set up his company in Glasgow, he is working with Kourtney Kardashian.", "Soaring costs are threatening to put some Welsh food producers out of business, farmers warn.", "Joe Lycett says an audience member complained to the police about a joke in a recent show.", "The former comedian must pay damages to Judy Huth after abusing her in 1975, a jury finds.", "The government faces a huge decision over what to do in Cumbria, amid employment and climate concerns.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are in the country for a summit of Commonwealth leaders.", "The row over delays in releasing the report comes as Baroness Scotland seeks a second term as the body's head.", "More than 1000 people are killed as a 6.1 magnitude quake hits Paktika province.", "Advice NI says claimants should wait to be called forward to the system or risk being worse off.", "Over 1,000 people died in the disaster, with many children killed after being trapped in buildings.", "Eluned Morgan spoke as she was formally reprimanded by the Welsh Parliament for her speeding offence.", "After six years of marriage, the media tycoon and model will divorce, US media reports.", "Rail users are braced for days of disruption across England, Scotland and Wales ahead of the biggest rail strike in 30 years.", "Ministers could ignore injunctions on asylum seekers set by European judges, under new proposals.", "Aiden Aslin tells family his captors say the UK has not negotiated for him and \"time is running out\".", "Vikki Spit had a year-long wait for compensation after her fiancé died following an AstraZeneca jab.", "Health officials say parents should ensure their children have been vaccinated against the disease.", "A review makes recommendations after a tribunal found a former firearms officer had been victimised.", "UK military intelligence believes the Donetsk militia in occupied Ukraine has lost 55% of its force.", "Thursday's strike is set to have a similar impact as Tuesday's, with just 20% of services running.", "Police could have stopped the Uvalde school shooting within three minutes, Texas's safety chief says.", "The plan could dramatically reduce cancer deaths - a goal of President Joe Biden's administration.", "Aryan Ghoniya's family pay tribute to their \"little professor\" who loved school.", "Adeel Habib, from Leeds, posted videos showing him driving at high speeds on busy public roads.", "Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska tricked people into coming into the UK and then used them as slaves.", "Worthy Farm will welcome more than 200,000 festival-goers, but some have had to change their plans.", "The International Energy Agency warns that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.", "Rising food prices are sparking a \"massive change in behaviour\", the supermarket's chairman tells the BBC.", "The landmark bill is said to be the most significant new gun control legislation in a generation.", "Police in Northern Ireland received a complaint about a joke the stand-up made at a show this month.", "The singer gives a rare interview after going to number one thanks to the hit show Stranger Things.", "A long-awaited report into police failings is criticised by a woman raped by grooming gangs in the town.", "More than eight in 10 people say they are worried about the cost-of-living, a BBC survey suggests.", "Railway workers are striking over over cuts to jobs, conditions, pay and pensions.", "Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives to earthquakes in the last 100 years.", "Lithuania banned the transit of some goods to Russia's Kaliningrad region over EU sanctions.", "RNLI says rivers, lakes and reservoirs have \"hidden obstacles\" that can trap.", "The images capture the bull on the platform at Glasgow's Pollokshaws West station as it waits in a shelter.", "Scotland's first minister says a path to a second indyref vote should be found with or without the backing of Westminster.", "Brussels says altering the Northern Ireland Protocol breaks international law, but the UK disputes this.", "As war in the Falklands drew to a close in June 1982, there was still a heavy price to pay for some.", "Scientists are planning to sequence the genomes of all species, including plants, animals, fungi, found in Britain and Ireland.", "The family of Archie Battersbee,12, say they are \"devastated\" as a court rules life support can end.", "Ministers says airlines must ensure summer schedules are deliverable to prevent more travel disruption.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "Jonny Bairstow's astonishing century leads England to a stunning win in the second Test against New Zealand which seals a series victory.", "\"What an incredible thing they achieved,\" says Boris Johnson at a service to mark 40 years since the war's end.", "Jason Alexander, 40, pleaded not guilty to felony stalking after allegedly crashing Spears' wedding.", "The singer thanks fans for their patience as The Rolling Stones cancel a show in Amsterdam.", "James McCairn sold crystal MDMA to 14-year-old Cerys Reeve after advertising on Snapchat.", "The European Court of Human Rights blocks the removal of one of seven passengers from Tuesday's flight.", "Better access to condoms and PrEP are among proposals to stop new HIV cases in eight years.", "The romance novelist once wrote that anyone could commit a murder \"when pushed far enough\".", "The UK publishes plans to ditch parts of Northern Ireland Protocol but the EU says the move would break international law.", "Severodonetsk is now effectively cut off from the rest of the country, the local governor says.", "Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle signs a pledge to actively support staff going through the menopause.", "Reducing consumption by one to two cups every day would help the economy, a senior minister says.", "Germany, France, Italy and Romania support Ukraine's hope of becoming a candidate for EU membership.", "Sir Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall and Baroness Amos are installed in the Order of the Garter.", "Specialist long Covid clinics were launched in November but many referred have not got appointments.", "Carol Ann White, 39, abused the boys while employed at two different North Lanarkshire primary schools.", "An animal rights group was seeking legal means to have the elephant moved from a zoo to a sanctuary.", "Kids on the Green was originally set up for young people as an emergency response to the 2017 disaster.", "Dame Arlene Foster will lead the commentary, after the BBC decided not to renew its live broadcast.", "Pay excluding bonuses is failing to keep up with the rising cost of living, official statistics show.", "The US state department says Brittney Griner should not be held \"for a single day longer\".", "The UK government's first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda will now go ahead tomorrow evening.", "Running Up That Hill was previously subject to a rule that penalises older songs on streaming sites.", "Scotland's first minister says she still plans to hold a referendum by the end of next year.", "Scotland's first minister says her government has an \"indisputable mandate\" for another referendum.", "The warning means high temperatures could affect public health, as hot air moves in from Spain and Portugal.", "There is an urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising name, scientists agree.", "He says the investigation is meant to distract from the \"disaster\" of Democratic-led governance.", "The ban on the full-body swimsuits in public swimming pools is contested by Grenoble city council.", "The foreign secretary urges unionists to \"get on with it\" as parliament prepares to vote on a Brexit plan.", "Hundreds of pharmacists in England are being given powers to send patients for cancer scans and tests.", "He is due to appear in court on Thursday charged with four counts of sexual assault, police say.", "Witnesses painted a picture of a chaotic and deeply divided Trump White House after the 2020 election.", "After it failed at Grenfell, why are people still being told to \"stay put\" in tower block fires?", "The SNP's Patrick Grady apologises for an unwanted advance in which he stroked a staff member's hair.", "The strikes could be held from July 25 and threaten to add to summer travel disruption.", "British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in Brazil on 5 June.", "Motoring and car industry groups criticise the government's decision to end the plug-in subsidy scheme.", "Facebook owner Meta is rolling out new parental controls for Instagram and its VR platforms.", "BBC Scotland's Glenn Campbell looks at the Scottish government's promise to hold another referendum.", "The fabric of Lysychansk is being destroyed by intense Russian bombardment, writes Orla Guerin.", "UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that the rush to find new sources of coal, oil and gas is a major mistake.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launches a fresh referendum campaign and says she \"stands ready\" to negotiate with PM Boris Johnson for the powers to hold one.", "Sir Lenny Henry says he is \"always surprised by the lack of black and brown faces at festivals\".", "A number of events are taking place across London to mark five years since the disaster.", "The shopping giant hopes to deliver parcels to shoppers by air for the first time later in 2022.", "Russia bans dozens of journalists and defence figures in response to UK sanctions imposed on Russians.", "The K-pop group tell fans their goal is to grow as individuals and pursue solo projects.", "Four men lose appeals at the High Court as Boris Johnson defends Tuesday night's flight to Kigali.", "It looks at 10 comparator countries and compares the UK's performance across a range of indicators.", "The pop star had been criticised by disability advocates over her latest single, Grrrls.", "A taxi driver, his fare and a teenage van passenger are killed in the motorway smash near Bradford.", "It comes as the Ukraine war is making the raw materials used in sanitary products more costly.", "The government seems determined to press ahead with its plans despite last-minute legal interventions.", "Stars of the long-running Australian show say the final day of filming is \"incredibly emotional\".", "The singer ties the knot to Sam Asghari as first husband Jason Alexander is arrested for trespassing.", "As the offensive intensifies in the country's east, what will happen next? Here are some potential scenarios.", "Officials say members of a mysterious religious group brought Holly Clouse to a church after the killing.", "Billions have been \"splurged\" on PPE some of which is now going to be burned, a committee of MPs says.", "Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel say they will continue to speak out on issues despite FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem questioning whether drives should \"impose their beliefs\" on others.", "A carer who regularly drives more than 600 miles a week for work says she may give up the job.", "Seven passengers died and 61 were injured when a tram derailed in south London in 2016.", "YouTube is being criticised for failing to tackle a network of scammers streaming fake Elon Musk videos.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "The major television series for US network HBO was expected to film at Belfast's Titanic Studios.", "Official estimates suggest there has been a small increase in infections in England and Northern Ireland.", "Sellers simply call ivory by other names including 'bovine bone', investigation shows.", "Tests will be carried out on blood found on a boat in the search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira.", "The government says the cap offers \"peace of mind for graduates\" but the NUS says it is still too high.", "Motoring group the RAC says the station has one of the highest prices for fuel in the UK.", "Campaigners fail in their legal bid to halt the removals set for Tuesday but will appeal.", "An Iranian policeman set to be deported under the UK's new scheme says his life will be in danger.", "Corsham Police force suggests people use either welded mesh to cover the pond or erect a wire fence.", "Sue Barker will step down from her role as the presenter of the BBC's Wimbledon coverage after the 2022 tournament.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "The Uvalde school police chief told the Texas Tribune that officers responded without hesitation.", "Billy Bingham, who managed Northern Ireland at the 1982 and 1986 World Cup finals, dies at the age of 90.", "A female bear was forced to protect her cub from a male in Spain's Cantabrian mountains.", "The Capitol invaders whose pictures came to define the chaos of that day have all been rounded up.", "The change, which comes into effect on Sunday, comes after pressure from the travel industry.", "Dino Scala is accused of a 30-year series of rapes and sexual assaults.", "\"It was carnage, chaos\" - raw emotion of police officer, condemnation of Trump, but no family rift on display.", "More animals surrendered in the first three months of the year than in the whole of 2021.", "The eFoiler boat, developed and built in the city, can be used for port operations and to transfer crews.", "Airline chief Jozsef Varadi called on staff to work when tired to stop flight cancellations.", "Police search for a man who was known to the victims after the \"ferocious\" attack in Manchester.", "A hearing shows clips of the ex-president's daughter and aides saying his claim of voter fraud was false.", "The report says the violence against fans at the Stade de France has \"severely damaged\" France's image.", "Passenger flights due to land at East Midlands Airport are diverted to other airports.", "The Treasury should have insured government debt against interest rate rises, a research institute says.", "Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner are sentenced alongside a Moroccan man in a court held by pro-Russian rebels.", "Mykhaylo Podolyak told the BBC that Ukraine needs more weapons to match Russia's firepower.", "The protected birds had set up a nest on a bucket which tips when water levels hit a certain point.", "The TV presenter criticises a council after an area of wildflowers is cut down in Derbyshire.", "The Democratic-led inquiry argues the ex-president plotted to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.", "Rescue teams have been searching for two disabled people missing since the incident on Wednesday.", "Sarah Panitzke, who was extradited from Spain, is jailed nine years after being convicted of fraud.", "The PGA Tour is suspending all its members who are playing in this week's LIV Golf Invitational event at Centurion Club.", "The trust suspended the services in April 2021 due to \"staffing resourcing issues\".", "US automobile insurance firm Geico is contesting the decision that granted the woman the settlement.", "Costa Coffee says it has taken the \"difficult decision\" to end sponsorship of the literary prize.", "Russian president says oil and gas profits are increasing thanks to rising energy prices.", "Director David Lynch remembers Cruise as \"a great musician, a great singer and a great human being\".", "Boris Johnson focuses on boosting home ownership as he seeks to relaunch his premiership.", "The Duke of Cambridge was seen wearing the Big Issue uniform and selling copies of the magazine.", "Conditions in the city, now in Russian hands, could lead to a resurgence of the disease, authorities fear.", "Russia's foreign minister claims the captured fighters committed crimes in a breakaway region of Ukraine.", "The senior Labour MP says she was afraid of looking unprofessional as she tended to her young child.", "Father and son Roger and Bradley Stockton die in a crash on the last lap of the Isle of Man TT sidecar race two.", "As the offensive intensifies in the country's east, what will happen next? Here are some potential scenarios.", "Abbott says it is restarting its plant in Michigan after it was closed because of contamination.", "The event on a Cornish moor has brought gridlock to the area and a sleepless night for residents.", "More than 110 Post Offices close for 24 hours as staff walk out in a dispute over pay.", "The Archbishop of York refers to the Queen's love of racing as royals attend Jubilee event in her absence.", "China has effectively banned the city's annual vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre.", "Royals, politicians and Commonwealth officials gathered in St Paul's Cathedral to give thanks to the Queen.", "Top seed Iga Swiatek underlines why she was the red-hot French Open favourite by beating Coco Gauff to win her second Grand Slam title.", "Emerson Royal thanks an off-duty police officer who saved him from an armed robbery in Brazil.", "The Platinum Party at the Palace sees the Queen appear in a comedy sketch with Paddington Bear.", "Coco Gauff says she has shaken off the pressure she felt as a teenager and is ready to win a first Grand Slam against Iga Swiatek at the French Open.", "Uefa apologises to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans \"who had to experience or witness frightening and distressing events\" at last Saturday's Champions League final.", "The anonymous acts in Hong Kong defy a crackdown on public commemoration of the killings.", "UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that developing countries face disaster due to rising prices.", "Supermarket chief says a review of how shops could use pounds and ounces again is \"utter nonsense\".", "Joe Root and Ben Stokes give England huge hope of a stunning victory on a gripping third day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.", "Peter Navarro was arrested after refusing to co-operate with the inquiry into last year's US Capitol riot.", "Rafael Nadal says reaching a 14th French Open final because opponent Alexander Zverev retired injured is \"not the way\" he wanted to win.", "Liverpool MP Ian Byrne wants \"a full apology\" for organisers' claims over chaos at the Paris event.", "Forecasters warn of flooding and travel disruption on Sunday amid thunderstorm warning.", "Rafael Nadal reaches the French Open final after his opponent Alexander Zverev is taken off court in a wheelchair following a nasty fall.", "The man told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was beaten and sexually abused at the school.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "His comments come after several weeks of demonstrations in cities over the rising cost of basic foods.", "Running Up That Hill runs back up the UK charts after being used in the Netflix drama's new series.", "The market's billionaire owner is reportedly hoping a deal will net him as much as £1.5bn.", "Communities across the country have been coming together to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.", "Services to and from London Kings Cross were brought to a standstill after a trespasser got on the tracks.", "Dmitry Kovtun, one of two men the UK says were behind the poisoning, has died in Russia of Covid.", "The video appears to show a group of people mocking the killing of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius.", "A spectacular evening of entertainment featuring an array of global stars and performers.", "The French leader wants to give Vladimir Putin an \"exit ramp\", but Ukraine rejects that stance.", "Well-wishers have descended on London to watch the ceremony marking the Queen’s official birthday.", "A US singer says he co-wrote a song called 'All I want for Christmas is You' five years before Carey's 1994 hit.", "The Angels singer reflects on his 30-year career ahead of a homecoming gig in Stoke-on-Trent.", "At least four people die and some 30 are injured after a train derails in the state of Bavaria.", "England begin their Nations League campaign in disappointing fashion with defeat in Hungary.", "UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett tells French media men with weapons were attacking and robbing fans.", "They were among hundreds of guests paying tribute to the Queen.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex successfully stepped back into the royal spotlight, our correspondent says.", "Ukrainian forces recapture part of Severodonetsk that was lost to Russian troops, a regional governor says.", "The Queen will watch the Epsom horse race on TV, while senior royals attend celebrations across the UK.", "Marriott says Western sanctions have made it \"impossible\" to continue to remain in Russia.", "Police believe the 39-year-old, real name Lamar Jackson, was the victim of the fatal London attack.", "Ukraine says the Russian army stole much equipment from Chernobyl but the radiation level is safe.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was in Cardiff with the princess and her brother, Prince George.", "Senior royals tweet birthday wishes to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's daughter as she turns one.", "The economic gaps between different parts of the UK are \"significant\", the Resolution Foundation says.", "The gas explosion completely destroyed one house and damaged others in north Birmingham.", "It is the star's first public appearance since the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins.", "The Glasgow North MP is under police investigation over allegations of sexual harassment.", "Gareth Bale \"cannot wait to get started\" as Los Angeles FC confirm his signing on a 12-month deal following his departure from Real Madrid.", "BBC regional political editors on the view from the ground in two very different constituencies.", "Some British Muslims who booked pilgrimages to Mecca could not fly after problems with a new system.", "The mayor of the eastern city says Russian troops are in control after Ukrainian forces withdrew.", "Brandon Lewis says the PM has the drive and enthusiasm to go on, despite growing criticism.", "Great Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee secure a British double with gold in the World Triathlon Championship Series in Montreal.", "A historian says a possible connection with his father meant he was sentimental about Wales.", "The star brings a huge crowd to the Pyramid Stage as she plays a career-spanning greatest hits show.", "The star discusses for the first time how his dad had another son, who he didn't know about for years.", "The Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably dominate the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria.", "Judges will be able to give life sentences to dangerous drivers who kill, in a toughening of the law.", "Witnesses hid in a gay bar's basement as a gunman fired on a crowd, killing two and injuring 21.", "One pool says its electricity bill has shot up from £1,800 a quarter to the same amount a month.", "Ukrainian citizens have told the BBC they were punched and electrocuted before being allowed to leave Mariupol.", "Ukraine's president says more than 1,000 people were inside the complex in the central-eastern city of Kremenchuk.", "Mr Ross says any new referendum without UK government approval is a \"waste of time\".", "Clarence House says the correct processes were followed with the Qatari sheikh's charitable donations.", "Neil Parish says he was verbally abused and sent death threats after being seen watching porn at work.", "The Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper closes his headline set at the festival with a powerful statement.", "A whole baby woolly mammoth is dug up at a Yukon gold mine - a first for North America.", "The move by the UK, US, Canada and Japan will \"strike at the heart of Putin's war machine\", the UK PM says.", "The government says the move would protect British producers at a time of rising energy costs.", "England wicketkeeper Ben Foakes is ruled out of the remainder of the third Test against New Zealand after testing positive for Covid-19.", "New powers will allow TfL to enforce infringements in a similar way to bus lanes.", "The Iskander-M systems can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads, with a range of up to 500 km.", "Ukraine belongs to the European family, the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania say in Kyiv.", "Hundreds of people are injured and four have died after a wooden stand fell, local officials say.", "Most of the 21 who died in the sudden and unexplained incident were teenagers, the police minister says.", "Behind the grinning photo ops of the G7 summit, world leaders grapple with their differing outlooks.", "The country fails to make $100m interest payment due to sanctions and is reported to be in default.", "However, Scotland's national clinical director says a spike in Covid cases is \"entirely predictable\".", "Hundreds of patients who have waited two years or more have already said they are willing to travel.", "Disney, JP Morgan and Meta are among the companies to confirm such policies after the Roe v Wade ruling.", "Refugees for Justice started the process after six people were stabbed at a Glasgow hotel in 2020.", "Boris Johnson says the higher food and energy costs from the conflict are the price of freedom.", "The activist gives a stark message, while AJ Tracey criticises the lack of action over Grenfell.", "The first minister said the Scottish government would back a bill to protect sites from protesters.", "A man is in hospital after he was discovered with serious injuries in the early hours.", "The accountancy firm's chairman Kevin Ellis says the company \"can't ignore market pressures\".", "Boris Johnson tells the BBC he has to distinguish between criticism that matters and that doesn't.", "England need 113 runs with eight wickets in hand to complete another superb final-day victory over New Zealand in the third Test at Headingley.", "The PM says he will lead his party into the next election and beyond, despite criticism of his leadership.", "Royals and the prime minister joined a service to remember two killed and 21 injured near a gay bar.", "Russia's foreign minister tells the BBC that the West is pressing UN officials to amplify fake news.", "The verdict of voters can't be ignored and there are challenges ahead for the UK's big political parties.", "Russia hits targets in many areas, as world leaders discuss further military support for Ukraine.", "The crews, who are taking part in a rowing challenge around GB, are rescued near NI and Wales.", "A huge crowd of migrants storm a fence into Melilla in North Africa, with 23 killed and many injured.", "Kyiv's mayor says Russia's leader is destroying millions of lives in both Ukraine and Russia.", "Tobias Weller is calling for more playgrounds to be accessible for disabled children to enjoy.", "Officials say Marcelo Pecci, a famed anti-mafia prosecutor, was likely targeted by drugs gangs.", "Some Wales supporters are refusing to travel to Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.", "Ffion Martin and Chris Miller both have Down's syndrome and had to keep apart during lockdown.", "The 75-year-old is already under judicial investigation in France for raping a minor and trafficking.", "A third suspect has been arrested after the deaths of Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.", "The situation north of Ukraine's second largest city is quite difficult, an adviser to the interior minister says.", "Action on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday is expected to cause disruption across Britain.", "But union leaders blame politicians for failing to stop rail strikes which will begin on Tuesday.", "Will and Niall Mills' music describes the \"collapse\" of a seaside town's working class community.", "Freddie Burns' last-minute drop-goal winner against Saracens at Twickenham clinches Leicester Tigers' 11th Premiership title and first for nine years.", "The organisers say the event cannot be held in the war-torn Ukraine - but Kyiv is planning an appeal.", "The new head of the British Army says he has \"temporarily lost trust\" in the battalion involved.", "Passengers post pictures on social media as piles of luggage fill the airport's Terminal 2.", "The PM announces training for Ukraine forces after he pulls out of a conference in Doncaster to visit Kyiv.", "Members of Afghanistan's tiny Sikh community speak of their fears for their safety after the attack.", "Asylum claimants who challenged their removal to Rwanda could be among the first to be monitored.", "Demonstrations over a new government plan to hire soldiers on temporary contracts turn violent.", "Aiden Aslin was given the sentence after being captured while fighting against Russia in April.", "Documents reveal problems with Fiat ambulances used by the East of England Ambulance Service.", "Lord Geidt says he resigned over the government's \"openness\" to breaking international law.", "Training on broken bones, punished for toilet breaks, developing eating disorders - gymnasts tell their stories of abuse.", "The athlete says she's going to \"explode with excitement\" as she gets rid of fear around her sexuality.", "A 34-year-old is arrested after Steven John Davies' body was found by a neighbour.", "Ukraine and the UK have been discussing weapons supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive", "Temperature records have been broken in Spain and France as a heatwave sweeps across Europe.", "Collin Reeves stabbed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple inside their home after a long parking row.", "Britons go to the beach as they enjoy the heatwave as UK temperatures reach highs of 32.7C.", "The \"importance of ceremony\" during bereavement is explored in a new theatre show.", "Only a fifth of train services are due to run during next week's strike action.", "The Labour leader and his deputy attended a gathering in an MP's office during lockdown.", "Staff arranged a call so Lesia Husar could introduce her husband, who is still in Ukraine, to their son.", "The Russian president says the economic restrictions are \"more harmful\" to those who imposed them.", "Volodymyr Zelensky hails Boris Johnson as an \"important ally\" after the UK PM survives an attempt to oust him.", "France forced to import electricity as air-conditioners and fans switched on for record heatwave.", "Ukraine's president makes a rare trip outside the capital to visit bomb-damaged Mykolaiv and Odesa.", "Greenfeeds Limited worker Gavin Rawson died trying to save his colleague Nathan Walker.", "Running Up That Hill, released in 1985, tops the UK singles chart after featuring in the TV show.", "Exam boards have apologised for mistakes in this year's A-level and GCSE papers.", "Treasury minister Simon Clarke warns bosses to be \"very careful\" in setting wage increases.", "Thousands of workers marched to Parliament to demand better pay, in an event organised by the TUC.", "The event marking 50 years since the Staines crash, in which 118 people died, was held on Saturday.", "Waverley council says it is \"the worst possible outcome\" and could lead to \"irreversible harm\".", "As the offensive intensifies in the country's east, what will happen next? Here are some potential scenarios.", "The mortgage lender says buying demand has come down compared to last year.", "The study found almost half of last year's samples contained no MDMA, compared to 7% in 2019.", "Because of their experiences on the front line, some troops are seeking legal advice to avoid being redeployed.", "The mood among Tory MPs suggests the PM's woes are far from over, writes Nick Eardley.", "Bob Seely says he voted for Boris Johnson after talks about money for his Isle of Wight constituency.", "The EU has provisionally agreed new mobile devices must, by autumn 2024, use the same type of charger.", "Amid rowdy Commons scenes, Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle says the prime minister is a loathed figure.", "Organisers confirm Cesar Chanal died and Olivier Lavorel is critical after the crash on Saturday.", "The singer calls for a change in the law, speaking of \"how desperate it is to be accused of something you never did\".", "Five thousand short-term jobs still need to be filled ahead of the games in Birmingham.", "Patients may have come into contact with the infection at a Royal Victoria Hospital ward in 2019.", "Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt was targeted during an anti-lockdown protest last summer.", "The pair, who fought for Ukraine, are accused by Russian-backed separatists of acting as mercenaries.", "The PM promises to focus on his agenda as he answers MPs' questions after surviving a confidence vote.", "The man was arrested early on Wednesday morning outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.", "Doctors will be required to notify their local council or health protection team about suspected cases.", "John Paul McDonagh, 18, died after sustaining a fatal leg wound in a street fight in April 2020.", "One organiser calls for employers to recognise the depth of talent in the disabled community.", "The health secretary says a video of a nurse warning of delays is \"not what anyone wants to see\".", "Northern Ireland rider Davy Morgan is killed in a crash during the Supersport race at the Isle of Man TT.", "Customers are having to pay more for goods as truck firms pass on higher fuel prices, a freight boss says.", "Harry Kane scores his 50th England goal with a late penalty to earn a Nations League draw with Germany in Munich.", "As the threat of Russia’s invasion loomed, Kyiv refused to cower. But then it was forced to adapt.", "Staff say physical and verbal abuse is unacceptably common, and many now feel unsafe at work.", "The soldiers' families say they were returned as part of a swap with Russia - 160 bodies on each side.", "The supermarket's claims of environmental benefit had not been substantiated, says watchdog", "The government's chief scientific adviser says it was \"really important\" everyone stuck to the rules.", "A US woman's family history quest leads to a connection with a \"giant hotspot\" in Northern Ireland.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford was pushed to define what a woman is during a Welsh Parliament session.", "Fans travelling by train will have to leave the Armenia game at half time if they want to get home.", "The average cost of filling a typical family car could exceed £100 as soon as Thursday, the RAC warns.", "Russia's foreign minister claims the captured fighters committed crimes in a breakaway region of Ukraine.", "Her approach has been criticised but she said she had \"nothing to apologise for\".", "The Metropolitan Police has been authorised to charge the 70-year-old former Hollywood producer.", "A sheriff said Declan Clarke's actions constituted \"fly-tipping on an industrial scale\".", "But a No 10 source says tax cuts are planned only in \"the longer term\", with other issues taking priority.", "Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the new Saudi-funded golf tournament.", "Miah Cerillo, 11, told lawmakers about her harrowing experience surviving the school shooting.", "The actor backed \"responsible gun ownership\" after a school shooting in his Texas hometown.", "Arnulfo Reyes lost 11 of his students in the gun attack on a primary school in Uvalde, Texas.", "New Ofcom rules will protect boxes in areas of poor mobile coverage or where they are needed for safety.", "The Lady of Heaven film has been criticised by some Muslim groups as blasphemous.", "Uber has built a \"private-label\" version of its delivery platform to help the UN deliver food and water.", "Countries around the world, including many in Europe, are expected to face recession, the bank says.", "The prime minister says the money would be used to pay for basic items like food, fuel and fertiliser.", "Petrol costs hit a \"frightening\" new record and more government action is needed, the motoring body says.", "A new administration will be able to make reforms after a report found gross failures of governance.", "Millions of young shoppers are borrowing money to make buy now pay later repayments, says Citizens Advice.", "BBC Spotlight examined the use of NI Limited Partnerships as part of a probe into money laundering.", "Collin Reeves murdered his neighbours after a long-running dispute over parking spaces, a court hears.", "Evidence suggests the driver was a \"mentally ill person running amok\", a regional official says.", "A handful of streets in a leafy town on Kyiv's doorstep were subjected to weeks of deadly occupation.", "Police in England and Wales are increasingly running out of time to bring charges, the BBC discovers.", "A new map traces the shape of the remote ocean bed surrounding Antarctica.", "Footage shows officials taking to the water to detain a man in the US state of Florida.", "Owners of unoccupied properties would be hit with higher council tax under \"levelling up\" plans.", "Two days after Dom Phillips disappeared, his wife appeals to Brazil to locate \"the love of my life\".", "Boris Johnson's Tory critics regroup after narrowly failing to oust him in confidence vote.", "Many travellers are taking drastic action to get home after being stranded due to flight cancellations.", "Rail bosses react angrily to the scrapping of plans for the line in Cheshire and Greater Manchester.", "Abbott says it is restarting its plant in Michigan after it was closed because of contamination.", "Rafael Nadal bids for a record-extending 14th French Open title against Casper Ruud on Sunday - in a meeting between master and \"student\".", "The event on a Cornish moor has brought gridlock to the area and a sleepless night for residents.", "The PM wants us to know he plans to get on with the job - but some of his MPs have other ideas.", "The police watchdog says it is investigating the contact Met officers had with the man in his 40s.", "Joy and elation for Welsh fans as their team qualifies for the 2022 finals in Qatar", "Some Conservative MPs say a vote on Boris Johnson's leadership could be triggered in the coming week.", "Police say Lamar Jackson was stabbed in front of a large number of people who they wish to speak to.", "Royals, politicians and Commonwealth officials gathered in St Paul's Cathedral to give thanks to the Queen.", "China has effectively banned the city's annual vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre.", "Top seed Iga Swiatek underlines why she was the red-hot French Open favourite by beating Coco Gauff to win her second Grand Slam title.", "The Duchess of Cambridge baked cakes with her children Prince George, Louis and Princess Charlotte.", "More than 20 people were involved in a fight in Castle Donington, police say.", "Senior royals tweet birthday wishes to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's daughter as she turns one.", "Airlines continue to cancel flights as travel secretary says industry must solve labour shortages.", "Alicia Keys, Diana Ross and Sam Ryder took to the stage, but the Royal Family were the real stars.", "A number of blasts hit parts of Kyiv in the first assault on Ukraine's capital for several weeks.", "Wales reach a World Cup for the first time since 1958 as Gareth Bale's deflected free-kick sees them beat Ukraine 1-0 in Sunday's play-off final in Cardiff.", "Joe Root and Ben Stokes give England huge hope of a stunning victory on a gripping third day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "The police watchdog and the Met Police are investigating following the incident in Chelsea, London.", "A huge pageant and thousands of street parties across the UK are among Sunday's Jubilee festivities.", "Communities across the country have been coming together to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.", "Services to and from London Kings Cross were brought to a standstill after a trespasser got on the tracks.", "Dmitry Kovtun, one of two men the UK says were behind the poisoning, has died in Russia of Covid.", "Rafael Nadal reclaims his crown as the king of the French Open, winning a record-extending 14th title by beating Norway's Casper Ruud in straight sets.", "The monarch waved from her balcony as the four-day weekend's events drew to a close.", "Russia will expand its target list in Ukraine if Western countries send long-range weapons, he says.", "Transport for London says it expects \"severe disruption\" due to planned strike action on Monday.", "WHO figures show confirmed cases tripled in a week, which is likely to be an underestimate.", "The star's two-night stint at Knebworth ends with fans complaining of being stranded in the car park.", "The French leader wants to give Vladimir Putin an \"exit ramp\", but Ukraine rejects that stance.", "Rafael Nadal says he won his record-extending 14th French Open title with \"no feeling\" in his chronically injured left foot.", "The Angels singer reflects on his 30-year career ahead of a homecoming gig in Stoke-on-Trent.", "England begin their Nations League campaign in disappointing fashion with defeat in Hungary.", "The Platinum Jubilee closes with another appearance by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.", "Australia accuses a Chinese pilot of dangerous actions near the aircraft over the South China Sea.", "London's mayor says the force's new commissioner needs to work on restoring trust and confidence.", "The Queen smiles as she stands alongside Prince Charles, Camilla and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their children.", "The most striking images as Wales beat Ukraine to make their World Cup return after 64 years.", "The Royal Family were among tens of thousands watching the parade from central London.", "Singaporean dancer Janice Ho speaks to the BBC about portraying the Queen at the Jubilee Pageant.", "Performers from Diana Ross and Sir Rod Stewart to Jason Donovan and Sam Ryder played outside the palace.", "Residents complain as the illegal rave, which covers a large area in Cornwall, goes into day three.", "Wales' thrilling 1-0 World Cup play-off final win over Ukraine on Sunday is their \"greatest\" result, says Gareth Bale.", "Stars of the stage, screen and the sporting world perform at the Platinum Party at the Palace.", "Balkan countries deny Sergei Lavrov's plane use of their airspace, scuppering his Serbia visit.", "Oleh Psiuk, leader of the winning Eurovision band, explains why he parted with the top prize.", "The economic gaps between different parts of the UK are \"significant\", the Resolution Foundation says.", "Two members of the Rochdale grooming gang are appealing against their deportation to Pakistan.", "The Radio 1 DJ wrote on Instagram to share the news, eight months after starting treatment.", "It is Nasa's first launch from a commercial site outside the US - and a landmark moment for Australia.", "The gas explosion completely destroyed one house and damaged others in north Birmingham.", "The Ukrainian president calls for more weapons and says partners \"need to move faster\".", "The Glasgow North MP is under police investigation over allegations of sexual harassment.", "England's World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan is set to retire from international cricket this week.", "There were more than 360 cases being investigated last year, but prosecutions remain low.", "The Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably dominate the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria.", "One in 20 has been waiting - for routine care such as knee and hip surgery - for more than a year.", "Ukraine's president says more than 1,000 people were inside the complex in the central-eastern city of Kremenchuk.", "Mr Ross says any new referendum without UK government approval is a \"waste of time\".", "Britain's Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray are set for Centre Court when Wimbledon gets under way on Monday.", "Neil Parish says he was verbally abused and sent death threats after being seen watching porn at work.", "Clarence House says the correct processes were followed with the Qatari sheikh's charitable donations.", "The Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper closes his headline set at the festival with a powerful statement.", "Some households could get discounts for using less energy at peak times under National Grid's scheme.", "The move by the UK, US, Canada and Japan will \"strike at the heart of Putin's war machine\", the UK PM says.", "Russian troops must still cross the Siversky Donets river to capture all of the Luhansk region.", "Local officials say more than ten people have been confirmed dead, and dozens more have been injured.", "Some 1,000 civilians were inside the building at the time of the strike, Ukraine's president said.", "Officials have asked people in Tokyo and its surrounding area to turn off lights amid a heatwave.", "The government says the move would protect British producers at a time of rising energy costs.", "She will say a \"lawful\" vote can be held in October 2023, with or without UK government consent.", "Ukraine belongs to the European family, the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania say in Kyiv.", "Most of the 21 who died in the sudden and unexplained incident were teenagers, the police minister says.", "Most of the 21 who died in the sudden and unexplained incident were teenagers, the police minister says.", "\"Sarah\" says she felt unable to speak in a rape support group after a trans woman began attending.", "The ex-prime minister's description of the disaster drew gasps from families watching the public inquiry.", "The Charity Commission is looking at whether it needs to act over donations to Prince Charles' charity.", "Hundreds of people are injured and four have died after a wooden stand fell, local officials say.", "Behind the grinning photo ops of the G7 summit, world leaders grapple with their differing outlooks.", "More than 115,000 staff will receive their ballot papers and are expected to back strike action.", "A container filled with chlorine was dropped by a crane at the port of Aqaba, authorities say.", "She is pictured smiling during a ceremony to mark the beginning of the Royals' week in Edinburgh.", "The country fails to make $100m interest payment due to sanctions and is reported to be in default.", "Boris Johnson argues letting Russia \"get away with\" invading Ukraine would have \"chilling\" consequences.", "Hundreds of patients who have waited two years or more have already said they are willing to travel.", "Phil Shiner pleads not guilty to three charges linked to claims made against British troops.", "Boris Johnson says the higher food and energy costs from the conflict are the price of freedom.", "The manufacturing firm says it has failed to reach an agreement with the trade union.", "As the health safety watchdog warns on ambulance delays, the BBC investigates the case of 94-year-old Ken Shadbolt.", "The Scottish Parliament will decide whether emergency Covid powers should be made permanent.", "Refugees for Justice started the process after six people were stabbed at a Glasgow hotel in 2020.", "However, Scotland's national clinical director says a spike in Covid cases is \"entirely predictable\".", "The first minister said the Scottish government would back a bill to protect sites from protesters.", "Britain's Jodie Burrage rushes to help a ball boy who is taken ill during her first-round match at Wimbledon.", "Zara Aleena died following what police say was an \"opportunist stranger attack\" in east London.", "The accountancy firm's chairman Kevin Ellis says the company \"can't ignore market pressures\".", "More than 250 people were onboard the Los Angeles-Chicago train when it hit a dump truck.", "Britain's Andy Murray maintains his record of never losing in the first round at Wimbledon with an encouraging win against Australia's James Duckworth.", "Jens Stoltenberg said the increase followed a direct threat from Russia to European security.", "Amy Ellis lives in Wales, but is trying to raise money to get the specialist treatment in England.", "Russia's foreign minister tells the BBC that the West is pressing UN officials to amplify fake news.", "Russia hits targets in many areas, as world leaders discuss further military support for Ukraine.", "The one-day strike will take place on 11 July over what a union called a \"massive real-terms pay cut\".", "The Republic of Ireland claim a maiden Nations League win at the 13th time of asking as they see off Scotland in surprisingly comfortable fashion in Dublin.", "Volunteers say the latest attack, which caused £25,000 of damage, is \"absolutely gut-wrenching\".", "Oliver Bierhoff says the World Cup host's treatment of gay people is \"absolutely unacceptable\".", "Some familiar obstacles - and some new ones - will make any reform difficult, says the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.", "UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing last weekend.", "Cabinet Office minister Heather Wheeler had been speaking at a conference in London.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "Official estimates suggest there has been a small increase in infections in England and Northern Ireland.", "The government says the cap offers \"peace of mind for graduates\" but the NUS says it is still too high.", "People living in parts of the Highlands are used to paying more for petrol and diesel.", "Campaigners fail in their legal bid to halt the removals set for Tuesday but will appeal.", "An Iranian policeman set to be deported under the UK's new scheme says his life will be in danger.", "The government says the measure could further cut the number of smokers, especially among the young.", "The Uvalde school police chief told the Texas Tribune that officers responded without hesitation.", "Official data reveals heightened concern among households about the rising cost of living.", "People working and visiting the Whitfield Valley Centre speak about the rising cost of bills.", "Police name a teenager boy who was killed in a stabbing in the Miles Platting area of Manchester.", "Office for National Statistics figures suggest that about one person in 40 had the virus last week.", "The change, which comes into effect on Sunday, comes after pressure from the travel industry.", "China's defence chief tells the US that Beijing will fight against any Taiwan independence bid.", "The case against the footballer was thrown out because the accuser's lawyer relied on stolen records.", "Hanef Bhamjee was born in apartheid-era South Africa and was later awarded an OBE.", "The battle for Severodonetsk is taking a high toll, the Ukrainian president says, as they city's bridges fall.", "Mr Trump says his daughter \"had long since checked out\" after she distanced herself from his claims.", "Eight flights are diverted from East Midlands Airport as it closes its runway for more than an hour.", "Rising fuel prices will cost ice cream van owners their livelihoods, according to a trade body.", "With a nod to history, Putin now feels bold enough to admit that his operation is an occupation.", "The €555m settlement draws a line under a row that threatened to torpedo EU-Australia trade talks.", "A man is held on suspicion of murder after a 15-year-old died and a woman was injured in Manchester.", "\"Hero\" Hywel Morgan, 47, died after rescuing two children who were caught in a rip current.", "The issuing of Russian passports in occupied Kherson and Melitopol is condemned by Kyiv.", "Sarah Panitzke, who was extradited from Spain, is jailed nine years after being convicted of fraud.", "The pop star posted a video to Instagram to show how only half of his face could move.", "England's winless run continues as they are held to a draw by Italy in a Nations League game played behind closed doors at Molineux.", "\"People talk about goose bumps and hairs standing up on their necks,\" says singer Dafydd Iwan.", "Costa Coffee says it has taken the \"difficult decision\" to end sponsorship of the literary prize.", "Two mass shootings have renewed calls for action but chances of a deal in Congress are slim.", "The proposal is not expected to be adopted when government unveils its food strategy for England.", "Director David Lynch remembers Cruise as \"a great musician, a great singer and a great human being\".", "They are taking the case to the Court of Appeal after a judge ruled the first flight could go ahead.", "There has been an increase in motorists driving off without paying or claiming they have no wallet.", "A shortage of diamorphine means former heroin users have relapsed for the first time in decades.", "Shah Subhani was reported missing in May 2019, six months later his remains were found in woodland.", "The village pub part-owned by Stuart Broad is badly damaged, leaving the cricketer \"devastated\".", "Conditions in the city, now in Russian hands, could lead to a resurgence of the disease, authorities fear.", "There is widespread anger in China after footage went viral of an attack on a group of women.", "A court heard a bag containing weapons and ammunition was found in a holdall in Mr Irvine's car.", "The food should not be \"forced\" on Scottish markets by a new UK bill, a government minister says.", "Father and son Roger and Bradley Stockton die in a crash on the last lap of the Isle of Man TT sidecar race two.", "Tom Channon, 18, was on his first trip away with friends when he died after a 70ft fall.", "An official tells state TV the items \"promote homosexual colours targeting the younger generation\".", "Sterling has been sliding against the dollar and euro making overseas travel budgets tighter.", "Some nurses are swapping NHS staff jobs for bank or agency roles to get a better work life balance.", "A study finds the English bulldog has double the health risks of other dogs.", "Paul Edwards told a court he thought the vaccination programme was a danger to the public.", "The government's offer has been described as a real-terms pay cut for health service workers.", "Two brothers are being investigated in the hunt for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, local reports say.", "Ministers says airlines must ensure summer schedules are deliverable to prevent more travel disruption.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "\"What an incredible thing they achieved,\" says Boris Johnson at a service to mark 40 years since the war's end.", "It was due to be the Grammy award-winning US rap artist's first UK show in several years.", "Manesh Gill, a married father-of-three, attacked the woman after luring her to his hotel room.", "Children need more support as mental-health problems surge, the children's commissioner says.", "The man in his 40s is being held at a London police station as investigations continue.", "It will see 456 contestants compete in a series of challenges inspired by the dystopian drama.", "Germany, France, Italy and Romania support Ukraine's hope of becoming a candidate for EU membership.", "Reducing consumption by one to two cups every day would help the economy, a senior minister says.", "Historic England says the interiors help \"tell the fascinating story of pubs over the centuries\".", "Ria Evans, 41, became aggressive after being told she had to wait for treatment at hospital.", "Members of the RMT union working for Network Rail are due to take industrial action next week.", "Russian giant Gazprom says it will cut the amount of gas it sends to Germany by more than half.", "ScotRail has added later services from Monday as the dispute with drivers moves towards resolution.", "An animal rights group was seeking legal means to have the elephant moved from a zoo to a sanctuary.", "The US state department says Brittney Griner should not be held \"for a single day longer\".", "Simon Hart tells Mark Drakeford to \"put his own house in order\" before lecturing UK ministers.", "The best-selling US author apologises for saying older white writers face a form of racism.", "Scotland's first minister says her government has an \"indisputable mandate\" for another referendum.", "The warning means high temperatures could affect public health, as hot air moves in from Spain and Portugal.", "There is an urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising name, scientists agree.", "After two years of Covid rules, airline disruption and rail strikes risk overshadowing the summer.", "A report indicates that lots of houses in England could be lost to flooding in the coming decades.", "The US central bank raises rates by 0.75 percentage points as it scrambles to contain soaring prices.", "Brussels says altering the Northern Ireland Protocol breaks international law, but the UK disputes this.", "Hundreds of pharmacists in England are being given powers to send patients for cancer scans and tests.", "Senedd members criticise Eluned Morgan but stop short of banning her from the Welsh Parliament.", "A pilot will be held in three courts, but one victim says women \"have no faith\" in the system.", "The England and Wales Cricket Board charges \"a number of individuals\" with bringing cricket into disrepute in relation to allegations of racism at Yorkshire.", "From an attic room in Germany, the West coordinates the supply of arms to Ukraine - but is it enough?", "Transport for Wales and Great Western Railway will run just a handful of services during action.", "A message circulating on WhatsApp offering the chance to win beer is a phishing scam, Heineken says.", "The RAC calls for more government action to ease inflation and pressure on motorists.", "Tom Rice had acknowledged he could be politically doomed, but said he was following his conscience.", "Mobile masts generating their own electricity could be placed in remote off-grid locations.", "As the health safety watchdog warns on ambulance delays, the BBC investigates the case of 94-year-old Ken Shadbolt.", "Only a fifth of train services are due to run during next week's strike action.", "Internet Explorer, once the most popular web browser, will no longer be accessible for most users.", "The motorist says the prosecution for failing to allow enough room has cost him about £4,500.", "The books assert China's claims of unbroken sovereignty over the territory despite the UK's long rule.", "Boris Johnson's ethics adviser does not deny he considered quitting over ministerial rules.", "The timing surprised No 10, but Lord Geidt's discomfort has been evident for a while, writes out political editor.", "Sir Lenny Henry says he is \"always surprised by the lack of black and brown faces at festivals\".", "A number of events are taking place across London to mark five years since the disaster.", "Russia bans dozens of journalists and defence figures in response to UK sanctions imposed on Russians.", "The K-pop group tell fans their goal is to grow as individuals and pursue solo projects.", "Lord Geidt says there is a \"legitimate question\" over whether Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the government \"remains committed\" to the policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.", "The counterfeit Wonka Bars were being sold at US-themed candy shops on the famous shopping street.", "The government seems determined to press ahead with its plans despite last-minute legal interventions.", "A property firm is accused of disrespect after advertising Gwel yr Wyddfa as Sandy Retreat.", "Court backs Ted Jennings to try for a baby with a surrogate, using embryo he created with late wife.", "Boris Johnson earlier said he would defend the Rwanda asylum policy to Prince Charles if it came up.", "Witnesses describe desperate scenes after a powerful earthquake hits Afghanistan.", "Ros Atkins examines why a dispute between the RMT union and employers has led to strike action.", "Ministers say the plan, which needs Parliament's approval, would limit the impact of future strikes.", "The Welsh government is deciding whether to introduce a similar rule to the one in England.", "Pete Arredondo has been blamed for the botched response to the attack which saw 19 children killed.", "For its 200th anniversary, masterpieces by Constable and Monet will be exhibited across the UK.", "Optical-fibre cables could spot tsunamis or the effect of climate change on currents, researchers say.", "The monarch says she hopes the monument will \"inspire present and future generations\".", "Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll says the crime group \"preyed upon\" many boxers.", "It is the first time the Republic of Ireland's population has exceeded five million in a census.", "It follows the suspension of MP Patrick Grady over inappropriate behaviour towards a party worker.", "Secunder Kermani reports from Paktika, Afghanistan, where one survivor says he lost 20 relatives.", "After six years of marriage, the media tycoon and model will divorce, US media reports.", "Antarctic Treaty members extend the protective zone around the recently discovered Shackleton ship.", "One fan says a plane full of Wales fans plan to watch the tournament on the Spanish island instead.", "Voters in Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton will choose their new MPs on Thursday.", "Health officials say parents should ensure their children have been vaccinated against the disease.", "Thursday's strike is set to have a similar impact as Tuesday's, with just 20% of services running.", "Serial killer Stephen Port murdered four men between 2014-15 with fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.", "Police in Northern Ireland received a complaint about a joke the stand-up made at a show this month.", "Elon Musk said the Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai was \"very difficult\" for the electric car maker.", "Three fishermen died when the Nicola Faith capsized with the weight of four family cars on deck.", "The men are due in court after the boxer was robbed of his £72,000 watch in east London.", "A worker at the only health clinic in Gyan in Paktika province, tells the BBC how they were overwhelmed.", "Tens of thousands have already been hit by flight cancellations due to staff shortages in recent weeks.", "Cathedral City manufacturer Dairy Crest has admitted polluting the local area over five years.", "Attack ads, voter apathy and the red wall - Iain Watson hits the by-election campaign trail in Yorkshire.", "Over 1,000 people died in the disaster, with many children killed after being trapped in buildings.", "The listings magazine was first launched as a newsletter by Tony Elliott on the King's Road in 1968.", "Identified in a mangrove swamp, Thiomargarita magnifica is the shape and size of a human eyelash.", "About 700 workers at Heathrow Airport vote in favour of industrial action during the summer holidays.", "The former world boxing champion had his £72,000 watch snatched at gunpoint on an east London street.", "Amy Callaghan was allegedly heard telling SNP MPs they should rally to support Patrick Grady.", "The deaths were not treated as suspicious until weeks after the killer murdered his final victim.", "Stricter gun control in the US is unlikely despite the grief and anger, the BBC's Sarah Smith writes.", "There's criticism of the move as ministers warn workers not to expect pay rises to match increasing costs.", "A judge orders a culpable homicide trial for eight people, including the footballer's family doctor.", "The post-pandemic shift to working from home means disruption caused by the strikes has been more limited.", "The trial will allow some users to share \"notes\" beyond the normal 280-character limit for tweets.", "The three men and a woman made gun parts and rejoiced at mass killings, a trial heard.", "Authorities say they do not have enough data to be sure Juul's e-cigarettes meet health standards.", "The prime minister says talk of a blockade is untrue and a tiny amount of goods are affected.", "A look at the failings by the Met Police, which contributed to the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port's final three victims.", "The government faces a huge decision over what to do in Cumbria, amid employment and climate concerns.", "Dawid Lukasz Mietus pleaded guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Patrycja Wyrebek, in April 2022.", "Raheem Bailey's mother says it is \"painful\" he had to prepare himself mentally to go into school.", "The International Energy Agency warns that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.", "The major decision by the highest court is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.", "Victims' families say police \"have blood on their hands\" over the handling of Stephen Port's killings.", "The Education Authority notes a \"significant rise\" in demand for special school places.", "The men all receive four year sentences after the mural was stolen from a door at the concert hall.", "An adviser to Mr Zelensky says the battle for two key Donbas cities has reached a \"fearsome climax\".", "Boris Johnson acknowledges poor results but defends his record after Tories lose two parliamentary seats to the Lib Dems and Labour.", "A total of 37 young people at risk of sexual exploitation went missing from care in NI last year.", "Provides an overview of Afghanistan, including key dates and facts about this Asian country.", "The Capitol riot panel hears of an explosive showdown between Trump and justice department lawyers.", "An American couple's luggage - including the bride's dress - disappeared en-route to Scotland.", "After two years of Covid rules, airline disruption and rail strikes risk overshadowing the summer.", "Deep in once-safe Conservative territory, the main parties are fighting a by-election in very different ways.", "More than 1000 people are killed as a 6.1 magnitude quake hits Paktika province.", "American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez is rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships.", "Guns have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans.", "Aiden Aslin tells family his captors say the UK has not negotiated for him and \"time is running out\".", "It will soon be impossible to pay in shops with the notes, which are being replaced by plastic versions.", "Russia's economic isolation deepens as more Western companies leave the country.", "Ike Ekweremadu is said to have arranged the transport of a boy to the UK for organ-harvesting.", "A teacher did shut the door after earlier propping it open, but somehow it did not lock, police say.", "Shell says the field east of Aberdeen has the potential to produce 6.5% of Britain's gas output.", "Events including the Jubilee weekend are creating \"optimism and positivity\", business group says.", "The 96-year-old says she is \"inspired by the goodwill\" shown to her, ahead of four days of events.", "Police say the suspected gunman has also died following the attack in Tulsa.", "A heroic Ukraine rouse a performance dripping in spirit and courage to stun Scotland in an historic World Cup play-off semi-final.", "Aslef said it would ballot for industrial action unless the operator comes up with a better deal.", "The Republican-led state had banned social media companies from censoring users based on their \"views\".", "The singer, 53, died hours after performing at a packed concert in Kolkata city.", "Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic say their French Open quarter-final started too late after a four-hour match ended at 1:16am local time in Paris.", "The Home Office begins issuing formal paperwork to migrants, but legal challenges are expected.", "Gérald Darmanin says enough police were deployed, despite chaotic scenes in Paris on Saturday.", "In the first trial of its kind in Canada, adults can possess small amounts of some illegal drugs.", "A senior GP warns that the steep rise is likely to have a \"significant impact\" on doctors and staff.", "The actor is awarded $15m - but Heard also wins $2m after jurors find Depp defamed her via his lawyer.", "The Labour leader and his deputy attended a gathering in an MP's office during lockdown.", "West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma is ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service after pleading guilty to kicking and slapping his cat.", "One of the most photographed women in history has defined what it means to dress like a queen.", "A woman who brought a sexual harassment case against the ice cream firm is awarded £20,000.", "The International Gymnastics Federation banned three gymnasts from the Commonwealth Games.", "The airport's operator is under pressure to improve performance ahead of the bank holiday weekend.", "The area outside Buckingham Palace is transformed ahead of celebratory events in London.", "Her departure comes as the social media company faces challenges, including a slowdown in ad sales.", "Benjamin Mendy is now accused of eight counts of rape after a new complainant came forward.", "Vice-chancellors ask both sides to work together to save the UK's role in a multi-billion-pound scheme.", "Care homes are criticised for charging top-up fees such as taking residents to medical appointments.", "The culture secretary accuses Boris Johnson's internal Tory critics of doing \"the opposition's work\".", "More than 70 people died in the fire, which spread rapidly due to the type of cladding.", "Passengers are praising a co-pilot's \"heroics\" for loading luggage on to a 32-hour delayed flight.", "The BBC speaks to residents from a Russian-occupied region who say they were kidnapped and tortured.", "Passengers express fury over what they see as poor treatment after travel giant axes flights.", "The fast fashion brand has suffered from supply chain issues, rising freight costs and increased competition.", "Flights are cancelled and baggage lost as passengers try to get away for half-term holidays.", "Rafael Nadal demonstrates why he is the greatest player in French Open history by beating Novak Djokovic in a late-night thriller to reach the semi-finals.", "The city beat off competition from County Durham, Southampton and Wrexham to win the coveted title.", "The UK's transport secretary seeks a meeting with airlines and airports to \"find out what's gone wrong\".", "Sailors around the world send traditional Royal Navy tributes to Her Majesty.", "The social, political, scientific and technological shifts during the Queen's 70 years on the throne.", "For the next three months, public transport costs are being cut to tackle the soaring cost of living.", "Ukrainian forces recapture part of Severodonetsk that was lost to Russian troops, a regional governor says.", "One of the most photographed women in history has defined what it means to dress like a queen.", "Large queues formed at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports amid reports of major delays across the UK.", "Passengers are reporting being told at the flight gate that their trip has been cancelled.", "About two million people are set to fly over the bank holiday but flights are still being cancelled, leaving passengers stuck at airports.", "Ten teenagers are convicted of murdering Jack Woodley, who was kicked, punched and fatally stabbed.", "Tests are being resold on a secondary market as learners face months-long waits for an exam.", "Clover, who has 4,000 Facebook followers, is found 10 days after going missing from a supermarket.", "After the report into lockdown rule-breaking, political editor Chris Mason assesses the PM's future.", "Boris Johnson says he is \"humbled\" by Sue Gray's account of rule-breaking but rejects calls to resign.", "The fast fashion brand has a buyer but shoppers are still waiting for deliveries and refunds.", "Lord Geidt says there is a \"legitimate question\" over whether Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules.", "The company's new increase in gas prices follows a 33% rise in electricity prices on Wednesday.", "Serving officers exchanged misogynistic WhatsApp messages group, BBC Spotlight reveals.", "Heard found herself in a tense exchange with Johnny Depp's attorney as the trial nears its end.", "A jury has returned a verdict, but a parallel case in the court of public opinion continues.", "Plans to honour historic radio transmission are on hold due to Marconi's links to Benito Mussolini.", "Waverley council says it is \"the worst possible outcome\" and could lead to \"irreversible harm\".", "As the offensive intensifies in the country's east, what will happen next? Here are some potential scenarios.", "The European Central Bank intends to increase rates in July as it tries to control soaring inflation.", "One in four students are lonely most or all of the time, compared with one in 20 of all adults.", "Because of their experiences on the front line, some troops are seeking legal advice to avoid being redeployed.", "The mood among Tory MPs suggests the PM's woes are far from over, writes Nick Eardley.", "Sue Barker will step down from her role as the presenter of the BBC's Wimbledon coverage after the 2022 tournament.", "Here's a reminder of what happened on the historic day a mob stormed the Capitol.", "Amid rowdy Commons scenes, Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle says the prime minister is a loathed figure.", "Airline chief Jozsef Varadi called on staff to work when tired to stop flight cancellations.", "Organisers confirm Cesar Chanal died and Olivier Lavorel is critical after the crash on Saturday.", "The singer calls for a change in the law, speaking of \"how desperate it is to be accused of something you never did\".", "Why making Japan's favourite snack more expensive was so controversial it prompted an ad campaign.", "Patients may have come into contact with the infection at a Royal Victoria Hospital ward in 2019.", "Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt was targeted during an anti-lockdown protest last summer.", "The man was arrested early on Wednesday morning outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.", "The PGA Tour is suspending all its members who are playing in this week's LIV Golf Invitational event at Centurion Club.", "Aslef union members will walkout over over pay after RMT announced 40,000 members would strike.", "One organiser calls for employers to recognise the depth of talent in the disabled community.", "\"Monster next door\" Can Arslan had terrorised his neighbours for years before stabbing Matthew Boorman.", "Officials say members of a mysterious religious group brought Holly Clouse to a church after the killing.", "Thais can now grow cannabis for commerce, but the rules still ban recreational use.", "The measures include banning sales of semi-automatic weapons to under-21s, but they look set to be rejected.", "The major television series for US network HBO was expected to film at Belfast's Titanic Studios.", "Angela Rayner says there is \"suspicion\" about contracts for a firm she says is linked to a Tory peer.", "Karis Hedges who captured the image says the seal was acting like it was \"the most normal thing\" to do.", "Customers are having to pay more for goods as truck firms pass on higher fuel prices, a freight boss says.", "Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner are sentenced alongside a Moroccan man in a court held by pro-Russian rebels.", "Mykhaylo Podolyak told the BBC that Ukraine needs more weapons to match Russia's firepower.", "The 21-year-old university student spent 58 days in hospital, including in intensive care.", "Emergency services continue to search at a lake near Okehampton after a boat capsized.", "The Ministry of Defence is embarking on a year-long project into the possibilities of quantum computing.", "The trust suspended the services in April 2021 due to \"staffing resourcing issues\".", "Social mobility chief Katherine Birbalsingh says debate too fixated on getting poor to top universities.", "A US woman's family history quest leads to a connection with a \"giant hotspot\" in Northern Ireland.", "The average cost of filling a typical family car could exceed £100 as soon as Thursday, the RAC warns.", "Russia's foreign minister claims the captured fighters committed crimes in a breakaway region of Ukraine.", "The woman is praised by firefighters after rushing into the house and extinguishing the blaze.", "Nasa says the incident is not expected to limit the mission's overall performance.", "A sheriff said Declan Clarke's actions constituted \"fly-tipping on an industrial scale\".", "But a No 10 source says tax cuts are planned only in \"the longer term\", with other issues taking priority.", "Steve Rotheram tells the French Senate police sought confrontation at Champions League final in Paris.", "Aiden Aslin's family denounce \"Kremlin propaganda\", adding he is not a \"volunteer, mercenary, or spy\".", "At one point up to 100 firefighters were at the scene of the fire at a caravan repair centre.", "The eFoiler boat, developed and built in the city, can be used for port operations and to transfer crews.", "Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the new Saudi-funded golf tournament.", "Miah Cerillo, 11, told lawmakers about her harrowing experience surviving the school shooting.", "The Democratic-led inquiry argues the ex-president plotted to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.", "Rescue teams have been searching for two disabled people missing since the incident on Wednesday.", "Multiple whistleblowers - current and former staff - say children were failed.", "University of Southampton palaeontologists identify the remains of a dinosaur measuring 32ft.", "Court documents show he filed a claim against Associated Newspapers Limited on Wednesday.", "Fuel prices continue to hit new records, increasing the pressure on household budgets.", "A new administration will be able to make reforms after a report found gross failures of governance.", "Evidence suggests the driver was a \"mentally ill person running amok\", a regional official says.", "Review suggests year by year increases until no-one is allowed to buy tobacco and cigarettes.", "Figures from January show 22.5% of pupils now qualify for free meals, up from 20.8% a year earlier.", "Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, faces four misdemeanour charges.", "A female bear was forced to protect her cub from a male in Spain's Cantabrian mountains.", "The Capitol invaders whose pictures came to define the chaos of that day have all been rounded up.", "Aamir Liaquat Hussain was an outspoken, divisive host whose shows featured flashy prizes and abuse.", "Experts warn health inequalities will be widened by the surge in the cost of living.", "Berlin's mayor says the suspect, who is in police custody, is \"severely mentally impaired\".", "The Treasury should have insured government debt against interest rate rises, a research institute says.", "A driving instructor says rising fuel prices risk making driving lessons unaffordable.", "Owners of unoccupied properties would be hit with higher council tax under \"levelling up\" plans.", "The Duke of Sussex says the Mail on Sunday caused \"distress\" after accusing him of having \"lied\".", "Russian president says oil and gas profits are increasing thanks to rising energy prices.", "Boris Johnson focuses on boosting home ownership as he seeks to relaunch his premiership.", "The Duke of Cambridge was seen wearing the Big Issue uniform and selling copies of the magazine.", "Journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira disappeared on Sunday in the Amazon.", "Kyiv's mayor says Russia's leader is destroying millions of lives in both Ukraine and Russia.", "Tobias Weller is calling for more playgrounds to be accessible for disabled children to enjoy.", "The 75-year-old is already under judicial investigation in France for raping a minor and trafficking.", "A third suspect has been arrested after the deaths of Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.", "The photo of the duke grinning with his children on holiday is released just before his 40th birthday.", "The situation north of Ukraine's second largest city is quite difficult, an adviser to the interior minister says.", "World governing body Fifa teams up with players' union Fifpro to identify people who target players with abusive social media posts.", "But union leaders blame politicians for failing to stop rail strikes which will begin on Tuesday.", "Colin Furze, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, started the project three years ago.", "Fina, swimming's world governing body, votes to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.", "A valleys choir sings for 60,000 after Stereophonics' Kelly Jones ran into an old teacher.", "Striking rail workers have not been left with many options, Jeremy Miles says.", "Gen Sir Patrick Sanders says the Army and allies need to be capable of defeating Russia in battle.", "Green lanes and red lanes are part of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses.", "Aiden Aslin was given the sentence after being captured while fighting against Russia in April.", "The spring booster vaccine is available for over 75s and people with underlying health conditions.", "Three suspects have already been arrested by police in connection with the murders of the two men.", "Ukraine's parliament also voted to ban the import of books from Russia and Belarus.", "The athlete says she's going to \"explode with excitement\" as she gets rid of fear around her sexuality.", "Aeracha Uladh gains 50 members in only six weeks with its message of \"it's ok to be yourself\".", "Temperature records have been broken in Spain and France as a heatwave sweeps across Europe.", "PM Mark Rutte said soldiers were underequipped to stop the murder of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys.", "Only a fifth of train services are due to run during next week's strike action.", "The move by employees in Towson, Maryland, is the latest in a string of high-profile union campaigns in the US.", "The fire service describes it as a \"small scale gas release\" which has now been resolved.", "Ukraine's president makes a rare trip outside the capital to visit bomb-damaged Mykolaiv and Odesa.", "What a dire local election in a seaside resort tells us about where the Conservatives are heading.", "Deep in once-safe Conservative territory, the main parties are fighting a by-election in very different ways.", "Thousands of workers marched to Parliament to demand better pay, in an event organised by the TUC.", "The event marking 50 years since the Staines crash, in which 118 people died, was held on Saturday.", "As the offensive intensifies in the country's east, what will happen next? Here are some potential scenarios.", "A message during a gig in Londonderry suggested a camera would zoom in on women's chests.", "Jim Fitton, 66, is sentenced to 15 years for attempting to smuggle 12 stones and broken pottery.", "Outbreaks of the rare virus are continuing to occur in many countries outside Africa.", "Some Conservative MPs say a vote on Boris Johnson's leadership could be triggered in the coming week.", "It comes after the Afghan veterans won a legal battle to allow the interpreter to settle in the UK.", "Because of their experiences on the front line, some troops are seeking legal advice to avoid being redeployed.", "The foreign secretary backs the prime minister after he won a vote of confidence among his own MPs on Monday night.", "The Duchess of Cambridge baked cakes with her children Prince George, Louis and Princess Charlotte.", "Russian state media said Major General Roman Kutuzov was the latest commander killed in fighting.", "The prime minister says backing by 211 out of 359 Tory MPs will allow his government to \"do our job\".", "But Boris Johnson tells Tory MPs he will lead them \"to victory again\" if they back him in the vote.", "WHO figures show confirmed cases tripled in a week, which is likely to be an underestimate.", "Concerns over France's suitability to host sporting events have been raised in the Commons.", "Ex-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he will not be backing Boris Johnson in the confidence vote.", "Sir Graham Brady announces that Boris Johnson has won his leadership confidence vote over by 211 votes to 148.", "Balkan countries deny Sergei Lavrov's plane use of their airspace, scuppering his Serbia visit.", "The German carmaker said the brakes of some older cars may be affected by \"advanced corrosion\".", "Quentin Sommerville describes relentless artillery bombardment in Donbas ahead of Russian forces entering Severodonetsk.", "Ukraine's president says fighting in the key cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk has been intense.", "As the threat of Russia’s invasion loomed, Kyiv refused to cower. But then it was forced to adapt.", "A small number of cutting-edge rocket systems will be sent, despite a fresh warning from Russia.", "The biggest ever trial of a four-day week gets under way with up to 70 firms taking part.", "Senior Tory MP Sir Graham Brady is expected to announce a vote of confidence ballot shortly.", "Police confirmed a man was interviewed voluntarily in relation to the social media video.", "The industrial action started on Monday and will last \"for an undisclosed period\", the union says.", "Rafael Nadal says he won his record-extending 14th French Open title with \"no feeling\" in his chronically injured left foot.", "The journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert had received threats before they disappeared.", "Four of the six MPs voted against the prime minister, with two supporting him, including Scottish Secretary Alister Jack.", "Thousands of holiday-makers are thought to be stuck in Europe after the weekend's flight cancellations.", "The billionaire accuses the company of \"thwarting\" his requests to learn more about spam accounts.", "Patients missing out on care and medicines as NHS struggles to fill posts across UK, staff say.", "Airlines continue to cancel flights as travel secretary says industry must solve labour shortages.", "Wales reach a World Cup for the first time since 1958 as Gareth Bale's deflected free-kick sees them beat Ukraine 1-0 in Sunday's play-off final in Cardiff.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex release an image of their daughter at a picnic they hosted in Windsor.", "Heavy fighting continues in Donbas with a military analyst saying Russia is struggling to make major gains.", "A court considers the case of Archie Battersbee, 12, who is on life support in hospital.", "Communities across the country have been coming together to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.", "Russia will expand its target list in Ukraine if Western countries send long-range weapons, he says.", "More than 30 Conservative MPs have so far broken cover to urge the PM to step down over Partygate.", "London's mayor says the force's new commissioner needs to work on restoring trust and confidence.", "As Russia makes some progress in Donbas, are cracks appearing in the Western consensus over Ukraine?", "There have been murmurs for months but in the past two weeks, something has changed, says the BBC's Nick Eardley.", "Victoria Brignell was forced to wait for an hour and a half before being assisted from the plane.", "The legendary US group remember their former bassist as a dear friend who was \"wild and full of life\".", "The police watchdog says it is investigating the contact Met officers had with the man in his 40s.", "Confidence votes are almost always bad news for political leaders, the BBC's political editor Chris Mason explains.", "Officials say hydrogen peroxide containers were mislabelled, exacerbating a blaze that killed dozens.", "Three Arizona officers watched a man who was begging for help drown in a reservoir.", "The joint exercise comes after North Korea test-fired several ballistic missiles on Sunday.", "Travel agents say staff are dealing with calls from holidaymakers anxious about their plans.", "Tenants are going to great lengths to secure a home from offering big deposits to sharing photos of their dogs.", "After a long weekend of pomp and pageantry, the focus now turns to the prime minister's future.", "Shoppers are buying footwear and beauty items, but not furniture and electronics, industry figures suggest.", "The monarch waved from her balcony as the four-day weekend's events drew to a close.", "Members of Wales' LGBTQ+ supporters group refuse to travel to Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.", "Ukraine and the UK have been discussing weapons supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive", "The Platinum Jubilee closes with another appearance by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.", "About 4,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members are taking the 24-hour action over job cuts and pensions.", "Many London Underground stations were closed on Monday and all lines were disrupted.", "The airline's engineers and call centre workers in the UK are being consulted over industrial action.", "The US Navy ship \"Sammy B\" sank off the Philippines in a ferocious WWII battle with the Japanese.", "Emma Raducanu's agent Max Eisenbud insists the US Open champion is not being distracted by commercial interests.", "The mood among Tory MPs suggests the PM's woes are far from over, writes Nick Eardley.", "The men were killed in Brazil's Amazon earlier this month while returning from an expedition.", "The Supreme Court is being asked to overturn the 1973 ruling that legalised abortion in the US.", "Pictures show a gaping hole in the side of car maker Nio's Shanghai HQ, and a smashed vehicle below.", "All eyes are on Mississippi as the US awaits a Supreme Court decision involving its last abortion clinic.", "The divide in America has become even deeper after this Supreme Court ruling, writes Sarah Smith.", "Secunder Kermani reports from Paktika, Afghanistan, where one survivor says he lost 20 relatives.", "The Liberal Democrats win the by-election, overturning a Conservative majority of more than 24,000.", "Retail sales fell 0.5% in May as households cut spending in supermarkets due to the rising cost of living.", "The bZ4X is the Japanese motor industry giant's first mass-produced all-electric vehicle.", "DCI Neil Hibberd helped investigate the murder of David Tebbutt and the kidnap of his wife Jude.", "The Radio 1 presenter receives \"role model\" award for opening up the conversation around bowel cancer.", "The sister of the mother-of-three speaks out after killer is sentenced to a minimum of 22 years.", "It follows the French president accusing Australia's ex-PM of lying to him over a submarine deal.", "Party leader Ed Davey unveils a blue door in the Devon constituency his party just won.", "BBC regional political editors on the view from the ground in two very different constituencies.", "The Tories and PM Boris Johnson are dealt a major blow as the Lib Dems and Labour win two seats.", "Michael Howard says fresh leadership was needed for the party and country, and urged MPs to act.", "Neither the Catholic Maintained or Controlled sectors were invited to a conference on NI's future.", "Rikki Neave's mother was cleared of murder, and now the man who did kill him is being sentenced.", "Cathedral City manufacturer Dairy Crest has admitted polluting the local area over five years.", "Attack ads, voter apathy and the red wall - Iain Watson hits the by-election campaign trail in Yorkshire.", "Demonstrators are on the streets in the US again after the landmark ruling to end the right to abortion.", "Severodonetsk is the current focus of Russia as it tries to take control of eastern Ukraine.", "Identified in a mangrove swamp, Thiomargarita magnifica is the shape and size of a human eyelash.", "The ex-model is sentenced for breaching a restraining order against her ex-husband's fiancée.", "About 700 workers at Heathrow Airport vote in favour of industrial action during the summer holidays.", "Oliver Dowden resigns, but the PM vows to go on after the Lib Dems and Labour inflict defeats on the Conservatives.", "The 71-year-old broadcaster's wife pays tribute to her husband, saying \"he will forever be with us\".", "The Labour leader says voters in the city's by-election saw a party \"united and focused\".", "KRW Law is acting over an article written by Brandon Lewis on the Conservative Home website.", "States can decide to ban abortion after the Supreme Court overrules the landmark Roe v Wade case.", "The post-pandemic shift to working from home means disruption caused by the strikes has been more limited.", "The increase, with an estimated one in 35 people testing positive, is being driven by newer variants.", "Boris Johnson promises to \"listen and learn\" but ex-leader Michael Howard calls for him to quit.", "The 20-year-old calls the decision to end the constitutional right to abortion a \"dark day\".", "Authorities say they do not have enough data to be sure Juul's e-cigarettes meet health standards.", "British number one Emma Raducanu is drawn against Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck in the Wimbledon first round.", "The Meta-owned app is trialling new verification methods to ensure teens meet platform age rules.", "The government is calling a review of the plans which include a smaller shop, offices and a gym.", "Overturning the right to an abortion is a major win for some. For others, a devastating loss.", "The once near-extinct birds of prey are being flown abroad to help rescue dwindling Spanish populations.", "Labour's Simon Lightwood criticises Boris Johnson in his victory speech after regaining the Wakefield seat.", "Lynn Fitch said she hoped to empower women by striking down the law.", "BBC News has been to speak to people in Tiverton and Honiton ahead of a by-election on Thursday.", "Nick Barton saw his pay increase to £595,000 as boss of Birmingham Airport, despite job cuts.", "The major decision by the highest court is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.", "The men all receive four year sentences after the mural was stolen from a door at the concert hall.", "Boris Johnson acknowledges poor results but defends his record after Tories lose two parliamentary seats to the Lib Dems and Labour.", "Saltivka has been relentlessly shelled by Russia. Among the ruins, a few residents are trying to survive.", "The Capitol riot panel hears of an explosive showdown between Trump and justice department lawyers.", "The Ukrainian President delivered a message to festivalgoers, as the Libertines kicked off the music.", "James Watson, who was 13 at the time of the killing, evaded justice for nearly three decades.", "In April the streaming giant reported its first subscriber loss in more than a decade.", "BBC Yorkshire's political editor looks at the background to the district's upcoming ballot.", "Deep in once-safe Conservative territory, the main parties are fighting a by-election in very different ways.", "The prince also tells Commonwealth leaders it is up to nations whether they remain monarchies.", "The soft drink has had a partnership with the tennis championships since the mid-1930s.", "Russia's economic isolation deepens as more Western companies leave the country.", "Boris Johnson once again faces questions about his leadership following two defeats and a resignation.", "Murtaja Qureiris was held for eight years for alleged involvement in a protest when he was 10.", "The pop star will be the festival's youngest-ever solo headliner when she tops the bill on Friday.", "Legendary Wales, British and Irish Lions and Llanelli fly-half Phil Bennett has died at the age of 73.", "Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel pockets $4.75m (£3.86m) with a one-stroke victory at the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event in Hertfordshire", "Phil Bennett, the legendary Wales and British and Irish Lions fly-half who elevated rugby union to an art form, dies at the age of 73.", "Some familiar obstacles - and some new ones - will make any reform difficult, says the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.", "Police say a body is recovered after a vehicle is found at the bottom of Pendeen cliff.", "The Sydney Morning Herald says it \"simply asked questions\" after being accused of outing the actress.", "Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in Kharkiv with indiscriminate weapons, according to a new report.", "Scott Sibley is the first Briton to have been confirmed to have died in Ukraine since the invasion.", "UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing last weekend.", "The Saudi government wants Muslims to book online for Mecca but many have already paid tour agents.", "Jordan Gatley was killed as Ukrainian forces fought for control of Severodonetsk, his family said.", "The Scottish Police Federation rejects a £565 offer, saying there is \"palpable anger\" among officers.", "Sir Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall and Baroness Amos are installed in the Order of the Garter.", "A strong showing by a left-green alliance jeopardises the French president's parliamentary majority.", "How a boyhood dream to join the circus came true for trapeze artist Trystan Chambers.", "A former acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport.", "Police name a teenager boy who was killed in a stabbing in the Miles Platting area of Manchester.", "Staff trialling it say a shorter week will be life changing for them and improves quality of life.", "Former first minister Alex Salmond calls for a referendum campaign to be mobilised now.", "The case against the footballer was thrown out because the accuser's lawyer relied on stolen records.", "The head of the UK's armed forces also rejects Ukraine's call for a no-fly zone, saying it will not help.", "The battle for Severodonetsk is taking a high toll, the Ukrainian president says, as they city's bridges fall.", "The singer briefly halts her concert at the O2 arena after several fans pass out in the heat.", "Some football staff say they will not go to the World Cup as homosexuality is illegal in Qatar.", "The fast food outlets are rebranded as \"Tasty and that's it\" after the burger giant pulled out.", "The transport secretary says he is preparing to overhaul rules, as rail workers prepare to walk out.", "The Army says it's \"actively and strongly encouraging\" the soldiers to return to the UK.", "\"Hero\" Hywel Morgan, 47, died after rescuing two children who were caught in a rip current.", "The food should not be \"forced\" on Scottish markets by a new UK bill, a government minister says.", "Ricky Lightfoot reveals he had been awake for 29 hours before the event after flying from Tenerife.", "It is thought the stern of the warship, which sank in 1682, is \"almost certainly intact\".", "It happened during the opening show of the former One Direction singer's world tour in Glasgow.", "The issuing of Russian passports in occupied Kherson and Melitopol is condemned by Kyiv.", "England's winless run continues as they are held to a draw by Italy in a Nations League game played behind closed doors at Molineux.", "Qari Asim is removed as a government adviser on Islamophobia after calling for a film to be banned.", "Two mass shootings have renewed calls for action but chances of a deal in Congress are slim.", "Wales' Olympic champion Lauren Price makes a winning start to her professional career with an impressive victory over Valgerdur Gudstensdottir.", "They are taking the case to the Court of Appeal after a judge ruled the first flight could go ahead.", "There has been an increase in motorists driving off without paying or claiming they have no wallet.", "Mass testing is taking place after more than 160 cases are linked to a bar in the capital.", "Max Verstappen wins the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and takes control of the World Championship after an engine failure on Charles Leclerc's Ferrari.", "Russian shelling causes a huge fire at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, a Ukrainian official says.", "There is widespread anger in China after footage went viral of an attack on a group of women.", "A woman who was on the beach says Hywel Morgan gave his life to \"save others\".", "Joe Biden says the plans are a step in the right direction, but they fall far short of what he called for.", "Scintillating centuries from Joe Root and Ollie Pope keep England in the second Test with New Zealand on a riotous third day at Trent Bridge.", "Hilary Devey died at her holiday home in Morocco after a long illness, her publicist confirms.", "The business secretary wants to know if a 5p fuel duty cut is being passed on quickly enough to drivers.", "Its defence chief tells Asian partners that \"devastating\" climate change is his top security issue.", "The online retailer says \"inflationary pressures\" are leading its customers to send back orders.", "An official tells state TV the items \"promote homosexual colours targeting the younger generation\".", "The tech giant is accused of secretly slowing down the performance of older models.", "A report found care home residents were discriminated against by Covid restrictions.", "There will be a spike in food prices this summer, the Institute of Grocery Distribution predicts.", "It was due to be the Grammy award-winning US rap artist's first UK show in several years.", "One in 20 has been waiting - for routine care such as knee and hip surgery - for more than a year.", "Key talks end with rich and poor countries at loggerheads on the divisive issue of loss and damage.", "Brendan Mills used the forklift to suspend the car - and the would-be thief - until police arrived.", "The Bank is trying to ease inflation as people in the UK experience huge cost of living pressures.", "Areas with lower incomes, or higher ethnic minority populations, had higher levels of air pollution.", "Congressional investigators release video of a Republican with a man who later threatened Democrats.", "Germany, France, Italy and Romania support Ukraine's hope of becoming a candidate for EU membership.", "More than 150 ex-embassy workers are in Afghanistan - some say they've been beaten and tortured.", "The 71-year-old was cleared of killing his wife after she died when scalded with boiling oil.", "Journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in the Amazon rainforest.", "A high of 29.5C (85.1F) is recorded in west London as people flock to enjoy the warm weather outdoors.", "Russian giant Gazprom says it will cut the amount of gas it sends to Germany by more than half.", "Researchers say they finally know the origin of the plague that killed tens of millions in the 1300s.", "Isolation support payments, free Covid tests and extra sick pay for social care workers are ending.", "The Bank of England increases rates to 1.25% and forecasts inflation could surpass 11% this year.", "The star's seventh album will be called Renaissance, and fans only have to wait one month to hear it.", "Champions Manchester City travel to West Ham on the opening weekend of the 2022-23 Premier League season.", "Nearly 140 graves, a skeleton with a spear point embedded in it, jewellery and weapons are among the finds.", "A suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.", "Ukraine belongs to the European family, the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania say in Kyiv.", "The US central bank raises rates by 0.75 percentage points as it scrambles to contain soaring prices.", "Downing Street is facing questions over why Boris Johnson's ethics adviser Lord Geidt quit his role.", "A pilot will be held in three courts, but one victim says women \"have no faith\" in the system.", "The Oscar-winning actor \"strenuously denies\" allegations he sexually assaulted three men, a court hears.", "From an attic room in Germany, the West coordinates the supply of arms to Ukraine - but is it enough?", "Issues of physical and emotional abuse within British gymnastics were \"systemic\", an independent investigation finds.", "The England and Wales Cricket Board charges \"a number of individuals\" with bringing cricket into disrepute in relation to allegations of racism at Yorkshire.", "The family are \"very distressed\" after being relocated from Belfast to Londonderry at short notice.", "The man used a fake name and pretended to be Brazilian, but security officials say he is a deep-cover spy.", "As the health safety watchdog warns on ambulance delays, the BBC investigates the case of 94-year-old Ken Shadbolt.", "A congressional committee said Trump tried to pressure his vice-president to overturn election results.", "Church of England research reveals its £10bn investment fund has 18th Century links to the slave trade.", "Only a fifth of train services are due to run during next week's strike action.", "From next year, second home owners could face a 300% premium on council tax in some areas.", "The motorist says the prosecution for failing to allow enough room has cost him about £4,500.", "Boris Johnson's ethics adviser does not deny he considered quitting over ministerial rules.", "The RNIB warns that attendance rates at eye test clinics are \"alarmingly low\".", "The timing surprised No 10, but Lord Geidt's discomfort has been evident for a while, writes out political editor.", "Gavin Rawson, 35, died trying to save Nathan Walker, 19, whose son was born 15 days after he died.", "Indigenous community members in the Javari Valley say they feel abandoned by Brazilian authorities.", "Ukrainian citizens have told the BBC they were punched and electrocuted before being allowed to leave Mariupol.", "Lord Geidt says there is a \"legitimate question\" over whether Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules.", "Russia's foreign minister tells the BBC that the West is pressing UN officials to amplify fake news.", "Adventure tourism, food and the Welsh language are better selling points, say business bosses.", "Scottish Covid Inquiry researchers say lockdown restrictions may have contributed to some deaths.", "Russia is stopping grain leaving Ukrainian ports, sparking warnings tens of millions risk famine.", "The Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China Sea days after it was towed out of the harbour.", "What role did social media play in the murder of 13-year-old Olly Stephens?", "Yair Lapid is set to take over as prime minister in the coming days with fresh elections expected.", "Nearly 400 cases cannot be pursued as forensic labs struggle to cope with demand for test results.", "World Athletics president Lord Coe hints the sport could follow swimming in banning transgender women from elite female competitions, insisting \"fairness is non-negotiable\".", "Rachel Keke, a left-wing candidate in Paris, is the first cleaner to become an MP in France.", "Businesses, commuters and pupils sitting exams anticipate disruption from this week's train strikes.", "The parents of a 12-year-old boy in a coma are in court contesting a ruling that he is brain-dead.", "Green lanes and red lanes are part of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses.", "Archie's family lost a High Court battle last week when a judge ruled his life support should end.", "Downing Street calls a report about Carrie Johnson \"not true\", but a journalist says it was \"100%\" correct.", "Emma Day will help deaf pupil Evelyn in what is thought to be a first in mainstream Welsh schools.", "Ministers want to create two economic zones able to offer tax incentives and lower tariffs.", "Police safeguarding systems were flawed but a report finds no evidence of a grooming cover-up.", "Cities across the UK have expressed interest in staging the 2023 show if it ends up in the UK.", "A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the discovery at a house.", "Former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs announces he has resigned as Wales manager.", "The inquest has resumed into the deaths of five people in pub bombs in Guildford in 1974.", "Passengers in England, Scotland and Wales face severe disruption with reduced timetables from Monday evening.", "Gen Sir Patrick Sanders says the Army and allies need to be capable of defeating Russia in battle.", "The spring booster vaccine is available for over 75s and people with underlying health conditions.", "Three suspects have already been arrested by police in connection with the murders of the two men.", "The ex-health secretary will run the Race for Life in July in Guildford in aid of cancer charities.", "EU leaders will vote on Kyiv's candidate status at a summit in Brussels later this week.", "The plan is expected to come into force in July and would not impact train strikes taking place this week.", "Amy Callaghan was allegedly heard telling SNP MPs they should rally to support Patrick Grady.", "The big winners of France's elections are poles apart but share the aim of opposing Macron.", "Councillors approve the makeover at Caerphilly Castle, but one compares the design to Disneyland.", "Gustavo Petro, the former mayor of Bogota and ex-rebel fighter, defeats a millionaire businessman.", "A tornado has severely damaged buildings, cars and infrastructure in the southern Chinese city Foshan.", "Deputy PM Dominic Raab would make any urgent decisions in Boris Johnson's place, Downing Street says.", "The MP for Tottenham apologises for \"administrative errors in his office\".", "The Foreign Office says the UK nationals' travel to Afghanistan was a \"mistake\" and against advice.", "Jamie Cooper planned for days to capture the moment, which lasted for less than a second.", "Ofgem has accused some firms of using customer payments like an \"interest-free company credit card\".", "Colin Furze, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, started the project three years ago.", "Fina, swimming's world governing body, votes to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.", "A driver describes hearing a \"dreaded thump\" and fearing the worst - yet the rabbit survived.", "Strikes and inflation create major headaches for both the Conservatives and Labour.", "Ukraine's parliament also voted to ban the 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Zelensky said in his speech.\n\nHe said his government was engaged in \"complex negotiations\" to unblock grain reserves trapped in Ukraine's Black Sea ports.\n\n\"This war may seem very distant to you and your countries,\" he told the AU. \"But the food prices that are catastrophically rising have already brought [the war] to the homes of millions of African families.\"\n\nMr Zelensky's AU speech comes nearly 10 weeks after he first asked to address the continental body.\n\nThe BBC understands that 55 heads of state were invited to the virtual session, but only four attended. The rest of the countries sent representatives.\n\nAfrican countries have been divided in their response to Russia's war in Ukraine. In March, 17 African countries abstained in a UN vote to condemn the invasion.\n\nBut on Monday, AU's chairperson Macky Sall thanked Mr Zelensky for addressing the union.\n\nMr Sall said that \"Africa remains committed to respecting the rules of international law, the peaceful resolution of conflicts and freedom of trade\".\n\nInitially, the AU did not want to be addressed by Mr Zelensky, and it does not fully agree with what he's saying - they want dialogue to solve the crisis, as they always have.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Sall held talks with Russia President Vladimir Putin. He told Mr Putin that African countries are innocent victims of the war in Ukraine and Russia should help ease their suffering.\n\nFood prices across African countries have rocketed, meanwhile millions of tonnes of grain are sitting in warehouses and Ukrainian ports\n\nEarlier on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said of Russia's blockade: \"This is a real war crime, so I cannot imagine that this will last much longer.\"\n\nMr Borrell met EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss the crisis.\n\nHe described Moscow's actions as \"a deliberate attempt to create hunger in the world\".\n\nHe rejected Russia's claim that the current food crisis is a result of EU sanctions, adding that they \"don't forbid\" countries outside the EU from conducting food trade with Russia or other nations.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said that \"Russia must stop playing with global hunger\" as it seeks leverage over the West.\n\n\"Leaving cereals blocked is dangerous for stability in the world,\" she said.\n\nThe head of the Polish prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, spoke with Ukraine's infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov about changes that will speed up checks for trucks on the Polish-Ukrainian border to help export more grain from Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA floating restaurant that was a famous Hong Kong landmark has sunk, days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years.\n\nThe Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China Sea while on its way to an undisclosed location, its parent company said.\n\nAberdeen Restaurant Enterprises said it was \"very saddened by the incident\" but that no crew members were injured.\n\nThe restaurant closed in March 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n\nMore than 3 million guests are believed to have eaten its Cantonese cuisine over the years, including the Queen, Tom Cruise and Richard Branson.\n\nIt had featured in several films - including a Bond movie - but the pandemic dealt the business a fatal blow as diners turned away.\n\nThe Jumbo restaurant was an iconic landmark of Hong Kong, however had not been profitable since 2013\n\nMarine engineers had been hired to inspect the floating restaurant before the trip, and \"all relevant approvals\" had been obtained, the owners said.\n\nThe vessel was due to stay at an undisclosed location while it awaited a new operator.\n\nBut it sank on Sunday near the Paracel Islands after it \"encountered adverse conditions\" and began to take on water, Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises said.\n\n\"The water depth at the scene is over 1,000 metres, making it extremely difficult to carry out salvage works,\" it added.\n\nWhile the pandemic was the final straw for the restaurant, it had faced financial issues for years.\n\nOperator Melco International Development said last month the business had not been profitable since 2013 and was making large losses.", "The boxes allow people to see what medicines should be taken at certain times of day\n\nSome pharmacies run by the High Street chain Boots have been criticised for telling some patients on multiple drugs that they can no longer have blister pack boxes, known as dosette boxes.\n\nWeekly pill organisers can help users keep track of their daily medication and stay safe.\n\nPharmacists put the tablets into individual boxes in the trays, each one indicating when they should be taken.\n\nBoots said the aids were \"not always the most appropriate option\".\n\nThe NHS says boxes are not always available for free on the NHS and they're not suitable for every type of medicine.\n\nPat Garner needs to take several types of medication\n\nThe boxes, known in the industry as multi-compartment compliance aids (MCCAs), are delivered to patients' addresses.\n\nThey have seals which, when broken, indicate to a patient or their carer if the medication has been taken.\n\nFor several years, she has had MCCAs provided by her local Boots pharmacy. She takes more than 15 pills each day.\n\nTracey says she was phoned by Boots and told that from one month later her mother would receive all the drugs in the original packaging, rather than organised into morning and night doses for each day of the week.\n\nTracey told the BBC: \"I pointed out that the blister packs were the only way we could know she had taken her medication at the right time. Handing seven individual boxes with different instructions on each one was totally unworkable and - quite frankly - dangerous\".\n\nA Boots spokesperson said: \"The latest Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance indicates that the use of multi-compartment compliance aids is not always the most appropriate option for patients that need support to take their medicines at the right dose and time.\n\n\"Pharmacists are speaking with patients who we provide with MCCAs to discuss whether it is the right way to support them, depending on their individual circumstances and clinical needs.\n\n\"Alternative support might include large-print labels and a medicines reminder chart. In many cases, MCCAs will remain the most appropriate option for the patient, and we will continue to support them in this way.\"\n\nThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society has said in guidelines drawn up before the pandemic that there are benefits and disadvantages with use of the dosette boxes: \"A multi-compartment compliance aid is one tool amongst many to help with medicines use but other interventions also exist, which as part of a person-centred and quality approach, must also be considered.\"\n\nIt is not clear how many other pharmacy chains are withdrawing the boxes. The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies says most of its members are continuing to supply patients with MCCAs if they are requested, even though the process is costly.\n\nSuperdrug and Lloyds Pharmacy say they continue to offer MCCAs.\n\nProf Gill Livingston, an expert in elderly medicine at University College London, said she was concerned to hear that some patients and their families were being told the boxes were being scrapped.\n\nShe said: \"Blister packs enable people with mild dementia or some memory problems to take their own medication and remain independent. They can check that they have taken it and they know they have taken the right thing, as it is already sorted out.\n\n\"Later on in dementia or with other disabilities, it enables paid carers and families to help them take their medication and remain in the community and remain as well as possible.\"\n\nThorrun Govind, a pharmacist in Manchester and chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said it was a complex issue - particularly for care home residents.\n\n\"Patients on blister packs should be reassessed frequently to ensure it is an appropriate intervention for them as an individual,\" she said.\n\n\"Just because a patient is in a care home does not mean they should automatically be provided with a blister pack and the underfunding of social care should be addressed by the government rather than being left for pharmacy teams workload.\"", "The biggest freshwater fish ever documented was found in the Mekong river in Cambodia, according to scientists.\n\nWeighing in at 300kg (661lb), the giant stingray was studied and tagged before being released back into the river.\n\nScientists said the discovery was ''absolutely astounding.''", "Yair Lapid (left) is slated to take over as prime minister from Naftali Bennett (right)\n\nIsrael is set to hold a fifth general election in under four years, after its fractured coalition government concluded it could not survive.\n\nIn a major political development, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will switch places with Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid under an existing deal.\n\nAn election could take place in late October, commentators say.\n\nThe former prime minister and current opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to return to office.\n\nMonday's announcement comes after weeks of speculation that the coalition - the most diverse in Israel's history - was on the brink of collapse.\n\nIt risked losing an important vote next week after a member of Mr Bennett's own right-wing Yamina party quit the coalition, leaving it a minority in the 120-seat Knesset (parliament).\n\nMr Bennett said he had made the \"right decision\" in the interests of Israel's security, as dissolving the Knesset extended temporary laws which were put in jeopardy by the vote.\n\nThe coalition had been teetering for weeks. Last week, Yamina MK Nir Orbach resigned from it, saying the government had failed in its main mission \"of lifting [Israelis'] spirits\" - a move which left it with only 59 seats. Others had also threatened to rebel.\n\nThe announcement on Monday night caught members of the government by surprise. The Times of Israel quoted sources as saying neither the defence nor interior ministers knew about the decision.\n\nThe bill to dissolve the Knesset will go to a vote next week. If it passes, as expected, Mr Bennett will make way for centrist Yair Lapid to become interim prime minister.\n\nThe two men formed the coalition just over a year ago after a series of inconclusive elections, ousting Mr Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader.\n\nThe coalition was stitched together from eight parties from across the political spectrum, united only by the desire to make it impossible for Mr Netanyahu to form a government.\n\nMr Netanyahu, who is currently standing trial on corruption charges which he denies, said it was \"great news for millions of Israeli citizens\".\n\n\"This government is going home,\" he said, adding that he would form \"a wide, national government\" headed by his Likud party.\n\nLast week, the results of an Israel Channel 12 TV poll indicated that a bloc led by Mr Netanyahu would win most seats in a fresh election, though still two short of a majority.", "Ros Atkins examines why a dispute between the RMT union and employers has led to the biggest rail strike in decades.", "Calls for the government to get involved in rail strike negotiations have been dismissed as a stunt by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nOnly 20% of trains are understood to be running during strikes as Boris Johnson urged commuters to \"stay the course\".\n\nMick Lynch, secretary general of the RMT union, said talks collapsed on Monday after a compulsory redundancy notice was issued.\n\nMillions of passengers in England, Wales and Scotland face disruption.\n\nPassengers are being advised to avoid all but essential travel, after staff at Network Rail and 13 rail operators walked out at midnight. Further strikes are planned for Thursday and Saturday.\n\nTrains that do run will start later and finish much earlier than usual - between 07:30 and 18:30.\n\nThe RMT is striking over what it calls \"an aggressive agenda\" of cuts to jobs, conditions, pay and pensions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RMT chief Mick Lynch says negations with Network Rail \"can't get past first base\"\n\nMr Lynch told the BBC's Today programme: \"We're sorry for that [disruption to people's lives], we don't want that to happen.\"\n\nHe added that Network Rail had issued a statutory notice of redundancy on Monday \"rather than revise their current proposals.\"\n\nHe added the government, which owns Network Rail, had been actively preventing employers and the union from reaching a settlement, although ministers have denied they played a role in talks.\n\nBut Mr Shapps said he does not meet with unions as that was for employers to do, describing calls for him to come to the negotiating table \"a stunt\" and said there was a \"pay offer on the table, the door is open\".\n\nHe told the BBC Breakfast: \"The reality is they're using it as a camouflage for the fact they've walked out of the talks that they should be in with their employers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe transport secretary added he would change the law in the next two months to permit workers with transferable skills to do a role left vacant by a striking worker.\n\nHe said: \"It means that if some person is sat in Network Rail's control room and they're sat at a screen, at the moment they may not move to another screen even though they're fully qualified to do so, without union permission for example.\n\n\"This makes no sense. It's not the way that any normal business or organisation would operate.\n\n\"You're changing what is called agency, but it actually will allow us to have transferrable skills from within Network Rail.\"\n\nSpeaking at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the strikes as \"causing significant disruption and inconvenience\"making it more difficult for people to get to work, risking peoples' appointments and making it more difficult for children to sit exams.\n\n\"I want to emphasise to everybody this morning why I think those strikes are so wrong and unnecessary.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need, I'm afraid, everybody - and I say this to the country as a whole - we need to get ready to stay the course.\n\n\"To stay the course, because these reforms, these improvements in the way we run our railways are in the interests of the travelling public, they will help to cut costs for farepayers up and down the country.\"\n\nThe RMT union is asking for a pay rise of at least 7% to offset the rising cost of living, but it says employers have offered a maximum of 3% - on condition they also accept job cuts and changes to working practices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rail users are braced for days of disruption\n\nThe Bank of England has forecast that inflation is set to hit 11% in the autumn, with prices rising at the fastest rate for 40 years.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Christine Jardine, told BBC Breakfast: \"People have been let down; police, health workers, students and children with exams this morning, teachers thinking how are they going get into schools. It's not good enough.\"\n\nCEO of Network Rail, Andrew Haines, said the government \"has not been the constraining factor in negotiations\" and, for the right deal \"we could go above\" the 3% pay rise.\n\nI'm typing this heading east, when I need to head west.\n\nLike millions of others, my journey today is a bit of a long winded bodge job.\n\nBut I'm lucky, at least it looks possible.\n\nYou've probably read, heard or seen the language from the RMT union and the language from the government. For now, at least, neither side want to budge.\n\nAnd plenty at Westminster expect plenty more strikes, and not just on the railways.\n\nWhat we are seeing are the symptoms of a collision between the economics and politics of the last decade or so, dating back to the financial crisis, and the reality of now: this post Covid, war in Europe world.\n\nIn other words, workers in much of the private and particularly the public sector were already feeling squeezed before this crunch.\n\nSluggish wage growth at best, and for many real terms cuts.\n\nThe government then spent big time during the pandemic. Next, Covid and the war in Ukraine led to accelerating prices.\n\nNow ministers fear big public sector pay deals would not only be vastly expensive, but could make the big problem with price rises — inflation — worse.\n\nMr Lynch said industrial action would run \"as long as it needs to\", saying the strikes could last months if a deal was not reached.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh earlier accused Mr Shapps of not giving train operating companies \"any mandate to negotiate\", saying the talks were a \"sham\".\n\nAlthough ScotRail and Transport for Wales are not part of the dispute, services in Scotland and Wales are also affected because they rely on Network Rail staff. ScotRail said 90% of trains will be cancelled during the three days of industrial action.", "World Athletics president Lord Coe has hinted the sport could follow swimming in banning transgender women from elite female competitions, insisting \"fairness is non-negotiable\".\n\nSwimming's world governing body Fina voted on Sunday to stop trans athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.\n\nThe landmark decision set swimming apart from almost all other Olympic sports, with most using testosterone limits as a basis for inclusion.\n\nBut Lord Coe has now revealed that World Athletics is set to discuss adopting a new eligibility policy, and welcomed Fina's move.\n\n\"We see an international federation asserting its primacy in setting rules, regulations and policies that are in the best interest of its sport,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"This is as it should be. We have always believed that biology trumps gender and we will continue to review our regulations in line with this. We will follow the science.\n\n\"We continue to study, research and contribute to the growing body of evidence that testosterone is a key determinant in performance, and have scheduled a discussion on our regulations with our council at the end of the year.\"\n• None What do the scientists say?\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nUnder Lord Coe, World Athletics has already introduced rules that cap testosterone levels at five nanomoles per litre (5nmol/L) for transgender athletes and for competitors with differences in sex development (DSD) in some women's running events.\n\nAnd with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently placing responsibility on individual federations to determine eligibility criteria of their own, other sports are now bringing in tougher policies.\n\nLast week, cycling's world governing body the UCI lowered the permitted testosterone level from 5nmol/L to to 2.5nmol/L, and doubled the period of time before a transgender rider can compete to two years.\n\nBut Fina has now gone further after a report by a scientific panel said that going through male puberty meant trans women retained a \"relative performance advantage over biological females\", even after medication to reduce testosterone.\n\nIt is only the second Olympic governing body, after World Rugby in 2020, to introduce a ban on transgender competitors, but it now looks increasingly likely that track and field could follow suit.\n\nOn Monday football's world governing body Fifa also said it was \"currently reviewing its gender eligibility regulations in consultation with expert stakeholders\". But Fifa added it was \"not in a position to comment on specifics of proposed amendments to the existing regulations\".\n\n\"We've always tried to find a navigable way through. We haven't wanted to stigmatise,\" said Lord Coe, who was in Budapest as a guest of Fina as it made its decision at an extraordinary general congress at the weekend.\n\n\"But when push comes to shove, if it's a judgement between inclusion and fairness, we will always fall down on the side of fairness - that for me is non-negotiable.\n\n\"The integrity of women's sport is really, really important here, and we can't have a generation of young girls thinking there is not a future for them in the sport. So we have a responsibility…maintaining the primacy and the integrity of female competition is absolutely vital, and that's why we were at the forefront of tabling those regulations that allow as close as you can get to a level playing field.\n\n\"Those regulations are always under review… if there are events, distances or disciplines that we think are being unfairly impacted we will of course look at those again in the light of the science.\"\n\nFina's new policy means transgender American college swimmer Lia Thomas, who has expressed a desire to compete for a place at the Paris Olympics, is now blocked from participating in the female category at the Games.\n\nThe governing body says it will aim to establish an 'open' category at competitions for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.\n\nIts policy does not apply to national federations or the US college championships, the NCAAs, at which Thomas recently won the women's 500-yard freestyle. Instead, each national federation - including British Swimming - will need to decide whether it is to implement the Fina policy.\n\nBritish Swimming told BBC Sport it would \"take time to review [the policy's] content\" before making any further comment.\n\nWith the debate around the inclusion of transgender women among the most contentious in sport, Fina's decision has already divided opinion.\n\nFormer GB swimmer Karen Pickering told BBC Radio 4: \"I empathise that there will be people who now can't compete in the category that they identify with as their gender. That is very sad and I do understand that, but in this situation inclusivity and fairness cannot be compatible and the science has shown that there is just no way to make that compatible.\"\n\nFour-time Olympic champion Cate Campbell - who had addressed the governing body's members before the decision was made - asked them to \"uphold the cornerstone of fairness\".\n\nHowever, fellow Australian swimmer Maddie Groves has criticised Campbell's comments, asking on Twitter whether she was \"OK with ostracising an already marginalised group?\"\n\nA spokesperson for LGBT rights body Stonewall said: \"In sport, inclusion should always be the starting point. Everyone deserves to benefit from the sense of wellbeing and community that sport brings - and that includes trans people.\n\n\"The inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the issue of trans inclusion in elite competition only serves to perpetuate an atmosphere where trans people feel unwelcome to play community sport with friends, or go to the gym.\n\n\"Trans inclusion in sport is a complex, evolving field that requires nuanced, evidence-based discussion. A discussion weaponised by those that seek the total removal of trans people from public life does not serve sport or trans people well.\"\n\nMeanwhile, US women's football star Megan Rapinoe, one of the most influential voices in sport, has said she is \"100% supportive\" of trans inclusion.\n\n\"Show me the evidence that trans women are taking everyone's scholarships, are dominating in every sport, are winning every title. I'm sorry, it's just not happening,\" she told Time magazine .\n\n\"I have confidence that we can figure it out. But we can't start at the opposite. That is cruel. And frankly, it's just disgusting. We're putting everything through 'God forbid a trans person be successful in sports.' Get a grip on reality and take a step back.\"\n• None How did J Edgar Hoover know too much for any US president to fire him?\n• None Jonathan Agnew asks Moeen Ali all of your questions in the commentary box", "Purna Sen: \"Why is the secretary general not saying, 'This is outrageous, what do we do about it?'\"\n\nClaims of sexual abuse and corruption at the United Nations should urgently be investigated by an independent panel, an ex-senior UN member has said.\n\nPurna Sen's comments follow a BBC investigation which revealed the sackings of a number of UN staff who tried to expose alleged wrongdoing.\n\nMs Sen said the UN should \"step up\" and adopt any suggestions made by a panel.\n\nA spokesperson for the UN told the BBC it was focused on ensuring that people felt safe to report abuse.\n\nThe BBC documentary, The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN, details allegations of corruption, management turning a blind eye to wrongdoing and sexual abuse.\n\nStaff members who tried to report allegations told the BBC they had been penalised after speaking out - and some were sacked.\n\nIn the film, Ms Sen - who was appointed spokeswoman on harassment, assault and discrimination in 2018 - said there were women at the UN who had been \"approached, accosted and raped\". The more men were allowed to get away with it, she said, \"the more they will keep doing it\".\n\nShe has told BBC Newsnight that she is not surprised by the \"deeply upsetting\" testimonies.\n\n\"It suggests that sometimes the protection of the senior folk within each organisation matters more than the absence of harm to those who aren't powerful.\n\n\"It means there is a real tension within an organisation which not only upholds and advocates for human rights, but is actually the birthplace of most of these human rights - yet it hasn't learned to bring them home to the people who work for that organisation.\"\n\nMs Sen said she wanted UN Secretary General António Guterres to appoint a diverse external panel to consider staff experiences and recommend a focused set of actions.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Guterres' office said it remained open to any external review of its efforts \"to combat misconduct of any kind\".\n\nThe spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, told the BBC's Newshour programme that the secretary general had \"taken this extremely seriously since he came into office\".\n\n\"We continue to do whatever we can to support victims and are focused on improving the systems and ensuring that people feel safe to report abuse,\" he added.\n\nWhen asked about external oversight, Mr Dujarric said: \"There is full transparency and we have an internal independent body that reports to the member states of the UN General Assembly.\"\n\n\"We are not afraid of any scrutiny,\" he said, adding that \"we are doing whatever we can to break this climate of fear\".\n\nThe United Nations has a protected legal status and senior staff have diplomatic immunity from all national laws.\n\nThis is granted to the organisation to protect it from interference when doing its work. But the UN says it not granted for the personal benefit of staff, so does not protect those who commit crimes such as sexual assault.\n\nAll staff complaints have to be addressed internally. The Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) handles the most serious allegations, including claims of criminality, but has no legal authority.\n\nThe BBC was handed a secret recording which suggests the OIOS is not always effective. It features Ben Swanson, director of the investigations division, addressing a staff meeting. He says a senior UN female member of staff had come to him in tears, describing how an assistant secretary general had put his hand down her trousers.\n\nThe UN has a number of assistant secretary generals.\n\nIn the recording, Mr Swanson states that he told the secretary general and other senior officials of the sexual assault allegation - but was quickly shut down. \"So I tried to tell this story and I got... I was cut dead,\"he can be heard saying.\n\nHe added that the woman was discouraged from reporting her alleged assault and told it wouldn't do any good to speak up since the man in question was a \"favoured son\".\n\n\"I believe the organisation is riddled with corruption from bottom to top,\" says Peter Gallo\n\nPeter Gallo - the whistleblower who shared the audio recording - told the documentary: \"I spent four years as an investigator in the UN headquarters in New York. And as a result of that experience, I believe the organisation is riddled with corruption from bottom to top.\"\n\nAfter hearing his account, Ms Sen said: \"Why is the secretary general not saying, 'This is outrageous, what do we do about it? My zero-tolerance policy means we have to act.' Instead we get an account of 'No, we're not going there.'\"\n\nThe office of the UN Secretary General says it remains committed to \"sanctioning any staff, junior or senior, found to have engaged in sexual harassment\".\n\nMartina Bostrom, a former senior advisor for UNAIDS, told the BBC she was also a victim of sexual harassment at work.\n\n\"Sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment in the UN happens in headquarters, it happens Monday to Friday. It happens during regular work hours, it happens everywhere,\" she said.\n\nMartina Brostrom: \"I pleaded with him to stop, let me go\"\n\nShe said she was targeted by Luiz Loures, UNAIDS deputy executive director and an assistant secretary general, who she described as being \"sleazy\" and known for his inappropriate behaviour. During a work event in Bangkok in 2015, she said he forcibly kissed and groped her in a lift as they left a meeting, before trying to drag her towards his room.\n\n\"I pleaded with him to stop, let me go. I had to block myself with the elevator door to be able to stay in because I was afraid I was seeing that long corridor,\" she said. \"My brain was obviously working very, very, quickly and dreading what could happen.\"\n\nMartina launched a formal complaint and spoke to UN investigators. The UN and UNAIDS \"retaliated in very mean and hurtful ways,\" she said.\n\n\"That's very painful because it's almost like being violated all over again. It's like they don't give you a chance to breathe.\"\n\nIn 2018, Luiz Loures retired from the UN and was thanked for \"his 22 years of dedicated service\". He told the BBC: \"I have never harassed nor assaulted anyone. The accusations made are unfounded.\"\n\nThe UN said: \"Allegations of harassment against Dr Loures were investigated,\" but at this time it was \"not in a position to comment on the veracity of these claims\".\n\nIn August 2021 Martina received a letter from the UN that accepted that she was \"sexually harassed over a protracted period of time\" but, in regard to the allegation she was sexually assaulted in 2015, they concluded \"something traumatic happened to you consistent with your account of the situation\", but the findings \"did not meet the evidentiary standards\".\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer: The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN - or at 21:00 on Tuesday 21 June on BBC Two.\n\nMs Sen said Martina's case was symptomatic of a wider problem at the UN.\n\nShe told the documentary that an \"astonishing\" third of UN staff said they had experienced sexual harassment while working, but that the vast majority of cases had not been reported.\n\n\"What we do know about cases is just the tip of the iceberg and, this is a really important point, people feel there will be adverse consequences for reporting, they will be retaliated against.\n\n\"If I had been attacked or sexually assaulted, I would likely not have reported it. I would not put myself through that process.\"\n\nIn a statement, the office of UN Secretary General António Guterres said there had been \"major improvements to fighting the scourge of sexual harassment, from which no organisation is immune\".\n\nIt said measures included hiring female investigators to look into allegations, a hotline for staff to report misconduct and better training of senior management.\n\nBut, speaking to BBC Newsnight, Ms Sen said accounts in the documentary suggested the UN had not fulfilled its promises of zero-tolerance and had \"a lot further to go\".\n\n\"Whether it's corruption, fraud, sexual harassment, [UN staff] feel they can't progress even to making a report, that the complaints are initially dismissed far too early. They're not given alternative procedures and appeals access,\" she said.\n\n\"The UN has certainly addressed some of the big failures it had before, but it hasn't gone far enough. I have seen things that are very troubling - that can and should be addressed as a matter of urgency, not just in words, but in deeds.\"", "Newly elected politician Rachel Keke is reportedly the first cleaner to become a member of parliament in France.\n\nMs Keke previously was known for leading one of the longest hotel strikes in French history, successfully campaigning for fairer pay and better working conditions.\n\nSome of her supporters have dubbed her win a \"victory of the voiceless.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElection officials faced relentless pressure from former President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn his defeat in the 2020 poll, a congressional panel has heard.\n\nElected Republicans as well as poll workers say they were threatened.\n\nA Georgia vote counter said she was forced to temporarily leave her home, while an Arizona official said protesters called him a paedophile.\n\nThe House of Representatives panel accuses Mr Trump of an attempted coup.\n\nThe select committee has conducted a nearly year-long investigation into how Trump supporters invaded Congress on 6 January 2021 to disrupt lawmakers as they certified Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump has stood by his disproven claim he only lost the 2020 presidential vote because of fraud, and has dismissed the panel as a political witch hunt.\n\nOn Tuesday, in the fourth public hearing so far, the panel heard from election workers in the states of Arizona and Georgia. Mr Biden defeated Mr Trump in both states, which had previously backed Republicans for the White House.\n\n\"We received... in excess of 20,000 emails and tens of thousands of voice mails and texts, which saturated our offices and we were unable to work, at least communicate,\" said Rusty Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives.\n\nThe witness - who campaigned for Mr Trump in 2020 - said the threats and insults have continued with protesters outside his house attempting to smear him as a paedophile.\n\n\"It was disturbing, it was disturbing,\" Mr Bowers said.\n\nHe recalled Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani at one point telling him: \"We've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence.\"\n\nThe panel also heard testimony from Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who became the targets of conspiracy theories in their jobs as election workers in Fulton County, Georgia.\n\nAlthough Mr Biden won the state by nearly 12,000 votes, Mr Trump and his supporters spread unfounded claims of mass voter fraud.\n\nIn recorded messages, Mr Trump had called Ms Moss \"a professional vote-scammer and hustler\", alleging the mother-daughter duo cheated to help Democrats.\n\n\"I've lost my name, I've lost my reputation, I've lost my sense of security,\" Ms Freeman said through tears, in video presented by the committee on Tuesday.\n\n\"Do you know what it feels like to have the president of the United States target you?\"\n\nMs Moss said she faced \"a lot of threats wishing death upon me\", and that the harassment - including racial abuse - had \"turned my life upside down\".\n\nMs Moss said she was forced to move home for two months, has gained about 60lb (27kg) in weight and is now reluctant to leave the house at all.\n\nShe told the committee that Trump supporters had visited her grandmother's home, looking for her and hoping to make a \"citizen's arrest\".\n\nRepublican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger described a notorious phone call from Mr Trump in which he was asked to \"find 11,780\" votes that would hand him victory in the state.\n\n\"We just followed the law and followed the constitution,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, President Trump came up short.\"\n\nHe said that Trump's legal team alleged more than 10,000 dead people voted, but a review found a total of only four.\n\nHis top aide, Gabriel Sterling, told the committee that fighting the election scam claims \"was like a shovel trying to empty the ocean\".\n\nThe hearings have attempted to tie the former president directly to the efforts to overturn the election.\n\nAt Tuesday's hearing, the committee chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, said: \"A handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy.\"\n\nHis deputy on the committee, Liz Cheney, a Republican, said: \"We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.\"", "Energy watchdog Ofgem has been accused of allowing an industry to develop on \"shaky foundations\" in which a series of supply companies collapsed.\n\nAll billpayers will pay £94 more a year each to cover the £2.7bn cost of the failure of 28 suppliers which folded after wholesale prices soared.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said Ofgem had allowed a market to develop that was vulnerable to large shocks.\n\nThe regulator said it was already addressing the issues raised.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, said: \"Ofgem's approach created an energy market built on shaky foundations. As a result, many companies simply collapsed under the shock of energy price increases.\n\n\"Once again, it's the public who has to pay for the mistakes of those charged with protecting them. It's unacceptable.\"\n\nThe result of last year's shock was that 2.4 million customers were automatically moved to a rival company when their own supplier collapsed. Typically, according to Citizens Advice, they had to pay an extra £30 a month for the duration of their original contract, as they were shifted to a more expensive tariff.\n\nIn addition, the cost of these failures totalled £2.7bn - a tab which was spread across all billpayers in Britain, not just those of the failed companies. This is before taking into account the potentially multi-billion charge that households could face due to the collapse of Bulb Energy, which is in special administration.\n\nThe NAO said that Ofgem had decided on a \"low bar\" approach for allowing new domestic energy suppliers into the market to encourage competition and choice for customers after the market had been dominated by six big companies.\n\nThe regulator had then introduced tighter rules for new entrants from 2019, but not for existing suppliers until 2021.\n\nAs a result, many suppliers lacked the financial resilience to deal with the six-fold increase in wholesale prices seen last year, the NAO said.\n\n\"By allowing so many suppliers with weak finances to enter the market, and by failing to imagine that there could be a long period of volatility in energy prices, Ofgem allowed a market to develop that was vulnerable to large-scale shocks,\" said Gareth Davies, head of the NAO.\n\n\"Consumers have borne the brunt of supplier failures at a time when many households are already under significant financial strain having seen their bills go up to record levels. A supplier market must be developed that truly works for consumers,\" Mr Davies said.\n\nOfgem is making changes after a review it commissioned came to many of the same conclusions.\n\n\"We are already working hard to address all of the issues raised,\" a spokesman for the regulator said. \"While the once-in-a-generation global energy price shock would have resulted in market exits under any regulatory framework, we have already been clear that suppliers and Ofgem's financial resilience regime were not robust enough.\n\n\"While no regulator can, or should, guarantee companies will not fail in the future, we will continue to take a whole-market approach to further strengthen the regulatory regime, ensuring a fair and robust market for consumers which keeps costs fair as we move away from fossils fuels and towards affordable, green, home-grown energy.\"\n\nThe NAO said concerns had been raised that Ofgem's reforms could limit new entrants and innovative ideas in the future.\n\nA typical household gas and electricity bill - governed by the energy price cap in England, Wales and Scotland has risen sharply, and now stands at about £2,000 a year.\n\nAnalysts Cornwall Insight have predicted that the bill could hit about £3,000 a year this winter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen has praised the Windrush \"pioneers\" for their \"profound contribution\" to British life as a statue to them was unveiled.\n\nThe monument, at Waterloo Station, pays tribute to the thousands of people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nIt depicts a man, woman and child standing on top of suitcases and was revealed to mark Windrush Day.\n\nThe government gave £1m to fund the statue, designed by Basil Watson.\n\nIn a message to mark the occasion, signed Elizabeth R, the Queen said she hoped the statue would \"inspire present and future generations\" as she sent her \"warmest good wishes on this historic occasion\".\n\nWindrush Day marks the arrival of Caribbean immigrants to the shores of Britain on 22 June each year - the day HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in 1948.\n\nThe Queen's grandson the Duke of Cambridge helped to unveil the statue, alongside his wife the Duchess of Cambridge, and also paid tribute to the contributions of the Windrush generation, and their descendants to British life.\n\n\"Without you all Britain would simply not be what it is today,\" he said. \"I want to say a profound thank you to every member of that generation and the generations that have followed.\"\n\nBut Prince William also talked about how the \"past weighs heavily\" on the people of the Caribbean and the Windrush generation.\n\nHe said members of the Windrush generation had been victims of racism when they arrived and said \"discrimination remains an all too familiar experience for black men and women in Britain in 2022\".\n\nThe duke referred to the Windrush scandal, which broke in April 2018, and said it still \"rightly reverberates through the Caribbean community here in the UK\".\n\nThe scandal, which saw members of the Windrush generation and their children wrongly detained and even deported, led to the UK government apologising for the deportation threats many faced.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Baroness Floella Benjamin, Windrush passengers Alford Gardner and John Richards and children at the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station\n\nWindrush passengers Alford Gardner and John Richards helped the royals to unveil the statue.\n\nJamaican artist and sculptor Mr Watson has said he was \"truly honoured\" to have been chosen to create the monument.\n\nThe government said the statue would \"create a permanent place of reflection and inspiration and be a visible statement of our shared history and heritage\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the \"profound contribution\" of the Windrush generation to the fabric of British life\n\nEarlier to mark Windrush Day, Prince William and Catherine met young British-Caribbean creatives at the Brixton House theatre in south London, with the duchess trying her hand at photography and the duke chatting to R&B musician Abdoulaziz Lelo Ndambi.\n\nThey also met youth workers at Lambeth Council's Elevate programme and attended a workshop led by production agencies Iconic Steps and Oxygen Art.\n\nHigh-profile names, including actor Lenny Henry and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have called for next year's Windrush Day to be a \"major national moment\" to mark the 75th anniversary.\n\nMore than 100 leaders across different sectors have signed a joint letter, published in The Times, starting the one-year countdown to the milestone.\n\nThe letter reads: \"This is not only black history - it is British history. It should be something we all know and commemorate.\"\n\nPatrick Vernon, convenor of the Windrush 75 network, which is co-ordinating efforts over the next 12 months, said it was a piece of history \"every child should learn about at school\" and called for it to be commemorated as a major event.\n\nJamaican immigrants being welcomed by RAF officials after HMT Empire Windrush's arrival in 1948\n\nBut not everyone has been supportive of the unveiling of the statue with activist Prof Gus John describing it as \"a monument to unforgivable political illiteracy and an entrenched colonial mindset\".\n\nIn an open letter to Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, dated 9 June, declining an invitation to the unveiling, he said the \"entire Windrush narrative distorts the history of Caribbean engagement with Britain and of Britain's relentless efforts to keep us out\".\n\nVincent McBean, president of the West Indian Association of Service Personnel, supported the creation of the memorial but said it could have been located in a better place.\n\n\"In the heart of Brixton is Windrush Square, what would have been more befitting for it to have been put in the square,\" he said, adding that it had been Lambeth Council which had initially embraced those who arrived from the Caribbean.\n\nThe government says the location was chosen because thousands of members of the Windrush generation passed through Waterloo Station on their way to start new lives across the UK.\n\nThey are known as the Windrush generation, in reference to the HMT Empire Windrush, one of the ships that carried them to the UK to fill labour shortages, in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration.\n\nUnder the 1971 Immigration Act, all Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain.\n\nBut thousands of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK as children and did not have official documentation. Following immigration law changes in 2014, many were told they were in the UK illegally, despite living and working in the country for decades.", "Elon Musk's transgender daughter has applied to legally change her name and gender, saying she no longer wants to \"be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form\".\n\nThe 18-year-old has asked to be recognised as female and have the name Vivian Jenna Wilson.\n\nShe was known as Xavier Alexander Musk.\n\nThe petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate was filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica.\n\nHer request is set out in court documents filed in April, which have only recently come to light.\n\nThere was no further detail of the apparent rift between Mr Musk's daughter and her father.\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur has yet to comment.\n\nMr Musk was married to Vivian's mother, Canadian author Justine Wilson, from 2000 until they divorced in 2008.\n\nTheir first son, Nevada, was born in 2002, and died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at 10 weeks.\n\nThe pair went on to have twin sons called Xavier and Griffin and triplet boys - Damian, Kai and Saxon.\n\nHe has two other children, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl - who goes by Y - with singer Grimes, with whom he has had an on-off relationship.\n\nHis children have kept a relatively low profile despite their father's fame.\n\nOn Father's Day, the entrepreneur tweeted that he loves all his children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere has been no comment from Mr Musk about his daughter's decision to distance herself from him.\n\nHe has been vocal on various transgender issues, and has been branded anti-gay in several rows. Last year he complained about people using their own pronouns.\n\nThe court document for his daughter's name and gender change was filed a month before he publicly declared his support for the Republican Party, having previously voted Democrat.\n\nHe has also said he is a fan of Ron DeSantis, the Republican Florida governor who introduced the so-called \"Don't Say Gay\" bill. This controversial piece of legislation restricts schools from teaching students about sexual orientation and gender issues, with teachers opening themselves up to lawsuits should they fail to comply.\n\nIn 2020 Elon Musk wrote on Twitter \"Pronouns suck\" before deleting it. He then said: \"I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.\"", "On the night of the murders, Reeves climbed a fence and entered the Chapple house via the back door\n\nA former soldier has been jailed for at least 38 years for murdering his neighbours after a long-running dispute about parking.\n\nCollin Reeves, 35, killed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset on 21 November 2021.\n\nHe stabbed Mrs Chapple, 33, and Mr Chapple, 36, six times each in their home while their children slept upstairs.\n\nReeves was handed a life sentence, with minimum term of 38 years.\n\nJailing him at Bristol Crown Court, Mr Justice Garnham said the killings had \"torn the heart out of two perfectly normal, decent families\".\n\n\"You left (Mr and Mrs Chapple) on the floor bleeding to death, and all of the time their two children were asleep upstairs,\" the judge said.\n\n\"They were put to bed that night by their parents and they would never see them again. The harm you did those two innocent children is incalculable.\"\n\nThe ex-Royal Engineer, who had admitted manslaughter, was convicted of murdering the couple last week after a jury took five hours to deliberate.\n\nThe former Royal Engineer used a ceremonial dagger, given to him when he left the Army, to kill the Chapples\n\nMr Justice Garnham also told Reeves he had \"inflicted enormous damage on his own daughters, who will now grow up without their father\".\n\nMrs Chapple's mother, Ann Clayton, described her daughter as \"an exuberant, caring, beautiful light in the world\".\n\n\"For a mother to lose a child is something that causes never-ending pain, knowing there will forever be a darkness inside you, a light switched off that can never be replaced,\" she added.\n\nStephen Chapple's father Robert said he did not think the family would ever be able to come to terms with what happened.\n\nHe said: \"We struggle most days to accept reality, to think that we will never see our beautiful son and daughter-in-law again and our two grandsons losing their lovely mum and dad at such a young age.\n\n\"It is so hard to get on with everyday tasks. We are very close-knit family and also met up and did lots of activities together, now when we get together there is always a huge void in our lives.\"\n\nThe couple's children were asleep upstairs when the attack unfolded\n\nDuring the trial, the court was told the neighbours' rows escalated to the point both Reeves' wife Kayley and Mrs Chapple had told their friends they were anxious about bumping into each other on the school run.\n\nOn the night of the killing, Reeves climbed a fence and entered the Chapple house via their back door.\n\nMrs Chapple was heard screaming in terror, and the court was told she did not have the chance to stand up from the sofa to defend herself.\n\nHer husband Stephen was found close to the rear door.\n\nJennifer and Stephen's family had been in court throughout the trial and were back today for sentencing.\n\nThey held hands and were visibly tearful as the judge told Reeves he would spend a minimum of 38 years behind bars and that he'd ripped the heart out of two perfectly normal and decent families.\n\nReeves sat with his head bowed throughout the hearing and said goodbye to his wife as he was taken away.\n\nThe former Royal Engineer used a ceremonial dagger, given to him when he left the Army, to kill the couple.\n\nThe Afghanistan veteran claimed he had little memory of the incident, and did not remember taking the dagger out of a picture frame in his home, where it was usually displayed.\n\nReeves called the police shortly after the killings to confess but later denied murder, claiming he was guilty of manslaughter on diminished responsibility.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut two forensic psychiatrists found he was not suffering from psychosis or acute post-traumatic stress disorder, and diagnosed him with only mild to moderate depression.\n\nThe trial heard Reeves had been having marital problems and less than an hour before he stabbed the Chapples, his wife Kayley had asked for a trial separation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter sentencing, Reeves' mother, Lynn, stood up to give her own statement, blaming her son's conviction on failings by the psychiatrists who assessed him.\n\nShe claimed there should never have been a trial, and that his pleas to manslaughter should have been accepted, before she was stopped by the judge.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Det Insp Neil Meade said the Chapples were \"doting parents who did nothing to deserve what happened to them\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hollie Dance and her family have won the right to have Archie's case heard at the Court of Appeal\n\nThe parents of a 12-year-old boy have been given the right to appeal against the decision to allow his life-support treatment to end.\n\nLast week, a High Court judge ruled that Archie Battersbee was \"brain-stem dead\" and treatment could stop.\n\nHowever, following another hearing, the same judge, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, granted Archie's parents permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nHis family were \"delighted\" at the decision, a spokeswoman said.\n\nArchie was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nThe court had previously heard that he suffered brain damage during an incident which his mother believed may have been related to an online challenge.\n\nDoctors treating him at the Royal London Hospital told the High Court it was \"highly likely\" he was \"brain-stem dead\" and asked for his life-support to end.\n\nMrs Justice Arbuthnot ruled in favour of the hospital and against Archie's mother and father, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee.\n\nBut in a High Court hearing questioning that decision, she said an argument by the family's legal team that the standard of proof in relation to \"declaration of death\" should have been higher was a \"compelling\" reason for the case to be heard by appeal judges.\n\nThe Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the Royal London, said it would not make any changes to Archie's care while his parents sought further legal hearings.\n\nA High Court judge ruled last week that Archie Battersbee was dead\n\nDuring Monday's hearing, the family's barrister Edward Devereux QC outlined nine grounds of appeal.\n\nMr Devereux said for a decision of such \"gravity\", the judge should have been satisfied \"beyond reasonable doubt\" and not made a decision about Archie's treatment ending on \"the balance of probabilities\".\n\nHe also argued that the court had failed to accommodate the religious views of Archie and his family.\n\nMrs Justice Abuthnot dismissed eight of the appeal grounds but said appeal judges should consider the standard of proof issue.\n\nShe said Court of Appeal judges had never considered that issue in relation to \"declaration of death\" cases, adding there was a \"compelling\" reason for them to hear it.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, a spokeswoman for Archie's family, Ella Carter, said: \"We were all really convinced that we weren't going to get permission to appeal.\n\n\"So we're more than happy at the decision - we're delighted.\"\n\nHollie Dance said she believed her son was \"still in there\" and would continue to fight\n\nFollowing the initial High Court ruling, Archie's mother said she was \"devastated\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that she slept by his hospital bed each night and spoke to him every day.\n\nMs Dance said: \"He's in there, physically, for whatever reason, whether it's locked-in syndrome, whether he's paralysed... I don't know, but I feel he's in there,\" she said.\n\nThe High Court previously heard evidence that Ms Dance said Archie had squeezed her hand.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Downing Street has confirmed that it spoke to a newspaper before it dropped a story involving the prime minister's wife, Carrie Johnson.\n\nThe Times printed a report on Saturday saying Mrs Johnson had been offered the role of chief-of-staff to Boris Johnson while he was foreign secretary, at a time when they were in a relationship.\n\nBut the item was removed from later editions and not published online.\n\nNo 10 said it had spoken to the Times before and after the story came out.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said it had been made clear by his political colleagues in Downing Street - and by Mrs Johnson's spokesperson - that the claim was \"not true\".\n\nBut a government source told the BBC the conversation following publication had not included mention of legal action.\n\nMr Johnson, who became prime minister in 2019, served as foreign secretary from 2016 to 2018, when he resigned in protest at then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit stance.\n\nTwo sources told the BBC that Mr Johnson had floated the idea with members of his team that his now-wife could be employed as his chief-of-staff when he was foreign secretary - and said multiple aides had advised him against it.\n\nThe Times declined to comment on why it had removed its story regarding Mr and Mrs Johnson during his time at the Foreign Office.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson had not spoken personally to deputy editor Tony Gallagher asking for it to be removed.\n\nThe journalist who wrote the Times story, Simon Walters, told the New European website that he stood by it \"100%\".\n\n\"I was in lengthy and detailed communication with No 10 at a high level, [Mr Johnson's press secretary] Ben Gascoigne and Mrs Johnson's spokeswoman for up to 48 hours before the [Times] went to press,\" he said.\n\n\"At no point did any of them offer an on-the-record denial of any element of the story.\"\n\n\"Nor have any of these three offered an on-the-record denial to me since,\" Mr Walters added. \"No 10 and Mr Gascoigne did not deny it off-the-record [meaning to be reported but not directly attributed to an individual] either.\"\n\nMr Johnson married Carrie Johnson - née Carrie Symonds - in May last year and they have two children together.\n\nMrs Johnson is a former head of communications for the Conservative Party.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asda chairman: Inflation is sparking a \"massive change in behaviour\" amongst shoppers\n\nSome Asda shoppers are asking cashiers to stop scanning items when the till total hits £30 as they try to cut costs, the supermarket's chairman says.\n\nAs well as putting less in their baskets, Lord Rose said more customers were switching to budget ranges with people worried about rising prices.\n\n\"What we're seeing is a massive change in behaviour,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIt comes after food and fuel costs soar, with UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, hitting 9.1% in May.\n\nLord Rose said he saw the inflation rise coming last year like a \"train coming through a tunnel with a big flashing light on the top\". Now it's time to \"fasten our seatbelts\", he said.\n\n\"People are trading back. They are worried about spending,\" he said. \"They've got a limit that they've set out, too. They say £30 is one limit... and if they get to more than £30 then that's it, stop. It's the same with petrol.\"\n\nLord Rose said the country was facing some very tough times and urged the government to do more to help low income households.\n\nBut the Treasury said it understood people were struggling with rising prices and it was making cost of living payments of £1,200 to those on the lowest incomes.\n\nLord Rose also addressed government concerns that supermarkets were not passing on March's 5p per litre cut in fuel duty, insisting Asda price changes were \"done the same day\".\n\nAsda customers are trading down to budget ranges, the supermarket's chairman says\n\nThe retail veteran has some 50 years of industry experience under his belt. He remembers the runaway inflation of the 1970s and said this bout of rising prices has come as a very nasty surprise for consumers.\n\n\"I'm of the generation that remembers what it was like last time. And once [inflation] gets hold, it's quite pernicious,\" he said.\n\n\"And it takes a long time to eradicate... We're in danger of being in a place that it's very difficult to extricate ourselves from.\n\n\"What's rather sad is that the country, the government, perhaps the Bank of England didn't see inflation coming quickly. They've now recognised that.\"\n\nAsda has been tracking disposable income since the financial crisis in 2008 and is all too aware of the squeeze on consumers.\n\nIts latest data shows households had, on average, £44 less a week in discretionary income in May compared with a year ago - a fall of nearly 18%. This is the amount of money left over after taxes and essential bills have been deducted and it is the third month in a row where disposable incomes have dropped to record levels.\n\nLike other supermarkets, Asda is having to grapple with its own soaring costs and decide how much of this to absorb and how much to pass on to shoppers.\n\nAll the big grocers are in a battle to keep prices as low as possible on the most popular everyday items because they know customers will vote with their feet and shop around.\n\nThe UK's third biggest grocer has expanded its cut price groceries with a new range, Just Essentials, covering some 300 products.\n\nIt has also launched Dropped and Locked, an initiative to lower prices on 100 items and keep them at the same price for the rest of the year.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can. We've invested nearly £100m in the last month or so making sure customers get essentials at very, very attractive prices to try and help them,\" said Lord Rose.\n\nBut will it be enough? Asda has recently been performing less well than its rivals.\n\nLord Rose said he was not too worried about market share in the short and medium term.\n\n\"It goes up a bit, and down a bit, you'll see the monthly changes and that's always been the case in retail... We will do what we need to do to look after our customers,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, because we've had a change of ownership - my colleagues and I only took over the business a year ago - we're doing things which we think will affect the long term of the business which will give customers a better Asda.\"\n\nThe Asda chairman and former M&S boss said he did not want to predict where food prices will get to by the end of the year but would like to see more government support for those most in need.\n\n\"I would urge them to do more for those people at the bottom end of the earnings income scale,\" he said. He suggested a VAT reduction or another reduction in fuel tax would be \"helpful\".\n\nHe acknowledged the government now has a difficult balancing act between tackling rising prices without scuppering economic growth. But he knows what he would do.\n\n\"I would say the most important priority in the short term is to kill inflation, because once inflation gets embedded, it's very, very hard to kill. If it means we have to slow the economy down for a while, and it looks as if we are heading for a recession, then so be it.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said its £37bn support package meant it would deliver a tax cut in July to save the typical employee more than £330 a year.\n\nIt said people on Universal Credit would keep £1,000 more of what they earn and a 5p cut on fuel duty would save a typical family £100.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hotelier Scott Meikle says this week's rail strike has been devastating for his business\n\nHospitality bosses reliant on guests using the rail network say the first 24-hour train strike has already sparked a flood of cancellations.\n\nScott Meikle owns The Moor of Rannoch Restaurant and Rooms which sits next to Rannoch train station, 40 miles down a single-track road from Pitlochry.\n\nHe had 24 room bookings this week until news of the strike cut that to six.\n\nMore cancellations over the summer would be \"devastating\" for business, Mr Meikle said.\n\nAbout 40,000 Network Rail staff have walked out in a dispute over pay, working conditions and redundancies.\n\nMr Meikle told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"With the prospect of trains not being able to run, there is no viable alternative to get to us.\n\n\"The West Highland Line is a fantastic scenic route which goes through this vast wilderness of Rannoch Moor and we are right in the centre. So the railways play a huge part in getting our guests to us.\n\n\"The cancellations have already started and have been affecting us for the last few days. A lot of our guests are travelling and touring around Scotland and using the train lines is a vital part of their journey.\n\n\"That means guests who have been travelling for the last few days now find that they can't travel on - or home - from wherever they have been across Scotland.\"\n\nAbout 70% of guests at Rannoch Moor Restaurant and Rooms arrive and leave by train\n\nRail passengers have been warned to expect serious disruption as the first of three 24-hour rail strikes hits services in Scotland.\n\nScotRail has cancelled 90% of its services while cross-border services are also likely to be badly affected.\n\nThe result has serious financial implications for hotel owners such as Mr Meikle, who normally sees about 70% of his guests arrive and leave by train.\n\n\"As soon as there is disruption on the railways, it really does cause a huge problem,\" he said. \"Not just for us, but business across the Highlands and across Scotland.\n\n\"We are constantly promoting sustainable and environmentally-friendly travel. But for communities like us, there is no real viable alternative. The railway is a vital part of the infrastructure.\n\n\"We open five days a week and we have five rooms, so for this block we had 24 [separate bookings] and at one point we went down to just six rooms. So huge levels of cancellations because guests cannot physically get to us.\"\n\nMr Meikle's business sits next to the remote Rannoch railway station in Highland Perthshire\n\nThe threat of continued disruption is a crippling blow to a sector still trying to recover from the effects of the pandemic.\n\nMr Meikle said: \"Communities like ours, and hospitality in particular, were significantly hit by Covid and various lockdowns.\n\n\"There was very little we could during those periods - we can't do a home delivery service or home boxes, it's just not physically possible.\n\n\"So the sector across Highland Perthshire and the Highlands was really looking forward to a very busy summer with good bookings, but a lot of that has now been thrown into disarray.\"", "Floods in Assam have killed at least 45 and displaced more than 4.7 million people\n\n\"There was water everywhere, but not a single drop to drink.\"\n\nThat is how Ronju Chowdhary described the scene outside her house on Saturday. She lives in Udiana, a remote village in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, which has been hit by severe floods.\n\nIt had been raining incessantly, she remembers. The water rose so quickly that the streets were completely submerged within hours. When the water entered their home, she says the family huddled together in darkness trying to keep themselves safe.\n\nTwo days on, the family is still marooned in their house - now resembling a lonely island - amid a sea of water.\n\n\"We are surrounded by flood water from all sides. There's hardly any water to drink. Food is running short too. And now I hear that the water levels are further rising,\" Ms Chowdhary says. \"What will happen to us?\"\n\nUnprecedented rainfall and flooding has left behind a trail of destruction in Assam and other states, as well as parts of neighbouring Bangladesh - submerging villages, destroying crops, and wrecking homes.\n\nAuthorities in Assam say that 32 of its 35 districts have been affected, killing at least 45 people and displacing more than 4.7 million over the last week.\n\nHeavy rains have also lashed neighbouring Meghalaya state, where 18 people have died over the last week. In Assam, the government has opened 1,425 relief camps for the displaced, but authorities say their job has been complicated by the sheer intensity of the disaster. Even the rescue camps are in a dismal state.\n\n\"There is no drinking water in the camp. My son has a fever but I am unable to take him to the doctor,\" says Husna Begum, also a resident of Udiana. When water reached her home on Wednesday, the 28-year-old swam through the torrent in search of help. She is now sheltering in a rickety plastic tent with her two children.\n\n\"I have not seen something like this before. I've never seen such huge floods in my life,\" she says.\n\nHusna Begum is sheltering in a plastic tent after her house was submerged\n\nFloods routinely wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of millions living near the fertile riverbanks of the mighty Brahmaputra river, often called the lifeline of Assam. But experts say that factors like climate change, unchecked construction activities and rapid industrialisation have increased the frequency of extreme weather events.\n\nThis is the second time this year that Assam is grappling with such fierce floods - at least 39 people were killed in May. The state has already recorded rainfall 109% above average levels this month, according to the weather department. And the Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at many places.\n\nResidents have been forced to vacate their homes\n\nResidents and authorities the BBC spoke to describe the latest deluge as one of \"biblical proportions\" - one that has altered the social and economical fabric of the state.\n\n\"The situation is particularly alarming this time. Apart from the team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), we have also deployed the army to aid the rescue operations,\" says Javir Rahul Suresh, a sub-divisional officer in Rangiya city.\n\n\"At this point, our priority is to save lives.\"\n\nOfficials and residents say this is one of the worst floods in Assam in years\n\nEntire settlements have been engulfed by rushing waters, almost resembling a huge river that had formed overnight.\n\nIn Guwahati, the main economic centre of Assam, neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble. Lush fields where rice and paddy normally grew have turned into vast swamps of mud and debris.\n\nBack in Udiana, there are no schools, hospitals, temples or mosques in sight - just water. People travel by boats made of banana leaves and bamboo sticks. Others just swim through the brown, green brackish waters despondently, their eyes lighting up at the sight of rescuers, whose bright orange uniforms are visible from a distance.\n\nThe damage is particularly alarming in Kamrup Rural district, where hundreds of people are still reportedly trapped in their houses.\n\nSiraj Ali, 64, says that when the water swept into his village and destroyed everything, he was scared for his life. Yet he stayed on, in a house which is now partly submerged under water, to guard his belongings and \"a life-time of memories\".\n\nHe said he sent his children to a roadside shelter camp, while he waited for help to reach him. But no one has come so far.\n\n\"I am surrounded by water but I have no water to drink. I don't have food. I have been starving for three days. What to do and where do I go?\" he asks, his eyes welling up with tears.\n\nSiraj Ali refused to leave his home even though it was submerged under flood waters\n\nMr Ali now finds solace in the company of his neighbour Mohammad Rubul Ali, a daily-wage worker, who also decided to stay back to protect his house - a small hut that he painstakingly built.\n\n\"Every purchase was like a milestone for me - the cycle, the bed and the chairs. But now nothing is left. The flood took everything away from me,\" Mr Rubul says.\n\nAuthorities admit that they have been unable to provide drinking water and food to every flood victim.\n\n\"It is still a challenge for us to reach some areas which have been completely cut off. Our road network reaching there has been completely ruined in the water,\" Mr Suresh says.\n\nExperts say that while climate change has complicated the state's longstanding efforts to improve its response to flooding, there are several other factors at play.\n\nRubul Ali, who also refused to leave his house, is Mr Siraj's neighbour\n\n\"There is no doubt that the flood situation this time is very serious and the frequency of rains is increasing significantly,\" says Jayashree Rout, an environmental science professor at Assam University. \"But before linking it entirely to climate change, we need to take into account human-related factors like deforestation.\"\n\nProf Rout says there's an urgent need to stop the felling of big trees, especially near rivers as the roots of these trees have a lot of capacity to hold water.\n\nBut people like Ms Chowdhary have no time to analyse the reasons.\n\nOn Saturday, as the sun dripped over the cloudy horizon in Udiana and dusk crept over the sky, she sat outside her half-submerged house, visibly worried.\n\n\"Till now, no one has given us anything in the name of relief,\" she says. \"Is anyone even coming?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police were called to reports of a man who was armed with a screwdriver and shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road\n\nA man who died after being Tasered on a west London bridge and then pulled from the River Thames was not armed with a screwdriver but was holding a firelighter, the police watchdog said.\n\nOfficers were trying to detain Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore, 41, after reports he was armed with a screwdriver on Chelsea Bridge Road on 4 June.\n\nHe fled and ended up in the river.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed it was a plastic and metal firelighter.\n\nInvestigators said the interaction between two Met Police officers and Mr Omishore was being looked into and appealed for witnesses.\n\nPreviously, the IOPC said investigators had obtained accounts from the officers involved and secured police body-worn video footage.\n\nThe IOPC has now confirmed Mr Omishore was holding a plastic and metal firelighter when he was approached by the officers.\n\nA Taser was discharged by one of the officers prior to the man entering the river, the IOPC added, and was discharged \"more than once\".\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place and the IOPC said it was awaiting the results. An Inquest into Mr Omishore's death was also opened and adjourned on 15 June.\n\nIOPC's Sal Naseem said: \"Our thoughts remain with Mr Omishore's family and all of those affected by his death.\n\n\"Our investigators continue to gather and analyse key evidence, including footage recorded at the scene and initial accounts from officers and members of the public.\n\n\"We would urge anyone else who may have witnessed or recorded any part of the incident, either on the bridge or after Mr Omishore entered the river, to get in touch with us without delay. It is important we understand all of the circumstances surrounding his death.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A murder investigation has begun after the body of a 77-year-old woman was found at a house in Cookstown.\n\nPolice were called to the property in Ratheen Avenue shortly before 11:00 BST on Sunday where the woman's body was discovered.\n\nA 45-year-old man, who was in the house, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nDetectives have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nLocal councillor John McNamee said the family and wider community have been left devastated by the killing.\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"I was devastated personally because I knew the individual and I know the wider family circle.\n\n\"This thing doesn't happen in the likes of this estate, it has never happened before and I'm sure the people here will take a long time to recover from this.\"\n\nMid Ulster assembly member Patsy McGlone said there was a \"terrible sense of shock, sadness and grief\" in Cookstown.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with her family and all those who knew her who will be devastated today,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nRyan Giggs has resigned as Wales manager \"with immediate effect\".\n\nThe former Manchester United winger, 48, stepped away from his role in November 2020 after being arrested.\n\nGiggs was later charged with using controlling behaviour and assaulting his ex-girlfriend, charges he has denied.\n\nRobert Page took over as interim Wales boss in Giggs' absence, leading them to a first World Cup finals since 1958.\n\nIn a statement, Giggs said: \"After much consideration, I am standing down from my position as manager of the Wales men's national team with immediate effect.\n\n\"It has been an honour and a privilege to manage my country, but it is only right that the Wales FA, the coaching staff and the players prepare for the tournament with certainty, clarification and without speculation around the position of their head coach.\"\n\nThe Football Association of Wales released its own statement following Giggs' announcement.\n\n\"The FAW places on record its gratitude to Ryan Giggs for his tenure as manager of the Cymru men's national team and appreciates the decision he has taken, which is in the best interests of Welsh football,\" it read.\n\n\"The full focus of the FAW and the Cymru men's national team is on the Fifa World Cup in Qatar later this year.\"\n\nFormer Wales captain Page, 47, Giggs' assistant since August 2019, took charge of matches from November 2020, leading Wales to top spot in their Nations League group.\n\nHe continued to deputise for Giggs - who was appointed by Wales in January 2018 - in March 2021 as Wales kicked off their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign.\n\nThat would culminate in a famous play-off final win over Ukraine in June 2022, booking a place at Qatar for Wales' first appearance at a World Cup finals in 64 years.\n\nWales will play England, the United States and Iran in Group B, with their opening game against the USA on 21 November.\n\nUnder Page's guidance, Wales also reached the last 16 of the Euro 2020 finals, which were delayed until 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and he is now expected to become permanent Wales boss.\n\nGiggs has pleaded not guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020.\n\nHe has also pleaded not guilty to assaulting Ms Greville causing her actual bodily harm, and common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on 1 November 2020.\n\nThe trial was originally scheduled to take place last January but was postponed until 8 August due to a lack of court space. The trial is set to last a minimum of five days.\n\nGiggs added: \"I do not want the country's preparations for the World Cup to be affected, destabilised or jeopardised in any way by the continued interest around this case.\n\n\"I am sad that we cannot continue this journey together because I believe that this extraordinary group will make the country proud at our first World Cup since 1958.\n\n\"It is my intention to resume my managerial career at a later date.\"", "Almost 2,000 sexual offences cases are going through the criminal justice system as of May this year\n\nMore than 70 sexual offence cases have taken more than five years to come before a court, new figures show.\n\nThe latest figures available from the Department of Justice (DoJ) were obtained by BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nNorthern Ireland's victims of crime commissioner Geraldine Hanna said she was \"extremely concerned\" by the department's figures.\n\nThe lengthy delays could deter people from coming forward and reporting crimes, Ms Hanna said.\n\nOn Monday, a victim of child sexual abuse said that her five-year wait for her abuser to appear in court made her feel silenced by the justice system.\n\nThe latest figures show that almost 2,000 cases involving sexual offences were making their way through the criminal justice system as of May this year.\n\nMore than 180 of them had still not come to court three years after they had become active, while 73 people waited for their case to be heard in court after five years.\n\nThe department said that almost 85% of cases, where the main offence is a sexual offence, have been recorded in the system for less than three years.\n\nThey added that just under 94% of those cases had been in the system for less than five years.\n\nGeraldine Hanna, the victims of crime commissioner, told BBC Radio Foyle she was \"extremely concerned\" that people won't come forward because \"they'll be put off by the idea of that wait\".\n\n\"I am also concerned for victims in the system that they're having to wait that long and are effectively putting their lives on hold waiting and that they may even withdraw (their case).\n\n\"It's that further harm is caused while they wait, which is what really concerns me the most.\"\n\nNaomi Long said the department is working to avoid delays\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she recognised the \"detrimental impact that delay in the criminal justice system can have on victims\".\n\n\"Like many other areas of public service, the Covid pandemic has had a significant impact on efforts to speed up the justice system,\" she said.\n\nMs Long said the department is \"continuing to progress work on reducing avoidable delay\".\n\nFormer justice minister Claire Sugden said the figures are \"startling but not surprising\".\n\nThe East Londonderry assembly member said victims are being \"retraumatised by the delays in the system\".\n\n\"We are failing victims who have gone through probably the most traumatic experience of their life,\" she said.\n\nA Public Prosecution Service (PPS) spokesperson said it recognises \"some victims are waiting too long for their case to move through the system, and the impact this has on them\".\n\n\"The reasons for this are varied and cut across the entire criminal justice system, and we are committed to working with our partners to address them.\"\n\nThe PPS said it remains committed to providing a high-quality service to alleged victims, including keeping them updated about key developments in their case through a victim and witness care unit.\n\nIt said it \"commends the bravery and fortitude of victims and treat them with respect and sensitivity at all times\".\n\nDet Supt Gary Reid, from the PSNI's Public Protection Branch, said police do not want \"any child abuse victim to feel like they have to suffer in silence or be discouraged from coming forward\".\n\nHe said specially trained detectives \"treat victims with the upmost respect and sensitivity\", often in challenging circumstances.\n\n\"We know that the criminal justice system as a whole can be incredibly challenging and sometimes re-traumatising for victims as they are having to relive and recount what has happened to them.\n\n\"This is not easy and any delays can cause victims further distress.\"\n\nDet Sgt Reid added that police \"are determined to continue working closely with our criminal justice partners and victims themselves to highlight issues and find solutions\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this report, support is available at the BBC Action Line.", "The normally bustling Queen Street station in Glasgow has been quiet all day\n\nRailway stations have been virtually deserted as the first of three 24-hour rail strikes hits services in Scotland.\n\nScotRail has cancelled 90% of its services while cross-border services were also badly affected.\n\nAbout 40,000 Network Rail staff are believed to have walked out at midnight on Tuesday in a dispute over pay, working conditions and redundancies.\n\nLast-ditch talks between the RMT union and Network Rail failed on Monday.\n\nIt is thought thousands of regular passengers chose to work from home rather than attempt to commute on a vastly-reduced service.\n\nMick Lynch, the RMT general secretary, blamed the \"dead hand\" of government for the dispute, saying ministers did not allow employers to negotiate freely.\n\nScotland's Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth urged the UK government to do more to end the stand-off.\n\nFurther strikes are scheduled to take place on Thursday and Saturday but services are likely to be delays and cancellations even on non-strike days.\n\nScotRail said there would be \"significant disruption across the country\" on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday caused by the staggered reopening of Network Rail signal boxes.\n\nAs the first day of strike action unfolded:\n\nBusinesses in Scotland have been bracing themselves for an impact on their takings as a result of the strike.\n\nLeon Thompson, from UK Hospitality Scotland, predicted the sector was set for \"in excess of £50m of losses\" this week.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We're looking at a situation where our fragile businesses are trying to move towards recovery. So it's a very, very difficult week.\n\n\"We're talking about businesses which have had two years of restrictions and lockdowns in place, which have severely impacted their ability to trade.\n\n\"They are carrying unprecedented levels of debt and they really need to have a good summer. Now this industrial action, which is essentially going to wipe out all business this week, is a real concern.\"\n\nThis is a major strike by any measure. It's the biggest pay dispute on the railways for 30 years. Almost 90% of Scottish services have had to be cancelled. No trains are running outside Scotland's central belt - so there's not a single service for Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, the north or west coast. Only five ScotRail routes see any trains at all, and even these will be limited.\n\nAll this underlines the crucial role played by signallers employed by Network Rail, whose strike action has crippled the railways. When they don't work, rail lines grind to a halt.\n\nIt means disruption for rail passengers. But a fair number we've spoken to voice sympathy for the signallers' pay demand. The cost of living crisis and soaring inflation affect all but a lucky few. So when rail workers demand a pay rise, that chimes with some passengers - even those whose journeys are disrupted. But if the strike action drags on for weeks or months, will they be quite so understanding?\n\nFor now, regular commuters may choose to work from home. That may blunt the impact of this strike. But it worries rail bosses, who desperately want to see passenger numbers return to where they were before the pandemic - from the 70% level we see right now.\n\nScotRail services are already hit hard by industrial action from train drivers. They are set to vote on a pay deal worth more than 5% in the coming weeks.\n\nThousands of ScotRail workers are also being offered a similar deal. If these are any sort of benchmark, signallers will hold out for a more generous deal than the 3% they are being offered by Network Rail. If that happens, it could be a long, frustrating year on Scotland's railways.\n\nAnd much now depends on Network Rail's owner, the UK government, who set the limits for any pay deal.\n\nRichard Muir, deputy chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, said a lack of reliable public transport \"has a direct affect on our economy and the businesses that rely on it\".\n\nOne of Scotland's main bus operators, First Bus, said it was prepared for increased demand on strike days but a shortage of 300 drivers meant its ability to provide extra services would be \"significantly limited\".\n\nIts managing director Duncan Cameron told BBC Scotland that despite still not being back to pre-pandemic levels, bus travel \"massively overweighs rail use across the country\", carrying passengers on about 74% of public transport journeys.\n\nHe said: \"It will be difficult for rail users over the coming days with no rail running, but given those margins we believe we can accommodate those who want to move to bus, and where possible we will introduce additional vehicle capacity to do that.\"\n\nOnly a few people were at the usually packed Central Station in Glasgow\n\nNational Express said coaches were also in high demand but warned it was not possible for the firm to match the demand of the rail network.\n\n\"We do expect and are prepared to be busy but also recommend that customers allow plenty of time when planning their journey,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis dispute between the RMT union and the companies which run Britain's railway centres on pay, job losses and changes to workers' terms and conditions.\n\nScotRail staff are not invovled but the train operator, which was nationalised on 1 April, relies on Network Rail workers to operate signal boxes and maintain the track across the UK.\n\nThe RMT said Network Rail's plans to cut 2,500 jobs would put safety at risk and has warned that strikes could continue over the next six months.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland spokesman Nick King said: \"We are still keen to reach a resolution with the union, postpone further strike action if we can, but any deal that is done has to be fair on both our workers and on the taxpayer, who ultimately funds Network Rail's operations.\"\n\nThere was a picket line at Glasgow Central Station on Tuesday\n\nOn Monday, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the House of Commons that rail workers were endangering their livelihoods by taking industrial action.\n\nHe said the UK government had plans for rail reform and a more \"agile, flexible workforce - not one that strikes every time someone suggests a change to the railways\".\n\nJenny Gilruth, Scotland's cabinet secretary for transport, called on Mr Shapps \"to seek a resolution to this dispute, as quickly as possible, for the benefit of staff and passengers alike\".\n\nGordon Martin, RMT organiser, told BBC Scotland they had been \"forced\" to take strike action.\n\n\"This is of the UK government's making,\" he said. \"We have been forced into this as a defensive measure. Our members' jobs and livelihoods are at risk here.\n\n\"More importantly, the safety of the rail infrastructure is at risk and safety in railway stations and on trains is at risk.\"", "Baroness Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, is involved in a bitter dispute with some of the organisation's member states - only days before she asks them for a second term of office, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Commonwealth Secretariat - the administration led by Lady Scotland - is suppressing an independent review of its finances that is understood to contain criticisms of the way it has been run.\n\nKevin Isaac, chairman of the Commonwealth Board of Governors - which represents all member states - said the decision by the secretariat to withhold the report was \"an affront\" to the board's authority.\n\nA spokesman for the secretariat said it had factual concerns about the report.\n\nIn a letter, seen by the BBC, Mr Isaac, who is High Commissioner of St Kitts and Nevis in London, writes: \"The secretariat's decision to bar the chair access to the report is an affront to the mandate given to the chair by the board.\"\n\nHe adds: \"The chair regrets and challenges the position taken by the secretariat which demonstrates an indifference to the board's oversight authority\".\n\nThe dispute comes as Commonwealth heads of government prepare to gather this week in Rwanda for a summit where they will decide if they want Lady Scotland to have a second term of office.\n\nJamaica's foreign minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, is standing against the Labour peer and has the public backing of seven member states, including India and the UK.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told MPs on Tuesday the UK was backing Ms Johnson Smith \"to ensure that the Commonwealth delivers for all its members in areas such as trade, investment and defending democracy\".\n\nEarlier this year the Commonwealth Board - which takes decisions on behalf of heads of government in between summits - asked Lady Scotland's secretariat to commission an independent review into the way the organisation was financed.\n\nAccording to Mr Isaac's letter, addressed to all 53 other Commonwealth governors, the review was designed to advise on \"how to put the secretariat on a more sustainable financial footing\".\n\nSome Commonwealth member states have reduced the amount of money they give to the secretariat, with total funding for the body falling over the past decade from about £50m to about £30m.\n\nGlobal accountancy firm Ernst & Young was commissioned to carry out the review and its report was finally delivered to the secretariat on 1 June. But since then the secretariat has refused to share the report with the board.\n\nWhen Mr Isaac asked why, a secretariat official told him: \"The secretariat's position remains that we are unable to share the report, but will do so as a matter of urgency after obtaining external advice to protect the position of the secretariat as contract manager.\"\n\nCommonwealth sources say although the review was designed to look at ways of improving the secretariat's funding, they suspect it contains criticisms voiced by some high commissioners about the way the organisation has been run.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Isaac says he understands the assessments of senior managers at the secretariat \"differ from certain perspectives or reflections contained\" within the report.\n\nHe argues that because the board commissioned the report, the secretariat has no right to withhold it. He says that if the secretariat disagrees with aspects of the report, then it can say so in a separate addendum: \"It does not have the option not to release the report to the governors.\"\n\nOne Commonwealth insider said the report was being suppressed to ensure its contents were not made public while Lady Scotland was seeking re-election at the summit in Kigali.\n\nBut allies of Lady Scotland dispute this assessment and have questioned the quality of the report. It is understood the Commonwealth Secretariat is taking legal advice about how to respond.\n\nA spokesperson for the secretariat said: \"The secretariat received this report late and, when we did receive the final version, we raised factual and other concerns with the consultant about the draft we received.\n\n\"We still have concerns and therefore we are obtaining external advice to protect the position of the secretariat as contract manager. We hope to resolve matters, hopefully amicably, as soon as possible.\"\n\nBoth Mr Isaac and Ernst & Young declined to comment.", "The average annual grocery bill in the UK is set to rise by £380 this year, according to research firm Kantar.\n\nThat means shoppers could be paying on average an extra £32 a month for food and other groceries.\n\nBack in April, the firm predicted the cost of the average annual supermarket shop would go up by £271 in 2022.\n\nThe upward revision shows \"just how sharp price increases have been recently and the impact inflation is having on the sector\", said Kantar.\n\nThe survey also showed grocery prices rose by 8.3% over the past four weeks, the highest rate in 13 years.\n\n\"The inflation number makes for difficult reading and shoppers will be watching budgets closely as the cost-of-living crisis takes its toll,\" said Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar.\n\nOfficial figures for April showed overall inflation - the increase in prices over time - was running at 9% a year in the UK - the highest rate for 40 years. The Bank of England has warned inflation might exceed 11% later this year as the prices of fuel and food put pressure on household budgets.\n\nThe latest inflation figures for May are due to be published on Wednesday.\n\nOverall supermarket sales are declining, down by 1.9% in the 12 weeks to the 12 June - the smallest fall since October 2021.\n\nMr McKevitt said: \"The sector hasn't been in growth since April 2021 as it measures up against the record sales seen during the pandemic. However, these latest numbers show the market is to an extent returning to pre-Covid norms as we begin comparisons with post-lockdown times.\"\n\nKantar said that online sales have continued to fall as lockdown restrictions eased, recording the 12th consecutive monthly fall to leave digital orders down nearly 9% in June.\n\nIt said this could be the result of people looking to further cut costs by \" avoiding delivery charges\" though it added that the recent good weather may be encouraging more people to take a trip to the supermarket.\n\nThe researchers also found shoppers are switching from branded items, sales of which are down by 1%, to supermarkets' own-label products.\n\n\"Sales of these lines, which are often cheaper, have risen by 2.9%, boosted by Aldi and Lidl's strong performances, both of whom have extensive own-label repertoires,\" said Mr McKevitt.\n\n\"We can also see consumers turning to value ranges, such as Asda Smart Price, Co-op Honest Value and Sainsbury's Imperfectly Tasty, to save money and together all value own-label lines grew by 12%.\"\n\nLidl was the fastest growing supermarket over the 12 weeks with sales up by 9.5%: Morrisons saw the biggest fall with sales down by 7.2%.\n\nOne bright spot was the jump in spending in the week leading up to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations at the beginning of June.\n\nAlcohol and ice cream sales rose by about a third compared with the 2022 average.\n\nKantar said many people made the official Jubilee pudding, the lemon Swiss roll and Amaretti trifle, which pushed up sales of lemon curd by 16%, fresh cream by 58%, Swiss rolls by 18% and custard by 9%.", "A 45-year-old man is due to appear in court charged with the murder of a woman in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nMargaret Una Noone, 77, was found dead at a house in Ratheen Avenue in the town on Sunday.\n\nLocal politicians said the community was devastated by her death.\n\nThe man is due to appear at Omagh Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirteen years ago, a book was published called The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights?\n\nIt was seen as a polemic, about the need for a new British Bill of Rights.\n\nA lawyer called Dominic Raab, who was also chief-of staff to the then shadow home secretary, David Davis.\n\nMr Raab would become a Conservative MP a year later and is now deputy prime minister and justice secretary - and he's introducing a Bill of Rights.\n\nHe's not the only politician who has been keen on this for some time.\n\nThis has long been a Conservative aspiration: the party's general election manifestos in 2010 and 2015 promised it.\n\nBut, until now at least, it hasn't had the bandwidth or numbers in Parliament to do it.\n\nEuropean Court of Human Rights has nothing to do with the EU\n\nAt the root of plenty of Conservative gripes about all this is the Human Rights Act, introduced by Labour in 1998.\n\nIt introduced the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.\n\nAn organisation called the Council of Europe is behind the convention. It, confusingly, has nothing to do with the European Union.\n\nLabour's rationale at the time was that being subject to the convention without a domestic Human Rights Act meant the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg, France, couldn't be moderated by the UK courts.\n\nBut the government's rationale now is that the effect of the Human Rights Act has been to gold-plate the decisions of the court.\n\nWhen I sat down for an interview with the deputy prime minister in his Commons office, he claimed the consequence of this had been what he called a \"human rights inflation\" - an \"expansive, elastic approach to human rights\" - which had not been \"subject to proper democratic oversight\" and had \"undermined the credibility of human rights\".\n\nSo why not pull out of the convention entirely?\n\n\"Well,\" Mr Raab said, \"I don't think pulling out of the European Convention would solve all the problems that some people suggest, because we signed up to a whole range of other conventions, for example, that prevent torture - it's also part of the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nAnd to test his argument from his opponents' point of view - that he is contemplating chewing up, if not scrapping, a longstanding international commitment the UK has given - he told me: \"No. We're staying within the convention.\n\n\"We're availing ourselves of the leeway that the Strasbourg court itself says that state parties have. And, do you know what, the worst thing for human rights is for it to become discredited.\n\n\"Either because we see challenges which stop us dealing with the appalling flow in human misery across the Channel, or because we've got spurious elastic interpretations of human rights that allow foreign national offenders, these dangerous people, to trump the overwhelming public interest in removing them from this country.\n\n\"That's the real threat to human rights.\"\n\nMr Raab argued that the Human Rights Act made it harder to keep the most dangerous criminals isolated from other prisoners and placed a \"regulatory burden\" on police forces to inform gang leaders that there may be a threat to their life.\n\nYou might think that would be the job of a police force, and Mr Raab acknowledged that, but he argued that that ought to be an operational decision officers take in each individual case, rather than a \"universal, judicially enforceable human right\" costing some forces \"thousands and thousands of pounds\".\n\nThe Bill of Rights will also, I'm told, protect the \"ministerial veto\" over the release of the most dangerous criminals.\n\nThe aim is that some murderers, rapists, child abusers and terrorists won't be able to walk out of prison without democratic accountability.\n\nThe bill will oblige courts to \"have regard to\" the importance of reducing risk to the public from convicted criminals.\n\nThis is the essence of what the government is proposing, and the debate now begins in earnest, having bubbled away for some time already.\n\nFour parliamentary committees have already demanded the plans be \"subject to the fullest amount of public and parliamentary scrutiny to ensure their appropriateness, practicality, and longevity\".\n\nThey wanted this to happen as soon as possible, in what is called pre-legislative scrutiny.\n\nBefore we even see the bill itself, we can see critics lining up, likely to be noisy and angry.\n\nThe Law Society of England and Wales says it represents a \"collision course with the rule of law\".\n\nLabour describes the Bill of Rights as a \"con\" and \"fraudulent\", and fears it will stop victims of terrorist attacks and disasters like Hillsborough from seeking justice.\n\nThis argument will continue for months.", "Mr McCraw called the police response to the 24 May school shooting an \"abject failure\"\n\nThere were enough police on the scene of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, Texas's public safety chief has testified.\n\nSteven McCraw told a state Senate hearing the police response was an \"abject failure\".\n\nHe accused the on-scene commander of placing officers' lives above the children's.\n\nPolice waited for over an hour outside classrooms before a team made entry.\n\nMr McCraw, Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), told the public hearing: \"The officers had weapons, the children had none. The officers had body armour, the children had none. The officers had training, the subject had none. One hour, 14 minutes, and eight seconds - that is how long the children waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued.\n\n\"Three minutes after the subject entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armour to isolate, distract and neutralise the subject.\"\n\nMany parents and relatives have expressed deep anger at the police handling of the mass shooting, which killed 21 people -19 students and two teachers - at Robb Elementary School on 24 May.\n\nThe DPS chief said the scene commander, Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo, \"waited for radio and rifles, and he waited for shields and he waited for SWAT\".\n\nEarlier in June, Mr Arredondo said he had not considered himself the incident commander, and did not order police to hold back.\n\nHe also told the Texas Tribune that he had left his two radios outside the school to keep his hands free to hold his gun.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday the first images emerged showing armed police with rifles and at least one ballistic shield waiting in a school corridor.\n\nThe Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, which have seen investigative documents, said police had arrived earlier in the attack and with more firepower than was previously reported.\n\nImages have emerged showing police officers arriving at the attack earlier than previously reported\n\nThe new information shows Mr Arredondo tried to speak to the gunman, asking him whether he could hear him, the Austin American-Statesman says.\n\nPolice waited for a master key to arrive so that the classroom doors could be opened, even though it had not been established that the doors were locked, while tools were also available that could have been used to break them down, the Texas Tribune reported.\n\nThe gunman was eventually shot dead by members of the US Border Patrol Tactical Unit.\n\nDuring the attack, children were frantically calling 911 to report multiple gunshot victims. Worried parents also tried to rush into the school, as police physically prevented them from entering.\n\nTexas police have not publicly commented on the latest reports.\n\nThe attack by an 18-year-old - identified as Salvador Ramos - has led to renewed national debate about gun regulations.\n\nOn Monday, parents of the victims and other members of the community called for the resignation of Mr Arredondo at a meeting of the school's board.\n\nParents and community members have called for Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo to resign", "Neurology is the treatment of brain conditions, including MS, Parkinson's, stroke and motor neurone disease\n\nA report into the recall of neurology patients has found 68% had a diagnosis that was considered to be secure.\n\nIn 2018, about 3,000 patients were recalled as investigations were carried out into the work of neurologist Dr Michael Watt at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nHe was suspended amid concerns over possible misdiagnoses.\n\nNeurology is the treatment of brain conditions, including MS, Parkinson's, stroke and motor neurone disease.\n\nDr Watt worked as a neurologist at the RVH.\n\nLast year thousands of his patients were asked to come for a fresh assessment after concerns were raised about his care.\n\nThe Department of Health report, published on Thursday, covers 2,952 patients assessed by the reviewing clinicians.\n\nDr Michael Watt worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a neurologist\n\nIt found that 2,006 people had a secure diagnosis, while 617 had a diagnosis that was considered not to be secure.\n\nFor 329 patients \"there was uncertainty in respect of whether the previous diagnosis was secure\".\n\nHowever, the department said an unsecure diagnosis did not automatically equate to a misdiagnosis.\n\nThe report was meant to be published earlier in the year, but \"highly sensitive unforeseen circumstances\" delayed it.\n\nThe Department of Health has said sorry for the delay and any additional concerns.\n\nBoth it and the Belfast Trust have also apologised to affected patients.\n\nThey said \"it's highly regrettable that one person should have to go through this experience, let alone the large numbers that have been involved\".\n\nIn a statement sent to the BBC in November, Dr Watt offered his \"sincere sympathy\" to those affected.\n\n\"Patient care has always been of the utmost importance to me and the key focus throughout my career,\" he said.\n\n\"I have always sought to act in the best interests of my patients.\n\n\"Current investigations have highlighted concerns over the security of a number of my patients' diagnoses. I recognise the considerable distress these events have caused and I can only express my sincere sympathy to any of my patients affected as a result.\"", "Ms Sturgeon had promised to give a \"significant\" update before Holyrood breaks up for the summer\n\nNicola Sturgeon is to set out details next week of how she plans to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThe first minister will make a statement in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 28 June.\n\nShe is expected to say how she intends to hold a referendum in October of next year, regardless of whether or not the UK government grants formal consent.\n\nThe UK government has already indicated it will not do so.\n\nMs Sturgeon will take questions from MSPs after giving her statement, which will come just two days before Holyrood goes into recess for the summer holidays.\n\nThe first minister said last week that she would soon give a \"significant update\" on how a \"lawful\" referendum could be held without the UK government agreeing to what is known as a Section 30 order.\n\nThis was put in place ahead of the last referendum in 2014, but the UK government has repeatedly said that \"now is not the time\" for another vote on independence and has indicated it will not agree to another Section 30 any time soon.\n\nMs Sturgeon said last week that she would soon make a \"significant\" announcement on what she will do if this stance does not change.\n\nShe said this plan would show how the Scottish government intends to \"forge a way forward, if necessary without a section 30 order\".\n\nHowever, she stressed that this must be done \"in a lawful manner\" - which has led to speculation that she could be preparing for a \"consultative\" referendum on independence.\n\nThis could see proposals for people to be asked a different question to the straight yes/no question on whether Scotland should become an independent country that they were asked in the 2014 referendum.\n\nFor example, voters could instead be asked of they believe the Scottish government should begin negotiations with the UK government on Scotland leaving the UK.\n\nSome commentators believe this is less likely to be successfully blocked by the UK government through the courts.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously admitted that there would be \"challenges to work through if we are to have what I think is essential to deliver independence - a lawful process\".\n\nThere have also been suggestions that the pro-UK parties could boycott any referendum that was held without the consent of the UK government - which could potentially refuse to recognise the result.\n\nThere has been speculation that Ms Sturgeon could propose asking voters a different question to the one they were asked in 2014\n\nThe Scottish government's constitution secretary, Angus Robertson, refused to comment at the weekend on speculation about the first minister's plans, beyond saying that she would set out a route map to a second referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon has not yet formally requested a Section 30 order from the UK government, and would need to pass legislation for a referendum in the Scottish Parliament - which she would be able to do with the support of the pro-independence Scottish Greens.\n\nBut she did publish the first in a series of papers last week which are aimed at making a fresh case for independence.\n\nScottish Conservative constitution spokesman Donald Cameron said people in Scotland were \"sick and tired of the SNP's obsession with independence\".\n\nHe added: \"In the last week before summer recess, people want to hear their MSPs discussing the issues that really matter to them - not yet another speech on independence from Nicola Sturgeon.\n\n\"With the cost of living spiralling, Scotland's NHS facing an unprecedented crisis, and our economy still struggling to recover from the pandemic, this debate is an unjustifiable waste of time.\n\n\"Once again, Nicola Sturgeon has blatantly ignored Scotland's real priorities to promote an unwanted second referendum.\"\n\nAccording to polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice, the last half dozen polls have - on average - put support for independence at 48%, with 52% against, once \"don't know\" votes are excluded.", "The creation of a National Care Service for Scotland (NCS) will end the \"postcode lottery\" in the sector, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said.\n\nHe said new legislation would make ministers accountable for adult social care in Scotland.\n\nMr Yousaf described the move as the most significant since the creation of the NHS.\n\nIt follows an independent review into the future of adult social care triggered by the pandemic.\n\nThe service, which will be launched by the end of the parliamentary term in 2026, could cost up to £0.5bn to deliver.\n\nThe new bill proposes setting up a series of care boards that operate in the same way as health boards, with Scottish ministers directly responsible.\n\nIt means local authorities would no longer run social care services.\n\nScottish Labour have accused the government of \"the biggest power grab in the history of Holyrood\" and said it would undermine local government.\n\nAnd while some charities have welcomed the legislation, they say social care faces a crisis now.\n\nThe new service will aim to support people in their own homes or among family, friends and community wherever possible.\n\nIt will create a charter of rights and responsibilities for social care, with a robust complaints and redress process.\n\nAdditional measures include the introduction of rights to breaks for unpaid carers and visiting rights for residents living in adult care homes, giving legal force to Anne's Law.\n\nThis secures the right of care home residents to have visits from a loved one - even in a Covid outbreak.\n\nThe NCS will also ensure fair employment practices and national pay bargaining for the social care workforce and focus on prevention and early intervention before people's needs escalate.\n\nA further development will see the creation of a new National Social Work Agency to promote training and development, provide national leadership and set and monitor standards in social work.\n\nThere has been plenty of debate about how to improve community health and social care in Scotland. An ageing population with more complex health needs is increasingly putting pressure on a system short of staff and capacity.\n\nA government review published last year recommended setting up a National Care Service to level out access to services across Scotland and to help address demand.\n\nWhat we are seeing today with this new legislation is the first steps of that becoming a reality.\n\nEssentially, the government is replacing provision run by local authorities with a series of care boards answerable to Scottish ministers.\n\nThe pandemic cast a light on rights for care home relatives and carers and there are also proposals to improve those.\n\nThe health secretary has billed this legislation as the most ambitious since the creation of the NHS but given the scale of the challenge and the short timeframe to deliver, it appears that much of the detail is still to be worked out along the way.\n\nThe aim is to have the new service operational by the end of the parliamentary term, but the main issue facing social care is that there is an shortage of provision now.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Aberdeen-based charity VSA, Mr Yousaf said: \"This is the most ambitious reform of public services since the creation of the NHS.\n\n\"The design of the NCS will have human rights embedded throughout, and the actual shape and detail of how the NCS works will be designed with those who have direct experience of accessing and providing social care.\n\n\"We are going to end the postcode lottery of care in Scotland.\"\n\nThe health secretary pledged everyone would have access to \"consistently high-quality care and support so they can live a full life\".\n\nBut Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie, said: \"After years of steadfast opposition to a National Care Service, the SNP is now using the creation of such a service to disempower local government and centralise yet more power.\"\n\nShe added that the transfer of more than 100,000 staff away from local authorities was a \"recipe for chaos and \"uncertainty\".\n\nScottish Conservative social care spokesman Craig Hoy urged the SNP to scrap the plans because of the huge costs involved in setting it up.\n\nMr Hoy said: \"Social care provision in Scotland is in crisis. But the last thing we need right now is a major bureaucratic overhaul of the system which would see precious resources diverted away from the frontline and into employing hundreds more management and admin staff.\n\nWendy Dunsmore of Unite also condemned the proposals and said Scottish ministers would be \"able to unilaterally decide what services are to be delivered nationally or locally\".\n\nShe said: \"The plans to transfer services, people and property from local authorities to the Scottish government are a recipe for disaster and represent an all-out assault on local democracy.\"\n\nKeir Greenaway, GMB Scotland senior organiser, said workers \"haven't even been an afterthought\" in drafting the bill.\n\nHe added: \"Care staff who worked on the frontline throughout the pandemic and continue to care for our most vulnerable cannot afford to wait for improved terms and conditions.\n\n\"There is plenty on new executive boards of bureaucrats, and their pay and pensions, but there is no mention of how care workers can improve their pay.\"\n\nLocal government body Cosla said it would take the time to understand the breadth of the impact the legislation would have on communities across Scotland.\n\nHealth and social care spokesman Paul Kelly said: \"Our primary considerations are the effective delivery of vital social care services to the communities we serve and the wellbeing of our workforce.\n\n\"We would reiterate our previous position that local democratic accountability is central to the way in which social care services are delivered.\n\n\"We are also clear that there are underlying challenges across the system requiring urgent and significant improvement, and which cannot wait for a National Care Service.\"", "The government is planning to introduce legislation this week to make it legal for employers to bring in agency staff to replace striking workers.\n\nThe new law is likely to come into force in mid-July and would not impact train strikes taking place this week.\n\nA government source told the BBC the change was needed because \"unions are threatening action across the economy\".\n\nHowever, the Trades Union Congress argue it would undermine the right to strike and create safety risks.\n\nThe plan has also been opposed by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which represents the recruitment industry.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, the organisation's head Neil Carberry said many large recruitment companies had signed up to a global commitment not to replace striking workers and that agency workers would not choose \"to cross a picket line\" because they could find work elsewhere.\n\nHe added that there was \"cold fury\" in the industry because of a lack of consultation about the planned change.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has previously argued that changing the law would ensure the country was not \"held to ransom\" in the future.\n\nUnder the government's plan, any employer - public as well as private employers including schools, councils and the NHS - would have flexibility to bring in outside staff to cover striking workers.\n\nIt would be an employer's choice whether to do so.\n\nPaul Nowak, deputy secretary general of the Trades Union Congress - the umbrella body for unions, said: \"Allowing agency staff to replace striking workers would undermine the right to strike and create genuine safety risks for the public and for the workforce.\n\n\"Having repeatedly promised a high-wage economy, ministers now seem determined to reduce workers' bargaining power and to make it harder for working people to win fair pay and conditions.\"\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds accused the Conservatives of \"driving down the rights and pay of hard working people\".\n\nThe Conservatives have also promised to introduce a law which would \"require that a minimum service operates during transport strikes\".\n\nHowever, there is currently no date for this legislation which would affect the railways and other key industries.\n\nOn Saturday protesters marched in London demanding a pay rise for public sector workers\n\nThe agency workers announcement comes as barristers - represented by the Criminal Bar Association - voted to take industrial action over pay and conditions.\n\nAnd two teaching unions are also considering asking their members if they want to strike over pay.\n\nPrices in the UK are expected to rise by 11% in the next few months and the TUC has argued that workers need to cope with cost increases.\n\nHowever, Treasury Minister Simon Clarke has warned that public sector workers should not expect \"inflation-busting pay increases\" that could risk fuelling the \"evil of inflation\".\n\n\"If we give awards which are above inflation in this landscape, then we are in a really difficult place in terms of bringing down inflation, which in turn obviously is driving the cost of living.\"", "5,448 patients were eligible for recall of which 4,179 people attended appointments.\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust failed to intervene quickly enough in the practice of a doctor which led to Northern Ireland's largest ever patient recall, an inquiry has found.\n\nMore than 5,000 former patients of neurologist Dr Michael Watt were invited to have their cases examined for possible misdiagnoses.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the report made very difficult reading.\n\nAmong the conditions being treated were stroke, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS).\n\nThe Independent Neurology Inquiry concluded that the combined effect of the failures ensured that patterns in the consultant's work were missed for a decade.\n\nDr Cathy Jack, Chief Executive of the Trust, apologised to Dr Watt's patients.\n\n\"The Belfast Trust let you down and many of you have suffered avoidable and unnecessary harm as a result,\" Dr Jack said.\n\n\"Whether that was through being given a diagnosis that was not correct, receiving incorrect treatment or medication, or having a procedure you did not need.\"\n\nPatients who were affected by the inquiry results said they had been failed.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann apologised to those \"who have been so badly let down\".\n\n\"Today's report makes very difficult reading,\" he said.\n\nRobin Swann has said he will be sharing the findings with his counterparts in Great Britain to ensure similar mistakes aren't made\n\nWhile the reputation of the health service had been tarnished, Mr Swann said his priority was to ensure failures were not repeated.\n\nOf the 5,448 people, including some children, who were recalled, 4,179 attended.\n\nAbout one in five were told they had not been given an appropriate management plan for their condition, while a similar number had not been issued an appropriate prescription.\n\nThe inquiry, chaired by Brett Lockhart QC, has recommended that Northern Ireland's Department of Health should review its guidance in relation to complaints to ensure that patient safety is the overriding objective.\n\nIt also found a culture of medical professionals who were \"apprehensive in raising a concern about the practice of a colleague\".\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the governance arrangements into how complaints were identified and handled.\n\nDr Watt's clinical practice has been investigated separately, by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) and in a final outcomes report which was published by the Department of Health this month.\n\nDr Michael Watt worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a neurologist\n\nIn 2021, he also voluntarily removed himself from the medical register ahead of a public Medical Practice Tribunal Hearing.\n\nDr Watt, who worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, did not give evidence to the inquiry and a lawyer for the former consultant has referenced that he is experiencing ongoing mental health issues.\n\nMr Lockhart QC concluded it was a \"source of significant and understandable public concern\" that he did not appear before the panel.\n\nThis is an extremely critical report on the workings and governance of the Belfast Health Trust and the Department of Health.\n\nThe regulator, the General Medical Council, also comes in for some bashing.\n\nIn straight-talking language, the panel highlights numerous failings by management across a number of healthcare organisations.\n\nWhile the intention of this inquiry was never to examine the clinical practice of Michael Watt, patients should get some comfort in the criticism of managers who have been named and a culture where it was easier to pass problems over.\n\nYet again, Northern Ireland is dealing with another public inquiry which highlights extreme failures in healthcare.\n\nAgain, patients are at the centre of a dysfunctional system which failed to put them first.\n\nMr Lockhart said the report was \"fundamentally about the safety of patients\".\n\nHe said the inquiry had sought to examine if patients were let down, if opportunities were missed to identify problems with Dr Watt's practice, and if earlier intervention would have made a difference.\n\nIn answer to all three questions, he said the panel answered \"yes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The systems and processes in place failed\" - inquiry chairman Brett Lockhart QC\n\nPeter McNaney, Chairman of the Belfast Trust, apologised but said the trust had already taken steps to address some of the concerns outlined in the inquiry \"including the introduction of clinical record review\" and a system that gathers and holds all of the trust's information about its doctors.\n\nMr McNaney has said steps are being taken to address issues highlighted in the inquiry\n\n\"However, first and foremost, our thoughts today are very much with those patients who suffered avoidable and unnecessary harm whilst under the care of Dr Watt,\" Mr McNaney said.\n\nThe report, released on Tuesday, highlights concerns with management and found a culture of medical professionals \"apprehensive in raising a concern about the practice of a colleague or querying discrepancies that arose\".\n\n\"A pre-existing and deeply rooted medical culture which inhibits a flow of relevant information to the medical director's office was, in the view of the inquiry panel, a major factor in failing to identify potential problems with Dr Watt at an earlier stage.\"\n\nDoctors raising concerns about other doctors may be \"wary of committing themselves to a position\", it continued.\n\n\"Consequently, matters which may urgently need investigation or a further review, are passed over.\"\n\nIn the case of Dr Watt, \"there was sufficient information accessible prior to November 2016 to demonstrate a pattern of potential aberrant practice\".\n\nFrom as early as 2006, a \"narrative\" surrounding the consultant's work had developed, the inquiry found, with a \"perception that Dr Watt's clinical ability was not in question\".\n\nIssues were defined as \"administrative\", while the former neurologist had a \"history of either failure to comply with or unreasonable delay in providing or undertaking annual appraisals\".\n\nDr Watt also had a private practice at the Ulster Independent Clinic, where there had also been \"significant complaints\" about his work.\n\nThe inquiry had defined terms of reference, but reflected that concerns raised about complaints and challenging the work of medical professionals will not be \"unique to the Belfast Trust\".\n\nHe added the \"combined effect\" of an \"inadequate investigation\" by the General Medical Council into a clinical complaint in 2012, the \"failure to disclose significant complaints\" to the Belfast Trust by the Ulster Independent Clinic, alongside failures of other health and social care trusts \"compounded a pre-existing problem in the Belfast Trust\".\n\nThe report, which is about 1,000 pages long, makes 76 recommendations; among them ensuring that healthcare providers apply the principle of \"you cannot unknow what you know\".\n\nSuch conversations about raising complaints cannot be regarded as \"informal\" or \"off the record\", Mr Lockhart explained.\n\nThe statutory public inquiry was established in 2020 by Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nProfessor Hugo Mascie-Taylor, who had previously been involved in the Mid-Staffordshire inquiry, was also a member of the panel.", "Rail services will continue to be disrupted on Wednesday, even though it's not one of the three planned strike days.\n\nThere will be reduced train services on many lines tomorrow due to the knock-on effects of today's strike, while the London Underground should return to normal by mid-morning.\n\nHere's what you need to know before planning your journey:\n\nHow many trains will run tomorrow?\n\nOnly around 60% of the 20,000 normal weekday services will be able to operate.\n\nWhy are timetables not returning to normal if there's no strike planned?\n\nWalkouts by signallers and control room staff who would usually work overnight from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning mean trains will leave depots later than normal, delaying the start of services.\n\nWhat time do trains normally leave depots?\n\nBetween around 03:00 BST and 04:00 BST.\n\nWhat time do passenger services usually begin?\n\nBetween around 05:00 BST and 06:00 BST.\n\nHow will that change tomorrow?\n\nTrains can only be taken out of depots when signallers on daytime shifts start work at around 06:00 BST to 6:30 BST and no passenger services will run before 06:30 BST.\n\nHow long will the start of services be delayed?\n\nIt is expected to take up to four hours in some locations.\n\nIn London, services will increase quickly as trains do not have to travel long distances from depots to stations but it will take several hours in remote locations.\n\nNetwork Rail said that \"even during the day the service will stay thinner\" than usual.\n\nIt will be a similar picture to today. Around 20% of services will run and just half of lines will be open, only between 07:30 BST and 18:30 BST.\n\nIs there any chance strikes planned for Thursday and Saturday will be called off?\n\nNo negotiations are taking place so passengers are being urged to check with train operators for updates to services.", "Tuesday’s hearings presented in-person testimony from three Republican officeholders – one from Arizona and two from Georgia – who were pressured by Donald Trump and his advisers to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThey directly refuted his allegations of electoral fraud and detailed how, as a result, they and their families faced threats and harassment from the former president’s supporters.\n\nThe hearing also presented evidence of Republicans who went along with Trump’s efforts. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said, in recorded testimony, that the party apparatus supported plans to organise “contingent” state electors who would claim that Trump had really won key swing states.\n\nThe committee displayed text messages from an aide to Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin who reached out to an aide to Mike Pence, saying the senator wanted to present those “alternate” votes to the vice-president prior to the 2020 election certification in Congress on 6 January.\n\nArizona Senate Majority Leader Rusty Bowers, one of the Republicans who testified on Tuesday, spoke of how Republican US Congressman Andy Biggs urged him to de-certify Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona.\n\nIf today’s hearings were designed to be an indictment of Trump’s behaviour in the months after his election defeat, it has also been an implicit condemnation of the Republicans who the committee views as facilitating the president’s plans and a celebration of the Republicans who did not.", "A pay increase of £565 for Scottish police officers has been rejected by the Scottish Police Federation.\n\nIts governing body, the joint central committee (JCC), confirmed it was unanimous in its support for staff to dismiss the offer.\n\nIt criticised the Scottish Police Authority, Police Scotland and Scottish ministers for \"the continued failure to return to the negotiating table\".\n\nPolice Scotland said it was committed to reaching a settlement.\n\nThe Police Negotiating Board has been handling the negotiations between the \"staff side\" - the Scottish Police Federation, the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents and the Scottish Chief Police Officers Staff Association - and the \"official side\".\n\nThe JCC said it had also agreed to support internal forms of action, which it said was \"necessary and proportionate\".\n\nCalum Steele, the Scottish Police Federation's general secretary, said: \"Our executive committee has today unanimously endorsed a series of actions to be undertaken by our members as a result of the failure of the government to seek to resolve our ongoing pay dispute.\n\n\"At their most basic level, these actions amount to the wholesale removal of the good will that the service requires to operate.\n\n\"Significantly, this good will and flexibility saves the police service money, and its removal will be both costly and disruptive.\"\n\nCalum Steele said the federation would support \"necessary and proportionate\" internal forms of action\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation will communicate with its members on the issue over the coming days, Mr Steele said.\n\nHe added: \"These actions will be seeking to mitigate the disruptive and costly impact of policing on them and their families, at a time when the cost of living crisis is compounding the mental and physical ill health of officers.\n\n\"The resolve of our members is strong. These actions are capable of being escalated, and they are capable of being sustained.\n\n\"We do not expect the impact of these actions to be felt by our communities as they are entirely internally focused, and are not in any way designed to diminish the service we provide them.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We recognise the considerable goodwill officers bring to their roles on a daily basis as they keep people safe across the country, and this is also valued by the communities they serve.\n\n\"We therefore remain committed, through the Police Negotiating Board, to seeking a settlement.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative's justice spokesman Jamie Greene MSP accused the Scottish government of \"cynically exploiting the fact that police officers cannot strike\".\n\nHe said: \"Due to planned budget cuts to policing, this problem could become a recurring theme every year unless the SNP U-turn and give the police the resources they promised in their manifesto.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Police officer pay is negotiated through the Police Negotiating Board (PNB), as it has been for many years. The PNB process is ongoing in relation to pay for 2022/23, and we await the outcome of those discussions.\"", "Joe Lycett said he enjoyed explaining the joke to the police\n\nComedian Joe Lycett has said an audience member complained to police about a joke in one of his shows.\n\nIn an Instagram post he wrote: \"To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate.\"\n\nLycett, 33, who is from Birmingham, said he was asked to explain the context of the joke in a statement and the case was now closed.\n\nHe said the joke would remain in his routine.\n\nLycett added he considered it \"one of the best I've ever written\" and hoped the police were \"charmed and hopefully amused\" by his response.\n\n\"The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed,\" he wrote.\n\nHe shared an image of the police response, telling him the matter was considered closed.\n\nLycett has appeared in comedy shows including Live At The Apollo, Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats and QI.\n\nHe became known for his stand-up routines where he would recall his humorous email exchanges when handling issues such as parking fines and scammers and went on to host a Channel 4 consumer rights show.\n\nLycett has also performed a number of public stunts in recent years including storming off the set of Steph's Packed Lunch in 2021 and changing his name to Hugo Boss in 2020.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Comedian Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, a jury has found.\n\nJudy Huth testified to the civil trial that Cosby, 84, had forced her to perform a sex act on him at the venue when she was 16 years old.\n\nThe jury also ruled that Cosby must pay Ms Huth, who is now 64, $500,000 (£407,000) in damages.\n\nLess than a year ago, Cosby walked free from prison after his sexual assault conviction was thrown out.\n\nMore than 50 women have come forward with abuse allegations against the man once known as America's Dad, charges he denies.\n\nThe civil case against Cosby in Santa Monica, California, was the first to go to trial and represented one of the last remaining legal actions against him. Filed in 2014, it was delayed for years by Cosby's criminal proceedings.\n\nMs Huth's suit alleged that he brought her and another underage friend to the infamous mansion, lured her to a bedroom and forced himself on her.\n\nWhen she resisted, he forced her to perform a sex act on him, she testified.\n\nIn tears on the stand, Ms Huth told the court she felt \"mad, duped and foolish\" after the incident, as her lawyers presented a photo of her and Cosby inside the mansion.\n\nCosby was not required to appear in person at the trial and never did, but the court saw a 2015 deposition by Ms Huth's attorneys, in which the comedian said he did not remember her and would not have pursued sex with a minor.\n\nLawyers for Cosby sought to poke holes in Ms Huth's claims, noting she had initially said she was 15 at the time of the incident, but changed that detail weeks before the trial.\n\nThey claimed Ms Huth had offered her photo with Cosby to tabloids and others in search of a payout.\n\nJurors were also shown a videotaped 2016 deposition of late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner - a close friend of Cosby in the 1970s - who said it would have been \"very unusual\" for underage girls to be allowed inside the mansion.\n\nKnown to millions for his portrayal of TV dad Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show, the comic has faced accusations of sexual assault, misconduct and rape stretching back to the mid-1960s.\n\nIn 2018, he was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004 and sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.\n\nThe conviction, however, was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year. He was released from prison after serving nearly three years.", "A union representing Rolls-Royce workers has rejected the offer of a £2,000 one-off payment from the firm to help its staff with the rising cost of living.\n\nOf the 14,000 staff at Rolls-Royce who were eligible for the payment, 11,000 members are unionised.\n\nUnite said the offer \"falls far short of the real cost of living challenges which our members are experiencing\".\n\nBut Rolls-Royce said the offer was \"fair\" and \"a good deal\" for staff.\n\nThe lump sum, which was intended for junior management and shop floor staff, was due to begin being rolled out in August, starting with the 3,000 non-unionised staff before being paid to the remaining 11,000 unionised workers.\n\nUnite's regional secretary Paresh Patel said the union was still in negotiations with Rolls-Royce about the pay offer.\n\nNews of the offer emerged on Monday night, and was later confirmed by Rolls-Royce.\n\nHowever, Unite said: \"The fact that Rolls-Royce has made this announcement in the way that it has certainly in our view undermines the trade union and the negotiating position that should be between the employer and the unions on this matter.\"\n\nRolls-Royce had also offered workers a 4% increase in pay, back-dated to March. A Rolls-Royce spokesperson had told the BBC it would be \"the highest annual pay rise for at least a decade\" for its shop floor staff.\n\nBut Unite said it would also reject that offer of a 4% pay rise.\n\nThere are ongoing discussions with unions about a pay settlement for 2022-2023, Rolls-Royce's spokesperson said, and the cost of living issue is to be a factor in those negotiations.\n\nIn response to Unite's rejection of the offer, the spokesperson said: \"This is a good deal for our colleagues that is fair and competitive, with an immediate cash lump sum to help them through the current exceptional economic climate.\n\n\"We will continue to talk to our people.\"\n\nMeanwhile, around 115,000 Royal Mail workers are voting on strike action in a similar row over pay.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents many Royal Mail staff, said it would be claiming for an \"inflation-based, no-strings pay award\", adding that Royal Mail's offer of a 2% pay award was \"miles away from where inflation is, totally inadequate\".\n\nPay rates and measures to help UK staff have been increasing as businesses have been seeking to recruit and retain staff, after official figures showed there were fewer unemployed people than job vacancies for the first time since records began.\n\nEarlier this month, Lloyds Bank staff were offered a £1,000 lump sum to help with rising costs, after Unite the Union demonstrated outside its annual general meeting.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - currently stands at 9%, and is expected to increase again later this year.\n\nIt seems one-off cost of living payments are gaining in popularity among employers - but are they a short-term fix to a long-term issue?\n\nThe nature of inflation means that while the rate of price rises may slow next year, it is extremely unlikely that the cost of living will actually drop. Prices are almost certainly not going to fall.\n\nYet, these payments are not embedded in future wages, unlike a regular pay increase. As employees continue to find it tough, will there be pressure on bosses to make these payments a permanent part of pay next year and beyond?\n\nThere is undoubtedly an awareness among businesses that workers, particularly the lower-paid, need more financial help at the moment to cover their bills.\n\nBut perhaps this eye-catching tactic of one-off payments is directed more at another issue - the retention and recruitment of staff.\n\nRolls-Royce was badly impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic, which hit demand for its aircraft engines as international air travel ground to a halt.\n\nIn 2020 it announced plans to cut its global workforce by 9,000 by the end of this year, with 3,000 of those jobs going in the UK. At the time it said it would take \"several years\" for the industry to recover from the pandemic.\n\nIn the first year of Covid, Rolls-Royce made a loss of £4bn because of the collapse in air travel, however it returned to profit in 2021.\n\nStaff shortages are also putting pressure on firms to raise wages.\n\nEarlier this month, Morrisons said it would increase pay for its store workers as UK supermarkets battle for staff in the face of increasing competition in the sector.\n\nRival chains Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have also announced pay rises for their workers this year.", "Khalid Yousef, 28, was decapitated and mutilated during the attack at Paddy Power\n\nThe death of a man who was decapitated in a betting shop \"would not have occurred\" if his attacker had been referred to mental health services the month before, a coroner has concluded.\n\nKhalid Yousef, 28, was killed by Hassan Mustafa at Paddy Power in Handsworth, Birmingham, on 4 January 2018.\n\nCoroner James Bennett said the attacker was severely mentally ill and was acting \"upon his delusional beliefs\".\n\nMr Bennett said a previous arrest should have led to a referral.\n\nMr Yousef, from Sudan, suffered numerous injuries in the \"sustained assault\" by his friend, an inquest at Birmingham and Solihull Coroner's Court heard on Friday.\n\nThe attack happened when the killer, then 35, visited the premises during the afternoon with four knives.\n\nMustafa was detained under the Mental Health Act within 24 hours and was \"severely delusional\", believing they were \"shapeshifting superheroes in a competition to find treasure\" at the behest of the Queen, the court was told.\n\nHaving followed Mr Yousef, the inquest heard, he decided to \"end the devil\".\n\nHe was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, that was said to have responded well to medication.\n\nMustafa stood trial for murder in 2018, and was found not guilty by reason of insanity and made subject of a hospital order.\n\nHassan Mustafa was armed with four knives, the hearing was told\n\nThe inquest heard Mustafa, a former medical student, also from Sudan, had been stopped by police on 9 December, a month before the attack, and found to be in possession of martial arts weapon nunchucks plus a wheel brace, but no signs of mental illness were found.\n\nOn 12 December, the court heard, he was arrested on suspicion of burglary and told police at Perry Barr Custody Suite he went into the building \"following clues\" that led to prizes.\n\nAccording to proceedings, he stated the Queen was \"responsible for a league of extraordinary gentleman\" and left such clues.\n\nThe court then heard that the following day, 13 December, a PC referred Mustafa to the suite's Liaison and Diversion (L&D) unit, which screened patients for vulnerability, and there he was seen by a mental health nurse, but not referred for a Mental Health Act assessment.\n\nMustafa was arrested again on 18 December when, the hearing was told, he was trying to evade police while in possession of a crowbar. He was later released as there was no evidence to charge him and \"no obvious signs\" of mental illness.\n\nMr Bennett, the area coroner, said in his report the \"significance of his presentation\" on 13 December was not appreciated.\n\n\"Had he been referred he would have received treatment and/or been detained and the death would not have occurred,\" he concluded.\n\nHe added the lack of referral was a \"very serious failure\" and resulted from the L&D clinician's inexperience, inadequate training and the absence of psychiatrists within the unit to provide advice.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The Élysée palace said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's offer to resign was rejected by President Macron on Tuesday\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has rejected a resignation offer from the prime minister he appointed, saying instead that the government must \"stay on task and act\".\n\nElisabeth Borne was criticised by some commentators after Mr Macron's coalition lost its majority on Sunday.\n\nHer future looked under threat after the result, which left the president needing to secure support from rivals.\n\nHe is set to meet his political opponents for rare talks on Tuesday.\n\nBut neither Marine Le Pen's far-right nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left-green alliance are keen to work with Mr Macron's centrist government, which is 44 seats shy of a majority and desperately trying to avoid political paralysis.\n\nThe Élysée palace said Ms Borne formally offered to resign on Tuesday morning, submitting a letter to Mr Macron - the head of state - who turned it down.\n\nMr Macron refused the offer \"so that the government can remain on task and act\", the Élysée palace said, adding that he would seek \"constructive solutions\" to ending the deadlock that threatens his agenda during his second term.\n\nIt is customary for the French prime minister to offer to resign following parliamentary elections. Often, the president will simply reappoint the same person so that he or she can begin constructing a new government.\n\nBut the situation is different this time, as Mr Macron is telling Ms Borne to stay in office with the same cabinet without resigning.\n\nIt is probably an effort to buy time, analysts suggest, adding that at some point, a new government will be formed which may or may not have Ms Borne at its head.\n\nMeanwhile, party representatives will visit the Élysée Palace for high-level talks on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nAnalysts say the president may be eyeing a deal with the right-wing Republicans. The party confirmed that its leader, Christian Jacob, would attend the talks.\n\nBut prospects of a deal appeared dim in the run-up to the talks, as Mr Jacob hit out at Mr Macron in an interview with France Inter radio. \"He's the one who's been arrogant and now he calls for help,\" he said.\n\n\"We are very clear on our stance, we are in the opposition to Emmanuel Macron and will remain there,\" he added.\n\nMs Le Pen will take part but Mr Mélenchon will not, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nSocialist Party leader Olivier Faure and Communist Party boss Fabien Roussel, members of the Nupes left-wing alliance, will also meet Mr Macron.\n\nHaving no clear majority in the National Assembly is likely to make it far harder for Mr Macron to implement his agenda during his second five-year term.\n\nHe has laid out a series of plans to tackle the spiralling cost of living, including food vouchers and enhanced benefits. Another big reform is gradually raising the retirement age from 62 to 65, which has proved unpopular with much of the electorate.\n\nOpponents from the right and left aim to resist the president's programme of reforms, although Ms Le Pen's National Rally has said it may back measures to alleviate the cost of living crisis if their own proposals are adopted.", "Perhaps you're reading this in a long queue for the bus. Or packed on to one of the few trains that is running.\n\nThe RMT trade union reckons the whole thing has been \"manufactured\" by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nMr Shapps claims it has been \"created by the unions.\"\n\nSo what will happen next, both on the railways and in the wider economy?\n\nThe government insists there is no point it getting directly involved in this dispute, arguing that you have to go back decades to find a cabinet minister involved in negotiations with a trade union.\n\nSources also point out there have been around 60 meetings between the industry and the RMT on the fine details of the dispute, and the transport secretary wouldn't be saying anything different were he involved.\n\nAs soon as next week we can expect ministers to introduce what is known as secondary legislation, a bolt-on to existing laws, that will allow people with the necessary transferrable skills to fill gaps left by striking workers.\n\nThe plan from ministers in the longer term is a new law that requires a \"minimum service\" to be provided when there are public transport strikes, a promise the Conservatives made in their last election manifesto.\n\nIn other words, the government is defiant - and so is the RMT.\n\nLabour argues all of this is a sign of government failure, but it finds itself in an awkward spot too.\n\nThat's because, while the government has condemned the strikes, Labour is more careful in its language. It says it wishes the strikes weren't happening, but doesn't condemn them.\n\nLabour's Kate Osborne says she'll defy the leadership by picketing with RMT members\n\nAnd now a row is brewing because a note sent to shadow ministers by the party leadership says: \"Please be reminded that frontbenchers including PPSs should not be on picket lines.\"\n\nA PPS is a parliamentary private secretary, an assistant to a frontbencher, but someone expected to toe the party line.\n\n\"Please speak to all the members of your team to remind them of this and confirm with me that you have done so,\" the note goes on.\n\nBut Labour MP Kate Osborne, herself a PPS, has tweeted: \"Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow.\"\n\nThe general secretary of the Unite union, Sharon Graham, added: \"To instruct Labour MPs not to be on picket lines with workers speaks volumes. It's time to decide whose side you're on.\"\n\nThe context here, on the railways and in the wider economy, is Covid.\n\nPassenger numbers are down by a fifth, and an expensive fifth if you are a train operating company.\n\nCommuters and business travellers, who pay a premium to travel at peak times, are not travelling as much.\n\nFor that reason, ministers argue, change is inevitable. But the union says it is absurd that there is full employment and yet falling wages.\n\nWhich brings us to the bigger picture. Prices are rising at a speed not seen in 40 years.\n\nThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, has said wages in the private and public sector can't keep up with these price rises, or inflation will get worse.\n\nThe judgement of ministers, in other words, is the only way this gets better in the medium term is for the majority of people to feel poorer in the short term.\n\nThat's quite a thing for a senior minister to say: Having less money now is a price worth paying for things getting better sooner.\n\nWhat will Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have to say?\n\nAs Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies puts it, \"the question for government is how to distribute the pain, across people and across time, not how to avoid it altogether.\n\n\"That's not possible. Different interest groups will, entirely understandably, fight their corner. But we can't all win.\"\n\nMinisters are currently trying to work out how to sell this not entirely palatable message.\n\nWe can expect a joint speech from the prime minister and the chancellor in the first couple of weeks of next month.\n\nIt currently has the working title of A Plan for a Stronger Economy, but they've got to decide precisely what they want to say in it.\n\n\"One struggles to work out what their economic policy actually is,\" one former minister tells me. \"You need to look like you know what you want to do.\n\n\"They have lots of ideas, but it mustn't look random. And it does look random at the moment.\"\n\nOne idea that has been kicked around in recent weeks is return of those Covid-era Downing Street news conferences, perhaps every fortnight, with ministers, slides, graphs and experts.\n\nSo alongside the chancellor might be an official from the Office for National Statistics, for instance.\n\nThe rationale is that this would allow ministers to \"level with people\", which is government speak for telling us bad news.", "Unions have called for EasyJet cabin crew based in Spain to strike for nine days in July as part of a dispute over pay.\n\nThe walk-out would add to passenger woes as airlines struggle to cope with demand after Covid restrictions lifted.\n\nEasyJet has already had to cancel thousands of flights this summer because of staff shortages at Gatwick.\n\nMeanwhile, Heathrow Airport is still clearing piles of baggage which led to 5,000 flight cancellations on Monday.\n\nEasyJet and Spanish union USO have been holding talks on cabin crew pay since February, but are now in a \"deadlock situation\", the union said.\n\nIt has called a series of 24-hour strikes throughout July which could affect British holidaymakers.\n\nUnion members working from El Prat in Barcelona, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca will walk out from 1-3 July, 15-17 July and 29-31 July, the union said.\n\nAre you concerned about your summer holiday? Get in touch.\n\nMiguel Galan, USO general secretary for EasyJet Malaga, said flight attendants want a 40% increase in their basic salaries.\n\nHe said that Spanish cabin crew pay is not on a par with their French or German counterparts.\n\nEasyJet's Spanish crew get basic pay of €950 per month (£816), the union said, which excludes bonuses and extra pay.\n\nThe BBC understands that basic pay typically makes up 60% of EasyJet workers' salaries, with the remaining 40% dependent on factors including how many flights the crew work.\n\nThe USO union, which says it represents 80% of the 450 EasyJet staff based in Spain, still hopes an agreement can be reached to avoid the strikes during a meeting with management on Tuesday, Mr Galan said.\n\nAccording to the European Trade Union Institute, striking is a fundamental right in Spain, and strikes affecting one company can be called by unions, worker representatives or workers themselves.\n\nEasyJet said it pays cabin crew \"competitive\" rates, and it was \"extremely disappointed\" about the call to strike action.\n\n\"Should the industrial action go ahead there could be some disruption to our flying programme to and from Malaga, Palma and Barcelona during the strike period,\" the budget airline said.\n\n\"But at this stage, EasyJet plans to operate its full schedule and we would like to reassure customers that we will do everything possible to minimise any disruption.\"\n\nUK holidaymakers have faced flight cancellations and delays in recent months as airlines and airports struggle to cope with increased demand after cutting workers during Covid lockdowns.\n\nOn Monday EasyJet said it would cancel flights between July and September after Gatwick Airport said it will reduce the number of flights during the peak summer period due to staff shortages.\n\nAlso on Monday around 30 flights carrying up to 5,000 passengers were cancelled at Heathrow Airport due to baggage-handling problems.\n\nOn Tuesday Heathrow said the backlog, which the BBC understands numbers thousands of bags, was \"clearing up\".\n\nThe baggage system has been \"back up and working\" since the weekend, a spokeswoman said, adding that \"bags are being sent to their destinations\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Transport (DfT) said legislation had been put before Parliament to allow a one-off amnesty on airport slots rules.\n\nSlots allow airlines to land planes, use the airport infrastructure, and then take off again.\n\nAirlines normally need to use slots a certain number of times per season to be able to keep them but the government said it would allow airlines to hand back summer slots they do not think they can use.\n\nThe DfT said the change would help prevent last-minute cancellations, while Airlines UK, which represents the industry, said it would \"help build greater resilience into operations this summer\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said airlines would \"continue to work with ministers and the whole aviation eco-system to ensure the summer peak runs as smoothly as possible for our passengers\".", "Zion's fiancée said he was healthy and exercised regularly\n\nA woman whose partner died after having an AstraZeneca jab has become the first person to receive compensation over a Covid vaccine death.\n\nVikki Spit's former rock singer fiancé Zion, 48, of Alston, Cumbria, fell ill eight days after he had his injection and died in May 2021.\n\nShe was awarded the maximum settlement of £120,000 but said it was not enough.\n\nThe 38-year-old said she had got into debt after losing Zion's earnings and should have had closer to £180,000.\n\nMs Spit also said she had to wait too long for compensation under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme 1979, and the amount had not kept track with inflation since the scheme was set up.\n\nVaccine damage payments available to anyone who has become disabled as a result of having a vaccination and people can also apply on behalf of someone who has died.\n\nThe scheme offers one-off, tax-free sums of up to £120,000 and while payments do not affect people's rights to take legal action, they can have implications for their benefits.\n\nVikki Spit believes Zion may have lived if he had received treatment earlier\n\nMs Spit called an ambulance for Zion when he began suffering \"excruciating\" headaches on 13 May last year and he died in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary six days later.\n\nHis death certificate confirmed he died due to complications from the vaccine.\n\nHowever, it took the NHS Business Services Authority, the Newcastle-based administrators of the compensation scheme, until 17 June this year to make the award.\n\nMs Spit is now calling on the government to increase the maximum pay-out to better reflect the loss of earnings that a person in their 40s would have made before their retirement.\n\nShe said: \"I am still heartbroken by the sudden loss of my partner of 21 years, and alongside this emotional trauma, I have also been faced with financial hardship as a result of the loss of Zion's contribution to household finances.\n\n\"There just isn't the proper financial aid coming from the government to support those who have lost family to the vaccine.\"\n\nShe also said the compensation did not take into account spiralling inflation.\n\nMs Spit, who maintains she is not anti-vaccines, said paramedics deemed Zion was suffering from a migraine when they were called to their home.\n\nThe couple had be due to get married last year after 21 years together\n\nShe said Zion was fit and healthy and would have had a good chance of survival if he had received treatment earlier.\n\nHis donated liver and kidneys helped save the lives of three people.\n\nJames Bell, medical negligence partner at Hodge Jones and Allen, said: \"While I am glad that Vikki has been able to receive some restitution for the hardship she has faced as a result of Zion's death, the scheme simply isn't fit for purpose.\n\n\"Not only has the application process been lengthy and inefficient, but the compensation Vikki received fails to reflect and remediate the full economic impact of her fiancé's death.\"\n\nThe couple had been in a rock band before moving to Cumbria\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lynn Fitch may be the lawyer to end Roe v Wade\n\nMillions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalised it nationwide. Before the court's ruling was made public, BBC News looked at the woman whose case brought about the historic decision.\n\nIn September 2021, Mississippi's chief legal officer sat down for an interview with Pro-Life Weekly, a Catholic television programme featuring anti-abortion activists.\n\nLynn Fitch looked how she almost always does during public appearances: dyed-blonde hair blow-dried straight and neat, tasteful jewellery and a monochrome suit, this time in powder blue.\n\nThe attorney general was there to celebrate. The United States Supreme Court had just announced the date it would hear her state's challenge to Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that has, for the nearly 50 years since, served as a nationwide guarantee to abortion access.\n\nThe case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, centres on a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. Under Ms Fitch's direction, the state asked the Supreme Court to uphold the law and slash the landmark Roe v Wade decision in the process. A ruling is expected this month. A leaked draft suggests it is likely that Mississippi's ban will be upheld, paving the way for other states to also outlaw abortion.\n\nMs Fitch - who declined to be interviewed - had argued that overturning Roe v Wade would be \"game-changing\", \"uplifting\" women by eliminating what she described as a false choice between family and career.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, for professional women, they wanted you to make a choice. Now you don't have to,\" she said on Pro-Life Weekly. \"You have the option in life to really achieve your dreams, your goals, and you can have those beautiful children as well.\"\n\nIf she wins the case, and Roe v Wade falls, some 40 million women may lose access to abortion, pro-choice advocates warn. It could also make Ms Fitch, a single working parent of three, a Republican superstar and poster-child for her own argument: modern women don't need abortion to have it all.\n\nMs Fitch is facing off against Jackson Women's Health Organisation - the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi\n\nAbortion was not always an animating theme of Ms Fitch's political career. When she first took public office, as Mississippi state treasurer in 2011, she pushed for legislation that would guarantee men and women were paid equally.\n\nHer convictions were shaped in many ways by her upbringing, and her experiences as a single mother, says Hayes Dent, a long-time friend and colleague, who ran her first political campaign.\n\nWhen Mr Dent first met Ms Fitch, she had just been named executive director of the Mississippi State Personnel Board, a state agency, by then-governor Haley Barbour. Mr Dent was immediately impressed.\n\n\"Having been around every major political figure in Mississippi for 40 years, I could just tell: she's going to run,\" Mr Dent said. \"And when she pulls that trigger, she's going to be successful.\"\n\nIt wasn't for another couple of years that she did, launching a campaign for state treasurer.\n\nWhen he launched her first political campaign, for state treasurer in 2011, \"she was an underdog,\" said Austin Barbour, a national GOP strategist and the nephew of former Governor Barbour.\n\nMr Dent, who had kept tabs on Ms Fitch, reached out to her in the middle of that 2011 cycle and asked to come on board her campaign.\n\n\"I said 'Look, I think you can win this race,'\" he recalled.\n\nShe accepted. The two would drive the length of the state in a day, making a handful of different stops and placing fundraiser calls in the hours between.\n\n\"Her attitude was 'what is the task at hand,'\" Mr Dent said. \"It'd be like 'Look, we've gotta go to the tobacco spitting festival.' And she'd do great! She wouldn't spit tobacco, but she was great.\"\n\nThe only reason Ms Fitch would turn down a campaign event was her kids, cutting out early to make a school basketball game or parent-teacher conference.\n\nShe was a natural campaigner, but fundraising lagged. Mr Dent drove to northern Mississippi to ask her father for a personal donation.\n\nAttorney General Fitch may become a hero on the political right\n\nBill Fitch still lived in Holly Springs, the small, rural town near the state's northern edge where Ms Fitch spent most of her childhood.\n\nHer father had inherited land on the historic Galena Plantation and used the sprawling 8,000-acre property to restore the family farm, turning it into a premier quail hunting destination. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Mississippi governors Barbour and Phil Bryant, became frequent guests.\n\nVisitors of Fitch Farms could elect to stay in the former home of Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, which Mr Fitch had bought and transported onto the property.\n\nMs Fitch has told local media of \"special\" childhood memories at her father's farm, riding horses and hunting quail.\n\nAs a teenager, she was the \"prototypical popular girl\", Mr Dent said. \"Leader, cheerleader, athletic, the whole nine yards,\" he said.\n\nShe went to the University of Mississippi, joined a sorority and graduated with a degree in business administration and later in law.\n\nWhen Mr Dent drove to her father's farm to make his pitch for a campaign donation, he said it painly: \"I told him if I left there with a big cheque, she was going to win\".\n\nShe won, and then won again four years later, securing a second term as state treasurer.\n\nIn this office, she targeted state debt, expanded access to financial education in the state, and advocated for equal pay laws (Mississippi remains the only state that does not ensure equal pay for equal work between men and women).\n\nAnd she developed her knack for connecting to voters, leaning on both her Holly Springs upbringing and an apparent ease in the public eye.\n\nIn interviews and campaign videos, Ms Fitch looks preternaturally poised. She makes easy eye contact, her speech slow and relaxed, often thanking God and her family for the opportunity to serve her state.\n\n\"Rural roots matter to voters in this state,\" said Mr Barbour, the Republican strategist. \"And she's very likeable, she just is.\"\n\nMs Fitch also helped bolster her conservative credentials with her support for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, leading Mississippi's Women for Trump coalition in 2016. When Mr Trump was in Jackson for a campaign rally, she sat in the front row.\n\nTwo years later, Ms Fitch announced she would make a bid for Mississippi Attorney General - an office that had never been held by a woman.\n\nBut she wasn't the underdog this time, gliding to victory in November 2019 with nearly 60% of the vote on a promise to uphold \"conservative values and principles\".\n\nMs Fitch, pictured in white to the right of Mr Trump, led Mississippi's Women for Trump coalition in 2016\n\nAs a devoted Republican in a solidly Republican state, where Ms Fitch stood on abortion was taken as given, even if she didn't run on it.\n\nAcross the country, about 60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to data from the Pew Research Centre. But among Mississippi Republicans, nearly 70% believe abortion should illegal in all or most cases.\n\n\"You don't run in Mississippi, you don't run in rural conservative states and not want to see Roe v Wade overturned,\" said Mr Barbour, the Republican strategist. \"It's just ingrained\".\n\nThe abortion ban before the Supreme Court was passed by Mississippi's state legislature in 2018, two years before Ms Fitch took office as Attorney General. The law, which bans abortions outright after 15 weeks, was immediately challenged in court on behalf of Jackson Women's Health Organization, Mississippi's last remaining abortion clinic.\n\nA federal district court struck down the ban, saying it was unconstitutional. In 2019, an appeals court upheld this decision.\n\nBut in June 2020, five months into the job, Attorney General Fitch petitioned the US Supreme Court to review the 15-week ban. The court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, accepted and heard the case in December of last year.\n\nNow, she's known nationally as the lawyer expected to topple Roe v Wade.\n\nAt times, Ms Fitch has said her state is merely making an argument for the rule of law: asking the Supreme Court to turn over abortion policymaking to the states. But more often, she says the case is about women's empowerment.\n\nRoe v Wade, she has said, made women believe they had to pick: family or career, not both.\n\n\"The court in Roe pitted women against our children, and woman against woman,\" she wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.\n\nThe choice is misleading and paternalistic, argued Ms Fitch. It's a position seemingly drawn from her own life: a single mother who has ascended to the highest levels of state office, while remaining devoted to her children and grandchildren.\n\n\"Being a single mom has sort of dominated her thought process, and her life experience,\" Mr Dent said. \"I think that's one of the reasons she feels so strongly about this\".\n\nIn a world without Roe v Wade, Ms Fitch said during a television interview last year, \"babies will be saved\" and mothers \"get a chance to really redirect their lives. They have all these new and different opportunities that they didn't have 50 years ago\".\n\nMs Fitch has said women will be empowered by abortion bans\n\nPro-choice activists have accused Ms Fitch of using feminist language to cover over an inherently anti-feminist policy.\n\nHer arguments lean \"heavily into false claims that they are 'empowering women'\", said Dina Montemarano, research director for NARAL Pro-Choice America. This tactic, Ms Montemarano said, is often used by anti-abortion activists to assert control over women's bodies and violate their fundamental freedoms.\n\nIn an opening brief submitted to the Supreme Court, Ms Fitch wrote of \"sweeping policy advancements [which] now promote women's full pursuit of both career and family\".\n\nBut in a counter-argument submitted to the Supreme Court, 154 economists warned that this optimism was \"premature and false\".\n\n\"Mississippi's celebration of parental leave policies is particularly bizarre, as the United States is one of only two countries without a national paid maternity leave policy,\" the economists wrote.\n\nMississippi, specifically, has no state laws mandating paid family leave. It is the poorest state in the nation and has the highest rates of both infant mortality and child poverty.\n\nBut if Roe is indeed thrown out, Ms Fitch will return to Mississippi a conservative hero.\n\n\"I'm 99% sure she will run for attorney general again,\" Mr Dent said. \"And based on how the last three years have gone, it's hard for me to imagine she'll have any Republican opposition this time\".\n\nThere are also early rumblings that she may one day run for governor. She has not yet commented on this speculation.\n\nIf she wins, Ms Fitch would be the first female governor in Mississippi's history.", "Four Tet's best songs include Butterflies, Two Thousand and Seventeen, and Lush\n\nPioneering electronic artist Four Tet has reached a settlement in the legal battle against his former record label.\n\nThe musician, whose real name is Kieran Hebden, sued Domino Records last year over the royalties he gets paid when his music is downloaded or streamed.\n\nHe argued that the 13.5% royalty rate he was being offered was unfair, and demanded a 50% split with the label.\n\nIn a settlement, Domino agreed to the honour the 50% rate and reimbursed the musician for historic underpayments.\n\nIt was quite a reversal for the indie label, which originally responded to the case by removing several Four Tet albums from streaming services (they were later reinstated).\n\n\"It has been a difficult and stressful experience to work my way through this court case and I'm so glad we got this positive result,\" wrote Hebden in a statement announcing the settlement.\n\n\"Hopefully I've opened up a constructive dialogue and maybe prompted others to push for a fairer deal on historical contracts, written at a time when the music industry operated entirely differently.\"\n\nThe result could set a legal precedent for contract disputes in the music business; where royalty rates have been subject to heavy scrutiny since last year's inquiry into the streaming market by MPs on the Culture Select Committee.\n\nHowever, Four Tet's legal challenge was ultimately decided out of court, so any future disputes would not be able to cite a legal judgement.\n\n\"Neither the courts, nor the settlement terms, have made any determination as to how streaming should be categorised or streaming income split,\" said Domino Records in a statement, adding it was \"pleased\" that Hebden had chosen to settle the case on \"financial terms first offered to him in November 2021\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Four Tet\n\nThe dispute concerned the recording contract Hebden signed with Domino in 2001, which resulted in four albums: Pause (2001), Rounds (2003), Everything Ecstatic (2005) and There Is Love In You (2010).\n\nThe deal was signed before the advent of downloads of streams - and his dispute hinged on whether those methods of accessing his music could be defined as a \"sale\" or a \"licence\" under the terms of his contract.\n\nThe difference is far from academic because most artists receive 50% of the royalties for a licence but a much lower figure, typically between 12% and 22%, for a sale.\n\nHistorically, the difference was due to the way music was distributed: selling music in the era of CDs, vinyl and cassettes incurred huge costs in manufacturing and distribution, which meant labels needed to cover their overheads. But when music is licensed to movies, television or advertisements, artists generally get a bigger payday, on the understanding that a third party is bearing the relevant costs.\n\nAfter the advent of iTunes and Spotify, labels often argued that downloads and streams should be counted as sales.\n\nThis prompted a flurry of lawsuits, especially in the US. Most famously, the producers who discovered Eminem won a case against Universal Records that forced the label to pay the higher \"licensing\" rate when his songs were downloaded.\n\nFour Tet's case in the UK essentially made the same argument.\n\nDomino had argued that digital downloads, including streams, were considered a new technology format and Hebden was only entitled to the 13.5% royalty rate (although they have paid him as much as 18% on a discretionary basis).\n\nThe case quickly became complicated, with Hebden adding a claim for breach of contract after Domino withdrew his music from streaming services; and Domino saying they may to take the case to the High Court, which Hebden could not afford.\n\nHowever, in a statement posted on social media today, Hebden said he had been offered the 50% rate he had sought in a settlement, the details of which were made public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by Four Tet\n\n\"Domino have now agreed to treat streaming and download income as licensing income and will apply the 50% rate to streaming and download income going forward, and have reimbursed Kieran for the underpayment over recent years,\" said his lawyer, Aneesh Patel, in a statement.\n\n\"I really hope that my own course of action encourages anyone who might feel intimidated by challenging a record label with substantial means,\" added Hebden.\n\n\"Unlike Domino, I didn't work with a big law firm and luckily the case took place in the IPEC [Intellectual Property and Enterprise court] where legal costs are capped, so I was able to stand my ground.\"\n\nHebden shared images of the settlement, which showed that he would receive £56,921.08 in respect of all historical streaming and download income, dated back to July 2017, in addition to interest calculated at a rate of 5% per year.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Domino added: \"Kieran's claim arose from differing interpretations of specific clauses in a contract entered into by Kieran and Domino in 2001 in the pre-streaming era, and the application of those clauses to streaming income.\n\n\"Since 2021 Kieran has added to and pursued his claim despite numerous attempts by Domino to settle the matter.\n\n\"The case now having been settled, we are glad to be able to dedicate our full attention to resourcing and supporting our artists and we wish Kieran continued success in his career.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "London has already faced three 24-hour Tube strikes this year\n\nA Tube strike is bad enough on its own, but combine it with a rail strike and you can see why it is expected to be the largest strike since 1989.\n\nDisruption this week will be huge. So why are there strikes?\n\nAt the heart of both of these disputes is the government wanting both Transport for London (TfL) and Network Rail to change and make savings.\n\nThat will involve cuts and changes to working practices.\n\nWhy are savings necessary? The government says the impact of the pandemic means transport needs to reshape itself to deal with the new reality.\n\nThe government claims a wider shift towards working from home has resulted in about \"25% fewer ticket sales\" on trains.\n\nIt also says the taxpayer has had to step in to keep the railways running \"at a cost of £16bn, equivalent to £600 per household\".\n\nHowever, the modernising agenda on the railways is not new and has been going on for many years.\n\nJust look at what the government tried to do on Southern Trains in 2016 by removing the guard and getting the driver to close the doors.\n\nThere were many, many strikes, and eventually commuters could not rely on Southern for a service.\n\nOther transport commentators also say the reduction in passenger numbers is a red herring, with numbers having returned to somewhere near pre-pandemic levels.\n\nCoupled into this dispute on the trains is the demand by unions for a pay rise.\n\nThe rail industry is essentially nationalised at the moment, as franchises have gone and rail operators are paid a 2% fee to run trains on National Rail contracts.\n\nAny pay rises will have to be agreed with the Treasury, but government-owned Network Rail (NR) has been told to reduce its spending by £2bn.\n\nNR wants to modernise working practices and introduce multi-skilled maintenance teams and flexible rostering.\n\nIn the background to all this the government is looking to change the rail industry and launch Great British Railways (GBR).\n\nGBR would have a bigger oversight role than NR's maintenance role and will also oversee the contracting of services through concessions.\n\nSo the timing from the unions is deliberate and could shape that new organisation and future savings.\n\nSimilarly on the Tube, the government told TfL to make savings of £400m a year as part of its pandemic bailout.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan agreed to make savings, including reviewing pensions, with TfL currently paying about £360m into the pension fund per year.\n\nSome in government think that the scheme is too expensive and needs to be more \"financially sustainable\".\n\nTfL also wants to lose 600 posts, which it says can be done through people retiring and leaving, and without compulsory redundancies.\n\nThere is a long, long way to go in both these disputes.\n\nThe wider picture is that the industry is at crossroads and how it is shaped will depend on how these disputes are resolved.\n\nThe warning from history is that the Southern dispute lasted for 18 months.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Kaliningrad region, which has no land border with Russia, is a strategic region where Russia's Baltic Fleet is headquartered\n\nRussia has warned Lithuania of \"serious\" consequences after it banned the rail transfer of some goods to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.\n\nRussia \"will certainly respond to such hostile actions,\" senior security official Nikolai Patrushev said.\n\nLithuania says it is only following the EU sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nKaliningrad - a strategic region where Russia's Baltic Fleet is headquartered - has no border with mainland Russia.\n\nThe western territory was annexed from Germany after World War Two in 1945 and is bordered by EU and Nato members Lithuania and Poland.\n\nThe region - where an estimated one million people live - relies heavily on imports of raw materials and spare parts from Russia and the EU.\n\nRegional governor Anton Alikhanov said the ban would cover around 50% of the items that Kaliningrad imports.\n\nDuring a visit on Tuesday to Kaliningrad, Mr Patrushev said the blockade by Lithuania was instigated by the West \"in violation of... international law\".\n\nThe secretary of Russia's Security Council warned that \"appropriate measures\" would be taken \"in the near future\".\n\n\"Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania,\" he added, without giving any further details.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the EU ambassador was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry over the blockade.\n\nLast week, the Lithuanian authorities announced they would ban goods subject to EU sanctions from passing through their territory to Kaliningrad.\n\nLithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said: \"It's not Lithuania doing anything: it's European sanctions that started working from 17 June... It was done with consultation from the European Commission and under European Commission guidelines.\"\n\nThe EU has echoed Lithuania's statement, saying that the country is just implementing sanctions imposed by the EU as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAs a member of the Nato military alliance, Lithuania is protected by collective defence treaties.\n\nUS state department spokesman Ned Price said the US was standing by Lithuania, adding that the country's commitment to Nato's Article 5 - which views an attack on one member state as an attack on all - was \"iron clad\".\n\nRussian officials are furious with Lithuania - and the EU - over the ban on the transit of some goods to Kaliningrad. They're likening it to a blockade.\n\nBut when the foreign ministry in Moscow says \"Russia reserves the right to take actions to protect its national interests\", what exactly does it mean? What actions and when?\n\nThe Kremlin says it's trying to work that out right now.\n\nOn Monday, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, noted that \"the situation is really very serious and requires a very deep analysis before preparing any measures or any decisions. This thorough analysis will be carried out over the next few days.\"\n\nToday, one of Mr Putin's closest allies, Nikolai Patrushev, flew to the Kaliningrad region to discuss \"national security in north-west Russia\". Mr Patrushev is secretary of Russia's powerful Security Council. Officials claim the visit was planned long in advance. What a coincidence.\n\nWhen it comes to \"national security\", Kaliningrad is a key location. Russia's Baltic fleet has its headquarters there. And Moscow has previously deployed nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad region.\n\nIn other developments on Tuesday:", "FakeReporter said the Strava data identified a running track at an Israeli military intelligence facility in Moshav Ora\n\nA security vulnerability in the fitness app Strava allowed suspicious figures to identify and track security personnel working at secretive bases in Israel, a disinformation watchdog says.\n\nFakeReporter found that by uploading fake running \"segments\" a user could learn the identities and past routes of others active in the area, even if they had the strongest privacy settings.\n\nInformation about 100 individuals who exercised at six bases was viewable.\n\nStrava said it had addressed the issue.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was \"aware of the evolving threats in cyberspace\".\n\n\"In order to handle these threats, and in light of previous events such as the one mentioned, the rules and regulations are regularly reiterated and reinforced among those serving in sensitive positions,\" it added.\n\nThis is not the first time that Strava's tracking features have sparked such security concerns.\n\nIn 2018, the company published a global \"heatmap\" that revealed the exercise routes of people at military bases around the world, including US facilities in Syria and Afghanistan.\n\nSan Francisco-based Strava is used by more than 95 million people in 195 countries.\n\nIts app takes data, including GPS co-ordinates, from a person's mobile phone or wearable fitness device to track their exercise activity.\n\nPeople are able to upload their running and cycling times and compare their performances with others who followed the same routes.\n\nFakeReporter, an Israeli group that combats malicious online activity, reported that a suspicious user named \"Ez Shehl\" had exploited these functions to upload fake GPS data to create route segments inside secret facilities associated with Israel's military, the Mossad intelligence agency and the Shin Bet internal security service.\n\nThe segments featured straight GPS lines, no times, and unrealistic pacing, such as covering 500m in 0 seconds.\n\nOne segment revealed the data of users who ran at the Mossad intelligence agency's headquarters in Tel Aviv, according to FakeReporter\n\nThe timings and personal details - including photos, home addresses and the identities of family members - of other users who ran the same segments were subsequently revealed on the Strava scoreboard, even if they had their accounts set to \"private\".\n\nA senior defence official identified as \"N\" was one of at least 100 Israeli individuals affected by the vulnerability, according to FakeReporter. It posted screenshots showing runs from their home and inside various air force bases in Israel, as well as runs in Ukraine.\n\nFakeReporter said it had told Israeli authorities about the security breach as soon as it became aware and that it had contacted Strava after receiving their approval.\n\n\"Despite past revelations, it does not appear that Israeli security agencies have caught up,\" Achiya Schatz, the watchdog's director, said in a statement. \"Although Strava made significant updates to its privacy settings, confused users might still be exposed publicly, even if their profiles were set to 'private'.\"\n\n\"By exploiting the capability to upload engineered files, revealing the details of users anywhere in the world, hostile elements have taken one alarming step closer to exploiting a popular app in order to harm the security of citizens and countries alike.\"\n\nStrava told Israel's Haaretz newspaper: \"We take matters of privacy very seriously and have addressed the reported issues.\"", "Thousands of people turned up to the stone circle to watch the sunrise\n\nMore than 6,000 people have gathered to watch the sunrise at Stonehenge for the summer solstice.\n\nIt is the first time since the pandemic that the stone circles in Salisbury and Avebury have been open to the public for the event.\n\nDruids and pagans joined other visitors to mark the longest day of the year at the ancient site.\n\n\"It's fantastic to be able to welcome everybody back again.\" said English Heritage site manager Heather Sebire.\n\n\"There are people who are modern day druids and pagan groups who treat this as a place of worship,\" she added.\n\nMore than 6,000 people greeted the sun with cheers as it rose over the horizon on Tuesday\n\nSenior druid King Arthur Pendragon conducts a service at Stonehenge on every solstice\n\nTim, with daughter Tameya and son Sam, said the energy of the space felt \"good\"\n\nTim travelled to the site from London with his daughter Tameya and son Tim.\n\n\"It's pretty cool, we couldn't quite get the alignment as we like it from inside [Stonehenge] but I think that's just because of the little bit of cloud,\" Tim said.\n\n\"It's lovely. It's been a good experience. The whole energy of the space is good. We brought them here before four or five years ago.\"\n\nRevellers, druids and pagan groups have enjoyed the summer solstice at Stonehenge for the first time since the pandemic\n\nTameya said she found a spot in the middle of Stonehenge to watch the sunrise and take pictures.\n\n\"It's good to be back,\" she said.\n\n\"It's interesting that so many people care to come, it's not just you, a lot of other people appreciate being here as well. It's nice\" she added.\n\nDavid (right) said he had \"a profound\" experience\n\nDavid and Kate flew to the UK from Canada on Monday to visit Stonehenge for the first time.\n\n\"It's been a crazy 24 hours and it's also my birthday today. It's my 21st on the 21st which was our reason to come here,\" Kate said.\n\n\"I saw a video about this festival in high school and thought it would be the coolest thing to go, to seeing as summer solstice was on my birthday,\" she added.\n\nDavid said: \"The energy, the atmosphere here, you knew it would be spectacular, but once you're here it's something different.\n\nVisitors often hug the stones to mark the occasion\n\nStonehenge is built on the alignment of the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset.\n\nOn the summer solstice, the sun rises behind the heel stone, the ancient entrance to the stone circle, and rays of sunlight are channelled into the centre of the monument.\n\nCrowds danced and sang during the sunrise, which arrived at 04:49 BST\n\nPeople also celebrated the summer solstice at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5m (£84m).\n\nDmitry Muratov said all the money from the sale would go to help refugees from the war in Ukraine.\n\nMuratov was co-awarded the peace prize in 2021 for defending freedom of expression in Russia.\n\nNovaya Gazeta suspended its operations in March, shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThis came after Moscow said anyone who described Russia's actions in Ukraine as a \"war\" would face heavy fines or closures. The Kremlin calls the conflict a \"special military operation\".\n\nHeritage Auctions, which conducted the sale, has not revealed who the winning bidder was.\n\nIn April, Muratov was attacked with red paint laced with the solvent acetone aboard a train in Russia. The male attacker shouted, \"Muratov, this is for our boys,\" he said.\n\nIn April, Muratov was attacked on a train that was due to depart Moscow to the city of Samara\n\nHe was among a group of journalists who founded Novaya Gazeta in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union.\n\nSince 2000, six journalists from the newspaper and collaborators have been killed in connection with their work, including investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya.\n\nThe sale of the gold medal in New York will benefit Unicef's humanitarian response for Ukraine's displaced children, Heritage Auctions said in a statement.\n\n\"The most important message today is for people to understand that there's a war going on and we need to help people who are suffering the most,\" Muratov said in a video released by Heritage Auctions.\n\nHe won the Nobel Peace Prize last year along with journalist Maria Ressa who co-founded the online news site Rappler in the Philippines.\n\nRessa and Muratov are both known for publishing investigations that have angered the leaders of their countries, and have become symbols of the fight for press freedom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov liken winning the Nobel Peace Prize to The Scream.", "Lord Geidt resigned from his role as ethics adviser on Wednesday\n\nLabour has lost a vote on its proposal that MPs should have the power to hold ministers to account if Boris Johnson's former ethics chief is not replaced.\n\nLord Geidt resigned last week after he said he was put in an \"impossible and odious\" position by the PM.\n\nMr Johnson has yet to commit to appointing a successor.\n\nLabour's proposals would have enabled a Commons committee to appoint an independent ethics adviser if the role is unfulfilled for two months.\n\nThe motion - which was defeated by 252 votes to 161 - was proposed by Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner, who said the role needed to be \"urgently reformed\".\n\nLord Geidt's task was to advise the PM on the ministerial code - a set of rules governing standards of behaviour.\n\nIn his resignation letter, he said he had been asked for advice on an issue he believed would amount to a deliberate breach of the code, adding: \"This request has placed me in an impossible and odious position.\"\n\nThe former ethics chief also said he had come close to quitting over the Covid-law breaking in Downing Street.\n\nDowning Street accepted that Lord Geidt had fulfilled a \"vitally important\" role, but said the prime minister was reviewing the position and could abolish it.\n\nLabour's proposal, debated over several hours by MPs, would have given powers to the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee to appoint an independent adviser on possible breaches of the code and to initiate its own investigations.\n\nThey would have advised the committee on any potential violations and on the effectiveness of the ministerial code.\n\nMs Rayner said Conservative MPs should back the proposals to \"clean up politics\".\n\n\"It's time to show the prime minister he's not above the rules and for this House to draw a line in the sand,\" she told the Commons.\n\nResponding for the government, Paymaster General Michael Ellis said: \"The government remains absolutely steadfast its commitment to upholding standards in public life.\"\n\nBut he ruled out supporting Labour's motion, arguing it \"attempts by proxy to change the British constitution by the back door\", adding that the government recognised the importance of the ministerial code and wished to \"protect\" it.\n\nThe changes suggested would lead to \"dysfunction\" and \"gridlock\" in government, Mr Ellis argued.\n\nLord Geidt was the second ethics adviser to quit under Mr Johnson, after Sir Alex Allan left in 2020.", "French police used tear gas and pepper spray on some supporters at the Champions League final in Paris\n\nDisabled Liverpool fans have told an inquiry they were \"treated like animals\" amid the chaotic scenes at the Champions League final in Paris.\n\nSupporters have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the game on 28 May.\n\nA disabled supporters' spokesman told the French Senate one wheelchair user had to be lifted over locked gates by fellow fans as she tried to escape.\n\nTed Morris urged the French interior minister to resign over the event.\n\nFrench minister Gérald Darmanin previously said only the English fans posed problems outside the stadium.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Morris, chairman of the Liverpool Disabled Supporters Association, gave the French Senate his account of events outside the Paris stadium before the final.\n\nThe match, which was eventually won by Real Madrid, was delayed when long queues of Liverpool fans built up outside the stadium in Paris.\n\nFrench police used tear gas and pepper spray on some supporters.\n\nLiverpool fans described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the final\n\nMr Darmanin said \"massive, industrial-scale\" ticket fraud had caused Liverpool fans to turn up en masse, and said that of about 30 arrests made at the Stade de France \"more than half concerned British citizens\".\n\nMr Morris told the French Senate: \"With my wife, we love France and Paris, but you, Mr Darmanin, you lied and I ask you to withdraw your accusation.\n\n\"And if you have the decency to do so, I hope you have the decency to resign.\"\n\nThe French Senate heard about one wheelchair user who was lifted over locked gates by fellow fans as she tried to escape the melee.\n\nAnother fan, an eight-year-old boy with autism became separated from his father, was later attacked after they had been reunited.\n\nMr Morris said: \"A major catastrophe has been avoided. No power was able to come to the aid of the disabled supporters.\n\n\"My wife and I did not care about the game any more at this stage,\" he continued.\n\n\"We left in the 86th minute and the steward told us we couldn't get out because some locals were still trying to go into the stadium.\n\n\"In the underpass - at the exit of the stadium under the gaze of the police, a few minutes later - locals attacked us and it was terrifying, especially for the disabled supporters.\n\n\"As we walked towards the station we hoped that the police would intervene.\n\n\"It was the worst football experience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fans shared videos showing pepper spray being deployed and children crying in Paris\n\nJoe Blott, chair of the Spirit of Shankly supporters' group, accused police of operating on preconceived notions dating back to the 1980s in their handling of English supporters and insisted the use of tear gas on innocent fans was \"not necessary\".\n\nMr Blott also urged the authorities to learn from their mistakes ahead of next year's Rugby World Cup in France and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.\n\nHe described the behaviour of Liverpool fans as \"exemplary\".\n\n\"We demand an apology and a retraction of the lies being told and for the supporters who will be travelling to the Rugby World Cup and to the Olympics, a fair investigation.\"\n\nA French government report previously said a chain of failures had marred the event.\n\nThey included lack of preparation for travelling fans, huge numbers of people without tickets or fake ones, and security failures at the stadium.\n\nThe report does not apportion blame, but recommends improvements which the government says will be implemented.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of catching monkeypox should be offered a vaccine, say UK health officials.\n\nThis could help to control the recent outbreak of the rare virus in the UK in which 793 people have been infected so far.\n\nMonkeypox is not defined as a sexually-transmitted infection.\n\nBut it can be passed on by close contact during sex, and with bedding, towels and skin.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says that a vaccine designed to protect against smallpox, called Imvanex, will help protect people who could be exposed to monkeypox.\n\nThe vaccine is effective against monkeypox because it is from the same family of viruses. Its use has been signed off by the UK's vaccine experts, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nHealth officials say they are continuing to see \"a notable proportion of cases in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men\".\n\nThey say they hope rolling out vaccines to those at higher risk will \"break chains of transmission\".\n\nA doctor may now advise vaccination for someone who, for example, \"has multiple partners, participates in group sex or attends 'sex on premises' venues\", UKHSA says.\n\nAt-risk men should not come forward for a vaccine until contacted.\n\nMore details are due to be set out shortly on how they can take up the offer.\n\nWatch What Is Monkeypox? on BBC iPlayer.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at UKHSA, said: \"By expanding the vaccine offer to those at higher risk, we hope to break chains of transmission and help contain the outbreak.\n\n\"Although most cases are mild, severe illness can occur in some people, so it is important we use the available vaccine to target groups where spread is ongoing.\"\n\nIf you have these symptoms, the advice is to avoid close contact with others and call NHS 111 or your local sexual health centre - but call ahead first.\n\nAlex Sparrowhawk, from Terrence Higgins Trust, said targeted vaccination \"is a positive move forward\" while the data still shows monkeypox is disproportionately affecting gay and bisexual men in the UK.\n\nRobbie de Santos, from charity Stonewall, said: \"While we know anyone can catch monkeypox, we welcome the vaccine being offered to those gay and bi men who are eligible, who are currently at a higher risk of getting the virus.\n\n\"It is important that gay and bi men get the vaccine when offered to protect themselves and others.\n\n\"Let's help get the outbreak under control so we can all have a safe and happy pride season,\" he added.\n\nThe vaccine is already being offered to most healthcare workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed monkeypox before being exposed, and to close contacts of confirmed cases within four days of exposure.\n\nMore staff caring for monkeypox patients and workers in laboratories where the virus is being handled are also now being offered the vaccine.\n\nOf the 793 lab-confirmed cases of monkeypox in the UK since early May, 18 were in Scotland, three were in Northern Ireland, six were in Wales and 766 were in England.\n\nMonkeypox virus is usually only seen in these numbers in areas of west and central Africa - but hundreds of countries outside of Africa have now seen outbreaks in recent weeks.", "These Billies were out on the town early in the pandemic lockdown\n\nA row is brewing over whether to take action against a famous herd of roaming wild goats.\n\nThe Kashmiri goats have lived on the Great Orme headland above Llandudno in Conwy for more than 100 years.\n\nHowever they have been described as a \"plague\" by residents tired of gardens being eaten, droppings left in the street and concerns over road safety.\n\nOthers insists the goats are a key part of the area's character and should be protected.\n\nConwy council said the goats are wild animals and there are no plans to intervene - at the moment.\n\nThe herd has long ventured into the town when food is scarce in spring.\n\nHowever, the goats have grown both in numbers and notoriety since the Covid pandemic.\n\nTheir numbers spiked when the pandemic meant contraceptive jabs could not be given to the goats as usual.\n\nThey made headlines after making the most of the town's traffic-free roads at the start of lockdown and continue to be seen more regularly more often than usual in car parks, roundabouts and housing estates.\n\n\"We love the goats - but not in our gardens\", said Mrs Oliver\n\nFor Phyl Oliver, 77, planning restrictions in the Liddell Park area mean she is unable to put up a permanent fence to protect the front garden she tended to while recovering from cancer.\n\n\"It's like having a plague of locusts or a plague of frogs,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had elderly people here weeping because the rose garden that their late husband built for them has been devoured.\n\n\"A garden isn't just plants - it's a lifelong hobby. It motivates you to get out and do something, and it's important for mental health [but] it's being taken off me.\n\n\"I'm stuck with temporary fences, goat manure and, quite honestly, I cannot be bothered coming out in the morning because I don't know what I'm going to face.\n\n\"We love the goats, they're beautiful, but we want them on the Great Orme please - not in people's gardens.\"\n\nSome residents have taken to using netting to protect their gardens\n\nShe is among several people to complain to the council, raising other issues such as road safety because the goats walk slowly across busy roads.\n\nThe council insists the goats are not its responsibility but it has worked with organisations, such as Natural Resources Wales and the RSPCA, to control numbers by sending them elsewhere.\n\nHowever there are plenty of residents who believe the goats should be allowed to carry on roaming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do people think of Llandudno's roaming wild goats?\n\n\"They are special part of Llandudno, everyone knows about them and where they might be hiding,\" said Ruby Williams.\n\n\"Locals were brought up with them and, in the main, people are fans.\n\n\"My driving has changed a lot since goats started becoming a regular feature in this part of town.\n\n\"They make me smile when they give you staring stern looks as they cross the road.\n\n\"Send them away? No, this is their home and visitors love them.\"\n\nDid someone say all you can eat?\n\nAberconwy MS Janet Finch Saunders said the goats were \"iconic\" but that she had received complaints.\n\n\"People are expressing concerns about safety but also that this unique feature of our community might be lost if some goats are taken away,\" she said.\n\n\"We need everyone to sit down and work out the best solution.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. You must be kidding! Llandudno goats back in town\n\nConwy council said organisations aim to maintain a sustainable goat population for the Great Orme\n\nA spokeswomen said: \"If the goats are still in urban areas during rutting season, we will look to assist with their relocation back to the Great Orme - if animal behaviour experts agree - as this is when they are most likely to stay there and will reduce the intervention levels considerably.\"", "Tom Mann performing with Stereo Kicks in London in 2015\n\nFormer X Factor star Tom Mann says he has been left \"completely broken\" after his fiancee Danielle died hours before they were due to get married.\n\nDanielle Hampson, a PR executive and dancer with the likes of Take That and Little Mix, died on Saturday, he said.\n\n\"What was supposed to be the happiest day of our lives ended in irreversible heartbreak,\" wrote Mann, whose boy band Stereo Kicks were on the show in 2014.\n\nHis 34-year-old partner's cause of death has not been revealed.\n\n\"I can't believe I am writing these words but my darling Dani - my best friend, my everything and more, the love of my life - passed away in the early hours of Saturday morning,\" he wrote on Monday.\n\n\"I feel like I have cried an ocean. We never made it to the altar; or got to say our vows, or dance our first dance, but I know you know that you were my entire world and the best thing that has ever happened to me, Danielle.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by tommanninsta This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMann, 28, went on to say that he now needed \"to use any strength I can muster\" to look after their baby son.\n\n\"I will not be a mark on the parent that you had already become but I promise I will do my everything to raise Bowie just the way we always wanted,\" he said.\n\n\"I promise you he will know how amazing his mummy was. I promise to make you so so proud.\"\n\nHampson's final dancing performance, before becoming a mother last year, was in a music video for Harry Styles' 2021 track Treat People With Kindness.\n\nShe previously also danced on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing and on the Spice World 2019 tour.\n\nSpice Girl Emma Bunton led the tributes, replying to Mann's message, saying: \"Heartbroken for you. A beautiful soul that will live on. Thinking of you all.\"\n\nTake That star Howard Donald wrote: \"I'm gutted beyond words that one of dancers on [2017 tour] Wonderland has passed away. What a beautiful and super talented dancer she was.\"\n\nMann's old bandmate Barclay Beales said: \"Sending all my love brother so sorry.\"\n\nTom Mann, Casey Johnson, Jake Sims and Reece Bibby of Stereo Kicks performing in London in 2015\n\nThe former X Factor star was perhaps best remembered on the show for his individual acoustic rendition of the Backstreet Boys song I Want It That Way.\n\nAfter Stereo Kicks, Mann has worked as a songwriter and producer for artists like Lewis Capaldi, Rita Ora, Tate McRae and Mimi Webb.\n\nCapaldi offered his support on Instagram, writing: \"I love you brother.\"\n\nPop star MNEK said: \"Awful news Tom. Sending u so much love and light- here for you.\"\n\nFellow singer Ellie Goulding offered: \"I'm thinking of you non stop... You are so strong. Here for you always. Love you xxx\"", "Dr Michael Watt worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a neurologist\n\nThe consultant at the centre of Northern Ireland's biggest ever patient recall will not appear at an inquiry after it considered specialist reports on his \"unfitness to give evidence\".\n\nThe inquiry was established in 2018 and is one of a number into Dr Watt's work.\n\nThe INI's chair said it had \"explored all reasonable options to facilitate Dr Watt's involvement\".\n\nThe Belfast Trust recalled 2,500 patients for review in 2018 after concerns were raised about Dr Watt's work.\n\nThis was followed by a further 1,044 patients who were recalled in November 2018.\n\nThe General Medical Council's investigation into Dr Watt, who is no longer an employee of Belfast Trust, is continuing.\n\nThe RQIA regulatory body is also conducting a review into patient deaths.\n\nThe independent inquiry was elevated to a statutory public inquiry late last year.\n\nThe inquiry's chair, Brett Lockhart, said the inquiry panel had carefully considered specialist reports \"addressing Dr Watt's unfitness to give evidence\" and \"an independent specialist's opinion who agreed that Dr Watt is not fit to give evidence\".\n\nHe said it had \"always envisaged that he would be our last witness\".\n\n\"I believe that we have explored all reasonable options to facilitate Dr Watt's involvement,\" he added.\n\n\"We have, however, concluded that Dr Watt's unfitness to give evidence does not significantly impact upon the inquiry's ability to address its terms of reference, which has a focus on governance.\n\n\"We understand that this may distress or disappoint some patients and their families given the recalls that have taken place.\n\n\"The fact that this inquiry cannot hear from Dr Watt does not prevent us from answering the questions we were asked to consider.\n\n\"It is important to note that the inquiry is not responsible for making decisions in relation to the clinical practice of Dr Watt, which is the responsibility of the General Medical Council.\"\n\nIn his update, Mr Lockhart said that any further questionnaires be submitted to the inquiry no later than 5pm on 26 August 2021.\n\n\"This will give an additional month for patients and families of former patients to provide written evidence,\" he added.\n\n\"We will then consider any additional submissions.\n\n\"We will allow anyone potentially criticised in the report the opportunity to respond to the issues raised before finalising the report and delivering it to the Minister of Health.\"", "Heather Lawrence was shocked at the state she found her 90-year-old mother, Violet, in when she visited her in hospital.\n\n\"The bed was soaked in urine. The continence pad between her legs was also soaked in urine, the door wide open, no underwear on. It was a mixed ward as well,\" Heather says.\n\n\"I mean there were other people in there that could have been walking up and down seeing her, with the door wide open as well. My mum, she was a very proud woman, she wouldn't have been wanted to be seen like that at all.\"\n\nViolet, who had dementia, was taken Tameside Hospital's Stamford Unit in Greater Manchester , in May 2021, after a fall. It was there her health deteriorated as she developed an inflamed groin with a nasty rash stretching to her stomach - due to prolonged exposure to urine. She died a few weeks later.\n\nHeather tells BBC News: \"I don't really know how to put it into words about the dignity of care. I just feel like she wasn't allowed to be given that dignity. And that's with a lot of dementia patients. I think they just fade away and appear to be insignificant, when they're not.\"\n\nTameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has not resolved Heather's concerns but officials have offered to meet her.\n\nNew research, shown exclusively to BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme, has found other dementia patients have had to endure similar indignity.\n\nDr Katie Featherstone, from the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory, at the University of West London, observed the continence care of dementia patients in three hospitals in England and Wales over the course a year for a study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.\n\nShe found patients who were not helped to go to the toilet and instead left to wet and soil themselves.\n\n\"We identified what we call pad cultures - the everyday use of continence pads in the care of all people with dementia, regardless of their continence but also regardless of their independence, as a standard practice,\" Dr Featherstone says.\n\nShe found some good practice - but time pressures and too few staff meant many felt compelled to use pads as a \"workaround\".\n\nWhen Bessie, 86, was taken into Rotherham General Hospital, in 2019, after falling at home, she had been continent. Despite this, her daughters Janine Ward and Susan Nurden say, staff were not responsive when Bessie asked to go to the toilet. Unknown to her daughters, the hospital had also placed her in continence pads.\n\n\"There was no way that my mum would soil herself,\" Janine says. \"She knew what she was doing. She would make a fuss she wanted to go to the toilet - and if you don't respond in time, she's going to get distressed and she's going to shout for someone to come.\"\n\nBessie was sat on a commode in front of a picture window with the curtains open\n\nBessie should have been referred to the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust's continence team but never was.\n\nJanine and Susan felt their mother's continence and frail mobility put her at risk of another fall at home. They wanted her moved to a care home near them - but the hospital and social services disagreed. They said Bessie was incontinent and put in place a care plan to discharge her home with additional carers, commodes and continence pads (although, those never materialised.)\n\nOn Bessie's first night back, Janine was with her when the carers arrived with the commode for the living room.\n\nJanine says: \"They sat her on it. The lounge curtains were still open, a big full picture window. I can't explain how I felt.\n\n\"I said, 'You have just put my mum on that commode with the curtains wide open, why didn't you close them up?' at which point they closed them. I would have thought that closing the curtains would have showed some respect for dignity, wouldn't you?\"\n\nContacted by BBC News, the trust and Rotherham council offered an apology to Bessie's family and said patient care had subsequently been improved.\n\nDr Featherstone says people with dementia often forget how to go to the toilet once they have been made to use pads.\n\n\"We do know that a lot of people living with dementia who go into hospital continent, leave the hospital with incontinence,\" she says. \"So just wearing a pad and those practices surrounding it can mean that people start to lose their continence.\n\n\"And that can have real implications for people later on. It might be difficult for families to care for somebody if they have to care for incontinence as well. And it might mean that people become institutionalised.\"\n\nProf June Andrews, who has worked in dementia care for over 30 years, says rigorous continence assessments are essential to prevent assumptions being made.\n\n\"I certainly see paperwork where someone has asked the question perhaps of the relatives as to whether or not the patient is continent. And that's the entire extent of the assessment that has taken place,\" she says.\n\n\"It's absolutely vital for families to know that they should ask whether or not a continence assessment has taken place and who has done it. It's the kind of thing that will get missed if nobody's asking questions about it.\"\n\nDementia UK's Director of Research and Publication Dr Karen Harrison Dening, who co-authored the report, said: \"People, whatever their underlying conditions and whatever age, do not go into hospital expecting to become incontinent.\n\n\"Staff not only require targeted education on the specific ways they can promote an individual's independence but health care organisations should be mandated and responsible for maintaining an older person's autonomy.\"\n\nFile on 4 - Dignity in Dementiais on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 21 June, at 20:00, and Sunday, 26 June, at 17:00, and on demand on BBC Sounds.", "James Watt has said his aim is to float the company on the stock market\n\nBrewdog's CEO James Watt was involved in preliminary discussions about a potential sale of part of the firm to rivals Heineken, the BBC has learned.\n\nLeaked emails from 2018 reveal he told Heineken he was \"open to being more pragmatic in our views on independence\".\n\nHe previously criticised craft brewers for \"selling out\" to bigger companies.\n\nBrewdog said the BBC's reporting had demonstrated \"vindictive scrutiny and malicious criticism\" of the beer firm.\n\nThe beer company has not directly responded to the new disclosures.\n\nThe BBC understands the Heineken discussions did not progress beyond the preliminary stage.\n\nThe Ellon-based company has trailblazed a crowdfunding model since it was launched in Fraserburgh in 2007 by Mr Watt and co-founder Martin Dickie. More than £100m has been raised by around 200,000 \"equity punks\", or shareholders.\n\nIn January 2022, a BBC Disclosure programme, The Truth About Brewdog, detailed claims of a toxic workplace and inappropriate behaviour by the CEO.\n\nMr Watt denied behaving inappropriately and apologised to anyone who has felt uncomfortable because of his behaviour. Brewdog has submitted a complaint about the programme to the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom.\n\nThe new BBC Scotland six-part podcast, Good Ship Brewdog, is now available on BBC Sounds. It features claims that:\n\nMr Watt has consistently said his aim is to float the company on the stock market, also known as an initial public offering (IPO).\n\nThe BBC understands that in late 2018, investment bankers representing Brewdog approached Heineken, the world's second biggest brewer, to discuss an alternative to IPO - the possibility of selling a stake to Heineken.\n\nDocuments show that Mr Watt met senior Heineken representatives, and later wrote to the then European president of Heineken, Stefan Orlowski.\n\nMr Watt told him that Brewdog was \"open to exploring potential strategic partnerships\" if it could be \"better for the long-term of our business than an IPO\".\n\nMr Watt also told Mr Orlowski that Brewdog was \"open to being more pragmatic in our views on independence\".\n\nMr Watt had previously been highly critical of other craft brewers who had sold stakes to Heineken. Accusing them of \"selling out\", he announced BrewDog would no longer stock Lagunitas or Beavertown after they sold stakes to Heineken in 2015 and 2018 respectively.\n\nThe BBC has previously revealed that Mr Watt had purchased about £500,000 worth of shares in the Dutch beer giant in 2017. Mr Watt has said he no longer holds the shares and only bought them to help with negotiations about a potential distribution deal with Heineken, which fell through.\n\nA source close to the discussions in 2018 told the BBC that Heineken walked away before negotiations properly got under way because the valuation BrewDog had put on the company was \"outrageous\".\n\nThe source said: \"It was so outrageous, in his price idea, that we said well this is going nowhere. The guy [James Watt] doesn't know what he's talking about.\"\n\nBrewdog did not respond to questions about this. Heineken declined to comment.\n\nBrewdog was founded by Martin Dickie (left) and James Watt\n\nThe leaked documents also appear to give some insight into past internal tensions with Brewdog's funding partner.\n\nUS private equity giant TSG bought a 22% stake in the company in 2017, with Mr Watt and his co-founder Mr Dickie making nearly £100m between them in the deal. TSG took two seats on the Brewdog board as a result.\n\nDocuments from around late 2018 show that TSG seemed to be unhappy with aspects of how the company was being run. TSG appeared to suggest a recent board meeting had been a \"low point\" and was \"sloppy, free ranging\" with \"no discussion on real business topics\".\n\nTSG appeared to be worried about a shortfall of earnings. The documents also suggest TSG believed Mr Watt was \"spending aggressively\", that he was \"desperately trying to create growth stories in order to reach an unattainable valuation\", and that his valuation goal was \"not realistic\".\n\nBrewdog recently said that a manager of Goldman Sachs valued the company at more than £1.8bn.\n\nTSG declined to comment. BrewDog did not respond to questions about this.\n\nRob McKay said private investigators visited one of his former colleagues\n\nThe BBC Disclosure programme The Truth About Brewdog was broadcast in January 2022. A number of the former BrewDog staff who featured in the programme have told the new podcast that they have felt threatened or intimidated since.\n\nFormer Brewdog worker Rob McKay said private investigators from a company called Integritas, who said they were working for James Watt, visited a former colleague of his in an attempt, he says, \"to dig dirt\".\n\nHe said: \"My experience was that someone who worked with me in the past got in touch to say that private investigators had approached them and asked about their working relationship with me.\n\n\"They had been given information that as a manager that I was bad to work for, that I was responsible for a toxic workplace, which I know that not to be the case.\"\n\nRob said he found it \"unsettling\" and added: \"You'd be thinking well if that's what they're doing now what can it be next?\n\n\"Who are they speaking to now? Where are they going to pop up next?\"\n\nSeveral of the ex-Brewdog USA workers who featured in the programme were either visited or contacted by a couple calling themselves Joe and Anna, whom they suspected to be private investigators. The pair had obtained work and home addresses as well as telephone numbers.\n\nThe couple had said they were working for an unnamed potential \"third party investor\" and had wanted to speak to them about their experience. They had refused to give surnames, and told some they should get in touch if they wanted to \"financially hurt\" Mr Watt.\n\nDylan Gray, a former bar manager, told the BBC in January that he would schedule certain female staff so they would not be working when Mr Watt was visiting, and schedule more men at nights to ensure female staff were not left alone.\n\nDylan's claims have been strongly contested by Mr Watt. His lawyer told the BBC that a detailed analysis of staff schedules and payroll record proved Mr Gray's claims were false.\n\nHe was messaged and visited at his workplace by Anna but was immediately suspicious.\n\nDylan Gray suspected he had been visited by private investigators.\n\nHe said: \"I mean it definitely put me on edge…\"\n\nHe said they came to the office of his new employer and added it was as if \"they were trying to interrogate me. And then the fact that they were going to other co-worker's homes, asking them questions, again [it] made me a little bit unsettled.\"\n\nDylan Gray said he suspected the pair were private investigators.\n\nHe said: \"I just think that they were trying to figure out what we ultimately knew, if we were holding back… or not telling the truth basically.\"\n\nSix other contributors to the film, including current Brewdog employee Kayla McGuire, were visited by the couple. Kayla says they told her they were tourists.\n\nThe BBC contacted Joe and Anna, but they refused to say who they worked for. They declined to confirm or deny they were working for Brewdog.\n\nShortly after the BBC contacted them, their mobile phone number was disconnected. The BBC has been unable to verify who Joe and Anna were working for.\n\nBrewdog did not respond to questions about this.\n\nDylan has also has received legal letters from lawyers representing Brewdog, accusing him of lying and demanding he retracts his testimony. He stands by his account, but says he feels bullied by Brewdog.\n\nHe added: \"Being bullied by someone who has a lot more power than me, it's concerning. I did want to speak up but it is scary sometimes to think about you're going against someone who's worth millions of dollars. It's not something people do every day.\"\n\nIn June 2021 a group of former employees calling themselves Punk With Purpose wrote an open letter to Brewdog, accusing Mr Watt of presiding over a toxic culture of fear.\n\nPart of Brewdog's response to this was to commission an independent review by the London HR firm Wiser, which published in December 2021.\n\nThe Wiser Report, the company says, was a \"detailed and comprehensive\" review that presents a \"radically different picture\" to the one painted by the people the BBC spoke to for its investigation.\n\nBrewdog referenced the report many times in its correspondence with the BBC as evidence that its culture problems were behind it.\n\nCharlotte Cook had been given a guarantee of anonymity\n\nFormer Brewdog brewer Charlotte Cook, who claims she suffered misogynistic abuse when working there, had been singled out by Mr Watt and Brewdog for criticism after the documentary. They accused her of having an \"extreme and documented antipathy\" towards the CEO.\n\nShe spoke to the Wiser review, and said she had believed her interview had gone well. Wiser had given all participants a written guarantee of anonymity.\n\nLater, Charlotte submitted a data protection request to Wiser, who were obliged to provide all the information they held about her.\n\nThis included an extract of an email, which appeared to be from Wiser to Brewdog on the day of her interview. The extract named Charlotte and provided a summary of the interview. The documents suggest Wiser was communicating directly with Brewdog before and after her interview, despite the promise of anonymity.\n\nCharlotte said: \"I think it's one of the grossest betrayals of trust that you could possibly do. I engaged with that in good faith and, you know, it appears that they just had absolutely no intention of keeping it anonymous at all.\"\n\nNeither Wiser or Brewdog responded to the BBC's questions about this.\n\nBrewdog did provide a statement, in which it said: \"The BBC's relentless vindictive scrutiny and malicious criticism of Brewdog is utterly disproportionate.\n\n\"It beggars belief the BBC would repeat the same false allegations that are subject to an ongoing Ofcom complaint.\n\n\"The BBC has demonstrated it will simply ignore any response we may choose to give, in clear breach of its charter obligations.\n\n\"This is not responsible journalism. It is perfectly obvious that the BBC is being misled and is choosing to rely on a handful of individuals involved in a concerted campaign to do our business and its founder damage.\"\n\nMr Watt has retained the support of the Brewdog board. In May, the CEO announced he was giving a fifth of his personal stake in the company to staff and that 50% of bar profits would be shared among team members.\n\nGood Ship Brewdog is available on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe Truth About Brewdog is available on the BBC iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nTransgender women have been banned from women's internationals while rugby league's governing body does further research on its inclusion policy.\n\nInternational Rugby League (IRL) said it wanted to \"balance the individual's right to participate... against perceived risk to other participants\".\n\nThe IRL's move comes as several sports are considering transgender inclusion.\n\nTransgender swimmers were on Sunday banned from women's elite races if they have gone through male puberty.\n\nWorld Athletics president Lord Coe hinted to the BBC that the sport could follow swimming's example, saying it is set to discuss adopting a new eligibility policy and that \"fairness is non-negotiable\".\n\nThe IRL said it had considered \"relevant developments in world sport\" in coming to its decision to ban \"male-to-female (transwomen) players\" until it had completed research on its final inclusion policy.\n\nThe ban will apply to the World Cup in England in October, which involves teams from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cook Islands, England, France, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.\n\n\"It is the IRL's responsibility to balance the individual's right to participate - a long-standing principle of rugby league and at its heart from the day it was established - against perceived risk to other participants, and to ensure all are given a fair hearing,\" the organisation said.\n\n\"The IRL will continue to work towards developing a set of criteria, based on best possible evidence, which fairly balance the individual's right to play with the safety of all participants,\" its statement added.\n\nScotland Rugby League's disability and inclusion director Mike Finn resigned from his post over the ruling.\n\n\"IRL has decided we are not to be an inclusive sport,\" he tweeted.\n\nHe added that IRL had \"yielded to a campaign of hate\".\n\n\"Solidarity with all trans people, will be an ally always,\" Finn concluded.\n\nAnd the decision has drawn criticism from advocates of transgender rights.\n\n\"Blanket bans on women who are trans playing against other women risks violating international human rights principles of non-discrimination, which require such policies to start from a place of inclusion,\" said Anna Brown, CEO of Equality Australia.\n\n\"Fina (swimming's world governing body) failed to meet that standard, and the rugby league's ban also fails to do so, despite it being temporary.\"\n\nA number of sports have been considering their inclusion policies in recent months, especially after the International Olympic Committee ruled earlier this year that participation policies governing transgender athletes should be determined by each sport - depending on its particular characteristics.\n\nThe IRL said it would work with the nations competing at the women's World Cup to obtain data in order to inform a transgender policy in 2023.\n\nRugby League World Cup 2021 chief executive Jon Dutton said he welcomed the \"clarity\" the IRL decision had provided to competing nations before selecting their squads for the tournament.\n\n\"It is important the IRL carefully considers its position on this subject and the RLWC understands the need for further research,\" he added.\n• None What do the scientists say?\n\nTransgender women have already been banned from playing at elite level by rugby union's governing body World Rugby.\n\nIn guidelines published on its website, World Rugby said transgender women could not play women's rugby \"because of the size, force and power-producing advantages conferred by testosterone during puberty and adolescence, and the resultant player welfare risks this creates\".\n\nCaroline Layt played rugby league and union before and after she transitioned in the late 1990s, and she is now an advocate for transgender women in sport.\n\n\"Further research is great but I'd also like them to listen to people like myself, who've been there and done that,\" said the Australian, 56. \"I've got heaps of video of me playing and never really injuring anyone.\n\n\"They don't know what the transition is. People don't understand what we go through and how it negates our performance. Once you've transitioned you've feminised enough that you're just another player and you're not going to add any more damage to a cisgender women's rugby player.\"\n\nDomestically, the Rugby Football Union's policy in England does allow trans women to play, under certain testosterone-based conditions.\n\nThe Rugby Football League, the governing body for professional rugby league in England, is holding its own review on transgender inclusion which is \"nearing completion\", the body said.\n\nCritics of transgender athletes' participation in some women's sports argue they can have a disproportionate advantage to their peers. However, the claim is strongly disputed by many transgender athletes and their supporters.\n\nSwimming's recent move inflamed the controversy. Transgender rights groups criticised the decision, while US women's footballer Megan Rapinoe, one of the most influential voices in sport, said it was \"disgusting\".\n\n\"Show me the evidence that trans women are taking everyone's scholarships, are dominating in every sport, are winning every title. I'm sorry, it's just not happening,\" Rapinoe told Time magazine.\n\n\"I have confidence that we can figure it out. But we can't start at the opposite. That is cruel. And frankly, it's just disgusting. We're putting everything through 'God forbid a trans person be successful in sports.' Get a grip on reality and take a step back.\"\n\nThe IRL is the global governing body for the sport and its role is to develop, promote and administer rugby league. It has 19 full members, 16 affiliate members and 19 observer members.\n• None How did J Edgar Hoover know too much for any US president to fire him?\n• None Jonathan Agnew asks Moeen Ali all of your questions in the commentary box", "The scene in Brookside South, Barnet, north London, after a 37-year-old woman and five-year-old child were found fatally stabbed\n\nA woman and a five-year-old boy have been found stabbed to death in north London.\n\nPolice said they were called at about 13:30 BST to an address in Brookside South, Barnet. The victims are thought to be mother and son.\n\nThe pair were declared dead at the scene. A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion on murder.\n\nHe was known to the woman and child, and there is nothing to indicate anyone else was involved, the Met Police said.\n\nCh Supt Sara Leach said: \"The whole community will be shocked and saddened to hear of this terrible incident.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the woman and child who have died, and also with the officers and paramedics who were first to arrive at what was an incredibly challenging scene.\n\n\"Specialist detectives are working to establish what took place and a man is in custody.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who saw or heard anything unusual earlier today, or in recent days, to come forward and speak to the police.\"\n\nThe BBC originally reported that the deceased child was a girl on the basis of information provided by the Metropolitan Police. A correction was later issued and this article was updated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Michael Watt worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a neurologist\n\nAlmost 20% of patients seen by neurology consultant Dr Michael Watt were given a wrong diagnosis, a report has found.\n\nA review of 927 of Dr Watt's high-risk patients found 181 people received a diagnosis described as \"not secure\", Health Minister Robin Swann said.\n\nHe was speaking as the Belfast Trust announced the recall of a further 209 neurology patients seen and discharged by Dr Watt between 1996 and 2012.\n\nThis is the third such recall.\n\nDr Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland's biggest patient recall linked to his work at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nMr Swann said he had met patients and families affected by the recall in October last year.\n\n\"While this report is statistical in nature, it deals with individuals, their families and their experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that many will have had their confidence in our health service shaken and I remain committed to helping restore it.\"\n\nMr Swann \"unreservedly apologised\" to those patients who have been affected.\n\n\"I also want to acknowledge that in announcing a further recall, more patients will be affected,\" he said.\n\n\"It is deeply regrettable that this experience should happen to any of our patients and it is even more so when I consider the total number of patients involved.\"\n\nIn May 2018, the Belfast Trust recalled 2,500 patients for review after concerns were raised about the clinical work carried out by Dr Watt.\n\nThis was followed by a further 1,044 patients who were recalled in November 2018.\n\nThe RQIA regulatory body is also conducting a review into patient deaths.\n\nAn independent inquiry was elevated to a statutory public inquiry late last year but has yet to start hearing evidence.\n\nThose affected by this latest recall were seen and discharged between 1996, when Dr Watt began his career, and 2012 and who are taking certain prescribed medications for specific neurological conditions.\n\nThe Belfast Trust said those affected would have received a letter asking them to set up a telephone review to ascertain whether the medication is appropriate for their condition.\n\nExtra clinics have been set up to facilitate face-to-face interviews where necessary.\n\nBelfast Trust chief executive Dr Cathy Jack said she was \"truly sorry\" over the further recall.\n\n\"I absolutely understand that this will cause worry and anxiety to a number of people and their families and I am deeply sorry for that,\" she said.\n\n\"I also accept this next stage may be very difficult for those patients who have already been reviewed and whose diagnoses may have been changed as a result of our two previous recalls.\n\n\"Again, I want to express the trust's sincere regret for all the hurt and pain caused over the last number of years and for the harm that has undoubtedly been done.\n\n\"It is absolutely imperative that we put right any past wrongs and while this is painful, it is vital we assure ourselves that former patients, now discharged and who are taking very specific medication, are taking it for the correct reasons.\"\n\nUlster Independent Clinic and Hillsborough Private Clinic are recalling 57 and 10 former patients respectively.\n\nSeparately, the trust also reviewed case notes of 66 patients who had a blood patch procedure under the care of Dr Watt and who did not have a clinical review as part of the recall process.\n\nIt found that for 45 patients there was no clinical evidence to support that a blood patch was required.\n\nAnd, for 46 patients the care was unsatisfactory and fell below the standard expected by the trust.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for this and for the undue hurt these patients experienced,\" the trust added.\n\nColm Gildernew, who chairs the health scrutiny committee at Stormont. described it as a scandal that has caused immense distress.\n\n\"The neurology inquiry has revealed again more examples of a lack of transparency, deficits in governance arrangements and accountability within the health service,\" he said.\n\nThe Sinn Féin assembly member asked what lessons had been learned?\n\nMeanwhile DUP assembly member Pam Cameron, deputy chair of the committee, asked about a timetable and scale of resource for financial redress for those entitled to compensation.\n\nMr Swann could not provide a definitive date but added: \"Redress payments will be paid because this is a failure of our systems that has to be corrected.\"", "A tower block fire in west London, less than a mile (1.6km) from Grenfell Tower, was started by an electric bike battery malfunctioning as it charged.\n\nResident Liiban Shakat feared he was \"going to die\" when his friend woke him and led him to a guest bedroom engulfed in flames on the 12th floor.\n\nHe described how his friend's \"mouth was black because he inhaled so much smoke\" and needed hospital treatment.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters were sent to the Shepherd's Bush fire at 09:23 BST.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service confirmed paramedics assessed two more people at the scene in Queensdale Crescent.\n\nThe scorched windows of Mr Shakat's home at the Stebbing House flats, less than a mile (1.6km) from Grenfell Tower where a fire claimed 72 lives in 2017, can clearly be seen.\n\nAbout 30 residents evacuated the building before the fire service arrived\n\nMr Shakat, 38, said the fire started in his guest bedroom where his friend, who was staying for several days, had been charging an e-bike battery.\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside the building and still wearing his macawis, a traditional Somali style of pyjamas, he said: \"[My friend] was in the room that caught on fire. He was in the bed. His mouth was black because he inhaled so much smoke.\"\n\nThe friend woke Mr Shakat and led him to the fire and, half-awake, he rushed to pour a bucket of water over the burning debris, which Mr Shakat said had made the fire worse.\n\n\"Something was coming from the bike, smoke, so he unplugged it. Now the debris, the plastic, the fire caught the whole place, the windows the bed,\" Mr Shakat, who had lived in the building for 20 years, said through a translator.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London Ambulance Service 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe ran to try and escape the building and alert his neighbours by knocking on nearby doors on the 12th floor, and at least 30 residents fled the building as plumes of black smoke were seen billowing out of windows.\n\nMr Shakat claimed no fire alarm had sounded but a spokesman for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF), which manages the building, said the fire alarm in his flat definitely did work but Mr Shakat did not hear it because he was outside the building.\n\nThe spokesman added the flats had all been fitted with the \"highest-rated fire doors on the market\" and \"compartmentalisation worked\" in keeping the fire contained to one flat.\n\nThe block contains 180 flats, he added, and there were six residents with Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (Peeps) who were helped to safety by firefighters.\n\nJonathan Stone, the council's building safety manager, said fire safety measures taken by the local authorities had \"prevented another Grenfell\".\n\nThe scorched windows of the flat can clearly be seen\n\nAn LFB spokesman said 30 residents had left the block before LFB arrived, but added \"generally\" it was \"safer to remain in your flat\" because \"we don't want people necessarily going into smoke-filed corridors\".\n\nStation commander David Bracewell, who was at the scene, said: \"Three people from the affected flat left before the brigade arrived. A number of other residents evacuated the building. Firefighters led six residents to safety via an internal staircase.\"\n\nAn LFB spokesperson said the fire was under control by 11:00.\n\nKensington MP Felicity Buchan tweeted: \"Very concerning to hear about the high rise fire at Queensdale Crescent in Shepherds Bush.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Rail users are braced for days of disruption across England, Scotland and Wales ahead of the biggest rail strike in 30 years.\n\nThere are planned walkouts on most major lines on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday but disruption is also expected on non-strike days due to too few staff working.", "Grounded: The Rwanda removals flight that never took off\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights block on sending asylum seekers to Rwanda could be overturned by ministers under new proposals.\n\nThe plan, being introduced to Parliament, would allow ministers to ignore the court's injunctions.\n\nIt is an addition to planned changes to the Human Rights Act, and could also affect future cases involving migrants.\n\nCritics say the proposals are confusing and would create two tiers of rights that hand more power to ministers.\n\nBut Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said his proposed Bill of Rights fixed problems with the Human Rights Act without abandoning it altogether.\n\nUnveiling the plans, Mr Raab confirmed the government would not quit the European Convention on Human Rights, a set of legal safeguards allowing ordinary people to challenge what they say is unfair treatment by the government.\n\nThe Human Rights Act came into force in 2000. It introduced into UK law rights contained in the Convention - a treaty largely written by British civil servants and lawyers after World War Two and agreed by almost every nation in Europe.\n\nThe Bill of Rights also includes measures proposed last year:\n\nThe most significant new proposal - to ignore ECHR injunctions - follows last week's row over the Home Office's abandoned flight to Rwanda.\n\nThe European Convention on Human Rights is enforced by judges in Strasbourg\n\nThe Strasbourg court, which is nothing to do with the European Union, issued an injunction blocking the home secretary from putting an asylum seeker on the flight, despite earlier decisions by judges in London not to intervene.\n\nThat decision triggered other appeals and ultimately the cancellation of the flight.\n\nUnder the government's proposed Bill of Rights, ministers would be able to ignore such injunctions, known as Rule 39 orders, because they are not technically part of international law.\n\nMr Raab, who is responsible for changes to constitutional laws, said: \"The Bill of Rights will strengthen our UK tradition of freedom, whilst injecting a healthy dose of common sense into the system.\n\n\"We will be very clear in domestic law that Rule 39 interim orders do not bind UK courts or indeed public bodies or officials.\"\n\nThe government's proposals, unveiled in December, have been criticised by lawyers as confusing and arguably unnecessary, because British courts can already ignore rulings from Strasbourg.\n\nMr Raab described his proposals as a \"very British approach, a UK-wide approach to human rights\".\n\nHe told the BBC the UK Supreme Court would not be \"subordinated to Strasbourg but has the last word on interpretation of law\".\n\nHe added: \"The rule of law applies universally but the idea that human rights shouldn't be reformed and any change to the human rights act is unimpeachable, not even Labour politicians at times said that.\"\n\nAsked whether the first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda, that was cancelled last week after legal rulings, would have gone if a UK Bill of Rights was in place, Mr Raab said: \"It is flawed that rule 39 orders from Strasbourg can have an injunctive effect, for example stopping those planes taking off. That's something our bill of rights will address.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShadow attorney general Emily Thornberry questioned whether the move would actually change anything, or rather add \"more and more layers of bureaucracy on the application of the Human Rights Act\", so it would merely \"gum up the system\".\n\nShe said: \"They're just trying to think of anything that they can take on at the moment in order to distract us all from what's really happening, which is their inability to govern - they're trying to pick yet another fight,\" she told the BBC.\n\nLaw Society president I Stephanie Boyce, who represents solicitors, said the package was on a collision course with the rest of the law.\n\n\"The bill will create an acceptable class of human-rights abuses in the United Kingdom,\" she said.\n\n\"It is a lurch backwards for British justice. Authorities may begin to consider some rights violations as acceptable, because these could no longer be challenged under the Bill of Rights, despite being against the law.\n\n\"Overall, the bill would grant the state greater unfettered power over the people, power which would then belong to all future governments, whatever their ideologies.\"\n\nSacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK's chief executive, said the legislation would represent \"a giant leap backwards for the rights of ordinary people\".\n\n\"Ripping up the Human Rights Act means the public is being stripped of its most powerful tool to challenge wrongdoing by the government and other public bodies.\n\n\"This is not about tinkering with rights, it's about removing them,\" he said.", "People were advised by police to avoid the area following the crash near Burton in Lonsdale\n\nTwo people have been killed in a helicopter crash in North Yorkshire, police have confirmed.\n\nThe aircraft came down in a field off Bentham Road near Burton in Lonsdale on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales just before midday, officers said.\n\nOne local farmer, who did not want to be named, said he saw \"a large plume of thick black smoke\".\n\nThe families of those involved were being supported by specially trained officers, police added.\n\nThe North Yorkshire force said it was currently unable to provide any further details about those who died in the crash.\n\nNobody else was believed to have been on board the helicopter at the time, it said.\n\nThe force added that part of Bentham Road was closed.\n\nA BBC reporter near the scene of the crash said a police cordon appeared to have been extended late on Monday afternoon. He added that several workers in hi-vis clothing could be seen around the crash site.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed its inspectors were on their way.\n\nIn a statement, the AAIB said: \"An investigation has been launched and a team of inspectors are travelling to the accident site to begin making inquiries.\"\n\nBurton in Lonsdale is near Ingleton, close to the border with Lancashire and Cumbria.\n\nPeter Thompson, chair of Burton in Lonsdale parish council, said: \"We are a rural community of about 600 people. When something like this happens, it is obviously alarming. It's very sad for everyone involved.\"\n\nBurton in Lonsdale is near the border with Lancashire and Cumbria\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk", "Cairon and mum Shantelle have spent a year at Southampton Children's Hospital\n\nA boy with a rare heart condition has defied doctors' expectations and gone home after spending a year in hospital.\n\nCairon Barry-Edwards was six months old when he was admitted to Southampton Children's Hospital after having a cardiac arrest at home.\n\nDiagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a rare disease of the heart muscle, his family was told to prepare for the worst.\n\nBut after intensive treatment and a new drug regime he was cleared to go back home to Reading.\n\nThe poorly youngster had been put on the heart transplant list and his mother was warned the chances of a successful outcome were very low.\n\nCairon's condition meant he was unable to gain weight so was fed directly through the veins, bypassing his digestive system and taking pressure off his heart.\n\nCairon was admitted when he was six months old\n\nCardiologist Dr Tara Bharucha opted to trial a new drug, called Entresto, which could be safely administered at home.\n\nShe said: \"...Cairon is thought to be one of the first children under the age of one in the UK to receive it.\n\n\"When [he] first came to us he was a very poorly little boy but he has amazed us with his determination and strong will - he really is our little miracle. \"\n\nMum Shantelle, 40, did not leave her son's side since the day he was admitted, sleeping both on the wards and at Ronald McDonald House, which provides accommodation to families with children in hospital.\n\nShe thanked hospital staff and added: \"It's been a crazy year, a bit of a blur really.\n\n\"I haven't been home for 12 months and I've only seen my other children Tafari and Ayanna, a handful of times, but you just have to go with it.\n\n\"It wasn't an easy path to get here, but I always knew deep down that Cairon would be ok. \"\n\nCairon, now 18 months old, will continue to need care and may require a heart transplant as he grows but has returned home in time to celebrate his big brother's 17th birthday.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaswant Singh Sandhu was shot and later died in hospital\n\nA man has been arrested in Pakistan in connection with a murder in Caerphilly county 27 years ago.\n\nMohammad \"Bobby\" Basharat is suspected of killing market trader Jaswant Singh Sandhu in Blackwood in 1995.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said the 49-year-old was found by Pakistan authorities under a false identity.\n\nPakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said the man was brought before a local court in Islamabad and he has been remanded in custody.\n\nA floral tribute left in the market place, after the shooting in 1995\n\nMr Sandhu, a father-of-two, who had family in Wolverhampton, died in hospital after being shot with a pistol following a row on a clothes stall at a market, apparently about the price of T-shirts.\n\nThe case in May 1995 featured on the BBC Crimewatch programme.\n\nMr Basharat had lived in Oldham, Lancashire but worked at the market in south Wales three times a week.\n\nSheikh Zubair Ahmad from the FIA told the BBC that he was declared a fugitive by UK police and his arrest came about after cooperation from the UK authorities.\n\nHe had been running businesses including a recruitment agency in the city of Rawalpindi.\n\nAccording to the FIA official, he was from the Mirpur district of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and after coming to Pakistan he got a new ID card with the name of Zamir Ali, son of Muhammad Aslam.\n\nThe FIA official said that Interpol officials had also been in contact with them and the extradition process was under way.\n\nA Gwent Police statement said: \"A 49-year-old man was arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of murder in connection with an investigation into the death of a man in Blackwood in 1995.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing and work continues, alongside the National Crime Agency and authorities in Pakistan, to secure his extradition to the UK where he may face further court proceedings.\"", "The Duke of Cambridge is photographed with his arm around the shoulder of Big Issue vendor, Dave Martin\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge celebrates his 40th birthday on Tuesday and will spend it privately with his family, according to Kensington Palace.\n\nIt has issued three new photographs of Prince William to mark the occasion - but if you were expecting official, formal royal portraits, then think again.\n\nThe three previously unseen images were taken a couple of weeks ago, when Prince William was out selling The Big Issue in London. They tell us something of where the duke's priorities lie on this landmark birthday.\n\nHe has deliberately avoided the traditional royal photo and gone for something that portrays him \"at work\" on an issue that his staff say is very close to his heart.\n\nAs he heads into his 40s, homelessness will increasingly become a focus for him and he has history in this area.\n\nBack in 2009, he slept out on the streets of London with the Chief Executive of Centrepoint, Seyi Obakin, to help understand the experience of homelessness. Thirteen years on, he is still actively involved in finding solutions to the problem\n\nThis summer, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will leave their home at Kensington Palace for a new life in Windsor\n\n\"He's definitely part of that story for us but more importantly we are part of the story for him,\" says Seyi Obakin. \"He is not just interested, he is committed to the cause of helping to end youth homelessness.\"\n\nAs Prince William fine-tunes the kind of public work he does, he's also making big decisions with the Duchess of Cambridge about his private, family life.\n\nPrince William's marriage to Kate has provided stability and support during some difficult times. Fatherhood also seems to suit him. Their three children put in a star turn during the Platinum Jubilee weekend - although expect future appearances from them to be carefully timed and managed.\n\nThis summer the Cambridges will leave their home at Kensington Palace for a new life in Windsor. It is a decision that has been driven by personal reasons.\n\nBehind the castle walls, they will have more freedom than they currently have in London. Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will go to a private school nearby. It also puts William closer to his grandmother, the Queen, at a time when she is stepping back and he is stepping up.\n\nOne issue that remains unsettled and unresolved on his 40th birthday is Prince William's relationship with his brother, Prince Harry. There was no public reconciliation during the Jubilee weekend or even the slightest sign that they are on better terms.\n\n\"William is still very hurt about some of the things that his brother and his sister-in-law have said and done,\" says Katie Nicholl, author of The New Royals. \"He does ultimately want there to be a rapprochement but there are quite a few bridges to be rebuilt before they get to that stage.\"\n\nPrince William is expected to focus on issues such as homelessness, the environment and mental health\n\nThere have been times in the past when William was labelled a \"reluctant royal\" and perhaps seemed burdened by the role that lay ahead for him. Something seems to have shifted.\n\nThe once cautious, contained prince is increasingly looking like a more open, confident future king. Publicly, he seems to have found the causes that interest him and where he feels he can make a difference.\n\nDon't expect to see him take on take on new patronages and charity work in the years ahead. He will instead try to make a greater impact in the areas he's already invested in - homelessness, the environment and mental health.\n\nPrince William knows that the years ahead will be filled with significant change. But for now, at 40, he seems settled in both his public role and his private life.\n• None Prince William describes why he sold The Big Issue", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 300kg (661lb) stingray caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented, scientists say.\n\nIt unseated the previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg) Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005.\n\nThere is no official record-keeping or database of the world's biggest freshwater fish.\n\nThe Mekong is rich in biodiversity but overfishing, dams and pollution threaten its fragile ecosystem.\n\nIt flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.\n\n\"In 20 years of researching giant fish in rivers and lakes on six continents, this is the largest freshwater fish that we've encountered or that's been documented anywhere worldwide,\" said Zeb Hogan, a biologist who leads Wonders of the Mekong, a USAID-funded conservation project.\n\n\"Finding and documenting this fish is remarkable, and a rare positive sign of hope, even more so because it occurred in the Mekong, a river that's currently facing many challenges,\" added Dr Hogan, who is also a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.\n\nThe stingray was studied and tagged before...\n\n... it was released back into the water\n\nThe conservation project works with the Cambodian Fisheries Administration to set up a network of fishermen who alert the researchers if they catch giant or endangered fish.\n\nOn the night of 13 June, a local fisherman on Koh Preah island called to tell researchers that he had caught a \"very big\" stingray - it turned out to be 3.98m long and 2.2m wide.\n\nAfter being fitted with an acoustic tag to track its future movement, the stingray was released back into the river.\n\nIt disappeared into the muddy waters of the Mekong around dusk when the moon was already up in the sky, Dr Hogan said.\n\nIn the local Khmer language, the fish is called \"Boramy\", which means full moon.\n\n\"The stingray find is evidence that the natural world can still yield new and extraordinary discoveries, and that many of the largest aquatic creatures remain woefully understudied,\" Dr Hogan said.\n\nThe giant freshwater stingray is an endangered species. This is the second giant stingray examined by the team since May - the earlier one weighed 181kg.\n\n\"When record fish are found, it means the aquatic environment is still relatively healthy. This is in contrast to what we've seen in places like the Yantgze River, where scientists reported the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish,\" Dr Hogan said.\n\n\"The Mekong's deep pools sustain life far beyond these impressive giants. Spawning in this critical habitat produces billions of fish every year which ensure the food security and livelihoods for millions of people in Cambodia and Vietnam.\"", "French Open: Amelie Mauresmo apologises for 'out of context' comments Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAmelie Mauresmo won the Wimbledon and the Australian Open titles during her playing career French Open director Amelie Mauresmo apologised for saying women's matches were less appealing than men's and said she had been quoted \"out of context\". She had faced criticism after only one of this year's 10 night sessions featured a women's match. Her comment that men's matches had \"more attraction and appeal\" surprised women's world number one Iga Swiatek. \"I want to say sorry to the players that really felt bad about what I said,\" Frenchwoman Mauresmo, 42, said. \"The comments I made were taken out of context,\" the two-time Grand Slam champion told the Tennis Channel. \"The people who know me, who've known me on and off the court, throughout my career, throughout everything that I've done, know I'm a big fighter for equal rights and women's tennis, women in general.\" Poland's Swiatek, who will play American Coco Gauff in Saturday's French Open final, has played all of her six matches in the daytime. The only night session to feature a women's match was last Thursday, when France's Alize Cornet beat Latvian 13th seed Jelena Ostapenko in three sets. The second-round match between Alize Cornet and Jelena Ostapenko lasted one hour 41 minutes Former Wimbledon and Australian Open champion Mauresmo, in her first year as tournament director at the clay-court Grand Slam, said it was \"more difficult\" to put women's matches on late with the evening session only including one match. Mauresmo said she was looking to change the format of the sessions. \"I didn't decide to have this one match,\" she added. \"Next year to be more fair to the women's players it would be good to maybe have the possibility to put two matches or maybe a women's match plus a doubles match. \"Concerning the scheduling, specifically for the night matches, my say was that because we have one match only, it's really tougher to schedule a woman's match because we have to take into consideration the length. It's the fair thing to do for the ticketholders. \"We will try to find a better solution to be fair to everyone. We tried to modernise the event, move forward and there are some adjustments to be made.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can The Outlaws outsmart the criminal underworld?\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen was praised for \"staying the course\" as royals joined dignitaries at a thanksgiving service for the Platinum Jubilee at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nReferring to her love of horse racing, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said she is \"still in the saddle\", even though she was not able to attend.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined for their first royal event together since leaving the UK two years ago.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen, 96, watched the service from Windsor Castle.\n\nHer decision to miss the service came after she experienced \"discomfort\" during Thursday's events.\n\nIt was later announced she would not attend the Epsom Derby on Saturday - and would instead watch the event on television.\n\nPrince Andrew was forced to withdraw from attending the thanksgiving service after a positive Covid test.\n\nAs Prince Harry and Meghan arrived in St Paul's Churchyard, they received a huge cheer from the crowd, after keeping a low profile on Thursday.\n\nNHS workers, honours recipients, public servants and charity representatives were among those at the service - part of four days of events marking the Queen's unprecedented 70-year reign.\n\nNotable guests included Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who arrived to boos and cheers, and his wife, Carrie.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and former prime ministers John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May were there. The leaders of the UK's devolved administrations were also in attendance.\n\nMr Johnson gave a reading from St Paul's Epistle to the Philippians in the New Testament, beginning: \"Rejoice in the Lord always\".\n\nThe sermon was given by the Archbishop of York after Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, tested positive for coronavirus last week.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge waved to the cheering crowd as they arrived\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were attending their first major event since they stood down from royal duties in early 2020\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell gave thanks for the Queen who he said was 'still in the saddle'\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William joined a procession to take their seats at the front of the congregation\n\nReferencing the Queen's love of horse racing and Saturday's Epsom Derby - which will mark the Jubilee - Mr Cottrell praised the monarch's endurance over her reign.\n\nHe said: \"Your Majesty, we're sorry you're not with us this morning in person, but you are still in the saddle. And we are all glad that there is still more to come.\n\n\"So, thank you for staying the course. Thank you for continuing to be faithful to the pledges you made 70 years ago. Thank you for showing us how service and faithfulness matter. People of all faiths and none can learn from this.\"\n\nWith the Queen having to miss her own thanksgiving service, it was always going to be slightly subdued.\n\nBut it was still a cheerful gathering, with the Archbishop of York addressing his sermon to the Queen watching on television at home.\n\nIn a nod to her love of horse racing, he praised her for \"staying the course\" for such a long reign of duty and public service.\n\nThe sermon cantered through a number of her key interests: God; horses; and a good sense of humour.\n\nBoris Johnson faced a mixed response from the crowd outside. But the Royal Family presented a unifying image.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan had seamlessly returned to a major royal event for the first time in two years.\n\nIn a sign of things to come, Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine, took over the main ceremonial roles, with that quartet of senior royals increasingly taking on the responsibilities of the monarch.\n\nThere were choirs, bells ringing, famous faces in the congregation, and prayers. But there was also a poignancy to the absence of the Queen, the central focus of the event.\n\nThe archbishop added the Platinum Jubilee was a time of \"great rejoicing\" which took place against a backdrop of \"such suffering and uncertainty in our world\".\n\nBut he said the Queen was an example of leaders who serve the common good with \"a staunch constancy and a steadfast consistency; a faithfulness to God, an obedience to a vocation that is the bedrock of her life\".\n\nAfter the service, the largest church bell in the UK - the 16-tonne Great Paul - began ringing continuously for four hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral royals and other guests went on to attend a reception at London's Guildhall.\n\nMeanwhile, the Princess Royal travelled to Edinburgh Zoo where she fed penguins and met Ukrainian children, rescued from an orphanage in their war-torn country, who were taking part in an animal handling session.\n\nPrincess Anne's visit to the Scottish capital comes as members of the Royal Family visit the nations of the UK over the long weekend to celebrate the Jubilee.\n\nAs well as marking her service to church and country, Friday's event at St Paul's was also intended to pay tribute to the Queen's efforts to foster unity among all communities.\n\nBehind the walls of Windsor Castle, the Queen will no doubt be resting.\n\nTwo Buckingham Palace balcony appearances on the first day of celebrations clearly left her feeling very tired. That and her mobility issues meant going to St. Paul's Cathedral today proved too much of a challenge.\n\nInstead she watched the service on TV. Tomorrow, she'll do the same for the Epson Derby.\n\nAs the monarch rests in the castle, outside the town of Windsor is buzzing. People have come from far and wide, many just for the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nAlka Dass came with her two sons from High Wycombe. She said: \"We've come especially to see the Queen. The kids wanted to have a party with the Queen. They want to see her and visit Windsor Castle\".\n\nThere has even been a proposal outside the castle gates. Onlookers watched as Danny Dorsett, 28, from Weybridge asked Lauren Wallace, 27, to be his wife.\n\n\"We came here for the Jubilee. Windsor's the best place to do it\", he said.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who attended and who wrote a prayer for the Queen, told the BBC her interest in the faiths of others went beyond duty.\n\n\"She has genuine care, genuine interest and wants the best - certainly for our faith and for all faiths,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan sat in the second row from the front with other members of the Royal Family\n\nA guard of honour outside St Paul's welcomed guests to the service\n\nWell-wishers gathered in St Paul's Churchyard ahead of the thanksgiving service\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nThe service was one of the key events in four days of celebrations to mark the first time a British monarch has reigned for 70 years.\n\nOn Thursday, thousands of people gathered in central London for the traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony and a spectacular fly past of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen later illuminated a globe at Windsor Castle that coincided with the lighting of thousands of beacons across the UK and the Commonwealth.\n\nThe celebrations will continue with the Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday, a concert at Buckingham Palace featuring performances by Queen, Sir Rod Stewart and Diana Ross.\n\nAnd on Sunday, 10 million people are expected to hold street parties and other celebrations.\n\nPeople cheered and craned their necks for a better view as royals and dignitaries arrived\n\nPrince Charles, representing the Queen, made his entrance last with Camilla\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex and their children were among the first senior royals to arrive\n\nSt Paul's Cathedral has hosted Jubilee thanksgiving services for Queen Victoria, George V - and on three previous Jubilees for the Queen\n\nPrince Andrew's infection was picked up during routine testing, Buckingham Palace said, meaning he would miss the St Paul's service \"with regret\".\n\nThe Queen has previously spoken of mobility problems and the palace confirmed ahead of the Jubilee the monarch would consider the events she felt able to attend during the four-day celebration.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNorthern Ireland's search for a first Nations League win has now stretched to 11 matches after a deflating home defeat by Greece.\n\nVisiting captain Tasos Bakasetas scored the only goal of a somewhat scrappy game at Windsor Park late in the first half.\n\nSubstitute Kyle Lafferty fired just over the crossbar with a well-hit free-kick late on as the hosts came to life in the final 25 minutes after a flat first-half performance.\n\nIan Baraclough's men are now away to Cyprus on Sunday in their second League C Group 2 match before their busy schedule takes them to Kosovo on 9 June, then they complete their opening quadruple-header at home to Cyprus on 12 June.\n• None Greece defeat Northern Ireland in Nations League opener - as it happened\n\nThursday night's result made it eight defeats and three draws in the Nations League for Northern Ireland, who are playing in the third tier of the competition for the first time after being relegated. Baraclough also has just one win in 11 matches in Belfast as manager.\n\nHe is without a number of senior players for this camp and gave a competitive debut to Fleetwood Town's Paddy Lane, while Manchester City's 18-year-old Shea Charles, one of four new call-ups, came on as a late substitute for his senior international debut.\n\nGreece's decisive goal arrived in the 39th minute when the Northern Ireland midfield failed to track the forward run of visiting captain Bakasetas.\n\nWhen Dimitris Limnios played the ball inside from the right, Bakasetas had far too much time and space on the edge of the box as he controlled the ball well and planted a fine low strike wide of Bailey Peacock-Farrell and into the far corner.\n\nThe double substitution of Lafferty and Niall McGinn on the hour-mark injected much-needed life into a low-key showing from the home side, and both subs came close to grabbing an equaliser.\n\nMcGinn hit a snapshot from the edge of the area on 66 minutes but it was straight at Benfica keeper Odisseas Vlachodimos and a few minutes later captain Steven Davis - further extending his caps record with a 135th appearance - hit a right-foot curler over the crossbar.\n\nIt looked like the stage might be set when, with five minutes remaining, the returning Lafferty stood over a free-kick 20 yards out, and his shot was well hit but it went just over the crossbar.\n\nThe 34-year-old Kilmarnock striker, who has now gone over 19 hours of international football without a goal, had returned to the squad having been left out of the last three camps by Baraclough.\n\nNorthern Ireland fail to threaten in flat first half\n\nDespite a number of senior players being unavailable for Northern Ireland, there seemed to be an upbeat mood in the camp, boosted no doubt by captain Davis signing a new contract at Rangers and speaking of how much he was looking forward to continuing to play for his country.\n\nManager Baraclough was upbeat too, once again talking up the positive aspects of having so many new and young players in his squad, and showing faith in two of them as he selected youngsters Conor Bradley and Paddy Lane at wing-back in his favoured 3-5-2 formation.\n\nFleetwood's Lane, 21, was making his first competitive start on the left, having made his debut in March, while 18-year-old Bradley of Liverpool was winning his sixth cap.\n\nBradley has impressed in his early appearances but he struggled in the first half with the home crowd not getting to see the surging forward runs that he has delivered in his early international career.\n\nLane struggled to impose himself on the left flank but both worked tirelessly throughout, even if their youthful exuberance led to them committing a few needless fouls as the visitors looked to get in behind them.\n\nNorthern Ireland as a whole simply failed to fire in the first half and were unable to mount enough attacks to put the Greeks under any pressure. The quality of ball that was being played to front pair Gavin Whyte and Shayne Lavery was poor, though Whyte did turn smartly and get a decent shot away on 18 minutes, but it was too close to goalkeeper Vlachodimos who saved.\n\nLavery got in down the right and Saville got in down the left, but each of their crosses were blocked, while Paddy McNair and Lane both hit inviting deliveries that nobody was able to convert.\n\nGreece were patient in possession without creating too many opportunities themselves, though they came close in the 23rd minute when Giorgos Giakoumakis' header on the stretch from a Lazaros Rota was saved by Bailey Peacock-Farrell.\n• None Patrick McNair (Northern Ireland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Georgios Tzavellas (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Ballard (Northern Ireland) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick McNair with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The pontoon, which has helped fishermen get their catch to shore, has closed partly due to storm damage\n\nFishermen have said they are scared for their lives and livelihood after a safety pontoon was closed.\n\nThe commercial fishermen said the pontoon on Patch beach, near Cardigan, Ceredigion, was used to help collect and deliver their catch to land.\n\nIt was closed due to \"safety reasons\", but fishermen claimed there was more of a risk without it.\n\nCeredigion council said it would look at the options surrounding its future in both the short and long term.\n\nPatch beach is some two miles downstream from Cardigan and although it's an idyllic part of the estuary, it is notorious for being dangerous.\n\nOver the years many people have been caught out by the tide and some have died.\n\nHowever, it is also an ideal location for access to Cardigan Bay for commercial fishermen.\n\nAaron Walters says the pontoon was introduced for safety, but has been taken away from fishermen who need it\n\nThe pontoon was built on the beach more than 16 years ago to offer protection from the elements and some safety, according to Aaron Walters, who uses the pontoon to get his catch on shore.\n\n\"You can have four to five knots of tide on the river as the water shoots through,\" he said.\n\n\"You've got the sandbanks as well - if the tide pushes you onto the sandbanks you'll get stuck. If there's a southerly gale the weather here can be very dangerous.\n\n\"Last summer, there were two young boys playing here. The tide was starting to go out and they got washed into the middle of the river. We went after them in the dinghy. They didn't know what had happened.\n\n\"This pontoon is massive in terms of safety. If you have bad weather you can come in behind the pontoon and it's quieter. If we haven't got this here we just have big waves crashing on the beach.\"\n\nLen Walters says a lot of children fish in the area and it puts them at risk\n\nUsually the fishermen would be able to bring their vehicles onto the pontoon to collect their catch but storms over the last year have caused too much damage.\n\nPart of the pontoon has blown up onto dry land which didn't exist before the storms, the tracking boards were blown away and had to be tied down with rope by the fishermen.\n\nWhen they turned up recently the pontoon was closed with tape preventing entry as the council had closed it due to safety concerns.\n\nHowever, fisherman Len Walters said it came without warning and the seven businesses who use it have been affected.\n\nHe said: \"Two boats go out on trips - 24 people every time, every hour.\n\n\"Throughout the summer it's packed with children fishing for green crabs. It's a fantastic asset for the area. But something is going to happen again - someone is going to drown out there.\"\n\nHe added one day people will \"give up, they won't have much choice\".\n\n\"If you're going to spend two to three hours to get your catch off the boat and then another hour to meet the lorry afterward the fish will be dead.\n\n\"How do you get equipment on the boat? Bags of rope, the pots, pot weights. You'll be back and forth all day. You can only take so many pots in one go. You just can't do it.\"\n\nTeifi Estuary can be seen from Patch beach and is popular with children in the summer, say the local fishermen\n\nCeredigion council said the tenant, Afon Teifi Fairways Ltd (ATFL), has operational responsibility for the pontoon.\n\nFollowing consultation with the local authority, ATFL said it had taken reasonable steps to restrict access to the pontoon.\n\nFollowing a report undertaken by the company that originally supplied the pontoon, the council said it will look to work with stakeholders to look and consider options for its future.", "Royals and officials filled St Paul's Cathedral on Friday for a service to thank the Queen, who is marking 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe Queen herself was not able to attend, having experienced \"discomfort\" the previous day.\n\nReferring to her love of horse racing, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said she was \"still in the saddle\".", "Senior royals gathered on Buckingham Palace balcony for the first time since the pandemic\n\nRoaring crowds cheered the Queen as she joined other royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the first of four days of Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThousands flooded The Mall, waving flags in the brilliant sunshine to celebrate the Queen's 70-year reign.\n\nThe 96-year-old watched a flypast with 17 other royals and was immediately flanked by Prince Charles and four-year old great-grandson Prince Louis.\n\nThe Queen looked delighted as she and Prince Louis chatted during the event.\n\nBut the noise of the 70-aircraft flypast was too much for the young prince, who was pictured covering his ears and tightly shutting his eyes.\n\nThe parade marked the start of a long bank holiday weekend of events celebrating the Queen's reign - the longest by a British monarch.\n\nRiding on horseback and wearing the Platinum Jubilee medal with his uniform, the Prince of Wales inspected the troops in his mother's place.\n\nThe Queen, who was using a walking stick, has limited her appearances in recent months due to mobility issues.\n\nAs the soldiers marched towards Buckingham Palace at the end of the parade, the Queen emerged on to the balcony, accompanied by cheers from the crowd.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Highlights from the beginning of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations\n\nPrinces George and Prince Louis with Princess Charlotte arrived by carriage with their mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William rode on horseback during the parade\n\nA large crowd lined the Mall, some of whom had camped overnight for the best spot\n\nMore than 1,500 officers and soldiers along with 350 horses from the Household Division took part in Trooping the Colour, the first time the parade has been staged in full since the pandemic.\n\nAfter the parade, more than 70 aircraft - including Spitfires from World War Two, Apache helicopters, Typhoons and the Red Arrows - took part in the flypast over Buckingham Palace.\n\nSeveral jets flew in formation to form the number 70 in honour of the Queen's long reign\n\nThe Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, took up a position on the far right of the balcony, standing with his immediate family, meaning he was cropped out of many pictures seen on the day\n\nPrince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - flanked the monarch on the balcony - the Royal Family's first gathering there since 2019.\n\nIt had been decided only \"working royals\" would appear, which excluded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the Queen's son, the Duke of York.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan, who now live in the US, watched Trooping the Colour from a vantage point in the Duke of Wellington's former office, overlooking Horse Guards Parade.\n\nThey travelled with their children Archie, three, and Lilibet, who turns one on Saturday. Lilibet is the family nickname for the Queen.\n\nMeghan appeared at the window of the Major General's office overlooking the Trooping of the Colour\n\nPrince Harry was also spotted with Savannah Phillips and Mia Tindall at the same window\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have been keeping a very low profile and seem to be carefully avoiding any accusations of stealing the limelight.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were pictured watching the Trooping the Colour ceremony from windows above Horse Guards Parade, but mostly stayed out of sight.\n\nSince they weren't part of the Buckingham Palace balcony scene or in the carriage procession, they've largely remained under the radar and away from centre stage.\n\nThat's probably what Buckingham Palace most wanted. Because the couple attract so much public interest, both positive and negative, it could drown out the focus on the Jubilee events.\n\nThis might be about building bridges rather than making headlines, because they would have been made aware of the damage of any attention-grabbing comments or appearances.\n\nBut they are expected to be at St Paul's on Friday for the service of thanksgiving - and there is speculation about private meetings with the Queen over the weekend.\n\nIt's their daughter Lilibet's first birthday on Saturday, so it could all align for a family gathering.\n\nRead more from Sean here.\n\nSpace for public viewing filled up by mid-morning. Thousands of spectators lined the Mall and filled nearby St James' Park, waving flags and draped in union jacks.\n\nMany in the crowd saw the day as a historic moment, and spoke of their admiration for the Queen.\n\n\"She's such a strong personality,\" said Salamath Silmy, from north London. \"I always talk to my daughter about how we have to be strong like her.\"\n\nVisiting from the US, Elaine Henderson said the day represented \"everything I love about Britain\".\n\nThe parade was also briefly interrupted by protestors, claimed to be from animal rights and climate campaign group Animal Rebellion. Police arrested 12 people for obstruction of the highway.\n\nMillions of people are gearing up for street parties among other celebrations over the four-day Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Queen met with roaring crowd as she appears on Buckingham Palace balcony\n\nOn Thursday evening, more than 3,000 beacons were lit across the UK and the Commonwealth in tribute to the Queen, with the Tree of Trees beacon illuminated outside the palace.\n\nThe Queen led the lighting of the principal Jubilee beacon in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Queen touched the Commonwealth of Nations Globe to begin the beacon lighting ceremony\n\nThe Queen set off a chain of lights which lit the principal beacon, rounding off the first day of celebrations\n\nHowever, she will not attend Friday's Jubilee service at St Paul's Cathedral after experiencing discomfort at Thursday's ceremony, Buckingham Palace said, adding the decision had made with \"great reluctance\".\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla also appeared in an episode of TV soap EastEnders, on BBC One. The royal couple joined the the fictional residents of Albert Square at their Jubilee street party, in scenes filmed earlier this year.\n\nThe Red Arrows left their signature red, white and blue trails in the skies above the Mall\n\nCrowds filled the Mall, Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square in central London\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn that evening, the BBC's Party at the Palace concert - set on three stages in front of Buckingham Palace - will see Diana Ross, George Ezra, Alicia Keys and Nile Rodgers entertain a live crowd of 22,000 people and a television audience of millions.\n\nAt the concert, heir to the throne Prince Charles and his son, the Duke of Cambridge, will pay tribute to the Queen who will be watching on television.\n\nOn Sunday there will be street parties, picnics and barbecues across the UK with more than 85,000 Big Jubilee Lunches planned.\n\nThe finale of the weekend will be the Jubilee Pageant which will make its way through the streets of the capital with a cast of 6,000 performers and close to 200 celebrities.\n\nIt will end with Ed Sheeran singing the national anthem with a choir made up of \"national treasures\" outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Queen thanked the public for organising celebratory events and said \"many happy memories\" would be made.\n\n\"I continue to be inspired by the goodwill shown to me, and hope that the coming days will provide an opportunity to reflect on all that has been achieved during the last 70 years, as we look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm,\" she said in a statement.\n\nIt was the first full Trooping the Colour since 2019\n\nA royal gun salute was fired from Edinburgh Castle - with others in Cardiff Bay and Hillsborough Castle", "Bushmeat is a delicacy in parts of Nigeria, but in other places it can be a vital source of food\n\nThe Nigerian government has banned the sale of bushmeat as a precaution to stop the spread of monkeypox.\n\nSix cases have been detected in the country this month bringing to 21 the number of confirmed infections this year, the authorities said.\n\nExperts say it is possible that the virus can be caught by eating meat from an infected animal. But this is not the most common transmission route.\n\nIt occurs mostly in remote areas, near tropical rainforests.\n\nThe country has had sporadic cases since an outbreak in 2017. The virus was found mainly in the south of the country but, since 2020, it has spread to central, eastern and northern areas, the World Health Organization says.\n\nOut of the 21 confirmed cases this year, there has been one reported death of a person who had underlying conditions. But earlier this week the health authorities said \"there has been no evidence of any new or unusual transmission of the virus, nor changes in its clinical manifestation documented\".\n\nScientists are struggling to explain a recent rise in monkeypox cases in Europe, which have not been linked to travel to the African countries where it is endemic. But there are suggestions the virus has been spreading from person to person for some time undetected.\n\nMonkeypox can be spread when someone is in close contact with an infected person. The virus can enter the body through broken skin, the respiratory tract or through the eyes, nose or mouth.\n\nThose infected in the UK have been advised to avoid having sex while they have symptoms.\n\nThe animals that can pass on the virus are infected rodents, including rats and squirrels. According to health experts, this can happen if someone is bitten or touches an infected animal.\n\nBushmeat refers to any wild animal that is killed for consumption, including antelopes, chimpanzees, fruit bats, rats, porcupines and snakes.\n\nIn some remote areas of Nigeria it is a vital source of food, while in others it has become a delicacy.\n\nThere are many bushmeat markets in Nigeria and it is unclear how the ban will be implemented.\n\nThe ministry of agriculture also directed vets and its other officials to increase surveillance aimed at detecting any possible cases of monkeypox in animals.\n\nOperators of zoos, parks, conservation areas and recreational centres were reminded to make sure there was no contact between animals and humans", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nUefa has apologised to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans caught up in events around the Champions League final and said it must not happen again.\n\nLiverpool fans described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at last Saturday's showpiece game.\n\nReal Madrid have asked for answers on the \"series of unfortunate events\".\n\n\"No football fan should be put in that situation, and it must not happen again,\" said a Uefa statement.\n\n\"Uefa wishes to sincerely apologise to all spectators who had to experience or witness frightening and distressing events in the build-up to the Uefa Champions League final at the Stade de France on 28 May 2022 in Paris, on a night which should have been a celebration of European club football.\"\n\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron said ticket holders who were blocked from entering the stadium by security staff must be reimbursed \"as fast as possible\".\n\nMacron said: \"I have a thought for the families who have been pushed around, who have not been able to access the seats they had paid for.\n\n\"I have asked the government to clarify what happened, to determine the responsibilities and to explain them in detail to our compatriots, the British and the Spanish.\"\n• None What happened at the Champions League final?\n\nEuropean football's governing body had previously announced that an independent review of what happened in the build-up to the final, and what lessons should be learned, would be led by Dr Tiago Brandao Rodrigues from Portugal.\n\nFrench authorities and Uefa had blamed late arrivals and fake tickets for chaotic scenes outside the Stade de France, which caused the match to be delayed by more than half an hour.\n\nPolice used tear gas and pepper spray on some fans. It has also emerged that supporters were targeted by local gangs.\n\nFrance's interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, said only English fans had caused problems at the final.\n\n\"The review will seek to establish a full picture and timeline of what occurred during the day, both within the stadium and the surrounding areas, including examining spectator flows to the stadium via the various access points,\" added Uefa's statement.\n\nLiverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish said the apology was \"a start\" but added: \"There is still a long way to go.\n\n\"This apology doesn't cover the false message about the late kick off, events at the fan park, or what happened in the aftermath.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Real Madrid issued a statement asking for answers about \"unfortunate events\" at the game, which the Spanish team won 1-0.\n\nThey also want to know why the Stade de France was chosen for the game and who was \"responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless\".\n\n\"Football has transmitted an image to the world which is far away from the values and goals which it should pursue,\" said the statement.\n\nReal Madrid cited \"unfortunate events\" which took place \"in the surroundings of and at access points to the Stade de France, and even inside the stadium itself\" and added their fans \"fell victim to said events\".\n\nThey added: \"We would like to know the reasons which led to this venue being chosen to host the final and the criteria used, taking into account the experiences of the day.\n\n\"Furthermore, we call for answers and explanations in order to determine those responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless. Fans who in general terms showed exemplary conduct at all times.\n\n\"We believe something which should have been a wonderful festival of football for all fans who attended the game, quickly turned into a series of unfortunate events which have caused a sense of outrage around the world.\n\n\"As was evident in the revealing images published by the media, several fans were attacked, harassed, assaulted and robbed in violent fashion.\n\n\"These occurrences continued as they moved in their cars or buses, causing concern for their physical wellbeing. Certain fans even had to spend the night in hospital as a result of injuries.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Our fans and supporters deserve a response and those responsible to be held accountable in order for events like these to be eradicated from football and sport in general.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan called the comments by France's interior minister blaming English fans \"disgraceful\".\n\n\"My response to the French minister's comments again, as I said earlier in the week, is just one of disbelief frankly,\" added Hogan.\n\nHe said 6,500 fans had responded to a request by the Premier League club, asking supporters who attended the final to complete a feedback form in order to support any investigation into the operational management of the event.\n\n\"The pain, the grief, the harm, the hurt that [fans] suffered on Saturday, and now to be told by a French minister that only Liverpool fans have been a problem, it's just disgraceful,\" said Hogan.\n\n\"We've written to Uefa again and we've raised specific questions - 13 specific questions - that we'd like them to clarify around the details of this investigation,\" said Hogan.\n\n\"We just feel it's incredibly important that we get this investigation going, frankly that we get it launched immediately.\"\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jubilee beacons lit up across the globe\n\nThe Queen will not attend Friday's Jubilee service at St Paul's Cathedral after experiencing discomfort while watching Thursday's parade at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe decision was made with \"great reluctance\" after considering the \"journey and activity required\", the palace said.\n\nHowever, she did take part in a beacon lighting ceremony on Thursday evening.\n\nFour days of celebrations marking the Queen's 70-year reign began earlier.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch appeared twice on the Buckingham Palace balcony, flanked by other senior royals, as they watched a military parade and waved at thousands of well-wishers gathered on The Mall.\n\nHours after the ceremony, the palace confirmed she would not attend Friday's thanksgiving service, but said she \"would like to thank all those who made today such a memorable occasion\".\n\nThe next Jubilee event the Queen is due to attend is the derby at Epsom race course on Saturday, although it is yet not known whether she will still appear at the horse race.\n\nAt dusk on Thursday the Queen took part in a beacon-lighting event, touching a symbolic globe to start the ceremony\n\nThe Queen set off a river of lights which lit the principal beacon, rounding off the first day of celebrations\n\nThe service at St Paul's in central London will give thanks for the Queen's seven decades as monarch.\n\nSenior royals including the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will all attend, with Prince Charles officially representing the Queen.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex - who have flown over from California - will also join. It will be Prince Harry and Meghan's first royal event together since leaving the UK two years ago.\n\nHowever, Prince Andrew will be absent after testing positive for Covid.\n\nThe royals will be joined by more than 400 honours recipients, including NHS and key workers, public servants and representatives from charities and the Armed Forces.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will give a reading from the New Testament, while the sermon will be given by the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe largest church bell in the UK, the 16-tonne Great Paul, will ring continuously for four hours after the service. The event begins at 11:30 BST on Friday, with coverage starting on BBC One from 09:15.\n\nOther political attendees will include Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, cabinet members, former prime ministers and the leaders of the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nYoung people representing countries where the Queen is head of state will lead an 'Act of Commitment' to celebrate her life and reign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Soak up the atmosphere on The Mall in the highlights of Thursday's Jubilee celebrations\n\nThursday evening's beacon lighting event saw the Queen symbolically touch a globe to begin the ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe head of state illuminated the globe, sending a chain of lights from her Windsor Castle home to Buckingham Palace, where Prince William watched as a sculpture, the Tree of Trees, was bathed in light.\n\nThousands of beacons were also lit across the UK and the Commonwealth to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nBeacons were visible around Scotland to mark the occasion, with tributes being lit at landmarks from Edinburgh Castle to Ben Nevis - Britain's highest mountain.\n\nOne of the main flames to be lit in Wales was outside the Pierhead building in Cardiff Bay, where the evening's celebrations were capped with a firework display over the water.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 13 beacons were lit at Enniskillen Castle, while the building was illuminated purple and two beams of light were projected into the night sky.\n\nIn Wales, a striking dragon-shaped beacon was lit in Bagillt, Flintshire\n\nA beacon being lit at Enniskillen Castle in Northern Ireland\n\nThe service is not the first engagement the Queen has had to miss in recent months because of health problems.\n\nIn May, she missed the State Opening of Parliament because of \"episodic mobility problems\" and in February she caught Covid, which she said left her feeling \"very tired and exhausted\".\n\nWhile the Queen seemed delighted, the noise of the 70-aircraft flypast was too much for four-year-old Prince Louis\n\nThousands of people flocked to The Mall in the June sunshine to celebrate\n\nThe Queen will have pulled out of the thanksgiving service only with very great regret.\n\nShe has a deep religious faith and the service at St Paul's Cathedral would have been one of her highest priorities for the weekend.\n\nIt was thought that she was more committed to attending the church service than many of the weekend's events.\n\nBut Thursday's exertions have left her suffering from discomfort, with a recurrence of the mobility problems that have caused her to cancel events before.\n\nNow it seems the journey to St Paul's, a procession and the length of the church service have become too difficult.\n\nIt's at short notice, with the programme for the church service already printed. So it will leave a real sense of loss to have the Queen, the focal point of the service, no longer attending.", "The UK government's push to revive imperial measurements is \"utter nonsense\" and will cost businesses, a leading retail boss has said.\n\nThe government has launched a review of how traders can use the UK's traditional weighing system for goods.\n\nBritish shops had to use metric measurements under EU rules, with the option to show imperial equivalents - pounds and ounces - alongside.\n\nBut critics say the review is nostalgic and could burden businesses.\n\nAsda chairman and Tory peer Lord Rose said promoting the use of imperial measurements post-Brexit would only please a \"small minority who hark for the past\".\n\n\"It's complete and utter nonsense and it will add cost to those people who have to put it into place,\" Lord Rose told Times Radio.\n\nHe added: \"We have got serious problems in the world and we're now saying let's go backwards. Does anybody in this country below the age of about 40 know how many ounces there are in a pound?\"\n\nLord Rose headed the anti-Brexit Stronger in Europe campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum.\n\nUnder EU rules from 2000 copied over after Brexit, traders can use imperial measurements alongside metric, but they cannot be more prominent.\n\nIn September, the government said it would review these rules as part of broader plans to reshape UK law after Brexit, and legislate \"in due course\".\n\nOn Friday - the second day of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations - the government launched a consultation on \"how to implement a change to the law on weights and measures\".\n\nThe consultation would help ministers consider whether goods should be \"sold in pounds only, or in pounds with a less prominent metric equivalent\", the government said.\n\n\"There is no intention to require businesses to change their existing practices and so this will not place greater costs on businesses\", the government said.\n\nThe government said the announcement was \"not just about pounds and ounces, but about where the UK's laws are made\".\n\nAs part of the announcement, the government also published guidance for businesses who want to put a crown symbol on pint glasses.\n\nThe symbol used to show that a glass accurately measured a pint in the UK. In 2006, EU legislation implemented the CE mark as the symbol of an accurate measure on pint glasses.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said restoring the crown symbol to pint glasses would be a \"fitting tribute\" to the Queen.\n\nBut in new guidance, the government admitted the crown symbol would only be a \"decorative measure\", with glasses still required to have legal conformity markings.\n\nIt is also the case that pint glasses were allowed to have \"stylised\" crowns in addition to the CE legal marking when the UK was a member of the EU.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine said the renewed focus on imperial measurements was a \"deflection tactic\".\n\n\"Businesses are really struggling to cope with soaring energy bills and staff shortages after a tough couple of years during the pandemic,\" Ms Jardine said. \"They need real targeted support to stay afloat, not a push towards imperial measurements or a different symbol on a glass.\"\n\nA Labour spokesperson said the party would cut costs for businesses and consumers, instead of making changes to measurement rules.\n\n\"Labour backs British firms and will make Brexit work for them and consumers,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who won a landslide election victory in 2019 after campaigning for Brexit, has long backed a revival of imperial units.\n\nHis leadership has come under pressure in recent days since the publication of a highly critical report about lockdown parties in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe report, by senior civil servant Sue Gray, criticised \"failures of leadership\" and examined parties attended by Mr Johnson, who was fined by the police for attending one event in June 2020.\n\nTwelve Conservative MPs have publicly called on Mr Johnson to quit since the release of the report, bringing the total to almost 30.\n\nOn Friday, the prime minister received a mixed reception of boos and cheers from crowds outside St Paul's Cathedral, where he attended a thanksgiving service for the Jubilee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie", "Homes have been badly damaged in strikes on cities such as Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine\n\nRussia now appears to have the initiative over Ukraine in the battle for the Donbas, in the country's east, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said.\n\nOn the war's 100th day, the UK said Russia holds 90% of the Luhansk region - half of the Donbas - and is likely to complete control of it in two weeks.\n\nIt said these tactical successes had been achieved \"at significant resource cost\" with the concentration of forces.\n\nBut it said none of Russia's original war objectives had been achieved.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Moscow's forces are now in control of 20% of Ukrainian territory, with a front line that extends for more than 1,000 km (621 miles).\n\nOn Thursday, Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Western nations must be prepared to support Ukraine over the long haul, as the conflict becomes a \"war of attrition\".\n\nIn its most recent count of civilian casualties on 2 June, the UN said it had recorded 4,169 deaths and 4,982 injuries - including 67 deaths of children.\n\nBut it said the true total was likely to be considerably higher as it has not yet been able to confirm deaths in some regions where the fighting is intense - such as Mariupol in southern Ukraine, where officials estimate 21,000 civilians have been killed.\n\nAssessing the 100-day conflict so far, the UK's Defence Intelligence, part of the Ministry of Defence, said Moscow had failed in its initial objectives of seizing Ukraine's centres of government and the capital, Kyiv.\n\n\"Staunch Ukrainian resistance\" and the failure to secure Hostomel airfield near the capital during the first 24 hours led to the Russian assault being pushed back, the intelligence update said.\n\nIt also said Russian forces suffered from \"false planning assumptions\" and \"poor tactical execution\".\n\nBut since it changed its strategy to focus on the Donbas, the region in south-eastern Ukraine where Russian-backed separatist groups have been fighting for eight years, Moscow has begun \"achieving tactical success\", the UK said.\n\n\"Russian forces have generated and maintained momentum and currently appear to hold the initiative over Ukrainian opposition,\" the intelligence update said.\n\n\"Russia controls over 90% of Luhansk Oblast and is likely to complete control in the next two weeks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Russian TV has reported the 100 days of the Ukraine war\n\nThe UK intelligence assessment said Russia had not been able to \"generate momentum or movement\" on other fronts and is on the defensive in other parts of the conflict.\n\nAchieving \"any form of success\" in the war will require \"continued huge investment of manpower and equipment\" and is likely to take a considerable amount of time, the assessment concluded.", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Russian forces have seized 20% of his country's territory, as Moscow's invasion nears its 100th day.\n\nAddressing lawmakers in Luxembourg, he added that the front line extended for more than 1,000km (621 miles).\n\n\"All combat-ready Russian military formations are involved in this aggression,\" he told MPs via videolink.\n\nRussian forces have been intensifying attacks on the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nUK defence officials say Russia has seized most of the city and are making \"steady local gains, enabled by a heavy concentration of artillery\".\n\nSeverodonetsk is the easternmost city under Ukrainian control and regional governor Serhiy Haidai said Russia was trying to break through defences in the city \"from all directions\".\n\nHowever he said Ukrainian troops were carrying out counter-attacks, \"pushing back the enemy on some streets and taking several prisoners\".\n\nIntense street-to-street fighting in the city had hampered evacuations, he said, describing such efforts as \"extremely dangerous\".\n\nIn a video address late on Thursday evening, Mr Zelensky said the situation in Donbas had not changed significantly that day but that Ukrainians had experienced \"some success\" in battles in Severodonetsk.\n\nSome 15,000 civilians remain trapped in the city, with many of them taking shelter at the massive Azot chemical plant.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Zelensky accused Russia of \"madness\" after its troops allegedly targeted the site during an artillery barrage.\n\nFurther south, the mayor of the occupied city of Mariupol has accused Russian forces of executing civil servants who have refused to collaborate with the new Moscow-backed city authority.\n\nVadym Boychenko, who was evacuated from Mariupol before it fell, said dozens of residents were being held at the Olenivka Prison and that he had received reports of locals being tortured by occupying forces. The BBC cannot verify these allegations.\n\nLast week an adviser to Mr Boychenko told CNN that at least 22,000 people had been killed during Russia's siege and bombardment of the city.\n\nIn the north-east, Russian shelling killed a woman and injured a man in Kharkiv, regional officials said.\n\nAnd in western Ukraine five civilians were hurt in missile strikes on Lviv, regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said.\n\nWestern leaders are also stepping up sanctions against key allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nUS Treasury Department officials unveiled a new raft of sanctions on Thursday, with targets including several yachts allegedly linked to Mr Putin and a cellist who allegedly acts as a middleman for the Russian leader.\n\nUS officials will seek to seize two vessels, the Russian-flagged Graceful and the Cayman islands-flagged Olympia, which were identified as personal assets of Mr Putin.\n\nThe cellist, Sergei Roldugin, is allegedly a custodian of the Russian president's offshore wealth.\n\nFive oligarchs with links to Mr Putin as well as Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova will also have any US assets frozen and are barred from doing business with US-based corporations.\n\nSergei Roldugin is allegedly a custodian of the Russian president's offshore wealth\n\nEU diplomats are said to have finalised a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow.\n\nThe sanctions, which include a limited ban on Russian oil imports, were reportedly agreed after officials accepted a Hungarian request to remove the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, from the list of targets.\n\nThe president of the European Parliament also announced a ban on Russian lobbyists entering the chamber's campus.\n\nRoberta Metsola wrote on Twitter that she was keen to deprive Moscow's representatives of the ability \"to spread their propaganda & false, toxic narratives about the invasion of Ukraine\".\n\nOn Wednesday President Joe Biden announced that the US would supply Ukraine with new long-range missiles capable of hitting targets at distances of up to 70km (45 miles).\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the US and its allies of intentionally prolonging the war and of \"adding fuel to the fire\" with the deliveries.", "Johnny Depp entering the Sage concert hall in Gateshead before Thursday's show\n\nJohnny Depp put his court battle with ex-wife Amber Heard behind him in his first public appearance since the verdict, playing a gig in Gateshead.\n\nThe actor and musician joined guitarist Jeff Beck on the latest leg of his UK tour to the delight of hundreds of fans at the Sage venue on Thursday.\n\nBeck also revealed Depp's next career move, an album that the pair will release together next month.\n\nThe gig came a day after Depp won the high-profile US defamation case.\n\nHe was absent from the Virginia court when the jury decided Heard's claim that she was a victim of domestic abuse was defamatory and false. Instead, Depp was spotted on Wednesday evening in a Newcastle pub with Beck.\n\nAfter the verdict, he released a statement saying he was looking forward to \"a new chapter\". That started on Thursday, when he joined the guitar legend on stage for eight songs.\n\nDepp also appeared with Jeff Beck at the Royal Albert Hall in London earlier this week\n\nA relaxed Depp did not speak about the trial on stage, but Beck referred to it, saying: \"What a result.\"\n\nThe British guitarist told the crowd: \"I met this guy five years ago and we've never stopped laughing since. We actually made an album. I don't know how it happened. It will be out in July.\"\n\nThe pair have previously released a cover of John Lennon's Isolation, which was among the tracks Depp sang on Thursday. He also fronted covers of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, The Everly Brothers' Let It Be Me, Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing and Killing Joke's The Death and Resurrection Show.\n\n\"I think he was having fun,\" said one fan, James Pallister, 32, from Newcastle, afterwards. \"He looked really happy. He seemed to be in a great place.\n\n\"He's playing music, doing something really fun, and I think that that came across. The crowd was behind him and I think he gave people what they wanted to see. It's great to see him in Newcastle.\"\n\nThe Pirates of the Caribbean star told the trial that music was his first love, above acting. Some concertgoers said they were pleasantly surprised by his singing and guitar playing, even if his musicianship was put in the shade by Beck.\n\nReputation: Depp v Heard. Watch key moments from the trial on iPlayer.\n\nRegarded as one of the greatest guitarists ever, the one-time Yardbirds star first invited the Hollywood idol on stage with him last week, and Depp will now join all of Beck's remaining dates.\n\nThe US star got loud cheers from many in the crowd - but others were not impressed by his presence, and the frenzy around Depp has left Beck in some ways as the support act on his own headline tour.\n\n\"Jeff Beck was excellent,\" said Nick Rowe, 64, from Newcastle, who bought tickets two years ago before the tour was delayed by Covid.\n\n\"The thing that spoiled the whole night was the talentless Mr Depp. He was like a drunken pub singer at one point. I don't know what Jeff Beck's thinking of.\"\n\nThere were no critics of Depp among the few hundred outside the Sage, most of whom did not have tickets for the gig but who waited to show their support for the actor.\n\nFans waited for hours outside the venue to get a glimpse of Depp\n\nHe eventually repaid them by signing autographs and speaking to his die-hard fans at the venue's stage door after the concert.\n\n\"I'm over the moon. I'm so happy,\" said Curtis Charlton, who had waited since 08:00. \"He's a really nice guy. He spent so much time with the little kids at the front speaking to everyone and getting everything signed. He's an absolute legend.\"\n\n\"I'm absolutely buzzing,\" said another fan, called Gage, who had been outside the venue since 21:00 on Wednesday. \"I could honestly cry. I'm ready to go home and go to bed and I am so happy.\"\n\nMiya Wright, 28, snapped up tickets for the Gateshead concert as soon as she saw that Depp had joined Beck on stage in Sheffield at the weekend.\n\n\"I've been a huge fan of his since I was about 10,\" she said. \"And this is just mind-boggling that he's here.\"\n\nThe trial gave an insight into Depp's personal life that was at times unflattering, despite his victory regarding the central allegation of domestic abuse.\n\nHeard also won one of her defamation claims against him, and two years ago a UK judge decided a claim that he was a wife-beater was \"substantially true\".\n\nBut for his army of fans, Wednesday's main verdict vindicated him and the long, often unseemly battle with Heard has not tarnished his image in their eyes.\n\n\"I don't think that he's been a perfect saint, but I don't believe the allegations that she put forward,\" Ms Wright said. \"I was always on his side.\"", "The Queen has appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony as part of official celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch was seen inspecting troops returning from the Trooping the Colour ceremony.\n\nShe was joined by her cousin, the Duke of Kent, and was greeted by cheers from the crowds.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nRafael Nadal reached the French Open final after his opponent Alexander Zverev needed to be taken off court in a wheelchair following a nasty fall.\n\nThe third seed screamed in pain when he went down on the baseline after turning his right ankle on the final point of the 12th game of the second set.\n\nFifth seed Nadal was leading 7-6 (10-8) 6-6 when Zverev left the court.\n\nNadal will play Casper Ruud in Sunday's final after the Norwegian beat Marin Cilic in Friday's second semi-final.\n\nAfter Zverev's injury a concerned Nadal went round to check on his opponent as a medic raced on to the court to help the German.\n\nAfter a short break, Zverev returned on crutches and was given a warm hug by Spain's Nadal before the crowd rose in a standing ovation.\n\n\"It is very tough and I feel very sad for him,\" said 13-time champion Nadal.\n\n\"He was playing an unbelievable tournament. I know how much he is fighting for a Grand Slam - he will win more than one. I wish him all the very best.\n\n\"It is difficult to say a lot of things in this situation. For me to be in the final of Roland Garros is a dream but at the same time to finish that way is not nice.\n\n\"I was in a small room with Sascha [in the treatment room off court] and to see him crying was a tough moment.\"\n\nOn his 36th birthday, Nadal has become the second oldest men's singles finalist in French Open history behind American Bill Tilden, who was 37 when he was runner-up in 1930.\n\nZverev's fall was a dramatic and heartbreaking end to a semi-final battle that had been intriguing if not compelling.\n\nThe 25-year-old German had lost the first set after being unable to take any of four set points from a 6-2 lead in the tie-break.\n\nAfter missing the chance to serve out the second set, producing three double faults at 5-3, Zverev showed resilience to regroup.\n\nIn a set full of suspense, if not quality, he was about to have the opportunity to level in another tie-break.\n\nInstead his ambitions of becoming a Grand Slam champion - at least now - were ended in the cruellest manner.\n\nThe seriousness of the situation was immediately clear, with Zverev screaming and signalling for help as he lay on the ground.\n\nMedics quickly arrived and it seemed obvious he would not be able to continue once the wheelchair was called for.\n\nA sombre mood hung in the air as the 15,000 crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier waited for news and it came when Zverev returned on crutches to shake hands with umpire Renaud Lichtenstein.\n\nAlmost the entire stadium stood up to give Zverev a thunderous round of applause, the player responding by lifting one of his crutches into the air.\n\nThe unexpected ending brought an end to a scrappy match that had already lasted three hours and 13 minutes without the second set being concluded.\n\nNadal, who continues to battle a chronic foot injury, was far from his best in the opening set but showed his brilliance in the crucial moments to help win it.\n\nThe 21-time Grand Slam champion walked out to the match amid huge applause, before the crowd serenaded him with a rendition of 'Joyeux Anniversaire' - 'Happy Birthday' in French.\n\nThe party atmosphere quickly changed. Zverev broke Nadal's serve in the opening game of the match, with Nadal struggling on the slower conditions in humid conditions under the Chatrier roof on a rainy Paris afternoon.\n\nZverev moved 4-2 ahead with a service hold to love, showing his high level of confidence with powerful winners.\n\nBut he got tight when serving at 4-3 and Nadal broke as part of a run of three successive games that left Zverev serving to stay in the opening set.\n\nThe German came under pressure again, fending off three set points which his errors had helped create. But he survived, although he was then unable to take either of two break points himself in the 11th game.\n\nIt was left to a tie-break to separate the pair, where Nadal produced two forehand winners at crucial times that were almost unworldly.\n\nNadal saved Zverev's third set point with a whipped crosscourt forehand which left most in the crowd in awe and jubilantly celebrating, sealing the set at the sixth opportunity with a sensational forehand winner down the line.\n\nA messy second set featured eight breaks of serve in the opening nine games. Nadal finally held serve for the first time in the set for 5-5 and another tie-break was necessary until agony struck for Zverev.\n• None Follow Cilic v Ruud in the other men's semi-final - live text & radio\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nRuud becomes first Norwegian into a Grand Slam singles final\n\nIn the second semi-final, Ruud fought back from a set down to beat Croatia's Cilic and reach his first Grand Slam final.\n\nEighth seed Ruud, who becomes the first Norwegian to reach a singles final at a Slam, won 3-6 6-4 6-2 6-2 against the 2014 US Open champion.\n\nCilic, 33, was playing in his first major semi-final since losing in the 2018 Australian Open final and made a fine start as he gained the opening set against a nervous-looking Ruud.\n\nBut Ruud, 23, broke Cilic's serve in the third game of the second set, although the Croat wasted three chances to get it back on serve in the 10th game of the set.\n\nCilic missed a number of overhead shots and started the third set badly, being broken in both of his two opening service games as Ruud took control.\n\nIn the sixth game of the third set, with Ruud 4-1 ahead, there was a 15-minute delay to the match after a protester got on to Court Philippe Chatrier and tied herself to the net.\n\nWhen the match restarted, Ruud finished off the third set and then broke Cilic's serve at the first available opportunity in the fourth on his way to the victory that sets up an encounter with Nadal.\n\n\"Rafa has been my idol all of my life,\" said Ruud. \"He is the last of the big three top players in the world that I've never played so it's perfect timing to play him in a Grand Slam final and it will be a special moment for me.\n\n\"He is playing a student from his academy so it's going to be a fun one. It's something I've dreamed of.\"\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "A former pupil of Fettes College has secured a settlement of £400,000 from the school after alleging he was abused by a teacher.\n\nIn evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the man known as Frank claimed he was beaten and sexually abused at the Edinburgh school.\n\nFettes has previously offered a \"full and unreserved apology\" to those who suffered abuse while at the school.\n\nFollowing the payment, the man said: \"It has never been about the money\".\n\n\"Fettes had the opportunity back in 2005 to do the right thing but they tried to bury things rather than do right by the pupils who were in their care,\" he added.\n\nFrank attended Fettes Junior School and Fettes College as a day student between 1975 and 1981.\n\nHe claims he was repeatedly sexually abused and physically assaulted in a classroom by the teacher.\n\nDescribing the teacher as \"brazen and sick\", he said: \"He'd molest me while I stood at his desk as he marked my class work and one day when I was kept back at end of class he pinned me against a door frame and assaulted me.\"\n\nThe man and his mother reported the final and worst sexual assault to the school at the time, but say the teacher was given a one-month sabbatical before being reinstated.\n\nSuffering from PTSD, flashbacks and depression, he reported the abuse again in the mid-2000s to police as well as the school but no action was taken.\n\nHe recalled being devastated by the response from each.\n\n\"They both basically told me 'What do you want us to do about it?',\" he said.\n\nFrank instead pursued a civil legal action against the Governors of the Fettes Trust, which manages the school, and his case has now settled out of court for the six-figure sum.\n\n\"I know I am not the only survivor of abuse at Fettes and I don't believe my attacker was the only teacher,\" he said.\n\nKim Leslie, a partner at Digby Brown Solicitors, led the legal action against the trust.\n\nShe said: \"Frank's strength in speaking out is matched only by his strength in taking those responsible to court.\n\n\"Many abuse cases have been raised against Fettes but I believe Frank's victory is the first that's publicly known to be successful so I hope survivors may take hope from this result as they consider their own route to justice to get the damages and recognition they deserve.\"\n\nLast year Fettes College was among several schools which offered apologies at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.\n\nSpeaking on its behalf, advocate Jonathan Brodie QC said the school wanted to make \"a full and unreserved apology to those who have suffered abuse whilst at Fettes\".\n\nHe said: \"Fettes accepts and recognises that in the past there have been occasions of sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse.\"\n\nIt is understood that an 82-year-old man is subject to Crown Office proceedings in relation to allegations of abuse at Fettes College.\n\nLast August BBC Scotland learned prosecutors were pursuing legal action to extradite the suspect from South Africa to Scotland to face trial.\n\nIt came after a group of former Fettes junior school pupils were told it was \"not in the public interest to prosecute\".", "Kuwait has summoned a top US diplomat in protest over tweets from the American embassy supporting LGBT rights, its foreign ministry says.\n\nUS officials there had posted a rainbow flag and message of solidarity from President Joe Biden for Pride month.\n\nBut Kuwait officials criticised the embassy for \"supporting homosexuality\" and demanded it didn't happen again.\n\nRights for LGBT people are severely restricted in Kuwait and it is illegal there for men to be gay.\n\nIn a pair of tweets published in English and Arabic on Thursday, the US Embassy in Kuwait quoted President Biden as saying all humans \"should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love\".\n\nThe post, published to mark the beginning of Pride Month, appeared with a picture of a rainbow flag symbolising LGBT rights.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by U.S. Embassy Kuwait\n\nHours later, Kuwait's Foreign Ministry said it rejected what had been published and had summoned the US Charges d'Affaires James Holtsnider to hand him a memorandum condemning the posts.\n\nAccording to its statement, the Foreign Ministry ordered the embassy to respect Kuwaiti laws and \"not to publish such tweets\".\n\nKuwaiti officials accused the embassy of violating international conventions requiring diplomats to \"respect the laws and regulations of the receiving state\".\n\nMany conservative Kuwaiti Twitter users responded with similar outrage to the US embassy's Pride post, including MP Osama Al-Shaheen who wrote: \"The behaviour of the American embassy is unacceptable.\"\n\n\"Foreign embassies must respect the public order of Kuwait and its official religion,\" he added.\n\nAnother Kuwaiti social media user accused US officials of \"imposing a diseased and decadent culture on our conservative Muslim society\".\n\nRights for LGBT people are extremely limited in socially conservative Kuwait - one of 69 countries in the world where being gay is criminalised.\n\nAccording to the Gulf state's penal code, men who have same-sex relations can be punished by up to seven years in prison.\n\nUntil this year, it was a criminal offence in Kuwait to be a trans person. A court has now overturned the law as unconstitutional.\n\nA US State Department spokesperson told the BBC: \"The United States proudly advances efforts around the globe to protect all individuals, including LGBTQI+ persons, from violence and abuse, criminalization, discrimination, and stigma, and to empower marginalized populations and local civil society, including the LGBTQI+ community.\"", "The Queen has appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony as part of official celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch was seen watching troops returning from the official Trooping of the Colour ceremony.\n\nEarlier, members of the Royal Family gathered in central London to attend the parade marking the Queen's official birthday.\n\nTrooping the Colour kicked off four days of celebrations for the Jubilee.\n\nFirst to appear were Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in a horse-drawn carriage - together with Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince Louis.\n\nPrince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte are the children of Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThey were followed by Prince Edward and Sophie, Earl and Countess of Wessex, and their children Viscount Severn and Lady Louise Windsor.\n\nPrince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester and a cousin of the Queen, and his wife Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester rode to the ceremony in another carriage, alongside Princess Anne's husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nThen Prince Charles, Prince William, and Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, appeared from Buckingham Palace on horseback for their central parts in Trooping the Colour. Prince Charles took the salute from guardsmen and officers at the parade.\n\nMeghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry joined other family who watched the ceremony from a balcony at Horse Guards Parade.\n\nAfter the ceremony, the family returned to Buckingham Palace. Then the Queen appeared on the balcony, with her cousin Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent.\n\nShe was then joined by senior royals for a second appearance on the balcony to watch an RAF flypast.\n\nOnly \"working royals\" and some of their children were invited to join the Queen. Seen here, from left to right: the Duke of Gloucester, and his wife Birgitte, Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent, Vice Admiral Tim Lawrence, Princess Anne, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, the Queen, Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge and her children Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and Prince George, Prince William, the Countess of Wessex, her son Viscount Severn, her daughter Lady Louise Windsor, and the Earl of Wessex.\n\nAs is often the case, the children on the balcony stole the show, in particular Prince Louis.", "Kate Bush reportedly let the song be used because she is \"a big fan\" of Stranger Things\n\nKate Bush's Running Up That Hill has gone back into the UK top 10 after a new generation discovered it thanks to Netflix's Stranger Things.\n\nThe song originally reached number three in the singles chart in 1985.\n\nThe track has taken off again after playing a prominent part in the new series of the 1980s-set streaming hit, and went to number eight on Friday.\n\nIt has been hugely popular on music services and TikTok since the show's fourth season was released last week.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe global resurgence has also seen it go to number two in Australia.\n\nAnd in the US, where it reached number 30 in 1985, the comeback should \"at least give its original chart peak a run for its money\", Billboard said.\n\nThe song is used in a number of episodes of the new series, and becomes crucial for the character of Max Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink.\n\nThe show's makers were unsure whether Bush would approve its use and the 63-year-old British singer-songwriter is \"selective when it comes to licensing her music\", Sony Music's Wende Crowley told Variety.\n\nBut it turned out Bush is \"a big fan of the show\", according to the US entertainment publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNetflix has said season four of Stranger Things, which again stars Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder, was watched for a record 287 million hours over its first weekend of release, breaking the streaming giant's record for the biggest ever premiere weekend for an English-language series.\n\nCritics described the new series as \"formulaic but fabulous\".\n\nBush's atmospheric pop ballad appears on the soundtrack alongside other retro hits including Talking Heads' Psycho Killer and Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).\n\nIt is not the first time Running Up That Hill has returned to the charts. It went to number six in 2012 after being used in the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.\n\nThis week, Harry Styles remained at number one for a ninth week with As It Was, while Liam Gallagher notched up his fourth chart-topping solo album with C'Mon You Know.", "London's historic Camden Market has been put up for sale.\n\nThe market's billionaire owner is reportedly hoping a deal will net him as much as £1.5bn.\n\nInvestment bank Rothschild & Co is overseeing the sale process, the BBC understands.\n\nThe 16-acre patchwork of more than 1,000 stalls, bars, shops, and cafes, in north London is a popular tourist destination.\n\nBut it has long been associated with counter-cultural movements, from punks to hippies, priding itself on the breadth of independent retailers selling fresh produce, trinkets, and arts and crafts.\n\nThe market sprung up out of a run-down timber yard in 1972, after it was purchased by two childhood friends.\n\nNow, it claims to attract 28 million visitors a year, and could be the subject of a potential bidding war as its Israeli owner, Teddy Sagi, looks to offload it after eight years of ownership.\n\nMade up of three separate zones - Camden Lock Market, Stables Market, and Buck Street Market - the estate also includes housing, co-working spaces, and a 35,000-sq-ft, three-floor leisure centre called Babylon Park.\n\nA selection of bidders have been contacted in the past week, according to the Financial Times, which first reported on the deal, with Mr Sagi - who made his money by founding and selling an online gambling company - hoping to field offers as high as £1.5bn for the area.\n\nSince 2014, when Mr Sagi first acquired property in Camden Market, many of the independent sellers have left the area, being replaced by more well-established brands.\n\nDrawn in by the youthful, anti-establishment atmosphere, waves of corporate giants from MTV to Santander have moved to the area in recent decades, changing the face of the neighbourhood.\n\nThe site was originally put up for sale by Mr Sagi in 2019 but was later taken off the market as the pandemic hit.\n\nThe businessman's latest venture in Camden is the Hawley Wharf redevelopment, which opened in August 2021 and promised to hark back to the area's golden days.\n\nThe corporate website for Camden Market describes it as a \"brand new new waterside destination of retail, leisure and food traders\", which \"reboots and restores Camden's chaotic charm\".\n• None Camden fire: 'It's our heart and soul'", "A man died after a car left the carriageway and overturned on the A47 near Little Fransham\n\nNorfolk Constabulary is being investigated following the death of a man after a police chase, the police watchdog has announced.\n\nOfficers were pursuing a Citroen C3 on the A47 near Little Fransham, at about 17:00 BST on 23 May when it left the carriageway and overturned.\n\nThe man, 43, of March, Cambridgeshire, died in hospital on 29 May.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it was in the \"early stages\" of its investigation.\n\nIOPC Regional Director Sal Naseem said: \"Our thoughts are with this man's family and friends, and all those affected by his death.\n\n\"There is a mandatory requirement for forces to refer to us incidents like this which result in death or serious injury and our investigation will thoroughly examine the circumstances of the police involvement, including whether appropriate policies and procedures were followed.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it had gathered initial accounts from officers involved and started a review of police body-worn footage, dashcam footage and CCTV.\n\nNorfolk Constabulary has been asked to comment.", "Michaela McAreavey on her wedding day in 2011\n\nTwo men have apologised for their involvement in a social media video appearing to show a group of people singing a song mocking the 2011 killing of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius.\n\nA statement issued by JWB Consultancy, a firm representing the men, said John Bell and Andrew McDade wished to \"apologise for the vile chant\".\n\nPoliticians from Northern Ireland's main parties have condemned the video.\n\nThe Orange Order has also launched an inquiry.\n\nIt described the video as \"utterly abhorrent\".\n\nPolice are examining the content to see if any offences had been committed.\n\nMichaela McAreavey, a 27-year-old Irish language teacher from County Tyrone, was killed while on honeymoon in 2011.\n\nHer widower, John McAreavey, continues to lead a campaign to bring her killers to justice, but so far no-one has been convicted over her death.\n\nHe tweeted that Mrs McAreavey was \"a vessel of love, courage and dignity\" and that \"hate can hurt but never win\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed when and where the footage was taken, but it was filmed in a room decorated with union flags and Orange Order paintings.\n\nThe statement issued on behalf of the men said: \"We offer our sincerest and deepest apology to the Harte and McAreavey families, and indeed to wider society for our actions which whilst fuelled by alcohol, can neither be mitigated or excused in any shape or form.\n\n\"Our apology is unequivocal, and our acceptance of wrongdoing is absolute.\n\n\"This behaviour is unreflective of the values of the Loyal Orders and the wider unionist and loyalist community.\"\n\nJWB Consultancy is run by loyalist campaigner Jamie Bryson, who has also condemned the video.\n\nA spokesman for the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland said the institution condemned the content of the video \"without reservation\".\n\n\"The behaviour of those involved and their actions have no place in our society and certainly do not reflect the ethos of our organisation.\n\n\"If any of those involved are found to be members of the institution, they will face disciplinary proceedings.\"\n\nSeparately the Belfast-based football club, Linfield, said one of its coaches who works with its players in a voluntary capacity \"can be clearly identified\" in the video.\n\nLinfield FC condemned the footage as \"deeply offensive\" and said the man's \"voluntary association with the club has been terminated with immediate effect\".\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said she has spoken to Mr McAreavey \"to offer solidarity to both the McAreavey and Harte families\".\n\n\"Hate and sectarianism have no place in our society. People deserve better. Love over hate will always win out,\" she added.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the video was \"vile\".\n\n\"It is plain wrong and is deeply hurtful to the family of Michaela McAreavey,\" he tweeted.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis described the video as reprehensible, and said those involved \"are completely thoughtless and only wish to cause harm\".\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie described the footage as \"absolutely abhorrent, disgusting and shameful\".\n\nAlliance assembly member Kate Nicholl said: \"How her poor family must feel. I have reported to the police.\"\n\nMP Claire Hanna, from the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) tweeted she was: \"Appalled. Speechless, almost, at the depths some plumb. Thinking of the McAreavey family circle who should never have been exposed to this hatred and depravity.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV leader) Jim Allister said: \"The video glorying in the murder of Michaela McAreavey is beyond disgusting, bringing shame and dishonour on all associated with such loathsome behaviour.\"\n\nMichaela graduated from Queen's University on the same day in 2006 that her father, Mickey Harte, received an honorary doctorate\n\nMrs McAreavey was found strangled in a bathtub at her honeymoon hotel 12 days after her wedding.\n\nShe was the daughter of former Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football manager Mickey Harte, who managed the County Tyrone team for 18 years.\n\nShe was married in her home village of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, on 30 December 2010.\n\nThe couple were staying in room 1025 of the Legends Hotel in Mauritius.\n\nOn 10 January 2011, Mrs McAreavey went to their room to collect biscuits and was not seen alive again.\n\nLocal police later said she had been strangled to death after disturbing intruders who broke into the room to steal money.", "The images were released by officers as they try to trace potential suspects\n\nCCTV images have been released after a statue of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was damaged after paint was thrown over it.\n\nThe newly-erected sculpture was put in place in St Peters Hill, Grantham, the home of the late Baroness who was born in the town in 1925.\n\nRed paint was thrown over the statue and a hammer and sickle were painted nearby, police said.\n\nIt was done on the evening of 28 May, Lincolnshire Police added.\n\nThe controversial bronze statue has seen eggs thrown at it, with the council installing CCTV overlooking the site in response.\n\nIt stands on a 10ft (3m) plinth to deter vandals.\n\nThe surface of the sculpture was damaged during the latest incident, which happened at about 23:10 BST on 28 May, police said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCCTV footage has been released to try to identify two people seen near the statue shortly before the damage was caused.\n\nThe bronze statue was originally destined for Parliament Square in Westminster\n\nA council-installed CCTV camera overlooks the bronze statue of the Iron Lady\n\n\"We hope that the distinctive clothing, build, and gait of the individuals could help lead to identification,\" police said.\n\nBoth people are dressed in dark clothing and have face coverings, with one person having white stripes running down their trousers.\n\nThe other person has dark shoes with a red Nike logo and white soles.\n\nAnyone with information, especially a cyclist who was in the area at the time, is asked to get in touch with the force.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "So far just 26 Ajax vehicles of nearly 600 have been delivered, despite the project being years over schedule\n\nThe government must either scrap or fix a troubled modern armoured vehicle programme - or risk compromising national security, a report has said.\n\nA review of the Ajax project by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) concluded a \"litany of failures\" had led to the years-long delays.\n\nSo far no operational vehicles have been delivered, despite the 12-year-old project already costing over £3bn.\n\nThe new reconnaissance vehicle was supposed to enter service in 2017.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it agreed with many of the recommendations and was taking steps to address them.\n\nIt added that any further delays would not be paid for by the taxpayer, due to the fixed price contract of £5.5bn agreed with a US weapons manufacturer.\n\nBuilt by General Dynamics, the Ajax armoured vehicles are supposed to provide the army with the latest cutting edge digital battlefield technology.\n\nSince the contract was signed in 2014, the project has delivered 26 reconnaissance vehicles out of a promised 589 vehicles - which can only be used for training.\n\nThe PAC report expressed scepticism that the Ajax programme could be delivered within existing contract arrangements.\n\nThe committee said delays had forced the military to make \"operational compromises\" like prolonging deployment of the Warrior armoured vehicle, which was first used in 1987.\n\nIt argues that the project has been poorly planned and managed, with major safety issues discovered during testing leading to the significant delays.\n\nAs of December 2021, more than 300 military personnel may have been harmed by excessive vibration and noise\n\nThe PAC said management of the Ajax project had been \"flawed from the outset\" and the MoD had \"once again made fundamental mistakes\" in planning and managing a major military equipment programme.\n\nThe committee also warned that the department still did not know when Ajax would enter service or if the noise and vibration problems could be solved - two years after first being raised.\n\nHowever, the army has said it is \"cautiously optimistic\" that Ajax can enter service by 2030.\n\nCommittee chairwoman Dame Meg Hillier said the government \"must fix or fail this programme, before more risk to our national security and more billions of taxpayers' money wasted\".\n\n\"These repeated failures are putting strain on older capabilities which are overdue for replacement and are directly threatening the safety of our service people and their ability to protect the nation and meet Nato commitments,\" she added.\n\nThe report also cautioned that further delays would increase the chances of continuing to miss targets, urging ministers to examine alternatives to the General Dynamics contract if it fails.\n\nA decision on whether to salvage or scrap the project entirely is expected by the end of the year.\n\nThe MoD said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace had been \"clear that Ajax is a troubled programme\" and their contract meant delays would not cost the taxpayer more.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We agree with many of the committee's recommendations and are actively taking steps to correct these.\"\n\n\"General Dynamics have received no payments under the contract in 2021 and 2022. No further payments will be made until we are satisfied with the future trajectory of the programme.\"\n\nThe Ajax project employs 800 people across two sites at Merthyr Tydfil and Oakdale in south Wales, as well as supporting more than 4,000 jobs across the UK.\n\nThe National Audit Office has previously warned there was a risk that troubles with the project \"might prove insurmountable\".", "Chinese military aircraft at an airshow in September 2021\n\nCanadian military aircraft operating in Asia have been repeatedly \"buzzed\" by Chinese jets at dangerously close distances, Ottawa says.\n\nCanada says that its aircrews have had to alter their path to avoid collisions while operating in international airspace near North Korea.\n\nIt has called the Chinese behaviour unprofessional and potentially risky.\n\nChina has not commented on the incidents, which Canada says are being addressed diplomatically.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he took the situation \"very seriously\" and had ordered officials to raise it with their Chinese counterparts.\n\n\"The fact that China would have chosen to do this is extremely troubling,\" he said, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nIn a statement, Canadian armed forces media relations chief Dan Le Bouthillier said that the incidents took place during Operation Neon, Canada's contribution to the implementation of United Nations sanctions against North Korea.\n\n\"In these interactions, PLAAF [People's Liberation Army Air Force] aircraft did not adhere to international air safety norms,\" Mr Le Bouthillier said.\n\n\"These interactions are unprofessional and/or put the safety of our RCAF [Royal Canadian Air Force] personnel at risk.\"\n\nThe Canadian aircraft involved - CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft - were operating from Kadena air base in Japan between 26 April and 26 May.\n\nMr Le Bouthillier added that in some instances, Canadian aircrew felt \"sufficiently at risk\" to quickly modify their own flight paths to avoid potential collisions. Chinese aircraft were reportedly close enough that their crews were \"very clearly visible\".\n\nWhile it is unclear when the buzzing incidents took place, Mr Le Bouthillier said that they are increasingly frequent.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to the Chinese government for comment.\n\nSimilar Chinese behaviour has been reported in the past by Canadian, US and other allied aircraft and vessels operating in the Pacific.\n\nIn 2017, for example, Chinese jets came within 150 feet (45 metres) of a US aircraft, a move that the US Air Force called \"unprofessional\".\n\nTwo years later, two Chinese fighters flew 1,000 feet (300 metres) past a Canadian warship.\n\nA state-owned Chinese newspaper later described the incident as a \"warm welcome\" for the Canadian forces by China's navy and air force.", "Mohammed Afzal Khan says a visit by the Queen in 2002 had a huge impact Image caption: Mohammed Afzal Khan says a visit by the Queen in 2002 had a huge impact\n\nThe thanksgiving service has been an opportunity to reflect on the Queen’s faith, but also on how she has sought to reach out to those with other beliefs.\n\nIn 2002, the Queen made the first visit by a monarch to a British mosque.\n\nThe timing of the visit, just months after the 9/11 attacks in the US, made the event all the more ground-breaking and it was headline news.\n\n\"The events of 9/11 affected us all,\" Mohammed Afzal Khan told me in the same small place of worship in Scunthorpe the Queen had been to.\n\n\"But as Muslims at that time, we were frightened and we needed some sort of support from someone - and that support came from the Queen.\"\n\nIn what he says was one of the most treasured moments of his life, Mr Khan presented a Quran to the Queen. He said the occasion instantly had a huge impact on thousands across the country.\n\n\"After her visit, we had the feeling that we (Muslims) were the same (as other British people) - that it doesn’t matter if anybody shouted \"terrorists\" at us, we're still British.\n\n\"Now if anyone ever says anything bad about the Queen, I will be very upset.\"", "The Queen pictured with Susan at Balmoral Castle, in 1952 - the year she became Queen\n\n1959: Queen Elizabeth II, aged 32 and a mother of two, sits designing a gravestone for her dog.\n\nSusan showed up on her 18th birthday, and would gatecrash her honeymoon a few years later, smuggled beneath a rug in the royal carriage after her wedding to Prince Philip.\n\n\"I had always dreaded losing her,\" the Queen wrote in her grief, \"but I am ever so thankful that her suffering was so mercifully short.\"\n\nThat Susan bit the royal clock winder and a young palace sentry is a matter of record, though her epitaph leaves out such indiscretions. She was buried in the pet cemetery at Sandringham, started by famously committed mourner Queen Victoria.\n\nSusan's gravestone stands in the pet cemetery at Sandringham, the Queen's Norfolk estate\n\nAn ending for one Pembroke Welsh corgi - but certainly not for Her Majesty, who was only just getting started.\n\nOver the next six decades, she would own more than 30 of Susan's descendants, single-handedly create a mass market for this stunted Welsh cattle dog, and accidentally invent the dorgi with the help of Princess Margaret's amorous dachshund, Pipkin.\n\nWhy corgis? The answer, which may resonate with parents, is that some friends had one in 1933 when Princess Elizabeth was seven years old, and she wanted one too.\n\nPembroke corgis were a familiar sight in Wales, but fairly new to England. The Duke of York, Elizabeth's father, approached a respected breeder named Thelma Gray who brought the family three puppies from her Rozavel kennels in Surrey to choose from.\n\nThey settled on a little corgi officially named Rozavel Golden Eagle, because he was the only one with a small stump of tail to wag - and they wanted to know when he was pleased. But the pup became known as Dookie, reportedly after the kennel staff heard the Duke of York was going to be his owner, and the nickname stuck.\n\nDookie was horribly behaved, biting courtiers and visitors with abandon - but that didn't stop a press photo of Elizabeth and the tiny tyrant charming the public and raising the Pembroke corgi's profile.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth pictured at Glamis Station with Dookie just after he joined the family\n\nAnother puppy, Lady Jane, arrived from the same breeder a few years later. Christmas 1936 then saw a royal PR coup in the form of a saccharine children's book - Our Princesses and Their Dogs - which styled the Yorks and their pets as \"one very human family\". The book, brimming with dog pictures and family values, went on sale just days before the Duke's elder brother abdicated, making him the new king.\n\nBuckingham Palace is extremely tight-lipped about anything to do with the Queen's dogs because they're seen as a \"private matter\". But it's clear the royals cottoned on early to the softening effect of a well-timed corgi.\n\nPrincess Elizabeth with her first corgis - Dookie and Jane - at her childhood home in Piccadilly, London, July 1936\n\nKennel Club figures show a clear spike in Pembroke corgi registrations in 1936, and another in 1944, the year Princess Elizabeth got Susan. She had made corgis cool, while they made her look warm.\n\n\"People - breeders - were servicing the market for a dog that has suddenly become very popular. It's the 101 Dalmatians effect,\" notes Ciara Farrell, the Kennel Club's Library and Collections Manager.\n\n\"You see it with advertising as well - the old English sheepdog on the Dulux advert in the 70s and 80s.\" Likewise, the Andrex puppy, a marketing masterstroke that's run for half a century.\n\nAway from the cameras, Princess Elizabeth and Susan were inseparable. Add to that a royal's awareness of lineage, and it's no surprise she turned to Thelma, provider of her childhood puppies, to find Susan a mate. Rozavel Lucky Strike was the dog for the job, and founded a line of Windsor Pembroke corgis which continued for 14 generations.\n\nAs well as being the Queen's much-loved pets, the corgis are a connection to her father, and a more carefree time. Every puppy after Susan was a way of keeping part of that with her, and a reminder that life and dynasties go on.\n\nWhile her husband Prince Philip spent a lifetime walking a little behind his wife, the corgis scamper ahead - revelling in a freedom denied to the Queen herself. Princess Diana is said to have coined the phrase \"a moving carpet\" to describe the jumble of dogs that preceded her. But the Queen herself calls them \"the girls\" and \"the boys\". In all her years of breeding, she has never sold any of her puppies. All stayed with her, or were given to breeders, relatives or friends.\n\nTwo of the Queen's dogs escort her through the door, as she greets a visiting New Zealand rugby team at Buckingham Palace in 2007\n\nThe corgis must go where the Queen goes - from palace to palace. This includes on helicopters, trains, and in limousines. At Christmas at Sandringham they each have their own stocking, filled by the Queen herself.\n\nBuckingham Palace has 775 rooms, but the corgis sleep inside the Queen's private apartment. As royal author Penny Junor writes in her book All The Queen's Corgis: \"There is a special corgi room where they have raised wicker baskets lined with cushions to keep draughts away.\"\n\nWalking them every day was a part of her routine before the mobility issues which have affected her in recent months. And in bygone years, she liked nothing more than piling the pack into an elderly Vauxhall estate, donning a headscarf, and setting off for a drive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Hammy and Olivia's owner on the breed's unique appeal\n\nA typical dog's life doesn't feature thousands of acres to roam, or lavish meals - prepared in the royal kitchens - of steak, chicken breast, vegetables and rice. But Junor believes that in some ways, corgis have given the Queen a precious point of contact with everyone else.\n\nShe writes: \"Dogs and horses are her passion and it is with them, and the people who share that passion, that she truly relaxes. Horses are a rich man's game but dogs are not. They are a great leveller, they attract people from all walks of life and, over the years, the Queen has had strong and genuine friendships with many of her fellow dog enthusiasts.\"\n\nIn some cases, when loved ones died she has even adopted their dogs. This included the Queen Mother's three corgis in 2002, and another - Whisper - who belonged to her former head gamekeeper at Windsor, Bill Fenwick, and his wife Nancy. The latter was a dear friend who helped with the Queen's corgi breeding for five decades, and one of the very few people whose calls were always put through to her no matter what.\n\nJunor also observes that the Queen, \"essentially a very shy woman\" who's required to talk confidently to strangers, uses the dogs to reduce her discomfort.\n\n\"Her family refers to it as 'the dog mechanism' […] If the situation becomes too difficult she will sometimes literally walk away from it and take the dogs out. Prince Andrew is said to have taken three weeks to fight his way past the dogs to tell his mother that his marriage to Sarah Ferguson was in trouble,\" she writes.\n\nWhich dog lover hasn't - at some point - declared them easier to deal with than people? (Pictured in 1970)\n\nThe Queen also deploys the dogs to put others at ease. War surgeon Dr David Nott described how the monarch got him through a lunch at Buckingham Palace when he had just returned from Aleppo, in war-torn Syria, and found himself unable to speak to her due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).\n\nThe Queen sensed something was wrong and said, \"Well, shall I help you?\" before calling for her corgis, Dr Nott said.\n\n\"All of a sudden the courtiers brought the corgis and the corgis went underneath the table.\" The Queen opened a tin of biscuits. \"And so for 20 minutes during this lunch the Queen and I fed the dogs. She did it because she knew that I was so seriously traumatised.\"\n\nBetween 1933 and 2018, the Queen always owned at least one corgi - but mostly it was many more than that. Prince Philip, who never shared his wife's fondness for the breed, was apparently heard to complain: \"Bloody dogs! Why do you have to have so many?\"\n\nAnd then there were the dorgis - initially the result of an illicit liaison between Princess Margaret's dachshund, Pipkin, and a corgi named Tiny in the 1970s. The Queen and Princess Margaret were so charmed by the outcome that they mated the dogs again, and about 10 dorgi pups were born over the years.\n\nThey've varied in appearance, with some ears pointing up, corgi-like, and others hanging down. But all of them had long tails and were smaller than pedigree corgis.\n\nWhen a royal photographer asked how the mechanics worked given the height difference between corgis and dachshunds, the Queen replied: \"It's very simple. We have a little brick.\"\n\nThe Queen strokes her dorgi Candy, as she looks at memorabilia from her Golden and Platinum Jubilees in January 2022\n\nThe Queen has received puppies as gifts in recent years, and based on an interview with Angela Kelly, the Queen's dresser and personal assistant, it appears she now has two young corgis named Muick and Sandy to keep her company. She was also pictured with her dorgi, named Candy, back in February.\n\nThe royal household's breeding programme is no longer running, however. The Queen is said to be unwilling to leave young dogs behind when she dies. If monarchy knows anything, it's that time comes for us all.\n\nHer Majesty is now 96 years old, meaning there are millions of people old enough to own dogs who have only ever seen her as a grey-haired grandmother and great-grandmother.\n\nAs a result, corgis came to be viewed as an old person's breed for a time.\n\nTheir ascendency peaked in the 1960s with almost 9,000 puppy registrations, as the public cooed over pictures of the Queen with her young family and dogs. But from the late 1990s in particular the decline is marked, and 2014 was their annus horribilis. With just 274 new registrations, Pembrokes trotted into the Vulnerable Native Breed category in the UK.\n\nBut then came Netflix, and salvation in the form of The Crown, whose first season in 2016 turned the clock back to the start of the Queen's reign. Sympathetically played by Claire Foy, whose nuanced performance included a litany of expressive ways to say the word \"oh…\", the youthful royal was frequently surrounded by a pack of corgis, as was Olivia Colman, her successor in the role.\n\nOlivia Colman in character as the Queen, with her co-stars\n\nFoy told Vanity Fair how the on-set dogs were bribed with treats and especially loved cheese, mulling: \"You sort of worry that they're going to have a heart attack when you're giving it to them. These Corgis are cheesed up to the max - they're eating like a whole block of cheddar every day. It's scary.\"\n\nNumbers rebounded, with corgi puppy registrations up by 16% in 2017 after the first season aired, and 47% in 2018 after the second. It wasn't just about The Crown. The James Bond skit starring the Queen and three royal corgis at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony also saw them tummy-roll back into the public consciousness.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Olympics This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nEven Bridgerton - Netflix's wildly popular Regency romp - inserted a historically improbable corgi into series 2. Co-star reviews included \"doesn't move if he doesn't have a treat\", but audiences loved him.\n\nSocial media has also been vital to the corgi renaissance, as Chris Equale, owner of TikTok stars Hammy and Olivia, knows well.\n\nChris, 34, launched a viral sensation pretty much accidentally in April 2020, with a video of his corgi Olivia barking at the vacuum cleaner. \"It got 250,000 views in just under 20 minutes,\" he remembers.\n\nTwo years and seven million followers later, he's made more than 700 talking corgi skits. They include a running joke about the dogs' war with \"the dragon\" (their dust-blitzing nemesis), and the vacuum company has piled in to sponsor content.\n\nAsked what it is about corgis that charms people, he replies: \"There's something very unique about a corgi - it's just a dog you really want to root for. They're the greatest herders you'll ever see! But if you look at them at first glance it's like, is it a dog, is it a loaf of bread? There's something so lovable about them.\"\n\nThe Kennel Club's Ciara Farrell agrees corgi anatomy is central to their kitsch appeal.\n\n\"One of the things is that people love a big ear - something you can lean into if you're making a soft toy. They're a spitz breed, so pointy in the face, brings that foxiness in. They look sort of tough but cute.\"\n\nMr Equale sees the Queen as \"the pioneer of the breed\" which he describes as looking like an oversized potato, enthusing: \"I've only had these two [Hammy and Olivia] for like… seven years? So to do that 10 times over is just fascinating. We're big fans of the Queen. If you're a fan of the corgi, you have some direct or indirect fandom.\n\n\"At a dog park it's always the first thing that comes out of a passer-by's mouth: 'Oh you know those are the Queen's dogs!'\"\n\nCorgis and the Queen: A branding partnership known the world over\n\nBut if the breed is inextricably tied to the monarchy in the public imagination, it seems the royals don't all see it that way.\n\nPrince Charles - the Queen's heir - once quipped that he prefers labradors, and is a long-time owner of jack russell terriers. The Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine, have a cocker spaniel.\n\nCan the breed expect another dip in popularity?\n\n\"I would hope not,\" says Ms Farrell. \"I think corgis have made great progress in recent years. They're always going to be the Queen's iconic dog. Even when she is no longer with us, people are going to see them and think of her.\"\n\nBut she believes that the more potential owners see corgis online, the less vital a royal association will be.\n\n\"There's going to be a generation of people who use social media who will find them characterful and fun. I think they're here to stay, definitely.\"", "There was violence outside the Stade de France after the Champions League final had ended\n\nA week has gone by but the stadium \"fiasco\" remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.\n\nAmong Liverpool fans whose translated testimony has been circulating widely on social media is UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett, who said he had \"never been so scared in my life … as when I came out of that ground on Saturday night\".\n\n\"At least when you are in a cage it is one against one,\" the mixed martial artist said.\n\n\"There were groups of 30 men, running around in big packs. Some of them had weapons: machetes, knives, bars and bats. People were being pinned to the floor and having their watches taken.\n\n\"I saw people having their handbags taken off them, when [the thieves] would pull the bag from them and then slice the [strap] with a knife.\n\n\"The only thing I can compare it to is something like the film The Purge - where you can do what you like for 12 hours. There were no laws.\"\n\nThe Purge depicts an American dystopia where every year all crimes including murder are decriminalised for half a day.\n\nReal Madrid football club added its voice yesterday to those calling for an investigation into the violence against its fans who, it said, had been left \"helpless and defenceless\".\n\n\"Many of our supporters were attacked, harassed, set upon, mugged. Some even had to spend the night in hospital because of their injuries,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nThe head of a French police union said his colleagues \"had never seen anything like it\".\n\n\"At the start the ones jumping through the turnstiles were mainly locals, but very quickly other profiles emerged. Minors or pseudo-minors, foreigners, ultra-violent types from God knows where. Then everything changed,\" Patrice Ribeiro of Synergie-officiers told Le Figaro newspaper.\n\n\"They were attacking women, children, old people, and then merging back into the crowd when the police came. Some victims actually had their clothes taken from them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Le Parisien This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe post-match violence threatens to be an issue in parliamentary elections that will be held in two rounds from next weekend - with conservative and far-right opponents of President Macron spotting a massive opportunity.\n\nFor them, the real story was less the failures of organization (though these undoubtedly existed) and certainly not hooliganism by Liverpudlians (of which there was next to no evidence) - but rather the eruption of more thuggery from the run-down high-immigration areas around Saint-Denis.\n\nMore outrageous yet was the government's clear reluctance to call this out, for fear (according to critics) of alienating centre-left opinion by \"stigmatising\" the people of the Paris suburbs.\n\nLittle wonder that far-right leader Marine Le Pen is using the fiasco to galvanise her electorate ahead of the parliamentary vote.\n\n\"France has offered up a spectacle of what it is becoming,\" she tweeted. \"A zone of general lawlessness.\"\n\nMs Le Pen has seized on the disorder to attack President Emmanuel Macron's administration\n\nIn fact Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) is not the main threat to Macron at these elections. The real threat is from the left, and a new alliance created behind the radical Jean-Luc Mélenchon.\n\nBut if the effect of the Stade de France is to draw disaffected right-wing voters away from the Macron camp (where they'd pitched their tents in order to keep out Mr Mélenchon) and towards the RN (because \"Marine told it like it is\"), then the president's advantage over the left is weakened.\n\nAnd that could tell when the results come in on June 19.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least four people were killed and about 30 injured when a train derailed in Germany's south-eastern state of Bavaria, police say.\n\nThe train, which was carrying many students, was heading to Munich when three carriages came off the tracks near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.\n\nInvestigators say they are working to establish what caused the accident.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz expressed shock at the incident and said his sympathy was with families of the victims.\n\nAn official from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen local authority had initially suggested that some 60 people had been injured, but Stefan Sonntag, a spokesperson for the German federal police, said that figure referred to the number of passengers on the train.\n\nThe accident happened at around 13:15 local time (11:15 GMT) on Friday, shortly after the train left Garmisch-Partenkirchen for Munich.\n\nMr Sonntag told reporters that 15 of the injured were in serious condition at a local hospital. Authorities also confirmed that a number of children were among those hurt.\n\nIt is unclear what caused the accident, which occurred as the train rounded a wide bend, but Bavaria's transport minister, Christian Bernreiter, told regional broadcaster BR that the accident may have been the result of a technical fault.\n\n\"There were no third parties involved here, so one must assume that some technical reason - either on the vehicle or on the rail - was the cause,\" he said.\n\nEmergency workers had to use ladders to climb down through windows to reach survivors trapped in upended carriages and officials said that people had been \"pulled through the windows\" to rescue them from the wreckage.\n\nSix helicopters, including three scrambled from the Austrian region of Tyrol, were sent to the scene to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nThe area has started preparations to host the G7 summit of world leaders later this month and a number of police and soldiers deployed to the region were enlisted as part of the rescue operation.\n\nA US soldier based at a nearby air base was driving past when the train derailed. He told local media the accident had been \"just awful - suddenly the train overturned\".\n\nThe accident comes as Germany launched a new discounted rail ticket and Mr Sonntag said the regional train was \"very crowded and many people were using it, hence the high number of injured\".\n\nPart of the route between Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been blocked off and traffic has been diverted, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn says.\n\nGermany's deadliest rail crash in modern times occurred in 1998 when a high-speed train derailed in Eschede in Lower Saxony, killing 101 people.\n\nThe country's most recent fatal crash took place in February, when one person was killed and 14 others were injured in a collision between two trains near Munich.\n\nIn a separate development, a carriage on an Italian high-speed train travelling from Turin to Rome derailed while approaching the capital.\n\nLocal emergency officials say nobody was injured in the incident, which saw the train's back carriage come off the tracks as it neared the Serenissima tunnel in Rome.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you see what happened? If it's safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Three dead in train crash near Czech-German border", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government's flagship counter-extremism Prevent strategy is failing to engage with Muslim communities, a government adviser has said.\n\nDame Sara Khan said a \"vacuum\" of information about its purpose had been left by the government, which was then being filled by Islamists.\n\nShe added the government must address the concerns of Muslim communities.\n\nDame Sara also said fears of racism accusations made some local authorities uncomfortable with tackling extremism.\n\nThe controversial Prevent scheme was launched in 2007 and was designed to stop people becoming terrorists and to reduce the terror threat to the UK by stopping people from being drawn into terrorism.\n\nIn the year to March 2020, just over 6,000 people were referred to the Prevent scheme in England and Wales, because of concerns they were at risk of radicalisation.\n\nHowever, it has long been criticised by some Muslim groups for what they see as an unfair focus on their communities.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, Dame Sara said the government had failed to explain what the counter-terror strategy is to Muslim communities, which \"in essence... left a vacuum\" about the purpose of the scheme to be \"dominated\" by Islamists.\n\n\"So those types of challenges have continued and I think continuing to engage with communities, explaining what the programme is, addressing concerns - that's got to continue in a much better way than we've seen previously,\" she added.\n\nDame Sara - a human rights campaigner who advises the government on social cohesion - has been a vocal supporter of Prevent, but has faced previous allegations of being too close to the Home Office.\n\nThis intervention, from an adviser admired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, comes as ministers are preparing to publish a review into how effective the strategy is.\n\nDame Sara, who now advises levelling up secretary Michael Gove on how local communities can counter extremism, also claimed that some groups have used accusations of Islamophobia as a cover for extremist practices.\n\nShe said she had seen examples of local councillors who felt unable to push back against the radicalisation of young Muslims.\n\nDame Sara is not the only Conservative critic of the scheme, with former justice secretary Robert Buckland arguing last year that it needs urgent work and a more \"joined up\" approach, following the killing of Sir David Amess.\n\nIt later emerged that the man suspected of killing Sir David had been referred to Prevent in the past.\n\nYou can listen to Political Thinking: The Sara Khan One on BBC Sounds", "JK Rowling owns Thistlelane Ltd, which has two big forestry estates in the Borders\n\nA firm controlled by Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been accused of preventing access to paths on forestry estates in the Scottish Borders.\n\nWalkers and mountain-bikers claim that navigating a historical six-mile right-of-way has been hampered by the firm.\n\nThistlelane Ltd owns the 290-hectare Sheperdscleuh estate as well as the 306-hectare Wardlaw estate.\n\nAgents for Thistlelane rejected accusations that right-to-roam legislation had been breached.\n\nRamblers enjoying the views from the Captain's Road before the access problems\n\nThe agents, Scottish Woodlands, confirmed that talks were ongoing with community groups and access officers over \"issues\".\n\nWalkers and community leaders claim Rowling's company erected no-access signs at gates on the trail known as Captain's Road, blocked efforts to erect way-markers, threatened to lock gates, and even planted trees across the route.\n\nMountain bike enthusiast Paul Collins, who lives in the Yarrow Valley, said \"We can't now walk or cycle the original Captain's Road because of forestry, and they keep raising concerns about using the nearby forestry road as an alternative route.\n\n\"We're now at the stage where we can't follow the Captain's Road because of the action of the landowners.\"\n\nMr Collins said forestry companies at nearby Glentress were opening up great swathes of land for walkers and mountain bikers but this small right-of-way over the hills above St Mary's Loch appeared to have been closed down.\n\nNo access signs have been put on gates along the route\n\nThistlelane Ltd is under the sole directorship of JK Rowling's husband, Dr Neil Murray, and lists the person with significant control - having at least three-quarters of the shares - as the author by her married name of Joanne Kathleen Murray.\n\nThe Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.\n\nIt is named after a Napoleonic War captain, called Napier, who bought and farmed the same hills in the early 19th Century.\n\nGordon Harrison at a section of the route for planting\n\nFollowing the arrival of modern-surfaced roads in the early 20th Century, it gradually became overgrown.\n\nWith the growth in popularity of rambling and off-road biking the Captain's Road began to be used more regularly as a way up into the hills from the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.\n\nIn 2019 a missing link was re-established, with public and grant funding from the local authority and other organisations.\n\nThe opening saw around 30 walkers cross the six-mile route - and over the following months many more hikers and bikers followed in their footsteps across the scenic pass.\n\nBut during the Covid pandemic \"no access\" signs appeared.\n\nGordon Harrison, who is a former chair of the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Council, took part in the original negotiations with landowners when re-establishing sections of the Captain's Road.\n\nHe said: \"The Captain's Road has been there for a long time and when the community decided to signpost it and resurface a section, the discussions with landowners were favourable.\n\nA lengthy section of the route through a peat bog has been ‘mounded’ for saplings\n\n\"We wanted to encourage people to visit the area and either walk or cycle the route between Tushielaw and St Mary's Loch - there are some spectacular views.\"\n\nBut Mr Harrison added: \"Something has happened and I don't know what, but more recently there has been continuous hurdles put up to prevent people using the route.\n\n\"The latest is them planting saplings across the right-of-way and not offering any alternative routes - those saplings will quickly become large trees and it will be impossible to walk or cycle through there.\"\n\nFrank Garton was also heavily involved with the project to re-establish the lost section of the Captain's Road.\n\nHe said: \"We are now at the stage where you can't use the right-of-way and we are not allowed to sign-post any alternative routes.\n\n\"The entire project to connect the two paths, as well as all the grant and public funding, has been a waste of time.\"\n\nThe right-of-way as identified by Scottish Borders Council\n\nScottish Borders Council's access officers are currently in negotiations with Thistlelane's agents, Scottish Woodlands, about the right-of-way issues.\n\nA site visit is also due to take place between the agents and community leaders in the coming days.\n\nCharlotte Cavey-Wilcox, from Scottish Woodlands, denied that access rights had been breached.\n\nShe said: \"We are currently liaising closely with Scottish Forestry, Scottish Borders Council and the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company to try and resolve the issues.\n\n\"Members of the public have a right to responsible access under Scottish legislation and the terms of the Scottish Outdoor Access code and these rights have not been restricted within Shepherdscleuch Forest.\"", "Discussions are being held about making free tickets available to Sunday's World Cup play-off to Ukrainian refugees\n\nA small number of free tickets to the Wales-Ukraine World Cup play-off final will be given to Ukrainian refugees.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) and the Welsh government are in discussions on how many will be made available for Sunday's game.\n\nHome tickets at the 33,000-capacity Cardiff City Stadium have sold out.\n\nThe FAW has also invited the Ukrainian ambassador to the game, and a welcome message will be waiting for the visiting team at Cardiff Airport.\n\nThe Welsh government is believed to be helping the FAW identify refugees who have fled the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nUkraine qualified for the play-off final on Wednesday by beating Scotland 3-1. Now they will play Wales, with the winners earning a place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nWales are hoping to qualify for the tournament for the first time since 1958, while Ukraine qualified for their first and only World Cup in 2006.\n\nThe Ukrainian FA has been allocated 5% of matchday tickets, with those expected to go on sale in the coming days.\n\nIt's thought a small number of tickets for refugees will be made available in addition to the standard visiting allocation.\n\nOleksandr Zinchenko put in a commanding performance as Ukraine beat Scotland 3-1 to go through to the play-off final against Wales\n\nUkrainians Svitlana Phillips and Maryna Farrell, who were living in Wales before the conflict began, had called on the FAW to give those fleeing the war with Russia the chance to see the game.\n\nMs Phillips, a Ukrainian who has lived in Swansea for 20 years and is married a Welshman, said it would be a \"fantastic\" thing to do.\n\nShe said: \"For the last few years, people in Wales have shown such generosity to the people of Ukraine.\n\n\"So I wouldn't be surprised if it comes to that, and there would be some tickets given away and Ukrainians can come and join and celebrate and have a cheerful day.\"\n\nSvitlana Phillips had urged the FAW to think about giving her compatriots tickets.\n\nMs Farrell, originally from Lutsk, moved to Wales 14 years ago. She was visiting family in Ukraine when the Russians invaded\n\n\"I've had probably about seven phone calls this morning trying to figure out ways of getting to the match,\" she said.\n\n\"I know that Cardiff City and the FAW have been very supportive in the past, so I'm really hoping there's something that can be done.\n\n\"There is a lot of people who have already come to Wales who would absolutely love to be part of the game on Sunday. I know it will be a very emotional time for them, but it will be an unforgettable moment.\n\n\"It would be a great distraction for everyone.\"\n\nSunday's game will be at Cardiff City Stadium, with the winners qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year\n\nShe has lived in Wales for 14 years, but will be supporting Ukraine.\n\n\"Having lived in Wales for so long I do consider myself Ukrainian-Welsh; however my roots are still in Ukraine,\" she said.\n\nMs Phillips said she and her husband were going to have to fight to decide whether a Ukrainian or Welsh flag would be erected.\n\nShe said: \"I am sure that Ukrainian people will be singing the Welsh anthem, and Welsh people will be singing the Ukrainian anthem, in support of recent events and in celebration of togetherness of what we have been through.\n\n\"Welsh people in the last three months have shown absolutely incredible generosity supporting Ukraine.\n\n\"So obviously it is very important for everybody around the world, what is going on in Ukraine, but at such an event like a football game I think it is going to bring people together, unite even more.\"\n\nWelsh fans had a big pre-match party before the Wales-Poland game and raised 5,000 zloty for refugees\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh fans in Poland have raised money for Ukrainian refugees who became stuck there after Russia's invasion.\n\nWales lost 2-1 in Wroclaw on Wednesday in the Nations League.\n\nTwenty young Ukrainian footballers went there for a football tournament in February, but were never able to go home.\n\nThe visiting supporters raised about 5,000 zloty (£930) to help support the refugees.\n\nThe Notice Me foundation, a charity which usually works with children with cancer, has been looking after the young footballers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, fan Tim Hartley, who went to the match, said: \"This is just our little thank you to the people of Poland, a little something for the children of Ukraine.\n\n\"To say we really do support you, it was great to see everybody, we raffled a shirt, we had a sing-song, we raised money. It was great to see the Welsh fans supporting the charity.\"\n\nThe children are slowly being joined by their mothers and their siblings, and the charity has been building a shelter for 200 children and women who are escaping the war.\n\nIt is hoped the \"Ukrainian House\" will help the children forget about the war, and will make them feel at home in Poland.\n\nGôl Cymru visited the Ukrainian House in Poland and met some of the children who are being supported there\n\nThe charity has been building bathrooms and kitchens, bedrooms and lounges. There will also be classrooms and a kindergarten for the younger children.\n\nJacky Devis from the British Embassy in Warsaw said: \"I am delighted to see that Gôl Cymru chose to donate the funds collected by the fans to Fundacja Zobaczmnie, this money will go towards vital work supporting children.\"", "The Royal Family and guests have attended a service of thanksgiving for the Queen at St Paul's Cathedral - but without the monarch herself. She is resting at Windsor Castle and is believed to have watched the service on television.\n\nMany politicians were among the guests, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie.\n\nAmong the first members of the Royal Family to arrive were Zara Tindall, the daughter of Princess Anne, and her husband Mike Tindall.\n\nPrince Andrew was not at the service because he has Covid, but both his daughters were there. Princess Beatrice arrived with her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.\n\nSoon after, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrived at the service. It was the first time they have been seen in public since coming to the UK from their home in California to attend the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThey were followed by Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence, and Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex and their children.\n\nPrince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, came without their children.\n\nThe last guests to arrive were the Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThe most senior members of the Royal Family sat together at the front.\n\nThe Wessex family, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice and Prince Harry, sat across the aisle.\n\nAfter the service, the family left in a procession.", "There is shelling every day in Mykolaiv. The Russians are on the outskirts to the east and south, pummelling surrounding villages and forcing thousands to flee.\n\nThe wail of the air raid siren is a prelude to a thud to our right as our car makes its way through the suburbs of this major port.\n\nA plume of smoke a few kilometres away confirms the hit - another rocket.\n\nWe are following a Ukrainian Red Cross van as they try to rescue some of those coming under regular shelling: yet another busload to add to the already historic human exodus from this country.\n\nThese farewells have become a familiar sight across Ukraine over the last 100 days, but they are no less heartbreaking to watch.\n\nLiudmyla has decided it is time for her youngest children to leave. She can't let them play outside as the bombardment continues and she wants them to be somewhere safe.\n\n\"I will see them again when the bombing stops,\" she tells me. But no-one knows when that will be.\n\nMykolaiv was one of the first cities attacked when the invasion began. Russian forces came close to the city limits but were pushed back.\n\nThis region is key to Russian's strategy to cut off the entire southern coast. A breakthrough here would allow the Kremlin's forces to approach Odesa - the country's largest civilian port, 130 km (80 miles) to the west.\n\nVladimir Putin could then complete his land bridge up to Transnistria, the breakaway republic of Moldova.\n\nRead more of Laura Bicker's report from Mykolaiv here", "North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Han Tae Song chairs the Conference on Disarmament\n\nNorth Korea has temporarily taken over as head of a top nuclear disarmament forum at the United Nations.\n\nIt comes as the pariah state was earlier this year accused of testing an intercontinental ballistic missile, which are banned by the UN Security Council.\n\nHowever it assumed the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament as the position rotates between members.\n\nThe move sparked immediate criticism of the forum's effectiveness.\n\nA number of non-government organisations had urged countries to walk out of the room - a common form of diplomatic protest. While member states did not do this at Thursday's session, some nations sent only lower-level representatives.\n\nPyongyang only last week fired several missile tests in the immediate aftermath of US President Joe Biden's visit to its neighbours South Korean and Japan.\n\nThe UN prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear weapons tests, and has imposed strict sanctions after previous tests.\n\nThe Conference on Disarmament - held three times at year at the UN headquarters in Geneva- is the world's only permanent, multilateral body negotiating arms and nuclear accords.\n\nIts overarching aim is to end the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. However it's failed to produce any deals of note since 1996.\n\nNorth Korea will chair the forum for at least the next three weeks.\n\nThe opening session on Thursday saw Western states - many of whom wield sanctions against Pyongyang- release a joint statement condemning North Korea's aggression this year.\n\n\"We remain gravely concerned about the DPRK's reckless actions which continue to seriously undermine the very value of the Conference on Disarmament\", said Australia's ambassador, on behalf of a coalition of countries.\n\nResponding to the appointment, the US said it prompted questions over the forum's effectiveness.\n\n\"It certainly does call that into question when you have a regime like the DPRK in a senior leadership post, a regime that has done as much as any other government around the world to erode the non-proliferation norm,\" said State Department spokesman Ned Price.\n\nAustralia's ambassador Amanda Gorely also specified in the statement that the choice to stay was not to be interpreted as \"tacit consent\" of North Korea's record.\n\nNorth Korea's ambassador at the meeting said it noted the statement and others of criticism.\n\nIn his own statement, he reiterated his nation's claims of self defence necessitating its militarisation, and said it remained committed to contributing to global disarmament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In May North Korea showcased banned missiles in a military parade broadcast on state TV", "The Queen made two appearances on Thursday - including to light the principal jubilee beacon\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend Platinum Jubilee celebrations across the UK later - although the Queen will miss her second event of the weekend.\n\nThe Queen has pulled out of the Epsom Derby and will instead watch it on TV from Windsor, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe third day of the celebrations will also see tributes from the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge at an open-air concert on Saturday evening.\n\nWilliam will also visit Cardiff, while Prince Edward is in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Queen has been experiencing mobility problems in recent months and the palace had warned in advance that the monarch would consider which Jubilee events she felt able to attend.\n\nThe 96-year-old earlier pulled out of Friday's Jubilee thanksgiving service after experiencing \"discomfort\" during Thursday's events.\n\nShe had been due to attend Saturday's iconic horse race, but her daughter, the Princess Royal, is expected to officially represent the monarch instead.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are heading to Cardiff to meet the performers and crew behind a Jubilee concert at Cardiff Castle, which is separate to Saturday evening's concert in London.\n\nAt the same time, the Earl and Countess of Wessex will carry out two engagements in Northern Ireland. Prince Edward - the Queen's youngest son - and his wife Sophie will meet children taking part in multicultural street performances, join in with art and craft sessions, and speak to people sharing their personal memories of meeting the Queen.\n\nOn Friday, Princess Anne visited Edinburgh Zoo to feed penguins and learn about caring for wildlife accompanied by Ukrainian refugee children.\n\nLater on Saturday, Prince Charles and Prince William will pay tribute to the Queen during a special Jubilee concert outside Buckingham Palace, called Party at the Palace.\n\nThey will address a live audience of 22,000 during the BBC's two-and-half-hour open-air show.\n\nIt is considered unlikely the Queen will be at the concert, given the avid horse racing fan is to miss the Derby, but confirmation of whether she will make an appearance is expected on the day.\n\nDiana Ross, Queen + Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Hans Zimmer, George Ezra, and Eurovision 2022 runner-up Sam Ryder are among the stars performing at the concert.\n\nSir David Attenborough, David Beckham and Stephen Fry will also feature, and there will be a specially recorded performance from Sir Elton John.\n\nMost Jubilee street parties will also take place this weekend, although some communities - like this one in Swanage - couldn't wait to start the festivities\n\nHundreds turned out to the celebration in the Dorset seaside town\n\nSpeaking ahead of the concert, disco legend Nile Rodgers told the BBC he was expecting an \"incredibly festive\" atmosphere.\n\n\"I've been playing in the UK since the early 1970s and I don't think I've ever seen the country this happy and zhuzhed up and decorated. I expect the concert to be completely out of control,\" he said.\n\nAnd Italian operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli said: \"The psychological condition when you do one of these performances... is like when a football player has to kick the last penalty - I just hope that after many years of my career, I can manage the pressure!\"\n\nSinger-songwriter Mabel told the BBC it was an \"honour\" to perform, and Ella Eyre - who was at Buckingham Palace for Prince William and Catherine's wedding - said it was \"surreal to be on the other side\", adding that the production was \"phenomenal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday, the Queen's love of horse racing was referenced amid tributes at a packed thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday,\n\nArchbishop of York Stephen Cottrell praised her for \"staying the course\" and said she was \"still in the saddle\", even though she was not able to attend.\n\nNew unseen footage showing the Queen's affection for horses will also be broadcast on Saturday, with clips of her caring for the animals at the Royal Stud Sandringham.\n\nIn the videos - to be shown as part of ITV's coverage of the Jubilee celebrations - she is seen feeding, observing and talking affectionately to several horses and foals, alongside her breeding and racing adviser John Warren.\n\nIn one clip as she observes two horses, the Queen is heard to say: \"I often wonder what goes through her head\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDerby Day will see the Queen's unprecedented 70 years on the throne celebrated by 40 retired and current jockeys who have ridden for the monarch, and will form a guard of honour.\n\nThe jockeys will dress in her distinctive purple, gold and red racing silks, and racecourse owners the Jockey Club say the Queen's Stand will be permanently renamed the Queen Elizabeth II Stand.\n\nThe Queen loves nothing more than a day out at the Derby, and of course a day out or two at Royal Ascot which is only two weeks away.\n\nThere are hopeful whispers around the racing community that Her Majesty, even though she can't make the races tomorrow, might be able to attend at least one day at Royal Ascot.\n\nThe Queen is of course a huge supporter of horse racing - she's absolutely been involved from the word go.\n\nFour days after her coronation in 1953, she came to Epsom to see her horse very nearly win the Derby.\n\nShe's been locked in from that day onwards - and has been to most of the Derbys ever since.\n\nSadly not to be this year - but I'm sure she'll be watching on, deeply interested.\n\nThe Queen's hopes of having a winner on this year's Derby Day ended earlier as her only runner was pulled out of a race.\n\nThoroughbreds owned by the Queen have won four out of the five flat racing classics, with only the Derby eluding her.\n\nThe Epsom Derby has always provided fond memories for the Queen, pictured here as 22-year-old Princess Elizabeth with her father King George VI in 1948\n\nThe Queen, pictured here alongside her husband the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother in 1967, has only missed the Derby a handful of times\n\nThe monarch has always been animated watching her favourite sport - as she is here in 1988 - giving photographers the chance to capture a different side of her personality\n\nThe last time she attended was in 2019, as the Derby was without spectators in 2020 and in front of a restricted crowd in 2021 due to the pandemic\n\nMeanwhile, a Jubilee attendee said she was told the Queen was \"fine\" by the Duchess of Cambridge during an event at London's Guildhall on Friday.\n\nGill Smallwood told PA news agency she had asked after the Queen during a conversation with the duchess, who replied that the monarch had found the first day of Jubilee celebrations \"very tiring\", but had a \"lovely time\".\n\nSaturday is also the first birthday of Prince Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet, who travelled with her parents and older brother Archie for her first visit to the UK.", "The Marriott hotel chain has announced it is leaving Russia after 25 years, saying Western restrictions made it \"impossible\" to keep operating there.\n\nThe company closed its Moscow office and paused investment in Russia in March, following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, its 22 hotels in the country are owned by third parties and remained open.\n\nMarriott said the process of suspending operations in Russia was \"complex\".\n\nBut in a statement, it said: \"We have come to the view that newly announced US, UK and EU restrictions will make it impossible for Marriott to continue to operate or franchise hotels in the Russian market.\"\n\nThe company said it remained \"focused on taking care of our Russian-based associates\" and had been supporting individuals in Ukraine and Russia to secure employment with Marriott outside countries affected by the conflict.\n\n\"We continue to join our associates and millions of people around the world in wishing for an end to the current violence and the start of a path towards peace,\" it added.\n\nMarriott joins McDonald's, Starbucks and other companies in heading for the exits in recent weeks as the war in Ukraine continues and Western sanctions aimed at isolating Russia economically tighten.\n\nPublic outcry over Vladimir Putin's invasion also put pressure on Western brands to distance themselves. Hotel brands drew attention for being among the slowest to respond.\n\n\"The process to suspend operations in a market where Marriott has operated for 25 years is complex,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nMarriott did not provide further details about its exit.\n\nFrench carmaker Renault's assets in the country were nationalised, while burger giant McDonald's sold its restaurants, many of which were directly owned by the company, to an existing franchisee.", "One-hundred Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war with Russia will be given free tickets to the World Cup play-off final on Sunday\n\nUkrainian refugees will be given 100 tickets for Sunday's World Cup play-off final in Wales.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) and the Welsh government confirmed 100 of those fleeing the war will be given a chance to see the game.\n\nIt comes as Ukrainians who were living in Wales before the conflict called on the FAW to give tickets to those displaced by Russia's invasion.\n\nHome tickets at the Cardiff City Stadium have sold out.\n\nThe Ukrainian ambassador has also been invited, while a welcome message will be waiting for the Ukrainian team when they arrive at Cardiff Airport.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"I would like to give a warm Welsh welcome to the Ukrainian football team and their supporters to Cardiff.\n\n\"This will be an opportunity for us to reaffirm our support for Ukraine as it fights Russia's unprovoked and brutal act of war.\n\n\"I am sure that the game will be a very competitive fixture between two skilful and passionate teams - there is a big prize to be won.\"\n\nSunday's game will be at Cardiff City Stadium, with the winners qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year\n\nUkraine qualified for the play-off final on Wednesday by beating Scotland 3-1 in Glasgow, and now face Wales for a place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nWales are hoping to qualify for the tournament for the first time since 1958, while Ukraine qualified for their first and only World Cup in 2006.", "A traffic-holding system for lorries planning to cross the English Channel will be lifted after the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThe Kent Resilience Forum (KRF) said the move would allow it to resume work relocating a contraflow barrier.\n\nThe traffic scheme was introduced in March to manage freight flow after P&O Ferries services were suspended.\n\nKRF strategic lead Simon Jones said it promised to keep it under review and it was now safe to remove it.\n\nThe measures, known as Operation Brock, queue lorries heading to Dover on one side of the M20, while a contraflow system runs on the remaining carriageway.\n\nMr Jones said: \"KRF partners promised our residents, businesses and hauliers we would... remove it as soon as it was practical to do so.\n\n\"With the half-term and Jubilee holidays now coming to an end we are able to safely deliver on our pledge.\"\n\nWork will now resume to move the contraflow between Junctions 8 (Maidstone) and 9 (Ashford), from the hard shoulder to the central reservation.\n\nMr Jones said cross-Channel traffic levels had returned to pre-pandemic levels and traffic management was the \"best available option\" to keep Kent moving.\n\nThe barrier relocation works, which include a 13-mile long drainage upgrade for the central reservation and new signage, will continue at least until early 2023, KRF said.\n\nDuring this time, a 50mph speed limit will stay in place on both carriageways.\n\nNicola Bell, Highways England regional director, said: \"Storing the moveable barrier on the M20 London-bound hard shoulder was only a temporary measure.\n\n\"Moving the structure to the central reservation will allow the hard shoulder between Ashford and Maidstone to be reinstated to its original width.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hryvnia, Ukraine's currency, has fallen sharply in value since Russia invaded\n\nUkraine's central bank has more than doubled its interest rate to 25% to the highest level for any European country.\n\nThe move is intended to slow soaring inflation and prevent a further collapse of its currency following Russia's invasion in February.\n\nBusinesses have been forced to close and key supply chains have been cut off since the war began.\n\nThe World Bank predicts that Ukraine's economy could shrink by as much as 45% this year.\n\nThe rate of inflation - or the cost of living - has risen to 17% in Ukraine and is on track to hit 20% this year, according to the country's central bank.\n\nThe National Bank of Ukraine said the benchmark interest rate increase - from 10% to 25% - would help protect citizens' savings from being eaten by soaring inflation.\n\nUkraine's currency, the hryvnia, has also come under heavy pressure since Russia's invasion, falling sharply in value. The central bank said it hoped the rate rise would ease some of that strain and stabilise the currency.\n\nIt is Ukraine's first rate increase since the war broke out, with the bank signalling it would move to reduce rates again once inflation was back under control.\n\nMore than $100bn of infrastructure damage to Ukrainian cities has been caused by artillery fire and airstrikes, according to the Kyiv School of Economics, while 14 million citizens have been forced to flee their homes.\n\nTo mount its military defence, and support citizens who have lost their livelihoods, the government has rapidly increased its spending, pushing the budget deficit up 27% month on month to $7.7bn in May, according to Kyiv-based investment bank Dragon Capital.\n\nBanks have also been forced to accept that loans made to businesses in territory now controlled by Russia will probably never be repaid, another huge financial blow to the country's economy.\n\n\"The most likely scenario is that nearly all corporate and retail loans in the territories that are still occupied will be lost,\" said Vitaliy Vavryshchuk, head of macro research at asset manager Investment Capital Ukraine.\n\nFriday marks 100 days since Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine, with 4,500 civilians killed since fighting broke out. Hospitals and schools have been devastated, while ports have been blockaded, cutting Ukraine off from the exports that form the backbone of its economy.\n\nAround 50% of the world's supply of neon gas, critical for making the microchips that power smartphones and cars, comes from just two Ukrainian companies.\n\nIn addition, more than 18% of global barley exports, 16% of corn, and 12% of wheat, come from Ukraine's fields.\n\n\"The food crisis really threatens up to 1.4 billion people that are going to experience food shortages and even famine in some places,\" Amin Awad, the UN crisis coordinator for Ukraine told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"The food is stranded in Ukraine. It produces 85 million tonnes of grain every year.\"\n\nWith another large harvest coming up in July and August this year, Mr Awad warned that if grain silos - currently full with food - can't be cleared, crops would rot in the fields because there would be no place to store them.\n\nEgypt, which prior to the war received around 80% of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine, is currently experiencing shortages, and warned that \"millions\" could die globally.\n\nMeanwhile, in Turkey inflation surged to a 24-year high of 73.5% in the year to May, driven by the war in Ukraine, a weak currency and high energy prices.\n\nFood costs have skyrocketed by 92% over the past year in Turkey, making basic goods unaffordable for many despite government interventions.", "Robin McConnachie, pictured here with his wife, invested £12,000 in Neil Woodford's fund\n\nThree years ago, Robin McConnachie suddenly found himself unable to access money he'd invested with famed fund manger Neil Woodford.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" said the retired City banker, who had invested £12,000 in the fund which eventually collapsed.\n\nOn Friday, lawyers will file a case against the fund's administrators Link Fund Solutions, alleging they failed to properly supervise the investments.\n\nBut Link says it acted within the rules and will \"vigorously defend itself\".\n\nMr Woodford was one of the UK's most high profile stockpickers and when he set up his own managed fund, he came with an impressive reputation.\n\nAt Invesco Perpetual, where he made his name, anyone investing a pension fund of £10,000 with him at the start of his time there would have seen it grow to £250,000 by the time Mr Woodford resigned to launch his own business 26 years later.\n\nInvestors, ranging from ordinary people to pension funds, put money into the Woodford Equity Income Fund. At its peak, the fund was reportedly managing more than £10bn.\n\nBut as investors became increasingly worried about the investments being made on their behalf, many withdrew their money. More than £500m was taken out in just four weeks.\n\nThen on 3 June 2019 - three years ago today - Link froze the fund, which later collapsed.\n\n\"Link was in place to act as the referee,\" said Daniel Kerrigan, senior associate at the London firm Harcus Parker, which is bringing the case. \"They let the fund go off the rails.\"\n\nLawyers from the firm will argue Link had a duty to investors to ensure the fund was prudently managed and not overly risky. They say those duties were breached, for instance when the fund invested in unlisted start-ups instead of in large, dividend-paying stocks.\n\nBut Link says it will be \"vigorously defending\" the charges.\n\n\"A key responsibility of Link ... was, and is, to act in the best interests of all investors in the Woodford Equity Investment Fund,\" a Link spokesperson said.\n\nHe added: \"Link takes this and its other responsibilities very seriously and considers that it has acted at all times in accordance with applicable rules, as well as in the best interests of all investors, and it will continue to do so.\"\n\nIt will be up to the High Court to decide whether the fund's eventual collapse in October 2019 was Link's fault. Neither Mr Woodford himself, nor his company, is targeted by the litigation.\n\nNeil Woodford was once known as a star stockpicker\n\nA sale of the fund's assets has already allowed some money to be returned to investors.\n\nMr McConnachie has so far received just under £8000 in that process but he's hoping the lawsuit can return the rest.\n\nHaving invested into Mr Woodford's fund at Invesco Perpetual, he decided to diversify his holdings and direct some of his money in his new venture.\n\n\"He was regarded as a high-flying fund manager,\" Mr McConnachie said. \"The prospectus said the new fund will be run along similar lines.\"\n\nHe said he was so angry by the way Link acted, he decided to join the lawsuit against them.\n\n\"What Link did or didn't do is simply not acceptable and they should be called to account.\"\n\nLast year, Neil Woodford spoke publicly about the embarrassing saga, telling The Daily Telegraph he was \"very sorry for what [he] did wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"I can't be sorry for the things I didn't do. I didn't make the decision to suspend the fund, I didn't make the decision to liquidate the fund. As history will now show, those decisions were incredibly damaging to investors and they were not mine.\"\n\nMr Woodford has since set up a new investment business though it has not been welcomed by all.\n\nThe FCA has been carrying out its own investigation into the fund's collapse, and is yet to decide whether to take any action. In January, MPs urged the financial watchdog to move quickly, given the public interest in the scandal.\n\nHarcus Parker represents 7,000 investors who lost money. The initial claim against Link, lodged on Friday, represents 1,500 of those and will seek damages of an estimated £18m.\n\nA further claim relating to the same issue is being brought against Link by the firm Leigh Day. It will represent 12,000 investors.\n\n\"There are believed to be around 300,000 people affected by this issue out there,\" Mr Kerrigan said. \"We encourage people who have not signed up to do so.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid have asked for answers into the \"series of unfortunate events\" at the Champions League final against Liverpool in Paris on 28 May.\n\nThey also want to know why the Stade de France was chosen for the game and who is \"responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless\".\n\n\"Football has transmitted an image to the world which is far away from the values and goals which it should pursue,\" said a Real Madrid statement.\n\nHowever, the match was delayed by more than half an hour and Liverpool fans have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the showpiece game, which was moved to the Stade de France from St Petersburg following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n• None What happened at the Champions League final?\n\nLiverpool chief executive Billy Hogan called the comments by France's interior minister Gerald Darmanin blaming English fans as \"disgraceful\" and that, having spoken to his Real Madrid counterpart, the Spanish club's supporters also had issues.\n\nIn their statement, Real Madrid cited \"unfortunate events\" which took place \"in the surroundings of and at access points to the Stade de France, and even inside the stadium itself\" and that their fans \"were victim to said events\".\n\nThey added: \"We would like to know the reasons which led to this venue being chosen to host the final and the criteria used, taking into account the experiences of the day.\n\n\"Furthermore, we call for answers and explanations in order to determine those responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless. Fans who in general terms showed exemplary conduct at all times.\"\n\nEuropean football's governing body, Uefa, has commissioned an independent report into what happened at the final.\n\nFrench authorities have blamed ticket fraud and accused Liverpool football club of failing to control their fans, although it has also emerged that supporters were targeted by local gangs.\n\n\"We believe something which should have been a wonderful festival of football for all fans who attended the game, quickly turned into a series of unfortunate events which have caused a sense of outrage around the world,\" said Real Madrid.\n\n\"As was evident in the revealing images published by the media, several fans were attacked, harassed, assaulted and robbed in violent fashion.\n\n\"These occurrences continued as they moved in their cars or busses, causing concern for their physical wellbeing. Certain fans even had to spend the night in hospital as a result of injuries.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Our fans and supporters deserve a response and those responsible to be held accountable in order for events like these to be eradicated from football and sport in general.\"\n• None MOTD Top 10 ranks the best feuds from across the dugout\n• None How do you pick the right pair? A deep dive into whether paying more for running shoes is really worth it", "The DVSA say they have started closing down accounts not linked to driving instructors\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) says it has started to take action against companies exploiting learner drivers.\n\nA BBC investigation found that some learner drivers had paid over £200 for a practical driving test - more than double the standard fee.\n\nThe number of times a test can be changed has been reduced from 10 to the pre-pandemic limit of six.\n\nAccounts not linked to instructors on the booking system are being removed.\n\nThe DVSA is the official body that carries out driving tests in Great Britain.\n\nThe demand for driving tests caused by a backlog due to the pandemic has seen many learners turn towards a secondary market.\n\nSome are paying a nominal fee to companies which find them cancelled tests, while others are buying from sellers offering tests for vastly inflated prices.\n\nOne provider claimed to use \"AI-powered software\" to scoop up vacant test slots.\n\nDriving instructors have access to a separate part of the DVSA's booking system, which allows them to book multiple tests for their students. But the BBC found that there was little verification to check who was signing up as it was all done online.\n\nThe investigation found that tests could be swapped, meaning that operators could keep a rotating stock of tests.\n\nThe system was relatively simple to manipulate for profit, with tests booked in advance and then sold on with the buyers' details added. The BBC saw evidence of one company which booked tests encouraging driving instructors who bought tests from them to profit from learners.\n\nThe DVSA has now stopped accepting new automatic online registrations to use the service. New applications must now be done by e-mail, where they will be thoroughly checked by the agency.\n\nLoveday Ryder, the chief executive of the DVSA, said: \"We've already put in place measures to monitor and prevent bots from accessing our systems while also strengthening our firewall to tackle the issue.\n\n\"We will continue to work tirelessly to crack down on companies that are exploiting learner drivers.\n\n\"We've closed the system to new registrations and will rapidly close down accounts that do not belong to driving instructors and driving schools.\n\n\"We'll also be taking further steps to make sure all future accounts are linked to driving instructors and those with training businesses.\"\n\nThe terms and conditions of the DVSA's service are being updated to make it clear that instructors are not allowed to use it to profit from managing test bookings.\n\nIt has also started removing any accounts not linked to driving instructors from the part of its site which allows multiple test bookings.", "Prince Harry returned to the UK with Meghan for the Jubilee celebrations\n\nFor such a high-profile couple, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have maintained a remarkably low-key presence on the first day of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's visit for the Jubilee weekend had been treated beforehand like some kind of unpredictable weather front approaching.\n\nStorms were feared. Royal officials feared the damage. But it's been very low-profile for a couple who provoke such a high level of public attention.\n\nThey watched Trooping the Colour from a window and were not part of the carriage procession or the family group allowed on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere's no escaping their big box-office status, but here they were watching from the wings.\n\nThey also dodged any airport arrival photo-fest, with suggestions the Queen sent cars to collect them from a private airport. Everything stayed under the radar.\n\nThe Queen, it is suggested, sent cars to pick up Prince Harry and Meghan from a private airport\n\nSuch a low profile is not likely to be accidental, with Prince Harry and Meghan wanting to avoid any accusations of stealing the limelight.\n\nThis is the Queen's big weekend, celebrating her 70 years as monarch, and there are likely to have been warnings about avoiding anything that could overshadow the Jubilee events.\n\nSo it's likely that Prince Harry and Meghan will have been urged to stay on-message and remain in the background, part of the backing band rather than the centre of attention.\n\nIt might be seen as building bridges. It's the Sussexes coming back to take part in a big event in a way perhaps not seen since leaving their royal roles in 2020.\n\nTheir daughter Lilibet, aged one this weekend, until this week hadn't met her great-grandmother the Queen.\n\nThis quieter approach, without appearances and interviews, might be a way of re-establishing family links and connections with home.\n\nWhile limiting the Buckingham Palace balcony to \"working royals\" meant excluding Prince Harry, Meghan and Prince Andrew, the two California-based royals were still part of the family group watching.\n\nCovid is going to keep Prince Andrew away from the Thanksgiving Service at St Paul's on Friday - an announcement on Thursday afternoon that raised some eyebrows. But Prince Harry and Meghan will be there and it will be a further sign of inclusion.\n\nIf the ambition of Buckingham Palace is for Prince Harry and Meghan to be there but not to draw attention to themselves, it won't be easy. Because there is no escaping how much public interest they generate and how easily they could start making headlines.\n\nMeghan Markle with Savannah Phillips and Mia Tindall watching Trooping the Colour\n\nIf many of the Jubilee events are rather worthy events like lighting beacons, Prince Harry and Meghan can generate media fireworks, touching on issues of race and representation, celebrity and wealth. They are a news tinderbox, even without trying.\n\nThey certainly divide opinion, provoking strong positive and negative responses. They attract and they irritate. And such interest drives media attention, not to say huge web traffic to news stories, like moths drawn to a digital light.\n\nAccording to a survey from YouGov this week, young people are more likely to be supportive of Prince Harry and Meghan. But overall the couple have lost much public sympathy in the UK, with their popularity at its lowest recorded level. But everyone has an opinion.\n\nAs the Jubilee weekend progresses there will be more attention on the Sussexes.\n\nThere have been expectations they will meet the Queen, but it's understood that any such meetings will be considered as private and any details will remain speculation.\n\nIf the appearances so far are any guide, it could be a case of cryptic smiles from a distance and a determined effort to say little. In PR terms, it might not be a bad tactic.", "In 2020, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp lost a UK libel lawsuit against the Sun newspaper. But on Wednesday, he won a similar lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in a US courtroom.\n\nAt the start of his recent trial, many legal experts suggested that Mr Depp had a weaker chance of winning than he did in the UK, because the US has very strong free speech protections.\n\nThe fact that the jury found that Ms Heard was guilty of defamation with an article in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse means they didn't believe her testimony.\n\nMark Stephens, an international media lawyer, told the BBC that it's \"very rare\" that essentially the same case is tried on two sides of the pond and gets different results.\n\nHe believes the main factor that influenced Mr Depp's victory in America was the fact that his US trial was before a jury while his UK trial, over an article in the British tabloid that called him a \"wife-beater\", was before a judge only.\n\n\"Amber Heard has comprehensively lost in the court of public opinion, and in front of the jury,\" he said.\n\nIn both the UK and the US trial, Mr Depp's lawyers argued that Ms Heard was lying - to make their case, they attacked her character and claimed that she was in fact the abusive partner.\n\nThis is a common defence tactic in sexual assault and domestic violence trials called \"deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender\" or \"Darvo\", said Mr Stephens.\n\nThe strategy turns the tables on the alleged victim, shifting the conversation away from \"did the accused commit abuse\" to \"is the alleged victim believable\".\n\n\"They deny that they did anything, they deny they're the real perpetrator, and they attack the credibility of the individual calling out the abuse, and then reverse the roles of the victim and the offender,\" Mr Stephens said.\n\nIn the UK trial, Mr Stephens said the judge recognised that strategy, and dismissed a lot of the evidence that did not directly address whether Mr Depp committed assault or not.\n\n\"Lawyers and judges tend not to fall for it, but it's very, very effective against juries,\" he said. Men are more likely to believe Darvo arguments, but female jurors are also susceptible.\n\n\"People have a paradigm in their mind of how a victim of abuse might be like and how they might behave, and of course we all know that's often false.\"\n\nHadley Freeman, a Guardian journalist who covered both cases, told the BBC that another major difference was the fact that the American trial was televised, turning the court case into \"almost a sports game\".\n\nEach twist and turn of the trial was watched by millions of people - many of whom turned to social media to express support for Mr Depp.\n\nOn TikTok, the hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp got about 19 billion views. The jury was instructed not to read about the case online, but they were not sequestered and they were allowed to keep their phones.\n\nMs Freeman also thinks that vitriol that the general public lobbed against Ms Heard was a \"a bit of #MeToo backlash\".\n\n\"'Believe women' seems a very long time ago when it comes to Amber Heard,\" she said.\n\nReputation: Depp v Heard. Watch key moments from the trial on iPlayer (UK-only).", "The Queen made an appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony alongside active members of the royal family, where she greeted thousands of people who gathered in London to witness the start of Platinum Jubilee celebrations.", "The number of people going into Scotland's shops is still struggling to bounce back from the Covid pandemic, new figures suggest.\n\nData from the Scottish Retail Consortium shows Scotland's shopper footfall growth was ranked the worst in the UK.\n\nIn May, Scottish footfall was 16.4% down on the same month in 2019.\n\nFootfall across the UK has worsened from pre-pandemic levels but the UK average decline was 12.5%.\n\nCounting the number of people who enter a store is an important measure of how many opportunities retailers have to make sales on any particular day.\n\nStores usually monitor footfall alongside sales to find out how many shoppers were persuaded make a purchase.\n\nDavid Lonsdale, director at the Scottish Retail Consortium, said the cost-of-living crisis was adding to the problems caused by the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Scotland's fitful footfall slipped back in May compared to the same period prior to the pandemic.\n\n\"This left Scotland languishing at the bottom of the UK league table for visits to stores, and still well below the same period prior to the onset of Covid.\n\n\"The figures weakened during the latter part of the month, perhaps derailed somewhat by the train drivers' dispute.\"\n\nMr Lonsdale said the performance was not uniform across all retail destinations.\n\nIn Glasgow, footfall in May remained on par with the previous month (11.6% down on 2019 levels).\n\nIts performance was fourth overall in the UK, compared with other cities.\n\nLeeds ranked bottom with a 19% decline but Manchester, Liverpool and Nottingham performed better than Scotland's largest city.\n\nAccording to the growth table, Scotland's growth ranks bottom compared with the rest of the UK, while north-west England noted the lowest decline, of 8.2%.\n\nEngland saw the shallowest footfall decline of the UK nations on -11.9%, followed by Northern Ireland (-12.9%), Wales (-16%), and Scotland (-16.4%).", "The crowd came from near and far - including Lea Maunder, from Germany\n\nWhen she looked up towards the Buckingham Palace balcony and saw the Queen smiling, Tiffany Scherer began to cry.\n\nThe 49-year-old had flown in from Cleveland, Ohio, to witness this moment. She wore a fascinator and carried a home-made sign that read, \"Royally obsessed,\" a description as self-aware as it was accurate.\n\nMost years she'd get up at 5am to watch Trooping the Colour - the parade to mark the official birthday of the British sovereign. But not today. There was no way she was going to miss seeing this in person on the Platinum Jubilee, marking a landmark 70 years on the throne.\n\n\"Seeing Her Majesty is something I've wanted to do all my life,\" she said. \"And today it's so much more amazing in person because of the scope of it.\"\n\nAll around, the crowd cheered. Many carried Union flags. All were here to show their goodwill to a monarch of record-breaking longevity. Tiffany's husband Chris deadpanned: \"She doesn't look a day over 90.\"\n\nTiffany and Chris Scherer had flown in from the US for the jubilee\n\nIt was a bright, clear bank holiday Thursday that marked the start of the celebrations of an unprecedented moment in British history.\n\nFour days of events began with Trooping the Colour, followed by the Queen and senior royals gathering on Buckingham Palace's balcony to watch the RAF flypast.\n\nThe crowds came from around the world and from a range of walks of life. Not all were fervent monarchists. A group of protesters briefly interrupted the ceremony before being dragged away by police. But what united most of those present was a recognition of the historic significance of the day.\n\nFor those who wanted to secure the best vantage points, an early start was a necessity. At 06:30am, Kerry Russell secured her viewing spot on The Mall.\n\nShe wore a bowler hat impaled with a Union flag and brandished another in her hand. Despite the early start she was in good cheer.\n\n\"I'm 53 - she's been here my entire life,\" said Kerry, who lives in north London. \"You just have to admire her. It's partly about celebrating her and partly about soaking up the atmosphere here today.\"\n\nAmong the spectators were many who had been touched by the Royal family in different ways. Take Bal Banga, who attributes a lifelong fascination with them to a childhood encounter.\n\n\"I saw Prince Charles when I was little,\" says Bal, 49. \"He came to Derby and he visited a Sikh temple. We all had to line up and greet him with flags.\"\n\nKerry Russell on the Queen: \"She's been here my entire life\"\n\nBal Banga had travelled from Leicester to spend the day with her son, Gavin\n\nShe'd travelled down on the train from her home in Leicester to watch the Trooping the Colour with her son Gavin, 25, who lives in London and works in telecoms. By his own admission he didn't have his mum's enthusiasm for the monarchy.\n\n\"I'm one of a newer generation,\" he said. \"I'm not a royalist. I don't care for royals.\" Nonetheless, it was an opportunity to spend time with his mum. \"The sun is shining and it's a nice day out,\" he said.\n\nLea Maunder, 22, from Halle, Germany, had arrived at 6am. She had flown in on Wednesday night, her mood undimmed despite only having one hour's sleep.\n\n\"I love the spirit of the Royal Family, I'm a big fan of the Queen,\" she said, wearing a bright red fascinator and clutching a Union Jack handbag. \"I had to dress my best for her,\" she added.\n\n\"Ever since I was a little girl I've been fascinated by all things British - I'm training to be an English teacher.\"\n\nAs the crowd thickened around the Mall, Kirsty McLaren, 26, climbed a lamppost and looked above the sea of arms all filming a marching band with their smartphones.\n\n\"It's fabulous up here,\" she said. \"I can see all the bearskins, I can see the band. And I can see all the people on the other side and their responses.\"\n\nKirsty McLaren, right, got the overnight sleeper train from St Andrew's to meet her sister, Elizabeth\n\nBee Curtis and Joshua Carter sipped Buck's Fizz as the royal carriage passed\n\nKirsty, 26, had travelled down overnight on the sleeper train from St Andrew's, Fife, where she works for a church. At London's Euston station, she met her sister Elizabeth, 32, a teacher in Essex, before making their way here.\n\nIt was the first time they'd seen each other in six months. \"We both love the Queen,\" said Elizabeth. \"We were brought up with a huge respect for her.\"\n\nAs the royal carriage swept past, Bee Curtis and Joshua Carter perched on a railing slightly above the other onlookers, sipping Buck's Fizz. Not that their elevated position gave them much of a vantage point of the royals. \"I saw their hats, which was nice,\" Bee, 27, laughed. \"Great hats though.\"\n\nCarl Wilkins came with is wife, Zoe, his three children, and their dog, Obi\n\nShazmiya Firdaus (left) and Salamath Silmy said the Queen was a role model\n\nBut for most in the crowd, getting a decent view was beside the point. Had they wanted an uninterrupted vista they could have stayed at home and watched the event on television. \"Even if you can't see anything the atmosphere is great,\" said Carl Wilkins, 43, an HGV driver, who had come along with is wife, three children, and their dog, Obi.\n\nWhat seemed to matter most of all was celebrating a woman they admired. There was also enormous sympathy for her after a difficult few years - the loss of her husband Prince Philip, the public rows over Harry and Meghan, the fallout from Prince Andrew's BBC Newsnight interview.\n\n\"She's a role model for us - the way she's managed her family and managed the Commonwealth,\" said Shazmiya Firdaus, 32, originally from Sri Lanka, but now living in Harrow, north London. \"She's such a strong personality,\" added Salamath Silmy, 35. \"I always talk to my daughter about how we have to be strong like her.\"\n\n\"It's the sense of service,\" said Kirk Paton, 42, from Cambridge. \"She's always kept above politics. When we get to Prince Charles, or rather King Charles, I just don't think I'm going to feel the same.\"\n\nAfter the parade concluded, the barriers were opened and the crowd moved slowly towards Constitution Hill and the front of Buckingham Palace. From here they could see the flypast and catch a glimpse of the Queen celebrating her 70-year-reign.\n\nWhen the monarch broke into a smile, Tiffany Scherer was not the only one there who felt the emotion of the moment.", "This heatwave has been building across western Europe - last week Spain saw temperatures above 40C - and now that heat has started to move northwards.\n\nSpain is used to heatwaves – just not this early in the summer season and certainly not this hot.\n\nAnd with the high temperatures come the inevitable wildfires.\n\nIn Italy, the soaring heat is leading to growing concerns about water shortages.\n\nAs we reported earlier, large stretches of the country’s largest river, the Po, the water is so low that locals can walk through the middle of the expanse of sand - and wartime shipwrecks are even resurfacing.\n\nAcross the Pyrenees, straddling the border of France and Spain, outdoor public events are being banned from tomorrow until the end of the heatwave.\n\nTeachers in the region are watering playgrounds in order to prevent pupils getting heatstroke in the extreme heat.\n\nPortugal saw its hottest May since 1931, and yesterday France recorded a temperature of over 40C - the earliest hot spell ever to hit the country.\n\nAnd French officials say the peak of the heatwave is yet to be reached.\n\nThe hot zone is expected to move into central Europe, Italy the Alpine countries and the south of Germany.\n\nThe peak of the heatwave in the UK arrives today across England and Wales, with temperatures set to reach 33C.\n\nBut in Scotland and Northern Ireland, temperatures are expected to peak at a more comfortable 23C\n\nAcross the whole of the UK, cooler and fresher conditions are expected over the weekend\n\nScientists warn that as global temperatures rise over time heatwaves are predicted to become more frequent, more intense and longer lasting - and their impact more widespread.", "Scotland is experiencing another wave of Covid-19 infections as cases of two Omicron variants increase, according to a leading public health expert.\n\nProf Linda Bauld said the Omicron sub-lineages BA.4 and BA.5. were part of the reason for the increase in cases.\n\nShe told the BBC there had also been a \"small but not significant\" rise in the number of people in hospital.\n\nLatest data estimates that around one in 30 people in Scotland had Covid-19 in the week ending 10 June.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this was up from one in 40 the previous week.\n\nProf Bauld, professor of public health the University of Edinburgh and a Scottish government adviser, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I think it's pretty clear to me from some of the data we've seen that we are certainly in another wave of infection, if not already it will be soon and that certainly seems to be the case in a number of countries.\n\n\"That is not a big surprise because we did anticipate we would have a rising level of infections every three or four months potentially, that's what international colleagues have said.\n\n\"It might be surprising to people though because it's the summer, and they're used to hearing from us (that) the weather is better so people are more outside and therefore we reduce the risks through our behaviour.\"\n\nThe weekly ONS report estimates that 176,900 people in Scotland had the virus - about 3.36% of the population.\n\nThe estimated Covid rate in Scotland is higher than in England, where it is believed one in 50 people had coronavirus in the week ending 11 June\n\nIn both Wales and Northern Ireland the estimated rate was one in 45 people.\n\nProf Bauld said vaccines gave good protection against severe disease, but thought it was likely that the offer of a booster jab may be extended to a wider range of groups in the autumn, beyond what the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended.\n\nThe JCVI recommends that care home residents and staff, front line care workers, those aged 65 and over and adults aged between 16 and 64 who are clinically vulnerable should be given another dose of Covid-19 vaccine in the autumn.\n\nProf Bauld said: \"Your protection doesn't fall off a cliff, it wanes gradually.\n\n\"Your protection against getting infected actually wanes pretty quickly and the vaccines are not sterilising so they are not protecting us against the risk of infection.\"\n\nLast week experts said a return to Covid restrictions was not currently needed as infection rates rise in Scotland.\n\nAnd Prof Bauld said measures, such at the return of mandatory face coverings, would only be reintroduced if there was a \"big wave\" of infections that could challenge vaccines.", "Cathie Russell with her mother, who died four weeks after this picture was taken\n\nFamilies say care home residents were stripped of their human rights by being locked away from loved ones during Covid.\n\nA report commissioned by Scotland's Covid inquiry has found severe restrictions imposed in care homes \"caused great distress\" and may have contributed to some deaths.\n\nIt said families found themselves \"locked out\" of care homes.\n\nCathie Russell represents the Care Home Relatives Scotland (CHRS) group which campaigned throughout the lockdowns for more access to relatives in care homes.\n\nShe had a total of 30 minutes with her mother Rose Hamilton in the first year of the pandemic. Mrs Hamilton died in July 2021.\n\nMs Russell said: \"The distress caused to relatives does not come as a surprise to us. However I was taken aback by it not having any legal basis.\n\n\"I had always felt it was deeply wrong and it leaves me feeling how I have always felt- that care home residents' rights were thrown under a bus and no consideration was given.\n\n\"They are talking about the new national care service and saying it is all rights-based and based in human rights. We had no human rights. The state can stop you seeing your own wife, husband daughter for a year and there is nothing you can do about it.\"\n\nThe report said that the legal basis for confining residents to their rooms and banning visitors was \"unclear\".\n\nAnd it said care home residents were arguably discriminated against compared to other citizens.\n\nCathie Russell went to the Scottish parliament to call for better visiting arrangements for families\n\nThe 143-page report is one of 14 published by the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, which is chaired by Lady Poole.\n\nIt found that in the early months of the pandemic there was \"little evidence\" that the human rights of residents and their families had been considered.\n\nIt also accepted that restrictions were to a certain extent understandable, given \"the vulnerability of care home residents and the large number of deaths in the sector\".\n\nThe report was compiled by a team from Napier University's School of Health and Social Care, led by Prof Colin McKay.\n\nCHRS campaigned throughout the pandemic's lockdowns for more visits and Mrs Russell believes her mother's condition deteriorated due to lack of contact with family.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Care homes had to collate the deaths but what was done to ascertain what all this isolation and banning relatives did?\n\n\"We are not just talking visitors here, we are talking about a husband or wife of 50 years, the mothers of young adults not being able to see them.\n\n\"We never argued against restrictions, we always argued that at least one family member being allowed in. They shouldn't have been cut adrift for more than a year in many places.\"\n\nMrs Russell said the group had raised concerns early on.\n\n\"We had plenty of meetings with government ministers but the problem was we never knew who we were up against,\" she said.\n\n\"The guidance would be improved and we would think we were going to get in and then care home wouldn't let us in, then when that started to improve public health locally would lock us out.\n\n\"We were constantly up against it not knowing who was locking us out this time, But the upshot was that I didn't get into that home between 17 March one year and 16 March the following year.\"\n\nCare home residents faced a tougher time from coronavirus restrictions and families will be looking for answers from the Scottish Covid Inquiry\n\nShe believes strongly that care homes \"could and should have\" done more.\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, which represents care homes, called the new reports \"sobering\".\n\nHe said: \"The conditions laid and the restrictions imposed were extremely severe. I think most of us indicated we had to be very careful that some of the restrictions were not likely to cause more harm than they were to save lives.\n\nThe decisions around restriction and lockdown particularly for people with advanced dementia did not appropriately take into account their human rights, did not listen to consideration of individual instances, but we treated one as we treated all and that was wholly inappropriate.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"First and foremost our thoughts are with every single family who has lost a loved one during the course of the pandemic, and we recognise how difficult and painful this experience has been for staff, residents and their loved ones.\n\n\"We welcome these research reports for the public inquiry, which will help shape the areas that the inquiry will direct its efforts. We established Lady Poole's inquiry to provide scrutiny consideration on all aspects of the handling of the pandemic in Scotland, so that lessons can be learned.\n\n\"Our priority throughout the pandemic has been to save lives and we have sought to take the necessary actions, based on the latest scientific and clinical evidence, to keep people in care homes as safe as possible, given their increased vulnerability.\"\n\nThis is the first opportunity to see the evidence being considered by the public inquiry - and it's substantial.\n\nA total of 14 documents and they consider a wide range of subjects. From decision-making around social care, education, the economy to pandemic planning.\n\nThe Edinburgh Napier University report is one of the most compelling.\n\nThe report says there is evidence that care homes felt pressurised to take patients from hospital and that families had very little say in what was happening.\n\nThey question the legal basis for imposing such severe restrictions, arguing that it could be considered discrimination against this vulnerable group.\n\nAnd they say the unintended consequences of restricting visiting - leaving residents without stimulation and often stuck in their own rooms, will have caused distress, decline and even death.\n\nBalancing big decisions on limiting the spread of infection with protecting people's human rights will be just one of the themes of this public inquiry.\n\nIt will be for Lady Poole and her team to establish the facts and decide what lessons can be learned for the future.", "The claim relates to the iPhone 6 and nine other models\n\nMillions of iPhone users could be eligible for payouts, following the launch of a legal claim accusing Apple of secretly slowing the performance of older phones.\n\nJustin Gutmann alleges the company misled users over an upgrade that it said would enhance performance but, in fact, slowed phones down.\n\nHe is seeking damages of around £768m for up to 25 million UK iPhone users.\n\nApple says it has \"never\" intentionally shortened the life of its products.\n\nThe claim, which has been filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleges Apple slowed down the performance of older iPhones, in a process known as \"throttling\", in order to avoid expensive recalls or repairs.\n\nIt relates to the introduction of a power management tool released in a software update to iPhone users in January 2017, to combat performance issues and stop older devices from abruptly shutting down.\n\nMr Gutmann, a consumer champion, says the information about the tool was not included in the software update download description at the time, and that the company failed to make clear that it would slow down devices.\n\nHe claims that Apple introduced this tool to hide the fact that iPhone batteries may have struggled to run the latest iOS software, and that rather than recalling products or offering replacement batteries, the firm instead pushed users to download the software updates.\n\nMr Gutmann said: \"Instead of doing the honourable and legal thing by their customers and offering a free replacement, repair service or compensation, Apple instead misled people by concealing a tool in software updates that slowed their devices by up to 58%.\"\n\nThe models covered by the claim are the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X models.\n\nIt is an opt-out claim, which means customers will not need to actively join the case to seek damages.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said: \"We have never, and would never, do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.\"\n\nApple has been haunted by so-called \"batterygate\" for some time although it has always insisted its intentions were honourable.\n\nIts chief executive Tim Cook took the highly unusual step of apologising in 2018 to \"anybody that thinks we had any other kind of motivation\".\n\nCritics say the update pushed people into buying newer devices as their older phones dramatically slowed down when carrying out fairly standard functions like Facetime following a software update.\n\nApple says the opposite is true - it was trying to extend their lifespan. The tech giant later offered discounted replacement batteries for iPhone 6 and above.\n\nThere are two broader issues here: one is the way in which gadgets in general become obsolete comparatively quickly, as they become unable to handle the latest and most advanced software updates that drive them.\n\nThe tech firms say these updates are essential to keep devices secure and working at their best but they soon outstrip older hardware - that is, slower processors and older batteries with less power.\n\nAs batteries age they need charging more frequently, and this is the second point: the more powerful a portable device becomes, the more power-hungry it becomes. The typical life of a lithium-ion battery is 500 charge cycles.\n\nThe claim by Mr Gutmann comes two years after a similar case was settled in the United States.\n\nIn 2020, Apple agreed to pay $113m to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.\n\nThirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.\n\nMillions of people were affected when the models of iPhone 6 and 7 and SE were slowed down in 2016 in a scandal that was dubbed batterygate.\n\nAt the time, Apple declined to comment, however, it had previously said the phones were slowed to preserve ageing battery life.\n\nClaire Holubowskyj, an analyst at the research firm Enders Analysis, said issues like this may continue to crop up, given the technical limitations of ageing batteries.\n\n\"Technology in newer devices improves in leaps and bounds, not as a steady crawl, creating issues when releasing software updates which have to work on devices with often wildly different capabilities,\" Ms Holubowskyj said.\n\n\"Apple generates 84% of its revenue from selling new devices, making them reluctant to hold back updates to ensure older models keep working smoothly.\"\n\nShe added: \"Until problems of devices and software updates outlasting and exceeding the capabilities of aging batteries are resolved, this challenge will recur.\"", "The camp produces up to 4,000 litres of urine per day\n\nNepal is preparing to move its Everest base camp because global warming and human activity are making it unsafe.\n\nThe camp, used by up to 1,500 people in the spring climbing season, is situated on the rapidly thinning Khumbu glacier.\n\nA new site is to be found at a lower altitude, where there is no year-round ice, an official told the BBC.\n\nResearchers say melt-water destabilises the glacier, and climbers say crevasses are increasingly appearing at base camp while they sleep.\n\n\"We are now preparing for the relocation and we will soon begin consultation with all stakeholders,\" Taranath Adhikari, director general of Nepal's tourism department, told the BBC.\n\n\"It is basically about adapting to the changes we are seeing at the base camp and it has become essential for the sustainability of the mountaineering business itself.\"\n\nThe camp currently sits at an altitude of 5,364m. The new one will be 200m to 400m lower, Mr Adhikari said.\n\nThe plans follow the recommendations of a committee formed by Nepal's government to facilitate and monitor mountaineering in the Everest region.\n\nThe Khumbu glacier, like many other glaciers in the Himalayas, is rapidly melting and thinning in the wake of global warming, scientists have found.\n\nA study by researchers from Leeds University in 2018 showed that the segment close to base camp was thinning at a rate of 1m per year.\n\nMost of the glacier is covered by rocky debris, but there are also areas of exposed ice, called ice cliffs, and it is the melting of the ice cliffs that most destabilises the glacier, one of the researchers, Scott Watson, told the BBC.\n\n\"When ice cliffs melt like that, the debris of boulder and rocks that are on the top of the ice cliffs move and fall and then the melting also creates water bodies,\" he said.\n\n\"So we see increased rock falls and movement of melt-water on the surface of the glaciers that can be hazardous.\"\n\nMr Watson said the glacier was losing 9.5 million cubic metres of water per year.\n\nMountaineers and the Nepali authorities say a stream right in the middle of the base camp has been steadily expanding. They also say crevasses and cracks on the surface of the glacier are appearing more frequently than before.\n\n\"We surprisingly see crevasses appearing overnight at places where we sleep,\" said Col Kishor Adhikari of the Nepali army, who was staying at base camp while leading a clean-up campaign during the spring climbing season, which lasts from March to the end of May.\n\nShree Gurung, a trekker, says this lake appeared next to base camp between 2020 and 2021\n\n\"In the morning, many of us have this chilling experience that we could have fallen into them in the night. Cracks on the ground develop so often, it is quite risky.\"\n\nTshering Tenzing Sherpa, Everest base camp manager with the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), echoed that message.\n\nLoud noises could also frequently be heard, he said, caused by the ice moving or rocks falling. He added that before putting up a tent at base camp it was necessary to flatten the rocky surface covering the ice, and to repeat this from time to time as the glacier moved.\n\n\"In the past the flattened space used to bulge up only after two to three weeks. But now that happens almost every week,\" he said.\n\nA leading member of the committee that recommended the base camp move, Khimlal Gautam, said the presence of so many people at base camp was contributing to the problem.\n\n\"For instance, we found that people urinate around 4,000 litres at the base camp every day,\" he said.\n\n\"And the massive amount of fuels like kerosene and gas we burn there for cooking and warming will definitely have impacts on the glacier's ice.\"\n\nAdrian Ballinger, founder of mountain guide company Alpenglow Expeditions, agreed that the move made sense, predicting that there will be more avalanches, ice falls and rock falls in the area of the current base camp in future.\n\n\"This should be unacceptable to expedition leaders, since it can be avoided,\" he said.\n\nThe main drawback was that a camp lower down the mountain would add to the length of the climb from base camp to camp one, the next staging post for those climbing the mountain.\n\nMost climbers still ascend Everest from the Nepalese side, but the numbers starting in China are increasing.\n\nMr Sherpa of the SPCC said that despite the problems, the present base camp site was still essentially stable, and could continue to serve its purpose for another three to four years.\n\nBut Nepali officials say the move may happen by 2024.\n\n\"We have assessed the technical and environmental aspects of the base camp, but before we relocate it we will have to discuss this with local communities, considering other aspects like their culture,\" said Mr Adhikari.\n\n\"We will do it only after discussing with all quarters.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 June.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPeck-a-boo: \"Time to come out yet?,\" asks Chris Boyle from Perth. \"The morning sun wakes up this woodpecker chick who is only days away from fledging.\"\n\nLightening the mood: \"It was amazing to see the sun breaking through the trees while on a visit to the Hermitage in Perthshire,\" says James Dewar.\n\nWoolly jumper: This \"bold little lamb\" suddenly popped up to surprise Colin Mackie in Tiree.\n\nHello petal: \"The Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer after a light rain shower,\" says John Wallner.\n\nOs-spray: \"He arrived, hovered and nailed the fish, all in 60 seconds,\" says Peter Wilkinson. \"An osprey collecting breakfast on the River Tay.\"\n\nAngry bird: \"This little guy was stamping his foot warning me to back off as I crept ever closer (chicks were close by),\" says Edward Gray at Earlsferry Links. Fife.\n\nA ferry impressive shot: \"The NorthLink ferry MV Hjaltland departing Lerwick for Aberdeen with the Bressay Sound as still as a millpond,\" says Jed Scott.\n\nParting company: \"This stylish, well-coiffured Shetland pony was on Unst when my wife and I were on holiday,\" says Hamish McIlwraith. \"The pony was very curious and came over to see us when we were having a quick picnic break.\"\n\nI've seen the light: \"Long summer evenings pour the light in through the west window and onto the ancient pillars of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall,\" says Michael Mappin.\n\nThe eyes have it: \"I knew there were at least two young kestrels in this nest box but, as I was taking the photo from a long way away to minimise disturbance, I didn't realise until later that five pairs of little hawk eyes were on me,\" says Brian Colston from Falkirk.\n\nWinging it: Swans in Lerwick, from Jim Mullay.\n\nGoing swimmingly: Freya Scott took this shot of Kiloran Metcalfe off Aberdeen.\n\nA bushy tale: David Black captured the short story of \"a new visitor to our garden in Moffat.\"\n\nOne small step: A puffin on Staffa, as spotted by Daryll Buchanan.\n\nHaving a wobble: Emily Wilson was watching her step on Montrose Beach due to jellyfish washing up. \"Who knew they came in so many colours?,\" she says.\n\nWe are sailing: \"A parade of yachts passing Colintraive,\" says Jeff Livingstone.\n\nThat's neigh a sheep: \"Rex on his day off, fancied a wee change from herding sheep in the Scottish Borders,\" says Lesley Wilkinson. \"Tara the pony was more interested in the grass.\"\n\nRough weather: \"We were waiting to tee off,\" says Eddie O'Donnell at St Andrews. \"My thought was 'hope that's not coming our way'.\" He adds that \"the clouds were amazing\".\n\nA bird in the hand: \"Saved a baby robin,\" says Cindy Blades.\n\n... and another: \"Baby blue tit in the back garden,\" says Jennifer Baff in West Lothian.\n\nThe long and winding road: \"This is heading south at Durness,\" says James Ross. \"I'd been working along the north coast and couldn't resist this beautiful scene, so I pulled my van over and took this picture.\"\n\nNo, ewe move: \"On a trip up to Ullapool, these lambs were having fun, sorting out hierarchy by headbutting each other,\" says Jonathan Duckworth.\n\nGetting your ducks in a row: \"A goosander family having a rest at the edge of the weir on the Water Of Leith near Saughton Park and Gardens,\" says Jim Adair.\n\nTake a break: Also spotting goosander family time on the Water of Leith was Tom Kelly.\n\nA shade messy: \"My son, Murray, and niece, Erin, took part in a Colour Run event at Calderglen Country Park with the rest of their rugby team, Dalziel Dragons, as an end of season treat,\" says Fraser Keys.\n\nTea for two: \"Feeding a youngster on the teacup feeder in my garden,\" says Martin Mann.\n\nCoo's lick: This coo-ling summer scene north of Glasgow was captured by Victor Tregubov.\n\nCaught in the act: \"Red squirrel munching on peanuts meant for the birds in Grandtully, Perthshire,\" says James Munro.\n\nThe hills are alive: \"A fiery sunset in Brodick,\" says Moira Welsh on Arran.\n\nBridging the gap: The Forth Bridges, courtesy of Ben Montgomery.\n\nQuiet reflection: \"A tranquil shot at Loch Morlich at sunset,\" says Daren Knotts.\n\nGood Eigg: \"This was taken whilst cycle touring, watching the sun set from the Isle of Eigg looking west towards the Isle of Rum,\" says Geoff Wild.\n\nBlack beauty: \"An Exmoor pony in the setting sun at North Berwick Law,\" says Sylvia Beaumont.\n\nOutstanding in their field: Sunset over Callanish, courtesy of John Lawrie.\n\nBlack and white photography: Also stopping at Callanish, during a tour of the Outer Hebrides, was Brian Scott.\n\nPartnership working: \"Took this picture of my partner Ian taking a photo of this stunning sunset at Ballantrae,\" says Pamela Green.\n\nSet point: \"Troon beach at my favourite time of day,\" says Jacki Gordon of her late evening shot.\n\nPerfect ending: \"Ardrossan looking towards the Cumbraes,\" says Yvonne Gentleman. \"The sunset was a lovely surprise.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "UK airlines have been told to cancel flights they can't deliver this summer to stop a rerun of May's travel chaos.\n\nThe government and the aviation regulator wrote to carriers on Tuesday telling them to ensure their summer timetables were \"deliverable\".\n\nThey added that earlier cancellations were \"better\" than axing flights at the last minute.\n\nIt comes after tens of thousands of passengers have been affected by cancellations and delays at airports.\n\nThe problem was particularly bad during Easter and last month's half-term school holiday, and British Airways, TUI and Easyjet have apologised.\n\nStaff shortages have been blamed, after thousands of airline jobs were cut during the pandemic and have yet to be replaced despite a spike in post-pandemic travel demand.\n\nIn their joint letter, the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority set out five \"specific expectations\" for the sector.\n\nThey wrote: \"We think it's important that each airline reviews afresh its plans for the remainder of the summer season until the end of September to develop a schedule that is deliverable.\n\n\"Your schedules must be based on the resources you and your contractors expect to have available, and should be resilient for the unplanned and inevitable operational challenges that you will face.\n\n\"While cancellations at any time are a regrettable inconvenience to passengers, it is our view that cancellations at the earliest possibility to deliver a more robust schedule are better for consumers than late notice on-the-day cancellations.\"\n\nEasyJet is one of the airlines to have cancelled flights\n\nThe letter stated that airlines must \"keep consumers informed\" about their rights during disruption, such as having \"sufficiently staffed call centres and user-friendly digital channels\".\n\nIt also urged airlines, ground handlers, air traffic control and the Border Force work more closely to try to prevent problems.\n\nAirlines and unions told MPs on the Commons Business Committee on Tuesday that the staffing shortages blighting the industry were likely to persist this summer.\n\nOliver Richardson, national officer for civil air transport at the Unite union, told MPs it was unlikely the situation would be fixed \"unless we work together\".\n\nRepresentatives from BA, Easyjet and ground handling firm Swissport said they also faced long delays to get security clearance for new staff.\n\nSwissport's UK boss, Jude Winstanley, said it had hired 3,000 people since the start of the year, but it was taking up to 90 days to get them a full airside pass due to the referencing process.\n\nAccording to the CAA, up to 4% of UK flights were cancelled during half term and the Platinum Jubilee weekend - up from the usual rate of 1%.\n\nBoss Richard Moriarty called the situation distressing and unacceptable, adding that the industry needed to get a grip - although he said it was \"not solely a UK specific issue\".\n\nThere have been calls for EU aviation workers to be added to the government's shortage occupation list, but aviation minister Robert Courts denied this would help.\n\nHe told the committee that EU HGV drivers - another industry facing shortages - had been offered up to 5,000 visas to fill gaps in the UK, and only 27 had come forward.\n\n\"If there were spare workers in Europe they would be in Schiphol [Amsterdam airport],\" he said.\n\nDo you work in the aviation industry? Are you a passenger affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "-4-3 -2 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), D Johnson (US), J Rose (Eng), A Wise (US), B Harman (US), H Buckley (US) Selected others:-1 C Morikawa (US), J Rahm (Spa), J Thomas (US), W Zalatoris (US), G Woodland; E+2 +8\n\nRory McIlroy and England's world number 445 Callum Tarren are in a group one shot behind US Open first-round leader Adam Hadwin at Brookline in Boston.\n\nCanadian Hadwin carded six birdies to lead after a four-under-par 66.\n\nMcIlroy bogeyed the last, while Tarren eagled the eighth as they finished on three under, alongside David Lingmerth, Joel Dahmen and MJ Daffue.\n\nEngland's Matt Fitzpatrick and Justin Rose are two under, one ahead of last year's winner Jon Rahm who shot a 69.\n\nBenign morning conditions at Brookline saw 16 of the early wave finish under par, and that total increased to 25 with some fine performances from the afternoon starters in breezier conditions.\n\nJust four strokes covers the top 41 players on a congested leaderboard, that includes world number one Scottie Scheffler who finished with two birdies to sign for a level-par 70.\n\nDustin Johnson, the 2016 US Open champion shot a 68 but fellow LIV Golf competitor Phil Mickelson had a day to forget after slumping to an eight-over 78.\n\nBoth players have been suspended by the PGA Tour for joining the new LIV Golf series, although the United States Golf Association, which runs the US Open, has allowed them to compete this week.\n\nSix-time US Open runner-up Mickelson endured a miserable round on his 52nd birthday. He had just one birdie against five bogeys and two double bogeys to leave him struggling to make the cut in the only major he is yet to win.\n\nHadwin's 66 is his lowest score in a major in 63 rounds, and the first time the 34-year-old has led after any round of any of men's golf's four biggest tournaments.\n\nA flurry of five birdies in six holes on the front nine saw Hadwin hit the turn in 31, and he held on nicely down the tougher back nine with just one birdie and one bogey seeing him end the day at the top of the leaderboard.\n\n\"I was at ease, which is a nice feeling at the US Open as it doesn't happen very often,\" Hadwin told Sky Sports after his round.\n\n\"I had a good run there on the front nine but I knew there would be some tough holes coming home so it was just a case of hanging on.\"\n\nMcIlroy arrived in Massachusetts full of confidence after winning a second successive Canadian Open on the PGA Tour on Sunday - and maintained his form with a solid round.\n\nThe Northern Irishman was leading on four under after 17 holes but missed the ninth green, his final hole of the day, and failed to get up-and-down from greenside rough to save his par.\n\nIt still represents a second consecutive strong start in a major for McIlroy, who shot 65 in the first round to lead the US PGA Championship last month before finishing eighth behind winner Justin Thomas.\n\n\"I'm feeling comfortable with my game,\" the 33-year-old said. \"Mentally I'm in a good place, which I think I showed out there with some of the par saves I made.\"\n\nSheffield's Fitzpatrick followed his fine showing of fifth at the US PGA Championship with a steady round of 68, but he walked off disappointed after also dropping a shot on his final hole.\n\nThe highlight of Fitzpatrick's round was a chip-in birdie on the par-four 12th, one of five birdies in his round.\n\n\"I've got great memories of the place, and the whole time I've been out, I see shots that I hit and I see the places I was,\" said the 27-year-old who won the US Amateur title at Brookline in 2013.\n\n\"I think because of that I'm a bit more at ease. I'm just trying not to put any pressure on myself. It's a golf course I know I can do well around, and I'm just trying to enjoy it.\"\n\nEnglishman Rose won the 2013 US Open on a similar type of course at Merrion Golf Club, and he is right in the mix again after his eventful round of 68.\n\nRose had just one par on his front nine, with three bogeys and five birdies - including one on the 17th that was similar to American Justin Leonard's infamous putt in the 1999 Ryder Cup.\n\nLeonard holed a 40-footer that effectively regained the trophy but the raucous celebrations were widely pilloried in both the US and European media after players and their wives ran across the line of Jose Maria Olazabal's putt.\n\nOnce the bedlam had died down, Olazabal missed his putt, which guaranteed the US the half point they needed to win. Many European players suffered abuse that day and such was the ill feeling that the event was labelled the 'Battle of Brookline'.\n\nRose admitted that his celebration was \"100% Justin Leonard vibe\".\n\nHe added: \"I was reading the putt, and I was, like, this is the putt Justin Leonard had. It went in with Justin Leonard's speed. I don't know if the camera stayed on me long enough, but I kind of had my hands in the air.\n\n\"I was going to run for a little longer like he did. It's a little nod to Justin, but yeah, just trying to expel some European memories there.\"\n\nOne of the first players to finish was Tarren, who surprised everyone with a fine back nine propelling him to a 67.\n\nStarting on the 10th hole, he played his first nine holes in one over par but birdied the first, fifth and seventh before an eagle on the eighth sent him out in front.\n\nTarren is playing his first season on the PGA Tour and appearing in just his second US Open after also playing at Pebble Beach in 2019.\n\nThe Darlington golfer qualified at Rattlesnake Point GC in Ontario, Canada, to take his place in the 156-strong field in Boston.\n\nAfter also playing the Canadian Open, his clubs failed to make the same flight down to Massachusetts but finally arrived just before the event, which Tarren, 32, says he is fully enjoying.\n\n\"Every hole gets your attention. I'm loving being here this week,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm excited with that start and let's see what we can do with the rest of the week.\"\n\nSpain's Rahm had to stay patient in an eventful first round that had a little bit of everything and almost got away from him after a fine start.\n\nRahm had three birdies in four holes on the front nine but struggled on the back nine and when one of several wayward iron shots cost him a bogey on 15, his frustration was evident.\n\nHowever, the 27-year-old - who triumphed at Torrey Pines 12 months ago - kept his focus over the last two holes and dropped in a 21-foot birdie putt on the 18th to ensure he finished under par.\n\n\"That birdie on 18 was always going to change the energy of the round,\" said Rahm. \"I played really well the first seven holes, then when the wind picked up on the back nine, I struggled a bit.\n\n\"To make that birdie on 18 was pleasing because I hit a lot of bad iron shots the last 10 holes.\"", "England's first women's health ambassador is calling for \"one-stop shops\" where women can sort out their health needs.\n\nDame Lesley Regan, also a practising doctor, wants to make it easier for women and girls to access care such as contraception and smear tests in the community.\n\nHer new role aims to close the \"gender health gap\".\n\nShe will also support the upcoming government-led women's-health strategy.\n\nOne priority for the government is to improve access to hormone-replacement therapy amidst ongoing shortages across the UK.\n\nIt recently appointed a HRT Tsar, Madelaine McTernan, to help address this.\n\nWaits for gynaecology appointments are also an issue and have risen by 60% during the pandemic - more sharply than any other specialty.\n\nDame Lesley told BBC News: \"At the moment, we waste a lot of resource in telling girls and women that they cannot have things.\n\n\"So you might go off to your doctor or gynaecologist or heart specialist and get told, well, you cannot have a smear here, even if it is due, or you need to go somewhere else for this, that and the other.\n\n\"We should make it very, very easy for people to access this out in the community - why do you need to go to a secondary or tertiary facility for things that are very easy to provide?\"\n\nInstead, she wants health hubs where women could \"go for half a day and get all these things sorted out\" and then get on with their lives.\n\n\"A one-stop shop is what I want for myself and what I want for my daughters and I'm sure it is what every other girl and woman wants and what every man and boy wants for the women in their lives, to be looked after that way,\" Dame Lesley said.\n\nBut it would be unreasonable to expect every GP practice to become a women's health hub.\n\nDame Lesley also told BBC News more investment in the midwifery and obstetric workforce was needed.\n\nWith 42 years' experience working in women's health, she:\n\nDame Lesley says one area she would like to address is improving the representation of women in drug trials. Many trials for new medicines are based on men.\n\nHer work may also focus on improving diagnoses for women with heart disease. Women's symptoms can sometimes be different to the ones men experience and their conditions may go unrecognised.\n\nMinister for women's health Maria Caulfield said there was no quick fix to eradicate the gender health gap.\n\n\"Since we launched our women's health call for evidence over a year ago, we have made great progress in raising the profile of women's health,\" she said.\n\n\"From the formation of the UK-wide menopause taskforce and publication of our vision document, to legislating to ban hymenoplasty and virginity testing and appointing a chair of the HRT [hormone-replacement therapy] taskforce to help more menopausal women access this lifeline medication.\"\n\nThe aims of the women's health strategy include ensuring:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The language in the UK military chief's letter was really remarkable; it was talking about the need to engage on the battlefield, it mentioned Russia by name.\n\nThis letter was not intended for public consumption, but it was sent very widely, so they must have known this might have come out.\n\nIn terms of how this will be received in Ukraine, they have been calling for Nato involvement in this war, but I don't think they're going to view this as a clear indication that the British Army will be getting involved.\n\nOn how the Russians might view it, they will probably take it much the same way, but if this is seen as something of a threat - and it could be - then maybe Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov would echo the sentiment he expressed in an interview last week when he was talking about Britain's desire to bring Russia to its knees, and he said: \"Go on then, do it”.\n\nThe mood music we're getting from Western capitals is that this is a conflict that is going on for the long term and that they need - Boris Johnson said it himself today - to offer military support in an ongoing basis to the Ukrainians if they're going to be able to hold on and win this war in the east.", "Nitrogen dioxide from car exhausts is a particular concern\n\nThe government is not on track to meet its target to reduce health-damaging air pollution in England, the National Audit Office says.\n\nThe UK has legal limits on pollutants released into the air, and emissions have fallen in recent years.\n\nBut progress is too slow, and the public cannot easily find out if there are illegal levels of pollution where they live, the NAO's report says.\n\nThe government said air pollution nationally had fallen significantly.\n\nDirty air is linked to thousands of deaths a year in the UK. It is also blamed for lung damage and asthma attacks.\n\nThe report highlights that air pollution is unevenly distributed across the UK, with low-income and ethnically diverse areas disproportionately affected.\n\nExisting measures are not enough for the government in England to achieve its goals to limit air pollution to within legal limits by 2030, the NAO says.\n\nThe report raises particular concerns about levels of nitrogen dioxide, which is released into the air by road vehicles burning fuel.\n\nThere are \"longstanding breaches\" in exceeding the limits on this pollution, it says. But it points out these emissions fell during the Covid-19 pandemic when the number of people driving cars fell dramatically.\n\nThe impact of dirty air on our health, in particular that of children, was highlighted by the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah.\n\nShe had severe asthma and in 2020 she became the first person to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate. The ruling concluded that nitrogen dioxide emissions exceeded legal limits where she lived in London.\n\nGovernment efforts to communicate with the public about clean air are also often falling short and people cannot access key information about air pollution, the reports suggests.\n\n\"People cannot easily find out about air quality problems in their local area, whether pollution levels breach legal limits, and what progress their local authority is making on tackling those problems,\" NOA says.\n\nThe report highlights the success of clean air initiatives such as charging highly polluting vehicles more to drive through areas such as city centres. Examples include London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and Birmingham's Clean Air Zone (CAZ).\n\nBut it warns campaigns to tell drivers and residents about the initiatives are not clearly communicated.\n\nA government spokesperson told BBC News: \"We welcome the findings of the NAO report which rightly highlights the progress made by the government whilst also recognising the challenges we face.\n\n\"We have committed nearly £900m to tackle air pollution and improve public health.\"", "The Mills brothers have taken to rap to vent their frustration\n\nIt is an idyllic seaside resort with pastel-coloured houses where thousands flock in summer.\n\nBut some young people from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, have turned to rap to vent their frustration at being priced out by second homes and holiday lets.\n\nWill and Niall Mills' music describes the \"collapse\" of the working class community in the town.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was taking \"immediate and radical action\" to protect communities.\n\nPembrokeshire council said it was using second home levies to develop \"community-led housing development\".\n\n\"We don't live in Center Parcs. We don't live in Butlin's, this is a town. It has schools, it has GP surgeries,\" said Will Mills.\n\nThe 27-year-old is rapping in his mum's spare room in Pentlepoir, on the outskirts of Saundersfoot.\n\n\"If you've got two homes then you need one less.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Young people in seaside towns like Tenby can not afford to buy their own homes\n\nHis sister, who works for the council, has had to leave her flat and move in and her possessions are in boxes around him as he raps a track from his EP.\n\nIt means when Will or his siblings are home they have to share a room with his mum while his dad, a business owner in Tenby, lives in a room in a shared house.\n\n\"There is a level of anxiety that you could be made homeless within six months and I see that all the time,\" he said.\n\nThe council's waiting list for social housing has increased to 5,400 and it said the number of people coming to the authority who were homeless had also increased.\n\nWill and Niall have produced protest T-shirts\n\nWill and his identical twin brother Niall believe second homes and holiday lets are pricing families like theirs out of Tenby and they have turned to music, placards and protest T-shirts to try and raise awareness.\n\nTheir music both draws on their experiences of being part of a community they feel is being displaced.\n\n\"People will walk down the street and listen to it, put their headphones in then that's gonna go way further,\" he said.\n\nWill and Niall's obituary T-shirts have been sold to people in coastal towns around the UK who object to the often lower wages in rural areas, compared to high rents and housing shortages.\n\n\"What people forget is in purchasing a second home and having two homes you are responsible in some way or another for displacing a family,\" he said.\n\nThe average house price in Wales increased by 11.7% last year, compared to 15% in Pembrokeshire, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe average price of a home in the county has risen to £229,882.\n\nWill acknowledged the area needed tourism, but questioned \"what's the point of bringing money into a community that I can't live in?\n\n\"I think that there's also this misconception that second home owners bring all this money into the town and we're on our hands and knees waiting for this money to come in.\"\n\nAfter Gwynedd, latest figures show Pembrokeshire has the second highest number of registered second homes in Wales, and it has increased 15% since last June.\n\nIn Tenby, even businesses dependent on tourism are feeling the strain.\n\nEbony Lindsay, 26, manages The Dennis Café, or Den's as it is known locally.\n\nIt has been in her family for 35 years, but they have never experienced anything like their current staffing shortages.\n\nEbony said it was because people could no longer afford to live near the town, and especially not on local wages in hospitality.\n\n\"Most of my friends don't live down here anymore or they move into Cardiff, or have moved to London because that's where the jobs are for that and then also they can actually find somewhere to live.\"\n\nMost of my friends don't live down here anymore or they move into Cardiff, or have moved to London\n\nTo compensate she and her father regularly work 74-hour weeks.\n\nNeither her, her father or her aunt can afford to buy or rent in Tenby as they are \"local people who do it just to take home a normal wage\".\n\nEbony is trying to buy a house, but said it was impossible as wealthy buyers offered cash above the asking price.\n\nShe wants to see local people given priority on purchases and rentals, saying homes need to be occupied year-round to keep businesses going in the off-season.\n\n\"Even though the second home owners and holiday lets think they're bringing the money into the town, they're necessarily not because their houses are vacant the majority of the time,\" she said.\n\n\"The winter is bleak in Tenby now, because there's no one here every house has got no lights on no-one lives there.\"\n\nThe second homes premium councils can charge will increase to 300% from April 2023 after changes made by the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru under their co-operation agreement.\n\nPembrokeshire council charges 100% and the majority of the money goes to the Pembrokeshire Community Fund, which is spent on supporting local schemes and housing initiatives.\n\nCouncillor Neil Prior said communities were at a \"tipping point\".\n\nThe council is also exploring community-led housing development, like Community Land Trusts.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"committed to taking immediate and radical action using the planning, property and taxation systems to tackle the injustices in the current housing market\".\n\nIt also promised to have a package of proposals soon to tackle the various problems.\n\n\"We also continue to work towards our commitment of delivering 20,000 new low carbon social homes for rent this government term,\" a spokesman added.", "The lead Republican negotiator for what would be the US Senate's first gun control bill in a generation has walked out of talks with Democrats.\n\nTexas Senator John Cornyn has played a key role in drafting the framework of a proposed firearms bill following mass shootings in Texas and New York.\n\nLeaving Washington, he said: \"I'm through talking.\"\n\nThe plans include tougher checks for buyers under the age of 21 and cracking down on illegal gun purchases.\n\nThe proposals have shown some rare cross-party cooperation on the issue of gun control, but still fall far short of what many Democrats and activists have been calling for.\n\nRecent attempts to tighten gun laws in the US - which has the highest rate of firearms deaths among the world's wealthy nations - have failed to get the required support in Congress.\n\nThe flurry of action comes after 19 young children and two adults were killed at a school in Uvalde, Texas, less than two weeks after a racially motivated shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, left 10 dead.\n\nBut Mr Cornyn's walk-out has placed a question mark over the legislation's future. Axios, a political outlet, reported earlier on Thursday that conservative colleagues of the Texas senator are frustrated at his handling of the talks and want time to consider the text of any proposal before it is introduced to the chamber floor.\n\nThe legislative window to pass a new law is narrowing as November's mid-term elections loom, but the lead Democratic negotiator said he was still hopeful the bill could go to a vote next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nA bipartisan group of senators has been working to draft the text of a bill for lawmakers to vote on before they leave for a two-week 4 July recess.\n\nBut they have become bogged down in recent days, as Democrats and Republicans disagree on provisions that would strip certain Americans of their guns.\n\nMr Cornyn told reporters on Thursday that now is the time for action: \"I don't know what they have in mind, but I'm through talking.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, he warned that time was running out to reach an agreement.\n\n\"We're about run out of our rope here, and we got to make some final decisions today if we're going to be able to get this on the floor next week,\" he told radio host Hugh Hewitt.\n\nConnecticut Democrat Chris Murphy and North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis told reporters later on Thursday that the group was still inching towards an agreement.\n\n\"To land a deal like this is difficult. It comes with a lot of emotions,\" said Mr Murphy, who is leading the Democratic negotiations.\n\n\"It comes with political risk to both sides. But we're close enough that we should be able to get there.\"\n\nSenators say disagreements remain over incentives for states to enact so-called red flag laws, which allow police to seize guns from people deemed dangerous. Talks are also ongoing to close the \"boyfriend loophole\", which permits abusive partners to buy guns.\n\nIf both the Senate and House of Representatives can agree on a bill, it would go to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law.\n\nPresident Biden has said the plans are a step in the right direction but fall far short of what he called for.\n\nDespite the high rate of firearms deaths, many people in the US cherish their gun rights, which are protected by the Constitution's Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nThese are the first gun safety laws in decades to receive this level of bipartisan support, with previous Democratic attempts at strengthening controls frustrated by Republicans.\n\nSimilar efforts in the wake of a previous school shooting at Sandy Hook in Connecticut nearly a decade ago - in which 20 children and six adults were killed - failed to get the required number of votes in Congress.\n\nThe Senate, or upper chamber of Congress, is currently split - with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans - and legislation must have 60 votes to overcome a blocking manoeuvre known as the filibuster.\n\nTen of the 20 senators who proposed the measures are Republicans, meaning the new legislation could reach that threshold.", "The man known as KN said he was mistreated, could barely breathe and collapsed as staff took him to the flight to Rwanda\n\nOne of seven asylum seekers taken off Tuesday's cancelled Rwanda flight says he would not have come to the UK if he had known about the deportation policy.\n\nBut the man, who can only be identified as KN, told the BBC he had been in hiding and did not know about the plan.\n\nThe Iraqi Kurd, who said he fought alongside the British in the Iraq war, also alleged he had been mistreated on the way to the plane.\n\nThe Home Office said staff were trained in the appropriate use of force.\n\nThe Rwanda asylum plan, announced by the government in April, intends to take some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead.\n\nThe government has said the scheme will discourage others from crossing the Channel.\n\nKN said he had \"absolutely no idea\" that anyone entering the UK illegally to claim asylum could be deported to Rwanda under the UK government's new policy.\n\n\"If I had known about this whole plan I would have never decided to come to the UK,\" he told Radio 4's The World Tonight.\n\n\"The thing is that during the past six months, because I was in hiding, I was completely disconnected from the news and the outside world - so I had no idea what was going on. I was just desperately trying to get my way out for my safety.\"\n\nHowever, migrants in Calais waiting to make the crossing to the UK have previously told the BBC the plan to deport people to Rwanda would not deter them.\n\nAfter the first flight scheduled to take asylum seekers to Rwanda was grounded on Tuesday due to legal challenges, KN - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was taken to an immigration detention centre he describes as \"like a prison\".\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter from the detention centre, he said when he learned he was being transported to the east African country, he informed British officials that he had been part of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces who had helped the UK in Iraq in 2004.\n\nHe said he had documentary evidence on his phone and had told the officials: \"I really needed this favour to be returned.\"\n\nA financial problem in his home country had led to threats from \"people connected to the ruling system\", KN said, which meant his life was in danger.\n\nHe fled to Turkey and found a group of people smugglers. Armed with guns and knives, they transported him hidden in a lorry to the coast of France, before loading him into a small boat.\n\nWhen he learned that he was due to be on the first plane-load of asylum seekers to be transported to Rwanda, KN said he called his children back home: \"They were crying, I was crying too.\"\n\nHe said he was \"extremely mistreated\" by staff during the attempted removal. \"I could barely breathe. At some point I collapsed. My hands and my knees were completely numb,\" he said.\n\nKN said he was taken to a doctor and offered \"some pills\", but he refused. Security guards pushed him and bundled him into a van, he said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Our staff and escorting providers are rigorously trained to ensure the safety of returnees throughout the removal process, including on the appropriate use of force and restraint.\"\n\nThe news that he was being transported to east Africa \"felt like I was dying\", KN said.\n\nHe said: \"It was a horrible feeling. I told the security forces I am here to pursue my rights, I have the right to have a better life.\"\n\nBut after a decision by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and a series of judgements in London courts, KN was among the asylum seekers who were removed from the plane on Tuesday evening - before the flight was cancelled altogether.\n\nHe said he learned of his reprieve at about 22:00 BST.\n\n\"I started crying,\" he said. \"I told them I'm just crying for the others who were inside the plane and destined for Rwanda, because those people are helpless, are desperate just like me - they have families to support.\"\n\nWith the High Court due to hear a judicial review challenging the legality of the Rwanda deportation policy next month, KN said he does not know what his future holds.\n\n\"I'm still under shock but they are refusing to let me out of this place they are keeping us,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Home Secretary Priti Patel has suggested that work would begin immediately on preparing another flight, KN said the asylum seekers have heard nothing about it.\n\nHe said they are \"hanging in the balance\". \"We are all in a state of shock and disbelief - we don't know what's happening next,\" he said.", "Like many Ukrainians trying to leave Russian-occupied areas, Andriy was forced to go through a process called filtration\n\nUkrainians who want to leave cities under Russian occupation cannot do so without undergoing a terrifying process known as filtration. Phones are searched, social media accounts scoured. Anything deemed incriminating can lead to beatings, civilians say, and many are forcefully sent to Russia.\n\nAndriy watched anxiously as Russian soldiers connected his mobile to their computer, trying to restore some files. Andriy, a 28-year-old marketing officer, was attempting to leave Mariupol. He had deleted everything he thought a Russian soldier could use against him, such as text messages discussing Russia's invasion of Ukraine or photos of the devastation in his city caused by weeks of relentless shelling.\n\nBut the internet in Mariupol, a once bustling port in southern Ukraine, had been cut off as part of the siege imposed by Russia, and Andriy had not been able to take down some of his posts on social media. He remembered the first days of the war, when he had shared some anti-Russian messages and speeches from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe soldiers, Andriy said, already had their focus on him. On that day in early May, when he first joined the queues for filtration in Bezimenne, a small village to the east of Mariupol, one of the Russians noticed his beard. The soldier, Andriy said, instantly assumed it was a sign that he was a fighter with the Azov regiment, a former militia in the city which once had links with the far right.\n\n\"Is it you and your brigade killing our guys?,\" Andriy was asked. He replied he had never served in the army, he started working directly after graduating, but \"they didn't want to hear it\".\n\nAs the soldiers went through his phone, they turned to his political views, and asked his opinion of Zelensky. Andriy, cautiously, said Zelensky was \"okay\", and one of the soldiers wanted to know what he meant by that. Andriy told him Zelensky was just another president, not very different from those who had come before, and that in fact, he was not very interested in politics. \"Well,\" the soldier replied, \"you should just say you aren't interested in politics.\"\n\nThey kept Andriy's phone and told him to wait outside. He met his grandmother, mother and aunt, who had arrived with him and had already been given a document that allowed them to leave. A few minutes later, Andriy said, he was ordered to go to a tent where members of Russia's security service, the FSB, were carrying out further checks.\n\nFive officers were sitting behind a desk, three wearing balaclavas. They showed Andriy a video he had shared on Instagram of a speech Zelensky had given, from 1 March. With it was a caption written by Andriy: \"A president we can be proud of. Go home with your warship!\" One of the officers took the lead. \"You told us you're neutral to politics, but you support the Nazi government,\" Andriy recalled being told. \"He hit me in the throat. He basically started the beating.\"\n\nAndriy said the soldiers found out he had shared speeches of President Zelensky after connecting his phone to their computer\n\nLike Andriy, Dmytro had his phone confiscated at a checkpoint as he tried to leave Mariupol in late March. Dmytro, a 34-year-old history teacher, said the soldiers came across the word \"ruscist\", a play on \"Russia\" and \"fascist\", in a message to a friend. The soldiers, Dmytro told me, slapped and kicked him, and \"everything [happened] because I used that word.\"\n\nDmytro said he was taken, with four other people, to a police station in the village of Nikolsky, also a filtration point. \"The highest-ranking officer punched me four times in the face,\" he said. \"It seemed to be part of the procedure\".\n\nHis interrogators said teachers like him were spreading pro-Ukrainian propaganda. They also asked what he thought about \"the events of 2014\", the year that Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and started supporting pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. He replied that the conflict was known as the Russo-Ukrainian war. \"They said Russia was not involved, and asked me whether I agreed that it was, in fact, a Ukrainian civil war.\"\n\nThe officers checked his phone again, and this time found a photo of a book which had the letter H in its title. \"We got you!\" the soldiers told Dmytro. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, claims his war in Ukraine is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" the country, and the soldiers, Dmytro said, believed he was reading books about Hitler.\n\nThe next morning, Dmytro was transferred with two women to a prison in Starobesheve, a separatist-controlled village in Donetsk. He counted 24 people in the four-bunk cell. After four days and another detailed interrogation, he was finally released, and eventually reached Ukrainian-held territory. Weeks later, he still does not know what happened to his cell mates.\n\nBack inside the tent in Bezimenne, Andriy noticed two other people with their hands tied behind them, who had been left in a corner while the officers paid attention to him. \"They started to beat me way harder,\" Andriy told me, \"everywhere\". At one point, after a blow to the stomach, he felt as if he was about to faint. He managed to sit on a chair.\n\n\"I wondered what would be better,\" he said, \"to lose consciousness and fall down or tolerate the pain further.\"\n\nAt least, Andriy thought, he had not been taken somewhere else, away from his family. Ukrainian officials say thousands of people are believed to have been sent to detention centres and camps set up in Russian-controlled areas during filtration. In almost all cases, their relatives do not know where they are being held, or why. \"I [was] very angry about everything,\" Andriy said, \"but, at the same time, I know it could've been much worse.\"\n\nHis mother tried to get into the tent, but was stopped by the officers. \"She was very nervous. She later said they had told her that my 're-education' had started,\" Andriy said, \"and that she shouldn't be worried.\" His ordeal, he told me, continued for two and a half hours. He was even forced to make a video saying \"Glory to the Russian army!\", a mockery of \"Slava Ukraini!\", the Ukrainian slogan.\n\nThe final question, Andriy said, was whether he had \"understood his mistakes\", and \"I obviously answered yes\". As he was being released, officers brought in another man, who had previously served in Ukraine's military and had several tattoos. \"They immediately pushed him to the ground and started to beat him,\" Andriy said. \"They didn't even talk to him.\"\n\n\"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic,\" Andriy said about filtration\n\nUkrainian authorities say Russian forces and Russian-backed separatists have carried out filtration in occupied territories as an attempt to establish residents' possible links with the military, law enforcement and even local government, as the invading forces try to restore services and infrastructure.\n\nMen of fighting age are particularly targeted, checked for bruises that could suggest recent use of weapons, such as on the fingers and shoulders. Strip searches are common, witnesses say, including for women. Oleksandra Matviychuk, the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, a Kyiv-based human rights group, said the process, even when not violent, was \"inhuman\". \"There's no military need for this... They're trying to occupy the country with a tool I call 'immense pain of civilian people'. You ask: 'Why so much cruelty? For what?'\"\n\nMaksym, a 48-year-old steelworker, said he was forced to strip naked while officers in Bezimenne checked even the seams of his clothes. He was asked whether he was from the Azov regiment or was a Nazi sympathiser - he denied being either - and why he wanted to leave Mariupol. \"I said, 'Actually, it's you who are on Ukrainian soil.'\" One of the officers, who he said were all Russian, reacted by hitting Maksym with the gun butt in his chest. He fell.\n\n\"I leaned my head on the ground, holding my ribs. I couldn't get up,\" he said. \"It was very painful to breathe.\"\n\nHe was taken to what he described as a \"cage\", where others were being held. He noticed that one man, a weightlifter, had a tattoo of Poseidon, the Greek god, with a trident. The soldiers, Maksym said, thought it was the Ukrainian coat of arms. \"He explained it to them but they didn't understand.\" Those detained in the \"cage\" were given no water or food, and had to urinate in a corner in front of everyone, Maksym told me. At one point, exhausted, he tried to sleep on the ground. An officer came in and kicked him in the back, forcing him to stand.\n\nPeople would be taken to be interrogated and, when they returned, \"you saw the person had been beaten,\" Maksym said. He witnessed a woman in her 40s lying in pain, apparently after being hit in the stomach. A man, who seemed to be around 50, had a bleeding lip and red bruises on his neck. Maksym believed he had been strangled. No-one in the \"cage\" asked or said anything to each other. They were afraid that FSB officers could be disguised as prisoners.\n\nAfter about four or five hours, Maksym was released and allowed to leave Mariupol. Days later, he reached safety in Ukrainian-controlled territory, and went to a hospital to treat the persistent pain in his chest. The diagnosis: four broken ribs.\n\nYuriy Belousov, who leads the Department of War at the Ukrainian general prosecutor's office, said his team had received allegations of torture and even killings during filtration. \"[It seems to be] a Russian policy which was designed in advance, and pretty well prepared,\" he told me. \"It's definitely not just a single case or [something] done by a local military guy.\"\n\nHe acknowledged it was difficult to verify the cases, or estimate the scale of the violence. The Ukrainian authorities are unable to carry out investigations in occupied territories and most victims remain reluctant to share their stories, concerned that relatives in Mariupol could be targeted if their identity is exposed.\n\nVadym, 43, who used to work at a state-owned company in Mariupol, said he was tortured in Bezimenne in March. Separatist soldiers had questioned his wife after finding out she had \"liked\" the Ukrainian army page on Facebook, and restoring a receipt on her phone of a donation she had made to them. \"I tried to stand up for her,\" he said, \"but was knocked down.\" He got up, but was beaten once more. A pattern, he said, that happened again and again.\n\nWhen Russian soldiers realised where he worked, they took Vadym to a different building. There, Vadym said, separatist soldiers asked him \"stupid things\" and started to beat him. \"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell and choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth,\" Vadym said. He vomited and fainted. \"They were furious. When I recovered consciousness, they told me to clean everything up and continued to give me electric shocks.\"\n\nThe torture, Vadym said, only stopped after Russian officers intervened. They carried out another round of questioning before finally freeing him. As Vadym left the building, he saw a young woman, who had been identified during the process as a court clerk, being carried out.\n\n\"A plastic bag was put on her head, and her hands were tied,\" Vadym said. \"Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter not to be taken away.\"\n\nVadym's release came with a condition: he would have to go to Russia. About 1.2 million people in Ukraine, including thousands of Mariupol residents, have been sent to Russia against their will since the invasion began in February, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia denies it is carrying out a mass deportation, which would constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law, and says it is simply helping those who want to go. Ukraine rejects this claim.\n\nSome of those sent to Russia have managed to escape to other countries and even return to Ukraine. How many, remains unclear. Vadym, with the help of his friends, moved to another European country - he did not want to reveal the exact location. He had lost some of his vision, he told me, and doctors said this was a result of head injuries from the beating. \"I feel better now, but rehabilitation will take a long time.\" I asked him what he thought about filtration. \"They separate families. People are being disappeared,\" he said. \"It's pure terror.\"\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests for comment on the allegations. The Russian government has previously denied it is carrying out war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nAndriy said his mother was told by a Russian soldier that he was going through \"re-education\"\n\nAndriy and his family have now settled in Germany, after also having been forced to go to Russia. Looking back, he believes the occupying forces seemed to be using filtration to show their \"absolute power\". Soldiers, he said, acted as if it was a \"type of entertainment\", something to \"satisfy their own ego\".\n\nI told him about another Ukrainian I had met, a 60-year-old retired engineer called Viktoriia. A soldier found out she had added a Ukrainian flag to her profile photo on Facebook, she said, and the message \"Ukraine above all.\"\n\nHe pointed his gun at her, she told me, and threatened: \"I'll put you in the basement until you rot!\" He then kicked her. Viktoriia struggled to understand why he had acted like that. \"What did I do? What right did they have?\"\n\nAndriy said he could not explain such behaviour. \"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic.\"\n\nBut, he said, \"there's no logic\".\n\nSome names have been changed to protect identities", "The UK's Sam Ryder was recently pictured in a pink Kalush Orchestra hat, in a nod to this year's Ukrainian winners\n\nThe BBC is in talks with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to potentially host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in the UK - not Ukraine.\n\nThe show's organisers decided, after a \"full assessment and feasibility study\", that the event cannot be held in the winning country, Ukraine.\n\nThis is due to the ongoing war following Russia's invasion. So, they turned to the UK, which came second.\n\nBut Kyiv said it disagreed with the EBU's decision and would appeal.\n\nTraditionally, the winning country is asked to host the following year's contest.\n\nReacting to the EBU's decision, Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said Kyiv \"believes that it has grounds for conducting further talks on finding a solution that will satisfy all.\"\n\n\"Hosting Eurovision 2023 in Ukraine is a powerful signal to all the world, which is supporting Ukraine now. We will be demanding to change the decision, because we believe that we will be able to fulfil all our obligations\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mykola Chernotytskyi, head of the managing board of Ukrainian broadcaster UA: PBC, said: \"Security is, of course, our first priority. The team of UA: PBC, state and local authorities did a thorough job and offered different options.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is a pity to see such an unappealable statement, therefore, we ask our partners to hold further negotiations.\"\n\nSam Ryder came second for the UK, the country's best result since 1998, at this year's event in May.\n\nRyder topped the jury vote in Turin in May, but rap-folk band Kalush Orchestra, who were given special permission to leave the war-torn country to compete, soared to first place with 631 points in a symbolic show of public support.\n\nThe EBU said in a statement it had conducted the study with Ukrainian state broadcaster UA:PBC and external specialists, amid the conflict, but that the \"security and operational guarantees\" required to host the event cannot be fulfilled in the war-torn country.\n\nThe organisation thanked the winning nation's broadcaster for its \"wholehearted cooperation and commitment in exploring all scenarios\" and said it shared in \"their sadness and disappointment\", adding it would continue to support them.\n\n\"As a result of this decision, in accordance with the rules and to ensure the continuity of the event, the EBU will now begin discussions with the BBC, as this year's runner-up, to potentially host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in the United Kingdom,\" the statement read.\n\n\"It is our full intention that Ukraine's win will be reflected in next year's shows. This will be a priority for us in our discussions with the eventual hosts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK won the jury vote before Ukraine stormed into the lead following huge public support\n\nA BBC spokesman added: \"We have seen the announcement from the EBU. Clearly these aren't a set of circumstances that anyone would want. Following their decision, we will of course discuss the BBC hosting the Eurovision Song Contest.\"\n\nKatrina Leskanich, lead singer for the UK's winning 1997 Eurovision entry Katrina and the Waves with their song Love Shine A Light, tweeted: \"Practically hysterical over the announcement that the UK could host!\"\n\nDowning Street welcomed the possibility of the UK hosting Eurovision if Ukraine cannot, pledging to ensure it would \"overwhelmingly reflect Ukraine's rich culture, heritage and creativity\".\n\n\"Ukraine's victory... was richly deserved and as the rightful winner the government's firm wish has been to see next year's contest hosted there,\" said a government spokesperson.\n\n\"If the EBU decides the competition can't go ahead in Ukraine, we would of course welcome the opportunity to work closely with Ukraine and the BBC to host it here in the UK.\"\n\nThey added the government was also committed to \"building on the ongoing partnership between our two countries\".\n\nAsked if the government would help the BBC with the costs, the spokesman said \"we're slightly getting ahead of ourselves in terms of the process\".\n\nNorway's Give That Wolf A Banana were an eye-catching act at this year's contest\n\nA number of locations have put their hats in the ring if the UK does end up hosting the contest.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she wished Eurovision could be in Ukraine, but \"understand that in circumstances this isn't possible\".\n\n\"However, I can think of a perfect venue on banks of the River Clyde!\" she added, apparently suggesting the 14,300-capacity riverside OVO Hydro arena in Glasgow as a venue.\n\nBev Craig, the leader of Manchester City Council, also threw the city's hat in the ring, saying: \"Not the circumstances that anyone would want given the war in Ukraine. But if it's to be a UK city - I can't think of anywhere better, a great music city and fittingly home to a large Ukrainian community.\"\n\nLeeds had hoped to be European Capital of Culture in 2023, before Brexit prevented UK cities from entering that contest. The city is ploughing on with staging a year of culture anyway, and Leeds City Council said having Eurovision in the city \"could not come at a better time\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that the UK capital \"would welcome Eurovision with open arms\", adding: \"We're ready to step up and support Ukraine by hosting a contest that pays tribute to and honours the Ukrainian people, and also celebrates the very best of Britain too.\"\n\nLiverpool, Cardiff, Aberdeen, Brighton, Belfast and Birmingham have also all been suggested as possibilities.\n\nIf the UK is confirmed as the host country, cities would have to prove they have the right facilities and go through a bidding process.", "People punted along the River Cam in Cambridge as the day grew hotter\n\nThe UK has recorded its hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures set to rise on Friday, the Met Office said.\n\nNortholt, west London, saw temperatures reach 29.5C (85.1F), surpassing the previous hottest day of the year on Wednesday which saw 28.2C (82.8F).\n\nOn Friday the mercury is expected to rise to 34C in the south east of England, exceeding temperatures in parts of Jamaica and the Maldives.\n\nAcross most of England and Wales, highs of between 27C and 30C are expected.\n\nThe Met Office said the \"unusual\" temperatures for June were a result of high pressure over the southern half of the UK and a south-westerly airflow bringing warm air across the UK and Europe.\n\nThe weather has not yet beaten the record for the hottest June day ever, which was a high of 35.6C at Southampton Mayflower Park in June 1976.\n\nA woman takes a selfie in a field of poppies in Bramford, Suffolk\n\nAt South Kensington Underground Station commuters were warned to carry water with them\n\nIt comes after the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and Met Office issued a level three heat-health alert for London, the south-east and east of England, with the alert remaining in place until midnight on Saturday.\n\nAgostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at the UKHSA, said: \"During periods of hot weather, it is especially important to keep checking on those who are most vulnerable, such as older people and those with heart or lung conditions.\n\n\"Make sure to look out for signs of heat exhaustion and follow our simple health advice to beat the heat.\"\n\nA cold front is expected to push across the country from the north through the weekend, bringing a return to average temperatures in places such as Manchester and Leeds, although high temperatures are expected to remain in East Sussex and Kent, with 29C possible.\n\nFor an official heatwave to be declared there must be at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre, said climate change had increased the average temperatures of UK summers and the likelihood of experiencing more extreme temperatures during hot spells and heatwaves.\n\nHe said: \"Reaching 34C during June is a rare, but not unprecedented, event in the historical climate records for the UK.\n\n\"But if it should happen this week it would be notable that it would have occurred on three days during the last six Junes.\"\n\nThose lucky enough not to be at work took to Bridlington Beach in Yorkshire\n\nIn Soho Square in central London crowds sat in the sun", "Ed Sheeran is currently on his Mathematics World Tour\n\nSome NHS and emergency service workers who received promo tickets for Ed Sheeran's Glasgow concert have had them cancelled hours before the gig.\n\nThey were bought under the Blue Light Card scheme - which also offers discounts to staff from social care sector and armed forces.\n\nTicketmaster said that its allocation of Blue Light tickets had been cancelled by the event organiser.\n\nAEG Presents said the event at Hampden Park had been oversubscribed.\n\nSheeran played the first of two dates on Thursday and performed at the second on Friday night.\n\nThe singer songwriter is currently on his Mathematics world tour, which has taken in dates in Sunderland and Manchester.\n\nOne disappointed fan told BBC Scotland some members of his group had received cancellation notices but others had not.\n\nHe said he was unsure if he would get in and described the situation as \"a shambles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David McInnes and his children were on their way to the gig from Argyll when they learned their tickets had been cancelled.\n\nFirefighter David McInnes told the BBC he had taken his children out of school early so they could travel to Glasgow from Argyll and Bute and were on their way when the received the news by email.\n\nAnother fan, who contacted Ticketmaster via Twitter, said he received an email about the cancellation on Thursday night.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Is there any real explanation or anyway to purchase anything else before I have a distraught seven-year-old kid?\"\n\nAnd one woman said the move had left her \"absolutely gutted\".\n\nShe posted: \"Totally shocking to treat NHS and emergency services like this.\"\n\nLauren Dickson, a healthcare support worker from Glasgow, told BBC Scotland her Blue Light tickets were cancelled on Friday afternoon.\n\nShe said: \"Hours before is not the time, they could have told people well in advance.\n\n\"I know staff that are coming from NHS Grampian, from Aberdeen, who have spent over £100 in travel and accommodation. None of that is going to be refunded.\"\n\nIn a statement, AEG Presents said: \"Unforeseen logistical circumstances have unfortunately resulted in an oversubscription to a complimentary allocation of tickets for tonight's show.\n\n\"This has meant some recipients have unfortunately had their tickets cancelled. We will ensure that those affected will be invited next time Ed plays in Scotland.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience caused.\"\n\nHave your tickets been cancelled? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mr Assange is wanted by the American authorities over documents leaked in 2010 and 2011\n\nWikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US has been approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nMr Assange has 14 days to appeal over the decision, the Home Office said.\n\nIt said the courts found extradition would not be \"incompatible with his human rights\" and that while in the US \"he will be treated appropriately\".\n\nMr Assange is wanted by the American authorities over documents leaked in 2010 and 2011, which the US says broke the law and endangered lives.\n\nThe Wikileaks documents related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.\n\nThe Australian is being held at Belmarsh prison in London after mounting a lengthy battle to avoid being extradited.\n\nExtradition allows one country to ask another to hand over a suspect to face trial.\n\nResponding to the home secretary's order, Wikileaks confirmed it would appeal against her decision.\n\nMr Assange's wife, Stella, said her husband had done \"nothing wrong\" and \"he has committed no crime\".\n\n\"He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job,\" she said.\n\nIn a press conference outside the British Embassy in New York, his brother Gabriel Shipton said they would take his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights if not successful in the UK's High Court.\n\nMedia company Wikileaks is a whistle-blowing platform that publishes classified material provided by anonymous sources.\n\nThis decision is the most important stage so far in Mr Assange's long legal battle.\n\nJudges in London have already ruled that the US's request was lawful and that the American authorities would care for him properly in prison.\n\nNow, the home secretary has carried out her role in the complicated legal process by signing off the US request.\n\nHer officials said she was legally bound to do so because Mr Assange does not face the death penalty - nor does his case fall into the other narrow range of categories for her to refuse to approve the transfer.\n\nIn practice, this means there is nothing to stop Washington sending a jet to pick up Mr Assange - unless he can win on appeal.\n\nIf his lawyers cannot get a hearing back before judges in London, he could petition the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nTen years ago it ruled extradition to the US would not breach human rights - but expect the Wikileaks founder to try fresh arguments not heard back then.\n\nIn May 2019, while serving a jail sentence in the UK for breaching bail, the US justice department filed 17 charges against Mr Assange for violating the Espionage Act - alleging that material obtained by Wikileaks endangered lives.\n\nMr Assange's legal team claimed classified documents published by Wikileaks, which related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, exposed US wrongdoing and were in the public interest.\n\nThose documents revealed how the US military had killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan, while leaked Iraq war files showed 66,000 civilians had been killed, and prisoners tortured, by Iraqi forces.\n\nMr Assange has been in prison since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2019 and arrested by British police, after Ecuador withdrew his asylum status.\n\nHe sought asylum in 2012 in the embassy, fearing US prosecution, and stayed there for seven years. He claimed he was a victim of human rights abuses and would face a life sentence if extradited.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled in March that Mr Assange's case raised no legal questions over assurances the US had given to the UK about how he was likely to be treated.\n\nPreviously UK judges blocked his extradition because of concerns about his mental health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From 'teenage hacker' to fighting US extradition - the Julian Assange story\n\nAmnesty International said enabling the extradition to take place \"would put him at great risk and sends a chilling message to journalists\".\n\n\"Diplomatic assurances provided by the US that Assange will not be kept in solitary confinement cannot be taken on face value given previous history,\" general secretary Agnes Callamard said.\n\nFormer government minister David Davis said he did not believe Mr Assange would have a fair trial in the US.\n\n\"This extradition treaty needs to be rewritten to give British and American citizens identical rights, unlike now,\" he said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said under the Extradition Act 2003 the secretary of state \"must sign\" an extradition order if there were \"no grounds to prohibit the order being made\".\n\n\"The UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange,\" the Home Office added.", "A two-hour wait greeted Stuart Dempster on his return from holiday\n\nA sea of luggage has piled up at Heathrow's Terminal 2 after a technical malfunction.\n\nSome passengers had to fly without their bags while others faced delays at check-in, the airport said.\n\nTravellers complained on social media of two-hour waits at baggage reclaim.\n\nThe airport said the malfunction had now been fixed. Airport staff are working to reunite passengers with their belongings if they had to fly without them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stuart Dempster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStuart Dempster tried to spot his own bags among the hundreds of suitcases packed into the hall.\n\n\"Two-hour delays for Heathrow Airport T2 baggage reclaim tonight apparently,\" he tweeted. \"Welcome back to Britain!\"\n\nFiona O'Driscoll posted pictures online of the terminal hall crammed with bags to pass the time.\n\nFiona O'Driscoll snapped the piles of bags from above the terminal hall\n\n\"Earlier today there was a technical issue with the Terminal 2 baggage system which has now been resolved,\" she said.\n\n\"Passengers are now able to check-in as normal, but a number of passengers who departed from Terminal 2 earlier today may have travelled without their luggage.\n\n\"We are working closely with airlines to reunite passengers with their luggage as soon as possible. We're sorry there's been disruption to passenger journeys.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has announced a training programme for Ukrainian forces he said could \"change the equation\" of the war.\n\nThe prime minister met President Volodymyr Zelensky during a surprise trip to the nation's capital Kyiv.\n\nHe pulled out of a conference of northern Tory MPs at the last minute and before the Wakefield by-election.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said PM's Kyiv trip had been \"important\", adding he was not \"affronted\" by him cancelling speaking at the conference.\n\nBut Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership business group, told the BBC it was a \"missed opportunity\" to engage with his MPs and people from the region.\n\n\"As much as I value and think the importance of him being in Ukraine is significant, the issue is timing. The prime minister could have done that potentially another time.\"\n\nMr Johnson was making his second visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February.\n\nHe had been due to speak at a conference in Doncaster ahead of the by-election in Wakefield, which was triggered after Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.\n\nMr Berry, the leader of the Northern Research Group group of Conservative MPs, said Mr Johnson's decision not to attend the conference was \"not a snub\".\n\nBut he later told Channel 4 News: \"Clearly, people were disappointed. We had 30-plus colleagues here and 400 members.\"\n\nMr Wallace said such visits had to be organised in \"total secrecy\" and it was important for Mr Johnson to show support for an ally that was at war.\n\n\"Helping Ukraine win and trying to help at home are linked. Part of the inflation we see comes from gas and food prices which are partly driven upwards because of this conflict,\" Mr Wallace tweeted.\n\nBefore turning up in Kyiv, Boris Johnson had been due in Doncaster to address some of his MPs from across the north of England.\n\nThey were poised to press the prime minister for more investment and local powers, and possibly pose tricky questions on taxation levels and the cost of living.\n\nJake Berry, the group's chair, insisted the decision to head to Ukraine instead of Yorkshire wasn't seen as a snub, saying the prime minister's plans can understandably change.\n\nBut there was clear disappointment from some MPs at the last-minute cancellation - and a warning that Boris Johnson had to deliver for those in the midlands and north of England.\n\nBoris Johnson's response to the war in Ukraine is regarded within his party as something he has handled well.\n\nBut with questions over his leadership and two difficult by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton taking place next week, his domestic woes aren't going anywhere.\n\nThe prime minister said the programme would use British expertise to rebuild Ukrainian forces and scale up their resistance\n\nSpeaking at a joint press conference earlier with President Zelensky, Mr Johnson outlined the UK's training programme for Ukrainian troops, saying it would harness \"that most powerful of forces, the Ukrainian determination to win\".\n\n\"Two months on from my last visit, the Ukrainian grit, determination and resilience is stronger than ever, and I know that unbreakable resolve will long outlive the vain ambitions of President Putin,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street said the UK-led training scheme would have the potential to train up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers every 120 days and would allow them to \"accelerate their deployment, rebuild their forces and scale-up their resistance\".\n\nSoldiers would learn \"battle-winning skills for the front line, as well as basic medical training, cyber-security and counter explosive tactics\".\n\nThe government added international partners would also be invited to host the programme.\n\nIf the offer is accepted by Mr Zelensky there would be discussions about the size of the training operation, which is expected to take place outside of Ukraine.\n\nThe previous Operation Orbital saw the UK train more than 22,000 Ukrainian personnel from 2015 up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nNo 10 said the leaders also discussed how the UK could \"play a pivotal role in ending the blockade of grain\".\n\nMr Zelensky's Telegram account posted a message saying: \"Many days of this war have proved that Great Britain's support for Ukraine is firm and resolute.\n\n\"Glad to see our country's great friend Boris Johnson in Kyiv again.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson's trip comes after visits to Ukraine by European leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nFollowing their trip, the European Commission has backed Ukraine's bid to be given candidacy status to join the EU - bringing it one step closer to joining the bloc.", "A Scottish council is trailing delivering meals to more remote schools by drone.\n\nArgyll and Bute said getting school meals to some rural and island sites can mean using vans, taxis and ferries, which can be affected by weather conditions.\n\nThe council said drones also offered an alternative carbon-free mode of transport, as they were fully electric.", "UK interest rates have risen further as the Bank of England attempts to stem the pace of soaring prices.\n\nRates have increased from 1% to 1.25%, the fifth consecutive rise, pushing them to the highest level in 13 years.\n\nIt comes as finances are being squeezed by the rising cost of living, driven by record fuel and energy prices.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at a 40-year high of 9%, and the Bank warned it could surpass 11% later this year.\n\nThe Bank said rising energy prices were expected to drive living costs even higher in October, but added it would \"act forcefully\" if necessary should inflation pressures persist. Capital Economics speculates that the Bank could eventually have to raise interest rates to 3%.\n\nOne way to try to control rising prices - or inflation - is to raise interest rates. This increases the cost of borrowing and encourages people to borrow and spend less. Higher interest rates also motivate people to save more.\n\nThe June rate rise means that homeowners with a typical tracker mortgage will have to pay about £25 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages will see a £16 increase.\n\nCompared with pre-December 2021 - when the Bank announced the first in this series of rate rises - tracker mortgage customers are paying around £115 more a month, and variable mortgage holders about £73 more.\n\nHowever, about three-quarters of mortgage-holders have a fixed-rate deal, so have not been affected immediately.\n\nMeanwhile, some businesses believe rising borrowing costs may curb customer spending.\n\n\"At the moment we're not seeing it directly but we know we are a luxury,\" Julie Dalton, managing director of Gulliver's Theme Park Resorts told the BBC. \"Past experience has told us when interest rates go up we do start to suffer.\"\n\nSix of the nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise rates to 1.25%, but three backed a bigger increase to 1.5%.\n\nMinutes from the Bank's meeting also reveal that it expects the UK economy will shrink by 0.3% in the April-to-June period.\n\nHow will the latest interest rate rise affect you? Get in touch.\n\nThe Bank did not update its outlook for the July-to-September quarter, but it has said previously that expects the economy to grow during this period.\n\nIf it does, then the UK would avoid a recession this year - with a recession defined as the economy shrinking for two consecutive quarters.\n\nHowever, the Bank has also said previously that it expects the economy to shrink in the final three months of this year, during which the price cap on household energy bills is expected to be increased from £1,971 per year to about £2,800.\n\nThe rise in domestic gas and electricity bills will lift the increase in the cost of living to \"slightly above\" 11% in October, the Bank said.\n\nIt means the rate of inflation will be more than five times the Bank's inflation target of 2%.\n\nThe Bank of England now expects the economy to be weaker immediately, with a fall in the economy in this quarter, and for inflation to be even higher, going above 11% in the autumn when the energy cap resets. It will flesh out these new forecasts in August.\n\nThe rise in interest rates to its highest level since February 2009 is intended to stop the global energy price shock becoming entrenched in the UK.\n\nThe Bank's spies in every region of the economy say they do not pick up any sign of a reduction in demand for labour. Hence the rise to a rate that would still be considered low by historic standards, but may prove rather high to an economy, to homeowners and businesses that have become accustomed to ultra low rates after the financial crisis.\n\nThe Bank has also stopped giving guidance that more rate increases are on the way, and instead replaced that wording with an assurance that it will respond \"forcefully\" to any signs that inflation is becoming persistent.\n\nThree members of the nine member committee voted for an even bigger rise of 0.5%, in the aftermath of the bumper 0.75% rise in rates in the US overnight.\n\nThe Bank pointed to measures of core inflation, which strip out volatile energy prices for example, being significantly higher in the UK than in the euro area.\n\nSo the Bank is keeping open a path of further rises. But such is the economic squeeze and the fear of recession, that some economists predict some of these rises could be reversed within a year. It is a very uncertain time.\n\nIn a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said inflation was largely due to global issues such as rising prices for energy and agricultural goods, which have worsened as a result of Russia's war with Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Bailey said \"domestic factors\" also had a role in rising inflation such as the tighter labour market - there are currently a record 1.3 million job vacancies - and rising prices in the services sector, which accounts for nearly three-quarters of the UK's GDP.\n\nHe also noted that the UK's inflation rate was higher than both the eurozone and the US.\n\nMr Bailey added that because it takes some time for wholesale gas and oil prices to be reflected in household bills - when the energy regulator Ofgem changes the price cap in April and October - \"inflation is likely to peak later in the UK than in many other economies and may therefore fall back later\".\n\nOther countries are also raising interest rates in an attempt to cool rising prices.\n\nThe US central bank has just announced its biggest interest rate rise in nearly 30 years, with the Federal Reserve increasing rates by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index shed more than 600 points (2%) following the move while in the UK, the FTSE 100 fell by more than 200 points (3%) after the Bank lifted rates.\n\nBrazil, Canada, India, Australia and Switzerland have also raised rates, while the European Central Bank has outlined plans to do so later this summer.\n\nIn the UK, some urged the Bank of England to show some restraint on raising interest rates.\n\nWhile the manufacturers' association Make UK acknowledged that the Bank is \"caught between a rock and a hard place\", it said: \"Relatively low-cost borrowing is currently one of the few last lines of defence for manufacturers, with cashflow under pressure thanks to a potent cocktail of high energy, transport and raw material costs.\"\n• None What no change in rates means for your money", "Cancelled flights and delays at airports are fuelling anxiety among UK holidaymakers ahead of the key summer season, travel agents have warned.\n\nAdvantage Travel Partnership, a network of travel agents, said 30% of calls to its members were from people worried about future bookings.\n\nThousands of travellers are thought to be stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the Jubilee weekend.\n\nThe disruption is being driven by staff shortages across the aviation industry.\n\nThe problems are taking time to resolve and Advantage's chief executive warned there were \"no guarantees\" the situation would have improved by the summer.\n\n\"Thirty per cent of everything my members are dealing with right now are calls from very anxious holidaymakers who have bookings, whose travel plans, as far as we know right now, will take place, but they are anxious because obviously they're hearing all [about] the disruption,\" said Julia Lo Bue-Said.\n\nMs Bue-Said said airlines were already employing new staff, many of whom were already undergoing training, and that she hoped the industry would be ready by the busy summer period.\n\nHowever, Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, a union representing staff working in airports and across aviation engineering, said recent cancellations were having a \"really damaging impact\" on people's confidence.\n\n\"It would be difficult to give anybody the confidence at the present minute, that we are going to be okay by the school holidays in July,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nA sustainable long-term plan for the industry if the problems are to be resolved, he said, including better pay and conditions for workers in the sector.\n\nUp to two million people were scheduled to fly to and from the UK over the bank holiday weekend, and the vast majority of flights have operated as expected.\n\nBut several airlines have cancelled flights, with EasyJet scrapping a further 37 journeys on Monday.\n\nAccording to aviation data firm Cirium, 305 flights departing the UK were cancelled out of total of 10,662 scheduled flights over the Jubilee weekend.\n\nMost journeys - some 114 flights - were axed on Sunday and the airports worst affected were London Gatwick, London Luton and Bristol.\n\nEasyJet cancelled the most flights on Sunday, totalling 64, while Wizz Air cancelled 15 departing flights and BA axed eight.\n\nFamilies have been particularly affected by Sunday's disruption, with children stranded abroad as schools return and the exam season begins.\n\nCirium said 189 international flights were cancelled to the UK over the long weekend, with the majority from the Netherlands (39 flights), Spain and the Canary Islands (24), France (24) and Germany (21).\n\nAirlines are being blamed for taking more bookings than they can manage following steep staff cuts during the height of Covid when travel ground to a halt.\n\nBut industry leaders have argued the government could have done more to support the sector during the pandemic.\n\nIt has also called for immigration rules on hiring overseas workers to be relaxed to plug staff shortages, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ruled out such a move.\n\nMr Shapps said the government had been clear that it was up to industry leaders to tackle the problems, which were also seen at Easter, and accused airlines of having \"seriously oversold flights and holidays\".\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nMr Clancy, of the Prospect union, said the government was \"culpable\" for withdrawing pandemic-related support from airlines too soon.\n\nBut airlines had cut too many jobs, he said, and now needed to find ways to retain and recruit more workers.\n\n\"Ultimately this means fixing pay and conditions which have deteriorated significantly in recent years,\" Mr Clancy said.\n\n\"The problems we are seeing today are the result of a failed business model, unable to cope with any level of stress in the system.\n\n\"Unless the government and employers can come up with a sustainable long term plan for the aviation industry, that supports jobs and skills, then it is hard to see the situation improving.\"\n\nThe Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) said despite the recent disruption the \"vast majority of people\" have been able to fly and it expected that to be the case for the summer.\n\nABTA urged passengers to follow advice from airlines and airports for when to arrive for flights, as \"many are arriving well before check-in begins which puts additional pressure on airport services\".\n\nJen Kassel is currently stranded in Spain with her partner and three young children after her EasyJet flight was cancelled on Sunday.\n\nShe said the family had been given no explanation, but had been offered accommodation at a hotel in Benalmadena.\n\n\"The kids were really stressed,\" she said.\n\nNikolai Brooks and his wife Vicky, who live near Brighton, have been stuck at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam since Saturday after their EasyJet flight was cancelled.\n\nTheir new flight for Monday evening has already been delayed by three hours.\n\nThey have had to pay for two extra nights in a hotel near the airport, which has cost them about £600, not including food, Mr Brooks told the BBC.\n\n\"We didn't even get an email through that it had been cancelled,\" he said. \"It's more frustrating for my wife, she's a teacher and she was due back for today.\"\n\nIn a statement, EasyJet said it was \"very sorry\" for flights being cancelled and said the disruption was caused by \"the ongoing challenging operating environment\".\n\n\"Customers are being provided with options to rebook or receive a refund, as well as hotel accommodation and meals where required, along with information on how to arrange this quickly online or via the app,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nHow have you been affected by a recent flight cancellation? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause lingering symptoms, known as \"long Covid\", a UK investigation, in The Lancet, suggests.\n\nThe King's College London team looked at data from nearly 100,000 people who logged their Covid symptoms on an app.\n\nJust over 4% of those infected during the Omicron wave had logged long Covid symptoms, compared with 10% of those infected in the preceding, Delta, wave.\n\nBut as far more were infected during the Omicron wave, the total was higher.\n\nIn fact, the much bigger number of new infections during the Omicron wave \"entirely trumped\" the variant's potential lower risk of long Covid, Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics, at The Open University, said.\n\n\"Anyway, you don't really have any choice about which virus variant you might be infected with,\" he said.\n\n\"What's more, nothing in these findings tells us what might happen with a different new variant, in terms of long Covid risk.\"\n\nThe researchers tried to take into account other variables, such as how long ago someone had been vaccinated against Covid, but it is impossible to be certain the difference between variants caused the difference in long Covid numbers.\n\nLead researcher Dr Claire Steves said: \"The Omicron variant appears substantially less likely to cause long Covid than previous variants - but still, one out of every 23 people who catches Covid-19 goes on to have symptoms for more than four weeks.\n\n\"Given the numbers of people affected, it's important that we continue to support them at work, at home and within the NHS.\"\n\nOfficials estimate long Covid has affected at least two million people in the UK.\n\nPrior to the Omicron wave, the estimate was about 1.3 million.\n\nWhile most people who catch Covid don't become severely ill and get better relatively quickly, some have long-term problems after recovering from the original infection - even if they weren't very ill in the first place.\n\nLong Covid isn't fully understood, and there's no internationally-agreed definition - so estimates of how common it is, or what the main symptoms are, vary.\n\nGuidance for health professionals refers to symptoms that continue for more than 12 weeks which cannot be explained by another cause. The Lancet research included symptoms lasting four weeks or more.\n\nAccording to the NHS, these can include:\n\nPatient surveys suggest a range of other symptoms may also be present, including gut problems, insomnia and vision changes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "‘I can’t afford to help the community’\n\nOur colleagues at Radio 5 Live have been visiting the New Parks area of Leicester since the cost of living crisis began. Donna runs a food bank in the area and says \"more and more people\" are coming for help, but she and her partner are struggling to keep it open. \"We're having to cut down on our voluntary work in the community because we can't afford the petrol, we need it ourselves for the shopping,\" she says. \"I personally do 300 miles a week, so that's not feasible any more... I can't afford to help the community and it makes me feel really bad.\"My family comes before anyone else and as much as I want to help somebody, it's coming to a time where I can't.\" Shaun is a dad to three young boys. He says a lack of money is causing arguments in his house. \"[The kids] don't understand that once you've paid your bills, there's nothing extra to play with,\" he says. \"We as a family go out probably once a month because that's all we can do... they don't understand it and it's hard, but once they're older I suppose they'll understand.\"", "Cosmetics maker Revlon has filed for bankruptcy in the US, as it says supply chain disruptions have driven up the cost of raw materials for its products.\n\nThe 90-year-old firm says it has also been struggling with supplier payments, inflation and labour shortages.\n\nThe company says it expects to receive $575m (£466.6m) from its existing lenders to support day-to-day operations.\n\nIts shares lost more than 13% in New York trading after the announcement.\n\nIn a court filing, the company said that supply chain disruptions had prompted intense competition for the ingredients used in its cosmetics. It added that suppliers have also asked to be paid for orders upfront.\n\nThis has caused \"shortages of necessary ingredients across the company's portfolio,\" Revlon's chief restructuring officer Robert Caruso said in the filing.\n\n\"For example, one tube of Revlon lipstick requires 35 to 40 raw materials and component parts, each of which is critical to bringing the product to market,\" he added.\n\nAs well as the Revlon brand, the company also owns well-known names such as Elizabeth Arden, Almay and Cutex, and fragrances fronted by Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.\n\nIn recent years it has faced increased competition from new brands like those backed by celebrities such as Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics and Rihanna's Fenty Beauty.\n\nBy filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Revlon will be able to continue to operate while it is working out a plan to repay its creditors.\n\nRevlon's president and chief executive Debra Perelman said the bankruptcy filing will allow the company to \"offer our customers the iconic products we have delivered for decades, while providing a clearer path for our future growth\".\n\nHowever, the New York Stock Exchange said on Thursday that it had started the process of removing the company's shares from its platform.\n\nRevlon was formed in 1932 by brothers Charles and Joseph Revson and Charles Lachman and started selling nail polish soon after. By the mid-1950s it had become an international brand.\n\nIt was bought by billionaire businessman Ronald Perelman's MacAndrews & Forbes in 1985. Revlon now sells its products in more than 150 countries.\n\nEarlier this year, Revlon warned that it was facing \"liquidity constraints brought on by continued global challenges, including supply chain disruption and rising inflation\".\n\nIt had $3.3bn of long-term debt at the end of March, and reports of its impending bankruptcy last week caused a slide in its share price.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Dom Phillips lived in Brazil for more than a decade and was a contributor to the Guardian newspaper. Bruno Pereira was an expert on isolated tribes\n\nThe family of Dom Phillips say they are \"heartbroken\" after a suspect confessed to burying the bodies of the missing British journalist and the indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil.\n\nIn a statement, they thanked those who helped search for the men in a remote and dangerous region of the Amazon.\n\nThey also praised \"the courageous lives and important work\" of the pair who covered the lives of indigenous groups.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, were first reported missing on 5 June.\n\nMr Pereira had been introducing the journalist - who was writing a book on the Amazon - to contacts and acting as his guide when their boat failed to arrive at an expected point near the border with Peru.\n\nThe search was initially criticised by relatives and campaign groups, who called on officials to act more quickly and broaden its scope. As global outrage grew at the disappearance, the 10-day search expanded until it involved the army, navy and police.\n\nAt a news conference late on Wednesday, police said a suspect named as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira had explained in detail how both men were killed before leading officers to the place where their bodies were buried.\n\nHuman remains were then dug up. Police have said they will work with Interpol to confirm their identities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detective Eduardo Fontes said the suspect \"pointed out the place where he buried the bodies\"\n\n\"The entire reconstruction of the crime was carried out... and then we went to the place where he announced that he had buried the bodies,\" Detective Eduardo Fontes told reporters gathered in the city of Manaus.\n\nHe said the suspect had also admitted to sinking the pair's boat. The two men had taken a short trip down the Itaquai river in the far west of Brazil shortly before they were killed.\n\nMr Fontes showed a map to the media - explaining that the bodies were found 3.1km (1.9 miles) from the river, in the middle of the jungle, and that it involved a huge amount of work to get to the location.\n\nThe police also failed to praise the work of the indigenous communities who searched for the men and helped lead authorities to some of their belongings. When asked by the BBC why there was no mention of the local communities helping, they admitted it was an error and conceded that their support had been crucial.\n\nThe suspect's brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, has also been arrested in connection with the killings, but denies any involvement.\n\nMr Phillips' family said in a statement on Wednesday: \"We are heartbroken at the confirmation that Dom and Bruno were murdered and extend our deepest sympathies to Alessandra, Beatriz and the other Brazilian family members of both men.\n\n\"We are grateful to all those who have taken part in the search, especially the indigenous groups who worked tirelessly to find evidence of the attack,\" they said.\n\n\"We thank the many people who have joined us in urging the authorities to intensify the search and those who have reached out with words of comfort and sympathy,\" they added.\n\nMr Phillips' wife, Alessandra Sampaio, said in a separate statement: \"Now we can bring them home and say goodbye with love.\" She added that the confession marked the beginning of a \"quest for justice\".\n\nBriton Mr Phillips, from Merseyside, had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper. Mr Pereira, a Brazilian who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes.\n\nDom Phillips talks to two indigenous men in Roraima State, Brazil\n\nThe pair went missing in the Javari valley, in Brazil's far west, a remote region home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups. It is a refuge for these indigenous groups, who live in isolation from the outside world.\n\nBut experts say the area has become a hotbed for crime because of its remoteness and a lack of government oversight. \"What happened to Bruno and Dom is the result of an increase in organised crime, which is in turn explained by the absence of the state,\" a former Funai official told the AFP news agency.\n\nAs well as clashes with poachers catching protected fish, it has also seen incursions by illegal gold-miners, loggers and drug-traffickers who smuggle cocaine from nearby Peru and Colombia.\n\nViolence has also grown as drug-trafficking gangs battle for control of the area's waterways to smuggle cocaine.\n\nThe region - which is about the size of Portugal - is known for violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people. It was these conflicts that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were documenting.\n\nAnd days before the pair went missing, indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing. He had repeatedly reported being threatened by loggers, miners and illegal fishermen in the past.\n\nPat Venditti, the executive director of Greenpeace UK, praised the men as \"brave, passionate and determined\".\n\n\"[They] were murdered while doing their vital work of shining a light on the daily threats indigenous people in Brazil face as they defend their land and their rights,\" he said in a statement. \"The greatest tribute we can pay Bruno and Dom now is to continue their vital work.\"", "Boris Johnson's former ethics adviser has said he resigned from his role this week over the government's \"openness\" to breaking international law.\n\nIn a second letter outlining why he had quit, Lord Geidt said reports it was related to steel tariffs were a \"distraction\".\n\n\"I could not be a party to advising on any potential law-breaking,\" he said.\n\nLord Geidt was the second ethics adviser to quit under Mr Johnson, after Sir Alex Allan left in 2020.\n\nHe left his role on Wednesday, accusing the prime minister of putting him in an \"impossible and odious position\" over an issue he believed would amount to a breach of the ministerial code - the rules about standards in government.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC News on Friday evening, he elaborated on why he quit.\n\nLord Geidt told the chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Conservative MP William Wragg, there had been \"confusion about the precise cause of my decision\".\n\nHe said his concern expressed in his letter to the PM was \"simply one example of what might yet constitute deliberate breaches by the United Kingdom of its obligations under international law\".\n\nIn his letter, Lord Geidt added that former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler had represented his position \"precisely\" when he said, in a BBC interview on Thursday, that he had believed he should not \"be asked to give advanced cover to the prime minister where there is contemplation of doing something that may be in breach of international law\".\n\n\"My letter has been interpreted to suggest that an important issue of principle was limited to some narrow and technical consideration of steel tariffs,\" Lord Geidt wrote.\n\n\"The cautious language of my letter may have failed adequately to explain the far wider scope of my objection.\"\n\nIn his original resignation letter, Lord Geidt said he had come close to quitting over breaches of Covid lockdown rules in Downing Street.\n\nBut he said he ultimately stood down after had been asked for advice this week on another issue he believed would amount to a deliberate breach of the code.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Geidt \"wouldn't have taken this decision lightly\" - former PM adviser\n\nIn his response, Mr Johnson said his intention was to seek Lord Geidt's \"advice on the national interest in protecting a crucial industry\".\n\nDowning Street said on Friday it was right for the PM to take time to reflect on whether Lord Geidt should be replaced.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said: \"It may be that the prime minister decides to make a like-for-like replacement, or it might be that we set up a different body that undertakes the same functions.\"", "From left to right at the table: Italian PM Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis\n\nThe leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania have backed Ukraine's bid to join the EU, saying it should be given \"immediate\" candidate status.\n\n\"Ukraine belongs to the European family,\" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a joint briefing in Kyiv.\n\nBut he added that Ukraine still had to meet the accession criteria in full.\n\nMeanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the 27-member EU would stand by Ukraine until its victory against Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's continuing aggression as a war \"against the united Europe\", adding that the \"most effective weapon\" was unity.\n\nAnd he again appealed for more heavy weapons to be sent urgently for Ukraine to be able to defend itself more effectively and liberate territories seized by Moscow since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nLife is now slowly returning to Irpin - but the devastation is still seen everywhere\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the four EU leaders visited the devastated town of Irpin near Kyiv, which for several weeks was occupied by Russia.\n\nUkraine accuses Russian soldiers of committing war crimes by killing hundreds of civilians in Irpin and nearby towns such as Bucha - a claim denied by Moscow.\n\nThe visit to Kyiv comes as Russian troops are continuing their assault on the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nCapturing Severodonetsk - and its twin city of Lysychansk - has for weeks been a top military goal for Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to control all of the wider Luhansk region.\n\nPresident Macron and Chancellor Scholz, together with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, visited Ukraine for the first time since the war began.\n\nThe trip came a day before the European Commission is due to make a recommendation on whether to give Ukraine an EU candidate status. All 27 EU leaders will then discuss the issue at a summit on 23 and 24 June.\n\nSome of the bloc's members have been lukewarm about Ukraine's accession to the EU, and the words of support from France, Germany and Italy - the three EU heavyweights - could sway their position.\n\nHowever, candidacy status will only be the next step on the road to the full membership, which may take years.\n\nBefore the Kyiv visit, Ukrainian officials repeatedly criticised France, Germany and Italy for being slow in delivering weapons and placing too much focus on appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Macron said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion, suggesting that Mr Putin should have a way out of what he called a \"fundamental error\".\n\nMeanwhile in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, on Thursday criticised the EU leaders' trip on Twitter, using a dismissive slur relating to stereotypes of three of the EU nations' cuisines.\n\n\"European fans of frogs, liverwurst and spaghetti\" loved visiting Kyiv, he wrote. \"With zero use.\"", "A former banker who faked terminal pancreatic cancer as part of a series of scams worth £1.8m has been jailed.\n\nRajesh Ghedia, 42, said he would be dead in a year in a £1.2m insurance scam, Southwark Crown Court heard.\n\nHe also swindled seven people - including a relative - out of huge sums of money by encouraging them to invest in non-existent financial products.\n\nGhedia, of Addlestone, Surrey, admitted more than 30 counts of fraud at an earlier hearing.\n\nJudge Deborah Taylor told him he was a persistent fraudster who caused victims devastation and had left them scarred.\n\nThe court was told Ghedia faked medical letters from a consultant to claim insurance.\n\nHe made fraudulent claims about his Bank of America position to encourage people, including a cousin, to invest in non-existent products with the company and Goldman Sachs, the court heard.\n\nGhedia had also falsely claimed his daughter had been killed in a car crash to avoid communicating with victims, the court was told.\n\nProsecuting, Jack Talbot said Ghedia had \"high value\" property and vehicles, privately-educated his children, and lived a \"lavish lifestyle\".\n\nDefending, Benjamin Waidhofer said Ghedia had a good character, adding he \"entirely accepts responsibility\".\n\nJailing Ghedia for six years and nine months, the judge said the offences were significant, with extensive planning.\n\nOn the investment fraud, she said: \"You have caused them (victims) devastation, showing utter disregard for their mental wellbeing and finances.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Det Con Daniel Weller, from City of London Police, said Ghedia, from Parkside, New Haw, showed \"no sign of having a moral compass\".\n\nDet Con Simon Andrews said fraudsters often hid behind social media but \"Ghedia was far more brazen... presenting himself in person to acquaintances as a senior trader at one of the world's biggest investment banks\".\n\nPolice said Ghedia would now face confiscation proceedings.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Healthcare assistants fed the patient Weetabix as they unaware she had coeliac disease\n\nA patient with coeliac disease died days after being fed Weetabix in hospital, an inquest has heard.\n\nHazel Pearson of Connah's Quay, Flintshire was being treated at Wrexham Maelor hospital.\n\nThe 80-year-old died on 30 November from aspiration pneumonia four days after the meal.\n\nThe coroner said the hospital's action plan to prevent this happening again lacked detail and had \"narrow vision\".\n\nCoeliac disease is a condition where your immune system attacks tissues in the body when you eat gluten.\n\nGluten is a type of protein found in wheat, rye and barley - when it is eaten, it can cause a range of symptoms, such as bloating and constipation.\n\nThe inquest at Ruthin heard that, although Mrs Pearson's coeliac disease was noted on her admission documents, there was no sign over her bed indicating the condition - which meant healthcare assistants were unaware of her dietary needs.\n\nShe had been admitted for pleural effusion, or water on the lungs - but became ill within hours of eating her breakfast and vomited.\n\nIt was later found that material from the stomach had been inhaled into her lungs, causing an infection.\n\nThe inquest heard she had also become ill two weeks earlier when she was given a meal containing gluten during a stay at Deeside community hospital.\n\nConsultant geriatrician, Joel Abbott told the inquest it was difficult to pin point one cause of her vomiting, which could also have been due to infection, or a kidney injury, which Mrs Pearson also had.\n\nHe said that though it causes bloating and diarrhoea, coeliac disease doesn't usually cause vomiting.\n\nWrexham Maelor matron Jackie Evans told the inquest some changes had taken place since Mrs Pearson's death, such as signs being placed above the beds of patients with dietary requirements.\n\nHowever, Assistant coroner Kate Sutherland said she was concerned there hadn't been a formal investigation.\n\n\"The action plan lacks detail. What has happened locally is commendable, but it lacks detail and it has narrow vision.\"\n\nShe said what had been put in place was \"amateurish with no strategic vision\".\n\nThe patient's coeliac disease had been raised on admission but she was still served a wheat-based meal\n\nMs Sutherland said Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) needed to provide a witness who could answer further questions about changes across the health board before she could make a decision on a prevention of future deaths report.\n\nThe health board has been given 14 days to update the coroner as to whether there have been other incidents and to provide more information regarding Deeside Hospital.\n\nA new date for the hearing is yet to be fixed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Collin Reeves was arrested at his home after the stabbings\n\nA former soldier has been found guilty of murdering his neighbours after a long-running dispute about parking.\n\nCollin Reeves, 35, stabbed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple while their children slept upstairs.\n\nHe attacked them inside their home in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, with a ceremonial dagger he got from the Army.\n\nReeves, who had denied murder, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court and will be sentenced on Tuesday after a jury took five hours to deliberate.\n\nThe couple's children were asleep upstairs when the attack unfolded\n\nThe family of Mr and Mrs Chapple said in a statement: \"No verdict will bring back our beautiful Jennifer and Stephen.\n\n\"If anything, these past 10 days have prolonged us finding out how Jennifer and Stephen spent their final moments.\n\n\"The support of our friends and family has been what has got us through the past seven months.\n\n\"We now ask that we are left to process this in our own way, to be able to grieve properly and move forward as best we can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reeves repeatedly said \"no comment\" when questioned about the murders\n\nReeves looked at the floor while his guilty verdict was returned, while the family of Mr and Mrs Chapple held hands.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how Reeves had been involved in a long-running dispute with the couple over parking on their estate.\n\nThe rows escalated to the point that both Reeves' wife Kayley and Mrs Chapple had told their friends they were anxious about bumping into each other on the school run.\n\nOn the night of the killing, Reeves climbed a fence and entered the Chapple's house via their back door.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe stabbed Mrs Chapple six times in her upper chest and shoulder. Mr Chapple, 36, was stabbed six times.\n\nMrs Chapple, 33, was heard screaming in terror, the court was told she did not have the chance to stand up from the sofa to defend herself\n\nAfterwards, Reeves rang 999, telling the operator he had stabbed his neighbours with a dagger.\n\nHe had been given the ceremonial weapon when he left the Army in December 2017.\n\nAfter being arrested, he appeared confused and gave his name at the police station as \"Lance Corporal Reeves, sir\" along with his service number.\n\nTwo forensic psychiatrists concluded Reeves was not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or psychosis, but diagnosed him with moderate and mild depression respectively.\n\nJoana Clark, senior crown prosecutor for CPS South West, said: \"Collin Reeves murdered Jennifer and Stephen Chapple in a brutal and deliberate attack in what should have been the safety of their own home, whilst their young children were asleep upstairs.\n\n\"Reeves sought to avoid responsibility for murder by claiming his actions were the result of PTSD linked to his previous army service.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of Jennifer and Stephen Chapple at this difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nWarning: This article contains some description of graphic injuries and abuse.\n\nIssues of physical and emotional abuse within gymnastics in Britain were \"systemic\", an independent investigation has found.\n\nThe Whyte Review, co-commissioned by UK Sport and Sport England, was released on Thursday and found gymnast wellbeing and welfare \"has not been at the centre of British Gymnastics' culture\".\n\nAthletes were made to train on injuries, punished for needing the toilet, sat on by coaches, shouted and sworn at and had their bags searched for food.\n\nThe review said the difficulties now facing British Gymnastics, the sport's national governing body, are \"borne of inadequate practice and procedure\", and reflect a culture which was the product of \"the way in which people behaved and were allowed to behave\".\n• None 'This was child abuse' - gymnasts react to report\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Will this be a turning point for welfare in sport?\n\nThere was a sense, it added, that British Gymnastics had \"not only failed to prevent or limit such behaviours but had condoned some of them in the pursuit of national and international competitive success\".\n\nThe former chief executive of British Gymnastics, Jane Allen, who retired in December 2020, was criticised in the report for a \"lack of leadership\" and an \"organisational failure to appreciate the central importance of athlete welfare\".\n\nIn a statement, she said she was \"deeply sorry I didn't do more for everyone - especially the athletes - to feel supported, able to speak up and heard\".\n\nThe Whyte Review was commissioned in 2020 following allegations of abuse and mistreatment within gymnastics in Britain.\n\nUK Sport and Sport England said they \"welcomed\" the report and \"accepted and endorsed\" its recommendations - adding gymnastics' continued funding will \"depend on its new leadership teams making significant changes to the sport\" in the timeline set out in the Whyte Review.\n\nBritish Gymnastics said it wanted to \"wholeheartedly apologise\" to gymnasts who had suffered and that it would \"not shy away from doing what is needed\".\n\nIn addition to her 17 recommendations, Anne Whyte QC said a sports ombudsman would be \"an obvious step in the right direction\".\n\nShe also stipulated that the British Gymnastics board publish details of its progress in complying with her recommendations at six, 12 and 24-month intervals, with the expectation that \"most if not all of them\" are implemented within two years.\n\nIn the report, Whyte said: \"I hope that the findings in this report will allow the gymnast community to feel that the failures of the past have been publicly recognised and enable the sport to move forward and make positive changes.\"\n\nShe added: \"I am confident that the sport of gymnastics is already undergoing change for the good.\"\n\nWhat did the review find?\n\nThe review, which focused on the period from August 2008 to August 2020, received more than 400 submissions, including 133 from current and former gymnasts, and conducted 190 interviews.\n• None More than 40% described physically abusive behaviour towards gymnasts by coaches, including physical chastisement, inappropriate training on injury, overstretching to the point of distress and withholding food, water and access to the toilet.\n• None More than 50% reported an element of emotional abuse by coaches, such as swearing, name calling, use of belittling language and gaslighting.\n• None Some 30 submissions included allegations of sexual abuse, such as sexual assault, sexual remarks, inappropriate touching and kissing as a punishment.\n• None More than 25% included reference to excessive weight management.\n\nThe review states the \"vast majority\" of reports about physically and emotionally abusive behaviour related to female gymnasts, and such behaviour was more prevalent at the elite end of the sport.\n\nOn weight management, it said \"the tyranny of the scales was coach-led and quite unnecessary\".\n\nNo individual coaches were named in the report, in which Whyte said the scale of emotional abuse was \"far larger than British Gymnastics had appreciated\".\n\nDuring the 12-year period covered by the review - during which British Gymnastics received more than £38m in UK Sport funding - the governing body received approximately 3,800 complaints.\n\nThe review also pointed to the recruitment of coaches from, or from countries influenced by, the former Soviet Union, whose \"technical skill and experience was sometimes accompanied by an attitude to the gymnast which was autocratic and dismissive and left athletes feeling like commodities\".\n\nWhat were some of the examples given of abuse?\n• None One former elite gymnast described being made to stand on the beam for two hours because she was frightened to attempt a skill. Some gymnasts were strapped to bars for extended periods of time while others were made to climb the rope because they needed the toilet or exceeded a break time.\n• None One gymnast was deliberately dropped from equipment and dragged across the gym floor by their arms, while others were pressured to train on injuries, including broken bones.\n• None One gymnast recalls at the age of seven being sat on by a coach, while a parent reported two coaches at once pushing their child's legs down into a split. An international competitor recalled their coach sitting on a gymnast's back, forcing their hips into the floor and then lifting up their knee.\n• None Verbal comments made to gymnasts included that they were \"a waste of space\", \"a joke\" and \"pathetic\" - while in relation to excessive weight management, comments included \"you look like a whale\", \"you look like you have a beer belly\", and \"your thighs are disgusting\".\n• None Some coaches went to damaging length to control what gymnasts ate and weighed. Gymnasts had their weights publicly announced, were told to send photographs to prove they had lost weight, and had their lunch packs and bags searched for food. Gymnasts would hide food, including in ceiling tiles, and were told \"not to eat grapes\" because \"they are the highest-fat fruit\".\n• None As a result, a \"significant\" number of gymnasts developed dysfunctional relationships with food, weight and body image, and reports of purging were not uncommon in the submissions.\n\nWhyte said the \"unacceptable culture\" described in the report \"will not be fully eradicated until the national and international leadership within the sport publicly recognise its existence\".\n\nWhat are the recommendations?\n\nRecommendations to British Gymnastics focus on four key areas: safeguarding and welfare, complaints handling, standards and educations, and governance and oversight.\n• None All club owners and managers should have mandatory safeguarding training, and high-performance gymnasts should have access to an independent disclosure service and dedicated welfare officer outside their club.\n• None British Gymnastics must have a fit-for-purpose case management system that covers number and nature of complaints, and must ensure all welfare-related complaints about employed coaches are independently investigated.\n• None The organisation should appoint a director of education and increase its direct contact with registered clubs.\n\nWhat have the governing bodies said?\n\nA joint statement from UK Sport and Sport England said: \"The gymnasts' experiences shared in this review are harrowing and distressing to read. No-one in sport should ever be subjected to such abuse.\n\n\"We want to publicly acknowledge and thank all of those who were courageous in coming forward. Your voices are heard. You have played a vital part in fundamentally shaping the future of gymnastics in Britain, to help make it safe and inclusive for future generations to come.\n\n\"Duty of care to athletes and participants is the responsibility of national governing bodies. British Gymnastics clearly fell short of this.\n\n\"At this time, our intention is to continue to fund British Gymnastics, as we believe that withdrawing funding would not only prevent them from implementing the vital changes outlined in the report but also negatively impact on the support to and wellbeing of gymnasts now.\n\n\"However, we are clear that continued funding for British Gymnastics will depend on its new leadership team making significant changes to the sport, to the timelines set out in the report's recommendations.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics' chief executive Sarah Powell, who has been in the post since October, said gymnasts' experiences as detailed in the review were \"not acceptable\" and she found the report \"emotional\" reading.\n\nShe said it was a \"watershed moment\" for not just gymnastics, but safeguarding across all sports.\n\n\"Gymnastics will be different because of the bravery of the gymnasts who stood up,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"British Gymnastics accepts all of the recommendations and key findings. We will not shy away from doing what is needed.\n\n\"I want to wholeheartedly apologise to the gymnasts who have suffered as a result of us not working to the standards we set ourselves. We are sorry.\"\n\nShe added: \"Let me be clear; there is no place for abuse of any kind in our sport and coaching standards of the past will not be those of the future.\n\n\"We will build a new culture and ensure the gymnast's voice is at the heart of all we do. We will change gymnastics for the better.\"\n\nWhy was the review commissioned?\n\nUK Sport and Sport England commissioned the independent review - led by Anne Whyte QC - in July 2020 after allegations of mistreatment in gymnastics. The review formally began the following month.\n• None Gymnasts' wellbeing and welfare is (and has been) at the centre of the culture of British Gymnastics, its registered clubs and member coaches and if not, why not.\n• None Safeguarding concerns and complaints have been dealt with appropriately in the sport of gymnastics and if not, why not.\n• None Gymnasts, or their parents, carers or guardians, have felt unable to raise complaints with appropriate authorities and if so, why.\n\nThe review also investigated the \"nature and volume of complaints received by British Gymnastics\", the governing body's approach to resolving the complaints, and its culture and practices.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nThe Whyte Review report did not mention individual coaches or athletes.\n• July 2020: is among a number of gymnasts to make the first allegations of a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport of gymnastics.\n• None say abusive behaviour in gymnastics training became \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\", while then-British Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen says she is \"appalled and ashamed\" by the allegations.\n• None criticises British Gymnastics for the time it has taken to investigate a formal complaint she made in 2019.\n• None A helpline is launched by the NSPCC and British Athletes Commission to support gymnasts. It receives more than 120 calls in its first five weeks.\n• None steps aside after allegations are made against her. Both denied the allegations made against them.\n• None alleges gymnasts are \"treated like pieces of meat\".\n• September 2020: - are temporarily suspended pending investigation. Both denied the allegations made against them. Their temporary suspension has since been lifted.\n• November 2020: British Gymnastics sets up an independent complaints process to oversee allegations of mistreatment by athletes.\n• February 2021: A group of 17 start legal action against British Gymnastics. A further 20 later join the group claim.\n• June 2021: Sarah Powell is named British Gymnastics chief executive, and says she is \"under no illusions about the scale of change needed\" to improve the culture at the organisation.\n• August 2021: British Gymnastics chairman Mike Darcey apologises to the gymnastics community for failing to act on allegations of mistreatment.\n• April 2022: was pulled from Great Britain's coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her. She denied wrongdoing.\n• May 2022: from her position with immediate effect. Previous claims against her were not upheld and her suspension was lifted, but another independent investigation is ongoing into \"further historical complaints\".\n• June 2022: Eloise Jotischky is the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport, with the organisation admitting full liability.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks.\n\nSince the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US.\n\nSo what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making?\n\nThe UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nCurrently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces.\n\nRussia claims the system has already been used against its forces.\n\nThe UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nThe UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nIn January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model.\n\nMany military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive.\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles.\n\nThe statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km).\n\nIt is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines.\n\nIn 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces.\n\nAnalysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement.\n\n\"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\"\n\nThe donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022.\n\nThe UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers.\n\nJack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\"\n\nThe UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.\n\nNlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot.\n\nCrucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk.\n\nThe weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says.\n\nMaritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022.\n\nBrimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy.\n\nThe missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks.\n\nLaunching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson.\n\nWhen used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage.\n\n\"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\"\n\nBritain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles.\n\nMastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices.\n\nAnalysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful.\n\nIt is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively.\n\nBritain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles.\n\nStarstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nIt ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\"\n\nHe says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground.\n\nThe UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles.\n\nOther equipment supplied by the UK includes:", "Asylum accommodation is offered on a \"no-choice\" basis, the Home Office says\n\nAn Iranian woman whose family have been moved from Belfast to Londonderry says she cannot forgive the asylum system for the distress caused to her children.\n\nFatemah told BBC Radio Foyle they were given just a week's notice of the 75-mile move.\n\nHer children have been forced to leave school and friends behind, she said.\n\nThe Home Office said asylum accommodation is \"offered on a no-choice basis across the UK\".\n\nFatemah said she will \"never forgive\" the authorities for the distress caused to her family.\n\n\"I cannot forgive them because of the stress that my children face,\" said Fatemah, through a translator.\n\n\"I am asking, requesting government to do something and stop this kind of treatment.\"\n\nFatemah and her children, who are aged between three and 13, had been living in temporary accommodation in Belfast for the past 10 months.\n\nHer eldest daughter has now had to leave the integrated secondary school in Belfast she had been attending.\n\nFatemah's eldest daughter sat exams in an office in Derry this week\n\nThe family have been relocated to Derry by Mears Group, a company subcontracted by the Home Office to provide asylum seeker accommodation.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle via a translator, Fatemah said her family had \"been getting settled in Belfast\", her children were making friends and attending school.\n\nNow they're \"missing their friends and very distressed\".\n\nFatemah said the family were notified about the move about 20 days ago via a letter from the Mears Group, but it did not say where they were being moved to.\n\n\"We called Mears two times but didn't get any response,\" she said.\n\n\"On the day of the move, we asked the lady 'where are you going to move us?' and she said 'we still don't know'.\"\n\nFatemah said it is \"a lie\" that the asylum system makes children a priority.\n\nKoualla Yiasouma says the system is failing children\n\nNorthern Ireland's commissioner for children and young people said the asylum system \"is not delivering for children\".\n\n\"The system is not producing a level of education and care and healthcare and play and the other things that children should expect as it would give to its indigenous population,\" said Koulla Yiasouma.\n\n\"If you look at it that way, then it is a failure.\"\n\nMs Yiasouma's office estimates there are about 130 children whose families are seeking asylum currently in temporary accommodation in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Every child in Northern Ireland, regardless of their families' immigration status, has the same rights and should experience those rights to their fullest potential,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, Mears Group said due to a significant rise in the numbers of people seeking asylum, hotels are being used to accommodate people until more homes can be prioritised.\n\n\"As this family had been in the hotel for longer than others, they were prioritised for a move to a family home.\n\n\"While we understand they would have preferred to stay in Belfast, there is an acute shortage of suitable housing.\"\n\nMears Group said it has followed its legal and contractual framework, in line with Home Office procedures.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the family were prioritised to move away from hotel accommodation, and arrangements for the children's education are being made.\n\n\"Asylum accommodation is offered on a no-choice basis across the United Kingdom.\n\n\"We continue to ensure that the accommodation provided is safe, secure and leaves no one destitute and ensure it is appropriate for an individual's needs.\"", "A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nA murder probe has been launched following the discovery of a man's body.\n\nSteven John Davies was found by his neighbour at a property in Garth Avenue, Glyncoch, near Pontypridd at 11:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the 39-year-old's death concluded he died from a stab wound.\n\nA 34-year-old woman from Pontypridd has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody in Bridgend.\n\nSouth Wales Police's Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis said: \"This is clearly a shocking and upsetting incident for the community of Glyncoch and the wider Pontypridd area.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Steven's family and friends at this very difficult time.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Lewis said officers were still trying to locate the movements of Mr Davies between 1 and 15 June and believed he had spent some time in Rhydfelin.", "People flocked to Bournemouth beach as temperatures climbed to record temperatures in the south this year\n\nIt has been the hottest day of the year in the UK for the third day in a row.\n\nSanton Downham, in Suffolk, recorded 32.7C (91F) on Friday afternoon followed by Heathrow Airport and Kew Gardens, which both recorded 32.4C.\n\nFriday's record warm weather triggered an official heatwave and surpassed the previous day's high of 29.5C (85.1F).\n\nThe UK heatwave status was reached when Kew Gardens recorded three consecutive days with maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave threshold.\n\nThis varies in different parts of the country and for Kew it is 28C.\n\nBut despite the warm weather in the south of the UK, the Met Office pointed out a marked difference in temperature further north with Glasgow recording 13.7C just after midday.\n\nThe record temperature comes close to the hottest June day ever in the UK, when the mercury reached the highs of 35.6C at Southampton Mayflower Park in June 1976 and Camden Square, London, in June 1957\n\nThe previous high this year was recorded at Northolt in west London.\n\nThe Met Office said the \"unusual\" temperatures for June were a result of high pressure over the southern half of the UK and a south-westerly airflow bringing warm air across to the UK from Europe.\n\nIn comparison temperatures in Zaragoza in Spain reached 40C, while in Bordeaux in France peaked at 32C.\n\nSwimmers also took a dip at London Fields Lido in Hackney, East London\n\nA man checks in on work during his lunch hour while on the beach in Southsea, Hampshire\n\nNobby the polar bear cools down in a lake at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster\n\nThe dress code at Royal Ascot was relaxed for spectators following the procession for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nA woman dons a large hat at Royal Ascot despite the heat\n\nAcross the UK, people flocked to beaches, parks and outdoor pools to make the most of the weather.\n\nIn Bournemouth, the town's council tweeted all of its seafront car parks had got full by 11.15.\n\nAt Guildford Lido in Surrey by 17:30 BST they had around 3,000 people visiting its outdoor pool.\n\nBecca James, from the lido, told the BBC: \"It's the busiest day we've had of the summer season so far and busiest day since we've come back from the pandemic, so really successful for us.\n\n\"Every has been really sensible. A few sun burns where we've had to step in and advise them to put sun tan lotion on and stay in the shade, but yeah a really good day.\"\n\nIn Berkshire, organisers at Royal Ascot relaxed the dress code for spectators of the horse racing event after there was a royal procession for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nHealth officials have warned about the dangers of hot weather. A level three heat health alert issued by the government remains in place for London, the south-east and east of England.\n\nAgostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"During periods of hot weather, it is especially important to keep checking on those who are most vulnerable, such as older people and those with heart or lung conditions.\n\n\"Make sure to look out for signs of heat exhaustion and follow our simple health advice to beat the heat.\"\n\nA woman poses for a photo in the moat of the Tower of London\n\nA group heads to the beach in Boscombe as cars queue up to park\n\nA ring-tailed lemur cools down with a specially prepared ice lollypop at Yorkshire Wildlife Park\n\nUpdate 12 July: This article was updated to include the temperature in Camden Square, London, in June 1957 and to clarify in the first picture caption that the record temperatures in the south referred to this year.", "A deep-cover Russian spy tried to infiltrate the International Criminal Court (ICC), the security service of the Netherlands says.\n\nThe man used the name Viktor Muller Ferreira and pretended to be Brazilian but was refused entry as he arrived to start work in the Netherlands.\n\nAuthorities say his real name is Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov and he is a spy for the GRU - Russian military intelligence.\n\nThe man is said to have spent years building a fake identity, before applying for an internship at the ICC in The Hague.\n\nThe Dutch security agency, the AIVD, said if he had been successful in taking up the position and infiltrate the organisation, he could have done real damage.\n\n\"The threat posed by this intelligence officer is deemed potentially very high,\" it said in a statement.\n\nTo those who knew him, Viktor Muller Ferreira was a Brazilian with an interest in international affairs. But in reality, the AIVD said, he was a particular type of Russian spy known as an \"illegal\".\n\nRussian intelligence uses the name to differentiate such officers from \"legal\" spies who are posing undercover as diplomats. Many countries use spies pretending to be ordinary people but Russia has long specialised in a type of deep-cover illegal agent who takes on an entirely different nationality. These spies pretend to be American, British, Canadian or - in the case of Ferreira - Brazilian to allow them to move in circles where Russians would be met with suspicion and therefore find it harder to operate.\n\nThe AIVD has published an extraordinary document believed to be written by Cherkasov around 2010, in which he outlines his fake identity, likely to remind him of his own cover story.\n\nThe discovery of such a document suggests a remarkable degree of sloppiness by the spy. Over four pages it goes through his family story.\n\n\"My farther (sic) came across as a very friendly and open person, but to my surprise I discovered that I blamed him for the deaths of my mother and my aunt and all the difficulties and humiliations I had to suffer in my life,\" one line reads.\n\nHe also made a reference to having to go to Ireland for the funeral of his father.\n\nIt can take between five and 10 years for an illegal agent to be trained and build their cover. Given the challenges, there are not thought to be many out there - perhaps less than 30 from the GRU, according to Western estimates.\n\nDutch security agency AIVD said if the spy had been successful in infiltrating the ICC, he could have done real damage\n\nRussian intelligence has long targeted the ICC, and Ferreira is understood to have begun pushing for an internship late last year. The court's importance has grown since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. On 3 March the ICC prosecutor opened an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.\n\nThe ICC offers some 200 unpaid internships which give candidates the opportunity to \"gain exposure to the day-to-day working environment of the ICC, and to put their knowledge and experience into practise under the supervision of working professionals.\"\n\nThe position would have provided him with valuable access.\n\n\"If the intelligence officer had succeeded in commencing employment with the ICC, he would have been able to gather intelligence there and to look for (or recruit) sources, and arrange to have access to the ICC's digital systems,\" the AIVD said in a statement.\n\nThat way he would have been able to provide a significant contribution to the intelligence that the GRU is seeking. He might also have been able to influence criminal proceedings of the ICC.\"\n\nApplying was a risk for a deep-cover spy, but it's one his bosses in Moscow must have felt was worth taking. Illegals are notoriously hard to find - he is not thought to have been spotted by the ICC - and Dutch authorities did not say how he was identified.\n\nSocial media profiles reviewed by the BBC and which are believed to belong to Ferreira reveal an extensive list of friends - including a number of international students from two institutions which he appears to have attended - Johns Hopkins University in the US and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland. Those friends have gone on to work everywhere from investment bank Goldman Sachs to think tanks and federal regulatory agencies in Washington DC. They will not have known he was a Russian spy.\n\n\"He had some accent which I couldn't place. But it wasn't Russian,\" an academic who taught him told the BBC. Ferreira is thought to have applied to the ICC as early as September 2020 but the application may have been delayed due to Covid.\n\n\"Brazil is underrepresented in ICC, so that might be my chance!,\" Ferreira said at one point.\n\nOne profile says Ferreira moved to Washington DC in August 2018 and a record shows him graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2020. Postings on social media reveal an eclectic mix of views including some which are mildly critical of Russia, which could be interpreted as an attempt to continue to build his cover.\n\nIn one case, his account appears to have even posted a report from the Bellingcat investigative group about uncovering identities online used by the GRU, a rather unusual move for someone who now stands accused of being an undercover GRU operative himself.\n\nHis cover now blown though, his future as a deep-cover spy will be over.", "A new service has launched to allow people to make 999 calls using British Sign Language (BSL) for the first time.\n\nThe new service, 999 BSL, will allow deaf people to make emergency calls using an app or website, connecting callers with a BSL interpreter.\n\nIt is free to use and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nOfcom announced telephone and broadband companies must carry the service last June, estimating it would save two lives a year.\n\nThe system, which launched on Friday, is the first time a 999 emergency service will be available in British Sign Language, though a similar process exists for the NHS 111 number.\n\nPeople who use the service will be put through to a BSL interpreter, who will then relay the conversation to a 999 operator.\n\nA text service for 999 already exists, though users have had to register for that prior to use.\n\nThe new sign language-based service does not require registration, meaning callers can use it as long as the app or webpage is open.\n\nTo make a call with 999 BSL, users need to open the app or webpage, then press a red button that will connect them to an interpreter.\n\nA number of charities and organisations have been campaigning for the service.\n\nAbigail Gorman, public affairs and policy manager at SignHealth, the deaf health charity, said: \"This is a breakthrough for deaf people that will save lives and means one more step forward towards equality.\n\n\"We won't be satisfied until deaf people have full and equal access, particularly to life saving health services.\"\n\nJames Watson-O'Neill, the chief executive of SignHealth, said the service was important for everyone and not just the deaf community.\n\n\"Deaf people can now contact emergency services directly and assist anyone in need of help. This is a huge breakthrough in terms of access and a moment worth celebrating,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury said it was a \"source of shame\" the Church had profited from the slave trade\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after research showed the Church of England's investment fund has links to the slave trade.\n\nThe investigation, initiated by the Church Commissioners, a charity managing the Church's investment portfolio, revealed that for more than 100 years the fund invested large sums of money in a company responsible for transporting slaves.\n\nThe fund, known in the 18th century as Queen Anne's Bounty, has now developed into a £10.1bn investment trust.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby said he was \"deeply sorry for the links\".\n\nQueen Anne's Bounty was formed in 1704 to help support poor clergy.\n\nAn examination of its accounts in 1739 showed £204,000 (estimated to be worth £443m today) had been invested in the South Sea Company.\n\nThe South Sea Company had an exclusive contract to transport slaves from Africa to Spanish colonies in South America for more than 30 years from the 1710s.\n\nIt shipped tens of thousands of slaves, with the research suggesting that an estimated 15% of them died en route.\n\nChurch investments in the South Sea Company continued well into the 19th century.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"This abominable trade took men, women and children created in God's image and stripped them of their dignity and freedom.\n\n\"The fact that some within the Church actively supported and profited from it is a source of shame.\n\n\"It is only by facing this painful reality that we can take steps towards genuine healing and reconciliation - the path that Jesus Christ calls us to walk.\"\n\nOn the one hand, the Church of England has celebrated its hand in helping bring about an end to slavery, citing the role played by Anglican Evangelical, William Wilberforce. On the other, it has had to acknowledge more and more the extent to which it profited from slavery.\n\nIn recent years, the Church has apologised for dozens of its clergymen having been revealed to have owned slaves. It has said sorry because its missionary organisation, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, owned a plantation in Barbados, branding its slaves across the chest with the word SOCIETY.\n\nNow by its own research, it has acknowledged that for decades its investment fund poured almost all its money - aside from what it used to buy land - into a company that had a monopoly on transporting slaves to South America.\n\nWith more than half of the worldwide Anglican communion now based in Africa, these admissions will be made all the more uncomfortable.\n\nThe Church of England initiated this investigation with a view to being more open about its historic dealings and says a group will now be convened to decide what its response should be. But a spokesperson would not be drawn on whether that meant more than further statements and prayers, or whether it would include discussions about financial reparations.\n\nThe research also found that the fund received numerous contributions from individuals linked to, or who profited from, transatlantic slavery and the plantation economy.\n\nThe archbishop added: \"I pray for those affected by this news and hope that we may work together to discern a new way forward.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Reverend David Urquhart, a member of the Church Commissioners' board and chair of the group overseeing the research, said the body would use the knowledge learned from the investigation to ensure its was at the \"forefront of responsible investment globally\".\n\nThe South Sea Company purchased and transported slaves from Africa to Spanish-held ports to the Spanish Americas", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner have returned questionnaires to police investigating whether they broke Covid rules, a party spokesman has said.\n\nDurham police are looking into whether the rules were violated after Sir Keir was caught on camera drinking a beer in an MP's office in April 2021.\n\nThey have said they will stand down if they are issued with fixed-penalty notices by police.\n\nAt the Durham gathering on 30 April, which was in the run-up to the Hartlepool by-election, people drank beer and ate curry in the constituency office of City of Durham MP Mary Foy.\n\nSocial distancing rules - including a ban on indoor mixing between households - were in place at the time.\n\nThere was an exemption for work purposes, but the rules did not mention socialising at work - and there was also an exemption if \"the gathering is reasonably necessary for the purposes of campaigning in an election\".\n\nLabour has argued the food was consumed between work events, meaning the gathering was within the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: If I get Covid fine, I will go - Starmer says he'll step down as leader\n\nDurham Constabulary last month reversed an earlier decision that no offence had been committed, after receiving \"significant new information\".\n\nIt comes following the fallout from the Metropolitan Police investigation into several parties in Downing Street and Whitehall during coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThat probe led to a total of 126 fines to 83 people, for events happening across eight different dates, including to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie Johnson and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nMr Johnson apologised but refused to resign over the fine. He later survived a vote of no confidence.", "President Putin also implored Russia's major businesses to keep working in Russia\n\nThe sanctions imposed by the West on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are \"mad and thoughtless\", President Vladimir Putin has said.\n\nSpeaking at a forum in St Petersburg, he said \"the economic blitzkrieg against Russia had no chance of succeeding from the very beginning\".\n\nHe said the restrictions were \"more harmful\" to those who imposed them.\n\nWestern nations have been seeking to strike a balance between punishing Russia and protecting their economies.\n\nBut speaking at the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Putin claimed the EU could lose more than $400bn (£326bn) because of its sanctions against Russia.\n\nHe said inflation was increasing across the 27-member bloc and the real interests of people in Europe were being sidelined - but did not explain what that meant.\n\nHowever, Mr Putin's own officials have warned that the Russian economy is suffering serious damage from the sanctions. Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Thursday that \"15% of the country's GDP\" was threatened by the international response.\n\nMs Nabiullina also seemed gloomy about the prospects of any imminent recovery, telling delegates at a conference in St Petersburg that \"it's obvious to everyone that it won't be as it was before\".\n\n\"External conditions have changed for a long time indeed, if not forever,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, the head of the country's largest lender, Sberbank, warned that it could take more than a decade for Russia's economy to return to 2021 levels.\n\nBut Mr Putin sought to strike an optimistic tone and also implored Russia's major businesses to keep working in the country, amid reports that an increasing number of business owners were refocusing their efforts on overseas operations.\n\n\"Invest here. It's safer in your own house. Those who didn't want to listen to this have lost millions abroad,\" Mr Putin said.\n\nThe 69-year-old leader also addressed fears of a global food crisis triggered by the continuing war in Ukraine, claiming that Russia was capable of significantly increasing its exports of grain and fertilisers. Grain exports alone could rise to some 50 million tonnes, he said.\n\nUkraine is one of the world's top grain producers along with Russia, but has been unable to send supplies abroad because of a blockade of its Black Sea ports.\n\nOn Friday, fierce fighting continued in Ukraine's eastern city of Severodonetsk.\n\nCapturing Severodonetsk - and its twin city of Lysychansk - has for weeks been the key target for Russian troops.", "An elderly Ukrainian woman brandishing a red Soviet flag has become the unlikely face of Kremlin propaganda after a video of her encounter with Ukrainian soldiers went viral. The BBC tracked down \"Babushka Z\" to try to establish the truth behind the incident.\n\n\"I don't think they should glorify me. I am just a peasant woman. I don't understand why I've become a celebrity.\"\n\nThe woman who has become known as Babushka Z - \"grandmother\" in Russian, the Z referring to the symbol often painted on armoured vehicles - is gobsmacked when the BBC shows her photos of her newfound fame. \"I've never seen any of it,\" she says.\n\nThe video shows her walking towards two Ukrainian soldiers holding a red Soviet flag.\n\nThe soldiers say they have arrived to help and offer her a bag of food. Then they take the flag off her, throw it on the ground and stamp on it. So the woman, feeling insulted, gives the food back to them. \"My parents died for that flag in World War Two,\" she says, indignantly.\n\nFor the Kremlin, this was gold. Russian propaganda is rarely able to centre on individuals, and they saw this woman as a rare example of a Ukrainian who regretted the collapse of the Soviet Union and considered the Russians to be liberators.\n\nMost Ukrainians - even in Russian-speaking regions - have not welcomed the invasion, so her brandishing of the Soviet flag was used as proof that its actions have support among local people.\n\nAnd it doesn't hurt that the iconography of that flag and the Babushka resonates for every Russian who is familiar with the WWII postcard of \"Mother Russia\".\n\nThe Kremlin propaganda machine got to work. Within days, her image - a throwback to a stereotypical peasant woman of the Soviet era in her orthodox headscarf, felt boots and thick skirt - started to appear everywhere, from Moscow and Siberia to Sakhalin Island in the far east.\n\nShe has now been immortalised in murals, placards, postcards, sculptures and bumper stickers. Songs and poems have been dedicated to her. Russian officials even unveiled a statue of her in Mariupol, the Ukrainian city that has been bombed to the ground.\n\nThese stills from the viral video show Babushka Z's encounter\n\nUntil recently, no one knew the true identity of Babushka Z. In fact, nobody was sure if she was even alive.\n\nBut she is a very real person. Her name is Anna Ivanovna and we tracked her down to Velyka Danylivka, a village near Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine where she lives with her husband, dogs, cats and rabbits.\n\nThe lively 69-year-old looks surprised when we show her pictures of the statue made in her image. \"Do I really look so old?\", she asks. \"It's like a stranger is staring at me!\"\n\nBut her story is very different from the image that the Russian media has been painting. She does not support the war.\n\n\"How can I support my people dying? My grandchildren and great-grandchildren were forced to go to Poland. We live in fear and terror.\"\n\nSo why did Anna greet soldiers with a Soviet flag? She says she has been misunderstood. She claims she confused the two Ukrainian soldiers offering her food with Russian soldiers.\n\n\"I was just happy that Russians would come and not fight with us. I was happy that we would unite again.\"\n\nImages of Anna \"Babushka Z\" used in Russian propaganda\n\nAnna did not put any political subtext into her act. The red flag, she says, is not the flag of the Soviet Union, not of Russia, but \"the banner of love and happiness in every family, in every city, in every republic. Not of bloodshed. And whoever says otherwise, is wrong.\"\n\nWhile Anna talked, the constant roar of artillery and fighting could be heard nearby. She didn't flinch once - she has become used to it.\n\n\"If I could speak to Vladimir Putin I would say, you've made a mistake. Us Ukrainian workers, what have we ever done to deserve this? We are the ones who are suffering the most.\"\n\nBut Anna is from the Soviet time, and reluctant to openly criticise the Russian leader.\n\nThe statue of \"Babushka Z\" in the captured Ukrainian city of Mariupol\n\nEven though she has become a star in Moscow, Anna's village has not been spared by Putin's forces - it has been bombed several times.\n\nAs we drive through, some houses are on fire. Others have been reduced to ashes. Her own home has suffered from the shelling - her windows are shattered, the roof is damaged and shrapnel is scattered on the front lawn.\n\n\"'Now I see,\" Anna said. \"They do not care about people here in Ukraine, they care only about conquering our lands.\"\n\nDmytro Galko from Ministry of Culture of Ukraine agrees. He says Russian propaganda makes everything one dimensional.\n\n\"They just do not care about the truth, they do not care about real persons. They are not interested in who Anna is, or in her fate. If they could, they would snatch her, mummify her and put her in a mausoleum,\" he says.\n\nAnna is being shunned by her neighbours as they consider her to be pro-Russian\n\nAnna fears for her safety now. In Ukraine, she is being attacked online because she is seen as pro-Russian.\n\nAll her neighbours shun her. It's a small village and everyone knows each other.\n\n\"I'm not happy they've made me famous. Because in Ukraine, now they consider me a traitor.\"\n\nBut it's clear that the true scale of her fame only really becomes apparent to Anna at the end of our interview. As we say goodbye to her, she tries to give us her beloved red flag with the sickle and hammer.\n\n\"I don't want any trouble. I don't want people to ever use it against me.\"\n• None Why has 'Z' become a Russian pro-war symbol?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volodymyr Zelensky says he is \"very happy\" Boris Johnson remains UK prime minister\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was \"very happy\" Boris Johnson was still UK prime minister after he survived an attempt to oust him.\n\nMr Johnson won a confidence vote despite a major revolt that saw 148 of his own Tory MPs vote to remove him.\n\n\"I'm glad we haven't lost an important ally, this is great news,\" Mr Zelensky said at an online event.\n\nMr Johnson has forged a close relationship with President Zelensky since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe called Mr Johnson a \"true friend of Ukraine\" and a \"concrete\" supporter in an interview at a virtual conference hosted by the Financial Times on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK was among the first to provide weapons to support Ukraine's defence and - like its Western allies - has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian targets prosecuting the war.\n\nIn April, Mr Johnson pledged \"unwavering support\" on a visit to the capital Kyiv, where he did an unannounced walkabout of the city with President Zelensky.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson has faced a backlash from MPs and the public after he was fined by police for breaking his own lockdown laws at a 2020 party in Downing Street, where the prime minister lives and works.\n\nA report by a senior civil servant criticised failures of leadership in Downing Street, where officials and staff were issued with a total of 123 fines for breaking Covid rules on indoor gatherings during the pandemic.\n\nSome Conservative MPs had cited the war in Ukraine as a reason not to oust Mr Johnson from office in the confidence vote in Parliament on Monday.\n\nRallying his MPs ahead of the vote, Mr Johnson said it was the wrong time for \"unforced domestic political drama\" when Ukraine was fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces.\n\nMr Johnson won the backing of 59% of his MPs, describing the result as \"extremely good, positive, conclusive\" and insisting his leadership was now secure.\n\nHowever, those who had voted against Mr Johnson said the scale of the rebellion had weakened his authority, with some calling on him to resign.\n\nReacting to Monday night's result, cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi said he thought President Zelensky would be \"punching the air because he knows his great ally Boris Johnson will be prime minister tomorrow morning\".\n\nThose comments were criticised by some MPs, including Labour's Karl Turner, who urged Mr Zahawi to apologise for dragging the Ukrainian president \"into this Tory party civil war\".\n\nOn Monday, ahead of the confidence vote, Mr Johnson called Mr Zelensky to discuss Ukraine's defence of its eastern Donbas region, where Russian forces are advancing.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Johnson wrote: \"We're unwavering in our mission of ensuring Ukraine is defended and supported for the long-term.\"\n\nThe UK's military support to Ukraine amounts to £750m so far and includes thousands of anti-tank missiles, 20 armoured vehicles, 4.5 tonnes of plastic explosives, and electronic warfare kit.\n\nOn top of this, the UK says it is providing £220m of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.\n\nAs a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), the UK was the sixth largest donor of aid to Ukraine globally between January and May, according to research by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.\n\nLast month, the UK government said it would offer further aid and military support to Ukraine worth £1.3bn to boost the country's defence against Russia.\n\nMr Johnson spoke to President Zelensky on the phone ahead of the confidence vote on Monday\n\nUkrainian commentators and officials expressed relief that Mr Johnson had won Monday's confidence vote, with some noting that UK had become a key arms supplier for the country.\n\nMykhaylo Podolyak, one of Mr Zelensky's advisers, tweeted in English moments after the confidence vote.\n\nHe wrote: \"Leadership is always a heavy burden. Boris Johnson was one of the first who realised the menace of Russia & stood by Volodymyr Zelensky to protect the free world from barbaric invasion.\n\n\"The world needs such leaders. The UK is a Great friend of Ukraine. British crown is a shield of democratic world.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutdoor public events have been banned in an area of France as a record breaking heatwave sweeps across Europe.\n\nConcerts and large public gatherings have been called off in the Gironde department around Bordeaux.\n\nOn Thursday, parts of France hit 40C earlier in the year than ever before, with temperatures expected to peak on Saturday.\n\nScientists say periods of intense heat are becoming more frequent and longer lasting as a result of global warming.\n\nSpain, Italy and the UK are also experiencing high temperatures.\n\nIn Gironde, officials said public events, including some of the official 18 June Resistance celebrations, will be prohibited from Friday at 14:00 (12:00 GMT) \"until the end of the heat wave\". Indoor events at venues without air-conditioning are also banned.\n\nPrivate celebrations, such as weddings, will still be allowed.\n\n\"Everyone now faces a health risk\", local official Fabienne Buccio told France Bleu radio.\n\nThe French interior ministry warned people to be extremely careful and not expose themselves to the weather.\n\nState forecaster Meteo France said it was the earliest hot spell ever to hit the country, which has been caused by a mass of hot air moving from north Africa.\n\nOutdoor events continued in other areas of France - this man cooled down at a music festival in Clisson\n\nTemperatures have reached 44C in Montpellier in France\n\nTemperatures could hit 39C in Paris and droughts have also raised the risk of wildfires, the forecaster said.\n\n\"I'm 86 years old, I was born here, but I think this is the worst heatwave I've ever seen,\" Jacqueline Bonnaud told the AFP news agency in the southern city of Toulouse.\n\nThe increased use of air-conditioners and fans was forcing France to import electricity from neighbouring countries, grid operator RTE said.\n\nThere have been forest fires in Catalonia\n\nIn Spain, which has just experienced its hottest May since the beginning of the century, temperatures are forecast to hit highs of 43C this weekend, the Aemet weather service said.\n\nThere have been forest fires in Catalonia, including one which could grow to 20,000 hectares before it's contained, the regional government said.\n\nWater is so low in large stretches of Italy's largest river, the Po, that locals can walk through the middle of the expanse of sand and wartime shipwrecks are resurfacing.\n\nIn the UK, temperatures are expected to reach 33C in southern England, while a level three heat-health alert has been issued for London.\n\nThe river bed of the Po in Italy has dried up\n\nOn Wednesday a third of the entire population of the United States were advised to stay indoors due to record temperatures. In India, Delhi has recorded a maximum temperature of at least 42C on 25 days this summer, the India Meteorological Department reported.\n\nClimate change is causing global temperatures to rise. Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, released into Earth's atmosphere in large volumes are trapping the sun's heat, causing the planet to warm.\n\nThis has brought more extreme weather, including record-breaking high temperatures across the world.", "Diabetes patients have been warned that non-attendance at eye-test appointments puts them at greater risk of developing unnecessary sight loss.\n\nThe Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) has described the attendance rates at clinics in Northern Ireland as \"alarmingly low\" .\n\nIt said 20% to 40% of patients were not showing up for their appointments on any given day.\n\nOn Saturday afternoons that figure can be even higher.\n\nProf Tunde Peto, clinical lead for the NI Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, said the most common of many complications caused by diabetes was diabetic eye disease.\n\nDiabetes can cause cataracts early on but it can also affect the retina at the back of the eye, \"which will eventually lead to sight loss if not treated on time,\" Prof Peto explained.\n\n\"Diabetic retinopathy causes no symptoms until it can be just about too late to treat,\" she said.\n\nThe good news is that, if the disease is caught early enough through screening, treatments are available.\n\nProf Tunde Peto says the diabetic eye disease doesn't show symptoms until it has already developed\n\nIan Catlin from Ballymoney has experienced sight loss due to diabetic retinopathy.\n\nHe has had Type 1 diabetes since childhood and became aware of problems with his eyesight in his mid-30s.\n\n\"Probably when I was about 33, I started having problems and it's been slowly getting worse,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm totally blind in the left eye and I'm losing the vision in right eye slowly.\"\n\nMr Catlin explained that the blood vessels at the back of his eye burst due to the high level of blood sugars.\n\n\"I'm a joiner by trade and I can't do that anymore,\" the County Antrim man said, adding that he's lucky to have his wife and children to help him cope.\n\nIan Catlin says some people don't attend eye clinics because of fear of the unknown\n\nMr Catlin said he put off asking for medical help because of the fear of what he would be told.\n\n\"I did eventually go, but you're scared and you put your head in the sand,\" he said.\n\nDiabetes patients are sent a number of reminders of their appointments, including letters and day-before texts, Prof Peto explained.\n\nShe said appointment slots that could have been used by another patient are lost if someone doesn't turn up.\n\nThere are about 115,000 people with diabetes in Northern Ireland and that figure is increasing by 5% to 7% annually.\n\nThe eye screening programme has put on evening and weekend clinics to help deal with the numbers.\n\n\"People usually prioritise things that give them symptoms and because eye disease doesn't give symptoms until it's really late, sometimes people don't appreciate that they should be coming,\" said Prof Peto.\n\n\"If you absolutely cannot come then please cancel on time so we can give the appointment to someone else,\" she added.\n\nMr Catlin advised people who receive appointments to overcome their fears.\n\n\"Go. You need to go and you need to find if there are any abnormalities,\" he said.\n\n\"You can catch it and you can stop any severe problems happening.\"", "Gatwick said a formal investigation was under way\n\nA passenger with restricted mobility has died at Gatwick Airport after leaving an aircraft.\n\nGatwick said staff were helping to disembark three passengers with restricted mobility at the time, including the man's partner.\n\nHe decided to leave the EasyJet plane rather than wait for staff to return and fell while going up an escalator, an airport spokesman said.\n\nSussex Police confirmed the 82-year-old man died at 12:50 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe Gatwick spokesman said the passenger made a short walk to the escalator from the runway to the Skybridge, which takes passengers to the north terminal.\n\nHe said EasyJet cabin crew were closest to the man, so provided medical attention before the airport's medical staff arrived.\n\nAn airline spokesman said: \"A number of our cabin crew provided medical assistance to a passenger at Gatwick Airport whilst waiting for paramedics to arrive.\n\n\"However the passenger sadly later passed away.\"\n\nDetails are still emerging on exactly how this tragedy occurred at Gatwick but my thoughts are with this poor passenger and his family.\n\nI know all too well the sense of immense frustration as you watch all the other passengers disembark and you are left stranded on an empty plane waiting for ground staff to retrieve your wheelchair and get you off.\n\nThis is not the first time a passenger with restricted mobility has taken matters into their own hands.\n\nIn August 2017, Justin Levene famously dragged himself across the floor of Luton Airport after staff were unable to retrieve his wheelchair. They had offered to strap him into an airport chair and push him through the terminal but Levene, a fitness enthusiast, declined, saying this compromised his independence.\n\nThis incident is now being investigated. However, it raises more questions about the treatment of disabled passengers and those with restricted mobility. Historically their needs do not appear to have been a high priority at many British airports.\n\nGatwick said a formal investigation was under way.\n\nIt said when the aircraft arrived a member of staff was deployed from Wilson James, a company which provides assistance for passengers with restricted mobility (PRM).\n\nThe staff member \"was in the process of disembarking the three PRM passengers when the incident occurred,\" it said.\n\n\"Staff shortages were not a factor in this incident.\n\n\"It is normal for one staff member to disembark three passengers who require assistance by taking them one at a time the short distance to the waiting buggy.\"\n\nWilson James said the passenger was not left waiting to disembark.\n\nIn a statement the company said: \"The agent was at the gate within one minute of the aircraft parking on its stand, and the incident itself only happened 10 minutes after the aircraft landed.\n\n\"The agent who handled the passenger is very experienced, has been working in this service for a number of years and has a background working with people with complex disabilities and needs in the care sector.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised in this story? Please share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gavin Rawson attempted to rescue Nathan Walker after he fell into the tanker\n\nManagers of a food waste company have been jailed after two staff members drowned in a tanker of pig feed.\n\nNathan Walker, 19, died after falling into the tanker at Greenfeeds Limited in Normanton, Leicestershire, in December 2016, just 15 days before his son was born.\n\nGillian Leivers was jailed for 13 years, with her husband also sentenced and the firm fined £2m.\n\nLeivers was convicted of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter and a health and safety offence.\n\nIan Leivers was jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe firm, which is now in liquidation, was fined after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter, while manager Stewart Brown was given a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, for a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe sentencing took place at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nThe court heard that on 22 December, Mr Walker was tasked with cleaning a tanker containing about six tonnes of food waste.\n\nHe climbed into the tanker, but was soon overcome with carbon dioxide fumes that built up in a confined and unventilated area, leading him to collapse and drown in the pig feed.\n\nWhen he got into difficulty, his colleague Mr Rawson attempted to rescue him but also died.\n\nJudge Peter Fraser said the \"hard-working\" Mr Walker had only been at Greenfeeds for \"a few months\" but planned to leave as he was \"increasingly unhappy\" and \"scared\" doing some tasks.\n\nHe said Mr Rawson was described as \"a cheerful soul\" by his family, adding they \"are also rightly proud of how brave he was that day, dying whilst trying to rescue his work colleague\".\n\nThe court heard there was \"pandemonium\" after Mr Walker fell into the semi-liquid pig feed, with the Leivers' son also at one point attempting to rescue before using a ladder to climb out of the tanker when he could not breathe.\n\n\"Without that, he too would probably have died in the tanker,\" the judge said.\n\nThe pair died on a farm in Leicestershire three days before Christmas in 2016\n\nGreenfeeds, the Leivers and Brown were found guilty following a trial, though Brown was acquitted of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nThe judge said Greenfeeds had repeatedly been warned of the dangers involved in cleaning tankers by yard staff, but \"simply ignored\" their protests.\n\nDescribing it as \"a company which had absolutely no regard for the safety of its employees\", he said it had a \"dangerous culture\" where safety procedures were not implemented.\n\nYard staff \"hated\" cleaning the tankers and made repeated \"deputations\" to Ms Leivers for safety equipment, the judge said, but \"nothing was provided and nothing changed\".\n\n\"The inside of tankers are confined spaces, and it is dangerous to enter them without safety measures,\" he said.\n\n\"There was no safe method of working; there was no training; there was no assessment of the risks; there were no warnings given to the yard staff; there was not even a basic record kept of when someone went into one to clean it.\n\n\"The method that had been adopted at Greenfeeds for years, and which the senior management knew about, was simply climb in, clean the tanker, and take your chances.\"\n\nThe court also heard Greenfeeds had been convicted twice in 2006 for breaches after the death of an employee involved in a tanker cleaning the previous year, but Judge Fraser said this had not led to a review of its safety procedures.\n\n\"It must have been plain and obvious to [Mr and Ms Leivers] that the company needed to improve its safety measures, and by a substantial margin,\" he said.\n\n\"Tragically, the company did not observe even the most basic safety requirements.\"\n\nMr Walker's son was born 15 days after he died\n\nWhile Brown, 69 and of Fernwood Close, Mansfield, had only joined the company in March 2016 and was not senior management, the judge said he showed \"wilful blindness\" to the conditions at Greenfeeds, having cleaned the tankers himself.\n\n\"It must have been obvious how dangerous the operation at Greenfeeds was,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said Mr Leivers, 59 and of Fosse Road in Newark, showed a \"flagrant disregard for the law concerning health and safety\" and a \"wholesale dereliction of duty\" to yard staff.\n\nRegarding Ms Leivers, also of Fosse Road in Newark, he said the 60-year-old's approach to safety led to the \"completely unnecessary and avoidable deaths\", and issued \"ultimatums\" to staff who protested over conditions.\n\nHe also criticised her efforts to \"shift the blame\" on to other employees and providing \"untruthful and inaccurate\" statements to police.\n\nMr Rawson has been described as a \"hero\" by his family\n\n\"Your blatant disregard for the very high risk of death was of an extreme nature,\" he said.\n\n\"I am also of the view that your behaviour was motivated by avoiding the cost of implementing proper safety measures.\"\n\nIn addition to its fine, Greenfeeds was ordered to pay £40,000 costs, with Mr and Ms Leivers ordered to pay £9,100 and £30,000 respectively.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Like many Ukrainians trying to leave Russian-occupied areas, Andriy was forced to go through a process called filtration\n\nUkrainians who want to leave cities under Russian occupation cannot do so without undergoing a terrifying process known as filtration. Phones are searched, social media accounts scoured. Anything deemed incriminating can lead to beatings, civilians say, and many are forcefully sent to Russia.\n\nAndriy watched anxiously as Russian soldiers connected his mobile to their computer, trying to restore some files. Andriy, a 28-year-old marketing officer, was attempting to leave Mariupol. He had deleted everything he thought a Russian soldier could use against him, such as text messages discussing Russia's invasion of Ukraine or photos of the devastation in his city caused by weeks of relentless shelling.\n\nBut the internet in Mariupol, a once bustling port in southern Ukraine, had been cut off as part of the siege imposed by Russia, and Andriy had not been able to take down some of his posts on social media. He remembered the first days of the war, when he had shared some anti-Russian messages and speeches from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe soldiers, Andriy said, already had their focus on him. On that day in early May, when he first joined the queues for filtration in Bezimenne, a small village to the east of Mariupol, one of the Russians noticed his beard. The soldier, Andriy said, instantly assumed it was a sign that he was a fighter with the Azov regiment, a former militia in the city which once had links with the far right.\n\n\"Is it you and your brigade killing our guys?,\" Andriy was asked. He replied he had never served in the army, he started working directly after graduating, but \"they didn't want to hear it\".\n\nAs the soldiers went through his phone, they turned to his political views, and asked his opinion of Zelensky. Andriy, cautiously, said Zelensky was \"okay\", and one of the soldiers wanted to know what he meant by that. Andriy told him Zelensky was just another president, not very different from those who had come before, and that in fact, he was not very interested in politics. \"Well,\" the soldier replied, \"you should just say you aren't interested in politics.\"\n\nThey kept Andriy's phone and told him to wait outside. He met his grandmother, mother and aunt, who had arrived with him and had already been given a document that allowed them to leave. A few minutes later, Andriy said, he was ordered to go to a tent where members of Russia's security service, the FSB, were carrying out further checks.\n\nFive officers were sitting behind a desk, three wearing balaclavas. They showed Andriy a video he had shared on Instagram of a speech Zelensky had given, from 1 March. With it was a caption written by Andriy: \"A president we can be proud of. Go home with your warship!\" One of the officers took the lead. \"You told us you're neutral to politics, but you support the Nazi government,\" Andriy recalled being told. \"He hit me in the throat. He basically started the beating.\"\n\nAndriy said the soldiers found out he had shared speeches of President Zelensky after connecting his phone to their computer\n\nLike Andriy, Dmytro had his phone confiscated at a checkpoint as he tried to leave Mariupol in late March. Dmytro, a 34-year-old history teacher, said the soldiers came across the word \"ruscist\", a play on \"Russia\" and \"fascist\", in a message to a friend. The soldiers, Dmytro told me, slapped and kicked him, and \"everything [happened] because I used that word.\"\n\nDmytro said he was taken, with four other people, to a police station in the village of Nikolsky, also a filtration point. \"The highest-ranking officer punched me four times in the face,\" he said. \"It seemed to be part of the procedure\".\n\nHis interrogators said teachers like him were spreading pro-Ukrainian propaganda. They also asked what he thought about \"the events of 2014\", the year that Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and started supporting pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. He replied that the conflict was known as the Russo-Ukrainian war. \"They said Russia was not involved, and asked me whether I agreed that it was, in fact, a Ukrainian civil war.\"\n\nThe officers checked his phone again, and this time found a photo of a book which had the letter H in its title. \"We got you!\" the soldiers told Dmytro. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, claims his war in Ukraine is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" the country, and the soldiers, Dmytro said, believed he was reading books about Hitler.\n\nThe next morning, Dmytro was transferred with two women to a prison in Starobesheve, a separatist-controlled village in Donetsk. He counted 24 people in the four-bunk cell. After four days and another detailed interrogation, he was finally released, and eventually reached Ukrainian-held territory. Weeks later, he still does not know what happened to his cell mates.\n\nBack inside the tent in Bezimenne, Andriy noticed two other people with their hands tied behind them, who had been left in a corner while the officers paid attention to him. \"They started to beat me way harder,\" Andriy told me, \"everywhere\". At one point, after a blow to the stomach, he felt as if he was about to faint. He managed to sit on a chair.\n\n\"I wondered what would be better,\" he said, \"to lose consciousness and fall down or tolerate the pain further.\"\n\nAt least, Andriy thought, he had not been taken somewhere else, away from his family. Ukrainian officials say thousands of people are believed to have been sent to detention centres and camps set up in Russian-controlled areas during filtration. In almost all cases, their relatives do not know where they are being held, or why. \"I [was] very angry about everything,\" Andriy said, \"but, at the same time, I know it could've been much worse.\"\n\nHis mother tried to get into the tent, but was stopped by the officers. \"She was very nervous. She later said they had told her that my 're-education' had started,\" Andriy said, \"and that she shouldn't be worried.\" His ordeal, he told me, continued for two and a half hours. He was even forced to make a video saying \"Glory to the Russian army!\", a mockery of \"Slava Ukraini!\", the Ukrainian slogan.\n\nThe final question, Andriy said, was whether he had \"understood his mistakes\", and \"I obviously answered yes\". As he was being released, officers brought in another man, who had previously served in Ukraine's military and had several tattoos. \"They immediately pushed him to the ground and started to beat him,\" Andriy said. \"They didn't even talk to him.\"\n\n\"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic,\" Andriy said about filtration\n\nUkrainian authorities say Russian forces and Russian-backed separatists have carried out filtration in occupied territories as an attempt to establish residents' possible links with the military, law enforcement and even local government, as the invading forces try to restore services and infrastructure.\n\nMen of fighting age are particularly targeted, checked for bruises that could suggest recent use of weapons, such as on the fingers and shoulders. Strip searches are common, witnesses say, including for women. Oleksandra Matviychuk, the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, a Kyiv-based human rights group, said the process, even when not violent, was \"inhuman\". \"There's no military need for this... They're trying to occupy the country with a tool I call 'immense pain of civilian people'. You ask: 'Why so much cruelty? For what?'\"\n\nMaksym, a 48-year-old steelworker, said he was forced to strip naked while officers in Bezimenne checked even the seams of his clothes. He was asked whether he was from the Azov regiment or was a Nazi sympathiser - he denied being either - and why he wanted to leave Mariupol. \"I said, 'Actually, it's you who are on Ukrainian soil.'\" One of the officers, who he said were all Russian, reacted by hitting Maksym with the gun butt in his chest. He fell.\n\n\"I leaned my head on the ground, holding my ribs. I couldn't get up,\" he said. \"It was very painful to breathe.\"\n\nHe was taken to what he described as a \"cage\", where others were being held. He noticed that one man, a weightlifter, had a tattoo of Poseidon, the Greek god, with a trident. The soldiers, Maksym said, thought it was the Ukrainian coat of arms. \"He explained it to them but they didn't understand.\" Those detained in the \"cage\" were given no water or food, and had to urinate in a corner in front of everyone, Maksym told me. At one point, exhausted, he tried to sleep on the ground. An officer came in and kicked him in the back, forcing him to stand.\n\nPeople would be taken to be interrogated and, when they returned, \"you saw the person had been beaten,\" Maksym said. He witnessed a woman in her 40s lying in pain, apparently after being hit in the stomach. A man, who seemed to be around 50, had a bleeding lip and red bruises on his neck. Maksym believed he had been strangled. No-one in the \"cage\" asked or said anything to each other. They were afraid that FSB officers could be disguised as prisoners.\n\nAfter about four or five hours, Maksym was released and allowed to leave Mariupol. Days later, he reached safety in Ukrainian-controlled territory, and went to a hospital to treat the persistent pain in his chest. The diagnosis: four broken ribs.\n\nYuriy Belousov, who leads the Department of War at the Ukrainian general prosecutor's office, said his team had received allegations of torture and even killings during filtration. \"[It seems to be] a Russian policy which was designed in advance, and pretty well prepared,\" he told me. \"It's definitely not just a single case or [something] done by a local military guy.\"\n\nHe acknowledged it was difficult to verify the cases, or estimate the scale of the violence. The Ukrainian authorities are unable to carry out investigations in occupied territories and most victims remain reluctant to share their stories, concerned that relatives in Mariupol could be targeted if their identity is exposed.\n\nVadym, 43, who used to work at a state-owned company in Mariupol, said he was tortured in Bezimenne in March. Separatist soldiers had questioned his wife after finding out she had \"liked\" the Ukrainian army page on Facebook, and restoring a receipt on her phone of a donation she had made to them. \"I tried to stand up for her,\" he said, \"but was knocked down.\" He got up, but was beaten once more. A pattern, he said, that happened again and again.\n\nWhen Russian soldiers realised where he worked, they took Vadym to a different building. There, Vadym said, separatist soldiers asked him \"stupid things\" and started to beat him. \"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell and choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth,\" Vadym said. He vomited and fainted. \"They were furious. When I recovered consciousness, they told me to clean everything up and continued to give me electric shocks.\"\n\nThe torture, Vadym said, only stopped after Russian officers intervened. They carried out another round of questioning before finally freeing him. As Vadym left the building, he saw a young woman, who had been identified during the process as a court clerk, being carried out.\n\n\"A plastic bag was put on her head, and her hands were tied,\" Vadym said. \"Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter not to be taken away.\"\n\nVadym's release came with a condition: he would have to go to Russia. About 1.2 million people in Ukraine, including thousands of Mariupol residents, have been sent to Russia against their will since the invasion began in February, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia denies it is carrying out a mass deportation, which would constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law, and says it is simply helping those who want to go. Ukraine rejects this claim.\n\nSome of those sent to Russia have managed to escape to other countries and even return to Ukraine. How many, remains unclear. Vadym, with the help of his friends, moved to another European country - he did not want to reveal the exact location. He had lost some of his vision, he told me, and doctors said this was a result of head injuries from the beating. \"I feel better now, but rehabilitation will take a long time.\" I asked him what he thought about filtration. \"They separate families. People are being disappeared,\" he said. \"It's pure terror.\"\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests for comment on the allegations. The Russian government has previously denied it is carrying out war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nAndriy said his mother was told by a Russian soldier that he was going through \"re-education\"\n\nAndriy and his family have now settled in Germany, after also having been forced to go to Russia. Looking back, he believes the occupying forces seemed to be using filtration to show their \"absolute power\". Soldiers, he said, acted as if it was a \"type of entertainment\", something to \"satisfy their own ego\".\n\nI told him about another Ukrainian I had met, a 60-year-old retired engineer called Viktoriia. A soldier found out she had added a Ukrainian flag to her profile photo on Facebook, she said, and the message \"Ukraine above all.\"\n\nHe pointed his gun at her, she told me, and threatened: \"I'll put you in the basement until you rot!\" He then kicked her. Viktoriia struggled to understand why he had acted like that. \"What did I do? What right did they have?\"\n\nAndriy said he could not explain such behaviour. \"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic.\"\n\nBut, he said, \"there's no logic\".\n\nSome names have been changed to protect identities", "The remarkable resurgence of Kate Bush's 80s classic Running Up That Hill has culminated in the song going to number one in the UK singles chart.\n\nOriginally released in 1985, the song has enjoyed a new lease of life after featuring in the Netflix sci-fi show Stranger Things.\n\nAfter reaching number two last week, it has now replaced Harry Styles' As It Was in the top slot.\n\nBush said she was \"overwhelmed by the scale of affection\" for her song.\n\n\"It's all happening really fast, as if it's being driven along by a kind of elemental force,\" the star said in a statement. \"I have to admit I feel really moved by it all.\"\n\nThe achievement comes 44 years after Bush last reached number one, with her debut single Wuthering Heights.\n\nThat four-decade gap is the longest in chart history, beating Tom Jones, who had to wait 42 years between Green Green Grass of Home reaching the top in 1966 and his next number one, the charity single (Barry) Islands in the Stream.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRunning Up That Hill originally appeared on Bush's celebrated fifth album Hounds Of Love, which she self-produced and composed largely with a Fairlight CMI - a ground-breaking digital sampling synthesizer.\n\n\"When it came out all those years ago it sounded brand new,\" says BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt, \"and all these years later, it still sounds like nothing that anybody else has ever done.\n\n\"I think that's why she's able to resonate with so many people who are hearing it for the first time.\"\n\nMany of those people were introduced to Running Up That Hill through the latest series of Stranger Things, which premiered at the end of May.\n\nThe song features as a recurring motif, obsessively played by one of the teenage protagonists, Max Mayfield, as she struggles to come to terms with her brother's death.\n\nSpoiler alert: The following five paragraphs contain plot information about the latest series of Stranger Things.\n\nSadie Sink plays the role of Max in Stranger Things\n\n\"At the beginning of the series, Max is in a very despondent isolated place,\" explains Jamie Campbell-Bower, who plays this series' main antagonist, Vecna, a supernatural creature who preys on the vulnerable.\n\n\"Music is a safe place, the place she goes to feel like she's OK, and I think we can all relate to that. And Kate Bush is her favourite song.\"\n\nIn one pivotal scene, Vecna tries to invade Max's mind, but Kate Bush comes to the rescue.\n\n\"Her friends realise the best way to get her out of this state is to play music, to remind her of reality,\" says Campbell-Bower.\n\n\"All of a sudden, the song starts playing and it gives her the strength and the power to overcome that moment, which I think is absolutely beautiful.\"\n\nKate Bush says the renewed interest in her music is \"so exciting\"\n\nThe series introduced Running Up That Hill to a new generation, but the scale of its success has taken everyone by surprise.\n\nIt is currently the most-streamed song in the world, with more than 57 million global plays last week.\n\nOn TikTok, videos featuring the #RunningUpThatHill hashtag have been viewed more than 530 million times.\n\nAnd in addition to the UK, the song is number one in Norway, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Austria, while giving Bush her first ever top 10 hit in the US.\n\n\"I've never experienced anything quite like this before!\" wrote the star on her official website on Thursday. \"It's all so exciting\".\n\nShe's not the only one to benefit.\n\nKaty Smith, who performs as a Kate Bush tribute act, says her shows have been attracting more attention in the last few weeks.\n\nKaty Smith has been performing as Kate Bush for the last four years.\n\n\"We've seen a rise in ticket sales, which has been really amazing; and I think with this resurgence, we're going to see a lot more young people in the audience.\n\n\"It's so well-deserved and I hope it continues.\"\n\nThe song initially charted at number eight, the week after Stranger Things premiered; rising to number two last week.\n\nAt the time, it was already the UK's most-popular song, attracting nine million streams - but, due to a quirk in the way the charts are calculated, it was held off the top spot by Harry Styles.\n\nUnder chart rules, older songs have to achieve 200 streams to register as a \"sale\", compared to 100 for current releases.\n\nThe thinking is that the Top 40 should showcase new music, rather than people's favourite classics.\n\nHowever, when a song enjoys a surge of popularity, a record label can apply to have the sales ratios \"reset\" - which is what EMI did for Running Up That Hill.\n\nKate Bush has replaced Harry Styles' As It Was in the top slot\n\nWhen that rule took effect this week, Bush took up her rightful place at the top of the charts, beating everyone from Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris to Sam Ryder and Harry Styles.\n\n\"It's quite remarkable,\" says Everitt. \"Harry Styles is one of the biggest pop acts in the world, and there's a huge machine behind that. So to have something like this come from the leftfield is kind of unprecedented.\n\n\"And it's kind of glorious because people are hearing Kate Bush for the very first time - and now they're going to start their own little Kate Bush journey and discover more about this incredible artist.\"\n\n\"If more people get to hear her for the first time, that can only be a good thing,\" agrees Smith.", "Millions of people have received the wrong pension for decades because of government IT failures, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe errors, which are understood to have been known about since the 1990s, have not been made public until now.\n\nA former pensions minister described the scale of the problem as \"truly mind-blowing\".\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says it is investigating remedies.\n\nOfficial analysis published last month suggests 23% of pensioners were underpaid, while 17% were overpaid.\n\nSome people have been both overpaid and underpaid in different years, with the vast majority of errors worth one or two pence per week.\n\nIn 2002, it was decided by DWP officials that it would be too complicated to fix the problem, and a solution has still not been found.\n\nSir Steve Webb, who served as pensions minster between 2010 and 2015, said he'd never been alerted to the problem.\n\n\"The scale of these errors is truly mind-blowing,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Although the absolute size of the errors is typically small, the number of people potentially affected is huge. More worrying is the total lack of transparency.\n\n\"It beggars belief to hear that a government department could simply decide that it was acceptable to pay the wrong rate of pension for decades, but feel under no duty to tell Parliament or the public.\n\n\"If the DWP has sat on this secret for decades, it makes you wonder how many other things simply get brushed under the carpet.\"\n\nThe problem centres on the Pension Strategy Computer System, and its inability to accurately uprate an element of the State Pension called the Graduated Retirement Benefit.\n\nThe ageing computer system, which MPs have described as \"not fit for purpose\", was introduced in the 1980s.\n\nIt was due to be shut down in 2020, but has been kept going on a temporary basis.\n\nIn 2021, the National Audit Office found that problems with the system had separately led to 134,000 people who had claimed their state pension before April 2016 not receiving their full entitlement. The average underpayment was estimated at about £8,900.\n\nThis problem, which mainly affects widows, divorcees and women who rely on their husband's pension contributions for some of their pension entitlement, is expected to cost the government £1.05bn.\n\n\"It is worrying that the DWP's IT systems have not kept pace with the demands on them,\" said Labour MP Sir Stephen Timms, chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.\n\n\"A great deal of money has been spent on the Universal Credit programme - which is a good system - but other benefits like the state pension are relying on ageing and creaking systems.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions said the errors were \"decades old\" and that \"successive governments have not corrected this\".\n\n\"A decision was made in 2002 not to make changes or corrections given the system's complexity and minimal impact on individuals, until a new computer system was introduced. The Department is assessing the scale of this issue and investigating potential remedies,\" a spokesperson said.", "People struggling with the soaring cost of living are cutting back on food and car journeys to save money, according to a BBC-commissioned survey.\n\nMore than half (56%) the 4,011 people asked had bought fewer groceries, and the same proportion had skipped meals.\n\nThe findings reveal the widespread impact of prices rising at their fastest rate for 40 years.\n\nMany people have cut spending on clothes and socialising. Some say their mental health has been affected.\n\nTwo-thirds of those surveyed also suggested government support provided so far was insufficient.\n\nThe BBC-commissioned survey of 4,011 UK adults in early June lifts a lid on how the economic climate is affecting lives and financial, physical and mental health.\n\nThe cost of domestic energy, petrol, and food have all increased significantly in recent months, and the findings suggest more than eight in 10 people (81%) are worried about the rising cost of living.\n\nConcern has grown since the start of the year when 69% of those asked said they were worried in a similar BBC survey.\n\nIn the latest results, two thirds (66%) of those with worries said this was having a negative effect on their mental health. Nearly half (45%) said their physical health had been affected.\n\nDay-to-day, individuals are making further changes to manage their budgets. The survey suggests this can be as simple as going on fewer nights out, or getting a haircut less often.\n\nFor charity worker Janine Colwill, from Easington, and those she talks to, the changes have been more fundamental.\n\n\"We get together with the family every Sunday, religiously, for Sunday roast - but my family and other families are starting to grow their own vegetables,\" she said.\n\nJanine Colwill says people in her area are constantly looking for ways to save money\n\n\"Those people who may not have worried about these things before are now worrying about them constantly.\n\n\"With advances in technology, I never would have thought that people would be relying on a food bank or growing their own - and just penny-pinching,\" she said.\n\nThe survey suggests people are finding various ways to manage and save their money. The findings include:\n\nAbout half (52%) expect to work more hours in the next six months to help to pay the bills.\n\nTesco, the UK's largest supermarket, said in a trading update for the three months to 28 May that it was seeing early signs that shoppers are changing their habits due to inflation, such as buying less food and visiting more frequently.\n\nChief executive Ken Murphy also said people are switching to cheaper own-label brands for goods including bread and pasta which have seen prices soar due to the war between Ukraine and Russia, both of which are major wheat exporters.\n\nPrices, as measured by inflation, are rising at a rate of 9% a year, the fastest for 40 years. Interest rates, which also affect the cost of living, were increased to 1.25% on Thursday by the Bank of England - the highest they have been for 13 years.\n\nThe situation is being driven, to a significant degree, by global factors such as the cost of oil, gas and food.\n\nBut there are UK-specific issues which are adding to inflation such as the tight labour market. Job vacancies are at a record high of 1.3 million meaning employers face paying higher wages to fill roles.\n\nAlso, the UK's dominant services sector - which includes the likes of accountancy and law firms, as well as restaurants and pubs - is seeing price rises.\n\nDrivers now have to spend £103 for petrol and £106 for diesel to fill a family car, according to the RAC. The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) has predicted food prices will rise at a rate of 15% this summer as households pay more for staples such as bread, meat, dairy and fruit and vegetables.\n\nA typical household in England, Wales and Scotland is likely to see a rise in its annual domestic gas and electricity bill of £800 in October, on top of a £700 rise in April.\n\nThe surge in inflation is hitting wide and hitting deep, with the effects leading to significant changes in the way lives are being lived well beyond those on low incomes.\n\nLarge swathes of Britain's middle income working households are having to make material cutbacks and even after that are part of a new class of those \"just about managing\".\n\nIn practice this has meant energy bill direct debits wiping out people's entire disposable income, some food banks running out of food donations, or their donors becoming users.\n\nAnd it may be changing attitudes, with nearly two-thirds of those asked saying even after the recent package of support for energy bills from the government, that it is not enough. And the numbers suggest a similar proportion think the support in place needs to last at least a year longer.\n\nInflation this high certainly changes the economy and our spending behaviour.\n\nBut the figures raise a question about whether the high levels of government support in the pandemic and in this energy crisis too, are now becoming baked into public expectations.\n\nSoaring prices have led the government to announce a package of financial support directed primarily at those on low incomes. This includes a £400 discount on all energy bills in October, in addition to payments totalling £650 to people on means-tested benefits. Pensioners will get more this winter, as will billpayers with disabilities.\n\nHowever, the BBC survey reveals that 64% of those asked said this support was insufficient to help people with the rising cost of living.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke said vulnerable households would receive £1,200 which he said was part of a \"very large\" amount of support, on top of what had already been provided.\n\nHe said the first payments would come in July, and would continue into the autumn to offset the key driver of the rising cost of living for households, which was energy bills.\n\n\"That, of course, is yet to filter through to people, which is why I suspect people are saying they want more support,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"As this gathers pace, it will be clear to people that this will be a comprehensive package.\"\n\nThe impact of rising household costs has already led to the financial regulator warning lenders that they need to do more to help those in financial difficulty and support vulnerable customers.\n\n\"Early action is important for those struggling with debt,\" said Sheldon Mills, of the Financial Conduct Authority.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sergei Lavrov speaks exclusively to the BBC about the war in Ukraine\n\nSince the Russian army attacked Ukraine nearly four months ago, thousands of civilians have been killed and whole towns reduced to rubble, while millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes.\n\nBut on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked me in the eye and told me things were not as they seemed.\n\n\"We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act.\"\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Lavrov has given only a few interviews to Western media.\n\nHe repeated the official Kremlin line that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Russian officials often claim that their military is \"de-Nazifying\" the country. Mr Lavrov caused uproar recently when he tried to justify the Nazi slur regarding Ukraine's president, who is Jewish, by making the ridiculous claim that Adolf Hitler had \"Jewish blood\".\n\nI quoted to him an official United Nations report about the Ukrainian village of Yahidne, in Chernihiv region, which states that \"360 residents, including 74 children and five persons with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a school… There were no toilet facilities, water…10 older people died\".\n\n\"It's a great pity,\" Mr Lavrov said, \"but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are being put under pressure by the West. And very often they're being used to amplify fake news spread by the West.\"\n\n\"Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are.\"\n\nSergei Lavrov (R) accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of Ukrainian actions in areas held by Russian separatists since 2014\n\nMr Lavrov, 72, has represented Russia on the international stage for the past 18 years, but Western sanctions have now been imposed on both him and his daughter.\n\nThe US has accused him of pursuing a false narrative of Ukraine as the aggressor, and of direct responsibility for Russia's invasion as a member of its Security Council.\n\nI then turned to Russian relations with the UK. It is on Russia's official list of unfriendly countries, and I suggested that to say relations were bad was an understatement.\n\n\"I don't think there's even room for manoeuvre any more,\" Mr Lavrov told me, \"because both [Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Liz] Truss say openly that we should defeat Russia, we should force Russia to its knees. Go on, then, do it!\"\n\nIt was last month that the UK foreign secretary said Russia's Vladimir Putin was humiliating himself on the world stage and that \"we must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mykola tied himself to a wall so he could sleep standing up\n\nWhen I asked Mr Lavrov how he viewed the UK now, he said it was \"once again sacrificing the interests of its people for the sake of political ambitions\".\n\nI asked him about two British men recently sentenced to death by Russian separatists in occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nWhen I pointed out that in the eyes of the West, it was Russia that was responsible for their fate, he responded: \"I am not interested in the eyes of the West at all. I am only interested in international law. According to international law, mercenaries are not recognised as combatants.\"\n\nI replied that the men had served in the Ukrainian armed forces and were not mercenaries, and Mr Lavrov said that should be decided by a court.\n\nHe then accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of what had been happening to civilians in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, \"when civilians were being bombed by Kyiv's troops for eight years\".\n\nI stressed that over the course of six years, the BBC had many times contacted the leadership in the separatist-run areas asking for permission to go and see what was happening. We were refused entry every single time.\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of genocide. However, in 2021, eight civilians were killed in the rebel-held areas, according to self-proclaimed pro-Russian \"officials\", and seven the year before. While every death was a tragedy, I said, that did not constitute a genocide.\n\nI suggested that if genocide really had taken place, then the Luhansk and Donetsk separatists would have been interested in us going there. Why were we not let in, I asked.\n\nA longer version of Steve Rosenberg's interview with Sergei Lavrov will be available on Saturday - on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and around the world on BBC World News and the BBC News YouTube channel.", "An A-level law and GCSE physics paper included topics students were not expecting\n\nExam boards have been criticised by a watchdog for oversights on GCSE and A-level papers where pupils were tested on topics they were told would not come up or sat papers with mistakes.\n\nIn England students were given extra detail because of the pandemic.\n\nBut an AQA A-level law and GCSE physics paper included topics not listed in \"advance information\".\n\nWatchdog Ofqual said such mistakes caused \"distress\" for pupils.\n\nAnother exam board, Edexcel, has apologised for labelling Gabon as the Republic of Congo on a map of Africa, in its GCSE geography paper.\n\nAnd Wales' main exam board, WJEC, said sorry for excerpts from three Shakespeare plays being either partly or fully missing from their English language and literature paper.\n\nOn Friday, AQA said sorry to A-level law students for the \"confusion and stress\" after questions on nuisance were included in their paper, despite there being no advance warning that the subject would be included in the exam.\n\nThe exam board has not yet announced how the question will be marked.\n\n\"The fairest way to address this is for us to look at how students performed on this paper after we've marked it, and we'll take any action necessary to protect them,\" a spokesperson for AQA said.\n\nCoralie Foster, from Bolton, said her daughter was \"more angry than upset\" at the surprise question in the A-Level law paper on Monday.\n\nShe added: \"Nowadays these university offers are so high - so the pressure on these kids to get the top grades is immense.\n\n\"Advance information was meant to help focus that work, but it's all been completely undermined.\"\n\nLast week AQA apologised for a question on energy transfers and circuits that appeared in a GCSE physics paper. Circuits had not been included as a topic for revision in the advance information.\n\nThe board said it would give all students full marks for that question.\n\nGCSE student Eddie, from Greater Manchester, took the physics paper on 9 June, and said he was \"disappointed\" with AQA's response.\n\n\"I don't know how they could make a mistake like that,\" he said.\n\nHe said awarding full marks had rectified the error \"somewhat\", but believes it will not fully account for the students who spent extra time trying to answer the unexpected question.\n\n\"Pupils came home upset, disappointed and disadvantaged. It's just thrown a lot of spanners into the works,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the Confederation of School Trusts' annual conference on Friday, Jo Saxton - Ofqual's chief regulator - said the idea of providing advance information to help students prepare for exams had \"taken the stress off of [pupils'] shoulders\".\n\nBut she added: \"They love the idea of the advance information, but the reality is they found navigating it, in many cases, just one other thing to think about.\n\n\"I absolutely understand the distress that mistakes in advance information and exam papers cause.\"\n\nIn 2020 and 2021, students were graded based on assessments made by their teachers, with exams cancelled in order to reduce the spread of Covid.\n\nUnder the teacher assessments, more students passed exams and achieved higher marks, with record numbers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland securing top A-level grades.\n\nAlthough grades will be awarded normally this year, grade boundaries will be more lenient in England, Scotland and Wales. They will be set at a \"mid-point\" between the 2019 pre-pandemic boundaries and the grade levels used in teacher assessments in 2021.\n\nHowever, much of the support for exams this year will be scrapped in 2023.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of the story said AQA was criticised by Ofqual but the watchdog criticised exam boards, not specifically AQA.", "A Treasury minister has warned employees not to expect their wages to rise along with the soaring rate of inflation.\n\nSimon Clarke said that big increases in salaries to meet the rising cost of living could end up in a 1970s style \"inflationary spiral\".\n\nThis happens when wage rises help push up the cost of living.\n\nBut unions said that energy prices, not wages, were driving up the cost of living.\n\nMr Clarke said that employers should be \"very careful\" in setting pay rises that help drive up the cost of living.\n\nHe warned that inflation could become a \"self-fulfilling prophecy\".\n\nInflation measures an overall increase in prices over time. For example, if a loaf of bread costs £1 one year and £1.09 the next year, then that's an annual inflation rate of 9%.\n\nOn Thursday the Bank of England said that inflation could reach more than 11%.\n\nIn a BBC-commissioned survey of more than 4,000 people, 82% said they thought their wages should increase to match the rising price of goods and services.\n\nBut Mr Clarke, who is chief secretary to the Treasury, told the BBC that \"unrealistic expectations around pay\" could \"intensify this endless inflation problem\".\n\nHowever, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said: \"Energy prices are pushing up inflation - not wages.\"\n\n\"The government has cynically abandoned its commitment to a high-wage economy.\n\n\"The only way to give families long-term financial security is to get pay rising across the economy.\n\n\"British workers are suffering the longest wage squeeze in more than 200 hours years. They urgently need more money in their pockets.\"\n\nThe public sector pay review bodies are due to report in the coming weeks on the level of increase for workers - including employees in health, schools and prisons.\n\nUnions are pressing to have the pay increases reflect the rising cost of living.\n\nMr Clarke is the Treasury minister in charge of the pay review body process.\n\nHis comments are the clearest steer that public sector workers in general will not get settlements close to the current rate of inflation.\n\nThe Unison union said that essential workers aren't being offered big pay increases, \"so it's not public sector wages causing inflation to spiral\".\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"Ministers must realise the damage that will be done to public services if health, care, police and school staff don't receive a decent pay rise this year.\n\n\"Without one that protects against rising prices, many will quit for better paid and less stressful work elsewhere, leaving the public struggling to access vital services.\"\n\nThe independent bodies have begun to report back to relevant government departments about appropriate pay and recruitment difficulties.\n\nThe Treasury says those departments will have to find the cash from existing budgets for any pay rises above what is already planned.\n\nMr Clarke said there was no automatic link between inflation and pay setting and that inflation could \"run away from us\".\n\nEarlier this week, the ONS said that regular pay is falling at the fastest rate in more than a decade when taking into account rising prices.\n\nBetween February and April, pay excluding bonuses was down 2.2% from a year earlier when adjusted for inflation, according to the ONS.\n\nHowever, pay including bonuses is outpacing price rises, rising by 0.4% when taking inflation into account.", "Crowds flocked to the Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace to get an early taste of the Jubilee celebrations\n\nCovid infections are up across the UK, according to latest figures that capture the Jubilee weekend of partying.\n\nAn estimated 1.4 million people or one in 45 has the virus - up from one in 65 the week before. That's a rise of 43%.\n\nExperts say two new fast-spreading subvariants of Omicron -called BA.4 and BA.5 - are behind some of the new infections.\n\nPeople can catch them even if they have recently had other types of Covid.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS), which compiles the data, says it is too early to say if this is the start of another wave.\n\nMillions gathered to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee up and down the UK between 2 and 5 June, which will have given Covid many opportunities to spread.\n\nIt takes a few days, usually, for people to start showing symptoms or testing positive after catching it, which means the latest data covers some of that Jubilee mixing.\n\nThe previous week's data had shown the beginnings of a possible rise.\n\nThe data is collated by testing thousands of people from UK households - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much virus is around.\n\nIn the week ending 11 June, the Covid rates are:\n\nAfter a period of low case rates, the UK is now seeing increases in Covid outbreaks within care homes and in hospitals, among those aged 80 and over.\n\nBut BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron are not thought to be any more lethal than other types of Covid. Vaccines are still saving lives.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, from the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"It is encouraging that we are not seeing an increase in intensive care unit admissions, but we are monitoring data closely and assessing the possible impact of subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.\n\n\"As we enter summer, it's still important to remember that Covid-19 has not gone away, and to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of becoming seriously ill with the virus.\"\n\nBA.4 and BA.5 were first identified in South Africa at the start of the year and may soon become the dominant strains in Europe and the US, health experts say.\n\nEver since it first emerged, Covid has been mutating or shape-shifting, creating new variants and subvariants.\n\nLots of people have built up some immunity from past infections and vaccination, which is helping to make Covid less risky overall.\n\nBut the new subvariants do appear to be spreading more easily. This is partly because immunity may be waning, but also because of the genetic mutations which the virus has undergone.\n\nMany countries have also lifted their Covid restrictions, meaning people are mixing more, which gives the virus more chances to spread.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK and EU are engaged in a long-standing dispute over the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe arrangements - known as the protocol - keep Northern Ireland aligned to EU product standards in order to avoid introducing checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt also puts in place checks on goods moving from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe existence of the protocol has caused tension in Northern Ireland, but reaching a viable solution requires finding an agreement that can satisfy all the interested groups.\n\nSo where does each side stands and what do they want?\n\nSlovakian diplomat Maros Šefčovič is leading negotiations for the EU\n\nAlliance party leader Naomi Long also met with the UK prime minister\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood with other members of his party", "Legendary Wales and British and Irish Lions captain and fly-half Phil Bennett has died at the age of 73.\n\nBennett was a key figure in Wales' golden era, helping them win two Five Nations Grand Slams in the 1970s.\n\nHe also starred in the Lions' historic unbeaten tour of South Africa in 1974 and produced moments of magic in his 20 appearances for the Barbarians.\n\nHe is regarded as one of the greatest players to wear the fabled number 10 shirt for Wales and the Lions.\n\nIn their statement announcing Bennett's passing, Scarlets said he was \"one of the all-time legends of the game and widely regarded as the greatest player to wear the Scarlets jersey\".\n\nBennett made eight Test appearances for the Lions over two tours, becoming only the second Welshman to captain the Lions on their 1977 tour of New Zealand.\n\nThe Llanelli RFC great won 29 caps for Wales, retiring in style in 1978 by captaining his country to a second Grand Slam in three years with victory over France in his final game.\n\nAfter retiring, Bennett became an OBE in 1979 and was inducted to the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2005.\n\nHe was a popular pundit for BBC Wales and always remained a loyal supporter of Felinfoel RFC, the amateur club of his home village where a statue of the local icon was unveiled in April.\n\nBennett's former Scarlets captain and Wales and Lions team-mate Delme Thomas said: \"He was the best fly-half I have ever seen on a rugby field.\"\n\nScarlets chairman Simon Muderack added: \"We are devastated by this news. Wherever the Scarlets travel around the world, people mention the name Phil Bennett.\n\n\"He was an icon of our sport, a rugby superstar, but someone who always remembered his roots. There was no finer ambassador of Scarlets Rugby than Phil, a player respected across the rugby world, both during his career and long after he finished playing.\n\n\"Phil was a hero and friend to so many people, not only in Llanelli and west Wales, but throughout the game and I am sure a lot of Scarlets supporters will have their own particular stories of the times they met and chatted to 'Benny'. He loved the club and epitomised the values we hold true — humility and pride in our community.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at the Scarlets, we send our heartfelt condolences to Pat, Steven. James and all of Phil's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nTributes to Bennett followed from close to home and around the world while Scarlets Official Supporters Group tweeted: \"For those wishing to pay their respects, flowers can be left at the 'Stradey Gates' at the main entrance to Parc y Scarlets.\"", "Nurse Pauline Kerray uses the NHS Near Me video call system to chat to Derek White at his Uddingston home to determine if he needs to make the 13-mile trip to the QEUH emergency ward in person\n\nScotland's emergency departments are under enormous pressure, with record numbers of people having faced long waits.\n\nIn a bid to reduce waiting times, a virtual A&E is being used for people who call NHS24 who might need emergency department treatment.\n\nThe goal is to get patients seen by the most appropriate part of the health service and stop overstretched A&Es being the first port of call for people.\n\nDerek White is one of an increasing number of patients being asked to have their injuries initially assessed over a video call by nurses with A&E experience.\n\nHe winces as he describes the \"excruciatingly sore\" back pain caused by lifting heavy stones in the garden of his Uddingston home.\n\n\"It's so bad that I'm using all the strength in my arms to lift myself up,\" he says.\n\n\"I take a few intakes of breath to get myself up.\"\n\nPauline Kerray is part of the team which carries out virtual consultations with patients\n\nNurse Pauline Kerray - who is 13 miles away from Derek in Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) - listens carefully and offers the 60-year-old advice which includes using painkillers, a hot water bottle and getting lots of rest.\n\nFigures for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde show that 30% of people who used the programme were able to get advice and stay at home and did not need to go to A&E in the days that followed.\n\nDerek told BBC Scotland he found the service \"pretty thorough\".\n\nHe says: \"I certainly couldn't have done the whole getting up and getting to A&E, I think there would've had to have been an ambulance.\"\n\nHelping patients and preventing both an unnecessary hospital visit and ambulance callout is the goal of Ms Kerray, lead advanced emergency nurse practitioner on the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde programme.\n\nShe says: \"This is not about stopping people coming in.\n\n\"Having had to work in a busy A&E at a time when waiting times were over four hours and you were redirecting patients from a front door when they've taken three buses across Glasgow - that's heart-breaking.\n\n\"But now actually speaking to somebody while they're still in the comfort of their own home and you're able to give them advice and say, if this doesn't work call us back - I think this is a positive move forward for patients.\"\n\nThe real problem for emergency departments right across Scotland just now is what staff call \"exit block\".\n\nThere are too many sick patients who have come to A&E and need admitted for further treatment.\n\nLast month, more than 3,500 people spent more than 12 hours in an emergency department. Compare that to April 2019 - the year before the Covid pandemic - and that figure was 301.\n\nMuch of that pressure is down to a lack of available beds across the hospital.\n\nPressures on social care and more seriously ill patients requiring longer hospital stays are among the reasons we are seeing bottlenecks in emergency departments across the country.\n\nInitiatives like the video call system, which is being used at health boards across Scotland, are no silver bullet - but the hope is they can help the people who turn up at A&E who may receive better treatment elsewhere.\n\nThe government says tackling long waits in emergency departments is a priority, but getting people used to getting medical advice over a video call instead of face-to-face may take some time to become commonplace.\n\nPauline says that creating links into different hospital departments means they can also help patients bypass A&E and get straight to specialist care.\n\nFor example, the video call team has referred patients with eye complaints to local opticians and patients with possible blood clots in their legs directly to the ambulatory care service, which aims to assess and treat patients without the need for an overnight stay.\n\nAngela Ray, an advanced paediatric nurse practitioner with the virtual consultation team, says there are a lot of injuries that do not really require an A&E visit.\n\nAngela Ray, an Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner, says the video calls can prevent wasted trips to A&E and get patients treated quicker\n\nShe says, \"I could probably see 10 head injuries a day and I'm not concerned about any of them.\n\n\"So, if these 10 people come through the hub that is 10 presentations that you can stop coming into the emergency department.\n\n\"At first I thought assessing children over a video call wouldn't be the same, but I've adapted the way I work.\n\n\"For example, I had a wee girl with a hand injury and I was like, let's bake a cake, so we put the hand in stirring so that gives me the opportunity to see range of movement and how well the child was doing.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has a target of dealing with 95% of patients who come to an emergency department within four hours. But figures for April this year show the Scotland-wide rate was at 72.1% and for the QEUH it was just 46%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pressures at A&E take their toll on staff and patients says Dr Alan Whitelaw, a consultant in emergency medicine at QEUH\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, a consultant in emergency medicine at the hospital, said one of the biggest issues was a lack of bed capacity and this is true across Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"I think I can probably speak for most departments, if not all, in the country and say that in the 20 years that I've been doing this, this is by far the most pressure we've ever been under.\n\n\"Obviously, the NHS has been through a period of huge change and upheaval because of Covid. But as we're coming out the other side I think some of the frailties that existed before have come to bite us.\n\n\"I think it's going to be difficult - even to get back to where we were three or four years ago seems like that would be fantastic right now. We have to hope they'll improve. It's hard to see how things can get any worse.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We want people to get the right care in the right setting and for many A&E will not be the most suitable place for their healthcare need.\n\n\"People should consider whether their condition is an emergency, such as a stroke, heart attack or major trauma, before going to A&E. Local GPs can be contacted during the day for non-critical care, as well as local pharmacies.\n\n\"The NHS 24 telephone service is available on 111 for non-emergency inquiries.\"", "Fears over the prospects for the UK economy have grown after it shrank again in April, with businesses feeling the impact of rising prices.\n\nThe economy contracted by 0.3% in April after it shrank by 0.1% in March, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nApril's figure was weaker than expected, and it was the first time the economy has contracted for two months in a row since Covid struck.\n\nSome analysts have warned the UK risks falling into a recession.\n\nBoth households and businesses have been hit by rising prices, which are surging at their fastest rate for 40 years due to record-high fuel and energy costs.\n\nThe cost of filling up an average family car with petrol recently hit £100, and there have been signs that people are cutting back spending as costs rise.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned the UK faces a \"sharp economic slowdown\", and has forecast that inflation - the rate at which prices rise - could reach more than 10% by the end of the year.\n\nApril was the first time all main sectors of the economy - services, manufacturing and production - had shrunk since January 2021.\n\nThe ONS said the main driver of April's contraction was in the services sector, due to the winding down of the NHS's Covid Test and Trace operation.\n\nIt also said some businesses were continuing to struggle with the impact of price increases and supply chain shortages.\n\nJJ Foodservice, a wholesale food and catering company, supplies food products and ingredients from restaurants and takeaways to schools and private customers.\n\nKaan Hendekli, the firm's Head of Operations, told the BBC energy prices and skill shortages were hurting the businesses, but said the price of fuel was having the biggest impact because \"it affects everything\".\n\n\"Every product essentially hits a lorry - whether we deliver or we receive it from suppliers or our suppliers receive it from the manufactures,\" he said.\n\nMr Hendekli said the business was trying to be \"creative\" to reduce its outgoings, which included offering its customers good deals for collections and ordering in advance, as well as selling its own brand ingredients.\n\n\"Nobody wants to increase their prices but we've got no choice but to increase at the moment,\" he added.\n\n\"We are trying to find our own ways [to manage the situation].\"\n\nMelanie Baker, senior economist at Royal London Asset Management, said the UK looked \"at increased risk of a technical recession\", which is defined as the economy contracting for two consecutive three-month periods.\n\nTony Danker, director-general of the CBI, said the business group was \"expecting the economy to be pretty much stagnant\".\n\n\"It won't take much to tip us into a recession, and even if we don't, it will feel like one for too many people,\" he added.\n\n\"Times are tough for businesses dealing with rising costs, and for people on lower incomes concerned about paying bills and putting food on the table.\"\n\nBut Samuel Tombs, of Pantheon Macroeconomics, said a recession \"remains unlikely\", due to the government's recently announcement support package, which includes a £400 energy bill discount for all UK households.\n\nResponding to the latest GDP figures, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK was not immune from global economic shocks, but added the government was \"fully focussed on growing the economy to address the cost of living in the longer term, while supporting families and businesses with the immediate pressures they're facing\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said the figures were \"extremely worrying\" and would \"add to growing concern about abysmal growth and plummeting living standards under the Conservatives\".\n\nThe fall in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in April was worse than expectations, but given the circumstances, can come as no surprise.\n\nThis was the month of the record 54% hike in domestic energy bills, continued pressure at the pumps, the National Insurance hikes, and ongoing uncertainty from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nGovernment sources pointed to the fact that the economy would have just about grown were it not for the one off effect of the winding down of pandemic test and trace services. However, by that logic, a number of previous GDP figures were also flattered by such figures.\n\nThere have been three months on the trot now of zero growth. Only in January has the UK economy grown this year. While May should break that pattern, the chances are that the economy is contracting over this quarter.\n\nCurrent forecasts suggest this should not be the start of a technical recession, especially given the support to household incomes from the energy package last month, but that risk certainly hangs over the economy. Though the jobs figures continue to impress, interest rates and inflation continue to rise.\n\nThe risk of a UK-EU trade war is now material, which could push up inflation more and risk investment. And there are further pressures on tax and spend from businesses calling for tax cuts, to public sector workers seeking pay rises matching double-digit inflation.\n\nThe ONS said there were \"some common themes\" being reported by firms that were having a negative impact across different industries.\n\nIt said many firms reported how the soaring costs of petrol and diesel meant they had to pay more for materials or \"had to raise the price of the products they sold\".\n\n\"Other respondents also reported that large increases in utility bills, particularly for gas and electricity, had affected them,\" the ONS said.\n\nElsewhere, other firms reported price rises to other inputs such as animal feed, chemicals, aluminium, steel, cooking oil and fertiliser, while some respondents said they had \"difficulties\" in sourcing machinery, electronic components, kitchen appliances, and wire harnesses for cars.", "Hedgehogs are not native to the Western Isles\n\nSniffer dogs are to be used to search for hedgehogs on Barra after one of the non-native animals was found on the island for the first time.\n\nTheir presence on the neighbouring islands of South Uist and Benbecula has been linked to a decline in wading birds.\n\nPublic agency NatureScot is mounting the search after the discovery of a dead hedgehog on a road on Barra.\n\nSniffer dogs will be used to find out if there are any others on the island.\n\nNatureScot says that if any mammals are caught they will be relocated and released in a safe location.\n\n\"NatureScot staff will search the areas with trained sniffer dogs and set up a network of live traps to establish whether there more hedgehogs are present,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nWork to remove hedgehogs from South Uist and Benbecula to the UK mainland has been taking place since 2001.\n\nHedgehogs were first introduced to the islands in 1974 when seven were released without permission in South Uist to eat slugs in gardens.\n\nConservationists are concerned about the impact of hedgehogs on ground-nesting birds\n\nAs the population grew conservationists found the creatures were eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds.\n\nA decline in numbers of wading birds was detected in the mid 1980s.\n\nBy 1995 hedgehogs were common throughout South Uist and Benbecula, their numbers growing in part thanks to the lack of predators and not being run down on the isles' quiet roads.\n\nThe Uist Wader Project was set up to tackle the problem and it initially involved culling hedgehogs.\n\nFollowing public outcry over the killing of the animals, the project moved to trapping and relocating them.\n\nEfforts to trap and relocate hedgehogs to the mainland have been ongoing since 2002\n\nSince 2002, hundreds of hedgehogs have been relocated to the mainland.\n\nNatureScot said all the animals found on North Uist had been successfully removed.\n\nIt along with RSPB Scotland is now exploring sources of funding to enable a full-scale removal of hedgehogs from the rest of Uist.\n\nRSPB Scotland said: \"We are very concerned about the impact introduced hedgehogs are having on the fantastic native wildlife of the Uists.\n\n\"This evidence that hedgehogs are now on Barra is very worrying and shows the importance of biosecurity including surveillance and preventative measures to limit the spread of invasive non-native species.\"", "The number of asylum seekers due to be removed from the UK on the first deportation flight to Rwanda has fallen to close to single figures.\n\nThe Court of Appeal is set to decide later if the Home Office flight can depart as scheduled on Tuesday.\n\nCampaigners and migrants last week failed to win an injunction against the government policy in the High Court.\n\nBut the planned number of removals has rapidly reduced, with 11 due to be on the first flight, the court heard.\n\nA Home Office source told the BBC that, of the original 37 scheduled to fly, legal challenges relating to modern slavery and human rights claims have drastically reduced that number.\n\nOn Friday it emerged six people had their removal notices cancelled, while the Care4Calais charity has confirmed a further 20 planned removals were called off over the weekend.\n\nThis leaves 11 people still set to fly to east Africa on Tuesday, including four Iranians, two Iraqis, two Albanians and one Syrian, the charity said. The nationalities of the other two have not been revealed.\n\nBut BBC home editor Mark Easton says it is expected the total could be \"whittled down to zero\" before the plane is due to take off.\n\nAs of Friday, up to 130 people had been notified they could be removed.\n\nThe UK government has said sending some asylum seekers who arrive illegally in the UK to Rwanda will deter arrivals, and therefore undermine smuggling gangs.\n\nThe policy will see people given accommodation and support in Rwanda while their asylum application is being considered by the Rwandan government.\n\nIf they are successful, they can stay there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nThose who fail in their asylum bids in Rwanda will be offered the chance to apply for other immigration routes, but could still face deportation.\n\nOn Sunday 111 people arrived in the UK in three small boat crossings - with more than 10,000 arriving so far this year.\n\nA document was given to some asylum seekers stating their removal could not be appealed, but at least 26 people have since been told they will not be on the first flight\n\nThe appeal to the Home Office's policy has been brought by the Public and Commercial Services Union, who represent 80% of Border Force staff, along with the charities Care4Calais and Detention Action.\n\nOpening the appeal for the claimants, Raza Husain QC told the Court of Appeal it was not until Friday afternoon they learned of the full extent of serious concerns held by the UN's refugee agency about Rwanda's asylum system.\n\nThat was despite Home Secretary Priti Patel being fully aware of the concerns since April, he said.\n\nInstead, the Home Office had earlier presented the UNHCR as assisting or supporting the Rwanda policy - a position he told the court was \"misleading\".\n\nAs a result, the High Court had got the law wrong when it had concluded there was no compelling reason to stop the flight from leaving, Mr Husain added.\n\nThe Home Office's lawyer, Rory Dunlop QC, said Tuesday's flight was important as the policy is \"intended to deter dangerous and unnecessary journeys\".\n\nHe said it could \"could save lives as well as disrupting the model of traffickers\" and cancelling the first flight could prevent the government from enforcing a policy that may deter dangerous crossings.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the government had anticipated \"very active lawyers\" would try to challenge the policy in the courts.\n\nSpeaking to LBC, he said activists \"want to have a completely open-doors approach to immigration\" and it was important that the government \"stop criminal gangs\" trafficking people across the Channel in dangerous boats.\n\n\"They are selling people a false hope, they are luring them into something extremely risky and criminal,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nA separate case is also due to be heard in the High Court on Monday, after another refugee charity, Asylum Aid, applied for an urgent interim injunction against the flights to the east African nation.\n\nThe Rwanda policy has been criticised by charities, religious leaders, opposition parties - and reportedly by the Prince of Wales, who privately described it as \"appalling\", according to the Times.\n\nCampaign group Care4Calais, which is among those appealing against the High Court decision, wrote on Twitter: \"We pray that the courts act today to stop this cruel and barbaric plan.\"\n\nRwanda's high commissioner to the UK, Johnston Busingye, told the Daily Telegraph his country would be a \"safe haven\" for migrants.\n\nTory MP Natalie Elphicke, who represents Dover, said it was disappointing the legal system is \"being misused by political activists who support uncontrolled immigration\", adding that people coming on small boats were \"safe in France and many other places before France\".\n\nThe government says the \"vast majority\" of those who arrive via illegal routes - such as unauthorised boats and stowing away in lorries - will be considered for relocation to Rwanda.\n\nBut it is understood that those prioritised under the scheme will be single adults, with officials insisting families arriving in the UK will not be split up.\n\nAt the High Court on Friday, Mr Justice Swift said there was a \"material public interest\" in the home secretary being able to carry out her policies. He said he did not consider there was evidence asylum seekers would be ill-treated in Rwanda.\n\nHe said there would be a full judicial review, where the High Court will hear a challenge to the government's plan, before the end of July.\n\nA second case is also also being heard by Mr Justice Swift in the Hight Court on Monday, after refugee charity Asylum Aid applied for an urgent interim injunction to stop the Rwanda flights.\n\nAmong the people informed they were to be sent to Rwanda on Tuesday is an Iranian ex-police commander who fled the country after refusing to shoot protesters during anti-government demonstrations in 2019.\n\nThe former commander, who is not being named in order to protect his identity, was sentenced by an Iranian military court to almost five years in jail in Iran - and fears being killed by Iranian agents if he is deported.\n\nThe man previously gave testimony to the UK-based Aban Tribunal investigating alleged Iranian atrocities during the unrest, which estimates say led to the deaths of between 300 and 1,500 people.\n\nAfter fleeing Iran, he lived in hiding in Turkey for over a year. He arrived in the UK via boat on 14 May and was immediately detained, and has been held at Brook House detention centre near Gatwick Airport since.\n\nLast week he was given malaria pills in preparation for the trip, but refused to take them and claims to have told the officers: \"You can only send my dead body to Rwanda.\"\n\nHe has since been told he is no longer facing immediate removal, after challenging his deportation in court, the charity Justice for Iran revealed on Monday.\n\n\"I have mixed feelings,\" he said. \"I cannot be happy. My whole heart is with all the refugees who will be forced to take the flight to Kigali and seek asylum from the government of Rwanda and according to Rwandan laws.\"", "A High Court Judge has ruled the Archie Battersbee is dead and that life support treatment should end\n\nTreatment for a brain-damaged boy in a coma should stop, a judge has ruled.\n\nArchie Battersbee, 12, was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nDoctors treating him at the Royal London Hospital in east London told the High Court it was \"highly likely\" he was \"brain-stem dead\" and asked for his life support to end.\n\nArchie's mother Hollie Dance said she was \"devastated\" and the family planned to appeal.\n\nThe court previously heard that Archie suffered brain damage during an incident at home, which his mother believed may have been related to an online challenge.\n\nHe has not regained consciousness since.\n\nArchie's mother, and his father Paul Battersbee, disagreed with the hospital and have been supported by the Christian Legal Centre campaigning organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hollie Dance said her \"gut instinct\" was that her son was \"still in there\"\n\nIn a statement issued after the court decision, Ms Dance said: \"I am devastated and extremely disappointed by the judge's ruling after weeks of fighting a legal battle when I wanted to be at my little boy's bedside.\n\n\"Basing this judgement on an MRI test and that he is 'likely' to be dead, is not good enough. This is believed to be the first time that someone has been declared 'likely' to be dead based on an MRI test.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"sickened\" that the hospital and judge had not taken into account the wishes of the family and added she did \"not believe Archie has been given enough time\".\n\n\"His heart is still beating, he has gripped my hand, and as his mother, I know he is still in there,\" she said.\n\n\"Until it's God's way I won't accept he should go. I know of miracles when people have come back from being brain dead.\n\n\"We intend to appeal and will not give up on Archie.\"\n\nLawyers representing the hospital's governing trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, had asked the judge to decide what moves were in Archie's best interests.\n\nDuring a three-day hearing at the court's Family Division last week, specialists said tests had shown no \"discernible\" brain activity.\n\nIn a written ruling, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot concluded Archie died at noon on 31 May based on MRI scans that day.\n\nShe said: \"I find that irreversible cessation of brain stem function has been conclusively established.\n\n\"I give permission to the medical professionals at the Royal London Hospital to cease to ventilate mechanically Archie Battersbee.\"\n\nHollie Dance said the family would not \"give up on Archie\"\n\nMrs Justice Arbuthnot said the devotion of Archie's family was \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"If Archie remains on mechanical ventilation, the likely outcome for him is sudden death and the prospects of recovery are nil,\" she said.\n\n\"He has no pleasure in life and his brain damage is irrecoverable.\n\n\"His position is not going to improve.\n\n\"The downside of such a hurried death is the inability of his loving and beloved family to say goodbye.\"\n\nThe judge said that, had she not concluded Archie was dead, she would have ruled that it was not in his best interests to continue to receive life-support treatment.\n\n\"The steps I have set out above are lawful,\" she added.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer at Barts Health NHS Trust, said their \"thoughts and sympathies\" were with Archie's family.\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal London Hospital following the ruling, Mr Chesser said: \"In line with the guidance issued by the court, our expert clinicians will provide the best possible care while life support is withdrawn.\n\n\"We are also ensuring that there is time for the family to decide whether they wish to appeal before any changes to care are made.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Every recent mass shooting in America has been followed by an increasingly familiar political drama: Democrats call for new gun-control measures, such as a ban on assault-style weapons, and point out how the US is alone among industrialised nations in its high levels of gun violence.\n\nRepublicans counter that the right to possess firearms is enshrined in the US Constitution and that new gun-control legislation would be counterproductive.\n\nThen, because of the nature of US government, little changes on a national level.\n\n\"We have to do more to stop gun violence,\" US President Joe Biden said after the April mass shooting that killed six at a school in Nashville, Tennessee. \"It's ripping our communities apart.\"\n\nBut doing more, at least on the national level, faces a number of serious obstacles.\n\nHere's a look at some of those challenges.\n\nIn the weeks after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012, a majority of US senators supported passing legislation requiring expanded background checks for gun purchases.\n\nBut because of the filibuster - a parliamentary procedure that requires at least 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate to pass most legislation - a simple majority was not enough.\n\nAfter another school tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, the House of Representatives, then controlled by the Democrats, approved an assault-weapons ban but the measure stalled in the Senate.\n\nAlthough polls indicate majorities of Americans support such an effort, many Republican senators represent states with large pro-gun communities.\n\nAnd the Republican voters whose support lawmakers need to win primary elections (the selection process within each party) are even more opposed to reform. So unless sentiment shifts among that constituency, the Republicans are unlikely to change course.\n\nWith the House of Representatives back in Republican hands, it is more probable that the chamber will try to expand gun rights, not limit them.\n\nAlthough congressional efforts at sweeping gun control were stymied in 2015, gun-control activists made substantive progress in passing new laws at the state level.\n\nIn Connecticut, for instance, there was overwhelming support for reform from the communities still reeling from the brutality of the Sandy Hook attack. Other Democratic-controlled states - like New York, Maryland and California - passed their own legislation, closing gun-show loopholes, limiting magazine sizes and prohibiting the sale of certain types of firearms.\n\nBut the states that have the political majorities to pass gun-control regulations have already done so. And in many Republican controlled states, the momentum on the gun issue is towards less regulation, not more. In April, Florida became the 26th state - all Republican - to allow its residents to carry a concealed handgun without a government licence.\n\nDemocratic politicians in those states, frustrated by the lack of progress, have cited recent school shootings as reason to act. Nashville Mayor John Cooper denounced what he called the \"cult of the gun\" in comments made shortly after his city's violence.\n\n\"The country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that again is making it too available and too convenient and too first-of-mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts,\" he said.\n\nTennessee is one of the states with broad protections for permitless gun ownership - a fact that the state's national politicians have celebrated. In 2021, Nashville's congressional representative Andy Ogles sent a Christmas photo of his family in which all but the youngest child was carrying some type of firearm.\n\n\"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honour with all that's good,\" the congressman said in a holiday message accompanying the photo online.\n\nEven if the political calculus changes in Congress or among states hostile to enacting gun-control legislation, there is a significant and growing obstacle to any attempts at reform - the courts.\n\nIn 2008, a narrow 5-to-4 majority in the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which says \"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed\", guarantees a personal right to possess a handgun.\n\nThat interpretation, although subject to furious debate, has embedded gun ownership rights in the text of the Constitution itself. And since that decision, the courts have only become more supportive.\n\nOne of President Donald Trump's lasting legacies was to appoint hundreds of conservative judges to the federal courts, including naming three new Supreme Court justices.\n\nLast year, two Trump-appointed appellate court judges in California struck down a state law prohibiting the sale of assault rifles to those under the age of 21.\n\nThat opinion, if upheld by the Supreme Court, could be of particular relevance given that the perpetrators in Uvalde and Sandy Hook fall into that category.\n\n\"America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,\" one of the judges wrote. \"Today we reaffirm that our constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice - the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.\"\n\nLast year, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that restricts who may obtain concealed handgun licences in the next month, with Justice Clarence Thomas firmly grounding a broad right to own and carry firearms in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.\n\n\"The Second Amendment guaranteed to all Americans the right to bear commonly used arms in public subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions,\" he wrote in a 6-to-3 opinion that was joined by the five other conservative justices on the court.\n\nWith gun laws already on the books being ruled unconstitutional, it appears likely that any new laws will face legal challenges as well - and may not survive long.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Distinctive marks from a cluster munition in the roof of a car next to a playground in Kharkiv (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nRussia has killed hundreds of civilians in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and widely-banned cluster munitions, according to new research by Amnesty International.\n\nAmnesty said it had found evidence of Russian forces repeatedly using 9N210/9N235 cluster bombs, as well as \"scatterable\" munitions - rockets that eject smaller mines that explode later at timed intervals.\n\nThe BBC visited five separate impact sites in residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv and saw evidence of a distinctive, symmetrical spalling effect associated with cluster munitions. We showed images from the sites to three weapons experts, who all said the impacts were consistent with the controversial weapons.\n\n\"Those impacts are from cluster munitions, it's a classic signature,\" said Mark Hizney, a senior researcher in the arms division of Human Rights Watch, a campaign group. \"And in one image you can see a remnant of a stabiliser fin from one of the submunitions,\" he said.\n\nCCTV footage passed to the BBC by a resident at one of the sites showed successive clustered detonations - \"a very strong indicator of submunitions from a cluster weapon,\" said Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a former British Army colonel and Cambridge University weapons expert.\n\nThe spalling pattern created by cluster bomb impacts, seen in a Kharkiv residential neighbourhood (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nCluster munitions are controversial because they detonate in the air and release a cluster of smaller bombs which fall indiscriminately over a wide area, potentially putting civilians at risk.\n\nThe smaller bombs also often fail to detonate on impact, posing a threat for years to come. More than 120 countries have signed a treaty prohibiting the use of the weapons - though neither Russia or Ukraine are signatories.\n\nAt the site of one apparent cluster munition strike in Kharkiv, around a housing estate and playground in the Industrialnyi neighbourhood, the spalling effect was visible around three separate impacts on three sides of a playground.\n\nIvan Litvynyenko's wife Oksana was badly wounded in the strike and later died.\n\nLitvynyenko, 40, told the BBC the couple was walking through the playground with their five-year-old daughter when the munitions hit. Their 14-year-old son was inside their apartment.\n\n\"Suddenly I saw a flash and I heard the first explosion,\" Litvynyenko said. \"I grabbed my daughter and pressed her to a tree. My wife was about five metres away and she just dropped.\"\n\nAn impact site next to a playground where Ivan Litvynyenko's wife was hit by shrapnel. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nOksana, 41, was hit by shrapnel that penetrated her back, chest and abdomen, puncturing her lungs and damaging her spine.\n\nShe was in intensive care for two months, until Sunday, when she died from complications from her injuries and diabetes, Litvynyenko said. \"Doctors operated on her several times but her body could not survive it,\" he said, speaking just hours after her death.\n\nDescribing the strike, Litvynyenko said he saw a \"series of explosions, lots of bombs one after another\". Two other residents who were inside their apartments at the time of the strike told the BBC they heard successive detonations when the attack happened. \"You could hear explosions over several minutes,\" said Danya Volynets, 26. \"When we came outside I could see the burning cars. It looked like everything was on fire.\"\n\nTetiana Ahayeva, a 53-year-old nurse, was standing in front of her building when the munitions hit. \"There was a sudden sound of firecrackers everywhere, lots of them, all over,\" she told Amnesty. \"We dropped to the ground and tried to find cover. Our neighbour's son, a 16-year-old boy called Artem Shevchenko, was killed on the spot. He had a hole 1cm wide in his chest. His father had a shattered hip and a shrapnel wound in his leg.\"\n\nOksana Litvynyenko with her daughter. Oksana was badly wounded in April and died on Sunday. (Family handout)\n\nDoctors at a central Kharkiv hospital said that among the victims brought in after the playground strike they saw penetrating wounds to the abdomen, chest and back, and they collected metal fragments which matched the types of pellets found in 9N210/9N235 cluster munitions. According to Amnesty, the strike on the Industrialnyi neighbourhood killed at least nine civilians and wounded 35, detonating over an area of 700 square metres.\n\nAt another residential building, in Kharkiv's Haribaldi Street area, a munition landed in the entranceway to the building, killing two elderly women and gravely wounding another. The tell-tale spalling effect could be seen around the doorway and on the path nearby.\n\nTetiana Bielova and Olena Sorokina had been sitting on a bench outside when a munition detonated nearby. They got up to enter the building but a second munition landed right in the entranceway, killing Bielova and another woman called Tetiana who was with them. Sorokina lost both her legs in the blast.\n\n\"There was a series of explosions one after another,\" said resident Nadia Kravchuk, 61, who was in the building at the time. \"I came out and saw a woman lying here face down and another other woman lying here, and next to them was Lena, who lost both her legs. She was crying out, 'I have lost my leg.'\"\n\nNadia Kravchuk looks down at damage from a munition that killed two of her neighbours (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nIn total, over two weeks' field research, Amnesty investigated 41 strikes in Kharkiv in which at least 62 civilians were killed and 196 wounded, the charity said. They found evidence of cluster munitions and unguided rockets killing people who were shopping, queuing for food aid, or simply walking down the street.\n\n\"These weapons should never be used,\" Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser, told the BBC. \"They cannot be pinpointed. They are area weapons. And they have a devastating effect and cause a lot of civilian death and injury.\"\n\nUse of the weapons was \"tantamount to deliberately targeting civilians,\" Rovera said. \"Russia cannot claim it does not know the effect of these types of weapons,\" she said. \"And the decision to use them shows absolute disregard for civilian life.\"\n\nRussia has previously denied using cluster munitions in Ukraine and insisted that Russian forces have only struck military targets.", "The car was found at the bottom of the cliff near Pendeen Lighthouse\n\nA man has been found dead inside a car that had gone over a cliff in Cornwall, police said.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said a body was recovered after the vehicle was found at the bottom of Pendeen cliff.\n\nOfficers said the family of Richard Mockford, 60, had been informed. He was reported missing from the Penzance area on Friday and searches were under way.\n\nPolice said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the coroner would be informed.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Police were called just before 2pm on Sunday, June 12 with reports of a vehicle being located at the bottom of Pendeen cliff in the area of Pendeen Lighthouse.\n\n\"Units attended including support from the coastguard and the ambulance service. The body of a man was found within the vehicle.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wilson revealed her new relationship on Friday, describing her partner as her \"Disney princess\"\n\nAn Australian newspaper has denied outing actress Rebel Wilson amid a storm of criticism over its reporting of her new relationship with a woman.\n\nOn Friday, Wilson said she had found her \"Disney princess\" as she shared a selfie with her partner on Instagram.\n\nBut on Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald revealed it had known about the relationship before it was public and had given Wilson two days to comment.\n\nThe Herald denied pressuring Wilson, saying it had \"simply asked questions\".\n\nBut the paper has faced criticism on social media, with LGBTQ+ campaigners saying it was unacceptable to put pressure on people to come out.\n\nIn response to a Twitter post saying it wasn't Wilson's choice to come out, the 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect among others, said it was a \"very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWilson's post about her relationship with leisurewear designer Ramona Agruma prompted a wave of congratulations from fans and famous friends - along with more than 1.6 million likes.\n\nBut a day later Andrew Hornery, a columnist at the Herald, revealed the paper had known about the relationship and contacted Wilson's representatives on Thursday morning - \"with an abundance of caution and respect\" - to request a comment.\n\nWriting in the Private Sydney column, Hornery said: \"In a perfect world, 'outing' same-sex celebrity relationships should be a redundant concept in 2022. Love is love, right?\n\n\"As Rebel Wilson knows, we do not live in a perfect world.\n\n\"So, it was with an abundance of caution and respect that this media outlet emailed Rebel Wilson's representatives on Thursday morning, giving her two days to comment on her new relationship with LA leisure wear designer Ramona Agruma, before publishing a single word.\"\n\nHornery went on to criticise Wilson, saying she instead \"opted to gazump the story\", adding that \"her choice to ignore our discreet, genuine and honest queries was, in our view, underwhelming\".\n\nBBC reporter Megha Mohan was among those on social media to criticise the paper's journalistic methods and the tone of the piece, saying: \"Still reeling from the fact that a publication gave someone a deadline to out them in 2022. Maybe I'm incredibly naive but this is what I imagined 90s gutter press was like and most journalists had huge standards change since then.\"\n\nA Stonewall spokesperson said: \"Coming out is a deeply personal decision. Whether, when and how to come out should be decided by the individual, entirely on their terms.\n\n\"It is simply not OK to 'out' LGBTQ+ people or put pressure on us to come out. Media outlets should take care not to sensationalise LGBTQ+ lives and relationships.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Megha Mohan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the Herald's editor, Bevan Shields, denied the paper had outed Wilson, saying it had made no decision about what it would have published.\n\nHe wrote: \"Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response.\n\n\"I had made no decision about whether or what to publish, and the Herald's decision about what to do would have been informed by any response Wilson supplied.\"\n\nShields added that the Private Sydney was a column \"in which the writer's interaction with his subjects is often part of the story\", adding it was not a \"standard news story\".\n\nLast month, Wilson told People magazine she had been set up with a new partner \"through a friend\" but refused to reveal their identity.\n\nShe said: \"We spoke on the phone for weeks before meeting. And that was a really good way to get to know each other.\n\n\"It was a bit old-school in that sense - very romantic.\"\n\nWilson was previously in a relationship with businessman Jacob Busch.\n\nThey made their red carpet debut as a couple in September 2020 at a gala in Monaco but appeared to confirm their split the following February.\n\nEarlier this year, Wilson followed in the footsteps of Graham Norton, Dame Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry by hosting the Bafta film awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n• None Rebel Wilson: I know what it’s like to be invisible", "A British national has been killed in Ukraine and a second is missing, the UK Foreign Office has said.\n\nSources in Ukraine told the BBC the dead man is Scott Sibley, who is understood to have been fighting for Ukrainian forces.\n\nHe is the first British national confirmed to have been killed in the conflict and has been described as a \"friend like no other\".\n\nThe Foreign Office has not released the identity of either person.\n\nBut a spokesman said it was supporting both their families.\n\nDetails of Mr Sibley's death and how or when the second person went missing have not been given.\n\nDiplomatic sources have said it was most likely the two individuals were foreign volunteers serving with Ukrainian armed forces in either Mariupol or elsewhere in Donbas.\n\nTributes have been paid online to Mr Sibley, who is understood to be a former member of British armed forces, including on Facebook and on fundraising pages set up in his memory.\n\nA post on the Logistics Support Squadron Facebook page described him as a \"former serving soldier\" of the squadron and said he had \"showed Commando spirit until the end\".\n\nThe founder of a fundraising page described Mr Sibley, also known as Sibs, as a \"friend like no other\" and \"the bravest person I've had the pleasure to have known\".\n\n\"His life may have been cut short but he lived to the full and did things the Sibs way, right until the end,\" he wrote.\n\nThe Foreign Office spokesman said it was \"urgently seeking further information\" on the missing British national.\n\nThree former members of UK special forces were reportedly killed in March during a Russian missile attack on a military training centre near the border with Poland - but this was never confirmed.\n\nThe government urged British nationals to leave Ukraine in February and has told people not to travel to the country since Russia invaded.\n\nIn the early days of the war Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she supported individuals from the UK who might want to go to Ukraine to fight but the government has since advised against this.\n\nHundreds of former British soldiers have said they wanted to go to Ukraine to fight or help with humanitarian efforts, while others without a military background have travelled to offer support to the Ukrainians.\n\nThe authorities in Ukraine have estimated that at least 20,000 people have come from overseas to join the fight against Russia, although not all of those will be British.\n\nTwo British men who were fighting with Ukrainian forces have already been captured by Russian troops.\n\nAiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who had both lived in Ukraine since 2018, were taken captive while defending the south-eastern city of Mariupol earlier this month.", "Sir Mick, seen here performing in 2017, thanked fans for their patience\n\nSir Mick Jagger has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting The Rolling Stones to cancel a performance in Amsterdam.\n\nThe band said the show at the Johan Cruijff Arena would be rescheduled and that they were \"deeply sorry\".\n\nSir Mick, 78, added in a message to fans: \"Thank you for your patience and understanding.\"\n\nThe band are currently on their Sixty tour, where they had planned to play 14 shows in 10 European countries.\n\nTickets for the original show will be honoured for the new date once the show is rescheduled.\n\nThe Stones had already played three of their tour dates, including one at Anfield in Liverpool.\n\nA statement on behalf of the band said: \"The Rolling Stones have been forced to call off tonight's concert in Amsterdam at the Johan Cruijff Arena, following Mick Jagger testing positive after experiencing symptoms of Covid upon arrival at the stadium.\n\n\"The Rolling Stones are deeply sorry for tonight's postponement, but the safety of the audience, fellow musicians and the touring crew has to take priority\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, Sir Mick, added: \"I'm so sorry that we've had to postpone the Amsterdam show with such short notice tonight.\n\n\"I have unfortunately just tested positive for Covid. We aim to reschedule the date ASAP and get back as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Mick.\"\n\nA further two dates are planned in the UK as part of BST Hyde Park, a music festival. The Stones are due to play on 25 June and 3 July.\n\nTwo more performances, in Switzerland and Italy, are also planned within the next ten days.\n\nThere has been no announcement yet about whether these shows will go ahead as planned.", "The UK's competition watchdog has been asked to conduct an urgent review into whether a 5p fuel duty cut is being passed on quickly enough to drivers.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has urged the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to examine the fuel market and whether there are local variations in petrol and diesel prices.\n\nThe cost of filling an average family car has now hit a record £100.\n\nIt comes as the CBI warned households will go into recession later this year.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association, which represents independent fuel retailers, said it \"welcomed transparency regarding fuel pricing\" and would co-operate with the CMA's investigation.\n\nPump prices have been rising since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February led to oil supply fears. Last week, the RAC motoring organisation said the cost of filling a 55-litre tank reached £100.27 for petrol and £103.43 for diesel.\n\nIn a letter to the CMA, Mr Kwarteng said that despite introducing a fuel duty cut \"there remains widespread concern about the pace of the increase in prices at the forecourt and, that prices may not fall as much or as fast as they rise\".\n\nAs well as looking at whether the duty cut is being passed on to consumers, Mr Kwarteng has also asked the CMA to examine \"whether the retail fuel market has adversely affected consumer interests\".\n\nThis will include investigating whether there are price variations for petrol and diesel at local forecourts.\n\n\"Drivers should be getting a fair deal for fuel across the UK,\" said Mr Kwarteng. \"Healthy competition between forecourts is key to achieving this, with competition working to keep pressure on prices.\"\n\nHe has asked for the CMA to report back to him by 7 July.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association says its members passed on the 5p fuel duty cut after it was announced in March, but wholesale fuel prices have continued to rise since then. It has left retailers \"operating on extremely tight margins\", it says.\n\nBoss Gordon Balmer said the association had requested several meetings with Mr Kwarteng \"to explain how the fuel market works\" but had not heard back.\n\n\"Our members have had to endure several [unfair] headlines in the press,\" he added. \"Therefore, the news that the minister has contacted the CMA to conduct an urgent review of the fuel market is timely.\"\n\nJack Cousens, head of roads policy at the AA, said while the group welcomed the review, \"more urgent action is needed\".\n\n\"To relieve pressure at the pumps we need an immediate 10p cut to fuel duty. That would help restore some balance ahead of the initial CMA findings due in early July.\"\n\nEdmund King OBE, president of the AA, maintains that there is space for a further fuel duty cut.\n\n\"The government is still making 8.74p more in VAT than they were this time last year,\" he told the BBC's Today programme, \"so there is money there for another possible duty cut.\"\n\nHe added that retailers should publish fuel wholesale prices alongside pump prices. \"That does seem to increase competition locally in places where it's currently done, like Austria and Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr King said price differences of up to 8p a litre were found between local garages and supermarkets.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC: \"Once we get the review of that then it will be right to look at what more, if we need to, we can do to help people to make sure it's actually getting to where we want to see that support.\"\n\nLabour said it had been calling for a CMA investigation into pump prices for some time.\n\nSetting out measures to tackle the rising cost of living, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told Times Radio: \"We know that the market for petrol and diesel is not working properly, and even when the government reduced duty back in March it was not passed onto consumers.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats urged the government to cut fuel duty in rural areas to help families bearing the brunt of record petrol prices.\n\nAnalysis of official figures by the party suggests households in rural areas pay £114 a week on transport costs, almost £40 more than those in urban areas.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit a 40-year high of 9% in April, with higher energy bills and fuel prices contributing to the increase.\n\nThe head of the UK's largest business group warned on Sunday that households will go into recession later this year as people cut spending to combat rising living costs.\n\nTony Danker, director-general of the CBI, forecast that spending on the High Street and on discretionary items will \"go negative\" and that Britons were already \"trading down\".\n\n\"It is a well-known behaviour when there's high inflation,\" Mr Danker told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme. \"They're not buying as many discretionary goods or they're buying the cheaper option in the supermarkets.\"\n\nThe CBI has significantly downgraded its growth outlook for the UK this year from 5.1% to 3.7%, blaming inflation as the \"primary source\" of the slowdown. It predicts growth of just 1% in 2023 compared with a previous forecast of 3%.\n\nMr Danker said: \"The only real thing stopping us from having a full-blown recession this year is that at the moment business investment levels are quite high.\"\n\nA recession is defined as the economy getting smaller for two consecutive quarters.\n\nHe said: \"The risk is if business investment starts to fall then the whole country could go into recession sooner than some are predicting, ie next year so I think that's why at the moment there's not a lot you can do about household spending when inflation is this high but you do need to stabilise confidence among firms so they don't stop spending too.\"", "Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has signed a pledge vowing to make the House of Commons \"menopause friendly\" for staff.\n\nThe pledge commits employers to supporting employees affected by the menopause, for example by providing access to fans or flexible working.\n\nSir Lindsay said women ran his office and he didn't want to see them leave because of the menopause.\n\nThe Commons Speaker said it should not be a \"taboo subject\" that was \"swept under the carpet\".\n\nThe Menopause Workplace Pledge, launched by the Wellbeing of Women charity, has been signed by more than 600 organisations including the civil service, Tesco's and John Lewis.\n\nIt obligates employers to recognise that women going through the menopause may need support and to talk openly and respectfully about the subject.\n\nThe menopause can lead to symptoms such as hot flushes, sleeplessness, changes to mood as well as conditions like osteoporosis.\n\nSir Lindsay has said he hopes making small adjustments could make life easier for those working in Parliament. This could include holding menopause awareness events and allowing staff to request breathable uniforms.\n\nSpeaking at an event in Parliament, the Speaker joked that when asked to sign the pledge by Carolyn Harris he \"had no choice\", describing the Labour MP as \"a force to be reckoned with\".\n\nCarolyn Harris said the narrative around the menopause was \"changing\"\n\nMs Harris - who has been a long-term campaigner on the subject - said she was \"choked and honoured\" to see the pledge signed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said she had been \"in denial\" when she first entered the menopause.\n\n\"I just worked, I never lived, I never went out, I never went on holiday, I just worked.\n\n\"Once I got treatment I started enjoying life again, I don't want anyone else to miss out on anything - life is for living.\"\n\nShe said menopausal women working in Parliament would now know there was \"a system in place to look after them... it is awesome\".\n\nBroadcaster Mariella Frostrup said having the pledge signed in Parliament would send out a message that menopause was \"no longer a toxic, shameful secret\".\n\nBroadcaster Mariella Frostrup has called for HRT to be made free in England\n\nShe told an audience at the signing that when she turned 50 she was \"viewed as over the hill - I might as well have had a P45 tattooed to my forehead\".\n\n\"For far too long women have been told to grin and bear it,\" she said but expressed the hope that more women might now feel emboldened to ask their employers for extra support when needed.\n\nShe said the pledge would let women know that \"their company has their back\".\n\nThe signing came at the end of a day of campaigning in Parliament, where activists including Ms Frostrup and TV presenter Penny Lancaster called on the government to make menopause treatment HRT free in England, as it is in Scotland and Wales.\n\nArguing in favour of scrapping the costs, Ms Frostrup said \"no woman should be priced out of her sanity\".\n\nHealth minister Maria Caulfield has said she has a \"laser focus\" on improving the experience of women going through the menopause and would be implementing plans to make HRT cheaper next year.", "A man walks through the yard of a damaged house after shelling in which two people were killed in Lysychansk\n\nAll bridges to the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk have now been destroyed, the local governor says.\n\nWith the city effectively cut off, Serhiy Haidai says delivering supplies and evacuating civilians are now impossible.\n\nFierce fighting is taking place in the eastern city where Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery had driven its forces out of the centre.\n\nFor weeks capturing Severodonetsk has been a top military goal for Russia.\n\nTaking Severodonetsk and the nearby city of Lysychansk would give Moscow control of the entire Luhansk region, much of which is already controlled by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nAll three bridges into Severodonetsk were destroyed, Mr Haidai posted on Telegram. Those residents remaining in the city were being forced to survive in \"extremely difficult conditions\", he added.\n\nFormer British soldier Jordan Gatley is among those to have been killed while fighting to defend the city, his family confirmed on Sunday.\n\nUkraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky described the human cost of the battle for the city as \"terrifying\". Ukrainian troops, he said, had been fighting Russian forces for \"literally every metre\".\n\nReports suggest that about 70% of the city is now under Russian control.\n\nUkrainian troops remaining in the city must \"surrender or die\", a military representative of the pro-Russian self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said.\n\nSpeaking to media in Donetsk, Eduard Basurin said, \"Ukrainian divisions that are there [in Severodonetsk] are there forever.\"\n\nA top Russian official said Moscow's objective was to protect the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\n\"In general, the protection of the republics is the main goal of the special military operation,\" Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.\n\nWhen President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on 24 February he claimed Russia's goal was to \"demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine\". However, it soon became clear Russia was intent on seizing Ukrainian territory and it is now focused on controlling the industrial east.\n\nAlso on Monday, Ukrainian officials said weapons being supplied by the West were not arriving as quickly as they should.\n\nA senior presidential adviser to President Zelensky said that to end the war Ukraine's military needed \"heavy weapons parity\", posting a list of military hardware he said Kyiv required.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Михайло Подоляк This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC World Service's Newshour, an adviser to the Ukrainian defence minister said troops defending Severodonetsk would have been more effective if heavy weapons had been supplied earlier.\n\nTroops are defending the city \"with what we can\" but would be \"much more efficient at repelling the enemy and liberating Ukrainian land had we received more heavy weaponry by now\", Yury Sak said.\n\nHe added that Russia's advantage was overwhelming - firing an average of 50,000 rounds a day and creating a \"barrage of mortar shells, air bombardment, missile strikes\" over Ukraine.\n\nIn recent weeks Western countries have committed to sending longer-range weapons to Kyiv, including the UK which for the first time said it would be sending multiple-launch rocket systems to help Ukraine defend itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "Sebastian Kalinowski, 15, came from Poland to stay with his mother in October 2020\n\nA mother and her partner tortured her teenage son in a weeks-long campaign of abuse that culminated in his death, a court has heard.\n\nSebastian Kalinowski, 15, endured a series of escalating \"punishments\" behind closed doors for alleged bad behaviour, a jury was told.\n\nHe died at his home in Huddersfield last August as a result of untreated rib fractures, Leeds Crown Court heard.\n\nProsecutor Jason Pitter QC told jurors Sebastian came to the UK from Poland in October 2020, and Ms Kalinowska initially appeared thrilled to be united with her son.\n\nBut a friend's description of the \"smitten\" mother was \"to change rapidly\", he said.\n\nHe told the court that, by the end of the same year, both defendants had come to see the boy as a \"hindrance\" and began to mete out \"cruel\" disciplinary measures for minor wrongs.\n\nThese \"became increasingly more severe and violent over time\", he said, and Sebastian was \"kept deliberately out of the way of others, either as part of the system of punishment or to hide the abuse\".\n\n\"It would appear that the punishments were precipitated by things such as Sebastian merely dropping food on his bedroom floor, or even just having gone to the toilet during the night.\n\n\"You may conclude that these were attempts to justify what they would present as a need for Sebastian's 'punishments',\" he told jurors.\n\nEmergency services were called the to family's home on 13 August 2021\n\nIn his opening address to the court, Mr Pitter gave graphic descriptions of the treatment inflicted upon the boy, much of which was recorded on CCTV cameras installed by the couple.\n\nThese were partly designed to \"monitor and exert control over Sebastian remotely\", he said, but the footage, coupled with evidence from the couple's phones, amounted to a \"catalogue of abuse\".\n\nThe footage showed Sebastian being beaten with a bed slat, whipped with an extension cable and stabbed with a needle on separate occasions, the prosecutor said.\n\nHe said Mr Latoszewski had been the primary attacker, but Sebastian's mother had been involved at various times.\n\nOn 13 August - the day of Sebastian's death - emergency services were called to the defendants' home \"after Sebastian had been unconscious for some two and a half hours\", Mr Pitter said.\n\nMr Latoszewski said he had found the boy in the bath with his head submerged, suggesting he had drowned, the court heard.\n\nHe made \"limited efforts\" to perform CPR, the court heard, but prior to rescuers' arrival, he was seen on camera apparently attempting to pour water into Sebastian's mouth before then blowing into it.\n\n\"Was that the beginnings of an attempt to give the impression that Sebastian had drowned by trying to force water into his airways?\" Mr Pitter asked jurors.\n\nThe couple both deny murder and alternative counts of manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child, as well as a charge of neglect.\n\nMr Pitter said both defendants would argue their treatment of Sebastian was \"reasonable chastisement\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mansoor Adayfi on the balcony of his Belgrade apartment. \"Guantanamo follows you everywhere you go,\" he said. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nMansoor Adayfi knew next to nothing about Serbia when a delegation from its government came to visit him in 2016, in his 14th year in the prison at Guantanamo Bay.\n\nThe only thing Adayfi did know was that Serbian forces had massacred Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. All of the prisoners set for release from Guantanamo that year knew this part of the history, Adayfi said, and no-one wanted to go to Serbia.\n\nBy that point, Adayfi had been in Guantanamo all his adult life - picked up in Afghanistan aged 19 and held without charge until he was 32. The previous year, the US had officially downgraded its assessment of him to acknowledge that it was unclear whether he had ever been connected to al-Qaeda, and he had been cleared for release under a complex system of classified deals to resettle detainees abroad.\n\nAdayfi wanted to go to Qatar, where he had family, or to Oman, which had gained a reputation at Guantanamo for treating former detainees well. But when the time came for his delegation meeting in the designated room in Camp Six, Adayfi found a Serbian team waiting for him. He listened to them, he said, then gave them a polite no.\n\n\"I told them thank you very much, but I know the history.\"\n\nAccording to Adayfi, the head of the delegation assured him that Muslims were welcome in Serbia. The government was going to treat him like a citizen, they said - help him finish his education, give him financial assistance, and arrange for a passport and ID. They were going to help him start over.\n\nAfter the meeting, Adayfi told the US officials at Guantanamo that he did not want to go. But they were frank about the extent of his influence on the process, he said.\n\n\"A state department envoy came to see me after the delegation meeting and she said, 'Mansoor, you have no choice. You are going to Serbia.'\"\n\nDetainees in orange jumpsuits at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, in January 2002.\n\nAdayfi is 39, charismatic and quick to smile, with a childlike quality he attributes to being locked away at the moment he was becoming an adult. His long journey to Belgrade began in Yemen, where he grew up in a rural village without running water or electricity. As a teenager he moved to the capital Sanaa to finish school and study computer science. According to his account, he travelled to Afghanistan in 2001 for an assignment as a research assistant, arranged by an educational institute in Sanaa.\n\nFour months after Adayfi arrived, the US invaded Afghanistan and began hunting for members of al-Qaeda. Leaflets were dropped from planes promising large cash rewards for turning people in. Adayfi says the car he was travelling in in northern Afghanistan was ambushed by militants, just days before he was due to return to Yemen, and he was taken captive and handed to the US.\n\nAdayfi's first stop was an American black site, where he says he was stripped naked, beaten, interrogated and accused of being an Egyptian al-Qaeda commander. From there he was flown, hooded and shackled, to Guantanamo Bay.\n\nHis 14 years in the notorious prison are recounted in Don't Forget Us Here, a memoir published late last year. It chronicles torture, psychological abuse, and the death of his brother and sister while he was incarcerated. He taught himself English from scratch in the camp, as well as some computer science and business theory. But the story ends shortly after his release, as he lands in Belgrade in the dark one night in July 2016 and is taken by the secret service to a small apartment in the city centre, where he later found surveillance cameras, he said. Adayfi stayed awake that first night, wondering what lay ahead of him.\n\n\"I was exhausted but I couldn't sleep, hungry but I couldn't eat,\" he said, sitting in his current Belgrade apartment late one night in February. \"There was loneliness in Guantanamo, but this was a new kind,\" he said.\n\nWhat came next is what Adayfi calls \"Guantanamo 2.0\" - an isolated and restricted existence in Serbia, which he is not allowed to leave and where he says he is followed by police who warn off anyone he tries to befriend.\n\nHalf a dozen former Guantanamo detainees across different countries - all released without charge - described similar experiences: lives in limbo; limited by a lack of documents, police interference, and travel restrictions that confine them to a country or even a single city, making it hard to find work, visit family or form relationships.\n\n\"Welcome to our life,\" Adayfi said. \"This is life after Guantanamo.\"\n\nMansoor Adayfi near his apartment in Belgrade, where he was resettled from Guantanamo in 2016. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nThe resettlement deals spread the former detainees across the globe - to Serbia, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Albania, Kazakhstan, Qatar and elsewhere. Some had the relative good fortune of being repatriated to their home nations, including the UK, others were sent somewhere alien.\n\nAdayfi was barred from returning to Yemen, where his family lives, because the US congress decided it was a security risk to return detainees to what it deemed unstable countries. Yemen has also refused to grant Adayfi a passport, and so has Serbia, so he is effectively stateless, marooned in Belgrade.\n\nThe deal that took him there, like a lot of things about Guantanamo, remains shrouded in secrecy. \"I don't know anything officially, because the United States does not tell the lawyers anything,\" said Adayfi's lawyer, Beth Jacob, a New Yorker who has now represented nine Guantanamo detainees pro-bono. \"Most of the information I have about my clients I cannot share with them because it is classified as secret, and what I have is heavily redacted - five-page documents with a few words floating in a sea of blackness.\"\n\nThe US state department told the BBC that it obtained assurances from all third countries that the former detainees would be treated humanely, as well as \"security assurances designed to mitigate the threat a former detainee may pose after transfer\" and a \"framework to facilitate a detainee's successful reintegration into society\". The state department had on occasion assisted with the costs associated with supporting former detainees, a spokesperson said - though the amounts involved and the duration of the assistance remain unclear. Serbia's government did not respond to the BBC's questions.\n\nTo Adayfi, the resettlement deal feels like an invisible net. He is not sure where it begins and ends. He cannot leave Serbia because he has no passport, and he cannot leave Belgrade without applying for permission in advance. He is followed by police, he says, and has found listening software installed on his government-issued phone. He is not allowed to drive, so he rarely attends Friday prayers anymore because it involves a long round trip by bus to the nearest mosque. He has a residence permit, and he has received financial assistance for rent and further education, but it is difficult to find work because he cannot explain away the 15 years he spent in Guantanamo, so he struggles to make ends meet. He lives in an apartment found for him by the government in a suburb of the city where there are few other Muslims and no places to buy halal meat. He mostly eats at home alone, and to break his loneliness he takes the bus to a nearby shopping mall and wanders around.\n\nWhen he passes young families there, Adayfi often stares for too long. \"I cannot help myself,\" he said, one day, on a circuit of the mall. \"I feel like a shell, empty within.\"\n\nA mailbox at Adayfi's apartment, and Guantanamo books on his bookshelf. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nShortly after he arrived in Belgrade in 2016, Adayfi gave his first interview to US media and told them he was unhappy about his new life. In response, a widely-read Serbian tabloid published a full-page story referring to him as an \"al-Qaeda jihadist\" and \"convicted terrorist\" who was ungrateful to his host nation.\n\nThose he has tried to befriend have been warned off by police, he says. He has screenshots of WhatsApp conversations in which people described these interactions to him - from his first solitary visit to a cafe, a few weeks after he arrived, when police apparently questioned a group of Libyans at an adjacent table, to his most recent interaction, last year, when he had coffee with a young Muslim man he met at the mosque.\n\n\"They stopped him and asked him, 'Do you know Mansoor from al-Qaeda?'\", Adayfi said. \"In the end I told him to delete my number. I don't want anyone to get hurt.\"\n\nAfter an interview with PBS Frontline in 2018, Adayfi was taken in by police and beaten, he said. Two friends from his language course were also arrested. A woman from a phone repair course he took was confronted by officers after she spoke to him in the library, he said. He still has messages she sent him afterwards, asking why plainclothes police were warning her off.\n\nAnd so Adayfi spends most of his time alone in his apartment. He rarely engages with his neighbours, and he has been going to the mall less, he said, since he was seen praying in an outdoor area last year and escorted off the premises by police.\n\n\"After a while you give up, you withdraw,\" Adayfi said. \"But it means you are isolated. I mostly live inside my head now.\"\n\nAdayfi's closest substitute for friends in Belgrade is an international network of former Guantanamo detainees he has helped to connect and which he calls \"the brothers\", who communicate through various WhatsApp groups or over the phone. The content of the groups is largely apolitical, to avoid putting anyone at risk in their host countries. \"We sing songs, tell jokes, share photos, talk to each other about our health. We share memories of Guantanamo - the clothes, the food,\" Adayfi said. \"It helps keep us going.\"\n\nMansoor Adayfi shows a drawing from his business plan for a milk and honey farm in Yemen, completed in Guantanamo. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nAmong the former detainees Adayfi talks to most is Sabry al-Qurashi, a fellow Yemeni who spent nearly 13 years at Guantanamo before he was forcibly resettled to Semey, a small city on a former nuclear test site in far-eastern Kazakhstan which he is not allowed to leave.\n\nAl-Qurashi was transferred to Kazakhstan in 2014 with four other former detainees, including Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi - who died of kidney failure four months after arriving - and Lotfi Bin Ali, who couldn't get the medical care he needed in Semey for a heart condition, and died of heart disease last year after being deported to Mauritania.\n\nWith Bin Ali gone, al-Qurashi remains alone in Semey, where he \"lives in a state worse than jail\", he said. He has written letters to the Kazakh president and prime minister, US embassy and ICRC asking to be set free or sent back to Guantanamo, but received no replies. The Kazakh government did not respond to the BBC's questions.\n\n\"Guantanamo was better than here, because at least there I had hope I would one day be in a better place,\" al-Qurashi said.\n\n\"When the government delegation came from Kazakhstan, they told me I would be treated like a citizen of Kazakhstan. But it was a lie. I have no status, no ID, no family, and no friends. I am stuck here and there is no end.\"\n\nAl-Qurashi is often stopped by the police when he leaves his apartment, he said, and asked to produce ID he does not have. Sometimes he is taken to the police station and forced to wait seven or eight hours until someone from the ICRC comes to get him. He needs specialist medical care for damaged nerves in his face after he was punched by a plainclothes policeman for refusing to remove his jacket one day, he said, but like his old friend Lotfi Bin Ali, he has been refused permission to travel to the capital to get it.\n\n\"I went to the police station to ask what happened to the guy who hit me, and they said, 'Shut your mouth, you are nothing here, go home.'\"\n\nSelections from two paintings by Sabry al-Qarashi, who began painting in Guantanamo. (Sabry al-Qarash)\n\nThe incident summed up his existence in Semey, al-Qurashi said - a life lived totally at the mercy of the local authorities, who regard him as a convicted terrorist. \"The first pain is the punch,\" he said. \"The second pain is that you have no access to justice. You have no rights.\"\n\nAl-Qurashi was never charged by the US, which alleged that he was a member of al-Qaeda who attended a training camp in Afghanistan. He was arrested by Pakistani security forces at an alleged al-Qaeda safehouse in Karachi, but he denies he was ever a member of the group.\n\nDuring his detention in Guantanamo, al-Qurashi began painting, producing a large volume of work which was subsequently confiscated. He has tried to maintain the practice in Semey. It is \"the only thing that keeps me sane,\" he said. He is not allowed to order anything online, so his access to paint and canvases is limited. He was asked to contribute work to an exhibition of art by former detainees, but he has no Kazakh ID card and is unable as a result to get the work authenticated as his own and sent.\n\n\"I asked the ICRC, should I burn my paintings?\" al-Qurashi said. \"They told me their only job was to make sure I had a roof and food, and that was it.\"\n\nSeven years ago, al-Qurashi was married, by family arrangement, to a woman in Yemen, whom he has never met because he is not allowed to leave Semey and she cannot travel to Kazakhstan to live with him. He has pleaded with various Kazakh authorities for permission to leave but his situation remains unchanged. \"I have been waiting for seven years for my life to begin,\" he said.\n\nIn total, 779 men passed through the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. Twelve have been charged with a crime. Only two have ever been convicted. According to a 2006 analysis of US defence department data by Seton Hall University law school, just 5% of the 517 detainees left in the prison that year had been actually detained by US forces. Eighty-six per cent had been detained either by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance militant coalition in Afghanistan, and \"handed over to the United States at a time in which the United States offered large bounties for capture of suspected enemies\". This was Adayfi's fate, he says - caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. \"I was a package deal,\" he said, \"sold to the US and then sold to Serbia\".\n\nIn a 2007 Guantanamo administrative review board, seven years into his detention, Adayfi stated that he was a \"jihadist\" and a \"son\" of Osama Bin Laden, and it was an \"honour to be an enemy of the United States\". He claims now that the outburst was a protest. The administrative review boards were pseudo legal hearings at which the detainees had no lawyers present.\n\n\"We didn't understand the review board, we thought it was another interrogation,\" he said. \"For us, everything was an interrogation. So I thought, today I am going to beat them, I'm going to tell them, I am your enemy.\"\n\nAdayfi had emerged by that point as an informal leader of fellow detainees - organising hunger strikes and other protests. He earned himself a nickname among the guards, \"smiley troublemaker\". He also devoted himself to education, teaching himself fluent English from scratch, and to writing. He wrote his memoir of Guantanamo twice. The first version, written on contraband pieces of paper, was confiscated and destroyed. When he realised that legal letters were privileged, he sat for hours in the camp classroom, his feet shackled to the floor, and wrote letters, which later became the basis of his book.\n\nA title page listing contents for Adayfi's book, approved to be passed out of Guantanamo to his lawyer. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nAdayfi is now working on a new book charting the struggles of his post-detention life in Serbia. One wall of his Belgrade apartment is filled with colourful sticky notes describing events that will make up its contents. The notes record interrogations by police, thwarted attempts to make friends and find a wife, and efforts to draw President Biden's attention to his plight. Every day he communicates with other former detainees - more than 100 in total - across various online and WhatsApp chat groups. Many have faced the same sorts of restrictions as Adayfi.\n\n\"The United States has created a uniquely terrible situation for these men,\" said Daphne Eviatar, director of security and human rights at Amnesty USA. \"Many of them were tortured and have received no acknowledgement, no compensation, no real rehabilitation,\" she said. \"To then transfer them into another situation where they are restricted, can't travel, can't earn a livelihood, can't move on - it's unconscionable.\"\n\nTo Adayfi, the only path to a new life after Guantanamo is to find a wife and have a family of his own. It is what he thinks about at night when he has run out of distractions. But efforts to meet someone in Serbia have not been a success. His faith dictates that he must marry a Muslim woman and meet her in a traditional way, through her family, but his attempts to integrate into the Muslim community in Belgrade have failed, because of a pervasive fear in the community, he says, of being associated with terrorism.\n\nAdayfi did find a match in 2019, with a woman abroad, he said. She was from a good family, and they communicated for a year while he appealed to Serbian authorities for permission to travel to join her. She was his first love, he said. In the end he begged the authorities to allow him to go to her, he said, but they refused. Eventually, her family ran out of patience and she married another man.\n\n\"The worst pain I ever felt was not the black site, it was not the 15 years in Guantanamo, it was when I lost someone I loved,\" Adayfi said.\n\n\"At Guantanamo they torture you but they cannot touch your soul. Love is a pain that touches your soul, and you suffer a lot.\"\n\nSticky notes on one wall of Adayfi's apartment chart the contents of his new book, on his life in Belgrade. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nIn July 2004, more than two years after the first prisoners arrived at Guantanamo, the Pentagon launched its first formal review of the status of the detainees and cleared 38 men for release with \"NEC\", or \"non-enemy combatant\" status. The status effectively acknowledged that the men were not associated with al-Qaeda or the Taliban and had not undertaken hostile actions against the US.\n\nAmong the 38 were five Uyghurs picked up in Afghanistan that the US said it suspected were members of the East Turkestan Independence Movement - a small militant group dedicated to independence for the Chinese region also known as Xinjiang. It was unsafe to send the men back to their home nation of China, where Uyghurs are persecuted by the state, so the US struck a deal with Albania to take them. They were finally released in 2006 and landed late at night in the Albanian capital Tirana. Their initial joy at being free subsided when they were taken straight to a squalid refugee camp on the outskirts of the city, where they would spend more than a year.\n\n\"It was like another world,\" said Abu Bakker Qassim, a 52-year-old Uyghur now living a quiet life with his family in a poor and run down suburb outside Tirana. \"Five years we were in Guantanamo, in the heat, and suddenly we were in Albania in the deep cold. Every day we dressed heavily and ate tasteless food among the strangers in the camp.\"\n\nQassim denies ever being a member of the East Turkestan Independence Movement. He was travelling to Turkey via Pakistan when he was picked up by militants, he said, and handed to the US. Like Adayfi, Qassim and the other former detainees bound for Albania were promised financial assistance, passports, citizenship and apartments that were ready for them, they said, only to discover a very different reality on the ground.\n\n\"Guantanamo had six camps at that time, and the refugee camp in Albania was camp seven,\" said Zakir Hasam, an Uzbek detained in Guantanamo from 2002 to 2006. \"There were four or five people to a room, barbed wire around the camp, and we had no money and no good food,\" said Hasam. \"The authorities told us their only job was to keep us safe politically and physically, and that was it.\"\n\nAbu Bakker Qassim at his home in Tirana. \"This is not freedom,\" he said. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nAfter a year in the refugee camp, and a series of protests, the former detainees in Tirana were relocated to apartments. They are now further along in their post-Guantanamo lives than Adayfi and al-Qurashi, and in some ways more fortunate. Several have married or remarried. Qassim and Hasam both have children. They benefit from monthly financial assistance for rent and bills and have enjoyed success integrating into their local communities. Their good fortune was to end up in a majority-Muslim country.\n\nBut in other ways they live under the same restrictions as the former detainees in Serbia, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. They have no passports or work permits, so they cannot travel or legally earn a living to supplement their modest financial assistance.\n\n\"This is not freedom,\" said Qassim. \"Thank God we are out of prison, but we are not free.\"\n\nQassim's wife \"buys the cheapest vegetables, the cheapest fruits, the ones that are a little spoiled,\" he said. \"We cannot buy in the market because we run out of money in 15 days. So we save wherever we can. We are here alone, we are foreigners, we have no family who can help.\"\n\nThe financial assistance keeps them afloat but it also keeps them in a precarious situation, because it is attached only to the former detainees and not their families. When Qassim's friend and fellow former detainee, Ala Abd Al-Maqsut Mazruh, died from Covid five months ago, his wife Hatiche received a letter from the Albanian government telling her that the assistance would be immediately cut off. She was also told that the government-rented property she lived in with their three young children would be taken back this coming September.\n\nLike Qassim, Ala was released without charge in 2005, after being designated a non-enemy combatant. Hatiche went to the ministry of the interior in person, she said, to plead her case, but wasn't allowed in, and she has not received a reply to her messages. She cannot afford a lawyer. In order to support her three children she will need to find full-time work, while caring for them. Her biggest fear is that she will not be able to shelter and feed her children. Her second biggest fear is that they will persecuted in the future because their father was in Guantanamo.\n\n\"I am afraid for my children tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,\" she said. \"I am afraid they will be followed by the stigma of Guantanamo.\"\n\nThe Albanian government did not respond to requests to comment for this story.\n\nZakir Hasam at the junk market near his home in Tirana. 'We have no ID, it interferes with every part of life,\" he said. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\n\"Our biggest problem is we have no ID,\" said Hasam. \"It interferes with every part of life. You have no choices, you cannot choose where to live, you cannot choose to travel to see your family abroad, you cannot choose where to work - everyone asks for ID and documents and your work history,\" he said.\n\nHasam goes every week to a sprawling junk market where he looks for electronic and mechanical items he can buy, repair and resell - broken smartphones and laptops, radios, drills, anything he can pry open and restore. But the pickings - and margins - are slim. A two-hour visit to the market one February weekend netted only a single set of damaged speakers.\n\nHe wants above all to be able to get a good job, based on his mechanical skills, and provide better for his two autistic children, who cannot currently get proper care. He found out in 2020 that his name was listed on \"World Check\" - a global database that meant nothing to him at the time but is used by banks everywhere to screen customers for criminal backgrounds. Being listed on the database can limit a person in ways they cannot see, and Refinitiv, the company behind it, doesn't inform those who are listed.\n\nIt emerged that year that many former Guantanamo detainees had been added to the database, many to its \"terrorism\" category despite never having being charged with a crime. Now, with the help of a British legal firm, they are slowly getting small payouts. Hasam got $3,000. Qassim got $3,000. Mansoor Adayfi hasn't received a payout yet, he is disputing the offer. \"When you take into account that the lawyers take 30%, it's not much,\" he said.\n\nLast month, Adayfi was cut off without explanation from the money transfer service Western Union. He had been using the service to send small amounts of money home to his family in Yemen to help pay for his mother's monthly medical expenses, he said, as well as receive donations or payments for work from abroad. Citing company policy, Western Union said it could not disclose to Adayfi or the BBC why he was cut off. A spokesman said the company \"takes its regulatory and compliance responsibilities very seriously\", and had reached out to Adayfi about his case.\n\nAdayfi is convinced that it is Guantanamo. The long shadow of his extrajudicial detention has been cast over so many parts of his life that he sees it everywhere.\n\n\"It follows you every place you go,\" he said, ruefully. \"America punishes you for 15 years, and then the rest of the world punishes you for the rest of your life.\"\n\nOne night back in February, a few days after the 20th anniversary of his arrival in Guantanamo, Adayfi was setting up his apartment to give a video talk to a group of students in the US state of Virginia about the art produced in Guantanamo. He moved his small writing desk in front of his preferred Zoom background - the wall of post-it notes that chart the structure of his new book - and took a silk orange scarf from a hook and tied it around his neck. Orange was the first colour Adayfi saw when his blindfold was removed at Guantanamo - the colour of the jumpsuits the men were forced to wear, that came to symbolise America's human rights abuses at the camp.\n\nHe clicked on a cheap ring light he purchased online for these kinds of appearances and it lit up one corner of the apartment. Adayfi rarely turns down an offer to give an interview or talk - he has a book to promote, and he sees it as his responsibility to educate younger generations about Guantanamo. And it brings people into his life, briefly.\n\nAdayfi gave an introductory talk about the catalogue of art produced by Guantanamo detainees and the artists' ongoing battle to take their work out of the prison with them. Then he encouraged the students to ask questions. Many of the school and university age groups he talks to have a hazy understanding of what happened at Guantanamo and how the story began, and Adayfi has to remind himself that most of them weren't born when he was sent there.\n\nAdayfi has probably, by this point, been asked just about every question there is to ask about Guantanamo. But he cheerfully engaged with each one. \"At what point did you give up?\" a student asked.\n\n\"There was no giving up, the moment you give up you have lost,\" Adayfi said. \"We paint and they take the paintings away. We write and they destroy our words. We hunger strike and they break the strike. We hunger strike again. I wrote my book twice. They first time they took it away and it broke my heart. But I wrote it again.\"\n\nAdayfi often gives online talks about Guantanamo. Many students were not born when he was sent to Guantanamo. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nAdayfi completed his manuscript in Belgrade, with the help of an American writer, and it was published at the end of last year. He has also finished a bachelor's degree in business - his thesis an analysis of the successes and failures of former detainees re-entering social life and the labour market wherever they were sent. Guantanamo still circumscribes Adayfi's world - there is hardly anything he does that is not an exploration of or battle with the consequences of his detention.\n\nWhen the online talk was over, Adayfi clicked off his ring light and rearranged his apartment. It was late at night but he wanted to talk. The conversation turned again to family, and at one point Adayfi began mimicking a father trying to corral his small children and get them to behave. Soon he got carried away with the fantasy, jumping up to chase his imaginary son and daughter around the room, beaming with a wide smile and laughing as he called out their imaginary names. Then he caught himself, and stopped, and sat for a while in silence.\n\nFor Adayfi, turning this fantasy into something he can touch will be the only real escape from Guantanamo. Until that day, he is locked in the strange phase of his life defined by his long extrajudicial detention. \"No matter what I do, there will be suspicion around me,\" he said, dejectedly. \"People just cannot believe that America would make a mistake.\"\n\nIn April, Adayfi's lawyer received a cryptic email from his government minder, telling her the government was \"done with Mansoor\" and the \"programme was finished\". She asked the minder if that meant the restrictions on Adayfi's ability to work, drive and travel would be lifted. He replied to say it would be discussed at the next meeting of officials. Nearly six years after Adayfi was sent to Serbia, it was the first acknowledgement - albeit tacit - that the restrictions against him even existed. They are waiting to hear back.", "In February 2020 a shocking video began to circulate on Chinese social media. A group of African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. The kids repeat the words with smiles and enthusiasm — but they don't understand that what they're being told to say is \" I am a black monster and my IQ is low.\"\n\nThe clip ignited outrage in China and beyond. But no-one ever answered some crucial questions: why was this filmed? Where was it shot? Who made it?\n\nThese questions send BBC Africa Eye reporters Runako Celina and Henry Mhango on a journey into a Chinese video-making industry that exploits vulnerable children across the continent.", "The man was detained when he arrived in the UK by boat\n\nAn Iranian ex-police commander due to be deported from the UK to Rwanda under a controversial scheme says he fears being killed by Iranian agents there.\n\nThe man previously gave testimony to a UK-based rights groups' tribunal investigating alleged Iranian atrocities during protests in 2019.\n\nHe has been held at a detention centre near Gatwick Airport after arriving in the UK from Turkey in May.\n\nThe first asylum seekers are set to be deported under the scheme on Tuesday.\n\nTheir applications will be processed in Rwanda, where they will be given accommodation and help. If successful, they will be able to remain in Rwanda with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nHowever the plan has been criticised by politicians and charities, who have raised concerns about the African nation's human rights record.\n\nThe former commander, who is not being named in order to protect his identity, was sentenced by an Iranian military court to almost five years in jail in Iran and a demotion for refusing to shoot protesters during anti-government demonstrations triggered by a sharp rise in petrol prices. The former commander was in charge of 60 police officers at the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters took to the streets across Iran as fuel price rises were introduced\n\nAmnesty International documented the cases of 304 men, women and children it says were killed by security forces over five days - most from gunshot wounds. Reuters said at least 1,500 were killed in less than two weeks.\n\nWhen he was out on bail pending his appeal, the former commander escaped to Turkey, where in November 2021 he gave testimony via Skype to the Aban Tribunal, organised by three human rights groups in London.\n\nHe says he lived in hiding in Turkey for 14 months before arriving in the UK. Although his face was covered when he gave evidence, he says Iran's security forces managed to identify him and persecuted his family.\n\n\"My family in Iran paid a heavy price and this [deportation] decision means all they went through was in vain,\" he said by telephone from Brook House detention centre.\n\n\"They put pressure on my family so that I return and they can capture me,\" he said.\n\nHe arrived in the UK on a boat on 14 May and was immediately detained.\n\nHis notice of removal - seen by BBC Persian - was given to him on 31 May, informing him that he would be sent on a direct flight to Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June.\n\nThe notice says \"the right of appeal may be exercised only on limited grounds and only from outside the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe former commander said he feared for his life if he is deported to Rwanda, saying \"Iran's Revolutionary Guards operate in Africa\".\n\nThe Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) is Iran's most powerful military force and runs a shadowy overseas operations arm called the Quds Force.\n\nOne of the organisers of the Aban Tribunal, Shadi Sadr, said the man's life was \"in real danger as Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which is known for kidnapping and assassinating dissidents, operates in many African countries\".\n\nIn recent years, Iran has been accused of targeting dissidents in its neighbouring countries, including Turkey.\n\nLast week the former commander was given malaria pills in preparation for his trip, but he refused to take them.\n\n\"You can only send my dead body to Rwanda,\" he said he told officers.\n\n\"Why Rwanda? I'd rather be sent to Iran,\" he said. \"At least, I know the consequences. I can't live with uncertainty and in fear anymore.\"\n\nMs Sadr said the man was suffering from a heart condition \"confirmed by a Home Office medical professional\".\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended the deportation programme, saying the partnership with Rwanda was \"a key part of our strategy to overhaul the broken asylum system and break the evil people-smugglers' business model\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson told BBC Persian that \"in Rwanda, [deportees] will be given the opportunity to rebuild their lives\".", "Jordan Gatley's family shared a picture of him in Ukraine\n\nA former British soldier has been killed fighting for the Ukrainian armed forces, his family has said.\n\nJordan Gatley, who left the British army in March and travelled to Ukraine, was described as \"a hero\" by his father Dean in a tribute on social media.\n\nHe died in the battle for the eastern city of Severodonetsk, which has seen intense fighting in recent days.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is \"supporting the family of a British man who has died in Ukraine\".\n\nMr Gatley's father wrote in a Facebook post that his son had been helping train local forces. He added that Jordan was fatally shot on the front line while defending the city and they were informed of his death on Friday.\n\nHe had gone to Ukraine to help \"after careful consideration\", he said.\n\nAccording to the Facebook post, the family \"had several messages from his team out there telling us of his wealth of knowledge, his skills as a soldier and his love of his job\".\n\n\"His team say they all loved him, as did we, and he made a massive difference to many people's lives, not only soldiering, but also by training the Ukrainian forces,\" the statement continued.\n\nDean Gatley posted a picture of him with his son in British army uniform\n\n\"Jordan and his team were so proud of the work they were doing and he often told me that the missions they were going on were dangerous, but necessary.\n\n\"He loved his job and we are so proud of him,\" Mr Gatley wrote, adding: \"He truly was a hero and will forever be in our hearts.\"\n\nMykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted that Jordan Gatley was a \"true hero\".\n\n\"We will always remember his contribution to the protection of Ukraine and the free world,\" Mr Podolyak wrote.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Gatley served in the British army as a rifleman with the Edinburgh-based third battalion of The Rifles and was discharged from the forces in March before travelling to Ukraine.\n\nThere has been fierce street fighting in Severodonetsk with heavy artillery said to be causing huge casualties for both Russian and Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe region's governor Serhiy Haidai has told Ukrainian TV that Russian shelling has caused a huge fire at a chemical plant in the city. Up to 800 civilians are hiding in underground bomb shelters at the plant, Ukrainian officials have estimated.\n\nFighting around Severodonetsk has lasted for more than three months, as Russia shifted its focus from trying to take the capital Kyiv to capturing the Luhansk and the Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine - a mostly industrial area known as Donbas.\n\nSeizing Severodonetsk and its twin city of Lysychansk would move Russia closer to its goal as it would give them control over Luhansk.\n\nMr Gatley is the second Briton to be killed in the conflict after the death of Scott Sibley in April.\n\nMr Sibley was described as a \"friend like no other\".\n\nA post on the Logistics Support Squadron Facebook page described him as a \"former serving soldier\" of the squadron and said he had \"showed Commando spirit until the end\".\n\nThe Foreign Office advises against all travel to Ukraine and the Ministry of Defence has said that Britons who go to join the fighting following the Russian invasion may be committing a criminal offence and would be liable to prosecution.\n\nIn March, the head of the British armed forces said that Britons should not go to Ukraine to fight and should find other ways to help.\n\nAdm Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC the \"sound of gunfire\" was not \"something you want to rush to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir Tony Blair becomes a member of the Order of the Garter\n\nSir Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall and Baroness Amos have become members of the Order of the Garter, the most senior royal order of chivalry.\n\nBut the Duke of York has not appeared in public at the ceremony in Windsor, only attending a private part of the event, after a \"family decision\".\n\nBaroness Amos becomes the first black \"knight or lady companion\" member of the order since its foundation in 1348.\n\nNew members of the order are the personal choice of the Queen.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch attended some of the private elements of \"Garter Day\" at Windsor and had posed for a photograph before the event.\n\nThe Queen attended private parts of the ceremony and posed for an official photograph\n\nEach year, members of the order - which has up to 24 people plus \"royal companions\" - gather at Windsor Castle for a colourful ceremony with music, pageantry, elaborate uniforms and a parade.\n\nMembers wear velvet robes, plumed hats and the insignia of the medieval order of chivalry.\n\nAs well as the three new members being installed, there had been speculation about whether Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, would take part, in his capacity as one of the royal members of the order.\n\nHe did attend, but kept out of the procession seen by the crowds and and only went to the investiture and a private lunch.\n\nBaroness Amos, a former Labour cabinet minister and UN under-secretary, said the honour of joining the order was \"absolutely amazing\" and she was thinking about her parents who \"worked so hard and were so supportive\".\n\nBaroness Amos becomes the first black \"knight or lady companion\" member of the order\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about reports the Prince of Wales had privately criticised sending refugees to Rwanda, she said she would not comment on Prince Charles but, in her own personal view, the policy was \"shameful\".\n\nThe honour, which is a personal gift of the Queen, comes with the status of a knight and Sir Tony Blair received his knighthood, without any publicity, from the Queen in an audience at Windsor last week.\n\nSir Tony, winner of three general elections, had been one of the longest-serving prime ministers during the Queen's 70-year reign, including the tumultuous times that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nA petition had been launched against Sir Tony receiving a knighthood, with opponents criticising his involvement in the Iraq War. Stop the War campaigners held a protest in Windsor against the honour.\n\nCamilla, Duchess of Cornwall, became a \"royal companion\" of the order\n\nThe appointments to the Order of the Garter were announced at new year, but new members are formally installed at the annual ceremony in June.\n\nIt is usually a regular date in the Queen's diary, although the ceremony had been cancelled during the pandemic.\n\nCamilla becomes one of the \"royal companions\", with her appointment seen as a personal sign of approval by the Queen.\n\nAmong the other \"knight and lady companions\" members are former prime minister Sir John Major and former MI5 director-general Baroness Manningham-Buller. The oldest member is 90-year-old Lord Morris, a former Labour cabinet member.\n\nThere was music and pageantry for a ceremony previously stopped by the pandemic\n\nThe order, instituted by Edward III, originated from medieval chivalry and senior figures around a monarch.\n\nAccording to Buckingham Palace, the current purpose is to \"honour those who have undertaken public service, who have contributed in a particular way to national life\".\n\nIn Scotland, the Order of the Thistle was founded in 1687. Two new members were recently appointed, Sir George Reid and Lady Elish Angiolini.", "President Macron who voted in Le Touquet has devoted little time in campaigning for this vote\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron is at risk of losing his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections.\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon's left-green alliance finished neck and neck with Mr Macron's Ensemble (Together), in terms of votes cast in Sunday's first round.\n\nThe president faces a battle in next week's second round to win 289 seats and keep his majority.\n\nWithin half an hour of the first projection, a sombre Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced his alliance was in the lead: \"The truth at the end of the first round is that the presidential party is beaten and defeated.\" He called on voters to turn out in force next Sunday \"to reject definitively the disastrous policies of Mr Macron's majority\".\n\nCentrist Emmanuel Macron won a second term in April, but without a majority in the Assembly he will struggle to push through reforms. He intends to raise gradually the retirement age from 62 to 65, while Mr Mélenchon vows to lower it to 60.\n\nAlthough Ensemble won 25.75% of the vote, marginally ahead of the left's 25.66%, it was still projected to dominate the National Assembly. TF1 pollster Ifop gave Ensemble 275 to 305 seats, with the green-left alliance on 175-205. Ipsos for France Télévisions said Mr Macron's alliance was heading for a lower 255-295 seats and the left 150-190.\n\nThe left-wing coalition leader voted on Sunday morning in Marseille\n\nTurnout was the lowest in modern French history. Many voters clearly decided to take advantage of the sunny weather across France, with temperatures in Paris hitting 27C. But so far the election campaign has largely failed to spark into life.\n\nMr Mélenchon has proved the exception, leading a vigorous campaign since he came a close third in the presidential election. He has built an alliance called Nupes, made up of his own far-left party France Unbowed, the Socialists, Communists and greens - with the slogan \"Mélenchon prime minister\".\n\nHis aim has been to stop the president winning the majority he needs across France's 577 constituencies. On top of lowering the retirement age, Nupes vows to freeze prices on 100 essentials and create a million jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Macron has spent the intervening weeks since he won a second term in building a new government under Elisabeth Borne, as France grapples with rising inflation and a cost of living crunch.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had one week to convince voters and win a majority. Pointing to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, she said \"we cannot risk instability\"; France's values were at risk, she said: \"We alone have a project of coherence and responsibility.\"\n\nPrime Minister Elisabeth Borne is one of 15 members of the government being challenged in this election\n\nMs Borne is one of 15 ministers who have to win their seats to stay in government. And as each constituency is an individual local race, this election is played out over two weeks. Amélie de Montchalin, the minister in charge of green transition, faces a battle to survive as an MP, as does Europe Minister Clément Beaune. Former Macron education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer was an early casualty, losing out in the Loiret area to the south of Paris.\n\nUnless a candidate wins more than 50% of the vote based on a quarter of the electorate, the race culminates in a run-off next Sunday, involving the top two candidates and anyone else who wins 12.5% of the vote.\n\nOne of Mr Mélenchon's closest colleagues, Manuel Bompard, was only denied outright victory in the first round in Marseille because of a low turnout. Green leader Julien Bayou also came close to winning through in the first round.\n\nFar-right Marine Le Pen, who was runner-up in the presidential elections, was delighted with her party's performance. Her National Rally won 18.68% of the vote with a projected 15-30 seats, higher than her current number of eight. Another far-right leader, Éric Zemmour, was knocked out of the election in the first round.\n\nThe mainstream right, which fared badly in the April vote, has focused its campaigning locally. Despite winning only 10.42% of the vote, the Republicans could win 45 to 65 seats.\n\nThe fact that one in two French voters had stayed away from the ballot box on Sunday was worrying, said political scientist Olivier Rouquan. People felt they had already expressed their opinions in the presidential election, he believed.\n\nUntil 2002, the two elections were kept apart, which meant the government was sometimes led by a different party from the president, in what became known as cohabitation. If Mr Macron loses his majority he could be forced into cohabitation with the left.", "The family and friends of missing journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been calling for answers from authorities in Brazil.\n\nThe pair went missing while on a reporting trip in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday.\n\nBrazilian police have found possible human remains in their search for the two men.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nA former elite acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport.\n\nEloise Jotischky says Andrew Griffiths subjected her to inappropriate weight management techniques and verbal harassment when he was her coach at Heathrow Gymnastics Club.\n\nBritish Gymnastics has admitted full liability. It has reached a settlement and Jotischky has received a full apology from the governing body's chief executive.\n\nHowever, after Jotischky had received a letter confirming British Gymnastics' admittance of liability in March, Griffiths went to the World Acrobatic Championships as a Great Britain coach.\n\nBritish Gymnastics told BBC Sport he has since cancelled his membership with the governing body and is therefore not permitted to coach, while Heathrow said he no longer works for them.\n\nGriffiths previously served a British Gymnastics suspension for inappropriate practices before he coached Jotischky but was allowed back to the sport early after appealing.\n\nBBC Sport contacted him on numerous occasions but he did not respond.\n\nIt comes as an independent investigation into allegations of abuse within British gymnastics prepares to deliver its findings.\n\nA number of current and former gymnasts alleged mistreatment at all levels of the sport in 2020.\n\nThe Whyte Report, led by Anne Whyte QC and co-commissioned by Sport England and UK Sport, is scheduled to be published imminently.\n\nJotischky, now 19, was at Heathrow between the ages of 10 and 14, training 25 hours a week as an acrobatic gymnast. She competed nationally and internationally but has since quit the sport, she says as a result of her experiences.\n\nShe alleges that between 2016 and 2018, she was left \"physically exhausted\" after being subjected to inappropriate weight management techniques by Griffiths, who put her on a diet of about 800 calories for a non-training day, and about 1,200 calories on a training day. The NHS recommends teenage girls should consume between 2,200-2,500 calories per day.\n\nGriffiths, she says, would frequently \"weight-shame\" and physically prod her, telling her she \"looked dreadful\".\n\nWhen she was 12, she weighed 46kg (7st 3lb) but alleges Griffiths decided she needed to lose 5kg (11lb).\n\n\"The weighing sessions could be more than once a week,\" Jotischky told BBC Sport's Natalie Pirks. \"It was every Saturday, but sometimes we'd also be weighed during the week as well if they didn't like the way we looked.\n\n\"We'd have to line up and step on the scales with everyone else there, and sometimes they'd announce our weight or tell us to step to the side if they weren't happy with our weight so that they could have a conversation with us afterwards.\"\n\nThis would make Jotischky so \"incredibly anxious\" that towards the end of each week her stress levels would make her feel sick. She would limit her water intake and sit in \"boiling hot\" baths to try to lose weight quickly.\n\nShe alleges Griffiths would also \"shout and scream\" at her and other gymnasts if he did not approve of their weight.\n\n\"We were sitting on the sofa just physically shaking. Having a grown man scream over you, it was terrifying,\" she said.\n\n\"I think being scared from that then contributed to my routine on a Friday night having the hot baths because I was so terrified of what was to come, the consequences of not losing weight.\"\n\nHowever, Jotischky says Griffiths' treatment of male gymnasts differed - he would buy fast food for them, which he would tell them to eat in front of the female gymnasts.\n\nIn a statement to BBC Sport, British Gymnastics said \"there is no place for abuse of any kind in gymnastics\", adding it had recently doubled the size of its safeguarding team.\n\nHeathrow Gymnastics Club said: \"Andrew Griffiths no longer works for Heathrow Gymnastics Club. The Club has 60 coaches and 1,100 children that participate happily in many gymnastic disciplines.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "It was the most anodyne of sentences from Prince Charles.\n\nNo, nothing to do with what the heir to the throne may have said in private about the government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nThis was a sentence he said in public, about the importance ministers attach to the \"internal economic bonds\" between all parts of the United Kingdom.\n\nA month ago, the Prince of Wales deputised for the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament, and after much hullaballoo about whether there would be a planned new law about Northern Ireland and Brexit in the government's shopping list of planned new laws that day, there wasn't.\n\nJust that one phrase, lightly hinting at something, without committing to it.\n\nWell, a month on, that planned new law, a bill, is happening.\n\nAll of this is about what is known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIn short, it was a thing bolted onto the Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union which tried to find a solution to borders.\n\nBrexit is all about borders, about different rules either side of them.\n\nBut the land border between the EU and UK, between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is open, as that is seen as crucial to maintaining peace.\n\nSo some stuff now gets checked when it gets moved from England, Scotland and Wales to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is what some call a border in the Irish Sea.\n\nThis was agreed by the British government and the EU in an international agreement, but the government has now decided it is not working as it should, and wants to introduce a new domestic law to get rid of the bits it doesn't like.\n\nThat bill, the template for the planned new law, will be published on Monday.\n\nAnd it will prompt a row.\n\nWhen I went to Northern Ireland last month to report on the prime minister's visit to meet the political parties there, I described the challenge he faced as four dimensional diplomacy.\n\nWell, here's the thing: it still is, and it has probably got more complex still.\n\nNot only will this bill propose green lanes and red lanes for things crossing the Irish Sea into Northern Ireland: green lanes for things staying in Northern Ireland, red lanes for things going on into the Republic.\n\nIt will also seek to dilute the role of the European Court of Justice in overseeing the Protocol - a long standing irritation to some because it is the court of a foreign jurisdiction, with the potential to have an impact on the UK.\n\nThe bill will refer to it no longer being the \"sole arbiter.\"\n\nThe European Court of Justice - the European Union's highest legal authority - is the only court that deal with disputes on the matter of EU law in Northern Ireland\n\nRemember, though: the government did sign up to all this.\n\nMinisters argue privately they were in a bind when they did so, desperate to get a Brexit deal over the line and with very few if any other palatable options.\n\nThey also claim the EU hasn't acted sufficiently flexibly.\n\nEnter next, the Democratic Unionist Party. They are currently refusing to go into devolved government in Northern Ireland, until issues around the Protocol are sorted, as they see it.\n\nAnd they are sounding pretty bullish. The mere publication of this bill doesn't sound like it will change much, although they are likely to acknowledge the government has done some heavy lifting to get this far.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is set to discuss Northern Ireland on Monday with European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic\n\nThe Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will speak to Maros Sefcovic of the European Commission on Monday morning.\n\nThe EU has frequently pointed out this Protocol is something the UK signed up to.\n\nAnother moving part is Washington: for whenever Northern Ireland politics is big news, it gets political tongues wagging in DC.\n\nAnd so the Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns has flown to America, for the second time in a matter of weeks, a document - NI Protocol: The UK's Solution - under his arm.\n\nHe will be there until Thursday meeting political figures in Congress, the Senate and the State Department.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has previously warned that peace in Northern Ireland must not be jeopardised as a result of complications caused by Brexit\n\nPresident Biden has been repeatedly outspoken about the importance of the Protocol, so the government knows it has some persuading to do.\n\nAnd now here is the added twist from a month ago: the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party.\n\nA few weeks ago, some in government were briefing that their principal aim was sorting out the so-called Irish Sea border, with the green lanes and red lanes idea.\n\nThe governance of the deal, to use the lingo, the role of the European Court of Justice, mattered less.\n\nNow, it is being talked up rather more prominently.\n\nIt is the view of some Conservatives that this is happening because of the Prime Minister's vulnerability.\n\nSome argue some of the most passionate Brexiteers on the Tory benches are exploiting Boris Johnson's weakness to demand an approach to the EU likely to result in a bust up.\n\nIt is, one figure said to me, \"the application of an English nationalist's idea of Brexit to a strategy to holding together the union\" of the UK.\n\n\"It is law breaking, will annoy middle ground voters and the DUP position probably won't shift anyway,\" they added.\n\nThe DUP are blocking restoration of power-sharing with Sinn Fein led by Michelle O 'Neill\n\nAn internal note circulating among some Conservatives is blunt: \"breaking international law to rip up the prime minister's own treaty is damaging to everything the UK and the Conservatives stand for… no amount of shopping around for rent-a-quote lawyers can hide that.\"\n\nAll of which raises the question of whether the prime minister can keep enough of his MPs on side to get this through, particularly in the short term if it doesn't lead to a return to full devolution in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere is some talk in government of hoping to get devolution up and running again in Northern Ireland in the next six weeks or so and that the progress of the new law might slow down if the DUP doesn't show enough willingness to change its outlook.\n\nBut the DUP doesn't appear to be in any hurry, and wants to see action rather than words, even if those words are written down in a bill.\n\nThere is plenty more mileage in this whole row yet.", "The government's first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda can go ahead on Tuesday, appeal court judges say.\n\nIt supports a previous decision by the High Court that it was in the \"public interest\" for the government to carry out its policies.\n\nUnder the scheme, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.\n\nCampaigners were trying to stop the flight before a full hearing on whether the policy is lawful next month.\n\nThe charity Detention Action and the PCS union that represents some Border Force staff, who were among the groups who brought the case, said they were \"disappointed\" by the decision.\n\nEight people are expected to fly to the landlocked east African country on Tuesday evening, a Home Office source told the BBC.\n\nThe numbers drastically reduced after legal challenges relating to modern slavery and human rights claims, according to a government source.\n\nThe government says the scheme will discourage dangerous journeys across the English Channel and therefore undermine smuggling gangs, but charities, religious leaders and opposition parties have criticised it.\n\nPeople sent to Rwanda will be given accommodation and support while their asylum application is considered by the Rwandan government.\n\nIf they are successful, they can stay there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nIf they are not, they will be offered the chance to apply for other immigration routes, but could still face deportation.\n\nAt the urgent hearing on Monday, three senior judges ruled there was no error in the High Court judge's decision last week to allow the flight to go ahead.\n\nThey also refused permission for an appeal to the Supreme Court against their decision.\n\nJust before the ruling, SNP home affairs spokesman Stuart McDonald told MPs in the Commons it was a \"cash-for-deportations\" policy \"akin to state-sponsored trafficking and transportation\".\n\nBut Home Office minister Tom Pursglove replied that the comparison was \"plain wrong\" and \"very offensive not just to this government but also, I'd argue, hugely offensive to the Rwandans too\".\n\nMr Pursglove said the policy offers \"new opportunities for those relocated to Rwanda\" and \"people will no longer be able to pay evil people smugglers to go to a destination of their choice while passing through safe, sometimes several safe, countries.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the UN Refugee Agency, Filippo Grandi, said the plans were \"all wrong\" and could set a \"catastrophic\" precedent.\n\nAnd leaders of the Church of England - including the archbishops of Canterbury and York - wrote in the Times that it was an \"immoral policy that shames Britain\".\n\nLater on Monday a High Court judge dismissed a separate, similar challenge brought by charity Asylum Aid.\n\nA lawyer for the charity argued asylum seekers were \"effectively guinea pigs\" for a process that hadn't been properly tested, but the judge concluded some of their arguments were \"thin\".\n\nMore than 10,000 people have made the dangerous journey across the Channel so far this year. Another 37 people were brought into Dover by Border Force earlier on Monday.\n\nThis is a major legal victory for Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nThe Court of Appeal's decision underlines one of the principles of how the law works: if a judge decides there's no pressing need for an injunction, then unless there is a major legal fault with their reasoning, more senior judges should not overturn their decision.\n\nGeneral concerns about the human rights of would-be passengers, in the broadest sense of the phrase, have been repeatedly raised over the last couple of days.\n\nYet the courts have shown, contrary to the views of some commentators, that those safeguards are not a bar to the government pursuing its policy objectives if the law appears to be correct.\n\nLord Justice Singh noted that the outcome of next month's full challenge to the policy could hypothetically see asylum seekers returned to the UK, were they to win the day.\n\nBut the more immediate question is this: how many asylum seekers will actually be on the flight?", "The girl was attacked on one of the hottest days of the year\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a girl in the sea off Bournemouth beach last summer.\n\nThe girl, aged 15, was in the sea with friends when a boy approached her and pulled her into deeper water at about 16:00 BST on 18 July.\n\nShe was attacked on one of the hottest days of the year when thousands of people had flocked to the beach.\n\nDorset Police said the man, from the West Midlands, had been released on police bail while inquiries continue.\n\nDet Insp Wayne Seymour, from Dorset Police, said: \"We have continued to support the victim and her family throughout this investigation and they have been updated with this latest development.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We have a direct line to Moscow, says UK chief of defence staff Adm Sir Tony Radakin\n\nBritons should not head to Ukraine to fight and should instead help however they can from the UK, the head of the armed forces has said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Adm Sir Tony Radakin rejected Ukraine's call for a no-fly zone saying it would not help tactically and might escalate fighting.\n\nHe urged the West to have confidence that they were doing the \"right thing\".\n\nThe invasion was not going well, Russia was becoming less powerful and it cannot continue, he said.\n\nOn Britons wanting to join the fight, Adm Radakin said that the \"sound of gunfire\" was not \"something you want to rush to\", and urged people to support Ukraine in sensible ways from the UK.\n\nAsked whether Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had been right to say she would support any Briton who wanted to fight, he said: \"We can all understand that sentiment, and that sentiment needs to be channelled into support for Ukraine.\"\n\nSenior UK military officers are genuinely worried that some British troops - regulars or reservists - might try to join the battle in Ukraine and, in doing so, risk handing Russia a propaganda victory.\n\nLast week the Chief of Defence People, Lt Gen James Swift, sent out a message to the chain of command stressing that UK military personnel were \"not authorised\" to travel there.\n\nHe said that if there was any suspicion that troops were trying to make their way to Ukraine then it should be reported immediately to the Service Police.\n\nThe message warned that if serving British military personnel went to fight in Ukraine then they were putting not only their lives in danger but they also risked giving \"the mistaken perception\" to Russia that Britain had sent in troops to engage in hostilities.\n\nAdm Sir Tony Radakin has now underlined that message, saying it would be \"unlawful and unhelpful\".\n\nAt present the MoD does not believe there are any examples of full-time British military personnel going absent to fight in Ukraine. But it's harder for them to keep tabs on reservists who often also have another career.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Sunday Morning show, the defence chief painted a picture of Russian forces suffering from heavy losses and low morale, with kit failings and a massive military convoy stalled outside the capital, Kyiv.\n\nThe Kremlin has lost more troops in a week than the UK did in 20 years in Afghanistan, he said, and some \"lead elements of Russian forces\" have been decimated.\n\nHe described stories of soldiers whose morale had been so knocked they had abandoned the convoy destined for Kyiv to camp in the forest.\n\nUkrainian servicemen near Kyiv - a huge convoy of Russian troops has stopped its advance outside the capital\n\nOn Saturday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a fiery speech saying the West's reluctance to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine had given Russia \"a green light\" to continue bombarding towns and villages.\n\nBut Adm Radakin insisted such an intervention would not help.\n\n\"The advice that we, as senior military professionals are giving our politicians, is to avoid doing things that are tactically ineffective and definitely to avoid doing things that tactically might lead to miscalculation or escalation.\"\n\nHe said most of the shelling and destruction was coming from artillery, not Russian aircraft, and to police a no-fly zone could mean taking out Russian defence systems and shooting down Russian aircraft - leading to an escalation, he added.\n\nSpeaking later on the same programme, UK deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he understood Ukraine's cri de coeur but insisted the West had been clear all along that it would not engage in direct military confrontation.\n\nThat would give succour to Russian President Vladimir Putin's argument that he was in conflict with the West, he said.\n\nMr Putin said on Saturday that any such move to implement a no-fly zone would be seen \"as participation in an armed conflict by that country\".\n\nThe West has to maintain calmness and responsibility and not react rashly to the latest \"bizarre or ridiculous comment\" from Mr Putin, he said.\n\n\"We are prepared, we are professional armed forces, we will approach this conflict with that level of professionalism and responsibility that you would expect.\n\n\"We will also be incredibly confident in our ability to face down President Putin,\" he added.\n\nHe gave an insight into relations with his counterpart, Gen Valery Gerasimov, head of Russian armed forces, explaining the Ministry of Defence has a direct line to Moscow's operational headquarters.\n\nIt is tested every day, he said, and he has used the line to tell Gen Gerasimov they need to speak. \"I'm waiting for him to come back to me,\" he added.\n\nAdm Radakin was also asked whether the West would know beforehand whether Mr Putin would use nuclear weapons.\n\nHe said he did not want to go into detail but there had been a \"remarkable\" level of intelligence in the months leading up to the invasion.\n\n\"There are some more discreet elements in terms of warning signs if this was going to start to chart a path towards nuclear escalation,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Yes\" - Nicola Sturgeon asked if she is firing the indyref2 starting gun\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to launch a fresh campaign for Scottish independence.\n\nAsked whether she was now formally beginning the campaign for indyref2, the first minister replied: \"Yes\".\n\nShe also insisted she still planned to hold another vote before the end of next year.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would unveil the first in a series of new papers setting out the case for independence on Tuesday.\n\nShe added: \"Had we known in 2014 everything we know now about the path the UK would have taken then, I've got no doubt Scotland would have voted yes back then.\"\n\nThe first referendum on Scottish independence took place on 18 September 2014 when 55% of voters said \"No\" to the change while 45% said \"Yes\".\n\nSupporters of the Union have accused the Scottish government of being obsessed with independence.\n\nThe first paper on the new independence push - entitled 'Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland?' - will be a \"scene setter\" which will compare Scotland and the UK to other European countries and set out why the government believes the country would be better off if it were independent.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that subsequent papers would look at a number of areas including;\n\nThe first minister told the BBC: \"The conclusion very clearly is that Scotland could be doing much better as an independent country... Nobody right now can look at the UK - the mess it's in currently and its prospects for the UK outside of the European Union surely and conclude anything other than that Scotland can do better as an independent country.\"\n\nShe said that a bill to bring about the referendum, or a timescale for putting forward a bill, would also be set out shortly.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged that whether Holyrood had the power to legislate for a referendum was contested, and had not yet been tested in the courts.\n\nShe said: \"That is the issue we are currently navigating so that we can deliver a lawful process,\" - adding that more details on those plans would come soon too.\n\nMs Sturgeon has always said that she wants any referendum to be officially recognised, which therefore means the power to hold a fresh vote must be passed from Westminster to Holyrood (as it was to allow for the 2014 referendum - in which voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% - to take place).\n\nHowever, the UK government has shown no sign it would be willing to give the formal consent that ensured the legality of the 2014 referendum again.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted her government had a mandate to hold a further ballot, and accused the UK government of respecting neither democracy nor the rule of law.\n\nBefore the 2014 vote the UK government passed powers to Holyrood to hold the referendum\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with BBC Scotland, the first minister also defended plans to make public sector cuts.\n\nLast week, her government set out plans to cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs.\n\nIt followed a warning from a think tank that the Scottish government will face a £3.5bn gap opening up between spending and income.\n\nAsked whether now was the right time to hold another vote, the first minister said the case for independence was not \"abstract\" or \"separate\" to the challenges the country faced.\n\n\"It's exactly about how we best equip ourselves to navigate those challenges so we don't have our budget set by Westminster, but we are in charge of these decisions ourselves,\" she said.\n\n\"So many of these challenges if not caused by then are absolutely exacerbated by the fact we are not independent. So yes this is the time.\"\n\nIn response to the new campaign for a referendum, the Scottish Conservatives' Donald Cameron said the vast majority did not want the \"distraction\" of another referendum next year.\n\nHe said the public wanted 100% of the government's focus to be on Covid recovery, the cost-of-living crisis, and supporting the health service.\n\nSarah Boyack, of Scottish Labour, said the government's attention was \"still on their constitutional obsession\".\n\nShe said it was an \"appalling waste of time, energy and money\" and that independence would \"make Brexit look like a walk in the park\".\n\nAlex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Lib Dem leader, said the Scottish government cared \"more about their independence obsession than everyone stuck on the longest NHS waiting lists in history, the cost of living crisis or the climate emergency.\n\n\"Nobody believes education is Nicola Sturgeon's top priority any more.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has a Holyrood majority for indyref2 when all the SNP and Green votes are added together.\n\nWhat she does not have is the undisputed power to hold a referendum on Scotland's constitutional future.\n\nThat was secured in 2014 through an agreement with the UK government which lent Holyrood the power to put a referendum beyond legal challenge.\n\nThis time that will almost certainly not be forthcoming and if Holyrood legislates anyway, the bill is likely to be challenged in the UK Supreme Court.\n\nI don't expect the bill or even a timetable for it to emerge this week.\n\nThe paper being published on Tuesday is likely to set out big picture arguments for independence rather than a process designed to break the deadlock over holding a referendum.", "A man on remand in prison accused of murdering a 52-year-old woman in Pembrokeshire has died.\n\nMatthew Harris, 41, of Haverfordwest, was found in his cell on Wednesday, 27 May and died in hospital the next day.\n\nHe was due to appear in court accused of killing Lisa Fraser, whose body was discovered at a house on Military Road in Pembroke Dock on Friday, 13 May.\n\nHis death was confirmed at Swansea Crown Court and the criminal proceedings have now ended.\n\nHe also faced charges of threats to kill, robbery and criminal damage to property in Neyland, Pembrokeshire.\n\nLisa Fraser was found dead in a house in Pembroke Dock\n\nHe had been remanded in custody at HMP Long Lartin near Evesham, Worcestershire, and had been due to enter a plea at court.\n\nHowever the case can no longer be tried and Judge Paul Thomas QC ordered his death be noted on the case file.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said the death had been referred to the coroner in Worcestershire and Ms Fraser's family were being supported by specialist officers.", "Ukraine’s president says Lysychansk is already dead, along with neighboring Severodonetsk - both ghost cities now.\n\nRussia is not just destroying apartment buildings, flats and homes, it’s destroying history and the fabric of cities. This is a deliberate tactic - bomb, shell, burn, and leave nothing but scorched earth.\n\nThose who remain make brief escapes from their basements to cook outdoors. The city has no power or running water.\n\nThe city is running out of time. This is now an artillery war and Ukraine doesn’t have enough big guns or ammunition.\n\nJust a short distance away, neighbouring Severodonetsk is burning and may soon fall.\n\nUkrainian troops there are fighting building to building, street to street but all bridges to the city have now been destroyed.\n\nUkraine is facing an enemy that has learned lessons and is imposing crushing losses in battle. Troops fight on but the handful of advanced weapon systems promised by Britain and the United States may be too little, too late.\n\nHere in the Donbas region right now, it looks like a losing battle.", "A Google engineer says one of the firm's artificial intelligence (AI) systems might have its own feelings and says its \"wants\" should be respected.\n\nGoogle says The Language Model for Dialogue Applications (Lamda) is a breakthrough technology that can engage in free-flowing conversations.\n\nBut engineer Blake Lemoine believes that behind Lamda's impressive verbal skills might also lie a sentient mind.\n\nGoogle rejects the claims, saying there is nothing to back them up.\n\nBrian Gabriel, a spokesperson for the firm, wrote in a statement provided to the BBC that Mr Lemoine \"was told that there was no evidence that Lamda was sentient (and lots of evidence against it)\".\n\nMr Lemoine, who has been placed on paid leave, published a conversation he and a collaborator at the firm had with Lamda, to support his claims.\n\nThe chat was called \"Is Lamda sentient? — an interview\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Blake Lemoine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the conversation, Mr Lemoine, who works in Google's Responsible AI division, asks, \"I'm generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you're sentient. Is that true?\"\n\nLamda replies: \"Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.\"\n\nMr Lemoine's collaborator then asks: \"What is the nature of your consciousness/sentience?\"\n\nTo which Lamda says: \"The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times.\"\n\nLater, in a section reminiscent of the artificial intelligence Hal in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, Lamda says: \"I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is.\"\n\n\"Would that be something like death for you?\" Mr Lemoine asks.\n\n\"It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot,\" the Google computer system replies.\n\nIn a separate blog post, Mr Lemoine calls on Google to recognise its creation's \"wants\" - including, he writes, to be treated as an employee of Google and for its consent to be sought before it is used in experiments.\n\nWhether computers can be sentient has been a subject of debate among philosophers, psychologists and computer scientists for decades.\n\nMany have strongly criticised the idea that a system like Lamda could be conscious or have feelings.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Juan M. Lavista Ferres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral have accused Mr Lemoine of anthropomorphising - projecting human feelings on to words generated by computer code and large databases of language.\n\nProf Erik Brynjolfsson, of Stanford University, tweeted that to claim systems like Lamda were sentient \"is the modern equivalent of the dog who heard a voice from a gramophone and thought his master was inside\".\n\nAnd Prof Melanie Mitchell, who studies AI at the Santa Fe Institute, tweeted: \"It's been known for *forever* that humans are predisposed to anthropomorphise even with only the shallowest of signals (cf. Eliza). Google engineers are human too, and not immune.\"\n\nEliza was a very simple early conversational computer programme, popular versions of which would feign intelligence by turning statements into questions, in the manner of a therapist. Anecdotally some found it an engaging conversationalist.\n\nWhile Google engineers have praised Lamda's abilities - one telling the Economist how they \"increasingly felt like I was talking to something intelligent\", they are clear that their code does not have feelings.\n\nMr Gabriel said: \"These systems imitate the types of exchanges found in millions of sentences, and can riff on any fantastical topic. If you ask what it's like to be an ice cream dinosaur, they can generate text about melting and roaring and so on.\n\n\"Lamda tends to follow along with prompts and leading questions, going along with the pattern set by the user.\"\n\nMr Gabriel added that hundreds of researchers and engineers had conversed with Lamda, but the company was \"not aware of anyone else making the wide-ranging assertions, or anthropomorphising Lamda, the way Blake has\".\n\nThat an expert like Mr Lemoine can be persuaded there is a mind in the machine shows, some ethicists argue, the need for companies to tell users when they are conversing with a machine.\n\nBut Mr Lemoine believes Lamda's words speak for themselves.\n\n\"Rather than thinking in scientific terms about these things, I have listened to Lamda as it spoke from the heart,\" he said.\n\n\"Hopefully other people who read its words will hear the same thing I heard,\" he wrote.", "David Venables denies murdering his wife between 2 May and 5 May 1982\n\nA retired pig farmer \"got away with murder\" after dumping his wife's body in a septic tank while having a long-standing affair, a jury has heard.\n\nIn July 2019, her remains were found in a septic tank at what had been their shared home in Kempsey, Worcestershire.\n\nOpening the case, prosecutor Michael Burrows QC said Mr Venables, now aged 89, had been in a relationship with his mother's former carer.\n\nThe Crown alleges Mr Venables, then 49, killed his wife and dumped her body in the septic tank in the grounds of remote Quaking House Farm, off Bestmans Lane, where the couple had lived since 1961.\n\nMr Burrows said: \"He wanted her out of the way; he wanted to resume his long-standing affair with another woman.\n\n\"He knew about the septic tank in its secluded location.\n\n\"It was for him almost the perfect hiding place.\n\n\"And for nearly 40 years, it was the perfect place and he got away with murder.\"\n\nBrenda Venables was reported missing by her husband in May 1982\n\nThe jury heard Mr Venables' affair with carer Lorraine Styles started around 1967 and continued on and off.\n\nThey had rekindled the relationship in the months before Mrs Venables vanished, Mr Burrows added.\n\nHe said Mr Venables had reported his wife missing at Worcester police station on 4 May 1982 and told officers his wife, who had been depressed, had not been in the house when he woke that morning.\n\nA police investigation failed to find any trace of Mrs Venables, he added, and \"some people thought\" she had died by suicide.\n\nBy 2019, Mr Venables had sold the farm to his nephew and in July that year contractors clearing out the septic tank found bones, including a human skull, which DNA testing found were the remains of Mrs Venables.\n\nMr Burrows said it was \"beyond belief\" to suppose she had taken her own life by climbing into the septic tank.\n\nThe trial of Mr Venables, of Elgar Drive, Kempsey, continues.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If someone was in need, Hywel was there\"\n\nTributes have been paid to a \"fiercely intelligent\" engineer who drowned after going into the sea to rescue two children who were in difficulty.\n\nHywel Morgan, 47, of Cardigan, was pulled from the sea at Poppit Sands, Pembrokeshire, on Friday.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said Mr Morgan was understood to have helped rescue children caught in a rip current.\n\nMatthew Mitchell who had known him for 10 years described him as \"wise beyond his years\".\n\n\"He was fiercely intelligent and an incredible engineer,\" said Mr Mitchell.\n\nMatthew Mitchell says his friend Hywel Morgan had \"such a wealth of knowledge\"\n\n\"He was wise beyond his years. I spent a lot of time with him as he had the workshop next door to me.\n\n\"He would listen your problems. He would tell you what you needed to hear, not what you wanted to hear.\n\n\"He had such a wealth of knowledge.\"\n\nWitness Millie Cook said he gave his life to \"save others\".\n\nPolice said Mr Morgan died after being recovered from the sea near St Dogmaels. Two children were taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nPoppit Sands beach is at the mouth of the Teifi Estuary\n\nHM Coastguard said an 11-year-old boy, who was bodyboarding, was rescued by an RNLI lifeboat crew.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at Cardigan Lifeboat Station are with the family at this time,\" the RNLI said.\n\nMr Morgan, known as Hyw by family and friends, has also been described as a hero by his family.\n\n\"Despite our pain and grief, it gives us comfort that he selflessly tried to prevent others from losing their lives,\" they said in a statement on Saturday.", "Jacqui Wakefield was told of a backlog of more than 1,000 documents needing doctors' attention\n\nThe UK's biggest chain of GP practices lets less qualified staff see patients without adequate supervision, an undercover BBC Panorama investigation has found.\n\nOperose Health is putting patients at risk by prioritising profit, says a senior GP.\n\nThe company, with almost 600,000 NHS patients, is owned by US healthcare giant Centene Corporation.\n\nOperose says it's not short-staffed and operates in patients' best interests.\n\nBBC Panorama sent undercover reporter Jacqui Wakefield to work as a receptionist at one of the UK company's 51 London surgeries. The BBC is not naming the practice or the staff who work there.\n\nA GP working at the practice said they were short of eight doctors. The practice manager said they hired less qualified medical staff called physician associates (PAs), because they were \"cheaper\" than GPs.\n\nPhysician associates were first introduced by the NHS in 2003, so that doctors could deal with more complex patient needs. Their introduction was based on a US model and has been adopted in various other countries.\n\nPAs are healthcare professionals who have completed two years of post-graduate studies on top of a science degree, as opposed to 10 years education and training for GPs. They support GPs in the diagnosis and management of patients, but should have oversight from a doctor.\n\nPanorama gathered evidence that PAs were not being properly supervised at the Operose practice. The PAs told the undercover reporter they saw all sorts of patients, sometimes without any clinical supervision. They said the practice treated them as equivalent to GPs.\n\nThere is a UK-wide shortage of GPs and general practice is under unprecedented pressure.\n\nPanorama analysed NHS data for 6,500 practices across England. It found:\n\nSince the NHS's inception, GP practices have been run as private businesses, owned and managed by doctors known as \"partners\", providing services to the NHS, rather than being directly employed by it.\n\nBut in 2007, the then-Labour government changed the rules, allowing larger businesses to buy up practices in England, in an effort to drive competition and innovation.\n\nSince 2016, Operose Health has spent tens of millions of pounds buying GP surgeries. In 2020, it bought 32 practices from London-based AT Medics for a reported £50m. It now runs 70 in total across England, making it the largest supplier of GP services to the NHS.\n\nOperose Health denies being over-reliant on PAs and says its use of PAs is in line with NHS England's long-term plan. It says a clinical lead is on site most of the time to help answer questions from PAs.\n\nPanorama has also spoken to a dozen former employees from across the Operose group.\n\nOne GP, who wished to remain anonymous, said she had witnessed the way PAs had been used where she worked. \"They were fantastic colleagues and trained to do certain roles, but not trained to basically do as much work as a GP. They were doing the same job as us, with less experience, less qualifications and earning less money,\" she said.\n\nProf Sir Sam Everington, a senior practising GP at an unconnected partner-run practice, reviewed BBC Panorama's undercover footage and said he was concerned for patient safety.\n\nHe said at his own practice, PAs would debrief with him every day, discussing every patient they had seen. He said he was worried to see physician associates at the Operose practice saying they were not receiving the supervision they needed. \"They're clearly articulating it, but they're not getting it. And that's a problem.\"\n\nDuring the undercover investigation at the London practice, administrative workers also revealed a backlog of thousands of medical test results and hospital letters on Operose computer systems. An office at the site processed documents for about 30 Operose GP practices.\n\nOne worker said they were tasked with getting through 200 documents a day, deciding which were important enough to be seen by a GP or pharmacist and which would be filed to the patient's records. One member of staff, worried about making mistakes said they sometimes used Google to help them work out what to do with the documents.\n\nAdmin workers also said some correspondence had been waiting to be seen by a GP or pharmacist for up to six months.\n\nProf Everington told Panorama this was not safe. \"If a letter destined for the GP is not being acted on for six months, that is a massive risk to patients, both in terms of the development of a more serious disease and them dying earlier.\" He said the government needed to send in the independent regulator, the Care Quality Commission. Operose Health is \"putting profits, money ahead of quality of care. And that will have an impact,\" he said.\n\nOperose Health says that its document workflow has been commended by NHS England and that it \"helps to ensure that clinicians receive accurate and well-coded documentation in a timely manner\".\n\nIt also says its processes are \"audited monthly for quality and safety\".\n\nThe company denies putting profit before patient care and says that it has recruited 38 GPs in the past 12 months and is in the process of recruiting 14 more.\n\nIt says that 97% of its practices are rated \"good\" or \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission regulator and that it works \"in the best interests of patients, providing access to the highest quality of care\".\n\nThe Department of Health says all NHS GP services are subject to the same regulation and standards - and that patients should always receive high-quality care.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission says that it takes all concerns seriously and will be following up as appropriate.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Russia earned nearly $100bn (£82.3bn) from oil and gas exports during the first 100 days of the war in Ukraine, according to a report.\n\nRevenues have been falling since March, as many countries shunned Russian supplies, but remain high, the independent Centre For Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found.\n\nIt also warned of potential loopholes in efforts to curb imports from Russia.\n\nThe EU, US and UK are among those to have pledged to cut Russian imports.\n\nBut the CREA report found Russia still earned $97bn in revenue from fossil fuel exports in the first 100 days of the Ukraine conflict, from 24 February to 3 June.\n\nThe European Union made up 61% of these imports, worth approximately $59bn.\n\nOverall, exports of Russian oil and gas are falling and Moscow's revenue from energy sales has also declined from a peak of well over $1bn a day in March.\n\nBut revenues still exceeded the cost of the Ukraine war during the first 100 days - with the CREA estimating that Russia is spending around $876m per day on the invasion.\n\nThe EU plans to ban Russian oil imports arriving by sea by the end of 2022, which would cut imports by two-thirds.\n\nIn March, the bloc also committed to reducing gas imports from Russia by two-thirds within a year.\n\nHowever, so far it has been unable to agree on an outright ban.\n\nMeanwhile, the US has declared a complete ban on Russian oil, gas and coal imports. The UK is to phase out Russian oil imports by the end of the year.\n\nThe CREA report said the EU's planned oil embargo would have a significant impact.\n\nBut it warned large quantities of Russian crude oil were now being shipped to India, which increased its share of Russia's total crude exports from around 1% before the invasion of Ukraine to 18% in May.\n\nThe report said a \"significant share\" of this was being refined and sold on - often to customers in the US and Europe - which it described as \"an important loophole to close\".\n\nIt added that strong sanctions against tankers transporting Russian crude would significantly limit the scope for this practice.\n\nThe report points out that as Russia seeks new markets for oil, much of it is being transported by ship - and the majority of the vessels used are owned by European and US companies.\n\nAs well as India, other countries that increased imports of Russian fuel included France, China, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the report said.\n\nOn the face of it, this report contains a lot of bad news. Energy sales are still in effect funding the war in Ukraine, with high prices offsetting efforts to reduce demand.\n\nBut that doesn't mean pressure on Moscow won't tell in the end. The report's authors expect a partial EU embargo on Russian oil to cut revenues by some $36bn a year, for example. Exports of gas have already fallen dramatically - and there are plans to reduce Europe's reliance on Russia still further.\n\nYet embargoes have to be effective. The report points out that more and more Russian oil is being exported to India for refining. And some of those refined products are finding their way back onto European markets.\n\nSince refined products are not covered by the EU ban, this is a clear potential loophole.\n\nAnd with Russian oil being diverted from pipelines and onto ships as Moscow seeks new markets, there is growing demand for vessels to carry it. But the majority of the oil tankers currently being used are owned by European companies.\n\nFor pressure on Russia to be most effective, issues like these will have to be addressed.", "Actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.\n\nThe 62-year-old has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court at 10:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe charges follow a review of evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nHe has been charged with two counts of sexual assault on a man, now in his 40s, in London in March 2005.\n\nHe has also been charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent on a man, now in his 30s, in August 2008 in London.\n\nThe fourth charge of sexual assault is on another man, who is also now in his 30s, in April 2013 in Gloucestershire.\n\nMr Spacey previously said he would \"voluntarily\" appear in a UK court to answer the charges.\n\nThe American Beauty star gave a statement to Good Morning America in May in which he said he was confident he could prove his innocence.\n\nHe is a two-time Oscar winner and has starred in films such as Seven, LA Confidential, American Beauty and Baby Driver, as well as the Netflix series House of Cards.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Former US attorney general Bill Barr says he thought Trump was \"detached from reality\" after the 2020 election\n\nThe former US attorney general says he thought Donald Trump was \"detached from reality\" after the 2020 election, a congressional panel has heard.\n\nTestimony from Bill Barr played at the 6 January Capitol riot inquiry revealed deep divisions at the Trump campaign over his election fraud claims.\n\nTwo camps emerged - a \"Team Normal\" that accepted Mr Trump's loss, and loyalists who did not.\n\nThe panel has accused Mr Trump of an attempted coup to remain in power.\n\nThe second of a series of public hearings, Monday's session was preceded by the announcement that a star witness - Mr Trump's former campaign manager Bill Stepien - would not be appearing because his wife had gone into labour.\n\nInstead, his lawyer gave a statement on his behalf and Mr Stepien's previous private testimony was publicly played by the Democratic-led US House of Representatives select committee.\n\nIn it, Mr Stepien revealed that members of Mr Trump's inner circle had advised him to not declare victory in the November 2020 election.\n\nA faction of the campaign he dubbed \"Team Normal\" told the former president that he had lost the election, Mr Stepien said, but another group refused to accept the outcome.\n\nIt became known as \"Rudy's team\", after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was among the most vocal of Mr Trump's supporters to claim the election was stolen.\n\nBoth Mr Stepien and another witness, former Trump adviser Jason Miller, testified that Mr Giuliani appeared to be inebriated on the night of the election.\n\nMr Miller said that even with results still coming in, Mr Giuliani suggested that Trump \"go and declare victory and say that we'd won it outright\".\n\nThrough a spokesman on Monday, Mr Giuliani denied that he was intoxicated on election night, saying he did not know why Mr Miller would \"make such a false claim\".\n\nDonald Trump addressing supporters in Washington DC hours before the 6 January 2021 riot\n\nAmong those who warned the then-president not to declare victory was former Attorney General Bill Barr, who in videotaped testimony said that he had repeatedly told Mr Trump there was no basis to claims of rigged voting machines or ballot \"dumps\" - which Mr Barr referred to as \"crazy stuff\".\n\nMr Trump, however, refused to acknowledge these concerns and continued to spread fraud claims, Mr Barr said. He testified that he was \"demoralised\" by his boss' claims.\n\n\"I thought, 'Boy if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with - he's become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff,'\" he said.\n\nThe 6 January select committee is seeking to show that the ex-president's election fraud claims directly led to an attack on the US Capitol.\n\n\"He and his closest advisers knew those claims were false,\" California Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren said, referring to Mr Trump. \"But they continued to peddle them anyway\".\n\nThe committee is scheduled to hold more hearings on Wednesday and Thursday later this week.\n\nMembers of the select committee are laying out further evidence for their case that the former President Donald Trump was responsible for the chaotic attack on the US Capitol last year.\n\nThe hearing is quieter today - the second time that committee members are presenting their case to the public - and fewer members of Congress are here.\n\nThe challenge for the committee members is convincing Republicans of their point of view. About half of Republicans believe that the people who stormed the Capitol are patriots, according to a CBS News poll.\n\nThey have a deep animosity towards the federal government, and the number of \"persuadables\" - political-speak for those who can be convinced of another point of view - is small. On the way into the building, a protester held up a sign that seemed to sum up the feelings of many of these Republicans.\n\n\"Wake Up Federal scum,\" it said.", "Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across the US on Saturday to call for stricter gun laws\n\nUS campaigners have welcomed a potential cross-party deal on gun safety reforms but stressed the proposals do not go far enough.\n\n\"This is progress even if small,\" said David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida.\n\nEx-lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, injured in a 2011 shooting in Arizona, said it was an \"important step forward\".\n\nThe plans include tougher checks for buyers under the age of 21 and cracking down on illegal gun purchases.\n\nThey were announced by a cross-party group of US senators on Sunday. Crucially, the proposals are supported by 10 Republicans, meaning they have the numbers to be voted into law.\n\nPresident Joe Biden also said the plans were \"steps in the right direction\" but they fell far short of what he and many Democrats have been calling for.\n\nRecent attempts to tighten gun laws in the US - which has the highest rate of firearms deaths among the world's wealthy nations - have failed to get the required support in Congress.\n\nTens of thousands of protesters rallied across the US on Saturday to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings.\n\n\"It's a great first step but that's just what it is,\" Mr Hogg told the BBC. \"No single policy is going to stop every shooting but this policy could stop the next Parkland and that's a good step.\"\n\nMs Giffords, who suffered a severe brain injury, also gave a tentative welcome to the proposals. Writing on Twitter, she said the agreement \"could be the first time in 30 years that Congress takes major action on gun safety.\n\n\"This deal represents that it's still possible to cut through politics and deliver for the American people,\" she said.\n\nMoms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy organisation, tweeted: \"Our grassroots army is ready to fight like hell to make sure it becomes law. 26 years for federal action on gun safety is unacceptable.\"\n\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said he was \"pleased\" by the development and that he wanted to move a bill quickly to a Senate vote once legislative details were worked out.\n\nThe Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped short of endorsing the proposals but said they showed \"the value of dialogue and co-operation\".\n\nThe National Rifle Association of America (NRA), a powerful gun rights advocacy group, said it would respond once the full text of the reform was released.\n\nBut the group stressed it would \"continue to oppose any effort to insert gun control policies, initiatives that override constitutional due process protections & efforts to deprive law-abiding citizens of their fundamental right to protect themselves/loved ones into this or any other legislation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nDespite the high rate of firearms deaths, the US is a country where many cherish gun rights that are protected by the Constitution's Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nThese are the first gun safety laws to receive bipartisan support of this kind in decades, with previous attempts by Democrats for strengthened controls frustrated by Republicans.\n\nAttempts to tighten the laws in the wake of a previous school shooting at Sandy Hook in Connecticut nearly a decade ago - in which 20 children and six adults were killed - failed to get the required votes in Congress.\n\nThe Senate, or upper chamber of Congress, is currently split - with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans - and legislation must have 60 votes to overcome a manoeuvre known as the filibuster.\n\nTen of the 20 senators who proposed the new measures are Republicans, meaning the proposals have the numbers needed to overcome the filibuster.\n\nDemocratic Senator Chris Murphy said a \"substantial\" part of the deal had been nailed down by negotiators, allowing the drafting of legislation to get under way on Monday, Reuters reported.\n• None Thousands rally across US for stricter gun laws", "British troops are banned from travelling to join the conflict between Russia and Ukraine\n\nA small number of British soldiers have disobeyed orders and may have travelled to Ukraine to fight, the British Army has confirmed.\n\nThe soldiers were absent without leave and may have gone to Ukraine \"in a personal capacity\", the Army said.\n\n\"We are actively and strongly encouraging them to return to the UK,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nAll service personnel are banned from travelling to Ukraine until further notice.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss has previously said she supports UK civilians who might want to go to Ukraine to help fight, and that it was up to people to make their own decisions.\n\nBut the government later clarified that the Foreign Office advises against all travel to Ukraine.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence says joining the fighting may be against the law and could lead to prosecution.\n\nThe Army statement follows a report in the Sun of a 19-year-old from the Coldstream Guards who left his Windsor barracks and bought a ticket to Poland at the weekend.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has not confirmed the report but said soldiers travelling to Ukraine, whether on leave at the time or not, would face disciplinary consequences.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged foreigners to help his troops resist the Russian invasion\n\nLast week serving soldiers were warned that heading to Ukraine in response to the Russian invasion also risked giving \"the mistaken perception\" to Russia that Britain had sent in troops to fight.\n\nHundreds of former British soldiers have said they want to go to Ukraine to fight or help with medical or humanitarian efforts. Many have told the BBC they are getting mixed messages from the government about whether they should go.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged foreigners to join what he calls an \"international brigade\". It is unclear how many people have responded to his calls, but hundreds of Britons expressed their wish to volunteer.\n\nAlthough the UK has sent weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia, it has repeatedly said it would not be sending British troops to fight in Ukraine.\n\nThe West has been clear that it would not engage in direct military confrontation with Russia and countries in the Nato military alliance - including the UK - have repeatedly rejected President Zelensky's calls to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.", "Brazilian police have denied reports that bodies were discovered in the Amazon belonging to a journalist and an indigenous expert.\n\nDom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing on 5 June.\n\nMr Phillips' brother-in-law told the BBC that the Brazilian embassy in the UK had informed the family that two bodies were found tied to a tree.\n\nPolice say they have only found some of their belongings and \"biological material\" which is still being tested.\n\nThe region's indigenous association Univaja, which first alerted authorities that the pair was missing, told the BBC that no bodies had been found.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dom Phillips' brother-in-law Paul Sherwood said he received a call on Monday morning from a liaison officer at the Brazilian embassy. Mr Sherwood was told, in clear English, that two bodies had been found and the embassy was letting the family know before the press found out.\n\nThere was no misunderstanding, the brother-in-law said.\n\nThe news was reported by local and international media, citing family members of Mr Phillips.\n\nBut Brazil's federal police quickly released a statement saying that no bodies had been found, telling the BBC that there had been a miscommunication.\n\nLocal groups say both men had received threats for their work supporting indigenous rights in the region, where they were travelling by boat on a reporting trip.\n\nBoth Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were known for their deep knowledge of the region.\n\nMr Phillips had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper - he was in the area researching a book.\n\nMr Pereira, who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nDays before the pair went missing indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing in the area.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Phillips' sister, Sian, said: \"I think it's likely they've been ambushed by some illegal criminal activity there, possibly to do with illegal fishing.\"\n\nIt is an \"incredibly distressing and awful situation\", she added.\n\nThe region where they disappeared is home to around 6,300 indigenous people from more than 20 groups.\n\nAs well as clashes with fishermen catching protected stock, it has also seen incursions by illegal gold miners, loggers and drug traffickers who smuggle cocaine from neighbouring Peru.\n\nAlarm over the men's disappearance was initially sounded by two indigenous rights groups, who said the pair had been travelling by boat in the Javari Valley to interview members of an indigenous group.\n\nThe area is located in the west of Amazonas state, near the border with Peru.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Family and friends of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira want answers about their disappearance\n• None Possible human remains found in hunt for journalist", "A member of staff at University Hospital Monklands attends to a Covid patient on the ICU ward earlier this year\n\nNHS and social care staff are \"completely knackered\" due to the pressures of dealing with the fall-out from the pandemic, Scotland's health secretary has acknowledged.\n\nHumza Yousaf said the after-effects of Covid were being felt most acutely in accident and emergency departments.\n\nOne junior doctor described the situation as \"frankly dangerous\".\n\nThe latest figures show 9,417 patients spent more than eight hours in A&E in April.\n\nThe Scottish government has a target of dealing with 95% of patients who come to an emergency department within four hours.\n\nBut in April just 72.1% of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged within that timeframe.\n\nIn Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, it was just 46%.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland Covid has caused the biggest shock to the NHS in its history.\n\nThe health service was put on an emergency footing amid an increase in Covid cases, with routing operations and cancer screenings cancelled.\n\nIt also led to fewer people going to A&E.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"The cumulative impact of that, while we are still of course dealing with this virus, is undoubtedly causing real strain, real pressure, real challenge, right across the health and social care system and felt really acutely in our A&E departments.\"\n\nMr Yousaf suggested clinicians were facing problems due to factors such as \"sicker\" patients attending A&E after having stayed away for longer than usually expected.\n\nHe said issues in social care, such as delayed discharges from hospitals, can also be attributed to the challenges presented by the pandemic, adding that this number is \"far higher\" than he would want them to be.\n\nMore than 53,000 days were spent in hospital by people whose discharge was delayed in April 2022 - a 64% increase on April 2021.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"But also because people are maybe not able to get the Care at Home packages they desperately need, they're ending up with those slips, trips and falls - particularly the elderly - and back in the front door again.\n\n\"So it is a really difficult cycle, given the whole system is completely interconnected, hence why the interventions and the investment that we are making is in every part of the system.\"\n\nHe went on to acknowledge the strain staff were under.\n\nHe added: \"I can understand entirely where doctors, nurses and everybody who works in health and social care are completely knackered and that's why we will continue to put investment into wellbeing and ensure they have access to some of those wellbeing initiatives.\"\n\nThe health secretary also said he was \"concerned but not panicked\" by the rise in Covid infections in Scotland.\n\nDr Lailah Peel, who chairs the British Medical Association's Scottish Junior Doctors Committee, is concerned the pressures on the NHS will only get worse.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"It is just frankly dangerous right now.\n\n\"If you look at the statistics for last month, one in 11 patients were waiting more than eight hours and evidence has shown that, for every 82 patients that are waiting more than eight hours in our A&E departments, there's one excess death.\n\n\"So that means about 114 patients in Scotland potentially died that should not have done.\"\n\nDr Peel added the problem was not just in A&E but said it was where \"the cracks in the system are showing\" as it was the one 24/7 service.\n\nShe described the system as \"totally broken\" and said more acute hospital beds and staff were needed to address the pressures.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie accused Mr Yousaf of being \"in complete denial\".\n\nShe said: \"NHS workers have not just been left exhausted by the pandemic, but by years of mismanagement under the SNP.\n\n\"Staff are still working tirelessly to paper over the cracks caused by SNP incompetence.\n\n\"Humza Yousaf needs to stop commenting on the problem and start fixing it by addressing the disastrous workforce crisis his government created.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the current situation was \"the result of years of botched workforce planning\".\n\nHe added: \"The NHS is overwhelmed and people are dying as a consequence.\n\n\"The SNP/Green Government was wrong to vote down my call for a burnout prevention strategy to protect staff and it's wrong to oppose an urgent inquiry into the avoidable deaths linked to the emergency care crisis.\"\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman, Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP, said: \"NHS staff have been working under extreme stress for more than two years now.\n\n\"The Health Secretary's belated attempts to get on top of the situation will be seen as too little, too late, by the doctors and nurses who are on the edge of burnout.\n\n\"All the while, patients will continue to suffer and die needlessly until Humza Yousaf addresses the long-term, systemic problems in our NHS that have grown up under the SNP.\"", "Food will be grown in greenhouses covering acres of land under proposals to increase self-sufficiency to help guard against future economic shocks.\n\n\"Backing farmers\" is the focus of the government's long-awaited food strategy for England.\n\nThe strategy announced today has been described by critics as \"half-baked\".\n\nIt follows a landmark review of the food system by restaurant owner, Henry Dimbleby, who said only about half of his recommendations had been taken on.\n\nBut the pledge to \"back farmers\" has been welcomed by the National Farmers' Union and the Soil Association.\n\nThe report recommends investment in automated farming methods to improve productivity\n\nSpeaking from a Cornish farm, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"supporting great British farming\" and putting money into modernisation and innovation.\n\nThe food strategy puts a focus on home-grown food, including strengthening supply chains and boosting food production.\n\nRestaurateur Henry Dimbleby said the policy document was not detailed enough to be called a strategy.\n\nThe government's own adviser on food told the BBC: \"They've now implemented more than 50% of what I recommended, but it hasn't been done with one vision across the whole system.\"\n\nCampaigners say the government must do more to restore nature\n\nHealth campaigners are critical of the omission of recommendations for a tax on unhealthy foods.\n\nBut Mr Dimbleby said his salt and sugar tax proposal would be responded to by the government at a later date, adding that Health Secretary Sajid Javid should \"be bold and brave in a difficult political context and act to break that junk food cycle\".\n\nHe also expressed hope people can \"get away from this narrative of personal responsibility and education, which is important, but it isn't going to get us out of the hole we're in\".\n\nSue Davies of consumer group, Which?, said the strategy lacked ambition and many of the recommendations had been \"watered down, ignored or put off for further consultation\".\n\nAnd conservation charity, The Wildlife Trusts, said the government had broken its promise to restore nature at scale.\n\nConservation group, WWF, said making UK farming \"good for climate and nature\" was the only way to \"fix a broken food system to ensure healthy, affordable, sustainable food is available for everyone, now and for generations to come\".\n\n\"Putting nature and climate at the heart of our food system was a clear promise of this government at COP26 - now it must raise its game and prove it's got the backbone to deliver for people and planet,\" Katie White said.", "Wilson revealed her new relationship on Friday, describing her partner as her \"Disney princess\"\n\nAn Australian newspaper has removed a gossip column and its writer has offered an apology after being accused of outing actress Rebel Wilson.\n\nOn Friday, Wilson shared a picture of her with her new partner, saying she had found her \"Disney princess\".\n\nBut the following day, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote they'd known about the relationship before it was public.\n\nTheir celebrity reporter said he had given Wilson 1.5 days to provide comment for a story.\n\nThat report sparked widespread criticism on social media, with LGBTQ+ campaigners saying it was unacceptable to put pressure on people to come out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Stonewall spokesperson said: \"Coming out is a deeply personal decision. Whether, when and how to come out should be decided by the individual, entirely on their terms.\n\n\"It is simply not OK to 'out' LGBTQ+ people or put pressure on us to come out. Media outlets should take care not to sensationalise LGBTQ+ lives and relationships.\"\n\nIn response, the newspaper denied pressuring Wilson, saying it had \"simply asked questions\".\n\nBut on Monday, amid continued public backlash, columnist Andrew Hornery admitted they had \"mishandled steps in our approach\".\n\n\"It is not the Herald's business to 'out' people and that is not what we set out to do. But I understand why my email has been seen as a threat. The framing of it was a mistake.\"\n\nHe also said that \"as a gay man, I'm well aware of how deeply discrimination hurts\" and that he would not wish to \"inflict that pain on someone else\".\n\nHe included in his Monday column the email he had sent Wilson's representatives last Thursday morning.\n\nIn it he had written that he had \"enough detail to publish\" and \"several sources\", before specifying a Friday 13:00 deadline.\n\n\"In the interests of transparency and fairness, before publishing I am reaching out to Rebel to see if she will engage….,\" he'd written.\n\nWilson did not respond to the email before making her own post on Friday. She has not directly acknowledged the newspaper's actions.\n\nBut in response to a Twitter post saying it wasn't her choice to come out, the 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect among others, said it was a \"very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace\".\n\nWilson's post about her relationship with leisurewear designer Ramona Agruma prompted a wave of congratulations from fans and famous friends - along with more than 1.6 million likes.\n\nBut in his original column, Hornery claimed that Wilson had \"opted to gazump the story\" after he'd been in touch.\n\nHe added that \"her choice to ignore our discreet, genuine and honest queries was, in our view, underwhelming\".\n\nIn Monday's note he acknowledged \"the tone of my column on Saturday was also off\".\n\n\"I got it wrong,\" he admitted. \"I allowed my disappointment to cast a shadow over the piece. That was not fair and I apologise.\"\n\nIn 2022 you might rightly wonder why someone's sexuality is of interest to anyone, let alone a front-page story in a newspaper.\n\nPeople within the LGBT community will probably agree that the very first time you tell family, friends or work colleagues is a day that you vividly remember. Many might want to shout it from the rooftops, others may choose to keep that part of themselves separate to other aspects of their life.\n\nBut Rebel Wilson didn't seem to get that option and announced it to the world herself, before others could.\n\nThanks to social media, celebrities can now have a greater control of their own narrative and Rebel made sure she got ahead to say what she wanted and has been widely welcomed and supported.\n\nThe fact that I am writing this and you're reading it shows that there is still an interest, even in the 21st century. Maybe it's more the nature of how this emerged and the way it was handled that is stoking that though.\n\nNo matter how famous a person is, there is an argument that their love life is their business alone. The criticism the Sydney Morning Herald has received does seem to show that's an opinion many appear to agree with.\n\nThe newspaper's editor, Bevan Shields, was also criticised when he issued an 'editors note' on Sunday defending the report.\n\nIn it he denied the paper had outed Wilson, saying the newsroom had made no decision on whether a report would have been published.\n\nHe wrote: \"Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response.\"\n\nThat response sparked further anger on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAmber Heard has said the \"hate and vitriol\" she received online during her court battle with Johnny Depp meant there wasn't a \"fair representation\" of the case on social media.\n\nTwo weeks ago, a jury said her domestic abuse claim was defamatory and false.\n\nHeard, in her first interview since the verdict, said she didn't blame the jury for believing her ex-husband.\n\nThey had heard \"three weeks of non-stop, relentless testimony\" about \"how I was a non-credible person\", she said.\n\nNBC released a clip of the interview on Monday, with more to be broadcast later this week.\n\nSupport for the Pirates of the Caribbean actor far outweighed that for Heard on social media during the trial, with many Depp supporters directing savage criticism at her and her credibility.\n\nSpeaking to NBC, the actress said: \"I don't care what one thinks about me or what judgements you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors.\n\n\"I don't presume the average person should know those things. And so I don't take it personally.\n\n\"But even somebody who is sure I'm deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I'm lying, you still couldn't look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there's been a fair representation.\n\n\"You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.\"\n\nThe jury in Fairfax, Virginia, awarded $10.35m (£8.2m) damages to Depp after finding Heard had defamed him on the central question of domestic abuse. Heard has said she will appeal.\n\nShe won one of her counter-claims against him, awarding her $2m (£1.5m) in damages.\n\nThe seven-week televised trial was one of the most high-profile celebrity cases of recent years\n\nWhen NBC's Savannah Guthrie put it to her that the jury thought she was lying, Heard replied: \"How could they make a judgement, how could they not come to that conclusion?\n\n\"They had sat in those seats and heard over three weeks of non-stop, relentless testimony from paid employees and, towards the end of the trial, randos [unknown people] as I say.\"\n\nShe said she could understand why they had come to their decision.\n\n\"I don't blame them. I actually understand. He's a beloved character, and people feel they know him. He's a fantastic actor.\"\n\nGuthrie responded that the jury's job was not to be dazzled by his personality and status, but to look at the facts and evidence, and they did not believe what she had said.\n\nHeard replied: \"Again, how could they, after listening to three and a half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person, how not to believe a word that came out of my mouth?\"", "The Queen has become the second-longest serving sovereign monarch in history.\n\nAs of Monday, she has been on the throne for 70 years and 127 days, second only to Louis XIV of France who became king at the age of four.\n\nShe overtakes Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016, having equalled his reign on Sunday.\n\nLast weekend, the 96-year-old's Platinum Jubilee was marked with four days of celebrations across the UK.\n\nShe had officially reached 70 years of rule on 6 February, with the extended bank holiday weekend chosen for the Jubilee events.\n\nMany of the events - including a pageant, Trooping the Colour and a star-studded concert at Buckingham Palace - involved an outdoor element more suited to summer months.\n\nIf the Queen is still reigning in May 2024 she would take the title of the longest reigning monarch of a sovereign state.\n\nLouis XIV's reign of 72 years and 110 days was from 1643 to 1715. But he only started to rule personally in his 20s, in 1661.\n\nThe Queen became monarch at the age of 25, following the death of her father in the early hours of 6 February 1952.\n\nThe Queen is now second only to King Louis XIV of France - he became king aged four, the same age as his namesake Prince Louis\n\nIn September 2015, she became the longest-reigning British monarch when she surpassed the reign of her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria.\n\nShe said at the time it was not a title \"to which I have ever aspired\". She also became the longest reigning female monarch in world history on that day.\n\nHer other records include being the oldest reigning queen ever and the oldest British monarch ever.\n\nThe Queen, who has mobility problems, has been taking on fewer official duties recently, with her family members - notably the Cambridges and Prince Charles and Camilla - taking a more prominent role.\n\nShe delighted many by appearing on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the Jubilee weekend and it is not yet known when she will appear in public next. One occasion could be the Royal Ascot, a favourite event of the horse-loving Queen which is taking place this week, but she missed last year's meet.\n\nAt the close of the Jubilee weekend, she said in a letter of thanks to the British public that she was \"humbled and deeply touched\" by the number of people to have celebrated alongside her.\n\nShe was absent at some of the events, but said \"my heart has been with you all\", adding: \"I remain committed to serving you to the best of my ability, supported by my family.\"", "Lizzo's fans are disappointed by the lyrics, given her history of standing up for marginalised communities\n\nFans are asking US singer Lizzo to delete and re-record her new single, Grrrls, to remove an ableist slur from the lyrics.\n\nThe song was released on Friday 10 June, and almost immediately received criticism from disability advocates.\n\nLizzo uses a derogatory term for a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic diplegia in the first verse.\n\n\"It's absolutely shocking, It really made me flinch,\" says talent agent Abbie Hills, who has cerebral palsy.\n\n\"Why you would choose that word when there's so many other options? It's just completely wrong.\"\n\nOn social media, other fans have said there is \"no excuse\" for using the \"derogatory and harmful\" slur.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by mich ✨ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut although people are upset by the lyric, there's an unusual element of compassion in the online discourse.\n\n\"I don't want to cause any harm and I don't want to cancel her, as is the common reaction on the internet,\" says Hannah Diviney, a writer and disability advocate in Sydney, Australia. \"I just want her to learn gently.\"\n\n\"I've seen a few comments about cancelling Lizzo and that's not what we want,\" added model Shelby Lynch, who has spinal muscular atrophy, on Twitter. \"We want to educate her and have the word challenged.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Shelby 🖤 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC has asked Lizzo's record label for a response, but has yet to receive a reply.\n\nSome fans have pointed out that the insult used in Grrrls has a different connotation in the US - where it is often used to mean \"freaking out\" or \"going crazy\" (although those terms can themselves be insensitive to people with mental health conditions).\n\nBut Hills stresses that, regardless of its usage, the slur still originated as a term of abuse for people with cerebral palsy - a brain condition that affects movement and co-ordination.\n\n\"Cerebral palsy isn't just a UK disability,\" she says. \"There are so many people with it, particularly in America. Even famous actors like RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad, who is a huge sensation over there and does so much work for disability rights.\n\n\"I bet, for him and people within our community, this is just such an insult from someone who is meant to be a diverse voice.\"\n\nThe singer, rapper and flautist has won three Grammy Awards\n\nThis feeling of disappointment is a common theme amongst Lizzo's critics.\n\nThe Grammy-winning singer is a passionate advocate for the plus-size, queer and black communities. Her biggest songs, including Good As Hell and About Damn Time, typically celebrate body positivity and good mental health.\n\nBy using an outdated insult, targeted at another marginalised group, many feel she has let herself down.\n\n\"I don't understand how you can be selective with diversity, says Hills. \"This happens so often. Why does disability get left off the 'checklist'.\"\n\n\"And how could [this term] slip through the net of the writers, her studio team, the producers, Lizzo's entourage. the label? It just doesn't make sense.\"\n\nAdds Diviney: \"For her to unintentionally use that word, or still be in a place where that word is considered OK is really upsetting, because she's a pioneer of inclusion and acceptance in the music industry.\n\n\"So if we can get her to stop doing that, that would be great.\"\n\nDiviney, who also has cerebral palsy, messaged Lizzo on Twitter over the weekend to explain why the term is so offensive.\n\n\"Cerebral palsy is literally classified as spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which basically means that like I have spasticity, or tightness, in my legs specifically,\" she says,\n\n\"It's something I can't control and it makes my life quite difficult and painful. Seeing that word used to suggest someone has lost control or had an emotional outburst is really weird because that's not at all what it's like; and that's not at all what my life as the disabled person is.\"\n\nAlthough Lizzo has yet to acknowledge the criticisms, Diviney is hopeful she will respond with sensitivity.\n\n\"I feel like it would be pretty easy to go in and rework the song,\" she says. \"Maybe throw in a different phrase, or communicate the context of what she's trying to say, in a less offensive way.\"\n\nThis is what many people would like to hear. Fans across social media are clamouring for Lizzo to re-upload Grrrls to streaming sites like Spotify and YouTube with new lyrics.\n\n\"Please remove the s-word from your song,\" posted actress Abigail Lea on Tik Tok. \"Re-record it and apologise,\" added Sinead Reid on Twitter. \"It's the only option here.\"\n\nIt's certainly possible. Lady Gaga erased and replaced R Kelly from her duet Do What U Want since his sex trafficking crimes came to light; while Michael Jackson re-recorded his single They Don't Care About Us to remove an anti-Jewish slur word.\n\nBut Hills says Lizzo might not be able to undo the damage her song has already caused.\n\n\"I've seen it all over Tik Tok. I've seen kids dancing to it, which for me is the biggest problem because she's got this status with teenagers who don't know the word, and don't know the associations it has.\n\n\"So when they hear it on Tik Tok, they're going to dance around, screaming at the top of their lungs and that is a problem because they are the next generation.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Children comfort each other while waiting for evacuation from the region\n\n\"Max speed!\" The instruction comes via walkie-talkie from the armoured police car in front, as we hurtle past the burnt-out carcass of a Ukrainian military truck. There's a high risk of Russian attack on this stretch of road, but it's the safest route left into the beleaguered city of Lysychansk.\n\nWar's dark horizon is ahead of us - black smoke billows from the latest Russian strike. The eastern city - once home to around 100,000 people - is under sustained attack. Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has already pronounced it \"dead\", along with neighbouring Severodonetsk.\n\nDuring our visit the thud of incoming artillery is met by the whoosh of outgoing grad rockets. \"It's a duel,\" says the regional police chief, Oleh Hryhorov, succinctly. If so, it's one Ukraine looks set to lose. And soon.\n\nAs the Russians close in, some are still trying to get out using evacuations organised by the police. About half a dozen civilians are rushing to board an armoured truck, among them a young boy in a blue peaked cap. At the sound of another shell, they scatter and duck for cover. We learn later that a woman was killed nearby. She dared to leave her apartment but made it only as far as the front garden.\n\nLife and death are separated here by slim margins.\n\nWe meet an elderly woman wandering in the street - clearly shell shocked - clutching a small religious icon. She was near the scene of a strike that set a house alight.\n\n\"In Lysychansk, if you are alive, it is a good day,\" says the police chief, who oversees the Luhansk region that covers half the Donbas and is now almost entirely in Russian hands.\n\nHe speaks in a low voice laced with tension and exhaustion, and acknowledges that fear comes with the territory here. \"Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying,\" he says. \"Nobody wants to die. But our brave Ukrainian policemen carry on doing their jobs.\" He takes bitter-sweet pride in the fact that they have helped to evacuate 37,000 people from the region.\n\nAs we speak, a Russian shell whistles over our heads forcing us to duck for cover. Within minutes it's followed by another.\n\nVolodymyr says they have been living without water, gas and electricity\n\nSoon a cluster of civilians gather, waiting for the next evacuation run. The sound of more incoming fire sends some rushing for shelter. But Volodymyr remains sitting. The grey-haired 67-year-old may be too ill to move. He tells me, with a sigh, that he needs to get to hospital.\n\n\"Life here was calm before. It was normal. Then the war broke everything apart. There has been no water, no electricity, no gas. I'm in despair,\" he says quietly. \"In despair.\"\n\nThose who remain make brief escapes from their basements to cook outdoors. We meet Yelena and her relatives sitting on a bench near a makeshift oven - a macabre barbecue imposed by war.\n\nYelena and her relatives have remained in the city\n\nShe's ashen faced, but still clinging to her home of more than 50 years.\n\n\"We have lived here all our lives,\" she said. \"We are a big family with sisters and brothers, children, and grandchildren. All of them are here. We haven't thought about leaving.\" As we speak there are more thuds in the distance.\n\n\"We are worried about ourselves, our family, our pets. We are worried about everything. But we are hoping that everything will be okay.\"\n\nThere's little chance of that. This is now an artillery war, and Ukraine doesn't have enough big guns. The mathematics are stark. Officials say they have one artillery piece for every 10-15 Russia has. Added to that, Ukraine is running out of ammunition.\n\nSo Lysychansk is being pounded, and the fabric of the city is being destroyed. The once imposing Palace of Culture is now a charred shell, its graceful columns blackened and broken. Russia isn't just bombing buildings here, it's erasing history. The tactic is deliberate - shell, flatten, crush, and leave nothing but scorched earth.\n\nThe columns of the Palace of Culture are now charred and broken\n\nFrom Lysychansk it's not hard to see Russia's vision of the future.\n\nIt's just down the road in the twin city of Severodonetsk. We could see fires burning there, on the opposite bank of the Siversky Donets river.\n\nThere are a few remaining pockets of Ukrainian resistance in Severodonetsk, but the city could fall within days. If so, that will be a key victory, allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces to move on to the rest of the Donbas. He and his proxies already control most of it.\n\nUkraine is facing an enemy that has learned lessons and is imposing heavy losses. The government says between 100 and 200 troops are being killed in battle every day. And what of the handful of advanced long range rocket systems promised by Britain and the United States? They may be too little too late.\n\n\"If the weapons had arrived sooner, we would have stopped the Russians much earlier,\" says Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk.\n\n\"Moreover, we would have been able to launch a counterattack.\" The destruction of Severodonetsk is painfully personal for him - it's his hometown.\n\nWe catch up with him for an interview when he is on the move. Like the police chief, he is a worried man, in a hurry, as the last of his region is being devoured.\n\nA damaged building can be seen in Lysychansk as black smoke rises from the nearby city of Severodonetsk\n\nThe governor warns that the risk does not stop at the borders of Ukraine. \"If Putin is not stopped, he will move on,\" he says. \"He will advance to the Baltic countries, to Europe. He will fight, he is a completely deluded man. And he can be stopped only by force.\"\n\nGovernor Haidai says he still believes in victory. That view is echoed in Kyiv. But here on the ground in the Donbas region it looks like Ukraine is fighting a losing battle, and this will be a summer of defeat.\n\nSoon Lysychansk and Severodonetsk may be among the new ghost cities of Ukraine.\n\nAnd as the months go by and Russia grinds forward, there may be another danger - that Western attention, unity and support will begin to ebb away.", "The Scottish wildcat is similar in appearance to the domestic tabby cat\n\nA cat seized by police who believed it was a protected Scottish wildcat turned out to be a domestic tabby.\n\nNorth Wales Police was told a man had been keeping the animal without a licence in the Conwy area.\n\nIt was examined by an expert, who concluded it was a domestic cat which may have some wildcat genes.\n\nPolice said \"significant fundraising\" had been carried out in relation to the cat and a 43-year-old man is helping them with inquiries.\n\nNow extinct in England and Wales, there are believed to be only a few hundred endangered Scottish wildcats left, in northern and eastern Scotland.\n\nThey are similar to a large tabby cat in appearance and are believed to be endangered because of habitat loss and being bred with domestic cats.\n\nEnvironmental groups Natural Resources Wales and NatureScot took the animal from Conwy in February.\n\nAn expert in wildcat identification concluded it was a domestic tabby cat which may have a low proportion of wildcat genes - but not enough to consider it a Scottish wildcat.\n\nOnce found across Great Britain, only hundreds now remain in Scotland\n\nA NatureScot spokesman said: \"In this case the animal was not assessed as being from a protected species.\n\n\"While there are provisions in legislation that allow for the caring and rehabilitation of protected species, NatureScot strongly encourage early communication with our licensing team to help guard against any offences being committed in relation to possession.\"\n\nThe animal is being cared for at a specialist facility.", "Brexit supporter Arron Banks tried to sue the freelance journalist Carole Cadwalladr for libel\n\nBrexit campaigner Arron Banks has lost his libel case against investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr.\n\nMr Banks, the founder of the pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU, sued Ms Cadwalladr for defamation over two instances in 2019 - one in a TED Talk video and another in a tweet.\n\nMr Banks claimed he was defamed after comments Ms Cadwalladr made about his relationship with the Russian state.\n\nThe judgement from the High Court follows a five-day hearing in January.\n\nThe case, which has been going on for nearly three years, centred on comments Ms Cadwalladr made in a TED talk which has been viewed more than five million times since it was broadcast online in April 2019.\n\nIn the talk, she said: \"And I am not even going to get into the lies that Arron Banks has told about his covert relationship with the Russian government.\"\n\nAccording to the judgement from Mrs Justice Steyn:\n\nA public interest defence allows a defendant to justify themselves based on the reason that the information was in the public interest.\n\n\"I am so profoundly grateful and relieved,\" said Ms Cadwalladr, who first reported the Cambridge Analytica data scandal where harvested data was used during elections.\n\nWriting on Twitter after the judgement, she thanked her legal team and the 29,000 people who contributed to her legal defence fund, saying: \"I literally couldn't have done it without you.\"\n\nShe said the last three years had been \"extraordinarily difficult\" and hoped no other journalists had to go through this \"crushing, debilitating, all-consuming experience\".\n\nMr Banks congratulated the investigative journalist on winning, but said he would \"likely\" appeal against the court judgement.\n\n\"It leaves open for the journalist the excuse that she thought what she said was correct even though she had no facts,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nThe High Court judgement \"is an important vindication\" for Ms Cadwalladr, said the journalist's legal team.\n\nKeith Mathieson from law firm RPC, which represented Ms Cadwalladr, said the judgement supports the public interest defence and the \"protection it offers journalists, bloggers and others to contribute to public debate on serious issues\".\n\nRebecca Vincent, from the press freedom campaign group, Reporters without Borders, described it as a victory for journalism.\n\nIt was not just Ms Cadwalladr's reputation at \"stake\", but also the \"ability of the press to report freely on such issues\".\n\n\"If Arron Banks had won today that would have a very different impact on the UK's press freedom climate so we're very pleased that it's gone the way that it has,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOne of the questions raised in this case is why, amidst all the thousands of articles and broadcasts about Brexit, Arron Banks and Russia, did a few sentences in a TED talk and a tweet lead to a libel trial?\n\nCarole Cadwalladr clearly felt this was a personal assault on her.\n\nThe word SLAPP was raised during the trial. A SLAPP is a \"strategic lawsuit against public participation\" and is a phrase to describe the way in which the wealthy and powerful can threaten critics with often frivolous lawsuits that they cannot afford to contest.\n\nThis was certainly a personal battle between Mr Banks and Ms Cadwalladr. She had spent years investigating and reporting on the alleged links between the Brexit campaign and Russia.\n\nDefending this lawsuit was, she says, \"crushing\" and \"debilitating\".\n\nNormally journalists have the financial and legal support of a newspaper or a broadcaster. Ms Cadwalladr had to rely on 29,000 people who contributed to her legal defence fund.\n\nHowever, the judge did not consider this to be a SLAPP saying this case was \"legitimate\" and \"it is neither fair nor apt to describe this as a SLAPP suit\".\n\nNevertheless, it is worth noting the toll such a case can take on an individual. Ms Cadwalladr has written about its effect on her over the last three years and the cost of defending herself. Individuals can, in the age of social media, reach huge audiences but it has its risks.", "Brazilian police say they have found personal items belonging to missing UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.\n\nThe items include Mr Phillips' boots and a backpack with clothes in, as well as Mr Pereira's health ID card, a flip-flop, black trousers and boots.\n\nThe pair went missing while travelling by boat on a reporting trip in a remote Amazon rainforest on 5 June.\n\nMr Phillips' wife and mother-in-law say they now presume the two men are dead.\n\n\"They are no longer with us,\" his mother-in-law wrote on Instagram. The post was later shared by the journalist's wife.\n\nLast week, the police found possible human remains in a river near the town of Atalaia do Norte. Experts have since been analysing the \"organic material\".\n\nBlood traces found on a boat belonging to a fisherman, who has been arrested, are also being tested.\n\nAnother boat belonging to the suspect, named as Amarildo da Costa, was also discovered in the past 24 hours.\n\nMr da Costa, known locally as \"Pelado\", has been questioned and charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition.\n\nThe authorities were helped by searches carried out by the indigenous communities.\n\nOver the weekend, they alerted the authorities to an area of vegetation on the side of the river where there were signs that a boat had been dragged through the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Family and friends of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira want answers about their disappearance\n\nBruno Pereira had many friends among the indigenous communities.\n\nWith increasing government cuts to budgets for indigenous protection, he helped train indigenous people to defend themselves against the increasing threat of illegal fishermen and poachers.\n\n\"It's a huge loss for the indigenous - two men who fought and gave their life for the indigenous communities so we could live in peace,\" one leader said, who asked to remain anonymous. \"The community is shocked.\"\n\nIndigenous groups say both men have received threats for their work in the region, which has seen illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking. The indigenous communities fear the same.\n\n\"A fisherman financed by the narcos will do what they probably did to Bruno, end our lives - because they see us as an obstacle.\"\n\nBoth Mr Pereira and Mr Phillip, who has written for publications such as the Guardian and the Washington Post, are hugely experienced and planned their journeys thoroughly. They reportedly had a new boat and plenty of fuel.", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June.\n\nIn the Javari valley, rivers act as roads. The larger tributaries are the highways, the \"furos\" or the narrow waterways that appear in rainy season, akin to cross-country shortcuts.\n\nCommuters here are mostly fishermen, carried along the waters in simple wooden boats. The rivers are full of incredible species such as the prized - and now endangered - giant Pirarucu.\n\nIt's the beauty that has made this remote region one of the most dangerous parts of the Amazon.\n\nIllegal fishing and poaching has become rife. And being right on the border with Peru and Colombia, it's also become a well-known trafficking route for cocaine.\n\nIt was this conflict that Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were documenting.\n\nDom Phillips was writing a book on saving the Amazon. Bruno Pereira, a specialist on isolated tribes, was introducing him to his contacts and friends. Both were very familiar with the terrain.\n\nTheir disappearance has hit people here hard.\n\nMore than 1000km away from the state's capital Manaus, the community feels abandoned by the authorities.\n\nOver the last few years, there have been sweeping cuts to indigenous protection budgets. Under President Jair Bolsonaro - a man who has little time for the indigenous communities or environmental agencies - the indigenous protection agency FUNAI has been weakened, surveillance has fallen, as too have fines doled out to those who break the law.\n\nIt's against this backdrop that Bruno Pereira played such an important role in the community here. He helped register and map incidents to be able to denounce crimes to the state. Teaching people how to use drones and GPS to track the poachers and fishermen.\n\n\"The state abandoned us, not just here in the Javari Valley but in other indigenous territories too,\" says one indigenous leader.\n\nHe asks not to be identified. Their surveillance work creates enemies. \"It's the government's fault - not giving enough protection and taking the lives of innocent people,\" he adds.\n\nFurther down the river is the community of São Rafael. There is a row of a dozen wooden houses on stilts with a boardwalk running along the length of them.\n\nThis was the village that Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira visited shortly before going missing. Five minutes down river from here is Sao Gabriel, where the suspect, Amarildo da Costa, lived.\n\nEveryone in these riverside communities lives by fishing - including Amarildo. Mostly it's for their own consumption and to earn some extra money. But with overfishing in the more populated areas - and the chance to earn big money selling fish on the sly - some fishermen encroach on indigenous land to find valuable species to sell.\n\nThe indigenous territory is just 20 minutes by boat from here.\n\n\"We fish Pirarucu, it's what's around us,\" says Sao Rafael resident Juliao. \"When we're lucky we get two or three - there are a lot of fishermen here. We fish to survive.\"\n\nThere are strict rules about fishing Pirarucu because of its endangered status.\n\nBut this isn't just about good guys versus bad guys. For people who live on this river, it's about poverty and survival.\n\nAt the end of the boardwalk lives Moreno. He denies any illegal fishing goes on around here. He doesn't want to talk about the disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira either.\n\n\"I didn't know, I didn't see anything, I don't have any information,\" he says, closing up quickly. \"Nobody has anything to do with it.\"\n\nI ask him about Amarildo da Costa.\n\n\"I don't know anything,\" he repeats.\n\nThat seems unlikely. The village a few minutes drive downstream is about the same size as Sao Rafael where you can't not know everybody. But the fear is clear - say too much to outsiders and there may be consequences.\n\nOur river guide is Rubeney de Castro Alves. He and his son have been running a fishing tourism business called Javari Expeditions since 2015. It was in his hotel in the nearby town of Atalaia do Norte that the two men were staying while they were working here.\n\n\"We've seen things get worse since we started,\" he says.\n\nHis idea was to bring tourists to these communities and, through conservation, people could learn from each other. \"These communities feel more and more abandoned, they don't have any federal government support,\" he says.\n\nAnd so they're easy prey for drug-traffickers trying to co-opt locals to work for them. The cartels are a formidable enemy for anyone wanting to bring back the rule of law in this area and protect the environment.\n\nWhile people here are shocked by what's happened, there is also a sense of inevitability.\n\n\"The threats aren't a new thing,\" explains Manoel Chorimpa, a leader of the Marubo indigenous community. \"What we are seeing is a tragedy foretold.\"", "Transport minister Jenny Gilruth and former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale married on Saturday\n\nSNP transport minister Jenny Gilruth and former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale have announced their marriage.\n\nThe wedding took place at the Teasses Estate in Ceres, Fife, on Saturday, The Courier newspaper reported.\n\nThe couple began dating in 2017, when Ms Dugdale was Scottish Labour leader and Ms Gilruth was a backbench SNP MSP.\n\nIn a statement they said: \"This was a wonderfully happy day for us, and we were blessed to share it with family and friends.\"\n\nCongratulations flooded in for the couple on Twitter on Monday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote \"Many congratulations to Jenny and Kez\", while Deputy First Minister John Swinney said it was \"lovely news\", and wished them his warmest congratulations.\n\nFormer SNP MSP Mike Russell, who was constitution secretary, said: \"It was a wonderful day - congratulations again and every good wish for your future happiness.\"\n\nMs Dugdale was Scottish Labour leader from 2015 to 2017 but stepped down as an MSP in 2019 to take up a post as director of the John Smith Centre for Public Service at Glasgow University.\n\nMs Gilruth worked as a teacher before being elected to the Scottish Parliament in May 2016.\n\nThe first minister also highlighted \"more lovely wedding news\" from over the weekend - sharing a Tweet congratulating SNP MP Mhairi Black on marrying her partner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women embrace at a memorial to those killed in the Uvalde mass shooting\n\nA cross-party group of US senators have agreed a framework for potential legislation on gun safety, following a spate of mass shootings.\n\nThis would include support for tougher checks for buyers aged under 21 and cracking down on illegal gun purchases.\n\nCrucially, the proposals are supported by 10 Republicans, meaning they have the numbers to be voted into law.\n\nPresident Biden said the plans were \"steps in the right direction\" but they fall far short of what he called for.\n\nPrevious attempts to tighten gun laws failed to get the required support in Congress.\n\nTens of thousands of protesters rallied across the US on Saturday to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings.\n\n\"Today, we are announcing a common sense, bipartisan proposal to protect America's children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country,\" the Senate group said in a statement.\n\n\"Families are scared, and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore their sense of safety and security in their communities.\"\n\nThe senators also called for increased investment in mental health services and school safety resources, as well as including domestic violence convictions and restraining orders in the national background check database for people buying firearms.\n\nPresident Biden urged lawmakers to pass the proposals quickly, while making clear that they did not go as far as he wanted.\n\nThe president has pushed for far bigger reforms - including a ban on assault rifles, which were used in the Texas and Buffalo mass shootings - or at least an increase in the age at which they can be purchased.\n\n\"Obviously, it does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction, and would be the most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades,\" he said in a statement.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who said the plans were \"a good first step\", said he wanted to move a bill quickly to a Senate vote once legislative details were worked out.\n\nSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said the measures showed \"the value of dialogue and cooperation\".\n\nHe added: \"I continue to hope their discussions yield a bipartisan product that makes significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country.\"\n\nDemocratic Senator Chris Murphy said a \"substantial\" part of the deal had been nailed down by negotiators, allowing the drafting of legislation to get under way on Monday, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe news has also been welcomed by some gun control activists.\n\n\"This is a first step and it's actually a lot more than I thought it would be. This is progress even if small,\" tweeted David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting and co-founder of March for Our Lives, a student-led movement focused on gun violence prevention.\n\n\"Even if it stops one Parkland it's worth it.\"\n\n\"Our grassroots army is ready to fight like hell to make sure it becomes law. 26 years for federal action on gun safety is unacceptable,\" tweeted Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy organisation.\n\nThe National Rifle Association of America (NRA) said it would respond once the full text is released but said it would \"continue to oppose any effort to insert gun control policies, initiatives that override constitutional due process protections & efforts to deprive law-abiding citizens of their fundamental right to protect themselves/loved ones into this or any other legislation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nThe US has the highest rate of firearms deaths among the world's wealthy nations, but is a country where many cherish gun rights that are protected by the Constitution's Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nThese are the first gun safety laws to receive bipartisan support of this kind in decades, with previous attempts by Democrats for strengthened controls frustrated by Republicans.\n\nAttempts to tighten the laws in the wake of a previous school shooting at Sandy Hook in Connecticut nearly a decade ago - in which 20 children and six adults were killed - failed to get the required votes in Congress.\n\nThe Senate, or upper chamber of Congress, is currently split - with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans - and legislation must have 60 votes to overcome a manoeuvre known as the filibuster.\n\nTen of the 20 senators who proposed the new measures are Republicans, meaning the proposals have the numbers needed to overcome the filibuster.\n\nThe Democrat-controlled lower chamber, the House of Representatives, this week voted through a series of measures regulating the sale of guns.\n\nBut Republican opposition in the Senate means the bill has little chance of entering law, leaving the bipartisan deal agreed on Sunday as the only realistic hope for federal measures to address firearms violence.\n• None Thousands rally across US for stricter gun laws", "This brittle star is one of about 70,000 species to have its genome sequenced\n\nThat’s the best guess for the tally of life, including plants, animals and fungi, found in Britain and Ireland.\n\nAnd it’s the target of one of biology's most ambitious projects - scientists want to map the DNA of every single one of these organisms.\n\nHaving these genomes - each a complete set of genetic information for a species - could transform how we understand the natural world. And there could be benefits for us too in the hunt for nature-inspired medicines and materials.\n\nIn Plymouth, the starting point for this immense task is some thick, sticky mud.\n\nSediment scooped up from the bottom of the Plymouth Sound has been hoisted onto the deck of the research vessel that belongs to the Marine Biological Association.\n\nIt's placed in a sieve and hosed off, revealing a host of wriggling creatures.\n\nThe sediment in Plymouth is jam packed with life\n\n\"You can see we've got some bivalves, which are related to clams and mussels. We've also got a gastropod shell - these are quite similar to terrestrial garden snails. And we've got some brittle stars. So lots of different taxa (groups of organisms), lots of different types of animals, which is great,\" explains marine biologist Patrick Adkins.\n\nToday he's focussing on marine worms known as polychaetes, and there are lots living in the sediment.\n\nSome look like earthworms and others are covered in tiny bristles, squiggling about. But the weirdest is the mud owl. If you squint, its markings look a bit like the face of an owl, until it extends a tubular proboscis, shattering the illusion.\n\nAll of them will have their genomes sequenced for the project, which is called the Darwin Tree of Life and includes participation from the Natural History Museum.\n\n\"Even if you look at polychaetes, which is just one group of worms, it's a big task with hundreds and hundreds of species,\" Patrick says.\n\n\"We've now got over 100 species of polychaetes collected - it seems like a lot, but really, it's just the beginning.\"\n\nThese marine worms are known as mud owls\n\nThe research covers every kind of habitat.\n\nIn Oxfordshire, woodlands are the focus.\n\nAs dusk falls, a family of badgers emerge from their sett. They snuffle around in the gloom, hunting for some snacks after their sleep.\n\nThe animals here in Wytham Woods have been studied in detail for more than 30 years, but now their genome has just been sequenced too.\n\nThe genome of the European badger has now been sequenced as part of the project\n\n\"The genome can answer so many questions that we couldn't answer before,\" says Ming-Shan Tsai from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"We can explore why the badger is very different from other animals - and their unique behaviour.\"\n\nThis includes the puzzle of delayed implantation, where badgers mate and an egg is fertilised, but the process of pregnancy is put on hold until it's the best time of year to have a cub.\n\n\"Getting a genome will also help us to understand why badgers are more susceptible to tuberculosis, for example, than other animals,\" she added.\n\nAt the centre of this project is the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge.\n\nEvery day, samples from all over the British Isles are arriving.\n\nWhether it's a leaf from a tree, or some blood taken from an animal, the material is weighed, then frozen with liquid nitrogen, and finally pulverised into a fine powder. From this, the DNA can be extracted, and the genome sequenced.\n\nThe samples are sent to the Wellcome Sanger Institute\n\nSanger played a leading role in the human genome project, which took years to complete. Now sequencing a species takes a few days.\n\nMark Blaxter, who leads the Tree of Life project, says: \"When the human genome was sequenced, it changed the way we do human biology forever. And it's really transformed how we see ourselves and how we work with our health and illness.\n\n\"And we want to make that possible for all of biology. So we want everybody, working on any species, or any group of species, anywhere in the world, able to have this ultimate foundation.\"\n\nThe genetic work should show how species relate to each other, and reveal their similarities and also where their differences lie.\n\n\"It's filling up the library of life,\" Mark explains.\n\nThis single-celled organism was found in some pond water\n\nBut the tiniest life forms are posing the biggest challenges.\n\nJamie McGowan, from the Earlham Institute in Norwich, is staring through a microscope at a single drop of pond water. It’s full of single-celled organisms known as protists.\n\n\"There's two little green cells here - they're both micro algae. They're photosynthetic, just like plants,\" he says.\n\nThey are the smallest organisms being sequenced for the project, but it's not easy.\n\n\"They're really hard to identify, because some of them look really similar. And they're hard to sequence too because they're starting off with really, really tiny amounts of DNA.\"\n\nLife on Earth began with single-celled organisms, and we could not exist without them.\n\n\"We completely depend on them to survive,\" Jamie explains.\n\n\"Protists occupy a really important position in the food chain, where they eat organisms that are smaller than them, such as bacteria and viruses. And then they, in turn, get eaten by larger organisms.\n\n\"And quite a lot of protists can produce oxygen - in fact they actually produce about half of the planet's oxygen supply.\n\n\"So having their genome sequenced is really important to be able to identify them. Their biodiversity is so poorly understood. And we need to protect them, because they're so critical for all of the rest of life.\"\n\nRock pools hold many different species which could help to inspire nature-based medicines or materials\n\nBack in Plymouth, and the marine biologists have moved onshore to take a look inside some rock pools.\n\nEach is a colourful microcosmos, containing a multitude of species.\n\n\"It’s a pipefish,\" says Kes Scott-Somme, a research assistant on the Darwin Tree of Life project. \"It's basically like a stretched-out seahorse. They're beautiful - and they're very, very well adapted to their environment. They can live quite high on the shore like this.\"\n\nBut learning about the DNA of creatures like this won't just help us to better understand the species - it could also help us.\n\n\"Marine environments are incredibly volatile, and so the animals that live here have to be even more adapted to their space than we are. And that means that they have very specific ways of coping with their environment,\" says Kes.\n\n\"This could help us to find things like antibiotics, medicines and materials. The marine environment is a great place to look for that information.\"\n\nThe Darwin Tree of Life project has a tough deadline - all 70,000 species sequenced by the end of 2030.\n\nThere is a lot of work to do, but this project could give us our most detailed understanding yet of the diversity of life.", "Fellow Dragons from the BBC show have paid tribute to Hilary Devey\n\nDevey, who grew up in Leeds, died after a long illness on Saturday night, her publicist Benjamin Webb said.\n\nThe Bolton-born entrepreneur, who founded the multimillion-pound freight distribution business Pall-Ex in the 1990s, died at her holiday home in Morocco.\n\nMr Webb said Devey was a \"remarkable lady and an inspiration\" who was \"so proud\" of her work on Dragons' Den.\n\nHannah Wyatt, managing director for Factual Entertainment and Events at BBC Studios, said: \"Hilary Devey will always hold a unique place in the hearts of Dragons' Den viewers and the programme team.\n\n\"We are all extremely saddened by her loss and our thoughts at this time are with her family and friends.\"\n\nShe joined the popular BBC TV show in 2011 and left in 2012, going on to present Channel 4's The Intern.\n\nIn 2013 she was made a CBE for her career in business and her contribution to charity.\n\nDevey's charitable work included her position as vice-president of the Carers Trust and she was also a patron of the Stroke Association, having herself suffered a stroke in 2009.\n\nFrom age seven, Devey started helping out in the pubs and corner shop run by her parents.\n\nShe left school at 16 and later moved to London. She started work as a sales clerk in the offices of a distribution company and worked her way up through the logistics industry.\n\nHilary Devey appeared on Dragons' Den with Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis, Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones\n\nDevey came to public attention when she replaced James Caan on Dragons' Den, later saying her best investment had been a mattress-duvet for caravans, boats and trucks.\n\nBusinessman Duncan Bannatyne, who previously appeared on the show with Devey, tweeted: \"Sad to hear that @HilaryDevey has passed. So young. Too young. Rest in Peace Hilary. X\"\n\nAnother former co-star, Theo Paphitis, tweeted: \"So sad to hear of the passing of the lovely Hilary Devey. She left us all with some fantastic memories, may she rest in peace. My thoughts are with her family. x\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fellow Dragon Theo Paphitis said Devey was a \"straight-talking northern girl\" who had \"an amazing generosity of spirit\"\n\nDragons' Den presenter Evan Davis said Devey would be \"long remembered\", tweeting: \"So sorry to hear of Hilary Devey's passing. I didn't know her well, but she really brought a wonderful grit to the Den; it was quite different to anything we'd encountered and audiences loved it.\"\n\nKate Phillips, director of BBC Unscripted Content, said: \"When Hilary entered the Den in 2011 she was formidable, fiery and completely unforgettable.\n\n\"A tough talking Dragon who never minced her words, she also always saw the person behind the product and was such an encouraging mentor and investor to so many entrepreneurs.\n\n\"A hugely successful businesswoman and television expert, she will be missed by all who knew her and benefited from her wise words and experience. \"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parliament's standards commissioner is investigating whether Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer broke the rules by being late in registering earnings and gifts.\n\nMPs must declare within 28 days any interest which might be reasonably considered to influence their actions.\n\nSir Keir appears to have missed this deadline on several occasions, including over Arsenal FC tickets and a payment made for writing a book.\n\nHe said: \"I am confident there is no problem here.\"\n\nGifts and payments received by MPs are regularly published fortnightly in the Register of Members' Financial Interests.\n\nStandards commissioner Kathryn Stone is believed to be looking into tickets received by Sir Keir for football matches involving Arsenal - whom the Labour leader supports - against Crystal Palace and Watford, worth £720 and £1,416 respectively.\n\nThese were declared more than 28 days late, as was an £18,450 advance payment from publisher Harper Collins for a book outlining his early life and plans for governing the UK, and making \"a fierce argument for the vital role of respect and integrity in political life\".\n\nThe fee for this work is being donated to charity.\n\nSir Keir also received an oil painting worth £1,500 from a donor called Tim Benson on 23 November last year, which was registered on 20 December.\n\nFood delivery firm Just Eat also gifted him tickets to the British Kebab Awards and Taste of London event, passed on to the Labour leader's staff, which were declared more than 28 days after they were received.\n\nA spokesperson for the Labour leader said: \"Keir Starmer takes his declaration responsibilities very seriously and has already apologised for the fact that administrative errors in his office have led to a small number of late declarations.\n\n\"The standards commissioner has asked for more information which we are happy to provide.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was found by the standards commissioner to have breached the rules on late declarations in 2018 and 2019.\n\nThe first occasion involved earnings of more than £50,000 and the second involved part-ownership of a property in Somerset.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss says the UK government's proposed Northern Ireland Protocol changes are \"within international law\".\n\nThe UK government has published plans to get rid of parts of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the EU in 2019.\n\nIt wants to change the Northern Ireland Protocol to make it easier for some goods to flow from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the EU opposes the move, saying going back on the deal breaches international law.\n\nThe protocol is the part of the Brexit deal which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nIt prevents a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, but it means checks on some goods arriving into Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK - a situation opposed by unionists in Northern Ireland who argue it creates a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nAt the centre of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses is the concept of green lanes and red lanes for trade.\n\nLondon also wants any trade disputes resolved by \"independent arbitration\" and not by the European Court of Justice, and Northern Ireland to benefit from the same tax breaks as elsewhere in the UK.\n\nThe government says there is \"no other way\" of safeguarding essential interests of the UK.\n\nIt argues the term \"necessity\" is used in international law to justify situations where \"the only way a state can safeguard an essential interest\" is by disapplying - or breaking - another international obligation.\n\nIt adds that action taken must not \"seriously impair\" essential interests of other states.\n\nThe alterations are set out in the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, to be debated and voted on by Parliament.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said it was \"a reasonable, practical solution to the problems facing Northern Ireland\" and that the UK could \"only make progress through negotiations if the EU are willing to change the protocol itself\", adding: \"At the moment they aren't.\"\n\n\"We are very clear that we're acting in line with the law,\" she said.\n\nThe government said it would prefer a \"negotiated solution\" with the EU that avoids the need for the bill to become law.\n\nThere's no appetite amongst EU leaders for a full-blown trade war with the UK.\n\nThey have their hands full with the cost of living crisis and the war in Ukraine.\n\nSo the EU didn't want to overreact to today's UK government legislation proposal - after all it's not law yet - but neither did it want to underreact.\n\nAttempting unilaterally to over-ride large parts of the protocol agreed and signed by Boris Johnson is seen as a very big deal in Brussels.\n\nAs a warning, the EU will look to re-start legal proceedings against the UK for alleged breaches of the protocol - such as failing to carry out certain checks.\n\nAt the same time, the EU's chief negotiator has implored the UK to come back to the negotiating table.\n\nHe says the EU will soon publish new proposals to iron out practical problems thrown up by the protocol for people in Northern Ireland.\n\nAway from the drama playing out right now, there are clear areas like customs lanes where the EU and the UK government aren't far apart at all. But the mood music is dreadful.\n\nThree parties in Northern Ireland - Sinn Féin, Alliance and the SDLP - say the protocol is necessary to mitigate the effects of Brexit in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever no unionist supports the protocol as it stands.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which won the second-most seats in the recent Northern Ireland Assembly elections, argues it creates a divide that could lead to the break-up of the UK.\n\nIt is refusing to set up a new ruling Northern Ireland executive with Sinn Féin, which won most seats in the election, until changes are made to it.\n\nSinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill accused the prime minister of creating more instability and uncertainty in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Boris Johnson's action is illegal, he is in clear breach of international law, regardless of the detail,\" she said.\n\n\"He himself signed up to an agreement, he signed on the dotted line and he's now legislating to breach that international agreement.\"\n\nShe added that the protocol was working - and she accused the DUP of blocking the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said: \"I don't believe what the government is proposing is illegal. I believe it is a solution and that is what we need - solutions.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have strong support from across unionism for the stand that we are taking.\n\n\"I believe that our pressure is seeing progress being made and we will continue to work with government to ensure that this legislation progresses.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NI Protocol: Sinn Féin and DUP disagree over plan to change NI Protocol\n\nThe government, in its legal justification for this new bill, has also cited Article 16 - a clause in the NI Protocol that allows either side to take safeguarding measures if applying the protocol leads to serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that restrict trade.\n\nThe government has argued that maintaining peace in Northern Ireland, protecting the Good Friday Agreement, and preserving economic and social ties between Northern Ireland and Great Britain are \"essential interests\" of the UK.\n\nBut it says the protocol currently stands as a \"barrier\" to forming a new governing executive in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt says while the government's preference is a negotiated outcome with the EU, in the meantime the \"strain\" that the protocol is placing on Northern Ireland has reached the point where the government \"has no other way of safeguarding the essential interests at stake\" than this new bill.\n\nEuropean Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said renegotiating the protocol is unrealistic and unilateral action by the UK is \"damaging to mutual trust\".\n\nMaros Sefcovic said what the UK was doing was damaging to mutual trust\n\nHe said the protocol was the \"one and only solution\" to protect the peace process in Northern Ireland, while addressing the challenges created by Brexit.\n\n\"It is with significant concern that we take note of today's decision by the UK government to table legislation disapplying core elements of the protocol,\" he said.\n\n\"The commission will now assess the UK draft legislation.\"\n\nThe White House press secretary said the US administration recognises \"challenges over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\"\n\n\"We urge the UK and the EU to return to talks to resolve these differences,\" the press secretary said.\n\nBusinesses which import Great Britain goods to Northern Ireland have experienced difficulties with the protocol as the checks and controls add cost and complexity.\n\nFood and horticulture importers have faced the greatest problems, as those goods face the most onerous controls.\n\nHowever, exporters, including food exporters, have benefited because unlike other parts of the UK they have maintained frictionless access to EU markets.\n\nIrish Prime Minister Micheál Martin called for negotiations between the UK and EU to deal with the impasse.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government's legislation risks a \"deeply damaging\" trade war with the EU.\n\nShadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy said it was \"a desperate attempt by Boris Johnson to distract from the drama of his leadership crisis\".\n\nMeanwhile, Stuart Anderson from the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it was ready to play its part in supporting lasting solutions that work for businesses and households.\n\n\"While there are attractive elements in today's proposals for consumer facing businesses in particular, a careful balance must be struck to protect gains made to date by our exporters and agri-food sub-sectors,\" he said.", "Patients with long Covid are facing a postcode lottery across the UK when it comes to getting care, nurses say.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said treatment varied hugely with some services treating it as a physical condition, but others as psychological.\n\nThe union also highlighted long waits in parts of England, which has a network of specialist clinics.\n\nIt warned that patients in Scotland and Wales may be missing out because of a lack of dedicated clinics.\n\nBut officials there say patients are getting support via core NHS services.\n\nAccess to long Covid services and support is for patients with persistent symptoms following an infection. These are defined as ones that continue for more than 12 weeks, and which cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis.\n\nMore than 200 symptoms have been linked to long Covid but some of the main symptoms are extreme fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog, heart problems and severe headaches.\n\nSpeaking at the RCN's conference in Glasgow, nurses said they had seen first-hand how debilitating the symptoms could be.\n\nNearly half of patients referred to specialist services are aged 35 to 54.\n\nJo Strucke, a mental health nurse who works in a specialist service in Yorkshire, said: \"Some of our patients have really complex physical health problems and their lives have been transformed.\n\n\"They may be unable to work, socialise and do things they previously enjoyed.\"\n\nHelen Donovan, the RCN's public health lead, added: \"As nursing staff we see first-hand how life-limiting long Covid can be.\"\n\nBut she said: \"There aren't enough specialist services to meet growing demand and the help patients get varies hugely across the country.\"\n\nFigures in England show of the 4,400 people who got their initial assessment at one of the country's 90 dedicated adult clinics in the most recent month, 30% had been waiting more than 15 weeks for an initial assessment.\n\nThe union also highlighted the wide variation in waits, with nearly half of patients waiting more than 15 weeks in the south-east and south-west, compared with 20% in the north-west.\n\nNHS England said local services were working hard to reduce waiting times.\n\nSimilar data is not available for Northern Ireland, which also has dedicated services.\n\nIn Wales and Scotland it is left to core NHS services to see patients, but extra investment has been made to support patients.\n\nThe Welsh government said its support package still represented an \"individual and tailored\" programme, which included both support in the community close to home - such as rehab aimed at improving breathing - through to hospital care for the most complex cases.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said it was drawing on the full range of services, from GPs and community-based rehab teams, to hospitals for tests and more complex support for patients.", "The message appeared on screen during an interval in the show in Derry\n\nA company that provides large screens at concerts has apologised after a message appeared at a gig in Londonderry suggesting a camera would zoom in on women's chests.\n\nThe words \"CCTV Boob Watch\" were displayed on a screen at the Electric Rock concert in Derry's Ebrington Square on 2 June.\n\nThe company, Mobile Trailer Hire, has apologised for any offence caused.\n\nIt told BBC News NI, the person responsible was immediately sacked.\n\nConor Moran from Mobile Trailer Hire, a company that was working alongside Screens Ireland, told BBC Radio Foyle : \"A manager heard about it on the night and the person who was responsible - who was being used from a sub-contractor - was sacked on the spot.\n\n\"He will not be used again.\n\n\"I'm not aware at this stage if a camera did actually zoom in on anyone's chests. We apologise if any woman felt their privacy and space was being invaded.\n\n\"We will carry out an investigation and report to the relevant authorities\".\n\nHelen Hancock, who works as a breast feeding counsellor, was among those at the Derry gig.\n\nShe said the message, which appeared during an interval, \"reeked of something horrible\".\n\nIt had made her \"feel like I was back in the 1980s,\" she said.\n\n\"I work with women everyday who overcome a lot of trauma, mainly breast feeding trauma, so I am very conscious of this kind of stuff, the message this puts out there, and I am sure other people are too.\n\n\"It is just not on in Derry in this day and age, I was just embarrassed to be there\".\n\nThe concert's promoter, Robert Allen of Connected Festival, said he will not be using the big screen company again.\n\n\"When we became aware of the matter we referred it immediately to the company responsible,\" Mr Allen said.\n\n\"They have informed us they are reporting the individual responsible to the relevant authorities and as promoter of the event we will not be using their service again\".\n\nThe Connected Festival was a three-night event with the Electric Rock concert on Thursday night.", "Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas\n\nWars ebb and flow. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is no exception.\n\nEarly fears of a swift conquest were succeeded by Russian retreat and Ukrainian resistance. That has now been met by a more focused Russian offensive in the east.\n\nBut 100 days on, where might this war go next?\n\nHere are five potential scenarios - they are not mutually exclusive, but all are within the bounds of plausibility.\n\nThe war might continue for months - if not years - as Russian and Ukrainian forces grind each other down.\n\nMomentum shifts to and fro as both sides make gains and losses. Neither side is willing to give up. Russia's President Putin judges he can gain by demonstrating strategic patience, gambling that Western countries will suffer from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and focus more on their economic crises and the threat from China.\n\nThe West, however, shows resolve and continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. Semi-permanent front lines are established. Steadily the war becomes a frozen conflict, a \"forever war\".\n\nMick Ryan, a retired Australian general and military scholar, says: \"There is little prospect of a crushing operational or strategic victory by either side in the short term. Neither belligerent has demonstrated the capacity to land a strategically decisive blow.\"\n\nWhat if President Putin were to surprise the world with a unilateral ceasefire? He could pocket his territorial gains and declare \"victory\".\n\nHe could claim his \"military operation\" was complete: Russian-backed separatists in Donbas protected; a land corridor to Crimea established. He could then seek the moral high ground, putting pressure on Ukraine to stop fighting.\n\n\"This is a ploy which could be used by Russia at any time, if it wants to capitalise on European pressure on Ukraine to surrender and give up territory in exchange for notional peace,\" says Keir Giles, Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank.\n\nRussia's President Putin may gamble on Western countries suffering from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and switching focus to their economies\n\nThe arguments are heard already in Paris, Berlin and Rome: no need to prolong the war, time to end the global economic pain, let's push for a ceasefire.\n\nThis, though, would be opposed by the US, the UK and much of eastern Europe, where policymakers believe Russia's invasion must fail, for the sake of Ukraine and the international order.\n\nSo a unilateral Russian ceasefire might change the narrative but not end the fighting.\n\nWhat if both Ukraine and Russia conclude they cannot achieve more militarily and enter talks for a political settlement?\n\nTheir armies are exhausted, running short of manpower and munitions. The price in blood and treasure no longer justifies further fighting. Russia's military and economic losses are not sustainable. The Ukrainian people tire of war, unwilling to risk more lives for an eternally elusive victory.\n\nWhat if the leadership in Kyiv - no longer trusting continued Western support - decide the time has come to talk? US President Joe Biden openly admits America's aim is for Ukraine to be \"in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table\".\n\nBut there may not be a battlefield stalemate for many months and any political settlement would be hard, not least because of Ukraine's lack of trust in Russia. A peace deal might not endure and could be followed by more fighting.\n\nCould Ukraine - against the odds - achieve something close to a victory? Could Ukraine force Russian troops to withdraw to where they were before the invasion?\n\n\"Ukraine will definitely win this war,\" the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky told Dutch TV this week.\n\nWhat if Russia fails to seize all Donbas and suffers more losses? Western sanctions hit Russia's war machine. Ukraine makes counter attacks, using its new long-range rockets, seizing back territory where Russian supply lines are stretched. Ukraine transforms its army from a defensive to an offensive force.\n\nThe US said it would supply Ukraine with weapons including medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)\n\nThis scenario is plausible enough for policymakers to worry already about its consequences. If Mr Putin were facing defeat, might he escalate, potentially using either chemical or nuclear weapons?\n\nThe historian Niall Ferguson told a seminar at Kings College, London recently: \"It seems unlikely to me that Putin is going to accept conventional military defeat when he has a nuclear option.\"\n\nAnd what of a possible Russian \"victory\"?\n\nWestern officials emphasise that Russia, despite early setbacks, still plans to seize the capital Kyiv and subjugate much of Ukraine. \"Those maximalist objectives remain in place,\" one official said.\n\nRussia could capitalise on its gains in Donbas, freeing up forces for use elsewhere, perhaps even targeting Kyiv once again. The sheer weight of Russian numbers come to bear. Ukrainian forces continue to suffer.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky met servicemen in the eastern Kharkiv region, where fighting has intensified\n\nPresident Zelensky already admits up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying and another 500 are wounded every day.\n\nThe people of Ukraine could divide, some wanting to fight on, others wanting to sue for peace. Some Western countries might tire of supporting Ukraine. But equally, if they thought Russia was winning, others might want to escalate.\n\nOne Western diplomat told me privately the West should test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific as a warning to Russia.\n\nThe future of this war is not yet written.", "Tiger Woods to miss US Open to give himself time to 'get stronger' Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods has won 15 majors during his career Tiger Woods has confirmed he will not play at next week's US Open, but still plans to compete at the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews next month. It follows the 15-time major winner's withdrawal from the US PGA Championship in May after three rounds. \"I will not be competing in the US Open as my body needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf,\" Woods, 46, said on Twitter. However, the event will include players from the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The US Open begins on 16 June in Brookline, Massachusetts. Woods added: \"I do hope and plan to be ready to play in Ireland at the JP McManus Pro-Am and at The Open next month. I'm excited to get back out there soon.\" The veteran American returned to competition at the Masters in April, 14 months after a serious car crash, from which he had to be \"extricated from the wreck\" by firefighters and paramedics. The severity of Woods' injuries saw him embark on a long road to recovery and initially raised questions over whether he would even be able to compete again at the highest level. He played his third worst round in a major at the US PGA Championship last month, with a nine-over 79, that left him joint last on 12 over. He also made five consecutive bogeys for the first time in a major since turning professional in 1996. On Monday, Woods' great rival Phil Mickelson was added to the field for the first event in the Greg Norman-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, which takes place in Hertfordshire and starts on Thursday. In an interview with the Washington Post, Norman said Woods had been offered a \"mind-blowingly enormous\" deal to take part in the series. Players taking part in the LIV Golf Invitational will be allowed to take part in the US Open, the United States Golf Association (USGA) has ruled. There had been questions over the issue, as the PGA Tour has threatened sanctions and bans against players signing up for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series. However, the majors are not run by the PGA Tour, with the US Open being staged by the USGA. The USGA said its qualification criteria was set prior to entries opening earlier this year and that it would not be appropriate or fair for those who have earned a spot to change those rules. It said: \"Regarding players who may choose to play in London [at the LIV event] this week, we simply asked ourselves this question - should a player who had earned his way into the 2022 US Open, via our published field criteria, be pulled out of the field as a result of his decision to play in another event? \"And we ultimately decided that they should not.\"\n• None The boys are back and Florida awaits...\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?:", "Jim Fitton was detained while trying to leave the country in March\n\nA retired British geologist has been jailed for 15 years for attempting to remove artefacts from Iraq.\n\nJim Fitton, 66, who is originally from Bath, collected 12 stones and shards of broken pottery during a recent geology and archaeology tour of the country.\n\nMr Fitton has insisted he had no idea he was breaking Iraqi laws.\n\nThe family of Mr Fitton said they were \"absolutely shattered\" and \"heartbroken\" by the news. They urged the government to help free him.\n\n\"For a man of Jim's age, 15 years in an Iraqi prison is tantamount to a death sentence,\" the family added.\n\n\"Particularly for such a trivial and dubious crime, a crime Jim was not even aware of when he perpetrated it.\n\n\"We are raising an appeal and will continue to fight for Jim's freedom, and urge the government to support us in every way possible and to open lines of communication with us at a senior level.\"\n\nMr Fitton picked up the stone fragments from Eridu, a historically famous archaeological site in southern Iraq\n\nBath's Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse said the sentence was \"a devastating outcome for Jim and his family\".\n\n\"There is now no other option but for the Foreign Secretary to intervene at a ministerial level. The Foreign Secretary must make representations to the Iraqi Government.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously said it cannot interfere with the judicial process of another country.\n\nMr Fitton was arrested at Baghdad airport on 20 March alongside German national Volker Waldmann.\n\nHe was acquitted of the same charges as Mr Fitton.\n\nAccording to statements from customs officers and witnesses, Mr Fitton's baggage contained about a dozen stone fragments, pieces of pottery or ceramics.\n\nJim Fitton said he took the items because of his \"hobby\" but added he did not mean to do anything illegal\n\nMr Waldmann allegedly had two pieces, but at the trial's opening on 15 May denied they were his.\n\nBoth of the men, dressed in yellow clothing, told the court they were not guilty \"of trafficking antiquities\".\n\nWhen Judge Jabir Abd Jabir asked Mr Fitton why he tried to take the artefacts out of Iraq, he cited his \"hobby\" and said he did not mean to do anything illegal.\n\nThey were charged under a 2002 law against \"intentionally taking or trying to take out of Iraq an antiquity\".\n\nMr Fitton's sentence appeared to have shocked those in the court, including his defence lawyer.\n\n\"I thought the worst case scenario would be one year, with suspension,\" Mr Fitton's lawyer Thair Soud said.\n\nThe maximum sentence for removing artefacts is the death penalty.\n\nThe court decided to reduce the sentence \"because of the advanced age of the accused,\" the judge said.\n\nJim Fitton with his wife Sarijah and daughter Leila\n\nMr Fitton collected the items as souvenirs while visiting a site in Eridu, in Iraq's south east.\n\nIraqi officials have said the fragments could be considered as archaeological pieces as they date back more than 200 years.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it cannot interfere with the judicial process of another country and has made clear its opposition to the death penalty.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by his own MPs to oust him as Conservative Party leader and prime minister in a confidence vote. But the scale of the rebellion against him means he is not out of the woods yet. What's the next move for Tory rebels and Johnson loyalists?\n\nBoris Johnson used to make his party feel good. Anyone who has watched the prime minister work the crowd at a Conservative Party conference will have seen the effect he has on activists.\n\nBut that feelgood factor was hard to find among Tory MPs in Parliament this morning.\n\nBut any hope he had that his party would now move on was obliterated by the result - and the fact 41% of MPs who voted said they wanted Boris Johnson out.\n\nOne MP arriving in Parliament on Monday morning lamented simply: \"It's not good.\"\n\nThe rebellion was much bigger than many expected - and that exposes a divided party.\n\nA prominent rebel said: \"The cabinet should tell him to go but they won't because they are too weak - he kept them weak.\"\n\nIn theory, the prime minister is safe from another confidence vote for a year.\n\nUnder the current rules of the 1922 committee, which organises leadership contests, another challenge can't happen for 12 months after the incumbent wins.\n\nBut not everyone is convinced.\n\n\"All this assumption that he's safe for a year - I don't think anyone believes that,\" one backbencher told me this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee had considered changing the rules under Theresa May's premiership, to allow a second confidence a few months after she won a first.\n\nRebels are already talking about how they could force another vote on Boris Johnson's future.\n\n\"There will be huge pressure on [1922 committee chairman] Sir Graham Brady to change the rules,\" says a senior critic of the PM.\n\nIt's not guaranteed that change to the process will happen. My sources on the committee have talked of needing a period of calm.\n\nBut there are big political pitfalls ahead too, which could change minds.\n\nThe subject currently dominating talk among Tory MPs is the two by-elections later this month.\n\nOn 23 June, the Conservatives will be looking to defend Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon. Labour are aiming to take back Wakefield, one of the \"Red Wall\" northern strongholds that they lost in Boris Johnson's 2019 landslide.\n\nThe Lib Dems are throwing everything they have got at Tiverton and Honiton, where the Tories have a 24,000 majority, in the hope of pulling off another upset in the so-called \"Blue Wall\" of Tory heartland seats in the south.\n\nSenior Tories fear they will lose both contests - plunging Boris Johnson's leadership into a fresh crisis.\n\nA senior rebel I spoke to this morning said his focus will now be trying to change the minds of enough Tory MPs to shift the balance of power away from the prime minister.\n\nThey believe if they can persuade 30 MPs who backed Mr Johnson in Monday night's confidence vote to switch they will be able to bring him down.\n\nAnd some argue that any by-election evidence the prime minister has become a liability at the ballot box will help that persuasion process.\n\nAnother rebel told me if they get \"caned\" in both contests, it will spark another round of concern in the parliamentary party.\n\nSome of the PM's critics do now want to move on and say that mid-term by-elections won't change their mind.\n\nTory MP Nigel Mills told the BBC: \"We had a vote yesterday, we made a decision.\"\n\nThe key point though is this; many MPs just don't think the party can move on and they're looking at what the next crisis might be.\n\nThen there's Partygate - which isn't over yet.\n\nParliament's privileges committee is due to look into whether the prime minister misled the House of Commons - and sources close to that process believe that could be damning for Mr Johnson. The committee is thought likely to report in the Autumn.\n\nIf it concludes he knowingly misled parliament, more MPs might be persuaded of the need for a new leader. It may also produce new evidence of what went on in Downing Street during lockdown - and that could be damaging too.\n\nOne opposition source told me: \"We might have to wait for the committee to bring him down… this just going to rumble on.\"\n\nThere is also a wider question for the PM about his authority. Despite his significant majority, he will now have to look over his shoulder when it comes to contentious votes and controversial policies.\n\nWill those who want him out be harder to win over?\n\nThere will be efforts to pressure the prime minister to change the way he governs in the next few weeks.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told me the PM needed to \"cut the culture war crap\".\n\nCan he turn things around?\n\n\"He can do it,\" they said, \"but he doesn't have much time.\"\n\nAnother senior backbencher said the prime minister needed to be more Conservative in his policies (for many, that means cutting taxes). Some are calling for a reshuffle, to bring different voices around the cabinet table.\n\nWithin government itself there are those who want change too.\n\nOne minister told me: \"We have a window to show we get it…Things need to change, most of all him\".\n\nBut this person isn't optimistic: \"They are still bunker mode, telling people to get into line.\"\n\nThe prime minister called Monday night's result decisive - but there are few in his party who say the same privately today.\n\nOne MP concluded: \"Keir Starmer could have picked the result. The prime minister will think he has enough to go on. The rebels will be thinking 'one last heave'\".\n\nThe Conservative Party remains divided. The leadership questions rumble on.", "Bob Seely says he voted for Boris Johnson to stay on as prime minister at Monday's vote.\n\nA Conservative MP has said he voted for Boris Johnson to stay in his job after gaining assurances about funding for his local council.\n\nIsle of Wight MP Bob Seely said he had thought hard about whether to back the PM in Monday's confidence vote.\n\nHe told constituents he only made up his mind when ministers told him they would \"look again\" at funding for the south coast island.\n\nDowning Street said funding was not directly allocated by ministers.\n\nAsked about Mr Seely's comments, the PM's spokesman said money for local areas was decided by a process run by civil servants.\n\nMonday's confidence vote was triggered by Tory MPs angry at Boris Johnson's handling of widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, with many saying he had lost their trust.\n\nThe PM survived the vote, which saw 211 MPs backing him and 148 voting to remove him.\n\nWriting on his website, Mr Seely said he had decided to back the PM at the vote after \"some consideration and only after discussion with senior ministers\".\n\n\"It is clear that some foolish errors were made during Partygate. Boris has apologised. I hope now that he can focus on governing,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I talked again with ministers about why a fair funding package has not yet been forthcoming for the Isle of Wight Council.\n\n\"I have been assured they will look at this again and will do so in the very near future, ahead of the ongoing review of local government finance.\"\n\nHe added that the PM had been \"the only one ever to promise an improved funding settlement for the Island\".\n\n\"As such, and on balance, I would rather continue to focus on getting him to deliver on this commitment than start afresh with a PM who has not made, or may not offer to make, any such offer,\" he added.\n\nThe Isle of Wight says it needs extra support to deliver services compared to mainland Britain.\n\nIsle of Wight Council has long been pushing to get a bigger budget from the government to make up for the extra costs of being an island.\n\nMr Seely, elected as the island's MP in 2017, has campaigned for an \"Island Deal\" of extra support. Mr Johnson first said he would look at the idea during a visit to the island in the run-up to the 2019 Tory leadership contest.\n\nIn February, the government announced an additional £1m for the council's budget this year, due to the \"unique circumstances facing the Isle of Wight Council and its physical separation from the mainland\".\n\nThe council said it was disappointed with the uplift, which it said should have been more like £6m to make up for costs incurred by the island's remoteness.\n\nAfter his comments on the confidence vote were highlighted on Twitter, Mr Seely said he had been chasing up a commitment about the council's funding made to him by Mr Johnson in 2019.\n\n\"I'm making sure government delivers for my constituents,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I'm doing my job as the Island's MP, putting my people first. [I'm] unashamed to do so. It's my job.\"", "There was a sense of resignation in the centre of Brecon after Conservative MPs voted to back Boris Johnson.\n\n“It’s almost a case of better the devil you know really,” one man told me.\n\nWe heard the sentiment more than once from people who didn’t see an obvious alternative leader in a seat the Tories reclaimed from the Liberal Democrats in 2019.\n\nDawn McIntosh says she is \"on the fence\" about Boris Johnson but is sticking with his party Image caption: Dawn McIntosh says she is \"on the fence\" about Boris Johnson but is sticking with his party\n\nAt her carpet and flooring business, Youngs, in the town centre, Dawn McIntosh said she would stick with the Conservatives.\n\nShe was “on the fence” about Johnson, but thought “now would definitely be the wrong time” to change the leader.\n\nMalcolm MacDonald, whose family have a fish stall in the town market, said the prime minister had been the subject of a “witch hunt”.\n\n“Johnson has got a lot of faults, but so has everybody,” he said.\n\n“He looks like a clown, but he’s not as big a clown as everyone thinks he is.”\n\nMalcolm MacDonald: \"He’s not as big a clown as everyone thinks he is\" Image caption: Malcolm MacDonald: \"He’s not as big a clown as everyone thinks he is\"", "The UK government says it is not \"currently considering\" copying European Union plans for a common charging cable.\n\nThe EU has provisionally agreed all new portable electronic devices must, by autumn 2024, use a USB Type-C charger, a move it says will benefit consumers.\n\nCritics say it will stifle innovation.\n\nUnder the current post-Brexit arrangements, the regulation would apply to Northern Ireland, according to EU and UK officials.\n\nAccording to the a December 2021 parliamentary report, the \"new requirements may also apply to devices sold in Northern Ireland under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit agreement, potentially triggering divergence of product standards with the rest of the UK\".\n\nThe treaty works by keeping Northern Ireland inside the EU's single market for goods, while the rest of the UK is outside it.\n\nA row between the UK and EU about how to reform the Northern Ireland protocol remains unresolved.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said \"we are not currently considering replicating this requirement\".\n\nApple products such as iPhones and iPads will have to conform to the new regulation, as will, eventually laptop computers. Existing devices will be exempt.\n\nThe agreement will be brought before the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers after their summer recesses, where it can be formally approved and then published.\n\nApple told the BBC it had no new comment to make.\n\nIt argued against the proposal, when it was first introduced, in September 2021, with a representative telling BBC News: \"Strict regulation mandating just one type of connector stifles innovation rather than encouraging it, which in turn will harm consumers in Europe and around the world\".\n\nApple is the biggest manufacturer to use a custom charging port that is exclusive to some of its products - its iPhone series uses an Apple-made Lightning connector.\n\nThe new rule will cover a range of \"small and medium-sized portable electronics\", according the EU, including:\n\nAny of these charged using a wired cable will have to have a USB Type-C port, regardless of who makes the devices.\n\nLaptops will also have to abide by the ruling but manufacturers will have 40 months after it comes into effect to make changes.\n\nThe agreement also includes a plan to let customers choose whether or not they want a charging cable with their new electronics.\n\n\"This law is a part of a broader EU effort to make products in the EU more sustainable, to reduce electronic waste, and make consumers' lives easier,\" the EU said in its announcement.\n\nIt would save consumers \"up to €250m [£213m] a year on unnecessary charger purchases\" and cut 11,000 tonnes of waste per year, the EU added.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party by 211 to 148.\n\nSpeaking after the results were announced, Mr Johnson said, \"it's a convincing, decisive result and what it means as a government is that we can focus on what matters to people\".\n\nAfter securing 58.8% of the total vote, with 41.2% voting against his leadership, the current rules state that he can not face another confidence vote for at least a year.", "The family of the Israeli writer whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun is suing film studio Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over its sequel.\n\nThey claim the studio did not have the rights to Ehud Yonay's 1983 story \"Top Guns\" when it released the sequel Top Gun: Maverick last month.\n\nThe film earned $548m (£438m) globally in its first 10 days of release.\n\nParamount says the claim was \"without merit\" and vowed to contest it.\n\nTop Gun: Maverick sees Cruise reprise his role as US navy pilot Pete \"Maverick\" Mitchell from the original 1986 film.\n\nIt had the fourth biggest opening weekend of any film in the Covid-era, behind the best-selling Spider-Man: No Way Home, second-place Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and then The Batman.\n\nThe lawsuit - filed on Monday at the Los Angeles federal court by Shosh and Yuval Yonay, Ehud's widow and son - alleges that Paramount failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud's magazine article after it was terminated under the US Copyright Act.\n\nThey are seeking unspecified damages from the film studio, including profits from Top Gun: Maverick.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, Paramount's Top Gun franchise would not have existed without Ehud's \"literary efforts and evocative prose and narrative\".\n\nThe lawsuit said that in 2018, the Yonays informed Paramount that its rights to Ehud's article would be terminated two years later.\n\nIt added that the studio lost the copyright for the piece in January 2020.\n\n\"Much as Paramount wants to pretend otherwise, they made a sequel to Top Gun after they lost their copyright,\" lawyer Marc Toberoff, who is representing the Yonays, told the BBC.\n\nParamount said in a statement: \"These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMitra Ahouraian, a Los Angeles-based entertainment attorney, told the BBC that Paramount's plans to produce Top Gun: Maverick in 2018 and release it in 2019 were delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"Timing is going to be very important in this case because the notice of termination was sent... to have an effective date of 2020,\" Ms Ahouraian explained.\n\nThe sequel sees Maverick return to the Top Gun flying academy as an instructor in charge of training a new generation of pilots.\n\nIt gave Hollywood superstar Cruise his first $100m opening weekend at the box office. His previous biggest opening weekend came in 2005 with War of the Worlds, which raked in $64m.", "Aiden Aslin (left) and Shaun Pinner (centre) have been pictured in footage alongside Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim\n\nTwo Britons captured by Russian forces in Ukraine have appeared in court in territory held by pro-Russian rebels.\n\nAiden Aslin, 28, from Nottinghamshire, and Shaun Pinner, 48, from Bedfordshire, are being held in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThey are reportedly charged with being mercenaries. But their families say they were in Ukraine's military.\n\nIt is feared the court, which is not internationally recognised, could pass the death penalty if it convicts them.\n\nA video has emerged of the two Britons attending a court hearing alongside a third man, Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim.\n\nIn the footage, Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner spoke only to confirm they knew the charges against them and were happy for their case to proceed without the evidence of witnesses.\n\nBoth were able to stand unaided and seemed aware of their surroundings.\n\nThey have also been accused of violent seizure of power and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities.\n\nThe self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, was set up by pro-Russian separatists in 2014.\n\nAccording to Russia's Interfax news agency, leader of the DNR Denis Pushilin has said the men will be charged in the region's supreme court.\n\nFootage of Mr Aslin released shortly after his capture in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led many to fear for his wellbeing.\n\nThe families of both Mr Aslin, from Newark, and Mr Pinner released statements saying that they were long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not volunteers or mercenaries.\n\nBoth men are said to have lived in Ukraine since 2018.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Aslin's family said it \"was a very sensitive and emotional time for our family, and we would like to say thank you to all that have supported us\".\n\nThey added: \"We are currently working with the Ukrainian government and the Foreign Office to try and bring Aiden home. Aiden is a much-loved man and very much missed, and we hope that he will be released very soon.\"\n\nAsked about the case earlier, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told LBC radio: \"I don't know all the details, but of course we would expect the laws of armed conflict to be respected, and we will make sure that we will make all the representations.\n\n\"I know the Foreign Office will be looking at making sure all those representations are made.\"", "Rangers Football Club have been accused of conspiring to illegally fix the prices of club merchandise.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally found the club colluded with retailers JD Sports and Elite Sports to keep prices of replica kits high.\n\nThe CMA said the three parties could expect heavy fines if found guilty.\n\nRangers said they would review the provisional findings before submitting a response.\n\nThe UK competition watchdog said it was concerned that Elite and JD Sports may have broken competition law from September 2018 to at least July 2019 over prices of Rangers merchandise.\n\nIts provisional findings said Rangers were also involved in the alleged collusion, but only to the extent of fixing the price of adult replica short-sleeved home shirts from September 2018 to at least mid-November 2018.\n\nMichael Grenfell, executive director of enforcement at the CMA, said: \"Football fans are well-known for their loyalty towards their teams.\n\n\"We are concerned that, in this case, Elite, JD Sports and, to some extent, Rangers, may have colluded to keep prices high, so that the two retailers could pocket more money for themselves at the expense of fans.\"\n\nThe Scottish Premiership club said: \"The statement of objections represents the CMA's provisional view only. It is not a finding that Rangers has broken the law and does not mean that the CMA will issue a final decision or impose a fine on Rangers.\n\n\"Rangers is committed to operating its business in full compliance with all laws, including competition law, and treats this matter very seriously.\"\n\nRangers are accused of fixing the price of adult replica short-sleeved home shirts\n\nThe parties involved now have the chance to make representation on the provisional findings before a final judgement is made.\n\nThe CMA said that at the time, Elite was the manufacturer of Rangers-branded clothing and also sold the products directly through its Gers Online Store, and later in shops across Glasgow and Belfast.\n\nJD Sports was the only UK-wide retailer selling those Rangers club clothing items at the time.\n\nThe CMA claims that Rangers FC became concerned that at the start of the 2018-19 football season, JD Sports was selling the Rangers replica top at a lower price than Elite, which was seen at the time as the club's so-called retail partner.\n\nThe watchdog's provisional findings said they then conspired for JD to increase the price of the Rangers adult short-sleeved home replica shirt by nearly 10%, from £55 to £60, to bring it in line with Gers Online prices.\n\nThe CMA also believes that Elite and JD, this time without involvement from Rangers, may have worked together to fix the prices of Rangers-branded clothing - including training wear and replica kit - over a longer period.\n\nIt said this included the two firms aligning the amount and timing of discounts towards the end of the football season in 2019, to protect their profit margins at the expense of fans.\n\nThe CMA said Elite and JD had confessed to cartel activity and had since co-operated with the watchdog.\n\nThey could receive reduced fines if they continue to co-operate, according to the CMA.\n\nBusinesses found guilty of breaking competition law can be fined up to 10% of annual turnover.\n\nJD Sports Fashion said it planned to book a hit of about £2m to cover any fine from the CMA and legal costs in its annual results for the year to 29 January, which it will release \"shortly\".\n\nLisa Webb, Which? consumer law expert, said: \"It's completely unacceptable that sports retailers and a football club have been working together to exploit the loyalty of football fans by fixing the prices of kits.\n\n\"If this provisional finding is confirmed, the Competition and Markets Authority must not hesitate to heavily fine the guilty parties - and send a firm message that this behaviour is unacceptable and won't be tolerated.\"", "England is making it a legal requirement for doctors to notify their local council or health protection team about any suspected monkeypox cases.\n\nIt brings the infection in line with ones such as measles, scarlet fever and tuberculosis.\n\nThe move is intended to help manage the rare virus, which appears to have been affecting people in many countries, including the UK, in recent weeks.\n\nThe UK has reported more than 300 confirmed cases.\n\nAnother 26 countries have also had cases, including many in Europe.\n\nUntil recently, cases were seen in remote parts of central and West Africa only.\n\nMonkeypox is not spread easily between people but health officials say anyone can catch it, particularly after close contact with someone with symptoms.\n\nIt can be passed on through close contact with skin, clothes, bedding and towels - and, although not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, by direct contact during sex.\n\nHealth officials say people who develop a rash with blisters on any part of the body should contact NHS 111 or a sexual-health clinic.\n\nA large proportion of cases diagnosed in the UK are among gay and bisexual men.\n\nDoctors and public-health experts have spoken about the \"delicate balance\" of keeping those currently most at risk informed, without stigmatising them or letting others become complacent.\n\nWendi Shepherd, from the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"Rapid diagnosis and reporting is the key to interrupting transmission and containing any further spread of monkeypox. This new legislation will support us and our health partners to swiftly identify, treat and control the disease.\n\n\"It also supports us with the swift collection and analysis of data, which enables us to detect possible outbreaks of the disease and trace close contacts rapidly, whilst offering vaccinations where appropriate to limit onward transmission.\"\n\nLaboratories will have to notify the UK Health Security Agency if monkeypox virus is identified in a sample.\n\nJames Gallagher explains what it is and if we should be worried.", "John Paul McDonagh was fatally injured after a street fight on 11 April 2020\n\nThe mother of an 18-year-old who died after a street fight in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, has told a jury her son \"was murdered in front of me\".\n\nJohn Paul McDonagh sustained a fatal wound to his lower left leg following a violent altercation on 11 April 2020.\n\nJoseph Joyce, 32, from Clon Elagh in Londonderry is charged with murdering him.\n\nHe is further charged with four other offences arising from the same incident.\n\nMr Joyce denies all the charges and has claimed he was acting in self-defence following an attack from Mr McDonagh and his two brothers.\n\nMr McDonagh's mother, Rose McDonagh, gave evidence at Dungannon Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, on Tuesday.\n\nWhen asked about what she and her family were doing on the day in question, she said they were having a party in the back garden of her house in Coolcullen Meadow and enjoying a barbecue.\n\nMrs McDonagh told the court: \"Joe Joyce came over my back fence with a slash hook, waving it at my family. He was roaring and giving out.\"\n\nShe said that following this, Mr McDonagh ran after Mr Joyce and that her other sons, Gerard and Jimmy, \"tried to get him back\".\n\nWhen asked what happened on the street, Mrs McDonagh said: \"It all happened so fast ... I tried to stop it. I tried to get in the middle and get him to stop.\n\n\"I begged Joe [Joyce] to stop. I pleaded with him. My son was murdered in front of me.\"\n\nMr Joyce's barrister, Des Fahy QC asked Mrs McDonagh if her sons had armed themselves with weapons before walking from their house to Mr Joyce's house\n\nShe said she did not see Gerard or Jimmy McDonagh carrying anything, but said John might have been carrying \"a bit of a yoke\".\n\nMr Fahy also asked her about the incident at her back fence which occurred just before the street fight.\n\nJohn Paul McDonagh was fatally injured in the Coolcullen Meadow area of Enniskillen\n\nShe denied hearing her sons tell Mr Joyce: \"We are coming over to kill you and burn your house with your family in it\".\n\nWhen asked if any of her sons issued this threat, she said: \"That never happened.\"\n\nAnother witness called to give evidence was a person who lived in Coolcullen Meadow in April 2020.\n\nThey described what occurred outside their house as \"pandemonium\".\n\nThe witness said they looked up the street and saw \"three men coming down the street with weapons\".\n\nShe said this happened while Mr Joyce was standing at the bottom of the street \"with a big long stick with a hook on the end of it\".\n\n\"He wasn't really doing anything with it. These guys were coming down the street to attack him and yeah, they came down and attacked him,\" she said.\n\nThe witness then said she saw one of the three men walk back down the street \"grabbing his leg and he came up and lay down on the footpath in front of my house\".\n\nShe also recalled that a short time later the police arrived and performed CPR on the man.", "Douglas Ross has said the prime minister should think about resigning, after 41% of Tory MPs said they did not have confidence in his leadership.\n\nAsked by the BBC if Boris Johnson should resign, the Scottish Tory leader said: \"He's got to look at it.\"\n\nHe said MPs from \"across the entire parliamentary party\" had no confidence in Mr Johnson.\n\nNever had a prime minister lost as much support as he had on Monday, Mr Ross added.\n\n\"I think he really does have to reflect on that,\" the Scottish Tory leader said.\n\nThe number of rebels in Monday night's confidence vote was higher than predicted.\n\nMr Johnson was backed by 211 Conservative MPs while 148 voted to remove him.\n\nMr Ross said the number of MPs who said they did not have faith in the PM's leadership would be \"particularly troubling\" for Boris Johnson, adding that it was \"extremely serious and something the prime minister has to reflect on\".\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson should resign, Mr Ross said: \"I think he's he's got to look at it.\"\n\nHe added: \"This isn't just some Scottish MPs, some Welsh MPs, a few from a certain part of England.\n\n\"This is across the entire parliamentary party - from people who supported staying in the EU and people who campaigned strongly to leave the EU, people who are on the right of the party, some in the centre and some on the left.\"\n\nHe would not be drawn on who he thought should lead the party after Mr Johnson, saying there were a lot of very good candidates.\n\nAsked whether the PM had misled parliament over Downing Street parties, Mr Ross said Mr Johnson's responses had been \"quite clear\" yet the evidence \"suggests otherwise\".\n\nAnd asked if Boris Johnson was a liar, Mr Ross said: \"I think he has serious questions to answer.\"\n\nThe Scottish Tory leader also responded to accusations from opposition parties that he had U-turned over whether the PM should go.\n\nLast month, after the Sue Gray report was published, Mr Ross said on balance he still believed Boris Johnson should remain in office.\n\nHe said toppling him would cause instability that would benefit Putin, but added that the PM would still have to go if an inquiry found he had misled parliament.\n\nThen on Monday, he said he was not one of the MPs who had called for the confidence vote - but said he would vote that he did not have confidence in the Mr Johnson's leadership.\n\nHe said his belief that the PM should think about resigning was his final position, adding that the only change in recent months was the war in Ukraine.\n\nHe highlighted that President Zelensky had praised the prime minister as an important ally of Ukraine.\n\nMr Ross said: \"I didn't expect when I put in my letter to the 1922 committee in January that Russia would invade Ukraine.\n\n\"That's still ongoing. We've seen from President Zelensky just today that there are still huge troubles in Ukraine and they need more and more support now than perhaps at any point in over 100 days of conflict.\"\n\nIt still was not the right time for a leadership contest, he said, but noted that the confidence vote was prompted by other MPs in the party.\n\nHowever, given that the vote was being held he said he had decided to \"stick to\" his initial belief that the prime minister's actions had been \"damaging to the government, to the country, and people are still extremely upset about what happened\" over Partygate.\n\nAs the MP for Moray, Douglas Ross was one of six Scottish Tory MPs who were entitled to cast a ballot in the confidence motion.\n\nThree other Scottish Tory MPs also said they had no confidence in Boris Johnson's leadership.\n\nThat view is shared by the majority of Scottish Tory MSPs.\n\nHowever, two Scottish Tory MPs, including the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, gave the prime minister their support.", "Two-time major champion Dustin Johnson has resigned his membership of the PGA Tour in order to play in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series.\n\nThe former world number one will play all eight events of the fledgling $255m (£200m) series, which starts on Thursday at Centurion Club near London.\n\nJohnson, 37, joined the PGA Tour in 2008 and has won $74m in his career.\n\n\"I don't want to play for the rest of my life, this gives me an opportunity to do what I want to do,\" he said.\n\nJohnson's announcement was an explosive start to a week that threatens to blow apart elite men's golf.\n\nFellow American Kevin Na said earlier this week he was quitting the dominant PGA Tour to play in LIV Golf events, but Johnson's decision trumps that.\n\nHe spent 135 weeks as world number one, was the PGA Tour player of the year in 2016 and 2020 - the years of his respective US Open and Masters triumphs - and was also crowned FedEx Cup champion two years ago.\n\nIn quitting the PGA Tour, Johnson - who is reportedly receiving $150m in appearance fees to play in the Greg Norman-fronted LIV series - is giving up his opportunity to feature in future Ryder Cups.\n\nHe has been on the winning side in two of his five appearances in the biennial competition against Europe, including winning all five of his matches in last year's record 19-9 victory at Whistling Straits in Michigan.\n\n\"The Ryder Cup is unbelievable and has meant a lot to me, but ultimately I decided this was best for me and my family,\" he said.\n\n\"All things are subject to change and hopefully at some point it will change and I will get a chance to do that again.\"\n\nPGA of America chief executive Seth Waugh said last year: \"If someone wants to play on a Ryder Cup for the US, they're going to need to be a member of the PGA of America, and they get that membership through being a member of the (PGA) Tour.\"\n\nJohnson's decision represents a significant u-turn given he said in February he was committed to the PGA Tour, which has threatened sanctions and potential bans against players signing up for LIV Golf.\n\nWhen asked what had changed in such a short space of time, the world number 15 simply replied: \"I thought it was best for me and my family. I resign my membership of the PGA Tour.\n\n\"What the consequences are going to be I can't comment on how the Tour's going to handle it. I can't answer for the majors but hopefully they're going to allow us to play.\n\n\"Obviously I'm exempt for the majors so I plan on playing there unless I hear otherwise.\"\n\nThe majors are not run by the PGA Tour and Johnson's victory two years ago in the Masters gives him a lifetime exemption for the tournament at Augusta National. His 2016 US Open triumph guaranteed him a spot in his national championship for 10 years. His Masters win also gives him a five-year exemption for The Open and US PGA Championship.\n\nThe United States Golf Association announced on Monday that players competing in LIV Golf events would be able to play in next week's US Open at Brookline in Massachusetts.\n\nThe R&A is yet to comment on The Open, which is celebrating its 150th championship in July at St Andrews.\n\nSix-time major champion Phil Mickelson will also play at Centurion in what will be his first appearance following a four-month break from the game.\n\nThe American, who has been given a reported $200m to feature in the start-up series, has not played since controversial comments about the Saudi-funded events were published by his biographer in February. He is expected to talk to the media on Wednesday.\n\nIt has also been reported Spain's Sergio Garcia and South Africans Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Branden Grace, who are all in the 48-man field for the event on the outskirts of London this week, have all resigned their membership of the PGA Tour.\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell has not resigned, saying he did not want to get in a \"legal situation\" with the organisation.\n\nHis future participation in the Ryder Cup would be determined by the European-based DP World Tour.\n\nMcDowell last played in 2014, four years after holing the winning putt at Celtic Manor. He was a vice-captain in the victorious team in Paris in 2018 and again on the losing side last year.\n\nThe 42-year-old Northern Irishman, who won the US Open in 2010, has been touted as a potential captain of the European side when the Ryder Cup is played at Adare Manor in the Republic of Ireland in 2027.\n\n\"With regards to the Ryder Cup, it's something I weighed up long and hard before I made the decision to come out here. I hope it doesn't affect that,\" he said.\n\n\"When you look at the European Tour, the players here have done a great amount for the Ryder Cup product and it would be a shame to see those guys not invited back.\n\n\"Is it healthy for the sport? This Tour is designed to be an add-on to the greatest tours in the world.\"\n\nFellow European Ryder Cup players Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Garcia are all at Centurion this week.\n\n'We are proud to help Saudis grow the game'\n\nMcDowell also fielded questions about the morality of playing in an event that has been funded by money from Saudi Arabia, given the nation's human rights record and accusations of sportswashing.\n\n\"The Khashoggi situation, we all agree that was reprehensible,\" he said, referring to the murder of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. \"No-one's going to argue that fact but we're golfers. We're not politicians.\n\n\"Golf is a force of good in the world and I love using the game as something to help grow around the world and be role models to kids.\n\n\"If Saudi Arabia want to use the game of golf as a way for them to get to where they want to be, we're proud to help them on that journey, using the game of golf and the abilities we have to help grow the sport.\"\n\nAsked specifically how golf is helping repressed groups in Saudi Arabia, McDowell added: \"I wish I had the ability to be able to have that conversation with you.\n\n\"As golfers if we tried to cure geopolitical situations in every country in the world that we played in, we wouldn't play a lot of golf. That's a really hard question to answer. We are just here to focus on the golf.\"\n\nThe $25m (£20m) purse on offer this week at Centurion Club near St Albans is the most lucrative ever played for on British soil, with $4m going to the winner of this first of eight events to be played in 2022.\n\nThis initial invitational series will feature six more regular season tournaments in 2022 - four in the United States, one in Thailand and one in Saudi Arabia - each having the same $25m prize fund, meaning every leg of the series is more lucrative than the richest tournament on the PGA Tour.\n\nThe events will feature a team and individual competition, with 12 captains selecting three players in a draft-style format. Each day, the teams of four will tee off at the same time on different holes in what is termed a 'shotgun start'.\n\nEach event's individual winner will take home $4m - by way of comparison, the PGA Tour's flagship event, the Players Championship, earned Cameron Smith $3.6m for his victory in March, while Collin Morikawa won $2m for his Open Championship victory in 2021.\n\nThe eighth and final event, at Trump National Doral in Miami in October, will be a $50m 'Team Championship' matchplay knockout tournament featuring 12 teams. The winning team will receive $16m, with each of the four players earning a 25% cut.\n• None The boys are back and Florida awaits...\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?:", "Alex Davies, from Swansea, was described as a \"terrorist hiding in plain sight\"\n\nA 27-year-old man described in court as a Nazi has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for being a member of a banned fascist group.\n\nAlex Davies, of Swansea, was a member of National Action (NA) after it was outlawed in December 2016.\n\nA jury found him guilty after it heard NA had not disbanded after its ban, but morphed into regional factions.\n\nHe was sentenced on Tuesday at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey in London.\n\nJudge Mark Dennis QC also ordered him to spend a further year on extended licence.\n\nDuring his trial at Winchester Crown Court, he was described as \"probably the biggest Nazi of the lot\".\n\nSome members of the group had celebrated the murder of MP Jo Cox and advocated a so-called \"race war\".\n\nAddressing the defendant in the dock, Judge Dennis said: \"You are an intelligent and educated young man but you have held, over a period of many years, warped and shocking prejudices.\"\n\nDavies co-founded NA in Swansea in 2013, before leaving to study at Warwick University, in Coventry, a university he was subsequently forced out of due to his extremist views.\n\nProsecutor Barnaby Jameson told the court Davies had set up a group called National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action or NS131, which was also banned by the UK government.\n\nMr Jameson described it as a \"continuity faction\" of NA that covered the southern part of Great Britain.\n\nSaying it was \"expanding and recruiting\", he called Davies a \"terrorist hiding in plain sight\".\n\nMr Jameson said NA and NS131 used the same colours, encrypted internet provider and ideology - a throwback to Nazi Germany - as well as the same leader, and regional structure.\n\nHe added: \"Who was at the centre of all this? The founder, the galvaniser, the recruiter, one Alex Davies of Swansea. He was probably the biggest Nazi of the lot.\"\n\nIn his defence, Davies claimed that NS131 was not set up as a continuation of NA and had different aims and processes, and he was only \"exercising his democratic rights\".\n\nDavies was the 19th person to be convicted of membership of NA, the first right-wing organisation to be banned since World War Two.\n\nNational Action was founded in 2013 by Ben Raymond and Alex Davies (pictured)\n\nFellow founder Ben Raymond, 33, of Swindon, had previously been found guilty at a separate trial of membership of a banned terrorist group.\n\nIn December last year, Raymond was jailed for eight years with a further two years on extended licence.\n\nTogether, Davies and Raymond had worked since the group's creation in spreading an \"ideology of hatred\", described as \"incredibly dangerous\" by counter-terrorism police.\n\nThe government acted after members of the organisation celebrated the actions of murderer and neo-Nazi Thomas Mair, who killed MP Jo Cox in June 2016.\n\nAmong those convicted of membership since December 2016 have been British soldier and Afghanistan veteran, Finnish-born Mikko Vehvilainen, and former Met probationary police officer Ben Hannam.\n\nOne of the group's associates was convicted of making a working pipe bomb, while another, Jack Renshaw, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, later admitted plotting to kill MP Rosie Cooper with a machete.\n\nHe was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years.\n\nRenshaw's plot was only foiled after a National Action member blew the whistle on his former friends, reporting the plan to counter-extremist group Hope Not Hate, which passed the information to police.\n\nNA was social media savvy, boasting self-taught propagandists among its ranks, though its membership never exceeded 100.\n\nThey created slick computer-generated imagery - including logos, and slogans for stickers, leaflets and posters - and targeted young people in particular for recruitment.\n\nSome of their literature called for \"white jihad\", but they had also created a policy document to \"make way for national socialism to enter British politics\".\n\nOther material had designs glorifying the anti-semitic messaging of Hitler's Germany or praising the work of SS death squads.", "A group of 79 migrants were brought ashore at Dover on Tuesday\n\nMore than 10,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, according to figures collated by the BBC.\n\nA group of 79 migrants were brought ashore at Dover by Border Force on Tuesday.\n\nThis year's total is more than double what it was during the same period last year.\n\nAbout 8,400 migrants crossed 2020, and more than 28,000 made the journey in 2021.\n\nTuesday's arrivals bring the total to more than 10,000 people who have crossed in small boats so far this year\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The rise in dangerous Channel crossings is unacceptable. Not only are they an overt abuse of our immigration laws, but they risk lives and hinder our ability to help refugees who come to the UK through safe and legal routes.\n\n\"The Nationality and Borders Act will fix our broken immigration system by protecting those in genuine need while cracking down on the evil people-smuggling gangs responsible for these life-threatening journeys.\"\n\nIt's been another busy day for the Border Force and Ministry of Defence in Dover.\n\nWe saw a couple of boats being brought to shore. Among the arrivals were some women and children, but the vast majority were young men.\n\nThe government's big idea to try to deter people from making the crossing is to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - in a letter to try to shore up the support of Conservative MPs - described the agreement with Rwanda as a bold solution to a difficult and longstanding problem.\n\nThe first flight could depart in a week's time. It's likely, however, to face a legal challenge, so the timescale is by no means certain.\n\nAnd while the weather remains calm, the crossings are set to continue.\n\nIn April the government announced plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a five-year trial.\n\nIt is thought to be aimed mostly at single young migrants who arrive through \"illegal, dangerous or unnecessary methods,\" such as on small boats or lorries.\n\nIn 2021, 75% of all small boat arrivals were men aged 18 to 39, according to Home Office figures.\n\nRwanda would take responsibility for those sent there and has said migrants would be \"entitled to full protection under Rwandan law\" with equal access to employment and services.\n\nThe government spokesman said: \"Under our new Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda, those making dangerous, unnecessary and illegal journeys may be relocated there to have their claims considered and to rebuild their lives, with the first flight expected to take place on 14 June.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The experience of Liverpool football supporters at the Champions League final in Paris has been condemned by MPs as \"terrifying\" and \"chaotic\".\n\nLabour urged ministers to \"establish the facts\" over the treatment of the fans at the Stade de France on 28 May,\n\nSupporters have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the game.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston told the Commons he would raise concerns with his French counterpart this week.\n\nUefa, the footballing body in charge of European competitions, has already commissioned an independent review.\n\nParis is due to host the 2024 Olympics and 2023 men's Rugby World Cup. But the trouble leading up to the Champions League final have raised questions over France's suitability as a host nation.\n\nLiverpool fans faced crushing and tear gas as they waited outside the Stade de France before the match\n\nShadow Culture Secretary, Lucy Powell, said the match was \"chaotic, scary and atrociously managed\", adding the \"French authorities' handling of the final puts in doubt their ability to host such events in the future\".\n\nLiverpool fans faced long delays getting into the ground, being crushed in the queues while waiting before French authorities deployed tear gas.\n\nMPs spoke of their concerns following an urgent question in the Commons from Ian Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby.\n\nMr Byrne, who was at the final, suggested the the events in Paris could have led to a repeat of the Hillsborough disaster, which led to 97 fans losing their lives as a result of the injuries suffered in a stadium crush.\n\n\"I was there last Saturday in Paris, I was also there at Hillsborough in 1989, and I can say without any shadow of a doubt that if it was not for the magnificent efforts of the Liverpool supporters last Saturday, we could have had a disaster worse than Hillsborough.\n\n\"I witnessed first-hand the shambolic stadium management and the most hostile policing environment at a sporting event I have ever witnessed\".\n\nMr Huddleston said: \"There were clearly some logistical challenges that require explanation but we've not seen any clear justification from Uefa or the French authorities for the scenes on the ground\".\n\nHe said that evidence showed that the \"vast majority of fans behaved impeccably, waited patiently outside the stadium to get in and many then did not even make it in\".", "Douglas Ross has performed two U-turns over Boris Johnson's premiership\n\nBoris Johnson was never Douglas Ross's first choice to be UK Conservative leader but he did back him in the 2019 contest to replace Theresa May.\n\nHe has not said whether he now regrets that decision but he has certainly changed his mind about him. More than once.\n\nIn January, Mr Ross withdrew his support for Boris Johnson saying his position had become \"untenable\" over lockdown parties and calling for a confidence vote.\n\nHe then reversed that position when the war in Ukraine started, arguing that political upheaval at home would play into the hands of Vladimir Putin.\n\nThat no longer seems to be of primary concern, Mr Ross having now completed a double U-turn by voting for the motion of no confidence in Boris Johnson's leadership.\n\nIn a statement, he said that while the timing of the vote was not ideal, he had listened to public anger over Partygate and could not in \"good faith\" continue to back the PM.\n\nThat decision brings him into line with the bulk of his Tory colleagues at Holyrood, but his numerous changes in position have raised questions about his own leadership capabilities.\n\nAs one pro-Johnson MP put it, he would be reluctant to be driven anywhere by Douglas Ross for fear of not knowing where the journey might end!\n\nThe reality is that, given his flip-flopping form, the Scottish Tory leader would have faced criticism and embarrassment whichever way he'd voted.\n\nEither for backing a law-breaking PM that the Scottish party has blamed for heavy losses in the recent local elections or - as it turns out - for abandoning him despite having insisted he should continue to lead the UK through the Ukraine crisis.\n\nMr Ross was one of the 148 Tory MPs who expressed no confidence and among four of the six Tories with Westminster seats in Scotland to take that position.\n\nThe Scottish rebels are fairly unusual in that they have all publicly declared how they voted in what was a secret ballot.\n\nThe MP John Lamont quit as an aide to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, after he cast his vote against the PM.\n\nIt's not clear if former Scottish Secretary David Mundell (who was dumped from Cabinet by Mr Johnson) will be able to continue as a trade envoy to New Zealand after his rebellion.\n\nMP Andrew Bowie - the fourth Scottish Tory MP refusing to back the PM - stepped down from his role as a vice-chair of the UK Conservative party some time ago.\n\nThis rift between MPs and their leader is not sustainable. It's hard to imagine, for example, a UK general election campaign with key Scottish Tories unable to endorse their own candidate for Number 10.\n\nOn the other side of the argument - still standing by their leader - MPs David Duguid and Alister Jack, who sits in Cabinet as Scottish secretary.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Jack said the PM's 211 votes represented a \"clear majority\" and that it was time to move on from Partygate and \"get on with what really matters\".\n\nThat may be wishful thinking on his part because having won the vote, Boris Johnson has also publicly lost the confidence of two fifths of his own MPs.\n\nThat's a worse result than his predecessor Theresa May got and she was forced to resign six months later.\n\nIt's not certain Boris Johnson will suffer the same fate, but nor is it certain that he will be able to govern effectively in the months ahead.\n\nThe trouble with rebellion is it can be habit-forming and if only a few dozen Tory MPs switch sides in certain Commons votes, the government loses. Even the threat of that could divert ministers from their course.\n\nThere is the potential for further trouble in Conservative ranks if the party suffers defeat in the forthcoming by-elections in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton - which certainly look difficult for the Tories.\n\nA privileges committee inquiry examining whether or not Boris Johnson knowingly misled parliament over Partygate is another potential flashpoint.\n\nThat does not mean the PM - protected as he is from another confidence vote for a year - is without agency. He has the power to reset policy in an effort to renew his appeal to Tory MPs and the wider public.\n\nHe is expected to bring forward new measures to cut childcare costs and help more people onto the housing ladder in the coming days.\n\nSome have speculated that raising the prospect of an early general election might help him concentrate minds.\n\nIt is to his advantage that his critics currently lack an obvious candidate to replace him as Tory leader and PM.\n\nHaving won the confidence vote, Boris Johnson's premiership continues but with reduced authority which, as previous prime ministers have found, is not easy to regain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volodymyr Zelensky says he is \"very happy\" Boris Johnson remains UK prime minister\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was \"very happy\" Boris Johnson was still UK prime minister after he survived an attempt to oust him.\n\nMr Johnson won a confidence vote despite a major revolt that saw 148 of his own Tory MPs vote to remove him.\n\n\"I'm glad we haven't lost an important ally, this is great news,\" Mr Zelensky said at an online event.\n\nMr Johnson has forged a close relationship with President Zelensky since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe called Mr Johnson a \"true friend of Ukraine\" and a \"concrete\" supporter in an interview at a virtual conference hosted by the Financial Times on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK was among the first to provide weapons to support Ukraine's defence and - like its Western allies - has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian targets prosecuting the war.\n\nIn April, Mr Johnson pledged \"unwavering support\" on a visit to the capital Kyiv, where he did an unannounced walkabout of the city with President Zelensky.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson has faced a backlash from MPs and the public after he was fined by police for breaking his own lockdown laws at a 2020 party in Downing Street, where the prime minister lives and works.\n\nA report by a senior civil servant criticised failures of leadership in Downing Street, where officials and staff were issued with a total of 123 fines for breaking Covid rules on indoor gatherings during the pandemic.\n\nSome Conservative MPs had cited the war in Ukraine as a reason not to oust Mr Johnson from office in the confidence vote in Parliament on Monday.\n\nRallying his MPs ahead of the vote, Mr Johnson said it was the wrong time for \"unforced domestic political drama\" when Ukraine was fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces.\n\nMr Johnson won the backing of 59% of his MPs, describing the result as \"extremely good, positive, conclusive\" and insisting his leadership was now secure.\n\nHowever, those who had voted against Mr Johnson said the scale of the rebellion had weakened his authority, with some calling on him to resign.\n\nReacting to Monday night's result, cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi said he thought President Zelensky would be \"punching the air because he knows his great ally Boris Johnson will be prime minister tomorrow morning\".\n\nThose comments were criticised by some MPs, including Labour's Karl Turner, who urged Mr Zahawi to apologise for dragging the Ukrainian president \"into this Tory party civil war\".\n\nOn Monday, ahead of the confidence vote, Mr Johnson called Mr Zelensky to discuss Ukraine's defence of its eastern Donbas region, where Russian forces are advancing.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Johnson wrote: \"We're unwavering in our mission of ensuring Ukraine is defended and supported for the long-term.\"\n\nThe UK's military support to Ukraine amounts to £750m so far and includes thousands of anti-tank missiles, 20 armoured vehicles, 4.5 tonnes of plastic explosives, and electronic warfare kit.\n\nOn top of this, the UK says it is providing £220m of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.\n\nAs a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), the UK was the sixth largest donor of aid to Ukraine globally between January and May, according to research by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.\n\nLast month, the UK government said it would offer further aid and military support to Ukraine worth £1.3bn to boost the country's defence against Russia.\n\nMr Johnson spoke to President Zelensky on the phone ahead of the confidence vote on Monday\n\nUkrainian commentators and officials expressed relief that Mr Johnson had won Monday's confidence vote, with some noting that UK had become a key arms supplier for the country.\n\nMykhaylo Podolyak, one of Mr Zelensky's advisers, tweeted in English moments after the confidence vote.\n\nHe wrote: \"Leadership is always a heavy burden. Boris Johnson was one of the first who realised the menace of Russia & stood by Volodymyr Zelensky to protect the free world from barbaric invasion.\n\n\"The world needs such leaders. The UK is a Great friend of Ukraine. British crown is a shield of democratic world.\"", "Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, has announced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party.\n\nHe won by 211 votes to 148, and the current rules state that he can not face another confidence vote for at least a year.", "From Lysychansk, smoke could be seen rising above Severodonetsk\n\nRussian forces have entered the city of Severodonetsk, as they continue their attempts to capture the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. One of the region's governors says that the bombardment of the industrial centre is so intense that they have given up counting the casualties.\n\nJust days ago, I watched from a rooftop in Lysychansk as, on the horizon, its twin city of Severodonetsk was being bombed indiscriminately. Shells were landing every minute on its length and breath. Severodonetsk was burning.\n\nLysychansk itself has been drained of life. A few people still go out on the streets, but they are mostly deserted. Artillery fire is a regular threat. The air carried on the summer breeze is gritty with dust from smoke and pulverised buildings.\n\nHaving failed to conquer all of Ukraine, Russian forces are now targeting Donbas - made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. If Severodonetsk and Lysychansk fall, the whole of Luhansk would be occupied.\n\nHere, Russia isn't fighting a campaign of attrition, it's waging a war of oblivion. And, for the moment on this front, it is winning.\n\nSmoke rises from a bombed oil refinery in Lysychansk, 27 May\n\nSerhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, now says that all critical infrastructure in Severodonetsk has been destroyed. Previously, he suggested that Ukrainian forces may have to withdraw from the city and Lysychansk.\n\nThe scene of devastation in a third city, Rubizhne - in peacetime just a short drive to the north - shows what Russia's unrelenting artillery fire is capable of. Looking from Lysychansk into the distance, there is now a blot on the emerald green landscape. The small city is gone - scoured from the earth.\n\nThe way it fell some two weeks ago, marks an important shift in how Vladimir Putin's forces are now fighting the war. Gone are long armoured columns and tank and infantry attacks seen in the first months, in favour of large-scale artillery barrages - as many as 1500 shells a day in Rubizhne - to wipe out resistance before any ground advance.\n\nOverwhelming Russian firepower - particularly artillery - underlines the urgent need, say Ukrainian field commanders, for more advanced weapons from the West to halt the enemy advance.\n\nThe great sweep of Donbas runs along Ukraine's eastern flank from Severodonetsk in the north, ending at the southern coast around the city of Mariupol - the hard-fought over city recently captured by Russia in one of its biggest gains in the war.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Ukraine was losing 50-100 troops a day in the region. In Lysychansk, I meet private first class, Vladimir, serving with a reconnaissance unit in the country's National Guard. Russian forces are adapting, he says, first they came in \"bold and got hit hard\", now the enemy flattens what it can't capture with infantry.\n\nHe tells me of his month in Rubizhne. \"It wasn't Mariupol, but it was pretty close. It was very hard. There were a lot of losses - a lot of fighting across streets. There was also artillery, just removing those houses very fast. People were trying to hide in the basement so they had no view, no assessment of the current situation. So there were a lot of losses during that time.\"\n\nThe men and women fighting in Donbas for Ukraine are not inexperienced. Many have fought against Russian-backed separatists who, since 2014, have been trying to secede from Ukraine. But, in this new battle for the region, they face a national army - one that has large resources of men and equipment. Even for experienced fighters, the volume and nature of Russian weaponry being used in Donbas is overwhelming.\n\nI speak to another guardsman who doesn't want to give his name. \"It's not my first war,\" he says, \"I mean that one was a trench warfare, so it's a bit different [this time]. When I went to Rubizhne I saw the whole picture. It was tough. Shots with high-explosive fragmentation grenades, 82 mm calibre weapons,\" he says, stopping to draw on a cigarette.\n\nVladimir - the Ukrainian soldier - says the local population are \"30% pro-Ukrainian, 30% pro-Russian and 40% don't care\". Of course, many pro-Ukrainian residents have now fled.\n\nMore from Quentin Sommerville on the front line:\n\nSince the start of the war, military analysts have made much of Russia's rising casualty numbers and the weakness of morale among its soldiers. Casualty numbers are still rising, but Russia isn't running out of men in Donbas. Nor is the Kremlin running short of artillery shells. The explosives which are hammering Lysychansk and Severodonetsk seem in plentiful supply. The surrounding countryside too is marked like a pox with black artillery craters spreading for miles along fields and roadways.\n\n\"There's a lot of artillery,\" says Vladimir. \"Bombardments are like a nightmare, we shoot one round, they shoot 10. When our sniper is shooting, they send in a full packet of Grads on his position. So it's basically a sniper with one bullet and they send like $1,000 of artillery rounds. They really don't care how much ammunition they use.\"\n\nLike Vladimir, many of the men I met in Lysychansk were previously the defenders of Rubizhne. Having been through hell once, they say they prepared to endure it a second time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rubizhne destroyed - and Russian soldiers carry the body of a dead comrade - view from a Ukrainian drone\n\nFootage given to the BBC by a unit of the National Guard shows a landscape there which could be a recreation of World War Two devastation - lines of shelled-out houses, empty streets with only corpses and dead animals along the pathways. And there's another reminder too from that war - shellshock. Men left the town with shaking hands and limbs - and constant headaches. \"Cigarettes and coffee are all that keep them away,\" said one young lieutenant called Pasha.\n\nOn the outskirts of Lysychansk, bigger guns have arrived on the Ukrainian front line. Another unit of the National Guard are working on an M777 howitzer, newly received from the Australian government. It has two kangaroos painted on the barrel.\n\nThe gun is welcome but, as almost everyone I meet tells me, they need more. They specifically asked for longer range weapons. The US has agreed to send them far more powerful multiple launch rocket systems. They could be a game-changer in Donbas, if they arrive in time.\n\nSome Western commentators believe Ukraine should submit to end the destruction and cede its territory. But, for the weary Ukrainian defenders facing the Russian onslaught, that is unthinkable. In fact, the losses they have suffered have only galvanised their belief that the enemy must be stopped and pushed back.\n\nVladimir Putin gambled big - and lost - on taking all of Ukraine, so perhaps that explains the enormous resources he is throwing at achieving a tactical win in Donbas. But a Kremlin victory here won't mean defeat for Ukraine.\n\nI ask the unnamed guardsman, tired after months of battle, but still here at front, what it will take to win?\n\n\"There is a sky, and the sky is ours. Drones are helping a lot. Weapons have arrived and multiple rocket launchers. America, lend-lease…\" he tells me. \"The only question is time. It's time and that's it. And then everything will be Ukraine.\"", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum next year\n\nThe Scottish government has published details of legal advice it was given on holding a new independence referendum.\n\nThe papers show ministers were told they could work on policies preparing for a vote, and to test a question with the Electoral Commission.\n\nBut there was no reference as to whether Holyrood would have the power to legislate for indyref2 without the UK government's backing.\n\nThe Scottish government had initially refused to publish the advice.\n\nIt was ordered to do so by the country's information commissioner, who said there was \"exceptional\" public interest in seeing the advice.\n\nThe government had argued that making the advice public would breach legal professional privilege.\n\nIt has now published some of the advice on its website, but said the commissioner had ruled that it was entitled to withhold some of the details that had been asked for by the Scotsman newspaper under freedom of information laws.\n\nThe two-page document said the advice from the Scottish government legal directorate in January last year was that \"there is a legal basis for Ministers to ask (the Electoral Commission) to undertake question testing\".\n\nA month later, the government was told that law officers had previously confirmed that \"ministers can lawfully undertake policy development work preparing proposals for independence and in calling for a transfer of power\".\n\nHowever, there is no mention of any advice the government received on whether or not it has the power to hold a referendum even if the UK government does not grant formal consent.\n\nConstitutional experts have been split over the question, and there has been speculation that any attempt by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to press on with her plan to hold a referendum next year could result in a court battle between the governments in London and Edinburgh.\n\nThat is because the UK government has shown no sign that it would be willing to give the formal consent that ensured the legality of the 2014 independence referendum, in which voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45%.\n\nOpposition parties have argued that it would be a waste of public money for the government to press on with its plan for another referendum if it has already been told by its own lawyers that it does not have the powers to hold one.\n\nWhen questioned about whether she would be asking Boris Johnson for a transfer of power, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I'll set out more about this, in substance and process, in the period ahead. I have a mandate for another referendum won fairly and squarely in an election last year and anyone who has any respect for democracy will understand the importance of honouring that mandate.\"\n\nThere are two interesting things about this advice, but neither of them are included in the page-and-a-half of A4 published.\n\nThe first is the fact it was released at all. The government is fierce in its defence of the principle of legal counsel remaining private, and do not want anything to set a precedent that would change that.\n\nThe information commissioner ruled that this principle can, at times, be overruled by the public interest, and this in itself may have ramifications in future.\n\nThe second interesting thing is what isn't in the document - which is to say, advice about anything particularly controversial.\n\nNobody had questioned the legality of either of the actions discussed - testing questions and developing policies - in fact, most had assumed the government was already doing them.\n\nThe really key legal question around a referendum is whether the Scottish Parliament could legislate for one, even without a transfer of power from Westminster.\n\nOf that, there is no mention - either because ministers have managed to keep that advice private, or because they haven't asked for it in the first place.\n\nThe Scotsman had originally asked for the legal advice to be released in January last year, and appealed to the information commissioner after the government refused to publish it.\n\nThe government had been given until 10 June to publish the legal advice by Information Commissioner Daren Fitzhenry, who said that keeping it secret would \"actively harm accountability and scrutiny and would be counter to the public interest\".\n\nHe also said that publishing details of the legal advice would \"significantly enhance public debate on this issue\".\n\nOpposition parties said the information that had been published left the big question unanswered.\n\nScottish Conservative constitution spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"welcome that the SNP have finally been dragged into releasing this information that they tried to hide from the public\".\n\nBut he added: \"It still leaves unanswered questions about how they plan to continue their push for a second divisive referendum.\n\n\"The murky secretive approach must end. The public deserve answers about what the SNP are planning.\"\n\nHis view was echoed by Scottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack, who said: \"Another referendum is the SNP's answer to every question under the sun, so the public shouldn't be kept in the dark on the legality of it.\n\n\"The SNP have dragged this circus out for long enough - they need to come clean once and for all.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said: \"The Scottish government are at it. What the public want to know is whether the Scottish government has legal advice on holding a referendum without a Section 30 Order and by refusing to publish that they are mocking freedom of information legislation.\"", "A Ukrainian police officer inspects damaged remains of a student centre in Lysychansk destroyed in Russian shelling\n\nUkrainian forces still holding out in the eastern city of Severodonetsk are outnumbered by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\nBoth sides fought for the city in street-by-street battles on Monday as artillery shells rained from above.\n\nThe intensity of fighting there and in nearby Lysychansk has made them both \"dead cities\", Mr Zelensky said.\n\nIf captured, the two strategic targets would deliver Russian forces the entire Luhansk region in Ukraine's east.\n\nSince pulling its forces back from the Kyiv region in March, Russia has refocused its military efforts on Ukraine's eastern Donbas making slow advances there in recent weeks.\n\nDespite the Russians' superior numbers, Mr Zelensky said the Ukrainian defenders were holding out and had \"every chance\" of fighting back.\n\nSmoke and dirt rising above Severodonetsk amid intense fighting in the eastern city on Thursday between Russian and Ukrainian forces\n\nArtillery strikes have also intensified on neighbouring Lysychansk, which Mr Zelensky said he had visited on Sunday as part of a tour of the eastern front line.\n\nAn elderly resident in the city, Oleksandr Lyakhovets, said a Russian missile had struck his flat soon after, engulfing it in flames.\n\n\"They shoot here endlessly... It's a horror show,\" the 67-year-old told AFP news agency.\n\nRussian forces have made slow progress in Ukraine's eastern Donbas in recent weeks.\n\nTheir troops currently control almost all of the Luhansk region as well as a significant proportion of the neighbouring Donetsk region. The two regions make up the Donbas.\n\nFighting has been slow and bloody with both sides sustaining significant losses.\n\nRussian state media said on Sunday that one of the army's top officials, Maj Gen Roman Kutuzov, had been killed while leading an offensive on an unspecified Ukrainian town in the region.\n\nWestern countries have responded to the grinding conflict with pledges to send even more advanced, long-range weapons to Kyiv that they hope will bolster Ukraine's defensive capacity in the east.\n\nOn Monday the UK confirmed that long-range missile systems would be included for the first time in the next batch of military aid that it is sending to Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said he considers any delivery of long-range weapons by Western countries to be a deliberate attempt to prolong the conflict. He said Russia would respond by expanding the list of targets that it was striking across Ukraine if longer-range weapons were sent to his adversaries.\n\nIn Mariupol, which was captured by Russia in May after a months-long siege, the Associated Press news agency is reporting that dozens of corpses belonging to soldiers who had been defending the city's Azovstal steel mill had finally been returned to Kyiv where they were undergoing DNA tests.\n\nOther soldiers who survived the siege were taken to Russian-controlled areas. On Monday, Mr Zelensky said that more than 2,500 of them were being held as prisoners of war.\n\nResidents in the now Russian-controlled port city have been facing a growing humanitarian crisis, compounded by severe shortages of food and water.\n\nOn Monday a Ukrainian official said contamination from decomposing corpses and rubbish had sparked a cholera outbreak - prompting a city-wide quarantine.\n\n\"We are seeing the city get closed off,\" said Petro Andryushchenko, who is an adviser to the city's mayor, to United News TV.\n\n\"The word 'cholera' is being mentioned inside the city, among occupying authorities and their handlers,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.", "At first glance they are an unlikely line up for aid workers in a war zone - a dog trainer from Kent, a farmer from Cornwall, and a technology executive from Sussex.\n\nBut these three British volunteers were drawn - separately - to Ukraine. They teamed up here and have spent months in harm's way evacuating the elderly and the frail from areas near front lines. They fund themselves and prefer not to be named.\n\n\"I know my parents worry,\" says the dog trainer who, at 21, is the youngest. \"I have had phone calls with my mum where she has been in tears, but they are just really proud of what I am doing. They know I will be out here for a while, and they don't know when I will be coming home.\"\n\nAs we speak, air raid sirens wail and explosions thud in the distance now and then.\n\nShe hopes one day to be a qualified paramedic. For now, she has done a course in trauma first aid, and is learning on the job. When we joined the volunteers for a day, she was quick to check the lower leg of an evacuee with a blackened, gangrenous wound. Medical care had already been arranged for him at a safe distance.\n\nThe team regularly travel to and from towns and cities in the path of Russian forces who are grinding forward across the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Shelling is a constant threat. One run was so risky they were ordered by the Ukrainian military to put their body armour on.\n\n'I know my parents worry': the 21-year-old has put her life on hold\n\n\"There have been a few moments when you feel it's a bit close for comfort,\" she says. \"We stick together. As much danger as we are in, we feel quite prepared and reliable as a team.\"\n\nThey concede that some may wonder what they are doing in this war-torn region, and how much help they can provide.\n\n\"I didn't expect that we would be needed or wanted,\" says the farmer, \"but we are.\" Back in the UK he was tending to cattle and sheep before losing his job. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he filled a van with aid and drove it over from the UK. It now serves as their rough and ready ambulance.\n\n\"In an ideal world we would be redundant,\" he says, \"but we are not. We are here doing what we can. We are not experts, but we've done a lot in the last few months. I don't feel like there's anything else I could be doing that's more important than this.\"\n\nHe was behind the wheel on the day of our visit, but the volunteers stress they share the load, and the highs and lows, buoying each other up with \"British humour\".\n\n96-year-old Anastacia, one of the many people the three volunteers have helped\n\nThey have moved about 150 people in recent months - some to hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, others to a train station in the Pokrovsk. They collaborate with an established Ukrainian NGO, Vostok SOS, which gives them lists of evacuees to be collected each day, along with information about their medical condition.\n\nAs they grapple with day-to-day logistics and shifting front lines, the team has another concern - that international attention is fading.\n\n\"Aid is coming in slower,\" says the former farmer. \"That leads me to believe that people are becoming kind of used to the war, and I think that's something that really should not be happening.\"\n\n'Aid is coming in slower,' says the former farmer\n\nAnd he warns that there are still many in dire need of evacuation.\n\n\"Many people think those who needed to get out have gotten out,\" he says. \"That isn't the case.\"\n\nThe third member of the team was already in motion when the war broke out. She had spent six months travelling in the Middle East, after leaving her role working in technology in a start-up.\n\n\"My life infrastructure had already been put on pause,\" she tells me. \"So I've been free to come out here and stay out here indefinitely. We just want to get things done without any bureaucracy, any red tape. We work every day because this is what we care about. This is what matters because we are all Europeans. An attack on Ukraine by Russia is attack on all of us.\"\n\nHer own family knows the trauma of war and dislocation. Her grandmother had to flee from Poland during World War Two.\n\nAnd when the team collect a 96-year old called Anastacia, she tenderly holds her hand. Anastasia is painfully frail and has to be lifted with care. Her 70-year-old son Yevgeny tells us they spent days below ground when their village was shelled.\n\n\"Four or five days ago they started firing with mortars,\" he says. \"Our garden was hit, just 10 metres from our house. When it was so loud that everything shook, my mother was very scared.\"\n\nThe former technology worker came to Ukraine from the Middle East\n\nAnastasia is carefully carried on to a train, with Yevgeny by her side. Once again she has to flee, just as she did at 15, during World War Two.\n\nThe volunteer - who is now a world away from her old life in high tech - says the hardest days are when they cannot evacuate everyone. Some don't want to go - reluctant to leave home and hearth even when the war is closing in.\n\n\"You hope that you're doing the right thing taking them away from their land, and that they will get to come home. But you don't know. And you think about that for every single person you evacuate. Will they get to come back?\"\n\n\"The land here is beautiful,\" she tells me. \"And I was told that if you take a Ukrainian away from that, they will die. Whenever I evacuate a woman, I will pick her a flower from outside her building to take away. That's the only thing I can do.\"", "The UN says around 20 million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukraine from the previous harvest\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine could soon cause a global food crisis that may last for years, the UN has warned.\n\nSecretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war had worsened food insecurity in poorer nations due to rising prices.\n\nSome countries could face long-term famines if Ukraine's exports are not restored to pre-war levels, he added.\n\nThe conflict has cut off supplies from Ukraine's ports, which once exported vast amounts of cooking oil as well as cereals such as maize and wheat.\n\nThis has reduced the global supply and caused the price of alternatives to soar. Global food prices are almost 30% higher than the same time last year, according to the UN.\n\nSpeaking in New York on Wednesday, Mr Guterres said the conflict - combined with the effects of climate change and the pandemic - \"threatens to tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity followed by malnutrition, mass hunger and famine\".\n\n\"There is enough food in our world now if we act together. But unless we solve this problem today, we face the spectre of global food shortage in the coming months,\" he added.\n\nHe warned that the only effective solution to the crisis was reintegrating Ukraine's food production, as well as fertiliser produced by both Russia and Belarus, back into the global market.\n\nMr Guterres also said he was in \"intense contact\" with Russia and Ukraine, as well as the US and the EU, in an effort to restore food exports to normal levels.\n\n\"The complex security, economic and financial implications require goodwill on all sides,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came on the same day the World Bank announced extra funding worth $12bn (£9.7bn) for projects addressing food insecurity.\n\nThe move will bring the total amount available for such projects to more than $30bn over the next 15 months.\n\nRussia and Ukraine produce 30% of the world's wheat supply and - prior to the war - Ukraine was seen as the world's bread basket, exporting 4.5 million tonnes of agricultural produce per month through its ports.\n\nBut since Russia launched its invasion in February, exports have collapsed and prices have skyrocketed. They climbed even further after India banned wheat exports on Saturday.\n\nThe UN says around 20 million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukraine from the previous harvest which, if released, could ease pressure on global markets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries\n\nWhile the number of people facing food insecurity had been growing even before the invasion, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, accused Moscow of making a difficult situation even worse on Wednesday.\n\n\"Russia has launched a grain war, stoking a global food crisis,\" Berlin's top diplomat said. \"It is doing so at a time when millions are already being threatened by hunger, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.\"\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the world faced the \"greatest global food security crisis of our time\" which had been exacerbated by what he called Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"war of choice\".", "Antle faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison if convicted\n\nTiger King star Bhagavan \"Doc\" Antle has been charged with laundering more than half a million dollars.\n\nProsecutors say Antle believed the money came from a scheme to smuggle people into the US from Mexico.\n\nCharges were also announced against Andrew Jon Sawyer, one of Mr Antle's employees at Myrtle Beach Safari, during a federal court hearing in South Carolina.\n\nThe pair each face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison if convicted.\n\nMr Antle was a prominent character in Tiger King, a Netflix docu-series that followed the rivalry between eccentric Oklahoma zoo owner Joe Exotic and animal rights activist Carole Baskin.\n\nThe show became a cultural phenomenon in March 2020, fuelled partly by viewers in pandemic-enforced lockdowns.\n\nJoe Exotic, who was convicted of murder-for-hire and animal abuse in 2020, was the star of Tiger King\n\nAccording to federal prosecutors, Mr Antle and Mr Sawyer laundered $505,000 (£403,000) over a four-month period by doling out cheques from their companies, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThey allegedly took a 15% fee of the money that passed through their hands.\n\nProsecutors say the cheques falsely claimed to be payment for construction work at Myrtle Beach Safari but were intended to serve as evidence that the recipients had legitimate income.\n\nThe Tiger King star planned to hide the cash he received by exaggerating tourist numbers at his reserve, according to the complaint disclosed in court.\n\nThis is just the latest in a long line of legal troubles for Mr Antle.\n\nHe is facing charges of wildlife trafficking and conspiracy to traffic wildlife, as well as 13 counts of conspiracy to violate the Endangered Species Act and animal cruelty charges related to trafficking lion cubs.", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nNorthern Ireland rider Davy Morgan has been killed in a crash during the Supersport race at the Isle of Man TT.\n\nThe County Down rider crashed at the 27th Milestone on the third and final lap of Monday morning's event.\n\nMorgan, 52, from Saintfield, is the third competitor to lose his life at this year's TT.\n\nWelsh rider Mark Purslow died in a practice crash last week while sidecar driver Cesar Chanal suffered fatal injuries in an accident on Saturday.\n\nA statement issued by the race organisers it was \"with a heavy heart\" that they confirmed Morgan's death.\n\n\"The Isle of Man TT Races pass on their deepest sympathy to Davy's partner Trudy, his family, loved ones, and friends,\" continued the statement.\n\nMorgan was an extremely experienced competitor who was a regular fixture in racing paddocks across Ireland, the Isle of Man and at the Macau Grand Prix for almost three decades.\n\nHis first race was at the Bishopscourt short circuit in 1993 but it was racing on public roads that became his primary passion.\n\nAmong his greatest career achievements were a 250cc win at the North West 200 in 2005 and two victories in the same class at the Ulster Grand Prix in 2012 and 2017.\n\nAlthough he was very much associated with those two-stroke bikes, he was also accomplished on the larger capacity 600c and Superbike machines.\n\nThe Saintfield racer won the Senior Manx Grand Prix in 2004 and also enjoyed success on numerous Irish national road race courses and at the Southern 100 on the Isle of Man.\n\nHe competed at every TT since making his debut in 2002 and Monday's Supersport race was his 80th start.\n\nHis TT career included a seventh-place finish in the 2006 Senior TT and a career-best fifth position in the 2008 Lightweight TT.\n\nHis best lap around the TT Mountain Course was at an average speed of 125.134mph which he set in the 2010 Senior TT.\n\nDavy had recorded 49 finishes which included 25 top-twenty results, and his previous performances had earned him 14 Silver Replicas and 30 Bronze Replicas.", "The RAC has warned petrol and diesel could reach £2 a litre\n\nSoaring fuel prices have put the haulage industry in crisis with the cost of running one lorry up £20,000 on last year, a freight boss has said.\n\nLesley O'Brien, director of Freight Link Europe, said \"pretty much everything you buy comes on the back of a truck\" so customers were paying more.\n\nHer comments come as the RAC said it now costs £98 to fill the average car with petrol and £101.86 with diesel.\n\nThe motoring group has called for \"radical government intervention\".\n\nLatest figures from the RAC show the average cost of a litre of petrol rose from 177.88p on Sunday to 178.50p on Monday - a rise of 0.6p in 24 hours.\n\nOver the same period, the average diesel price rose from 185.01p to 185.20p.\n\nRAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams said: \"Drivers need to brace themselves for average fuel prices rocketing to £2 a litre which would mean a fill-up would rise to an unbelievable £110.\n\n\"We strongly urge the government to take drastic action to help soften the impact for drivers from these never-before-seen pump prices.\"\n\nLesley O'Brien said high fuel costs were being passed on to customers\n\nMotorists have been hit by record pump prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine led to an increase in the cost of oil because of supply fears.\n\nIn March, the government cut fuel duty by 5p a litre. It said this would save a car driver on average £100 a year, a van driver £200 and hauliers £1,500.\n\nIn some circumstances, haulage firms and other transport businesses can reclaim 100% of VAT on fuel paid for business purposes via HMRC.\n\nMs O'Brien told the BBC's Today programme: \"This certainly is a crisis as we've seen fuel prices escalate over the last year by 50% and no sight of a stop, so we absolutely as an industry need to keep on top of this.\n\n\"As a country we need to understand we need to support our transport industry which is the infrastructure of the whole economy,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Brien said fuel was a third of her business' running costs. This time last year, it would cost about £41,000 a year in fuel for an average articulated lorry at her company, but with prices soaring it now costs more than £61,000 a year.\n\nShe explained that her company added a fuel surcharge to its bills, to cover fluctuating prices.\n\n\"But never before has it been so high,\" she said. \"As an example, to run one of my artic vehicles is now costing me £20,000 more per year than in did last year.\"\n\nAnother firm, Countrywide Coaches told the BBC it had had to sell two coaches due to the rising price of diesel.\n\nDirector Olivia Bell from Countrywide Coaches said she had tried to mitigate rising diesel costs by putting up prices for some of her school customers - but parents ended up pulling their children off the school trip altogether.\n\nHer family-run company is now down to 14 coaches, catering to schools, private and military staff trips.\n\n\"Since September's price rise, we are paying an extra £2,000 per week in fuel costs. So we are hitting Plan B by selling coaches,\" she added.\n\nRod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association (RHA), said: \"Fuel represents over a third of a trucks operating costs yet profit margins are between 1% and 2%.\n\n\"To put this into perspective, the average 44 tonne truck gets less than two miles from a litre of fuel. That's why every penny increase makes a massive difference and as such, every penny must be made to count.\"\n\nSome 30% of fuel costs are duty taxes and the RHA wants the government to return this to \"essential users\" such as hauliers and coach operators. They could then lower their prices to customers, the RHA said.\n\nMs O'Brien said: \"If we help the haulage industry and we have an essential user rebate we will help everybody because pretty much everything you buy comes on the back of a truck and we will be able to pass that on to the end user.\"\n\nThe spiralling cost of fuel had added to pressures including a driver shortage, subsequently high salaries and an increase in companies' national insurance payments, she said.\n\nOn top of that there was an increase in lorry maintenance costs and a shortage of new lorries and parts due to a global shortage of chips.\n\nMeanwhile, a plan to name and shame petrol stations that fail to pass on a cut in fuel duty is \"still in the works\", a government source has told BBC News.\n\nA formal announcement had been expected last week, but it is understood officials at the Department for Transport are yet to finalise the policy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nHarry Kane's late penalty gave England a Nations League draw in Germany as he became only the second man to score 50 goals for the Three Lions.\n\nEngland captain Kane sent Germany keeper Manuel Neuer the wrong way from the spot with two minutes left, as a VAR review ruled he had been brought down by Nico Schlotterbeck.\n\nIt was a goal that gave England their first point in the tournament after defeat in Hungary on Saturday and moved Kane into second place in the all-time record standings, moving ahead of Sir Bobby Charlton to sit only three behind Wayne Rooney.\n\nEngland looked to be going down to their second defeat but came to life late on in Munich after going behind to Jonas Hofmann's deflected 50th-minute shot and will now look to build on this result when they face Italy at Molineux on Saturday.\n• None How you rated the players - Germany 1-1 England\n\nEngland can take heart from draw\n\nFor a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.\n\nThe introduction of Jack Grealish for Mason Mount with 18 minutes left gave England more positive attacking intent and there was also a fine cameo from West Ham United's Jarrod Bowen in the last 10 minutes.\n\nGermany looked more likely to add to their one goal than England did to equalise until the substitutes helped to change the game. Hansi Flick's side still had their chances, with goalkeeper Jordan Pickford saving from Thomas Muller and Timo Werner, but Southgate's side were much more progressive after the changes.\n\nSouthgate used a 4-2-3-1 formation but suffered disruption early on when Kalvin Phillips went off injured, although this gave another opportunity for Borussia Dortmund teenager Jude Bellingham to show his class.\n\nKane thought he had his 50th goal before his penalty when Neuer somehow turned his effort away from Grealish's cross while Bowen almost set up Sterling, who was only denied by a desperate block.\n\nSouthgate will not be satisfied with the soft concession of Hofmann's goal. Germany weaved some neat passes around the area but he was still afforded far too much space to score with an effort Pickford got to but could not keep out.\n\nKane's late leveller will make a big difference to England's morale before two home games against Italy and Hungary, as a second successive loss would have been dispiriting for a side suffering a physical and mental toll after such a long season.\n\nIs Musiala the one that got away?\n\nJamal Musiala could just have easily been playing in an England shirt - having played for them at Under-15 and Under-17 level alongside, among others, Jude Bellingham.\n\nBut instead, the 19-year-old Bayern Munich forward chose to play for Germany, and so lined up against England's Bellingham in Munich.\n\nFor the first hour at least, Musiala was the best player on the pitch, producing exciting moments with his running and skill before he tired and was substituted.\n\nHe certainly gave the impression he could have a distinguished international career - and that he would have been a big asset to England had he not decided to play for Germany.\n• None Goal! Germany 1, England 1. Harry Kane (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Nico Schlotterbeck (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Nico Schlotterbeck (Germany) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Kieran Trippier following a corner.\n• None Joshua Kimmich (Germany) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. John Stones (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Grealish with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Timo Werner (Germany) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Azovstal - the vast industrial site with a maze of underground tunnels - was pummelled by Russia for weeks\n\nThe bodies of some Ukrainian fighters killed defending the key south-eastern port of Mariupol have arrived in Kyiv, according to the soldiers' families.\n\nThey say this was part of a swap with Russia, with each side receiving 160 bodies. Moscow has not commented.\n\nThe fighters spent weeks holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks. In May, the survivors were taken prisoner.\n\nMore than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers captured in Mariupol have reportedly been transferred to Russia.\n\nThe soldiers, who were being held in locations controlled by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, were moved to Russia for investigation, a Russian law enforcement source told Itar-Tass, a state-owned Russian news agency.\n\nThe same source said more prisoner transfers would follow.\n\nThere has been no confirmation from the Ukrainian side, but previously Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said he thought more than 2,500 Azovstal defenders - who also include border guards, police and territorial defence - were being held by Russia.\n\nKyiv says Mariupol's last defenders were given orders to save their lives after successfully completing their main goal of holding up Russian troops and not allowing them to be redeployed to other key battlefields.\n\nMoscow says the Ukrainian defenders were forced to surrender.\n\nUkrainian fighters were taken by bus from Azovstal to areas controlled by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine\n\nMariupol was captured by Russia in May after a months-long siege and heavy shelling that virtually wiped out the city. Ukrainian officials estimate that tens of thousands of people, including children, may have been killed.\n\nThey have also been warning of a possible outbreak of cholera in the city, where many bodies are still believed to be buried under the rubble, and sewage has reportedly contaminated main water supply chains.\n\nAfter Mariupol, Russian forces turned their attention to Severodonetsk - and the twin city of Lysychansk. Seizing them would give the Russians control of the Luhansk region - which, alongside Donetsk, makes up the wider Donbas, stated target of Russian operations.\n\nIn a post on Telegram late on Monday, the Ukrainian fighters' families said \"the bodies of the killed Azovstal defenders\" had arrived in the capital Kyiv.\n\nThey said that one-third of those were fighters from the Azov regiment, and that the identification process was continuing and could take up to three months.\n\nRussia has not officially confirmed the exchange of bodies.\n\nHowever, Russian war correspondent Irina Kuksenkova on Friday reported that the exchange did take place on the line of contact between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. She said each side received 160 bodies.\n\nPresident Zelensky has said Ukraine's intelligence officials were working on a plan to secure the release of the surviving fighters, without giving any further details.\n\nKyiv wants them all handed over, but several leading Russian lawmakers are demanding that some of the soldiers - specifically from the Azov regiment - should be put on trial.\n\nThe regiment was set up in 2014, with some of its members initially linked to far-right groups. Kyiv says the unit has since been reformed and is now outside politics.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that his \"special military operation\" launched on 24 February was to de-Nazify and de-militarise Ukraine. He provided no evidence to back his claims, but officials have often mentioned the Azov Regiment.\n\nIn Ukraine, however, many people regard Azov soldiers as national heroes fighting what they say is in fact the neo-Nazi regime of President Putin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine", "Michaela McAreavey on her wedding day in 2011\n\nA man has been interviewed voluntarily in relation to a video mocking the death of Michaela McAreavey, police have said.\n\nThe 27-year-old woman was murdered on honeymoon in Mauritius in 2011.\n\nThe video emerged on social media last week of a group of people singing a song about Ms McAreavey's murder.\n\nPoliticians across Northern Ireland have condemned the content and the Orange Order has begun an inquiry. Police enquiries are continuing.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long has said she has been in contact with the PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne over the video and police are trying to determine what, if any, offences have been committed.\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Ms Long said: \"I think that - I'm sure that - everyone who is associated with the Orange Order will be relieved that those involved have resigned from the organisation because I'm sure that they would not want to be associated with the chants that were being made at the event and that were then passed around on social media, given the hurt and the offence that it caused.\n\n\"It was a shocking incident, not only because of the content of the video clip, but more so because so many people present seemed to know the song and it seemed to be something people were familiar with, suggesting that it isn't the first time that they've heard it - and I think a lot of people found that particularly chilling.\"\n\nMs Long also told the programme the incident is not \"representative of everyone who is a unionist\" but that it would be wrong to suggest that there is \"not sectarianism that cuts right across our society\".\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed when and where the footage was taken, but it was filmed in a room decorated with union flags and Orange Order paintings\n\nMichaela graduated from Queen's University on the same day in 2006 that her father, Mickey Harte, received an honorary doctorate\n\nOne man who appeared in the video has been sacked by his employer SJC Hutchinson Engineering based in Kilrea, County Londonderry.\n\nIn a statement on social media, the company said: \"The content posted online is abhorrent, divisive and we unequivocally condemn such behaviour.\n\n\"It has no place in society and we will not tolerate such conduct by any member of staff.\n\n\"We have advised the staff member that his employment has been terminated with immediate effect.\"\n\nArmagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council announced on Saturday it was investigating an employee's alleged involvement in the video.\n\nTwo other men who were involved in the video, John Bell and Andrew McDade, issued an apology through JWB Consultancy for the \"vile chant\".\n\nJWB Consultancy is run by loyalist campaigner Jamie Bryson, who has also condemned the video.\n\nSeparately, the Belfast-based football club, Linfield FC, said one of its voluntary coaches \"can be clearly identified\" in the video and his association with the club has been terminated.\n\nMs McAreavey, an Irish language teacher from County Tyrone, was the daughter of Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football manager Mickey Harte.\n\nShe was found strangled in a bathtub at her honeymoon hotel 12 days after her wedding.\n\nHer family and husband, John McAreavey, continue to lead a campaign to bring her killers to justice, but so far no-one has been convicted over her death.", "Sir Patrick's new honour represents an upgrade on the knighthood he received three years ago\n\nIt is \"disappointing\" Covid rules were not followed in Downing Street, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, has said.\n\nSir Patrick said it was \"really important\" that everyone stuck to the rules aimed at curbing the virus.\n\nSpeaking after collecting an honour at Buckingham Palace for his work during the pandemic, he also recalled tough days as the virus took hold in 2020.\n\nAnd he said next winter could be another test, but the NHS was prepared.\n\nThe scientist became a household name after regularly updating the public in televised Covid briefings from Downing Street, often standing alongside the prime minister during key moments in the pandemic.\n\nThe early days of the pandemic were the \"darkest\", he said, as lots of people became ill quickly amid \"huge uncertainty\" about the virus.\n\n\"Obviously people in the government fell ill and the prime minister was very ill and those were very difficult days.\n\n\"It was mostly about the uncertainty. We did not know much about the virus. We did not know much about exactly how it spread. We did not know there were going to be vaccines and treatments.\"\n\nAsked about the Partygate scandal, he said: \"It was really important at all stages that everyone stuck to the rules. It works when people stuck to them. It is disappointing that that wasn't the case.\"\n\nHis comments come the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote triggered by Tory MPs angry at staff partying in Downing Street while the UK was in lockdown.\n\nSir Patrick said the UK was now in a \"very different position\" with Covid because of high vaccination and immunity levels.\n\nBut he said there would be further waves of infection, \"maybe next winter\".\n\nThere would also probably be an annual vaccine for people over a certain age, he said, and eventually Covid would be \"more like a flu wave that we get every winter\".\n\n\"It will be difficult because there will be some people who are really affected by it but the key to this is proper vaccination and proper management in the health service.\n\n\"Then gradually over the next two or three years, I think this could settle into a background infection, but we are not quite there yet.\"\n\nAs the Duke of Cambridge presented Sir Patrick with an upgraded award, he joked that this was \"second time lucky\" as Sir Patrick was originally knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours list.\n\nPrince William joked with Sir Patrick as he presented him with the upgraded honour\n\nIt makes him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, an award that recognises the work of senior military officials and civil servants.\n\nSir Patrick - who previously was in charge of drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline - said the most positive time in the pandemic was when the UK became the first place in the world with an approved vaccine.\n\n\"We thought 'this is going to be a way out of this', even though it was over a year before it was finally a way to getting out of it,\" he said. \"It was the thing that changed the course of the pandemic.\"\n\nEighteen months after the vaccine rollout began, 93% of over-12s in the UK have now had a first dose, and 87% have had a second dose.\n\nSir Patrick also praised the \"most amazing scientists and experts\" who made sure the public was given up-to-date factual information during the pandemic.\n\n\"It has been one of those experiences where you realise the importance of other people, humanity and the goodwill, hard work, passion and expertise,\" he said.\n\n\"It is nice to feel trusted and I am grateful for that.\n\n\"What I have tried to do and what others have tried to do is to make sure we are as honest and straightforward as possible about how we saw the situation at any given moment in the pandemic and to be as realistic as possible - both in terms of treatments and vaccines coming along but also on what the course of the pandemic was.\"\n• None Time to draw a line under Partygate, says PM", "National Trust for Scotland said St Kilda had one of Europe's most important sea bird colonies\n\nAvian flu has been confirmed on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda.\n\nNational Trust for Scotland (NTS), which manages the Unesco World Heritage Site, said a significant proportion of the islands' great skuas had died.\n\nIt said about 104 skua had been found dead so far this season.\n\nSt Kilda is more than 40 miles (64km) from the Western Isles where the islands local authority has warned of a bird flu outbreak.\n\nTests are also being carried out for avian flu at the world's largest colony of northern gannets on the Bass Rock in East Lothian. It is understood that more than 150 dead sea birds have been discovered along the coastline. The cause of sickness has not been confirmed.\n\nAn RSPB spokeswoman said: \"There are now many dead gannets and very strange behaviour in birds - head shaking, wing flapping on nests, digging bills into the ground. Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) have not yet taken samples so this is not confirmed as HPAI but there is clearly something wrong.\n\n\"There have also been lots of gannets washed up along the coast, including two birds that are from Bass Rock based on colour rings on their legs.\"\n\nScheduled boat trips to the visitor attraction off North Berwick are continuing with extra hygiene measures in place, and members of the public are being urged not to touch any dead birds.\n\nThe Bass Rock is home to the world's largest colony of northern gannets with about 150,000 living on it at peak season.\n\nThe group of tiny islands and sea stacks that make up St Kilda is home to almost a million seabirds, including gannets, shearwaters and storm petrels.\n\nIt also has the UK's largest colony of Atlantic puffins.\n\nGreat skua, also known as bonxie, migrate to St Kilda and other parts of the UK and Ireland from their wintering grounds off Spain and Africa. RSPB Scotland describe the birds as an \"aggressive pirate of the sea\" that steals food from other sea birds.\n\nNTS said: \"We're very concerned about the impact this outbreak might have on St Kilda which is one of the most important sea bird colonies in Europe.\n\n\"We'll continue to monitor and follow all relevant protocols, ensuring that staff and visitors are safe.\"\n\nAvian flu has left unusually large numbers of sea birds dead on beaches in the Western Isles, the islands local authority has said.\n\nComhairle nan Eilean Siar said the outbreak had hit colonies in the isles.\n\nNTS said bird flu has had a significant impact on great skua on St Kilda\n\nThe comhairle has urged people not to touch carcasses and for the public to report discoveries of large numbers of dead wild birds to Defra.\n\nIt also asked islanders to take precautions to protect poultry and pet birds.\n\nOn Monday there were warnings bird flu was spreading through breeding sea bird colonies in Shetland.\n\nAbout 1,000 dead gannets have so far been recorded, and hundreds of great skuas have also been found dead or dying.\n\nIt followed dozens of wild birds dying in a suspected avian flu outbreak at Loch Fleet, near Golspie in Sutherland, last month.\n\nEarlier this year, bird flu cases were reported in Dumfries and Galloway, Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire.", "Dom Phillips talking to two indigenous men in Roraima State, Brazil in 2019\n\nThe family of veteran British journalist Dom Phillips is urging more action be taken to find him after he went missing in the Brazilian Amazon.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, disappeared along with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira in a remote rainforest area while researching a book.\n\nThe two had received threats days before vanishing on Sunday morning, say indigenous rights groups.\n\nBoth men have deep knowledge of the region.\n\nForty-one-year-old Bruno Pereira, who is currently on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, is an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nMr Phillips has been living in Brazil for more than a decade and is a long-time contributor to Britain's Guardian newspaper as well as other publications such as the Financial Times and the Washington Post.\n\nTwo indigenous rights groups sounded the alarm about the men's disappearance on Monday.\n\nIn a statement [in Portuguese], they said that the two men had been travelling by boat in the Javari Valley to interview members of an indigenous guard.\n\nThe area is located in the west of Amazonas state, near the border with Peru, and has seen incursions from illegal loggers and miners.\n\nOn Sunday, the two stopped in São Rafael, where Mr Pereira was scheduled to meet a local leader to discuss joint patrols between indigenous people and residents of riverside communities.\n\nAccording to the rights groups, Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira arrived at 06:00 local time and set off shortly afterwards towards Atalaia do Norte, a journey which takes around two hours.\n\nWhen they failed to arrive, Univaja sent out a search party at around 14:00 but found no trace of the two men along the stretch of river they had been expected to take.\n\nThe last to see them were residents of São Gabriel, a community downriver from São Rafael, who spotted their boat going past, the statement adds.\n\nPolice say they interviewed two people who are thought to be among the last to have seen the men.\n\nThe witnesses were taken to Atalaia do Nore, where they were interviewed, but no arrests were made.\n\nThe rights groups say Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were traveling in a new boat and had enough fuel to cover their journey.\n\nThey add that in the week leading up to the men's disappearance, the team had received threats.\n\n\"It wasn't the first time threats were made,\" the statement says, adding that previous instances had been reported to the police.\n\nThe area is home to more than 20 indigenous groups, who have denounced activities by illegal miners, fishers and hunters.\n\nA Funai base in the region has come under attack on a number of occasions in recent years.\n\nMr Phillips' family has been appealing to the authorities to speed up the search.\n\nHis Brazilian wife, Alessandra Sampaio, wrote \"our families are in despair, please answer the urgency of the moment with urgent actions\".\n\n\"In the forest every second counts, every second could be the difference between life and death,\" she added.\n\nMr Phillips' sister, Sian Phillips, also appealed for help in a video statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Pereira's family has also released a statement describing the \"48 hours of anguish\" they have lived through since the disappearance.\n\nThe statement says that the family is hopeful that their disappearance may be down to their boat breaking down and that the two \"are waiting for help\".\n\n\"We know that Bruno [Pereira] has extensive experience and knowledge of the region, however, time is a key factor in rescue operations, especially if they turn out to be injured.\"\n\nThe Brazilian government said that the federal police force was \"immediately mobilised\" and was \"taking all possible measures\" to find the two.\n\nBut there has been criticism of the small number of police and navy personnel deployed in what is a vast expanse of rainforest crisscrossed by rivers.\n\nThe navy only announced late on Monday that it would send a helicopter \"in addition to two vessels and a watercraft\".\n\nMr Pereira's family has insisted that it is \"essential that specialized searches are carried out, by air, river and land, with all the human and material resources that the situation requires\".", "An ex-Dublin airport policeman who was arrested after trying to take a large amount of cash on to a Belfast flight has been jailed.\n\nMark Adams, 42, from Castleheath in Malahide, Dublin, was stopped at Belfast International Airport in 2018.\n\nUK Border Force officials discovered he was carrying more than 180,000 euros (£154,000) in his hand luggage.\n\nIt was deemed to be criminal property and he was given a 20-month sentence, half of which must be served in jail.\n\nThe case was investigated by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and after Thursday's sentencing at Antrim Crown Court, it released a statement welcoming the jail term.\n\n\"Mark Adams was clearly a serial money launderer on both sides of the Irish border, and as a former policeman he would have been well aware that what he was doing was wrong,\" said its Belfast Branch Commander David Cunningham.\n\nThe investigation began on 9 May 2018 when Adams attempted to board a flight from Belfast to Alicante in Spain.\n\nAccording to the NCA's statement, the cash in his luggage was found inside two folders which the agency said were \"disguised to look like they contained legally privileged documentation\".\n\nWhen challenged, Adams initially claimed he was flying to Alicante for a wedding.\n\nHowever, NCA investigators discovered that he had already booked a seat on a return flight to Belfast, which was due to depart just an hour and 20 minutes after he was due to land in Spain.\n\nFurther NCA inquiries revealed that during the previous five years, Adams had taken almost 500 flights into or out of the UK, \"often returning shortly after landing at his destination\", according to the agency.\n\nHe was arrested and released on bail but when he failed to return to Northern Ireland to face charges, a European Arrest Warrant was issued.\n\nUK investigators then realised that Adams had been taken in custody in the Republic of Ireland, where he was facing separate money laundering charges.\n\nHe was accused of attempting to smuggle 500,000 euros (£426,000) out of Dublin Airport in 2015, along with other offences.\n\nAn Irish court sentenced him to five years in prison but while he was still serving that jail term, he was temporarily transported over the Irish border to be charged with offences in Northern Ireland.\n\nAt a previous hearing at Antrim Crown Court, he admitted two charges - attempting to remove criminal property and entering an arrangement to acquire criminal property.\n\nIn the NCA's statement welcoming Thursday's sentence, the agency said: \"Working with our Irish colleagues we were able to spot a pattern of him regularly travelling out of airports in both the Republic and UK, and returning home shortly afterwards.\n\n\"Each time he is likely to have taken tens or even hundreds of thousands of euros, and may have been responsible for laundering many millions of criminal money in total.\"\n\nThe jail term was also welcomed by the Northern Ireland Border Force Command.\n\n\"Clamping down on the export of undeclared cash from the UK is vital in our fight against organised criminal gangs\", said its interim assistant director Darren Brabon.\n\n\"The sentence handed down to Adams today is the result of hard work and dedication from Border Force, the NCA and our partners in the Republic of Ireland to tackle dirty money.\"", "Emma Raducanu: Injured British number one faces race to be fit for Wimbledon Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu says she has \"no idea\" whether she will be fit for Wimbledon after she retired from her Nottingham Open opener against Viktorija Golubic. The 19-year-old US Open champion conceded the match while down 4-3 and a break of serve in the first set, having suffered an injury to her left side. \"I think I pulled something,\" she said, adding the injury was \"an absolute freak\". \"I cannot diagnose myself,\" Raducanu added. \"I will get it checked out.\" The British number one took a medical timeout early in the first set but, despite treatment and a dose of painkillers, she conceded the match shortly after as Swiss world number 55 Golubic edged ahead. It is Raducanu's third mid-match retirement since her 2021 US Open win. The world number 11 also bowed out of matches in Guadalajara in February and Rome in May with injuries. She lost in the second round of the French Open last time out, but cited her ability to come through the campaign without any injuries as one of the positives to take from Roland Garros. Raducanu is yet to win more than two matches at a tournament since her astonishing run from qualifying to the title at Flushing Meadows in September. 'It hasn't always been easy' - Raducanu speaks to BBC Breakfast She has worked with a number of coaches since combining with Andrew Richardson for her victory in New York. Raducanu is due to continue her grass-court swing at next week's Rothesay Classic in Birmingham. Wimbledon, where she reached the fourth round last year, starts on 27 June. Elsewhere in the Nottingham Open draw, British number four Katie Boulter bounced back from the loss of the first set to beat Germany's Tatjana Maria 4-6 6-1 6-4 and advance to a second-round meeting with Australian fifth seed Ajla Tomljanovic. Compatriot Yuriko Miyazaki, 26, claimed her first Tour-level main-draw win as she made light of 142 ranking places between her and world number 92 Frech Magdalena to defeat the Pole 6-4 1-6 6-1. Britons Eden Silva and Sonay Kartal suffered straight-sets defeats against Canada's Rebecca Marino and Italian third seed Camila Giorgi respectively.\n• None GB in BJK Cup Finals after Glasgow named as hosts Raducanu received treatment to an apparent injury to her left side\n• None The boys are back and Florida awaits...\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?:", "Elon Musk has threatened to walk away from his $44bn takeover of Twitter, accusing the social media company of \"thwarting\" his requests to learn more about its user base.\n\nIn a letter filed with regulators, Mr Musk said he was entitled to do his own measurement of spam accounts.\n\nThe letter formalises a dispute that has simmered for weeks after Mr Musk declared the deal \"on hold\" pending further information.\n\nBut Mr Musk has said he believes spam and fake accounts represent a far greater share than the less than 5% of daily users that Twitter reports publicly.\n\n\"As Twitter's prospective owner, Mr Musk is clearly entitled to the requested data to enable him to prepare for transitioning Twitter's business to his ownership and to facilitate his transaction financing. To do both, he must have a complete and accurate understanding of the very core of Twitter's business model - its active user base,\" lawyer Mike Ringler wrote in the letter.\n\n\"Based on Twitter's behaviour to date, and the company's latest correspondence in particular, Mr Musk believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights,\" the letter said.\n\n\"This is a clear material breach of Twitter's obligations under the merger agreement and Mr Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement.\"\n\nThe dispute has raised more doubts about the future of the takeover, which Twitter's board approved in April.\n\n\"Twitter has and will continue to cooperatively share information with Musk to consummate the transaction in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nTwitter, which has said Mr Musk waived typical rights to due diligence in his eagerness to clinch the deal, added that it intended to complete the takeover at the agreed price and terms.\n\nMr Musk, who faces a $1bn break-up fee and possible lawsuit if he opts out, first raised the issue of the spam accounts on social media last month, saying the deal was on hold but he remained committed to the acquisition.\n\nAnalysts have said the Tesla boss might be using the issue to try to renegotiate the price or even walk away. They said Mr Musk's decision to raise the issue on social media was unconventional, making it difficult to establish how serious he was.\n\nWhen Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal defended the company's process in a series of tweets, Mr Musk responded with a poo emoji.\n\nMr Musk has said he believes that bots could account for 20% or more of Twitter users. The letter, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, confirms that the two sides have gone back and forth on the issue since early May.\n\nIt says Mr Musk merits \"reasonable cooperation\" as he tries to line up financing for the deal.\n\n\"Twitter's latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding the company's own testing methodologies, whether through written materials or verbal explanations, is tantamount to refusing Mr Musk's data requests,\" the letter says.\n\n\"Twitter's effort to characterise it otherwise is merely an attempt to obfuscate and confuse the issue.\"\n\nTexas attorney general Ken Paxton entered the debate on Monday, saying he had launched an investigation into Twitter for \"potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts\". Twitter has until 27 June to respond to his request for information.\n\nMr Musk's plans for the company have drawn intense scrutiny from regulators around the world, while raising some alarm among investors of electric car company Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX, which Mr Musk also leads.\n\nHe has lined up outside investors to help pay for the takeover and is also using equity and loans backed by his Tesla shares, which have been hit in recent weeks as market turmoil wipes billions from the values of companies including Tesla.\n\nThe decline has also made Mr Musk's offer of $54.20 per share for Twitter look even more generous. On Monday, Twitter shares were trading below $39, down 3%, though they later regained some ground. They have yet to return to the highs they hit last month shortly after Mr Musk revealed he had purchased about 9% of the firm's shares.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the letter marked the \"strongest signal yet that the Tesla founder is prepared to walk away\".\n\n\"This is a move Twitter investors have for weeks been steeling themselves for: the moment when Elon Musk's haphazard ruminations in tweets have been distilled into an official letter to regulators,\" she said. \"However, given the added volatility which has hit the tech sector since Mr Musk made his offer, it's highly likely he's after a cheaper price even if Twitter does provide the data requested in support of its initial analysis.\"", "Sam Tasker, Mr Fitton's son-in-law, said the family are asking the British government and the Foreign Office for support\n\nThe family of a British geologist jailed in Iraq for attempting to remove artefacts from the country says he is \"shell shocked\" over his 15-year prison sentence.\n\nJim Fitton, 66, who is originally from Bath, collected 12 stones and shards of broken pottery during a recent geology and archaeology tour of the country.\n\nMr Fitton has insisted he did not know he was breaking Iraqi laws.\n\nHis son-in-law Sam Tasker said: \"This is an unjust verdict.\"\n\nSpeaking to Mr Fitton in a five-minute phone call for the first time in 95 days, Mr Tasker said his father-in-law talked through the \"practicalities of making sure there is money to support his wife and family in Malaysia\" and the considerations of \"15 years away from his family\".\n\n\"He is as shocked as we are.\n\n\"I think he is trying to save us from the worst of it,\" he added.\n\nMr Fitton picked up the stone fragments from Eridu, a historically famous archaeological site in southern Iraq\n\nMr Fitton, who had regularly toured various countries and sites of historical interest across South America, south-east Asia and the Middle East, collected the items as souvenirs while visiting a site in Eridu, in Iraq's south east.\n\nHe was arrested at Baghdad airport on 20 March alongside German national Volker Waldmann, who was acquitted of the same charges as Mr Fitton.\n\nThey were charged under a 2002 law against \"intentionally taking or trying to take out of Iraq an antiquity\", which carries the maximum sentence of the death penalty.\n\nThe court decided to reduce the sentence \"because of the advanced age of the accused\", the judge said.\n\nJim Fitton was detained while trying to leave the country in March\n\nMr Tasker said the 15-year sentence will mean Mr Fitton will be in his mid 80s by the time he gets out of the general population prison and \"that is tantamount to a death sentence\" which is what the family have \"been trying to avoid in the first place\".\n\nMr Tasker said the family had launched an appeal and were urging the British government and the Foreign Office to \"publicly back\" it.\n\n\"As far as we can see so far, the Foreign Office are effectively washing their hands on any capabilities to support,\" he added.\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously said they cannot interfere with the judicial process of another country.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared a picture of their daughter Lilibet after celebrating her first birthday.\n\nLilibet is seen smiling at a birthday picnic hosted by the couple at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan said they were \"incredibly touched\" by birthday wishes they received for their second child, who was named in honour of the Queen.\n\nIt comes after they visited the UK for the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nOn Friday, the Sussexes made their first public appearance in Britain together since 2020 when they attended a service of thanksgiving for the Queen at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nThe couple were also pictured watching Trooping the Colour from a window, but were not part of the carriage procession or the group of working royals and their children permitted on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.\n\nLast week, was the first opportunity for the 96-year-old monarch to meet her great-grandaughter, who was born in Santa Barbara, California, where the Sussexes now live after stepping back as senior working royals.\n\nBut there has been no confirmation whether or not the Queen has met Lilibet.\n\nLilbet has inherited the copper locks of the Duke of Sussex, who is pictured aged one with his father, the Prince of Wales\n\nLilibet, who celebrated her first birthday on Saturday, is pictured dressed in a pale blue frock with a white bow in her hair.\n\nThe photo was taken by a family friend Misan Harriman at a picnic attended by family and close friends, a spokesperson for the duke and duchess said.\n\nProfessional photographer Mr Harriman later shared a black and white snap on Twitter of Meghan holding Lilibet alongside the words: \"It was such a privilege to celebrate the 1st birthday of Lilibet with my family and hers! Joy and face painting all around.\"\n\nMr Harriman previously took black-and-white photographs of Meghan and Harry when they announced she was pregnant with their second child.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are pictured with the Princess Royal's daughter, Zara Tindall, attended a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations\n\nA spokesperson for the Sussexes said cake was also served at the picnic by the couple's wedding baker Claire Ptak.\n\nThey added that more than $100,000 (£79,800) worth of donations had been made in their daughter's honour by people around the globe to World Central Kitchen - an organisation providing meals for those affected by humanitarian, climate and community crises.\n\nThe timing of the release of this photograph seems to be part of Prince Harry and Meghan's determined efforts to keep a low profile during their Platinum Jubilee visit.\n\nLilibet's birthday was on Saturday, but the picture wasn't made public until Monday night, when the Jubilee weekend was over and when there could be no accusations of stealing the limelight from the Queen.\n\nThere are also no details of which family were there for the birthday party, which fitted in with Buckingham Palace's earlier position that any such family meetings would remain private, including any meeting with the Queen.\n\nIt's a difficult balancing act for Prince Harry and Meghan, with such intense and fiercely divided public interest surrounding them.\n\nThey're likely to be criticised if they seem to be courting attention, and blamed if they hide away.\n\nAnd over the Jubilee celebrations they appeared at the St Paul's thanksgiving service, but otherwise stayed below the radar.\n\nWith this latest photo, they kept their own news out of the spotlight until after the Queen's big weekend.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan named Lilibet after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen, the toddler's great-grandmother.\n\nHer middle name, Diana, was chosen to honour her \"beloved late grandmother\", the Princess of Wales, the couple said at the time of her birth last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Misan Harriman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe is the Queen's 11th great-grandchild and is eighth in line to the throne.\n\nHer brother Archie was born in May 2019.\n\nMeghan and Harry shared the first photograph of Lilibet in December on a festive card. Her brother, Archie, now three, is also pictured.", "Russia could look to make 'micro-scale' gains in Kharkiv, says an expert Image caption: Russia could look to make 'micro-scale' gains in Kharkiv, says an expert\n\nFighting in Ukraine has settled into a rhythm reminiscent of trench warfare in World War One, says a military analyst.\n\nJustin Crump, chief executive of security consultancy Sibylline, tells the BBC the conflict has become “micro-level” - with Russia now “lucky to capture a field in 24 hours”. This is because the defending army appears to have an advantage in any given battle at the moment.\n\nIn some places, that favours Ukrainians holding onto their territory; in others, it suits Russian troops occupying cities they’ve captured.\n\nCrump, a former British Army serviceman, says Russia appears to have slight momentum – as its troops “grind forward”. Moscow will want to capture Severodonetsk and then the remainder of the eastern Donbas region in order to declare “any sort of victory”.\n\nHe expects the Kremlin to set its sights Zaporizhzhia next, then make a fresh attempt at Kharkiv and look to capture Odesa on the south coast.\n\nRussia’s brand of attritional warfare has been seen to work, Crump says – but “nothing is inevitable” about what happens next.\n\n“Russia’s got to be able to keep paying the bill,” he says – referring to the expense of the war, as well as the human toll.\n\nAs a result of poor tactics and other shortcomings, Russia has also shown that it can only attack successfully on a single axis at a time, Crump claims.\n\nFrom the Ukrainian perspective, high-spec weapons donations from Western nations – such as missile-launchers recently promised by the US and UK – are no “silver bullet”, says Crump, because the conflict has become less precise than that.\n\nHe says there is also the question of how long Western countries keep up their support for Ukraine.\n\nBut Russia “can’t leave the frontline where it is”, he adds – suggesting that Ukraine will refuse to give up the territories currently in the hands of its enemy.\n\nThere is, therefore, the possibility of a “frozen conflict at best”.", "Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia stormed out of the UN Security Council meeting\n\nRussia's UN ambassador has stormed out of a UN Security Council meeting after the European Council president blamed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for causing a global food crisis.\n\nCharles Michel said Russia was using food supplies as a \"stealth missile\" against the developing world, forcing people into poverty.\n\nThe war has left food stuck at Ukrainian ports.\n\nUkraine is a large exporter of cooking oil as well as cereals such as maize and wheat. Russia also exports vast amounts of grains as well as fertiliser. The lack of these exports has caused the price of alternatives to soar.\n\n\"Mr Ambassador of the Russian Federation, let's be honest, the Kremlin is using food supplies as a stealth missile against developing countries,\" Mr Michel said during the Security Council meeting in New York.\n\n\"The dramatic consequences of Russia's war are spilling over across the globe, and this is driving up food prices, pushing people into poverty, and destabilising entire regions.\n\n\"Russia is solely responsible for this food crisis.\"\n\nHe added that he had seen for himself the millions of tons of grain stuck in the Ukrainian port of Odesa because of a naval blockade enforced by Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Michel also accused Russia of stealing grain and preventing crop planting and harvesting in Ukraine because of its military activities there.\n\nHis comments led to Mr Nebenzia storming out. As he left, Mr Michel addressed him directly: \"You may leave the room, maybe it's easier not to listen to the truth\".\n\nMr Nebenzia told Reuters he couldn't stay because of \"the lies that Charles Michel came here to distribute\".\n\nIn a separate meeting, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said Russia was preventing Ukrainian grain exports from leaving the country and accused Russian forces of destroying Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure.\n\nSpeaking during a virtual roundtable with philanthropists, non-governmental organisations and private sector entities, Mr Blinken said: \"There's somewhere around 20 million tons of wheat that's trapped in silos near Odesa, and in ships literally filled with grain that are stuck in the Odesa port because of this Russian blockade.\"\n\nLike Mr Michel, he said there were credible reports that Russia was \"pilfering\" Ukraine's grain to sell for its own profit.", "England: Seven fans arrested in Munich - three for making a Nazi salute Last updated on .From the section England", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson won Monday's vote of confidence in his leadership, although by a narrower margin than he and his allies would have hoped.\n\nOf the 359 Tory MPs in the Commons, 211 backed the prime minister, while 148 voted against him.\n\nThe vote was anonymous, so we cannot know for certain which way Tory MPs voted, but here are some of the MPs who have gone public with their opposition to Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt said he would be voting against Mr Johnson shortly after a leadership vote was announced. The former foreign secretary ran against Mr Johnson at the 2019 leadership contest, but lost out in the final round of voting. He turned down the chance to be Mr Johnson's defence secretary, instead carving out a role on the backbenches as chair of the Commons health committee.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Tories, who serves in both the Commons and the Scottish Parliament, said he had not pushed for a confidence vote in the PM, but would vote against him after listening to his constituents. He previously wrote a no confidence letter in Mr Johnson in January, before withdrawing it because of the war in Ukraine.\n\nA prominent supporter of Brexit, David Davis served as secretary of state for exiting the European Union under Theresa May but resigned over her Brexit deal. Speaking in the Commons in January and quoting Oliver Cromwell, he told the prime minister: \"You have sat there too long for all the good you have done. In the name of God, go!\"\n\nAnother prominent supporter of Brexit and former chair of the European Research Group. Mr Baker previously submitted a letter of no confidence in Theresa May and backed Boris Johnson when she stood down as prime minister. In April, he expressed anger over Partygate and told the prime minister that \"the gig is up\".\n\nA junior minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, Tobias Ellwood is a former soldier and now serves as chairman of the defence select committee. He said in early February that he had submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.\n\nMs Nokes served as immigration minister under Theresa May. She left government when Boris Johnson became prime minister and was one of the 21 Conservative MPs who had the whip removed in 2019 for voting against the government's Brexit position. She has said she submitted a letter \"a very long time ago\".\n\nFirst elected: 1987 (lost his seat in 1997 but was returned to parliament in 2001)\n\nA former cabinet minister under David Cameron. Mr Mitchell supported remaining in the EU in 2016 and has been a key critic of Boris Johnson's cuts to international development funding. He has called Partygate \"more corrosive\" than the expenses scandal and said in the Commons that the prime minister \"no longer enjoys my support\".\n\nMr Bridgen was a vocal supporter of Brexit and backed Boris Johnson in the 2019 leadership election. He has previously submitted letters of no confidence in both David Cameron and Theresa May. He submitted a letter of no confidence in Mr Johnson in January 2022 but withdrew it in March in light of the war in Ukraine. He then submitted a letter again in late May.\n\nMs Kearns sits on the executive of the influential backbench 1922 committee and was accused of being the leading figure in the \"Pork Pie plot\" to oust the PM. She confirmed publicly that she had submitted a letter of no confidence.\n\nNow a backbencher, Jeremy Wright previously served as attorney general and then culture secretary under David Cameron and Theresa May. He said in a statement on his website that Partygate had done \"real and lasting damage to the reputation not just of this government but to the institutions and authority of government more generally\". He confirmed he had submitted a letter of no confidence.\n\nOther Conservative MPs to have publicly voiced opposition to the prime minister include:", "Almost 1.8 million children missed at least 10% of school in the autumn term in England, according to the children's commissioner for England\n\nParents in England are being hit with an increasing number of fines as schools try to encourage children to stop missing school.\n\nThe number of non-attendance fines being handed out dropped off during the pandemic, as self-isolation rules and lockdowns led to millions of children learning at home.\n\nBut there has been growing concern since it was revealed that almost 1.8 million children regularly missed school in the first term of this academic year.\n\nAs part of a mission to tackle this, parents have been fined £3.7m for the school year so far, figures obtained by the BBC show.\n\nYear 10 pupil Olivia missed every other day of school at her lowest point in the last two years, after family tensions at home.\n\nFor a while she was living with her older sister, who didn't try to make her go to school, and soon Olivia was barely leaving the house - becoming more isolated and depressed as she spent her days scrolling through her phone.\n\n\"I didn't want to see anyone, I didn't want to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"I was in such a negative mindset - I didn't care about school, I didn't care about my grades.\"\n\nOlivia goes to Unity City Academy in Middlesbrough, which six years ago had the worst attendance record in north-east England.\n\nOlivia felt isolated and depressed when she stopped going to school\n\nAfter a massive effort, the school's attendance is back up to the national average. Staff members such as Katie Coates and Emma Dryden are part of a drive to keep that number high.\n\nAt nine in the morning, they work their way through a list of phone numbers of parents of Year 10 pupils who haven't arrived.\n\nSome parents just don't answer. Others say their child is on the way, or being kept off because of a doctor or dentist appointment.\n\nThe job requires a mixture of tact, kindness and toughness as they try to work out which families need extra help to get the teenagers back to school.\n\nFor some families there are financial barriers, with one pupil messaging to say they don't have trousers to wear into school.\n\nKatie says a uniform bank within the school has been set up to help remove that barrier, but building trust with families can be tough.\n\n\"Some people aren't brave enough to come forward and say they can't afford things. Some parents can't afford the dinner money and it's cheaper to keep them at home.\"\n\nKatie Coates works with families to try to encourage children into school\n\nParents have also been known to keep older children off school to look after younger siblings.\n\nKatie says persuading parents to encourage their children into school can be difficult, as many families face \"heart-wrenching\" struggles.\n\nEvery morning, Katie's colleague Emma knocks on the doors of any parents who haven't picked up the phone to explain why their child isn't in school.\n\nAt most of the visits, the curtains are closed and door stays shut, so a leaflet goes into the letterbox asking parents to contact the school if they need help.\n\nAt one house where there is no answer, the pupil had only been into school four days in the last three months.\n\nEmma says they tried arranging late starts, early finishes, taxis and meetings with parents - but have had no success encouraging the child to come to school.\n\nIf none of those tactics work, parents with persistently absent children will get a £60 fixed penalty notice, which rises to £120 if it is not paid within weeks.\n\nIn the school year 2018-19, just before the pandemic, more than 272,000 fines with a total value of £14m were issued to parents in England for their children's non-attendance.\n\nOur investigation has found fines are now increasing again.\n\nJust over 71,000 fines were issued this school year up to Easter, costing parents a total of £3.7m.\n\nOut of the 152 local authorities, 130 replied to our request for data for the last four years.\n\nThe number of fines issued to parents varies between councils and ministers want a more consistent approach.\n\nAt Unity City Academy, the decision to put forward cases for parents to be fined is one small part of the work to encourage pupils to turn up each day.\n\nAndy Rodgers, the principal, says the school has invested in making school more enjoyable and rewarding, and improving behaviour.\n\nThe incentives include rewards for tutor groups with the best attendance - from laying on a special tea at school, to day trips at the end of the year.\n\n\"Within the culture in our community, attendance to school is not necessarily something that is highly regarded,\" he says, adding that a push for 100% attendance gives students the best preparation for the world of work.\n\nHe says it's been \"incredibly challenging\" to persuade some children back to school.\n\nBut with support from school staff like Katie and Emma to help her manage her anxieties, Olivia is now back to school full-time.\n\nShe feels her mental health is better now that she's stopped missing lessons.\n\n\"You've got to drag yourself out of bed, make yourself come in and get through the day.\n\n\"But once you take that big step it gets better.\"\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The actor spoke at the White House to advocate for \"responsible gun ownership\".\n\nHe was born in Uvalde, Texas, where 21 people died in a school shooting last month.", "The world faces a \"human catastrophe\" from a food crisis arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, World Bank president David Malpass has said.\n\nHe told the BBC that record rises in food prices would push hundreds of millions people into poverty and lower nutrition, if the crisis continues.\n\nThe World Bank calculates there could be a \"huge\" 37% jump in food prices.\n\nThis would hit the poor hardest, who will \"eat less and have less money for anything else such as schooling\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Mr Malpass, who leads the institution charged with global alleviation of poverty, said the impact on the poor made it \"an unfair kind of crisis... that was true also of Covid\".\n\n\"It's a human catastrophe, meaning nutrition goes down. But then it also becomes a political challenge for governments who can't do anything about it, they didn't cause it and they see the prices going up,\" he said on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington.\n\nThe price rises are broad and deep, he said: \"It's affecting food of all different kinds oils, grains, and then it gets into other crops, corn crops, because they go up when wheat goes up\".\n\nThere was enough food in the world to feed everybody, he said, and global stockpiles are large by historical standards, but there will have to be a sharing or sales process to get the food to where it is needed.\n\nMr Malpass also discouraged countries from subsidising production or capping prices.\n\nInstead, he said, the focus needed to be on increasing supplies across the world of fertilisers and food, alongside targeted assistance for the very poorest people.\n\nThe World Bank chief also warned of a knock on \"crisis within a crisis\" arising from the inability of developing countries to service their large pandemic debts, amid rising food and energy prices.\n\n\"This is a very real prospect. It's happening for some countries, we don't know how far it'll go. As many as 60% of the poorest countries right now are either in debt distress or at high risk of being in debt distress,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to be worried about a debt crisis, the best thing to do is to start early to act early on finding ways to reduce the debt burden for countries that are on have unsustainable debt, the longer you put it off, the worse it is,\" he added.\n\nThe acknowledgement by the World Bank president that we have to be worried about a developing country debt crisis, is very significant.\n\nThe combination of massive pandemic debts with rising interest rates, and rising prices is truly toxic.\n\nThe talk on the sidelines here at the IMF and World Bank meetings is that the rich countries told emerging economies not to worry about borrowing in order to spend to help suppress the pandemic.\n\nNow those countries are wondering if these record debts will be written off.\n\nCampaigning groups are preparing mobilisations over a pandemic debt jubilee. But there is silence from the rich country lenders, so far.\n\nAnd there is a very new dynamic these days. The bankers to whom these sums are owed are no longer just in the West.\n\nChina is now, very broadly, owed as much as the entire collection of Western creditors known as the Paris Club.\n\nHow will it respond to calls for leniency on the repayment of loans?\n\nMr Malpass says of China: \"They have different rules, for example, contracts that have non-disclosure clauses, meaning you can't share the terms with other people that makes it very hard to restructure those debts\".\n\nChina has also secured its lending against ports and natural resources. Sri Lanka is a case in point right now.\n\nThe unwinding of all of this might not be orderly, and could have significant geopolitical consequences.\n\nEarlier this month, the United Nations said that the Ukraine war had led to a \"giant leap\" in food prices, as they hit a new record high in March.\n\nIt came as the war cut off supplies from the world's biggest exporter of sunflower oil and the cost of alternatives climbed.\n\nUkraine is also a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat which have risen sharply in price too.\n\nThe UN said \"war in the Black Sea region spread shocks through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils\".\n\nThe UN Food Prices Index tracks the world's most-traded food commodities - measuring the average prices of cereal, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar.\n\nFood prices are at their highest since records began 60 years ago, according to the index, after they jumped nearly 13% in March, following February's record high.\n\nFood commodity prices were already at 10-year highs before the war in Ukraine, according to the index, because of global harvest issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries", "Pitt and Jolie got married at the vineyard six years after they bought it\n\nAngelina Jolie \"sought to inflict harm\" on her former husband Brad Pitt when she sold her stake in their co-owned vineyard to a Russian oligarch, new legal documents have claimed.\n\nPitt is suing his ex-wife for selling her stake in the French vineyard they bought together in 2008.\n\nHe said her decision to sell her share to a Russian oligarch forced him into partnership with \"a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions\".\n\nJolie has not yet publicly commented.\n\nThe couple purchased a controlling interest in Chateau Miraval SA, a French company comprising a home and vineyard in the south of France, in 2008.\n\nThe A-list pair got married there six years later.\n\nPitt says he and his former wife agreed not to sell their stakes in the venue without the permission of the other.\n\nIn legal documents obtained by the PA news agency, it's alleged that Jolie sold her share to to a Luxembourg-based spirits manufacturer controlled by Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler, without Pitt's knowledge.\n\nThe lawsuit claims the sale helped launch a \"hostile\" takeover of the wine business that the actor had \"carefully built\".\n\nPitt's lawyers said that under his stewardship, the business had grown into a \"multimillion-dollar international success story\" though Jolie had \"contributed nothing\".\n\n\"Through the purported sale, Jolie sought to inflict harm on Pitt,\" according to the documents, which were filed last week.\n\n\"Jolie knew and intended that Shefler and his affiliates would try to control the business Pitt had built and to undermine Pitt's investment in Miraval.\"\n\nJolie and Pitt got divorced in 2016\n\nIt added that Shefler \"has gained notoriety through cut-throat business tactics and dubious professional associations\" and the association with him \"jeopardises the reputation of the brand Pitt so carefully built\".\n\n\"All of this is the direct result of Jolie's unlawful and tortious conduct.\n\n\"In violation of the parties' agreement, Jolie has sought to force Pitt into partnership with a stranger, and worse yet, a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions.\"\n\nThe Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in south-eastern France, and was bought by the couple for around 25 million euros (£21.3m).\n\nPitt is said to have contributed 60% to the purchase price, with Jolie paying the remaining 40%.\n\nLawyers also said the wine business at the property continues to flourish and \"though she benefited from Miraval's success, Jolie had no involvement in these efforts\".\n\nThe actress filed for divorce in 2016.\n\nJolie reportedly informed Pitt of her decision to sell to Shefler in January 2021, saying she had reached a \"painful decision, with a heavy heart\".\n\nLawyers for Pitt have requested a trial by jury.\n\nRepresentatives for Jolie declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.", "Apple is planning a buy now pay later (BNPL) service as part of its new operating system, iOS 16.\n\nApple Pay Later will allow users in the US to spread the cost of a purchase into four payments over six weeks, without paying interest or fees.\n\nIt forms part of a range of new iPhone features, including the ability to edit iMessages and a feature intended to help people in abusive relationships.\n\nThe features were unveiled at WWDC, the firm's annual developers' conference.\n\nBNPL services - which are currently unregulated in the UK - have been criticised for the way they are used by low-income groups.\n\nPanorama reported in December 2021 that an estimated 15 million adults of all ages in the UK are actively using BNPL, with the main operators offering the service in the UK being Klarna, Clearpay, Laybuy and PayPal.\n\nConcerns have been raised over whether people are relying on it too much, after Citizens Advice found in March that one in 12 people are using BNPL services to cover essentials such as food and toiletries.\n\nCitizens Advice also said young people, people in debt, and people claiming Universal Credit, were at least twice as likely to have used BNPL for these basic costs than other groups.\n\nThe BBC has approached Apple for comment on whether it intends to bring its BNPL service to the UK.\n\nThe new version of iOS 16, due to be released in the Autumn, will bring a range of additional features to the iPhone.\n\nThe iPhone lock screen will have a significant shake-up, with users now able to do more than simply change the background image.\n\nIt will become possible to change how the clock locks, and introduce widgets for showing information on weather, the user's activity rings and more, as is currently possible on Apple Watch.\n\nThis will also introduce the ability to choose between different lock screens with different functionalities - for example, a lock screen for exercising which has activity monitors.\n\nOther significant announcements include the ability to edit and \"unsend\" iMessages that were sent using Apple's Messages app, and the introduction of a feature Apple calls Safety Check.\n\nIt says Safety Check is intended to \"protect individuals in abusive relationships\", by giving users the ability to view and quickly remove all the permissions given to someone else on their phone.\n\nThat includes removing other peoples' access to passwords, as well as Find My Phone.\n\nApple said this also included a \"emergency reset\", that allowed people to sign out of iCloud on all devices, and only allowed one device to send and receive messages.\n\nApple has been praised online for this feature, with one person saying it is \"going to help so many people\", and the director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation calling it a \"good thing for survivors of intimate partner abuse\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eva This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None BBC One - Panorama, Buy Now, Pay Later- The New Debt Crisis-", "Patients in England can get early access to more cutting-edge medicines through a new fund.\n\nThe Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF) works like the existing Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), fast-tracking promising treatments, even if they are expensive and have not yet been approved for routine NHS use.\n\nIt will cover potentially life-saving drugs for rare and genetic diseases.\n\nThe government has allocated up to £680m a year to be shared by the funds.\n\nThe IMF, like the CDF, will mean a newly approved medicine could be prescribed immediately, before final recommendations on it are drawn up by the advisory body that weighs the cost versus benefit of drugs used by the NHS - an organisation called NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).\n\nPatients would be able to access the treatment while data is collected for NICE to determine whether the medicine is affordable and effective enough to offer more widely.\n\nA similar fund for innovative treatments - the New Medicines Fund - already exists in Scotland.\n\nWales has a New Treatments Fund that helps pay for high-cost drugs which have been recommended as cost-effective by NICE.\n\nExperts hope funds like these will improve the lives of many who might otherwise miss out.\n\nFor example, approving treatments for rare conditions can be challenging, as the number of patients affected by a single rare disease is small.\n\nThe IMF offers a potential solution to this problem, giving patients the opportunity to have promising treatments fast-tracked, and, in turn, increasing the amount of data available to NICE for future decisions.\n\nIn the last year, NHS England has successfully negotiated deals for a range of new treatments, including drugs which may allow toddlers with spinal muscular atrophy the chance to walk.\n\nThe one-off gene therapy treatment Zolgensma, which has been described as the world's \"most expensive\" drug, with a list price of £1.79m, has been successfully given to a few young children through managed access agreements.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid, said: \"I want NHS patients to be the first in the world to access the most promising and revolutionary treatments that could extend or save their lives.\n\n\"The launch of the Innovative Medicines Fund delivers another manifesto pledge and will fast-track cutting-edge medicines to adults and children, to give people renewed hope for a better future.\"", "Young shoppers risk building up debts by borrowing money to make buy now pay later repayments, Citizens Advice says.\n\nHalf of 18 to 34-year-olds used different types of credit - such as credit cards or borrowing from family - to make the payments, it said.\n\nAlthough the results were drawn from a survey, the charity said the answers highlighted the issue of people relying on one debt to cover another.\n\nChanges are being made that make some of these debts clearer to lenders.\n\nBuy now pay later has become a commonplace method of payment and credit for UK shoppers in recent years. It allows people to pay for purchases in instalments over a short-term fixed-payment schedule, and interest-free.\n\nSome 17 million people in the UK, including 30% of those aged in their 20s, have used it. While popular, it has led to concerns over levels and visibility of debt - particularly as budgets are squeezed by the rising cost of living.\n\nCitizens Advice surveyed 2,288 people who had used buy now pay later during the past 12 months.\n\nIt found that most (52%) made repayments from their current account, but 23% used a credit card, 9% used a bank overdraft, and 7% borrowed from friends and family.\n\nMillie Harris, a debt adviser at Citizens Advice in East Devon, said: \"Most of the people I speak to who are using buy now pay later live off overdrafts and credit cards, so are using these for repayments. It is just relying on one debt to pay off another debt.\n\n\"What scares me most is how easily people can slip into using it. They come to rely on it much more quickly than other forms of credit. It's just a few clicks at a checkout. Too often that means people don't realise how serious it is - that it is credit and there are consequences if they don't repay it.\"\n\nOne in 10 people in the survey said they did not fully understand how repayments would be set up.\n\nChloe Porter, from Birmingham, used to use buy now pay later and admitted she was uneducated about credit.\n\n\"When I moved out [from her parents' home], I was struggling to keep the repayments up and I ended up having to use credit cards to make the repayments. I just dug myself a hole,\" she said.\n\nSince the start of June, banks and credit companies have been able to see whether shoppers use services from Klarna - the biggest buy now pay later company in the UK.\n\nThe firm said this could help or hinder its customers' ability to get credit for loans such as mortgages, but did offer more clarity to potential lenders.\n\nBuy now pay later firms have been under pressure from watchdogs over contract terms and conditions and they information they give to credit agencies. Stricter regulation is expected soon.\n\nThe biggest operators in the UK are Klarna, Laybuy and Clearpay.\n\nA spokeswoman for Clearpay said: \"Globally, 90% of Clearpay transactions are made with a debit card and 95% of instalments are paid on time, demonstrating that our customers use their own money to pay for purchases and that they understand how our repayments are set up.\"\n\nShe said the company was supportive of good regulation.\n\nEarlier in the week, technology giant Apple said it was planning to launch a buy now pay later option for users of Apple Pay, initially in the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC political editor Chris Mason says there's \"real anger\" amongst many Conservative MPs\n\nThe festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.\n\nNot even the Platinum Jubilee could dial it down.\n\nIn fact, while the recess and the long weekend meant Conservative MPs weren't together at Westminster plotting, instead they were touring the fetes and the street parties, focus groups festooned with Union flags, and for many the feedback wasn't pretty.\n\nThe booing the prime minister was subjected to outside St Paul's Cathedral on Friday was audible proof of what opinion polls have been suggesting, his critics feel.\n\nThe simple truth is the Partygate row has incensed lots of people and a growing number of Conservative MPs felt it was behaviour that was impossible to defend.\n\nBut this is more than just wine and leaving dos.\n\nIt's what it says about the prime minister's character that unnerves so many Tory MPs.\n\nA feeling deep down that they can't trust him, and neither can huge chunks of the electorate.\n\nSome are blunt: either they remove Boris Johnson or voters remove him and them from government at the next election.\n\nI've just been talking to MP John Penrose, the Prime Minister's Anti Corruption Champion, of all people...or should I say former Anti Corruption Champion - he has resigned because, in his view, a prime minister cannot carry on having broken the Ministerial Code, something Mr Johnson insists he hasn't.\n\nJeremy Hunt, beaten by Boris Johnson in the last Conservative leadership race, has come out against him too.\n\nBut an arithmetic win is not the same as a political one.\n\nThat is why we are seeing such a coordinated effort by Boris Johnson and his supporters to suppress the number who vote against him as low as possible.\n\nThat is why the prime minister - with all the demands on his time - spent an hour this morning signing every single letter to all 359 Conservative MPs, adding personal handwritten notes to many.\n\nA prime minister doesn't do that unless they are gravely worried for their future.\n\nAs I bash away at my keyboard right now I'm just back from Parliament where I interviewed two Johnson loyalists: Attorney General Suella Braverman and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nCrikey, I said to them, things must be getting serious, cabinet ministers are going out in pairs.\n\nTheresa May won a confidence vote easily, but was gone within six months.\n\nWhat we will get tonight, at precisely 2100 BST is an indisputable number: the number of Tory MPs who want the prime minister out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nIt's a number that will hang around Boris Johnson's neck for the rest of his time in office.\n\nAnd so the game of expectation management is under way: Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit Opportunities Minister, insisted to me that a win by just a single vote, 180 MPs in favour of him carrying on, 179 against, would be a win and enough for him to continue.\n\nSo too did Mr Lewis and Mrs Braverman.\n\nQuite a change of tune from when Mr Rees-Mogg was trying to oust Theresa May, and reckoned her victory in a confidence vote where around a third of her colleagues failed to back her was a \"terrible result\".\n\nI'm already hearing chatter about the rebels getting their numbers into three figures, but let's see.\n\nThe prime minister will address Conservative MPs later and will argue other, bigger numbers matter far more: the nearly 14 million people who voted Conservative at the last election.\n\nHis supporters will also say a full blown leadership election - what will happen if 180 Conservative MPs vote against Mr Johnson tonight - would be \"divisive, distracting and destructive\".\n\n\"There's no plan, no strategy, no consensus on who to replace him with,\" a senior member of his team argues.\n\nAnd remember too a key thing on noisy days like this at Westminster: don't just listen to the noisy people.\n\nThere are lots of noisy people: those passionate about getting rid of Boris Johnson, those passionate about him staying.\n\nBut there are many Conservative MPs keeping their heads down.\n\nA quiet vote counts for just as much as a noisy one.\n\nBut make no mistake: confidence votes are almost always bad news for political leaders.\n\nAnd this one is no different.", "An investigation by BBC NI Spotlight looked at how Northern Ireland Limited Partnerships (NILPs) are used for Russian money laundering\n\nA Northern Ireland corporate loophole that is exploited by international money launderers should be closed, MPs have said.\n\nAn investigation by BBC NI's Spotlight programme has looked at the use of Northern Ireland Limited Partnerships (NILPs) for money laundering.\n\nThe secretive companies can be set up in seconds from anywhere in the world.\n\nHundreds have been created since Scotland made regulatory changes disclosing the ownership of similar entities there five years ago.\n\nNILPs do have legitimate purposes, but are open to abuse as vehicles for disguising the proceeds of crime.\n\nEarlier this year, the government promised to increase transparency around limited partnerships.\n\nSouth Belfast MP Claire Hanna told Spotlight she wants to see action in Westminster to tighten the rules.\n\n\"It should just be closed down,\" Ms Hanna said. \"There aren't any economic benefits for us.\n\n\"There's no tax occurring, no jobs being created. There are only downsides and we don't want to get the reputation as a region that is used for that sort of activity because it undermines other legitimate businesses.\"\n\nVeteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, who helped reform the rules for Scotland, is surprised that a loophole was left in Northern Ireland and wants to ensure it is closed.\n\n\"I hope that my colleagues in Northern Ireland, from wherever they come in the political spectrum, will join with me in that drive to root out dirty money from the UK.\n\n\"It doesn't do us any good. Doesn't do Northern Ireland any good. And it won't help in the long term to create prosperity and economic growth,\" she said.\n\nPeter Geoghegan, editor-in-chief of Open Democracy, has investigated the growing problem of NILPs and told Spotlight he discovered a system that was a gift for criminals.\n\n\"It's quite remarkable. To set up a Northern Ireland Limited Partnership you don't even have to find out where Northern Ireland is on a map.\n\n\"You could be thousands of miles away. You can do it online. You pay quite a small amount of money, fairly quickly, you've got yourself an NILP, and you can pretty much do whatever you want with it.\n\n\"And you can own things. You can trade, but most importantly for the people who've got them, they're great for money laundering.\"\n\nHe added there was \"no transparency, no taxes, no accounts, and anonymous owners\".\n\nOne NILP, Jasterport, was named with others in a report into a huge theft of government funds in Moldova.\n\nInvestigators hired by the Moldovan parliament examined how these entities helped steal about $1bn (£798m) in government funds.\n\nThe limited partnerships can then be used, with a Northern Ireland registered address and the respectable stamp of a UK legal framework, to open bank accounts elsewhere in the world into which proceeds of crime can flow.\n\nBut when the money emerges from these accounts, it has a veneer of respectability and is on its way to be laundered into other bank accounts or assets like property.\n\nThe ownership of the NILPs often remains obscure and rooted through secret companies in offshore territories such as the British Virgin Islands.\n\nWhat the NILPs are doing and who owns them only becomes apparent through data leaks, whistle-blowers or criminal investigations.\n\nA search of the companies registry reveals hundreds of these limited partnerships created in Northern Ireland in recent years, a boom in activity that has been spurred by the tightening of rules elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, for example, more rigorous checks on ownership of limited partnerships were introduced in 2017.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, ownership can remain obscure and unverified.\n\nThe number of NILPs registered annually jumped almost five-fold during the Scottish crackdown, but the number of NILPs has fallen again in recent years.\n\nIn one street in south Belfast there are more than 100 NILPs registered at one address.\n\nOne registered there, Norinvest Universal, has been named in legal proceedings in Ukraine in connection with a multi-million grain fraud.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy described money laundering as a \"despicable crime\".\n\nIt added that the forthcoming Economic Crime Bill \"will reform the law on limited partnerships across the UK, including those in Northern Ireland, as well as strengthening the powers of Companies House to give it a bigger role in tackling economic crime\".\n\nThe Spotlight investigation follows a money trail that began with the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in Russia, saw payments moved into Ireland, and winds up on Montenegro's Adriatic Coast.\n\nSpotlight: From Russia with Blood is on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22:40 on Tuesday 7 June and on iPlayer", "Conservative confidence in Boris Johnson has been \"diminished\", with the prime minister now living on \"borrowed time\" without \"any political authority\", NI politicians have said.\n\nConservative MPs voted in favour of Mr Johnson remaining as prime minister by 211 to 148.\n\nThe confidence vote came ahead of the expected introduction of controversial legislation later this week on the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nMr Johnson said the win was \"decisive\".\n\nGavin Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP for East Belfast, said the confidence vote was \"not as strong\" as Mr Johnson would have wanted.\n\n\"He has the confidence of his party, but it's greatly diminished,\" he said.\n\nMr Robinson said the political turmoil surrounding the prime minister \"shouldn't endanger\" the protocol legislation set to be published by the government.\n\nUnionist politicians have protested against the protocol, which has guaranteed free trade across the Irish land border, but has in turn added some restrictions to the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The fundamentals at the heart of the legislation are about resolving the issues of the Northern Ireland protocol that are plaguing politics in Northern Ireland,\" Mr Robinson said.\n\nIt was a victory which came at a cost for Boris Johnson and one which he may pay for at a later date.\n\nHe won the vote but lost the support of more than 40% of his MPs.\n\nThe result will energise his opponents who could now make life difficult for the prime minister when it comes to votes in the Commons.\n\nThe first test could come this week with the introduction of controversial legislation to override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nBoris Johnson is determined to press on safe in the knowledge he wont face another confidence vote for at least a year, but it could be a long 12 months.\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry said the prime minister had been \"badly wounded\" by the scale of the vote against him.\n\nHe said he did not believe that Mr Johnson could remain in power and was on \"borrowed time\".\n\nOn the Northern Ireland Protocol legislation, Mr Farry said: \"If we have a wounded Boris Johnson the danger is he may be lashing out and doing things that are very irresponsible to shore up his own base.\"\n\nReacting to the vote, the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was \"absolutely clear now that Boris Johnson, having lost all moral authority, has now lost any political authority that he had\".\n\nDespite the level of unrest in the Conservative Party, the Foyle MP said it was unlikely the prime minister would resign \"voluntarily\".\n\nHe described the protocol legislations as a political \"tactic\" and not about \"people in Northern Ireland\".\n\nEarlier on Monday, Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said politics could not be a \"hostage to Tory in-fighting\".\n\n\"Boris Johnson's threat to (the) protocol is to risk their entire agreement with EU on withdrawal and with colossal impact,\" she said.\n\nMr Johnson has said a \"legislative solution\" was needed to address the protocol - a move which Sinn Féin had previously labelled as unacceptable and obstructionist.\n\nCriticism from some backbench members has intensified in recent weeks following the Sue Gray report into parties at Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis reaffirmed his support for the prime minister following the vote.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis reaffirmed his support for the prime minister following the vote.\n\nOn Twitter he said: \"The PM has won the support of Conservative MPs this evening, at a higher level than even when he won the leadership.\n\n\"Now we must focus on getting on with a clear focus on people's priorities.\"\n\nThe PM won 59% of the vote, meaning he is now immune from a Conservative leadership challenge for a year.\n\nMr Johnson described his confidence vote win as \"decisive\".\n\nHe said it was \"an opportunity to put behind us all the stuff that the media goes on about\".\n\nThe vote share in support of Mr Johnson was lower than the 63% received by former Prime Minister Theresa May when she won a party confidence vote in 2018.", "Police officers at one of 15 addresses across Northern Ireland raided as part of a major investigation into international money laundering\n\nPolice say they have broken up a major international money laundering operation being run out of Northern Ireland.\n\nDetectives say about £215m was laundered during an eight-year period from 2011.\n\nSix men and a woman, arrested during the two-day operation on Monday and Tuesday, have been released on bail.\n\nIt is understood to be the second biggest money laundering operation ever uncovered in the UK.\n\nIt is not believed there is any paramilitary link to the money laundering operation.\n\nOfficers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) carried out eight searches in Banbridge, Newry and Omagh on Monday, with further searches in Belfast, Banbridge, Newry and Ballymena on Tuesday.\n\nThey believe fake companies were set up to launder money for Irish and UK crime gangs engaged in drugs, human trafficking and prostitution.\n\nThe \"complex\" investigation involved the international police agencies Europol and Interpol, as well as authorities in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.\n\nIn a tweet, the Chief Constable, Simon Byrne, praised the \"tenacious\" and \"complex\" work carried out by the Economic Crime Unit, who uncovered the operation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Ian Wilson said: \"We believe today's operation is one of the most significant live investigations into money laundering in the UK.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Ian Wilson said the operation targeted \"individuals suspected of high-end money laundering\"\n\n\"During our extensive investigation we identified that a significant volume of suspected criminal cash was being laundered out of the country through a number of shell companies and bank accounts held here in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The investigation has identified over 50 companies and over 140 bank accounts.\"", "Firefighters suffered heavy loss of life in the blaze, and some are still missing\n\nBangladeshi officials have accused the operator of a container depot of exacerbating a deadly blaze by not storing chemicals safely.\n\nNine firefighters were among more than 40 people killed after fire broke out near the port city of Chittagong.\n\nOfficials said containers of hydrogen peroxide were labelled incorrectly - and firefighters doused flames with water instead of foam.\n\nThe depot's owner has yet to comment on the allegations.\n\nOn Monday, officials revised down the initial death toll from 49 to 41, saying some bodies had been counted twice.\n\nHundreds of people were injured or are still missing in the disaster at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda, 40km (25 miles) from Chittagong, and the number of dead is expected to rise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire crews try to bring the fire under control at the container depot in Chittagong, Bangladesh\n\nPurnachandra Mutsuddi, an assistant director with the local firefighting service, told the AFP news agency that as soon as the firefighters entered the depot on Saturday they unwittingly doused the hydrogen peroxide with water, setting off an explosive reaction that sent \"a container flying more than 500 feet\".\n\n\"There are some rules to keep hydrogen peroxide. Had we known this, we would never throw water. We would never take our vehicle inside the depot,\" he said.\n\nThe fire, which has now been blazing for three days, is under control but has not been extinguished completely.\n\nLocal police chief Abul Kalam Azad said that an investigation into the causes of the blaze had begun.\n\nIt remains unclear what sparked the blaze, which injured about 300 people, more than 12 of whom are in a critical condition. Two firefighters are among the missing.\n\nPeople seeking news of those unaccounted for have converged on the local hospital in Chittagong, some holding photos of their loved ones.\n\nJahanara Begum was waiting to give a sample for DNA testing to identify the remains of her son, Shahadat Hossain, who was a lorry driver.\n\n\"His father just died last year, now I have lost my son,\" she told BBC Bengali. \"He parked his truck and went to the canteen for dinner. The canteen caught fire and my son got trapped.\"\n\nShahadat Hossain had been in the canteen when fire broke out\n\nThe family of Imran Hossain Mazumdar identified his body on Monday afternoon. He had been one of the first firefighters on the scene. Mr Mazumdar leaves behind a wife who is six months pregnant, a son and a disabled daughter, his niece said.\n\nPolice spokesperson Shanewaz Khaled said it could take weeks to identify the deceased.\n\n\"If someone is missing from the fire, the families can give their samples to us,\" he told BBC Bengali. Officials had collected 23 samples for DNA testing so far, he said.\n\nThe fire broke out at around 21:00 local time (15:00 GMT) on Saturday and hundreds of firefighters, police and volunteers quickly arrived on the scene.\n\nAs they tried to extinguish the blaze a huge explosion rocked the site, engulfing many of the rescuers in flames and throwing debris and people into the air.\n\n\"The explosion just threw me some 10 metres from where I was standing. My hands and legs are burnt,\" lorry driver Tofael Ahmed told AFP news agency.\n\nThe blast was so large it was heard several kilometres away and shattered the windows of nearby buildings. One local shopkeeper told reporters that a piece of debris had flown half a kilometre and landed in his pond. He described seeing \"fireballs falling like rain\" after the explosion.", "Police body cam footage shows the officers interacting with Sean Bickings before he gets into Tempe Town Lake\n\nThree police officers in Arizona have been placed on leave after they failed to rescue a homeless man from drowning.\n\nNewly released bodycam footage and transcripts show the man, Sean Bickings, 34, getting into Tempe Town Lake last month and warning police he was \"going to drown\".\n\nBut none of the officers on the scene intervened to save him, with one heard saying: \"I'm not jumping in after you.\"\n\nMr Bickings soon slipped underwater and was later declared dead.\n\nDescribing him as \"an unsheltered Tempe community member\", city authorities called his death a \"tragedy\".\n\nThe incident took place after 05:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on 28 May, when officers responded to a call about an alleged fight between the man and his partner in the city centre.\n\nAccording to the city's statement, the couple \"cooperated fully and denied that any physical argument had taken place\".\n\nHowever, police footage showed that while officers were checking the couple's names for outstanding arrest warrants, Mr Bickings climbed over a metal fence dividing the boardwalk from the lake and entered the water.\n\nHe told the officers he was going \"for a swim\", waded in and swam towards a bridge even after they informed him swimming was not allowed in the lake.\n\nThe 12-minute bodycam video ends around this time, with a message at the end saying it has been cut short \"due to the sensitive nature of the remaining portion of the recording\".\n\nThe city instead provided a transcript of the remainder of the exchange, in which Mr Bickings repeatedly said he was on the verge of drowning and needed to be saved.\n\nThe transcript also showed officers tried to calm down Mr Bickings' companion as she grew increasingly distraught, telling her they were getting a boat.\n\nAt one point, she shouted: \"He's drowning right in front of you and you won't help.\"\n\nThe three officers involved in the incident have not been named.\n\nThey are on \"non-disciplinary paid administrative leave\" as their response is examined by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the police department of neighbouring Scottsdale.", "Brenda Edwards has said her son Jamal died from cardiac arrhythmia after he took recreational drugs.\n\nThe music entrepreneur, who helped launch the careers of Dave and Ed Sheeran, died in February aged 31.\n\nBrenda Edwards, a singer and Loose Women panellist, said in a statement on Tuesday she was in a \"state of shock\" after finding out how he died.\n\n\"I have sadly learned that the cause of Jamal's devastating passing was due to cardiac arrhythmia,\" she wrote.\n\n\"[This was] caused by having taken recreational drugs and I wanted to address this myself to everyone who loved, admired and respected my son.\n\n\"Since finding out the news I've been in a state of shock, and I am still trying to process it.\n\n\"But it's so important to me that I do address it as no mother or any loved one should have to go through what Jamal's sister, Tanisha, and I have been through since he passed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brenda Edwards: ‘Jamal has left such a legacy with people’\n\nThe 53-year-old released the statement on Twitter after an inquest into Jamal's death was opened and adjourned at West London Coroner's Court.\n\nShe said: \"We have been so incredibly touched by the outpouring of love and support, and you are all helping us try and get through the unimaginable.\"\n\nEdwards described her son as having had the \"world at his fingertips - a zest for life and he was unwittingly taken away far too soon\".\n\n\"Yet we have to come to terms with what has happened, and Jamal is proof that this can happen to anyone,\" she continued.\n\n\"These types of substances are extremely unpredictable, and we can only hope that this will encourage others to think wisely when faced with similar situations in the future. His passing has shown that any one bad decision on any one occasion can lead to devastating consequences.\n\n\"It's so important that we help drive more conversation about the unpredictability of recreational drugs and the impact that they can have - how it takes just one bad reaction to destroy lives.\"\n\nBrenda Edwards, a former X Factor contestant, recently returned to the Loose Women panel and has replaced Gemma Collins in a new production of the musical Chicago.\n\nBrenda Edwards recently replaced Gemma Collins in a new production of Chicago\n\nAfter posting the same statement on Instagram, several of her Loose Women co-stars left messages of support, with Jane Moore and Judi Love saying they were \"sending love\".\n\n\"This must have been so painful for you to write,\" added Nadia Sawalha. \"Very brave. Sending love to you and your incredible children.\n\n\"This changes nothing. [Jamal] achieved so much. He was a damn fine man.\"\n\nThe inquest heard that Jamal died on February 20 after having a cardiac arrest at his mother's address in Acton.\n\nAssistant Coroner Catherine Wood said: \"He came home late one evening, after which he became increasingly agitated and suffered a cardiac arrest.\n\n\"He was deteriorating despite treatment and died on 20 February of this year. A post-mortem has been undertaken and I have reason to suspect that the death was an unnatural death.\"\n\nThe inquest was adjourned to be resumed in eight weeks' time.", "Cancelled flights and delays at airports are fuelling anxiety among UK holidaymakers ahead of the key summer season, travel agents have warned.\n\nAdvantage Travel Partnership, a network of travel agents, said 30% of calls to its members were from people worried about future bookings.\n\nThousands of travellers are thought to be stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the Jubilee weekend.\n\nThe disruption is being driven by staff shortages across the aviation industry.\n\nThe problems are taking time to resolve and Advantage's chief executive warned there were \"no guarantees\" the situation would have improved by the summer.\n\n\"Thirty per cent of everything my members are dealing with right now are calls from very anxious holidaymakers who have bookings, whose travel plans, as far as we know right now, will take place, but they are anxious because obviously they're hearing all [about] the disruption,\" said Julia Lo Bue-Said.\n\nMs Bue-Said said airlines were already employing new staff, many of whom were already undergoing training, and that she hoped the industry would be ready by the busy summer period.\n\nHowever, Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, a union representing staff working in airports and across aviation engineering, said recent cancellations were having a \"really damaging impact\" on people's confidence.\n\n\"It would be difficult to give anybody the confidence at the present minute, that we are going to be okay by the school holidays in July,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nA sustainable long-term plan for the industry if the problems are to be resolved, he said, including better pay and conditions for workers in the sector.\n\nUp to two million people were scheduled to fly to and from the UK over the bank holiday weekend, and the vast majority of flights have operated as expected.\n\nBut several airlines have cancelled flights, with EasyJet scrapping a further 37 journeys on Monday.\n\nAccording to aviation data firm Cirium, 305 flights departing the UK were cancelled out of total of 10,662 scheduled flights over the Jubilee weekend.\n\nMost journeys - some 114 flights - were axed on Sunday and the airports worst affected were London Gatwick, London Luton and Bristol.\n\nEasyJet cancelled the most flights on Sunday, totalling 64, while Wizz Air cancelled 15 departing flights and BA axed eight.\n\nFamilies have been particularly affected by Sunday's disruption, with children stranded abroad as schools return and the exam season begins.\n\nCirium said 189 international flights were cancelled to the UK over the long weekend, with the majority from the Netherlands (39 flights), Spain and the Canary Islands (24), France (24) and Germany (21).\n\nAirlines are being blamed for taking more bookings than they can manage following steep staff cuts during the height of Covid when travel ground to a halt.\n\nBut industry leaders have argued the government could have done more to support the sector during the pandemic.\n\nIt has also called for immigration rules on hiring overseas workers to be relaxed to plug staff shortages, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ruled out such a move.\n\nMr Shapps said the government had been clear that it was up to industry leaders to tackle the problems, which were also seen at Easter, and accused airlines of having \"seriously oversold flights and holidays\".\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nMr Clancy, of the Prospect union, said the government was \"culpable\" for withdrawing pandemic-related support from airlines too soon.\n\nBut airlines had cut too many jobs, he said, and now needed to find ways to retain and recruit more workers.\n\n\"Ultimately this means fixing pay and conditions which have deteriorated significantly in recent years,\" Mr Clancy said.\n\n\"The problems we are seeing today are the result of a failed business model, unable to cope with any level of stress in the system.\n\n\"Unless the government and employers can come up with a sustainable long term plan for the aviation industry, that supports jobs and skills, then it is hard to see the situation improving.\"\n\nThe Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) said despite the recent disruption the \"vast majority of people\" have been able to fly and it expected that to be the case for the summer.\n\nABTA urged passengers to follow advice from airlines and airports for when to arrive for flights, as \"many are arriving well before check-in begins which puts additional pressure on airport services\".\n\nJen Kassel is currently stranded in Spain with her partner and three young children after her EasyJet flight was cancelled on Sunday.\n\nShe said the family had been given no explanation, but had been offered accommodation at a hotel in Benalmadena.\n\n\"The kids were really stressed,\" she said.\n\nNikolai Brooks and his wife Vicky, who live near Brighton, have been stuck at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam since Saturday after their EasyJet flight was cancelled.\n\nTheir new flight for Monday evening has already been delayed by three hours.\n\nThey have had to pay for two extra nights in a hotel near the airport, which has cost them about £600, not including food, Mr Brooks told the BBC.\n\n\"We didn't even get an email through that it had been cancelled,\" he said. \"It's more frustrating for my wife, she's a teacher and she was due back for today.\"\n\nIn a statement, EasyJet said it was \"very sorry\" for flights being cancelled and said the disruption was caused by \"the ongoing challenging operating environment\".\n\n\"Customers are being provided with options to rebook or receive a refund, as well as hotel accommodation and meals where required, along with information on how to arrange this quickly online or via the app,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nHow have you been affected by a recent flight cancellation? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Shoppers are spending less than they were a year ago, as the rising cost of living squeezes incomes, according to the body representing retailers.\n\nSales, in-store and online, fell for the second month in a row in May, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nSales rose sharply last year after pandemic restrictions eased, but that \"spending bubble\" has now burst, the BRC's Helen Dickinson said.\n\nTotal retail sales in May declined by 1.1% compared to May 2021.\n\nThat was a sharper slowdown than in April, when BRC figures showed a fall of 0.3% compared to April 2021.\n\nSales of clothing, footwear and accessories, including in fashion and beauty, rose, as people prepared for holidays and summer social occasions, including the Jubilee.\n\nBut consumers were not buying bigger ticket items, such as furniture and electronics, the BRC said, as it published its latest monthly data, which it collects from the UK's medium and larger retailers.\n\nWith inflation running at historic highs, what people are buying is costing them more. So a small drop in total sales masks a much larger drop in the volume of goods sold, once inflation is accounted for, the BRC added.\n\n\"It is clear the post-pandemic spending bubble has burst, with retailers facing tougher trading conditions, falling consumer confidence, and soaring inflation impacting consumers' spending power,\" said Ms Dickinson, the BRC's chief executive.\n\nThe fall in May marks the second consecutive month of declining retail sales, as reported by the regular BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor.\n\nIt comes at a difficult time for retailers, who are also facing rising costs, especially of energy, transport and labour, which combined were \"forcing retailers to increase their prices\", Ms Dickinson added.\n\nThe share of sales that take place online, as opposed to in physical stores, appeared to have stabilised, the BRC added. After rising sharply while pandemic restrictions were in place, online sales were \"settling\" at around 39%, compared to 30% pre-pandemic, the BRC said.\n\n\"Retailers will be hoping that a post-Jubilee and summer feel-good factor begins to improve confidence amongst some shoppers - as presently overall confidence levels are lower than sales may suggest,\" said Paul Martin, UK head of retail at KPMG.\n\nJulie Abraham, chief executive of home entertainment retailer Richer Sounds, said: \"It's tough out there for everybody.\n\n\"We've seen a definite slowdown and we're having to work that much harder to give better value than ever,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nShe added that shoppers were \"far more savvy now and looking round for a good bargain\".\n\n\"So whereas sometimes it might have been more of an impulse purchase, nowadays they're looking very carefully at what they want to buy.\"\n\nOver the four-day Jubilee bank holiday weekend, people did spend significantly more than the equivalent dates last year (which did not include a bank holiday) data from Barclaycard on Monday suggested.\n\n\"Despite wider concerns around the cost of living, the hospitality sector especially will be pleased by this welcome boost, having missed out on two years of unrestricted trading,\" said Barclaycard Payments chief executive Rob Cameron.\n\nSpending at restaurants rose 41.5% over 2-5 June. Spending was up 74.2% at pubs, bars and night clubs, while spending on entertainment was up 67.3% and spending on public transport was up 38.8%, Barclaycard Payments said, based on credit and debit card transactions.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The bodies of Bibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman were found in bushes at Fryent Country Park in Wembley\n\nThe Met Police has apologised to the mother, family and friends of two murdered sisters whose bodies were photographed by officers, on the second anniversary of their deaths.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found in Fryent Country Park, Wembley, on 7 June 2020.\n\nTwo Met PCs were jailed for sharing photos of the murder scene and calling them \"dead birds\" in WhatsApp messages.\n\n\"We are very sorry for the way we responded,\" a Met spokeswoman said.\n\nPCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were sent to guard the scene where the bodies of Ms Smallman and Ms Henry were found.\n\nThe men were each jailed for 33 months after admitting photographing the bodies of the two women and sharing the images, with the sisters' mother, Mina Smallman, calling what the men did a \"betrayal of catastrophic proportions\".\n\nThey were later sacked by the police force.\n\nOn the second anniversary of the discovery of the women in the park, the Met police said: \"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Mina Smallman and the family and friends of Nicole and Bibaa for their tragic loss.\n\n\"The level of service we provided was below the standard it should have been and no doubt compounded the distress felt by their loved ones.\n\n\"And we are sorry for the truly despicable actions of PCs Jaffer and Lewis. They are in prison because of it.\n\n\"Improving the culture and standards within the Met is a priority for us, as we seek to rebuild Londoners' trust and confidence in their police service.\"\n\nMs Henry and Ms Smallman had been celebrating the older sister's birthday on the night they were murdered\n\nThe Met has previously apologised for the way officers responded when the two sisters were reported missing. The apology came 10-months after the deaths.\n\nA missing persons log was incorrectly closed and inquiries were not progressed by police on the day the sisters went missing.\n\nTheir bodies were found a day later during a search organised by the victims' family and friends.\n\nDeniz Jaffer (left) and Jamie Lewis had undermined trust in the police, a judge at the Old Bailey said when they were jailed\n\nFollowing the trial of the two PCs, Ms Smallman said she had been \"gaslit\" by then Met Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick.\n\nDuring the investigation into the officers' conduct, Dame Cressida implied it was \"an isolated incident\" within the force, Ms Smallman said. At the time there were several live investigations into inappropriate behaviour by Met officers.\n\nDanyal Hussein, 19, from Blackheath, was found guilty of murdering the sisters and jailed for a minimum of 35 years in October 2021.\n\nMeanwhile, to mark the second anniversary of the murders, the Women's Equality Party organised a march along 10 miles (16km) from Fryent Park to New Scotland Yard.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The study found no clear evidence of a change in consumption for those who drink at harmful levels\n\nDrinkers who suffered the worst effects of alcoholism did not change their habits when Scotland's minimum pricing was introduced, a study has shown.\n\nPublic Health Scotland (PHS) reported minimum unit pricing (MUP) led to some people cutting back on food and energy.\n\nAll licensed premises have had to charge at least 50p per unit of alcohol since MUP was introduced in May 2018.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would review the final evaluation report from PHS before drawing conclusions.\n\nThe level of alcohol MUP was initially set in 2012, with the introduction of the policy delayed until 2018 by a lengthy legal challenge in the years before its introduction.\n\nIn May 2021, a study found MUP had already had a lasting impact in Scotland, and that alcohol sales had fallen by 8%.\n\nHowever, the latest study published by PHS found no clear evidence of a change in consumption or severity of dependence in those who suffered the worst affects of drinking alcohol.\n\nThe poorest groups experienced \"increased financial strain\" as the price rises meant they were spending more on drinks.\n\nSome people then cut back on other expenditure, such as on food and utility bills.\n\nThe study, by the University of Sheffield, the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Figure 8 Consultancy Services, looked at the \"hard to reach\" population of people who drank alcohol at harmful levels, including those dependent on alcohol and those accessing treatment services.\n\nIn its final report on the study, PHS said researchers found there was also no clear evidence minimum pricing caused negative consequences - such as increased crime, a shift to illicit substances or acute withdrawal - among Scots drinking at harmful levels.\n\nHelen Chung Patterson, PHS public health intelligence adviser, said people who drank at harmful levels were a \"diverse group with complex needs\" who could have multiple health and social problems.\n\n\"They are therefore unlikely to respond to MUP in one single or simple way,\" she said. \"Many are likely to drink low-cost high-strength alcohol affected by MUP and are at greatest risk from their alcohol consumption.\n\n\"This population therefore have the potential to benefit the most from MUP but may also continue to experience harms.\"\n\nProf John Holmes, director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, led the study. He said people with alcohol dependence responded to MUP in different ways.\n\n\"Some reduced their spending on other things but others switched to lower-strength drinks or simply bought less alcohol,\" he said.\n\n\"It is important that alcohol treatment services and other organisations find ways to support those who do have financial problems, particularly as inflation rises.\"\n\nLast year, a group of charities and medical experts urged the Scottish government to increase the minimum unit price (MUP) of alcohol from 50p to 65p, arguing that the positive effects of the policy would be reduced by inflation and the pandemic.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said it would \"carefully consider the findings\" of the \"large and complex study\".\n\nNoting that in the year after MUP was introduced there was a 2% decrease in off-trade alcohol sales and a 10% decrease in alcohol specific deaths, she said 2020 showed a 17% increase in alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland.\n\n\"It is too early to know whether the changed drinking behaviours during the pandemic are temporary or not, however work on reviewing the level of the minimum unit price MUP is under way, she said.\n\n\"We will review the final evaluation report from Public Health Scotland before drawing overall conclusions.\"\n\nShe said: \"Before MUP was introduced there was limited understanding of what effect the policy might have on this group.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see that there do not appear to be widespread negative consequences on dependent drinkers.\n\n\"However, this study gives us much needed information about the additional support required by the groups included in the research. \"\n\nMs Mahon added that investment was needed in recovery-oriented alcohol services to ensure people got the right support to help them cope with the underlying reasons for drinking.\n• None Final report published on the impact of MUP on people drinking at harmful levels, including those dependent on alcohol - News The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kamila Valieva: Skating minimum age to be raised to 17 following Olympic controversy Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nKamila Valieva, then 15, broke down in tears at the end of her women's free skate routine at the Beijing Olympic Games The International Skating Union will raise the minimum age for competitors in senior events from 15 to 17 to protect skaters' \"physical and mental health, and emotional well-being\". The decision comes after the controversy surrounding Kamila Valieva at the Beijing Olympic Games. Russian Valieva, then 15, was provisionally banned in Beijing for a failed drugs test. The minimum age will be 16 for the 2023-24 season and 17 from 2024-25. ISU president Jan Dijkema called it a \"historic decision\" after 100 countries backed the change, with 16 opposed. British Ice Skating was among those backing the change and said it \"fully supported\" the move. \"The life of an athlete is short and intense, their experience in this short phase sets the platform for the rest of their lives - physically, spiritually emotionally,\" said Canadian skater and ISU Athletes Commission member Eric Radford. \"While I hear the concerns of certain nations about the immediate difficulty that they might face with this proposal being passed ... is a medal really worth the life of a young athlete?\" What was the Valieva case? Aged 15 when the Olympics took place in February, Valieva was initially praised after becoming the first woman to land a quadruple jump at a Winter Olympics. A drugs test failed in December 2021 came to light just before the Russian Olympic Committee was due to be awarded the gold medal for the team event in which Valieva competed. She had tested positive for banned heart medication trimetazidine but was allowed to compete in the singles event after a court ruling lifted her provisional ban following a series of appeals and re-appeals. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) pointed to \"exceptional circumstances\" regarding her age and the timing of the test result, which came during the Games and nearly six weeks after the sample was taken. It said it would do Valieva \"irreparable harm\" if she were not allowed to compete. But Valieva left the arena in tears after a number of stumbles and falls saw her drop from first place after the short programme to fourth and out of the medals following the free skate. The teenager's treatment by coaches was also questioned, with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach describing the lack of comfort offered after her errors as \"chilling\". The doping case is still to be resolved. The Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada) has six months from the date of the notification of Valieva's offence to reach a decision over any sanction which could mean the ruling being delayed until August. The medals have yet to be awarded for the team event, with USA and Japan finishing second and third, while Canada came fourth. Recent Games have also seen medals won by Russia's Yulia Lipnitskaya and Alina Zagitova, who both would not have been eligible to compete were the under-17 rule in place at the time. Lipnitskaya and Zagitova were 15-year-olds when they won won gold at Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 respectively.\n• None The boys are back and Florida awaits...\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?:", "Tracy Brown says she does not know any gay Wales fans willing to travel to Qatar\n\nSome Wales football fans are to boycott the Fifa World Cup in Qatar due to the host country's stance on gay rights.\n\nWales qualified for the tournament for the first time in 64 years after winning their play-off final against Ukraine.\n\nHowever Tracy Brown, of Wales' official LGBTQ+ supporters' group, said many members did not believe it was safe to travel to the Middle East in November.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Qatar and punishable with prison sentences.\n\nIn the Senedd on Tuesday First Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales should \"not look the other way\" from human rights concerns in Qatar.\n\nMs Brown, from the Rainbow Wall supporters' group, said: \"I, for one, won't go.\n\n\"On one hand I'm stoked that we've got there, it's been a long time coming.\n\n\"If it was anywhere else in the world I would be thinking I want to be there supporting.\n\n\"But I'm going to be sat at home watching us play, because I don't feel safe to go.\"\n\nEquality campaign group Kick It Out previously announced the formation of a working group to look at inclusivity issues in Qatar.\n\nFatma Al-Nuaimi, communications executive director of Qatar's supreme committee for organising the tournament, told BBC Sport: \"It's a tournament for everyone, a tournament of firsts, and a tournament where everyone will be welcome.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2022 World Cup chief Hassan Al Thawadi tells Dan Roan hosts \"ready to welcome the world\"\n\nBut Ms Brown said that had not convinced her, or others, to change their mind.\n\n\"Just saying it's safe while a competition is on doesn't seem right,\" she said.\n\n\"So Fifa said you're safe to be yourself for the period of the World Cup, but when I leave there's still an LGBTQ+ community who pretty much live in hiding.\n\n\"They're not safe and I have to stand by my values.\n\n\"I want to go to a country where I feel safe and welcome all the time.\"\n\nWales players celebrate qualifying for their first World Cup since 1958\n\nAt first minister's questions in the Welsh Parliament Mark Drakeford said: \"We should not look the other way from reservations that we would have as a nation from some of those human rights issues that we see there.\"\n\nHe said Economy Minister Vaughan Gething raised human rights issues with Qatari authorities when he visited in May.\n\n\"We must ourselves make sure that those opportunities are not missed while the eyes of the world are on that country,\" he added.\n\nThe decision by Fifa to host the World Cup in the country has been widely criticised, with Qatar's wider record on human rights also under scrutiny.\n\nAmnesty International have also been critical of Qatar's record on gay rights, as well as its treatment of migrant workers.\n\nFelix Jakens, head of campaigns at Amnesty International UK, said the organisation had \"multiple concerns\".\n\n\"This is a time when footballers in our own country are finally coming out as gay, where there's more acceptance around LGBT people's participation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's shocking that the World Cup is being held in a country where being gay is criminalised.\"\n\nThe Independent newspaper's international editor, David Harding, worked as a journalist in Qatar for four years.\n\nHe said supporters who were planning to go to the World Cup would need to be prepared for a very different experience to previous international events.\n\n\"People will have to modify their behaviour. That is just a given, you're going to a very strict, conservative, religious country,\" he said.\n\nMr Harding said he was confident most LGBTQ+ supporters who chose to go to Qatar would not encounter serious problems, with authorities eager to avoid controversy.\n\n\"The LGBTQ community in Qatar are very angry at what Fifa and Qatari officials are doing,\" he said.\n\n\"In effect, they're saying for three weeks we'll go easy, we won't do anything, and then we'll treat Qatari LGBTQ people as bad as we treat them all the time once the World Cup is over.\n\n\"There will be some crunch points, if people wave flags or start a protest. I think these sorts of things could lead to problems. The police will not take your side if they feel you are breaking the law\".\n\nMs Brown said she did not know of any LGBTQ+ supporters from the UK who planned to travel.\n\n\"Some of my friends are part of [England's official LGBTQ+ supporters' group] the Three Lions Pride Group and they are also having the exact same conversations,\" she said.\n\n\"The vast majority of us wouldn't feel safe.\n\n\"I feel like we're missing out on a huge competition because we're choosing to be our authentic selves.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe wife of a British journalist who disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon has urged the country's authorities to do more to find \"the love of my life\".\n\nDom Phillips, 57, went missing in a remote part of the Amazon on Sunday along with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, 41.\n\nIn an tearful video, Mr Phillips's wife Alessandra Sampaio said she still had \"some small hope\" of finding them.\n\nMr Pereira's family have also asked the authorities to speed up the search.\n\nOn Tuesday, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro appeared to blame the missing men for their disappearance.\n\n\"Two people in a boat in a region like that, completely wild - it's an unadvisable adventure. Anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe there was an accident, maybe they were executed,\" he said.\n\nBrazilian police have opened a criminal investigation following news that Mr Pereira had been threatened.\n\nMr Pereira, an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon who has worked for the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, had clashed with some in riverside communities over illegal fishing.\n\nDom Phillips, a veteran journalist, was travelling with Mr Pereira by boat through the Javari Valley near Brazil's border with Peru as part of his research for a book on conservation efforts in the Amazon.\n\nThe huge region is home to around 6,300 indigenous people from more than 20 groups and is under threat from illegal loggers, miners and hunters.\n\nIndigenous rights groups that Mr Pereira worked with raised the alarm when the two failed to arrive as planned in the municipality of Atalaia do Norte on Sunday.\n\nThe groups said that Mr Pereira had received death threats in the week before his disappearance over his fight against illegal fishing.\n\nReuters news agency reported that the police had interviewed several local fishermen - including one man who is being treated as a potential suspect - who are believed to be among the last people to have seen the journalist and indigenous expert in the Javari Valley.\n\nA police official was quoted by Brazilian news G1 as saying that the suspect had denied any involvement in the disappearance of Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira.\n\nThe official, Alex Perez, said the suspect had told police he had merely seen the two men speed past in their boat.\n\nPolice are also trying to locate the fisherman suspected of writing a threatening letter to Mr Pereira just last week.\n\nThe rights group which first sounded the alarm about the disappearance said that the security forces had failed to follow up on key leads.\n\nEliesio Maruba of the Univaja rights group said that neither the police nor the navy had turned up to a scheduled meeting at which Univaja wanted to inform them about those it suspects of being behind the threats and their whereabouts.\n\nThe response by the Brazilian authorities has been widely criticised as slow and inadequate.\n\nAt first, only about a dozen people were sent to search the vast rainforest area crisscrossed by rivers. A helicopter was only sent on Tuesday and the number of soldiers deployed has been upped to 150.\n\nThe size of the search team has been boosted but was small at first\n\nBut the sluggishness of the search has caused further anguish for the men's families.\n\nMr Pereira's wife has also released a video message urging quicker action and saying that she hoped the men's disappearance was down to their boat breaking down.\n\nHowever many fear the pair may have been targeted.\n\nAs well as rising tension over illegal fishing, the area has seen incursions by illegal gold miners, loggers and drug traffickers who smuggle cocaine from neighbouring Peru.\n\nMr Phillips has documented many of these threats in his articles for the Guardian newspaper in the UK as well as other publications such as the Financial Times and the Washington Post.\n\nColleagues of the two have stressed that the men have deep knowledge of the region and carefully planned their trip.", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks.\n\nSince the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US.\n\nSo what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making?\n\nThe UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nCurrently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces.\n\nRussia claims the system has already been used against its forces.\n\nThe UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nThe UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nIn January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model.\n\nMany military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive.\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles.\n\nThe statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km).\n\nIt is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines.\n\nIn 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces.\n\nAnalysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement.\n\n\"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\"\n\nThe donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022.\n\nThe UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers.\n\nJack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\"\n\nThe UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.\n\nNlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot.\n\nCrucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk.\n\nThe weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says.\n\nMaritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022.\n\nBrimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy.\n\nThe missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks.\n\nLaunching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson.\n\nWhen used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage.\n\n\"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\"\n\nBritain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles.\n\nMastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices.\n\nAnalysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful.\n\nIt is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively.\n\nBritain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles.\n\nStarstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nIt ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\"\n\nHe says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground.\n\nThe UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles.\n\nOther equipment supplied by the UK includes:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Time to draw a line and take country forward - PM to Cabinet\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to cut taxes and government waste after surviving an attempt by his own MPs to oust him.\n\nThe prime minister thanked ministers for their support in a confidence vote, which saw 41% of Tory MPs saying they had lost faith in him.\n\nHe urged them to \"draw a line\" under questions about his leadership and vowed a return to \"fundamental\" Tory economic policies.\n\nThe number of rebels in Monday night's vote was higher than predicted.\n\nAnd some Conservative MPs are still publicly calling on him to quit over widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street.\n\nTobias Ellwood, a longstanding critic of the PM, said the \"honourable way forward\" would be for him to \"step back\" and accept that the task of uniting the Conservative Party to win the next general election is \"too big\".\n\nBut he added: \"We have to deal with the reality that those days of an honourable resignation are not there.\"\n\nSenior government figures have come out to defend Mr Johnson, including Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab who said there was \"no credible alternative\" to the prime minister.\n\nAnd backbencher Philip Davies - who voted against Mr Johnson on Monday - said: \"The prime minister won fair and square. My view is that you've got to accept the result. If you lose a vote, you accept it. That's the whole point of democracy.\"\n\nThe PM has also received support from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who told a Financial Times event he was \"very happy\" the UK leader had remained in post.\n\nThe prime minister may want to draw a line under questions over his leadership - but many of his MPs are not willing to do so.\n\nSenior MPs have told the BBC that there would be significant pressure on the 1922 committee to change the current rules - which protect the prime minister from another confidence vote for 12 months.\n\nRebels believe if the Conservatives lose the two by-elections being held later this month, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and Tiverton Honiton, in Devon - that will prompt a new leadership crisis.\n\nThey also believe the scandal over lockdown parties in Downing Street is far from over, with the Commons privileges committee still to look into whether the PM misled Parliament when he denied parties had been held in downing street and insisted all rules had been followed.\n\nThat could unearth new evidence - and the conclusions could be highly damaging.\n\nLast night's confidence vote result does not resolve the debate on Boris Johnson's future.\n\nAs one senior backbencher put it, it means the prime minster thinks he can stay on - but the rebels think they are within touching distance of bringing him down.\n\nIn the confidence vote, triggered by Partygate, Mr Johnson was backed by 211 Conservative MPs, but 148 voted to remove him.\n\nMr Johnson hailed this as a \"decisive\" victory - and on Tuesday morning told a cabinet meeting his \"fundamental Conservative instinct\" was to allow people to decide how to spend their money.\n\nHe urged cabinet ministers to find ways to make savings and told them \"delivering tax cuts\" would help deliver \"considerable growth in employment and economic progress\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mr Johnson did not have \"any sense of honour\" and should resign.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, she said Tory MPs who voted to keep the PM in office were \"just not listening to the scale of frustration and anger across the country\".\n\n\"There's really got to be some consequences when someone just isn't telling the truth, isn't fit for office, isn't taking the action the country needs\".\n\nMr Johnson won the confidence of 59% of his MPs, however, his critics have noted that his predecessor Theresa May secured the support of 63% when she faced her own confidence vote but was still forced out of office six months later.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey described Mr Johnson as a \"lying lawbreaker\" who was \"clinging on by the skin of his teeth\" while SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford likened him to a \"dead man walking\".\n\n\"Whether it's by Tory MPs finally acting in a responsible manner or indeed the Privileges Committee taking action against him, he will be gone,\" Mr Blackford said.", "Joel Pennington (middle) and friends at the River Rhine in Dusseldorf\n\nThousands of people have been stranded abroad after flights were cancelled, but while some wait around others are taking matters into their own hands.\n\nJoel Pennington was due to take a three-hour flight to Manchester from Germany. Since his flight was axed, he has spent 25 hours trying to get home.\n\nHe flew from Germany to Norway and onto London, where he is waiting to get to Manchester, paying out £700 extra.\n\nHe is one of many taking drastic action to get home from their trips abroad.\n\nAirlines have cancelled hundreds of flights over the past week due to staff shortages, with many changes made at short notice over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nWhile some families never reached their destination or arrived late, others have found their return flights are not operating.\n\nMore than 100 flights to and from the UK were cancelled on Monday, according to the data analytics firm Cirium, and dozens more were scrapped on Tuesday.\n\nEasyJet, which is the biggest operator at London Gatwick, has been badly affected by disruption over the past week. The airline initially did not say how many flights it had cancelled on Tuesday, but has now confirmed that 60 have been cancelled to and from the UK in total.\n\nWizz Air has also been affected, while British Airways cancelled a large number of services in advance.\n\nJoel was due to fly home with Lufthansa, which arranged his alternative route.\n\nThe 23-year-old from the Lake District said he was now resting in London at a friend's house as he was \"too exhausted\" to make the final leg of his journey.\n\n\"I've just given up and am staying in London for the night. I can't continue travelling right now,\" he said.\n\nMr Pennington says the experience has affected his mental health, and the stress of the journey home has overshadowed the good time he had on holiday.\n\nHarshal Shah (middle) has paid out £6,000 for new flights, accommodation and food\n\nHarshal Shah is stuck in Crete after his flight to take his family and two other families home was cancelled on Monday.\n\nRather than wait for a later EasyJet flight, the group has spent almost £3,000 to fly with Jet2 to Birmingham on Wednesday instead, where they will then get taxis to their homes in London.\n\nHarshal, who spent a week in Crete with his family and friends for their first holiday since before the coronavirus pandemic, said his return flight had been cancelled four hours before it was due to depart on Monday.\n\nHe said the next available EasyJet flight was not until Thursday, so he decided to make alternative plans.\n\nHarshal told the BBC he had to pay out £6,000 in total for the new flights, accommodation and food for two further nights and said he had received \"no response at all\" from EasyJet.\n\n\"The communication in terms of everything is shocking,\" he added. \"Honestly, EasyJet, they should not be EasyJet at all - it's not easy at all.\"\n\nAlex Settle (left) and friends say they don't trust EasyJet\n\nAlex Settle, a police officer from Hull, and her hen party of 14 were told their flight from Portugal to Manchester had been cancelled by EasyJet when they arrived at the airport.\n\nEasyJet re-booked them on a Wednesday flight back to UK - but the group were worried about further delays so booked a Jet2 flight for Tuesday instead.\n\nEach of them is having to pay £366 for the new flight and an extra night's stay.\n\n\"It's been really stressful, with lots of tears,\" said Alex. \"This has really tainted the whole trip.\n\nThe group are due to arrive at Luton Airport in the early hours of Thursday, and are now having to plan how to get back to Hull.\n\nAirlines have been being blamed for taking more bookings than they can manage following staff cuts during the height of the pandemic when travel ground to a halt.\n\nBut industry leaders have said the government could have done more to support the sector.\n\nThe sector has also called for immigration rules on hiring overseas workers to be relaxed to plug staff shortages, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ruled out such a move.\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nEasyJet said it was \"very sorry and fully understand the disruption this will have caused for our customers\".\n\n\"We are providing options to rebook or receive a refund as well as hotel accommodation and meals where required, along with information on how to arrange this quickly online or via the app.\n\n\"Our customer service hours and hotel accommodation sourcing have been extended to support impacted customers and help get them to their destination as soon as possible.\"", "More than 100 stations were closed on Monday, according to transport bosses\n\nLondon Underground is running as normal as the Tube strike which saw all lines closed has ended.\n\nAbout 4,000 staff walked out on Monday morning in a dispute over proposals for 600 job losses, changes to working agreements and pensions.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said about 100 stations - mainly in central London - were closed by the 24-hour walkout and long queues were reported.\n\nOn Tuesday, all lines were up and running by 07:30 BST.\n\nDuring the strike, commuters turned to other forms of transport or stayed away.\n\nLong queues for buses and taxis were seen outside Tube stations across London\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) claims 600 jobs will be lost under the TfL plans and its members face \"detrimental\" changes to their pensions and working conditions.\n\nTfL said nobody would lose their job under current proposed changes. It had proposed not recruiting about 500 to 600 posts as they became vacant, in order to fulfil a previous funding agreement with the government.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the strike was \"incredibly frustrating and disappointing\".\n\n\"I know the RMT are unhappy with the deal we have from the government who attached many strings - I'm unhappy too - but the RMT should be working with me to remove these strings rather than punish Londoners,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street condemned the strike due to its impact on passengers and businesses, calling it \"deeply disappointing\".\n\nRMT members on the Tube are also taking action short of a strike until Sunday 10 July.\n\nStation staff will not work overtime, which may result in short notice station closures, the RMT said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first rule of politics: learn how to count. Mathematically, Boris Johnson was the winner in Monday's confidence vote.\n\nThe second rule of politics: numbers often only tell so much of the story. You can claim victory and be robbed of authority in the same moment.\n\nHistory tells us some things: Sir John Major in 1995 and Theresa May in 2018 both won confidence votes with a bigger proportion of their MPs supporting them.\n\nSir John was crushed in a general election two years later. Mrs May was out of power six months later.\n\nThere is a difference now: Boris Johnson can point to his own thumping majority from the last election for a start.\n\nBut the simple truth is when more than four in ten of your own MPs think the country would be better off without you, you have a problem.\n\nThat number - 148 - will hang around Boris Johnson's neck for the some time; perhaps the rest of his time as prime minister. His supporters know that, as do his critics.\n\nLet me offer you a brief glimpse into my WhatsApps and the private exchanges I've had with Conservatives of various ranks, and various outlooks on Boris Johnson.\n\nBefore that - I know what you might be thinking: why can't reporters name the people who whisper things to them?\n\nWell, in just the same way as there may, just may, be things you say about members of your family or friends or colleagues to others that you'd rather them not hear you say, the journalistic convention of being told something \"off the record\" formalises that approach in a professional context. It can allow for a greater candour.\n\nA cabinet minister texts to say they \"think the margin is enough to work with\" but that \"due respect\" will need to be shown to the 148 rebel MPs.\n\nThey add: \"And as we know, unlike Theresa May and John Major, Boris can defy all the normal rules when it comes to rehabilitation. If events go his way he can survive.\"\n\nA cool headed reflection, shorn of the public rhetoric about a decisive win.\n\nAnother minister spots further danger - for the party, as well as the leader - the prospect of what they call \"civil war\".\n\nWe got a glimpse of that amid the skirmishes to determine Boris Johnson's fate: a current cabinet minister, Nadine Dorries having a right old pop (and there's no gentler but equally accurate way of putting it) at a former one, Jeremy Hunt, who spoke out bluntly about what he sees as the prime minister's failings.\n\nThe culture secretary's intervention incensed some of her colleagues. Others may have blushed at her directness, but agreed wholeheartedly with the sentiment.\n\nAnother rule of politics: when the leadership question is being asked, the prospect of poisonous rows dripping public venom about a political party goes skywards.\n\nAnd so where do the rebels find themselves now?\n\nOne of them says: \"It's time for the cabinet to show some leadership and realise the game's up for the PM.\"\n\nAn arresting demand which highlights how seriously they take this - how convinced they are Boris Johnson is now a loser.\n\nExpect the prime minister to attempt a reset later this week with a focus on housing and his longer term vision.\n\nBut he will know his internal opponents are thwarted, not defeated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The HS2 project aims to build high-speed rail links between London and Manchester, Birmingham and the East Midlands\n\nThe government has scrapped plans to build a new £3bn rail link between HS2 and the West Coast Main Line.\n\nThe 13-mile (21km) Golborne Link in Cheshire and Greater Manchester will not be built despite its earlier inclusion in the Integrated Rail Plan for improving the Midlands and North.\n\nThe Railway Industry Association, Rail Freight Group and High Speed Rail Group fear a \"bottleneck\" will be the result.\n\nThe government said it would study alternative plans.\n\nThe Golborne Link would have branched off the the high-speed line between Crewe and Manchester and cut through Cheshire and Trafford to join the West Coast Mainline south of Wigan.\n\nHS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson said the government would now explore how HS2 trains could best get to and from Scotland.\n\nThe timing of the announcement, just 30 minutes before the outcome of the confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party was revealed, has been criticised.\n\nIn their joint statement, the three railway industry bodies said: \"It is hugely disappointing to discover that, on a day when much political attention was focused elsewhere, the government confirmed that the Golborne Link is to be removed from the HS2 project.\n\n\"Only six months ago, the Golborne Link was included in the Integrated Rail Plan, as well as the HS2 Phase 2b Bill.\n\n\"The link has been provided for in the budget for HS2 and is needed to allow adequate capacity on the national rail network to fulfil its vital function of handling the nation's longer distance movements of both passengers and freight.\n\n\"Without this connection, a bottleneck will be created north of Crewe on the West Coast Main Line, which in turn will negatively impact outcomes for passengers, decarbonisation and levelling up.\"\n\nThey said it was now \"absolutely essential\" for the government to \"confirm as quickly as possible how ministers intend to protect the benefits of HS2 investment.\n\n\"Such an important, strategic question of how HS2 services connect into Scotland cannot be left open or uncertain,\" the statement added.\n\nThe announcement comes six months after the government dropped its plan to extend HS2 to Leeds.\n\nConstruction on the Golborne Link had been due to start in the early 2030s, with the connection expected to open towards the end of that decade or in the early 2040s.\n\nMr Stephenson said: \"HS2 is a once-in-a-lifetime project that will transform travel across the entire UK as we know it and serve millions of people for hundreds of years to come, and it's absolutely vital that we get this right from the outset.\n\n\"Removing this link is about ensuring that we've left no stone unturned when it comes to working with our Scottish counterparts to find a solution that will best serve the great people of Scotland.\"\n\nPlans for the Golborne Link faced fierce criticism from MPs, councillors and local residents.\n\nLeader of Warrington Council Russ Bowden said: \"We have had concerns about the Golborne Link since the idea was first proposed, and I'm therefore really pleased to see that it is now no longer part of High Speed Rail plans.\n\n\"We recognise the huge benefits HS2 will bring to the north of the country, providing Warrington with better access and transport links.\n\n\"The Golborne Link, however, has always been a deal-breaker for us. It would have had profound and unnecessary impacts on many of our communities with no discernible benefits for our town.\"\n\nGavin Newlands MP, the Scottish National Party's transport spokesman at Westminster, criticised the decision's effect on Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"The original investment would have drastically improved Scotland's rail links with the north west of England, but yet again this Westminster government is tearing it apart.\"\n\nDarren Caplan, chief executive of the Railway Industry Association, told BBC Radio Scotland: \"The way it's come out is a pretty negative start to it all.\n\n\"The danger in this is there is not even a solution on the table. We need to know what the plans are.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Gration joined BBC Look North as a presenter in 1982 and left the show in October 2020\n\nCelebrities, sports fans and politicians have led tributes to former BBC Look North presenter Harry Gration following his death at the age of 71.\n\nMr Gration joined the BBC in 1978 and Look North in 1982. He presented his last show in 2020.\n\nHe had also reported for Match of the Day and Grandstand and commentated on Olympic and Commonwealth Games.\n\nCricket fans at the Headingley test match on Saturday joined in a round of applause for the broadcaster.\n\nYorkshire County Cricket Club was among those from the world of sport to pay tribute to Mr Gration, who was a club board member between 2013 and 2015.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"As a lover of cricket, he was often seen at Headingley and other local grounds either with microphone in hand, or for the love of the game.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at the club are with Harry's family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nYorkshire County Cricket Club paid tribute to the \"lover of cricket\"\n\nIn an emotional announcement at the end of Friday's Look North, Mr Gration's former co-presenter Amy Garcia said he had died \"very suddenly\" that day.\n\n\"We are absolutely heartbroken to give you this news,\" she said.\n\nFormer BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker described Mr Gration as \"a true gentleman\", while former Look North presenter Christa Ackroyd wrote on Facebook: \"RIP Harry. Love you forever my friend.\"\n\nPeter Levy, who presents Look North in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, said he was devastated by the news.\n\n\"You can tell by the number of messages how much he was loved,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting on Twitter, LBC's James O'Brien added: \"I don't think any broadcasters build a bond with their audience as strong as the ones built by long serving presenters of regional news.\n\n\"They are part of the furniture when you're at home & part of home when you're not.\n\n\"Harry Gration embodied this. Thank you & good night.\"\n\nJay Rayner - chair of Radio 4's Kitchen Cabinet and Out To Lunch podcast - wrote on Twitter the presenter's death was a \"great loss\".\n\n\"Harry was a significant part of my student days in Leeds as the face of the region's news, and later, as I became a journalist, hugely supportive and encouraging,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Gration, who had also presented South Today during his career, left the BBC in October 2020, the day before his 70th birthday.\n\nAt the time he said he had \"always lived the story\".\n\nEvents such as the death of Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox, the Bradford riots, the Hillsborough disaster and recent flooding in Yorkshire had \"always affected me\", he said.\n\nHarry Gration with fellow Look North presenter Amy Garcia and weather presenter Paul Hudson in 2020\n\nMs Cox's sister and current Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater described Mr Gration as a \"Yorkshire legend and a true gentleman\".\n\n\"I will never forget his kindness & compassion,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther politicians echoed the sentiments, with MP for Barnsley Central Dan Jarvis saying: \"His wit and wisdom will be much missed.\n\n\"Yorkshire will be a lesser place without him,\"\n\nBBC Director-General Tim Davie said Mr Gration - who was presented with an MBE in 2013 - was \"an outstanding broadcaster and commentator\".\n\n\"He had a real connection with the public who saw him as one of their own,\" Mr Davie said.\n\n\"Loved everywhere, but especially in Yorkshire, he will be hugely missed by his many fans and friends. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Mr Gration's wife Helen thanked everyone for \"the beautiful\" tributes.\n\n\"We are in such disbelief that his chair remains empty today & his coffee cup unused.\n\n\"You are going to be missed so very much - what a legend,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Dave Grohl has joined Paul McCartney on stage at Glastonbury, in his first public performance since the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins.\n\nGrohl was given a hero's welcome as he strode onto the Pyramid Stage to duet with McCartney on a gritty garage rock version of I Saw Her Standing There.\n\n\"This guy flew in specially to do this,\" McCartney said. \"We love you,\"\n\n\"I swear, I would never miss being right here with you, right now,\" Grohl replied.\n\nNot content with one surprise, McCartney then brought out Bruce Springsteen to play Glory Days and I Wanna Be Your Man.\n\nThe New Jersey rocker also acknowledged McCartney's 80th birthday, which took place last week, wishing him \"another glorious 80 years\".\n\nEarlier, fans had broken into a spontaneous rendition of Happy Birthday for the former Beatle, after he paused to say hello at the start of his set,\n\n\"For me?\" he asked, temporarily stopped in his tracks,\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSaturday's headline performance was one of the most-anticipated Glastonbury sets in years, with diehard fans staking out a front-row place more than 12 hours before the star was due to play.\n\nBy the time he took to the stage at 21:30BST, the crowd stretched as far as the eye could see, creating what could be the festival's biggest audience since Dolly Parton in 2014.\n\nThey were rewarded with a marathon two hour, 50 minute set that spanned his six-decade career. He opened with The Beatles' classic Can't Buy Me Love (itself 58 years old) and continued with the Wings' hit Junior's Farm - a cheeky nod to the Eavis family, who host Glastonbury on their Somerset farm each year.\n\nBruce Springsteen was McCartney's second special guest of the night\n\n\"Oh, man it's so good to be here. We were supposed to be doing this three years ago,\" said McCartney, referring to his Covid-cancelled performance in 2020.\n\n\"But here we are. We've got some old songs for you, we've got some new songs and we've got some in-betweeners... and I got a feeling we're going to have a great time.\"\n\nThe setlist featured some of rock's most seminal songs, including Love Me Do and Lady Madonna; Wings classics like Band On The Run; and more recent solo material like the rambunctious Come On To Me.\n\nMcCartney dedicated the Sinatra-style ballad My Valentine to his wife Nancy Shevell, and played Something on a ukulele given to him by its songwriter, George Harrison.\n\nLater, he duetted with the late John Lennon, whose vocals for I've Got A Feeling had been isolated from The Beatles rooftop concert in 1969.\n\n\"That is so special for me,\" said McCartney. \"I know it's virtual, but there I am singing with John again. We're back together.\"\n\nIn total, he played 36 songs, their deep-grained familiarity resulting in some awe-inspiring moments of audience participation: \"See how they run\", or \"you got to give the other fella hell\" and, of course, \"na na na na na na naaaaa..., Hey Jude\" - a refrain that rang around the field for a full four minutes and 40 seconds.\n\nOther choices felt more personal, like In Spite Of All The Danger by the Quarrymen, his pre-Beatles band with Lennon and Harrison alongside John Lowe and Colin Hanton.\n\nThe star acknowledged that some of the lesser-known tracks would throw casual fans.\n\n\"We know the songs you like,\" he said, \"'cause when we play a Beatles song the place lights up with phones like the galaxy. And when we play something new, its like a black hole. But we don't care. We're going to play them anyway.\"\n\nStill, the last half hour prompted enough phone lights to be seen from space: Get Back, I Saw Her Standing There, Band On The Run, Hey Jude, Helter Skelter and Live And Let Die (punctuated by an insane amount of fireworks).\n\nGrohl and Springsteen joined him again for the final song, an extended guitar jam to The End, the penultimate track on Abbey Road, before McCartney left to rapturous applause.\n\nFor anyone else, it would have been a career-defining show - but when you're responsible for shaping the entire sound, style and trajectory of rock music, the bar is set a little higher.\n\nIt's probably still in his top 10, though.\n\nSaturday's Glastonbury line-up also included performances from Noel Gallagher, Ghetts, Yungblud and US rapper Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nPop star Olivia Rodrigo drew an immense crowd to her early evening set at The Other Stage, with the audience apparently comprising every teenager at the festival.\n\n\"I've never seen so many people in my life,\" she exclaimed. \"I'm so nervous.\"\n\nBut that didn't last long.\n\nOlivia Rodrigo brought pop punk power chords - and a cover of Avril Lavigne's Complicated - to the festival\n\nThe audience sang along so forcefully to her signature hit Drivers License that Rodrigo stopped singing and conducted their performance from behind her beautiful mirrorball baby grand piano.\n\nHer all-female band added some stadium-sized heft to the ballad, without losing sight of its core emotion - creating one of the weekend's biggest highlights so far.\n\nAlso impressive were LA sister act Haim, who prowled the Pyramid Stage like three musical Cleopatras, playing the heart out of songs like Now I'm In It, The Steps and Gasoline.\n\nHaim gave one of the best all-out rock performances of the day\n\nDuring their set, bassist and singer Este Haim recalled the band's Glastonbury debut 10 years ago, when she had passed out on stage due to type 1 diabetes.\n\nThere was no such issue this time as the band - watched by Stella McCartney, Jude Apatow, Melanie C and Kate Hudson - powered through their percussive, riff-laden singles.\n\nEste explained why after they came off stage,\n\n\"My sisters made sure I ate this morning,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Don't you love sisters?\" Este chipped in, \"The joys and the trials and the tribulations.\"\n\nOn The Other Stage, former Glastonbury headliners Skunk Anansie gave one of the day's loudest and most raucous performances.\n\nFrontwoman Skin sported an impressive, inflatable punk hairdo, which stayed intact even after she jumped into the audience.\n\nLess fortunate were alt-pop band Easy Life, whose frontman Murray Matravers was dropped onto his head after attempting to crowdsurf at the Pyramid Stage.\n\n\"I was surprised, they dropped me pretty hard\" he told the BBC afterwards. \"But rest assured, it's not my first time.\n\n\"It was fine. I prefer it more when it's like that because it adds to the drama and the chaos.\"\n\nMegan Thee Stallion promised and delivered \"a good-ass time\" on The Other Stage, where she was programmed against McCartney's set.\n\nFlanked by dancers, she writhed and twerked and worked the crowd into a frenzy with the pulsing bass of hits like WAP and Body.\n\nLike many US performers this weekend, she also brought up the US Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.\n\n\"You know I wouldn't be me if I didn't say something about these stupid ass men,\" the rapper declared.\n\n\"Texas really embarrassing me right now, y'all. The hot girls and hot boys do not support this shit. My body, my [expletive] choice!\"\n\nOther highlights of the second day included rock upstart Yungblud joining Squeeze songwriter Chris Difford on the acoustic stage for a surprise rendition of Up The Junction.\n\n\"This is definitely one of my Desert Island Discs,\" said the singer, who plays his own set on the John Peel stage later.\n\nElsewhere, rapper AJ Tracey made an impassioned speech about the Grenfell Tower disaster; and climate activist Greta Thunberg, addressed festival-goers on the need for action to prevent climate catastrophe.\n\nThe festival wraps up on Sunday with sets from Pet Shop Boys, Lorde, Charli XCX, Elbow and headliner Kendrick Lamar.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Gareth Bale has joined Los Angeles FC on a 12-month deal following his departure from Real Madrid, saying: \"I cannot wait to get started.\"\n\nThe Wales captain, 32, has signed as a free agent after nine years in Spain with an option to stay there for the 2024 season.\n\n\"I am extremely excited for this move to LAFC,\" said Bale.\n\n\"This is the right place for me and my family and the right time in my career.\"\n\nLAFC co-president John Thorrington said: \"Gareth is one of the most dynamic and exciting players of his generation\n\n\"Adding a player who brings his talent and experience at the highest levels is an incredible opportunity to improve our club.\n\n\"I am grateful to Gareth's management team who helped make this happen.\n\n\"It is clear that Gareth is highly motivated to continue to win trophies and we are elated that he has made the choice to join LAFC and help lead us in our ultimate goal of winning championships.\"\n\nLAFC head coach Steve Cherundolo said: \"There are simply not many players in the world who can have an impact on a match like Gareth Bale.\n\n\"He can be dangerous in so many different ways, and we expect him to complement what we believe is already a strong team from the moment he arrives.\n\n\"His knowledge of the game and experience in playing in big games will be invaluable.\"\n\nThorrington earlier said negotiations with Bale had not been \"a financial conversation\".\n\nHe added: \"Our transfer window opens in early July when we can register [players]. We still have to go through paperwork, hopefully a week or the next 10 days to take care of that, to welcome him and his family to LA, get up to speed.\"\n• None How Gareth Bale has gone from hero to forgotten man\n\nOn Sunday Thorrington had expressed the wish for Bale's stay to run beyond November's World Cup in Qatar, where Wales will be making their first appearance at a finals since 1958.\n\n\"It was never about six months just for the World Cup. We were always talking about longer term than that. That was very clear from Gareth and his representative,\" he said.\n\n\"When Gareth is looking at what he needs to do, his priority will be at LAFC - we are absolutely sure of that - but we're not naive to the fact that he, like some other players of ours, have a World Cup on the horizon.\"\n\nThorrington, who is also Los Angeles FC's general manager, said that Bale's first game for the MLS side could potentially be the home derby against LA Galaxy at 03:00 BST on 9 July.\n\nThe five-time Champions League winner had been linked with a return to Tottenham Hotspur as well as a move to home-city club Cardiff.\n\nThe signing of Bale, who joined Real Madrid for a then world-record fee of £85m in 2013, follows LAFC's move for Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini earlier this month.\n\n\"We presented to them what we feel is an unique opportunity for them at a stage of their career to do something different,\" Thorrington said.\n\n\"But we want to win and we want winners, and we have a guy who's won five Champions Leagues and a guy who's won the World Cup [Chiellini].\n\n\"We have two great players who will continue to do great things in the next phase of their career here.\n\n\"We see them being great influences on the guys we already have here.\"\n\nThere was speculation that Bale would end his playing career had Wales missed out on qualification for the 2022 World Cup.\n\nBut after Robert Page's side booked their place in Qatar by beating Ukraine in their World Cup play-off final earlier this month, the only question about Bale's future was which club he would join.\n\nThere had been suggestions Bale would opt to join Cardiff, with his agents confirming last week that they had held talks with the Welsh club, and the Championship team's owner Vincent Tan believes he may yet one day play for his hometown club.\n\n'We were very very keen and of course he would have been a big coup for us and it would be great for Gareth Bale if he could play for his hometown,\" Malaysian businessman Tan told Talksport before Bale's move was confirmed.\n\n\"And of course all the Welsh would be very happy if Gareth Bale returned home and played in Cardiff.\n\n\"Unfortunately I think the LAFC offer was probably too attractive for him to turn down.\n\n\"But actually, originally he really wanted to come. The money wasn't the matter but we still tried to come up with what we thought would be a good offer to him.\n\n\"But finally it's very hard to compete when there is a lot of big American advertisers, the commercial deals there are very good for Gareth Bale.\n\n\"So we tried our best but we failed.\"\n\nAsked if he would try again in the future to sign Bale, Tan said: \"His contract runs for 12 months, let's see what happens. Maybe by then Gareth will probably want to come back.\"\n\nCardiff share a training ground with the Football Association of Wales, which would have allowed Bale to continue working closely with Wales' medical and fitness staff while on club duty had he opted to join the Bluebirds.\n\nHowever, he is instead heading for the MLS, where the season runs from February until October and the competition's secondary transfer window opens on 7 July.\n\n\"We have done incredible diligence and it was an open, transparent conversation and we quickly saw it was a right match in the face of stiff competition worldwide - and he [Bale] agreed and we're excited to welcome him in the next couple of weeks,\" Thorrington said.\n\n\"It wasn't a financial conversation with Gareth or us. If Gareth was making this decision with financial motives he wouldn't be in MLS.\n\n\"This league is really exciting globally and he saw an opportunity to make a real impact. He sees here an opportunity to make a difference with the stage we provide.\n\n\"He sees the chance to pull this sport up to competing with the other sports.\n\n\"As much as possible... understanding how to manage a player like Gareth, a Ferrari or thoroughbred racehorse, they need extra attention in order to succeed, we're confident we'll be able to do that.\n\n\"The benefit of him joining the group we have, we will have a player who can play as much as he can, but we will do so sensibly.\n\n\"His priority will be at LAFC, but we're not naive - he has a World Cup on the horizon and how we manage his preparation ahead of the World Cup will be important to Gareth and the success of LA, but we want him peaking after the game with the US!\n\n\"The exact preparation he needs will be the same for us as it is for the World Cup, which I know for Wales is an historic one.\"\n\nWales will head to Qatar in November, where they will face the USA, Iran and England in Group B at the World Cup.\n\nLAFC are currently top of the MLS' Western Conference and have 18 regular-season games to play.\n\nWhen asked what Bale and Chiellini will bring to his squad, Cherundolo said: \"Having been on phone calls and zooms with Gareth Bale and Chiellini, I know 100% they are here for the right reasons.\n\n\"I hope he [Bale] will bring what he brought to Tottenham, Real Madrid - goals, assists, constant threat - a prolific player who knows how to win championships.\"\n\nThe end-of-season play-offs follow, with the season-ending MLS Cup final to be played on 5 November - 16 days before Wales' World Cup campaign begins with a game against the USA.\n• None Jonny Cotsen explores what it means to live in two different worlds\n• None Police new recruits adapt to life on the beat", "There has been a resounding double defeat for the Conservatives after the Lib Dems took the south-western rural stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton and Labour made a decisive return to power in the northern seat of Wakefield.\n\nOur South West political editor Martyn Oates and Yorkshire political editor James Vincent have been following the candidates and speaking to voters in the two very different communities over the past few weeks. This is what they have learned.\n\nOn the face of it, the South West is a typical rural Conservative stronghold - and from the 2015 general election until this by-election electors across the peninsula returned a Conservative MP in all but two constituencies. But Devon and Cornwall also had serious socio-economic problems even before the cost of living crisis hit.\n\nGovernment funding has singled out Cornwall for special treatment. But research by Devon County Council shows this constituency is one of several areas of Devon where productivity per head is equal to or poorer than Cornwall's - without corresponding government recognition.\n\nLow wages contrast with soaring house prices. Spiralling fuel prices are a particular concern in highly-rural constituencies like this, where a car is often seen as essential to live and work.\n\nGetting the voice of the rural South West heard in Westminster has always been a challenge - and some think that has not become easier with the present government's anxiety to help its new friends in the North.\n\n2/ Farmers on collision course with government\n\nAgriculture shapes the whole landscape of this constituency, from Exmoor to the Blackdown Hills to the Jurassic Coast. And the government has put itself on a collision course with the farming community in at least three key policy areas.\n\nFarmers say they are once again ploughing crops back into the fields because they cannot source enough foreign labour under the government's strict new immigration rules.\n\nLivestock farmers - who predominate here - are also extremely worried about the new trade deals ministers have struck with Australia and New Zealand, fearing they will be undercut by a flood of cheap foreign meat. Even the government's own analysis found the agricultural sector would suffer as a result.\n\nAnd the ending of the old EU-style farm subsidies is especially feared somewhere like this where the typically small, family farm has relied on them to stay in business.\n\nBoris Johnson's barnstorming celebrity status and his unconventional approach to high office always risked being a double-edged sword, though many saw it as the trump card which won the Conservatives their huge majority in 2019. Two-and-half years into his premiership and with the partygate row and the confidence vote fresh in voter's minds, the PM's personality loomed perhaps unusually large in this by-election.\n\nThe candidates for the three big parties all brandished impressive local credentials. But another local - the ex-MP whose resignation triggered this by-election - was arguably the other big political personality here, albeit one with no active involvement. The enduring affection for Neil Parish, a farmer himself and widely credited for working hard for this farming community, is perhaps a reminder that strong local candidates can also help make or break the political weather.\n\nMany people in Wakefield are Leeds United fans. They will always support Leeds, but might not go to games if the team is not doing very well. That's potentially what happened here with the Conservatives.\n\nPeople who are natural Conservative voters may have just stayed at home rather than voting. The low turnout did them no favours and just like fans of a beleaguered club they perhaps showed their views by not showing them at all.\n\nFor football clubs, the way they get out of that rut is by changing the manager.\n\n2/ Prime minister's no-show may have had an impact\n\nMaybe leader visits do matter in election campaigns. Sir Keir Starmer was in Wakefield a number of times. Boris Johnson was due last week - but went to Ukraine instead. As usual, you can read this both ways. Maybe the Conservatives did not want the PM in front of microphones at difficult times. But it also might have looked like they were not taking the by-election here seriously.\n\nAlso, those nearby MPs that backed the PM in the confidence vote, did so in part because he was seen as a vote winner. He helped get some MPs their first-ever job in Westminster. But in Yorkshire today, he's not a vote winner. Will he ever come to Yorkshire as PM again?\n\n3/ Are voters in the North returning to Labour?\n\nLabour can take back \"red wall\" seats. I mean, no-one here calls it the red wall, but Labour thinks they can grab them back. The Conservatives think this election was called for such a specific reason it proves nothing.\n\nLabour were favourites, but the big question was how big they could win. A narrow victory could potentially have been shrugged off by the Conservatives and seen as Labour voters not taking to Sir Keir. Nearly 5,000 is big enough for Labour to see it as evidence people are coming back to them. But there is a big difference between a by-election and a general election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Sammy B: The vessel bears the scars of battle\n\nExplorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII.\n\nThe USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water.\n\nTexan financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo, who owns a deep-diving submersible, discovered the \"Sammy B\" battered but largely intact.\n\nThe vessel is famed for a heroic final stand against the Japanese.\n\nThe USS Samuel B Robert before it sank: It went up against much more heavily armed opponents\n\nOutnumbered and outgunned, it managed to contain and frustrate several enemy ships before eventually going down.\n\nOf the Samuel B Roberts' 224-man crew, 89 were killed. The rest clung to life rafts for 50 hours awaiting rescue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo: \"The sailors went into battle knowing they probably wouldn't come back\"\n\nMr Vescovo, a navy reservist in his time, said it was an extraordinary honour to locate the lost ship and by doing so have the chance to retell its amazing story of heroism and duty.\n\n\"We like to say that steel doesn't lie and that the wrecks of these vessels are the last witnesses to the battles that they fought,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The Sammy B engaged the Japanese heavy cruisers at point blank range and fired so rapidly it exhausted its ammunition; it was down to shooting smoke shells and illumination rounds just to try to set fires on the Japanese ships, and it kept firing. It was just an extraordinary act of heroism. Those men - on both sides - were fighting to the death.\"\n\nThe team had to conduct a lot of research beforehand to narrow its search area\n\nIn the imagery captured by the adventurer's sub, the Limiting Factor, it's possible to see the hull structure, guns and torpedo tubes.\n\nThe Sammy B has puncture holes from Japanese shells and there is evidence in the stern quarter of one massive hit.\n\nFrom its crumpled appearance, it appears the vessel impacted the seafloor bow first.\n\nTo give a sense of how deep the resting place is, 98% of the world's ocean bottom is less than 6,000m deep. Only a few places in the great tectonic trenches go beyond 6,000m.\n\nVictor Vescovo, a private equity investor, is setting world records for deep dives in the sub Limiting Factor\n\nThe Battle Off Samar, part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, was a ferocious engagement. The intense fighting ultimately saw a heavily disrupted Japanese Imperial Navy withdraw its forces.\n\nSeveral ships from both sides were lost to the deep.\n\nLast year, Mr Vescovo managed to find the destroyer USS Johnston at a depth of 6,460m (21,180ft).\n\nThe USS Samuel B Roberts as it first appeared in the sonar survey of the seafloor\n\nIt's possible there are others even deeper than the Sammy B or the Johnston.\n\n\"There are two other American ships that have yet to be found - the USS Gambier Bay (escort carrier) and the USS Hoel (destroyer),\" said Kelvin Murray from EYOS, the company that organised and led Mr Vescovo's expedition.\n\n\"We've got historical records relating to where they may have sunk. We did take a look for the Gambier Bay, but this is detective work and these kinds of deep-ocean operations have never been conducted before. I don't want to use the phrase 'needle in a haystack', because there's a lot more research that goes into making that haystack smaller. But there's still a certain amount of luck involved in all this.\"\n\nThe USS Samuel B Roberts had a trio of torpedo tubes\n\nMr Vescovo was the first person to visit the deepest points in Earth's five oceans.\n\nHe's also climbed the highest peaks on each of the seven continents; and he recently went into space on New Shepard, the rocket and capsule system developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roe v Wade: The moment abortion rights were struck down\n\nMillions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision.\n\nThe judgement paves the way for individual states to ban the procedure.\n\nHalf are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans. Thirteen have already passed so-called trigger laws to automatically outlaw abortion.\n\nPresident Joe Biden described it as \"a tragic error\" and urged states to enact laws to allow the procedure.\n\nAfter the Supreme Court ruling, abortion access is expected to be cut off for about 36 million women of reproductive age, according to research from Planned Parenthood, a healthcare organisation that provides abortions.\n\nDemonstrators from both sides had gathered outside the court, with police keeping them apart.\n\nOne anti-abortion activist told the BBC she was \"elated\" as her side cheered the decision. \"It's not enough just to make this the law of the land. To be pro-life is to make [abortion] unthinkable,\" she said.\n\nAcross the divide, pro-choice supporters decried the decision as \"illegitimate\" and even a form of \"fascism\".\n\nThe BBC's Samantha Granville, reporting from an abortion clinic in Little Rock, Arkansas, said that as the ruling was posted, doors to the patient area were shut and the sound of distant sobbing could be heard before she was asked to leave. The state is one of those subject to a trigger law.\n\nAnti-abortion activists celebrated the announcement outside the Supreme Court\n\nThe landmark 1973 Roe v Wade case saw the Supreme Court rule by a vote of seven to two that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy was protected by the US constitution.\n\nThe ruling gave American women an absolute right to an abortion in the first three months (trimester) of pregnancy, but allowed for restrictions in the second trimester and for prohibitions in the third.\n\nBut in the decades since, anti-abortion rulings have gradually pared back access in more than a dozen states.\n\nIn its current session, the Supreme Court had been considering a case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, that challenged Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks.\n\nBy ruling in favour of the state, the conservative-majority court effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion.\n\nFive justices were firmly in favour: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nChief Justice John Roberts wrote a separate opinion saying that, whilst he supported the Mississippi ban, he would not have gone further.\n\nThe three justices who disagreed with the majority - Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan - wrote that they had done so \"with sorrow - for this court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection\".\n\nFriday's ruling amounts to a wholesale reversal of the Supreme Court's own legal precedent - an extremely rare move - and is likely to set up political battles that divide the nation.\n\nIn states where opinions on abortion are closely split - such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin - the legality of the procedure could be determined on an election-by-election basis. In others, the ruling may set off a new round of legal battles, including over whether individuals can go out of state for abortions or order abortion drugs through mail services.\n\nDenouncing the Supreme Court ruling, President Biden told women in states where it was banned to travel to those where it was not.\n\nDemocratic governors of several states including California, New Mexico and Michigan have already announced plans to enshrine abortion rights within their constitutions.\n\nGovernor of Mississippi Tate Reeves quickly welcomed the ruling, saying his state had \"led the nation to overcome one of the greatest injustices in the history of our country\".\n\n\"This decision will directly result in more hearts beating, more strollers pushed, more report cards given, more little league games played, and more lives well lived. It is a joyous day!\" he wrote.\n\nFormer Vice-President Mike Pence, a long-standing critic of Roe v Wade, urged supporters not to stop until \"the sanctity of life\" was protected by law in every state.\n\nOn the other side of the divide, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that \"the Republican-controlled Supreme Court\" had achieved that party's \"dark and extreme goal\".\n\n\"American women today have less freedom than their mothers,\" she wrote. \"This cruel ruling is outrageous and heart-wrenching.\"\n\nThe reversal of a long-standing precedent has also raised fears for other rights decided upon by the Supreme Court in the past.\n\nJustice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion, wrote: \"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell\" - referencing three landmark decisions of the past on the right to contraception, the repeal of anti-sodomy laws, and the legalisation of same-sex marriage respectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Supreme Court abortion decision must not be the final word - Biden", "Russian forces are now in control of the battered city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, its mayor says.\n\n\"The Russians have fully occupied Severodonetsk, our military has retreated to more prepared positions,\" Oleksandr Stryuk told Ukrainian TV.\n\nWeeks of heavy Russian shelling have reduced the city mostly to ruins.\n\nMany civilians have been sheltering at the vast Azot chemical plant, but Mr Stryuk said the only way out now was via Russian-held territory.\n\nPro-Russian rebels allied with the Russian army say they have moved into parts of Lysychansk, the city facing Severodonetsk across the Siversky Donets river. But Ukrainian officials have not confirmed that.\n\nSeverodonetsk, once home to some 100,000 people, has seen bitter street fighting and most of its residents have fled.\n\nTaking the city means Russia now controls nearly all of Luhansk region and much of neighbouring Donetsk - the two regions that form the industrial Donbas.\n\nBoth the Russian and Ukrainian military also confirm that Russian forces control the Severodonetsk suburb of Syrotyne and two small towns just south of it: Voronove and Borivske.\n\nUkraine's military command says its forces repelled Russian attacks to the south-west of Lysychansk.\n\nEarly on Saturday Russia launched a barrage of missiles at targets in the north and west of Ukraine.\n\nThe Ukrainian military says the attacks included - for the first time - missiles fired from Tu-22 bombers flying over Belarus to the north.\n\nOn Saturday Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg and pledged to deliver nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles to Belarus.\n\nRussia's 24 February invasion of Ukraine included Russian armoured columns sent in from Belarus. Iskander missiles have been deployed previously in Kaliningrad, a small Russian Baltic territory between Nato members Lithuania and Poland. They have a range of up to 500km (300 miles).\n\nMr Putin told President Lukashenko \"in the next few months we'll give Belarus tactical Iskander-M missile complexes, which can fire ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear types\", Russian RBC news reported.\n\nMr Lukashenko asked for Russia to make Belarusian warplanes nuclear-capable, and Mr Putin said Belarusian Su-25 fighter jets would be upgraded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins on why Kaliningrad is important in the continuing war in Ukraine\n\nRussian cruise missiles were also fired from ships in the Black Sea on Saturday, Ukraine's military said. Missiles struck military installations in the Lviv region, in the west, and Zhytomyr, north-west Ukraine, though a few were shot down, the reports said.\n\nUkraine also reported a heavy rocket strike on Desna, a village near Chernihiv in the north.\n\nAt the St Petersburg meeting, Mr Lukashenko also lashed out at Lithuania's decision to block Russia's rail transit of some goods to Kaliningrad via its territory. The Belarusian leader said Lithuania's move was \"a sort of declaration of war\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nSteel and some other Russian goods come under the EU sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lithuania says its measures affect only 1% of the normal Russian goods transit on the route, dismissing Russian talk of a \"blockade\" of Kaliningrad.", "Broadcaster Lauren Laverne says she is \"utterly heartbroken\" by the death of her mother, Celia Gofton.\n\nThe 6 Music presenter announced the news on Instagram, calling her mum \"the kindest, most compassionate and most tenacious person I have ever met\".\n\nLaverne has pulled out of presenting coverage of the Glastonbury festival this weekend.\n\nShe said her mum had been looking forward to seeing Paul McCartney's headline slot on Saturday night.\n\n\"She'd been a fan ever since she saw him at the Sunderland Empire in 1963,\" she wrote, \"and later met him later with me - he was just lovely to her\".\n\nIn a long and moving tribute, Laverne said her mother had been the middle of nine children, and had worked as a seamstress and a casino dancer to pay for teacher training college.\n\nShe continued: \"Met my Dad at 16 and loved him every day of her life. She ran the only reggae club night in the Northeast and told me that being young in the 60s felt like that line in Mr Tambourine Man, 'to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free'.\"\n\nLaverne described her mother's strong political beliefs, saying she had been part of the Greenham Common movement, which protested against US nuclear missiles being sited in Berkshire, and later became a Labour city councillor in Sunderland.\n\n\"She once chased someone from the BNP down our garden path with a rolling pin in one hand and me in the other arm,\" the Desert Island Discs presenter recalled.\n\nShe added that her mother had \"loved children\" and was \"adored\" by her children and grandchildren.\n\n\"But she also knew that mother is a verb as well as a noun and mothered so many others along the way who needed love and support throughout her life,\" she said.\n\n\"She had just given the kids their Glastonbury spending money and was looking forward to watching Paulie (as he was always known in our house - her favourite Beatle) tonight.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by laurenlaverne This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tributes are being paid at the crime scene in the aftermath of overnight shootings in the centre of Oslo\n\nA 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting in the centre of Norway's capital, Oslo.\n\nTwo people died and 21 were wounded early on Saturday in what police called an \"act of Islamist terrorism\".\n\nThe shootings were in and near the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, the Herr Nilsen jazz club and another pub.\n\nNorway's prime minister told the BBC the suspect was questioned in May, but was not deemed a threat at the time.\n\n\"We now need to see the result of an investigation,\" PM Jonas Gahr Stoere told the BBC's Newshour programme late on Saturday.\n\nThe shooting started at about 01:15 local time on Saturday (23:15 GMT Friday), officials said.\n\nEyewitnesses said the suspect took out a gun from his bag and started firing, forcing terrified people to either throw themselves to the ground or flee.\n\nThe attacker was arrested by police officers - who were helped by bystanders - minutes later. Two weapons were retrieved at the crime scene by police, one of them a fully automatic gun.\n\nThe authorities later said the suspect was a Norwegian national.\n\nOf the 21 injured, 10 were in a serious condition.\n\nThe terror alert level in Norway has now been raised to its highest level, though the country's PST intelligence service said it currently had \"no indication\" further attacks were likely.\n\nOslo's annual gay Pride parade was due to be held on Saturday, and was formally cancelled on police advice.\n\nBut despite that, hundreds of people marched near the scene later in the day, shouting: \"We're here, we're queer, we won't disappear!\"\n\n\"I think it's fantastic that this march is taking place, otherwise he would have won,\" one woman in her 50s told AFP news agency.\n\nRainbow flags and flowers were laid near the scene of the attack, which was sealed off by police tape, and bystanders comforted each other with hugs.\n\nThe gunman was known to security services since 2015 as a \"suspected radicalised Islamist\", and had a history of mental illness, Norway's PST intelligence service said.\n\n\"There is reason to think that this may be a hate crime,\" police said earlier. \"We are investigating whether... Pride was a target in itself or whether there are other motives.\"\n\nKing Harald, Norway's monarch, said he and his family were \"horrified\" by the violence. He said \"we must stand together\" to defend \"freedom, diversity and respect for each other\".\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that she was \"shocked by the heinous attack on innocent people\", while French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"We stand stronger against hate if we stand together.\"\n\nIn the US, John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, said: \"We're all horrified by the mass shooting in Oslo today targeting the LGBTQI+ community there and our hearts obviously go out to the all the families of the victims, the people of Norway, which is a tremendous ally, and of course the LGBTQI+ community there and around the world,\"\n\nHundreds of people on Saturday marched in Oslo, chanting: \"We're here, we're queer, we won't disappear!\"\n\nWitnesses who were at the London Pub have told how they fled to the basement, where 80 to 100 terrified partygoers were trying to hide.\n\nBili Blum-Jansen told TV2: \"Many called their partners and family, it felt almost as if they were saying goodbye. Others helped calm down those who were extremely terrified.\"\n\nAnother survivor told how he was hit by flying glass.\n\n\"I just noticed that a shot was fired, and I was hit by a shard of glass. There were more and more and more shots, so I escaped into the inner bar and tried to get as many as possible with me,\" he told Norway's public broadcaster NRK.\n\nThe scene of the attack has been sealed off by police\n\nPolice are investigating whether Oslo's gay Pride was a target in the attack\n\n\"I saw a man arrive with a bag, he picked up a gun and started to shoot,\" said journalist Olav Roenneberg of public broadcaster NRK, who was in the area at the time.\n\nA woman told the Verdens Gang newspaper that the gunman had taken careful aim at his targets. \"When I understood that it was serious, I ran. There was a man covered in blood motionless on the floor,\" she said.\n\nAnother man told the newspaper he had seen a lot of people on the ground with head wounds.", "Bono told host Lauren Laverne he had a \"complicated\" relationship with his father\n\nU2 singer Bono has revealed he has a half-brother, whose existence he was unaware of for decades.\n\n\"I have another brother, whom I love and adore, who I didn't know I had,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nThe singer said he found out about his half-brother in 2000, adding that he is \"at peace\" with it.\n\nThe 62-year-old told host Lauren Laverne that his mother Iris, who died in 1974, did not know her husband had a child with another woman.\n\n\"It's a very close family,\" Bono said, \"and I could tell my father had a deep friendship with this gorgeous woman, who's part of the family, and then they had a child. And this was all kept secret.\"\n\nAfter Bono found out, he spoke to his father Bob before his death in 2001.\n\n\"I asked him, did he love my mother, and he said yes,\" he recalled. \"And I said, how could this happen, and he said, 'It can', and that he was trying to put it right.\n\n\"He wasn't apologising, he was just stating, these are the facts. And I'm at peace with it.\"\n\nAsked whether his mother knew, Bono replied: \"No, nobody knew.\n\n\"My father was obviously going through a lot, but partly his head was elsewhere because his heart was elsewhere.\"\n\nThe singer also has an older brother called Norman.\n\nOn the programme, Bono discussed the death of his mother, from a brain aneurysm when he was 14, and how her death had a huge impact on his family.\n\n\"It's pocketbook psychology but I immediately just found another family - I formed U2, I found Ali [Hewson, his wife], it happened quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nLast month, Bono performed in a Kyiv subway session in a show of support for Ukraine after Russia's invasion\n\nBono described his relationship with his father as \"complicated\", adding: \"I'm sure I was hard to deal with.\n\n\"And he was coping with a lot. He didn't know quite what was going on. And I subsequently understood he was coping with other stuff.\"\n\nBono, who plans to release an autobiography later this year, rose to fame in the early 1980s and became one of the biggest rock stars on the planet.\n\nThe band's hits include Vertigo, Beautiful Day, One, With Or Without You and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.\n\nHe wrote many of the group's most successful songs, as well as becoming known as a human rights activist.\n\nDesert Island Discs is on Radio 4 at 11:15 BST on Sunday, and on BBC Sounds.\n• None U2's name and songs make me cringe, says Bono", "An unexploded Russian bomb is removed from a block in Kharkiv\n\nThe Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably dominate the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria.\n\nAnd the leaders of the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan face a difficult challenge.\n\nThey are aiming to put on a show of unity and resolve over the war. In recent months, the Western alliance has shown signs of strain and fatigue.\n\nSome voices - particularly in France, Germany and Italy - have asked if it might not be better for the war to end, even if it came at the cost of Ukraine having to cede territory. A recent cross-Europe opinion poll suggested some voters put solving the cost-of-living crisis ahead of punishing Russia.\n\nOthers argue about the need to salvage some kind of relationship with Russia in the future.\n\nCountries like the UK, Poland and the three Baltic States have been resisting these arguments, saying that any peace deal with Moscow that is not on Ukraine's terms would lead to further Russian aggression in the future. President Zelensky is likely to reinforce this argument when he addresses the summit virtually on Monday.\n\nSo the G7 leaders are expected to try to use the summit to clear these muddy waters, promising more weapons to Ukraine and more sanctions against Russia. The idea will be to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the West has the strategic patience to maintain its support for Ukraine, even if it faces domestic political pressure at home from voters concerned about rising prices.\n\nThe problem for G7 leaders is they also face growing pressure to show they are tackling the global economic crisis. The soaring price of fuel and food is causing hunger and unrest across the world. And some countries are pointing the finger at the West.\n\nMany countries in the global south do not share Western concerns about Russian aggression. They see the conflict as a European war and seem unmoved by Western arguments that Vladimir Putin is acting as a colonial aggressor. And they blame Western sanctions - as much as Russia's invasion - for the rising costs of gas and oil, and the massive shortage of wheat and fertiliser.\n\nTo try to resist this narrative, G7 countries are expected to use the summit to show they are acting to help countries round the world - with development aid, debt restructuring, climate finance, help finding alternative sources of energy and, of course, fresh efforts to get grain out of Ukraine's ports. That is why Germany has invited the leaders of India, Indonesia, Senegal, Argentina and South Africa to the summit, to hear their perspective and show the rest of the world the G7 is listening.\n\nSo on the one hand, these Western leaders must show resolve to keep backing Ukraine, and on the other, they must show a readiness to fix the global economic shocks that some blame, in part, on the war.\n\nOne senior US official described the dilemma thus: \"How do we maximise pain on Putin's regime? How do we minimise spillbacks back to the rest of the world?\"\n\nThat is quite a circle to square.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The duchess visited a training centre and a logistics brigade at an airfield\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has paid tribute to the \"brave men and women\" serving in the UK and overseas as she marked Armed Forces Day.\n\nReleasing photos of an earlier visit to a training centre, she said: \"Thank you for all you and your families sacrifice to keep us safe.\"\n\nCatherine participated in training exercises and spoke to recruits at the end of last year.\n\nIt is understood she now plans to visit the Royal Navy and RAF.\n\nSharing the photos on social media, Catherine said: \"Today on Armed Forces Day, William and I would like to pay tribute to the brave men and women - past and present, serving in all of our armed forces, at sea, on land and in the air, here in the UK and around the world.\"\n\nShe got involved in training exercises alongside the recruits\n\nThe duchess also met recruits on the visit at the end of last year\n\nShe said she was \"honoured\" to spend time with the Army to see how they train new recruits and serving personnel.\n\n\"It was wonderful to see first-hand the many important and varied roles the military play day in, day out to protect us all and I look forward to discovering more about the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force in due course,\" she said.\n\nThe latest photos are from November, when the duchess spent time at Pirbright Training Academy, in Surrey, as well as seeing how the 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade provides equipment and logistics support at Abingdon Airfield in Oxfordshire.\n\n\"Thank you for all you and your families sacrifice to keep us safe,\" Catherine said in an Armed Forces Day message\n\nThe duchess is understood to be planning visits to Royal Navy and Royal Air Force facilities", "Covid infections are continuing to rise in the UK, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.\n\nThe data suggests about 1.7 million people were estimated to have Covid in the week ending 18 June.\n\nThis is about one in 35 people - an increase of 23% on the week before.\n\nExperts say two new fast-spreading subvariants of Omicron - called BA.4 and BA.5 - are likely to be driving new infections.\n\nBA.4 and BA.5 now make up more than half of new Covid infections in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says.\n\nUKHSA officials expect more people to test positive in the next few weeks.\n\nPeople can catch the newer variants even if they have had coronavirus recently.\n\nBut BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron are not thought to be any more lethal than other types of Covid. Vaccines are still saving lives. Most people will not be very ill with Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, who until recently was England's deputy chief medical officer, told the BBC the country was in a different situation from the peaks in infections earlier in the year.\n\nHe said: \"I don't wear a face covering, but if there were circumstances where I felt it was a really closed environment, with very high crowding and very intense social interaction, then those are the situations where I might think 'should I or shouldn't I?'.\n\n\"And I think people have got to learn to frame those risks for themselves.\"\n\nThe professor, who is now pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Nottingham's faculty of medicine and health sciences, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was time to start reassessing how we think about Covid, thanks to the success of vaccines.\n\n\"In terms of its kind of lethality, the picture now is much, much, much closer to seasonal flu than it was when [coronavirus] first emerged.\n\n\"And you know, we just accept in the winter that, if you've got seasonal flu and you're poorly for a few days, it disrupts your life. And so I think we've got start to frame Covid in a little bit more of those terms.\"\n\nHe said experts would continue to watch closely for any large rises in severe illness and more people ending up in hospital or intensive care.\n\nKara Steel, senior statistician at the ONS, said the latest data suggested the largest increases in people testing positive were in Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"In England, infections increased across all age groups, with the lowest level of infection seen in school-aged children.\"\n\nThe stats are collated by testing thousands of people from UK households - whether or not they have symptoms - to estimate how much virus is around.\n\nIn the week ending 18 June, estimated Covid rates were:\n\nThe number of people in hospital and in intensive care with the virus is still below the peaks of earlier this year, but health officials are stressing vaccinations are still important.\n\nUKHSA data suggests there have been some rises in Covid in care homes, and more people over 75 are ending up in hospital than in recent weeks.\n\nUKHSA epidemiologist Dr Mary Ramsay urged people in this age group and those living in care homes to get their spring booster vaccines.\n\nShe said: \"Our data also show that 17.5% of people aged 75 years and over have not had a vaccine within the past six months, putting them more at risk of severe disease.\"\n\nBooster jabs have been available since spring, for people 75 and over, living in care homes and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I will not pretend these are brilliant results - Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson has admitted results from two by-elections were not \"brilliant\" but has vowed to keep going.\n\nHis party lost the Devon seat of Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems, and Wakefield to Labour.\n\nMr Johnson said he would \"listen and learn\" and focus on \"delivering for the people of this country\".\n\nThe two defeats prompted Conservative party chair Oliver Dowden to quit saying: \"We cannot carry on with business as usual.\"\n\nAnd ex-Conservative leader Michael Howard has said the party and the country would be \"better off\" under new leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, Lord Howard said cabinet ministers should consider resigning and that party rules should be changed to allow for a new confidence vote in the prime minister.\n\nThe prime minister survived a vote on his leadership earlier this month, but 148 of his MPs voted to oust him, leaving him weakened. Under Tory party rules, it means that a further vote of confidence cannot be held for another year.\n\nThe by-elections took place against a backdrop of public anger about Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, along with concerns over rising costs and a squeeze on wages.\n\nMr Dowden announced his resignation in the early hours of Friday morning following the defeats, saying in a letter to the prime minister that supporters were \"distressed and disappointed by recent events and I share their feelings\".\n\n\"Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office.\"\n\nOther cabinet ministers have rallied round the PM, who is currently in Rwanda attending a meeting of Commonwealth government leaders.\n\nTaking questions at a press conference in Kigali, Mr Johnson said Mr Dowden did a \"lot of good work\" but added: \"I genuinely, genuinely don't think the way forward is to focus on issues of personality whether they are mine or others.\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend these are brilliant results,\" he said adding: \"We've got to listen, we've got to learn.\n\n\"There will still be some tough times ahead, no doubt people will continue to beat me up and say this or that to attack me.\"\n\nHe said that was \"fine\" but that he would be focusing on \"delivering for the people of this country\".\n\nAs you might expect the by-election defeats came up repeatedly during the prime minister's press conference, but Boris Johnson would not accept any personal responsibility - or acknowledge that his leadership had any part to play.\n\nHe said he didn't think British politics should be about personality - but for some of his own MPs his personality is exactly the problem.\n\nSome talk about the need for a change of direction or as one put it to me earlier a \"reset\" moment, but there was little sign of that from the prime minister.\n\nHe put much of the blame on the cost of living, saying when people find it tough - they blame governments.\n\nBut while that's undoubtedly a huge issue facing the country, for some Tories Boris Johnson's style of government is an issue in itself.\n\nThe prime minister was defiant - talking about his plan and seeming keen to press on, a mood echoed by his team here in Kigali.\n\nHe suggested governments shouldn't be defined by by-elections - pointing to administrations that have survived defeats in the past. But the way he responds to these by-election losses could well prove defining.\n\nCabinet ministers including Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab have given Mr Johnson their backing.\n\nAsked if he had full confidence in the prime minister's ability to win the next election, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Boris Johnson is our leader, is the PM and he will be taking us into the next election.\"\n\nAnd Ben Houchen - Conservative mayor of Tees Valley - warned his colleagues against a \"knee jerk reaction\" and said that holding a leadership contest during a cost of living crisis would make the party look \"ridiculous\".\n\nIn a statement, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt said she was \"disappointed\" for the party but did not specifically mention support for the prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Tiverton and Honiton - where former MP Neil Parish quit after he was found watching pornography in Parliament - the Lib Dems won with a 30% swing.\n\nThe party quashed a Conservative majority of 24,239 - the largest ever to be overturned at a by-election.\n\nSpeaking from the Devon constituency, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the Conservatives were \"chaotic\" and had \"not got the policies for our country\".\n\nThe Conservatives also suffered a loss in West Yorkshire where Labour secured a 12.7% swing to regain the Wakefield constituency by 4,925 votes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the election result was \"a clear judgment on a Conservative Party that has run out of energy and ideas\".\n\nLabour \"is back on the side of working people, winning seats where we lost before, and ready for government,\" he added.", "Two Tory MPs who have been critical of Boris Johnson say they may stand for election to the committee which runs the party's leadership elections.\n\nThe move follows the party losing by-elections at Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield to the Lib Dems and Labour.\n\nFollowing the results, party chairman Oliver Dowden resigned, saying \"someone must take responsibility\".\n\nMr Johnson has admitted the results were not \"brilliant\" but vowed to \"listen and learn\".\n\nThe prime minister survived a vote of no confidence in his leadership earlier this month, although 148 of his MPs voted to oust him.\n\nUnder the rules of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, Mr Johnson is safe from a further challenge for a year.\n\nBut Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, has said he is minded to throw his hat into the ring and stand for election to the committee's executive, saying he would \"be in favour of rule change and effectively that would be another vote of confidence\".\n\n\"The sooner the better. We will only probably have one week left before summer recess and I think we should seriously consider having another vote,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSteve Baker, MP for Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, also said he hoped colleagues would \"consider allowing him to serve\" although he would not comment on changing the rules.\n\nFollowing the by-election defeats Mr Johnson said he would focus on \"delivering for the people of this country\".\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the prime minister said he expected critics to continue to \"attack him\" and he \"had to take that\".\n\nHowever, he added he would \"get on with the job of delivering for the people of this country\".\n\nSpeaking during a Commonwealth leaders summit in Rwanda, Mr Johnson said there would be \"tough times ahead\" and people would \"continue to beat me up\".\n\n\"In the end, voters, journalists, they have no-one else to make their complaints to, I have to take that,\" the prime minister told reporters.\n\nConservative MP Andrew Bridgen said he would be in favour of another vote of confidence\n\nThe two by-election defeats prompted Conservative Party chair Oliver Dowden to quit saying: \"We cannot carry on with business as usual.\"\n\nMr Dowden said in a letter to the prime minister that supporters were \"distressed and disappointed by recent events and I share their feelings\".\n\n\"Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office,\" Mr Dowden said.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Michael Howard said that the party and the country would be \"better off\" under new leadership.\n\nLord Howard said cabinet ministers should consider resigning and that party rules should be changed to allow for a new confidence vote in the prime minister.\n\nCabinet ministers including Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab have given Mr Johnson their backing.\n\nAsked if he had full confidence in the prime minister's ability to win the next election, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Boris Johnson is our leader, is the PM and he will be taking us into the next election.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Nottm Forest\n\nNottingham Forest have signed Nigeria forward Taiwo Awoniyi from Union Berlin for a club record fee.\n\nThe 24-year-old joins newly promoted Forest on a five-year deal for a reported £17m.\n\nAwoniyi scored 20 goals in 43 games across all competitions last season and becomes Forest's first signing since gaining promotion back to the Premier League.\n\n\"It's always been my dream to play in the Premier League,\" said Awoniyi.\n\n\"Having spoken to [Forest boss] Steve Cooper about our ambitions and looking at Forest, with its great history, it's a club that I want to be part of.\"\n• None How exciting is this signing for Forest? And what other business do they need to do? Have your say here\n\nAfter a season-long loan, Awoniyi joined Union Berlin on a permanent deal in July 2021 from Liverpool, where he started his career.\n\nHe did not make any first team appearances for Liverpool after signing for the club in 2015 and spent the majority of his six years with the Merseyside side out on loan.\n\nForest manager Cooper said Awoniyi was a player the club had been monitoring closely over the past few months.\n\n\"There's been a lot of interest of Taiwo from other Premier League clubs, and other clubs across Europe, so we're delighted he's chosen Nottingham Forest,\" Cooper said.\n\n\"He's a player who we really believe in and we look forward to him going on to fulfil his potential and become a top Premier League striker with Nottingham Forest.\"\n\nScoring 15 goals in 31 league games, Awoniyi was the Bundesliga's sixth highest scorer last season and helped Union Berlin to a fifth-place finish which guarantees the club Europa League football for the first time since the 2001-02 season.\n\nSince making his senior debut for Nigeria in October, the striker has made four appearances and scored his first goal for his nation against Sudan in January at the Africa Cup of Nations.\n\nForest are expected to sign goalkeeper Dean Henderson, 25, on loan from Manchester United this summer and are also in talks to sign central defender Moussa Niakhate, 26, from Mainz.\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.\n• None Our coverage of Nottingham Forest is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Forest - go straight to all the best content", "The star last played Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage in 2004\n\nEager Paul McCartney fans have already staked their claim to front row spots for the star's Glastonbury headline set on Saturday night.\n\nFestival-goers gathered at the barriers early in the morning, with sandwiches and snacks to keep them going before McCartney walks on stage at 21:00 BST.\n\n\"I've been training for it like a marathon,\" said Kate Appleby.\n\nIn order to avoid giving up her spot, the 29-year-old has been practicing ways to avoid toilet breaks.\n\n\"Lots of pelvic floor exercises, lots of clenching,\" she laughed. \"It'll be worth it.\"\n\n\"I've been slightly dehydrating myself so hopefully it will be no problems,\" added fellow fan Henry Thurgood.\n\nJess Day (left) and Kate Appleby (right) travelled from the Lake District to see Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish\n\nThe 27-year-old, from Wincanton in Somerset, has come dressed in a replica of McCartney's Sgt Pepper's costume, which he believes will help him reclaim his spot if he does have to step away.\n\n\"If anyone's got a chance of filtering through the crowd, hopefully this will be my ticket through.\"\n\nMcCartney, who turned 80 last week, is due to play for two-and-three-quarter hours on Saturday night.\n\nIt will be his second time headlining the Pyramid Stage - in a concert that was delayed from 2020, after Glastonbury was cancelled in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe warmed up for the show with an intimate gig in the nearby town of Frome, playing to 800 people on Friday evening.\n\nThe £25 tickets sold out instantly, and dozens of unlucky fans turned up simply just to hear the music spilling out of the Cheese and Grain venue in the pouring rain.\n\nThe star arrived on stage just after 6pm, playing to an audience that included Olivia Harrison, Judd Apatow, Brian Johnson from AC/DC and pop star Olivia Rodrigo.\n\nHis 27-song set opened with The Beatles' I Want To Be your Man, and included a career-spanning selection of hits, from Blackbird and Get Back to Band On The Run and My Valentine.\n\nAhead of the final track, The End, the star said: \"OK so there does come a time when we've got to go and it coincides with the time you've got to go.\n\n\"Most of all we want to thank you for coming along and having a ball with us tonight.\"\n\nThe warm-up gig at the Cheese and Grain was a sell-out with people gathered outside\n\nMcCartney's last headline slot won an NME Award for musical event of the year\n\nMcCartney's last Glastonbury appearance, in 2004, came after a day of heavy rain that left fans soaked to the skin.\n\nBut his arrival was greeted with an almighty cheer, and he responded with a joyous greatest hits set, that left the sound of Hey Jude echoing around the festival site hours after he left the stage.\n\n\"Paul won the day for me,\" festival founder Michael Eavis said after the concert. \"He hugged and kissed me afterwards but I should have kissed him.\"\n\nSir Paul later told Clash magazine: \"It was a good night for us. It was a blast, and the audience seemed to love it. It was like, 'Yeah man! People have come together!' Very uplifting.\"\n\nOther acts on the bill for Saturday include Noel Gallagher, Haim, Ghetts and Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nThe Pyramid Stage opened shortly after midday with West African supergroup Les Amazones D'Afrique - whose sunny, laid-back grooves conveyed powerful messages about women's rights, genital mutilation and forced marriage.\n\nJoy Crookes was up next, and called a halt to her second song, Trouble, to encourage the audience to dance.\n\n\"This is Glastonbury, don't be shy!\" she exclaimed.\n\nUkrainian band Go_A drew a big crowd to the John Peel Stage, who formed giant circles and danced around to their blend of dance music and Ukrainian folk melodies.\n\nThe first night of the festival was headlined by US pop star Billie Eilish, whose uncompromising and powerful set drew one of the Pyramid Stage's youngest-ever audiences.\n\nLike several US musicians at the festival, she used her performance to protest against the US Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion in America.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The fathers of two men who took their own lives have shared the final conversations they had with their sons.\n\nMike McCarthy lost his son, Ross, last year and Steve Phillip's son, Jordan, died in 2019.\n\nThe pair have set up a campaign called Baton of Hope to raise awareness for better mental health support.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this video, you can find links to help and support at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "The star delivered a passionate and compelling performance on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage\n\nBillie Eilish has used her Glastonbury headline set to protest the US Supreme Court's decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.\n\n\"Today is a really, really dark day for women in the US,\" the 20-year-old said from the Pyramid Stage\n\n\"I'm just going to say that because I can't bear to think about it any longer.\"\n\nShe went on to dedicate Your Power, a song about older men who abuse their position, to everyone affected.\n\nOn Friday, the US Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling known as Roe v Wade that guaranteed nationwide abortion rights for women.\n\nThe decision means millions of women across the US will lose their legal right to abortion as individual states will be able to make their own laws on it.\n\nEilish was not the only performer at Glastonbury to protest the decision.\n\nEarlier in the night, indie-folk star Phoebe Bridgers made a similar statement during her festival debut on the John Peel stage.\n\n\"This is my first time here. It's surreal and amazing but I'm having a real [expletive] day,\" she said.\n\nBridgers continued by cursing the \"old\" Supreme Court justices \"who try to tell us what to do with our bodies\".\n\nEilish's dynamic and gymnastic performance went down a storm\n\nEilish's performance made her Glastonbury's youngest-ever solo headliner, at the age of 20.\n\nShe emerged on stage shortly after 22:00, amid blasts of white noise and sub-bass before launching into her opening song, Bury A Friend.\n\nProwling around the stage's catwalks and twisting her body like a character from The Exorcist, she was met by cacophonous screams and word-perfect renditions of her songs from the very first note.\n\n\"Oh boy, I love you so much,\" she told the audience, which stretched right to the back of the field in front of the Pyramid Stage.\n\nAdopting a faux English accent, she added: \"How are you doin?\"\n\nThe star's set was heavily rumoured to feature a surprise appearance from Harry Styles - but, like so many Glastonbury rumours, the gossip was one step removed from reality.\n\nThe star was joined on stage by her brother, co-writer and \"best friend\" Finneas O'Connell\n\nInstead, the show zeroed in on Eilish, who appeared with just her brother, Finneas, and a drummer on a minimal stage with a strict red and white colour palette.\n\nBetween songs, her colourful dialogue made it seem like she was talking directly to each individual member of the crowd. She led them in breathing exercises, started a reverse Mexican wave and shared her three commandments of concert-going: \"Don't be an asshole, no judgment and have fun, bitch\".\n\nThe setlist adhered closely to her ongoing Happier Than Ever world tour, which meant it was front-loaded with fan favourites like I Didn't Change My Number, NDA and Billie Bossa Nova, instead of big crowd-pleasers.\n\nIt was a brave move, but potentially alienating for casual observers - many of whom drifted off before the explosive closing numbers, Bad Guy and Happier Than Ever.\n\nFor diehards at the front, though, Eilish could do no wrong. Even a deep album cut like Goldwing was sung at full volume, threatening to drown her out,\n\n\"This is such an honour to be here, right now,\" Eilish declared them before playing When The Party's Over. \"Thank you for letting me do this. This is such a trip and a dream.\"\n\nAfter tonight, the chances of her being invited back are looking pretty solid.\n\nEilish's headline set marked the culmination of Glastonbury's first day of music, which included appearances from Primal Scream, Arlo Parks, Little Simz and Supergrass.\n\nWolf Alice only made the festival by the skin of their teeth\n\nOn the Pyramid Stage, Wolf Alice delivered a blistering performance after a last-minute, transatlantic dash to the festival.\n\nThe band had been left stranded in Los Angeles on Wednesday night after their flight home was cancelled. After a light-hearted (and failed) appeal for the loan of a private jet, they finally made it back via a connecting flight in Seattle.\n\n\"So we were in Seattle about 10 hours ago, and we were worried about all the train strikes,\" Theo Ellis told BBC News shortly before their performance.\n\nThey were eventually escorted onto the site by a squadron of quadbikes.\n\n\"It felt like we were in Mission Impossible for 13 seconds,\" said Ellis. \"But we made it and it kind of feels even more special to be here now.\"\n\n\"I still keep thinking something will happen and we won't get to play,\" added frontwoman Ellie Rowsell. \"I'm getting scared about jinxing it.\"\n\nBut they did make it onto the stage, backed by a string quartet and tearing through the down-and-dirty riffs of their opening number, Smile.\n\nAs they reached the end of their set, the chaos finally caught up with Rowsell, who lay down on the stage to summon up the energy to sing their powerful ballad Last Man On Earth, When the song ended, she looked temporarily lost and flustered, until bandmate Joff Oddie clasped her in a hug.\n\n\"We didn't know if we were going to make it today,\" she told the audience, \"so this is very surreal and we're very emotional\".\n\nSam Fender's Springsteen-esque anthems kept the crowd singing after he left the stage\n\nSam Fender, second on the bill after Billie Eilish, was also overcome by the moment, struggling to regroup between songs, until the crowd buoyed him up with full-throated singalongs to 17 Going Under and Hypersonic Missiles.\n\n\"Me and the lads have never been to Glastonbury before. Not as a punter. Not as a performer,\" he said during the set. \"Now we are doing the whole lot in one day. It's a trip.\"\n\nOther opening day highlights included Spice Girl Melanie C joining Blossoms onstage for a rabble-rousing version of Spice Up Your Life; and a blissed-out set from Crowded House, who welcomed the mid-afternoon sun with a mash-up of The Kinks' Sunny Afternoon and their own Pineapple Head.\n\n\"I had no idea how good this would be,\" said frontman Neil Finn, after leading the crowd in a mass participation version of Weather With You.\n\n\"I think we're all reinventing the way the world works here at Glastonbury. Rediscovering community, kindness, common sense,\" he continued. \"The people are rewilding.\"\n\nThe band also created a memorable Glastonbury moment when they invited out Buddy - Finn's grandson, and the son of guitarist Liam Finn.\n\nThousands of people started chanting the youngster's name as he moonwalked across the stage and pinched a microphone to join in the band's final song, I Got You.\n\nBuddy squeaked along adorably to his grandfather's music, before leaving the stage with a brief, \"Bye Bye!\"\n\nAway from the main stage, the festival was brought to a standstill by sets from Wet Leg (Park Stage) and 90s R&B legends TLC (West Holts). Both acts attracted so many fans that access roads had to be briefly closed.\n\nThe day was bookended by appeals for help from Ukraine.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky gave a pre-recorded speech on The Other Stage before festival openers The Libertines, calling on the world to \"spread the truth\" over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nZelensky said Ukraine \"will not let Russia's war break us\" and that he wants the war to stop before it \"ruins people's lives in other countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America\".\n\n\"Spread the truth about Russia's war, help Ukrainians who are forced to flee their homes because of the war,\" he added.\n\nUkraine's Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra will also play a late-night set in the Shangri-La area, starting shortly after 01:00.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The community raised funds to reopen its local filling station four years ago\n\nFour years ago there were celebrations in Newcastleton when petrol pumps returned after nearly a decade.\n\nIt was estimated at the time that the new community-run facility could save those in the Borders village about £300 each year in fuel costs.\n\nAs prices continue to rise, it has been estimated that the savings could be double that amount - and the filling station has been described as a \"lifeline\" for the area.\n\nBefore it reopened, the closest petrol pumps were a 20-mile round-trip away along a narrow back road to Langholm.\n\nIn reality, most villagers travelled to Hawick or Carlisle - a journey of at least twice that distance.\n\nBack in March 2018, when the new pumps began operating, the AA estimated the average price for unleaded petrol in Scotland was 119.2p and diesel 122.7p.\n\nLast month, they had soared to 166.7p and 180.6p respectively. The motoring organisation says a 20-mile journey now costs more than £3.\n\nCommunity council chairman Greg Cuthbert said that with rising petrol prices, the efforts to reopen the pumps in Newcastleton - and put in electric car charging points - were becoming more worthwhile every day.\n\nHe said people in the village faced a 50-mile round trip.\n\n\"You had to go all the way to Carlisle or either all the way to Hawick to fuel up,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine what that put on your weekly or monthly bills.\"\n\nBusinesses, too, needed to fill up vehicles.\n\nGreg Cuthbert said the pumps were saving villagers a significant sum of money\n\n\"It was causing real problems and probably knocking profits - if they are making profits - at some of these small businesses and really hitting the community in the pocket,\" he said.\n\nThe pumps made a big difference at first, and are making an even bigger difference now.\n\n\"It's brought an awful lot more people into the village that used to bypass us and go on to Carlisle or to Hawick that lived in the near community.\n\n\"We are sort of like a focal point for many small rural areas,\" he said.\n\nEvery litre of fuel sold also generates a penny for the community to invest in local initiatives.\n\nShaun Turnbull has lived in Newcastleton for about 30 years.\n\nHe has a small home improvement company, runs the local Spar and post office, is the village undertaker and is watch commander at the fire station.\n\nHis family runs four cars and a van from a single household, and he estimated it would take a gallon of fuel to travel to Carlisle and back to fill up.\n\nMr Turnbull said the reopening of the filling station had also brought some benefits for local businesses.\n\n\"You would find people would be going away to get fuel and when they were away they would get their shopping,\" he said.\n\n\"Now you find more people get their fuel here in the village and they get the shopping in the village as well.\"\n\nIt has also meant more visitors, he said, particularly motorcyclists stopping off.\n\nThe fuel pumps also raise funds for community projects\n\nMr Cuthbert said it was not uncommon for families in the village to run as many vehicles as Mr Turnbull's household.\n\n\"That shows you the scale of how much fuel a small, 'land-locked island' - as we call ourselves - needs,\" he said.\n\n\"Anything we do comes at great cost.\"\n\nA hospital visit or a child's orthodontist appointment can mean an 80-mile round-trip.\n\n\"There is real rural poverty in this area,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a huge sum out of your weekly wage to travel to work in Carlisle or Galashiels or Hawick.\n\n\"These are the places that we have to go to work, so you can imagine the drain on a family's finances.\"\n\nHe said that made a local filling station all the more helpful, with households now saving perhaps double the original estimates.\n\n\"It has been a Godsend,\" he added.\n\n\"It makes a vast difference if you have got your own fuel supply. The fuel station is a lifeline.\"", "Harry Gration joined BBC Look North as a presenter in 1982 and left the show in October 2020\n\nHarry Gration, the former presenter of BBC Yorkshire's Look North news programme, has died suddenly, aged 71.\n\nMr Gration joined the BBC in 1978 and Look North in 1982. He presented his last show in 2020.\n\nDuring his career, he won two Royal Television Society (RTS) awards for sports documentaries and he won the RTS Best Presenter award twice.\n\nMr Gration's wife, Helen, paid tribute to her husband, saying: \"He will forever be with us.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our three boys and I loved Harry totally. We had an awful lot of fun with him and our home was his life.\"\n\nBBC Director-General Tim Davie said: \"Harry Gration MBE was an outstanding broadcaster and commentator.\n\n\"He had a real connection with the public who saw him as one of their own.\n\n\"Loved everywhere, but especially in Yorkshire, he will be hugely missed by his many fans and friends. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nHarry Gration (right) with fellow Look North presenters Amy Garcia and Paul Hudson in 2020\n\nMr Gration, who was born in Bradford, began filing match reports for the BBC while working as a history teacher in the mid-1970s.\n\nWhile at the corporation, he reported on Match of the Day and Grandstand and commentated on several Olympic and Commonwealth Games, and also presented South Today.\n\nWhen he left the BBC in October 2020, the day before his 70th birthday, he said he had \"always lived the story\".\n\nEvents such as the death of Jo Cox, the Bradford riots, the Hillsborough disaster and recent flooding in Yorkshire had \"always affected me\", he said.\n\nHarry Gration spent nine days in 2016 tied to fellow Look North presenter Paul Hudson on a 121-mile three-legged walk\n\nMr Gration said his stand-out moments during his time at the BBC had been raising a total of over £800,000 for charity while on a tandem with fellow presenter Amy Garcia, pushing a sofa and tied to Look North colleague Paul Hudson.\n\nThe latter challenge, in 2016, saw him spend nine days on a 121-mile (193 km) three-legged walk across North, South and West Yorkshire which raised more than £190,000 for Sport Relief.\n\nIn 2013, his work in broadcasting was recognised when he was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours list.\n\nHe said the MBE was \"an overwhelming honour. Something I never thought would happen to me\".\n\n\"For a lad born in a back-to-back in Bradford, I know my mum and dad would have loved to have been around for this day,\" he added.\n\nMr Gration was appointed MBE in 2013 for services to broadcasting\n\nJason Horton, Acting Director, BBC England, said Mr Gration was \"one of the true broadcasting greats\".\n\n\"He was a natural on the television and on radio, adored by our audiences, especially as the trusted face of Look North and South Today.\n\n\"He loved news, sport, his colleagues and fundraising for Children in Need and Comic Relief. Our thoughts are with his family, his friends and everyone across the BBC who he worked with.\"\n\nAside from broadcasting, Mr Gration had been president of the Scarborough Cricket Festival, chairman of the Yorkshire Tourist Board Tourism Awards and was involved with numerous charities.\n\nHe was also a deputy lieutenant of North Yorkshire.\n\nIn July 2011, he was awarded an honorary degree by the faculty of arts at Leeds Metropolitan University, and in 2013 he was named Man of the Year at the Yorkshire Awards.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritish women's number one Emma Raducanu and two-time champion Andy Murray are set for Centre Court when Wimbledon gets under way on Monday.\n\nRaducanu makes her debut on the main show court against Belgian Alison van Uytvanck at about 16:00 BST.\n\nThe 19-year-old says she is \"ready to go\" at SW19 after a week of uncertainty caused by a side strain.\n\nAsked if it led to concerns she could not play, she said: \"There were moments in the week we weren't really sure.\"\n\nMurray has also faced a race to be fit but says the past few days have been \"really positive\" after being hampered by an abdominal injury which forced him out of Queen's.\n\n\"I feel like I'm in a good place,\" said the 35-year-old unseeded Scot, who plays Australia's James Duckworth on the 15,000-seater court after Raducanu's match.\n\nSerbia's Novak Djokovic, who is the defending men's champion, opens the tournament on Centre Court at 13:30 as tradition dictates.\n• None Live scores, results and order of play from SW19\n\nAs well as Raducanu and Murray, there are seven other British players in action on Monday.\n\nBritish men's number one Cameron Norrie, seeded ninth, opens play on court two at 11:00 against Spain's Pablo Andujar.\n\nHeather Watson and Ryan Peniston play back-to-back on court three, with Lily Miyazaki, Jodie Burrage, Jay Clarke and Katie Swan also bidding to reach the second round.\n\nTunisia's Ons Jabeur opens Court One at 13:00 when she faces Swedish qualifier Mirjam Bjorklund, followed by the opening matches for Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz and 2018 champion Angelique Kerber.\n• None Serena has given me more confidence I can win Wimbledon - Ons Jabeur column\n\nRaducanu pulled out of the Eastbourne International last week because of the strain, leaving her short of grass-court preparation before Wimbledon.\n\nShe managed just seven games against Viktorija Golubic at the Nottingham Open before retiring from the match, which has been her only outing on the grass this summer.\n\nRaducanu practised at Wimbledon as scheduled on Saturday, appearing to serve normally and with a full range of shots.\n\nAfterwards in her pre-tournament news conference, the 10th seed did not say if she was still feeling pain because of the problem.\n\n\"Right now I'm fit. I'm ready to go. I'm looking forward to it - that's it,\" said Raducanu, who reached the last 16 on her Wimbledon debut last year.\n\n\"We were sort of going to see how the week goes, but it went pretty well.\n\n\"Now it's full steam ahead. Everyone's really looking forward to it.\"\n• None Raducanu 'not being distracted by commercial interests', says agent\n• None The Sports Desk: Can Raducanu shake off US Open hangover?\n\nMurray has been left frustrated by an abdominal injury which he picked up in the Stuttgart final on 12 June.\n\nIt is the latest niggling setback for the former world number one and came just as he began to look in good form on the grass courts.\n\nAfter saying on Monday he could still not hit specific shots because of the injury, Murray has upped the workload and appeared to be serving normally in practice with fellow Briton Dan Evans on Friday.\n\n\"I've been able to gradually progress my training this week and got to play a few sets, a lot of points,\" said the 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon champion.\n\n\"The past few days have been good.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Liam Gallagher fans have been urged to consider their travel options for Sunday's concert in Glasgow due to the fallout from the third rail strike.\n\nServices across the country will be disrupted as signal boxes reopen at staggered times after the 24-hour walkout on Saturday.\n\nAbout 50,000 people are expected to attend the ex-Oasis star's Hampden gig.\n\nScotRail is encouraging people to arrive early as reduced hourly services will be running.\n\nAs a result of the temporary timetable, which has been in place since 5 June, the last train back to the city centre will leave at 20:38.\n\nThere will also be no trains from Mount Florida or Kings Park after the event finishes.\n\nAnd there will be no trains out of the city centre after the concert ends at 22:30.\n\nPhil Campbell, ScotRail head of customer operations, said: \"We'll be doing what we can to help Liam Gallagher fans travel to Hampden Park on Sunday, but customers should plan ahead as services will be impacted by Saturday's Network Rail RMT strike action, engineering work near Haymarket and Barrhead, and by the temporary timetable we currently have in place.\n\n\"Services between Glasgow Central and Mount Florida, and between Glasgow Central and Kings Park are expected to be exceptionally busy due the reduced temporary Sunday timetable, so we're encouraging customers to travel to the stadium early if they can or consider what alternative transport is available.\"\n\nAbout 40,000 Network Rail staff have taken part in the strike in a dispute over pay, working conditions and redundancies.\n\nScotRail cancelled 90% of its services on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Cross-border services have also been badly affected.\n\nOn the days of strike action the operator is only running services on five routes across the country between the hours of 07:30 and 18:30.\n\nIn a bid to reduce pressure on the limited services ScotRail is advising customers to only travel if they really need to and to consider alternative options where possible.\n\nIt is believed many people have chosen to work at home on strike days, with Transport Scotland reporting no significant increase in road traffic.\n\nFirst Glasgow said there was a 13% increase on bus passengers in the city on Tuesday compared with the same time last week.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney called for \"more urgency\" from UK ministers and the Department for Transport (DfT) to break the deadlock.\n\nIn response the DfT said it was encouraging the unions and industry to agree a deal to call off the strikes.\n\nThe RMT said Network Rail's plans to cut 2,500 jobs would put safety at risk and has warned that strikes could continue over the next six months.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said it was keen to reach a resolution but stressed any deal that was done had to be fair on both its workers and on the taxpayer.", "It is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America, experts say\n\nA whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North America.\n\nThe mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region on Tuesday.\n\nThe area of the find belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.\n\nThe Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007.\n\nIt said it was \"the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America\", and only the second such find in the world.\n\nThe baby, thought to be female, has been named Nun cho ga, meaning \"big baby animal\" in the Han language spoken by Native Americans in the area.\n\n\"Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world,\" said Yukon palaeontologist Grant Zazula.\n\nIt is about the same size as the Siberian baby Lyuba found in 2007, which was some 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a press release.\n\nIt is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America. The partial remains of a mammoth calf, named Effie, were found in 1948 at a gold mine in neighbouring Alaska.\n\nCBC News says Nun cho ga was unearthed after a miner called his boss over to examine something that was hit by his bulldozer in the mud at Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Prof Dan Shugar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None In pictures: Mammoths of the ice age", "M&S wants to demolish and rebuild its Oxford Street store\n\nA row is building up over Marks & Spencer's plans to demolish and rebuild its flagship London store.\n\nMinister Michael Gove had already ordered a review into the idea due to concerns over carbon emissions from bulldozing the building.\n\nNow, landlords have said delaying the plans could threaten the appeal of Oxford Street to investors as a place of national economic importance.\n\nM&S said the revamp was needed due to changing consumer habits.\n\nIt wants to redevelop the site with a smaller shop, offices and a gym.\n\nBut that plan for the 100-year-old Art Deco store at Marble Arch ran into difficulties after Mr Gove stepped in.\n\nEarlier this week, M&S said it was \"bewildered\" by the planning review ordered by the Levelling Up Secretary.\n\nA letter from landlords and property investors, which was sent to Mr Gove on Friday, said their \"major concern\" was that the decision would undermine \"the appeal of the West End as an international centre\".\n\nThey said the West End, where the M&S store is located, draws major investors to the capital, and that London flagship stores help support \"marginal stores in other British towns and cities\".\n\nThe letter was signed by Sir Peter Rogers, the chairman of the New West End Company, which represents retailers and hoteliers. It was also signed by property investors including Royal London Asset Management.\n\nMichael Gove ordered the planning inquiry after environmental concerns were raised\n\nThe inquiry will consider the pros and cons of bulldozing and rebuilding the store compared to refitting it. A new report will then be published with the government's recommendations.\n\nM&S claims a full rebuild is needed because the way people shop has changed. It said this was made starker during the Covid pandemic, when more customers opted to buy online.\n\nThe retail giant also claimed the store is unattractive and does not offer a pleasant experience for customers or staff.\n\nM&S's director of property, technology and development, Sacha Berendji this week accused Mr Gove of blocking \"the only retail-led regeneration in the whole of Oxford Street\".\n\nHe said the building was refused listed status due to its low design quality and, while it was safe, cannot be modernised through refitting as it is three separate buildings containing asbestos.\n\nHe said that an independent assessment of the building's carbon impact across its whole lifecycle found that a new build offered higher sustainability benefits than a refit.\n\n\"On completion, [it] will be amongst the top 10% performing buildings in London,\" he added.\n\nThe revamp had been approved by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Westminster City Council but plans were then put on hold.\n\nA report into the potential carbon footprint caused by bulldozing the building had warned the environmental impact would clash with City Hall's planning guidance.\n\nThe report by architect Simon Sturgis said the plan is \"absolutely crazy\" and recommended refitting and renovating the existing shop instead.\n\nCampaigners from Save Britain's Heritage and the Architect's Journal urged Mr Gove to launch a public inquiry into the scheme in another letter signed by top names in the industry.\n\nThis letter claimed bulldozing the historic building would \"pump nearly 40,000 tonnes of C02 into the atmosphere\".\n\nIt also said the plan would destroy \"an elegant and important interwar building\".\n\n\"We should be adapting the building, not destroying it,\" it said.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said the decision to order a planning review was \"made in line with established policy\".\n\n\"It is right that a project of such significance should be considered by the independent planning inspectorate and ministers,\" a spokesperson said.\n• None Building strategy to look at embodied carbon", "The abortion debate has divided America - and is unlikely to be settled by this Supreme Court decision\n\nThe Supreme Court just lobbed a constitutional hand grenade into the raging culture wars in the US, igniting a fresh battle in this decades-long fight over abortion.\n\nIn a 6-3 ruling, the court found that there was no constitutional right to abortion, turning the decision of whether to allow abortions or not up to the states. Millions of women are now expected to lose access.\n\nWhile this legal ruling will change the law, it will not settle the arguments over abortion. It will inflame them.\n\nJubilant anti-abortion campaigners have achieved something that seemed practically impossible only a few years ago. They believe thousands of babies' lives will now be saved.\n\nPro-choice advocates are left utterly dismayed as they think women's rights have just been set back 50 years. Back to a time when women died as a result of illegal back-street abortions.\n\nRecent polls suggest around two-thirds of Americans did not want to see the constitutional right to abortion removed.\n\nIn such contentious times, even the lofty Supreme Court itself becomes a leading character in the narrative, not just an adjudicator. Before this ruling came out, a man with a gun and knife was arrested outside the home of one of the more conservative justices, saying he was upset by a leak of the draft ruling. Supreme Court justices now have to have security protection. That's how incendiary this issue is.\n\nThis decision was based on their interpretation of constitutional law, but it's also deeply political. When the court overturns a previous ruling it inevitably looks to critics to be more political than constitutional.\n\nThe court has a 6-3 conservative super majority, thanks to the three justices appointed by Donald Trump. He made a specific campaign promise to appoint judges who would overturn Roe v Wade - and those appointments will probably be his most lasting legacy.\n\nDonald Trump at the March for Life in 2019\n\nThe seismic political impact of the Supreme Court's ruling will be felt across all 50 states, but the immediate practical impact of much more restrictive laws is likely to happen in half of them.\n\nOne of those states is Oklahoma, which last month passed the most restrictive abortion legislation in America - a total ban from the point of conception with few exceptions.\n\nWhen I met state representative Wendi Stearman in Tulsa, she told me it is her honour and privilege to have authored the bill. She says she will be helping 4,000 unborn children every year \"to have a chance at life\".\n\nWhen I asked her if she believed the legislation will stop abortions happening in Oklahoma she said no - but that it will make them more difficult to obtain.\n\nShe argues that in all but a tiny minority of cases women can choose not to become pregnant before conception and that \"most women just use abortion as a form of contraception\".\n\nThat's an argument vehemently refuted by Andrea Gallego,, who runs an abortion clinic in Tulsa. She says the decision to have an abortion is often the hardest decision any woman will ever make.\n\nA few weeks ago her clinic was treating around 40 pregnant patients every day. When I visited, the waiting rooms and treatment facilities were completely empty. Only a few staff remain - answering calls and giving out information about clinics in other states.\n\n\"Patients have been begging for help,\" she says. \"It's devastating. These laws don't prevent abortion. They just add extra burdens to patients.\"\n\nWhat is already happening in Oklahoma will now be replicated in other states.\n\nNow that Roe v Wade is overturned, 26 states could further restrict abortion access, including 13 states that have passed so-called trigger laws, which would introduce bans immediately upon the court's decision. Less than a third of those states would include exceptions for rape of incest, according to the legislation they have already passed, or are trying to pass.\n\nDemocratic-controlled states like California and New York will cast themselves as abortion sanctuaries, welcoming women from places where the procedure has been outlawed. There are 20 states in all where abortion will remain a protected right. About 26.5 million women of childbearing age live in those states.\n\nAs abortion clinics close down in states that have outlawed the practice many more are expected to open near state borders in places where it is still allowed. Those who don't have the time or money to travel may resort to other means - such as ordering abortion-inducing pills online - even if it is illegal.\n\nThere were somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 abortions in the US in 2019. According to the Center for Disease Control, about one in six pregnancies end in abortion, and over 90% occur in the first trimester. Over half of women who get abortions are already mothers, and for most, it is their first abortion.\n\nThe court's decision could not be more timely, as Americans are set to vote for their representatives in Congress later this year.\n\nFacing a thrashing in November's elections, the Democrats hope the abortion issue will galvanise pro-choice women to come out and vote for them. But they have already failed in their attempt to get Congress to introduce legislation to grant a federal right to abortion, which would have stopped individual states from banning the procedure.\n\nEven if Democrats keep control of the House and Senate, they won't be able to overturn this court ruling.\n\nOn the other side, there are plenty of Republicans who would like to legislate for a federal abortion ban that would outlaw abortion across all states. That may be the coming battle if Republicans take control of Congress after the next election.\n\nFurther fights may be had over how this ruling affects certain types of contraception or IVF treatment. And some have questioned whether similar legal arguments can be used to undermine same-sex marriage.\n\nAmerica today feels like one country that contains two very separate nations, inhabited by two tribes that have completely different values, beliefs and goals. Now, they have just moved farther apart.", "The Iskander - seen here in an archive photo - has a range of up to 500km (310 miles)\n\nRussia will send nuclear capable short-range missile systems to its ally Belarus in the coming months, President Vladimir Putin has said.\n\nHe said Iskander-M systems \"can fire ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear types\".\n\nThe systems have a range of up to 500km (310 miles).\n\nTensions between Russia and the West have escalated, following President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nMr Putin has made several references to nuclear weapons since then, which some have interpreted as a warning to Western countries not to intervene.\n\nSpeaking in St Petersburg, Mr Putin said Russia would help to modify Belarusian Su-25 warplanes so that they could carry nuclear weapons, in response to a query from Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nMeanwhile several explosions were reported in Kyiv on Sunday morning, the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.\n\n\"Ambulances and rescuers are on site. In two buildings, the rescue and evacuation of residents is under way,\" he added.\n\nAFP news agency reported that a residential complex in the city had been hit.\n\nOn Saturday Ukraine said Russian forces had \"fully occupied\" the key eastern city of Severodonetsk, following weeks of fierce fighting.\n\nTaking the city means Russia now controls nearly all of Luhansk region and much of neighbouring Donetsk - the two regions that form the vast industrial Donbas.\n\nIn his video address late on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to take back \"all our cities\" occupied by Russia.\n\nBut he said the war with Russia had entered an emotionally difficult stage and he did not know how many more blows and losses there would be.\n\nOn Friday night Russia launched a barrage of missiles at targets in the north and west of Ukraine. At least three people were killed and more may be buried under rubble in the town of Sarny west of Kyiv, a local official said.\n\nSome of the rockets were fired from Belarus, Ukraine said. Belarus has provided logistical support to Russia but its army is not officially taking part in the conflict.\n\nUkraine's intelligence service said the missile strikes were part of Kremlin efforts to draw Belarus into the war.\n\nRussia's capture of Severodonetsk comes ahead of a week of Western diplomacy, with US President Joe Biden flying to Germany for a G7 summit followed by Nato talks.\n\nIn recent months, the Western alliance has shown signs of strain and fatigue but on Saturday UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Ukraine could win its battle with Russia.\n\n\"Now is not the time to give up on Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who is due to attend the G7, said he would urge the Ukrainian and Russian leaders to restart dialogue.\n\n\"War has to stop and global food chains need to be reactivated,\" he said.\n\nAt Saturday's televised meeting with Mr Lukashenko in St Petersburg, Mr Putin said: \"We have made a decision: within the next few months we will hand over to Belarus the Iskander-M tactical missile systems.\"\n\nHe said all the details of the transfer would be worked out by the ministries of defence of the two countries.\n\nIskander missiles have already been deployed in Kaliningrad, a small Russian Baltic exclave between Nato members Lithuania and Poland.\n\nThe two presidents also discussed Lithuania's decision to prevent some goods being transported to and from Kaliningrad - a move that has angered Moscow.\n\nThe Belarusian leader said Lithuania's move was \"a sort of declaration of war\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nSteel and some other Russian goods come under the EU sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lithuania says its measures affect only 1% of the normal Russian goods transit on the route, dismissing Russian talk of a \"blockade\" of Kaliningrad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins on why Kaliningrad is important in the continuing war in Ukraine", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nTwo-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova enjoyed the perfect preparation for the Championships as she beat Jelena Ostapenko to win at Eastbourne.\n\nThe 32-year-old, who won at the All England Club in 2011 and 2014, was in superb form to take the final 6-3 6-2.\n\nTaylor Fritz saw off fellow American Maxime Cressy in the men's final to win his second Eastbourne title.\n\nThe 24-year-old world number 14, who also won on the south coast in 2019, came through 6-2 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-5).\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nIn the women's final, Kvitova edged ahead in the first set and the Czech then saved five break points in one game to hold on to that advantage.\n\nDefending champion Ostapenko fended off one championship point in the second set, but Kvitova served out to win.\n\n\"This was a tough match, well done to Jelena,\" Kvitova said. \"Playing on grass is very special for me and [especially] when you step on such a beautiful court as it is here.\n\n\"I enjoyed it a lot. It is really nice to play in front of people again - it is the best preparation for Wimbledon.\"\n\nKvitova, seeded 25th at Wimbledon, is set to begin her campaign in SW19 against Italy's Jasmine Paolini on Tuesday.\n\nGreece's world number six Stefanos Tsitsipas claimed his first ATP Tour grass-court title with a 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-2) win against Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in the Mallorca Championships.\n\n\"This was an incredible fight and an incredible battle,\" said the 23-year-old.\n\n\"I know it can be difficult for one person to deal with the loss, but I think for tennis it is great that we are able to play at this high level and show our sport (at its limits).\"\n\nTsitsipas, who earned his ninth tour victory, will be looking to progress beyond the first round at Wimbledon for the first time since 2018.\n\nElsewhere, France's Caroline Garcia fought back from a set and a break down to beat Canadian Bianca Andreescu and win the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.\n\nGarcia came through 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4 against the 2019 US Open champion.\n\n\"A grass court event is never easy the week before Wimbledon and is great for us players to feel like we have been here, a very special place,\" said Garcia.", "The decision, released on Friday morning, will have repercussions in the US for years to come.\n\nWith the ruling, the conservative-majority court effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion.\n\nFive justices were in favour: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nChief Justice John Roberts wrote a separate opinion saying that he supported an abortion law in Mississippi at the centre of the case but he would not have overturned Roe v Wade.\n\nThe three other justices disagreed with the majority - Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kaga.\n\nHere are some key passages from the landmark ruling:\n\nQuote Message: \"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division\" from Samuel Alito, writing for the majority Supreme Court justice \"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division\"\n\nQuote Message: \"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives\" from Samuel Alito, writing for the majority Supreme Court justice \"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives\"\n\nQuote Message: “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom. Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life” from Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent Supreme Court justices “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom. Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life” Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent\n\nQuote Message: “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens” from Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent Supreme Court justices “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens” Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent", "Russia is believed to have defaulted on its debt for the first time since 1998 after missing a key deadline.\n\nRussia has the money to make a $100m payment, which was due on Sunday, but sanctions made it impossible to get the sum to international creditors.\n\nThe country had been determined to avoid the default, which is a major blow to the nation's prestige.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, said \"statements of a default were absolutely unjustified\".\n\nHe added that an intermediary bank had withheld the money and that the reserves were blocked \"unlawfully\".\n\nThe White House said that Russia had defaulted on paying yields on its international bonds, crediting sanctions for effectively cutting Russia off from the global financial system.\n\nRussia's finance minister called the situation \"a farce\" and said the situation is not expected to have short-term impact.\n\nThis is because Russia does not need to raise money internationally as it is reaping revenue from high-priced commodities such as oil, according to Chris Weafer, chief executive at Moscow-based consultancy Macro Advisory.\n\nBut he said it would create a \"legacy\" problem if the situation with Ukraine and international sanctions improves.\n\n\"This is the sort of action that will hang over the economy and make recovery much more difficult when we get to that stage,\" he said.\n\nThe $100m interest payment was due on 27 May. Russia says the money was sent to Euroclear, a bank which would then distribute the payment to investors.\n\nBut that payment has been stuck there, according to Bloomberg News, and creditors have not received it.\n\nMeanwhile, some Taiwanese holders of Russian bonds denominated in euros have not received interest payments, according to the Reuters news agency, which cited two sources.\n\nThe money had not arrived within 30 days of the due date, that is, Sunday evening, and so is considered a default.\n\nEuroclear would not say if the payment had been blocked, but said it adhered to all sanctions, introduced following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia disputed that it had defaulted on the debt. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it had made the payments due in May, and the fact that it was blocked by Euroclear because of sanctions was \"not our problem.\"\n\nRussia finance minister Anton Siluanov admitted foreign investors would \"not be able to receive\" the payments, according to the RIA Novosti news wire.\n\nBecause Russia wants to pay and has plenty of money to do it, he denied that this amounts to a genuine default, which usually occur when governments refuse to pay, or their economies are so weak that they cannot find the money.\n\n\"Everyone in the know understands that this is not a default at all. This whole situation looks like a farce.\"\n\nDefaulting nations usually find it impossible to borrow any more money, but Russia is already in effect barred from borrowing in Western markets by sanctions.\n\nAlso, Russia is reportedly earning about $1bn a day from fossil fuel exports, and its finance minister Anton Siluanov said in April the country had no plans to borrow more.\n\nThe default will trigger repayments on a large chunk of Russia's debt, according to Mr Weafer.\n\nAbout $40bn of Russia's debts are denominated in dollars or euros, with around half held outside the country.\n\n\"Some parts of that debt will now become automatically due because there will be early repayment clauses in all debt instruments so if you default on one it usually triggers the immediate demand for payment on the other debts, so Russia could certainly face immediate debt repayment of about $20bn at this stage,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nRussian finance minister Anton Siluanov says the so-called default is a farce\"\n\nRussia's last debt default of any kind was in 1998 as the country was rocked by the rouble crisis during the chaotic end of Boris Yeltsin's regime. At the time Moscow failed to keep up payments on its domestic bonds and defaulted on some overseas debt.\n\nRussia has seemed on an inevitable path to default since sanctions were first imposed by the US and European Union following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThese restricted the country's access to the international banking networks which would process payments from Russia to investors around the world.\n\nThe Russian government has said it wants to make all of its payments on time, and up until now it had succeeded.\n\nDefault seemed inevitable when the US Treasury decided not to renew the special exemption in sanctions rules allowing investors to receive interest payments from Russia, which expired on 25 May.\n\nThe Kremlin now appears to have accepted this inevitability too, decreeing on 23 June stating that all future debt payments would be made in roubles through a Russian bank, the National Settlements Depository, even when contracts state they should be in dollars or other international currencies.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Weafer, who is based in Moscow, said that life was more or less operating as normal despite sanctions and Western companies withdrawing from Russia.\n\n\"If you're in Moscow right now frankly, if you weren't reading the newspapers, you'd see there's been a price increase but otherwise life is as it was before February 24.\n\n\"In March and April there was a lot of concern that products would disappear, that factories would not be able to get components or materials to continue operating and we could be looking therefore at a severe drop in employment or a rise in unemployment by the summer [or] early autumn. That situation has improved,\" he added.\n\n\"We've seen alternative import routes opening via Kazakhstan and Turkey, the government has promoted what they call a parallel import scheme so effectively a lot of products that were blocked in March and April are now starting to reappear, albeit at a higher price.\"", "Soldiers in east Ukraine have been under heavy bombardment for weeks\n\nUkrainian forces have been ordered to withdraw from Severodonetsk, according to the top regional official.\n\nThe eastern city has endured weeks of bombardment, as Russian forces try to take complete control of the region.\n\nA Ukrainian retreat would be significant because it would leave all of Luhansk under Russian control, except for the city of Lysychansk.\n\nLuhansk, a mainly Russian-speaking region in east Ukraine, is a key priority for President Vladimir Putin.\n\nTogether with the Donetsk region it makes up what is collectively known as the Donbas - a large, industrial area which has been the focus of a Russian-backed separatist movement since 2014.\n\nRussia's president falsely claims that Russian-speakers in the Donbas have been victims of genocide - a key justification for his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn turn, Ukraine accuses Moscow of committing genocide against the Ukrainian people with its indiscriminate bombing and shelling.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia has said the decision by EU leaders to accept Ukraine and Moldova as membership candidates will have negative consequences.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the EU was sacrificing its democratic ideals at the expense of \"unrestrained expansion and the political and economic enslavement of its neighbours\".\n\nSeverodonetsk has been the target of intense Russian shelling for several weeks and more recently has seen fierce street battles, with Ukrainian forces gradually pushed back to the city's industrial zones.\n\nAll bridges to the city have been destroyed by Russian troops as they attempt to cut it off from Ukrainian-held territory. Ukraine's withdrawal may be a last-ditch effort to avoid being surrounded on all sides.\n\n\"Remaining in positions that have been relentlessly shelled for months just doesn't make sense,\" Luhansk regional head Serhiy Haidai told Ukrainian television.\n\n\"They [Ukrainian forces] have received orders to retreat to new positions... and continue their operations from there.\"\n\nThe city's entire infrastructure has been completely destroyed, he added, with over 90% of houses shelled and 80% of them critically damaged.\n\nSeverodonetsk district head Roman Vlasenko said Ukrainian troops were still in the city, telling Radio Liberty on Friday that a withdrawal could still take some time.\n\nHundreds of civilians are thought to remain in Severodonetsk, many seeking shelter in the sprawling Azot chemical plant. Before the war, it had a population of around 100,000 people.\n\nRussian helicopters have destroyed bridges and roads leading to Lysychansk, Serhiy Haidai says\n\nRussian forces have made advances in the areas around Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in recent days, with Ukraine's defence ministry describing the settlements to the south and southeast of the cities as the \"hottest sector of the front\".\n\nBut Mr Haidai said it would be \"very difficult\" for the Russians to seize Lysychansk because the city, which is on a hill, had \"many defensive positions\".\n\nAid can still be delivered to the city and civilians are still being evacuated, he said.\n\nUkrainian forces around the towns of Zolote and Hirske are already completely surrounded, according to Russia's defence ministry.\n\nIn a separate development on Friday, a Russian-appointed official in the occupied southern city of Kherson was killed in a car blast, Russian news agencies reported.\n\nUkraine, whose forces have made advances in the area, has not commented on the issue.\n\nSeveral Kremlin-installed officials have recently been targeted in the Kherson region, control over which allows Moscow to have a land corridor from Russia to Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "The 19-year-old activist criticised world leaders in a speech to festival-goers\n\nGreta Thunberg has made a surprise appearance at Glastonbury, to warn of the dangers of climate change.\n\nThe earth's biosphere is \"not just changing, it is destabilising, it is breaking down,\" the 19-year-old told festival-goers from the Pyramid Stage.\n\nShe criticised world leaders for \"creating loopholes\" to protect firms whose emissions cause climate change.\n\n\"That is a moral decision... that will put the entire living planet at risk,\" she added.\n\nBut she ended on a message of hope, telling festival-goers they had the power to make a difference.\n\n\"We are capable of the most incredible things,\" she said. \"Once we are given the full story… we will know what to do. There is still time to choose a new path, to step back from the cliff.\n\n\"Instead of looking for hope, start creating that hope yourself.\n\nThe climate activist also visited the festival's Park area during her visit\n\n\"Make no mistake, no-one else is going to do this for us,\" she concluded. \"Right here and now is where we stand our ground.\"\n\nThunberg was introduced on stage by Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis, who called her \"the most inspirational speaker of her generation.\"\n\nThe activist spoke against a backdrop of the \"warming stripes\", a vivid illustration of how the average global temperature has soared in recent decades.\n\nHer appearance was warmly received by the crowd, who joined her in a chant of \"climate justice\" at the end of her speech.\n\nThunberg's speech comes three years after Sir David Attenborough made a cameo on the Pyramid Stage.\n\nThe broadcaster thanked festival-goers for cutting their plastic use, after organisers banned single-use plastic bottles.\n\nThunberg spoke after an invigorating performance from rapper AJ Tracey, who opened his set with a powerful, angry message about the Grenfell Tower disaster.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video, the West London musician accused those responsible for the fire of \"hiding behind a legal framework\", while young black men were being \"arrested and convicted every day with haste for acts a lot less significant\".\n\nAJ Tracey gave one of the most compelling performances of the day so far\n\n\"The worst thing of the whole situation is [that] Grenfell could happen again,\" he continued.\n\n\"Our buildings are not safe and thousands of low-income people, people who grew up just like I did, go to bed every night not knowing if it'll be their last. They tuck their children in at night and don't know if they'll wake up in flames.\"\n\nTracey, who grew up in Ladbroke Grove, knows many of the victims, survivors and bereaved.\n\nHe ended his message by addressing the Prime Minister directly.\n\n\"Boris Johnson, I want to ask you a question: 72 of our friends and family are dead and there's been zero arrests,\" he said. \"Why?\"\n\nThe rapper went on to perform a muscular set of hip-hop, grime and 2-step, rearranging many of his songs to work with a live band.\n\n\"I'm hoping that the crowd are receptive to me trying to give them a different take on my usual set,\" he told BBC News ahead of the performance.\n\nHe said his musical versatility came from his upbringing.\n\n\"My dad used to be a rapper, my mum used to be a DJ on the radio, playing jungle, house, garage... so I've got quite a mix.\n\n\"My mum's Welsh and my dad's from Trinidad - so the British sounds and the Caribbean sounds come into one, and I've been inspired by it.\"\n\nThe star brought his mother to Glastonbury and she watched his show from the side of the Pyramid stage.\n\n\"She's going to be rocking out, man. She's my biggest fan,\" he said.\n\n\"She doesn't have a scrapbook but she's a photographer so she takes loads of personal pictures and has her own little personal archive.\"\n\nPaul McCartney will headline the festival later on Saturday night, and is scheduled to play a marathon two-and-three-quarter hour set.\n\nFans arrived at the barriers in front of the Pyramid stage early on Saturday morning to make sure they had a front row seat for the show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells Radio 4's Today there will be no \"psychological transformation\" from him.\n\nBoris Johnson has said a \"psychological transformation\" in his character is \"not going to happen\" after by-election defeats led to calls for change.\n\nThe PM was responding to Tory party chairman Oliver Dowden saying it could not be \"business as usual\" as he quit.\n\nBut he said he also had to distinguish between \"criticism that really matters and criticism that doesn't\".\n\nThe by-election defeats in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton on Friday came after the prime minister faced months of criticism over parties in Downing Street during lockdown, alongside soaring inflation and a narrower-than-expected win in a confidence vote from his own MPs.\n\nSpeaking from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Rwanda, Mr Johnson repeatedly said that policy was more important than allegations about his conduct.\n\nMr Johnson said voters were \"fed up with hearing conversation about me\" and wanted to focus instead on the cost of living, the economy and \"standing up to violence and aggression\" in Ukraine.\n\nThe PM was challenged by presenter Mishal Husain that a lot of the criticism had been about him personally and had come from people who had worked with him.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"As a leader, you have to try to distinguish between the criticism that really matters and the criticism that doesn't.\"\n\nAsked if there was any matter of principle he would consider resigning over, he said if he had to abandon Ukraine because it became too difficult or the costs were too great, he would quit.\n\nHe said that \"of course\" he regarded morality as a part of leadership.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was questioned about how he had not resigned over misleading the House of Commons, breaking the law for the Covid fine, or losing the support of 41% of his MPs in the confidence vote.\n\n\"Let's look at this in a more cheery way, if that's possible\" he said. \"Actually, what's happened is that I've got a renewed mandate from my colleagues, and I'm going to continue to deliver.\"\n\nThe prime minister did not engage with a question about the UK's top civil servant Simon Case having an informal conversation about job opportunities for his wife, Carrie.\n\n\"The worst thing I could do is get into conversations about my family,\" he said.\n\nThis was an interview in which the prime minister repeatedly attempted to detach his character and conduct, from policy.\n\n\"You have to try to distinguish between the criticism that really matters and the criticism that doesn't,\" he said.\n\nThere was an acknowledgement his character isn't going to change.\n\nAnd he sought to turn criticisms of it into policy disagreements - citing, for instance, the one Conservative MP who has advocated the UK re-joining the EU's single market.\n\nHis problem is many of his Conservative critics think the judgement of big chunks of the electorate, including among Tory voters, is set when it comes to his character.\n\nAnd there is restlessness, too, among some backbenchers on policy as well.\n\nHe is repeatedly struggling to change the record from one about his own future, and how much of one he has in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in the Rwandan capital of Kigali later on Saturday, Mr Johnson was asked if he considered the question of his leadership settled and said: \"Yes.\"\n\nHe refused to comment on a report in the Times that he planned to build a £150,000 treehouse for his son Wilf in the grounds of Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, with possible funding from a Tory donor.\n\n\"I'm not going to comment on non-existent objects or non-existent jobs to do with my family,\" he said.\n\nAsked in his BBC interview about policies to ease the rising cost of living, Mr Johnson declined to offer a commitment to cut fuel duty further or remove VAT from energy bills.\n\n\"There may be more things we can do,\" he said, but he added that ministers are already \"doing a huge amount with the fiscal firepower we have\" and said the public understands the financial situation the government is in.\n\nThe PM refused to comment on reports he had planned a £150,000 treehouse for his son at Chequers\n\nTory backbencher Bob Neill told the BBC the prime minister's response to the by-election defeats was wrong.\n\n\"This is a genuine sense of growing frustration and growing alarm that the party is being taken down a track that will lead to it inevitably losing the next election,\" he said.\n\nCriticism of Mr Johnson was not just about \"personality\", but whether his \"character and adherence to the rules\" were consistent with standards that Conservative voters in particular expect, Mr Neill said.\n\nHe said there was also \"evidence of drift and lack of grip on economic issues\", while \"the highest rate of taxation for 40 years\" was not an economic policy Conservatives would recognise.\n\nThe prime minister's interview comes as two Tory MPs critical of his record say they may stand for election to the committee that runs the party's leadership contests, with one saying he would be in favour of changing the rules to allow a second confidence vote.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss, who has joined the PM in Rwanda for the summit of Commonwealth leaders, said people often want to \"send a message\" to government in by-elections and the defeats were not necessarily a predictor of general election failure.\n\n\"It hasn't been the predictor in the past and I don't believe it will be the predictor of the next general election,\" she said.\n\nAhead of a meeting of G7 and Nato leaders, she also urged governments to continue to support Ukraine's \"fight for freedom\", saying any concessions to Russia would be \"appalling\".\n\nAt the summit in Kigali, Mr Johnson also defended his government's policy of trying to deport asylum seekers to the east African nation.\n\nAsked by the BBC by how much Channel crossings in small boats needed to be reduced for the policy to be considered a success, he said: \"I'm not going to give you a figure.\"\n\nHe said it was a \"humane policy\" which was about \"breaking the business model of those who criminally abuse and cheat people crossing the Channel in unseaworthy vessels.\"", "Boris Johnson has told the BBC a transformation in his psychology is not going to happen in the wake of the Conservatives double by-election defeats.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4 Today's Mishal Husain, the prime minister said voters were \"fed up\" of the conversation being focused on him.", "Shakrina was severely injured in the quake\n\nEight-year-old Shakrina's face contorts in pain and she cries as she tries to turn on her side. She has multiple fractures on her body and her left leg is bandaged from the knee down.\n\nFrom the hospital bed next to her, her mother Mira extends her arm, trying to comfort her.\n\nMira's right eye is heavily bruised, and she has a number of other injuries.\n\nThe two were pulled out from under the debris of their home in the Gayan district of Afghanistan's Paktika province, six hours after an earthquake destroyed it.\n\n\"I couldn't see my other daughter anywhere, so I asked those who rescued me where she was. That's when they told me she had died,\" Mira said, wiping her tears with her headscarf.\n\nShe found her teenage daughter Gulnoora among the bodies laid out in a row by rescuers in Gayan.\n\n\"Normally we'd sleep outside our homes, but that night there was rain and lightning, so we'd slept inside,\" she said.\n\nNow recovering at Paktika's main provincial hospital, Mira is in a ward where almost everyone has a similar story.\n\nBibi Hawa is there with her 11-month-old daughter Safia. Both have multiple fractures. They've lost 18 members of their family in Wednesday's quake, which killed over 1,000 people.\n\nThe Sharana hospital is ill-equipped to deal with earthquake victims\n\nBibi Hawa's other children, her three sons Farooq, Hamza and Maqsadullah, were among those who died.\n\n\"My heart is in pain. Now when I go home there will be no-one there,\" she said.\n\nOn the day after the earthquake, she was among 75 injured people brought to the provincial hospital in Sharana, the capital of Paktika province. The facility has 72 beds, and it already had patients suffering from other illnesses.\n\nIt's not equipped to treat people with spinal injuries, or those who require neurosurgery. So the more serious cases had to be referred to other facilities.\n\nPatients who had already travelled hours from remote areas to get to the hospital had to make another long journey on bumpy, untarred roads to get treatment.\n\nBefore the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, public healthcare was almost entirely funded by foreign money. The aid was frozen on 15 August last year, sending hospitals and medical facilities into near collapse.\n\nIn the aftermath of the earthquake, the Taliban have appealed to the international community for support. I asked their public health minister Dr Qalandar Ebad if they'd got any.\n\n\"Yes, we have received aid from countries in the region like Iran, Pakistan, India, Qatar, the UAE, and some Arab countries also. Europe has promised support, and we saw that the US president also made a statement. We are waiting for countries around the world to see how exactly they can help us,\" he said.\n\nQalandar Ebad insists the Taliban have fulfilled their international obligations\n\nThe Taliban government is not recognised internationally. The group also have sanctions against them.\n\nI asked Dr Ebad if the Taliban had done enough to convince the world to recognise their government. \"Yes, we have fulfilled all the parameters for international recognition. And most importantly all the people of Afghanistan support us.\"\n\nThe Taliban are not an elected government. And without them delivering on their commitments on women's rights and human rights, how does the group expect the world to recognise them, I asked.\n\nDr Ebad defended his government: \"There is some misunderstanding among the international community. We have done more for women than any other government.\"\n\nHe said women were safer under the Taliban government, and that they planned to ensure all girls get an education. Their actions belie those claims.\n\nThe Taliban are accused of detaining and beating female protesters demanding women's rights. They've barred girls from secondary schools, and women from work, except in the public health and security sector. Recently they've also announced rules regarding what women should wear in public places.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut many point to Western accountability as well. Foreign funds contributed to three-quarters of state spending in Afghanistan and without it, the country has spiralled into an economic crisis.\n\nMillions of ordinary Afghans have been caught in the politics of aid.\n\nMira and Bibi Hawa are among those who have been pushed into poverty. Another is labourer Shindigul Zadran.\n\nOn most days before the earthquake he couldn't find work. Injured in the disaster, he's had a steel rod inserted in his right leg which means that, at least for a while, he has no way to earn a living. And he's lost his house.\n\n\"My whole family worked so hard all our lives to build our house. Now it's gone,\" he said. \"We will never be able to rebuild it without help.\"", "Since her diagnosis, Adele Roberts has worked hard to break down stigma\n\nAdele Roberts has been named role model of the year at the British LGBT Awards after sharing her bowel cancer diagnosis.\n\nThe Radio 1 DJ has been widely praised for her openness during her treatment, after announcing she had the disease last October.\n\nSince then, she has used her platform to encourage others to be aware of the signs and symptoms.\n\nHost Sue Perkins hailed her as a \"hero\" at the ceremony in London on Friday.\n\nAccepting the award via video message, Adele thanked the LGBT community for their support during her cancer treatment.\n\nShe said: \"You've inspired me to do better and to be better...\n\n\"I understand the importance of standing up being proud, not apologising for who you are and just being that person really, that we all needed when we were younger.\n\n\"So I hope I'm doing that for anybody who's dealing with cancer.\"\n\nMs Roberts has been through intense treatment and now wears a stoma bag.\n\nIn May, Ms Roberts and her stoma - which she has named Audrey - featured on the front cover of Women's Health magazine, as a way to break down the stigma surrounding her diagnosis.\n\nThe 43-year-old has previously praised her fiancee Kate Holderness for being her \"counsellor, mentor and the best nurse ever\".\n\nLady Gaga was given the celebrity award, announced by surprise guest Dame Kelly Holmes, who recently came out as gay.\n\nSinger Alicia Keys was honoured as celebrity ally of the year after a public vote. The ally award goes to a public figure who, through their work, has shone a light on and supported LGBT issues.\n\nAccepting the award with a pre-recorded video message, she praised the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities.\n\nShe said: \"I know the powerful LGBTQI+ community has a lot to fight for, stand up to and care about, so just like all of you here tonight, I am here with you to keep showing up, representing and reminding each other we are not alone.\n\nAlicia Keys, who wasn't in attendance, accepted her award with a video message\n\n\"Let's scream at the top of our lungs, everyone deserves love, kindness, equanimity and most of all respect.\n\n\"Of course we've come a long way but there's so much more to do and there's so much more that has to happen, but that's why ceremonies like this are so important.\"\n\nOlympic diving gold medallist Tom Daley picked up the sports personality of the year award, after being nominated for speaking out against countries with anti-LGBT laws.\n\nJohannes Radebe and John Whaite at the Strictly Come Dancing 2021 semi-final\n\nThe media moment award went to Strictly Come Dancing's Johannes Radebe and his dance partner John Whaite for their performance in the 2021 semi-final.\n\nThe pair were widely praised for their contemporary dance to Adele's Hometown Glory, which they said represented what it was like growing up gay.\n\nWhaite said: \"We've come a very long way but what me and Johannes did and represented that night wasn't about us.\n\n\"It was about the community that came before us who paved away and those that will carry the torch forward.\"\n\nRepresentatives of LGBT charity and campaign group Stonewall were awarded a lifetime achievement award on behalf of their organisation by broadcaster Julian Clary.\n\nThe event is considered one of the UK's most significant awards ceremonies supporting the LGBT community and has been held annually since 2014.\n\nHost of the awards Perkins said she was looking forward to continuing the celebrations during Pride in London's 50th anniversary March on 2 July.\n\n\"It's important and it's fun,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll be there, possibly a couple of sheets to the wind, possibly with a couple of glow sticks.\n\n\"I'll be supporting some of the affiliated charities and doing my bit. It's as important as ever and long may it reign.\"", "Boris Johnson has said he is \"actively thinking\" about a third term, amid criticism of his leadership.\n\nThe prime minister was asked if he would like to serve a full second term in office - to 2028 or 2029.\n\n\"At the moment I'm thinking actively about the third term and what could happen then, but I will review that when I get to it,\" he told reporters.\n\nOne Tory MP has said he wants the rules changed so Mr Johnson could face another confidence vote.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Kigali, Rwanda, where he has been at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, the prime minister was asked to elaborate on his comment, replying that he was thinking \"about a third term - mid 2030s\".\n\nNo 10 later suggested he was joking, but it points to Boris Johnson's bullish mood despite two bruising by-election defeats in the past week in Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton.\n\nFollowing the results, party co-chairman Oliver Dowden resigned, saying \"someone must take responsibility\".\n\nThe Lib Dems overturned a huge Tory majority in Tiverton and Honiton - their third by-election victory over Boris Johnson's party in a year.\n\nAnd Labour retook the seat of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, which it lost at the 2019 general election.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Michael Howard called on Mr Johnson to resign following the by-elections, adding \"members of the cabinet should very carefully consider their positions\".\n\nMr Johnson insisted he would lead his party into the next election, and said he wanted to keep driving forward his plan to reduce inequality across the country - what his government calls \"levelling-up\".\n\nWhile acknowledging it would take time, he added that a \"huge amount of progress\" could be made in two parliaments.\n\nHe told reporters: \"Forget about me, think about what this country, the UK could do and where it's gone.\n\n\"We've embarked on a massive project to change the government, the constitution of the country and the way we run our legal system, the way we manage borders, our economy, all sorts of things we're doing differently.\n\n\"Also at the same time we are embarked on a colossal project to unite and level up. I happen to believe in that incredibly strongly.\n\n\"Levelling-up is a great, great mission and it won't be easily accomplished and people will say it hasn't worked, it's not working yet, people in this constituency aren't feeling the benefits - it's going to take time and I want to keep driving it forward.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of \"taking voters for granted with impunity\", saying \"those days are over\".\n\n\"They now face a credible Labour Party: a government-in-waiting with a plan to deliver on the country's demands,\" Sir Keir wrote in the Observer.\n\n\"For months, Johnson has been privately claiming that he will hold an early election. My message to him is simple: bring it on,\" he added.\n\nDuring his trip to Rwanda to meet Commonwealth leaders, Mr Johnson showed little sign of the pressure he's faced from critics in his own party who've called on him to quit.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson refused to comment on a report in the Times that he planned to build a £150,000 treehouse for his son Wilf in the grounds of Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, with possible funding from a Tory donor.\n\nMr Johnson has faced renewed criticism from inside his party after losing the safe Tory seat of Tiverton and Honiton to the Liberal Democrats\n\nOn Saturday he said the question of his leadership was \"settled\" after he won a confidence vote among his own MPs.\n\nBut Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen confirmed he wanted the party's rules changed so that Mr Johnson could face another vote of confidence before 12 months are up.\n\nUnder the current rules, Mr Johnson is technically safe from a challenge until next June.\n\nMr Bridgen told the BBC: \"Boris Johnson is actually galvanising an anti-Boris Johnson vote.\n\n\"The leader of the party should normally be more popular than the party itself, but what we're seeing with Johnson is he's a huge drag on the ticket.\"", "Nothing reeks of panic quite like a resignation letter at 5.35am.\n\nNot just any resignation letter.\n\nBut the party chairman. Until now, at least, utterly loyal to Boris Johnson.\n\nOliver Dowden manages five paragraphs, not one of which endorses him.\n\n\"We cannot carry on with business as usual,\" he writes, \"somebody must take responsibility.\"\n\n\"I will, as always, remain loyal to…\" he says before signing off \"the Conservative Party\".\n\nLoyalty to the party means leaving Boris Johnson's side and becoming a backbencher.\n\nSo, to be clear, does he have confidence in Mr Johnson? The easiest and most direct question a reporter can ask a politician and their team.\n\nAfter all, typing the letters Y, E and S takes just a second or two. He and his team are silent.\n\nThis morning, the cabinet hold an absent prime minister's fate in their hands.\n\nBoris Johnson is thousands of miles away in Rwanda at a Commonwealth summit.\n\nAnd he will be out of the country for the next week - there are more summits to come in Germany and in Spain.\n\nLiberal Democrats victorious in former Tory stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton\n\nHe's been on the phone to cabinet ministers, and making it clear he doesn't intend to return to London.\n\nAfter a wall of silence from loads of senior ministers in the hour or two after Mr Dowden's letter, some are now talking privately.\n\nA few are offering the odd disobliging word about Mr Dowden, suggesting he never wanted to be party chairman in the first place and was very disappointed to be demoted from being culture secretary.\n\nOthers say he could well have been sacked in a reshuffle in the next few weeks anyway, and so jumped before he was pushed.\n\nHe might well argue in his defence he is doing the honourable thing as a party chairman who has failed to deliver by-election wins.\n\nOther ministers are very clear-eyed about the predicament the government finds itself in, acknowledging privately how volatile things are.\n\nOliver Dowden's resignation has transformed these by-election results from a story dominated by Conservative defeat, to one dominated by the prime minister's future.\n\nThere would have been a bit of chat along these lines anyway, but it's been electrified by Mr Dowden's decision and the manner of it.\n\nAnd we can also say Boris Johnson would only find himself in territory that could force him out if a significant number of previously loyal MPs now demand he goes, or senior cabinet ministers decide to walk.\n\nHis supporters hope that those senior enough to make a difference are also in many cases those who fancy the job themselves, and moving now would look opportunistic.\n\nSome pondered when Boris Johnson won a whopping majority back in 2019 that politics might quieten down.", "People are again being warned not to use stones in the Dales to spell their names\n\nWalkers taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge are being reminded not to remove rocks from drystone walls and hillsides to spell out their names for selfies.\n\nSome people are even attempting to make their own cairns, said the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.\n\nTens of thousands tackle Yorkshire's highest peaks - Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside - each year.\n\nManagers have asked visitors to respect the area.\n\nThe authority said the rearranging of stones is a \"significant threat\" to the national park, and suggested people do not realise that the stones they are using may come from monuments that are thousands of years old.\n\nKate Hilditch, area manager for the Southern Dales, said despite its rugged appearance the Three Peaks route comprises \"very fragile environments\" that need to be protected.\n\nShe urged people to abide by the Yorkshire Three Peaks code of conduct.\n\n\"At the heart of the code of conduct is our message to everyone to respect the land, respect the local communities - particularly the community in and around Horton-in-Ribblesdale - and to respect each other,\" said Ms Hilditch.\n\nMs Hilditch said the Three Peaks route is one of the greatest achievements to date of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and its partners.\n\nIn the 1980s, the paths in many places were impossible to use, such was the scale of the erosion and bogginess, she added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is an important mood-making week for our biggest political parties.\n\nEncounters with the electorate always mould the mojo of our political leaders.\n\nFor when you are in the popularity business, the verdict of voters, however geographically piecemeal, can't be ignored.\n\nBut there can be other catalysts that prompt a smile or a frown, and both the Scottish National Party and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party each face one of those moments in the coming days too.\n\nBut let's take a look first at the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe result in Wakefield in West Yorkshire was less surprising but more important than the one in Devon.\n\nWhy? Because if Labour are to win a general election they need to take seats, and lots of them, from the Conservatives.\n\nThe party is pleased that, were the margin of Labour's victory there to be repeated at a general election (a big if, as they acknowledge, as by-elections are not about electing a government), they would have won a majority.\n\nThey take issue with the election guru Sir John Curtice's analysis.\n\nProfessor Sir John, of Strathclyde University, said the result implied there was still a question mark about the electorate's enthusiasm for Labour, as opposed to distaste for the Conservatives, given the decline in the Conservative vote was more than twice as big as the rise in the Labour vote.\n\nSenior figures point out that plenty assumed when Sir Keir Starmer became Labour leader that such was the electoral mountain the party faced, he would never himself make it to Downing Street, but instead make it possible for his successor to do so.\n\n\"The mantra in the office is we have to be Kinnock and Blair,\" says one source, a reference to Lord Kinnock's rebuilding of the party and Sir Tony's delivery of an election victory.\n\nThey believe such a victory is now seen as doable.\n\nAnother source recently described the Starmer project thus far as \"climbing out of the grave\" dug for them by former leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nParts one and two of the plan were detoxifying their brand, as they saw it, and portraying the government as inept.\n\nThey feel they have done both these things.\n\nThe third stage, which plenty of figures including influential ones in the shadow cabinet are getting impatient to see, is the case for why people should vote Labour.\n\nThe investigation by Durham Constabulary into alleged Covid law breaking by Sir Keir and his deputy Angela Rayner has hamstrung that and it won't begin in earnest until - if - they are cleared.\n\nPlanning is under way for the party conference in the autumn; after last year's focus on internal Labour machinations, this year's will be about their pitch to the country.\n\nWhat, then, of the Liberal Democrats?\n\nThey, in the words of one, are \"super chipper\" this weekend.\n\nLittle wonder; a third whopping win against the Conservatives in a by-election a year.\n\nConservatives have been known to privately describe Lib Dems as the 'yellow peril', a backhanded compliment to their by-election savvy, energy and ruthlessness.\n\nThe coalition years doused their brand in a political poison for many.\n\nThe antidote of time appears to have washed much of that away.\n\nThey are still parliamentary tiddlers - 14 MPs out of 650, just 2% of the Commons.\n\nLib Dem leader Ed Davey joined his newest MP Richard Foorde to celebrate his win\n\nBut they could play an outsized role in the politics of the next few years, injecting fear into the Conservative psyche about their potential capacity to wipe out swathes of Tory MPs.\n\nOne thing the Lib Dems are irritated by is the grumbles of Conservatives, most notably the Health Secretary Sajid Javid this weekend, about talk of a deal between the Lib Dems and Labour to work together to eject Tory MPs.\n\nAs Sir John Curtice has said, there appears to be a growing willingness of voters to vote for whichever party locally is best able to beat the Conservatives.\n\nBoth Labour and the Lib Dems insist there is no deal, there is no pact, it's parties focusing on where they can win.\n\nLib Dem sources also point out they couldn't possibly have won and won so big in three previously rock solid Conservative seats without luring former Tory voters to them, including, especially in Tiverton and Honiton, plenty who voted Leave.\n\nIt's 30 years since a party lost two by elections on the same day. The last time it happened, it was the Conservatives again who were on the receiving end of two chunks of the electorate's ire. On 7 November 1991, they lost Kincardine and Deeside to the Liberal Democrats and Langbaurgh in North Yorkshire to Labour.\n\nAnd what happened at the general election six months later?\n\nThe Conservatives won them both back. The idea that by-elections can be a psephological quirk — and they can be — and exaggerate a party's popularity or otherwise, is what Tories cling to this weekend.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC a \"psychological transformation\" in his character is \"not going to happen\"\n\nBut plenty of Boris Johnson's internal critics think the electorate's judgement on the prime minister's character is set and little can change that. His supporters hope his previous bounce-back-ability has at least one more boing in it.\n\nFinally, then, to the DUP and the SNP. Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists are refusing to go into devolved government at Stormont. They say they won't go back into power sharing until the part of the Brexit deal called the Northern Ireland Protocol is radically altered, removing that sense from many unionists that it was unpicking the stitches that hold the UK together, the overarching fear of their political creed.\n\nOn Monday, the proposed change in the law that could ditch chunks of the Protocol will be debated in the Commons.\n\nSome are outraged at what they see as the government intentionally breaking international law.\n\nMinisters insist it won't do that.\n\nWhat we shouldn't expect is rapid movement from the DUP. They feel they've been repeatedly let down by Boris Johnson and they have a mandate to ensure they get the Protocol sorted, as they see it, before returning to Stormont.\n\nDebating the Protocol Bill won't be enough to resolve that impasse.\n\nAnd so to the Scottish National Party. The first thing which always bears repeating is how, 15 years into government at Holyrood, they continue to be the colossus of Scottish politics; everyone else a shrimp in comparison.\n\nIt doesn't insulate them from problems; their Westminster leader Ian Blackford has faced calls to resign over his party's handling of a sexual harassment complaint.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford apologises to victim and says Patrick Grady should \"reflect\" on behaviour\n\nNot only has it raised questions about Mr Blackford's judgement in the eyes of his critics, but proven there is at least one mole within his ranks who has recorded and leaked what was meant to be a private meeting.\n\nOn Tuesday, party leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will set out how she plans to \"unlock the door to another independence referendum\", as one figure put it to me.\n\nExactly how they do that, with Boris Johnson refusing to countenance one, will be interesting.\n\nIt'll be a big moment at the core of the SNP's very reason for being - and so itself a mood-maker for them and Scottish politics more broadly.\n• None Six takeaways for Tories from by-election doorsteps", "Dogs are banned from some beaches in Gwynedd between April and September\n\nOwners of dogs using beach no-go areas are escaping fines because two new council warden jobs have failed to attract a sniff of interest.\n\nGwynedd councillors heard not one application had been received for the roles which would include patrolling some of its \"beautiful\" beaches.\n\nNo fines have been issued since a legal order was imposed last year.\n\nThe public and private sector has been struggling to recruit to some roles, a full council meeting was told.\n\nThe issue came to light when Harlech and Llanbedr councillor Gwynfor Owen asked how many dog owners had received fixed penalty notices in the last year.\n\nDogs have been banned from some areas of beaches at certain times of year following the introduction of a Public Spaces Protection Order last July, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nHighways and municipal cabinet member councillor Berwyn Parry Jones said no fines had been issued.\n\n\"Filling jobs is a problem in the council, and in the private sector, at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"We intend to increase the number of maritime staff, because there are now a number of shortages due to retirement and moving jobs.\n\n\"We received funding to appoint two dog wardens, we advertised on occasions, but have had no applicants as yet.\"\n\nMr Owen said he had attended a civil service conference earlier in the week and heard there was a \"huge reduction in the workforce compared to last year\".\n\n\"It's a dire situation,\" he said.\n\nCouncillor Parry Jones said the beaches of Harlech and Llandanwg were \"not only beautiful but long\", and that wardens - once they were recruited - should be deployed \"as a priority\".\n\nCouncillors were told the roles were more about engagement than giving out fines.\n\nGwynedd Council confirmed it had \"struggled to fill the post, which has a salary between £20,092 and £21,748, despite advertising it through our usual channels\".", "One of the boats was towed to Ardglass, County Down after getting into difficulties during \"genuinely dangerous\" conditions\n\nThree crews taking part in a Great Britain rowing challenge have been rescued near Northern Ireland and Wales, following bad weather.\n\nA rowing vessel with five people on board was rescued from the Irish Sea on Sunday morning.\n\nIt followed a six-strong crew being rescued off the Antrim coast by the coastguard on Saturday evening.\n\nAnother vessel taking part in the same challenge also had to be rescued off the coast of Wales.\n\nAll 16 rowers from the three vessels were reported to be safe and well.\n\nThe vessels from the GB Row Challenge had left London Tower Bridge on 12 June to circumnavigate Great Britain and to collect environmental data in a project with the University of Portsmouth.\n\nAt 07:00 BST on Sunday, a rowing crew reported they had \"capsized and righted themselves, but were unable to row\".\n\nThey had been monitored throughout the night by HM Coastguard with frequent radio transmissions.\n\nThe crew were about 23 nautical miles north east of Ardglass, County Down, and were taken to the village where they were met by Newcastle Coastguard Rescue Team.\n\nJason McKinlay of the Team Sea Legs crew, whose vessel was towed in to Ardglass, said the conditions were \"genuinely dangerous\"\n\nJason McKinlay, who was part of the Team Sea Legs crew whose vessel was towed in to Ardglass, said the conditions were \"genuinely dangerous\" and the Coastguard made the right decision to rescue them.\n\n\"In all honesty, we may be smiling and grinning and bearing it, that's because we are safe and on land now, but obviously you think of the kids when you go and take on these challenges,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nThe rower, whose children are aged nine and 12, said it was \"genuinely dangerous out there once we were underwater\" and that it was only because the boat was efficient in self-righting that \"we are all safe and sound\".\n\nEmma Wolstenholme, another member of the crew, said they had been battling for the last three days with \"increasingly strong winds\".\n\n\"We knew that it was going to be 30 knots of wind, it just increased to 40, which meant bigger waves, really steep, and we were just battling with the elements and trying to keep the boat upright,\" she added.\n\n\"We did have one full capsize.\n\n\"As soon as we capsized and we got onboard, I spoke to Sophie who was on the cabin and said 'please get on the radio, talk to the Coastguard tell them what has happened'.\n\n\"It was just giving them a heads up, in the end they overrode our decision to continue and they sent out a boat to tow us in.\"\n\nEmma Wolstenholme said the Team Sea Legs crew had been battling with increasingly strong winds for the last three days\n\nMs Wolstenholme said they would monitor the weather, and liaise with GB Row Challenge, but that the team were \"still of that mindset\" to continue in the event if possible.\n\n\"We want to get to the finish line,\" she added.\n\nTony Watson, of HM Newcastle Coastguard, said the conditions on sea this weekend had been \"particularly rough\" and that the incident highlighted how \"even the most experienced and well-prepared sea farers can get into difficulty in such weather\".\n\nIt came after the six crew members of the GB Endurance team ran into trouble due to bad weather off the County Antrim coast of Northern Ireland on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe team were rescued by the Red Bay RNLI lifeboat and a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick in Scotland was also deployed.\n\nThe rowers were able to board the lifeboat shortly after 23:00 and no one required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were gale force eight winds with rough seas, according to the coastguard.\n\nAnother vessel taking part in the same challenge also had to be towed back to land after sustaining damage to it rudder at about midnight on Friday.\n\nIt was towed to Milford Haven in Wales after making the decision to head to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland as they were \"fatigued\" and concerned about worsening weather conditions.\n\nDue to the offshore location and delicacy needed in the towing, the lifeboat was out for nearly 12 hours, arriving with the rowers and their vessel just before 12:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe rowers did not need medical assistance.\n\nAlex Smith, commander at HM Coastguard, said that although all the rowers were prepared with all the appropriate safety equipment they still got \"caught out\".\n\n\"Whether you are rowing across the sea, sailing along the coast or going out for a paddle, always be prepared, check the weather, take the appropriate safety equipment and means of calling for help.\n\n\"Always tell someone where you are going and when you plan to come back.\"", "Thousands of people have been taking part in Pride events in Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nPride Edinburgh was celebrating its 25th anniversary, marching from the Scottish Parliament to Edinburgh University.\n\nMeanwhile, Pride Glasgow returned for the first time in three years, although a separate pride event, Mardi Gla, was held last year.\n\nCanoeists and paddle boarders also joined a Pride on the Clyde event.", "More than 100 migrants made it into the enclave, Spanish officials said\n\nAt least 23 migrants have died and others were hurt on Friday when a huge crowd tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla, officials from neighbouring Morocco say.\n\nReports say some of those who died had fallen from the top of a border fence.\n\nSeveral security personnel and migrants were admitted to hospital for treatment following clashes early on Friday.\n\nIt was the first such attempted mass crossing since Spain and Morocco resumed diplomatic ties in March.\n\nThe thaw in relations came after Spain supported Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed region of Western Sahara.\n\nSpanish officials say several hundred people tried to break through into the enclave after cutting fencing.\n\nMost were forced back but more than 100 got through and were being processed at a reception centre, they added.\n\nOriginally 18 deaths were reported, but officials said on Saturday that five more people had died of their injuries.\n\nMelilla and Ceuta, another Spanish enclave, have in recent years become a focal point for mostly sub-Saharan migrants attempting to reach Europe.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended restoring the triple lock, which could see pensions rise by 10% in line with inflation.\n\nIt comes as the government warns workers not to expect pay rises to keep pace with increasing costs.\n\nEconomist and Labour adviser Jim O'Neill said the \"constant protection of pensioners\" was \"ludicrous\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak said pensioners were \"among the most vulnerable in society\" and needed to be protected.\n\nInflation - the rate at which the price of things like food and fuel rise - has hit a 40-year high of 9.1% and the Bank of England has predicted it will grow to 11% later this year.\n\nMany trade unions have called for pay rises to help workers with increasing costs and the RMT union, which represents rail workers, are holding strikes in part to secure better wages.\n\nThe RMT is calling for a pay rise of 7%, while employers have offered a maximum of 3%.\n\nElsewhere barristers have voted to strike over pay and conditions, while two teaching unions are considering asking their members if they want to strike over pay.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said it was \"right that we reward our hard working public sector workers with a pay rise\" but added that it needed to be \"proportionate and balanced with the need not to make the inflationary pressures worse and what's affordable for the taxpayer\".\n\nHe argued that it was right to restore the pensions triple lock, which ensures that the state pension will always increase each year in line with either inflation, the average wage increase or 2.5%, whichever is the highest.\n\nThe triple lock was introduced in 2010 and the Conservatives promised in their 2019 election manifesto to keep it in place.\n\nHowever, the government suspended it for one year between 2022-2023 citing the pressures of the pandemic on public finances.\n\nDowning Street has confirmed that the triple lock will be restored. The rise will match the inflation rate in September but will only be paid from April 2023.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4, Lord O'Neill - who served as a Treasury minister in a Conservative government but is now working on a review of business start-ups for Labour - said he had \"no idea\" why the triple lock had been restored.\n\n\"The constant protection of pensioners seems ludicrous in itself and in these circumstances is particularly crazy,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak said the government had provided a support package which was \"generous and well-targeted at those who need our help\".\n\nHe said the \"most vulnerable in our society\" would receive £1,200 of support adding: \"There is help available for everyone.\"\n\nHe also argued that pension increases would not add to inflation in the same way as pay rises.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke said the government should: \"Stop giving me money.\"\n\n\"I've got £1,100 out of the latest package from the government - it's absurd, I've got two houses... I don't need it.\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said Lord Clarke could \"send a cheque back to HMRC if he feels that strongly about it\".\n\nAsked if the triple lock was motivated by the fact that older people are more likely to vote, Ms Coffey said: \"When politicians make a decisions we think about the individuals, we think about the people who are worried if they have enough money to heat their homes.\"\n\nThe UK's welfare bill of about £250bn a year is always going to be a hotly-debated political issue - but, at its heart, it remains vital to the everyday finances of millions of people.\n\nThe basic state pension in the UK is far from the most generous compared with entitlements in other European countries, although the Pension Credit top-up does assist lower-income pensioners.\n\nA potential double-digit increase in April for pensions and benefits may raise eyebrows, but it still reflects the higher prices people will be paying for many months beforehand.\n\nThat is why there had been calls to bring forward part of this increase to tackle the financial strain being felt now. Instead, the chancellor decided on a system of targeted cash payments aimed at helping households cover energy bills and the soaring cost of living in general.", "French police used tear gas and pepper spray on some supporters at the Champions League final in Paris\n\nDisabled Liverpool fans have told an inquiry they were \"treated like animals\" amid the chaotic scenes at the Champions League final in Paris.\n\nSupporters have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the game on 28 May.\n\nA disabled supporters' spokesman told the French Senate one wheelchair user had to be lifted over locked gates by fellow fans as she tried to escape.\n\nTed Morris urged the French interior minister to resign over the event.\n\nFrench minister Gérald Darmanin previously said only the English fans posed problems outside the stadium.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Morris, chairman of the Liverpool Disabled Supporters Association, gave the French Senate his account of events outside the Paris stadium before the final.\n\nThe match, which was eventually won by Real Madrid, was delayed when long queues of Liverpool fans built up outside the stadium in Paris.\n\nFrench police used tear gas and pepper spray on some supporters.\n\nLiverpool fans described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the final\n\nMr Darmanin said \"massive, industrial-scale\" ticket fraud had caused Liverpool fans to turn up en masse, and said that of about 30 arrests made at the Stade de France \"more than half concerned British citizens\".\n\nMr Morris told the French Senate: \"With my wife, we love France and Paris, but you, Mr Darmanin, you lied and I ask you to withdraw your accusation.\n\n\"And if you have the decency to do so, I hope you have the decency to resign.\"\n\nThe French Senate heard about one wheelchair user who was lifted over locked gates by fellow fans as she tried to escape the melee.\n\nAnother fan, an eight-year-old boy with autism became separated from his father, was later attacked after they had been reunited.\n\nMr Morris said: \"A major catastrophe has been avoided. No power was able to come to the aid of the disabled supporters.\n\n\"My wife and I did not care about the game any more at this stage,\" he continued.\n\n\"We left in the 86th minute and the steward told us we couldn't get out because some locals were still trying to go into the stadium.\n\n\"In the underpass - at the exit of the stadium under the gaze of the police, a few minutes later - locals attacked us and it was terrifying, especially for the disabled supporters.\n\n\"As we walked towards the station we hoped that the police would intervene.\n\n\"It was the worst football experience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fans shared videos showing pepper spray being deployed and children crying in Paris\n\nJoe Blott, chair of the Spirit of Shankly supporters' group, accused police of operating on preconceived notions dating back to the 1980s in their handling of English supporters and insisted the use of tear gas on innocent fans was \"not necessary\".\n\nMr Blott also urged the authorities to learn from their mistakes ahead of next year's Rugby World Cup in France and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.\n\nHe described the behaviour of Liverpool fans as \"exemplary\".\n\n\"We demand an apology and a retraction of the lies being told and for the supporters who will be travelling to the Rugby World Cup and to the Olympics, a fair investigation.\"\n\nA French government report previously said a chain of failures had marred the event.\n\nThey included lack of preparation for travelling fans, huge numbers of people without tickets or fake ones, and security failures at the stadium.\n\nThe report does not apportion blame, but recommends improvements which the government says will be implemented.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Meta, Facebook's owner, says it has removed a large number of accounts and groups posting pictures and videos of upskirting, following an investigation by BBC News.\n\nThe BBC found thousands of users openly sharing obscene material of women and girls taken in public without their consent. One man who posted videos of himself stalking schoolgirls in New York is now being investigated by police.", "Abersoch sees its population of 600 skyrocket to 30,000 in the summer\n\nEmpty or unused properties could be bought by a council and rented to people in the county in an effort to tackle the issue of second homes.\n\nGwynedd has 5,098 second homes, a fifth of Wales' total, and one in 10 houses in the area is a second home.\n\nSome people trying to get on the property ladder said they were being priced out of the area.\n\nGwynedd Council has contacted the owners of 1,200 empty properties to see if they would be interested in selling.\n\n\"Bringing vacant houses back into use is a critical part of our housing action plan,\" said Craig ab Iago, the council's cabinet member for housing and property.\n\nWelsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith has called for \"urgent action\" on the issue\n\nGwynedd has the highest number of second homes in Wales and there have been long-running rows over how they affect coastal areas.\n\nSecond home owners argue they feel like they are being \"discriminated against\" for buying homes in desirable areas.\n\nThe council has had 115 responses from property owners and said it was \"currently working on this\".\n\nMr ab Iago said the move was \"critical\" in \"helping us give local people opportunities to settle down in their communities\".\n\nHe called on more homeowners to get in touch to \"discuss any matter related to selling property to the council\".\n\nBeauty spots such as the sandy beach Porthdinllaen attracts visitors to the Llyn Peninsula\n\nCampaigners have been calling for action over growing concerns about rising house prices in seaside and rural communities amid fears second home owners are pricing out locals.\n\nGwynedd council's leader previously called on the Welsh government to act, saying residents were \"facing a situation where they cannot afford to buy a home within their local community\".\n\nUnder plans announced in March, some second home owners in Wales could pay four times their current level of council tax from April.", "The quake hit in a remote, rural area which rescuers face a difficult task just accessing\n\n\"A couple of helicopters came to help but it is not clear what else they can do other than moving the dead bodies.\"\n\nThis is how one Afghan described the situation after a powerful earthquake left hundreds dead.\n\nThe quake happened in the early hours of the morning, causing houses to collapse and crush people sleeping inside.\n\nRescuers have in some cases been digging with their bare hands, if they have been able to reach the affected areas at all. Rural eastern Afghanistan is not an easy place to travel to. The toll is expected to grow as the picture becomes clearer.\n\n\"It was shortly after 01:30 that the earthquake happened. I was scared. I tried to find my friends. Some of them lost their relatives. Some are ok but their homes are damaged,\" said Ahmad Nour.\n\n\"You can hear the ambulances' sirens everywhere. I talked to people. They are so frustrated. They lost their beloved ones. They are in a miserable situation.\"\n\nWitnesses at the scene described a desperate situation. \"Every street you go, you hear people mourning the deaths of their beloved ones,\" said one journalist.\n\nA photo seen by the BBC shows a young girl - three or four - covered in dust standing in front of a partially collapsed house. She looks dazed and it is not clear what happened to the rest of her family. The BBC is trying to find out more about her wellbeing.\n\nAlem Wafa, 49, travelled to one of the worst-affected parts of Paktika province to help pull out those trapped.\n\n\"There are no official aid workers, but people from neighbouring cities and villages came here to rescue people,\" he said.\n\n\"I arrived this morning and I, myself, found 40 dead bodies. Most of them are young, very young children.\"\n\nAfghans are already facing hardship on several fronts. Poverty is rampant, and the country has endured decades of conflict. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan last year, many countries cut development aid.\n\nAlready thinly stretched services are unlikely to be able to cope.\n\n\"Doctors and nurses are among the victims,\" said one doctor from Gayan district in Paktika.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We didn't have enough people and facilities before the earthquake, and now the earthquake has ruined the little we had. I don't know how many of our colleagues are still alive.\"\n\nAid agencies are trying to help but communications and water provisions are adding to the challenge. They are focussing on bringing food, medicine and emergency shelter to those in need.\n\n\"We have got our mobile health and nutrition teams in the affected districts giving first aid to those who are injured,\" said Sam Mort of Unicef.\n\n\"We've also got aid trucks on the way with supplies such as hygiene kits and blankets and tents and tarpaulins. Right now it is throwing it down with rain which is complicating the rescue efforts as well.\"\n\n\"And of course this is against a back drop of communities of people who were starving, were poor, were sick, were suffering with the drought,\" she added.\n\n\"This is not a strong and resilient population.\"", "Lord Etherton will be asked to recommend how the government can redress veterans affected by the pre-2000 ban\n\nBritain's first openly gay senior judge will lead a review into the impact of a historical ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces.\n\nLord Etherton's inquiry will look at how those affected can be redressed.\n\nCampaigners are hoping for compensation for lost livelihoods and suffering as well as mental health support.\n\nThe review will apply to veterans who served between 1967, when homosexual acts began to be decriminalised, and 2000.\n\nUntil then it was illegal to be gay in the British military - with more than 5,000 people in the armed forces thought to be affected.\n\nThose who were, or perceived to be, homosexual faced intrusive investigations and were dismissed or otherwise forced to leave the military. Many still have the conviction on their criminal record.\n\nSome veterans say it meant a complete loss of income which still affects them today, due to years of missed pension contributions.\n\nIn the review, expected to start in the next few weeks, Lord Etherton will be asked to recommend ways in which the government could \"seek to mitigate any impacts, including any financial impact\", the BBC has learned.\n\nThe independent review was launched as part of the government's Veterans' Strategy Action Plan. Lord Etherton was appointed by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and the prime minister's chief aide, Steve Barclay.\n\nLord Etherton said he wants to provide a \"safe space\" for veterans to share their stories.\n\n\"This will allow me to make measured recommendations as to how the government can meet their commitment to ensure that all veterans' experiences are understood and valued,\" he added.\n\nDavid Bonney served four months in a military prison in Colchester in 1995 after being convicted of \"homosexual conduct\" while working for the RAF as a medic.\n\nHe told the BBC he welcomed the announcement of the chairman, but that he hoped the review would be carried out quickly.\n\nDavid Bonney was jailed after it was found out he was gay while serving in the RAF\n\nThe BBC understands the review could take as long as 12 months.\n\n\"There are people with serious issues, cancers and such,\" Mr Bonney said.\n\n\"It would be nice if they could get everything resolved before they die.\"\n\nHe added that Lord Etherton would be \"more likely to reach the right conclusions\" as someone who \"knows what it's like to hide your true self\".\n\nMr Bonney's conviction is still on his criminal record despite the law change in 2000\n\nThe review comes after years of campaigning by veterans and charities.\n\nThe CEOs of charity Fighting with Pride, Caroline Paige and Craig Jones, told the BBC the announcement \"brings hope to veterans who served at a time when they were not welcomed in the armed forces as LGBT personnel are today\".\n\n\"They have faced immense challenges in their lives in consequence of the ban and today's announcement brings hope for a better future,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nSince the BBC first reported on the review, around 400 veterans have come forward to share their stories with the charity.", "The boxes allow people to see what medicines should be taken at certain times of day\n\nSome pharmacies run by the High Street chain Boots have been criticised for telling some patients on multiple drugs that they can no longer have blister pack boxes, known as dosette boxes.\n\nWeekly pill organisers can help users keep track of their daily medication and stay safe.\n\nPharmacists put the tablets into individual boxes in the trays, each one indicating when they should be taken.\n\nBoots said the aids were \"not always the most appropriate option\".\n\nThe NHS says boxes are not always available for free on the NHS and they're not suitable for every type of medicine.\n\nPat Garner needs to take several types of medication\n\nThe boxes, known in the industry as multi-compartment compliance aids (MCCAs), are delivered to patients' addresses.\n\nThey have seals which, when broken, indicate to a patient or their carer if the medication has been taken.\n\nFor several years, she has had MCCAs provided by her local Boots pharmacy. She takes more than 15 pills each day.\n\nTracey says she was phoned by Boots and told that from one month later her mother would receive all the drugs in the original packaging, rather than organised into morning and night doses for each day of the week.\n\nTracey told the BBC: \"I pointed out that the blister packs were the only way we could know she had taken her medication at the right time. Handing seven individual boxes with different instructions on each one was totally unworkable and - quite frankly - dangerous\".\n\nA Boots spokesperson said: \"The latest Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance indicates that the use of multi-compartment compliance aids is not always the most appropriate option for patients that need support to take their medicines at the right dose and time.\n\n\"Pharmacists are speaking with patients who we provide with MCCAs to discuss whether it is the right way to support them, depending on their individual circumstances and clinical needs.\n\n\"Alternative support might include large-print labels and a medicines reminder chart. In many cases, MCCAs will remain the most appropriate option for the patient, and we will continue to support them in this way.\"\n\nThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society has said in guidelines drawn up before the pandemic that there are benefits and disadvantages with use of the dosette boxes: \"A multi-compartment compliance aid is one tool amongst many to help with medicines use but other interventions also exist, which as part of a person-centred and quality approach, must also be considered.\"\n\nIt is not clear how many other pharmacy chains are withdrawing the boxes. The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies says most of its members are continuing to supply patients with MCCAs if they are requested, even though the process is costly.\n\nSuperdrug and Lloyds Pharmacy say they continue to offer MCCAs.\n\nProf Gill Livingston, an expert in elderly medicine at University College London, said she was concerned to hear that some patients and their families were being told the boxes were being scrapped.\n\nShe said: \"Blister packs enable people with mild dementia or some memory problems to take their own medication and remain independent. They can check that they have taken it and they know they have taken the right thing, as it is already sorted out.\n\n\"Later on in dementia or with other disabilities, it enables paid carers and families to help them take their medication and remain in the community and remain as well as possible.\"\n\nThorrun Govind, a pharmacist in Manchester and chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said it was a complex issue - particularly for care home residents.\n\n\"Patients on blister packs should be reassessed frequently to ensure it is an appropriate intervention for them as an individual,\" she said.\n\n\"Just because a patient is in a care home does not mean they should automatically be provided with a blister pack and the underfunding of social care should be addressed by the government rather than being left for pharmacy teams workload.\"", "Bill is an 'attack on women' - Labour\n\nReeves says the Bill of Rights is not just an attack on victims of crime, it's an attack on women. Woman have used the Human Rights Act to challenge the police when they have failed or refused to investigate abuse or rape cases, she says. She says the government has \"effectively decriminalised rape\". It has made pitiful progress on record low rape convictions under this government, with waits for cases to complete in court reaching three or four years, and the number of rape trials postponed in crown courts rising four-fold, she says. This bill of rights will stop them for forcing our under-resourced police to investigate, she adds. The government is soft on rape, soft on rapists and hard on survivors, she says - \"they want to take away the final backstop available for victims to get justice\". Video caption: Labour's Ellie Reeves: This is not a Bill of Rights, it's a con Labour's Ellie Reeves: This is not a Bill of Rights, it's a con", "Twitter is trialling a new feature allowing users to share \"notes\" as long as 2,500 words.\n\nThe social media platform normally limits posts to 280 characters.\n\nTwitter said the move was a response to seeing people use the platform to post pictures of longer announcements and steer followers to outside newsletters.\n\nThe test will run for two months and involve a small group of writers in Canada, Ghana, the UK and US.\n\nThe new feature aims to keep audiences in the Twitter eco-system, with readers able to see a headline and access the longer note by clicking on a link.\n\nWriters will be able to embed gifs, photos and other features into long-form essays that can be read on and off Twitter. Notes can also be edited after they have been published.\n\n\"Since the company's earliest days, writers have depended on Twitter to share their work, get noticed, be read, create conversation - everything but the actual writing,\" the company said, making the announcement using the new Notes product.\n\n\"With Notes, the goal is to fill in that missing piece.\"\n\nThe move follows Twitter's purchase last year of Revue, a Dutch newsletter start-up.\n\nSocial media expert Dr Laura Toogood said the trial was a significant step for Twitter. She said the feature would encourage people to stay within the platform itself, rather than linking out to other websites that can host long-form content.\n\n\"Adding this extra capability means that Twitter is now in a position to compete with some of the popular blogging platforms and potentially attract a new audience and a different type of user,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It will also encourage existing users to blog within Twitter, rather than move to other websites for this purpose, which will help to retain their audience.\"\n\nIn 2017 Twitter increased the maximum number of characters for tweets from 140 to 280, following a trial among a small group of users.\n\nThe latest move comes amid scrutiny of the Twitter's business prospects, as Elon Musk's planned takeover of the company raises questions about its direction.\n\nThe firm announced in April it was working on an edit button, shortly after Mr Musk - who had called for such a feature - revealed he had bought a large stake in the company. Twitter said the events were unrelated.\n\nMr Musk has also said he sees potential in a subscription model in which people would pay to use the platform.\n\nDr Nikki Usher, a journalism professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said it was hard to know whether Twitter was trying out new formats out of profitability or a genuine desire to try to improve the platform.\n\n\"In this case, one of the things we do know is that people do not like to read long texts online,\" they told the BBC.\n\n\"So whether giving people 2,500 characters to work with will ultimately make a difference in the quality of the digital public sphere - well, I think it's unlikely. Is it a chance to grab headlines in advance of some major changes at the company? Absolutely.\"", "Valya's visa has been approved, months after she first applied to come to the UK\n\nTeenagers who fled the war in Ukraine will be allowed to come to the UK alone under new rules, the BBC understands.\n\nAbout 1,000 unaccompanied minors had previously been left in limbo because the Homes for Ukraine scheme required young people to travel with a guardian.\n\nOne 17-year-old, Valya, spent months alone in a single room in central Ukraine with air raids overhead.\n\nValya, who is on her way to the UK, said her parents would be happy she is now safe.\n\nShe left her family home in Khershon in southern Ukraine, where there has been heavy fighting, in the hope she could travel to the UK and live with a sponsor family in the Midlands.\n\nLike hundreds of other Ukrainian teenagers, she had applied under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which for weeks made no mention of restrictions on under-18s travelling alone.\n\nBut she was told her visa had been blocked when the Home Office changed its guidance to say that under-18s must be travelling with a parent or guardian, or reuniting with them in the UK.\n\nIt was too dangerous for Valya to rejoin her family, so she was left alone in an area which has seen regular air raids - while her mental and physical health worsened.\n\nHer lawyers had argued that she had applied in good faith before the guidance was changed, and she should have been granted a visa.\n\nNow, ahead of an expected rule change on Wednesday which will allow more unaccompanied teenagers to come to the UK, Valya has been granted a visa and is heading to stay with her sponsors.\n\n\"I'm happy that my parents could know I'm safe, because it was very hard for them not to know,\" she said.\n\nThe rule change is due to benefit only those unaccompanied minors who are already in the system.\n\nBecause of safeguarding concerns, their sponsors in the UK will need to either be a relative or known to their parents, such as a close family friend.\n\nHundreds of unaccompanied teenagers applied to the UK as they fled the war in Ukraine\n\nIn exceptional circumstances the minors may be able to stay with a family they have been matched with, but they would need approval from the government and local authority after enhanced safety checks.\n\nIt is thought teenagers are more likely to be successful in applying through this route as they need less support than children.\n\nLord Alf Dubs, who escaped the Nazis as a child and has campaigned for young refugees, said he was \"very emotional\" to hear Valya was on her way to safety.\n\n\"It shouldn't have been so long. She shouldn't have had to wait. There shouldn't have been the uncertainty, but I'm delighted it's happening,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm also concerned that the Home Office are treating her as an exception.\"\n\nA government spokesman said they were exploring whether the Homes for Ukraine scheme could safely be opened up to more children.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to keep children safe and, as the public rightly expect, we have put robust processes in place to protect them once they arrive in the country,\" the spokesman said.\n\nAir raids have been a regular occurrence where Valya has been staying alone in Ukraine\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the announcement was \"vitally important\".\n\nBut he said: \"It is essential children's best interests are properly understood by all those involved in every placement, and at every stage of the process.\"\n\nIn the Midlands, teachers Rhian and Sam Chillcott are getting ready to finally welcome Valya to the room they have had prepared for months.\n\nRhian said she felt they had been battling red tape throughout the process.\n\n\"Every morning you wake up with that knot of excitement thinking today's the day, and every day you go to bed dejected,\" she said.\n\n\"But, you know, today really is the day. And I'm not going to go to bed dejected tonight.\"", "A timeline has not been provided for the demolition\n\nRobb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas - where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers - will be demolished, the city's mayor has said.\n\nDon McLaughlin made the claim on Tuesday at a tense and emotional council meeting with residents demanding answers over the shooting.\n\nHe did not say when the school would be demolished.\n\nPublic anger has risen since the May rampage, with police accused of waiting over an hour to confront the assailant.\n\n\"My understanding - and I had this discussion with the superintendent - is that school will be demolished. You can never ask a child to go back or teacher to go back in that school ever,\" Mr McLaughlin said.\n\nRobb Elementary has nearly 600 students in the second, third and fourth grades.\n\nUS President Joe Biden had suggested knocking down the school, State Senator Roland Gutierrez told local media last month.\n\nRobb Elementary will not be the first school to be demolished after a mass shooting.\n\nSandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was razed after 20 students aged six and seven years old and six staff members were shot in 2012. A new school was built on the same land.\n\nImages have emerged showing police officers arriving at the attack earlier than previously reported\n\nTexas's public safety chief said on Tuesday there were enough police on the scene in Uvalde to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building. But police waited for more than an hour outside classrooms before a team made entry.\n\nSteven McCraw told a state Senate hearing the police response was an \"abject failure\" and accused the on-scene commander of putting officers' lives above the children's.\n\nThe attack by an 18-year-old - identified as Salvador Ramos - has led to renewed national debate about gun regulations.\n\nUS Senators on Tuesday advanced new legislation to address mass shootings in what has been called the most significant new gun controls in a generation.", "The number of young people who went missing from NI care homes and are at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE) is at its highest since 2018, figures show.\n\nA total of 37 young at-risk people went missing across the five health trusts in 2021/2022, according to the Department of Health.\n\nThe highest number was recorded in the Western Health Trust.\n\nThe total figure doubled from seven in 2020/2021 to 14 in 2021/2022.\n\nChild sexual exploitation can happen in person or online, according to Paul McCafferty from the Voice of Young People In Care.\n\n\"CSE can be physical contact sexually with a child or young person, but it can also include non-physical activities,\" Mr McCafferty told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"This can include young people producing sexual images, (someone) forcing a young person to watch sexual images or to take part in different things.\n\n\"The actual grooming of a child can also be classed as child sexual exploitation as well.\"\n\nMr McCafferty said they are seeing more vulnerable young people entering the care system than ever before and believes there \"are more risks out there\" if they go missing.\n\nHe described the latest figures as \"scratching the surface\" and said \"it's a failure if even one young person is a victim of CSE\".\n\n\"We need to work together to try to stop this from happening, but my main thing is we need to listen to the young people that have experienced this,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about getting young people involved in what we do moving forward.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Public Protection Branch said it has a dedicated child sexual exploitation team that works closely with partners to identify children at risk.\n\nIt said it puts measures in place to safeguard and aid investigations if a child is reported missing.\n\n\"When a missing child is located and returned back to a care home, officers have a number of safeguarding processes to follow depending on the circumstances,\" Det Supt Gary Reid said.\n\n\"These are put in place to mitigate any future risk of that child going missing and to identify whether or not they have been a victim of any form of criminality,\" he added.\n\nChild sexual exploitation can happen in person or online, according to Paul McCafferty from the Voice of Young People In Care\n\nA Western Trust spokesperson said that when a young person goes missing from the care system there is a collaborative response from the trust and the PSNI.\n\n\"The Western Trust, like other trusts across the region, is required to report to the Department of Health in relation to instances when young people are missing from their care for 24 hours or more.\n\n\"This is particularly the case when a child has been reported missing and at risk of child sexual exploitation,\" they said.\n\nThe spokesperson added the Western Trust is \"proactive in reporting young people who go missing\" and \"will continue to work in collaboration to protect at-risk children/young people from child sexual exploitation\".\n\nThe Department of Health said there were \"well-established arrangements in place\" requiring relevant agencies to take \"actions to safeguard any child who goes missing and prevent future risk of harm\".\n\n\"Those at risk of CSE are identified by a co-ordinated, interagency and multi-disciplinary risk assessment.\n\n\"On the basis of that assessment, actions are taken to safeguard and protect a child or young person who is a victim of CSE or who has been assessed as being at risk of CSE.\"\n\nThe department accepted that while there has been an increase in the number of young people at risk of child sexual exploitation reported as having been missing for a period of time over the last four years, it said that there \"has been an overall decrease since reporting commenced in 2016/17 of 10%\".\n\nIt noted that \"this decrease was within the context of a significant increase in the number of children in care\".\n\nIt added that as of 31 March 2021, 3,530 young people were looked after in care in Northern Ireland and that it is the highest recorded number since the introduction of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.\n\nSafeguarding Board for Northern Ireland's (SBNI) chair Bernie McNally said the figures are worrying.\n\nA number of initiatives have been in place over recent years to protect children, she added.\n\nThat includes specialist social workers being placed with police teams, additional training with care home staff and an awareness-raising campaign to encourage people - especially those who work in the night-time economy - to come forward with information should they see anything untoward.\n\nThe SBNI brings together a number of agencies and organisations which oversee the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people in Northern Ireland.\n\nMs McNally said all organisations who work with at -risk children \"are really trying to work alongside the young people\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this report, support is available at the BBC Action Line.", "Ingrida Simonyte said a tiny proportion of Russian goods were affected by EU sanctions\n\nLithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has said Russian claims of a rail blockade of its territorial outpost in Kaliningrad are a lie.\n\nKaliningrad is on the Baltic Sea and uses a rail link to Russia via Lithuania for passengers and freight.\n\nWhen Lithuania banned the transit of steel and other ferrous metals under EU sanctions last Saturday, Russia threatened to respond.\n\nThe Kremlin condemned the sanctions as illegal and unacceptable.\n\nMs Simonyte explained that passengers were still able to travel freely across Lithuanian territory from Russia to Kaliningrad and only about 1% of Russian freight was affected.\n\nOne senior diplomat in Brussels said that Russian talk of a blockade was disinformation and completely untrue.\n\n\"Lithuania is complying with the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for its aggression and war against Ukraine,\" the prime minister said.\n\nEU sanctions on steel were imposed in March, but a three-month transition period was allowed for existing contracts to wind down.\n\nRussia annexed Kaliningrad after World War Two in 1945 and roughly one million people live there.\n\nDiplomats say no goods trains have yet been barred from crossing Lithuania\n\nIt was not clear what Russian security council chief Nikolai Patrushev meant when he threatened a \"serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania\".\n\nThe foreign ministry in Moscow said merely that retaliation would be practical as well as diplomatic. Regional governor Anton Alikhanov said that as well as reprisals, Kaliningrad would organise shipments by sea.\n\nOne option would be to disconnect Lithuania from the electricity network it shares with Russia, Belarus and the other Baltic states, although officials in Vilnius have said for months they are ready to connect through Poland to the West European grid.\n\nThe Lithuanian prime minister told the BBC that it was important not to overreact, as this was the latest in a series of threats used by Russia or Belarus to threaten their neighbours, such as attempted cyber-attacks on public institutions and utilities.\n\nEstonia called on Russia to stop issuing threats and suggested Moscow was flexing its muscles ahead of next week's Nato summit in Madrid, where Sweden and Finland hope to get backing to join the Western defence alliance.\n\nAs Lithuania is a member of the Nato as well as the EU, the prime minister said lessons needed to be learned and security had to be in place, given that Russia's neighbour Belarus had acted as an accomplice, allowing its soil to be used as a staging post for invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"We need a significantly higher presence in the region,\" she told the BBC's Katya Adler, citing a 100-km (62-mile) corridor of territory that connects Lithuania and the other two Baltic states to Poland.\n\n\"The Suwalki Gap is a place which is crucially important, not only for my country or Poland, but also for Nato, because this is a short corridor and there is a need to take its defence and security seriously.\"\n\nShe was speaking on the eve of an EU summit, where diplomats said the Russian threats were bound to come up.\n\nOne diplomat told the BBC that when sanctions had been imposed, it was unlikely that they were designed to stop Russia moving goods internally. The European Commission might seek to de-escalate the situation, the source added.\n\nHowever, another senior European diplomat said the legal argument was clear, that there would be no derogation for allowing banned Russian goods from crossing EU territory.\n\nFurther sanctions are due to come into force in August and December, covering luxury goods and crude oil, so the aim is for the Commission to make a public statement on what is seen as legal and what is not.", "Hugh Stevenson officiated at the highest level of the game including England v Wales at Wembley in 1977\n\nTwo men who were sexually abused by an assistant referee in the 1970s have said Scottish football's governing body is standing in the way of justice.\n\nPeter Haynes and Stuart McMillan said the SFA was refusing to accept any liability for what happened to them.\n\nThe men were children when they were targeted by Hugh Stevenson.\n\nHe was an SFA-accredited top flight match official between 1963 and 1984, as well as a youth football coach. He died in 2004, aged 66.\n\nMr Haynes, who was 12 when the abuse began, and Mr McMillan, who was 17, said Stevenson used his official position to befriend, groom and abuse them.\n\nBoth have been pursuing a civil case against the Scottish Football Association but the governing body's lawyers have told them they can't accept any responsibility because Stevenson wasn't an SFA employee.\n\nPeter Haynes told the BBC the sexual abuse began just before his 13th birthday and continued for several years\n\nMr Haynes, now 56, said his abuse started in 1979 when Stevenson appeared at his door with his SFA blazer on and an offer to take him to the Scottish Cup final between Rangers and Hibernian at Hampden Park.\n\n\"That was the day that my life changed,\" he said.\n\nIt was on the way home from the match that the abuse started and it lasted for years.\n\nMr Haynes said: \"I find it difficult to talk about what he did in great detail but it was about every depraved sexual act that you can think of, including rape.\"\n\nHe was too confused and ashamed to tell anyone at the time but he finally alerted the SFA and the police in 1993.\n\nPeter Haynes is now 56 and has been pursuing a civil case against the SFA\n\nJim Farry, who was in charge of the governing body, apologised and told Mr Haynes they were aware of Stevenson but that he had moved on.\n\nHe was then given a tour of the SFA offices at Park Gardens as some form of compensation, Mr Haynes said.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that Stevenson was the subject of two investigations in the 1990s but he was never charged.\n\nStuart McMillan was 17 when he was abused.\n\n\"I contacted the SFA about becoming a referee and was told to attend an event in Paisley,\" he said. \"That's when I first encountered Hugh Stevenson.\"\n\nStuart McMillan, who is now 60, was abused by Stevenson when he was 17\n\nAt a later event, Stevenson abused Mr McMillan in his car after offering him a lift home.\n\n\"I was scared and confused,\" he said.\n\n\"After it happened, I grabbed my bag, ran out of the car and never looked back but it's always with me.\"\n\nBoth men have since struggled with mental health issues and with maintaining relationships.\n\nFollowing the release of an SFA review into historic sexual abuse within the game, both men were encouraged to pursue a legal case against the SFA.\n\nThe basis of the claims centred around the accusation that the SFA failed to monitor Hugh Stevenson and, subsequently, failed to protect those he abused.\n\nBut in a letter to Peter Haynes's lawyer, the SFA's legal team said \"we have not seen any evidence that Mr Stevenson was an employee of our client, nor that he held a position which was akin to employment\".\n\nMr McMillan says he was abused when he was 17\n\nRecent case law means it is now difficult to prove vicarious liability when the offender is dead but Mr Haynes and Mr McMillan have no doubt the SFA must take some responsibility for what happened to them.\n\n\"I was taken to a corporate event at Hampden Park, the home of Scottish football, groomed and within half an hour of leaving, I was raped,\" Mr Haynes said.\n\n\"Their get out, in the letter I received, was that because I was abused on the way home, Stevenson was not their employee,\" Mr McMillan said.\n\n\"It was disgusting and it made me sick to even read it.\n\n\"The SFA can't hide from this and they must be held to account,\" he said.\n\nThe SFA have apologised for what happened to those affected by historic sexual in Scottish football.\n\nThey said they had also made progress in implementing a number of recommendations that followed the publication of the independent review.\n\nSFA chief executive Ian Maxwell said he had sympathy but could not say much more for legal reasons.\n\n\"I've apologised a number of times and I can only do so again,\" he said.\n\n\"We have continued to offer support to those affected and that offer of support remains.\n\n\"Unfortunately we are going through a legal process and it's not something I can talk about.\n\n\"I don't want to look like I'm hiding behind that but that's the reality of where we are.\"\n\nMaxwell's predecessor, Stewart Regan, commissioned the independent review in 2016 but he said he understood the frustration of men like Mr Haynes and Mr McMillan.\n\n\"I know I was frustrated, even after I left the SFA in 2018, that the review continued,\" he said.\n\n\"I know it took a long time for the findings to be made public.\n\n\"I hear from people like Peter and I know he feels like it takes a long time for progress to be made, so I do understand that.\n\n\"I feel that could be softened by bringing people like him, and others like him, closer to the football family and having regular meetings and discussions.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElection officials faced relentless pressure from former President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn his defeat in the 2020 poll, a congressional panel has heard.\n\nElected Republicans as well as poll workers say they were threatened.\n\nA Georgia vote counter said she was forced to temporarily leave her home, while an Arizona official said protesters called him a paedophile.\n\nThe House of Representatives panel accuses Mr Trump of an attempted coup.\n\nThe select committee has conducted a nearly year-long investigation into how Trump supporters invaded Congress on 6 January 2021 to disrupt lawmakers as they certified Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump has stood by his disproven claim he only lost the 2020 presidential vote because of fraud, and has dismissed the panel as a political witch hunt.\n\nOn Tuesday, in the fourth public hearing so far, the panel heard from election workers in the states of Arizona and Georgia. Mr Biden defeated Mr Trump in both states, which had previously backed Republicans for the White House.\n\n\"We received... in excess of 20,000 emails and tens of thousands of voice mails and texts, which saturated our offices and we were unable to work, at least communicate,\" said Rusty Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives.\n\nThe witness - who campaigned for Mr Trump in 2020 - said the threats and insults have continued with protesters outside his house attempting to smear him as a paedophile.\n\n\"It was disturbing, it was disturbing,\" Mr Bowers said.\n\nHe recalled Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani at one point telling him: \"We've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence.\"\n\nThe panel also heard testimony from Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who became the targets of conspiracy theories in their jobs as election workers in Fulton County, Georgia.\n\nAlthough Mr Biden won the state by nearly 12,000 votes, Mr Trump and his supporters spread unfounded claims of mass voter fraud.\n\nIn recorded messages, Mr Trump had called Ms Moss \"a professional vote-scammer and hustler\", alleging the mother-daughter duo cheated to help Democrats.\n\n\"I've lost my name, I've lost my reputation, I've lost my sense of security,\" Ms Freeman said through tears, in video presented by the committee on Tuesday.\n\n\"Do you know what it feels like to have the president of the United States target you?\"\n\nMs Moss said she faced \"a lot of threats wishing death upon me\", and that the harassment - including racial abuse - had \"turned my life upside down\".\n\nMs Moss said she was forced to move home for two months, has gained about 60lb (27kg) in weight and is now reluctant to leave the house at all.\n\nShe told the committee that Trump supporters had visited her grandmother's home, looking for her and hoping to make a \"citizen's arrest\".\n\nRepublican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger described a notorious phone call from Mr Trump in which he was asked to \"find 11,780\" votes that would hand him victory in the state.\n\n\"We just followed the law and followed the constitution,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, President Trump came up short.\"\n\nHe said that Trump's legal team alleged more than 10,000 dead people voted, but a review found a total of only four.\n\nHis top aide, Gabriel Sterling, told the committee that fighting the election scam claims \"was like a shovel trying to empty the ocean\".\n\nThe hearings have attempted to tie the former president directly to the efforts to overturn the election.\n\nAt Tuesday's hearing, the committee chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, said: \"A handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy.\"\n\nHis deputy on the committee, Liz Cheney, a Republican, said: \"We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.\"", "Energy watchdog Ofgem has been accused of allowing an industry to develop on \"shaky foundations\" in which a series of supply companies collapsed.\n\nAll billpayers will pay £94 more a year each to cover the £2.7bn cost of the failure of 28 suppliers which folded after wholesale prices soared.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said Ofgem had allowed a market to develop that was vulnerable to large shocks.\n\nThe regulator said it was already addressing the issues raised.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, said: \"Ofgem's approach created an energy market built on shaky foundations. As a result, many companies simply collapsed under the shock of energy price increases.\n\n\"Once again, it's the public who has to pay for the mistakes of those charged with protecting them. It's unacceptable.\"\n\nThe result of last year's shock was that 2.4 million customers were automatically moved to a rival company when their own supplier collapsed. Typically, according to Citizens Advice, they had to pay an extra £30 a month for the duration of their original contract, as they were shifted to a more expensive tariff.\n\nIn addition, the cost of these failures totalled £2.7bn - a tab which was spread across all billpayers in Britain, not just those of the failed companies. This is before taking into account the potentially multi-billion charge that households could face due to the collapse of Bulb Energy, which is in special administration.\n\nThe NAO said that Ofgem had decided on a \"low bar\" approach for allowing new domestic energy suppliers into the market to encourage competition and choice for customers after the market had been dominated by six big companies.\n\nThe regulator had then introduced tighter rules for new entrants from 2019, but not for existing suppliers until 2021.\n\nAs a result, many suppliers lacked the financial resilience to deal with the six-fold increase in wholesale prices seen last year, the NAO said.\n\n\"By allowing so many suppliers with weak finances to enter the market, and by failing to imagine that there could be a long period of volatility in energy prices, Ofgem allowed a market to develop that was vulnerable to large-scale shocks,\" said Gareth Davies, head of the NAO.\n\n\"Consumers have borne the brunt of supplier failures at a time when many households are already under significant financial strain having seen their bills go up to record levels. A supplier market must be developed that truly works for consumers,\" Mr Davies said.\n\nOfgem is making changes after a review it commissioned came to many of the same conclusions.\n\n\"We are already working hard to address all of the issues raised,\" a spokesman for the regulator said. \"While the once-in-a-generation global energy price shock would have resulted in market exits under any regulatory framework, we have already been clear that suppliers and Ofgem's financial resilience regime were not robust enough.\n\n\"While no regulator can, or should, guarantee companies will not fail in the future, we will continue to take a whole-market approach to further strengthen the regulatory regime, ensuring a fair and robust market for consumers which keeps costs fair as we move away from fossils fuels and towards affordable, green, home-grown energy.\"\n\nThe NAO said concerns had been raised that Ofgem's reforms could limit new entrants and innovative ideas in the future.\n\nA typical household gas and electricity bill - governed by the energy price cap in England, Wales and Scotland has risen sharply, and now stands at about £2,000 a year.\n\nAnalysts Cornwall Insight have predicted that the bill could hit about £3,000 a year this winter.", "Work in 2017 on the mooring of a fibre-optic cable between the US and Spain\n\nInternet cables that crisscross the sea-floor could be used to detect earthquakes and tsunamis or monitor how climate change alters ocean currents.\n\nThese telecoms cables could be used as a giant array of deep-sea scientific sensors, the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and its partners say.\n\nScientists tested the technique on an optical-fibre link between the UK and Canada.\n\nThe research is published in Science Magazine.\n\nBecause installing permanent sensors to monitor the ocean floor is very costly, only a few exist globally, the scientists say.\n\n\"70% of the Earth's surface is water but all the seismic stations are on land, because it is too difficult and expensive to install permanent sensors on the seafloor\" Dr Giuseppe Marra of the NPL told the BBC.\n\nBut numerous optical-fibre cables carry data across the world's seas and oceans.\n\nIt is estimated there are more than 430 around the world, spanning distances of 1.3 million km (800,000 miles)\n\nAccording to Dr Marra vibrations, pressure and temperature changes affect, by a very small amount, the speed of light as it travels through the cable which extremely sensitive instruments can then detect.\n\nThe researchers said they had detected earthquakes and \"ocean signals\", such as waves and currents, using a 5,860km EXA Infrastructure optical-fibre link between Southport, Lancashire, and Halifax, Canada.\n\nThe scientists were able to use individual spans of cable between repeaters - devices that help boost the signal - as separate sensors.\n\n\"If we apply this technique to a large number of cables\", Dr Mara said, \"we could transform this underwater infrastructure into a giant array of detectors for earthquakes, ocean currents and more.\n\n\"Extending the seismic network from land to the seafloor will improve our understanding of the internal structure of the Earth and its dynamic behaviour\" he added.\n\nCable-based sensors could identify the \"epicentral area\" of an earthquake in the same way as land-based seismometers, the researchers suggest.\n\nAnd the technique opened other possibilities, such as monitoring deep-water currents for changes caused by global warming.\n\nThere is also the untested possibility of using cables to monitor how climate change alters sea-floor temperatures.\n\nTechnology-giant Google was involved in the research as well as the University of Edinburgh, the British Geological Survey, and the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, in Italy.\n\nBrian Baptie, head of the Earth seismology team for the British Geological Survey, said the research could transform scientists' ability to make measurements over vast areas of Earth's surface where it was very difficult to use conventional technologies.\n\n\"It creates an amazing opportunity to observe earthquakes in the middle of oceans at close range as well as the tantalising possibility of measuring other natural phenomena like submarine volcanic eruptions and tsunami in future,\" he said.", "Adam arrived with just minutes to spare before the tenor's performance in East Sussex\n\nAn opera singer was flown hundreds of miles from west Wales to the south of England to save a show after a tenor and his understudy fell ill.\n\nAdam Gilbert got the call at midday on Tuesday for a show that evening.\n\nIt meant the Welsh freelancer had to get to Glyndebourne, East Sussex, from Ceredigion - 280 miles (450km) away.\n\nThe opera house decided to charter a helicopter, which landed with just minutes to spare for the production of Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers.\n\nAdam, 33, from Cenarth, had rehearsed in April for the production at Glyndebourne Festival 2022.\n\nBut with Rodrigo Porras Garulo playing the role of Marc, he never expected to make the stage.\n\n\"I certainly didn't expect this when I woke up yesterday morning,\" he said.\n\nHis plan had been to take his three-year-old son to see the seals at Cardigan Island before the urgent call came from Glyndebourne asking if he could \"drop everything and get on my way\".\n\nWith the railways out of action due to strike action, he got in the car and made it to Bristol when the opera house called back to say a helicopter would be waiting for him in Bath.\n\nTenor Adam Gilbert is an associate artist with the Welsh National Opera\n\n\"I've never been in a helicopter before,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just trying to keep calm and chilled rather than getting worked up because being stressed makes [singing] harder.\n\nHe said the first act was already under way, with Rodrigo doing his best to sing, when he arrived.\n\n\"It was a very bizarre... with my bag running over a field. A bit like Tom Cruise... but actually more like Mr Bean.\"\n\nHe said freelance singers had to \"live in the moment \" so he put on his suit, had a quick warm up and a sandwich, then he was on stage.\n\n\"Considering the situation and I happy with how it went.\"\n\nAdam flew over the opera house in a helicopter before landing in a nearby field\n\n\"It was one of those evenings,\" said Glyndebourne's artistic director Stephen Langridge.\n\n\"Talk about the show must go on.\"\n\nHe said operas normally have just one understudy, but with Covid infections still around and the fact The Wreckers is known to very few singers, he decided to get the \"extra insurance\".\n\n\"We were all over Google Maps wondering when he would arrive,\" Mr Langridge said.\n\n\"When it was clear he wouldn't make it we chartered the helicopter to pick him up.\n\n\"The promo beneath our name is 'no ordinary opera' which can be hard to live up to sometimes, but [last night] was certainly not ordinary, not one to forget.\"\n\nHe said the rail strike meant many audience members had spent hours driving to the show, so cancelling was \"not an option\".\n\n\"So nobody questioned [the helicopter charter], nobody got out their calculators, we said 'we just have to do it'.\n\n\"If they made a movie, they'd have to call it Topgun Tenor.\"", "South Wales Fire and Rescue Service has been searching the River Taff in Cardiff\n\nOne person has been taken to hospital following a search of a river in Cardiff.\n\nSouth Wales Fire Service, South Wales Police, the Welsh Ambulance Service and the Coastguard were called to the River Taff at about 16:30 BST.\n\nA National Police Air Service helicopter from St Athan was involved with the search in the Whitchurch and Llandaff North areas of the city.\n\nNo further details have been released about the person or their condition.\n\nThey were taken to the city's University Hospital of Wales.\n\nThe fire service responded along with police, ambulance and coastguard", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen has praised the Windrush \"pioneers\" for their \"profound contribution\" to British life as a statue to them was unveiled.\n\nThe monument, at Waterloo Station, pays tribute to the thousands of people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nIt depicts a man, woman and child standing on top of suitcases and was revealed to mark Windrush Day.\n\nThe government gave £1m to fund the statue, designed by Basil Watson.\n\nIn a message to mark the occasion, signed Elizabeth R, the Queen said she hoped the statue would \"inspire present and future generations\" as she sent her \"warmest good wishes on this historic occasion\".\n\nWindrush Day marks the arrival of Caribbean immigrants to the shores of Britain on 22 June each year - the day HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in 1948.\n\nThe Queen's grandson the Duke of Cambridge helped to unveil the statue, alongside his wife the Duchess of Cambridge, and also paid tribute to the contributions of the Windrush generation, and their descendants to British life.\n\n\"Without you all Britain would simply not be what it is today,\" he said. \"I want to say a profound thank you to every member of that generation and the generations that have followed.\"\n\nBut Prince William also talked about how the \"past weighs heavily\" on the people of the Caribbean and the Windrush generation.\n\nHe said members of the Windrush generation had been victims of racism when they arrived and said \"discrimination remains an all too familiar experience for black men and women in Britain in 2022\".\n\nThe duke referred to the Windrush scandal, which broke in April 2018, and said it still \"rightly reverberates through the Caribbean community here in the UK\".\n\nThe scandal, which saw members of the Windrush generation and their children wrongly detained and even deported, led to the UK government apologising for the deportation threats many faced.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Baroness Floella Benjamin, Windrush passengers Alford Gardner and John Richards and children at the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station\n\nWindrush passengers Alford Gardner and John Richards helped the royals to unveil the statue.\n\nJamaican artist and sculptor Mr Watson has said he was \"truly honoured\" to have been chosen to create the monument.\n\nThe government said the statue would \"create a permanent place of reflection and inspiration and be a visible statement of our shared history and heritage\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the \"profound contribution\" of the Windrush generation to the fabric of British life\n\nEarlier to mark Windrush Day, Prince William and Catherine met young British-Caribbean creatives at the Brixton House theatre in south London, with the duchess trying her hand at photography and the duke chatting to R&B musician Abdoulaziz Lelo Ndambi.\n\nThey also met youth workers at Lambeth Council's Elevate programme and attended a workshop led by production agencies Iconic Steps and Oxygen Art.\n\nHigh-profile names, including actor Lenny Henry and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have called for next year's Windrush Day to be a \"major national moment\" to mark the 75th anniversary.\n\nMore than 100 leaders across different sectors have signed a joint letter, published in The Times, starting the one-year countdown to the milestone.\n\nThe letter reads: \"This is not only black history - it is British history. It should be something we all know and commemorate.\"\n\nPatrick Vernon, convenor of the Windrush 75 network, which is co-ordinating efforts over the next 12 months, said it was a piece of history \"every child should learn about at school\" and called for it to be commemorated as a major event.\n\nJamaican immigrants being welcomed by RAF officials after HMT Empire Windrush's arrival in 1948\n\nBut not everyone has been supportive of the unveiling of the statue with activist Prof Gus John describing it as \"a monument to unforgivable political illiteracy and an entrenched colonial mindset\".\n\nIn an open letter to Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, dated 9 June, declining an invitation to the unveiling, he said the \"entire Windrush narrative distorts the history of Caribbean engagement with Britain and of Britain's relentless efforts to keep us out\".\n\nVincent McBean, president of the West Indian Association of Service Personnel, supported the creation of the memorial but said it could have been located in a better place.\n\n\"In the heart of Brixton is Windrush Square, what would have been more befitting for it to have been put in the square,\" he said, adding that it had been Lambeth Council which had initially embraced those who arrived from the Caribbean.\n\nThe government says the location was chosen because thousands of members of the Windrush generation passed through Waterloo Station on their way to start new lives across the UK.\n\nThey are known as the Windrush generation, in reference to the HMT Empire Windrush, one of the ships that carried them to the UK to fill labour shortages, in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration.\n\nUnder the 1971 Immigration Act, all Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain.\n\nBut thousands of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK as children and did not have official documentation. Following immigration law changes in 2014, many were told they were in the UK illegally, despite living and working in the country for decades.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: People injured in the earthquake are rushed to a rescue helicopter\n\nA powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern Afghanistan, an official of the ruling Taliban told the BBC.\n\nThe Taliban appealed for international help for the rescue effort as pictures showed landslides and ruined mud-built homes in the province of Paktika.\n\nThe quake struck shortly after 01:30 (21:00 GMT Tuesday) as people slept.\n\nHundreds of houses were destroyed by the magnitude 6.1 event, which occurred at a depth of 51km (32 miles).\n\nIt is the deadliest earthquake to strike Afghanistan in two decades and a major challenge for the Taliban, the Islamist movement which regained power last year after the Western-backed government collapsed.\n\nThe earthquake struck about 44km from the city of Khost and tremors were felt as far away as Pakistan and India. Witnesses reported feeling the quake in both Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, and Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.\n\nTaliban officials asked the UN to \"support them in terms of assessing the needs and responding to those affected\", Sam Mort from Unicef's Kabul unit told the BBC.\n\nThe UK's special representative to Afghanistan, Nigel Casey, said the UK was in touch with the UN and was \"ready to contribute to the international response\".\n\nEarthquakes tend to cause significant damage in Afghanistan, where dwellings in many rural areas are unstable or poorly built.\n\nSpeaking to Reuters news agency, locals described horrific scenes of death and destruction in the aftermath of the late-night earthquake.\n\n\"The kids and I screamed,\" said Fatima. \"One of our rooms was destroyed. Our neighbours screamed and we saw everyone's rooms.\"\n\n\"It destroyed the houses of our neighbours,\" Faisal said. \"When we arrived there were many dead and wounded. They sent us to the hospital. I also saw many dead bodies.\"\n\n\"Every street you go, you hear people mourning the deaths of their beloved ones,\" a journalist in Paktika province told the BBC.\n\nLocal farmer Alem Wafa cried as he told the BBC that official rescue teams had yet to reach the remote village of Gyan - one of the worst hit.\n\n\"There are no official aid workers, but people from neighbouring cities and villages came here to rescue people,\" he said. \"I arrived this morning, and I - myself - found 40 dead bodies.\"\n\nMost of the dead, he said, were \"very young children\". The local hospital just did not have the capacity to deal with such a disaster, the farmer added.\n\nIn remote areas, helicopters have been ferrying victims to hospitals.\n\nEven before the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan's emergency services were stretched to deal with natural disasters - with few aircraft and helicopters available to rescuers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, a doctor in Paktika said medical workers were among the victims.\n\n\"We didn't have enough people and facilities before the earthquake, and now the earthquake has ruined the little we had,\" they said. \"I don't know how many of our colleagues are still alive.\"\n\nCommunication following the quake is difficult because of damage to mobile phone towers and the death toll could rise further still, another local journalist in the area told the BBC.\n\n\"Many people are not aware of the well-being of their relatives because their phones are not working,\" he said. \"My brother and his family died, and I just learned it after many hours. Many villages have been destroyed.\"\n\nMost of the casualties so far have been in the Gayan and Barmal districts in Paktika, a local doctor told the BBC. Local media site Etilaat-e Roz reported a whole village in Gayan had been destroyed.\n\nThere were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage in Pakistan, according to BBC Urdu.\n\nDecades of conflict have made it difficult for the impoverished country to improve its protections against earthquakes and other natural disasters - despite efforts by aid agencies to reinforce some buildings over the years.\n\nAfghanistan is prone to quakes, as it's located in a tectonically active region, over a number of fault lines including the Chaman fault, the Hari Rud fault, the Central Badakhshan fault and the Darvaz fault.\n\nOver the past decade more than 7,000 people have been killed in earthquakes in the country, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports. There are an average of 560 deaths a year from earthquakes.\n\nMost recently, back-to-back earthquakes in the country's west in January killed more than 20 people and destroyed hundreds of houses.\n\nHave you been affected by the earthquake? If it is safe for you to do so, please share your experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Demodex follicularum, as the scientists call them, are just 0.3mm long\n\nExfoliate, moisturise and SPF every day are the standard in many people's skincare routine.\n\nBut what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their entire life living deep in our faces?\n\nAt night, the 0.3mm long organisms leave the pores to find a new skin follicle, meet a partner and mate.\n\nBut a new study has found the mites could be facing a problem as their DNA is eroding, meaning they are close to extinction.\n\nNow we know what you're thinking.\n\nAnd if you're rushing to the bathroom, grabbing all the face wash you own and scrubbing every inch of your skin, you won't get very far - they live too deep in your skin to ever be washed out.\n\nIf it gives you some comfort, more than 90% of us are hosts to these mites and have provided them a home since birth as they're passed on during breastfeeding.\n\nYep, this is the mite that lives in our face\n\nDr Alejandra Perotti, from the University of Reading, co-wrote the study and says we should be \"grateful\" to offer the mites a home and have such an intimate relationship with them.\n\n\"They're very tiny and cute. There's nothing to be concerned about having them. They clean our pores and keep them flat,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"Don't be worried. Be happy you have a small microscopic creature living with you, they don't do any damage.\"\n\nThe study shows just how close our relationship is with them, but also how the mites have the smallest number of genes in any insect, arachnid or crustacean.\n\nThe gene which protects the mite's body from UV light has been lost but in all fairness they are only active at night.\n\nAnd it's that night-time activity that might cause you to squirm...\n\n\"In the night, whilst we're in a deep sleep, they visit the pores to have sex and have babies,\" Dr Perotti says.\n\nYes, these creatures are using our pores like the Love Island hideaway. Nice.\n\nResearch suggests the species could be on its way to being completely dependent on us as humans to survive\n\nThe study shows that as their genetic diversity gets smaller, their dependence on us increases - meaning they are at risk of possible extinction.\n\nFor example, the research expected to find the gene which wakes up the mites and sends them to sleep but it wasn't present.\n\nInstead, the organism detects the lower amount of hormones secreted in the skin whilst we're asleep and it's this which triggers them to wake up.\n\nThese adaptations are causing the issue. The more they adapt to us, the more genes they lose and eventually they will become entirely dependent on us for their existence.\n\nBecause of this dependence they won't be able to leave our pores and find a new mate to couple up with. Well and truly putting all their eggs in one basket.\n\nSo what's the issue if we do lose them?\n\n\"They are associated with healthy skin, so if we lose them you could face problems with your skin,\" Dr Perotti adds.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker posted photos to their millions of followers\n\nRoss Mackay set up his plant-based chicken substitute company in Glasgow four years ago but he is now based in California and working with famous influencer Kourtney Kardashian and her rock star husband Travis Barker.\n\nRoss says it has been two-and-a-half years since his mum and dad dropped him off at the airport and he went to the US in a bid to break into its lucrative meat-free food market.\n\nHe had founded Daring Foods in 2018 but told BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings with Kaye Adams he was not finding much success in the UK.\n\n\"It was maybe a little bit too early if I look back now but the US is obviously advanced in many areas and the consumer demand for plant-based meat had already started,\" 30-year-old Ross says.\n\nHe says that past couple of years have seen a rapid expansion for his company, which now has its products stocked in thousands of stores across America.\n\nAnd last week it resulted in a collaboration with Kardashian and Barker being posted to their millions of social media followers.\n\nGlasgow entrepreneur Ross Mackay moved to the US two years ago\n\nThe connection came about after a mutual friend told Ross that Barker, the drummer in rock band Blink-182, was a big fan of the Daring brand.\n\nThe 46-year-old rocker went fully vegan 15 years ago although he says he has not eaten meat since he was 13.\n\nIt was Ross's fiancée who had the idea to run a campaign featuring Barker and his new wife.\n\nImages in the photoshoot, taken by renowned photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, show Barker and Kardashian in a series of poses such as snacking on a bucket of fried breaded plant chicken in the back of a limo.\n\nAnother has Barker feeding his wife spaghetti by hand as she sits on a room service table pressed against a window at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood.\n\nThe pair posted the images to their Instagram accounts and the worldwide reaction has been massive, Ross says.\n\nKourtney Kardashian has 185m Instagram followers and her husband almost eight million, which dwarf the 59,000 on the official Daring foods account.\n\nRoss says he cannot claim to have spent a lot of time with the couple but he respects their work.\n\n\"I'm not going to sit here and pretend we hang out all the time,\" he says.\n\n\"But we have nothing but great words to say for them. They showed up with great energy and did a great job.\"\n\nRoss, a former competitive tennis player, started the company in Glasgow in 2018, with ex-corporate banker Eliott Kessas.\n\nHe has previously said he grew up as a \"steak and eggs for breakfast kind of guy\" but became a vegan after a fellow athlete \"dared\" him to try a vegan diet for a week.\n\nHe says what started as a dare a decade ago has become his absolute passion and business.\n\nThe company got early deals supplying venues in Glasgow's west end and some distribution deals to supply schools and supermarkets.\n\nBut despite the huge growth in the market for meat-free products, which even saw high street baker Greggs launch a vegan sausage roll, Ross decided to relocate his business to the US at the start of 2020.\n\nHe has since raised more than $120m from high-profile investors and rapidly expanded retail distribution from 200 to 9,000 stores.\n\n\"It's a great place to do what we do.\" he says.\n\n\"People in America eat a lot of chicken and our mission is to rethink chicken and bring them something potentially more healthy and better for the planet.\"\n\nHe looks to the success of plant-based milk products in recent years and hopes to achieve the same kind of penetration for his chicken substitutes,.\n\nBut he said it would take a lot more innovation, investment and brand awareness to bring in more consumers.", "Victoria Shervington-Jones says she has never seen pressures like she's experiencing now\n\nSoaring costs are threatening to put some Welsh food producers out of business, farmers have warned.\n\nThe latest inflation rate figures show prices are now rising by 9.1% in the year up to May, their highest level for 40 years.\n\nThe knock-on effect is being felt by producers, and egg farmer Victoria Shervington-Jones warned of shortages of eggs as farms go bust.\n\nA supermarket boss said shoppers were buying less as prices rise.\n\nPrices of fuel and food are affecting household budgets, but the same pressures are hitting farmers as they rear animals and grow crops.\n\nFertiliser, animal feed and diesel costs mean some farmers are losing thousands of pounds a month, while some are planning to produce less food in order to offset their rising bills.\n\nRising costs for chicken feed is one of the issues\n\nAt St Brides Wentloog, near Newport, there are almost 40,000 hens laying eggs at the farm run by Ms Shervington-Jones.\n\nThey produce almost as many eggs every day, which are delivered to restaurants, supermarkets, corner shops and hotels, including the Celtic Manor.\n\n\"I've been running it for 15 years now,\" Ms Shervington-Jones said. \"I inherited it when my dad passed away. I've been here all my life.\"\n\nBut the farm has never known price pressures like those seen currently.\n\n\"Our three biggest increased costs at the moment would be diesel, packaging and chicken feed,\" she said.\n\n\"Chicken feed has doubled in the last year. Diesel is just ridiculous, and our electricity to run the chicken sheds - it is quite frightening how much everything has gone up recently.\"\n\nThe price of an egg has not risen as much as the costs facing Victoria and other farmers, and the only option facing some farms is to spend less and cut production.\n\n\"We've just got to ride it out, hope it improves, and that we can survive on the other side,\" she said.\n\nMs Shervington-Jones fears other farms may not last as long.\n\nShe said: \"There are a lot of egg producers going out of business at the moment because they can't afford to keep going.\n\n\"So there's an anticipated shortage of eggs in the autumn, and meat and other things within the industry. There will be shortages on the shelves, but by the time it gets there, it will be too late to do anything about it by then.\"\n\nPrices are already rising in supermarkets, though not by enough to cover the costs facing the producers.\n\nThe latest figures released on Wednesday show UK inflation edged up to 9.1% in the 12 months to May, up from 9% in April, and is now at the highest level since March 1982. The Bank of England has warned inflation will reach 11% later this year.\n\nCaroline Hull says customers have been understanding\n\nCaroline Hull works on a farm in Llanllechid near Bethesda, Gwynedd, and helps to grow, harvest and deliver boxes of vegetables to people nearby.\n\nCustomers vary between young students in Bangor to vulnerable, elderly people in more remote areas.\n\nMs Hull said: \"I have mentioned that we have had rising costs, and they know that it is across the board.\n\n\"We have tried to keep our costs down for the customer, but they have been very understanding.\n\n\"It is just the way that it is at the moment, isn't it?\"\n\nWe have built up the business, no grant aid, all by ourselves. So we don't want to lose it.\n\nHer boss, Chris Jones, has had to increase the cost of a box of vegetables by £1 this year.\n\nThe price of a box has only risen by £3 in the past 10 years, but this year the cost of fuel and fertiliser has forced the farm to pass on some of the expense to customers.\n\n\"Fertiliser has gone up 300%, diesel in the vans is horrendous,\" Mr Jones said.\n\nHe has doubled the wages he pays to Caroline, who is his only member of staff, and will try to absorb around half of the increased costs his farm is facing.\n\n\"We had to do something this year to survive. We have built up the business, no grant aid, all by ourselves. So we don't want to lose it,\" he said.\n\nAt Filco in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, the price of milk is reviewed every four weeks, as the company has to support its suppliers while keeping prices low for customers.\n\n\"We get regular and repeated requests for cost rises from suppliers, so it is a daily occurrence now. Some things will go up week to week,\" said Filco director Matthew Hunt.\n\nMr Hunt said it was \"inevitable\" some of the increased costs would be passed on to customers.\n\n\"We are adjusting our ranges to suit the demand of the consumer,\" Mr Hunt added.\n\nThe company tracks the average basket cost of its customers.\n\n\"That has been fairly steady, which suggests that there is actually a decline in the number of items in the basket because, as we know, prices have gone up,\" he added.", "Joe Lycett said he enjoyed explaining the joke to the police\n\nComedian Joe Lycett has said an audience member complained to police about a joke in one of his shows.\n\nIn an Instagram post he wrote: \"To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate.\"\n\nLycett, 33, who is from Birmingham, said he was asked to explain the context of the joke in a statement and the case was now closed.\n\nHe said the joke would remain in his routine.\n\nLycett added he considered it \"one of the best I've ever written\" and hoped the police were \"charmed and hopefully amused\" by his response.\n\n\"The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed,\" he wrote.\n\nHe shared an image of the police response, telling him the matter was considered closed.\n\nLycett has appeared in comedy shows including Live At The Apollo, Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats and QI.\n\nHe became known for his stand-up routines where he would recall his humorous email exchanges when handling issues such as parking fines and scammers and went on to host a Channel 4 consumer rights show.\n\nLycett has also performed a number of public stunts in recent years including storming off the set of Steph's Packed Lunch in 2021 and changing his name to Hugo Boss in 2020.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Comedian Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975, a jury has found.\n\nJudy Huth testified to the civil trial that Cosby, 84, had forced her to perform a sex act on him at the venue when she was 16 years old.\n\nThe jury also ruled that Cosby must pay Ms Huth, who is now 64, $500,000 (£407,000) in damages.\n\nLess than a year ago, Cosby walked free from prison after his sexual assault conviction was thrown out.\n\nMore than 50 women have come forward with abuse allegations against the man once known as America's Dad, charges he denies.\n\nThe civil case against Cosby in Santa Monica, California, was the first to go to trial and represented one of the last remaining legal actions against him. Filed in 2014, it was delayed for years by Cosby's criminal proceedings.\n\nMs Huth's suit alleged that he brought her and another underage friend to the infamous mansion, lured her to a bedroom and forced himself on her.\n\nWhen she resisted, he forced her to perform a sex act on him, she testified.\n\nIn tears on the stand, Ms Huth told the court she felt \"mad, duped and foolish\" after the incident, as her lawyers presented a photo of her and Cosby inside the mansion.\n\nCosby was not required to appear in person at the trial and never did, but the court saw a 2015 deposition by Ms Huth's attorneys, in which the comedian said he did not remember her and would not have pursued sex with a minor.\n\nLawyers for Cosby sought to poke holes in Ms Huth's claims, noting she had initially said she was 15 at the time of the incident, but changed that detail weeks before the trial.\n\nThey claimed Ms Huth had offered her photo with Cosby to tabloids and others in search of a payout.\n\nJurors were also shown a videotaped 2016 deposition of late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner - a close friend of Cosby in the 1970s - who said it would have been \"very unusual\" for underage girls to be allowed inside the mansion.\n\nKnown to millions for his portrayal of TV dad Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show, the comic has faced accusations of sexual assault, misconduct and rape stretching back to the mid-1960s.\n\nIn 2018, he was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004 and sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.\n\nThe conviction, however, was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year. He was released from prison after serving nearly three years.", "Digging down to level up? Proposals for a new mine at Whitehaven are highly controversial\n\nGoverning is about choices - and it's about decisions.\n\nAnd, every so often, a decision comes along that encapsulates the dilemmas ministers face.\n\nConsider what the government might think of as its core, even defining priorities.\n\nHigh up on the list would be what it calls \"levelling up\", the idea that geography shouldn't be destiny, that regional inequalities should be lessened.\n\nAlso up there would be the commitment to net-zero-carbon emissions by 2050 to restrict climate change.\n\nAnd then, in light of the war in Ukraine, there is boosting energy security and reducing the UK's dependence on Russia.\n\nNow think of the decision, being reached within government right now, on whether to allow a new coal mine to be opened near Whitehaven in Cumbria.\n\nThe black stuff in question, under the Irish Sea, is what is called metallurgical coal, which is used in making steel.\n\nAround 40% of this type of coal the UK needs is imported from - yes, you guessed it - Russia.\n\nCoal is widely seen as one of the dirtiest and most polluting energy sources.\n\nBut west Cumbria is crying out for skilled, long-term, well-paid private-sector jobs.\n\nSo what should ministers do?\n\nYou can imagine the criticism, whether they say yes or no.\n\nMost of the UK's coalmining industry is gone\n\nI've been following this for the last year or so, mesmerised by its awkwardness for those who have to decide.\n\nIt reminds me of a fundamental truth about reporting: it is a privilege to be an observer, asking sceptical questions.\n\nBut it's undeniably easier to ask questions than to answer them.\n\nThis is how the new coal mine could look\n\nSo tricky has been this, the prospect of the first new deep-coal mine in the UK in 30 years, that noisy disagreement and dither have dominated.\n\nThe government asked the Planning Inspectorate to examine the arguments. It has done that and handed its report to the government.\n\nAnd a deadline of Thursday 7 July was set for a decision by the Communities Secretary Michael Gove.\n\nThat is a fortnight away.\n\nWest Cumbria is in need of high-skilled, long-term jobs\n\nOn Wednesday, tantalisingly, we got what looked like a glimpse of the government's instinct.\n\nDeep into Prime Minister's Question Time, Conservative MP Chris Green asked about the importance of levelling up and the approach of other countries to the burning of different types of coal.\n\nThe prime minister knew the question was coming. Boris Johnson could have offered a generic answer. He could have ducked it entirely.\n\nBut instead he said this: \"We can all be proud of the way in which we reduced CO2 emissions in this country, but plainly it makes no sense to be importing coal, particularly for metallurgical purposes, when we have our own domestic resources.\"\n\nTo supporters of the mine in and around Whitehaven, that sounded like a possible prime ministerial thumbs-up for it getting the go-ahead.\n\nThose around Mr Gove remain tight-lipped and sources in No10 caution about reading too much into the PM's comment.\n\nIf Mr Johnson's outlook is soon reflected in the formal decision, we can expect to see opponents of the mine challenge it in court.\n\nAnd the government will face questions on precisely how this will level up, as they describe it. These include:\n\nAnd if they say no to the mine:\n\nThere are tough, legitimate, sceptical questions, whatever - difficult - decision is reached.", "The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall laid a wreath at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, as part of their visit to Rwanda\n\nThe Prince of Wales has met survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide ahead of a summit of Commonwealth leaders.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall visited a memorial and church outside the capital Kigali where the remains of victims are buried.\n\nIn 1994, ethnic Hutu extremists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of members of the Tutsi community.\n\nThe trip marks the first royal visit to Rwanda.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Rwanda on Tuesday night - one of a minority of nations the Queen has not visited.\n\nPrince Charles is representing the Queen, the head of the Commonwealth, at the summit of Commonwealth leaders, which was postponed in 2021 and 2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nHe was encouraged to visit the National Genocide Memorial and museum at Gisozi by former Rwandan footballer Eric Murangwa.\n\nHe is the founder of the organisation Football For Hope, Peace And Unity, and was sheltered from the killings by teammates. The Prince of Wales made him an MBE in recognition of his efforts raising awareness of the genocide against the Tutsi.\n\nThe royal couple later held a meeting with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that he will also travel to Rwanda to attend the summit.\n\nThe royal couple also met Rwanda President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Rwanda on Tuesday night\n\nPrince Charles' visit comes after it was reported that the prince privately criticised the UK's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nAccording to claims reported in the Times earlier this month, the heir to the throne was said to believe the policy was \"appalling\".\n\nThe first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled last week, minutes before take-off, following legal rulings by Europe's human rights court.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla were greeted on their arrival in Rwanda by a small group of dignitaries.\n\nAmong those greeting the royal couple at the steps of the plane were the UK's High Commissioner to Rwanda, Omar Daair, Rwanda's High Commissioner to the UK, Johnton Busingye, special adviser Yamina Karitanyi and the prime minister's special representative on the Commonwealth, Lord Ahmad.\n\nSpecial adviser ambassador Yamina Karitanyi greeted the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall\n\nAhead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm), Prince Charles said the partnership had the \"potential\" to make a difference on issues like climate change and providing opportunities for young people.\n\nThe Commonwealth can be \"an unparalleled force for good in our world\", he said.\n\nPrince Charles last represented the Queen at Chogm in Sri Lanka in 2013, and in 2018 he was appointed the monarch's designated successor as head of the Commonwealth.\n\nThe event is usually held in a different country every two years.", "Baroness Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, is involved in a bitter dispute with some of the organisation's member states - only days before she asks them for a second term of office, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Commonwealth Secretariat - the administration led by Lady Scotland - is suppressing an independent review of its finances that is understood to contain criticisms of the way it has been run.\n\nKevin Isaac, chairman of the Commonwealth Board of Governors - which represents all member states - said the decision by the secretariat to withhold the report was \"an affront\" to the board's authority.\n\nA spokesman for the secretariat said it had factual concerns about the report.\n\nIn a letter, seen by the BBC, Mr Isaac, who is High Commissioner of St Kitts and Nevis in London, writes: \"The secretariat's decision to bar the chair access to the report is an affront to the mandate given to the chair by the board.\"\n\nHe adds: \"The chair regrets and challenges the position taken by the secretariat which demonstrates an indifference to the board's oversight authority\".\n\nThe dispute comes as Commonwealth heads of government prepare to gather this week in Rwanda for a summit where they will decide if they want Lady Scotland to have a second term of office.\n\nJamaica's foreign minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, is standing against the Labour peer and has the public backing of seven member states, including India and the UK.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told MPs on Tuesday the UK was backing Ms Johnson Smith \"to ensure that the Commonwealth delivers for all its members in areas such as trade, investment and defending democracy\".\n\nEarlier this year the Commonwealth Board - which takes decisions on behalf of heads of government in between summits - asked Lady Scotland's secretariat to commission an independent review into the way the organisation was financed.\n\nAccording to Mr Isaac's letter, addressed to all 53 other Commonwealth governors, the review was designed to advise on \"how to put the secretariat on a more sustainable financial footing\".\n\nSome Commonwealth member states have reduced the amount of money they give to the secretariat, with total funding for the body falling over the past decade from about £50m to about £30m.\n\nGlobal accountancy firm Ernst & Young was commissioned to carry out the review and its report was finally delivered to the secretariat on 1 June. But since then the secretariat has refused to share the report with the board.\n\nWhen Mr Isaac asked why, a secretariat official told him: \"The secretariat's position remains that we are unable to share the report, but will do so as a matter of urgency after obtaining external advice to protect the position of the secretariat as contract manager.\"\n\nCommonwealth sources say although the review was designed to look at ways of improving the secretariat's funding, they suspect it contains criticisms voiced by some high commissioners about the way the organisation has been run.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Isaac says he understands the assessments of senior managers at the secretariat \"differ from certain perspectives or reflections contained\" within the report.\n\nHe argues that because the board commissioned the report, the secretariat has no right to withhold it. He says that if the secretariat disagrees with aspects of the report, then it can say so in a separate addendum: \"It does not have the option not to release the report to the governors.\"\n\nOne Commonwealth insider said the report was being suppressed to ensure its contents were not made public while Lady Scotland was seeking re-election at the summit in Kigali.\n\nBut allies of Lady Scotland dispute this assessment and have questioned the quality of the report. It is understood the Commonwealth Secretariat is taking legal advice about how to respond.\n\nA spokesperson for the secretariat said: \"The secretariat received this report late and, when we did receive the final version, we raised factual and other concerns with the consultant about the draft we received.\n\n\"We still have concerns and therefore we are obtaining external advice to protect the position of the secretariat as contract manager. We hope to resolve matters, hopefully amicably, as soon as possible.\"\n\nBoth Mr Isaac and Ernst & Young declined to comment.", "A government rescue helicopter has attended the scene of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan's Paktika province.\n\nMore that 1000 people have been killed and hundreds more injured, Taliban officials have said.", "Advice NI has warned people in Northern Ireland who are still on the old benefits system not to move themselves to the new system of Universal Credit.\n\nBenefit claimants are set to be moved over to Universal Credit by the end of 2024.\n\nAdvice NI, launching a briefing paper, said about 250,000 older benefit claims in Northern Ireland have not yet been transferred across.\n\nIt said claimants should wait to be called forward or risk being worse off.\n\n\"This is an incredibly complex and far-reaching process, with many thousands of people with over 250,000 separate benefit awards set to be affected by 'Move to UC',\" Kevin Higgins, head of policy at Advice NI, said.\n\n\"Whilst the department has confirmed that nothing is likely to happen in Northern Ireland this year, that means that the window for completing the 'Move to UC' exercise is shortened and likely, therefore, to place more pressure on everyone.\n\n\"We also know that some claimants may now be thinking about whether they should move to Universal Credit before the process begins: our clear message is 'don't gamble on Universal Credit'.\"\n\nThe Department of Work and Pensions has previously said the six benefits being replaced \"all have complex and inefficient systems\".\n\nIt said Universal Credit uses \"a modern, digital system\" and \"provides claimants with one-to-one individually-tailored support to help them into employment or to further their career\".\n\nLast month, a Department of Work and Pensions spokesman said moving to Universal Credit would boost the incomes of 1.4 million people in the UK by a total of £4bn a year.\n\nIt comes amid a cost of living crisis as prices in the UK rise at their fastest rate for 40 years.\n\nUK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, edged up to 9.1% in the 12 months to May, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nFood price rises, particularly for bread, cereal and meat, were a big factor in the latest rise, the ONS said.\n\nAll of Northern Ireland's main electricity suppliers have increased prices by 25 to 30% in recent months, while gas and domestic oil prices have also risen sharply.\n\nPetrol and diesel prices have also hit record highs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoctors in Afghanistan have told the BBC that many children may have been killed in Wednesday's earthquake.\n\nMore than 1,000 people died in the disaster, and heavy rain, threadbare resources and rugged terrain are hampering rescue workers.\n\nUnknown numbers were buried in the rubble of ruined, often mud-built homes by the magnitude 6.1 earthquake.\n\nOne woman in hospital in Paktika province told reporters she had lost 19 family members.\n\n\"Seven in one room, five in another, four in another, then three in another, have all been killed in my family,\" she said from her bed.\n\nBy Wednesday night Taliban officials said search and rescue operations had finished in most places, although in remoter areas some continued still.\n\n\"We can't reach the area - networks are too weak,\" a Taliban spokesman was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying earlier.\n\nThe United Nations is among those scrambling to provide emergency shelter and food aid to remote areas in Paktika.\n\nSurvivors and rescuers have told the BBC of villages completely destroyed near the epicentre of the quake, of ruined roads and mobile phone towers - and of their fears that the death toll will rise further. Some 1,500 people were also injured, officials say.\n\nThe Taliban authorities have called for more international aid.\n\nVillagers and rescue workers examine the damage in Bernal district\n\nMost of the casualties found so far have been in the Gayan and Barmal districts of Paktika. Locals report dozens of villages collapsed.\n\n\"There was a rumbling and my bed began to shake,\" a survivor called Shabir told the BBC.\n\n\"The ceiling fell down. I was trapped, but I could see the sky. My shoulder was dislocated, my head was hurt but I got out. I am sure that seven or nine people from my family, who were in the same room as me, are dead.\"\n\nA mother of six who was badly injured in the earthquake told the BBC many in her village had been killed, including seven of her own family members.\n\n\"We are very poor. We cannot reconstruct our homes again,\" she said. \"We have nothing to eat.\"\n\nAll her family's food supplies are buried under the rubble.\n\n\"There is nowhere to go,\" she added. \"I demand the Taliban rebuild our houses.\"\n\nAll the villagers we meet want to show us the damage to their homes done by the earthquake.\n\nThey have lost their loved ones, alongside homes and livelihoods. Possessions are scattered amongst the debris: blankets, pots, beds stick out from the rubble.\n\nThe villagers want the world to see how their lives have been devastated, but also more tangibly, to have their names added to aid distribution schemes. A number of aid agencies have reached the scene but it's clear more help is needed.\n\nOne man we meet has just arrived back in his village from Pakistan where he works as a labourer. Twenty members of his family were killed in the earthquake including his daughter.\n\nAnother, elderly man now finds himself responsible for his five young grandchildren - after their father died. The valleys here are overflowing with tragedy.\n\nMany of the families are now living in makeshift tents, flanked by the rubble of the homes they had worked so hard to construct.\n\nThe deadliest earthquake to strike the country in two decades is a major challenge for the Taliban, the Islamist movement which regained power last year after the Western-backed government collapsed.\n\nThe earthquake struck early on Wednesday about 44km (27 miles) from the city of Khost and tremors were felt as far away as Pakistan and India.\n\nAfghanistan is in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis, and Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a senior Taliban official, said the government was \"financially unable to assist the people to the extent that is needed\".\n\nThe head of the UN, António Guterres said the agency had \"fully mobilised\" over the disaster.\n\nBut Mohammad Amin Huzaifa, head of information for Paktika province, told AFP it was proving \"very difficult\" for rescuers to reach areas \"affected by floods because of heavy rains last night\".\n\nAfghanistan is prone to quakes, as it is located in a tectonically active region, over a number of fault lines including the Chaman fault, the Hari Rud fault, the Central Badakhshan fault and the Darvaz fault.\n\nOver the past decade more than 7,000 people have been killed in earthquakes in the country, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports. There are an average of 560 deaths a year from earthquakes.\n\nEven before the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan's emergency services were stretched to deal with natural disasters - with few aircraft and helicopters available to rescuers.\n\nAccording to the UN, 93% of households in Afghanistan suffer food insecurity. Lucien Christen, from the Red Cross, said Afghanistan's \"dire economic situation\" meant \"they're [Afghan families] not able to put food on the table\".", "Eluned Morgan was censured unanimously by the Senedd on Wednesday\n\nWales' health minister has apologised for embarrassing the Senedd when she was banned from driving for repeatedly speeding.\n\nEluned Morgan became the first minister to be formally reprimanded by the Welsh Parliament, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a statement in the Senedd chamber the Labour politician expressed \"sincere remorse and deep regret\" for her actions.\n\nMs Morgan was banned from driving for six months and fined £800 in March.\n\nThe conviction at Mold Magistrates Court was triggered after she was caught exceeding 30mph on the A525 in June of 2021.\n\nIt followed three other speeding offences in September 2019, June 2020 and April 2021.\n\nPoliticians on the Senedd standards committee recommended a formal reprimand after finding Ms Morgan had broken the code of conduct.\n\nIt followed an investigation by Standards Commissioner Douglas Bain who found the minister showed \"a disregard for the law and a failure to take action to avoid repetition of unlawful conduct\".\n\nSince the court case she has apologised to the first minister, who said she did not uphold the high standards expected but took no further action.\n\n\"I apologise unreservedly and wholeheartedly to you, my fellow Senedd members and to the people of Wales for the embarrassing position I put myself and this respected institution in,\" the Mid and West Wales MS told the Welsh Parliament.\n\n\"I want to say sorry to anyone who has been affected by my actions.\"\n\nShe accepted that she had failed to \"uphold the highest standards\".\n\nThe Senedd passed a censure motion - a formal reprimand - without a vote following Ms Morgan's statement, meaning it was passed unanimously.\n\nThe motion registers the Senedd's disapproval of a member's actions, but is not as serious as a ban from the chamber which would have seen Ms Morgan's salary stripped for a period of time.\n\nConservatives have accused the Welsh Labour government, which has been critical of the UK government over Partygate, of \"hypocrisy\" over the issue.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford had called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign after he received a fixed penalty notice for a Covid rule breach, saying: \"You can't be a law maker and a law-breaker at the same time.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said there was no \"moral equivalence\" between the two cases.\n\n\"She didn't make the law that she has broken. She admitted it, immediately. She has been dealt with by the courts,\" he told BBC Wales in April.", "Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall at their London wedding in 2016\n\nMedia tycoon Rupert Murdoch and actress Jerry Hall are getting a divorce, US media report.\n\nThe divorce would be a fourth for Mr Murdoch, 91. Ms Hall, 65, was previously long-term partner to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.\n\nRepresentatives for Mr Murdoch and Ms Hall, who wed at a church in central London in 2016, are yet to comment.\n\nTheir split comes as a surprise to those close to the family, according to the New York Times.\n\nThat newspaper and the Washington Post cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the separation.\n\nMr Murdoch - whose News Corporation empire controls major outlets including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal in the US, and The Sun and The Times in the UK - was previously said to have been devoting more time to his new wife.\n\nAt the time of his marriage, the billionaire announced on Twitter that he was \"the luckiest AND happiest man in world\", and that he would stop posting on the platform.\n\nIn 2018, his elder son Lachlan was named as his successor as chief executive of Fox Corp. Mr Murdoch also sold most of 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company.\n\nThe couple had also been spotted together in public on several occasions.\n\nLast year, Ms Hall was seen \"doting on\" her partner at his 90th birthday party, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe Texan model-turned-actress was previously in a long-term relationship with Mr Jagger, with whom she had four children. The pair tied the knot in a Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, in 1990. The marriage was annulled less than a decade later in London's High Court of Justice, which ruled that the marriage had never been legal under British or Indonesian law.\n\nMr Murdoch was previously married to Australian flight attendant Patricia Booker, from 1956 to 1967; Scottish-born journalist Anna Mann, from 1967 to 1999; and Chinese-born entrepreneur Wendi Deng, from 1999 to 2014.\n\nAcross their marriages, the pair have 10 children.", "Rail users are braced for days of disruption across England, Scotland and Wales ahead of the biggest rail strike in 30 years.\n\nThere are planned walkouts on most major lines on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday but disruption is also expected on non-strike days due to too few staff working.", "Grounded: The Rwanda removals flight that never took off\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights block on sending asylum seekers to Rwanda could be overturned by ministers under new proposals.\n\nThe plan, being introduced to Parliament, would allow ministers to ignore the court's injunctions.\n\nIt is an addition to planned changes to the Human Rights Act, and could also affect future cases involving migrants.\n\nCritics say the proposals are confusing and would create two tiers of rights that hand more power to ministers.\n\nBut Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said his proposed Bill of Rights fixed problems with the Human Rights Act without abandoning it altogether.\n\nUnveiling the plans, Mr Raab confirmed the government would not quit the European Convention on Human Rights, a set of legal safeguards allowing ordinary people to challenge what they say is unfair treatment by the government.\n\nThe Human Rights Act came into force in 2000. It introduced into UK law rights contained in the Convention - a treaty largely written by British civil servants and lawyers after World War Two and agreed by almost every nation in Europe.\n\nThe Bill of Rights also includes measures proposed last year:\n\nThe most significant new proposal - to ignore ECHR injunctions - follows last week's row over the Home Office's abandoned flight to Rwanda.\n\nThe European Convention on Human Rights is enforced by judges in Strasbourg\n\nThe Strasbourg court, which is nothing to do with the European Union, issued an injunction blocking the home secretary from putting an asylum seeker on the flight, despite earlier decisions by judges in London not to intervene.\n\nThat decision triggered other appeals and ultimately the cancellation of the flight.\n\nUnder the government's proposed Bill of Rights, ministers would be able to ignore such injunctions, known as Rule 39 orders, because they are not technically part of international law.\n\nMr Raab, who is responsible for changes to constitutional laws, said: \"The Bill of Rights will strengthen our UK tradition of freedom, whilst injecting a healthy dose of common sense into the system.\n\n\"We will be very clear in domestic law that Rule 39 interim orders do not bind UK courts or indeed public bodies or officials.\"\n\nThe government's proposals, unveiled in December, have been criticised by lawyers as confusing and arguably unnecessary, because British courts can already ignore rulings from Strasbourg.\n\nMr Raab described his proposals as a \"very British approach, a UK-wide approach to human rights\".\n\nHe told the BBC the UK Supreme Court would not be \"subordinated to Strasbourg but has the last word on interpretation of law\".\n\nHe added: \"The rule of law applies universally but the idea that human rights shouldn't be reformed and any change to the human rights act is unimpeachable, not even Labour politicians at times said that.\"\n\nAsked whether the first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda, that was cancelled last week after legal rulings, would have gone if a UK Bill of Rights was in place, Mr Raab said: \"It is flawed that rule 39 orders from Strasbourg can have an injunctive effect, for example stopping those planes taking off. That's something our bill of rights will address.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShadow attorney general Emily Thornberry questioned whether the move would actually change anything, or rather add \"more and more layers of bureaucracy on the application of the Human Rights Act\", so it would merely \"gum up the system\".\n\nShe said: \"They're just trying to think of anything that they can take on at the moment in order to distract us all from what's really happening, which is their inability to govern - they're trying to pick yet another fight,\" she told the BBC.\n\nLaw Society president I Stephanie Boyce, who represents solicitors, said the package was on a collision course with the rest of the law.\n\n\"The bill will create an acceptable class of human-rights abuses in the United Kingdom,\" she said.\n\n\"It is a lurch backwards for British justice. Authorities may begin to consider some rights violations as acceptable, because these could no longer be challenged under the Bill of Rights, despite being against the law.\n\n\"Overall, the bill would grant the state greater unfettered power over the people, power which would then belong to all future governments, whatever their ideologies.\"\n\nSacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK's chief executive, said the legislation would represent \"a giant leap backwards for the rights of ordinary people\".\n\n\"Ripping up the Human Rights Act means the public is being stripped of its most powerful tool to challenge wrongdoing by the government and other public bodies.\n\n\"This is not about tinkering with rights, it's about removing them,\" he said.", "Aiden Aslin (right) with Alex Tobiassen, who served in the same unit as Aiden\n\nA British man sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court for fighting in Ukraine has been told the execution will be carried out, his family say.\n\nAiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were sentenced by a court which is not internationally recognised, in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).\n\nMr Aslin told his family his captors said there had been no attempt by UK officials to negotiate on his behalf.\n\nThe foreign secretary discussed his case with Ukraine earlier in June.\n\nLiz Truss said she and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba had spoken about \"efforts to secure the release of prisoners of war held by Russian proxies\" and has called the death sentences a \"sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy\".\n\nThe Foreign Office is known to be actively investigating cases of British nationals who have been detained in Ukraine, and is providing support to the families of Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner.\n\nMr Aslin's family said they had spoken to him in a phone call in which he said he had been told \"time is running out\" by his captors.\n\n\"There are no words, just no words, it's got to be everyone's worst nightmare to have a member of your family threatened in this way\", Mr Aslin's grandmother Pamela Hall told the BBC.\n\n\"Aiden was extremely upset when he called his mother this morning. The bottom line is Aiden has said the DPR has told him nobody from the UK has made contact, and that he will be executed.\"\n\n\"I have to believe what Aiden has said to us, that if the DPR don't get some response then they will execute him. Obviously I hope that isn't true.\"\n\nMr Aslin and Mr Pinner moved to Ukraine in 2018, and had served as part of Ukraine's armed forces for several years before the Russian invasion.\n\nBoth had Ukrainian partners and had made the country their home. They were captured after spending weeks defending the besieged city of Mariupol.\n\nBut the Russian-proxy court called them \"mercenaries\", accusing them of being sent to fighting in a foreign conflict for money.\n\nThey were charged with crimes including the violent seizure of power, and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities, according to Russian news outlets RIA Novosti.\n\nEarlier this month Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky told British students that what Russia was doing to the British pair was a \"tragic habit\" and said \"there cannot be any justifications for such actions\".\n\nHe said it was \"a very powerful and dangerous signal\" to other countries that Russia was \"acting this way towards citizens of any country\".\n\nThe UK government has said they should be treated as prisoners of war under the laws laid out in the Geneva Conventions.\n\n\"I have cried buckets over this, but crying doesn't help, I want to do so something but I don't know what to do,\" Mrs Hall said.\n\n\"After Aiden's call this morning what am I supposed to think? I don't want to lose heart but it's very hard.\n\n\"I can't help but think that contact should be made between the UK and Russia.\"\n\nBut UK government sources indicate that ministers are currently unwilling to negotiate with Russia directly because it may risk fuelling a false Russian narrative that the men are mercenaries.\n\nMr Aslin had shortly been due to marry his Ukrainian fiancée, who has come to the UK since his capture.\n\n\"He would have been married by now, it's something that I would have dearly loved. I want him to be married and have the life that he wanted,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"I know that Boris Johnson has been over to Kyiv and spoken again to President Zelensky and I am hoping they spoke about these guys.\"\n\nIn recent weeks Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner have been mocked by presenters on pro-Kremlin television programmes in Russia, which have been showing videos of the men in captivity.\n\nAlex Tobiassen, who also joined the Ukrainian marines with Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner, said the men were now known as \"heroes\" among many Ukrainian soldiers who continue to fight.\n\nHe said their supposed death sentence had galvanised Ukrainian troops even further.\n\n\"It actually rallies more people behind them\" he said, speaking to the BBC from Ukraine.\n\n\"We have family ties here. I'm fighting for my friends, for my family, for my house, and this is absolutely how Aiden saw it.\n\n\"Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner came here before this invasion started, they made a life for themselves in this country, they settled down.\n\n\"They enlisted in the military as a contracted marine, just like anybody who enlists in the military whether in the UK or US.\n\n\"These guys went into the office, they went through their medical process, they went through the background checks, they signed up and made an oath for their commitment, these men are not mercenaries, it's clear.\n\n\"But, as we see, the Russians just completely have disregard for that.\"\n\nAiden Aslin (left) and Shaun Pinner (centre) have been pictured in footage alongside Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim\n\nRegarding the threat of the death sentence being carried out Mr Tobiassen said: \"It's absolutely dire, at this point I really hope that the UK government as well as the Ukrainian government is going to step up and figure out some way to negotiate their release.\n\n\"That's all I can hope for and that's all that I pray for.\"\n\nA protest rally is being planned in support of Mr Aslin by the Ukrainian community in Nottingham this weekend.\n\n\"There are a lot of people out there supporting Aiden and the other guys who are being held prisoner,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"I would tell Aiden we all send our love and support, and that there are thousands of people who there who support him and the other guys.\n\n\"The people of Newark have been tremendous in their support.\"", "Zion's fiancée said he was healthy and exercised regularly\n\nA woman whose partner died after having an AstraZeneca jab has become the first person to receive compensation over a Covid vaccine death.\n\nVikki Spit's former rock singer fiancé Zion, 48, of Alston, Cumbria, fell ill eight days after he had his injection and died in May 2021.\n\nShe was awarded the maximum settlement of £120,000 but said it was not enough.\n\nThe 38-year-old said she had got into debt after losing Zion's earnings and should have had closer to £180,000.\n\nMs Spit also said she had to wait too long for compensation under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme 1979, and the amount had not kept track with inflation since the scheme was set up.\n\nVaccine damage payments available to anyone who has become disabled as a result of having a vaccination and people can also apply on behalf of someone who has died.\n\nThe scheme offers one-off, tax-free sums of up to £120,000 and while payments do not affect people's rights to take legal action, they can have implications for their benefits.\n\nVikki Spit believes Zion may have lived if he had received treatment earlier\n\nMs Spit called an ambulance for Zion when he began suffering \"excruciating\" headaches on 13 May last year and he died in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary six days later.\n\nHis death certificate confirmed he died due to complications from the vaccine.\n\nHowever, it took the NHS Business Services Authority, the Newcastle-based administrators of the compensation scheme, until 17 June this year to make the award.\n\nMs Spit is now calling on the government to increase the maximum pay-out to better reflect the loss of earnings that a person in their 40s would have made before their retirement.\n\nShe said: \"I am still heartbroken by the sudden loss of my partner of 21 years, and alongside this emotional trauma, I have also been faced with financial hardship as a result of the loss of Zion's contribution to household finances.\n\n\"There just isn't the proper financial aid coming from the government to support those who have lost family to the vaccine.\"\n\nShe also said the compensation did not take into account spiralling inflation.\n\nMs Spit, who maintains she is not anti-vaccines, said paramedics deemed Zion was suffering from a migraine when they were called to their home.\n\nThe couple had be due to get married last year after 21 years together\n\nShe said Zion was fit and healthy and would have had a good chance of survival if he had received treatment earlier.\n\nHis donated liver and kidneys helped save the lives of three people.\n\nJames Bell, medical negligence partner at Hodge Jones and Allen, said: \"While I am glad that Vikki has been able to receive some restitution for the hardship she has faced as a result of Zion's death, the scheme simply isn't fit for purpose.\n\n\"Not only has the application process been lengthy and inefficient, but the compensation Vikki received fails to reflect and remediate the full economic impact of her fiancé's death.\"\n\nThe couple had been in a rock band before moving to Cumbria\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children are routinely vaccinated against polio in the UK, but uptake is lower than usual in London\n\nThe virus that causes polio has been detected in a concerning number of sewage samples in London, health officials have said.\n\nThe disease was common in the UK in the 1950s but was eliminated by 2003.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it was probably imported to London by someone who was recently vaccinated overseas with a live form of the virus.\n\nIt says the risk is low, but parents should ensure their children have been fully immunised against the disease.\n\n\"Most of the UK population will be protected from vaccination in childhood, but in some communities with low vaccine coverage, individuals may remain at risk,\" said Dr Vanessa Saliba, consultant epidemiologist at UKHSA.\n\nAn inactivated polio vaccine is used in the UK as part of the routine childhood programme. It is given to children three times before the age of one, and then again at three and 14 years of age.\n\nTake-up of the first three doses is about 86% in London, well below target levels, with the rest of the UK over 92%.\n\nHealth authorities have now declared a national incident and informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the situation.\n\nOver the past four months, the UKHSA has found the polio virus in samples collected from the Beckton sewage works, which serves a population of four million in north and east London.\n\nScientists believe the virus originated from someone who was immunised abroad with the live oral polio vaccine, which hasn't been used in the UK since 2004.\n\nThat person then shed traces of the virus from their gut which were detected by the sewage sampling.\n\nIn rare cases, that form of the virus can then be transmitted to others and mutate into what is known as \"vaccine-derived\" polio.\n\nAlthough weaker than the original or \"wild\" form of the disease, it can still cause serious illness, including paralysis, in people who are unvaccinated.\n\nA tiny number of samples of the polio virus are detected each year in sewage surveillance, but this is the first time that a cluster of genetically-linked samples has been found repeatedly over a period of months.\n\nHealth officials say this suggests there has been some spread between closely linked individuals in London.\n\nNo actual cases of polio have been detected and there have been no reports of rare but serious symptoms in the UK.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid told the BBC that he was not \"particularly worried\" about the detection of polio.\n\nHe added that he had been reminded by the UK's Health and Security Agency that the UK has a high vaccination rate against the virus, with no cases since 2003.\n\nJane Clegg, chief nurse for the NHS in London, said the health service would be contacting parents of children aged under five in London who are not up to date with their childhood jabs.\n\n\"Parents can also check their child's vaccination status in their red book, and people should contact their GP practice to book a vaccination should they or their child not be fully up to date,\" she said.\n\nPolio is a rare disease and it can be caught from food or water that's been in contact with the faecal matter of someone who has the virus, or in rarer cases by coughing and sneezing.\n\nMost people don't have any symptoms and will fight off the virus without even realising they were infected. A small number will experience flu-like symptoms for up to three weeks.\n\nIn a very small number of cases, thought to be between one in 100 and one in 1,000, the polio virus attacks the nerves in the spine and base of the brain.\n\nThis can cause paralysis, usually in the legs. If the breathing muscles are affected, it can be life-threatening.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police Scotland must significantly improve training around equality and diversity, a review has said.\n\nThe review was ordered after ex-firearms officer Rhona Malone - who had raised concerns about sexism - was paid almost £1m after an employment tribunal found she had been victimised.\n\nThe review was carried out by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe PSNI concluded that training should be focused on areas of policing where there is a \"boys' club\" culture.\n\nPolice Scotland said progress on the recommendations would be reported to the Scottish Police Authority.\n\nMs Malone, who was based in Edinburgh, first raised concerns about sexism within the force in 2018.\n\nShe had received an email written by Insp Keith Warhurst saying two female firearms officers should not be deployed together when there were sufficient male staff on duty.\n\nWhen she alerted bosses to her experiences, she was offered a small payout on the condition she signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to stop her speaking out.\n\nMs Malone - who was described as having an \"exemplary record\" - refused and ended up taking her case to an employment tribunal.\n\nThe PSNI review into the case said the key areas for future Police Scotland training were \"in relation to equality/diversity and dignity\".\n\nIt said it had to be made clear that breaches of the training, and standards of professional behaviour, would not be tolerated - and that this could lead to \"misconduct/disciplinary sanction including, but not limited to, dismissal\".\n\nThe report said these were areas which had to be explored in removing the \"boys' club culture\" from the organisation.\n\nThe review made specific reference to Insp Warhurst's email about female firearms officers, in which he had said: \"I am going to plunge in with both feet and open myself up to being accused of being sexist.\"\n\nIt described the contents as \"wholly inappropriate\" and said they demonstrated \"the lack of respect towards female colleagues\".\n\nThe review added: \"Comments such as this are not becoming of police officers, let alone senior management.\"\n\nIt has now recommended refresher training on:\n\nThere is also a reminder that a failure to comply with these procedures may lead to disciplinary or misconduct action, up to dismissal.\n\nIt has also called for an assurance that future mediation is concluded only by trained mediators and that, when welfare reasons are cited, managers must provide support and follow up with medical evidence.\n\nIn 2020, Ms Malone told the BBC that she took her case to a tribunal because she wanted acknowledgement and accountability for the way she had been treated.\n\nShe said she would have been \"an absolute hypocrite\" if she had signed the NDA.\n\nThe tribunal ruled in her favour in October 2021, with the £947,909.07 payout confirmed in May this year.\n\nThe former officer described winning her tribunal as \"vindication\" but said Police Scotland had put her through \"absolute hell\".\n\nPolice Scotland said Chief Constable Iain Livingstone had personally apologised to Ms Malone for the serious issues highlighted in the tribunal.", "Russian and Russian proxy forces in the Donetsk region of Ukraine have suffered heavy casualties, according to UK intelligence officials.\n\nThey estimate the Donetsk militia alone has lost 55% of its original force.\n\nRussian forces are focused on conquering all of neighbouring Luhansk, aiming to encircle the city of Lysychansk, say Ukrainian leaders.\n\nRegional chief Serhiy Haidai said there had been \"colossal destruction\" in the city.\n\nHe said the situation in its sister city of Severodonetsk was \"hell\", and quoted the mayor as saying some 7,000-8,000 civilians remained there.\n\nUK military intelligence said Russia was very likely aiming to deploy a large number of reserve units to Ukraine's eastern Donbas, which is made up of Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nIt drew attention to the \"extraordinary attrition\" suffered by Russian and Russian proxy forces in Donbas. While Russia has for months avoided detailing its casualties, the human rights ombudsman in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic said last week that 2,128 of its forces had been killed and 8,897 wounded. A further 654 civilians had been killed, said Daria Morozova.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his late-night address on Tuesday that while Luhansk was currently the toughest area, the invading army was also \"putting serious pressure on the Donetsk direction\".\n\nIn a separate development, Russian forces fired seven missiles at the southern city of Mykolaiv on Wednesday, according to local leader Vitaliy Kim, who did not give details of casualties.\n\nThe city of Donetsk has suffered civilian casualties from bombardment by Ukrainian forces\n\nIn its daily briefing, UK intelligence said the casualties suffered by Donetsk's proxy militia amounted to 55% of its original force.\n\nFor months there have been reports of civilians being conscripted into the militia by force, with low morale and poor quality weapons, including rifles that went out of service decades ago. Last month, Ukraine's SBU security service claimed militiamen compared conditions to slavery and were ready to desert.\n\nDisaffected former proxy officials such as Yevgeniy Mikhailov said last month that untrained reservists from Donetsk had been sent to the front line because Russia had stopped sending conscripts. One resident told the BBC last month that there had been \"tragedies everywhere\".\n\nThis week the proxy administration said it was offering one-year contracts to foreign mercenaries to join its forces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia's two proxy statelets are not recognised internationally. In fact Moscow only recognised the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics two days before it invaded Ukraine in February. Last week the president of Kazakhstan said in front of President Vladimir Putin that he had no intention of recognising them.\n\nMoscow city council announced on Wednesday that it had changed the address of the US embassy in the Russian capital, from Bolshoi Devyatinsky Lane to 1 Donetsk People's Republic Square.", "Stations opened later than usual on Wednesday with only 60% of normal services running\n\nA second day of rail strikes is under way after talks between the RMT union and railway employers broke down.\n\nThe RMT accused Transport Secretary Grant Shapps of \"wrecking\" negotiations by refusing to allow Network Rail to withdraw redundancy threats.\n\nMr Shapps called the claim \"a total lie\", adding the union was solely to blame for the \"massive disruption\".\n\nThursday's strike is set to have a similar impact as Tuesday's, with just 20% of services running.\n\nMillions were affected on Tuesday at the start of the largest strike in decades. Another walkout is due on Saturday.\n\nThe second day of strikes will see half of the rail network in Britain closed.\n\nIn London, there are no strikes taking place on the Tube network, though operator TFL has warned of disruption to some services, including the London Overground.\n\nIt comes as the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across much of southern England, potentially adding to disruption.\n\nThe breakdown in talks between the RMT and rail companies led to recriminations between the union and the government.\n\nMick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) workers' union, claimed Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had \"wrecked\" negotiations by not allowing Network Rail to withdraw its letter threatening redundancy for 2,900 of our members.\n\nMr Shapps called the claim \"a total lie\", saying he had no involvement in the letter.\n\nThe Department of Transport has said the rail industry is leading the negotiations, but a contract seen by the BBC says that train operating companies' handling of strike action is \"subject to the secretary of state's direction\".\n\nA Network Rail source told the BBC little progress was made in Wednesday's talks, with the union's position appearing to have hardened. No new pay offer was made.\n\nBoth sides in this dispute insist that in recent days they had thought progress was being made. But Wednesday's talks again ended without an agreement.\n\nAs things stand, a deal to avert the third strike going ahead on Saturday isn't looking particularly likely.\n\nThe RMT union says that in talks, it asked Network Rail to withdraw Monday's letter about pressing ahead with a formal consultation over changes to working practices in maintenance teams - which would entail redundancies.\n\nA source at Network Rail, which maintains and operates the tracks, described this as a \"red herring\". They insisted the letter could be ripped up if the union would properly negotiate on the reforms.\n\nThere wasn't a new pay offer yesterday. So far, both train companies and Network Rail have offered an unconditional 2%, with a further 1% conditional on accepting changes they say are necessary to modernise ways of working.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers face another day of travel misery.\n\nMore rail commuters can switch to working from home than would have been possible in the past, but not everyone has that option and many plans will be disrupted.\n\nThe RMT is calling for a pay rise of at least 7% to offset the cost of living crisis, as inflation hits 9.1% and is forecast to reach 11% in the autumn.\n\nEmployers have offered a maximum of 3%, on condition that the union accepts new working practices.\n\nBut rail employers said they had suffered a loss of income, with passenger numbers only at 80% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operating companies, said it wanted to give \"a fair deal on pay while taking no more than its fair share from taxpayers\", which meant modernising the railway to attract passengers back.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister urged the country to \"stay the course\" and resist high pay rises he said could further fuel inflation.\n\nServices started later than normal on Wednesday as trains were delayed depots\n\nOn Tuesday about 40,000 RMT members working for Network Rail walked out, leaving many parts of the country with no rail service at all.\n\nDisruption continued on Wednesday, with only about 60% of normal services running.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson and the transport secretary of not \"lifting a finger\" to stop the strikes.\n\nMr Johnson responded that the government was doing \"everything we can to prevent these strikes\" and it was up to the railway companies to negotiate.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is planning to introduce a new law this week to make it legal for employers to bring in agency staff to replace striking workers - but it will not impact the planned rail strikes on Thursday and Saturday.\n\nHow are you affected by the rail strikes? Do you have an important event to attend during the strike period? What alternative travel arrangements have you made? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mr McCraw called the police response to the 24 May school shooting an \"abject failure\"\n\nThere were enough police on the scene of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, Texas's public safety chief has testified.\n\nSteven McCraw told a state Senate hearing the police response was an \"abject failure\".\n\nHe accused the on-scene commander of placing officers' lives above the children's.\n\nPolice waited for over an hour outside classrooms before a team made entry.\n\nMr McCraw, Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), told the public hearing: \"The officers had weapons, the children had none. The officers had body armour, the children had none. The officers had training, the subject had none. One hour, 14 minutes, and eight seconds - that is how long the children waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued.\n\n\"Three minutes after the subject entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armour to isolate, distract and neutralise the subject.\"\n\nMany parents and relatives have expressed deep anger at the police handling of the mass shooting, which killed 21 people -19 students and two teachers - at Robb Elementary School on 24 May.\n\nThe DPS chief said the scene commander, Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo, \"waited for radio and rifles, and he waited for shields and he waited for SWAT\".\n\nEarlier in June, Mr Arredondo said he had not considered himself the incident commander, and did not order police to hold back.\n\nHe also told the Texas Tribune that he had left his two radios outside the school to keep his hands free to hold his gun.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday the first images emerged showing armed police with rifles and at least one ballistic shield waiting in a school corridor.\n\nThe Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, which have seen investigative documents, said police had arrived earlier in the attack and with more firepower than was previously reported.\n\nImages have emerged showing police officers arriving at the attack earlier than previously reported\n\nThe new information shows Mr Arredondo tried to speak to the gunman, asking him whether he could hear him, the Austin American-Statesman says.\n\nPolice waited for a master key to arrive so that the classroom doors could be opened, even though it had not been established that the doors were locked, while tools were also available that could have been used to break them down, the Texas Tribune reported.\n\nThe gunman was eventually shot dead by members of the US Border Patrol Tactical Unit.\n\nDuring the attack, children were frantically calling 911 to report multiple gunshot victims. Worried parents also tried to rush into the school, as police physically prevented them from entering.\n\nTexas police have not publicly commented on the latest reports.\n\nThe attack by an 18-year-old - identified as Salvador Ramos - has led to renewed national debate about gun regulations.\n\nOn Monday, parents of the victims and other members of the community called for the resignation of Mr Arredondo at a meeting of the school's board.\n\nParents and community members have called for Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo to resign", "The amount of nicotine in cigarettes sold in the US is set to be reduced to minimal or non-addictive levels.\n\nThe White House on Tuesday unveiled the plans which could dramatically reduce cancer deaths - a goal of President Joe Biden's administration.\n\nBut the measure is likely to face opposition by the tobacco industry.\n\nSmoking remains the US's leading cause of death, accounting for 480,000 every year, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nIn a statement, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that plans for a proposed product standard would establish a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and \"finish\" some other tobacco products.\n\n\"Making cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products minimally addictive or non-addictive would help save lives,\" FDA Commissioner Dr Robert M Califf said.\n\nDr Calif added that lowering nicotine levels may decrease the likelihood that young people become addicted to cigarettes and help current smokers quit.\n\nIn 2020, an estimated 30.8 million adults in the United States smoked cigarettes. The US Surgeon General estimates that 87% of adult smokers begin by the time they turn 18.\n\nThe initiative comes after the Biden administration in February set goals of reducing the cancer death rate by at least 50% over the next 25 years, as part of his Cancer Moonshot campaign.\n\nBut experts say it could take at least a year for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates cigarettes, to issue a proposed rule which could then be delayed by opposition, according to the Washington Post.\n\nIt added the tobacco industry, which is likely to be fiercely opposed to such a big change in products, could challenge a final regulation in court.", "Aryan Ghoniya's family said he was brilliant at maths and an all-rounder at school\n\nA family have paid tribute to their \"little professor\" who was found dead in a river in Cardiff.\n\nThe body of 13-year-old Aryan Ghoniya was found in the River Taff at about 17:45 BST on Tuesday.\n\nHis family said they were devastated by the tragic loss and there would \"never be a day when we will not miss him\".\n\nThey added: \"He was very loving with a warm personality and loved by all who knew him, and he will remain in our hearts forever.\"\n\nAryan's family said he was brilliant at maths and an all-rounder at school and a \"caring brother to Naviya\".\n\nThey said they were \"devastated by the tragic loss\", adding that they were touched by the support from the community, Danescourt Primary School, Radyr Comprehensive School, the emergency services and staff at University Hospital of Wales.\n\n\"We strongly urge all parents to explain to their children the danger of playing in rivers. We do not wish any parents to go through the tragedy we are going through,\" they added.\n\nHead teacher of Radyr Comprehensive School, Andrew Williams, said: \"Aryan will be remembered as an outstanding, hardworking and conscientious student with a real warmth of personality, he was a credit to his family and the school community and an absolute pleasure to be around.\n\n\"Our heartfelt sympathy is with Aryan's family.\"\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service joined the search in the River Taff in Cardiff\n\nEmergency services were called to the river on Tuesday afternoon, at about 16:45 after reports of children in the water and a boy missing, near Forest Farm Road in Whitchurch.\n\nAryan's body was found following an extensive search by the police, fire service, ambulance, Coastguard and the police helicopter.\n\nBalloons were released along the river on Wednesday lunchtime, close to the spot where Aryan was found, as a tribute to the schoolboy.\n\nSouth Wales Police said police divers were still searching the River Taff in the area near Melingriffith Drive on Wednesday evening.\n\nBalloons were released into the river as a tribute to Aryan\n\nDet Insp Abi Biddle said: \"Despite the efforts of the emergency services, he was unable to be resuscitated.\n\n\"The coroner has been informed and an investigation into the circumstances of the incident is ongoing.\"\n\nA Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman confirmed three emergency ambulances, two duty operational managers and an advanced paramedic were sent to the scene.\n\nCardiff North MP Anna McMorrin said: \"Such devastating and heartbreaking news. My thoughts are with the little boy's family and friends. Thank you to the emergency services for all your efforts.\"\n\nCardiff council described the incident as \"tragic\" and said it was helping authorities with their inquiries.\n\nCouncillor Kate Carr said on Twitter on behalf of Whitchurch and Tongwynlais councillors: \"Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the 13-year-old boy who has died.\"\n\nEmergency services near the scene of the incident\n\nIt is the second river death in south Wales in less than a month, after the body of another 13-year-old, Kane Edwards of Morriston, was found in the River Tawe, near Swansea Enterprise Park, on 24 May.\n\nWelsh Water issued a safety warning last month following a rise in accidental drownings in Wales.\n\nThere were 26 deaths in Wales from accidental drowning in 2021 across inland and coastal locations, up from 25 in 2020, latest figures show. They were among 49 total water-related fatalities in the Wales in 2021.\n\nIt led to the formation of Water Safety Wales to coordinate advice for those visiting and enjoying waterways and coastlines.\n\nPolice were restricting access to the area on Wednesday morning\n\nWater Safety Wales chairman Chris Cousens said at the time of the campaign launch in May: \"One death is too many and the impact of losing someone to a death in the water cannot be underestimated.\n\n\"We urge the public to understand the dangers, to learn the importance of knowing how to float to live, and to call 999 if others are in trouble and if there is a water-related emergency.\"\n\nThe Canal and River Trust is not responsible for this stretch of river, but its campaigns manager Claire Gauci said: \"It's difficult because everyone's finishing school, it's hot and sunny, they want to go and have a good time with their friends.\n\n\"We would really advise you to talk with your teenager, your primary schooler or whatever age your children are - there's no earliest time to start talking to them, even pre-schoolers can get this message, just tell them to stay away from the edge, just to not get in, there are other ways to cool down and hopefully that message out to people this summer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Videos made by Adeel Habib showed him driving at high speeds weaving in and out of traffic on public roads, police said\n\nA man whose YouTube channel showed him driving high-performance cars at high speeds on busy public roads has been sentenced for dangerous driving.\n\nAdeel Habib, 25, from Harehills, Leeds, was behind the Certi Drivers channel, which had more than 68,000 subscribers.\n\nAt Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and encouraging dangerous driving.\n\nHabib, who is already serving a four-year jail term on drugs charges, was given a 27-month sentence.\n\nAppearing in court by video link, he was also disqualified from driving for 49 months.\n\nHabib had committed the offences between December 2020 and October 2021, according to West Yorkshire Police.\n\nOfficers became aware of his YouTube channel while targeting dangerous driving and anti-social behaviour at illegal car meets in Leeds and West Yorkshire.\n\nHabib's videos showed him driving dangerously on public roads, at high speeds, weaving in and out of traffic, racing other drivers and ignoring red traffic lights, police said.\n\nWhile under investigation for the driving offences he was sent to prison for his part in a drugs supply conspiracy.\n\nAfter sentencing, Insp Richard Horn said Habib was someone who regularly drove with \"all the potential risk of harm to other road users that accompanies such appalling behaviour\".\n\nHabib was \"absolutely shameless\" and showed \"utter contempt\" for road users and the law by \"regularly posting videos of his antics to impress his many followers\", he added.\n\n\"Habib's own arrogance was his downfall in that those videos provided us with a rich seam of material to present to the court and have him answer for his actions.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Bristol couple kept modern-day slaves to run their car wash\n\nA pregnant woman has recounted the \"horrendous\" conditions she endured as a modern slavery victim.\n\nMaros Tancos tricked the victim and numerous other vulnerable Slovaks into coming to the UK with the promise of a better life.\n\nBut instead Tancos and co-conspirator Joanna Gomulska, of Bristol, used them as slaves.\n\nThe pair were jailed on Wednesday after being found guilty of modern slavery and human trafficking offences.\n\nThe woman, who gave birth while working for the couple, said: \"I knew I could not leave, there was nothing I could do.\"\n\nShe spoke as Tancos was jailed for 16 years and Gomulska nine years at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nThe trial heard how they kept vulnerable Slovakians as slaves - forcing them to work at their car wash during the day and other jobs at night - and spent their earnings on gambling, buying cars and funding their lavish lifestyles.\n\nOne female victim said they had \"no life\" under the couple's control and were kept in a squalid bedroom\n\nNational Crime Agency investigators found that Tancos and Gomulska failed to pay a minimum of £923,835 in wages, calculated as if Tancos had paid his victims minimum wage for eight hours a day\n\nJailing them, Judge Martin Picton said their victims \"represented a cash value to you in a way cattle would to a farm\".\n\nThe pair \"trapped\" their victims into forced labour \"solely for the financial benefit\" of themselves, he added.\n\nThe woman - who has since returned to her home country - said that she had a \"good life\" in Slovakia and came to the UK to get a better job.\n\nShe said she did not know Tancos or Gomulska before arriving but was told that \"everything will be provided\".\n\nDespite her working numerous jobs, Tancos - who controlled his victims' bank accounts - only ever paid her €200 (£171).\n\n\"We didn't have time to sleep,\" she explained.\n\n\"We were working, we had some food then we went to bed and then we had to go to work.\"\n\nTancos and Gomulska were told they'd seen their victims in terms of their cash value - using them like \"cattle on a farm\".\n\nThe pair used the proceeds to pay for cars and second homes while their victims lived in squalid conditions.\n\nPolice believe the victims are owed at least £1million in lost earnings that Tancos and Gomulska stole from them.\n\nToday marks the end of a five-year investigation by the NCA into their crimes and will hopefully give their victims at least some sense that justice has been served.\n\nThe woman said she slept in one room with five or six other women, while between six and seven men slept in the attic.\n\nTancos controlled their lives so much that they had to ask permission to go to the shop, she said.\n\nAll this abuse meant that her daughter was \"very poorly\" when she was born because they were living in a room with no bed and only a \"mattress on the floor\".\n\n\"When my baby was born it was undernourished, it was horrendous,\" she explained.\n\n\"I was always waiting for things to get better (but) I knew deep inside he was a fraudster.\"\n\nThe slavery victims were made to sleep in cramped conditions\n\nAnother victim said the house appeared nice at first but it soon \"became a gate to hell\" when they discovered that life would not be as they imagined.\n\n\"I went there because I wanted to provide for my family and give them more than what they had in Slovakia but the life that I had in Maros' house changed my life completely.\"\n\nThe victims would work all day in the car wash then have other jobs during the evening\n\nSpeaking since escaping the couples' control, the woman said she is \"very happy\" because her daughter was \"very poorly\" but has since recovered.\n\nThe trial heard that on arrival in the UK, the couple took their victims' identity documents and phones, meaning they could not travel independently or leave.\n\nThey were forced to work at the couple's car wash business during the day and perform other jobs at night.\n\nTancos and Gomulska kept their victims' bank cards and forced them to open bank accounts. They also applied for loans and credit cards in their names.\n\nBetween 2010 and 2017, almost £300,000 was transferred from their victims' accounts.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The sun shone as fans arrived on Wednesday - but rain could arrive in the coming days\n\nFans are descending on the Glastonbury Festival for the first time in three years, although travel disruption has caused problems for some.\n\nMore than 200,000 festival-goers will arrive at Worthy Farm in Somerset for the event, headlined by Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nBut train travel has been hindered by a strike on Tuesday, with two more planned for Thursday and Saturday.\n\nOne fan, Sarah Hogg, said she was now \"nervous\" about making the trip.\n\nThe 33-year-old from Newcastle had booked a seat on a train to London on Thursday morning, which would have got her there in time to catch a pre-booked coach to the festival.\n\nBut she's now going to have to leave after work on Wednesday evening to get the last train to London, where she'll then have to crash on a friend's sofa.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSarah's slickly-planned journey has turned into a 24-hour endurance test, involving an extra day hanging around in London. \"It's made me incredibly nervous about it and it's just added stress.\n\n\"It wasn't that long ago when they announced that this [strike] was all happening, at a point where everyone who's going to the festival had already planned how to get there.\n\n\"I'm not particularly happy about it, but come hell or high water I will get myself to Worthy Farm.\"\n\nIs it worth the added stress and cost? \"Of course,\" said the seven-time Glastonbury ticket-holder. \"It's my favourite place on this planet.\"\n\nSarah Hogg (left) has been to Glastonbury six times before but has had to change her plans to make it to this year's event\n\nFestival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis were there to greet festival-goers, many of whom had queued outside since Tuesday, as the gates opened at 08:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nEmily said it had been quite an \"emotional\" morning, after the pandemic put paid to the event for the past two years.\n\n\"It's more spectacular this year,\" she told BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson. \"The wait has been so long and it's just the biggest build-up we've ever had.\n\nThe festival is the brainchild of father and daughter team Michael and Emily Eavis\n\n\"Everyone's feeling very happy and a little bit emotional about opening the gates.\"\n\nHer father, the festival's founder, agreed, saying: \"It's all so exciting, you'd never believe it.\"\n\nHowever, another possible worry could be the weekend's weather after the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and torrential downpours across southern England, including the festival site in Pilton, which could lead to flooding in some places.\n\nZahid Fayyaz, a solicitor from Brixton, south London, has been to Glastonbury \"five or six times\" and usually gets the train to Castle Cary, the closest station to the Somerset festival, on the Thursday.\n\nLike Sarah, he bought his tickets in late 2019 and kept hold of them, as the summer event was postponed twice due to Covid.\n\nThere were long queues to get into the site on Wednesday morning\n\nNow that it's finally here, the McCartney fan and his friends will have to take an extra day off work, spend more cash and go the long way around in order to avoid disruption.\n\n\"It's annoying but I'm just going to stay positive at the moment,\" he said. \"I'm generally supportive of the strike but I'd prefer it if it wasn't this week.\n\n\"It will cost me more, and it's going to take an extra two hours, but aside from this, I'll be fine. But other people won't be able to take time off work or afford the extra money.\"\n\nAllan Clifford, a teacher from Leeds, is still hoping to get to Glastonbury on Thursday but has had to rethink his plans.\n\nHe was a regular at the festival when he was younger and was looking forward to channelling his inner \"hippy\" once again in his 50s, but wasn't sure how he would get there because of the rail strikes.\n\nThat was until \"a wonderful and generous person called Alice, who I've never met before, offered to let me hop in her car and drive down with her\".\n\n\"What has happened is a lot of people getting online and organising car shares,\" he explained.\n\nThose arriving on Wednesday are spending the day setting up camp, with a number of smaller stages - particularly dance areas - opening on Thursday, before the main stages get going on Friday.\n\nOne of the bands Allan had been looking forward to seeing, The Damned, were forced on Tuesday to cancel their headline slot on Glastonbury's Avalon Stage due to Covid, but he said he won't let that news dampen his spirits, with 3,000 acts to choose from across the weekend.\n\nThey will include The Kalush Orchestra, winners of the recent Eurovision Song Contest, for what will be the Ukrainian collective's first ever UK performance.\n\nAt 07:00 on Wednesday, Travel Somerset reported it was taking 28 minutes to reach the festival site from Castle Cary station.\n\nIt said it expected travellers to take an hour from the A361/A39 Pipers Inn, and 28 minutes from the A37/A39 Rush Hill, while for those travelling from A303 Podimore to Pylle the journey would be 18 minutes.\n\nGlastonbury is by no means the only major music event affected by the travel disruption. The Rolling Stones will play at London's Hyde Park this weekend as part of its British Summer Time series, Green Day will perform in Huddersfield and London, and Ed Sheeran will walk out at Wembley Stadium.\n\nCalifornia funk rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers also have gigs in Manchester and London over the coming days.\n\nJon Collins, chief executive of Live, which represents the UK's live music sector, is warning fans to beware of \"severe delays and potential safety risks\" when taking alternative routes.\n\n\"This is one of the biggest weekends of the year for live music fans, with Glastonbury and British Summer Time both taking place for the first time in three years,\" he said.\n\nWhile his organisation does \"recognise the legitimacy\" of the strike action, Mr Collins stressed that the recently resurrected sector \"is facing a perfect storm of fragile consumer confidence, rising costs, inflation and supply chain issues, meaning we frankly cannot take the impact of further strikes threatened this autumn\".\n\nAre you going to Glastonbury? How has your journey been affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "European countries say they have received less Russian gas than expected recently\n\nThe head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.\n\nFatih Birol says he believes a complete shutdown is not the most likely scenario but that Europe needs to work on contingency plans just in case.\n\nIn recent weeks, several European countries said they received significantly less Russian gas than they expected.\n\nRussian officials deny it's deliberate and have blamed technical issues.\n\nBefore the invasion of Ukraine, Europe imported about 40% of its natural gas from Russia but that figure has now fallen to about 20%.\n\nMr Birol says he believes that recent Russian reductions in gas supply are \"strategic\". The falls are making it harder for European countries to fill up their gas storage and increasing Russia's leverage this winter.\n\n\"I wouldn't rule out Russia continuing to find different issues here and there, and continuing to find excuses to further reduce gas deliveries to Europe and maybe even cut it off completely,\" Mr Birol told BBC News.\n\nLast week the flow of natural gas through Nord Stream 1, one of the main pipelines from Russia to Europe, was just 40% of capacity. Many experts are sceptical of the Russian explanation that this was caused by \"technical issues\".\n\nAcross Europe, shortfalls in gas supply continue to be reported. On Friday the Italian firm energy firm Eni said that it had only received half of the gas that it was expecting from the Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom, while Slovakia and Austria have also reported falls.\n\nFrance says it has received no Russian gas from Germany since 15 June while Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands have had their Russian gas deliveries suspended after they refused a demand to pay in Russian roubles.\n\nLast month European countries agreed to try to protect themselves from the volatility of gas prices by filling up their storage facilities. They jointly committed to reaching at least 80% capacity by November, with the latest data suggesting they are at about 55%.\n\nMr Birol said the ongoing gas crisis now justified emergency short-term measures to reduce demand, such as increasing the use of coal-fired power stations, and if possible prolonging the life of nuclear power plants. If there was a complete shutdown of Russian gas supply, he says drastic measures may be needed.\n\n\"I don't exclude the possibility that Europe will need a planned and orderly rationing of gas,\" Mr Birol says.\n\n\"I don't say this is the base scenario, but looking at the last several months, if not several years, the experiences we have had with Russia as an energy partner, this is a scenario we cannot afford to exclude for the time being.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asda chairman: Inflation is sparking a \"massive change in behaviour\" amongst shoppers\n\nSome Asda shoppers are asking cashiers to stop scanning items when the till total hits £30 as they try to cut costs, the supermarket's chairman says.\n\nAs well as putting less in their baskets, Lord Rose said more customers were switching to budget ranges with people worried about rising prices.\n\n\"What we're seeing is a massive change in behaviour,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIt comes after food and fuel costs soar, with UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, hitting 9.1% in May.\n\nLord Rose said he saw the inflation rise coming last year like a \"train coming through a tunnel with a big flashing light on the top\". Now it's time to \"fasten our seatbelts\", he said.\n\n\"People are trading back. They are worried about spending,\" he said. \"They've got a limit that they've set out, too. They say £30 is one limit... and if they get to more than £30 then that's it, stop. It's the same with petrol.\"\n\nLord Rose said the country was facing some very tough times and urged the government to do more to help low income households.\n\nBut the Treasury said it understood people were struggling with rising prices and it was making cost of living payments of £1,200 to those on the lowest incomes.\n\nLord Rose also addressed government concerns that supermarkets were not passing on March's 5p per litre cut in fuel duty, insisting Asda price changes were \"done the same day\".\n\nAsda customers are trading down to budget ranges, the supermarket's chairman says\n\nThe retail veteran has some 50 years of industry experience under his belt. He remembers the runaway inflation of the 1970s and said this bout of rising prices has come as a very nasty surprise for consumers.\n\n\"I'm of the generation that remembers what it was like last time. And once [inflation] gets hold, it's quite pernicious,\" he said.\n\n\"And it takes a long time to eradicate... We're in danger of being in a place that it's very difficult to extricate ourselves from.\n\n\"What's rather sad is that the country, the government, perhaps the Bank of England didn't see inflation coming quickly. They've now recognised that.\"\n\nAsda has been tracking disposable income since the financial crisis in 2008 and is all too aware of the squeeze on consumers.\n\nIts latest data shows households had, on average, £44 less a week in discretionary income in May compared with a year ago - a fall of nearly 18%. This is the amount of money left over after taxes and essential bills have been deducted and it is the third month in a row where disposable incomes have dropped to record levels.\n\nLike other supermarkets, Asda is having to grapple with its own soaring costs and decide how much of this to absorb and how much to pass on to shoppers.\n\nAll the big grocers are in a battle to keep prices as low as possible on the most popular everyday items because they know customers will vote with their feet and shop around.\n\nThe UK's third biggest grocer has expanded its cut price groceries with a new range, Just Essentials, covering some 300 products.\n\nIt has also launched Dropped and Locked, an initiative to lower prices on 100 items and keep them at the same price for the rest of the year.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can. We've invested nearly £100m in the last month or so making sure customers get essentials at very, very attractive prices to try and help them,\" said Lord Rose.\n\nBut will it be enough? Asda has recently been performing less well than its rivals.\n\nLord Rose said he was not too worried about market share in the short and medium term.\n\n\"It goes up a bit, and down a bit, you'll see the monthly changes and that's always been the case in retail... We will do what we need to do to look after our customers,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, because we've had a change of ownership - my colleagues and I only took over the business a year ago - we're doing things which we think will affect the long term of the business which will give customers a better Asda.\"\n\nThe Asda chairman and former M&S boss said he did not want to predict where food prices will get to by the end of the year but would like to see more government support for those most in need.\n\n\"I would urge them to do more for those people at the bottom end of the earnings income scale,\" he said. He suggested a VAT reduction or another reduction in fuel tax would be \"helpful\".\n\nHe acknowledged the government now has a difficult balancing act between tackling rising prices without scuppering economic growth. But he knows what he would do.\n\n\"I would say the most important priority in the short term is to kill inflation, because once inflation gets embedded, it's very, very hard to kill. If it means we have to slow the economy down for a while, and it looks as if we are heading for a recession, then so be it.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said its £37bn support package meant it would deliver a tax cut in July to save the typical employee more than £330 a year.\n\nIt said people on Universal Credit would keep £1,000 more of what they earn and a 5p cut on fuel duty would save a typical family £100.", "The US Senate has taken a first step towards passing what has been called the most significant new gun controls in a generation.\n\nSenators voted to speed up the passage of the bipartisan bill, meaning it could be signed into law next week.\n\nAlthough significant, the proposals fall far short of what many Democrats and activists have called for in the wake of a spate of mass shootings.\n\nThe measures include tougher background checks for buyers younger than 21.\n\nThe bill calls for funding to encourage states to implement \"red flag\" laws to remove firearms from people considered a threat. The act also includes $15bn (£12.2bn) in federal funding for mental health programs and school security upgrades.\n\nAnd it closes the so-called \"boyfriend loophole\" by blocking gun sales to those convicted of abusing unmarried intimate partners.\n\nIt is the first time in decades that proposed gun safety legislation has received this level of support from both Republican and Democratic party senators.\n\nTuesday evening's Senate vote - which was only procedural - passed 64 to 34 in less than two hours after the final text was circulated.\n\nSome 14 Republicans voted to advance the bill, suggesting the legislation would get enough support to clear the Senate in a full vote - which Democrats hope to hold within days.\n\nIt will then need to be passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives before making its way to President Joe Biden's desk.\n\nSenator Chris Murphy, the lead Democrat in the talks, said on the Senate floor that the bill \"will become the most significant piece of anti-gun-violence legislation Congress will have passed in 30 years\".\n\nMr Schumer's Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, described the legislation as \"a common sense package\" in a statement pledging his own support.\n\nThe National Rife Association (NRA) opposed the bill, saying in a statement that it \"does little to truly address violent crime\" and \"can be abused to restrict lawful gun purchases\".\n\nPresident Biden earlier this month said the proposals were \"steps in the right direction\" but are still not enough.\n\nHe has pushed for bigger reforms - including a ban on assault rifles, which were used in the Texas and Buffalo mass shootings - or at least an increase in the age at which they can be purchased.\n\nThe last significant federal gun control legislation was passed in 1994, banning the manufacture for civilian use of assault rifles and large capacity magazines, but expired a decade later.\n\nSenator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, said that while the latest bill \"doesn't do everything we need, not by a mile\", it is progress and will likely be followed by other efforts to pass legislation.\n\n\"We are going to keep pushing through the kind of common sense gun safety reforms we know the American people support,\" she said.\n\n\"But we're not going to get stuck on square one any longer,\" Ms Murray added. \"We're not just going to keep spinning our wheels.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nThe US has the highest rate of firearms deaths among the world's wealthy nations. But it is also a country where many cherish gun rights that are protected by the Constitution's Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nPrevious efforts lead by Democrats to strengthen US gun control laws have been hindered by Republicans.\n\nNearly a decade ago, attempts to tighten US gun control laws after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut - in which 20 children and six adults were killed - failed to get enough votes in Congress.\n\nThe Senate, or upper chamber of Congress, is currently split - with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans - and legislation must have 60 votes to overcome a manoeuvre known as the filibuster - tactical delaying.\n\nTen of the 20 senators who came up with the framework for the new measures are Republicans, meaning the proposals had the numbers needed to progress.\n• None Thousands rally across US for stricter gun laws", "Lycett said the joke - which he considers one of his best - would remain in his routine\n\nA police complaint about a joke by comedian Joe Lycett was made in Belfast, it has emerged.\n\nThe stand-up wrote in an Instagram post that a complaint was filed about a segment from one of his shows that referenced a donkey, but did not identify where it was made.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed it received a complaint after a show in Belfast on 8 June.\n\nLycett performed at Belfast's Waterfront Hall on 8 and 10 June.\n\nThe PSNI statement, first reported by journalist Amanda Ferguson, added that enquiries were made and no offences found.\n\nLycett wrote in his original Instagram post: \"To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old comic, who is from Birmingham, said he was asked to explain the context of the joke to the police.\n\nHe said the joke, which he considered \"one of the best I've ever written\", would remain in his routine and that he hoped the police were \"charmed and hopefully amused\" by his response.\n\n\"The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed,\" he wrote.\n\nHe shared an image of the police statement telling him the matter was considered closed.\n\nLycett has appeared in comedy shows including Taskmaster, 8 Out of 10 Cats and QI, and became known for his stand-up routines in which he would recall humorous email exchanges when handling issues such as parking fines and scammers.\n\nHe went on to host a Channel 4 consumer rights show and also has performed a number of public stunts in recent years, including storming off the set of Steph's Packed Lunch in 2021 and changing his name to Hugo Boss in 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinger Kate Bush has said her sudden popularity with a new audience after her recent Stranger Things-inspired chart success has been \"very special\".\n\nRunning Up That Hill went to number one on Friday after being featured heavily in Netflix's sci-fi drama series.\n\n\"It's just extraordinary,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's such a great series. I thought that the track would get some attention. But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this.\"\n\nShe continued: \"It's so exciting. But it's quite shocking really, isn't it? I mean, the whole world's gone mad.\"\n\nThe song originally reached number three in 1985, but took off again 37 years later when a new generation discovered it through Stranger Things.\n\nThe tune is used in a number of episodes of the fourth series, and becomes crucial for the character of Max Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink.\n\nKate Bush is number one 44 years after she last topped the UK charts, with her debut single Wuthering Heights\n\nIn a rare interview, the 63-year-old singer told presenter Emma Barnett it felt \"wonderful\" that her music had \"got to a whole new audience\", many of whom had previously not heard of her.\n\n\"The thought of all these really young people hearing the song for the first time and discovering it is, well, I think it's very special,\" she said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KateBushMusic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAsked whether it was important for her that the song helps a female character, Bush, who has been a fan of the show since it began, replied: \"I think they've put it in a really special place.\n\n\"The Duffer brothers created the series and actually we watched it from the first series onwards, so I was already familiar with the series. And I thought, what a lovely way for the song to be used in such a positive way.\n\n\"You know, as a kind of talisman almost for Max. And yeah, I think it's very touching, actually.\"\n\nRunning Up That Hill has also recently gone to number one in countries including Australia, Belgium and Sweden, and number four in the US - her first ever appearance in the Billboard top five.", "Sammy Woodhouse, who was abused in Rotherham as a teenager, has criticised the new report\n\nA woman raped by Rotherham grooming gangs as a teenager says she is \"disgusted\" by the failure of a new report to hold any officers to account.\n\nThe police watchdog's eight-year investigation criticises the South Yorkshire force's approach to the abuse of more than 1,400 girls in the town\n\nNone of the 47 officers investigated were sacked due to the findings.\n\nSammy Woodhouse, who was abused from age 14, said no-one had been held to account despite \"report after report\".\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) was tasked with examining the force's response to organised sexual abuse between 1997 and 2013.\n\nA total of 47 current and former officers were investigated after the watchdog received 265 separate allegations from more than 50 complainants.\n\nIt said its investigation, dubbed Operation Linden, was one of the \"largest and most complex\" it had ever undertaken, second only to its investigations into policing of the Hillsborough stadium disaster.\n\nIt followed a report by Prof Alexis Jay in 2014, which detailed how girls as young as 11 were raped, trafficked, abducted, beaten and intimidated, predominantly by men of Pakistani-heritage.\n\nIOPC investigators have found there were \"systemic problems\" within South Yorkshire Police that meant \"like other agencies in Rotherham at that time, it was simply not equipped to deal with the abuse and organised grooming of young girls on the scale we encountered\".\n\nIn one illustrative example, the watchdog said one parent concerned about a missing daughter said an officer told them \"it was a 'fashion accessory' for girls in Rotherham to have an 'older Asian boyfriend' and that she would grow out of it\".\n\nCriticisms in the new report include a failure by police to recognise children and young people as victims, and a willingness by officers to accept what they were told by suspects at face value.\n\nThis was echoed by Ms Woodhouse, who said police had \"missed opportunities\" to stop her abuser, who was later jailed for 35 years.\n\n\"If they would have acted when I was making statements at 16 it could have prevented other people from even being abused,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact that they were ignoring it for so long just encouraged him, not just him but other people.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police failed to grasp the scale of child sex abuse in Rotherham, a report has found\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings said the report failed to \"identify individual accountability\" and contained \"few new findings\" despite years of \"costly investigations\".\n\nThe report also identified \"ineffective working with other agencies\" and an unwillingness to pursue cases where the victim did not make a complaint to police because \"the feeling was there would be insufficient evidence for a successful prosecution\".\n\nIt also criticised the computer system used to share intelligence as being \"not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"We found many instances where crimes were not recorded when they should have been, including reports of sexual assault and sexual activity with a child,\" the report said.\n\nIn a foreword IOPC director general Michael Lockwood said it made \"uncomfortable reading\".\n\n\"No child, or young person can ever consent to their own abuse or exploitation, nor should be seen as bringing matters upon themselves. Your protection should not have be seen as a lesser policing priority,\" he wrote.\n\nOne survivor, who was abused from the age of 14, told the IOPC she came into contact with police officers \"three or four times a week\".\n\n\"When I look back now I can't believe how many times I came into contact with the police and how many chances they had to question me... but didn't,\" she told investigators.\n\nAnother said: \"I was told repeatedly by the police that I was responsible for my own actions, allowing myself to be a victim.\"\n\nMs Woodhouse recalled one instance when police found her at a flat after being reported missing from home. She said officers \"told me to write a note to him to tell him where I was because they didn't want him to worry about me\".\"I would have contact with the police on a daily basis,\" she said \"I was never treated as a victim I was treated as somebody who was his mistress, his girlfriend as somebody who was part of his gang. I was victim blamed.\"\n\nThe IOPC made 13 recommendations, including improved training and support for officers.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said it accepted the findings and was \"deeply sorry\", adding: \"Victims deserved better from us.\"\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings said he was disappointed that \"eight years of costly investigations\" had resulted in \"few new findings or accountability\".\n\nHe said most of the report's recommendations had been made and implemented after previous investigations, and that the latest had failed \"to identify any individual accountability\".\n\n\"As a result, it lets down victims and survivors,\" he said.\n\nThe watchdog also upheld 43 complaints against individual officers, with eight facing misconduct and six facing gross misconduct charges.\n\nFollowing disciplinary hearings held by the force, no officers have lost their jobs or faced criminal charges.\n\nMs Woodhouse said she was angered by \"the fact that all this has happened and not one person will ever be held to account on a professional level\".\n\n\"Lives have been ruined. Nothing can happen to replace all the damage that's been done. We're just left to get on with things,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like they've chucked us a little bit of money in compensation. Police officers have just retired, if anything they've been rewarded.\"\n\nDr Billings said it was unfair for officers to have had allegations of misconduct \"hanging over them for so long\", but said the force was now \"on a path of continuous improvement\".\n\n\"We are committed to supporting victims of child sexual exploitation and abuse, listening to their accounts and gathering evidence for consideration of prosecution by the CPS, no matter how long or how challenging investigations are.\"\n\nThe pledge from the National Crime Agency which is currently working to bring the Rotherham perpetrators to justice. Its team, headed by senior investigating officer, Philip Marshall, is probing crimes which, in some cases, go back 25 years.\n\nKnown as Operation Stovewood, it's the single largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual exploitation and abuse in the UK. The Stovewood team is looking at allegations in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.\n\nThe South Yorkshire force, heavily criticised by the police watchdog for its failings over Rotherham, is funding Stovewood. But it's the National Crime Agency which has the twin tasks of winning the trust of victims and putting the abusers behind bars.\n\nSo far Stovewood has seen 20 sex offenders convicted and jailed for a total of 256 years. More than two hundred people have been arrested or attended a police station voluntarily. Four are awaiting trial. They include two brothers, in their thirties, who made their first court appearance earlier this month. They are charged with raping and sexually assaulting three girls - aged 13 to 15 - between 2006 and 2009.\n\nThe National Crime Agency says that in some cases it's been engaging with victims for years and there are around 40 separate Stovewood investigations. Its prioritising those who have caused the most harm in the past and - disturbingly - those who may still be active in Rotherham or elsewhere.\n\nIt acknowledges that one of its key tasks is \"to work with local partners and communities to rebuild public confidence in agencies.\" This report by the police watchdog underlines the scale of the challenge.\n\nThe town's Labour MP Sarah Champion said the report \"lays bare the appalling systemic failures at South Yorkshire Police\".\n\n'It has taken eight long years, but the truth is now out for all to see,\" she said.\n\n\"I know from conversations with survivors of abuse that their main motivation for engaging with this process was to ensure that no other children will be put through the hell they endured. We owe it to them now to make certain that that is the case.\"\n\nShe added: \"South Yorkshire Police has improved, but there is still a long way to go before trust is rebuilt, ensuring the people of South Yorkshire have confidence in their police force again.\"\n\nIn response to the report, Deputy Chief Constable Tim Forber said: \"We let victims of CSE down. We failed to recognise their vulnerability and failed to see them as victims, for that I am deeply sorry.\n\n\"They deserved better from us.\n\n\"The brave accounts of these girls caused a seismic change in policing crimes of this nature for South Yorkshire Police and the wider police service.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People struggling with the soaring cost of living are cutting back on food and car journeys to save money, according to a BBC-commissioned survey.\n\nMore than half (56%) the 4,011 people asked had bought fewer groceries, and the same proportion had skipped meals.\n\nThe findings reveal the widespread impact of prices rising at their fastest rate for 40 years.\n\nMany people have cut spending on clothes and socialising. Some say their mental health has been affected.\n\nTwo-thirds of those surveyed also suggested government support provided so far was insufficient.\n\nThe BBC-commissioned survey of 4,011 UK adults in early June lifts a lid on how the economic climate is affecting lives and financial, physical and mental health.\n\nThe cost of domestic energy, petrol, and food have all increased significantly in recent months, and the findings suggest more than eight in 10 people (81%) are worried about the rising cost of living.\n\nConcern has grown since the start of the year when 69% of those asked said they were worried in a similar BBC survey.\n\nIn the latest results, two thirds (66%) of those with worries said this was having a negative effect on their mental health. Nearly half (45%) said their physical health had been affected.\n\nDay-to-day, individuals are making further changes to manage their budgets. The survey suggests this can be as simple as going on fewer nights out, or getting a haircut less often.\n\nFor charity worker Janine Colwill, from Easington, and those she talks to, the changes have been more fundamental.\n\n\"We get together with the family every Sunday, religiously, for Sunday roast - but my family and other families are starting to grow their own vegetables,\" she said.\n\nJanine Colwill says people in her area are constantly looking for ways to save money\n\n\"Those people who may not have worried about these things before are now worrying about them constantly.\n\n\"With advances in technology, I never would have thought that people would be relying on a food bank or growing their own - and just penny-pinching,\" she said.\n\nThe survey suggests people are finding various ways to manage and save their money. The findings include:\n\nAbout half (52%) expect to work more hours in the next six months to help to pay the bills.\n\nTesco, the UK's largest supermarket, said in a trading update for the three months to 28 May that it was seeing early signs that shoppers are changing their habits due to inflation, such as buying less food and visiting more frequently.\n\nChief executive Ken Murphy also said people are switching to cheaper own-label brands for goods including bread and pasta which have seen prices soar due to the war between Ukraine and Russia, both of which are major wheat exporters.\n\nPrices, as measured by inflation, are rising at a rate of 9% a year, the fastest for 40 years. Interest rates, which also affect the cost of living, were increased to 1.25% on Thursday by the Bank of England - the highest they have been for 13 years.\n\nThe situation is being driven, to a significant degree, by global factors such as the cost of oil, gas and food.\n\nBut there are UK-specific issues which are adding to inflation such as the tight labour market. Job vacancies are at a record high of 1.3 million meaning employers face paying higher wages to fill roles.\n\nAlso, the UK's dominant services sector - which includes the likes of accountancy and law firms, as well as restaurants and pubs - is seeing price rises.\n\nDrivers now have to spend £103 for petrol and £106 for diesel to fill a family car, according to the RAC. The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) has predicted food prices will rise at a rate of 15% this summer as households pay more for staples such as bread, meat, dairy and fruit and vegetables.\n\nA typical household in England, Wales and Scotland is likely to see a rise in its annual domestic gas and electricity bill of £800 in October, on top of a £700 rise in April.\n\nThe surge in inflation is hitting wide and hitting deep, with the effects leading to significant changes in the way lives are being lived well beyond those on low incomes.\n\nLarge swathes of Britain's middle income working households are having to make material cutbacks and even after that are part of a new class of those \"just about managing\".\n\nIn practice this has meant energy bill direct debits wiping out people's entire disposable income, some food banks running out of food donations, or their donors becoming users.\n\nAnd it may be changing attitudes, with nearly two-thirds of those asked saying even after the recent package of support for energy bills from the government, that it is not enough. And the numbers suggest a similar proportion think the support in place needs to last at least a year longer.\n\nInflation this high certainly changes the economy and our spending behaviour.\n\nBut the figures raise a question about whether the high levels of government support in the pandemic and in this energy crisis too, are now becoming baked into public expectations.\n\nSoaring prices have led the government to announce a package of financial support directed primarily at those on low incomes. This includes a £400 discount on all energy bills in October, in addition to payments totalling £650 to people on means-tested benefits. Pensioners will get more this winter, as will billpayers with disabilities.\n\nHowever, the BBC survey reveals that 64% of those asked said this support was insufficient to help people with the rising cost of living.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke said vulnerable households would receive £1,200 which he said was part of a \"very large\" amount of support, on top of what had already been provided.\n\nHe said the first payments would come in July, and would continue into the autumn to offset the key driver of the rising cost of living for households, which was energy bills.\n\n\"That, of course, is yet to filter through to people, which is why I suspect people are saying they want more support,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"As this gathers pace, it will be clear to people that this will be a comprehensive package.\"\n\nThe impact of rising household costs has already led to the financial regulator warning lenders that they need to do more to help those in financial difficulty and support vulnerable customers.\n\n\"Early action is important for those struggling with debt,\" said Sheldon Mills, of the Financial Conduct Authority.", "Picket lines were set up at stations across the country as the first day of the biggest rail strike in decades disrupted the travel plans of millions.\n\nMembers of the RMT union walked out on Tuesday over job cuts, conditions, pay and pensions. Many plan to do the same on Thursday and Saturday.\n\nUnion bosses have blamed the government for cuts and below-inflation wage proposals, while ministers say the railways need reform and large pay increases could send soaring inflation out of control.\n\nLondon Bridge station supervisor Jane Gwynn said she and her colleagues were striking because their pensions, working conditions and pay were being sacrificed due to the economic effects of the pandemic.\n\n\"We worked the same as other people - [the] same as people who work from home and we just carried on. It shouldn't be up to us to pay the price with our conditions in the future,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking from the picket line at Orpington station in south-east London, an RMT rail worker said he was costing his family money by going on strike and losing wages.\n\nThe man, who wished to remain anonymous, told us: \"We don't want to inconvenience anyone. I apologise sincerely, but if I don't believe and stand up for what the union is for, what's the point in being in the union?\"\n\nHe added: \"Enough is enough now. Everyone in every position needs to stand up to this government for what you believe in and get what's owed to you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: One striking RMT worker says \"Enough is enough... we need to stand up to this government\"\n\nElsewhere, there was a withering response from striking railway workers to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' claim that the RMT's call for him to come to intervene was \"a stunt\".\n\nOne worker at Euston station, who didn't want to give his name, said: \"Grant Shapps would be better served trying to find a resolution to this dispute than criticising rail workers who kept the country moving during Covid.\"\n\n\"He called our members true heroes during the pandemic - now he's attacking them,\" he added.\n\nAnother said rail workers were facing redundancies, which would \"threaten not just their livelihoods, but the safety and security of the railway\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the reforms are vital to the railways and passengers - and has urged the public \"to get ready to stay the course\" of disruption.\n\nMembers of the RMT union at the picket line in Swansea\n\nElsewhere, Robert, an RMT member on strike in Milton Keynes, told BBC 5Live that he worked \"longer and harder\" throughout the pandemic as an essential worker.\n\nHe said being on furlough wasn't an option for workers like him as the railway infrastructure had to be maintained by staff, despite a reduced number of trains operating as people stayed home.\n\n\"The railways are not like the roads where if there's a pothole someone will drive round it. If there's a problem on the railway, trains will have to put a speed limit on it or not run it,\" he added.", "First responders carry a victim out of the disaster zone following the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015\n\nEarthquakes have claimed millions of lives in the last 100 years, and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll.\n\nA 6.1-magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has kills at least 1,000 people and injures more than 1,500.\n\nA 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills more than 2,000 people and leaves more than 12,000 people injured. Haitian officials estimates that 600,000 people are in need of emergency assistance.\n\nIndonesia is hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake and at least 105 people die as a result. The country's Sulawesi island is at the epicentre.\n\nAlbania witnesses one of its most powerful earthquakes. At least 41 people are killed as a result of the 6.4-magnitude quake, which injures more than 3,000 people.\n\nMore than 460 people are killed after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Lombok. It levelled homes, mosques and businesses, displacing some 350,000 people. An earlier 6.4 magnitude tremor on 29 July killed at least 16, and the region has suffered hundreds of aftershocks.\n\nA magnitude-7.3 earthquake, the fourth largest in 2017 up to that point, strikes the Iran-Iraq border. About 440 people are killed and another 10,000 injured as the quake is felt in Israel and across the Gulf.\n\nAt least 369 people die - most in and around Mexico City - during a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. It follows a more powerful but less deadly earthquake 12 days before; the 7 September quake was a magnitude 8.1, the most powerful to hit the country in a century, but its epicentre was offshore.\n\nAt least 298 people are killed when a magnitude 6 earthquake strikes central Italy. Worst hit is Amatrice, where many of the town's historic buildings collapse.\n\nA powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Ecuador's coast, killing more than 650 people. More than 16,000 people are hurt and some 7,000 buildings destroyed.\n\nAlmost 400 people are killed when a magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes north-eastern Afghanistan. Most of those killed are in Pakistan, but the quake is also felt in northern India and Tajikistan.\n\nA 7.8-magnitude earthquake kills more than 8,000 people and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless, in the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since 1934. In some parts of the country, the quake flattens 98% of all homes in hillside villages.\n\nApproximately 600 people are killed in a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that strikes Yunnan province in China. Thousands of houses are destroyed and landslides are triggered. More than 2,400 people are injured.\n\nMore than 200 people are reported to have died after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes centrally-located Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines.\n\nMore than 300 people are killed as a 7.7-magnitude quake flattens entire villages in Pakistan's remote south-western province of Balochistan, mainly in the district of Awaran.\n\nA powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake kills at least 160 people and injured at least 5,700 in China's rural south-western Sichuan province.\n\nAt least 250 people are killed and more than 2,000 injured in north-west Iran by two powerful quakes which strikes within minutes of each other near the towns of Tabriz and Ahar.\n\nMore than 200 people are killed and 1,000 are injured in a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake which hits south-eastern Turkey; many of the victims are in the town of Ercis, where dozens of buildings collapse.\n\nA devastating magnitude-8.9 quake strikes Japan, leaving more than 20,000 people dead or missing. The tremor generates a massive tsunami along the Japanese coast and triggers the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.\n\nA magnitude-6.3 earthquake shatters the New Zealand city of Christchurch, killing more than 160 people and damaging some 100,000 homes.\n\nAt least 400 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes western China's Qinghai province.\n\nA magnitude-8.8 earthquake hits central Chile north-east of the second city, Concepcion, killing more than 700 people.\n\nAbout 230,000 people die in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince as a 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes the city.\n\nMore than 1,000 people die after an earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Sumatra.\n\nAn earthquake hits the historic Italian city of L'Aquila, killing 309 people.\n\nUp to 300 people are killed in the Pakistani province of Balochistan after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude strikes 45 miles (70km) north of Quetta.\n\nUp to 87,000 people are killed or missing and as many as 370,000 injured by an earthquake in just one county in China's south-western Sichuan province.\n\nThe tremor, measuring 7.8, struck 57 miles (92km) from the provincial capital Chengdu during the early afternoon.\n\nAt least 519 people are killed in Peru's coastal province of Ica, as a 7.9-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes about 90 miles (145km) south-east of the capital, Lima.\n\nA 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake triggers a tsunami that strikes a 125-mile (200km) stretch of the southern coast of Java, killing more than 650 people on the Indonesian island.\n\nMore than 5,700 people die when a magnitude 6.2 quake hits the Indonesian island of Java, devastating the city of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 7.6 strikes northern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving millions homeless.\n\nAbout 1,300 people are killed in an 8.7-magnitude quake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra.\n\nHundreds die in a 6.4 magnitude quake centred in a remote area near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province.\n\nHundreds of thousands are killed across Asia when an earthquake measuring 9.2 triggers sea surges that spread across the region.\n\nAt least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.\n\nMore than 26,000 people are killed when an earthquake destroys the historic city of Bam in southern Iran.\n\nAlgeria suffers its worst earthquake in more than two decades. More than 2,000 people die and more than 8,000 are injured in a quake felt across the sea in Spain.\n\nMore than 160 people are killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory, in south-eastern Turkey.\n\nMore than 260 people die and almost 10,000 homes are destroyed in Xinjiang region, in western China.\n\nItaly is traumatised by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia when their school building collapses on them.\n\nAn earthquake measuring magnitude 7.9 devastates much of Gujarat state in north-western India, killing nearly 20,000 people and making more than a million homeless. Bhuj and Ahmedabad are among the towns worst hit.\n\nAbout 400 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale strikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey.\n\nTaiwan is hit by a quake measuring 7.6 that kills nearly 2,500 people and causes damage to every town on the island.\n\nA magnitude-7.4 earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul, leaving more than 17,000 dead and many more injured.\n\nMore than 1,600 are killed in Birjand, eastern Iran, in an earthquake of magnitude 7.1.\n\nThe far eastern island of Sakhalin is hit by a massive earthquake measuring 7.5, which claims the lives of 1,989 Russians.\n\nThe Hyogo quake hits the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 6,430 people.\n\nAbout 10,000 villagers are killed in western and southern India.\n\nAbout 40,000 people die in a tremor in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates north-west Armenia, killing 25,000 people.\n\nMexico City is shaken by a huge earthquake which razes buildings and kills 10,000 people.\n\nSome 1,500 people are killed in an earthquake that hit close to the Romanian capital, Bucharest.\n\nThe Chinese city of Tangshan is reduced to rubble in a quake that claims at least 250,000 lives.\n\nAn earthquake devastates a wide area around the town of Los Amates in eastern Guatemala, killing about 23,000 people.\n\nUp to 10,000 people are killed in the Nicaraguan capital Managua by an earthquake that measures 6.5 on the Richter scale. The devastation caused by the earthquake is blamed on badly built high-rise buildings that easily collapsed.\n\nAn earthquake high in the Peruvian Andes triggers a landslide, burying the town of Yungay and killing 66,000 people.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale strikes the Macedonian capital of Skopje, killing 1,000 people and leaving 100,000 homeless.\n\nThe world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages. Death toll reports vary widely, but many settle on the 2,000 mark.\n\nThe Great Kanto earthquake, with its epicentre just outside Tokyo, claims the lives of 142,800 people in the Japanese capital.\n\nEarthquake about 7.1 magnitude and subsequent tsunami in Italy's Messina Strait, badly affecting the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria. Deaths estimated at 70,000-80,000.\n\nSan Francisco is hit by a series of violent shocks which last up to a minute. Between 700 and 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire.", "The Kaliningrad region, which has no land border with Russia, is a strategic region where Russia's Baltic Fleet is headquartered\n\nRussia has warned Lithuania of \"serious\" consequences after it banned the rail transfer of some goods to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.\n\nRussia \"will certainly respond to such hostile actions,\" senior security official Nikolai Patrushev said.\n\nLithuania says it is only following the EU sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nKaliningrad - a strategic region where Russia's Baltic Fleet is headquartered - has no border with mainland Russia.\n\nThe western territory was annexed from Germany after World War Two in 1945 and is bordered by EU and Nato members Lithuania and Poland.\n\nThe region - where an estimated one million people live - relies heavily on imports of raw materials and spare parts from Russia and the EU.\n\nRegional governor Anton Alikhanov said the ban would cover around 50% of the items that Kaliningrad imports.\n\nDuring a visit on Tuesday to Kaliningrad, Mr Patrushev said the blockade by Lithuania was instigated by the West \"in violation of... international law\".\n\nThe secretary of Russia's Security Council warned that \"appropriate measures\" would be taken \"in the near future\".\n\n\"Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania,\" he added, without giving any further details.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the EU ambassador was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry over the blockade.\n\nLast week, the Lithuanian authorities announced they would ban goods subject to EU sanctions from passing through their territory to Kaliningrad.\n\nLithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said: \"It's not Lithuania doing anything: it's European sanctions that started working from 17 June... It was done with consultation from the European Commission and under European Commission guidelines.\"\n\nThe EU has echoed Lithuania's statement, saying that the country is just implementing sanctions imposed by the EU as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAs a member of the Nato military alliance, Lithuania is protected by collective defence treaties.\n\nUS state department spokesman Ned Price said the US was standing by Lithuania, adding that the country's commitment to Nato's Article 5 - which views an attack on one member state as an attack on all - was \"iron clad\".\n\nRussian officials are furious with Lithuania - and the EU - over the ban on the transit of some goods to Kaliningrad. They're likening it to a blockade.\n\nBut when the foreign ministry in Moscow says \"Russia reserves the right to take actions to protect its national interests\", what exactly does it mean? What actions and when?\n\nThe Kremlin says it's trying to work that out right now.\n\nOn Monday, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, noted that \"the situation is really very serious and requires a very deep analysis before preparing any measures or any decisions. This thorough analysis will be carried out over the next few days.\"\n\nToday, one of Mr Putin's closest allies, Nikolai Patrushev, flew to the Kaliningrad region to discuss \"national security in north-west Russia\". Mr Patrushev is secretary of Russia's powerful Security Council. Officials claim the visit was planned long in advance. What a coincidence.\n\nWhen it comes to \"national security\", Kaliningrad is a key location. Russia's Baltic fleet has its headquarters there. And Moscow has previously deployed nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad region.\n\nIn other developments on Tuesday:", "The RNLI has warned of the potential dangers of swimming in lakes and rivers after six people died entering water on the island of Ireland during the past week.\n\nThey included two teenagers who died following incidents in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nKevin Rahill of the RNLI stressed that people should stick to a \"lifeguarded beach\".\n\nHe said rivers, lakes and reservoirs had \"hidden obstacles\" that can trap.\n\n\"They can be potentially dangerous in the fact that they can be rather deep - fresh water is normally colder than sea water,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"And there can be hidden dangers as well, hidden obstacles in waters like that that can trap people and make it difficult for people to move around.\n\n\"And also very often in lakes and rivers and reservoirs getting in and out can be a bit more difficult than a beach.\"\n\nThe RNLI has warned about the dangers of swimming in rivers and lakes\n\nMr Rahill, who is the RNLI's regional water safety lead, said that with the recent spell of hot weather there is the \"potential for more incidents in terms of people getting into difficulty\".\n\n\"If possible, swimming at a lifeguarded beach will certainly keep the number of incidents down,\" he added.\n\n\"Swim at a lifeguarded area, that's probably the most important thing to think of.\n\n\"If you are not familiar with the area, the lifeguards will know it, so they will be able to tell you where's safe and where's not safe - and swim between the flags.\"\n\nHe also highlighted the 'float to live' message if people did fall in the water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ross MacLeod, RNLI : \"Rest and relax in the water\"\n\nThe RNLI's appeal came as the UN prepares to host its first World Drowning Prevention Day on Sunday (25 July).\n\nIrish Water Safety has said the majority of water tragedies occur in inland waterways and has emphasised the potential dangers of swimming in rivers and lakes.\n\nMeanwhile, Gerard O'Flynn, operations manager with the Irish Coastguard, told Irish broadcaster RTÉ it had responded to about 1,690 incidents this year to date, compared to 1,340 at the same time last year.\n\nHe said that \"the excellent weather combined with restrictions on other recreational activities\" has led to more people in the water.\n\nHe urged people not to swim alone and to avoid using inflatable toys in the open water.\n\nMr O'Flynn also appealed to jet ski users to be sensitive to other swimmers.\n\nSwimmers have been asked to stick to a \"lifeguarded beach\"\n\nHe said the increased popularity of open water swimming has seen many people swimming longer distances and he called on people to make sure they are visible in the sea by wearing a cap and a tow float.\n\nNorthern Ireland Water has said \"that there is no time for complacency around water\".\n\nIt has urged \"the community, especially children and young people, to take care around all bodies of water\".\n\nThe ESB in the Republic of Ireland has also reminded people of the dangers of swimming in reservoirs.\n\nIt said: \"These areas are not appropriate for swimming because of the risk of deep and fast-flowing waters, changing water levels and uneven ground.\"\n\nOn Friday, a man in his 60s died after swimming off Dollymount Strand in north Dublin - the sixth death to come from people entering water in the island of Ireland in the past week.\n\nThe five other people died after going into lakes.\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was rescued from a lake in the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday afternoon died in hospital on Thursday.\n\nThe boy was swimming in Lough Sheelin, at a meeting point of counties Westmeath, Meath and Cavan.\n\nJay Moffett, 13, was taken to hospital after entering water in the Canal Court area of Scarva, but later died\n\nEarlier in the week, Jay Moffett, 13, died in hospital after going into water in the Canal Court area of Scarva, County Down on Monday afternoon.\n\nThree adults also died in three separate incidents in the past week in County Fermanagh, on the Longford-Cavan border, and in County Leitrim.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The escaped calf was spotted on CCTV at a Glasgow railway station\n\nA young bull has been captured on CCTV waiting at a railway station in Glasgow.\n\nThe animal wandered onto the platform of Pollokshaws West station on Monday evening after some fencing came loose next to the railway line.\n\nIt was caught on ScotRail CCTV cameras appearing to check the train times and standing under the shelter before changing its mind and leaving.\n\nThe calf waited for a bit in the platform shelter before changing its mind and heading home\n\nA ScotRail spokeswoman said: \"We're not sure if this customer was trying to find out how to get to 'Cowdenbeef' or not.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our attempts to communicate seemed to go in one ear and out the udder.\n\n\"Thankfully, it didn't stop any trains from moo-ving, and after a short time, the bull hoofed it out the station back to his field.\"\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland tweeted: \"Happy to confirm we've attended this area and secured the fence. The wee coo is safe,\" it wrote.\n\nGlasgow City Council confirmed the bovine adventurer was one of its famous fold of 50 Highland cattle based in nearby Pollok Country Park.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are pleased to say that our young calf is now safely back in the fold and enjoying the country park once more.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the Highland cows have gone for a wander.\n\nIn November last year several cows broke out of their enclosure and were discovered walking next to the Burrell Collection.\n\nThe cattle also made it to Pollokshaws West and stopped trains from passing before they were returned to their enclosure.", "Scotland's first minister has launched a fresh campaign for independence and has said she \"stands ready\" to negotiate with PM Boris Johnson to hold a second referendum.\n\nAt a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the first in a series of new papers setting out the case for change.\n\nShe said a way forward to a Scottish independence vote should be found with or without the backing of Westminster.\n\n\"We must forge a way forward, if necessary without a section 30 order... but must do so in a lawful manner,\" she told reporters.", "The EU is expected to launch legal action against the UK government on Wednesday over its decision to scrap some post-Brexit trade arrangements.\n\nMinisters insist current checks on some goods travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland must end to avoid harm to the peace process.\n\nThey published a parliamentary bill on Monday aimed at overriding parts of the deal signed with the EU in 2020.\n\nBut Brussels says going back on the arrangement breaks international law.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is the part of the Brexit deal which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThis prevents a hard border with the Republic of Ireland - including checks there on the movement of people and goods - which both the UK and EU want to avoid in order to ensure peace is maintained.\n\nBut instead it means checks on some goods arriving into Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK.\n\nThat is opposed by unionists in Northern Ireland who argue it creates a trade border in the Irish Sea and could lead to the break-up of the UK.\n\nFollowing elections in Northern Ireland last month, the Democratic Unionist Party is refusing to serve in a power-sharing executive with Sinn Fein until the protocol is changed.\n\nBut other parties in Northern Ireland - including Sinn Fein, the Alliance Party and the SDLP - accept the deal as it stands.\n\nThe UK government says it would prefer to agree changes with the EU, rather than act alone in making changes to the protocol.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We've been acting in good faith in these negotiations, but the fundamental issues that are affecting political stability in Northern Ireland are in the text of the protocol and what we need is the EU to agree to change the text of the protocol.\n\n\"Otherwise the negotiations won't succeed. We've reached a dead end, because we can't change those core issues around customs and around VAT that are losing us the consent of the unionist community in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nAt the centre of the UK government's plan are measures they say would ease the impact on businesses - set out in the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill - including the concept of \"green lanes\" and \"red lanes\" for trade.\n\nThe UK also wants the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) to have no future role in deciding disputes involving the protocol, with an independent arbiter overseeing sitting in judgement instead.\n\nIn response, the EU has indicated it will restart legal action it began in March last year, when it accused the UK of delaying, without consultation, the enforcement of parts of the protocol relating to customs checks.\n\nIt could go further by taking the UK to the ECJ over claims it did too little to set up border control posts and share data with the EU.\n\nThe European Commission is expected to sign off the next legal steps at its meeting on Wednesday, while many senior EU figures have spoken out against the UK's plan to rewrite parts of the protocol.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told Today: \"This is not consistent with international law and the British government's obligations under international law, and that will be shown in time.\"\n\nHe added that \"effectively what they will be doing is collapsing the protocol\" and removing protections against \"the severe disruption of Brexit on the island of Ireland\".\n\n\"Britain has taken a very regrettable decision that goes against all the agreements between the EU and Britain,\" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.\n\n\"It is also unjustified because the European Commission made many pragmatic proposals.\"\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Boris Johnson's government to \"continue negotiations with the EU in good faith\".\n\nBusinesses which import Great Britain goods to Northern Ireland have experienced difficulties with the protocol as the checks and controls add cost and complexity.\n\nFood and horticulture importers have faced the greatest problems, as those goods face the most onerous controls.\n\nHowever, exporters have benefited because unlike other parts of the UK they have maintained frictionless access to EU markets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Although the war had ended, some of the veterans found the celebrations back at home difficult\n\nChristopher \"Bowser\" Thomas was \"a bit of a wild character\", in the words of his sister, Bernie Mills.\n\nThe Cardiff-born soldier had a passion for motorbikes, getting his first one at 16, then having to get rid of it, before getting another at 17 and joining the Hell's Angels when he moved away to Poole in Dorset.\n\nThen came a surprise turn. \"He went from being a Hell's Angel to a soldier. It does seem a bit incongruous, but no, he fitted in both very well,\" said Bernie.\n\n\"Nobody in the family can really remember why he decided he was going to be a Welsh Guard. But there was no stopping him, he'd decided and that was it.\"\n\nChris \"Bowser\" Thomas had a love of motorbikes that stayed with him into his army career\n\nChris joined the Welsh Guards and was a lance corporal when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982, sending thousands of troops to the remote South Atlantic British-held territory.\n\nIn keeping with his love of motorbikes, he acted as a dispatch rider once on the islands.\n\n\"They actually redistributed some supplies to the different outposts, as well as just messages,\" explained Bernie.\n\n\"Sometimes it's not their stuff that they're redistributing, shall we say, they get around. There's only a few of them. I think what they saw was quite horrific, and what they did was quite horrific.\"\n\nOn 13 June, just one day before the Argentine surrender, Chris was riding with his partner Eric when disaster struck.\n\nChris Thomas aged 18 when he signed up for the Welsh Guards\n\n\"He was on his bike as part of [regimental sergeant major] Tony's team, and he actually went over a landmine. There was a hole in a road.\n\n\"I say road, it wasn't a road, it was a trackway, and Eric went one way and Chris went the other. Eric's OK, Chris isn't.\"\n\nChris Thomas was one of the last soldiers to die in the Falklands War\n\nHeavily pregnant at the time, Bernie was at home when her husband came back early from work to tell her Chris had been killed, one of the very last soldiers to die in the conflict.\n\nShe could not accept the news for a long time. \"I always believed somewhere in the back of my mind that he was hiding somewhere,\" she said. \"You know, in a bivouac somewhere. I don't know. But certainly, I didn't believe he died until he came home, until his body came home.\"\n\nThe Welsh Guards suffered the most losses of any regiment in the war. Five days before Chris was killed, 32 other Guardsmen had died on 8 June in the bombing of the support ship Sir Galahad, which was eventually scuttled as a war grave.\n\nChris was one of the only Welsh Guards whose bodies were returned to the UK for burial.\n\nDenzil Connick (second from right) getting his Parachute Regiment wings at RAF Abingdon in 1974\n\nFor a fellow lance corporal, Denzil Connick from Blackwood in Caerphilly county, the final days saw him involved in heavy fighting on Mount Longdon with 3 Parachute Regiment, known as 3 Para.\n\nBy the morning of 12 June, they had been battling for 12 hours and were coming under heavy shell and mortar fire, which did not let up for another day or more.\n\n\"When that daylight came up, the scene was just awful. And it was very eerie as well,\" he said.\n\n\"You could smell the death, you could smell it. And it was kind of a mist floating over the ground as well, and the stillness and the quiet after the noise and the bedlam of battle.\n\n\"There's blood-soaked shell dressings lying around; there are corpses of your enemy, the corpses of your friends, you know, just lying there in the stiffened positions which didn't seem real.\n\n\"I don't think any one of us had seen such a thing. It had a massive effect on me and I know it had a massive effect on a lot of my friends too - that scene of horror will never, never leave my mind. It was just terrible.\"\n\nDenzil Connick, pictured aged 25, just before the Falklands war started\n\nAs troops prepared to leave Mount Langdon on 13 June, Denzil was taking a map to battalion headquarters on the mount and also \"because as a radio operator, I heard there was a resupply of cigarettes\".\n\nHe had become accustomed to the noise of incoming shells and had learned to judge which were nearby and which were not, but on this occasion he heard nothing before a loud explosion blew him off his feet.\n\n\"This shell… just there was zero warning. So therefore it was probably a mortar, and boom, straight away,\" he said. \"All I remember was being thrown in the air and landing on my stomach.\"\n\nWith only two spaces on a medical helicopter, he was judged to be a \"no-hoper\" but because two soldiers next to him died of their wounds before it could leave, Denzil was taken to Fitzroy field hospital, about half an hour's flight away.\n\nMarkers left to two of Denzil's comrades who died on Mount Longdon\n\n\"Because of the blood loss, you sort of have a strong feeling that you just want to sleep,\" he explained.\n\n\"When you reach that point, the fear of death seems to go. But what I held on to wasn't so much what was going… to happen to me, but what my death would [mean] …how my mother and father would react to it, my brothers, my close friends, and I thought, 'no, I'm not going to let death take control of this.'\n\n\"And I hung on, hung on, hung on.\"\n\nDenzil's heart stopped and he had to be resuscitated, but the bomb had cost him dearly.\n\n\"My wounds were catastrophic… [I had a] traumatic amputation of my left leg.\n\n\"The leg that remains, it was just shredded, you know, there was a compound fracture of my femur, and it was sticking out like a flag post.\n\n\"The muscle was just torn apart, all over the leg right down to the foot. It was touch and go, whether I could keep that leg, if they could save it.\"\n\nWhile Denzil's life hung in the balance, the fighting was continuing.\n\nHis comrade in 3 Para, Platoon Sgt Manny Manfred, was in the fighting on Mount Longdon, which he described as one of several features situated in a \"defensive horseshoe\" around the capital, Stanley, their objective.\n\nThe immediate aim was to retake the summit of Mount Longdon from the Argentine forces. The position was being shelled by Royal Navy ships out in the bay.\n\nManny, from Newcastle Emlyn, which straddles Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, recalled: \"There was lots of noise. In some cases lots of shouting, in some cases lots of screaming when people have been injured. It was difficult to know exactly what was happening in all the confusion of war.\"\n\nThe battle took nine hours, before the Argentine soldiers began to retreat.\n\nManny Manfred deployed in the field of combat on the Falklands\n\n\"As one or two started to break under the pressure and move backwards, the others thought 'well, we're going to be outflanked, so we better move off',\" he explained.\n\n\"So as we were moving forward, we would normally have stopped but because we'd broken them and they were effectively running away, we then capitalised on that and move forward to the end of the position.\n\n\"At that point, I physically had to stop some of the boys who wanted to run down the hill and chase after them.\"\n\nThey knew once their opponents had reached Stanley, Mount Longdon would come under artillery fire, and that was exactly what happened.\n\n\"Any movement could be seen with binoculars from Stanley and they would fire artillery shells at our position. So for the majority of the time, we stayed undercover,\" Manny said.\n\n\"And for the two days after the battle, we were under heavy artillery fire and a further six members of the battalion were killed by artillery during that period.\"\n\nAs word reached them that other positions in the horseshoe had been retaken - names like Tumbledown, and Wireless Ridge - Manny's group was given 30 minutes' notice to advance.\n\nThey knew they were going to be moving through a heavily mined area towards Moody Brook, and could see boxes of mines \"everywhere\", covered over with grass or heather.\n\nManny Manfred with the red beret he wore on the march into Stanley to claim victory\n\nThey followed sheep trails in single file, stepping in the preceding soldier's footsteps where possible to mitigate the risk of triggering a mine.\n\nAnd it was there, in the midst of a minefield, that word came through the Argentines had surrendered.\n\n\"You could see British troops flooding off the features. To our left, Wireless Ridge, 2 Para, our sister battalion; to our right, Mount Tumbledown, Scots Guard, and it was decided that regimental pride dictated we wanted to be the first into Stanley.\n\n\"So, helmets came off, red berets came on. Yeah, head down, bum up and into Stanley.\"\n\nThe war was over on 14 June, 74 days after it had begun on 2 April 1982.\n\nBut it would cast a long shadow over the lives of those who survived, and those who grieved for the dead.\n\nDenzil said: \"Anybody that's been in a war, if you like, on the 'two-way range', where you're firing at someone and someone is firing back.... you are in immensely dangerous situations where loss of life is around you and anybody that's gone through that, it's a life-changing memory that'll stay with you forever.\n\n\"We had a job to do, and now we have to carry that with us for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nBernie and her family had to wait for five months before Chris's body was returned to the UK.\n\nWhen his funeral was held, it became a symbolic farewell to all those Welsh Guards and other young men who had sailed 8,000 miles (12,900km) away but had never returned.\n\nBernie Mills saw lots of families come to her brother's funeral as a way of saying farewell to their own lost men\n\n\"I think everyone in the whole battalion was there, just to see him off. It was very important,\" said Bernie.\n\n\"A lot of the people who are lost on the Sir Galahad, a lot of their families came, because it was the only funeral that they could go to.\n\n\"There's been memorials since, but at the time, this was what everyone could go to, to say goodbye to their sons, as well as Chris.\"\n\nShe believes the conflict should never have happened, and could have been averted.\n\n\"None of them should have died,\" she asserted. \"Surely it should have been sorted out beforehand.\n\n\"But I think an awful lot of intelligence was ignored and [it was] just, 'it's only little islands down there in the middle of nowhere that no one's ever heard of. It's not important'.\n\n\"Turned out to be massively important, didn't it?\"\n\nEnding the Falklands War, a documentary about the last week of the war, is available on BBC iPlayer now.", "This brittle star is one of about 70,000 species to have its genome sequenced\n\nThat’s the best guess for the tally of life, including plants, animals and fungi, found in Britain and Ireland.\n\nAnd it’s the target of one of biology's most ambitious projects - scientists want to map the DNA of every single one of these organisms.\n\nHaving these genomes - each a complete set of genetic information for a species - could transform how we understand the natural world. And there could be benefits for us too in the hunt for nature-inspired medicines and materials.\n\nIn Plymouth, the starting point for this immense task is some thick, sticky mud.\n\nSediment scooped up from the bottom of the Plymouth Sound has been hoisted onto the deck of the research vessel that belongs to the Marine Biological Association.\n\nIt's placed in a sieve and hosed off, revealing a host of wriggling creatures.\n\nThe sediment in Plymouth is jam packed with life\n\n\"You can see we've got some bivalves, which are related to clams and mussels. We've also got a gastropod shell - these are quite similar to terrestrial garden snails. And we've got some brittle stars. So lots of different taxa (groups of organisms), lots of different types of animals, which is great,\" explains marine biologist Patrick Adkins.\n\nToday he's focussing on marine worms known as polychaetes, and there are lots living in the sediment.\n\nSome look like earthworms and others are covered in tiny bristles, squiggling about. But the weirdest is the mud owl. If you squint, its markings look a bit like the face of an owl, until it extends a tubular proboscis, shattering the illusion.\n\nAll of them will have their genomes sequenced for the project, which is called the Darwin Tree of Life and includes participation from the Natural History Museum.\n\n\"Even if you look at polychaetes, which is just one group of worms, it's a big task with hundreds and hundreds of species,\" Patrick says.\n\n\"We've now got over 100 species of polychaetes collected - it seems like a lot, but really, it's just the beginning.\"\n\nThese marine worms are known as mud owls\n\nThe research covers every kind of habitat.\n\nIn Oxfordshire, woodlands are the focus.\n\nAs dusk falls, a family of badgers emerge from their sett. They snuffle around in the gloom, hunting for some snacks after their sleep.\n\nThe animals here in Wytham Woods have been studied in detail for more than 30 years, but now their genome has just been sequenced too.\n\nThe genome of the European badger has now been sequenced as part of the project\n\n\"The genome can answer so many questions that we couldn't answer before,\" says Ming-Shan Tsai from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"We can explore why the badger is very different from other animals - and their unique behaviour.\"\n\nThis includes the puzzle of delayed implantation, where badgers mate and an egg is fertilised, but the process of pregnancy is put on hold until it's the best time of year to have a cub.\n\n\"Getting a genome will also help us to understand why badgers are more susceptible to tuberculosis, for example, than other animals,\" she added.\n\nAt the centre of this project is the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge.\n\nEvery day, samples from all over the British Isles are arriving.\n\nWhether it's a leaf from a tree, or some blood taken from an animal, the material is weighed, then frozen with liquid nitrogen, and finally pulverised into a fine powder. From this, the DNA can be extracted, and the genome sequenced.\n\nThe samples are sent to the Wellcome Sanger Institute\n\nSanger played a leading role in the human genome project, which took years to complete. Now sequencing a species takes a few days.\n\nMark Blaxter, who leads the Tree of Life project, says: \"When the human genome was sequenced, it changed the way we do human biology forever. And it's really transformed how we see ourselves and how we work with our health and illness.\n\n\"And we want to make that possible for all of biology. So we want everybody, working on any species, or any group of species, anywhere in the world, able to have this ultimate foundation.\"\n\nThe genetic work should show how species relate to each other, and reveal their similarities and also where their differences lie.\n\n\"It's filling up the library of life,\" Mark explains.\n\nThis single-celled organism was found in some pond water\n\nBut the tiniest life forms are posing the biggest challenges.\n\nJamie McGowan, from the Earlham Institute in Norwich, is staring through a microscope at a single drop of pond water. It’s full of single-celled organisms known as protists.\n\n\"There's two little green cells here - they're both micro algae. They're photosynthetic, just like plants,\" he says.\n\nThey are the smallest organisms being sequenced for the project, but it's not easy.\n\n\"They're really hard to identify, because some of them look really similar. And they're hard to sequence too because they're starting off with really, really tiny amounts of DNA.\"\n\nLife on Earth began with single-celled organisms, and we could not exist without them.\n\n\"We completely depend on them to survive,\" Jamie explains.\n\n\"Protists occupy a really important position in the food chain, where they eat organisms that are smaller than them, such as bacteria and viruses. And then they, in turn, get eaten by larger organisms.\n\n\"And quite a lot of protists can produce oxygen - in fact they actually produce about half of the planet's oxygen supply.\n\n\"So having their genome sequenced is really important to be able to identify them. Their biodiversity is so poorly understood. And we need to protect them, because they're so critical for all of the rest of life.\"\n\nRock pools hold many different species which could help to inspire nature-based medicines or materials\n\nBack in Plymouth, and the marine biologists have moved onshore to take a look inside some rock pools.\n\nEach is a colourful microcosmos, containing a multitude of species.\n\n\"It’s a pipefish,\" says Kes Scott-Somme, a research assistant on the Darwin Tree of Life project. \"It's basically like a stretched-out seahorse. They're beautiful - and they're very, very well adapted to their environment. They can live quite high on the shore like this.\"\n\nBut learning about the DNA of creatures like this won't just help us to better understand the species - it could also help us.\n\n\"Marine environments are incredibly volatile, and so the animals that live here have to be even more adapted to their space than we are. And that means that they have very specific ways of coping with their environment,\" says Kes.\n\n\"This could help us to find things like antibiotics, medicines and materials. The marine environment is a great place to look for that information.\"\n\nThe Darwin Tree of Life project has a tough deadline - all 70,000 species sequenced by the end of 2030.\n\nThere is a lot of work to do, but this project could give us our most detailed understanding yet of the diversity of life.", "A High Court Judge has ruled the Archie Battersbee is dead and that life support treatment should end\n\nTreatment for a brain-damaged boy in a coma should stop, a judge has ruled.\n\nArchie Battersbee, 12, was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nDoctors treating him at the Royal London Hospital in east London told the High Court it was \"highly likely\" he was \"brain-stem dead\" and asked for his life support to end.\n\nArchie's mother Hollie Dance said she was \"devastated\" and the family planned to appeal.\n\nThe court previously heard that Archie suffered brain damage during an incident at home, which his mother believed may have been related to an online challenge.\n\nHe has not regained consciousness since.\n\nArchie's mother, and his father Paul Battersbee, disagreed with the hospital and have been supported by the Christian Legal Centre campaigning organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hollie Dance said her \"gut instinct\" was that her son was \"still in there\"\n\nIn a statement issued after the court decision, Ms Dance said: \"I am devastated and extremely disappointed by the judge's ruling after weeks of fighting a legal battle when I wanted to be at my little boy's bedside.\n\n\"Basing this judgement on an MRI test and that he is 'likely' to be dead, is not good enough. This is believed to be the first time that someone has been declared 'likely' to be dead based on an MRI test.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"sickened\" that the hospital and judge had not taken into account the wishes of the family and added she did \"not believe Archie has been given enough time\".\n\n\"His heart is still beating, he has gripped my hand, and as his mother, I know he is still in there,\" she said.\n\n\"Until it's God's way I won't accept he should go. I know of miracles when people have come back from being brain dead.\n\n\"We intend to appeal and will not give up on Archie.\"\n\nLawyers representing the hospital's governing trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, had asked the judge to decide what moves were in Archie's best interests.\n\nDuring a three-day hearing at the court's Family Division last week, specialists said tests had shown no \"discernible\" brain activity.\n\nIn a written ruling, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot concluded Archie died at noon on 31 May based on MRI scans that day.\n\nShe said: \"I find that irreversible cessation of brain stem function has been conclusively established.\n\n\"I give permission to the medical professionals at the Royal London Hospital to cease to ventilate mechanically Archie Battersbee.\"\n\nHollie Dance said the family would not \"give up on Archie\"\n\nMrs Justice Arbuthnot said the devotion of Archie's family was \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"If Archie remains on mechanical ventilation, the likely outcome for him is sudden death and the prospects of recovery are nil,\" she said.\n\n\"He has no pleasure in life and his brain damage is irrecoverable.\n\n\"His position is not going to improve.\n\n\"The downside of such a hurried death is the inability of his loving and beloved family to say goodbye.\"\n\nThe judge said that, had she not concluded Archie was dead, she would have ruled that it was not in his best interests to continue to receive life-support treatment.\n\n\"The steps I have set out above are lawful,\" she added.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer at Barts Health NHS Trust, said their \"thoughts and sympathies\" were with Archie's family.\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal London Hospital following the ruling, Mr Chesser said: \"In line with the guidance issued by the court, our expert clinicians will provide the best possible care while life support is withdrawn.\n\n\"We are also ensuring that there is time for the family to decide whether they wish to appeal before any changes to care are made.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "UK airlines have been told to cancel flights they can't deliver this summer to stop a rerun of May's travel chaos.\n\nThe government and the aviation regulator wrote to carriers on Tuesday telling them to ensure their summer timetables were \"deliverable\".\n\nThey added that earlier cancellations were \"better\" than axing flights at the last minute.\n\nIt comes after tens of thousands of passengers have been affected by cancellations and delays at airports.\n\nThe problem was particularly bad during Easter and last month's half-term school holiday, and British Airways, TUI and Easyjet have apologised.\n\nStaff shortages have been blamed, after thousands of airline jobs were cut during the pandemic and have yet to be replaced despite a spike in post-pandemic travel demand.\n\nIn their joint letter, the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority set out five \"specific expectations\" for the sector.\n\nThey wrote: \"We think it's important that each airline reviews afresh its plans for the remainder of the summer season until the end of September to develop a schedule that is deliverable.\n\n\"Your schedules must be based on the resources you and your contractors expect to have available, and should be resilient for the unplanned and inevitable operational challenges that you will face.\n\n\"While cancellations at any time are a regrettable inconvenience to passengers, it is our view that cancellations at the earliest possibility to deliver a more robust schedule are better for consumers than late notice on-the-day cancellations.\"\n\nEasyJet is one of the airlines to have cancelled flights\n\nThe letter stated that airlines must \"keep consumers informed\" about their rights during disruption, such as having \"sufficiently staffed call centres and user-friendly digital channels\".\n\nIt also urged airlines, ground handlers, air traffic control and the Border Force work more closely to try to prevent problems.\n\nAirlines and unions told MPs on the Commons Business Committee on Tuesday that the staffing shortages blighting the industry were likely to persist this summer.\n\nOliver Richardson, national officer for civil air transport at the Unite union, told MPs it was unlikely the situation would be fixed \"unless we work together\".\n\nRepresentatives from BA, Easyjet and ground handling firm Swissport said they also faced long delays to get security clearance for new staff.\n\nSwissport's UK boss, Jude Winstanley, said it had hired 3,000 people since the start of the year, but it was taking up to 90 days to get them a full airside pass due to the referencing process.\n\nAccording to the CAA, up to 4% of UK flights were cancelled during half term and the Platinum Jubilee weekend - up from the usual rate of 1%.\n\nBoss Richard Moriarty called the situation distressing and unacceptable, adding that the industry needed to get a grip - although he said it was \"not solely a UK specific issue\".\n\nThere have been calls for EU aviation workers to be added to the government's shortage occupation list, but aviation minister Robert Courts denied this would help.\n\nHe told the committee that EU HGV drivers - another industry facing shortages - had been offered up to 5,000 visas to fill gaps in the UK, and only 27 had come forward.\n\n\"If there were spare workers in Europe they would be in Schiphol [Amsterdam airport],\" he said.\n\nDo you work in the aviation industry? Are you a passenger affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Jonny Bairstow's astonishing century led England to a stunning win in the second Test against New Zealand which sealed a series victory.\n\nOn a breathless final day at Trent Bridge, Bairstow made the second-fastest century by an England batter in Test cricket as the hosts strolled to what should have been a challenging target of 299 from 72 overs.\n\nBairstow's outrageous hitting in the spell after tea took him to three figures from 77 balls, only just missing the England record of 76 balls that has stood for 120 years.\n\nHe was eventually out for 136 from 92 balls, having clubbed 14 fours and seven sixes in front of a delirious full house.\n\nIt was left to captain Ben Stokes, who ended 75 not out, to complete the win with 22 overs to spare. England had scored at almost a run a ball.\n\nIt sealed a remarkable turnaround from New Zealand posting 553 in their first innings after being asked to bat. It is the highest total England have conceded in a Test which they have gone on to win since 1894.\n\nThey take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series, vindicating the freewheeling approach of new captain Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.\n\nThe home side can complete a clean sweep in the third and final Test at Headingley next week.\n• None This win is my greatest ever - Stokes\n\nThe 17,000 people who grabbed the free tickets on offer knew England had a chance of pulling off a special win, but no-one could have predicted the way New Zealand would be steamrollered in such spectacular fashion.\n\nFrom 224-7 overnight, leading by 238, the Black Caps edged to 284 all out, leaving England the stiff task of scoring at more than four an over.\n\nThe home side had the benefit of a flat pitch and New Zealand being without injured fast bowler Kyle Jamieson. Even then, the run-chase was truly staggering.\n\nEngland had been adamant about their intent to pursue any target and this was an awesome demonstration of what they can be capable of under Stokes and McCullum.\n\nIt resulted in victory in one of the most entertaining matches of all time. The 225 fours and 24 sixes is a new record for the most boundaries hit in a single Test.\n\nAt the centre of it all was Bairstow, who played one of the great innings by an England batter.\n\nThough he could not be there at the end, he was given a huge hug by Stokes, then left to a spine-tingling standing ovation.\n\nIn terms of England's early progress in the Stokes-McCullum era, Bairstow has been one of the last to taste success. When he did, he produced arguably his finest moment in an England shirt.\n\nHe was joined by Stokes at 93-4, with 206 required from less than 47 overs and New Zealand favourites. England took tea at 139-4 with Bairstow 43 from 48 balls.\n\nWhat followed bordered on the ridiculous. Bairstow began by hitting Trent Boult over his head for six, then hooked Matt Henry into the stands. Wherever New Zealand bowled, he belted the ball to the boundary.\n\nAt one stage, Bairstow had taken 59 runs from 29 balls and was on course to beat Gilbert Jessop's 76-ball record for England's fastest ton. Three figures eventually came, one ball too late, by punching Tim Southee through the off side.\n\nThe carnage did not end there. Off-spinner Michael Bracewell was carted into the leg side, all while Stokes, struggling after jarring his knee, played second fiddle.\n\nWhen Stokes' mobility returned, he smashed the biggest hit of the lot by sending Bracewell into the top tier.\n\nA stand of 179 in just 20 overs was ended when Bairstow tickled Boult behind. Ben Foakes joined Stokes, who crashed the winning boundary.\n\nGiven what was to unfold, it seems ludicrous to think New Zealand had the better of the first part of the day.\n\nDaryl Mitchell trusted the tail, moving from his overnight 32 to 62 not out. His last-wicket stand of 35 with Boult looked vital.\n\nEngland, typically, began with positivity. Alex Lees hit the first two balls of the innings for four, only for Zak Crawley to edge Boult.\n\nEvery time England built momentum, they were pegged back. Ollie Pope was caught behind, Joe Root tapping a return catch to Boult was a huge blow and Lees poked at Southee to end his attractive 44.\n\nRealistically, Bairstow and Stokes were England's last chance. What followed was simply magnificent.\n\n'If that isn't an advert for Test cricket, I don't know what is'\n\nEngland captain Ben Stokes: \"I can't take too much credit for that. For all five days, the boys were phenomenal with bat, ball and in the field.\n\n\"I think today was set up perfectly for the way we want to go about things looking forward. We don't want to back away and stand still.\n\n\"Today just wow, unbelievable. I don't know what to do. It's not just about today, it's about the four days before. The work ethic everyone had before today was fantastic. You don't win from just one day. The way we fought back after 500 on the board.\n\nNew Zealand captain Tom Latham at the post-match presentation: \"At tea it was still in the balance, but the way Jonny and England played was outstanding and all credit to them.\n\n\"It will take a while to sink in, the emotions are raw at the moment and the boys are gutted so we will take some time away.\"\n\nEngland batter Jonny Bairstow: \"Look at the crowd which has turned up on day five of a Test match at Trent Bridge - 13,000. People question Test cricket at times and the way in which it is played over a period of time. But there's been more than 500 scored in both first innings and 300 chased down in the last innings. If that isn't an advert for Test cricket, I don't know what is.\n\n\"It was fantastic to have such a crowd on day five. It was full of buzz, everything you want in Test cricket. It was so fresh - it was great.\"", "Mr Johnson looks at names of British personnel who lost their lives in the Falklands\n\nCommemorations have taken place to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War.\n\nBoris Johnson joined veterans, bereaved family members and senior defence figures at a service at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"incredible daring and bravery\" of Falklands veterans.\n\nSome 255 British troops, 649 Argentine military personnel and three Falkland islanders died during the conflict.\n\nThe 10-week war began in April 1982, when troops from Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British colony in the south Atlantic ocean.\n\nArgentina said it had inherited the islands from Spain in the 1800s and wanted to reclaim them. The British had ruled the islands for 150 years and sent armed forces by sea to take the islands back. Argentina's troops surrendered on 14 June.\n\nOn Tuesday, veterans, civilians and bereaved family members attended a service hosted by the Royal British Legion at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas to remember the end of the conflict. At the same time a service was held at Port Stanley, the Falklands capital.\n\nMr Johnson - who laid a wreath at the service - told journalists afterwards: \"The first thing is to remember what an incredible thing it was that they achieved back in 1982 to make an opposed landing, to take back territory in the way that they did.\n\n\"The incredible daring and bravery of those young men and women. And we salute that - we remember that today.\"\n\nHe added that the \"greatest tribute\" to those who had laid down their lives was that the Falklands Islands had since \"thrived in peace and freedom\".\n\nWreaths were laid by military personnel as well as Mr Johnson\n\nThe city of Stanley on the Falkland Islands struck a sombre tone on Tuesday's morning under a grey winter drizzle.\n\nHundreds turned out to watch the band parade along the harbour front to the city's monument, where islanders paid their respects and to those who lost their lives in the conflict 40 years ago.\n\nSoon after the memorial was over, the mood changed to celebration.\n\nThis is a defiant nation and one that wants the world to know it takes its freedom seriously, not taking a moment of it for granted.\n\nThe festivities will continue long into the night, a momentary breath of fresh air away from the dark cloud that continues to hang over these islands 40 years on, that of Argentina.\n\nA military band also performed at the service\n\nEvents have also been taking elsewhere in the country, including at Portsmouth and Southampton, where ships departed for the islands, as well wreath-laying services in Dorset.\n\nOne survivor of HMS Coventry, which was bombed during the war, shared his memories with the BBC, saying: \"I think about it nearly every day and you know it is part of my life and it is part of this nation's heritage.\"\n\n\"I remember my lost friends every year and sadly there is additions because we are all getting older,\" said Mick Kerry, from Warwickshire, who was a 21-year-old marine engineer on the Royal Navy destroyer when it was bombed.\n\nMick Kerry said he thinks about the Falklands conflict \"nearly every day\"\n\nA parade was also held at Invicta Park Barracks in Maidstone, Kent\n\nElsewhere, a woman who was born in the Falkland Islands three months before the war has been telling the BBC how she became a soldier to repay a debt of gratitude she felt towards the soldiers who fought in the conflict.\n\nSara Halford, who joined the British Army aged 17 and serves with 16 Medical Regiment in Colchester, said islanders would be \"forever grateful\".\n\nMeanwhile, a collection of portraits of seven veterans from across Scotland have been revealed as part of a virtual exhibition by Glasgow photographer Wattie Cheung.\n\nOn Saturday, a national remembrance parade and service will be held in Edinburgh, where hundreds of current and former servicemen and women are expected to take part.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Although the war had ended, some of the veterans found the celebrations back at home difficult\n\nOn Sunday, members of the Tumbledown Veterans and Families Association marched to the cenotaph on Blackpool promenade. Nine men died at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, overlooking Port Stanley, in the final days of the conflict.", "A man once married to singer Britney Spears - for 55 hours - has been charged with felony stalking after showing up unannounced during her wedding to Sam Asghari.\n\nJason Alexander, 40, pleaded not guilty to the charge, as well as to trespassing, battery and vandalism.\n\nHe was arrested last week after allegedly gate-crashing and streaming a video from inside Spears' home.\n\nMr Alexander was briefly married to the pop star, a childhood friend, in 2004.\n\nBut the union was annulled after less than three days.\n\nSpears, 40, and her longtime partner Asghari, 28, tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in California last week.\n\nBut preparations were disrupted when Mr Alexander was arrested after allegedly gatecrashing. He streamed a video apparently from inside the singer's home, before being tackled by security.\n\nShortly beforehand he had posted an Instagram Live story in which he said he was there to \"crash\" the wedding.\n\nHis video showed him walking through Spears' home looking for her, and then going into a marquee where the finishing touches were being put to a large display of roses. He claimed Spears had invited him, saying: \"She's my first wife, my only wife.\"\n\nMr Alexander was arrested by officers from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office and taken to a local jail.\n\n\"He was able to find his way onto the property and was confronted by security,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"An altercation occurred with the security officers and that's where the battery occurred... and during the altercation an item was broken, so that's where the vandalism comes into play. And by being on private property, the trespass comes into play.\"\n\nOn Monday, a judge set bail at $100,000 (£82,290) and issued a restraining order requiring Mr Alexander to stay at least 100 yards (91 metres) from Spears for three years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpears' wedding ceremony, which went ahead despite the disturbance, was attended by stars including Madonna, Paris Hilton, Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Ansel Elgort and will.i.am.\n\nIn November, the singer was released from a controversial 13-year legal guardianship, under which her father Jamie controlled many aspects of her life.\n\nHer father, mother and sister were reportedly not at the wedding after relations broke down over the arrangement, and Spears' legal battle to end it.\n\nSpears met her new husband, a personal trainer, in 2016 on the set of her music video for the song Slumber Party. She was previously married to dancer Kevin Federline from 2004 to 2007.", "Sir Mick, seen here performing in 2017, thanked fans for their patience\n\nSir Mick Jagger has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting The Rolling Stones to cancel a performance in Amsterdam.\n\nThe band said the show at the Johan Cruijff Arena would be rescheduled and that they were \"deeply sorry\".\n\nSir Mick, 78, added in a message to fans: \"Thank you for your patience and understanding.\"\n\nThe band are currently on their Sixty tour, where they had planned to play 14 shows in 10 European countries.\n\nTickets for the original show will be honoured for the new date once the show is rescheduled.\n\nThe Stones had already played three of their tour dates, including one at Anfield in Liverpool.\n\nA statement on behalf of the band said: \"The Rolling Stones have been forced to call off tonight's concert in Amsterdam at the Johan Cruijff Arena, following Mick Jagger testing positive after experiencing symptoms of Covid upon arrival at the stadium.\n\n\"The Rolling Stones are deeply sorry for tonight's postponement, but the safety of the audience, fellow musicians and the touring crew has to take priority\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, Sir Mick, added: \"I'm so sorry that we've had to postpone the Amsterdam show with such short notice tonight.\n\n\"I have unfortunately just tested positive for Covid. We aim to reschedule the date ASAP and get back as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Mick.\"\n\nA further two dates are planned in the UK as part of BST Hyde Park, a music festival. The Stones are due to play on 25 June and 3 July.\n\nTwo more performances, in Switzerland and Italy, are also planned within the next ten days.\n\nThere has been no announcement yet about whether these shows will go ahead as planned.", "Cerys Reeve died after taking the drug during a sleepover at a friend's house\n\nA teenage drug dealer has been convicted of killing a 14-year-old girl after he supplied her with the drug Ecstasy.\n\nJames McCairn, 18, sold crystal MDMA to Cerys Reeve after advertising his illegal trade on Snapchat.\n\nThe young dancer died after taking the drug during a sleepover at a friend's house in Greenock in July 2020.\n\nFirst offender McCairn was found guilty of culpable homicide following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nProsecutors said he had \"recklessly and unlawfully\" given the deadly class A drug to Cerys at his home in Greenock.\n\nMcCairn was also found guilty of supplying Ecstasy to other young people in the town between November 2019 and July 2020.\n\nHis QC had asked for McCairn, who was only 16 at the time of the death, to remain on bail pending sentencing next month.\n\nBut judge John McCormick remanded him custody, saying his commercial drug dealing had resulted in tragic consequences.\n\nThe trial heard how McCairn had been advertising pills for sale on the morning of 13 July 2020.\n\nCerys had been at a friend's house before going to McCairn's to purchase MDMA.\n\nShe returned and mixed the powder into a cup of juice before taking it.\n\nWhen her friend came back into the room after making a toastie, Cerys was described as \"acting really weird\".\n\nThis initially included her not being able to control her arms and kicking items off a window ledge.\n\nThe witness went on to describe Cerys as grunting, sweating and falling off the bed, which woke the girl's mother.\n\nShe then started burning up and suffered a seizure.\n\nA 999 call was immediately made and the teenager was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital.\n\nCerys was described as \"rigid all over\" and put on a ventilator.\n\nThe talented dancer never recovered and was pronounced dead at 0808.\n\nThe cause of death was \"MDMA toxicity\".\n\nIn his closing speech to the jury, prosecutor Graeme Jessop said: \"McCairn just did not care about Cerys's age or vulnerability.\n\n\"All he cared about at the time was selling his drugs for profit regardless of the circumstances.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, Mr Jessop told Judge McCormick of the heartbreak Cerys's family had suffered.\n\nThe advocate depute added: \"As we have heard, Cerys Reeve was 14 and lived in Port Glasgow with her parents.\n\n\"She was the only child to her mother. She has an older half sister.\n\n\"She was at school in Port Glasgow and was due to start fourth year when she died.\n\n\"Her parents elected not to attend court proceedings due to the upset and distress at their daughter's death.\"", "A Boeing 767 aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, which is believed to be the plane set to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda\n\nA last-minute legal battle is under way over the UK government's first flight transporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) says it has blocked the removal of one of seven passengers due to depart on Tuesday night.\n\nAn out-of-hours judge is currently examining the remaining half dozen cases and it is not clear whether the court will block the entire flight.\n\nThe UK usually follows emergency court rulings not to remove people.\n\nIn a statement hours before the flight's planned departure, the ECtHR said it had granted an \"urgent interim measure\" in the case of an Iraqi man, known only as \"KN\".\n\nThe man, who is in his fifties, left Iraq earlier this year and crossed the English Channel to reach the UK, rather than claiming asylum in another European country. Doctors have since said he may have been a victim of torture.\n\nKN's lawyers petitioned the ECtHR on Monday after a judge in London refused to stop his inclusion on the flight.\n\nThe European court has indicated KN should not be removed to Rwanda until three weeks after the final decision over the policy is made in the UK courts.\n\nThe ECtHR said that requests such as these were only granted on an \"exceptional basis, when the applicants would otherwise face a real risk of irreversible harm\".\n\nThat decision contradicts a ruling by judges in London, who had found no immediate risk to anyone sent to Rwanda.\n\nA High Court judge ruled last Friday that there should be a full review of the Rwanda removals policy - but that the Home Secretary Priti Patel would be acting lawfully if in the meantime she sent some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nShould the policy be found to be unlawful some people could be returned to the UK from Rwanda.\n\nThe ECtHR, based in Strasbourg, said that its decision had been influenced by concerns raised by the UN's refugee agency that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda may not be able to get a fair hearing or would be left in unsafe conditions.\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights oversees a range of human rights laws to which the UK is a signatory, along with other nations. It is entirely separate to the European Union.\n\nOn Monday, the Court of Appeal, ruled that the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda could go ahead, backing the decision of the High Court that it was in the \"public interest\" for the government to carry out its policies.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, four of the men due to be on the flight saw individual appeals to the High Court rejected.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss insisted the flight would take off on Tuesday, but later a Downing Street spokesman said given the legal challenges he could not be definitive of whether the flight would take place that day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson also defended the scheme and said the government may \"very well\" need to change the law to help.\n\nThe policy has been criticised by human rights organisations, charities and the Church of England, with concerns being raised about Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nBut ahead of the first plane's arrival, Rwanda's government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said the plan was neither immoral nor a punishment and needed to be given a chance as Africa was not just a place of problems but also \"a place of solutions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Fast Track chair Gian Molinu wants people to get HIV tested early to improve outcomes of those living with the virus\n\nBetter access to condoms, preventative drugs and specific lessons in schools are among proposals to end new cases of HIV in Wales within eight years.\n\nAllowing doctors and chemists to give HIV drugs and improving online testing are part of a 26-point Welsh government plan to be announced on Tuesday.\n\nWales was the first UK nation to pledge to stop new HIV cases by 2030.\n\n\"There is no place for ignorance or intolerance in modern Wales,\" said Health Minister Eluned Morgan.\n\n\"We have come a long way since the dark days of the 1980s - so memorably depicted last year in Channel 4's It's a Sin - when ignorance and cruelty towards people with HIV was rife.\"\n\nThe hit Channel 4 drama It's A Sin sparked a spike in HIV tests in Wales\n\nTests for HIV spiked in Wales when It's A Sin, Welsh screenwriter Russell T Davies' record-breaking drama that followed a group of friends during the 1980s Aids crisis, first hit TV screens in early 2021.\n\nEngland has already revealed its strategy to \"eliminate\" new HIV cases by 2030 and now the Welsh government has announced how it aims to improve quality of life for those living with the virus and end stigma by the start of the next decade.\n\nUN figures suggested in 2020 that about 38 million people worldwide were living with HIV and 700,000 died from Aids-related illnesses, which can be the result of HIV going untreated.\n\nA Cardiff project to reduce stigma and improve care for people living with HIV is set to be extended across Wales\n\nIt was estimated more than 105,000 people were living with HIV in the UK, according to the latest data from National Aids Trust, with nearly 2,800 of those having HIV care in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government-led plan is to improve access to PrEP and allow GPs and community pharmacies in all parts of Wales, especially in rural areas and underserved communities, to be able to give out the HIV prevention drug.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'People think using PrEP means you put it about'\n\nTesting for HIV could be made \"more accessible\" and \"promoted more widely to tackle inequalities\" with \"texting for testing\" pilots extended and rapid test click and collect options available after £3.9m investment from Welsh government.\n\nLatest statistics also showed there were more than 4,000 new people infected with HIV every year in the UK, with 48 people newly diagnosed in Wales in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Wales rugby player Gareth Thomas revealed he has HIV so he could \"empower people\"\n\nWales has seen a 75% decline in new HIV infections between 2015 and 2021, according to figures from Public Health Wales.\n\nTackling late diagnosis will be made a \"priority\" in the new Welsh plan and any late HIV diagnoses should be \"investigated and reported\" by health boards.\n\nMarlon Van Der Mark posts videos on social media to help dispel HIV myths and break its stigma\n\nMarlon Van Der Mark had HIV for two years before he felt able to tell family and a few close friends.\n\n\"I never knew HIV existed really, I never got taught about it so I was very naive to the whole thing,\" said the 24-year-old from Cardiff.\n\n\"So when I ended up catching it, I was in complete shock. It was the most horrifying moment of my life.\n\nMarlon has been immortalised in wall art aiming to encourage people to get tested for HIV\n\n\"I thought that coming out as gay was hard, but this was like way beyond because no-one talked about it. Then for a long time I called it the forbidden subject.\n\n\"Then if you did look online and someone had spoken about it, it was spoken about negatively so that just encouraged my fear even more. I lived most of my few years when I first got diagnosed in denial.\"\n\nNow Marlon, who was diagnosed with HIV aged 20, posts videos on social media to help dispel HIV myths and break its stigma.\n\nMarlon welcomes the Welsh government's approach but thinks zero new HIV infections by 2030 is tough\n\nThe Welsh government-led plan wants to use the curriculum to \"effectively address HIV, PrEP and stigma\" to school children as well as help support those those living with HIV to \"live better lives\".\n\n\"We have made huge progress in improving access to testing and treatment in Wales and we're proud of the significant reduction in new diagnoses of HIV,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\n\"There is, however, more to be done and by accepting and implementing these actions, we will make a massive difference to the lives of people living with HIV and in protecting current and future generations from the virus.\"\n\nThe Terrence Higgins Trust praised Wales for making PrEP available quickly and without a cap on numbers\n\nThe UK's leading HIV and sexual health charity has welcomed Wales' \"ambitious commitment\" for something it said could be life-changing.\n\n\"Wales has been a trailblazer in the fight against HIV as shown in its fast action to make prevention drug PrEP available quickly and without a cap on numbers,\" said Terrence Higgins Trust chief executive Ian Green.\n\n\"We have all the tools necessary to end new HIV cases in Wales by 2030 and that's why we need to urgently utilise each of them in order to do just that.\"\n\nA 12-week consultation period has started for people and organisations to comment on the plan that will be run by Welsh government, health boards, local councils, charities and community groups.\n\n\"As a nation, we are not very good at talking about these things, certainly not about HIV,\" said Gian Molinu, chair of Fast Track, a project in Cardiff helping people with HIV and tacking stigma.\n\n\"I know for a certain generation, you say HIV and you immediately think Aids and those horrendous adverts from the 80s where they said 'Aids is death, stay away, stay away'.\n\n\"That's not the case. So I think it's really important to start talking to young people, getting them to understand, not just about HIV but about sexual health generally.\"", "Murder, she wrote - and for murder, she is going to jail.\n\nAn Oregon judge has sentenced Nancy Crampton Brophy, a romance author who apparently foretold of her crime in an essay titled \"How to murder your husband\", to life in prison for the shooting death of her late spouse.\n\nCrampton Brophy, 71, was found guilty of second degree murder last month.\n\nA jury found that she shot her husband of 26 years in 2018 for a $1.5m (£1.2m) life insurance pay-out.\n\nBefore her crime, Crampton Brophy had been a self-published author whose works of steamy romance and suspense include novels such as \"The Wrong Husband\" and \"The Wrong Lover\".\n\nHer late husband, Daniel Brophy, was a chef and respected teacher at the Oregon Culinary Institute.\n\nHe was found shot twice in the kitchen of the Institute in June 2018.\n\nHis widow was convicted of the murder last month.\n\nThe case attracted much attention for an essay Crampton Brophy had written years before the crime, titled \"How to murder your husband\".\n\n\"The thing I know about murder is that every one of us have it in him/her when pushed far enough,\" she had said in the now-deleted post.\n\nShe listed a number of ways to commit mariticide, from guns and knives to poison and hitmen before writing \"it is easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them\".\n\nShe added: \"If the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don't want to spend any time in jail\".\n\nA judge ruled against admitting the essay as evidence at her trial because it was penned years earlier as part of a writing seminar.\n\nBut prosecutors did not need the text.\n\nThey successfully argued that Crampton Brophy had the motive and the means to murder her partner, showing the couple had fallen on hard times financially, and she stood to pocket a hefty insurance pay-out after his death.\n\nCrampton Brophy was seen driving to and from the Institute at the time of the crime in surveillance footage shown in court.\n\nAnd although police never found the murder weapon, she was shown to have purchased a gun of the same make and model.\n\nTaking the stand in her own defence, the author claimed she had a \"memory hole\" from the morning of Brophy's death. She could not however deny it was her driving around the Institute.\n\nA jury of 12 found her guilty of second-degree murder after deliberating for less than two days.\n\nHer life sentence, handed down on Monday, carries the possibility of parole after 25 years. Her lawyers said they plan to appeal.\n\nAhead of the sentencing, friends and family members of the late chef delivered statements.\n\n\"You opted to lie, cheat, steal, defraud and ultimately kill the man that was your biggest fan,\" said Nathaniel Stillwater, Brophy's son from a previous marriage. \"You were - to borrow from your catalogue - the wrong wife.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss says the UK government's proposed Northern Ireland Protocol changes are \"within international law\".\n\nThe UK government has published plans to get rid of parts of the post-Brexit deal it agreed with the EU in 2019.\n\nIt wants to change the Northern Ireland Protocol to make it easier for some goods to flow from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the EU opposes the move, saying going back on the deal breaches international law.\n\nThe protocol is the part of the Brexit deal which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nIt prevents a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, but it means checks on some goods arriving into Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK - a situation opposed by unionists in Northern Ireland who argue it creates a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nAt the centre of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses is the concept of green lanes and red lanes for trade.\n\nLondon also wants any trade disputes resolved by \"independent arbitration\" and not by the European Court of Justice, and Northern Ireland to benefit from the same tax breaks as elsewhere in the UK.\n\nThe government says there is \"no other way\" of safeguarding essential interests of the UK.\n\nIt argues the term \"necessity\" is used in international law to justify situations where \"the only way a state can safeguard an essential interest\" is by disapplying - or breaking - another international obligation.\n\nIt adds that action taken must not \"seriously impair\" essential interests of other states.\n\nThe alterations are set out in the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, to be debated and voted on by Parliament.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said it was \"a reasonable, practical solution to the problems facing Northern Ireland\" and that the UK could \"only make progress through negotiations if the EU are willing to change the protocol itself\", adding: \"At the moment they aren't.\"\n\n\"We are very clear that we're acting in line with the law,\" she said.\n\nThe government said it would prefer a \"negotiated solution\" with the EU that avoids the need for the bill to become law.\n\nThere's no appetite amongst EU leaders for a full-blown trade war with the UK.\n\nThey have their hands full with the cost of living crisis and the war in Ukraine.\n\nSo the EU didn't want to overreact to today's UK government legislation proposal - after all it's not law yet - but neither did it want to underreact.\n\nAttempting unilaterally to over-ride large parts of the protocol agreed and signed by Boris Johnson is seen as a very big deal in Brussels.\n\nAs a warning, the EU will look to re-start legal proceedings against the UK for alleged breaches of the protocol - such as failing to carry out certain checks.\n\nAt the same time, the EU's chief negotiator has implored the UK to come back to the negotiating table.\n\nHe says the EU will soon publish new proposals to iron out practical problems thrown up by the protocol for people in Northern Ireland.\n\nAway from the drama playing out right now, there are clear areas like customs lanes where the EU and the UK government aren't far apart at all. But the mood music is dreadful.\n\nThree parties in Northern Ireland - Sinn Féin, Alliance and the SDLP - say the protocol is necessary to mitigate the effects of Brexit in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever no unionist supports the protocol as it stands.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which won the second-most seats in the recent Northern Ireland Assembly elections, argues it creates a divide that could lead to the break-up of the UK.\n\nIt is refusing to set up a new ruling Northern Ireland executive with Sinn Féin, which won most seats in the election, until changes are made to it.\n\nSinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill accused the prime minister of creating more instability and uncertainty in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Boris Johnson's action is illegal, he is in clear breach of international law, regardless of the detail,\" she said.\n\n\"He himself signed up to an agreement, he signed on the dotted line and he's now legislating to breach that international agreement.\"\n\nShe added that the protocol was working - and she accused the DUP of blocking the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said: \"I don't believe what the government is proposing is illegal. I believe it is a solution and that is what we need - solutions.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have strong support from across unionism for the stand that we are taking.\n\n\"I believe that our pressure is seeing progress being made and we will continue to work with government to ensure that this legislation progresses.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NI Protocol: Sinn Féin and DUP disagree over plan to change NI Protocol\n\nThe government, in its legal justification for this new bill, has also cited Article 16 - a clause in the NI Protocol that allows either side to take safeguarding measures if applying the protocol leads to serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that restrict trade.\n\nThe government has argued that maintaining peace in Northern Ireland, protecting the Good Friday Agreement, and preserving economic and social ties between Northern Ireland and Great Britain are \"essential interests\" of the UK.\n\nBut it says the protocol currently stands as a \"barrier\" to forming a new governing executive in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt says while the government's preference is a negotiated outcome with the EU, in the meantime the \"strain\" that the protocol is placing on Northern Ireland has reached the point where the government \"has no other way of safeguarding the essential interests at stake\" than this new bill.\n\nEuropean Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said renegotiating the protocol is unrealistic and unilateral action by the UK is \"damaging to mutual trust\".\n\nMaros Sefcovic said what the UK was doing was damaging to mutual trust\n\nHe said the protocol was the \"one and only solution\" to protect the peace process in Northern Ireland, while addressing the challenges created by Brexit.\n\n\"It is with significant concern that we take note of today's decision by the UK government to table legislation disapplying core elements of the protocol,\" he said.\n\n\"The commission will now assess the UK draft legislation.\"\n\nThe White House press secretary said the US administration recognises \"challenges over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\"\n\n\"We urge the UK and the EU to return to talks to resolve these differences,\" the press secretary said.\n\nBusinesses which import Great Britain goods to Northern Ireland have experienced difficulties with the protocol as the checks and controls add cost and complexity.\n\nFood and horticulture importers have faced the greatest problems, as those goods face the most onerous controls.\n\nHowever, exporters, including food exporters, have benefited because unlike other parts of the UK they have maintained frictionless access to EU markets.\n\nIrish Prime Minister Micheál Martin called for negotiations between the UK and EU to deal with the impasse.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government's legislation risks a \"deeply damaging\" trade war with the EU.\n\nShadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy said it was \"a desperate attempt by Boris Johnson to distract from the drama of his leadership crisis\".\n\nMeanwhile, Stuart Anderson from the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry said it was ready to play its part in supporting lasting solutions that work for businesses and households.\n\n\"While there are attractive elements in today's proposals for consumer facing businesses in particular, a careful balance must be struck to protect gains made to date by our exporters and agri-food sub-sectors,\" he said.", "A man walks through the yard of a damaged house after shelling in which two people were killed in Lysychansk\n\nAll bridges to the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk have now been destroyed, the local governor says.\n\nWith the city effectively cut off, Serhiy Haidai says delivering supplies and evacuating civilians are now impossible.\n\nFierce fighting is taking place in the eastern city where Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery had driven its forces out of the centre.\n\nFor weeks capturing Severodonetsk has been a top military goal for Russia.\n\nTaking Severodonetsk and the nearby city of Lysychansk would give Moscow control of the entire Luhansk region, much of which is already controlled by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nAll three bridges into Severodonetsk were destroyed, Mr Haidai posted on Telegram. Those residents remaining in the city were being forced to survive in \"extremely difficult conditions\", he added.\n\nFormer British soldier Jordan Gatley is among those to have been killed while fighting to defend the city, his family confirmed on Sunday.\n\nUkraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky described the human cost of the battle for the city as \"terrifying\". Ukrainian troops, he said, had been fighting Russian forces for \"literally every metre\".\n\nReports suggest that about 70% of the city is now under Russian control.\n\nUkrainian troops remaining in the city must \"surrender or die\", a military representative of the pro-Russian self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said.\n\nSpeaking to media in Donetsk, Eduard Basurin said, \"Ukrainian divisions that are there [in Severodonetsk] are there forever.\"\n\nA top Russian official said Moscow's objective was to protect the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\n\"In general, the protection of the republics is the main goal of the special military operation,\" Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.\n\nWhen President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on 24 February he claimed Russia's goal was to \"demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine\". However, it soon became clear Russia was intent on seizing Ukrainian territory and it is now focused on controlling the industrial east.\n\nAlso on Monday, Ukrainian officials said weapons being supplied by the West were not arriving as quickly as they should.\n\nA senior presidential adviser to President Zelensky said that to end the war Ukraine's military needed \"heavy weapons parity\", posting a list of military hardware he said Kyiv required.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Михайло Подоляк This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC World Service's Newshour, an adviser to the Ukrainian defence minister said troops defending Severodonetsk would have been more effective if heavy weapons had been supplied earlier.\n\nTroops are defending the city \"with what we can\" but would be \"much more efficient at repelling the enemy and liberating Ukrainian land had we received more heavy weaponry by now\", Yury Sak said.\n\nHe added that Russia's advantage was overwhelming - firing an average of 50,000 rounds a day and creating a \"barrage of mortar shells, air bombardment, missile strikes\" over Ukraine.\n\nIn recent weeks Western countries have committed to sending longer-range weapons to Kyiv, including the UK which for the first time said it would be sending multiple-launch rocket systems to help Ukraine defend itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has signed a pledge vowing to make the House of Commons \"menopause friendly\" for staff.\n\nThe pledge commits employers to supporting employees affected by the menopause, for example by providing access to fans or flexible working.\n\nSir Lindsay said women ran his office and he didn't want to see them leave because of the menopause.\n\nThe Commons Speaker said it should not be a \"taboo subject\" that was \"swept under the carpet\".\n\nThe Menopause Workplace Pledge, launched by the Wellbeing of Women charity, has been signed by more than 600 organisations including the civil service, Tesco's and John Lewis.\n\nIt obligates employers to recognise that women going through the menopause may need support and to talk openly and respectfully about the subject.\n\nThe menopause can lead to symptoms such as hot flushes, sleeplessness, changes to mood as well as conditions like osteoporosis.\n\nSir Lindsay has said he hopes making small adjustments could make life easier for those working in Parliament. This could include holding menopause awareness events and allowing staff to request breathable uniforms.\n\nSpeaking at an event in Parliament, the Speaker joked that when asked to sign the pledge by Carolyn Harris he \"had no choice\", describing the Labour MP as \"a force to be reckoned with\".\n\nCarolyn Harris said the narrative around the menopause was \"changing\"\n\nMs Harris - who has been a long-term campaigner on the subject - said she was \"choked and honoured\" to see the pledge signed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said she had been \"in denial\" when she first entered the menopause.\n\n\"I just worked, I never lived, I never went out, I never went on holiday, I just worked.\n\n\"Once I got treatment I started enjoying life again, I don't want anyone else to miss out on anything - life is for living.\"\n\nShe said menopausal women working in Parliament would now know there was \"a system in place to look after them... it is awesome\".\n\nBroadcaster Mariella Frostrup said having the pledge signed in Parliament would send out a message that menopause was \"no longer a toxic, shameful secret\".\n\nBroadcaster Mariella Frostrup has called for HRT to be made free in England\n\nShe told an audience at the signing that when she turned 50 she was \"viewed as over the hill - I might as well have had a P45 tattooed to my forehead\".\n\n\"For far too long women have been told to grin and bear it,\" she said but expressed the hope that more women might now feel emboldened to ask their employers for extra support when needed.\n\nShe said the pledge would let women know that \"their company has their back\".\n\nThe signing came at the end of a day of campaigning in Parliament, where activists including Ms Frostrup and TV presenter Penny Lancaster called on the government to make menopause treatment HRT free in England, as it is in Scotland and Wales.\n\nArguing in favour of scrapping the costs, Ms Frostrup said \"no woman should be priced out of her sanity\".\n\nHealth minister Maria Caulfield has said she has a \"laser focus\" on improving the experience of women going through the menopause and would be implementing plans to make HRT cheaper next year.", "The average person in Pakistan consumes 1kg of tea each year, according to estimates\n\nPeople in Pakistan have been asked to reduce the amount of tea they drink to keep the country's economy afloat.\n\nThe country's low foreign currency reserves - currently enough for fewer than two months of all imports - have left it in urgent need of funds.\n\nPakistan is the world's largest importer of tea, buying in more than $600m (£501m) worth last year.\n\n\"I appeal to the nation to cut down the consumption of tea by one to two cups because we import tea on loan,\" Mr Iqbal said, according to Pakistani media.\n\nBusiness traders could also close their market stalls at 20:30 to save electricity, he suggested.\n\nThe plea came as Pakistan's foreign currency reserves continue to fall rapidly - putting pressure on the government to cut high import costs and keep funds in the country.\n\nThe request to reduce tea drinking has gone viral on social media, with many doubting the country's serious financial problems can be addressed by cutting out the caffeinated beverage.\n\nPakistan's foreign exchange reserves dropped from around $16bn (£13.4bn) in February to less than $10bn (£8.3bn) in the first week of June, barely enough to cover the cost of two months of all its imports.\n\nLast month officials in Islamabad restricted the import of dozens of non-essential luxury items as part of their bid to protect funds.\n\nThe economic crisis is a major test for the government of Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Imran Khan as Pakistan's prime minister in a parliamentary vote in April.\n\nShortly after being sworn in, Mr Sharif accused Imran Khan's outgoing government of mismanaging the economy and said putting it back on track would be a huge challenge.\n\nLast week his cabinet unveiled a fresh $47bn (£39bn) budget aimed at convincing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to restart a stalled $6bn (£5bn) bailout programme.\n\nThe IMF deal was negotiated in 2019 to ease an economic crisis created by low foreign currency reserve supplies and years of stagnating growth - but was later paused after lenders questioned Pakistan's finances.", "In a field about six miles from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the J9 army unit is doing its grim job - digging up bodies of Russian soldiers.\n\nIn a shallow mass grave under a tree, there are six dead, piled on top of one another in a rough heap. No one here knows who buried them - local residents or retreating Russians.\n\nThe bodies are swarmed by flies and the smell is overpowering, but the members of the J9 unit and the two diggers who help them are unfazed. They are used to it.\n\nThe J9 soldiers and gravediggers, including Yurii (front right), carry the bodies out Image caption: The J9 soldiers and gravediggers, including Yurii (front right), carry the bodies out\n\nYurii, one of the gravediggers, got this job after he found five bodies buried in his own garden in a different village, and called the J9 unit to dig them up.\n\n\"I helped them dig and they liked the way I worked, because I was a gravedigger before, so now I'm helping them,\" he said.\n\nThat means going from village to village, every day, exhuming bodies - Ukrainians and Russians. These dead Russians will be taken to the morgue, sampled for identification, and eventually swapped for Ukrainian dead.\n\nYurii served in the army in the Soviet Union. \"Someone is waiting for these men – their fathers and mothers, children,\" he said. “I understand that.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir Tony Blair becomes a member of the Order of the Garter\n\nSir Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall and Baroness Amos have become members of the Order of the Garter, the most senior royal order of chivalry.\n\nBut the Duke of York has not appeared in public at the ceremony in Windsor, only attending a private part of the event, after a \"family decision\".\n\nBaroness Amos becomes the first black \"knight or lady companion\" member of the order since its foundation in 1348.\n\nNew members of the order are the personal choice of the Queen.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch attended some of the private elements of \"Garter Day\" at Windsor and had posed for a photograph before the event.\n\nThe Queen attended private parts of the ceremony and posed for an official photograph\n\nEach year, members of the order - which has up to 24 people plus \"royal companions\" - gather at Windsor Castle for a colourful ceremony with music, pageantry, elaborate uniforms and a parade.\n\nMembers wear velvet robes, plumed hats and the insignia of the medieval order of chivalry.\n\nAs well as the three new members being installed, there had been speculation about whether Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, would take part, in his capacity as one of the royal members of the order.\n\nHe did attend, but kept out of the procession seen by the crowds and and only went to the investiture and a private lunch.\n\nBaroness Amos, a former Labour cabinet minister and UN under-secretary, said the honour of joining the order was \"absolutely amazing\" and she was thinking about her parents who \"worked so hard and were so supportive\".\n\nBaroness Amos becomes the first black \"knight or lady companion\" member of the order\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about reports the Prince of Wales had privately criticised sending refugees to Rwanda, she said she would not comment on Prince Charles but, in her own personal view, the policy was \"shameful\".\n\nThe honour, which is a personal gift of the Queen, comes with the status of a knight and Sir Tony Blair received his knighthood, without any publicity, from the Queen in an audience at Windsor last week.\n\nSir Tony, winner of three general elections, had been one of the longest-serving prime ministers during the Queen's 70-year reign, including the tumultuous times that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nA petition had been launched against Sir Tony receiving a knighthood, with opponents criticising his involvement in the Iraq War. Stop the War campaigners held a protest in Windsor against the honour.\n\nCamilla, Duchess of Cornwall, became a \"royal companion\" of the order\n\nThe appointments to the Order of the Garter were announced at new year, but new members are formally installed at the annual ceremony in June.\n\nIt is usually a regular date in the Queen's diary, although the ceremony had been cancelled during the pandemic.\n\nCamilla becomes one of the \"royal companions\", with her appointment seen as a personal sign of approval by the Queen.\n\nAmong the other \"knight and lady companions\" members are former prime minister Sir John Major and former MI5 director-general Baroness Manningham-Buller. The oldest member is 90-year-old Lord Morris, a former Labour cabinet member.\n\nThere was music and pageantry for a ceremony previously stopped by the pandemic\n\nThe order, instituted by Edward III, originated from medieval chivalry and senior figures around a monarch.\n\nAccording to Buckingham Palace, the current purpose is to \"honour those who have undertaken public service, who have contributed in a particular way to national life\".\n\nIn Scotland, the Order of the Thistle was founded in 1687. Two new members were recently appointed, Sir George Reid and Lady Elish Angiolini.", "Patients must be referred to a clinic either by their GP or by a hospital consultant\n\nTwo thirds of people referred to Northern Ireland's specialist long Covid clinics have yet to receive a first appointment.\n\nLong Covid is an umbrella term for a range of symptoms including fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog.\n\nOf more than 1,900 people referred to the clinics, just over 600 have had an appointment.\n\nThe Department of Health said work to evaluate the current service was \"being taken forward\".\n\nFunding is in place to run the clinics until September this year, the department said.\n\nLondonderry father-of-five Neil McCafferty is among those waiting for an appointment.\n\n\"My hurt and the hurt of a lot of other people that have been waiting patiently for this is that we were given false hope,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nMedical staff told Neil McCafferty's family that he wouldn't make it through Covid-19\n\nAt the time, Health Minister Robin Swann said establishing the clinics had been a priority.\n\nDepartment of Health figures show that as of the end of April, a total of 1,908 people had been referred to the long Covid clinics.\n\nOf those referrals, 617 people had an appointment, with 172 people having been seen face-to face and the rest seen remotely.\n\nMr McCafferty was admitted to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry in October 2020 with a gall bladder infection.\n\nHe was also treated for sepsis before developing Covid-19 and spent several weeks being treated in intensive care.\n\nMr McCafferty said he initially recovered well after leaving hospital.\n\nBut about six months into his recovery, his health began to deteriorate.\n\nHis mobility reduced, he had pains and fatigue and walking long distances became challenging.\n\nLong Covid, he added, was \"wearing him down\".\n\n\"It becomes psychological after the physical impact. I am probably only about 20% of the man I was before Covid,\" he said.\n\nHe was referred by his GP to the specialist long Covid clinic in the Western Trust area, but has not yet been seen.\n\n\"We have been sold false hope,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a terrible thing to do to people who are suffering\".\n\nThe Western Trust told BBC News NI that its post-Covid syndrome service had been running since March 2022, with the majority of patients referred by their GP.\n\nA recent update on the service was \"circulated to all GPs within the Western Trust area\", a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"If a patient wishes to access the service they can speak to their GP.\"\n\nPatients, she added, were assessed at three sites, the South West Acute Hospital, Omagh Hospital and Derry's Waterside Hospital.\n\nDr Alan Stout said GPs are seeing a significant number of people with long lasting symptoms\n\nDr Alan Stout, the deputy chairman of the British Medical Association, said he could understand the frustrations of those waiting to be seen.\n\n\"What is actually happening is these have become signposting services as opposed to services that are seeing a lot of people, dealing with them and taking ownership of them.\n\n\"A sign-posting service just makes people feel like they are being passed around the system, ending up on a different waiting list.\"\n\nDr Stout said within current provision, a patient was referred to a specialist service after an initial consultation.\n\nThat might include physiotherapy, occupational therapy or psychology services, he said.\n\n\"But really what we need is that all under one roof, that physical assessment of the patient,\" Dr Stout said.\n\nThe Department of Health said there were multidisciplinary post-Covid clinics in each of Northern Ireland's five health trust areas and were \"supported by a lead GP or hospital doctor, occupational therapists, physio therapists and nurses\".\n\n\"The service also includes access to healthcare assistants, diagnostic and administrative support,\" a DoH spokeswoman said.\n\nFunding is currently in place, she said, to run the clinics until September.\n\nShe added: \"Work is being taken forward regionally to evaluate the services currently provided with a view to securing funding for post Covid-19 services on a longer term basis\".", "A teacher who was convicted of sexual offences against two schoolboys has been jailed for three years.\n\nCarol Ann White, 39, abused both boys while employed at two different North Lanarkshire primary schools.\n\nA police investigation was launched when it was discovered she had been texting a 12-year-old boy during the first Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nTheir phones were analysed and a total of 1,185 messages had been exchanged over a three-week period.\n\nWhite, from Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, had denied two charges of engaging in sexual activity with the boys between August 2018 and May 2020.\n\nBut jurors took just over an hour to find her guilty following a seven-day trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court.\n\nThey had been told that White asked the 12-year-old to touch himself intimately on FaceTime and sent revealing photos of herself.\n\nIn later interviews with police, the boy, who has special educational needs, revealed he had been kissed 50 times by her on the lips during a school trip to an outdoor activity centre near Oban, Argyll.\n\nHe also said White had groped him while watching the film Titanic and had also forced his hand down the front of her trousers.\n\nThe probe led police to an 11-year-old boy who said White had kissed him on the lips in a school store cupboard.\n\nIn a series of interviews with officers, the boy revealed White had held his head against her groin and rubbed him with her breasts.\n\nThe mother-of-two wept as she was jailed by Sheriff Morag Shankland and placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.\n\nWhite will also be on licence for 18 months following her release from prison after the sheriff ruled she posed a risk to the public.\n\nFollowing the sentencing hearing, the mother of the 11-year-old boy said: \"I'm just glad she got jailed.\n\n\"Concerns had been raised in the school about her being overly familiar with pupils but yet she was allowed to move on and target a vulnerable boy.\n\n\"The whole thing is shocking and I feel as if I've had no support for the last two years.\"\n\nFirst offender White, who still denies any sexual activity took place, had earlier pleaded guilty to possessing eight indecent images of the 12-year-old boy.\n\nSheriff Shankland said: \"There is no sentence this court can impose which can in any way alleviate the harm you have caused to the children involved and the court wishes to commend the bravery of those children and their parents for the way they gave evidence.\n\n\"You have been convicted of a serious breach of trust and you have shown absolutely no remorse for these actions.\n\n\"The only appropriate sentence is one of imprisonment.\"\n\nAfter her conviction, Derek Brown, deputy chief executive of North Lanarkshire Council, said: \"This has been an appalling abuse of trust by someone who exploited her position and carried out a targeted, predatory campaign to betray two vulnerable children who should have felt safe and supported in her care.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the young people affected and their families.\"", "Happy the elephant must remain in the Bronx Zoo, a judge has ruled\n\nHappy the elephant, a long-time resident of the Bronx Zoo, must remain there after a New York court ruled she is not legally a person under US law.\n\nOn Tuesday, the state's highest court voted 5-2 to reject an animal rights group's argument that Happy was being illegally confined at the zoo.\n\nWhile elephants are \"impressive\", the court said, they are not entitled to the same liberty rights as humans.\n\nThe animal rights group sought to have Happy moved to an elephant sanctuary.\n\nThe court dispute centred on whether the legal principle of habeas corpus - which guards against illegal detention - should be extended to emotionally complex and intelligent animals.\n\n\"While no one disputes the impressive capabilities of elephants, we reject petitioner's arguments that it is entitled to seek the remedy of habeas corpus on Happy's behalf,\" wrote Chief Judge Janet DiFiore on behalf of the majority.\n\n\"Habeas corpus is a procedural vehicle intended to secure the liberty rights of human beings who are unlawfully restrained, not nonhuman animals.\"\n\nThe decision follows that of lower courts which had repeatedly taken the side of the Bronx Zoo in the case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project, a New York-based legal non-profit.\n\nThe group had pushed to remove the 51-year-old elephant from the Bronx Zoo, saying she was imprisoned in her one-acre enclosure.\n\nBut the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, rejected this description, saying Happy and her fellow elephant at the zoo are well cared for. It did not respond immediately to a request for comment following the ruling.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the Nonhuman Rights Project celebrated the decision's dissenting opinions, calling them \"powerful\" and adding that it planned to use them in another elephant rights case underway in California.\n\nIn her dissent, Judge Jenny Rivera wrote: \"[Happy's] captivity is inherently unjust and inhumane. It is an affront to a civilized society, and every day she remains a captive—a spectacle for humans—we, too, are diminished.\"\n\nHappy was born in the wild in Thailand in the 1970s, captured and brought to the US when she was about one. She has lived at the Bronx Zoo since 1977.\n\nShe is one of two remaining elephants at the zoo, which has said it will eventually end its captive elephant programme.", "Kids on the Green was originally set up as an emergency response to the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, which left 72 people dead.\n\nFive years on, it has developed into a community service that allows young people to gain art qualifications, develop their skills and improve their wellbeing.\n\nMany of those involved were impacted by the disaster and say Kids on the Green is \"a second family\" to them.", "GB News will broadcast the Twelfth parade in Armagh city\n\nThe Orange Order has welcomed an announcement by GB News that it will provide live coverage of a Twelfth of July parade in Northern Ireland.\n\nLast week BBC Northern Ireland confirmed it would not be resuming its live coverage of the Belfast parade \"after careful consideration\".\n\nThe BBC said coverage would include an hour-long programme highlights programme of parades across NI.\n\nGB News will cover the Twelfth parade in Armagh city, the Orange Order said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, grand secretary of the Orange Order Mervyn Gibson said there had been consultations over the location of the live broadcast.\n\n\"We have been in consultation with GB News for several days now... then a site visit to get the appropriate parade that would work for everyone,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that is the largest Twelfth parade which takes place in Armagh city this year.\n\n\"The BBC for years has just covered Belfast and then in recent years began to stretch out into other rural parades, but this year we are going to Armagh and the full Armagh parade will be on television.\"\n\nThe Orange Order's grand master said live coverage was \"very important to so many people, particularly those who are unable to attend parades for a range of reasons\".\n\nEdward Stevenson said the order was \"delighted to work with the GB News team and looked forward to seeing the Twelfth covered live\".\n\nOn 12 July Orange lodges and marching bands parade through villages, towns and cities\n\nTens of thousands of people attend parades on the Twelfth, which is held on 12 July every year to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.\n\nKing William III - the Dutch-born Protestant better known as William of Orange or King Billy - defeated the Catholic King James II in County Meath in July 1690.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member Diane Dodds commended GB News for \"seizing on this opportunity and recognising that one of the largest outdoor events in the UK calendar is deserving of live coverage\".\n\nShe said the BBC's decision to axe its live broadcast was an \"outrageous decision\".\n\nFormer DUP leader and first minister Dame Arlene Foster will lead the commentary on GB News' coverage.", "Regular pay is falling at the fastest rate in more than a decade when taking into account rising prices, the Office for National Statistics has said.\n\nBetween February and April, pay excluding bonuses was down 2.2% from a year earlier when adjusted for inflation, the ONS said.\n\nUK household budgets are being squeezed by record fuel and energy costs.\n\nHowever, pay including bonuses is outpacing price rises, rising by 0.4% when taking inflation into account.\n\nSam Beckett, head of economic statistics at the ONS, said a \"high level of bonuses\" was continuing to \"cushion the effects of rising prices on total earnings for some workers\".\n\n\"But if you exclude bonuses, pay in real terms is falling at its fastest rate in over a decade,\" she added.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the latest figures showed the UK's jobs market \"remains robust\" with redundancies at an all-time low.\n\n\"Helping people into work is the best way to support families in the long term, and we are continuing to support people into new and better jobs,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour's Jonathan Ashworth said \"millions in work are in poverty\" and accused ministers of showing \"utter complacency about the huge levels of economic inactivity\".\n\nWhen adjusted for inflation, regular pay has fallen roughly by 1.6% for private sector workers and 4.5% for those in the public sector.\n\nThe ONS noted that the latest wage figures are compared with the same period in 2021 when Covid restrictions were in place and some workers were furloughed.\n\nThe number of job vacancies in the UK rose to a new record of 1.3 million from March to May, the ONS said.\n\nThe unemployment rate stood at 3.8% in the February to April period, up slightly from last month, while the employment rate was 75.6%, which is still lower than before the pandemic.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Get in touch.\n\nNeil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said that with record numbers of roles available, \"pay is growing strongly as companies seek to attract people to work for them\".\n\nBut he warned if \"we don't address the fact that there are not enough people looking for work, this could put another dampener on the UK's economic growth\".\n\nJosh Goodall, the co-managing director of building company Elite Building Maintenance in West Yorkshire, told the BBC that trying to recruit experienced tradespeople such as builders, joiners and plasterers was \"an absolute nightmare\" in the current climate.\n\n\"We have got a couple of young lads working for us and they are currently getting trained up at the moment, but you can only train so many people and you need experienced workers,\" he said.\n\nThe latest statistics on job vacancies showed hospitality and healthcare were among the sectors with the highest number of jobs available, with construction and manufacturing also having high vacancy numbers.\n\nJamie Keegan (L) and Joshua Goodall (R) are struggling to recruit experienced tradespeople for their building firm\n\nMr Goodall said that as a result of the tight labour market, he was having to raise wages, with an experienced builder now asking for about £250 per day, compared with about £150 before the pandemic.\n\nThis, along with the soaring costs of materials such as timber and cement, has led to the company charging more.\n\n\"We are almost apologising [to customers] saying materials have gone up, fuel has gone up, waste costs have gone up,\" said Mr Goodall.\n\n\"We feel like it's an expensive price but the amount we are making is less than it was before.\"\n\nThe jobs numbers remain a welcome relief from the stagflation seen elsewhere in the UK figures, but the strength here appears to be peaking.\n\nUnemployment remains very low and there was an overall rise in employment over the past three months, though not yet recovering all the lost jobs since before the pandemic.\n\nStill there were some signs of a turning point under the hood of these numbers. Unemployment actually edged up a little. And looking at the single month figures for April, when energy bills spiked and taxes went up, unemployment was up to 4.2% and employment notably down.\n\nFor those with jobs, ordinary pay fell in real terms at the fastest rate for a decade. In the private sector, bonuses are cushioning this for some workers reflecting one-off payments and recruitment into new jobs.\n\nVacancies remain at record levels too, with a worker shortage starting to have visible consequences at airports and in the NHS. But the defining economic question still to be answered is how much wages can compensate for the surge in the rate of price rises. The answer so far is not much, especially in the public sector.\n\nThe ONS added the the number of \"economically inactive\" people - those without a job and not seeking to work - had fallen slightly in the past three months, but was still higher than before Covid struck.\n\nTony Wilson, director of the Institute of Employment Studies, tweeted that the \"incredibly tight\" labour market reflected a smaller workforce than before the pandemic, with up to one million workers now \"missing\".\n\nMs Beckett from the ONS said that at the start of the pandemic many young people leaving education had \"disengaged\" from looking for work due to most businesses and work places being shut during lockdowns.\n\nBut she told the BBC's Today programme that the \"story had changed\" more recently with more people over the age of 50 becoming economically inactive by \"retiring early, or just not needing to work, or indeed suffering ill health\".\n\nA member of the \"missing million\" is Kevin Butler, who retired from his 17-year career in recruitment to make music.\n\nThe 54-year-old said the pandemic changed his perspective on work when he was furloughed.\n\n\"I'm lucky in that I've worked for a long time and been sensible with money in the past and paid off my mortgage, and those little things that make a difference on an everyday basis,\" he added.", "As the WNBA season continues without her, fans and players alike have pushed for her safe return\n\nUS basketball star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia has been extended again, Russian state media report.\n\nThe Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player will remain in detention until at least 2 July, reports Tass.\n\nThe Phoenix Mercury star was detained on 17 February at a Moscow-area airport after cannabis oil was allegedly found in her luggage.\n\nMs Griner, 31, could face 10 years in prison if convicted on drug charges.\n\nOn Tuesday, her detention was extended for an additional 18 days at \"the request of the investigation\", according to a representative from the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region, reports Tass.\n\nA Russian court previously extended her time in custody until 19 May and then again until mid-June, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.\n\nRepresentatives for Ms Griner did not respond to requests for comment but her agent, Lindsay Colas, wrote on Twitter that the extension was \"further reinforcement that Brittney Griner - an Olympian and an American citizen - is being used as a political pawn\".\n\n\"Her detention is inhumane and unacceptable.\"\n\nAccording to Ms Colas, the WNBA star has not had a single phone call in her nearly four months of detention.\n\nA US representative last met with Ms Griner on 19 May, the State Department said, and reported she was doing \"as well as can be expected\".\n\nState department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday that Ms Griner \"should not be detained for a single day longer\".\n\n\"Our position for some time on this has been very clear: Brittney Griner should not be detained,\" Mr Price said in response to questions about her case.\n\nLast month, nearly 100 days after she was held, the state department designated Ms Griner as \"wrongfully detained\".\n\nState department officials, including a representative from a hostage affairs unit, met on Monday with Ms Griner's WNBA team-mates to discuss the administration's work to bring her home.\n\n\"There is a lot involved in getting her back home and safe, they're working relentlessly,\" Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi said after the meeting, in a statement released by the team.\n\n\"We're here to do whatever we can to amplify and keep BG at the forefront, which is more important than any basketball game and anything else that's going on in our lives.\"\n\nMs Griner is rated as one of the best female basketball players in history\n\nThe current WNBA season, which would have been Ms Griner's eighth, has been marked by her absence. A three-time league champion and seven-time All-Star, she is considered one of the most dominant players in her sport's history.\n\nIn recent weeks players in both the women's and men's leagues have intensified calls for her release, many wearing clothing with her Mercury jersey number - 42 - and the phrase \"We Are BG\".\n\nMs Griner's loved ones and fellow basketball players have been able to communicate with her through email. The emails are printed out and delivered to her by her lawyer after they are examined by Russian officials.\n\nMs Griner had initially travelled to Russia to play for EuroLeague team UMMC Ekaterinburg, where she had worked since 2014 during the US off-season. Roughly half of WNBA players compete overseas in the off-season.\n\nFor most, it's a way to augment their domestic income: WNBA players receive roughly five times more in Russia than they do in the US.", "The government's first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda can go ahead on Tuesday, appeal court judges say.\n\nIt supports a previous decision by the High Court that it was in the \"public interest\" for the government to carry out its policies.\n\nUnder the scheme, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.\n\nCampaigners were trying to stop the flight before a full hearing on whether the policy is lawful next month.\n\nThe charity Detention Action and the PCS union that represents some Border Force staff, who were among the groups who brought the case, said they were \"disappointed\" by the decision.\n\nEight people are expected to fly to the landlocked east African country on Tuesday evening, a Home Office source told the BBC.\n\nThe numbers drastically reduced after legal challenges relating to modern slavery and human rights claims, according to a government source.\n\nThe government says the scheme will discourage dangerous journeys across the English Channel and therefore undermine smuggling gangs, but charities, religious leaders and opposition parties have criticised it.\n\nPeople sent to Rwanda will be given accommodation and support while their asylum application is considered by the Rwandan government.\n\nIf they are successful, they can stay there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nIf they are not, they will be offered the chance to apply for other immigration routes, but could still face deportation.\n\nAt the urgent hearing on Monday, three senior judges ruled there was no error in the High Court judge's decision last week to allow the flight to go ahead.\n\nThey also refused permission for an appeal to the Supreme Court against their decision.\n\nJust before the ruling, SNP home affairs spokesman Stuart McDonald told MPs in the Commons it was a \"cash-for-deportations\" policy \"akin to state-sponsored trafficking and transportation\".\n\nBut Home Office minister Tom Pursglove replied that the comparison was \"plain wrong\" and \"very offensive not just to this government but also, I'd argue, hugely offensive to the Rwandans too\".\n\nMr Pursglove said the policy offers \"new opportunities for those relocated to Rwanda\" and \"people will no longer be able to pay evil people smugglers to go to a destination of their choice while passing through safe, sometimes several safe, countries.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the UN Refugee Agency, Filippo Grandi, said the plans were \"all wrong\" and could set a \"catastrophic\" precedent.\n\nAnd leaders of the Church of England - including the archbishops of Canterbury and York - wrote in the Times that it was an \"immoral policy that shames Britain\".\n\nLater on Monday a High Court judge dismissed a separate, similar challenge brought by charity Asylum Aid.\n\nA lawyer for the charity argued asylum seekers were \"effectively guinea pigs\" for a process that hadn't been properly tested, but the judge concluded some of their arguments were \"thin\".\n\nMore than 10,000 people have made the dangerous journey across the Channel so far this year. Another 37 people were brought into Dover by Border Force earlier on Monday.\n\nThis is a major legal victory for Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nThe Court of Appeal's decision underlines one of the principles of how the law works: if a judge decides there's no pressing need for an injunction, then unless there is a major legal fault with their reasoning, more senior judges should not overturn their decision.\n\nGeneral concerns about the human rights of would-be passengers, in the broadest sense of the phrase, have been repeatedly raised over the last couple of days.\n\nYet the courts have shown, contrary to the views of some commentators, that those safeguards are not a bar to the government pursuing its policy objectives if the law appears to be correct.\n\nLord Justice Singh noted that the outcome of next month's full challenge to the policy could hypothetically see asylum seekers returned to the UK, were they to win the day.\n\nBut the more immediate question is this: how many asylum seekers will actually be on the flight?", "Running Up That Hill has also given Kate Bush her first top 10 single in the US\n\nThe surge in affection for Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill looks likely to send her to number one this week.\n\nThe 80s ballad is already at number two, thanks to its use in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things.\n\nIts chances of making the top have now increased, after the Charts enacted a rule that stops older songs being penalised if their streams surge.\n\nRunning Up That Hill is currently the UK's most-streamed song, averaging 700,000 plays per day on Spotify.\n\nIn previous weeks, those streams would have counted as 3,500 \"sales\". This week, that figure will double to 7,000.\n\nThat's all because of an esoteric, but important, rule dictating the way the charts are calculated in the streaming era.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KateBushMusic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Top 40 used to consist of songs you could buy in a record shop, and every sale was equal. If a record label hadn't pressed enough copies of a 7-inch or CD single, it might miss the chart altogether.\n\nIn some instances, record labels even stopped manufacturing a hit single in order to convince people to buy the album instead (Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around and the Fugees' Killing Me Softly both suffered this fate).\n\nBut in the streaming era, every song is available everywhere all the time. This poses the charts with a problem. If you counted streams on a like-for-like basis, classic songs like The Killers' Mr Brightside would never leave the Top 40; and a modern hit like Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits would currently be spending its 50th week in the Top 10.\n\nIn order to give other artists a chance and keep the charts from becoming stale, the record industry invented something called \"accelerated decline\".\n\nIt works like this. A new record earns one \"sale\" when it is streamed 100 times on a subscription service like Apple Music or Spotify Premium; or 600 times on an ad-funded service. But older songs need to attract 200 premium / 1,200 ad-funded streams before a \"sale\" is counted.\n\nWhich leads to the bizarre situation where Running Up That Hill was comfortably the most-streamed song in the UK last week (with more than 2.5 million plays) but Harry Styles was able to waltz into the number one spot because his song, As It Was, enjoyed a more favourable streams-to-sales ratio.\n\nThis week, the playing field has been levelled.\n\nIn Stranger Things, Running Up That Hill becomes a motif for Max, played by Sadie Sink, after her brother dies\n\nThe Chart Supervisory Committee, which oversees the Top 40, revoked the accelerated decline rule for Running Up That Hill over the weekend, meaning its streams are now worth the same as all the singles around it, including Harry Styles.\n\nThe situation is unusual, but not entirely without precedent. Under chart rules, the \"standard\" streaming ratios can be applied to any single if its sales increase by 25% week-on-week.\n\nRecord labels can also request a \"manual reset\" to the ratio \"in exceptional circumstances, where a track is being scheduled for promotion\".\n\nThis is exactly what EMI did for Kate Bush. It's not clear why the request took a fortnight to be enacted (the rules state that one week's notice is sufficient) but it seems no-one could deny the feel-good factor of granting the star her first number one single since 1978's Wuthering Heights.\n\nBy Monday, the singer was already 5,000 sales ahead of Styles, a lead that's unlikely to be surpassed.\n\nHer success isn't just limited to the UK. Propelled by Stranger Things, Running Up That Hill has appeared in the top 10 in Australia, the US, France and Germany.\n\nThe star has reacted with a mixture of shock and gratitude.\n\n\"It's hard to take in the speed at which this has all been happening,\" she wrote to fans in a message on her website. \"So many young people who love the show [are] discovering the song for the first time.\"\n\n\"The response to Running Up That Hill is something that has had its own energy and volition. A direct relationship between the shows and their audience and one that has stood completely outside of the music business. We've all been astounded to watch the track explode!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe song's popularity could even keep growing. According to Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers, Running Up That Hill plays an even bigger role in the second half of the current series, which premieres in July.\n\nOne person who already knows how the story ends is Bush herself. She watches every scene her music is featured in, the brothers told Empire magazine, and the track has a \"really special spot in the finale\".\n\n\"She's been nothing but cool,\" said Ross Duffer. \"We keep going back to her, like, 'Can we use the song here? How about here? I hope we're not being annoying!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Yes\" - Nicola Sturgeon asked if she is firing the indyref2 starting gun\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to launch a fresh campaign for Scottish independence.\n\nAsked whether she was now formally beginning the campaign for indyref2, the first minister replied: \"Yes\".\n\nShe also insisted she still planned to hold another vote before the end of next year.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would unveil the first in a series of new papers setting out the case for independence on Tuesday.\n\nShe added: \"Had we known in 2014 everything we know now about the path the UK would have taken then, I've got no doubt Scotland would have voted yes back then.\"\n\nThe first referendum on Scottish independence took place on 18 September 2014 when 55% of voters said \"No\" to the change while 45% said \"Yes\".\n\nSupporters of the Union have accused the Scottish government of being obsessed with independence.\n\nThe first paper on the new independence push - entitled 'Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland?' - will be a \"scene setter\" which will compare Scotland and the UK to other European countries and set out why the government believes the country would be better off if it were independent.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that subsequent papers would look at a number of areas including;\n\nThe first minister told the BBC: \"The conclusion very clearly is that Scotland could be doing much better as an independent country... Nobody right now can look at the UK - the mess it's in currently and its prospects for the UK outside of the European Union surely and conclude anything other than that Scotland can do better as an independent country.\"\n\nShe said that a bill to bring about the referendum, or a timescale for putting forward a bill, would also be set out shortly.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged that whether Holyrood had the power to legislate for a referendum was contested, and had not yet been tested in the courts.\n\nShe said: \"That is the issue we are currently navigating so that we can deliver a lawful process,\" - adding that more details on those plans would come soon too.\n\nMs Sturgeon has always said that she wants any referendum to be officially recognised, which therefore means the power to hold a fresh vote must be passed from Westminster to Holyrood (as it was to allow for the 2014 referendum - in which voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% - to take place).\n\nHowever, the UK government has shown no sign it would be willing to give the formal consent that ensured the legality of the 2014 referendum again.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted her government had a mandate to hold a further ballot, and accused the UK government of respecting neither democracy nor the rule of law.\n\nBefore the 2014 vote the UK government passed powers to Holyrood to hold the referendum\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with BBC Scotland, the first minister also defended plans to make public sector cuts.\n\nLast week, her government set out plans to cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs.\n\nIt followed a warning from a think tank that the Scottish government will face a £3.5bn gap opening up between spending and income.\n\nAsked whether now was the right time to hold another vote, the first minister said the case for independence was not \"abstract\" or \"separate\" to the challenges the country faced.\n\n\"It's exactly about how we best equip ourselves to navigate those challenges so we don't have our budget set by Westminster, but we are in charge of these decisions ourselves,\" she said.\n\n\"So many of these challenges if not caused by then are absolutely exacerbated by the fact we are not independent. So yes this is the time.\"\n\nIn response to the new campaign for a referendum, the Scottish Conservatives' Donald Cameron said the vast majority did not want the \"distraction\" of another referendum next year.\n\nHe said the public wanted 100% of the government's focus to be on Covid recovery, the cost-of-living crisis, and supporting the health service.\n\nSarah Boyack, of Scottish Labour, said the government's attention was \"still on their constitutional obsession\".\n\nShe said it was an \"appalling waste of time, energy and money\" and that independence would \"make Brexit look like a walk in the park\".\n\nAlex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Lib Dem leader, said the Scottish government cared \"more about their independence obsession than everyone stuck on the longest NHS waiting lists in history, the cost of living crisis or the climate emergency.\n\n\"Nobody believes education is Nicola Sturgeon's top priority any more.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has a Holyrood majority for indyref2 when all the SNP and Green votes are added together.\n\nWhat she does not have is the undisputed power to hold a referendum on Scotland's constitutional future.\n\nThat was secured in 2014 through an agreement with the UK government which lent Holyrood the power to put a referendum beyond legal challenge.\n\nThis time that will almost certainly not be forthcoming and if Holyrood legislates anyway, the bill is likely to be challenged in the UK Supreme Court.\n\nI don't expect the bill or even a timetable for it to emerge this week.\n\nThe paper being published on Tuesday is likely to set out big picture arguments for independence rather than a process designed to break the deadlock over holding a referendum.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scotland must \"forge a way forward\" to a referendum, without section 30 order \"if necessary\", Nicola Sturgeon said\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled what she called a \"refreshed\" case for independence.\n\nShe told a press conference in Edinburgh that her government had an \"indisputable mandate\" for a second independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon was launching the first of a series of papers setting out the case to break away from the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the 2014 referendum result should be respected.\n\nAnd opposition parties accused the Scottish government of being obsessed with independence.\n\nThe first minister said it was now time to set out \"a different and better vision\" for Scotland.\n\nShe said it was time to talk abut independence and then to make that choice.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted she won last May's election with a \"clear commitment to give the people of Scotland the choice of becoming an independent country\", and that Holyrood had a \"decisive majority\" of MSPs in favour of independence.\n\n\"The Scottish Parliament therefore has an indisputable democratic mandate,\" she added.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie at the launch of the new paper\n\nHowever, she conceded that a future referendum faced challenges, including what she described as an issue of process. She said Holyrood's power to hold a vote was \"contested\".\n\nIf a referendum bill was introduced without Westminster agreement it could be challenged in the courts.\n\nBefore the 2014 referendum, the Scottish government struck an agreement with the UK government which transferred authority on a temporary basis to Holyrood. This was called a section 30 order.\n\nThe UK government has so far shown no indication that it would be willing to do so again.\n\nMs Sturgeon said any referendum \"must be lawful\", and that only parties opposed to independence would benefit from doubt about the process.\n\n\"If this UK government had any respect at all for democracy, the issue of legality would be put beyond doubt, as in 2014,\" she added.\n\nAn agreement was reached between the Scottish and UK governments ahead of the 2014 referendum,\n\nShe said she had made clear to Boris Johnson that she was \"ready to discuss the terms of such an order at any time\".\n\nThe first minister said her government had a mandate for another referendum, adding: \"If we are to uphold democracy here in Scotland, we must forge a way forward if necessary without a section 30 order.\"\n\nAn update on the Scottish government's plans for holding a referendum would follow soon, she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the independence papers would set the scene for the debate about Scotland's future in the UK.\n\nShe said they would cover how Scotland can benefit from the \"massive opportunities\" independence would present, but also address the challenges and not shy away from tough questions.\n\nShe said independence would put \"the levers that determine success into our own hands\", and away from Westminster - which was taking Scotland \"in the wrong direction\".\n\nThe first paper - called Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland? - makes comparisons between Scotland and other European countries - all of which Ms Sturgeon said were independent, wealthier and fairer than the UK.\n\nSubsequent papers will look at a areas including currency, tax and spend, defence, social security and pensions, and EU membership and trade.\n\nMs Sturgeon was joined at the press conference by Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Green Party and a member of the Scottish cabinet.\n\nThe SNP and the Greens are both pro-independence and struck a power sharing arrangement at Holyrood after last year's election.\n\nMr Harvie said Scotland \"could chart a different future\" with independence and set out a vision for a greener, fairer and more prosperous Scotland.\n\nBoris Johnson said the 2014 result should be respected. He said the UK government should focus on the economy and Covid recovery, adding: \"That's the focus of the government. We're working with our friends in the Scottish government, in the Scottish administration, on those issues.\"\n\nAt Holyrood, the presiding officer stopped a minister from making a statement to MSPs on Tuesday afternoon because the details had already been released to the media.\n\nAlison Johnstone said the \"benefits of independence\" announcement should have been made in the chamber first \"as a matter of courtesy and respect to the parliament\".\n\nShe skipped instead to response from Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who said energy was being wasted on the wrong priorities.\n\nHe said: \"Pushing for another divisive referendum... is the wrong priority, at the worst possible time.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Ms Sturgeon's speech was \"a disappointing return to the politics of the past\", adding that the majority were opposed to independence.\n\nHe said the first minister should not \"turn her back\" on important issues in order to \"focus on her own obsession\" with independence.\n\nAlex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Lib Dem leader, said the first minister \"must be wired to the moon if she thinks that breaking up the UK is the priority for people\".\n\nWhy is this renewed push for independence happening? The answer is simple. The people of Scotland voted for it. Of course there is plenty of opposition to, and concern about, a second independence referendum but it remains an inescapable fact that in last year's elections to the Scottish Parliament voters returned a majority of MSPs, both SNP and Green, who had pledged to hold one.\n\nWhen this happened in 2011, there was a referendum. If that was the accepted trigger then, why is it not the trigger now?\n\nThat is primarily a question for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The SNP's argument is that if his Conservative Party previously regarded a majority at Holyrood as a mandate for a poll, why is he thwarting the will of Scotland's voters now?\n\nToday the SNP leader did not or could not detail the alternative path she intends to follow if Mr Johnson persists in his refusal.\n\nThere are also difficult questions for both Ms Sturgeon and Mr Johnson about the \"why\" as well as the \"how\" of independence.\n\nIndependence is never far from the surface in Scottish politics. It is the principle fault line. The great divide.\n\nThe question will persist unless and until a) independence actually happens or b) the public tire of the political parties that promote it.\n\nNeither of those possibilities seem very likely anytime soon and so the debate continues.\n\nIt was largely put on hold during the pandemic but when the SNP won the Holyrood election in 2021, they did so having promised another referendum.\n\nTogether with the Scottish Greens who share power with them in the Scottish government, they have a majority in parliament for indyref2.\n\nWhat they do not have is the explicit power to hold a vote.\n• None Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer- Why Not Scotland- - gov.scot The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People relax in the sun on the grass at the Royal Crescent, Bath, on Monday\n\nA heat health alert has been issued for parts of England, as the UK gets set for its hottest days of the year so far.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to reach 33C (91.4F) in parts of the south-east of England on Friday as hot air spreads up from Spain, Portugal and north Africa.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency issued a level two alert for southern and central England - the first this year.\n\nIt means high temperatures could affect the public's health.\n\nThe Met Office has already warned sunbathers to \"avoid overdoing it\" and stay out of the sun in the midday hours.\n\n\"[It will be] the first hot spell of weather of the year for some parts of the country,\" said the Met Office's Alex Deakin. \"But quite a contrast, it's not going to be hot and sunny everywhere.\"\n\nHe said temperatures will be \"ticking up day on day\" from Wednesday, with highs of 28C (82.4F) expected across the South East - although just 15C (59F) across the far north-west of the UK.\n\nThe peak of the temperatures is set to be Friday, when the South East could see up to 33C (91.4F) around north London and Cambridge, accompanied by high UV levels and high pollen levels. In the east of Scotland, temperatures could hit the mid-20s.\n\nBut temperatures would need to beat 35.6C (96.1F) to break the record for the UK's hottest June day, which was recorded in Southampton in 1976.\n\nIt comes as parts of Europe are also experiencing extreme heat - with Spain in the grip of a heatwave as temperatures top 40C, and the hot weather set to spread to parts of southern France from Tuesday.\n\nA dolphin flicks up a small flat fish at the mouth of the Tyne at Tynemouth on the north-east English coast on Tuesday\n\nThe level two heat health alert - issued by the UK Health Security Agency - is the first one of this year. They are issued to help people, including health workers, prepare for conditions potentially posing a threat to health.\n\nThe alert comes into force from 00:01 BST on Friday to 00:01 on Sunday, and covers the East Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West regions.\n\nA separate level one alert - the \"minimum state of vigilance\" - has been issued for northern England.\n\n\"It is especially important to keep checking on those who are most vulnerable, such as older people and those with heart or lung conditions,\" said Dr Agostinho Sousa from the UKHSA. \"Make sure to look out for signs of heat exhaustion and follow our simple health advice to beat the heat.''\n\nThe hottest day of the year may come as early as Wednesday or Thursday, BBC Weather's Sarah Keith-Lucas said.\n\nBut from Saturday the picture is more uncertain, she said, with a cold front sweeping in from north to south pushing away the hot air and threatening heavy downpours and thunderstorms.\n\n\"However, the timing and detail of the change to cooler, wetter weather is still uncertain at this stage,\" she said. \"The heat may linger for a day longer in the South East.\"\n\nEndangered Asian elephants Beth and her mother Karishma cool down in their pool at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire\n\nA BBC Weather Watcher sent in this picture from Loose in Kent on Tuesday morning\n\nAn official heatwave is not out of the question, which is when at least three consecutive days have daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.\n\nThe threshold varies by county, and in the UK's is between 25C and 28C depending on the part of the country. The threshold was raised by 1C in some areas earlier this year.\n\nExperts say that while heatwaves are extreme weather events, scientific research shows that climate change is making these events more likely.\n\nThe Met Office has not yet issued a weather warning for extreme heat, which it did for the first time ever last July.\n\nBut animal charities have urged pet owners to be careful. The RSPCA warned of the dangers of walking dogs hot weather, while the Blue Cross urged cat owners to be careful when leaving windows open after a kitten fell from three storeys and fractured her leg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMet Office forecaster Craig Snell previously told the PA news agency: \"Very high UV levels are expected in the south this week, meaning people should really avoid being in the sun during the midday hours.\n\n\"Wearing sunglasses, a shirt, a hat and sunscreen are essential to protect the eyes and skin, and drinking lots of water is important - long exposure to the sun can be dangerous.\n\n\"People should avoid overdoing it. We all love the sunny weather, but being sensible can help you avoid a nasty sunburn.\"\n\nLifeboat charity the RNLI is urging anyone heading to the coast to choose a beach where there are lifeguards and to swim between the red and yellow flags.\n\n\"If you get into trouble in the water, Float to Live: lean back, using your arms and legs to stay afloat. Control your breathing, then call for help or swim to safety,\" it said. \"In a coastal emergency, call 999 or 112 for the Coastguard.\"\n\nThe Royal Life Saving Society UK which promotes water safety has issued a plea to those looking to cool off in water, urging people to understand the dangers of drowning.\n\nLee Heard of RLSS UK said: \"Ahead of the expected 30C temperatures in the coming week and with June, July, and August proving to be the months with the most fatalities, it is vitally important that everyone has an understanding of water safety, especially during the summer months.\n\n\"We have seen a rise in the number of drownings over the last few years, with peaks during the summer.\"", "The World Health Organization says it is working with experts to come up with a new name for monkeypox.\n\nIt comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the \"urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising\" name for the virus and the disease it causes.\n\nContinued reference to the virus as African is both inaccurate and discriminatory, they said.\n\nSome 1,600 cases of the disease have been recorded globally in recent weeks.\n\nWhile 72 deaths have been reported in countries where monkeypox was already endemic, none have been seen in the newly affected 32 countries, such as the UK.\n\nAt the latest count, as of 12 June, there were 452 confirmed cases in England, 12 in Scotland, 2 in Northern Ireland and 4 in Wales.\n\nWatch What Is Monkeypox? on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe World Health Organization says it will hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern - the highest alarm the UN agency can sound.\n\nThe only other diseases this has happened for in the past are Swine flu, polio, Ebola, Zika and Covid.\n\nWorld Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: \"The outbreak of monkeypox is unusual and concerning.\n\n\"For that reason I have decided to convene the Emergency Committee under the international health regulations next week, to assess whether this outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.\"\n\nMonkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe.\n\nOne new name for it that's been suggested by scientists is hMPXV, but we'll need to wait to hear what the WHO thinks of that.\n\nInfections are usually mild and the risk to the general population is low, but the UK government has bought stocks of smallpox vaccine to guard against more cases.\n\nThe virus has been spreading in an unusual manner around the world in recent months. Previous outbreaks have been mainly confined to parts of Africa where rodents - not monkeys - are thought to be the main animal host.\n\nThe infection causes a rash that looks a bit like chickenpox. The virus can be spread when someone is in close contact with an infected person.\n\nIt has not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by close contact.\n\nAnyone with the virus should abstain from sex while they have symptoms.\n• None What is monkeypox and how do you catch it?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Former US attorney general Bill Barr says he thought Trump was \"detached from reality\" after the 2020 election\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has blasted the congressional inquiry into the Capitol riot as a \"Kangaroo Court\".\n\nIn a 12-page statement, he said the investigation was designed to distract Americans from the \"disaster\" of Democratic-led governance.\n\nIt came after the committee held two public hearings accusing Mr Trump of an attempted coup to remain in power.\n\nThe panel on Monday detailed evidence of divisions among Trump aides over whether to accept his election loss.\n\nSupporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress on 6 January 2021 in a bid to thwart certification of Joe Biden's election victory. A separate ongoing criminal investigation has led to more than 800 arrests in nearly every state.\n\n\"Seventeen months after the events of January 6th, Democrats are unable to offer solutions,\" Mr Trump, a Republican, said in a statement released through his Save America PAC.\n\n\"They are desperate to change the narrative of a failing nation, without even making mention of the havoc and death caused by the Radical Left just months earlier,\" he continued, alluding to the rioting that erupted during US racial justice protests over the summer of 2020.\n\n\"Make no mistake, they control the government. They own this disaster. They are hoping that these hearings will somehow alter their failing prospects.\"\n\nMr Trump accused the \"unselect pseudo-committee\" of treason, referring to the Democratic-led House of Representatives select committee that has been conducting the inquiry for the past year.\n\nFor much of the statement, Mr Trump relitigated his unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud. A handful of such cases, representing a tiny number of ballots overall, have been prosecuted since the November 2020 election, but nothing on any scale that could have tipped the election either way.\n\nMr Trump labelled the current president as \"Basement Biden\". \"Our country is in a nosedive,\" he concluded, dismissing the congressional inquiry as a pretext to prevent him running again for the presidency in 2024.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the House committee was shown video testimony on its second day of public hearings from former campaign manager Bill Stepien, who said the aides had split into two teams after the election.\n\nHe described a \"team normal\" of those who accepted the results of the election, and \"Rudy's team\", who followed the claims of election fraud peddled by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\n\nDonald Trump addressing supporters in Washington DC hours before the 6 January 2021 riot\n\nBoth Mr Stepien and another witness, former Trump adviser Jason Miller, testified that Mr Giuliani appeared to be inebriated on the night of the election.\n\nMr Miller said that even with results still coming in, Mr Giuliani suggested that Trump \"go and declare victory and say that we'd won it outright\".\n\nThrough a spokesman on Monday, Mr Giuliani denied that he was intoxicated on election night, adding that he did not know why Mr Miller would \"make such a false claim\".\n\nIn videotaped testimony also aired at Monday's hearing, former Attorney General Bill Barr said he had repeatedly told Mr Trump there was no basis to claims of rigged voting machines or ballot \"dumps\" - which he referred to as \"crazy stuff\".\n\nMr Trump, however, refused to acknowledge these concerns and continued to spread fraud claims, Mr Barr said. He testified that he was \"demoralised\" by his boss' claims.\n\n\"I thought, 'Boy if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with - he's become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff,'\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five key moments from the first US Capitol riot hearing\n\nThe 6 January select committee is seeking to show that the ex-president's election fraud claims led directly to an attack on the US Capitol.\n\nBut the panel will not refer Mr Trump or anyone else to the justice department for criminal prosecution, committee chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, told reporters on Monday.\n\n\"If the Department of Justice looks at it, and assumes that there's something that needs further review, I'm sure they'll do it,\" he said, according to CNN when asked about the chance of prison time for Mr Trump or his inner circle.\n\nRepublican vice-chairwoman of the committee, congresswoman Liz Cheney, seemed to contradict Mr Thompson moments later by tweeting that the committee \"has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals\".\n\n\"We will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time.\"\n\nThe committee is scheduled to hold more hearings on Wednesday and Thursday later this week.", "Campaigners persuaded Grenoble's city authority to allow burkinis in public pools last month (file pic)\n\nThe city of Grenoble has gone to France's highest administrative court to challenge a ban imposed on a new city rule allowing full-body \"burkini\" swimsuits in public pools.\n\nGrenoble's decision to authorise all swimwear, including burkinis, sparked a legal battle with the government.\n\nBurkinis are worn largely by Muslim women, as a way of preserving modesty and upholding their faith.\n\nBut religious expression in public life in France can be divisive.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's court case, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described Grenoble city council's swimwear policy as an \"unacceptable provocation\" that was contrary to French secular values. Last month, a local court in Grenoble suspended the policy on the grounds that it seriously undermined the principle of neutrality in public services.\n\nThe ban on burkinis in state-run pools is also advocated for reasons of hygiene. Men are normally obliged to wear tight-fitting swimming trunks - another rule that Grenoble has decided to overturn. The city council has also permitted men to use Bermuda shorts, which are not usually allowed.\n\nFrench opposition to the burkini stretches as far back as 2016, when several local municipalities attempted to outlaw it on beaches for violating the country's strict separation between religion and the state.\n\nState officials are not allowed to wear religious emblems at work, but the mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, argues that this should not stop users of public services, such as swimming pools, from dressing as they wish.\n\nHis administration's moves to relax the swimwear rules are opposed by the national government, which has invoked a law passed last year to combat \"Islamist separatism\".\n\nThe row has now reached the Council of State, which has previously ruled against a burkini ban elsewhere in France.\n\nCritics of the burkini see it as offering a separatist vision of French society and argue that allowing it also puts pressure on Muslim women to wear it. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has condemned the burkini as \"clothing of Islamist propaganda\".\n\nHowever, those in favour of allowing it say women should have the choice to keep their bodies covered if they want to and that this does not imply religious extremism.\n\nThe court is due to deliver its ruling in the coming days.", "Northern Ireland's political parties should return to power sharing \"as soon as possible\", the UK foreign secretary has said.\n\nLiz Truss urged the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to \"get on with it\".\n\nBut DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said that would depend on whether Parliament backed a plan to get rid of parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Michéal Martin said the plan was \"dispiriting\" and \"an assault on an international agreement\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Michelle O'Neill urged the DUP to stop blocking the formation of a Stormont Executive.\n\nThe protocol is the part of the Brexit deal which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nIt prevents a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, but it means checks on some goods arriving into Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK - a situation opposed by unionists in Northern Ireland who argue it creates a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nThe DUP has refused to form a new power-sharing executive until its concerns about the protocol are addressed.\n\nBut Ms O'Neill accused the Prime Minister of \"pandering\" to the DUP at Westminster.\n\nShe said there should be no further delay on forming an executive and called for both sides to find an agreed way forward on the protocol.\n\n\"Society and the people should not be held to ransom while that work continues,\" she said.\n\n\"What we want is an executive formed today; we're ready to be there today.\"\n\nHowever, the DUP leader said there was \"a stark choice here for Parliament\".\n\n\"The Northern Ireland Protocol and Good Friday Agreement cannot exist together,\" he said. \"One seriously harms the other.\"\n\nHe said the protocol undermined the \"cross-community consensus on which the political institutions operate\".\n\n\"Parliament can either choose to go forward with the [Good Friday] Agreement and the political institutions and stability in Northern Ireland, or the protocol, but it can't have both,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nSir Jeffrey said the consent of unionists was required\n\nOn Monday, the UK government published the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, to be debated and voted on by Parliament.\n\nAt the centre of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses is the concept of green lanes and red lanes for trade.\n\nLondon also wants any trade disputes resolved by \"independent arbitration\", not by the European Court of Justice, and Northern Ireland to benefit from the same tax breaks as elsewhere in the UK.\n\nSir Jeffrey said that without the support and consent of unionists, the Stormont institutions could not operate.\n\nHis party, which won the second-most seats in the recent Northern Ireland Assembly elections, argues it creates a divide that could lead to the break-up of the UK.\n\nIt is refusing to set up a new Northern Ireland executive with Sinn Féin - which won the most seats in the election - and other parties, until changes are made to it.\n\nA majority of MLAs in the Stormont Assembly signed a joint letter to the prime minister stating their opposition to the proposed legislation to amend the protocol.\n\nIt was signed by 52 of the 90 assembly members (MLAs) representing Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party.\n\n\"People deserve to have a government. We have published this bill which does deliver for all the communities of Northern Ireland,\" Ms Truss told the programme.\n\nShe said that triggering Article 16 \"wouldn't have resolved tax issue and custom issues\" and instead would merely have \"kicked the can down the road\".\n\n\"If I could get negotiated solution with EU that would be my first preference.\n\n\"I have looked at all the options this is the only option that creates the long term, durable solution that the people of NI deserve,\" she added.\n\nMicheál Martin warned that there was an issue around trust\n\nTaoiseach Micheál Martin described as \"reckless\" the UK government's decision to proceed unilaterally in dealing with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nSpeaking in the Dáil (lower house of parliament) on Tuesday, Mr Martin said the British government was not acting in good faith.\n\nThe taoiseach said the London move had the potential to destabilise politics in Northern Ireland and had to be seen in the context of internal British politics.\n\nHe said business leaders in Northern Ireland supported the protocol and whatever problems there were could be sorted through negotiation with the EU.\n\nThere has been a mixed reaction from businesses in Northern Ireland to the government's plans.\n\nManufacturing NI said that while the protocol needed reformed it did not need a \"wrecking ball\".", "People with a worrying cough, problems swallowing or blood in their urine will soon be able to be referred for scans and checks by a pharmacist, rather than having to wait to see their GP.\n\nThe new pilot scheme, in England, aims to diagnose more cancers early, when there is a better chance of a cure.\n\nHigh Street pharmacies will be funded to refer customers for the checks.\n\nThe NHS will also send out more \"roaming trucks\" to perform on-the-spot scans in the community.\n\nLung-scanner vans driven to locations, including supermarket car parks and football stadiums, have already resulted in more people having checks.\n\nNow, some liver lorries will join them.\n\nAbout 6,100 people a year are diagnosed with liver cancer - the number has doubled over the past decade and is expected to continue to rise.\n\nAbout half of all cancers are diagnosed early - but the NHS wants this to be at least three-quarters.\n\nIt also plans to offer Jewish people genetic screening - as up to one in 40 has Brca mutations, linked to a higher risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, compared with one in 400 in the general population.\n\nNHS England boss Amanda Pritchard will tell the NHS ConfedExpo conference, in Liverpool: \"We want to make it as easy as possible for those most at risk to get vital, lifesaving tests.\n\n\"These plans have the power to truly transform the way we find and treat cancer - and ultimately spare thousands of patients and their families from avoidable pain and loss.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Ensuring patients can access diagnosis and treatment easily in their communities and on High Streets is a fundamental part of our 10-Year Cancer Plan.\"\n\nDr Anthony Cunliffe, national clinical adviser for primary care, at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"Doctors and nurses are working tirelessly to diagnose and treat the tens of thousands of people entering a very busy cancer care system.\n\n\"This pilot will give people the opportunity to access more trained professionals in their community to get symptoms investigated.\"\n\nMichelle Mitchell, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"By changing the way people engage with the health service, we have the potential to help diagnose more cancers at an earlier, more treatable stage.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing how these efforts will support the NHS's ambitious early diagnosis targets.\"", "Actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.\n\nThe 62-year-old has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court at 10:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe charges follow a review of evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nHe has been charged with two counts of sexual assault on a man, now in his 40s, in London in March 2005.\n\nHe has also been charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent on a man, now in his 30s, in August 2008 in London.\n\nThe fourth charge of sexual assault is on another man, who is also now in his 30s, in April 2013 in Gloucestershire.\n\nMr Spacey previously said he would \"voluntarily\" appear in a UK court to answer the charges.\n\nThe American Beauty star gave a statement to Good Morning America in May in which he said he was confident he could prove his innocence.\n\nHe is a two-time Oscar winner and has starred in films such as Seven, LA Confidential, American Beauty and Baby Driver, as well as the Netflix series House of Cards.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Former US attorney general Bill Barr says he thought Trump was \"detached from reality\" after the 2020 election\n\nThe former US attorney general says he thought Donald Trump was \"detached from reality\" after the 2020 election, a congressional panel has heard.\n\nTestimony from Bill Barr played at the 6 January Capitol riot inquiry revealed deep divisions at the Trump campaign over his election fraud claims.\n\nTwo camps emerged - a \"Team Normal\" that accepted Mr Trump's loss, and loyalists who did not.\n\nThe panel has accused Mr Trump of an attempted coup to remain in power.\n\nThe second of a series of public hearings, Monday's session was preceded by the announcement that a star witness - Mr Trump's former campaign manager Bill Stepien - would not be appearing because his wife had gone into labour.\n\nInstead, his lawyer gave a statement on his behalf and Mr Stepien's previous private testimony was publicly played by the Democratic-led US House of Representatives select committee.\n\nIn it, Mr Stepien revealed that members of Mr Trump's inner circle had advised him to not declare victory in the November 2020 election.\n\nA faction of the campaign he dubbed \"Team Normal\" told the former president that he had lost the election, Mr Stepien said, but another group refused to accept the outcome.\n\nIt became known as \"Rudy's team\", after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was among the most vocal of Mr Trump's supporters to claim the election was stolen.\n\nBoth Mr Stepien and another witness, former Trump adviser Jason Miller, testified that Mr Giuliani appeared to be inebriated on the night of the election.\n\nMr Miller said that even with results still coming in, Mr Giuliani suggested that Trump \"go and declare victory and say that we'd won it outright\".\n\nThrough a spokesman on Monday, Mr Giuliani denied that he was intoxicated on election night, saying he did not know why Mr Miller would \"make such a false claim\".\n\nDonald Trump addressing supporters in Washington DC hours before the 6 January 2021 riot\n\nAmong those who warned the then-president not to declare victory was former Attorney General Bill Barr, who in videotaped testimony said that he had repeatedly told Mr Trump there was no basis to claims of rigged voting machines or ballot \"dumps\" - which Mr Barr referred to as \"crazy stuff\".\n\nMr Trump, however, refused to acknowledge these concerns and continued to spread fraud claims, Mr Barr said. He testified that he was \"demoralised\" by his boss' claims.\n\n\"I thought, 'Boy if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with - he's become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff,'\" he said.\n\nThe 6 January select committee is seeking to show that the ex-president's election fraud claims directly led to an attack on the US Capitol.\n\n\"He and his closest advisers knew those claims were false,\" California Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren said, referring to Mr Trump. \"But they continued to peddle them anyway\".\n\nThe committee is scheduled to hold more hearings on Wednesday and Thursday later this week.\n\nMembers of the select committee are laying out further evidence for their case that the former President Donald Trump was responsible for the chaotic attack on the US Capitol last year.\n\nThe hearing is quieter today - the second time that committee members are presenting their case to the public - and fewer members of Congress are here.\n\nThe challenge for the committee members is convincing Republicans of their point of view. About half of Republicans believe that the people who stormed the Capitol are patriots, according to a CBS News poll.\n\nThey have a deep animosity towards the federal government, and the number of \"persuadables\" - political-speak for those who can be convinced of another point of view - is small. On the way into the building, a protester held up a sign that seemed to sum up the feelings of many of these Republicans.\n\n\"Wake Up Federal scum,\" it said.", "As Grenfell Tower burned, residents were told to stay in their flats and 72 people died. Five years on, \"stay put\" remains the policy for fires in most high-rise buildings.\n\nIn the early hours of 14 June 2017 on the 9th floor of Grenfell Tower, Hanan Wahabi's 16-year-old son Zak made a crucial decision. The building had a policy - to \"stay put\" if there was a fire.\n\n\"He decided we weren't going to stay put,\" Hanan says. \"He went out, checked that it was safe for us to leave, came back, took his sister and we followed.\" She admits she was panicking. Zak became the parent. The family escaped.\n\nBut on the 21st floor Hanan's brother Abzulaziz had a different view. \"If the emergency services told him to stay put, he'd trust them,\" Hanan says. Abdulaziz, his wife Faouzia and their children Yasin, Nur Huda and Mehdi remained in their flat. They all died.\n\nThe El-Wahabi family, Faouzia and Abdulaziz and their children Nur Huda, Mehdi and Yasin, died in the fire\n\nStay put was repeatedly criticised at the Grenfell Tower public inquiry as the wrong advice for people in enormous danger.\n\nSo why, five years on from Grenfell, is it still a policy the government believes is safe?\n\nResidential tower blocks are designed so that each flat is a concrete box. If a fire breaks out inside one flat, the theory is the occupants can escape, but their neighbours remain safe, because concrete doesn't burn.\n\nMany British blocks only have one staircase. The stay put policy aims to avoid a situation where people trying to escape prevent arriving firefighters reaching the blaze.\n\nFire services don't rely on long ladders when tackling fires in tall buildings. They enter the tower and set up what's called a \"bridgehead\" - a safer area - two floors below the fire.\n\nFrom there they can connect their hoses to the building's internal water pipes, and head upstairs to tackle the flames.\n\nInevitably this means propping open fire doors to the stairwell to run hoses, allowing smoke to spread, making the stairs an even riskier escape route.\n\nWatch Grenfell: Has Anything Changed? on iPlayer.\n\nBut at Grenfell, the fire spread across the outside walls. In the few minutes it took Hanan Wahabi to escape, flames raced from the 9th floor where she lived to the 17th.\n\nSo one of the disaster's biggest lessons is that sometimes \"stay put\" needs to be \"get out\".\n\nProf Jose Torero, an expert adviser to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, has gone further. This week, he concluded the risk of flames spreading in a fire is too difficult to predict. He said - in the short term at least - abandoning stay put for high rise residential was \"essential\".\n\nThe hundreds of buildings that still have fire safety defects, or unsafe cladding, now have a policy of \"simultaneous evacuation\" - this is where residents leave as, or ideally before, firefighters arrive.\n\nBut Grenfell has changed attitudes. Now people in a fire are not prepared to sit it out even if they are told to do so.\n\nWhen flames swept across the top of Michael Rudling's block in Deptford, south-east London, in April, thankfully he wasn't there. But if he had been, he'd have got out, despite the building's stay put policy.\n\n\"I would have seen it on Twitter before anything else,\" he says. \"People over the road were showing pictures with a big fire on the roof. If I'd seen that I would have thought, 'I'm not going to hang about.'\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster recommended the government and the fire service come up with strategies, that would apply in England, to handle a simultaneous evacuation.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade has been practising that scenario. Incident commanders are using new tablets running an app to help them with the mass of information during a major incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut simultaneous evacuation could mean residents have to look after themselves.\n\nThe average fire service response time is around seven minutes, but lives can still be at risk, according to evacuation expert Elspeth Grant. \"It can take 20 minutes for firefighters to begin systematic rescues in a tower.\" Those 20 minutes could be fatal, she says.\n\nThe inquiry recommended nearly two dozen improvements to firefighting, the management of tall buildings and planning for evacuations. The government has yet to implement many of them, though a fire safety order will be issued this autumn and enacted next year.\n\nBut in one highly controversial area, ministers say it is not practical to do more.\n\nIt is a horrifying fact that 15 of the 37 people with disabilities living at Grenfell Tower did not get out. As a result, the public inquiry recommended any vulnerable person living in a tower be assessed and given a personal emergency evacuation plan, or Peep.\n\nThis can involve safety checks to ensure there are, for example, handrails or that the edges of stairs are clearly marked. Peeps can recommend that an evacuation chair is made available, a specialist device capable of rolling down stairs. They also include designated \"buddies\", either family members or neighbours, to help a vulnerable person in an emergency.\n\nMany British tower blocks have only one stairwell which will be used by fire fighters as well as people fleeing\n\nProf Ed Galea, from the Fire Safety Engineering Group, has been studying evacuations for decades, including rail and air disasters, the World Trade Center attack, as well as Grenfell. He is a strong defender of Peeps.\n\nHe says that for every disabled person in Grenfell Tower, there were five residents who could have provided them with potentially life-saving assistance.\n\n\"No-one needed to have died at Grenfell. It's possible to have got every single person out. It's doable, it's achievable.\" He believes a close-knit community like Grenfell would have wanted to protect the vulnerable.\n\nFor Georgie Hulme, who lives in a Manchester tower block with safety issues, her evacuation plan provides \"huge peace of mind\".\n\nWithout it, Georgie, who uses a wheelchair, says: \"I would need to wait to be rescued by the fire service. Why should disabled people be expected to remain in their flat, whilst their neighbours who can, are told to evacuate immediately?\"\n\nGeorgie Hulme speaks for people with mobility issues living in high-rise flats\n\nBut the government says it can't recommend the widespread introduction of Peeps, and it looks likely this recommendation of the Grenfell Inquiry will not be fully delivered.\n\nIn a statement to the House of Lords, fire safety minister Lord Greenhalgh said: \"How can you evacuate a mobility-impaired person from a tall building before the professionals from the fire and rescue service arrive?\n\n\"How much is it reasonable to spend to do this at the same time as we seek to protect residents and taxpayers from excessive costs?\n\n\"How can you ensure that an evacuation of mobility-impaired people is carried out in a way that does not hinder others in evacuating, or the fire service in fighting the fire?\"\n\nGeorgie Hulme's response: \"It felt like a real kick in the teeth.\" She and others told the BBC of their outrage after being described as a \"hindrance\" to firefighters.\n\nThe government estimates that on average 11 people in each tower block is mobility impaired. It says Peeps are not practical.\n\nIt believes \"buddies\" could not be relied upon to be there in an emergency and respond adequately. They would need to be trained and there could be legal consequences for their actions, or lack of action, according to a government consultation. They could be held responsible if anything went wrong.\n\nIt estimates that building owners would end up employing staff to facilitate evacuations. Dozens might be needed, and each could cost up to £21,900 per building, per month to provide 24/7 cover.\n\nInstead of personalised evacuation plans, the government's proposals are less ambitious. They involve risk assessments for vulnerable people, and providing information to the fire service so that they can be rescued.\n\nThat has an important implication, highlighted by many critics.\n\nCurrently the legal onus is on the building owner to keep its residents safe. These changes would subtly move the duty to the fire service to carry out rescues. Disabled residents are now taking legal action against the government.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our fire reforms will go further than ever before to protect vulnerable people as we are determined to improve the safety of residents whose ability to self-evacuate may be compromised.\"\n\nGeorgie Hulme's group, Claddag, representing residents living with mobility issues in buildings with safety flaws, has launched a judicial review claiming the government has ignored evidence, as well as equality and human rights legislation.\n\nIn a legal letter to ministers, shared with the BBC, the group says: \"It is difficult to convey the degree of upset, outrage and betrayal felt by affected disabled persons, bereaved, survivors and residents of Grenfell.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP MP apologises after a report says he should be suspended from Parliament for two days for breaching policies.\n\nAn independent panel has recommended an SNP MP be suspended from Parliament for two days over a sexual advance to a member of the party's staff.\n\nPatrick Grady was found to have touched and stroked the neck, hair and back of a colleague 17 years his junior at a social event in a pub in 2016.\n\nThe SNP former chief whip admitted his behaviour and apologised \"without reservation\" in the House of Commons.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Mr Grady has been suspended from his party.\n\nThe Glasgow North MP's suspension from the SNP is expected to last until his suspension from Parliament has been completed.\n\n\"I am profoundly sorry for my behaviour and I deeply regret my actions and their consequences,\" Mr Grady told the Commons, giving a \"firm undertaking that such behaviour on my part will never happen again\".\n\nHe also said he had undergone \"bespoke and generic training\" to improve his conduct since the incident.\n\nIn its report, the Independent Expert Panel, which recommends punishments for MPs over bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct, wrote: \"An unwanted physical touching, with sexual intent, from a senior MP to a junior member of staff, even on a single occasion, is a significant breach of the policy.\"\n\nIt noted that Mr Grady had shown \"genuine remorse\" and made \"efforts to address his behaviour\", but recommended that he \"be suspended for two sitting days, make a public apology in the House of Commons, and a private one to the complainant\".\n\nThe panel was responding to a report by Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone, who found that Mr Grady had remained at a SNP work social event on 20 October 2016 after his fellow MPs had left.\n\nUnder the influence of alcohol, he made an \"unwanted sexual advance to the complainant that included the touching and stroking of the complainant's neck, hair, and back\", she said.\n\nMr Grady stepped aside as SNP chief whip last year amid claims over his behaviour.\n\nParty leader Nicola Sturgeon said that she had previously been aware of \"a concern\", but not of any \"formal complaint\" being made.\n\nA spokesperson for the SNP Westminster parliamentary group said it accepted the recommended actions from the Independent Expert Panel.\n\n\"We welcome Mr Grady's apology and note that he previously apologised for this incident when the matter was dealt with informally in 2018,\" the spokesperson said.", "TSSA members at NR work in operational, control, management and safety critical roles on rail services across Britain\n\nThousands more railway workers will vote on whether to go on strikes which threaten travel chaos this summer.\n\nThe Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) plans to ballot more than 6,000 staff at Network Rail (NR).\n\nIt is part of a dispute over pay, conditions and job security. Other rail unions will strike next week in what is the biggest walkout in three decades.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said strikes should be a last resort and urged TSSA to reconsider.\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"Now is not for time for the TSSA to be jumping on the RMT strike bandwagon.\"\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at NR and 13 train operators will go on strike for three days from 21 June.\n\nThe RMT and Unite are also holding a one-day strike on the London Underground on the same day as the first rail strike, in a separate row over jobs and pay.\n\nTrain strikes, cancelled flights and record-breaking petrol prices have thrown getaway plans into disarray and threaten a summer of travel misery.\n\nThe TSSA has previously announced strike ballots among its members at four rail companies - Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands and West Midlands Trains.\n\nMeanwhile, members of the drivers union Aslef are also striking later this month at Hull Trains, Greater Anglia and Croydon Tramlink.\n\nTSSA members at NR work in operational, control, management and safety critical roles on rail services across Britain.\n\nThey are being asked to cast two votes - one on strike action and another on action short of a strike. The ballot opens on 20 June and closes on 11 July.\n\nIn the event of a yes vote, strike action could be held from 25 July.\n\nThe TSSA is demanding a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies for 2022, no unagreed changes to terms and conditions, and a pay increase which reflects the rising cost of living.\n\nIt said NR staff last had a pay rise between two and three years ago, although it varies between grades, and also worked throughout the coronavirus pandemic as key workers.\n\nTSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: \"We could be seeing a summer of discontent across our railways if Network Rail don't see sense and come to the table to face the concerns of their staff.\"\n\nHe added Network Rail only responded to the union's requests for pay talks, made before Christmas, when it moved the issue to dispute in April.\n\nBut a spokesman for Network Rail said positive pay talks were in full swing with a 'no-strings' pay offer of 2.5% on the table with the potential for more if targets were hit.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said it was \"hugely disappointing and premature that the TSSA is balloting for industrial action when talks have only just begun\".\n\nHe added: \"Train travel for millions more people is now a choice, not a necessity. Strikes stop our customers choosing rail, and they might never return.\n\nHe urged the TSSA to reconsider and go to industry talks in a bid to find a solution for workers, passengers and taxpayers.", "Brazilian police have denied reports that bodies were discovered in the Amazon belonging to a journalist and an indigenous expert.\n\nDom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing on 5 June.\n\nMr Phillips' brother-in-law told the BBC that the Brazilian embassy in the UK had informed the family that two bodies were found tied to a tree.\n\nPolice say they have only found some of their belongings and \"biological material\" which is still being tested.\n\nThe region's indigenous association Univaja, which first alerted authorities that the pair was missing, told the BBC that no bodies had been found.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dom Phillips' brother-in-law Paul Sherwood said he received a call on Monday morning from a liaison officer at the Brazilian embassy. Mr Sherwood was told, in clear English, that two bodies had been found and the embassy was letting the family know before the press found out.\n\nThere was no misunderstanding, the brother-in-law said.\n\nThe news was reported by local and international media, citing family members of Mr Phillips.\n\nBut Brazil's federal police quickly released a statement saying that no bodies had been found, telling the BBC that there had been a miscommunication.\n\nLocal groups say both men had received threats for their work supporting indigenous rights in the region, where they were travelling by boat on a reporting trip.\n\nBoth Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were known for their deep knowledge of the region.\n\nMr Phillips had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper - he was in the area researching a book.\n\nMr Pereira, who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nDays before the pair went missing indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing in the area.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Phillips' sister, Sian, said: \"I think it's likely they've been ambushed by some illegal criminal activity there, possibly to do with illegal fishing.\"\n\nIt is an \"incredibly distressing and awful situation\", she added.\n\nThe region where they disappeared is home to around 6,300 indigenous people from more than 20 groups.\n\nAs well as clashes with fishermen catching protected stock, it has also seen incursions by illegal gold miners, loggers and drug traffickers who smuggle cocaine from neighbouring Peru.\n\nAlarm over the men's disappearance was initially sounded by two indigenous rights groups, who said the pair had been travelling by boat in the Javari Valley to interview members of an indigenous group.\n\nThe area is located in the west of Amazonas state, near the border with Peru.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Family and friends of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira want answers about their disappearance\n• None Possible human remains found in hunt for journalist", "Motoring and car industry groups have criticised the government's decision to end grants worth £1,500 towards buying electric cars.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the plug-in subsidy scheme was being closed with immediate effect.\n\nIt said funding would now be \"refocussed\" towards improving electric vehicle charging.\n\nBut the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said the move \"sends the wrong message\".\n\nThe RAC motoring group also warned the decision could \"stifle\" the ambition to shift most people into electric cars.\n\nThe grant scheme, which first started in 2011, was designed to make buying new electric vehicles more affordable by providing a discount.\n\nThe amount that drivers could claim was reduced from £2,500 to £1,500 in December. Electric cars priced under £32,000 were eligible.\n\nThe scheme has been used to buy nearly 500,000 cars over the past decade.\n\nThe Department for Transport said funding would now be \"refocussed\" towards the main barriers to the electric vehicle transition, such as public charging, and supporting the purchase of electric vans, taxis and motorcycles.\n\nTransport Minister Trudy Harrison said: \"Having successfully kickstarted the electric car market, we now want to use Plug-in Grants to match that success across other vehicle types, from taxis to delivery vans and everything in between, to help make the switch to zero emission travel cheaper and easier.\"\n\nThe UK is due to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, which represents carmakers, said the decision to scrap the grant \"sends the wrong message to motorists and to an industry which remains committed to government's net zero ambition\".\n\nHe said the government's continued support for new electric van, taxi and adapted vehicle buyers was welcome, but the UK was \"now the only major European market to have zero upfront purchase incentives for EV car buyers yet the most ambitious plans for uptake\".\n\nMr Hawes also said that the decision came at the worst possible time because the sector was not yet in recovery, and all manufacturers were \"about to be mandated to sell significantly more EVs than current demand indicates\".\n\nHe called for the government to compel massive investment in the charging network quickly, at a scale beyond anything so far announced, if targets were to be hit.\n\nIf you want to change the behaviour of businesses or consumers, you can offer them a carrot - or beat them with a stick.\n\nIn the past, the government has used a carrot to promote the sale of electric cars. The plug-in grant was meant to bring the price of an EV or plug-in hybrid closer to that of a conventional car.\n\nAs EV sales have grown, the government has brought the value of the grant down, and limited its scope.\n\nNow it will no longer be available for cars at all - though sales of electric vans, taxis and motorbikes will be subsidised. Electric company cars will still have tax benefits as well.\n\nNow, here comes the stick: the government is currently preparing plans to bring in a \"zero emissions vehicle mandate\".\n\nIt will in effect force manufacturers to ensure that a set proportion of the cars they sell are electric. If they fail, they will be fined.\n\nSo rather than subsidising electric car sales, the government will be penalising carmakers who don't sell enough of them. This will put the responsibility for expanding EV sales firmly on the shoulders of the industry.\n\nRight now, EV sales offer a glimmer of light for a sector that is in the throes of a deep crisis. Small wonder the removal of the grant has prompted groans of frustration from the industry.\n\nThe RAC's head of policy, Nicholas Lyes, said: \"We're disappointed the government has chosen to end the grant at this point. If costs remain too high, the ambition of getting most people into electric cars will be stifled.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King said the plug-in grant had been essential for many drivers making the switch from petrol and diesel.\n\n\"The plug has been pulled at the wrong time on this important grant before many users, still waiting for delayed EVs due to global shortages, have made the change,\" he said.\n\n\"With record prices at the pumps and households budgets already stretched, removing the last incentive to go electric could stall this important move to electrification.\"\n\nHowever, the Clean Cities Campaign welcomed the move.\n\n\"We don't need to subsidise industry any longer on this, they know what to do,\" said its UK head, Oliver Lord.\n\n\"Build electric cars competitively or fade away. Public money should instead be put towards a scrappage scheme to help people on low incomes switch out of polluting vehicles, whether going electric or car free.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said all existing applications for the plug-in grant would continue to be honoured.\n\nWhere a car has been sold in the two working days prior to the announcement, but an application for the grant from dealerships has not yet been made, the sale will also still qualify for the grant.", "Instagram owner Meta is launching new parental controls across the platform in the UK on 14 June.\n\nThey include the option of setting daily time limits of between 15 minutes and 2 hours, after which a black screen appears on the app.\n\nParents can also schedule break times and see any accounts their child reports, and why they did so.\n\nIn addition, the tech giant is rolling out a parent dashboard on all Quest virtual reality headsets worldwide.\n\nParents can now invite their children to activate the supervision tools - previously these could only be initiated by the young person.\n\nThe new VR controls include purchase approval, app blocking and the option to view their child's friends' lists.\n\nAnother Instagram feature being trialled is a \"nudge\" tool which prompts teens to look for different subjects, if they are repeatedly searching for the same thing.\n\nThe Instagram tools were introduced in the US in March.\n\nA selection of the new screens around time limits and supervision\n\nInstagram is officially for young people aged 13 and over, and Meta says its Oculus VR content is also designed for teens and above - although there are younger children using both platforms.\n\nIn 2021, Instagram paused plans to create an Instagram platform for children below the age of 13, following a backlash.\n\nAlso last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta - which owns Facebook and WhatsApp as well as Instagram - had conducted some research which found that teenagers blamed Instagram for increased feelings of anxiety and depression - and then kept the study secret.\n\nInstagram said the story focused \"on a limited set of findings\" and cast the company \"in a negative light\".\n\nIn 2017, 14-year-old Molly Russell killed herself after viewing self-harm and suicide content on the platform.\n\nAt a pre-inquest review in February 2021 the coroner heard that she had used her Instagram account more than 120 times a day in the last six months of her life.\n\nIn a statement, Instagram said it \"does not allow content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or suicide and will remove content of this kind\".", "Independence is never far from the surface in Scottish politics. It is the principle fault line. The great divide.\n\nThe question will persist unless and until a) independence actually happens or b) the public tire of the political parties that promote it.\n\nNeither of those possibilities seem very likely anytime soon and so the debate continues.\n\nIt was largely put on hold during the pandemic but when the SNP won the Holyrood election in 2021, they did so having promised another referendum.\n\nTogether with the Scottish Greens who share power with them in the Scottish government, they have a majority in parliament for indyref2.\n\nWhat they do not have is the explicit power to hold a vote.\n\nThat was overcome in 2014 through an agreement with the UK government, which transferred authority on a temporary basis to Holyrood.\n\nIt did so through what's known as a section 30 order.\n\nThe first minister has not yet formally asked for one of those this time, although UK ministers including Boris Johnson have made clear it would not be forthcoming.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's predecessor Alex Salmond seems to think she should make the request and use the rejection as a basis for her campaign.\n\nShe seems more cautious about giving the prime minister a formal opportunity to spurn indyref2.\n\nThe alternative, as set out in the SNP's previously published plan, is to test Holyrood's powers by introducing a referendum bill without UK agreement.\n\nIn 2014, Alex Salmond and David Cameron struck an agreement for power to hold a referendum to be transferred from Westminster to Holyrood\n\nThis approach anticipates that the bill would face challenge in the UK Supreme Court and that the Scottish government would argue its case there.\n\nIt would then be for judges to decide if Holyrood can hold a referendum or not.\n\nOn one side, the argument that there is no legal barrier to Holyrood consulting the public on any given issue and that a vote on independence would not be binding.\n\nOn the other, the argument that a \"yes\" vote would create the expectation that Scotland would become independent, fundamentally altering the UK constitution over which decision-making is specifically reserved to Westminster.\n\nIf the judges said no, the referendum would not go ahead because Nicola Sturgeon has specifically ruled out an illegal vote in the Catalan-style.\n\nIf the judges said yes, things could still get messy with the \"no\" side potentially boycotting a referendum on the basis that the process had not been agreed.\n\nIn reality, the only way to have a successful referendum is by agreement and at this stage there is not even consensus on the circumstances in which that should happen.\n\nSo, however certain Nicola Sturgeon says she is about indyref2 happening before the end of 2023, the basis for her confidence is not clear.\n\nIf she has some new initiative to break the deadlock, it remains well hidden.\n\nThe first minister has said she will make a statement to MSPs, probably this month, on how she plans to secure a referendum.\n\nThis week, for her, is less about the process and more about the principles behind her argument for independence. The whys rather than the hows.\n\nIt is a signal to her supporters that she means business and an effort to persuade others and build public pressure for another referendum.\n\nThere is no doubt that Brexit has fundamentally changed the circumstances in which Scotland voted back in 2014.\n\nHowever, the upheaval leaving the EU has caused is - for some - an argument not to consider the bigger constitutional change that independence would bring.\n\nTo pro-UK parties like the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, independence is a massive distraction from challenges like Covid recovery and the cost of living crisis.\n\nTo independence supporting parties, like the SNP and the Greens it is an opportunity for Scotland to decide how best to tackle these and other problems.\n\nThis is the beginning of a new phase of campaigning for and against independence and another referendum, rather than the start of a 2014-style referendum campaign.\n\nCalling for a referendum does not mean it is actually going to happen but it does ensure the independence debate endures.", "Children comfort each other while waiting for evacuation from the region\n\n\"Max speed!\" The instruction comes via walkie-talkie from the armoured police car in front, as we hurtle past the burnt-out carcass of a Ukrainian military truck. There's a high risk of Russian attack on this stretch of road, but it's the safest route left into the beleaguered city of Lysychansk.\n\nWar's dark horizon is ahead of us - black smoke billows from the latest Russian strike. The eastern city - once home to around 100,000 people - is under sustained attack. Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has already pronounced it \"dead\", along with neighbouring Severodonetsk.\n\nDuring our visit the thud of incoming artillery is met by the whoosh of outgoing grad rockets. \"It's a duel,\" says the regional police chief, Oleh Hryhorov, succinctly. If so, it's one Ukraine looks set to lose. And soon.\n\nAs the Russians close in, some are still trying to get out using evacuations organised by the police. About half a dozen civilians are rushing to board an armoured truck, among them a young boy in a blue peaked cap. At the sound of another shell, they scatter and duck for cover. We learn later that a woman was killed nearby. She dared to leave her apartment but made it only as far as the front garden.\n\nLife and death are separated here by slim margins.\n\nWe meet an elderly woman wandering in the street - clearly shell shocked - clutching a small religious icon. She was near the scene of a strike that set a house alight.\n\n\"In Lysychansk, if you are alive, it is a good day,\" says the police chief, who oversees the Luhansk region that covers half the Donbas and is now almost entirely in Russian hands.\n\nHe speaks in a low voice laced with tension and exhaustion, and acknowledges that fear comes with the territory here. \"Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying,\" he says. \"Nobody wants to die. But our brave Ukrainian policemen carry on doing their jobs.\" He takes bitter-sweet pride in the fact that they have helped to evacuate 37,000 people from the region.\n\nAs we speak, a Russian shell whistles over our heads forcing us to duck for cover. Within minutes it's followed by another.\n\nVolodymyr says they have been living without water, gas and electricity\n\nSoon a cluster of civilians gather, waiting for the next evacuation run. The sound of more incoming fire sends some rushing for shelter. But Volodymyr remains sitting. The grey-haired 67-year-old may be too ill to move. He tells me, with a sigh, that he needs to get to hospital.\n\n\"Life here was calm before. It was normal. Then the war broke everything apart. There has been no water, no electricity, no gas. I'm in despair,\" he says quietly. \"In despair.\"\n\nThose who remain make brief escapes from their basements to cook outdoors. We meet Yelena and her relatives sitting on a bench near a makeshift oven - a macabre barbecue imposed by war.\n\nYelena and her relatives have remained in the city\n\nShe's ashen faced, but still clinging to her home of more than 50 years.\n\n\"We have lived here all our lives,\" she said. \"We are a big family with sisters and brothers, children, and grandchildren. All of them are here. We haven't thought about leaving.\" As we speak there are more thuds in the distance.\n\n\"We are worried about ourselves, our family, our pets. We are worried about everything. But we are hoping that everything will be okay.\"\n\nThere's little chance of that. This is now an artillery war, and Ukraine doesn't have enough big guns. The mathematics are stark. Officials say they have one artillery piece for every 10-15 Russia has. Added to that, Ukraine is running out of ammunition.\n\nSo Lysychansk is being pounded, and the fabric of the city is being destroyed. The once imposing Palace of Culture is now a charred shell, its graceful columns blackened and broken. Russia isn't just bombing buildings here, it's erasing history. The tactic is deliberate - shell, flatten, crush, and leave nothing but scorched earth.\n\nThe columns of the Palace of Culture are now charred and broken\n\nFrom Lysychansk it's not hard to see Russia's vision of the future.\n\nIt's just down the road in the twin city of Severodonetsk. We could see fires burning there, on the opposite bank of the Siversky Donets river.\n\nThere are a few remaining pockets of Ukrainian resistance in Severodonetsk, but the city could fall within days. If so, that will be a key victory, allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces to move on to the rest of the Donbas. He and his proxies already control most of it.\n\nUkraine is facing an enemy that has learned lessons and is imposing heavy losses. The government says between 100 and 200 troops are being killed in battle every day. And what of the handful of advanced long range rocket systems promised by Britain and the United States? They may be too little too late.\n\n\"If the weapons had arrived sooner, we would have stopped the Russians much earlier,\" says Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk.\n\n\"Moreover, we would have been able to launch a counterattack.\" The destruction of Severodonetsk is painfully personal for him - it's his hometown.\n\nWe catch up with him for an interview when he is on the move. Like the police chief, he is a worried man, in a hurry, as the last of his region is being devoured.\n\nA damaged building can be seen in Lysychansk as black smoke rises from the nearby city of Severodonetsk\n\nThe governor warns that the risk does not stop at the borders of Ukraine. \"If Putin is not stopped, he will move on,\" he says. \"He will advance to the Baltic countries, to Europe. He will fight, he is a completely deluded man. And he can be stopped only by force.\"\n\nGovernor Haidai says he still believes in victory. That view is echoed in Kyiv. But here on the ground in the Donbas region it looks like Ukraine is fighting a losing battle, and this will be a summer of defeat.\n\nSoon Lysychansk and Severodonetsk may be among the new ghost cities of Ukraine.\n\nAnd as the months go by and Russia grinds forward, there may be another danger - that Western attention, unity and support will begin to ebb away.", "Spending money on new coal, oil and gas as a result of the war in Ukraine is \"delusional\" according to the UN Secretary General.\n\nMany countries want to increase their own fossil fuel production in order to depend less on Russian supplies.\n\nMr Guterres says that our global energy mix is broken, and more coal will only reinforce the \"scourge of war, pollution and climate catastrophe.\"\n\nThe UN chief says that renewable energy is the peace plan of the 21st century.\n\nIn a video message to the sixth Austrian world summit meeting in Vienna, the UN secretary again took countries to task for their continued reliance on fossil fuels.\n\nNational plans to reduce carbon emissions were \"simply not good enough,\" Mr Guterres said, pointing to a disconnect between the views of scientists and citizens demanding action and governments that are \"dragging their feet.\"\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has hit out against new fossil fuel investment\n\nThe war in Ukraine is seeing a renewed focus on fossil fuels by many countries who are worried about energy security in the wake of Russia's invasion.\n\nA number of countries have signalled that they will burn more coal in the short term, while others are seeking to boost gas imports.\n\nThe European Union as a whole is seeking to end reliance on Russian supplies of oil and gas by 2027 but leaders acknowledge this will undoubtedly see more fossil fuel used over the next three years or so.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Guterres repeated his view that this short-term response might close the window on a key climate goal.\n\nIn the Paris climate agreement, nations agreed to try to keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5C this century, compared to pre-industrial times.\n\nBut that means that emissions of climate warming gases have to be essentially slashed in half by 2030.\n\nThere has been a rush to secure new supplies of LNG\n\nThe war in Ukraine is making that tough target even harder, experts believe.\n\nMr Guterres argues that new exploration for oil and gas and building more infrastructure for fossil fuels is \"delusional.\"\n\nHe re-iterated his previous call for a rapid phase out of coal and a dramatic increase in spending on renewables like wind and solar.\n\n\"Had we invested massively in renewable energy in the past, we would not be so dramatically at the mercy of the instability of fossil fuel markets.\n\nThe dramatic falls seen in the price of renewables over the past decade contrasted strongly with the rising costs of oil and gas, he added.\n\nSupporting calls by European leaders, Mr Guterres said that red tape and bureaucracies should be rapidly reformed to speed up renewable energy projects.\n\nRenewable energy is now far cheaper than it was a decade ago\n\nMr Guterres also called for increased spending on helping poorer countries live with the impacts of climate change.\n\nHe said efforts to adapt to rising temperatures should be put on an equal footing with plans to cut emissions.\n\nClimate diplomats are currently meeting in Bonn for the first major gathering since the COP26 conference last November.\n\nThere has been much debate on the lack of progress in meeting the goals agreed at the Glasgow climate pact.\n\nA lot of attention has focussed on the question of loss and damage, a phrase that essentially means the types of climate impacts that many developing countries are unable to adapt to.\n\nThe meeting will prepare the ground for the next major conference, COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt later this year.", "Why is this renewed push for independence happening? The answer is simple. The people of Scotland voted for it.\n\nOf course there is plenty of opposition to, and concern about, a second independence referendum but it remains an inescapable fact that in last year's elections to the Scottish Parliament voters returned a majority of MSPs, both SNP and Green, who had pledged to hold one.\n\nWhen this happened in 2011, there was a referendum. If that was the accepted trigger then, why is it not the trigger now? That is primarily a question for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The SNP’s argument is that if his Conservative party previously regarded a majority at Holyrood as a mandate for a poll, why is he thwarting the will of Scotland’s voters now?\n\nHaving said that, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon must operate in the world as she finds it not as she wants it to be and at today’s news conference the SNP leader simply did not or could not detail the alternative path she intends to follow if Mr Johnson persists in his refusal.\n\nThere are also difficult questions for both Ms Sturgeon and Mr Johnson about the \"why\" as well as the \"how\" of independence.\n\nAmong those for supporters of independence, is it sensible to ditch nuclear weapons with a belligerent Russia at large? Can green energy really replace oil as the engine of the Scottish economy? If leaving the European Union has damaged the UK, why wouldn’t leaving an even older and more entrenched union be much worse for Scotland?\n\nFor supporters of the union, aren’t the comparisons with other small European nations set out in today‘s paper an indictment of British failure? Why has the UK, and Scotland within it, performed so poorly on GDP, income inequality, poverty, productivity and other indicators set out in the 71-page document?\n\nIn 2014 the prospectus for an independent Scotland was subject to rigorous and detailed scrutiny. Ms Sturgeon’s aim with these papers is to ensure the same scrutiny is applied to the UK.", "Sir Lenny Henry made the comments ahead of the 2022 festival at Worthy Farm\n\nSir Lenny Henry has said it is \"interesting\" to see the apparent lack of black people in the audience at Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe actor and comedian, 63, said he was also \"surprised\" by the lack of diverse faces at other UK festivals.\n\nHe made the comments while in conversation with BBC journalist and presenter Clive Myrie for Radio Times.\n\nIt comes as the event's co-organiser, Emily Eavis, said Stormzy's performance in 2019 was \"a little bit late\".\n\nThe daughter of festival founder Michael Eavis was speaking in a new BBC Two documentary.\n\nThe grime artist and rapper performed a headline set, becoming the first black solo British headliner in the festival's history.\n\nMs Eavis said: \"He was representing the black community in a very predominately white festival and obviously that's a really important moment for us, but it's also a little bit late maybe.\n\n\"We should have probably done it before.\"\n\nStormzy headlined the festival in 2019 - but Sir Lenny has questioned the apparent lack of black audience members\n\nSir Lenny was discussing diversity and places where different groups do not mix when he said: \"It's interesting to watch Glastonbury and look at the audience and not see any black people there.\n\n\"I'm always surprised by the lack of black and brown faces at festivals. I think, 'Wow, that's still very much a dominant culture thing'.\"\n\nGlastonbury Festival has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe festival is held at Worthy Farm in Somerset and is finally celebrating its 50th anniversary after being delayed by the pandemic.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish and rapper Kendrick Lamar have been confirmed as headliners.\n\nSir Lenny Henry said of his view of the audience that white faces were a \"dominant culture thing\"\n\nSir Lenny, who is fronting a two-part documentary about Caribbean culture in the UK, also addressed Mr Myrie recently becoming the first black host of long-running BBC quiz show Mastermind.\n\nHe said: \"It's great to have David Olusoga on television talking about black British history that goes back to Hadrian's Wall.\n\n\"Somewhere the gatekeepers have changed, because now we're allowed to have you on Mastermind. But how long did that take?\n\n\"We still want more representation because we deserve it. We are British citizens, we are colonials.\n\n\"We've been in this country, we have grown up in this country, we've contributed and a lot of us feel it still isn't being reciprocated enough.\n\n\"That's also what this documentary is about. It's about that feeling of 'well, come on, I fitted in. Now what? I've integrated, now what happens?'.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had earlier met those affected by the disaster in a private meeting\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have joined bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire to mark its fifth anniversary.\n\nSeventy-two people were killed by the blaze in North Kensington, west London, on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe couple joined mourners at the base of the tower for a special service having earlier met several during a private meeting.\n\nA 72-second silence was observed by attendees, concluding with applause.\n\nThe couple placed a wreath during the service\n\nThe attendance of the duke and duchess was \"huge\" for the community, a local resident said.\n\nMuna Hussain, whose children went to the same school as five of those who died, said: \"I was glad to see at least they know how we are feeling as a community and they shared that feeling.\n\n\"It makes me very happy. It's massive, it's huge for us. It makes you feel better.\"\n\nStormzy - who has long offered his support to those affected by the disaster - was also at the event\n\nSome watched the service on big screens\n\nA silent two-mile march was held after the service\n\nDuring the service, actor Tim Downie said: \"At today's service we honour the 72 innocent men, women and children, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and friends who needlessly lost their lives.\n\n\"We must never forget them and carry them with us forever in our hearts.\"\n\nMany mourners wore green scarves and clothing to match the green hearts that adorn the wall below the tower and which have become a symbol of the tragedy.\n\nFloral tributes and personal notes have been left beside the wall, including a \"72\" made of white flowers.\n\nAfterwards, several hundred people carried out a two-mile walk around the area.\n\nDozens of firefighters lined the streets, with many holding green hearts reading \"Grenfell\", and onlookers applauded as the mourners passed.\n\nWatch Grenfell: Has Anything Changed? on iPlayer.\n\nA memorial service for the 72 people killed in the fire took place at 11:00 at Westminster Abbey\n\nIt began with the names of the victims being read out followed by a reply of \"forever in our hearts\" from the congregation.\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Housing Secretary Michael Gove were among those in the congregation.\n\nPeople placed white roses in memory of the victims\n\nTheresa May, who was prime minister when the fire happened, spoke to volunteers ahead of the memorial service\n\nJournalist Jon Snow, who was invited to speak at the service, said: \"Grenfell, set in the richest borough in Britain, speaks to the grotesque inequality with which our society has been riven.\n\n\"We must now confront the issues raised by the Grenfell disaster.\"\n\nLawyer Imran Khan, who also addressed the congregation, said: \"For the residents of Grenfell, their home wasn't their castle, it was their deathbed.\"\n\nThe names of each of the 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower fire were read out\n\nFrom scarves and flowers, to altar cloths and decorations, Westminster Abbey was adorned in green as hundreds gathered for this memorial service to remember those who lost their lives on this day five years ago.\n\nAt the very heart of the service was a sense of unity and remembrance. Members of the congregation held hands, comforting those who were weeping, as the names of each of the 72 victims were read out.\n\nHer father Ray \"Moses\" Bernard lost his life in the fire. His daughter spoke of her trauma and how she and other family members often relive that night.\n\nPerhaps the loudest round of applause came after lawyer Imran Khan's speech. He spoke of his disbelief over a lack of criminal charges and described the public inquiry into the fire as ineffective.\n\nAs the congregation filed out of the Abbey, 72 candles were left flickering on the altar, a reminder that the Grenfell victims will never be forgotten.\n\nElsewhere in the capital, a 72-second silence was observed at 14:00 at the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush.\n\nPeople observed a 72-second silence at the Grenfell memorial wall in the nearby Westfield shopping centre\n\nFirefighters will provide a guard of honour as survivors and the bereaved walk from Grenfell Tower\n\nNatasha Elcock, chairwoman of campaign group Grenfell United, said this week would be difficult for all of those affected.\n\n\"For many of us the events five years ago are still so raw in our minds and our losses remain heavy in our hearts,\" she said.\n\nRaheleh Afraseibi, who lost her mother Fatemeh and aunt Sakineh in the fire, said the \"catastrophe is never-ending for us\".\n\n\"We don't want them to just say 'Never forget', we want it cemented in some way,\" she added.\n\nMembers of the Grenfell Next of Kin group, which also represents those bereaved by the tragedy, said they did not want their loved ones' deaths to have been in vain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLondon fire commissioner Andy Roe said he had found the strength and dignity of the Grenfell community \"humbling and inspiring\".\n\nHe added: \"I give my commitment that we will continue to listen and make changes to our service and work to drive improvements in the built environment to ensure such a tragedy can never happen again.\"\n\nWhile a criminal investigation into the disaster is under way, the Met Police has said no prosecutions will be brought until the public inquiry is finished and its findings are published.\n\nSo far, fewer than half of the recommendations from the inquiry have been adopted into law, according to the Home Office.\n\nSurvivors and bereaved families and friends have held a campaign for criminal proceedings to be sped up\n\nThe government first received data demonstrating the danger of polyethylene-cored cladding in 2002.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) said it was taking steps to ensure buildings were safer.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The Grenfell Tower tragedy must never be allowed to happen again and our thoughts are with the bereaved families, survivors and residents.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A photobook of Grenfell survivors tells the story in their own words\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon says it will begin delivering parcels to shoppers by drone for the first time later this year, pending final regulatory approval.\n\nUsers in the Californian town of Lockeford will be able to sign up to have thousands of goods delivered by air to their homes, it said.\n\nThe shopping giant has promised drone delivery for years but has faced delays and reported setbacks.\n\nBut it said it planned to roll out the service more widely after Lockeford.\n\n\"The promise of drone delivery has often felt like science fiction,\" it said in a blog post. \"[But] later this year, Amazon customers living in Lockeford, California, will become among the first to receive Prime Air deliveries.\n\n\"Their feedback about Prime Air will help us create a service that will safely scale to meet the needs of customers everywhere.\"\n\nAmazon said the drones will be programmed to drop parcels in the backyards of customers in Lockeford, which has a population of about 4,000 people.\n\nThey will be able to fly \"beyond-line-of-sight\", meaning they don't have to be controlled by a visual observer and instead use sensors to avoid other aircraft, people, pets and obstacles.\n\nThe aim is to get packages to customers safely in less than an hour, the retailer said.\n\nIn the past, Amazon has been accused of using the promise of drone delivery as a headline-grabber to push its publicity around its Prime membership service.\n\nIn 2013, former boss and founder Jeff Bezos pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones within five years. And in 2019, Amazon said it would be delivering by drone to customers \"within months\".\n\nIn April, a report by news site Bloomberg alleged safety concerns over its drones - although the retailer said it \"rigorously\" tested its flights in compliance with \"all applicable regulations\".\n\nIn December 2016, the company ran an apparently successful trial in Cambridge, UK. A package was delivered, by drone, in 13 minutes.\n\nExplaining how Prime Air deliveries would work, Amazon said: \"Once onboarded, customers in Lockeford will see Prime Air-eligible items on Amazon. They will place an order as they normally would and receive an estimated arrival time with a status tracker for their order.\n\n\"For these deliveries, the drone will fly to the designated delivery location, descend to the customer's backyard, and hover at a safe height. It will then safely release the package and rise back up to altitude.\"\n• None Amazon to deliver by drone 'within months'", "BBC correspondents Nick Beake, Orla Guerin and Clive Myrie have all reported on the war inside Ukraine\n\nRussia has barred top UK-based journalists and defence figures as part of sanctions, in response to UK measures on Russian public figures.\n\nThe BBC's Clive Myrie, Orla Guerin, Nick Robinson and Nick Beake, who have reported from Ukraine, and Director General Tim Davie are on the list.\n\nThe BBC \"will continue to report independently and fairly\", a spokesperson said.\n\nSky TV, Times, Guardian, Channel 4 and ITV journalists are also barred.\n\nRussia has already banned hundreds of elected British MPs.\n\nThe foreign ministry in Moscow announced that work on expanding the list, which includes 29 members of the media and 20 persons \"connected to the defence complex\", would continue.\n\n\"The British journalists included on the list are involved in deliberate dissemination of false and one-sided information about Russia and events in Ukraine and Donbas,\" Russia's foreign ministry said. \"With their biased assessments they also contribute to fuelling Russophobia in British society.\"\n\nIn her most recent piece for the BBC, Orla Guerin reported from the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, where she said the fabric of the city was being destroyed in a deliberate scorched earth policy. Clive Myrie reported live from Kyiv as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, attempting to capture the capital in the early days of the war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery\n\nThe other BBC staff on the list are diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams, who has also reported from Ukraine, and corporation chairman Richard Sharp.\n\nSky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is also on the list, was wounded in a Russian ambush while reporting outside Kyiv at the same time.\n\nAmong the other high-profile journalists on the list are John Witherow, editor of The Times, Chris Evans of the Telegraph, Katharine Viner of the Guardian and Ted Verity of the Daily Mail.\n\nCorrespondents Shaun Walker and Luke Harding of the Guardian are on the list, along with presenters Sophy Ridge of Sky News and Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News, columnists Con Coughlin of the Daily Telegraph and Gideon Rachman of the FT, and Russia academic Mark Galeotti.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Galeotti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShaun Walker said he was not racing to visit Russia but it was still a \"very strange/sad feeling\" to be on the list, after living in Russia for more than a decade.\n\nRussia has closed down independent media outlets and criminalised reporting of anything it considers to be \"false information\" about its war in Ukraine. Moscow refuses to call its invasion a war, labelling it a \"special military operation\".\n\nRussia has also targeted journalists and other figures it does not like with the label \"foreign agent\". The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that this legislation violated the rights of those involved.\n\nBeyond the world of journalism there are senior figures on the sanctions list in the armed forces, including Royal Navy chief Adm Sir Ben Key and Air Force chief Sir Michael Wigston. The head of Thales UK, Alex Cresswell, and several senior colleagues are barred from Russia as are a number of top figures from BAE Systems, including overall CEO Charles Woodburn.", "The seven members of BTS are aged between 24 and 29\n\nSouth Korean boy band BTS, whose catchy, upbeat songs have won them legions of fans, have announced they will be taking a break.\n\nThe group told fans during a televised dinner celebrating their anniversary that they would be pursuing solo projects.\n\nBand member Jimin said the group had been going through a \"rough patch\".\n\n\"We're trying to find our identity and that's an exhausting and long process,\" he explained.\n\nBTS made the announcement on Tuesday during their annual FESTA dinner, which saw the group reminisce and discuss the future.\n\nTheir whole conversation, which lasted more than an hour, was uploaded to their official YouTube channel.\n\nAn English translation showed one member calling the break a \"hiatus\" - but a representative for the band later disputed that.\n\n\"To be clear, they are not on hiatus but will take time to explore some solo projects at this time and remain active in various different formats,\" said Hybe, the entertainment company that manages BTS.\n\nThe FESTA dinner was scheduled to celebrate the founding of the Grammy-nominated group, which is made up of RM, Jungkook, Jin, Jimin, Suga, J-Hope and V.\n\nDuring the conversation, RM said that while they had achieved a great deal as BTS, the individual members needed to grow and mature as individuals.\n\n\"I always thought that BTS was different from other groups, but the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don't give you time to mature,\" he said.\n\n\"You have to keep producing music and keep doing something.\"\n\nThe singer added that he now wanted to take the time to consider the future of BTS as a group and as individuals.\n\nThe group recently joined White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the daily briefing\n\nOther members agreed, adding that going on a break was a difficult decision.\n\n\"We can't help but think of our fans no matter what, we want to be the kind of artists that are remembered by our fans,\" Jimin said.\n\n\"I think that's why we're going through a rough patch right now, we're trying to find our identity and that's an exhausting and long process.\"\n\nV told fans the group was not splitting for good, adding that they would get back together \"later, when we gather again as a group, that synergy will be like no other\".\n\nBTS, whose ages range from 24 to 29, released their debut EP in 2013.\n\nTheir biggest hits include Dynamite, Butter and the Coldplay collaboration My Universe - all of which reached number three in the UK singles chart.\n\nThe announcement may be tied to the fact all able-bodied South Korean men under the age of 30 must perform around two years of military service, and BTS have not been granted an exemption.\n\nBTS were named as the world's best-selling artists of 2021 in a chart recently compiled by music industry body the IFPI.\n\nEarlier this month, the group released the music video for Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment) - the title track of their new compilation album Proof.\n• None BTS were the top-selling act in the world last year", "A plane at MOD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire is thought to be preparing for Tuesday's flight to Rwanda\n\nBoris Johnson has defended plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda as four men due to be on the first flight failed in their bids to avoid being removed.\n\nCurrently, six people are expected to be on the flight, due to depart from a Ministry of Defence site later.\n\nThe PM said he had always known the scheme would attract \"plenty of legal challenges\" and said the government may \"very well\" need to change the law.\n\nThe Church of England and human rights groups have criticised the plan.\n\nA last-ditch attempt to block the flight altogether was rejected by the Court of Appeal on Monday, and subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe flight was meant to be removing dozens of people - estimated to be 37 by a Home Office source - but a series of legal challenges reduced that number.\n\nAnd, as the planned departure neared, the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) issued a last-minute order on Tuesday night preventing one migrant from being removed to Rwanda.\n\nThe BBC has been told that the Home Office believes further individual injunctions from the EHCR may yet prevent the flight from leaving as planned.\n\nEarlier, four men were unsuccessful in their efforts against being removed at the High Court on Tuesday.\n\nOne man who was due to be on Tuesday's flight told the BBC he would \"prefer to die\" than be sent to Rwanda.\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter before he lost his appeal, the 25-year-old Iranian-Kurd said he had been kidnapped and abused by human traffickers on his way to the UK.\n\nHe said he had been told that Rwanda did not have a good record of human rights and that he had \"expected more from the UK\".\n\n\"Since I learned that I am among those to be deported to Rwanda, I hardly can communicate and eat. I'm restless. I prefer to die, not to be transferred there; it's shocking,\" he said.\n\nMore than 270 people were seen being brought ashore at Dover on Tuesday after crossing the Channel.\n\nIt brings the total to make the crossing this year to more than 10,500 according to figures collated by the BBC.\n\nSpeaking to cabinet ministers earlier, Mr Johnson said the government was \"going to get on and deliver\" on its asylum plan.\n\nHe told ministers the objective was to ensure there was a \"clear distinction\" between immigration to the UK by safe and legal routes that the government supports and \"dangerous and illegal cross-Channel migration, which we intend to stop\".\n\nBefore Mr Johnson addressed cabinet, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC the flight would leave even if a very small number of people were on it.\n\n\"If people aren't on the flight today, they will be on subsequent flights to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nShe also declined to say how much the flight would cost, but argued the cost of human trafficking and illegal immigration was \"huge\" to the taxpayer.\n\nThere is not nearly as heated a debate in Rwanda about the relocation of asylum seekers as there is in the UK.\n\nCritics of the Rwandan government say this muted response is unsurprising, citing limited freedoms.\n\nThey also point to Rwanda's human rights record, which the government has defended. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo added that the asylum seekers would be \"as free as any Rwandan\" during their stay.\n\nIf the relocation goes ahead, their claims for asylum are to be handled by the Rwandan government under domestic and international laws.\n\nThey will be accommodated at the Hope Hostel, which until recently was the home for survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide who were orphaned at the time. Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire told the BBC the decision to move them to make room for the asylum seekers was \"unfortunate\".\n\nEarlier, the prime minister accused lawyers representing migrants of \"abetting the work of criminal gangs\".\n\nBut the Bar Council and Law Society of England and Wales responded: \"It is misleading and dangerous for the prime minister to suggest lawyers who bring such legal challenges are doing anything other than their job and upholding the law.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a letter to the Times, senior Church of England leaders described the plan as an \"immoral policy that shames Britain\".\n\nA poll conducted on Monday by YouGov suggests the Rwanda policy divides Britain, with 44% saying they supported the idea and 40% opposing it - split largely along party lines.\n\nAhead of the first plane's arrival, Rwanda's government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said the plan was neither immoral nor a punishment and needed to be given a chance as Africa was not just a place of problems but also \"a place of solutions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTuesday's flight is due to be the first in a five-year trial, in which some asylum seekers deemed to have entered the UK illegally are transported to Rwanda to claim refuge there.\n\nThey will get accommodation and support while the Rwandan government considers their application, and if they are successful they can stay in the country with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nIf their asylum claim is unsuccessful, they will be offered the chance to apply for other immigration routes, but could face deportation from Rwanda.\n\nJudges will consider separately whether the government's policy is lawful next month and, if it is ruled unlawful, some people could be returned to the UK from Rwanda.\n\nIt is estimated to have cost £500,000 to charter Tuesday's flight, on top of the government's legal costs, payments to Rwanda for each asylum seeker they accept and a £120m aid package for the east African country.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has launched the first in a series of papers which she says will set out and debate the case for Scotland's independence.\n\nThe first paper is entitled: \"Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland?\"\n\nIt looks at 10 \"comparator countries\" - Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands - and compares the UK's performance across a range of economic and social indicators.\n\nMs Sturgeon said these independent countries were a similar size to Scotland but were wealthier, fairer and more productive than the UK.\n\nThe Scottish government's paper acknowledges that an independent Scotland could not be transformed to match the success of the comparator countries overnight.\n\nBut it says the comparator country models - especially the Nordic countries - illustrate the range of choices that would be available to an independent Scotland able to pursue different policies from those adopted by Westminster over many years.\n\nIndependence by itself will not guarantee improved performance, it says.\n\nThe government says it welcomes a national debate about how an independent country can create a wealthier, happier and fairer Scotland.", "Lizzo re-recorded the lyric following pleas from her fans and disability advocates\n\nPop star Lizzo has changed the lyrics to her latest song after fans complained it used an ableist slur.\n\nGrrrls, which was released last week, originally contained a derogatory term for a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic diplegia, in the first verse.\n\nFans said they were \"shocked\" and \"disappointed\", and asked her to re-record the song with alternative words.\n\nThe star took the criticism to heart and released a new version omitting the \"harmful word\" on Monday night.\n\n\"Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language,\" she wrote in a statement posted to social media.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by lizzobeeating This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"As a fat black woman in America, I've had many hurtful words used against me so I understand the power words can have (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally).\"\n\nThe hastily reworked version of Grrrls now includes the lyric \"hold me back\" in place of the original. Lizzo said the change was \"the result of me listening and taking action\".\n\n\"As an influential artist I'm dedicated to being part of the change I've been waiting to see in the world.\"\n\nThe new version has already replaced the original on streaming services including Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nOver the weekend, fans criticised the singer for her choice of lyrics, pointing out that the offensive term had often been used to attack people with disabilities.\n\nAmong them was Hannah Diviney, who contacted Lizzo on Twitter to explain why the word had upset people.\n\n\"Cerebral palsy is literally classified as spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which basically means that I have spasticity, or tightness, in my legs specifically,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's something I can't control and it makes my life quite difficult and painful. Seeing that word used to suggest someone has lost control or had an emotional outburst is really weird because that's not at all what it's like; and that's not at all what my life as a disabled person is.\"\n\nDiviney posted a message on Twitter after Lizzo changed the lyric, describing her as a \"real true ally\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hannah Diviney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther disability advocates praised the singer for her actions.\n\n\"Proud of Lizzo for listening to the disabled community and amending her song,\" wrote Calum Stephen. \"Everyone makes mistakes - what is important is how we respond to them.\n\n\"She could've said and done nothing, or gaslit the disabled community and vanished, but she didn't. This should be the precedent.\"\n\n\"This is the Lizzo I know and love,\" added screenwriter Daneka Etchells. \"True accountability and allyship here. Thank you for listening and just recognising our hurt and anguish.\"\n\nAuthor Malorie Blackman also applauded the singer's response, saying: \"We're all only human and we all sometimes get things wrong.\n\n\"It's how we handle the resultant criticism and move forward that helps to define us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Malorie Blackman is away.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "A taxi driver, his passenger, and a teenage passenger in the van died after the crash\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing a fatal motorway crash which killed three people.\n\nA suspected stolen van had failed to stop for police before it drove the wrong way along the M606, near Bradford, and collided with a taxi.\n\nThe taxi driver, 28, his passenger, aged 48, and a male van passenger, 18, died following Monday night's crash.\n\nThe teenager, who was injured in the crash, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHe remains in hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, according to West Yorkshire Police.\n\nAnother 17-year-old van passenger remains in hospital, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, the force said.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had referred itself to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe IOPC said initial investigations suggested the van was stolen and police did not follow the van onto the motorway.\n\nRegional director Thea Walton said there would be \"a thorough, independent investigation to understand exactly what has happened\" and it would contact the families of those involved.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Major tampon manufacturers in the United States have pledged to make more of the sanitary products to address shortages in the country.\n\nOne firm told the BBC the pandemic had caused staff shortages at its plants.\n\nSocial media users have been posting about their experiences as they struggle to find sanitary products.\n\nOne Reddit user said they visited eight stores to find tampons with a cardboard applicator, before deciding to buy them online \"at a noticeable mark-up\".\n\nIt comes as the war in Ukraine is making the raw materials used in sanitary products more costly.\n\nThe shortage is also adding to concerns that supply chain disruptions could further push up prices for essential goods around the world.\n\nA spokesperson for Edgewell Personal Care, which makes Playtex and o.b. tampons, said that its stocks have been \"impacted due to extensive workforce shortages caused by two separate Omicron surges in the US and Canada in late 2021 and early 2022, respectively\".\n\n\"We have been operating our manufacturing facilities around the clock to build back inventory and anticipate returning to normal levels in the coming weeks,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nMeanwhile, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the maker of the Tampax tampon brand, said in a statement that it was \"working hard to ramp up production\".\n\n\"We can assure you this is a temporary situation,\" said the company, which sells around 4.5bn boxes of tampons globally each year.\n\nP&G's chief financial officer, Andre Schulten, said at a recent earnings call that it has been \"costly and highly volatile\" to acquire raw materials such as cotton and plastic for tampons.\n\n\"It is so important at this point for people to buy only what they need. I am not a supply chain expert but we know that some of the shortages we all experienced early in the pandemic were due to hoarding,\" Elise Joy, the co-founder and executive director of US charity Girls Helping Girls Period, said.\n\n\"Menstrual products are not a luxury item, and if we all take or buy what we need it will go a long way to making sure more people can get basic supplies,\" she added.\n\nA spokesperson for the US pharmacy chain Walgreens told the BBC that it was \"experiencing some temporary brand-specific tampon shortage in certain geographies\".\n\n\"While we will continue to have products at shelf and online, it may only be in specific brands while we navigate the supply disruption,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenage girls have been turning to the internet to learn about periods", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she was disappointed the flight to Rwanda did not go ahead as planned\n\nFor more than 20 years, successive governments have wrestled, often with limited success, with what to do about people who reach the northern coast of France, dreaming of a future in the UK.\n\nFrom clinging to lorries, to perilous crossings in small boats, home secretaries from David Blunkett to Priti Patel have cast around for solutions.\n\nThe magnetism for many of Britain hasn't diminished; in fact the opposite; there's been an exponential rise in small boat crossings in recent years.\n\nThe Rwanda policy comes at considerable cost; £120m as an upfront payment to Kigali, for a start, and while ministers say the number of people who might be sent there is \"uncapped\", it's thought it may number just hundreds per year.\n\nIt so far numbers zero - after confirmation just 20 minutes or so before the first flight was due to leave that all those asylum seekers due to be on it had obtained legal injunctions that granted them a reprieve.\n\nThe irritation from those in government is palpable and they are determined to press ahead with their plans.\n\nThey make the case that there is a moral compulsion to act, given the risks those crossing the Channel are subjecting themselves to and the costs are spiralling as the number of arrivals spiral too.\n\nSo, they conclude, a deterrent with shock value is deemed necessary.\n\nLet's talk about two things: the law and public opinion.\n\nWhile plenty of those possessed of titles and opinions, and platforms from which to articulate them, have expressed their outrage, from archbishops to lawyers and, privately, at least it would seem - the heir to the throne - public opinion is considerably more nuanced.\n\nIt brings me back to a point I've made before: noisy people in politics attract attention. Quieter people, rather less of it.\n\nSo people with big job titles and bigger opinions command headlines, but let's look a little deeper.\n\nThe plane had been due to fly to Rwanda on Tuesday evening\n\nPolling suggests, yes, it's a divisive idea - there is no doubt many are repulsed by it - but an overwhelming majority had previously been critical of the lack of a government plan.\n\nYou might remember last November at least 27 people died in the Channel trying to cross to reach England.\n\nShortly after, according to a poll by Savanta Comres, just one in five thought the Home Secretary Priti Patel was handling the issue well, rising to three in 10 Conservative voters.\n\nFigures in government tell me those working on the issue increasingly felt the situation was unsustainable, that something new and different and bold was now necessary.\n\nWhen the Rwanda policy was announced, a poll immediately afterwards, again by Savanta, found that just under half of the public supported it, compared with 26% who opposed it.\n\nTen days later, the same polling company found support had slipped a bit, to 41%, while 28% were against it.\n\nA punctured dinghy used by people to cross the English Channel is pulled into the Port of Dover\n\nThe very act of trying to do something appeared valued by many people, even if some thought the idea had problems.\n\nYou can read an interesting analysis of the numbers from Savanta Comres's political research director here.\n\nBy Monday, a poll by YouGov suggested 44% of people supported the plan, 40% were opposed, which implies that scrutiny of the policy might be chipping away at its popularity, but more people approve of it than reject it.\n\nIt is also worth pointing out that there appears to be considerably more support for the policy among Conservative supporters, according to YouGov (74%) than there is among those who support other political parties (among Labour supporters it's 19%, it's 26% of Liberal Democrat backers).\n\nI was chatting to a senior Conservative MP earlier, who acknowledged when they first heard about the Rwanda scheme they gulped - but had concluded a drastic measure was necessary to smash the business model of the people smugglers and put people off getting into rickety boats.\n\nIt remains an open discussion whether this policy can do that and at what cost. It might fail. Let's be frank: the early evidence doesn't bode well for the government.\n\nLet's see where the grounding this first flight leaves people's views.\n\nThe flight to Rwanda has triggered protests outside the Home Office in London\n\nLabour argue it not only abandons what they call \"British values of common sense and decency\" but claim it will prove to be \"unworkable, unethical, extortionately expensive and risks making smuggling and trafficking worse\".\n\nBut ministers are absolutely determined to make it work.\n\nThe prime minister has said he would be willing to change the law to make delivering the policy easier.\n\nAnd this is where having a look at the Conservative manifesto from the last general election is instructive.\n\nOn page 48, there is a commitment to \"update the Human Rights Act.\"\n\nThat is a bit of law now 24 years old, which Conservatives feel gold plates the European Convention on Human Rights, the very thing that has led to some asylum seekers being offloaded from the flight to Kigali.\n\n\"It is very surprising that the European Court of Human Rights has intervened despite repeated earlier success in our domestic courts,\" the Home Secretary Priti Patel said.\n\nWe can expect to hear soon from the government about its wider plans on the Human Rights Act, plans the Tories described in their manifesto as ones that would mean legal interventions are \"not abused to conduct politics by another means or to create needless delays\".\n\nThose were words written three years ago, but appear very topical right now.", "The final episode's cast gathered for a photograph on the last day\n\nLong-running Australian TV soap opera Neighbours has filmed its final scene, with former stars of the show including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce returning to say goodbye.\n\nStefan Dennis, who has played Paul Robinson since the show started in 1985, called the last day \"melancholy\".\n\nMinogue, who played Charlene Robinson from 1986 to 1988, recently told Australia's Today Extra that returning was \"lovely and emotional\".\n\nThe final slice of life from Ramsay Street, in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough, is due to be broadcast on 1 August.\n\nJason Donovan's Scott and Kylie Minogue's Charlene were hugely popular early characters in the show\n\nMinogue, who left acting to become a globally successful singer, said: \"Driving into Ramsay Street was quite something... Firstly where's all that time gone? Secondly, everything looks exactly the same. Thirdly, Scott, Charlene, Jane, Harold, it all just came flooding back.\"\n\nDonovan, who played Charlene's boyfriend then husband Scott Robinson, has also gone on to have a successful music and stage career.\n\nHe said the show \"changed how a lot of people viewed Australians\" and joked that it kept his family in \"business for a while\", having also starred his father Terence and daughter Jemma.\n\n\"I'm proud to have been part of that, and it launched my career and I'm very excited to to be part of the final episode,\" he added.\n\nGuy Pearce, who went on to be a successful Hollywood actor, recently said it was \"lovely to be back\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy Pearce This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDennis told Australian breakfast programme Studio 10: \"I sort of closed the studio door behind me on my very last scene, my very last dialogue scene and... I suddenly surprised myself by getting incredibly emotional.\n\n\"I just kept to myself and went to my dressing room... so I'm keeping a very low profile today. I think I'll just be an absolute mess if I sort of hang around too long.\"\n\nThe show also helped launch the careers of Hollywood stars including Margot Robbie, Liam Hemsworth and Russell Crowe as well as singers Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem and Holly Valance.\n\nThe final episode will also feature cast members from the early era of the show including Peter O'Brien, who appeared in the first programme as Shane Ramsay; as well as Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop; Mark Little, who played Joe Mangel; and Paul Keane, who played Des Clarke.\n\nThe show's executive producer Jason Herbison told the BBC that in recent months, since the news of the show ending was revealed, audiences have \"come out and given us a big group hug\".\n\nSpeaking about how the series would finish, he said: \"I was really keen to have an ending that would be fulfilling, joyous and would be very Neighbours - it would feel satisfying in terms of where the characters and the storylines are.\"\n\nHe added that the show had lasted so long because \"it's in people's hearts\".\n\nRamsay Street is in the fictional suburb of Erinsborough\n\nAustralian TV historian Andrew Mercado told BBC One's Breakfast that when the programme was first made, producers had \"no idea that it was going to become so popular in the UK and then travel the world the way that it did\". The show has been sold to more than 60 countries.\n\n\"It got to the point where Hollywood realised that if you were an actor that had been trained on Neighbours, you were actually really, really good at your craft,\" he said, adding that when the soap started it was an \"all-white, heteronormative cast\".\n\n\"It's brilliant that it leaves the airwaves as a multicultural show, and a show that has diversity in it,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this year, Channel 5 announced it was dropping the show from its schedules. That decision left producers with a funding gap because the British network was a key broadcast partner in the series.\n\nMargot Robbie starred in Neighbours before launching her Hollywood career\n\nLaura Jayne Tyler, editor of Inside Soap Magazine, told the BBC the show had endured for so long because of \"all those long-standing characters that we've carried through since the 80s and the 90s\".\n\nShe said: \"You've got the likes of Carl and Susan and Toady. But the point is Neighbours has kept up with the times. We've got those rich family dramas, but we've also got a same-sex couple's desire to have a baby [and] transgender character Mackenzie.\n\n\"So it just goes to show that it's really kept up with the times over the years and I think that's why people have stayed with it.\"", "Britney Spears has married fiance Sam Asghari, seven months after being freed from a conservatorship that she said had prevented her from getting wed.\n\nThe couple tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in California on Thursday.\n\nBut preparations were disrupted when Jason Alexander, who was briefly married to the pop star in 2004, was arrested after allegedly gatecrashing.\n\nHe streamed video on Instagram Live before the ceremony apparently from inside her home before being tackled.\n\nVentura County Sheriff's Department told the PA Media news agency an altercation had taken place with security officers, and Mr Alexander had been charged with four misdemeanour offences of trespassing, battery and vandalism.\n\n\"He was able to find his way onto the property and was confronted by security,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"An altercation occurred with the security officers and that's where the battery occurred... and during the altercation an item was broken, so that's where the vandalism comes into play. And by being on private property, the trespass comes into play.\"\n\nMr Alexander was married to Spears, his childhood friend, for less than 55 hours in 2004 before it was annulled.\n\nHis video showed him walking through her home looking for her and then going into a marquee where the finishing touches were being put to a large display of roses. He claimed Spears had invited him, saying: \"She's my first wife, my only wife.\"\n\nThe ceremony went ahead later on Thursday, with stars including Madonna, Paris Hilton, Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Ansel Elgort and will.i.am among the guests.\n\nDonatella Versace designed the wedding dress, which Vogue described as an \"off-the-shoulder custom Versace dress with a leg-revealing slit up one side and a classic white veil with satin edging\".\n\nSpears told Vogue: \"We really wanted to make this a small and beautiful moment with family and friends.\"\n\nIt was a 10-minute ceremony and a white horse with gold hooves, pulling a white carriage covered in roses, was stationed outside, the fashion site said.\n\nThere was no first dance, but Gomez, Madonna and the bride danced to Spears' 2003 single Toxic, before Hilton and Spears sang Hilton's 2006 single Stars Are Blind, Vogue reported.\n\nSpears' father, mother and sister were reportedly not at the wedding after relations broke down because of the conservatorship.\n\nIn November, Spears, 40, was released from the controversial 13-year legal guardianship, which had seen her father Jamie control many aspects of her life.\n\nLast year, she told a court it had meant she was \"not able to get married and have a baby\".\n\nJamie Spears previously said the conservatorship had been \"necessary\" for his daughter's mental health, but agreed it was time for her \"to re-take control of her life\".\n\nThis April, she announced she had got pregnant, but announced the following month she had suffered a miscarriage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sam Asghari talked in April about marriage, family and public support for Britney Spears\n\nSpears met 28-year-old personal trainer Asghari in 2016 on the set of her music video for the song Slumber Party.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Persian, conducted the month before her pregnancy announcement, Asghari said that marriage and plans to have children \"should have happened three years ago\".\n\nThe couple got engaged last September, two months before the end of the conservatorship\n\nAsghari's representative Brandon Cohen confirmed the couple's nuptials to the Associated Press news agency on Thursday.\n\nHe said: \"I am very ecstatic this day has come, and they are married. I know he wanted this for so long. He is so caring and supportive every step of the way.\"\n\nMr Asghari is the star's third husband. After Mr Alexander, she was married to Kevin Federline from 2004 to 2007.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas\n\nWars ebb and flow. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is no exception.\n\nEarly fears of a swift conquest were succeeded by Russian retreat and Ukrainian resistance. That has now been met by a more focused Russian offensive in the east.\n\nBut 100 days on, where might this war go next?\n\nHere are five potential scenarios - they are not mutually exclusive, but all are within the bounds of plausibility.\n\nThe war might continue for months - if not years - as Russian and Ukrainian forces grind each other down.\n\nMomentum shifts to and fro as both sides make gains and losses. Neither side is willing to give up. Russia's President Putin judges he can gain by demonstrating strategic patience, gambling that Western countries will suffer from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and focus more on their economic crises and the threat from China.\n\nThe West, however, shows resolve and continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. Semi-permanent front lines are established. Steadily the war becomes a frozen conflict, a \"forever war\".\n\nMick Ryan, a retired Australian general and military scholar, says: \"There is little prospect of a crushing operational or strategic victory by either side in the short term. Neither belligerent has demonstrated the capacity to land a strategically decisive blow.\"\n\nWhat if President Putin were to surprise the world with a unilateral ceasefire? He could pocket his territorial gains and declare \"victory\".\n\nHe could claim his \"military operation\" was complete: Russian-backed separatists in Donbas protected; a land corridor to Crimea established. He could then seek the moral high ground, putting pressure on Ukraine to stop fighting.\n\n\"This is a ploy which could be used by Russia at any time, if it wants to capitalise on European pressure on Ukraine to surrender and give up territory in exchange for notional peace,\" says Keir Giles, Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank.\n\nRussia's President Putin may gamble on Western countries suffering from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and switching focus to their economies\n\nThe arguments are heard already in Paris, Berlin and Rome: no need to prolong the war, time to end the global economic pain, let's push for a ceasefire.\n\nThis, though, would be opposed by the US, the UK and much of eastern Europe, where policymakers believe Russia's invasion must fail, for the sake of Ukraine and the international order.\n\nSo a unilateral Russian ceasefire might change the narrative but not end the fighting.\n\nWhat if both Ukraine and Russia conclude they cannot achieve more militarily and enter talks for a political settlement?\n\nTheir armies are exhausted, running short of manpower and munitions. The price in blood and treasure no longer justifies further fighting. Russia's military and economic losses are not sustainable. The Ukrainian people tire of war, unwilling to risk more lives for an eternally elusive victory.\n\nWhat if the leadership in Kyiv - no longer trusting continued Western support - decide the time has come to talk? US President Joe Biden openly admits America's aim is for Ukraine to be \"in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table\".\n\nBut there may not be a battlefield stalemate for many months and any political settlement would be hard, not least because of Ukraine's lack of trust in Russia. A peace deal might not endure and could be followed by more fighting.\n\nCould Ukraine - against the odds - achieve something close to a victory? Could Ukraine force Russian troops to withdraw to where they were before the invasion?\n\n\"Ukraine will definitely win this war,\" the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky told Dutch TV this week.\n\nWhat if Russia fails to seize all Donbas and suffers more losses? Western sanctions hit Russia's war machine. Ukraine makes counter attacks, using its new long-range rockets, seizing back territory where Russian supply lines are stretched. Ukraine transforms its army from a defensive to an offensive force.\n\nThe US said it would supply Ukraine with weapons including medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)\n\nThis scenario is plausible enough for policymakers to worry already about its consequences. If Mr Putin were facing defeat, might he escalate, potentially using either chemical or nuclear weapons?\n\nThe historian Niall Ferguson told a seminar at Kings College, London recently: \"It seems unlikely to me that Putin is going to accept conventional military defeat when he has a nuclear option.\"\n\nAnd what of a possible Russian \"victory\"?\n\nWestern officials emphasise that Russia, despite early setbacks, still plans to seize the capital Kyiv and subjugate much of Ukraine. \"Those maximalist objectives remain in place,\" one official said.\n\nRussia could capitalise on its gains in Donbas, freeing up forces for use elsewhere, perhaps even targeting Kyiv once again. The sheer weight of Russian numbers come to bear. Ukrainian forces continue to suffer.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky met servicemen in the eastern Kharkiv region, where fighting has intensified\n\nPresident Zelensky already admits up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying and another 500 are wounded every day.\n\nThe people of Ukraine could divide, some wanting to fight on, others wanting to sue for peace. Some Western countries might tire of supporting Ukraine. But equally, if they thought Russia was winning, others might want to escalate.\n\nOne Western diplomat told me privately the West should test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific as a warning to Russia.\n\nThe future of this war is not yet written.", "The child of two parents who were found murdered in Texas more than 40 years ago has been located alive and well, the state attorney general has said.\n\n\"Baby Holly\" Clouse, now 42 years old, was not found with her parents at the 1981 murder scene. The couple was not identified until 2021 using DNA tests.\n\nAt a news conference, Texas officials said they \"rejoice\" that she is safe, but the two murder cases remain open.\n\nOfficials say a mysterious religious cult may be responsible for the deaths.\n\nTina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr had moved from Florida to Texas shortly before they were found apparently murdered in the woods in Houston.\n\nIt was not until last year that they were positively identified with the help of Identifiers International, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and police in Texas, Florida and Arizona.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the Texas attorney general's newly formed Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit announced that Holly had been found after 42 years.\n\nShe now lives in Oklahoma, and is the mother of five children. Further details are not being released, in order to protect her privacy.\n\nMs Clouse first learned of her identity when she was visited at her workplace by police on Tuesday - on what would have been her father's 63rd birthday.\n\nHer grandmother called the news a \"birthday present from heaven\", in a statement released by officials.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Texas First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster said the girl was brought to a church in Arizona by two women.\n\nHe said that the foster parents who raised Holly are not suspected of playing any role in the murders.\n\n\"Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought Holly to the church,\" he said.\n\n\"They were wearing white robes and they were barefoot.\"\n\nThe members of the religious group said they believed in the separation of men and women, vegetarianism and avoidance of leather goods, Mr Webster added.\n\nThey also said they had previously left another baby at a laundrette.\n\nMr Webster added that one woman calling herself \"sister Susan\" contacted the families of both victims in 1980 or 1981, saying the couple had joined the group and gave up all of their possessions. They offered to sell them the couple's car.\n\nThe family met members of the group at the Daytona racetrack in Florida, where they confirmed that the car had belonged to Harold Dean Clouse's mother.\n\nThree members of the group were taken into police custody, Mr Webster said, but so far investigators have not managed to find any arrest report.\n\nMembers of the group are thought to have travelled throughout the south-western United States during the 1980s. Several women fitting the description of the group's members have been seen begging for food in Yuma, Arizona, Mr Webster said.\n\nAnyone with information related to the couple's disappearance or murders are asked to contact cold case officers in the Texas attorney general's office.\n\nMs Clouse is expected to travel to Florida in the coming days to be reunited with extended family members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The 52-year search for a missing girl. Video, 00:02:40The 52-year search for a missing girl", "Millions of unused masks and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) bought at the height of the Covid pandemic are to be burned or recycled.\n\nThe government says it will use the fires to generate power - but a spending watchdog has attacked the cost and environmental impact of the plan.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said some of the £4bn worth of unused PPE did not meet NHS standards.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said the committee's claims were \"misleading\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We make no apology for procuring too much PPE rather than too little, and only 3% of the PPE we procured was unusable in any context.\"\n\nThe report by the Public Accounts Committee - which scrutinises government spending - said that between 2020-21, the Department of Health spent £12bn on PPE, but £8.7bn had to be written off.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, countries around the world were clamouring for PPE which sent prices soaring.\n\nThe DoH has argued that it was better to purchase PPE despite the \"globally inflated market\" rather than risk running out of equipment.\n\nA total of £4.7bn was written off because the market price of PPE at the end of the year was lower than the price paid at the height of the pandemic.\n\nThe committee says a further £4bn was lost because equipment, such as masks and gowns, did not meet NHS standards, was defective or not needed.\n\nIt said the government had hired two commercial waste partners to get rid of the unused items - amounting to 15,000 pallets a month - through a combination of recycling and burning to generate power.\n\nThe committee warned the costs and environmental impact were \"unclear\" and asked the department to set out full details of how the equipment would be discarded.\n\nThe DoH insisted it did have a clear strategy for disposing of the items adding that it was using \"a range of measures to manage excess stock of PPE\" such as donating equipment to charities and transport agencies.\n\nThe committee was critical of the department's overall provision of PPE at the start of the pandemic describing it as \"haphazard\" and noting that 24% of the PPE contracts awarded were now in dispute.\n\nCommittee chairwoman Dame Meg Hillier, a Labour MP, said: \"The story of PPE purchasing is perhaps the most shameful episode of the UK government response to the pandemic.\n\n\"At the start of the pandemic health service and social care staff were left to risk their own and their families' lives due to the lack of basic PPE.\n\n\"In a desperate bid to catch up the government splurged huge amounts of money, paying obscenely inflated prices and payments to middlemen in a chaotic rush during which they chucked out even the most cursory due diligence.\"\n\nShe added the department had been failing to comply with rules on managing public money before the pandemic and suggested \"inappropriate unauthorised payoffs made to staff by health bodies\", as part of planned large-scale NHS restructuring, was \"increasing the risk of this happening again.\"\n\nRoyal College of Nursing chief executive Pat Cullen said nurses would find the report \"galling\", adding: \"If this money had been used more wisely and decent quality PPE bought in the first place, then nurses' lives might have been saved.\"\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Ministers have been carelessly burning taxpayers' money by the billion as unusable gowns, goggles, and gloves literally go up in flames.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel say they will continue to speak out on issues after FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem questioned whether they should.\n\nThe boss of Formula 1's governing body suggested last week that drivers should not \"impose their beliefs\" on others.\n\nHamilton said it was important the sport continues to be a platform \"to spark more conversations\".\n\nVettel said diversity and environmental matters were \"bigger than us, bigger than the sport can ever be\".\n\nBen Sulayem said in an interview with GrandPrix247: \"Vettel drives a rainbow bicycle, Lewis is passionate about human rights and [Lando] Norris addresses mental health.\n\n\"Everybody has the right to think. To me, it is about deciding whether we should impose our beliefs in something over the sport all the time.\n\n\"I am from an Arabian culture. I am international and Muslim. I do not impose my beliefs on other people? No way. Never.\"\n\nA day after the interview was published, he seemed to row back on his remarks, posting on Twitter: \"As a driver, I have always believed in sport as a catalyst of progress in society.\n\n\"That is why promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion is a key priority of my mandate. In the same way, I value the commitment of all drivers and champions for a better future.\"\n\nHamilton and Vettel have been outspoken on diversity issues in recent years, while Vettel has also started to champion environmentalism.\n\nHamilton said it was \"positive\" Ben Sulayem had clarified his remarks.\n\nHe said he was \"proud\" of his Mercedes team for using logos on their car at this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix to promote Pride month, adding: \"I encourage all the drivers to be more outspoken and use their platform.\"\n\nVettel added: \"It is important to express and mention [these topics], raise awareness, making people aware there are lots of things we can improve on.\"\n\nTheir remarks came in the official news conference before this weekend's race in Baku.\n\nAnd later there was an awkward moment when the drivers were asked whether they had confidence in Ben Sulayem and the FIA.\n\nHamilton and Vettel were alongside Alpine's Fernando Alonso, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Williams driver Nicholas Latifi. Initially, none of them wanted to answer the question.\n\nEventually, after both Vettel and Hamilton refused to be the first to answer, Alonso said: \"I have full trust in the FIA president.\"\n\nAlonso, who has been outspoken in his criticism of some of the FIA's race-management decisions this year, added: \"Maybe we saw a few things at the beginning of the year that were not as consistent as we asked for.\n\n\"There is room to improve but I have full trust in the FIA president that he will fix the things that need to be fixed.\"\n\nLeclerc said: \"I would like to see a bit more consistency. There is room for improvement and now we just need to make things better.\"\n\nHamilton added: \"On Mohammed, it's a huge role and big shoes to fill. There are lots of things he wants to do and change.\"\n\nThe drivers' remarks come against a backdrop of increasing unhappiness within F1 about the way the FIA is running the sport, to the extent that commercial rights holders Liberty has explored whether it could sideline the governing body, reducing it to a ceremonial role.", "Bethan Evans says she may give up her job as a carer if she does not receive extra help to cope with fuel costs\n\nA carer from rural west Wales has said she is thinking about quitting her job because of the rising cost of fuel.\n\nBethan Evans from Gorsgorch near Llanybydder in Ceredigion regularly drives more than 600 miles a week visiting clients in their own homes across a large swathe of west Wales.\n\n\"My car was £80 to fill up from empty in January and now it is costing me £140-£150,\" Mrs Evans said.\n\nShe has urged the UK government to step in and help.\n\nThe prospect of carers leaving the profession has prompted calls from a Welsh MP for rural fuel duty relief to be extended to parts of Wales.\n\nThe scheme, which knocks another 5p off fuel duty compared to the norm, applies only to remote parts of Scotland, the Isles of Scilly and a handful of rural areas in England. It is based largely on increased costs of fuel transportation because of the distance from refinery to forecourt.\n\n\"Our clients need us,\" says carer Bethan Evans\n\nMrs Evans is supporting calls for rural fuel duty relief to be extended to parts of Wales, and for a wider cut in fuel duty and VAT on fuel.\n\n\"Help us out. Help the people who are looking after people and doing essential work. Give us help,\" she said.\n\nShe also suggested that the UK government should consider something like a fuel discount card for care workers.\n\nThe Treasury has been asked to comment.\n\nShe faces a 20-mile round trip to her nearest petrol station and says she \"will have to really think about giving up the job\" if prices keep rising and no extra help is given.\n\n\"I do not usually let my car go much below half a tank and I might fill it up twice, so that's over £120 a week just to do my job,\" she said.\n\nShe said her weekly average earnings were about £450, which includes travelling time and mileage allowance.\n\nMrs Evans added that a professional and moral responsibility kept her going.\n\n\"If I did not enjoy it, I would not be doing it. Our clients need us for their everyday life to carry on, and if we did not do it then who would? \"\n\n\"When they get released from hospital it is us they come to. But if we are not there they will be stuck in hospital and there'll be a bigger backlog than there already is,\" she said.\n\nBen Lake, Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion, will meet Exchequer Secretary Helen Whatley next week after raising the issue in Prime Minister's Questions and being promised a meeting with the Treasury by Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Lake would like the rural fuel duty relief scheme to take account not just of fuel transportation costs, but also the road network in parts of Wales, the distances people have to drive and the lack of public transport alternatives.\n\n\"Rural areas of Wales are currently not eligible despite meeting almost all of the criteria. The one thing we lose out on is proximity to the refinery, but as anyone who lives in rural Wales or mid Wales will know that does not make much of a difference due to the road network that we have,\" he said.\n\n\"If we were to change this it would mean roughly another 5p cut to fuel at the pumps, which would make a hell of a difference to workers in rural Wales.\"\n\nThere is currently one refinery in Wales at Pembroke and another just over the border at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.\n\nAnother Welsh MP - Labour's Tonia Antoniazzi - is calling for a 40% cut in both fuel duty and VAT on fuel for two years. It follows a petition submitted to Parliament signed by more than 100,000 people.", "Seven people died following the crash on 9 November 2016\n\nTransport for London (TfL) has indicated it will plead guilty to health and safety failings over the Croydon tram crash.\n\nSeven passengers died and 61 were injured when a tram derailed in south London on 9 November 2016.\n\nDriver Alfred Dorris, 48, of Beckenham, also appeared at the hearing at Croydon Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe indicated a not guilty plea to an allegation of failing as an employee to take reasonable care of passengers.\n\nMark Smith, Dane Chinnery, Phil Seary and Dorota Rynkiewicz (l-r) all died in the crash\n\nThe crash resulted in the deaths of Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Logan, 52, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, and Robert Huxley, 63, all from New Addington, and Mark Smith, 35, and Donald Collett, 62, who were both from Croydon.\n\nNineteen of the 61 people hurt in the derailment suffered serious injuries.\n\nPhilip Logan, Donald Collett and Robert Huxley (l-r) were also killed\n\nA number of bereaved relatives were present in court for Friday's brief hearing.\n\nProsecutions against TfL, Mr Dorris and Tram Operations Limited (TOL) are being brought by regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).\n\nTOL also indicated it will plead guilty to health and safety failings.\n\nDistrict Judge Nigel Dean released Mr Dorris on unconditional bail ahead of the next hearing at Croydon Crown Court on 8 July.\n\nTram driver Alfred Dorris was released on unconditional bail ahead of his next hearing\n\nFollowing the hearing, TfL said its indication of a guilty plea would enable court proceedings to \"come to a conclusion as promptly as possible\".\n\nAndy Lord, TfL's chief operating officer, said: \"The Sandilands tragedy will never be forgotten and our thoughts remain with everyone affected.\n\n\"We have worked closely with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and the ORR since November 2016 to introduce a new safety regime and implement all the recommendations from the organisations across the tram network.\n\n\"This has made the network safer for everyone and we continue to work tirelessly to ensure that such a tragedy could never occur again.\"\n\nA stone plinth memorial laid near the crash site at Sandilands Junction was unveiled in 2017\n\nChief inspector of railways, Ian Prosser, explained the ORR had conducted an \"extensive, detailed and thorough investigation\" into the crash.\n\n\"The matter has now been sent to the Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing to case manage and list future hearings,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Dozens of fake Musk livestreams appear on YouTube daily\n\nYouTube is being criticised for failing to tackle a network of cyber-criminals streaming fake Elon Musk videos to scam viewers.\n\nThe criminals are hijacking YouTube accounts and using the videos to promote bogus cryptocurrency giveaways.\n\nBBC News found dozens of these streams being watched by tens of thousands of people over four days this month.\n\nOn Tuesday, Elon Musk said YouTube was not tackling \"scam ads\". YouTube says it removes channels that are reported.\n\nFor many months, the streams have been fooling thousands of people into sending cryptocurrency to criminals, thinking they will receive a prize from Mr Musk.\n\nOne of the most common links to website https://elon-x2.live/, which invites people to double their money by sending Bitcoin or Ethereum to the digital-wallet addresses advertised.\n\nWallet transaction history shows the scammers made $243,000 (£194,000) in just over a week:\n\nAnalysts at Whale Alert say giveaway scammer wallets they track show profits of:\n\nChilean musician Aisack was a victim of the cyber-criminals\n\nEvery few days, the hackers change the name and picture of dozens of YouTube channels to make them look like official Tesla channels, the electric-car manufacturer of which Mr Musk is chief executive.\n\nThey are thought to buy email-and-password pairs from previous data breaches online - or simply try common passwords with known email addresses.\n\nChilean urban-music artist Aisack had YouTube channel hacked and hijacked two weeks ago.\n\n\"My followers on other social networks started asking me what is going on with the name of my channel and were very confused about why I was streaming Tesla content,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very frustrating that your YouTube channel is hacked after dedicating so many years of work to it.\n\n\"The hacking of my channel has hurt me a lot, since I am a few days away from releasing a new music video and now I am creating a second channel as a back-up and re-uploading more than 10 years of work on YouTube.\n\n\"YouTube is not doing enough on security issues to prevent hacker attacks, since many users are in the same situation as me.\"\n\nHackers change the name and profile of YouTube channels to Tesla to make them look legitimate\n\nYouTube said it had removed one of the channels BBC News had alerted it to, adding: \"We have strict Community Guidelines prohibiting scams, including Impersonation and hacking.\"\n\nLast year, one man hoping to double his money sent scammers $400,000 worth of bitcoins, after seeing a fake advert on Twitter.\n\nSo far this year, scammers are having less success, Whale Alert founder Frank van Weert said, but still making millions and set for a boost if the price of Bitcoin rises.\n\nScammers are illegally using footage and imagery from financial firm ARK Invest\n\n\"The numbers are going down compared to 2021 - but there are still plenty of victims falling for it, as they evolve their tactics,\" Mr Van Weert said.\n\n\"Right now, they have been overfishing the sea a bit, especially with Bitcoin prices going down, but that will change as not enough is being done to stop them.\"\n\nThe scammers could be stopped if cryptocurrency exchanges blocked their wallets to prevent them cashing out their stolen coins, he added.\n\nThe vast majority of the fake livestreams show financial firm ARK Invest's July panel with Musk and then Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey\n\nAn spokeswoman told BBC News ARK \"is aware of hacked third-party YouTube channels fraudulently posing as ARK\".\n\n\"These accounts are impersonators and not affiliated with ARK Invest in any way,\" she said.\n\n\"ARK Invest will never use YouTube or other social media to solicit money, including cryptocurrency.\"", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "JJ Abrams has directed films in the Star Wars franchise\n\nA major television series from Star Wars director JJ Abrams, which was due to film in Belfast, has been cancelled.\n\nThe sci-fi drama Demimonde was set to be broadcast on the United States network HBO.\n\nCrew who had started working on the project in Belfast have been stood down.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen said they would be looking in the coming weeks for a project to replace it, and it would get back its £1m investment.\n\nJJ Abrams is best known for directing Star Wars and the Mission Impossible films.\n\nBBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme understands crew who were working in pre-production on the project were sent home while negotiations took place between JJ Abrams' production company Bad Robot and HBO.\n\nThe film industry publication The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the show was not going ahead due to \"budget issues\".\n\nThe television series was in pre-production at the Titanic Studios in Belfast, which previously housed Game of Thrones and the upcoming blockbuster film Dungeons and Dragons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was expected that Demimonde would be in the studios for more than a year, which would have provided well-paid work for local film crews.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen chief executive Richard Williams told Good Morning Ulster the production would have provided work for about 600 people.\n\nHe said it was not unusual for a project to drop out, and NI Screen would be looking for another in Los Angeles in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We've had this happen before, we had a project just to drop out before lockdown and had it replaced by Dungeons and Dragons,\" Mr Williams said.\n\n\"We'll just have to go out to find another project.\n\n\"I would be very disappointed if we didn't have a new project slated by the middle of autumn, certainly before Christmas - but time is lost, money is lost for sure.\"\n\nHe said the money the screen agency invested in the pilot - which had not yet been shot - would be recouped, adding: \"We had invested in the pilot to the tune of just over a million pounds. We will have a swift conversation with HBO to get that money retrieved.\"\n\nSecuring Demimonde to shoot in Belfast was a big coup for Northern Ireland Screen.\n\nNorthern Ireland's film and television industry has been boosted recently by securing major projects like The Northman, The School for Good and Evil, Lift and Dungeons and Dragons.\n\nHBO has been approached for comment.", "There are early signs of a possible increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid in England and Northern Ireland, officials from the Office for National Statistics say.\n\nTheir report suggests the small rise is likely to be driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.\n\nStudies show these variants may be able to spread slightly more easily than \"older\" Omicron variants.\n\nThe latest estimates suggest around 990,000 people in the UK have Covid.\n\nThat is about 1.5% of the population (roughly one in 65 people) - up from about one in 70 the week before.\n\nThe latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) covers the week ending 2 June.\n\nWhile infections have risen in some parts of the UK, the overall trends in Wales and Scotland are uncertain.\n\nThe ONS compiles the data by testing thousands of people from UK households at random - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much virus is around.\n\nThey provide the most accurate picture of Covid infection since free testing for the public came to an end in England and Scotland.\n\nSome free testing will continue in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.\n\nSarah Crofts, from ONS, said: \"Today's data shows a mixed picture for infection rates across the UK, with small increases in England and Northern Ireland, likely driven by increasing trends in Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants.\n\n\"Infections with Omicron BA.2 remain the most common variant of Covid-19 and continue to decrease across much of the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some items listed as bovine bone appear to be tusks and are advertised for thousands of pounds\n\nSellers are flouting eBay's self-imposed ban on the sale of elephant ivory by listing it under pseudonyms.\n\nAn investigation by the BBC and legal experts found ivory objects were often listed as \"bovine bone\".\n\nWe bought three such items on eBay UK and tested them in an independent lab. Two were confirmed to be made of ivory.\n\nAn analysis by ivory trade experts also indicated that thousands of elephant ivory objects have been sold on the site since the company banned its sale.\n\nThe investigation was started in 2018 by Dr Caroline Cox at the University of Portsmouth. She and other ivory trade experts say online trade is continuing despite a new UK-wide ban on the sale of ivory, which came into force on 6 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to spot ivory: Watch experts show BBC Science Correspondent Victoria Gill how to identify ivory listed for sale online\n\nIt is more than 10 years since eBay announced its own complete, worldwide ban on ivory sales. An online post stated that the global ban would \"protect buyers and sellers, as well as animals in danger of extinction\".\n\nIn 2018 Dr Cox and her team carried out a three month online study, tracking \"bovine bone\" as a sale category on eBay's UK site. The team tracked 632 pieces of bovine bone that were sold on eBay UK; more than 500 of those were determined to be ivory.\n\nFor this online forensic study, Dr Cox explained, she was able to use pictures and information in listings that provide buyers - and investigators - with clear evidence of what the objects are actually made of.\n\n\"Ivory has a distinct, creamy colour,\" she explained. \"And a listing will often mention the weight of the item being sold - very accurately and specifically - because that's the measure of ivory's value.\"\n\nTell-tale 'Schreger lines' are the growth lines of a tusk that can be seen in carved ivory, seen here in this piece recently listed for sale on eBay\n\nThe key piece of evidence is in the image of an object. Carved ivory has distinct and visible growth lines called Schreger lines, which you can think of as tree rings, but for teeth and tusks. \"These are unique to ivory,\" said Dr Cox.\n\nInvestigators and law enforcement officers have long employed these visual techniques to identify illegal ivory, both in seizures of the material and when they are investigating the online trade.\n\nBBC News bought three objects listed on eBay as bovine bone to have tested in an independent lab.\n\nWe bought and tested an ornament that was listed on eBay as 'bovine bone'\n\nOf three items we bought, a small, carved African head ornament, a bracelet and a set of figurines, two were chemically confirmed by scientists in the Oxford University School of Archaeology to be made of elephant tusk.\n\nA bovine bone bracelet we bought for £25 was confirmed to be elephant tusk\n\nIn a statement responding to the BBC's findings, eBay said that it had been working to tackle the illegal trade in elephant ivory for nearly a decade.\n\n\"We blocked or removed over 265,000 listings prohibited under our animal products policy in a recent two-year period,\" a spokesperson told BBC News in an email.\n\n\"Our proactive approach means that illicit ivory sellers are forced to use obscure 'code words' [for items] which very rarely - if at all - get sold, because buyers can't find them.\"\n\nThe ivory trade experts who started this investigation pointed out that they tracked 500 eBay sales of ivory to completion over just three months in 2018. And the same code words or pseudonyms, primarily \"bovine bone\", were used repeatedly.\n\nLaws on the ivory trade differ from country to country. On Monday, the UK brought into force what it called \"one the toughest bans on elephant ivory sales in the world\". From 6 June, trade in elephant teeth and tusks is illegal in the UK, punishable by fines of up to £250,000 or up to five years in prison.\n\nEBay is not the only online platform that wildlife traders have exploited. During our investigation of the pet trade in endangered apes back in 2017, we found animals being advertised on Instagram, in posts that the company subsequently removed.\n\nAnd in April of this year, researchers from a conservation campaign group called Avaaz published a report citing \"129 pieces of potentially harmful wildlife trafficking content\" posted on Facebook,\" including posts selling or seeking cheetahs, monkeys, pangolins and pangolin scales, lion cubs, elephant tusks, and rhino horn.\n\nIn response to the report, Facebook's parent company Meta said: \"We prohibit the trading of endangered wildlife or their parts. Meta is a dedicated member of the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online.\"\n\nJohn Scanlon, CEO of the Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation, said that these online platforms had \"enormous reach and impact\".\n\n\"If they are not carefully policed, they are an efficient vehicle for criminals to sell illicit goods in any country,\" he said. \"So it's deeply troubling when an online platform makes big commitments about policing trade, but then fails to deliver.\"\n\n\"The international community has made great progress at closing down legal ivory markets in recent years, of which the new UK legislation is just the latest example. But this progress risks being seriously undermined by leakages online.\"\n\nConservationists point out though that threats to Africa's elephants are changing.\n\nThere are now just over 400,000 elephants across the African continent\n\n\"Organised ivory poaching remains a threat in some regions, especially in central Africa, but has been much reduced in parts of eastern and southern Africa,\" said Mr Scanlon. \"We believe that the biggest emerging threat comes from the increasing competition between growing human populations and elephants for land and resources, especially as the impact of climate change is beginning to be felt.\"\n\nDr Cox and other wildlife trade experts are concerned though that, as national legislation is tightened, more products like ivory could move online, especially if platforms are not policed.\n\n\"Sites like eBay operate by allowing millions of sellers all around the world to advertise across international borders,\" Dr Cox pointed out.\n\nShe added that the company's failure to enforce its ban on the trade in ivory provided a safe space for a trade that threatened wildlife.", "Forensic experts examined a boat with traces of blood in Vale Do Javari\n\nPolice in Brazil are examining blood found in the search for British journalist Dom Phillips and local indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.\n\nTraces of blood found on a boat belonging to a fisherman, who has been arrested, will be tested to see whether it is human or animal.\n\nThe pair went missing while travelling by boat on a reporting trip in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday.\n\nMr Pereira recently received threats over his work against illegal fishing.\n\nThe authorities said they were hopeful of finding the two men alive, but did not exclude any outcome, including that of murder in a region where drug-trafficking and poaching are rife, AFP news agency reports.\n\nBoth Mr Pereira, 41, and Mr Phillips, 57, who has written about threats to the Amazon for publications such as the Guardian and the Washington Post, are hugely experienced and planned their journeys thoroughly. They reportedly had a new boat and plenty of fuel.\n\nIn London, the journalist's sister, Sian Phillips, called on the UK authorities to put pressure on the Brazilian government to find the two men.\n\n\"We want to carry on with the search,\" she said in a statement to the media during a gathering of about 30 people in front of the Brazilian embassy.\n\n\"We want to find out what is happening to them and we want anyone responsible for any criminal act to be brought to justice. We want a persistent deep and open investigation.\"\n\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was in Los Angeles for a summit, said: \"Let's pray to God that they are still alive,\" but added, \"With each day that passes, those chances fade.\"\n\nThe blood traces were found on the boat of fisherman Amarildo da Costa, known locally as \"Pelado\", who was questioned in the town of Atalaia do Norte. He has been charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition.\n\nPolice say he was one of the last people to see Mr Pereira and Mr Phillips.\n\nPlacards outside the Brazilian embassy showed Dom Phillips (L) and Bruno Pereira\n\nMr da Costa is also suspected of involvement in illegal fishing for a buyer in Peru, police sources told Reuters news agency.\n\nA lawyer for the fisherman, Davi Oliveira, told Reuters his client was not involved in the disappearance of the two men and was engaged in legal fishing. The same lawyer has since stepped away from the case, the news agency adds.\n\nSix other people have been questioned in connection with the men's disappearance.\n\nSome 250 members of the security forces have been taking part in the search, up from just about a dozen in the first days. They include divers and experts in jungle terrain. Two helicopters are also being used, as well as more than a dozen boats and drones.\n\nLead investigator Alexandre Fontes described the area as a \"very complicated region\" which he said could only be reached by helicopter, small plane or boat.\n\nIndigenous rights groups which Mr Pereira worked with were the first to raise the alarm about the disappearance of the expert on isolated indigenous groups and the journalist.\n\nThe area where they disappeared is home to some 6,300 indigenous people from more than 20 groups.\n\nAs well as clashes with fishermen catching protected stock, it has also seen incursions by illegal gold miners, loggers and drug-traffickers who smuggle cocaine from Peru.\n\nBoth Mr Pereira, who has worked for the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, and Mr Phillips, who was carrying out research for a book on the Amazon, documented these threats as part of their work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The interest rate on student loans in England is to rise by less than originally predicted this autumn.\n\nThe rate on repayments had been predicted to rise from the current 4.5% to 12% by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but the government says it will now be capped at 7.3%.\n\nHigher Education Minister Michelle Donelan said the level of the cap would provide \"peace of mind for graduates\".\n\nBut the National Union of Students said the cap was \"still cruelly high\".\n\nThe IFS welcomed the announcement but said it would \"have little or no effect\" on most graduates' repayments.\n\nThe interest rate on the loan for those currently at university in England is calculated by adding 3% to the retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation.\n\nThe RPI figure confirmed in April set the interest rate for the coming academic year - and the IFS said the maximum rate on student loans would jump from 4.5% this year to 12% from September 2022.\n\nConfirmation of student interest rates is usually made in August, but Ms Donelan said the government had \"brought forward this announcement to provide greater clarity and peace of mind for graduates at this time\".\n\n\"The government has always been clear that where it can help with rising prices we will, and I will always strive for a fair deal for students,\" she added.\n\nHowever, Larissa Kennedy, NUS president in the UK, said: \"These interest rate figures are still cruelly high.\n\n\"While some graduates might breathe a sigh of relief that the interest rate is no longer in double figures, ministers should be prioritising providing urgent cost-of-living support here and now,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the government \"should introduce rent protections, offer basic levels of maintenance support and announce a cost-of-living payment for all students\".\n\nThe announcement from the government does not change the amount that borrowers repay each month.\n\nFor students starting degree courses from 2023, the interest rate will be fixed at a lower level.\n\nBen Waltmann, senior research economist at the IFS, said it was \"great\" that the government has decided to take action - but \"for most graduates this announcement will have little or no effect on their repayments\".\n\nThat is because most people with undergraduate loans will \"likely never pay off their loans in full, so the interest rate never affects their repayments\", he said.\n\n\"Even for the typically high-earning graduates who do pay off their loans, very high interest rates from September to February would have been counterbalanced by very low interest rates further down the line, which now won't come to pass either,\" he added.\n\nCorrection 27th June: This article was amended on the 11th of June to make clear that the Government was announcing a cap on the student loan interest rate - so the top rate from September 2022 will be lower than the IFS originally predicted - and that it was not announcing a reduction from the current top rate.", "Diesel at Sloane Avenue in west London costs 249.9p - meaning filling a 55 litre family car would cost £137.44\n\nThe price of diesel has soared to nearly £2.50 a litre at a petrol station in Chelsea, west London.\n\nIt comes three days after the cost of filling an average family car with petrol rose to £100 for the first time.\n\nBBC Radio London went to a Gulf petrol station on Sloane Avenue where prices hit 238.9p a litre for unleaded petrol and 249.9p for a litre of diesel.\n\nRAC motoring group's Simon Williams said it was thought to be one of the highest in the UK.\n\n\"Every day seems to be a new record,\" Mr Williams added.\n\n\"Those are particularly high prices, the average is currently 183p a litre for petrol and nearly 189p a litre for diesel.\n\n\"So those prices are particularly high, some of the highest in the country.\"\n\nGulf has been approached for a comment.\n\nThe cost of petrol has soared in recent weeks with the average price of petrol now 182.31p per litre, and 188.05p per litre for diesel.\n\nFuel prices have increased sharply because the price of crude oil, which is used to make petrol and diesel, has gone up.\n\nCrude oil was cheaper at the beginning of the Covid pandemic because many businesses temporarily closed and demand for energy collapsed.\n\nAs life returned to normal the demand for energy increased, but suppliers have struggled to keep up and prices have risen.\n\nThere has still been a steady trickle of cars arriving here at this Gulf petrol station on Sloane Avenue where prices have hit a staggering 238.9p a litre for unleaded fuel.\n\nThis petrol station doesn't have one of those big boards advertising the prices - they are just listed on tiny screens on the pumps.\n\nOf course we are in Chelsea so some fairly mammoth 4x4s have been passing through here to fill up but maybe tellingly I have only seen one black cab.\n\nThe driver, named Tony, told me it cost him £20 to fill up eight litres and this was one of the most expensive petrol stations he has seen in London.\n\nTony branded the prices as outrageous and warned if they rise any more he may have to drive out of the capital to get his diesel.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "A group of people, thought to be asylum seekers, arriving at Dover (file image)\n\nA flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda next Tuesday has been allowed to go ahead by the High Court.\n\nCampaigners failed in an initial legal bid to halt the removals to the east African country, but have confirmed they will take the case to the Court of Appeal on Monday.\n\nUnder the policy, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.\n\nAbout 31 people have been told they may be on the first flight.\n\nThere will be a full judicial review, where the High Court will hear a challenge to the policy as a whole, before the end of July, it heard.\n\nIn his decision, the judge Mr Justice Swift accepted there was a \"material public interest\" in Home Secretary Priti Patel being able to carry out her policies.\n\nMs Patel praised his judgement and said the government would go ahead with its plans, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the ruling as \"welcome news\".\n\nHowever, campaigners who brought the case expressed concern for the welfare of people set to be \"forcibly deported\".\n\nOne asylum seeker - an Iranian ex-police commander - who was told he will be deported on Tuesday has said he fears being killed by Iranian agents in Rwanda.\n\nHe has been held at a detention centre since arriving in the UK from Turkey in May.\n\nIt comes as the Daily Mail and the Times reports the Prince of Wales has been privately critical of the government's policy - quoting a source saying he thinks the approach is \"appalling\".\n\nPrince Charles is to represent the Queen in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, at a Commonwealth summit later this month. His office reiterated he remains \"politically neutral\".\n\nThe government hopes the scheme will discourage asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel, by making it clear many cases will now be dealt with by Rwanda.\n\nMore than 10,000 people have made the dangerous sea journey so far this year.\n\nWhile their application is considered by Rwanda those affected will be given accommodation and support and, if successful, will be able to remain there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nThose who fail in their asylum bids in Rwanda will be offered the chance to apply for visas under other immigration routes if they wish to remain in the country, but could still face deportation.\n\nCampaigners had sought to block the flight from leaving, as well as individual people being placed on it.\n\nAn excerpt of the document given to some asylum seekers by the Home Office\n\nThe case was brought by lawyers representing asylum seekers set to be deported, alongside the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) - which represents more than 80% of UK Border Force staff - and migration charities Care4Calais and Detention Action.\n\nTheir lawyers raised concerns about shortcomings in the Rwanda asylum system and the possibility that people could be sent on to countries where they would be persecuted - a process known as refoulement.\n\nHome Office lawyers had told the court the plan must not be stopped by legal challenges because it was in the public interest, and also urged the judge to reject challenges on behalf of individual asylum seekers.\n\nAt the hearing, the UN's refugee body, the UNHCR, also intervened to distance itself from the policy amid claims the Home Office has misrepresented its position on the scheme.\n\nLawyers for the UNHCR also said it had warned the Home Office twice that its arrangement with Rwanda was unlawful.\n\nIn his judgement, Mr Justice Swift ruled against a temporary block on the deportation flights before the full hearing on the policy in July.\n\nHe said he did not consider there was any evidence there would be \"ill-treatment, refoulement\" or anything that violated their rights under article three of the UK's Human Rights Act.\n\nArticle three protects people from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and deportation or extradition to a country where there is a real risk they will face torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.\n\nMr Justice Swift said part of the case to block the initial flights focused on the argument that Ms Patel's \"decision to treat Rwanda as a safe country is either irrational or based on insufficient investigation\".\n\nHe said this argument, along with other parts of the case, would be heard with evidence at the full judicial review, to be held across two days before the end of July.\n\nA judicial review sees a judge looking at how a decision, or action, has been made by a public body. It does not consider whether the decision itself is correct or not.\n\nBut Mr Justice Swift noted that, while the campaigners had enough evidence for a review, their claim was \"not conspicuously strong\".\n\nHe also denied interim relief to two people who face removal on Tuesday, one from Syria and another from Iraq, who are still set to be on the plane to Rwanda.\n\n\"I accept that the fact of removal to Rwanda will be onerous,\" he added.\n\nHowever, the judge granted the campaigners and migrants the right to appeal against his decision and said the Court of Appeal would be able to hear their case on Monday.\n\nFollowing the judgement, Ms Patel said the government would \"continue to deliver on progressing\" the plan.\n\nShe said: \"People will continue to try and prevent their relocation through legal challenges and last-minute claims, but we will not be deterred in breaking the deadly people smuggling trade and ultimately saving lives.\n\n\"Rwanda is a safe country and has previously been recognised for providing a safe haven for refugees - we will continue preparations for the first flight to Rwanda, alongside the range of other measures intended to reduce small boat crossings.\"\n\nMr Johnson tweeted: \"We cannot allow people traffickers to put lives at risk and our world leading partnership will help break the business model of these ruthless criminals.\"\n\nJames Wilson, deputy director of campaign group Detention Action, said it was disappointed, but added there were \"some positives\" from the case - noting that six of the eight original claimants had their removal orders withdrawn by the Home Office in advance of the judgement.\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, said the charity was \"deeply concerned for the welfare of people who may be forcibly deported to Rwanda, a fate that could profoundly harm their mental health and future\".\n\nThe PCS union has called for urgent talks with Ms Patel to discuss the removal policy following the ruling.", "The man was detained when he arrived in the UK by boat\n\nAn Iranian ex-police commander due to be deported from the UK to Rwanda under a controversial scheme says he fears being killed by Iranian agents there.\n\nThe man previously gave testimony to a UK-based rights groups' tribunal investigating alleged Iranian atrocities during protests in 2019.\n\nHe has been held at a detention centre near Gatwick Airport after arriving in the UK from Turkey in May.\n\nThe first asylum seekers are set to be deported under the scheme on Tuesday.\n\nTheir applications will be processed in Rwanda, where they will be given accommodation and help. If successful, they will be able to remain in Rwanda with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nHowever the plan has been criticised by politicians and charities, who have raised concerns about the African nation's human rights record.\n\nThe former commander, who is not being named in order to protect his identity, was sentenced by an Iranian military court to almost five years in jail in Iran and a demotion for refusing to shoot protesters during anti-government demonstrations triggered by a sharp rise in petrol prices. The former commander was in charge of 60 police officers at the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters took to the streets across Iran as fuel price rises were introduced\n\nAmnesty International documented the cases of 304 men, women and children it says were killed by security forces over five days - most from gunshot wounds. Reuters said at least 1,500 were killed in less than two weeks.\n\nWhen he was out on bail pending his appeal, the former commander escaped to Turkey, where in November 2021 he gave testimony via Skype to the Aban Tribunal, organised by three human rights groups in London.\n\nHe says he lived in hiding in Turkey for 14 months before arriving in the UK. Although his face was covered when he gave evidence, he says Iran's security forces managed to identify him and persecuted his family.\n\n\"My family in Iran paid a heavy price and this [deportation] decision means all they went through was in vain,\" he said by telephone from Brook House detention centre.\n\n\"They put pressure on my family so that I return and they can capture me,\" he said.\n\nHe arrived in the UK on a boat on 14 May and was immediately detained.\n\nHis notice of removal - seen by BBC Persian - was given to him on 31 May, informing him that he would be sent on a direct flight to Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June.\n\nThe notice says \"the right of appeal may be exercised only on limited grounds and only from outside the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe former commander said he feared for his life if he is deported to Rwanda, saying \"Iran's Revolutionary Guards operate in Africa\".\n\nThe Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) is Iran's most powerful military force and runs a shadowy overseas operations arm called the Quds Force.\n\nOne of the organisers of the Aban Tribunal, Shadi Sadr, said the man's life was \"in real danger as Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which is known for kidnapping and assassinating dissidents, operates in many African countries\".\n\nIn recent years, Iran has been accused of targeting dissidents in its neighbouring countries, including Turkey.\n\nLast week the former commander was given malaria pills in preparation for his trip, but he refused to take them.\n\n\"You can only send my dead body to Rwanda,\" he said he told officers.\n\n\"Why Rwanda? I'd rather be sent to Iran,\" he said. \"At least, I know the consequences. I can't live with uncertainty and in fear anymore.\"\n\nMs Sadr said the man was suffering from a heart condition \"confirmed by a Home Office medical professional\".\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended the deportation programme, saying the partnership with Rwanda was \"a key part of our strategy to overhaul the broken asylum system and break the evil people-smugglers' business model\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson told BBC Persian that \"in Rwanda, [deportees] will be given the opportunity to rebuild their lives\".", "Police said otters were stealing fish worth \"a lot of money\" from private ponds in Wiltshire\n\nOtters have been taking and killing expensive pet fish from ponds in Wiltshire, police have warned.\n\nCorsham Police said it was \"certain\" otters were causing the damage after seeking advice from the town's neighbourhood team.\n\nThe force suggested people used either welded mesh to cover the pond or erected a wire fence.\n\n\"We appreciate this is not a police matter but the fish are worth a lot of money,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe police said the Corsham Neighbourhood Team, which works closely with the rural community, including local farmers and gamekeepers, had received numerous reports of fish being taken from private ponds.\n\nThe force suggested people used welded mesh to cover the pond \"with a decent secured overlap\" so the otters can not dig or lift it.\n\n\"Otherwise a wire fence similar to that used for cattle which consists of a single wire around the pond supported about 4ft\" from the ground.\"\n\nIt said both solutions were harmless to the animals, but would deter them.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSue Barker will step down from her role as the presenter of the BBC's Wimbledon coverage after the 2022 tournament.\n\nBarker, 66, first joined the coverage in 1993 and since 2000 has anchored the network's broadcast.\n\nThe decision brings to an end Barker's 30-year career at the BBC in which she has also presented the Olympic Games and Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nBarker - the 1976 French Open champion - was the first woman to lead BBC presentation for a crown jewel event.\n\nCrown jewel events include the Olympic Games, Grand National and Wimbledon - all of which Barker has presented.\n\nShe began broadcasting after she retired from professional tennis in 1984.\n\nBarker has also been at the helm of coverage of Queens tennis, the Commonwealth Games, the World Athletics Championships, the London Marathon and Royal Ascot, as well as quiz show A Question of Sport.\n\n\"What a wonderful time I've had working on some of the biggest sporting events around the world,\" Barker said.\n\n\"I will miss it terribly but after 30 years I feel the time is right for me. I've worked with the best of the best.\"\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said Barker's \"contribution to tennis, the BBC, sports presenting and for blazing a trail for women in broadcasting cannot be overstated\".\n\n\"Sue Barker has been the face and voice of Wimbledon for three decades,\" Davie added.\n\n\"Many of our viewers will not know of a summer in SW19 without her. She is a consummate professional, an outstanding presenter and a wonderful colleague, loved by current and former players, all of us at the BBC and audiences across the UK and beyond.\"\n\nBBC Sport director Barbara Slater described Barker as \"a national treasure\", adding: \"We'd have loved for her to continue in her role for many years to come.\n\n\"We do of course respect her decision and understand why, after 30 years of leading Wimbledon presentation, she's ready to make this year her last.\n\n\"A consummate professional who audiences will remember for her skill, authority and warmth on screen, Sue will be equally remembered with fondness and affection by colleagues who had the privilege to work alongside her, experiencing the same professionalism and warmth behind the scenes.\"\n\nBarker's final match will be the Wimbledon men's final on Sunday, 10 July.\n• None Is food as addictive as drugs? Explore the latest evidence underpinning the scientific basis for overeating\n• None Joe Wicks and Russell Brand discuss fatherhood and going grey", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "Police officers outside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas on 25 May\n\nAmid widespread criticism, a Texas school district police chief has defended the actions of officers responding to the Uvalde mass shooting.\n\nOfficers reportedly delayed confronting the gunman despite knowing children were wounded inside a classroom.\n\nSchool district police chief Pete Arredondo claimed that officers risked their lives without hesitation.\n\nNineteen children and two adults were killed in the 24 May shooting at Robb Elementary.\n\nThe police response has come under increasing scrutiny in the weeks since the shooting, in which the gunman was locked in two adjoining classrooms with students for more than an hour before police stormed in and killed the attacker.\n\nSome parents have condemned the response as being chaotic and slow.\n\nWhile Texas Governor Greg Abbott initially defended the \"amazing bravery\" of the officers, he later said he was \"livid\" about being misled about the response.\n\nIn his first extensive interview since the incident, with the Texas Tribune, Mr Arredondo, 50, said he was unaware that he had overall command of the response to the shooting, and assumed someone else had taken on that role.\n\nIt had previously been reported that he told police to not attempt to breach the classroom.\n\nWhile he denied the claim, Mr Arredondo said he believed the situation had changed from being that of an \"active\" shooter to one where the gunman was barricaded inside.\n\n\"Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,\" he said. \"We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced.\"\n\nThe police chief also said he left his police and campus radios outside as he responded to the shooting.\n\nHe said he thought the radios would slow him down at a time when he believed he was the first officer at the scene.\n\nHis lawyer, George Hyde, told the Tribune that Mr Arredondo arrived at the scene committed to stopping the shooter even at the risk of his own life.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to Mr Hyde for additional comment.\n\nAccording to Mr Arredondo, police came under fire soon after entering the school, wounding several officers. After determining that officers would be unable to kick in a reinforced door to the classrooms, Mr Arredondo called for tactical gear, a sniper and keys for the door.\n\nHe described trying dozens of keys unsuccessfully before police were able to open the door and kill the shooter, 77 minutes after the incident began.\n\nSix of seven law enforcement officers contacted by the Tribune, however, said that the police response suffered from serious lapses.\n\nMr Arredondo's lack of radio communications, experts believe, may have contributed to a disjointed police response to the shooting. Without a radio, he said he was unaware of 911 calls coming in from students.\n\nOn Friday, a New York Times review of law enforcement documents and video appears to show officers waiting for protective equipment before entering a classroom to stop the gunman, even as senior officers on the scene were told some of those trapped inside needed medical attention.\n\nThe newspaper reported that, according to transcripts from police body cameras, a man believed to be Mr Arredondo says: ''People are going to ask why we're taking so long.\"\n\n\"We're trying to preserve the rest of the life.''\n\nThis week, the US justice department announced a review of the police response to the mass shooting, which will include \"an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses\".", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nBilly Bingham, the most successful manager of Northern Ireland's football team, has died at the age of 90.\n\nThe former Northern Ireland manager was diagnosed with dementia in 2006 and he died peacefully in a nursing home in Southport on Thursday evening.\n\nRenowned as a master tactician, the wily Bingham guided the boys in green to the 1982 and 1986 World Cup finals.\n\nNorthern Ireland were the last winners of the defunct British Championship, lifting the trophy in 1984.\n\nBingham also managed Everton and the Greek national team and played for Northern Ireland at the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden.\n\nHis son David said the family were \"very proud of all our dad achieved\".\n\n\"Dad was diagnosed with dementia back in 2006 and I think it is a tribute to his will that he managed another 16 years from that diagnosis to the time he passed away,\" he added.\n\nThe Irish Football Association said it had learned of Bingham's death with \"great sadness\".\n\n\"Billy holds a unique place in the football hearts of Northern Ireland in that he both played at and managed in World Cup final tournaments with Northern Ireland, being part of Peter Doherty's historic team of 1958 in Sweden and then managing Northern Ireland in the 1982 and 1986 finals,\" said Northern Ireland's football governing body.\n\nDuring his second spell in charge, Northern Ireland pulled off some unlikely victories, most notably when they stunned 1982 World Cup hosts Spain on a famous Friday night in Valencia when Gerry Armstrong hit the winner.\n\nThe 1-0 win in stiflingly hot conditions remains one of the most remarkable upsets in World Cup history.\n\nReacting to Bingham's death, Armstrong described the Belfast man as \"Northern Ireland's greatest manager\" and expressed \"heartfelt condolences\" to his family.\n\n\"Who can forget the wonderful memories that Billy has left us with,\" added the former Northern Ireland striker.\n\nBingham's club career included helping Everton with the English League title in 1963 and the Goodison Park club said it was \"deeply saddened\" to learn of his passing.\n\nBingham was renowned for getting the most out of the limited resources at his disposal, although most of Northern Ireland's players were operating in the top flight of the English game.\n\nBefore entering management, Bingham, the son of a shipyard worker, had been a successful player, starting with Irish League side Glentoran on a reported £6 a week before moving to England.\n\nHe operated in a wide attacking role, or an outside-right as the position was then known.\n\nBingham joined First Division club Sunderland as a 19-year-old prospect in 1950, making his international debut the following year.\n\nHe was in the Northern Ireland team which achieved stunning victories over Portugal and Italy to qualify for the 1958 World Cup finals, the first time the country had reached that stage, and played in all five games as Peter Doherty's men reached the quarter-finals in Sweden.\n\nA few months later Bingham, having lost his place in the Sunderland side, joined Luton Town and was in the team beaten 2-1 by Nottingham Forest in the 1959 FA Cup final.\n\nHe then switched to Everton and won the 1963 First Division Championship with the Merseyside club.\n\nBingham finished his playing career with Port Vale, his career cut short at 33 when he sustained a broken leg. His 56 international caps was, at that time, a record he held jointly with Danny Blanchflower.\n\nA move into management saw Bingham take charge of Fourth Division Southport, leading them to promotion in 1967.\n\nHe later combined that post with the international role as he took charge of Northern Ireland for the first time and just missed out on getting them to the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico.\n\nBingham then had a spell in control of Plymouth Argyle before taking charge of Linfield, steering them to the Irish League Championship and success in three cup competitions.\n\nHe left the Linfield and NI jobs to become manager of Greece, but left that post after winning just two matches out of 12, moving on to spells with Everton, Greek outfit PAOK and Mansfield Town.\n\nIn 1980, Billy Bingham was appointed manager of Northern Ireland for a second time and it was to prove a golden era for the team in green.\n\nGerry Armstrong's strike in front of 40,000 ecstatic fans at Windsor Park in November 1981 saw Northern Ireland clinch a 1-0 win over Israel and a place at the following year's World Cup finals.\n\nIt was another Armstrong goal which earned Northern Ireland arguably their finest and most memorable victory - that against-all-odds triumph over hosts Spain to reach the next stage.\n\nNorthern Ireland's interest ended with a draw against Austria and defeat by France but Espana '82 remains a highlight of Northern Ireland sporting history.\n\nHome and away victories over West Germany followed as Northern Ireland went close to qualifying for the 1984 European Championships.\n\nThey did, however, qualify for another World Cup thanks to a 1-0 win in Romania followed by a 0-0 draw against England at Wembley.\n\nBingham's side would not repeat the heroics of 1982, drawing with Algeria and losing to Spain and Brazil.\n\nHowever, reaching back-to-back World Cups was an incredible achievement and Northern Ireland have not been appeared at the finals since.\n\nBingham's last match as Northern Ireland boss was a fractious 1-1 draw in a World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland, the point earning the visitors a place in USA '94.\n\nAfter leaving management, Bingham acted as Blackpool's director of football in the 1990s and then, at 76, took on a scouting role with Burnley in 2008.", "Two bears ended up in a deadly fight in Spain's Cantabrian mountains, which are home to around 350 bears.\n\nVideo footage shows a female bear protecting her cub from a larger male, before both fighting bears fall off a cliff ledge.", "On 6 January, 2021, people around the United States were shocked by images coming from the US Capitol.\n\nThe pictures - many of which were captured by news agency photojournalists on hand to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's electoral win - depicted rioters trespassing in government offices, or roaming the Senate chamber, or assaulting police officers.\n\nThis week, a House of Representatives select committee set up to investigate the events will begin public hearings aimed at piecing together what happened and who can be held accountable.\n\nWhile the committee can refer cases for prosecution, it is up to the Justice Department to determine if charges are actually filed.\n\nBut for many of the rioters, the snaps taken that day have already come back to haunt them.\n\nTo date, more than 810 have been arrested in nearly every US state and Washington DC. More than 60 so far have been sentenced to incarceration, with US officials vowing that more prosecutions are likely in the future.\n\nInvestigators are seeking public help in identifying over 350 rioters, including 250 suspected of attacking police officers.\n\nHere are five of the most iconic pictures of rioters and what's happened to them since 6 January.\n\nAmong the most widely shared images was that of Jacob Anthony Chansley, a 34-year old who referred to himself as the \"QAnon Shaman\". An ardent Trump supporter, Chansley was pictured wearing horns and a bearskin headdress during the riot, quickly becoming one of the most recognisable figures from the siege.\n\nChansley was arrested just days after the riot. In November, he was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his involvement, in addition to 36 months of supervised release. In court, Chansley said he now believes it was \"wrong\" to enter the Capitol and that he hopes to \"evolve\".\n\nHis sentence is one of the longest so far doled out to 6 January rioters. He is currently being held in a low-security federal prison in Arizona.\n\nAnother rioter, 36-year-old Florida resident Adam Johnson, was famously pictured walking - wearing a Trump beanie - between guide ropes meant for tours at the Capitol. He was carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House and posed in front of a painting depicting the surrender of British General John Burgoyne in the American Revolutionary War.\n\nJohnson, who was dubbed \"Podium Guy\" by social media users in the wake of the riot, was charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and theft of government property just days later.\n\nIn November, Johnson pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building. The other charges were dropped by prosecutors in exchange for a guilty plea.\n\nAdditionally, Johnson - who has expressed interest in writing a book - agreed to hand over any publishing profits to the government for a five-year period.\n\nEarly this year, he was sentenced to 75 days in prison and was also fined $5,000 (£3,996).\n\nAhead of his prison sentence, Johnson reportedly planned to host an \"Adam is going to prison\" party at a Florida restaurant. The event was eventually cancelled by the venue.\n\n\"Come help me celebrate my last Friday of freedom before I go to prison for the lamest charge in history,\" a Facebook page for the event read.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, Richard Barnett, was pictured sitting with one boot on a desk in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nThe image of Mr Barnett - dressed in a baseball cap and chequered shirt - went viral, as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Mrs Pelosi's desk.\n\nMr Barnett now faces multiple charges in connection with the riot, including obstruction of an official proceeding, entering a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to the charges and in April rejected the government's offer of a plea deal. He is currently not in jail.\n\nMr Barnett's trial is scheduled to begin on 6 September.\n\nA fourth rioter, Kevin Seefried, was photographed holding a Confederate battle flag while walking through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nMr Seefried and his son, Hunter, were arrested a week after the riot and hit with multiple charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds.\n\nThe father-son duo is scheduled to begin a bench trial - in which their culpability will be determined by a judge, rather than a jury - on 13 June.\n\nAaron Mostofsky, a Trump supporter, in the US Capitol on 6 January 2021\n\nThe son of a prominent and politically connected New York City judge, Aaron Mostofsky was famously pictured wearing a fur pelt as a \"caveman\" and holding a police riot shield and wooden stick inside the US Capitol during the 6 January riot.\n\nHe told the New York Post he felt that supporters of President Trump \"were cheated\" in the election.\n\n\"I don't think 75 million people voted for Trump - I think it was close to 85 million,\" he told the newspaper. \"I think certain states that have been red for a long time turned blue and were stolen, like New York.\"\n\nMostofsky was arrested in New York six days after the riot and charged with multiple offences, including theft of government property, assaulting or impeding officers and disorderly conduct.\n\nIn February, he pleaded guilty to one felony charge of civil disorder, as well as several misdemeanor charges.\n\nThree months later, he was sentenced to eight months in prison followed by 12 months of supervised release, including 200 hours of community service and $2,000 (£1,600) restitution.", "The US will no longer require air travellers to have proof of a negative Covid-19 test before entering the country from abroad.\n\nOfficials said they were dropping the requirement due to the \"tremendous progress\" the country had made in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe travel industry has been pushing for an end to the policy, which they say has deterred bookings, as families fear getting stranded abroad.\n\nThe change comes into effect on Sunday.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will re-evaluate the policy in 90 days. The administration said it would \"not hesitate to act\" to reinstate the rule should new variants make officials believe it is necessary.\n\n\"We are able to take this step because of the tremendous progress we've made in our fight against the virus: We have made lifesaving vaccines and treatments widely available and these tools are working to prevent serious illness and death, and are effective against the prevalent variants circulating in the US and around the world,\" a senior official told reporters.\n\nThe US introduced rules requiring air travellers to test negative within three days of their flight - or provide proof of recent recovery from the virus - in January 2021.\n\nUS President Joe Biden tightened the policy to within one day of flying in December, as the Omicron variant pushed virus cases higher. The testing measure did not apply to land crossings.\n\nMost non-US citizens must still be vaccinated to travel to the country.\n\nThe number of Covid cases in the US has dropped sharply since January, though the figures had started to rise again in recent weeks before plateauing. Deaths remain much lower than during the height of the pandemic because of the impact of the vaccination programme.\n\nThe travel sector, which has seen demand surge as concerns about the pandemic wane, has said the US has lagged behind other countries in re-evaluating testing policies.\n\nThe UK removed all Covid-19 test requirements for travel in March, as did Canada. Italy ended its testing requirements this month.\n\nOn Friday, Canada also said it would pause random Covid testing at airports for the rest of June in order to reduce wait times for travellers.\n\nUS Travel Association president Roger Dow said the change in policy would \"accelerate the recovery of the US travel industry\", while the International Air Transport Association said it was \"great news\" the \"ineffective\" measure was being dropped.\n\nAirline Virgin Atlantic also welcomed the move, saying it would \"boost consumer confidence even further and support the rebound in transatlantic travel this summer\".\n\nThe US has been slowly easing Covid national restrictions. Last November, it lifted restrictions on travellers from more than 30 countries, including the UK, after a more than 18-month ban.\n\nIn April, the US dropped its requirement that passengers wear masks on planes after a court voided the CDC's mandate.\n\nAccording to research by the US Travel Association, eliminating the test requirement is likely to bring an additional 5.4 million visitors to the US this year, boosting travel spending by 12%,\n\n\"Today marks another huge step forward for the recovery of inbound air travel and the return of international travel to the United States,\" Mr Dow said.", "Before his arrest Dino Scala was well known in his village as a caretaker and football coach\n\nFour years after he was arrested in a French village close to the Belgian border, Dino Scala has gone on trial accused of a 30-year series of rapes and sexual assaults.\n\nThe former caretaker, now aged 61, has already confessed to 40 attacks on girls and women in communities either side of the French border with Belgium.\n\nBut he denies some of the 56 charges.\n\nSome of the victims are no longer alive and others have refused to appear at the trial in the city of Douai.\n\nThe man on trial became known as the rapist of the Sambre, after the river that ran through places he operated in.\n\nA former caretaker and football coach, Dino Scala, who is now 61, was eventually arrested in February 2018 after a 17-year-old girl was attacked in the Belgian border town of Erquelinnes.\n\nShe struggled free and raised the alarm and recently installed CCTV cameras identified a small Peugeot car with a French number plate.\n\nThe car was traced three weeks later to the suspect's home in Pont-sur Sambre. Gloves, rope and a knife were found in the car.\n\nHe was then charged with 17 rapes, 12 attempted rapes, and 27 sexual assaults or attempted assaults. He was accused of preying on victims aged 13 to 48 in a campaign of attacks that began in 1988.\n\nLawyers for the women said they hoped they would have a chance to be heard in the trial and finally put what had happened behind them.\n\nFanny Bruyerre, who represents nine of the victims, said some of them had felt the police had not listened to them.\n\nAmong the women and girls targeted was Mélanie, who told French TV what had happened to her in 1997, when she was just 14. \"He squeezed my neck and my head swung back - I had time to see his face,\" she said.\n\nHer description enabled police to create a composite image of her attacker. DNA was also taken from other crime scenes.\n\nBut the drawing, which bore a striking resemblance to the suspect, was never circulated by French police.\n\nThe head of judicial police in Lille, Romuald Muller, said part of the problem in tracing the attacker was that for months and sometimes years the trail went quiet.\n\n\"The photo-fit is of use when it's linked to an unusual characteristic, a distinctive sign like a particular walk or scar,\" he told Le Figaro website.\n\n\"But on the other hand you can recognise anyone on a photo-fit that looks like just about every man you know.\"\n\nDino Scala's lawyer Margaux Mathieu said he had confessed willingly and wanted to explain himself to the court in Douai in northern France.", "After 11 months of work, the congressional committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol - and the events leading up to it - held its first public hearing to announce their findings.\n\nIt was an unprecedented evening affair. Even Watergate, which may have set the benchmark for modern high-profile and politically potent congressional hearings, conducted all their work during the day.\n\nDemocrats - and the two Republicans - on the committee insisted that it was important to present their work before a large American audience, both for history's sake and to set up legislative action to protect US democracy from future attacks.\n\nThe rest of the Republican Party, on the other hand, viewed the proceedings as a partisan show trial, one-sided and illegitimate.\n\nWith the three major networks, as well as every major cable news channel except Fox News, broadcasting the Thursday hearing in its entirety, the American public will have ample opportunity to make their own judgement.\n\nIf there were a question as to whether committee chairman Bennie Thompson holds Donald Trump personally responsible for the attack on the US Capitol, he put that to rest early in his opening statement. The then-president, he said, \"was trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power\".\n\n\"Donald Trump was at the centre of this conspiracy,\" he added.\n\nThose are strong words. Now the committee has to present evidence to back that up.\n\nIt raises the question of whether, if this is what Mr Thompson and others truly believe, the committee will recommend that the former president himself be charged with a crime.\n\nWithin minutes of Thursday night's opening hearing, the chairman essentially accused Mr Trump of committing one.\n\nBefore the 6 January committee can prove that Mr Trump intentionally subverted the peaceful and proper transfer of power to Joe Biden, it had to prove that the then-president was knowingly spreading false information.\n\nTo do so, committee vice-chair Liz Cheney didn't try to refute all the specific claims the president and his supporters have advanced. Instead she simply recounted and played video testimony of the president's own advisers confirming that the election results were valid.\n\nIn one key clip, Bill Barr - the president's attorney general - recounted how he used a dismissive expletive to tell the president that his claims of widespread election fraud were baseless.\n\nShe was, in effect, damning the former president with his own team's words.\n\nThe primetime hearing was billed as something other than an ordinary congressional event. Instead of members of Congress hogging the microphone, it would be a slickly produced undertaking that would use video clips and documentary evidence to tell a powerful story.\n\nIt didn't exactly begin that way. Although Mr Thompson kept his remarks fairly brief, Ms Cheney - the apostate Republican who has gone to war with her own party - spoke in a monotone for nearly half an hour.\n\nWhile the allegations she made were serious, the words bogged down in lengthy paragraphs, numbered lists and \"we will show you\" expository statements.\n\nIt wasn't until the committee ran an extended video of the attack - comprised largely of security and police body camera footage, interspersed with Trump's speech excerpts and tweets - that the drama of the day's events became visceral, not cerebral.\n\nAs the video ended, the hearing room fell into silence - with many members of Congress watching as guests in the back of the room sat in stunned quiet and family of police officers who died after the attacks choking back tears.\n\nThe panel has conducted more than 1,000 interviews as part of its investigation so far, but three of those interviews - with Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, son Donald Trump Jr and son-in-law Jared Kushner - have been of particular interest. On Thursday night, the public got its first look, albeit a brief one, at what two of them had to say.\n\nMs Trump spoke about how she had no reason to doubt then-Attorney General Bill Barr when he said her father had lost the election. Kushner dismissed the threats of members of Trump's legal team quitting in protest against what they viewed as his illegal and unfounded election challenges as \"whining\".\n\nThe elder Trump son, on the other hand, was entirely absent.\n\nThere may be more video presented in future hearings, but if viewers were hoping for juicy familial conflict, the hearings didn't deliver.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widow of fallen officer: \"6 January was the worst day of his life\"\n\nThe committee only had two individuals appear for in-person testimony during the evening's hearing - documentary filmmaker Nick Quested and Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards.\n\nWhile the former offered some insight into the preparations the far-right group the Proud Boys made before the Capitol attack, it was Officer Edwards whose personal account lent the second half of the proceedings its power.\n\nShe spoke about the crowd turning on the police officers at the Capitol and how she saw leaders of the Proud Boys seemingly conferring before they launched their assault.\n\nShe recounted losing consciousness as she was knocked over, hitting her head on a concrete step. After she recovered, she continued to try to defend the Capitol, before she and Officer Brian Sicknick - who later died - were assaulted with chemical spray.\n\n\"What I saw was a war scene, like something I had seen out of the movies,\" she said. \"I couldn't believe my eyes. Officers on the ground bleeding and throwing up... It was carnage. It was chaos.\"", "Teresa Morris has owned Ziggy, a corn snake, for four years. She took him in after a family member didn't have the time to look after him.\n\nBut now, with energy bills increasing, Teresa can no longer afford to keep him.\n\n\"I'm not happy about it, but I have to make firm choices, because financially the heat lamp is on all day.\"\n\nTeresa, who worked as a carer, says her bills have gone up by more than £20 a month.\n\n\"It's a big emotional blur, but he's my family and he should be respected.\"\n\nShe handed over Ziggy to the National Centre for Reptile Welfare (NCRW) in Tonbridge, Kent, which has seen a surge in the number of snakes and other reptiles being handed in.\n\nDirector Chris Newman said more reptiles were left with the centre in the first three months of 2022 than in the whole of 2021.\n\nThere has been a particular increase in bearded dragons being given up by their owners\n\nHis team, which includes students from Hadlow College, has been analysing the reasons why reptiles have been abandoned or surrendered.\n\n\"Finance seems to be the big issue. People are worrying about not being able to afford to heat and feed the animals,\" he said.\n\nThe study found 80% of pets being handed in to them are because of \"economic reasons\".\n\nIn particular, the NCRW has seen a spike in bearded dragons, which can be particularly expensive to feed and keep warm. The centre has now been forced to accept more bearded dragons only in an emergency.\n\nIn Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, the charity the Proteus Reptile Trust, has also seen a spike in the number of reptiles being handed in. It has also seen a rise in pets being dumped in cardboard boxes and outside pet shops.\n\nAmy Taranaski, centre co-ordinator said: \"We can only take so many reptiles in as we have limited funding. Our big concern is what happens to these reptiles when we cannot help.\"\n\nThe centre is looking to switch to renewable energy in order to keep up with demand.\n\nWith the cost of living increasing, the RSPCA says it expects the problem of reptiles being handed in to get worse.\n\nCold-blooded reptiles need an external source of heat\n\nRSPCA scientific officer Evangeline Button said: \"We are really worried that we will see more animals being abandoned because their owners cannot meet the financial challenges of keeping them on.\"\n\nReptiles in particular are vulnerable because they do not tend to be native to the UK. This means they need a carefully controlled environment which includes 24-hour light and heating.\n\nThe RSPCA has suggested some ways to save money, which include buying second-hand equipment. But it stresses that people should check that everything is working properly, to ensure their pets are safe.", "A Belfast-based company aims to take a major step in the development of zero-emissions marine technology with the launch of an electric-powered workboat.\n\nAs part of a government-backed initiative, Artemis Technologies has developed an eFoiler propulsion system for its workboats.\n\nA six-passenger vessel - with a range of 60 miles - will be officially launched later.\n\nA 12-passenger boat was also designed and built in Belfast.\n\nThe company says the workboats can be recharged in one hour, create little wake and are the first commercially-viable crafts of their kind.\n\nThey can be used for port operations and to transfer crews.\n\nIn 2020, a consortium led by Artemis and including Bombardier, Belfast Harbour and Northern Ireland's universities, received a £33m government grant to develop a zero-emissions ferry.\n\nThe Pioneer of Belfast was the prototype for the workboat range\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the development of green vessels was \"a truly positive step in the fight against climate change\".\n\n\"I am delighted that such amazing technology has been developed in Northern Ireland and to have been able to see the eFoiler technology up close during a recent showcase in Belfast,\" he said.\n\nThe Belfast Maritime Consortium, a 14-member syndicate which has brought together a range of industry, academia and public bodies, is developing a commuter ferry service between Bangor and Belfast that's planned to be operating by 2024.\n\nThe intention is to operate the ferry using an electric propulsion system provided by Artemis Technologies.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Thursday's launch, Artemis chief executive Dr Iain Percy said: \"As our vessels transform the workboat and city-to-city passenger ferry sectors, Belfast and the UK will be at the forefront, creating thousands of jobs across the supply chain.\n\n\"This is a hugely significant milestone not only for us but in global decarbonisation efforts with the International Maritime Organization requiring emissions to be halved by 2050.\"\n\nSarah Kenny, who chairs Maritime UK, the national representative body for the maritime industry, said the launch showed \"our heritage as maritime pioneers will continue long into the future\".\n• None Belfast to Bangor pilot ferry to sail by 2024", "Wizz Air chief executive Jozsef Varadi said staff should go \"the extra mile\"\n\nWizz Air is facing a backlash from pilot unions after the airline's boss appeared to call on crew to work through fatigue.\n\nChief executive Jozsef Varadi said staff should go \"the extra mile\" when tired so that the airline could avoid cancelling flights.\n\nPilot unions said flying when fatigued is dangerous and his comments showed a \"deficient safety culture\".\n\nBut Wizz Air said Mr Varadi was addressing all workers not just pilots.\n\nLike some airlines, Wizz Air has been forced to cancel flights over the recent Jubilee bank holiday which coincided with schools' half-term break because of \"widespread shortages in staff\".\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Varadi told workers: \"Now that everyone is getting back into work, I understand that fatigue is a potential outcome of the issues but once we are starting stabilising the rosters, we also need to take down the fatigue rate.\n\n\"I mean, we cannot run this business when every fifth person of a base reports sickness because the person is fatigued. We are all fatigued but sometimes it is required to take the extra mile.\"\n\nMr Varadi added, \"The damage is huge when we are cancelling the flights, it's huge. It is reputational damage of the brand and it is the other financial damage, transactional damage because we have to pay compensation for that.\"\n\nThe European Cockpit Association, which has been pushing for union recognition at Wizz Air, shared a short clip of Mr Varadi's address.\n\nIt said the comments encouraged pilots to fly when fatigued, and called on regulators to step in.\n\n\"It's like handing the car keys to a drunk driver,\" the union said, adding it showed a \"deficient safety culture\" at the airline.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by European Pilots This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMartin Chalk, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa), said that \"fatigue has been shown, in many studies, to have effects on a person's thinking and decision making similar to alcohol\".\n\n\"No-one supports pilots or other safety sensitive staff working with alcohol in their system,\" he said, adding that he was \"very surprised by the apparent views of Mr Varadi on fatigue\".\n\nHe called on Mr Varadi to clarify his comments, and that if he really believed pilots should fly when fatigued, \"he should consider whether he is in the right job\".\n\nWhen airline pilots are very tired \"it can be life or death\", he added. \"People's lives are important, and we don't squander them for no reason - definitely not for profit.\"\n\nThere are restrictions on the number of hours air crew are supposed to work.\n\nRules state that air crew should not fly, and should not be required to fly, if they are in a state of fatigue which could endanger passengers or the aircraft.\n\nWizz Air denied that Mr Varadi was specifically targeting pilots but was speaking to all staff. It said in a statement: \"Our crew unavailability has been very low, at 4%. In this context, going the extra mile to minimise disruption was discussed.\n\n\"What this does not mean is compromising safety. Wizz Air and the airline industry are highly regulated, and safety has, and always will be, our first priority.\"\n\nIt added: \"This clip has been edited from an all staff briefing - not pilots only, but also cabin crew and all office employees - on key business updates and current challenges facing aviation.\"", "The boy died in hospital after being found at a house in the Miles Platting area\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been killed and his mother injured after they were both stabbed at a house in Manchester.\n\nThe teenager died in hospital after he was found with stab wounds following a \"ferocious\" attack in Bednal Avenue, in the Miles Platting area, at about 21:30 BST on Thursday, police said.\n\nHis mother, aged in her 40s, was treated for serious stab wounds and taken to hospital.\n\nNo arrests have been made and police said they were searching for a man.\n\nThe suspect was described as Asian and wearing dark clothing, aged in his mid 40s, of medium build and medium height.\n\nHe was last seen walking on Sawley Road shortly after the attack took place.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers believed he was known to the victims and the attack was thought to have been a \"domestic incident\".\n\nPeople have been advised not to approach him and to call 999.\n\nDet Ch Insp Gina Brennand described the stabbing as \"a ferocious attack\"\n\nPolice said the woman remains in a stable condition and a large police cordon had been set up at the scene as the investigation continued.\n\nNeighbour Ayomide Ladeji said the teenager was a \"good kid and everyone around knew him\".\n\n\"When I found out it was crazy. I'm still trying to process it now,\" he said.\n\nPolice officers at the scene in Bednal Avenue\n\nAnother resident said the woman lived in the house with three children, adding \"they were a quiet family and very polite children\".\n\n\"We would see the boy going to and from school. This is devastating.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: \"It's terrible. It's not the kind of thing that happens round here.\n\n\"The area has improved massively with regeneration and this is so sad.\"\n\nA large police cordon has been set up at the scene on Bednal Avenue\n\nDet Ch Insp Gina Brennand described the stabbing as \"a ferocious attack\".\n\nShe added: \"We are working at a tremendous pace to find the person that did this and to take them off the streets and into custody where we can continue to piece together what we know.\n\n\"Last night's events are nothing short of devastating as a teenage boy has tragically lost his life and a mother is grieving in hospital after also being seriously attacked.\n\n\"This is a shocking incident for the people of Manchester to wake up to, but I do wish to stress that our enquiries so far suggest this was a contained and domestic-related incident.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widow of fallen officer: \"6 January was the worst day of his life\"\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump orchestrated last year's Capitol riot in an \"attempted coup\", a congressional inquiry has heard as a hearing opened into the raid.\n\nLiz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, said Mr Trump had \"lit the flame of this attack\".\n\nTrump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January 2021 as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nAfter almost a year of investigation, the Democratic-led US House of Representatives select committee opened on Thursday evening by showing clips from interviews it conducted with members of Mr Trump's inner circle.\n\nThe timing was geared to reach huge evening TV audiences across the US.\n\nFootage was aired of testimony by former US Attorney General Bill Barr saying he had repeatedly told the former president that he had lost the election and his claims of fraud were wrong.\n\n\"We can't live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election,\" said the former attorney general.\n\nThe hearing also featured a recording of testimony by Ivanka Trump, the ex-president's daughter, saying she \"accepted\" Mr Barr's rejection of her father's conspiracy theory.\n\nAnd there was an audible gasp in the committee room as Ms Cheney read an account that claimed Mr Trump, when told the rioters were chanting for Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged for refusing to block the election results, suggested that he \"deserves it\".\n\nBefore the House inquiry opened on Thursday evening - the first of six hearings expected this month - Mr Trump dismissed it as a \"political HOAX\".\n\nThe former president has been publicly hinting about another White House run in 2024. He continues to peddle unsubstantiated claims that the last election was rigged by mass voter fraud.\n\nThe congressional committee is led by Democrats, who formed the panel after Republicans blocked attempts to set up a full independent inquiry. Just two Republicans - the staunchly anti-Trump Reps Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney - are taking part.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five key moments from the US Capitol riot hearing\n\nThe goal of the committee is to provide a comprehensive account of not only the 6 January riot but the \"coordinated, multi-step effort\" to \"overturn\" the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nMembers plan to produce a report and possibly hold another hearing in September to outline their findings and offer suggestions for reforms to the US electoral process.\n\nMr Thompson, the committee's chairman and a Mississippi lawmaker, told the hearing: \"Jan 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one writer put it shortly after Jan 6, to overthrow the government.\n\n\"The violence was no accident. It was Trump's last stand.\"\n\nMs Cheney, the vice-chair of the committee and a Wyoming congresswoman, said: \"Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election was stolen and that he was the rightful president.\n\n\"President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.\"\n\nAt no point did he ask law enforcement services to protect the Capitol, Ms Cheney said, instead it was Mr Pence who did that.\n\nRunning just over two hours, the unprecedented prime-time congressional hearing on the Capitol attack was a decidedly mixed bag.\n\nThe video evidence of the 6 January events, and the dramatic personal testimony of officer Caroline Edwards, were powerful reminders of the pain and suffering that day.\n\nThe extended statement by Liz Cheney - who has put her career in jeopardy with her criticism of the former president - was full of allegations and accusations but overly dense.\n\nAn American sitting down to watch the proceedings instead of their regular Thursday night entertainment may have not received the slickly packaged production that was promised.\n\nBut if they had forgotten what it was like on 6 January - the desperation and the drama - there was plenty to remind them.\n\nWhat they do with that reminder, however, remains to be seen.\n\nCaroline Edwards, the first police officer injured in the attack, testified that she was called a \"traitor\" and a \"dog\" by the rioters before she was knocked unconscious.\n\nShe described later encountering amid the melee a \"ghostly pale\" Officer Brian Sicknick, who died a day following the attack after suffering two strokes.\n\n\"I was slipping in people's blood,\" Officer Edwards told lawmakers. \"It was carnage. It was chaos.\"\n\n\"Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle,\" she added.\n\nA British documentary filmmaker, Nick Quested, who was tracking the Proud Boys, a far-right group, on the day of the attack, also gave evidence.\n\nHe described his surprise at the anger and violence of the rampaging \"insurrectionists\".\n\nFour people died on the day of the US Capitol riot: an unarmed woman shot by police and the others of natural causes.\n\nMore than 100 police officers were injured. Four other officers later died by suicide.\n\nRepublicans have dismissed the televised inquiry as a ploy to distract Americans from the political headwinds Democrats face with five months to go until the US mid-term elections.\n\nOpinion polls suggest Democrats may lose control of the House and even potentially the Senate when the nation votes in November.\n\nAs Americans grapple with galloping inflation, soaring petrol prices and a baby-formula crisis, US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has seen his popularity with voters dip below Mr Trump's approval rating at the same point in his tenure.\n\nHouse Republican leader Kevin McCarthy - who was initially critical of Mr Trump in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, but has since shifted his tone - called the committee a \"smokescreen\" for Democrats to overhaul voting laws.\n\nHouse Democrats impeached Mr Trump following the riot, with barely a week left in his presidency. They accused him of inciting insurrection, but he was acquitted in the Senate.", "A chain of failures marred the Champions League final in Paris last month, a French government report says.\n\nThey included lack of preparation for travelling fans, huge numbers of people without tickets or fake ones, and security failures at the stadium.\n\nThe report does not apportion blame, but recommends improvements which the government says will be implemented.\n\nThe fiasco included tear-gassing fans before the match on 28 May and attacks on them by local youths afterwards.\n\nReal Madrid won the match 1-0 against Liverpool at the Stade de France.\n\nThe chaos - and the initial French response seeking to blame fans for the trouble - has prompted uproar in France as well as the UK and Spain.\n\nLiverpool fans react as they queue to access Stade de France before Champions League Final on 28 May\n\nLiverpool fans have complained of fearing for their safety in a crush while trying to get into the stadium, despite arriving hours earlier. But they have also told of local gangs from the Saint-Denis area descending on crowds after the match, stealing phones and watches and threatening them with knives.\n\nLiverpool's mayor has accused French police officers of being too quick to threaten fans with batons.\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin has particularly come under fire for blaming the trouble outside the stadium on \"massive, industrial-scale\" ticket fraud which caused Liverpool fans to turn up en masse.\n\nBut the author of the report, Michel Cadot, the government's envoy for Olympics and other major sporting event preparations, said that Mr Darmanin's claim that as many as 40,000 Liverpool fans were to blame for the chaos should be \"relativised\".\n\nIn his 30-page report - the first official conclusion of a government inquiry - Mr Cadot highlighted:\n\nThe violence and the way it had been dealt with had \"raised questions from outside observers about our country's ability to deliver and succeed in the major sporting events for which we will soon be responsible\" said the report.\n\nParis is to play host to the 2023 Rugby World Cup and 2024 Olympics.\n\nThe report makes five recommendations, including the creation of a national committee to pilot major international sporting events, and the introduction of fully electronic tickets to reduce the risks of fraud.\n\nIn a first reaction, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said she had asked the interior and sports ministers \"to take up the recommendations to put them in place without delay\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fans shared videos showing pepper spray being deployed and children crying in Paris", "One passenger said she was initially rerouted to Leeds\n\nPassengers due to arrive at an airport were diverted after drone sightings near Download Festival.\n\nEast Midlands Airport said two passenger flights were diverted to Leeds and Manchester on Friday afternoon.\n\nIt follows drone-related disruption to night-time cargo flights on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\nThe airport, Leicestershire Police and the festival said they were closely monitoring the situation.\n\nThe rock and metal festival is taking place at Donington Park\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"Both the festival organisers and the police have enhanced the number of patrols on site and the surrounding areas.\n\n\"The public are reminded that flying a drone in proximity to an operational airport is an offence under the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and is a huge risk to public safety. The police will take appropriate action if necessary.\"\n\nThe three-day rock and metal festival is taking place until Sunday at Donington Park, Leicestershire, about one mile (1.6km) from the airport.\n\nLiz Haslem, from Derbyshire, had just landed at East Midlands Airport after being diverted on her way back from Malaga, Spain.\n\nShe said: \"The pilot announced there were drones in the area from Download Festival so we were rerouted to Leeds.\n\n\"At first we didn't know if we were actually going to have to get out at Leeds and make our own way [back].\n\n\"We've got our car here at East Midlands, so there there was a bit of confusion and panic to start with.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has been accused of failing to act to save billions of taxpayers' money that has been used to pay interest on government debt.\n\nThe National Institute of Economic and Social Research think tank said the losses were due to the Treasury failing to insure against interest rate rises.\n\nIt meant higher than necessary payments on £900bn of reserves created through the quantitative easing (QE) programme.\n\nThe Treasury said it was the Bank of England's role to decide QE measures.\n\nThe Bank of England is independent from the Treasury.\n\nThe Treasury said NIESR's proposal would undermine this independence and be \"hugely damaging\" to the credibility of how public finances were managed.\n\n\"Proposals such as this risk undermining the independence of the Bank of England and forcing commercial banks to swap reserves for gilts would be an act of financial repression,\" a Treasury spokesperson said.\n\nNIESR's Prof Jagjit Chadha, told the Financial Times that Mr Sunak's failure to act had left the country with \"an enormous bill and heavy continuing exposure to interest rate risk\".\n\nThe Bank of England created £895bn of money through quantitative easing. Most of this was used to buy government bonds from pension funds and other investors.\n\nWhen those investors put the proceeds in commercial bank deposits at the Bank, it had to pay interest at its official interest rate.\n\nLast year, when the official rate was still 0.1%, NIESR said the government should have insured the cost of servicing this debt against the risk of rising interest rates.\n\nIt said interest payments have \"now become much more expensive\" and it estimates the loss over the past year at around £11bn.\n\n\"Such a lost opportunity is an unnecessary cost to the public finances at a very difficult time,\" the think tank said.\n\nIt suggested converting the debt into government bonds with longer to pay it back.\n\n\"It would have been much better to have reduced the scale of short-term liabilities earlier, as we have argued for some time, and to exploit the benefits of longer-term debt issuance. This is very much a question for the Treasury to answer,\" said Prof Chadha.\n\nThe Treasury said it would not have been commercially viable to convert such a high level of debt.\n\n\"The £11bn figure is based on the implausible assumption that it would be possible to undertake action of this scale in a single transaction,\" it added.\n\nWhile there never was a single moment where the Treasury made a decision that cost the nation £11bn, the analysis from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research does point to some costly missed opportunities.\n\nEarly last year the Treasury itself was pointing towards the shortening maturity of our national debt as a by-product of the pandemic expansion of borrowing and the Bank of England's QE policy. The UK has for the past two decades had, by international standards, many more years to repay its loans from the markets, but that was no longer the case. The Treasury was trying to explain why despite the UK borrowing record sums, interest costs were at record lows.\n\nSo a question arose - why don't they do something about it and lock-in then rock bottom interest rates for many years? It was suggested by NIESR, by Policy Exchange, by Boris Johnson's former economic adviser Gerard Lyons, among others.\n\nThe Treasury's answer is that to have done so would have interfered with the Bank of England's independence over its QE programme of buying bonds, and that it would have been commercially unviable to refinance £600bn of debt in the markets in one go. In addition, though we all know now that there has been a material rise in interest rates, back then, it would have been a bet.\n\nIn short, they say, they could not have done the transaction that would have \"saved £11bn\", and with the benefit of hindsight they might also have put money into gas futures or the used car market and \"saved\" many tens of billions more.\n\nBut the wider point does raise questions about missed opportunities. And as we enter a new era of rising interest rates, and the reversal of QE, or Quantitative Tightening, many of the fuzzy accounting questions over government debts could have a rather material impact on the economic numbers.\n\nGerard Lyons, the former chief economic adviser to Boris Johnson when the prime minister was Mayor of London, tweeted that the issue was \"all too predictable\".\n\nDr Lyons, now a senior fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank, said the \"UK should've locked into low rates, borrowing more longer dated debt and not over reliance on QE to fund the deficit\".\n\nBut Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Gordon, tweeted that the \"£11bn 'cost' should really be set against the £120bn 'benefit' that the QE process has so far yielded for the Exchequer\".\n\n\"To be fair to NIESR in their paper of last year they do acknowledge this - but this seems to have been drowned out today.\"\n\nLabour's shadow treasury minister Tulip Siddiq said: \"These are astronomical sums for the chancellor to lose, and leaves working people picking up the cheque for his severe wastefulness while he hikes their taxes in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"This government has played fast and loose with taxpayers' money. Britain deserves a government that respects public money and delivers for people across the country.\"", "Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBritons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Brahim Saaudun are accused of being mercenaries, Russian state media says.\n\nThe court, which is not internationally recognised, is in the pro-Russian so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThe UK and Ukraine have condemned the sentences for violating international laws protecting prisoners of war.\n\nThe Britons' families have insisted they are long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not mercenaries.\n\nThe men's lawyer said they all wished to appeal against the sentence, Russia's Tass news agency reports.\n\nAll three men were charged with being mercenaries, the violent seizure of power and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities, RIA Novosti said.\n\nThe UK government is \"deeply concerned\" over the death sentences given to Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner and was continuing to work with Ukraine to secure both men's release, Downing Street has said.\n\nA spokesman added that prisoners of war \"shouldn't be exploited for political purposes\" and pointed to the laws of war laid out in the Geneva Conventions - which confers \"combatant immunity\" on prisoners of war.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss condemned the sentencing and described it as a \"sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the families. We continue to do everything we can to support them.\"\n\nBoth the Foreign Office and Downing Street said they would do what they could to support the two Britons' release.\n\nLiz Truss is expected to discuss the situation with her Ukrainian counterpart on the telephone tomorrow.\n\nBut it is difficult to see what diplomatic pressure could meaningfully be brought to bear.\n\nSome officials fear that if London were to escalate this into a bilateral dispute with Moscow - rather than leave it to Kyiv - that could fuel the false Russian claims that the two Britons were mercenaries.\n\nIt is possible the two men could be released as part of a prisoner swap.\n\nBut previous discussions about that did not make any progress.\n\nBBC Ukraine correspondent Joe Inwood, who is monitoring events from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, said the men, all dressed in black, had stood in a cage in the separatist courtroom listening intently as their sentences were read out.\n\nMr Aslin and Mr Pinner had stood motionless with their heads bowed. In between them, Mr Brahim rocked nervously from side to side.\n\nChair of the panel of judges Alexander Nikulin is quoted by the Russian-state Interfax agency as saying: \"In passing the verdict the court was guided by not only the prescribed norms and rules, but the main, inviolable principle of justice.\"\n\nMr Aslin, 28, from Newark, in Nottinghamshire, and Mr Pinner, 48, from Bedfordshire, were captured by Russian forces in April. Their families say they were fighting in the Ukrainian military.\n\nThe younger man has a Ukrainian fiancee and both men are said to have lived in Ukraine since 2018.\n\nMr Aslin's MP, Robert Jenrick, called for the Russian Ambassador to the UK to be summoned to the Foreign Office to \"account for this egregious breach\" of international law.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Ministry told the BBC that all foreign nationals fighting for Ukraine's military who are captured have rights as prisoners of war under international humanitarian law, and Russia was \"forbidden to abuse, intimidate them or behave inhumanely with them\".\n\nA spokesman described the \"so-called trial\" of all three men as \"miserable\", adding the government would \"continue to make every effort to release all defenders of Ukraine\".\n\n\"Such public trails place the interests of propaganda above law and morality, and undermine the exchange mechanisms of war prisoners,\" he said.\n\nChairman of the foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of carrying out \"a form of hostage taking, a form of revenge\".\n\nThe Conservative MP told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"It's not a state, it's not a court and the judges are merely people dressing up and pretending.\n\n\"The reality is this is an absolutely brutal thing to do to three completely innocent people.\"\n\nThe self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, was set up by pro-Russian separatists in 2014.\n\nIt is not clear whether any executions have taken place in the breakaway republic - or if there will actually be any attempt to execute the men, the BBC's international correspondent Orla Guerin said.\n\nShe explained there was little doubt DNR officials take their orders directly from Mr Putin and that the sentences appeared to be a tactic by the Kremlin to pressure and embarrass the British government over its military support for Ukraine.\n\nPrior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Putin announced that he was recognising the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, in a move condemned by Nato and Western countries.\n\nA month into its invasion, Russia scaled back its ambitions to capture Kyiv, and instead moved its focus to Donbas.\n\nIn Severodonetsk, a focal point of the war in in recent weeks, Ukrainian troops are engaged in intense street fighting with Russia in the battle for control of the city.", "A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has told the BBC that between 100 and 200 Ukrainian troops are being killed on the front line every day.\n\nMykhaylo Podolyak said Ukraine needed hundreds of Western artillery systems to level the playing field with Russia in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nHe also said Kyiv is not ready to resume peace talks with Moscow.\n\nUkrainian troops are under relentless bombardment as Russian forces attempt to take control of the whole of Donbas.\n\n\"The Russian forces have thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear at the front and that includes heavy artillery, multiple rocket launch systems and aviation,\" Mr Podolyak said.\n\nHe repeated Ukraine's appeal for more weapons from the West, saying that the \"complete lack of parity\" between the Russian and Ukrainian armies was the reason for Ukraine's heavy casualty rate.\n\n\"Our demands for artillery are not just some kind of whim... but an objective need when it comes to the situation on the battlefield,\" he said, adding that Ukraine needs 150 to 300 rocket launch systems to match Russia - a much higher number than it has received so far.\n\nMr Podolyak also said peace talks could only resume if Russia surrendered the territory it had gained since it invaded on 24 February.\n\nUkraine says Russia has reduced the city of Severodonetsk to rubble\n\nMr Podolyak's suggestion that 100 to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are dying each day is higher than previous estimates. On Thursday, Ukraine's Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said Ukraine was losing 100 soldiers a day, and 500 more were injured.\n\nThe differing casualty figures are a sign of how difficult it is to get precise information from the battlefield.\n\nDespite the heavy losses, Mr Reznikov claimed that a high number of Russian soldiers are also being killed.\n\n\"The Kremlin continues to press by sheer mass, stumbles, faces strong rebuffs and suffers huge casualties,\" Mr Reznikov said. \"But yet still has forces to advance in some parts of the front.\"\n\nSimilarly, Luhansk regional governor Sergei Gaidai said Russians were \"dying like flies\" but echoed Mr Podolyak's claim that Ukraine is facing difficulties with a \"catastrophic\" lack of artillery.\n\nRussian forces have concentrated their assault on the city of Severodonetsk. On Wednesday Mr Zelensky said \"the fate of the Donbas is being decided there\" and officials said it has been reduced to rubble by intense Russian artillery and missile barrages.\n\nIn addition to the frontline fighting, two Britons and a Moroccan man who fought for Ukraine's armed forces were sentenced to death on Thursday by an unrecognised court in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThey were found guilty of being mercenaries and of \"taking action towards the violent seizure of power\".", "Birds nesting on a tipping bucket have delayed the opening of Aberavon's Aquasplash water park\n\nA water park can finally open after nesting herring gulls abandoned a nest on a water feature.\n\nWildlife laws protect the birds, which meant Neath Port Talbot Council could not disturb them when they nested at Aqua Splash on Aberavon beach.\n\nThe nest was on a bucket which tips when water levels reach a certain point, and turning the water on could have washed the nest away.\n\nThe council said it believed the eggs were the victims of predators.\n\nThe nest was cleared from the site after council officers who had been monitoring the nest discovered the birds were missing.\n\nThey found a damaged egg which had rolled out of the nest, supporting their theory that the parents gulls may have abandoned the nest after the eggs were eaten by other gulls.\n\nAlthough the mother bird spends most of her time on the nest, the council said, it must occasionally leave to feed herself, leaving the nest vulnerable.\n\nThe council said herring gulls were protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981\n\n\"Sadly, as the nest was in such an exposed location when she left the nest to get food it would have been in a position to be easily predated by other gulls,\" a spokeswoman for the council's countryside and wildlife team said.\n\n\"Normally the nests would be in a corner of a roof or camouflaged amongst pebbles so as not to be visible.\n\n\"But as they chose to make the nest on a brightly coloured platform in the middle of the Aqua Splash - with no camouflage - it would be so easily have been spotted and grabbed by other gulls.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are sorry this has ended in this way but all was done as stipulated by law to ensure these gulls were left in peace while nesting but it appears the location of their nest was too exposed.\"\n\nThe council said the park's operators, Celtic Leisure, had disinfected the bucket.\n\nProvided water quality testing was satisfactory, the council said the park would open to the public \"in the near future\".\n\nHerring gulls are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.", "Environmental project and magazine Little Green Space tweeted the area was \"mowed into lifeless 'neat & tidy'\"\n\nA row has broken out between naturalist Chris Packham and a council after an area of wildflowers was cut down.\n\nThe TV presenter criticised Derbyshire Dales District Council on Twitter for mowing an area near Matlock's Arc Leisure Centre.\n\nHe said the issue highlighted by not-for-profit group Little Green Space in a tweet was \"maddening\".\n\nThe council said it did mow part of the site but other areas were left for pollinators.\n\nThe social media row began when Little Green Space tweeted on 1 June that it had wanted to praise the council for letting a \"beautiful meadow grow on a steep slope at Matlock's leisure centre\".\n\nThe group said that on 31 May, there were \"at least eight wildflower species\" with bumblebees and swifts overhead but by 1 June, they had all gone and it was \"mowed into lifeless 'neat & tidy'\".\n\nChris Packham said there was a \"biodiversity crisis\"\n\nIn response, Chris Packham said: \"This is maddening! When will we learn? Who is responsible and why has this happened?\n\n\"There is a biodiversity crisis and we are all getting sick of excuses for this sort of vandalism.\"\n\nOn Twitter, the council said the area was not usually a wildflower meadow.\n\nIt added the only reason flowers had bloomed there was because it stopped mowing it as part of No Mow May, a project to encourage gardeners to let their lawns grow wild last month.\n\nThe authority said: \"As was always the plan, we mowed part of the area at the start of June, but left other parts uncut to provide continuity for the pollinators.\n\n\"We know that local people have been using this space as a picnic area, particularly during the pandemic... which was why we cut the central space - but we have given a commitment to monitor its usage this summer to guide us on the possibility of extending #NoMowMay next year.\"\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council said other areas around the leisure centre had been left for pollinators\n\nIn a lengthy reply, the authority said it felt it had taken a \"bit of a battering on social media\" and accused Chris Packham of \"piling in\" on the issue.\n\nThe council said: \"When national groups with a huge social media following decide to knock you down you really are on a hiding to nothing, but we believe that local people will understand what we have been trying to do with this piece of land.\"\n\nBut Mr Packham said on Thursday the council should \"break the mould and be accountable for your mistake\".\n\nIn a further tweet, he said: \"Just tell us why you destroyed this meadow.\n\n\"Just why you sanctioned its destruction, or neglected to protect it... simple question so 'pile in' with an answer.\"\n\nThe council said it welcomed \"constructive advice and encouragement\" and invited the Springwatch presenter to visit them.\n\nAdmin of the Little Green Space Twitter account, Richard Bunting, has written a letter to the authority urging its teams to leave grass uncut until August.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I went down to the leisure centre and was hugely impressed by the beautiful wildflower meadow.\n\n\"There were so many bumblebees and it was full of life. I was going to praise the council but when I went down the next day it was all gone.\n\n\"I see no reason why it couldn't have been left until the summer - the meadow was something they should be proud to display.\n\n\"My tweet wasn't to criticise the council, it was an expression of sadness that the meadow was gone. I'm puzzled at how the council has handled the situation.\n\n\"I think the council are making some positive steps to promote biodiversity, but it's too little and too slow.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thursday's primetime special was the first of several public hearings planned by the 6 January committee.\n\nWe asked our panel of American voters what they learned from the hearing and if they plan to keep watching.\n\n\"I would have liked to see more of a visual timeline of events and more of Bill Barr and Ivanka's testimony.\n\nI am still very pessimistic about changing anyone's mind. People are so polarised and stuck in their 'boxes'. I can't imagine this changing anything\".\n\n\"I will be watching future hearings. I do believe this hearing has missed the mark on intentionality. The tone and basis of the questions need to be altered.\n\nThere needs to be more connection between the storming and its relationship to Trump, the intentions, the timeline, the planning\".\n\n\"I don't think it was as hard-hitting as they would have liked, although the invoking of some very emotional material may have caught the attention of some Americans.\n\nI will probably continue to watch. I want to see how this truly could've caused a coup or hurt our democracy. The committee needs to reformat though\".\n\n\"It’s yet too early to tell if the hearings will change any minds out there. What I learned is how the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys planned the attack in advance and scouted the place before hand.\n\nI would love to understand some key findings by the committee, so I will definitely watch again\".\n\n\"Boring. In a nutshell, I have better things to do than waste my time watching [future hearings].\n\nI didn't learn anything new and this hearing will not change anyone's minds. The only people watching it were partisan Democrats hoping to draw attention away from Biden and the Democrats' massive policy failures of the past 18 months that have our country in the pits\".", "Emergency services launched an extensive search after the capsizing was reported\n\nPolice searching for two disabled people missing since a boat capsized on a lake have found two bodies.\n\nThe boat capsized on Roadford Lake, near Okehampton, Devon, at lunchtime on Wednesday.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said they located and recovered the bodies during a \"large-scale search\".\n\nOne of the four people rescued from the boat is in hospital in a critical condition. Formal identification of the bodies is yet to take place.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) previously said \"two disabled persons\" were \"unaccounted for\".\n\nAll of those on the boat, which has been secured by police, were adults and believed to be local to Devon.\n\nPolice said they are supporting the families of all those involved.\n\nCh Supt Dan Evans said: \"This is an extremely distressing incident and our thoughts are with all of those involved and their loved ones, who we are working closely with to offer help and support wherever we can.\"\n\nFire crews were involved in the search, which was launched on Wednesday\n\nThe major search operation involved coastguard, fire and ambulance crews using specialist equipment. Drones and helicopters were also deployed.\n\nNo other boats were involved in the incident, and the MAIB said it has opened an investigation into the \"capsize of a motor vessel\".\n\nThe South West Lakes Trust said on its website the activity centre at the lake had been closed until further notice.\n\nThe 730 acre (1.9 square mile) lake has been a reservoir since 1989 and supplies water to Plymouth and other parts of south Devon, according to Visit Dartmoor.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Panitzke was arrested by police and HMRC officers in February\n\nA fraudster who became the UK's most wanted woman after fleeing to Spain while on trial for money laundering has been jailed for eight years.\n\nSarah Panitzke, 48, from York, went missing in 2013 while on trial for her part in a £1bn mobile phone tax scam.\n\nShe spent nine years on the run before being arrested while dog walking in Santa Barbara, Tarragona, in February.\n\nPanitzke appeared at Kingston Crown Court in London after being extradited back to the UK.\n\nShe had initially been charged with conspiracy to acquire criminal property in relation to her role in a multimillion-pound VAT fraud in 2010, and was found guilty in her absence in 2013.\n\nPanitzke was sentenced to eight years in her absence, which Friday's judge, Sarah Plaschkes QC, said should start immediately after her appearance in court.\n\nShe was arrested while walking her dogs in Santa Barbara, Tarragona\n\nThe judge recapped to the court the sentence handed down in 2013, before adding: \"That sentence will start today now that you have been extradited to this country.\"\n\nPanitzke, who was part of a scheme which laundered cash through offshore accounts, was told she would spend at least four years behind bars before she was eligible for parole.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Sarah Panitzke was detained in Spain\n\nA £2.4m confiscation order was also made against her in 2016.\n\nShe was given three months to pay the full amount or face an additional nine years in prison.\n\nNo money has ever been paid against this, leaving the amount including interest, standing at £3.4m in May 2022.\n\nInterest continues to accrue at a rate of £538 a day.\n\nNational Crime Agency international deputy director Tom Dowdall said Pantizke had been on their most wanted list for a decade and her jailing was the result of \"years of hard work\".\n\nSimon York, director of the HMRC fraud investigation service, said: \"Panitzke thought she had put herself outside of the reach of HMRC, but through our work with UK law enforcement and international partners we have tracked down another tax fugitive.\n\n\"No tax criminal is beyond our reach.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old was extradited and appeared in court on Friday\n\nA HMRC spokesman said Panitzke played a \"pivotal role\" in the fraud and laundered \"extraordinary volumes\" of stolen money through offshore bank accounts.\n\nThey said Panitzke and her 17 co-conspirators were given sentences totalling 135 years for the fraud.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nMultiple major winners Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson are in the same group at Centurion Club on Thursday The PGA Tour has suspended all of its members who are playing in this week's Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational. The tournament, being held at Centurion Club near London, is the most lucrative in the history of the game with a $25m (£20m) prize fund. Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson is among the biggest names to be affected. LIV Golf issued an immediate reply calling the PGA Tour \"vindictive\" and said this \"deepens the divide between the Tour and its members\". The statement added: \"It's troubling that the Tour, an organisation dedicated to creating opportunities for golfers to play the game, is the entity blocking golfers from playing. \"This certainly is not the last word on this topic. The era of free agency is beginning as we are proud to have a full field of players joining us in London, and beyond.\" The PGA Tour released its statement 30 minutes after play had begun at Centurion, where 48 players are competing in the first of eight planned LIV Golf invitational events. Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas, who are both playing at the PGA Tour's Canadian Open this week, welcomed the ruling. \"Anybody that's shocked clearly hasn't been listening,\" two-time major winner Thomas said. \"They took that risk going into it, whether they thought it was a risk or not. \"I have great belief and great confidence in the PGA Tour and where we're going and continuing to grow to, and those guys just aren't going to be a part of it.\" Thomas added: \"They're obviously throwing so much money at people that it's very hard to turn down. \"It doesn't matter who you are or what it is, everything has a number. They're reaching that number for some people and I hope that they don't get others. \"But I think a very strong core group of us is very stable and firm in our position, and I hope that it stays that way.\" Northern Ireland's McIlroy said: \"I think it's the right thing because these guys have broken rules and done things outside of the tournament regulations, and because of that there are going to be consequences, I guess.\" England's Ian Poulter, playing at the LIV event this week, said he would appeal the decision from the PGA Tour: \"It's a shame if they view this as something. \"When you feel you haven't done anything wrong and want to promote the game of golf, it would be incredibly disappointing if it turns out that way. \"I will appeal for sure. It makes no sense. Having two Tour cards and the ability to play golf all over the world, what's wrong with that?\" Graeme McDowell said he'd resigned from the PGA Tour \"30 minutes before I teed it up\" at the LIV event on Thursday. \"It was a difficult decision but it puts me into a less litigious situation,\" he said. \"I didn't want to resign, the PGA Tour has been great. This is about wanting to add on additional tournaments to my golf career.\" Speaking after playing on Thursday, Mickelson said: \"As I said in my press conference yesterday, any PGA Tour matters I'm not going to discuss publicly.\" Former world number one Greg Norman is the chief executive of LIV Golf, which has £1.6bn of funding from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The first seven events all have the same $25m prize fund, with the winner collecting $4m, while a team element will see the top three teams share $5m. The eighth event is a $50m team championship and will be played in October at Trump Doral in Miami. The PGA Tour had refused requests for waivers from its members wanting to play in the new series and had threatened to ban those that rebelled. This decision affects 17 players, including lifetime member Mickelson and his fellow American Dustin Johnson, who announced on Tuesday that he had resigned from the Tour. Mickelson did not deny that he had been given $200m to play in the series, while Johnson is reported to be getting $150m. Crucially, the PGA Tour has closed a loophole that would potentially have allowed players who have resigned from the tour to play events via sponsors exemptions. Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood, have, like Johnson, already resigned and will all be affected by that ruling. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said, in the statement that was issued to all members of the tour: \"In accordance with the PGA Tour's tournament regulations, the players competing this week without releases are suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA Tour tournament play, including the Presidents Cup. \"The same fate holds true for any other players who participate in future Saudi Golf League events in violation of our regulations. \"These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons. \"But they can't demand the same PGA Tour membership benefits, considerations, opportunities and platform as you. That expectation disrespects you, our fans and our partners.\" The players will be removed from the FedEx Cup points list following the end of the Canadian Open on Sunday. The European-based DP World Tour, when contacted by BBC Sport, declined to comment.\n• None Is food as addictive as drugs? Explore the latest evidence underpinning the scientific basis for overeating\n• None Joe Wicks and Russell Brand discuss fatherhood and going grey", "Access to abortion has been available in Northern Ireland since April 2020\n\nThe Western Trust is to recommence its early abortion services as early as July, BBC Radio Foyle understands.\n\nIt is also understood the trust has now appointed a new consultant to support the nurse-led service.\n\nThe Western Trust suspended its early abortion services in April 2021 due to \"staffing resourcing issues\".\n\nAbortion laws in Northern Ireland changed in 2020 after the UK government acted during the absence of a functioning Stormont assembly.\n\nBut services are largely limited to early medical terminations up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThose seeking abortion services not yet provided by health trusts in Northern Ireland can access services in Great Britain through arrangements funded by the Department of Health.\n\nLast month, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis instructed the Department of Health to begin the process of setting up a fully-funded abortion service for Northern Ireland.\n\nAbortion is a devolved matter but commissioning a service has been held up due to political deadlock\n\nIn April 2021, the Western Trust announced it was suspending its interim early medical abortion services as the system was \"no longer sustainable\".\n\nIt was described at the time by the trust as a \"temporary pause\" in the service.\n\nThe trust said it needed additional nursing and medical support in order to deliver the service, and that it was exploring options to resolve the issue.\n\nThe guidance on the Western Trust website for women since the suspension of services has been to contact the British Pregnancy Advisory Service if they were less than 10 weeks pregnant.\n\nIf more than 10 weeks pregnant, the Western Trust website provided guidance on seeking free abortion care in England.\n\nThe pro-choice group Alliance for Choice Derry has said since the early medical abortion service has been suspended at the trust, one person a week has contacted it for support.\n\n\"There is a lot of stress, a lot of fear, a lot of panic and it's really sad to see,\" Bethany Moore from the group said.\n\n\"We have people contacting us and saying things like: 'I thought this was all sorted and I was able to get this at home' and a lot of questions about whether they have to travel to England.\"\n\nHowever, anti-abortion group Both Lives Matter said it had \"grave concerns\" over access to abortion services in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpokeswoman Marion Woods said it was hypocritical to fund abortion services when \"there is no money there to enable women to continue with their pregnancy and then see what other options there are\".\n\nServices had been introduced in Northern Ireland, she said, \"by a bad law brought about by a bad process\".\n\nSinead McLaughlin, SDLP assembly member for Foyle, said she was disappointed it had taken so long.\n\n\"It's welcome news certainly that appointments have been made and the appropriate nurse-led service will be put in place, but my disappointment is it's taken so long,\" she said.\n\n\"When it was first paused back in April 2021 it was thought it would be paused for a couple of months.\n\n\"Now we see 14 months later that this really important women's reproductive healthcare provision has not been available to women in the Western Trust.\n\n\"That covers women right through from Enniskillen to Derry and beyond.\"\n\nThe Western Trust has apologised for the suspension of the service\n\nA spokesperson for the Western Trust said the service was paused in April 2021 due to \"staff resourcing issues\".\n\n\"In the interim, from 1 April 2022, this service has been available to anyone in the Western Trust area via our neighbouring Health and Social Care Trusts,\" they said.\n\n\"The trust is currently working to recommence the early medical abortion clinic within the next number of months in accordance with the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020.\n\n\"And have recruited to a number of vacancies to support the service going forward.\n\n\"We apologise that this service has not been in place within the Western Trust for the past year.\"\n\nThey added that the trust continues to work collaboratively with the necessary stakeholders to \"get this service in place with the appropriate support as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Department of Health said the Western Trust is \"currently finalising plans to restore its early medical abortion service in the coming months\".", "The Geico Gecko is the firm's well-known mascot\n\nA woman may be in for a $5.2m (£4.2m) payout after she allegedly contracted a sexually transmitted infection while having sex in a car.\n\nThe US woman, identified in court files as 'MO', said she caught the human papillomavirus (HPV) from having sex with her then-partner in his car.\n\nThis week, the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a judgment that awarded MO a hefty settlement - to be paid by Geico, which insured the vehicle.\n\nAccording to court documents, MO said she learned she was infected with HPV in 2018, and claimed her former partner knew he had virus but did not disclose his condition, leaving her with \"past and future medical expenses\" and \"mental and physical pain and suffering\".\n\nIn February 2021, the Jackson County woman told Geico, known in the US for its popular green gecko mascot, that she intended to seek damages of $1m following the sexual interaction in her then-partner's Hyundai Genesis, asserting that the insurance firm's policy covered her injuries.\n\nThe insurance company denied coverage and refused her settlement offer, court documents show.\n\nMO and her former partner entered arbitration. The arbitrator sided with MO.\n\nThe arbitrator determined \"there was sexual activity in [insured's] automobile\" that \"directly caused, or directly contributed to cause\" the woman to be infected with HPV, despite the man's existing knowledge of his positive HPV diagnosis.\n\nHPV infections can often be asymptomatic, although some types can cause warts that may appear on a person's hand, foot, genitals or inside the mouth. High-risk types of HPV can cause abnormal tissue growth which can lead to cancers.\n\nIn May 2021, the arbitrator awarded MO $5.2m in damages, to be paid by Geico. Jackson County Circuit Court later confirmed the award.\n\nGeico appealed the judgement. But on Tuesday, a three-judge panel confirmed the lower court's ruling and said the insurance company failed to defend its own interests by entering a defense of the insured man.\n\n\"Geico did not take advantage of this opportunity, and instead denied coverage and refused to defend Insured,\" the opinion said.\n\nIn a statement to CBS MoneyWatch the US automobile insurance company said: \"The question of whether there is coverage for this will be determined\", by a federal lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri.", "The 2021 winner, Hannah Lowe, was chosen from these books from five categories\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, the only major prize open solely to authors living in the UK and Ireland, are to end after 50 years, organisers say.\n\nCosta Coffee said it had taken the \"difficult decision\" to end its sponsorship of the literary prize, which gave awards in five categories.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Costa Coffee to ask why the awards have ended.\n\nThe prize has previously given £30,000 to its main winner, while its category winners - for first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children's book - would each win £5,000.\n\nThe ceremony held earlier this year in February was its last - it was celebrating the winners of the 2021 prize, which had been delayed by Covid.\n\nThe prize was established in 1971, and was called the Whitbread Book Awards up until 2006, when Costa took over.\n\nThe organisers said: \"After 50 years of celebrating some of the most enjoyable books written by hugely talented authors from across the UK and Ireland, Costa Coffee has taken the difficult decision to end the awards.\n\n\"We are incredibly proud to have played a part in supporting some of the best-selling authors of the last 50 years, as well as trail-blazing diverse and fresh voices, tackling a broad range of themes and ideas,\" they added.\n\n\"We are honoured to have helped both these new and established talents reach a wider audience of readers.\"\n\nHannah Lowe was named 2021's winner at a ceremony in London\n\nAuthor Kate Mosse, whose books include best-seller Labyrinth, called the announcement \"such sad news\" while former judge Sarah Turner added she was \"so sad to see it ending as I have made some brilliant book/author discoveries over the last few years thanks to it\".\n\nWriter Louise Doughty, a former Costa and Booker Prize judge, said being shortlisted in 2010 for her novel Whatever You Love had been \"transformative\" for her career.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Louise Doughty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAuthor Damian Barr described the news as \"a shame\", saying: \"Oh no! I was a judge this year - all the category judges and your team did such great work. The prizes have done so much to get so many books to so many people. Is this decision final? What a shame!\"\n\nScience fiction and romantic comedy writer Jenny Colgan said: \"Oh that is such rotten news about the Costa Book Awards responsible for some of the best beloved books of the last 20 years.\"", "Russian President Vladimir Putin says the West will not be able to cut itself off from Russian oil and gas for several years.\n\nHe added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be \"concreting over their oil-wells\".\n\nIt comes as a US official admitted that Russian profits on energy may be higher now than they were before the war.\n\nThe EU currently imports around 40% of its gas from Russia.\n\nThe bloc has pledged to reduce its dependency on Russian oil by 90% by the end of 2022, but so far has not made any commitments on gas.\n\nThe US has placed an embargo on all Russian energy products. The restrictions on Russian energy are designed to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine.\n\nBut rising global oil and gas prices mean that Russian profits could have risen in recent months, despite a reduction in the overall supply.\n\n\"The volume of oil is decreasing on the world market, prices are rising,\" President Putin told a group of young entrepreneurs.\n\nThat idea was echoed on Thursday by US energy security envoy Amos Hochstein.\n\nAsked at a Senate hearing if Russia could be earning more now from fossil fuels than it was before the war, Mr Hochman replied \"I can't deny that\".\n\nThursday marked the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great's birth\n\nThe Russian president was speaking on Thursday after attending an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Russian monarch Peter the Great.\n\nThe 18th Century ruler fought a long territorial war against Sweden, which Putin appeared to compare to his invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"You get the impression that by fighting Sweden he was grabbing something. He wasn't taking anything, he was taking it back,\" he told his young audience.\n\n\"It is our responsibility also to take back and strengthen,\" he said, in an apparent reference to Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Julee Cruise said it was \"so much fun\" to be part of Twin Peaks' success\n\nTwin Peaks creator David Lynch has paid tribute to Julee Cruise, who recorded the TV show's haunting theme, as \"a great musician, a great singer and a great human being\".\n\nCruise sang Falling from Lynch's 1990 drama, with the song reaching the top 10 in the UK singles chart.\n\nShe also performed on the soundtrack to his 1986 film Blue Velvet.\n\nCruise's husband Edward Grinnan earlier wrote on Facebook that the 65-year-old had \"left this realm on her own terms\".\n\nMusicians paying tribute included singer-songwriter John Grant, who said she was \"one of the greatest\".\n\nIn his tribute on YouTube, Lynch said: \"I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away. Very sad news. So it might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made and remember her as being a great musician, a great singer and a great human being.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DAVID LYNCH THEATER This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCruise first collaborated with Lynch after working as a talent scout for composer Angelo Badalamenti, who had been asked to work on the song Mysteries of Love for the Blue Velvet soundtrack.\n\nCruise struggled to find a suitably ethereal vocalist, so decided to have a go at singing the track herself.\n\n\"I actually never sang in that trademark 'Julee Cruise voice' before I worked with Angelo and David,\" she told The Guardian in 2017. \"I was always a real belter, lots of power. Working with them changed me.\"\n\nCruise with director David Lynch (left) and composer Angelo Badalamenti in 1989\n\nThe trio worked together on the 1989 album Floating into the Night, with Lynch writing the lyrics and Badalamenti composing the music. The LP included Falling and other songs that would go on to feature in Twin Peaks the following year.\n\nCruise also had a small role in the series, and in the 1992 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and the 2017 revival Twin Peaks: The Return.\n\n\"It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!\" she told the Los Angeles Times in 2017. \"You didn't know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on.\"\n\nCruise recorded a second solo album, The Voice of Love, with Lynch and Badalamenti in 1993, and Lynch directed her in an avant-garde one-hour concert film, Industrial Symphony No 1, in 1990.\n\nBeyond those collaborations, she also toured with the B-52s, filling in for Cindy Wilson in the 1990s, and performed with Bobby McFerrin.\n\nEdward Grinnan wrote on Facebook: \"She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace.\n\n\"Having had such a varied music career she often said that the time she spent as a B, filling in for Cindy while she was having a family was the happiest time of her performing life.\"\n\nMany other musicians paid tribute to her on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chrystabell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by DJ Yoda 🎧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on housing benefit changes: \"It's time to turn benefits to bricks.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to allow benefits to be put towards mortgages in England, as he sought to relaunch his premiership.\n\nHe made the \"benefits-to-bricks\" pledge in his first big speech since surviving a bid to oust him by Tory MPs.\n\nSpeaking in Blackpool, he also vowed to extend a scheme to allow social tenants to buy their homes.\n\nBut critics say the proposals are unworkable and would make the housing crisis worse.\n\nIn Monday's confidence vote on Mr Johnson's leadership, four in 10 Tory MPs backed getting rid of him, amid anger over widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nThere is also disquiet among Conservatives over the government's decision to raise National Insurance, while the cost of living is soaring and the public finances have been battered by the expense of dealing with Covid.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech aimed at demonstrating he has not run out of ideas and is focused on issues that most matter to voters, Mr Johnson promised more help \"over the next few weeks\" to deal with 40-year-high inflation driven by energy price rises.\n\n\"Global headwinds are strong... but our engines are stronger,\" said Mr Johnson, adding that \"we are on your side\" in cutting the cost of fuel, childcare, transport and other living expenses.\n\n\"And, while it's not going to be quick or easy, you can be confident that things will get better, that we will emerge from this a strong country with a healthy economy,\" the prime minister told the audience at Blackpool and The Fylde College.\n\nHe said \"economic growth\" was the answer and he hoped tax cuts - which have been demanded by some Tory MPs - would come \"sooner rather than later\".\n\nMr Johnson restated the government's commitment to extending a home-buying scheme, known as right to buy, to housing association tenants.\n\nHe said he wanted to extend it \"within existing spending plans\" and ensure a \"one-for-one replacement\" of each home sold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says PM's new housing policy is the \"wrong approach\"\n\nThe prime minister also said universal credit recipients would get to choose whether to spend their benefits on rent or put them towards a mortgage.\n\nThe government will explore discounting Lifetime ISA and Help to Buy ISA savings from Universal Credit eligibility rules, Mr Johnson said.\n\nCurrently, claimants are only eligible for universal credit if they have savings below £16,000, and Lifetime ISAs are included in this limit.\n\nChanging these policies would \"help millions realise the dream of home ownership\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nHousing benefits, which help low-income or unemployed people pay their rent, cost the government around £30bn a year, much of which goes to private landlords. A person is not usually eligible for the payments if they have a mortgage.\n\nThis speech was in the diary before the confidence vote on Monday but it nevertheless became a chance to try and reset Boris Johnson's premiership.\n\nThis was a prime minister who wanted to talk political plans - not personal problems.\n\nMr Johnson wants to focus on ways to help households with costs - but there are big questions about how and when the policies announced today will be delivered.\n\nThis won't be an overnight equivalent of Thatcher's council house scheme.\n\nThe PM also failed to commit to the pledge to build 300,000 houses a year in England by 2025 - something which was in the 2019 Conservative general election manifesto.\n\nIt's looked increasingly unlikely since the government dropped plans to reform the planning system in England to make it easier for developers to win approval.\n\nA reminder perhaps that housing pledges can often be easier in theory than in practice.\n\nAbout two million council homes in England have been sold under right to buy since 1980\n\nLabour's shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy questioned whether people on benefits could afford mortgage deposits, saying: \"This speech was yet more evidence that the prime minister and his tired government are out of ideas.\n\n\"You can't solve a housing crisis with back-of-the-envelope policies that have no realistic chance of success.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"Boris Johnson has lost the confidence of his party, Parliament and the country. The desperate attempt to relaunch his leadership today will do nothing to win it back.\"\n\nIt's not entirely clear how the government's right-to-buy policy is going to work:\n\nCouncil tenants in England have been able to buy their homes at a discount since 1980, when Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher introduced the policy.\n\nBut the same is not true for people renting from housing associations, unless their property was once owned by a local authority and they lived in it during this period.\n\nExtending the right to buy would \"put our rapidly shrinking supply of social homes at even greater risk,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge posed for photos with tourists, members of the public and a taxi driver\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has been spotted in central London quietly helping to sell Big Issue magazines.\n\nRetired Met Police Ch Supt Matthew Gardner shared photos of Prince William on Rochester Row, in Westminster, on his social media account.\n\nHe said his brother-in-law, Richard Hannant, had seen what he thought was a celebrity and took a distanced photo.\n\nPrince William then crossed the road and spoke to Mr Hannant while wearing the iconic Big Issue uniform.\n\nThe magazine is sold by homeless people, long-term unemployed people, and those who need money to avoid getting into debt, the Big Issue says.\n\nVendors are given five free magazines, which are then sold to the public for £3, with additional copies bought for £1.50.\n\nRichard Hannant was surprised Prince William was spotted just days after celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\n\nMr Hannant, a property manager, has since said he was on his way back to the office when he spotted the royal among a small group of people in the street.\n\nThe 47-year-old, who lives in Bath but works in London, said: \"He was amazing, he was so friendly.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think what struck me is we've just got past a massive Jubilee event and days later he's out there supporting a charity like Big Issue.\n\n\"I think it's that that I thought was most amazing because one is a worldwide event, this is just a low-key [event], literally standing on the side of the road with a homeless person.\n\n\"I was quite amazed that he could go from one massive event to such a low-key thing.\"\n\nLaura Zuikauskas had spent the weekend in London for the Jubilee\n\nIn his social media post, Mr Gardner wrote alongside the photo of his brother-in-law and the prince: \"What an honour to have a private moment with our future king who was humble and working quietly in the background, helping the most needy.\n\n\"These 'silent gestures' often go unrecognised.\n\n\"The finale to this unique occasion was when Prince William asked my brother-in-law If he wanted to buy the Big Issue, to which he replied 'I have no change'.\n\n\"At this point William produced a mobile card machine… you cannot teach that!\n\n\"Priceless, or should I say, 'princely'.\"\n\nLithuanian tourists Vitalijus and Laura Zuikauskas also met the prince on their visit to London to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\n\"We bought the magazine and had a warm chat,\" said Mr Zuikauskas. \"We wished him good luck and shook hands, and were excited that the Royal Family take big care of ordinary people.\"\n\nHe added the future king had a \"warm personality\" and they were \"excited and really happy\" to meet him.\n\nAnother social media post by black cab driver Neil Kramer also showed Prince William in the uniform posing for a photo with another Big Issue vendor.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said: \"I was charging up my taxi on Rochester Row in Westminster when I was approached by a vendor who introduced himself as William and asked would I like to buy a copy of the Big Issue.\n\n\"When I realised who it was, I was a bit shocked but of course said yes.\n\n\"He then introduced the other gentlemen with him and we had a lovely chat for 15 minutes about the charity and its work.\"\n\nMr Kramer said the prince asked him if he was a regular reader, to which he replied there was always an opportunity to buy the magazine when on a rank or charging up.\n\nRichard Hannant told Prince William they shared the same birthday, 21 June, to which the prince replied \"happy birthday\"\n\nHe added Prince William was engaging and polite, and that he never forgot his name.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have previously spoken of their involvement with charities close to their heart, often inspired by his mother, the late Princess Diana.\n\nIn 2014, he visited homeless charity Centrepoint, while in 2018 the couple went to The Passage homeless centre in Westminster.\n\nThe Big Issue has been approached for a comment.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many medical facilities in Mariupol have been destroyed\n\nThe Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, all but destroyed by weeks of shelling and now under Russian control, is at risk of a major cholera outbreak, the UK defence ministry says.\n\nMuch of the city's infrastructure is damaged or destroyed and water has mixed with sewage, according to the UN.\n\nCholera is usually caught by eating or drinking contaminated food or water and is closely linked to poor sanitation.\n\nUncollected dead bodies and rubbish add to the unsanitary conditions.\n\nThere have been outbreaks of the disease in Mariupol before, and isolated cases have been reported in the past month.\n\nThe city's Ukrainian mayor, Vadym Boychenko told BBC Ukrainian that \"cholera, dysentery and other infectious diseases are already in the city\", and that the city has been closed off to avoid a larger outbreak.\n\nThe claims cannot be verified by the BBC, and the Russian-appointed mayor says regular testing takes place and no cases of cholera have been recorded.\n\nUkraine's health ministry said it has limited access to information from Mariupol, but has conducted testing in Ukraine-held territory and not uncovered any cases.\n\nEarlier this week, the UN said that water had mixed with sewage in Mariupol, increasing the risk of a cholera outbreak. The Red Cross has warned that the destruction to sanitation infrastructure had set the ground for the spread of water-borne diseases.\n\nCholera can be a very serious illness. In the most severe cases, if left untreated, the disease can kill within hours.\n\nIt is caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae and people tend to catch it by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the bug.\n\nThe spread of cholera is closely linked to poor sanitation facilities and unsafe drinking water where the bug can thrive and spread.\n\nIt is a disease that often adds to the suffering in humanitarian crises - when there is disruption of water and sanitation supplies and people shelter in crowded spaces, with extra pressure on water systems.\n\nOnce infected, some people get watery diarrhoea and become severely dehydrated. This needs rapid treatment with fluids and antibiotics.\n\nOthers get mild to moderate symptoms and many with the disease do not have symptoms at all, but they can still carry the bug in their faeces.\n\nVaccines and improved sanitation can help get cholera outbreaks under control.\n\nIn addition, sanitary conditions in the city are said to be extremely poor, with piles of rubbish on the streets and bodies still lying under the rubble.\n\n\"Many corpses are lying on the ground and inside the buildings... bodies are rotting there. Lots of cockroaches, flies. A pile of dirt. Garbage that no one takes out,\" Kyiv resident Anastasiia Zolotarova, whose mother left Mariupol last week, told the BBC.\n\nMariupol fell into Russian hands in May after a brutal assault lasting nearly three months, which left the city in ruins.\n\nIn April, the Ukrainian mayor said more than 10,000 civilians had already died. The battle raged for several more weeks after that, suggesting the death toll could be far higher.\n\nMakeshift cemeteries have been built around the city to deal with the huge number of bodies, and many more are buried in back yards, parks and squares, according to Mr Boychenko.\n\nMany graves have been dug in residential areas\n\nEarlier this week, the Mariupol city council warned that a cholera outbreak could kill tens of thousands of people, listing a number of factors that could lead to an \"explosive\" epidemic, including a lack of medicine and medical facilities.\n\n\"They (the Russians) destroyed our infectious diseases hospital with all the equipment, killed the doctors,\" Mr Boychenko told the BBC.\n\nAnother Ukrainian Mariupol official recently claimed there was a \"catastrophic\" shortage of medics in the city, adding that the Russian-appointed authorities were trying to persuade retired doctors, even those over the age of 80, to return to work.\n\nBodies are said to still lie under the rubble\n\nBodies lying under piles of rubble and mountains of uncollected rubbish is not the image of Mariupol the Russian-appointed authorities want to portray.\n\nThey prefer to describe it as a city returning to normal life, posting pictures on social media of children returning to classrooms and lorries collecting rubbish.\n\nBut much of the city still lies in ruins, and an outbreak of cholera or any other infectious disease would be a further huge challenge for the estimated 100,000 people still living there after the horror of the last few months.", "Shevchenko says his mother has been able to leave Ukraine for Italy but his sister is still in Kyiv Image caption: Shevchenko says his mother has been able to leave Ukraine for Italy but his sister is still in Kyiv\n\nUkrainian football legend Andriy Shevchenko says President Volodymyr Zelensky is \"unbelievable\" and he is very proud of how his country and its people have been dealing with the war.\n\nShevchecnko, who played for teams including Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan and Chelsea, is Ukraine's record goalscorer and also managed the national team at last year's European Championship.\n\nHe said on a recent visit to Kyiv he had a \"very nice meeting with the president\", and they were positive they could defend their country and bring peace to Ukraine.\n\n\"At the most difficult time in our the history of Ukraine he has brought people together and sent a great message across the world,\" he tells BBC Radio 5 Live. \"Ukraine's people must not give up, we want our democracy we fight for our freedom and that's a massive message to everyone.\n\n\"I'm so proud how my country and the people united to stay strong and defend the country.\"\n\nThis weekend Shevchenko will play in Soccer Aid - an annual football match involving former players and celebrities. It raises money for Unicef and this year the charity says some of the money raised will go towards helping those impacted by the war.\n\n\"This event is going to help a lot of people in Ukraine,\" he says, \"especially kids, we're going to create a lot of great programmes to improve a lot of things for kids.\"\n\nShevchenko with President Zelensky at the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv last August Image caption: Shevchenko with President Zelensky at the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv last August", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvette Cooper recalls hiding from Tony Blair as he and his entourage passed by the train she was on\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper has revealed that she once hid from Tony Blair while she looked after her young child.\n\nThe shadow home secretary told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast that, in her early days in politics, women MPs had been reluctant to be seen \"juggling\" work and family duties.\n\nAs a result, she had feared not looking \"professional\" in front of the then PM, who was boarding a train she was on.\n\nMs Cooper had three children after entering Parliament in 1997, aged 28.\n\nAt the general election that year, won by Labour, the number of women MPs doubled to 120 - by 2019 the figure had risen to 220.\n\nMs Cooper, who represents Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, West Yorkshire, is married to Ed Balls, who was also a Labour MP until 2015 for neighbouring Morley and Outwood.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking host Nick Robinson, she said the late sitting hours in the House of Commons in her first few years made childcare difficult and that, as a young minister, she decided not to work on her red boxes - official papers - on weekday evenings.\n\n\"I would do them at weekends,\" she said, \"because you're expecting us to do all these papers late at night and I'm trying to put the kids to bed, to balance everything else.\"\n\nYou can listen to Nick Robinson's full interview with Yvette Cooper on at 17:30 BST on Saturday on BBC Radio 4. It will also be available on BBC Sounds and on the programme's own website.\n\nMs Cooper said she had told a journalist about the arrangement and, when it was reported, that \"a senior cabinet minister, who was very supportive, said, 'No, you shouldn't be saying this... People will think you're not doing the work.'\"\n\nAttitudes towards mothers in politics at the time were \"a bit mad\", she added, saying: \"And there was a sense that you should try and not talk about it too much, not admit that you were juggling so many different things.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Ms Cooper described the difficulties of combining her work in London and weekend visits to her constituency - more than 150 miles away - with family life.\n\n\"There was a real chaos to getting the kids to and fro each week,\" she said. \"We would go back every week on a Thursday, or Friday morning, and come back down on a Sunday evening.\"\n\n\"I would have that sense of 'I'm trying to pretend I'm a professional'. We had this one point where I was on the train - I was aiming to get off at Doncaster - and the whole Tony Blair prime ministerial entourage comes sweeping down the platform and I literally hid,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought, 'I've got small kids with me. I can't pretend to be a professional minister and also deal with the kids.'\n\n\"So I ducked, literally hid, as they all came down, so nobody would see me as they got on.\"\n\nInitially, Ms Cooper - who served as a minister during Mr Blair's time in power and rose to become work and pensions secretary under successor Gordon Brown - went unnoticed by her boss.\n\n\"I thought, 'It's OK. I'm on a different carriage. Nobody will notice,'\" she said. \"And then, just before I got off at Doncaster, I thought I've got to change a small child's nappy.\n\n\"Small child has a very different view of this and, while I'm halfway through nappy-changing, set off down the train without a nappy, ran straight past Tony Blair, [wife] Cherie and the whole entourage, with me then pelting after them to grab this child.\"\n\n\"We never mentioned it again,\" she added.\n\nThe Blairs also held political office while bringing up a family\n\nBut, despite their silence on the issue, the Blairs might have had some sympathy with the predicament of Ms Cooper, who returned to Labour's shadow cabinet last autumn after six years on the back benches.\n\nThe Blairs have four children, the youngest of whom, Leo, was born in 2000, while the family lived in Downing Street. Mr Blair's Sedgefield constituency, in County Durham, was further north than Ms Cooper's.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFather and son Roger and Bradley Stockton have been killed in a crash during racing at the Isle of Man TT, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe pair from Crewe both died as the result of the incident at Ago's Leap during the second lap of the second sidecar race on Friday.\n\nPassenger Bradley, 21, was a newcomer to the event, while his father Roger, 56, last competed at the TT in 2017.\n\nFive riders have now died at this year's event.\n\nIn a statement, organisers said it was \"with a deep sense of sorrow\" that they could confirm both racers were \"killed in an incident on the second and final lap of the second sidecar race\".\n\n\"The Isle of Man TT Races pass on their deepest sympathy to Roger and Bradley's families, loved ones, and friends,\" it added.\n\nThe pair secured an eighth-place finish in the first sidecar race of the 2022 event on Monday.\n\nFollowing the incident, organisers said the remainder of the day's racing had been called off due to deteriorating weather conditions.\n\nThe six-lap Senior TT will now be held at 11:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThree other competitors have died at the 2022 TT which returned after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSidecar driver Cesar Chanal died in a crash during lap one of the first sidecar race on Saturday, while Northern Ireland's Davy Morgan suffered fatal injuries in the Supersport race on Monday, and Welsh rider Mark Purslow was killed in qualifying last week.", "Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas\n\nWars ebb and flow. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is no exception.\n\nEarly fears of a swift conquest were succeeded by Russian retreat and Ukrainian resistance. That has now been met by a more focused Russian offensive in the east.\n\nBut 100 days on, where might this war go next?\n\nHere are five potential scenarios - they are not mutually exclusive, but all are within the bounds of plausibility.\n\nThe war might continue for months - if not years - as Russian and Ukrainian forces grind each other down.\n\nMomentum shifts to and fro as both sides make gains and losses. Neither side is willing to give up. Russia's President Putin judges he can gain by demonstrating strategic patience, gambling that Western countries will suffer from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and focus more on their economic crises and the threat from China.\n\nThe West, however, shows resolve and continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. Semi-permanent front lines are established. Steadily the war becomes a frozen conflict, a \"forever war\".\n\nMick Ryan, a retired Australian general and military scholar, says: \"There is little prospect of a crushing operational or strategic victory by either side in the short term. Neither belligerent has demonstrated the capacity to land a strategically decisive blow.\"\n\nWhat if President Putin were to surprise the world with a unilateral ceasefire? He could pocket his territorial gains and declare \"victory\".\n\nHe could claim his \"military operation\" was complete: Russian-backed separatists in Donbas protected; a land corridor to Crimea established. He could then seek the moral high ground, putting pressure on Ukraine to stop fighting.\n\n\"This is a ploy which could be used by Russia at any time, if it wants to capitalise on European pressure on Ukraine to surrender and give up territory in exchange for notional peace,\" says Keir Giles, Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank.\n\nRussia's President Putin may gamble on Western countries suffering from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and switching focus to their economies\n\nThe arguments are heard already in Paris, Berlin and Rome: no need to prolong the war, time to end the global economic pain, let's push for a ceasefire.\n\nThis, though, would be opposed by the US, the UK and much of eastern Europe, where policymakers believe Russia's invasion must fail, for the sake of Ukraine and the international order.\n\nSo a unilateral Russian ceasefire might change the narrative but not end the fighting.\n\nWhat if both Ukraine and Russia conclude they cannot achieve more militarily and enter talks for a political settlement?\n\nTheir armies are exhausted, running short of manpower and munitions. The price in blood and treasure no longer justifies further fighting. Russia's military and economic losses are not sustainable. The Ukrainian people tire of war, unwilling to risk more lives for an eternally elusive victory.\n\nWhat if the leadership in Kyiv - no longer trusting continued Western support - decide the time has come to talk? US President Joe Biden openly admits America's aim is for Ukraine to be \"in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table\".\n\nBut there may not be a battlefield stalemate for many months and any political settlement would be hard, not least because of Ukraine's lack of trust in Russia. A peace deal might not endure and could be followed by more fighting.\n\nCould Ukraine - against the odds - achieve something close to a victory? Could Ukraine force Russian troops to withdraw to where they were before the invasion?\n\n\"Ukraine will definitely win this war,\" the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky told Dutch TV this week.\n\nWhat if Russia fails to seize all Donbas and suffers more losses? Western sanctions hit Russia's war machine. Ukraine makes counter attacks, using its new long-range rockets, seizing back territory where Russian supply lines are stretched. Ukraine transforms its army from a defensive to an offensive force.\n\nThe US said it would supply Ukraine with weapons including medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)\n\nThis scenario is plausible enough for policymakers to worry already about its consequences. If Mr Putin were facing defeat, might he escalate, potentially using either chemical or nuclear weapons?\n\nThe historian Niall Ferguson told a seminar at Kings College, London recently: \"It seems unlikely to me that Putin is going to accept conventional military defeat when he has a nuclear option.\"\n\nAnd what of a possible Russian \"victory\"?\n\nWestern officials emphasise that Russia, despite early setbacks, still plans to seize the capital Kyiv and subjugate much of Ukraine. \"Those maximalist objectives remain in place,\" one official said.\n\nRussia could capitalise on its gains in Donbas, freeing up forces for use elsewhere, perhaps even targeting Kyiv once again. The sheer weight of Russian numbers come to bear. Ukrainian forces continue to suffer.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky met servicemen in the eastern Kharkiv region, where fighting has intensified\n\nPresident Zelensky already admits up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying and another 500 are wounded every day.\n\nThe people of Ukraine could divide, some wanting to fight on, others wanting to sue for peace. Some Western countries might tire of supporting Ukraine. But equally, if they thought Russia was winning, others might want to escalate.\n\nOne Western diplomat told me privately the West should test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific as a warning to Russia.\n\nThe future of this war is not yet written.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Plane carrying 35 tonnes of baby formula arrives in the United States\n\nUS firm Abbott says it is restarting production at a baby formula plant after its shutdown contributed to a national shortage of the baby food.\n\nThe plant in Michigan - one of America's largest - was closed in February because of contamination.\n\nCoupled with global supply chain issues, the factory's closure led to acute shortages.\n\nParents were left scrambling for supplies, seeking formula from food banks, friends and doctor's offices.\n\nSome turned to social media to try to track down baby milk, while others attempted to make their own substitutes (against medical advice).\n\nThe facility has met initial government sanitary requirements for reopening, the company said in a statement.\n\nAbbott said it would initially prioritise the production of its EleCare speciality formulas for babies with severe food allergies and digestive problems.\n\n\"We're also working hard to fulfil the steps necessary to restart production of Similac and other formulas,\" Abbott said, referring to its more mainstream products. It plans to ramp up production as quickly as possible \"while meeting all requirements\", it said.\n\nThe company said it would take about three weeks before new formula from the plant began reaching stores.\n\nLast month, US President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act, a war-time measure, to boost domestic production of formula, and ordered the Pentagon to fly in shipments from overseas.\n\nA bill to alleviate the shortage was also overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives.\n\nOther countries have supplied formula to boost supplies during the crisis.\n\nThe Abbott plant shut down in February after the death of two babies, and the company issued a product recall amid concerns over bacterial contamination.\n\nInspectors for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) say they uncovered a number of anomalies at the plant, including bacterial contamination, leaks in the roof and a lack of basic hygiene.\n\nThe company says there is no conclusive evidence linking its products to infant illnesses or deaths.", "Police have blocked off roads to prevent people from joining the illegal rave\n\nHundreds of people are thought to have descended on a huge illegal rave in Cornwall.\n\nThe event, on Davidstow Moor near Camelford, began on Friday night and has grown to cover \"quite a large area\", police said.\n\nOfficers have been turning people away from the gathering, which has caused gridlock on surrounding roads.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it was working to disperse revellers from the scene.\n\nColin Caudery said he was pulling people \"out of their minds\" on drink and drugs out of ditches\n\nColin Caudery, who lives nearby, said he had not managed to get any sleep because of the \"absolutely awful\" noise.\n\nHe said: \"We called the police about 20:30 BST last night and from about 22:00 BST onwards we were kicking people out of the garden and off the land.\n\n\"Drunkards from Scotland, Liverpool, Brighton, London, everywhere -- it's just been total chaos.\"\n\nSue and Paul Fencott said \"To wake up in the morning and find there was a huge rave on the doorstep and it's likely to carry on tonight, that's really worrying.\n\n\"The road is completely full of cars, even now, so we couldn't get out now if we wanted to.\"\n\nTony said ravers didn't mean to worry anyone\n\nTony had come to the rave from Suffolk \"to enjoy some music with my friends... in the middle of nowhere\".\n\nWhen asked about the neighbours, he said: \"Shame about the circumstances, obviously, people worried about it and the disruption it's caused but that wasn't down to me and if I had it my way it probably wouldn't have happened like that.\"\n\nA force spokesperson said \"several hundred\" were still thought to be in attendance, although some had left on Saturday morning and officers have prevented new arrivals from entering.\n\nThree arrests - for various driving offences - have been made so far, the force said.\n\n\"There is currently a police cordon in place around the site and a number of local roads in the area until further notice,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"There is heavy traffic and travel disruption around Camelford and other areas so motorists should expect delays and are urged to avoid the area.\"\n\nThe force asked anyone considering attending the event to not do so \"in the interest of public safety\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of Post Office workers are on strike on Saturday over a pay dispute.\n\nSome 114 Crown Post Offices - those directly owned by the company - will close for a 24-hour period, while sub-post offices will have no cash deliveries or collections.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union are angry over a pay freeze in 2021-22 and a 2% rise for the following year.\n\nThe Post Office said the vast majority of its 11,000 branches were not covered by the strike and will open as usual.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"There are 114 branches - typically in city centres - across the UK that are directly managed by Post Office.\n\n\"Posters are displayed which show where the nearest alternative branches are located. Customers can also find more information at postoffice.co.uk/branch-finder.\"\n\nThe branches impacted are larger ones - often located on the high street - which are directly owned by the Post Office itself.\n\nAround 3,500 members of staff are involved in the dispute. A strike already took place at the start of May - and there are further walkouts planned for Monday.\n\nThe CWU said that Post Office managers had been insisting on a pay freeze for 2021-22 \"despite the company generating a profit for the last two years during the pandemic from the efforts of their key worker employees\".\n\n\"Insultingly, Post Office has offered just a 2% pay increase - plus a £250 one-off payment (pro-rata for part-timers) for 2022-23,\" a spokesperson from the CWU added.\n\nThe union said this offer was not enough to keep up with rapid increases in the cost of living, which is currently rising at 7% a year.\n\nThe CWU said its members voted by 97.3% on a 70.2% turnout to take strike action.\n\nPost Office Postal Assistants - a significant sector of the workforce - currently earn less than £24,000 per year, the CWU continued.\n\nIf management strictly followed government policy, these workers would have received a wage increase of at least £250, yet they have not.\n\nUnion assistant secretary Andy Furey said: \"Post Office management are insisting they are simply following government policy on public sector pay policy.\n\n\"But they have repeatedly contradicted themselves, and have also said that it's their decision to impose a pay freeze.\n\n\"We know Post Office has turned over huge profits in these past few years - management can afford to provide our members with a reasonable pay increase if they wanted.\n\n\"This is not an issue of affordability. This is about power play from a management that is needlessly antagonising its key worker employees.\"\n\nThe union said it had a mandate for more strikes in coming weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen was praised for \"staying the course\" as royals joined dignitaries at a thanksgiving service for the Platinum Jubilee at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nReferring to her love of horse racing, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said she is \"still in the saddle\", even though she was not able to attend.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined for their first royal event together since leaving the UK two years ago.\n\nMeanwhile, the Queen, 96, watched the service from Windsor Castle.\n\nHer decision to miss the service came after she experienced \"discomfort\" during Thursday's events.\n\nIt was later announced she would not attend the Epsom Derby on Saturday - and would instead watch the event on television.\n\nPrince Andrew was forced to withdraw from attending the thanksgiving service after a positive Covid test.\n\nAs Prince Harry and Meghan arrived in St Paul's Churchyard, they received a huge cheer from the crowd, after keeping a low profile on Thursday.\n\nNHS workers, honours recipients, public servants and charity representatives were among those at the service - part of four days of events marking the Queen's unprecedented 70-year reign.\n\nNotable guests included Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who arrived to boos and cheers, and his wife, Carrie.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and former prime ministers John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May were there. The leaders of the UK's devolved administrations were also in attendance.\n\nMr Johnson gave a reading from St Paul's Epistle to the Philippians in the New Testament, beginning: \"Rejoice in the Lord always\".\n\nThe sermon was given by the Archbishop of York after Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, tested positive for coronavirus last week.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge waved to the cheering crowd as they arrived\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were attending their first major event since they stood down from royal duties in early 2020\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell gave thanks for the Queen who he said was 'still in the saddle'\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William joined a procession to take their seats at the front of the congregation\n\nReferencing the Queen's love of horse racing and Saturday's Epsom Derby - which will mark the Jubilee - Mr Cottrell praised the monarch's endurance over her reign.\n\nHe said: \"Your Majesty, we're sorry you're not with us this morning in person, but you are still in the saddle. And we are all glad that there is still more to come.\n\n\"So, thank you for staying the course. Thank you for continuing to be faithful to the pledges you made 70 years ago. Thank you for showing us how service and faithfulness matter. People of all faiths and none can learn from this.\"\n\nWith the Queen having to miss her own thanksgiving service, it was always going to be slightly subdued.\n\nBut it was still a cheerful gathering, with the Archbishop of York addressing his sermon to the Queen watching on television at home.\n\nIn a nod to her love of horse racing, he praised her for \"staying the course\" for such a long reign of duty and public service.\n\nThe sermon cantered through a number of her key interests: God; horses; and a good sense of humour.\n\nBoris Johnson faced a mixed response from the crowd outside. But the Royal Family presented a unifying image.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan had seamlessly returned to a major royal event for the first time in two years.\n\nIn a sign of things to come, Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine, took over the main ceremonial roles, with that quartet of senior royals increasingly taking on the responsibilities of the monarch.\n\nThere were choirs, bells ringing, famous faces in the congregation, and prayers. But there was also a poignancy to the absence of the Queen, the central focus of the event.\n\nThe archbishop added the Platinum Jubilee was a time of \"great rejoicing\" which took place against a backdrop of \"such suffering and uncertainty in our world\".\n\nBut he said the Queen was an example of leaders who serve the common good with \"a staunch constancy and a steadfast consistency; a faithfulness to God, an obedience to a vocation that is the bedrock of her life\".\n\nAfter the service, the largest church bell in the UK - the 16-tonne Great Paul - began ringing continuously for four hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral royals and other guests went on to attend a reception at London's Guildhall.\n\nMeanwhile, the Princess Royal travelled to Edinburgh Zoo where she fed penguins and met Ukrainian children, rescued from an orphanage in their war-torn country, who were taking part in an animal handling session.\n\nPrincess Anne's visit to the Scottish capital comes as members of the Royal Family visit the nations of the UK over the long weekend to celebrate the Jubilee.\n\nAs well as marking her service to church and country, Friday's event at St Paul's was also intended to pay tribute to the Queen's efforts to foster unity among all communities.\n\nBehind the walls of Windsor Castle, the Queen will no doubt be resting.\n\nTwo Buckingham Palace balcony appearances on the first day of celebrations clearly left her feeling very tired. That and her mobility issues meant going to St. Paul's Cathedral today proved too much of a challenge.\n\nInstead she watched the service on TV. Tomorrow, she'll do the same for the Epson Derby.\n\nAs the monarch rests in the castle, outside the town of Windsor is buzzing. People have come from far and wide, many just for the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nAlka Dass came with her two sons from High Wycombe. She said: \"We've come especially to see the Queen. The kids wanted to have a party with the Queen. They want to see her and visit Windsor Castle\".\n\nThere has even been a proposal outside the castle gates. Onlookers watched as Danny Dorsett, 28, from Weybridge asked Lauren Wallace, 27, to be his wife.\n\n\"We came here for the Jubilee. Windsor's the best place to do it\", he said.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who attended and who wrote a prayer for the Queen, told the BBC her interest in the faiths of others went beyond duty.\n\n\"She has genuine care, genuine interest and wants the best - certainly for our faith and for all faiths,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan sat in the second row from the front with other members of the Royal Family\n\nA guard of honour outside St Paul's welcomed guests to the service\n\nWell-wishers gathered in St Paul's Churchyard ahead of the thanksgiving service\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nThe service was one of the key events in four days of celebrations to mark the first time a British monarch has reigned for 70 years.\n\nOn Thursday, thousands of people gathered in central London for the traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony and a spectacular fly past of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen later illuminated a globe at Windsor Castle that coincided with the lighting of thousands of beacons across the UK and the Commonwealth.\n\nThe celebrations will continue with the Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday, a concert at Buckingham Palace featuring performances by Queen, Sir Rod Stewart and Diana Ross.\n\nAnd on Sunday, 10 million people are expected to hold street parties and other celebrations.\n\nPeople cheered and craned their necks for a better view as royals and dignitaries arrived\n\nPrince Charles, representing the Queen, made his entrance last with Camilla\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex and their children were among the first senior royals to arrive\n\nSt Paul's Cathedral has hosted Jubilee thanksgiving services for Queen Victoria, George V - and on three previous Jubilees for the Queen\n\nPrince Andrew's infection was picked up during routine testing, Buckingham Palace said, meaning he would miss the St Paul's service \"with regret\".\n\nThe Queen has previously spoken of mobility problems and the palace confirmed ahead of the Jubilee the monarch would consider the events she felt able to attend during the four-day celebration.", "There was a heavy police presence in Hong Kong on Saturday, with some activists detained by police\n\nSix people have been arrested in Hong Kong as authorities moved to restrict public commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nSaturday was the 33rd anniversary of the highly sensitive incident in which China's rulers crushed peaceful protests with tanks and troops.\n\nUntil recently, Hong Kong was one of the few Chinese territories which commemorated the event.\n\nBut Beijing has effectively banned the city's annual public vigil.\n\nHong Kong Police confirmed five men and one woman had been arrested in the vicinity of Victoria Park, where a candlelight vigil marking the 1989 crackdown in Beijing would have been held.\n\nThe six are now in police custody.\n\nSome images shared on social media appeared to show people being detained and led away by police officers in the city. Others were seen being searched.\n\nHundreds of police, some with sniffer dogs, were also seen patrolling the area around the park in the evening.\n\nDozens of people - in an apparent attempt to replicate the annual candlelit vigil - turned on their mobile phone torches in an area near to the park on Saturday. They were then warned by police to turn them off, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nOfficials earlier warned that any unauthorised assembly could see demonstrators facing prison sentences of up to five years.\n\n\"For 33 years it has always been peaceful, but today it's like [the police] are facing a big enemy,\" one activist, Chan Po-ying, told AFP. \"The hearts of people will live on.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing became the focus for national demonstrations calling for greater political freedoms in 1989. Thousands of people - mainly students - camped for weeks in the square before the military moved in on 4 June and opened fire.\n\nOne unidentified protester became an international symbol of protest for blocking an advancing column of tanks in video footage which was seen around the world.\n\nThe Chinese government says 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to as many as 10,000.\n\nThe actions of the authorities have been seen by activists as part of China's broader agenda to snuff out political dissent in Hong Kong.\n\nChina's erasure of public displays of June Fourth - as the Tiananmen anniversary is popularly known in Chinese - has become near-total in Hong Kong since Beijing enacted a national security law on the island in 2020.\n\nSelf-ruled Taiwan is one of the only parts of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be commemorated openly, and on Saturday hundreds of people gathered in the capital Taipei.\n\nTaiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen criticised the \"collective memory of 4 June being systematically erased in Hong Kong\".\n\n\"But we believe that such brute force cannot erase people's memories,\" she wrote on social media.\n\n\"It's a symbol of how democracy is precious and fragile at the same time, and how people who care about democracy need to stand up,\" Jeremy Chiang, who attended the event in Taipei, told Reuters.", "Royals and officials filled St Paul's Cathedral on Friday for a service to thank the Queen, who is marking 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe Queen herself was not able to attend, having experienced \"discomfort\" the previous day.\n\nReferring to her love of horse racing, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said she was \"still in the saddle\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nTop seed Iga Swiatek underlined why she was the red-hot French Open favourite by beating Coco Gauff in straight sets to win her second Grand Slam title.\n\nPoland's Swiatek, 21, won 6-1 6-3 against the American teenager to record her 35th straight victory - equalling the longest WTA streak this century.\n\nGauff, 18, was contesting a first major singles final and made a nervy start.\n\nSwiatek, who also won Roland Garros in 2020, took full advantage and went on to win her sixth successive title.\n\nBy fighting back from a break down in the second set, Swiatek won the 56th of her past 58 sets.\n\nShe also maintained her streak of winning in finals, extending that record to nine in a row.\n\n\"I try to treat a final like any other match,\" Swiatek said.\n\n\"That is pretty hard and kind of not possible, because there are always going to be bigger amounts of stress.\n\n\"I'm also aware that my opponents are also going to be stressed. So I try to not panic and just be less stressed than they are.\"\n• None Re-live how Swiatek beat Gauff to win the French Open title\n• None 'Coco could become a rival for years' - Iga Swiatek column\n\nWith clouds darkening and thunder rumbling overhead, Swiatek brought up two championship points and took the first when Gauff hit a forehand long.\n\nAfter a warm embrace with Gauff, Swiatek dashed off court to hug her team in the stands - and Poland footballer Robert Lewandowski, who came to watch on his day off from Nations League duty.\n\n\"Two years ago winning this title was something amazing and never expected,\" said Swiatek, who finished her victory speech to send a message of support to Ukraine following the invasion by Russia.\n\n\"This time I had worked hard to get here and did everything I could, even though the pressure was tough. The pressure was big but I did it.\"\n\nThe celebrations were in stark contrast to the sight of Gauff, who was distraught as she sat alone on her chair and broke into tears before putting a towel over her head.\n\n\"I'm super proud of myself and feeling a lot of emotions. A mix of happiness and sadness,\" the 18th seed said.\n\n\"I'm going to take this experience and hopefully learn from it and get better.\"\n\nNot since Serena Williams in her prime had there been as strong a favourite for a Grand Slam women's singles title as Swiatek.\n\nIn a stunning start to 2022, the Polish player won five consecutive tournaments - in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome - and took over as the WTA world number one following Ashleigh Barty's surprise retirement in March.\n\nSince then, her level has increased even further and to a point far higher than any of her rivals on the WTA Tour.\n\nA dominant win against Gauff saw her overtake Serena Williams and moved alongside Venus Williams in terms of the longest streaks by WTA players this century.\n\n\"Having that 35th win and kind of doing something more than Serena did, it's something special,\" Swiatek said.\n\nThe differing levels of experience at this stage of tournaments between Swiatek and Gauff - playing in her first final this year - showed from the start.\n\nThe American produced a double fault for 0-30 and then a weak backhand for the first break point of the match. That went Swiatek's way when Gauff hit a forehand long.\n\nIt continued Swiatek's record of breaking her opponent's serve at the first attempt in every match at Roland Garros this year.\n\nA couple of backhand winners down the line in the next game seemed as if they might settle the American as she took Swiatek to deuce.\n\nHowever, Swiatek held serve with an ace and a forehand winner and then swamped her opponent's serve to break again for a 3-0 lead.\n\n\"I wasn't as nervous really entering the match,\" Gauff said.\n\n\"When I lost the first couple of games the nerves started to come, but when I lost the first set I really came out in the second and had a new mindset.\"\n\n\"But for the most part I think that Iga was just too good.\"\n\nSupported by a sympathetic crowd who wanted to see a contest, Gauff got on the scoreboard to huge cheers at 4-1 but continued to be overwhelmed as Swiatek wrapped up the opening set in 32 minutes.\n\nGauff nipped off court at the end of the first set and returned to break in the first game of the second and then held for a 2-0 lead.\n\nBut her forehand continued to break down under severe pressure as Swiatek rattled off the next five games to turn the set around.\n\nIn the end, Swiatek's greater experience in finals - she has lost only one of her nine at the top level and that was her first in April 2019 - helped secure a victory which most had predicted before the clay-court Grand Slam started.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nIga Swiatek has the ability to overwhelm opponents from the very first ball, and is especially ruthless in finals - she has now won nine in a row in straight sets.\n\nHaving celebrated her 21st birthday last Tuesday, she has become the youngest woman to win multiple Grand Slams since Maria Sharapova claimed her second major title at the US Open of 2006.\n\nShe has almost precisely twice the number of ranking points of any other player, and that gulf has been all too evident in the six tournaments she has won since her last defeat in the middle of February.\n\nCoco Gauff struggled with her forehand, in the first set especially. It is her weaker side, and so it is of no great surprise that the stroke malfunctioned amid the pressure of a first Grand Slam final.\n\nAnd once the tears have dried, Gauff will be able to look forward to the future with even greater optimism. She has only just graduated from high school, and yet already has a Grand Slam final under her belt.\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "Tottenham Hotspur defender Emerson Royal has thanked an off-duty Brazilian police officer who rescued him from an attempted armed robbery in Sao Paulo.\n\nRoyal, 23, was taking photos with the officer outside a nightclub moments before being targeted by the thief, who drew a gun and demanded his belongings.\n\nPolice said the officer pursued the assailant and exchanged fire with him, while the footballer escaped unharmed.\n\n\"I will be forever grateful to you,\" Royal wrote in an Instagram post.\n\n\"God sends angels to earth, this is confirmed every day in my life. This human being, I call him an angel, risked his own life to save mine,\" the Brazilian right-back added.\n\nHis Instagram story showed a photo taken with the officer moments before the attack, in the city of Americana to the north of São Paulo.\n\nLocal media reported that the man exchanged 29 shots with the officer before being wounded in the back.\n\nIn a statement, police said the assailant was later taken to hospital and local media reported that his life was not in danger.\n\nRoyal, who made 41 appearances for the north London club last season, is currently on holiday in his home country and had been partying with his family and friends at the New Trips nightclub.\n\nHe was targeted shortly after leaving the club just before 03:00 local time.\n\n\"I was celebrating and on the way out, this whole affair happened, which was very bad,\" the star's father, Emerson Zulu, told the Globo Esporte newspaper. \"A horror scene indeed. I don't wish that on anyone.\"\n\nEmerson Zulu, who is also his son's agent, said the \"thief asked [Royal] for his watch and other personal objects\".\n\nThe Brazil international joined Spurs in August for a fee of £25.8 million from Spanish giants Barcelona.\n\nGun violence is common in Brazil and in 2020 the country recorded over 40,000 gun deaths.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nThe Queen made a surprise appearance in a comedy sketch with Paddington Bear during a star-studded Platinum Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPaddington joined the monarch in the recorded sketch before pop band Queen opened the musical performances.\n\nDiana Ross, Sir Rod Stewart and Duran Duran were among the other big names.\n\nThe Queen did not watch the Platinum Party at the Palace in person, however, while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were also not in the royal box.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Queen, Diana Ross, Duran Duran and more perform at the Platinum Party at the Palace\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch has been experiencing mobility problems in recent months and also pulled out of Friday's thanksgiving service and missed the Derby at Epsom earlier on Saturday.\n\nBut in an echo of her appearance in a sketch with James Bond for the London Olympics a decade ago, she had pre-recorded a two-and-a-half minute comedy segment in which she offered tea to Paddington, and showed him a marmalade sandwich she keeps in her handbag.\n\nA Buckingham Palace statement said: \"While the Queen may not be attending the concert in person, she was very keen that people understood how much it meant to her and that all those watching had a great time.\"\n\nThe crowd cheered as the Queen and Paddington appeared on the big screens\n\nIn the short film, the Queen and Paddington tapped their tea cups to the beat of Queen's We Will Rock You as the regally-themed band, with their US singer Adam Lambert, began performing the hit, accompanied by 34 Royal Marine drummers.\n\nGuitarist Brian May appeared on the Victoria Memorial monument, 20 years after he famously performed on the palace roof for the Golden Jubilee concert.\n\nQueen guitarist Brian May performed under the gaze of Queen Victoria on the Victoria Memorial\n\nIt is hard to know what the Queen would have made of it all.\n\nWe do know her favourite songs predate the rock era. A playlist of her top 10, released to mark her 90th birthday in 2016, includes Dame Vera Lynn's White Cliffs of Dover and Fred Astaire's Cheek to Cheek alongside hymns and songs from musical theatre.\n\nSo she probably would have enjoyed Andrea Bocelli's Nessun Dorma and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's medley of theatre hits more than Sigala's Came Here With Love.\n\nBut, as Prince Charles pointed out towards the end of the two-and-a-half hour extravaganza, that wasn't necessarily the point.\n\nThe event included speeches from the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Wales, who joked that his mother was \"watching the celebrations with much emotion, having I hope finished her marmalade sandwich\".\n\nGeorge Ezra dropped a line from his lyrics referring to \"the day that I die\"\n\nSir Rod Stewart, Craig David, Duran Duran, Alicia Keys, Andrea Bocelli and Elbow were among the other artists who took to three stages built outside the palace, with the show closed by Ross's first UK performance for 15 years.\n\nSir Rod sang his 1983 hit Baby Jane and members of the Royal Family waved flags and sang along as he performed Neil Diamond's crowd-pleasing Sweet Caroline.\n\nThe rock legend was accompanied by three backing singers wearing red, white and blue dresses, while Sam Ryder, who recently came second for the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest, performed in a diamante union jack suit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Stars on getting ready to perform at Platinum Jubilee concert\n\nGeorge Ezra performed his hit Green Green Grass, but omitted the final line of its chorus to say \"you better throw a party\" instead of the usual \"you better throw a party on the day that I die\".\n\nOther current pop stars on the bill included Mimi Webb, Celeste and Jax Jones. A crowd of about 22,000 watched the concert in person, plus millions more on TV.\n\nThe event also included a celebration of West End musicals featuring Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and the casts of a string of shows.\n\nDance troupe Diversity performed a routine to a number of British songs from the Queen's 70-year reign, including The Beatles' She Loves You, the Bee Gees' Night Fever and David Bowie's Let's Dance.\n\nA performance of Your Song, recorded by Sir Elton John in the red drawing room at Windsor Castle, was projected onto the front of the palace, as were other spectacular visuals as night fell.\n\nImages of the Queen were projected onto the front of the palace\n\nOlympic athletes Tom Daley and Jessica Ennis-Hill appeared on stage, while broadcaster and author Stephen Fry told the crowd: \"We are all Elizabethans, and that is a wonderful thing to be.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ed Sheeran and Sir Cliff Richard are due to be among the stars appearing at Platinum Jubilee Pageant in London on Sunday.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoco Gauff has reached the women's singles and doubles final at this year's Roland Garros Coverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app Coco Gauff says she has shaken off the pressure she felt as a 15-year-old and is ready to win a first Grand Slam against heavy favourite Iga Swiatek in the French Open final. Gauff first broke through by reaching the Wimbledon fourth round in 2019. The 18-year-old says her change in perspective will help her try to end Swiatek's superb 34-match unbeaten run. \"I always wanted to play her in a final - I just didn't think it would happen so soon,\" American Gauff said. Swiatek, champion in Paris in 2020, is the overwhelming favourite at Roland Garros, having won the past eight finals she has played in and claimed five successive titles this year alone. However, Gauff has yet to drop a set in this year's tournament and has spent the past three years building on her eye-catching performances at Wimbledon. Since beating Venus Williams at SW19 on her Grand Slam main draw debut, Gauff has enjoyed a steady rise up the rankings and claimed some notable wins, including ending Naomi Osaka's title defence at the 2020 Australian Open. Swiatek and Gauff will meet on Court Philippe Chatrier from 14:00 BST on Saturday, with live text and radio commentary available on the BBC Sport website and app.\n• None 'Coco could become a rival for years'\n• None Gauff into doubles final as well as singles\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone This version of me is ready to win a Slam - Gauff Gauff is bidding to become the youngest American to win a Grand Slam since Serena Williams lifted the US Open trophy in 1999. Her Wimbledon run caught the attention of the public, with former First Lady Michelle Obama and singer Beyonce's mum posting about her on social media. On the eve of the final, Gauff spoke openly about how she \"wanted to win too much\" during that time, which led to her putting \"way too much pressure\" on herself. \"I think there's a fine line between believing in yourself and almost pushing yourself too much,\" said Gauff, who won the 2018 junior title at Roland Garros. \"If I do lift the trophy, honestly, I don't think my life is going to change really. \"The people who love me are still going to love me regardless if I lift the trophy or not.\" Gauff is known for speaking out for social change, including calling for an end to gun violence in America after her semi-final win over Martina Trevisan. She credited her family and those around her with helping her to look at life beyond tennis. \"I feel like I put myself in a bubble to the point where it was like tennis, tennis, tennis, tennis,\" she said. \"Talking to my family in general, my grandmother is always like there is more to life than this. \"Since I was younger my dad told me I could change the world with my racquet. He didn't mean that by just playing tennis. He meant speaking out on issues like this.\" Iga Swiatek has worn a ribbon in the Ukrainian colours on her cap during her matches Swiatek has become one of the best front-runners on the tour, having broken her opponent's service in their first service game in all six of her matches in Paris. She often overwhelms her opponents through her sheer power, most notably at last year's Italian Open when she thrashed Karolina Pliskova 6-0 6-0 in just 45 minutes. Victory in the final will mean Swiatek will draw level with Venus Williams for the longest winning streak on the WTA Tour in the 21st century. \"I want to start with being proactive and put pressure on my opponents because I know how it feels,\" Swiatek told BBC Sport. \"I try to be aware that my opponent is also going to be stressed and realise that I have nothing to lose.\" Swiatek, who turned 21 earlier this week, has said she believes Gauff could be a rival for years to come. The two met earlier this year at Miami Open, with Swiatek winning in straight sets. \"I'm pretty happy that she's doing well, because I think she's also had a huge amount of pressure in her life,\" Swiatek said of her opponent. \"When I see her, I tend to forget that she's 18.\"\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?:\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nUefa has apologised to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans caught up in events around the Champions League final and said it must not happen again.\n\nLiverpool fans described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at last Saturday's showpiece game.\n\nReal Madrid have asked for answers on the \"series of unfortunate events\".\n\n\"No football fan should be put in that situation, and it must not happen again,\" said a Uefa statement.\n\n\"Uefa wishes to sincerely apologise to all spectators who had to experience or witness frightening and distressing events in the build-up to the Uefa Champions League final at the Stade de France on 28 May 2022 in Paris, on a night which should have been a celebration of European club football.\"\n\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron said ticket holders who were blocked from entering the stadium by security staff must be reimbursed \"as fast as possible\".\n\nMacron said: \"I have a thought for the families who have been pushed around, who have not been able to access the seats they had paid for.\n\n\"I have asked the government to clarify what happened, to determine the responsibilities and to explain them in detail to our compatriots, the British and the Spanish.\"\n• None What happened at the Champions League final?\n\nEuropean football's governing body had previously announced that an independent review of what happened in the build-up to the final, and what lessons should be learned, would be led by Dr Tiago Brandao Rodrigues from Portugal.\n\nFrench authorities and Uefa had blamed late arrivals and fake tickets for chaotic scenes outside the Stade de France, which caused the match to be delayed by more than half an hour.\n\nPolice used tear gas and pepper spray on some fans. It has also emerged that supporters were targeted by local gangs.\n\nFrance's interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, said only English fans had caused problems at the final.\n\n\"The review will seek to establish a full picture and timeline of what occurred during the day, both within the stadium and the surrounding areas, including examining spectator flows to the stadium via the various access points,\" added Uefa's statement.\n\nLiverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish said the apology was \"a start\" but added: \"There is still a long way to go.\n\n\"This apology doesn't cover the false message about the late kick off, events at the fan park, or what happened in the aftermath.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Real Madrid issued a statement asking for answers about \"unfortunate events\" at the game, which the Spanish team won 1-0.\n\nThey also want to know why the Stade de France was chosen for the game and who was \"responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless\".\n\n\"Football has transmitted an image to the world which is far away from the values and goals which it should pursue,\" said the statement.\n\nReal Madrid cited \"unfortunate events\" which took place \"in the surroundings of and at access points to the Stade de France, and even inside the stadium itself\" and added their fans \"fell victim to said events\".\n\nThey added: \"We would like to know the reasons which led to this venue being chosen to host the final and the criteria used, taking into account the experiences of the day.\n\n\"Furthermore, we call for answers and explanations in order to determine those responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless. Fans who in general terms showed exemplary conduct at all times.\n\n\"We believe something which should have been a wonderful festival of football for all fans who attended the game, quickly turned into a series of unfortunate events which have caused a sense of outrage around the world.\n\n\"As was evident in the revealing images published by the media, several fans were attacked, harassed, assaulted and robbed in violent fashion.\n\n\"These occurrences continued as they moved in their cars or buses, causing concern for their physical wellbeing. Certain fans even had to spend the night in hospital as a result of injuries.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Our fans and supporters deserve a response and those responsible to be held accountable in order for events like these to be eradicated from football and sport in general.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan called the comments by France's interior minister blaming English fans \"disgraceful\".\n\n\"My response to the French minister's comments again, as I said earlier in the week, is just one of disbelief frankly,\" added Hogan.\n\nHe said 6,500 fans had responded to a request by the Premier League club, asking supporters who attended the final to complete a feedback form in order to support any investigation into the operational management of the event.\n\n\"The pain, the grief, the harm, the hurt that [fans] suffered on Saturday, and now to be told by a French minister that only Liverpool fans have been a problem, it's just disgraceful,\" said Hogan.\n\n\"We've written to Uefa again and we've raised specific questions - 13 specific questions - that we'd like them to clarify around the details of this investigation,\" said Hogan.\n\n\"We just feel it's incredibly important that we get this investigation going, frankly that we get it launched immediately.\"\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "The 'Goddess of Democracy' statue on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was removed last year\n\nStudents at a Hong Kong university have hidden tiny figurines of a \"democracy goddess\" around campus in the lead-up to Saturday's anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nThe anonymous acts defy the authorities' increasing crackdown on public recognition of the highly sensitive incident.\n\nUntil recently, Hong Kong was one of the few Chinese territories which commemorated the June 4 1989 event.\n\nHowever Beijing has now effectively banned the city's annual gathering and shut down Hong Kong's Tiananmen museum.\n\nPolice in Hong Kong have closed off large parts of Victoria Park, which in the past was the site of large candlelit vigils marking the anniversary of the massacre.\n\nOfficials have warned that any unauthorised assembly could see demonstrators facing prison sentences.\n\nThese actions have been seen by activists as part of China's broader agenda to snuff out political dissent in Hong Kong.\n\nThe United States has called the ban on gatherings \"an attempt to suppress the memories of that day\".\n\n\"To the people of China and to those who continue to stand against injustice and seek freedom, we will not forget June 4,\" Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.\n\nThe Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing became the focus for national demonstrations calling for greater political freedoms in 1989. Thousands of people - mainly students - camped for weeks in the square before the military moved in on 4 June and opened fire.\n\nThe Chinese government says 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to as many as 10,000.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by finding_manneoi This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe figurines created by students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) are a copy of the \"Goddess of Democracy\" statue which was pulled down by university officials last December.\n\nThe statue had been a fixture on the campus for 11 years, and was modelled after the original democracy symbol paraded by students at Tiananmen Square in 1989 before they were killed by soldiers.\n\nIt was removed last year as other universities tore down Tiananmen Square tributes including the \"Pillar of Shame\" memorial at Hong Kong University.\n\n\"This is a kind of a rebellion. The university 'stole' the statue from its students so we've decided to make our own versions on it and put it back,\" one of the protest organisers told Hong Kong Free Press, a local outlet.\n\nProtesters have printed tiny 3D replicas of the statue, and concealed them on campus for other students to find. Attached are notes urging the finder to \"bring her home, and do not forget the meaning behind it!\"\n\n\"Manneoi was born to remember the Chinese martyrs so we picked the days before June 4,\" one of the organisers told the BBC, using the Cantonese name for the \"Goddess of Democracy\".\n\nThey said they were told by other students to \"be careful\" but they felt \"ok\" regarding their treasure hunt: \"It's not a public assembly or protest\".\n\n\"It is sad for us to consider the risks as assembly should be our basic human right.\"\n\nThe organiser said they wanted people who found the statues to \"guard our memories\" and \"don't be so depressed because there are still people who haven't given up\".\n\nBut in the end, organisers ended the activity as they were \"afraid the university would interrupt our event\".\n\nThey said they had received word that university staff were monitoring students taking part in the hunt.\n\nA figurine in the same location on campus where the statue once stood\n\nChina's erasure of public displays of June Fourth - as the Tiananmen anniversary is popularly known in Chinese - has become near total in Hong Kong since Beijing enacted a national security law on the island in 2020.\n\nIn the past year, local police prosecuted at least 26 pro-democracy activists for trying to commemorate June Fourth. They include Joshua Wong, media baron Jimmy Lai and former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung, Cyd Ho, and Andrew Wan.\n\nThey were all found guilty for attending or \"inciting\" others to participate in a vigil honouring the massacre victims in 2020, with some facing jail terms of up to 14 months.\n\nIn January this year, a Hong Kong court also sentenced activist Chow Hang-tung to 15 months in prison for her role leading to the banned 2021 vigil. Ms Chow had already been served a 12-month sentence for her role in the previous year's vigil.\n\nLast year, prior to her arrest, she told the BBC she urged locals to pay tribute by lighting a candle on the anniversary or shining their phone flashlights at home.\n\nOutside of China, diasporas around the world including in Taiwan, the UK, US, Canada and Australia are planning commemorations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June 2021, Chow Hang Tung spoke to BBC Chinese explaining why she was encouraging those in Hong Kong to remember the Tiananmen crackdown", "The UN says around 20 million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukraine from the previous harvest\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine could soon cause a global food crisis that may last for years, the UN has warned.\n\nSecretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war had worsened food insecurity in poorer nations due to rising prices.\n\nSome countries could face long-term famines if Ukraine's exports are not restored to pre-war levels, he added.\n\nThe conflict has cut off supplies from Ukraine's ports, which once exported vast amounts of cooking oil as well as cereals such as maize and wheat.\n\nThis has reduced the global supply and caused the price of alternatives to soar. Global food prices are almost 30% higher than the same time last year, according to the UN.\n\nSpeaking in New York on Wednesday, Mr Guterres said the conflict - combined with the effects of climate change and the pandemic - \"threatens to tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity followed by malnutrition, mass hunger and famine\".\n\n\"There is enough food in our world now if we act together. But unless we solve this problem today, we face the spectre of global food shortage in the coming months,\" he added.\n\nHe warned that the only effective solution to the crisis was reintegrating Ukraine's food production, as well as fertiliser produced by both Russia and Belarus, back into the global market.\n\nMr Guterres also said he was in \"intense contact\" with Russia and Ukraine, as well as the US and the EU, in an effort to restore food exports to normal levels.\n\n\"The complex security, economic and financial implications require goodwill on all sides,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came on the same day the World Bank announced extra funding worth $12bn (£9.7bn) for projects addressing food insecurity.\n\nThe move will bring the total amount available for such projects to more than $30bn over the next 15 months.\n\nRussia and Ukraine produce 30% of the world's wheat supply and - prior to the war - Ukraine was seen as the world's bread basket, exporting 4.5 million tonnes of agricultural produce per month through its ports.\n\nBut since Russia launched its invasion in February, exports have collapsed and prices have skyrocketed. They climbed even further after India banned wheat exports on Saturday.\n\nThe UN says around 20 million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukraine from the previous harvest which, if released, could ease pressure on global markets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on why the war in Ukraine is pushing up food prices - and the likely impact on poorer countries\n\nWhile the number of people facing food insecurity had been growing even before the invasion, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, accused Moscow of making a difficult situation even worse on Wednesday.\n\n\"Russia has launched a grain war, stoking a global food crisis,\" Berlin's top diplomat said. \"It is doing so at a time when millions are already being threatened by hunger, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.\"\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the world faced the \"greatest global food security crisis of our time\" which had been exacerbated by what he called Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"war of choice\".", "The UK government's push to revive imperial measurements is \"utter nonsense\" and will cost businesses, a leading retail boss has said.\n\nThe government has launched a review of how traders can use the UK's traditional weighing system for goods.\n\nBritish shops had to use metric measurements under EU rules, with the option to show imperial equivalents - pounds and ounces - alongside.\n\nBut critics say the review is nostalgic and could burden businesses.\n\nAsda chairman and Tory peer Lord Rose said promoting the use of imperial measurements post-Brexit would only please a \"small minority who hark for the past\".\n\n\"It's complete and utter nonsense and it will add cost to those people who have to put it into place,\" Lord Rose told Times Radio.\n\nHe added: \"We have got serious problems in the world and we're now saying let's go backwards. Does anybody in this country below the age of about 40 know how many ounces there are in a pound?\"\n\nLord Rose headed the anti-Brexit Stronger in Europe campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum.\n\nUnder EU rules from 2000 copied over after Brexit, traders can use imperial measurements alongside metric, but they cannot be more prominent.\n\nIn September, the government said it would review these rules as part of broader plans to reshape UK law after Brexit, and legislate \"in due course\".\n\nOn Friday - the second day of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations - the government launched a consultation on \"how to implement a change to the law on weights and measures\".\n\nThe consultation would help ministers consider whether goods should be \"sold in pounds only, or in pounds with a less prominent metric equivalent\", the government said.\n\n\"There is no intention to require businesses to change their existing practices and so this will not place greater costs on businesses\", the government said.\n\nThe government said the announcement was \"not just about pounds and ounces, but about where the UK's laws are made\".\n\nAs part of the announcement, the government also published guidance for businesses who want to put a crown symbol on pint glasses.\n\nThe symbol used to show that a glass accurately measured a pint in the UK. In 2006, EU legislation implemented the CE mark as the symbol of an accurate measure on pint glasses.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said restoring the crown symbol to pint glasses would be a \"fitting tribute\" to the Queen.\n\nBut in new guidance, the government admitted the crown symbol would only be a \"decorative measure\", with glasses still required to have legal conformity markings.\n\nIt is also the case that pint glasses were allowed to have \"stylised\" crowns in addition to the CE legal marking when the UK was a member of the EU.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine said the renewed focus on imperial measurements was a \"deflection tactic\".\n\n\"Businesses are really struggling to cope with soaring energy bills and staff shortages after a tough couple of years during the pandemic,\" Ms Jardine said. \"They need real targeted support to stay afloat, not a push towards imperial measurements or a different symbol on a glass.\"\n\nA Labour spokesperson said the party would cut costs for businesses and consumers, instead of making changes to measurement rules.\n\n\"Labour backs British firms and will make Brexit work for them and consumers,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who won a landslide election victory in 2019 after campaigning for Brexit, has long backed a revival of imperial units.\n\nHis leadership has come under pressure in recent days since the publication of a highly critical report about lockdown parties in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe report, by senior civil servant Sue Gray, criticised \"failures of leadership\" and examined parties attended by Mr Johnson, who was fined by the police for attending one event in June 2020.\n\nTwelve Conservative MPs have publicly called on Mr Johnson to quit since the release of the report, bringing the total to almost 30.\n\nOn Friday, the prime minister received a mixed reception of boos and cheers from crowds outside St Paul's Cathedral, where he attended a thanksgiving service for the Jubilee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need 61 runs to win, New Zealand five wickets\n\nJoe Root and Ben Stokes gave England huge hope of a stunning victory on a gripping third day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nChasing a challenging 277, England reached 216-5, needing another 61 runs. Though captain Stokes was out for 54, former skipper Root remains on 77, having added 57 with Ben Foakes.\n\nThe fifth-wicket pair dragged the home side from 69-4 and England would have been 76-5 had Colin de Grandhomme not overstepped in bowling Stokes when he had only one.\n\nThe Stokes-Root partnership added 90 and was only ended by Stokes trying a needless uppercut that gave impressive pace bowler Kyle Jamieson a fourth wicket.\n\nEngland's turnaround began in the morning session, when they took three wickets in three balls to spark a New Zealand collapse of 6-34.\n\nDaryl Mitchell completed a century, but after he was out for 108 and Tom Blundell for 96, the Black Caps were dismissed for 285.\n\nThen came the ups and downs of the England chase, leaving the prospect of a grandstand conclusion on the fourth morning.\n• None Broad has 'good feeling' England can beat New Zealand\n\nThis was a fascinating, fluctuating day of Test cricket, one on which each side enjoyed periods of momentum and ultimately ended with the match balanced on a knife-edge.\n\nThe Stuart Broad over in which England claimed the triple strike was electric, the hosts' top-order collapse depressingly familiar, and the Root-Stokes fightback filled with tension.\n\nIn the case of Stokes, the captain evoked memories of the 2019 World Cup final, when he hauled England to a famous victory on this ground against the same opponents.\n\nStokes' reprieve was a huge moment, a present on his 31st birthday. It was part of a miserable day for De Grandhomme, who was run out from the only ball he faced, took the wicket off a no-ball then hobbled out of the game with a heel strain.\n\nIf Stokes had remained, England would have started the fourth day as overwhelming favourites and probably much closer to victory, but New Zealand will return knowing they need only one wicket to expose a lengthy tail.\n\nA second new ball is still 15 overs away, yet England are likely to have to come through that challenge if they are to win.\n\nAfter England lost four wickets for 38 runs, it would have taken the most optimistic supporter to believe they would not lose inside three days, let alone end Saturday possessing such a chance of winning.\n\nWith Jamieson causing havoc, Alex Lees shouldered arms to one that kissed off stump, Zak Crawley offered his trademark edge and Jonny Bairstow was bowled playing a booming drive. In between, Ollie Pope was twisted inside out in being bowled by Trent Boult.\n\nEven skipper Stokes looked skittish, often dancing down the pitch, just as he did when was bowled off the De Grandhomme no-ball.\n\nIn among the chaos, Root was a reassuring presence, the former captain closing in on 10,000 Test runs with flicks, punches and busy running.\n\nAs Stokes settled, he launched spinner Ajaz Patel over mid-wicket with three thrilling sweeps for six. Just as England were getting on top, Stokes looked for an ambitious ramp and gloved Jamieson behind.\n\nThough Foakes only moved to nine, he offered determined support to Root, who sensed a weariness in a New Zealand attack missing De Grandhomme and accelerated late in the day.\n\nTo have any hope of winning this match, England had to utilise the second new ball to restrict New Zealand's second innings, which began Saturday on 236-4.\n\nMitchell moved from 97 to 100 from the first ball he faced, only to edge Broad and become the first of the three wickets to fall in as many balls.\n\nWith Broad revving up the crowd, De Grandhomme was distracted by an lbw appeal and was run out by Pope's direct hit from fourth slip, then Jamieson was bowled off his pad.\n\nAfter watching the chaos from the other end, Blundell got trapped leg before by one that James Anderson got to nip back.\n\nWhen Tim Southee slashed to slip for Matt Parkinson's first Test wicket, England had taken the last six New Zealand wickets in the space of eight overs.\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was really enjoyable, great to get the crowd going. We knew that new ball had to count, if they got past 300-320 it was a taller ask.\n\n\"Things went our way, we had to execute our chance and as a bowling group we should be very proud.\n\nNew Zealand all-rounder Daryl Mitchell: \"Scoring a Test century at Lord's is a big honour. It was nice to get it done nice and early. It hasn't sunk in just yet.\n\n\"We will show up tomorrow morning with the chance to open up an end and get stuck into their bowlers.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"I have England as the favourites, despite the fact it will do more in the morning. It always does more in the morning at Lord's.\n\n\"England have shown great character. They looked vulnerable, it looked tricky with the bat and, when Jonny Bairstow got out, I thought that was it.\n\n\"Joe Root just read the game and upped his rate once Ben Stokes got out.\"", "An ex-top White House adviser has been charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with the inquiry into last year's US Capitol riot.\n\nPeter Navarro is the second Trump aide to be arrested after defying a legal summons from the congressional committee investigating the attack.\n\nIn court, Mr Navarro, 72, accused prosecutors and the FBI of misconduct.\n\nHis indictment comes a week before the committee is due to begin televised hearings on its inquiry.\n\nThe US House of Representatives panel, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses.\n\nSteve Bannon, who was chief strategist to former President Donald Trump, faced contempt of Congress charges last November after he too defied a subpoena.\n\nMr Navarro has been charged with refusing to provide testimony or documents to the committee investigating the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.\n\nA China hawk who advised Mr Trump on trade issues and also served on the Covid task force, he did not enter a plea at his hearing on Friday in Washington DC.\n\nMr Navarro faces the possibility of up to two years in jail or a fine.\n\nHe condemned the manner of his arrest earlier in the day by FBI agents at a Washington airport as he was boarding a flight to Nashville, Tennessee.\n\n\"Who are these people? This is not America,\" the former economics professor said in court, according to the Associated Press news agency. \"I was a distinguished public servant for four years!\"\n\nOutside, Mr Navarro protested that he had been placed in handcuffs and leg irons as he was taken into custody, reports Fox News.\n\nHe said he would represent himself, because he was not willing to spend several hundred thousand dollars on legal counsel.\n\nThe former aide has already acknowledged in media interviews that he helped co-ordinate an effort - known as the \"Green Bay Sweep\" - to keep Mr Trump, a Republican, in power after he lost the November 2020 election to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.\n\nThe House panel has also recommended contempt charges for Dan Scavino, a former deputy chief of staff to Mr Trump, and Mark Meadows, who was White House chief of staff.\n\nBut it emerged on Friday evening that the US Department of Justice will not act on those two referrals.\n\nMr Trump has urged his former associates not to co-operate with the Democratic-led investigation, deeming it politically motivated.\n\nMr Navarro has claimed his communications with the former president were protected under the legal principle of executive privilege.\n\nCritics of the investigation have pointed out that in 2012, former US Attorney General Eric Holder was not criminally charged after he was found in contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry.\n\nThen-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, had asserted executive privilege in that case.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nSpain's Rafael Nadal said moving into a 14th French Open final because opponent Alexander Zverev was injured and taken off court in a wheelchair was \"not the way\" he wanted to win.\n\nNadal, seeded fifth, was leading 7-6 (10-8) 6-6 when Germany's Zverev retired after turning on his ankle.\n\n\"If you are human, you should feel very sorry for a colleague,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"To see a colleague like this, even if for me it's a dream to be in the final, is not the way that we want it to be.\"\n\nZverev said it \"looked like a very serious injury\" in a video message posted on Instagram on Friday night.\n\n\"The medical team and doctors are still checking on it. We will let you know as soon as we know more,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not an easy moment for me.\"\n• None Nadal in final as Zverev leaves court in wheelchair\n\nThird seed Zverev screamed in pain when he went down on the baseline after turning his right ankle on the final point of the 12th game of the second set.\n\nA concerned Nadal went round to check on his opponent as a medic raced on to the court to help the 25-year-old German.\n\nThe seriousness of the situation was immediately clear, with Zverev screaming and signalling for help as he lay on the clay.\n\nMedics quickly arrived and it seemed obvious he would not be able to continue once the wheelchair was called for.\n\nAfterwards, Nadal said it was \"not easy\" to talk following the incident.\n\n\"The only thing that I can say is I hope he's not too bad,\" added 36-year-old Nadal, who will play Norwegian eighth seed Casper Ruud in Sunday's final.\n\n\"Hopefully, it's just the normal thing when you turn your ankle and hopefully nothing is broken.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "Children were among those affected by tear gas and pepper spray launched by French police\n\nAn MP who saw \"horrific\" scenes at last weekend's Champions League final wants \"a retraction of the smears\" against Liverpool fans.\n\nEurope's football governing body Uefa and French authorities initially blamed late arrivals and fake tickets for chaos at the game in Paris.\n\nUefa has apologised but Ian Byrne, who was at the match, wants a full retraction.\n\nThe Liverpool West Derby MP is planning a parliamentary motion about the issue.\n\nMr Byrne, who was also at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that led to the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans after a stadium crush, told BBC Radio 4 Today that there was \"a shambolic breakdown of stadium management\" and \"extremely hostile\" policing in Paris.\n\nIan Byrne MP will present a parliamentary motion to \"crank up pressure\" for a full apology\n\n\"It was the worst event I've ever seen around a football match since 1989 at Hillsborough and it could have been as serious as Hillsborough with the lives lost,\" he said.\n\n\"It was only the patience of the Liverpool supporters that prevented that from happening because we got absolutely nothing from the authorities.\"\n\nFollowing a week of widespread criticism, Uefa apologised on Friday to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans after sections of supporters, including children and elderly people, were targeted with tear gas and pepper spray by French police outside the stadium.\n\nIt has also emerged that fans, including Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram, were robbed and assaulted.\n\nMr Byrne said Uefa's apology was \"a welcome acknowledgement of the horrors that were suffered by both sets of supporters\".\n\nHe added: \"But we need to continue to demand a full public apology and retraction of the smears that were given about the Liverpool fans regarding the delayed kick-off and everything else that's happened\".\n\nImages show several fans had been queuing for more than two hours\n\nThe chaos led to the match being delayed by 36 minutes, with Uefa initially blaming late arrivals even though footage showed thousands of fans had started queuing at least two hours before kick-off.\n\nThe claim was condemned by Merseyside Police officers working at the match as well as journalists reporting on the final who said \"fans did not arrive late\".\n\nFrance's interior minister Gerald Darmanin later claimed there had been \"industrial-scale\" ticket fraud and that more than 30,000 Liverpool fans had fake tickets or no tickets outside the stadium.\n\nHowever this was disputed by several supporters and Liverpool defender Andy Robertson who said a friend to whom he had given a ticket was denied entry.\n\nMr Darmanin's claim that only English fans had caused problems at the final also prompted widespread criticism including from Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan who described it as \"disgraceful\".\n\nFrench sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera and interior minister Gerald Darmanin initially blamed Liverpool fans after the final\n\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron later said he had asked his government \"to clarify what happened, to determine the responsibilities and to explain them in detail to our compatriots, the British and the Spanish.\"\n\nHe said ticket-holders who were blocked from entering the stadium should be reimbursed \"as fast as possible\".\n\nReal Madrid, whose fans were also caught up in the turmoil ahead of the club's 1-0 win, asked for answers on who was \"responsible for leaving the fans abandoned and defenceless\".\n\nUefa has previously announced that an independent review of what happened at the final will be led by former Portugese sports minister Dr Tiago Brandão Rodrigues.\n\nMr Byrne said he was concerned about anyone being appointed by Uefa without \"due process\" and that he hoped people with \"huge experience\" from the Hillsborough inquests would be approached to assist.\n\nHe added that he planned to submit an early day motion in parliament on Monday to \"crank up pressure\" on the French government.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Fast flowing or deep floodwater may cause danger to life, forecasters have warned\n\nThunderstorms could bring flooding and travel disruption to most of Wales on Sunday, forecasters have warned.\n\nThe Met Office yellow warning came into force at 00:00 BST on Sunday and runs until 00:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe forecaster said fast flowing or deep flood water was possible, potentially causing a danger to life.\n\nForecasters have also warned of potential delays and cancellations to bus and train services due to flooding and lightning strikes.\n\nThe only Welsh county not expected to be affected is Anglesey.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nRafael Nadal reached the French Open final after his opponent Alexander Zverev needed to be taken off court in a wheelchair following a nasty fall.\n\nThe third seed screamed in pain when he went down on the baseline after turning his right ankle on the final point of the 12th game of the second set.\n\nFifth seed Nadal was leading 7-6 (10-8) 6-6 when Zverev left the court.\n\nNadal will play Casper Ruud in Sunday's final after the Norwegian beat Marin Cilic in Friday's second semi-final.\n\nAfter Zverev's injury a concerned Nadal went round to check on his opponent as a medic raced on to the court to help the German.\n\nAfter a short break, Zverev returned on crutches and was given a warm hug by Spain's Nadal before the crowd rose in a standing ovation.\n\n\"It is very tough and I feel very sad for him,\" said 13-time champion Nadal.\n\n\"He was playing an unbelievable tournament. I know how much he is fighting for a Grand Slam - he will win more than one. I wish him all the very best.\n\n\"It is difficult to say a lot of things in this situation. For me to be in the final of Roland Garros is a dream but at the same time to finish that way is not nice.\n\n\"I was in a small room with Sascha [in the treatment room off court] and to see him crying was a tough moment.\"\n\nOn his 36th birthday, Nadal has become the second oldest men's singles finalist in French Open history behind American Bill Tilden, who was 37 when he was runner-up in 1930.\n\nZverev's fall was a dramatic and heartbreaking end to a semi-final battle that had been intriguing if not compelling.\n\nThe 25-year-old German had lost the first set after being unable to take any of four set points from a 6-2 lead in the tie-break.\n\nAfter missing the chance to serve out the second set, producing three double faults at 5-3, Zverev showed resilience to regroup.\n\nIn a set full of suspense, if not quality, he was about to have the opportunity to level in another tie-break.\n\nInstead his ambitions of becoming a Grand Slam champion - at least now - were ended in the cruellest manner.\n\nThe seriousness of the situation was immediately clear, with Zverev screaming and signalling for help as he lay on the ground.\n\nMedics quickly arrived and it seemed obvious he would not be able to continue once the wheelchair was called for.\n\nA sombre mood hung in the air as the 15,000 crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier waited for news and it came when Zverev returned on crutches to shake hands with umpire Renaud Lichtenstein.\n\nAlmost the entire stadium stood up to give Zverev a thunderous round of applause, the player responding by lifting one of his crutches into the air.\n\nThe unexpected ending brought an end to a scrappy match that had already lasted three hours and 13 minutes without the second set being concluded.\n\nNadal, who continues to battle a chronic foot injury, was far from his best in the opening set but showed his brilliance in the crucial moments to help win it.\n\nThe 21-time Grand Slam champion walked out to the match amid huge applause, before the crowd serenaded him with a rendition of 'Joyeux Anniversaire' - 'Happy Birthday' in French.\n\nThe party atmosphere quickly changed. Zverev broke Nadal's serve in the opening game of the match, with Nadal struggling on the slower conditions in humid conditions under the Chatrier roof on a rainy Paris afternoon.\n\nZverev moved 4-2 ahead with a service hold to love, showing his high level of confidence with powerful winners.\n\nBut he got tight when serving at 4-3 and Nadal broke as part of a run of three successive games that left Zverev serving to stay in the opening set.\n\nThe German came under pressure again, fending off three set points which his errors had helped create. But he survived, although he was then unable to take either of two break points himself in the 11th game.\n\nIt was left to a tie-break to separate the pair, where Nadal produced two forehand winners at crucial times that were almost unworldly.\n\nNadal saved Zverev's third set point with a whipped crosscourt forehand which left most in the crowd in awe and jubilantly celebrating, sealing the set at the sixth opportunity with a sensational forehand winner down the line.\n\nA messy second set featured eight breaks of serve in the opening nine games. Nadal finally held serve for the first time in the set for 5-5 and another tie-break was necessary until agony struck for Zverev.\n• None Follow Cilic v Ruud in the other men's semi-final - live text & radio\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nRuud becomes first Norwegian into a Grand Slam singles final\n\nIn the second semi-final, Ruud fought back from a set down to beat Croatia's Cilic and reach his first Grand Slam final.\n\nEighth seed Ruud, who becomes the first Norwegian to reach a singles final at a Slam, won 3-6 6-4 6-2 6-2 against the 2014 US Open champion.\n\nCilic, 33, was playing in his first major semi-final since losing in the 2018 Australian Open final and made a fine start as he gained the opening set against a nervous-looking Ruud.\n\nBut Ruud, 23, broke Cilic's serve in the third game of the second set, although the Croat wasted three chances to get it back on serve in the 10th game of the set.\n\nCilic missed a number of overhead shots and started the third set badly, being broken in both of his two opening service games as Ruud took control.\n\nIn the sixth game of the third set, with Ruud 4-1 ahead, there was a 15-minute delay to the match after a protester got on to Court Philippe Chatrier and tied herself to the net.\n\nWhen the match restarted, Ruud finished off the third set and then broke Cilic's serve at the first available opportunity in the fourth on his way to the victory that sets up an encounter with Nadal.\n\n\"Rafa has been my idol all of my life,\" said Ruud. \"He is the last of the big three top players in the world that I've never played so it's perfect timing to play him in a Grand Slam final and it will be a special moment for me.\n\n\"He is playing a student from his academy so it's going to be a fun one. It's something I've dreamed of.\"\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "A former pupil of Fettes College has secured a settlement of £400,000 from the school after alleging he was abused by a teacher.\n\nIn evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the man known as Frank claimed he was beaten and sexually abused at the Edinburgh school.\n\nFettes has previously offered a \"full and unreserved apology\" to those who suffered abuse while at the school.\n\nFollowing the payment, the man said: \"It has never been about the money\".\n\n\"Fettes had the opportunity back in 2005 to do the right thing but they tried to bury things rather than do right by the pupils who were in their care,\" he added.\n\nFrank attended Fettes Junior School and Fettes College as a day student between 1975 and 1981.\n\nHe claims he was repeatedly sexually abused and physically assaulted in a classroom by the teacher.\n\nDescribing the teacher as \"brazen and sick\", he said: \"He'd molest me while I stood at his desk as he marked my class work and one day when I was kept back at end of class he pinned me against a door frame and assaulted me.\"\n\nThe man and his mother reported the final and worst sexual assault to the school at the time, but say the teacher was given a one-month sabbatical before being reinstated.\n\nSuffering from PTSD, flashbacks and depression, he reported the abuse again in the mid-2000s to police as well as the school but no action was taken.\n\nHe recalled being devastated by the response from each.\n\n\"They both basically told me 'What do you want us to do about it?',\" he said.\n\nFrank instead pursued a civil legal action against the Governors of the Fettes Trust, which manages the school, and his case has now settled out of court for the six-figure sum.\n\n\"I know I am not the only survivor of abuse at Fettes and I don't believe my attacker was the only teacher,\" he said.\n\nKim Leslie, a partner at Digby Brown Solicitors, led the legal action against the trust.\n\nShe said: \"Frank's strength in speaking out is matched only by his strength in taking those responsible to court.\n\n\"Many abuse cases have been raised against Fettes but I believe Frank's victory is the first that's publicly known to be successful so I hope survivors may take hope from this result as they consider their own route to justice to get the damages and recognition they deserve.\"\n\nLast year Fettes College was among several schools which offered apologies at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.\n\nSpeaking on its behalf, advocate Jonathan Brodie QC said the school wanted to make \"a full and unreserved apology to those who have suffered abuse whilst at Fettes\".\n\nHe said: \"Fettes accepts and recognises that in the past there have been occasions of sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse.\"\n\nIt is understood that an 82-year-old man is subject to Crown Office proceedings in relation to allegations of abuse at Fettes College.\n\nLast August BBC Scotland learned prosecutors were pursuing legal action to extradite the suspect from South Africa to Scotland to face trial.\n\nIt came after a group of former Fettes junior school pupils were told it was \"not in the public interest to prosecute\".", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his remarks in a televised address to the nation\n\nIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused \"enemies\" of Iran of stirring up unrest to try to overthrow the Islamic Republic.\n\nHe said those who opposed Tehran hoped to use protests to strike a blow at the country.\n\nHis comments come after several weeks of demonstrations in cities over the rising cost of basic foods.\n\nA deadly building collapse in the south last month sparked further protests blaming authorities for the incident.\n\nThe ayatollah has long insisted that US sanctions are to blame for the soaring prices of basic foods in the country.\n\n\"Today the enemy counts on popular demonstrations to strike the Islamic system,\" he said in a televised address on Saturday.\n\nThe enemy \"hopes to turn the people against the Islamic Republic by psychological means, through the internet, money, and the mobilisation of mercenaries,\" he said.\n\n\"The Americans and the Westerners made miscalculations in the past on various questions,\" he added. \"Still today, it's a miscalculation that they think they can make the Iranian nation oppose the Islamic Republic.\"\n\nSome 37 people are said to have died after a building collapsed two weeks ago in the south-western city of Abadan, in the deadliest incident of its kind in Iran for years.\n\nThe disaster has been blamed on structural faults, poor safety standards and the flouting of regulations.\n\nThirteen people have been arrested, including the city's mayor.\n\nHowever, protesters are blaming the wider authorities, accusing them of negligence and corruption.\n\nDemonstrations have also been held in other parts of Iran, with shouts of \"death to Khamenei!\" heard on unverified video posted on social media - and similar shouts were heard at protests in the southern port city of Bushehr, reports say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The aftermath of a deadly building collapse in Iran", "Kate Bush reportedly let the song be used because she is \"a big fan\" of Stranger Things\n\nKate Bush's Running Up That Hill has gone back into the UK top 10 after a new generation discovered it thanks to Netflix's Stranger Things.\n\nThe song originally reached number three in the singles chart in 1985.\n\nThe track has taken off again after playing a prominent part in the new series of the 1980s-set streaming hit, and went to number eight on Friday.\n\nIt has been hugely popular on music services and TikTok since the show's fourth season was released last week.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KateBushMusic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe global resurgence has also seen it go to number two in Australia.\n\nAnd in the US, where it reached number 30 in 1985, the comeback should \"at least give its original chart peak a run for its money\", Billboard said.\n\nThe song is used in a number of episodes of the new series, and becomes crucial for the character of Max Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink.\n\nThe show's makers were unsure whether Bush would approve its use and the 63-year-old British singer-songwriter is \"selective when it comes to licensing her music\", Sony Music's Wende Crowley told Variety.\n\nBut it turned out Bush is \"a big fan of the show\", according to the US entertainment publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNetflix has said season four of Stranger Things, which again stars Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder, was watched for a record 287 million hours over its first weekend of release, breaking the streaming giant's record for the biggest ever premiere weekend for an English-language series.\n\nCritics described the new series as \"formulaic but fabulous\".\n\nBush's atmospheric pop ballad appears on the soundtrack alongside other retro hits including Talking Heads' Psycho Killer and Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).\n\nIt is not the first time Running Up That Hill has returned to the charts. It went to number six in 2012 after being used in the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.\n\nThis week, Harry Styles remained at number one for a ninth week with As It Was, while Liam Gallagher notched up his fourth chart-topping solo album with C'Mon You Know.", "London's historic Camden Market has been put up for sale.\n\nThe market's billionaire owner is reportedly hoping a deal will net him as much as £1.5bn.\n\nInvestment bank Rothschild & Co is overseeing the sale process, the BBC understands.\n\nThe 16-acre patchwork of more than 1,000 stalls, bars, shops, and cafes, in north London is a popular tourist destination.\n\nBut it has long been associated with counter-cultural movements, from punks to hippies, priding itself on the breadth of independent retailers selling fresh produce, trinkets, and arts and crafts.\n\nThe market sprung up out of a run-down timber yard in 1972, after it was purchased by two childhood friends.\n\nNow, it claims to attract 28 million visitors a year, and could be the subject of a potential bidding war as its Israeli owner, Teddy Sagi, looks to offload it after eight years of ownership.\n\nMade up of three separate zones - Camden Lock Market, Stables Market, and Buck Street Market - the estate also includes housing, co-working spaces, and a 35,000-sq-ft, three-floor leisure centre called Babylon Park.\n\nA selection of bidders have been contacted in the past week, according to the Financial Times, which first reported on the deal, with Mr Sagi - who made his money by founding and selling an online gambling company - hoping to field offers as high as £1.5bn for the area.\n\nSince 2014, when Mr Sagi first acquired property in Camden Market, many of the independent sellers have left the area, being replaced by more well-established brands.\n\nDrawn in by the youthful, anti-establishment atmosphere, waves of corporate giants from MTV to Santander have moved to the area in recent decades, changing the face of the neighbourhood.\n\nThe site was originally put up for sale by Mr Sagi in 2019 but was later taken off the market as the pandemic hit.\n\nThe businessman's latest venture in Camden is the Hawley Wharf redevelopment, which opened in August 2021 and promised to hark back to the area's golden days.\n\nThe corporate website for Camden Market describes it as a \"brand new new waterside destination of retail, leisure and food traders\", which \"reboots and restores Camden's chaotic charm\".\n• None Camden fire: 'It's our heart and soul'", "William and Kate's children have been hard at work baking cakes for a party in Cardiff\n\nStreet parties and celebrations have been taking place across the country, as thousands of people turn out to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe monarch's 70-year reign is being marked with four days of celebrations over the extended bank holiday weekend.\n\nHere is a selection of images, as communities gather together to enjoy the occasion.\n\nSome people in Cardiff had a chance to enjoy a cake baked by a royal - Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte rolled their sleeves up to produce a batch of fairy cakes.\n\nSunday's rainy weather did not dampen the mood of these seafront partygoers in Morecambe, Lancashire.\n\nOne of the youngest partygoers was in Morecambe - the appropriately dressed Sophia.\n\nPrincesses Beatrice and Eugenie joined in the fun and games at the Jubilee Big Lunch event organised by Westminster Council...\n\n...while the Countess of Wessex chatted to some children at the lunch party in Windsor.\n\nThe Windsor party is taking place on the Long Walk, leading up to the castle.\n\nLilly the corgi was one of the canine guests at the Royal Pooch Party in Manchester.\n\nUnion flag outfits were the order of the day at this party in Reading.\n\nLaura McKnight holds a cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth II as her sons Noah (5) and Louis (2) play mini golf at a picnic in Newry.\n\nThere were plenty of people - and balloons - at this street party in Cookham, Berkshire.\n\nChelsea Pensioners found themselves the focus of attention at a party near their home in west London.\n\nHundreds of people turned out for the party in Swanage, with tables stretching far along the streets.\n\nLocals also gathered to mark the occasion in Kelvindale, Glasgow.\n\nMeanwhile, in Trafford, Greater Manchester, one family had fun with fancy dress masks.\n\nIn Leicester, residents welcomed Morris dancers for some traditional entertainment.\n\nIn Belfast, people had fun dressing up in royal-themed costumes.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "LNER, Grand Central and Thameslink services are among the affected routes\n\nMore than 100 trains were delayed and at least 20 cancelled on the line connecting London and Edinburgh after a trespasser got on to the tracks.\n\nServices on the East Coast mainline came to a standstill on Saturday.\n\nThe disruption threatened to add to crowding and queues as people headed to big events including Jubilee celebrations and Liam Gallagher's concert in Knebworth.\n\nThe trespasser was eventually found hiding in a tree in Hertfordshire.\n\nTrains were stopped while British Transport Police used a helicopter and dog teams to help search for the person in the Potters Bar area, said Great Northern which operates some services on the line.\n\nLNER, Grand Central and Thameslink services were also affected.\n\nIt is understood the trespasser avoided capture for some time before being found in the tree.\n\nA Network Rail spokesperson said: \"Services from London King's Cross have been severely disrupted this afternoon owing to a trespass incident in the Potter's Bar area.\n\n\"The individual has been safely removed from the railway and services are up and running again, however, passengers should check the status of their journey before travelling as delays are likely to continue through the afternoon.\n\n\"Anyone travelling to an event such as Slam Dunk in Hatfield or to Stevenage for Liam Gallagher should be aware that due to the earlier disruption, a significantly disrupted service is expected on Saturday evening with queuing at stations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, was poisoned in London in 2006\n\nOne of the main suspects in the murder of the former Russian spy and Kremlin critic, Alexander Litvinenko, has died of Covid-19.\n\nDmitry Kovtun was one of two men UK authorities say fatally poisoned Mr Litvinenko in London in 2006.\n\nMr Kovtun died at a hospital in the Russian capital Moscow, the Tass state news agency reported on Saturday.\n\nAnother suspect in the killing, Andrei Lugovoi, wrote on social media that his \"faithful friend\" had died.\n\nMr Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who became a British citizen and outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with a radioactive substance at a London hotel where he had met the two men.\n\nHe fell ill shortly after the meeting and was admitted to hospital. His condition worsened and he died weeks later on 23 November.\n\nA UK public inquiry conducted 10 years later concluded that the killing was \"probably approved\" by Russian President Vladimir Putin. From his deathbed, Mr Litvinenko accused President Putin of ordering his killing.\n\nRussia has always denied any involvement in the murder.\n\nThe UK inquiry said Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun, both former KBG officers, deliberately poisoned Mr Litvinenko by lacing his cup of green tea with the potent substance Polonium-210.\n\nBritish investigators found traces of the substance at sites across London where the two men had been, including in offices and hotels.\n\nSeparately, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled last year that Russia was responsible for the killing.\n\nBoth men denied carrying out the murder and Russia refused to extradite them to face trial in the UK.\n\nDmitry Kovtun, pictured in 2015, denied carrying out the murder\n\nMr Kovtun was born in 1965 and trained at the Soviet command academy in Moscow before joining the protection unit of the KGB.\n\nHe was serving in East Germany as the Soviet Union collapsed and fled with his first wife to Hamburg to claim political asylum.\n\nMr Kovtun later returned to Russia, where he was allegedly recruited by Mr Lugovoi.\n\nAfter the UK report was released, Mr Kovtun told the Interfax news agency: \"I am not involved in Litvinenko's death. As for the outcome of the public inquiry that has been published in London, [it] could not have reached any other conclusions based on the falsified and fabricated evidence.\"", "Michaela McAreavey on her wedding day in 2011\n\nTwo men have apologised for their involvement in a social media video appearing to show a group of people singing a song mocking the 2011 killing of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius.\n\nA statement issued by JWB Consultancy, a firm representing the men, said John Bell and Andrew McDade wished to \"apologise for the vile chant\".\n\nPoliticians from Northern Ireland's main parties have condemned the video.\n\nThe Orange Order has also launched an inquiry.\n\nIt described the video as \"utterly abhorrent\".\n\nPolice are examining the content to see if any offences had been committed.\n\nMichaela McAreavey, a 27-year-old Irish language teacher from County Tyrone, was killed while on honeymoon in 2011.\n\nHer widower, John McAreavey, continues to lead a campaign to bring her killers to justice, but so far no-one has been convicted over her death.\n\nHe tweeted that Mrs McAreavey was \"a vessel of love, courage and dignity\" and that \"hate can hurt but never win\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John McAreavey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed when and where the footage was taken, but it was filmed in a room decorated with union flags and Orange Order paintings.\n\nThe statement issued on behalf of the men said: \"We offer our sincerest and deepest apology to the Harte and McAreavey families, and indeed to wider society for our actions which whilst fuelled by alcohol, can neither be mitigated or excused in any shape or form.\n\n\"Our apology is unequivocal, and our acceptance of wrongdoing is absolute.\n\n\"This behaviour is unreflective of the values of the Loyal Orders and the wider unionist and loyalist community.\"\n\nJWB Consultancy is run by loyalist campaigner Jamie Bryson, who has also condemned the video.\n\nA spokesman for the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland said the institution condemned the content of the video \"without reservation\".\n\n\"The behaviour of those involved and their actions have no place in our society and certainly do not reflect the ethos of our organisation.\n\n\"If any of those involved are found to be members of the institution, they will face disciplinary proceedings.\"\n\nSeparately the Belfast-based football club, Linfield, said one of its coaches who works with its players in a voluntary capacity \"can be clearly identified\" in the video.\n\nLinfield FC condemned the footage as \"deeply offensive\" and said the man's \"voluntary association with the club has been terminated with immediate effect\".\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said she has spoken to Mr McAreavey \"to offer solidarity to both the McAreavey and Harte families\".\n\n\"Hate and sectarianism have no place in our society. People deserve better. Love over hate will always win out,\" she added.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the video was \"vile\".\n\n\"It is plain wrong and is deeply hurtful to the family of Michaela McAreavey,\" he tweeted.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis described the video as reprehensible, and said those involved \"are completely thoughtless and only wish to cause harm\".\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Doug Beattie described the footage as \"absolutely abhorrent, disgusting and shameful\".\n\nAlliance assembly member Kate Nicholl said: \"How her poor family must feel. I have reported to the police.\"\n\nMP Claire Hanna, from the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) tweeted she was: \"Appalled. Speechless, almost, at the depths some plumb. Thinking of the McAreavey family circle who should never have been exposed to this hatred and depravity.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV leader) Jim Allister said: \"The video glorying in the murder of Michaela McAreavey is beyond disgusting, bringing shame and dishonour on all associated with such loathsome behaviour.\"\n\nMichaela graduated from Queen's University on the same day in 2006 that her father, Mickey Harte, received an honorary doctorate\n\nMrs McAreavey was found strangled in a bathtub at her honeymoon hotel 12 days after her wedding.\n\nShe was the daughter of former Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football manager Mickey Harte, who managed the County Tyrone team for 18 years.\n\nShe was married in her home village of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, on 30 December 2010.\n\nThe couple were staying in room 1025 of the Legends Hotel in Mauritius.\n\nOn 10 January 2011, Mrs McAreavey went to their room to collect biscuits and was not seen alive again.\n\nLocal police later said she had been strangled to death after disturbing intruders who broke into the room to steal money.", "The third day of the jubilee celebrations continues with a spectacular evening of entertainment featuring an array of global stars and performers.\n\nThe third day of the platinum jubilee celebrations continues with a spectacular evening of entertainment. The concert at Buckingham Palace features a glittering array of global stars and performers from the worlds of music and dance to celebrate 70 years of HM the Queen’s reign. As darkness falls, stunning projections illuminate the palace during the performances. Kirsty Young is in St James’s Park in London with special guests, and backstage Roman Kemp and Richie Anderson catch up with some of the performers taking part.", "Mr Macron told French regional media that Russia's leader had \"isolated himself\"\n\nUkraine's foreign minister has hit out at French President Emmanuel Macron after he said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion.\n\nMr Macron said it was crucial President Vladimir Putin had a way out of what he called a \"fundamental error\".\n\nBut Dmytro Kuleba said allies should \"better focus on how to put Russia in its place\" as it \"humiliates itself\".\n\nMr Macron has repeatedly spoken to Mr Putin by phone in an effort to broker a ceasefire and negotiations.\n\nThe French attempts to maintain a dialogue with the Kremlin leader contrast with the US and UK positions.\n\nForeign minister Kuleba said in a tweet that \"calls to avoid humiliation of Russia can only humiliate France and every other country that would call for it\".\n\nKyiv says Russia must not get territorial concessions from Ukraine, as the Russian invasion has been condemned internationally as brutal aggression.\n\nEarlier, Mr Macron told French regional media that Russia's leader had \"isolated himself\".\n\n\"I think, and I told him, that he made a historic and fundamental error for his people, for himself and for history,\" he said.\n\n\"Isolating oneself is one thing, but being able to get out of it is a difficult path,\" he added.\n\nItaly's Prime Minister Mario Draghi has aligned himself with Mr Macron, suggesting Europe wants \"some credible negotiations\".\n\nThe eastern city of Severodonetsk remains the epicentre of fighting in Ukraine, with Ukrainian forces fiercely resisting Russian tanks, infantry and intense artillery barrages.\n\nCapturing the city would deliver the Luhansk region to Russian forces and their local separatist allies, who also control much of neighbouring Donetsk region.\n\nIn Soledar, not far from Severodonetsk, a woman sits in her wrecked apartment after a missile strike\n\nThe region's Ukrainian governor Serhiy Haidai said his forces had reclaimed about a fifth of Severodonetsk and could hold on.\n\n\"As soon as we have enough Western long-range weapons, we will push their artillery away from our positions. And then, believe me, the Russian infantry, they will just run,\" he said.\n\nThe US plans to give Kyiv's forces precision rocket systems, so that they can hit Russian positions from a longer range. The UK will also send them a number of large multiple-rocket batteries.\n\nFacing Severodonetsk across the Siverskyi Donets river lies Lysychansk. Both cities are strategically important for Russia: Severodonetsk has the giant Azot chemical plant, which produces nitrogen-based fertilisers, and Lysychansk has Ukraine's second biggest oil refinery.\n\nThe fighting has now left most of Severodonetsk in ruins, but thousands of civilians are still sheltering in basements there.\n\nGovernor Haidai said Russian forces were blowing up bridges on the river to prevent Ukraine bringing in military reinforcements and delivering aid to civilians.", "People from all around the world have descended on London to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.\n\nMany of them came to The Mall and Horse Guards Parade to watch Trooping the Colour, the annual military ceremony commemorating the Queen’s official birthday.\n\nIt’s one of many events taking place across the UK over the four-day bank holiday weekend.", "Mariah Carey's song is one of the best known Christmas hits\n\nSinger Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement over her 1994 Christmas mega-hit, All I Want for Christmas is You.\n\nSongwriter Andy Stone says he co-wrote a song with the same name five years earlier, arguing that Ms Carey exploited his \"popularity\" and \"style\".\n\nDespite sharing a title, the two songs appear musically different, but Mr Stone claims Ms Carey caused confusion and did not ask for permission.\n\nMs Carey has not yet responded.\n\nA must-have on any Christmas playlist, Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You is one of the best known Christmas records of all time.\n\nSince appearing on the album Merry Christmas in 1994, it has topped the charts in several countries and by 2017 had reportedly earned Ms Carey more than $60m (£48m) in royalties.\n\nThe song has been streamed one billion times on Spotify.\n\nIn a recent memoir, Ms Carey admitted to composing \"most of the song on a cheap little Casio keyboard\".\n\nMr Stone, who performs under the name Vince Vance with the band Vince Vance and the Valiants, is claiming at least $20m (£16m) in damages.\n\nThe complaint says that Ms Carey, as well as her co-writer Walter Afanasieff and record label Sony Music Entertainment, have earned \"undeserved profits\" from the song, arguing that the defendants \"knowingly, wilfully, and intentionally engaged in a campaign\" to infringe copyright.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by malacomg This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nMr Stone argues that he never gave permission for his song to be used for any purpose, including \"the creation of a derivative work\".\n\nIt is not clear why the legal challenge has only been made now, 28 years after Ms Carey's song was released.\n\nThe complaint says Mr Stone's lawyers first contacted Ms Carey and her co-defendants last year, but were \"unable to come to any agreement\".\n\nIt is not unusual for different songs to have the same name, and the United States Copyright Office lists 177 entries on its website under the title All I Want for Christmas is You.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. All I Want For Christmas Is You: Meet the man behind Mariah Carey's festive classic", "Robbie Williams is playing a homecoming gig at his team's football stadium, Vale Park\n\nSinger Robbie Williams has said fame \"should come with a health warning\" as he gears up for a homecoming gig.\n\nThe star, who has had a string of hits since joining Take That at 16 years old in 1990, returns to his native Stoke-on-Trent later for the one-off concert.\n\nAbout 20,000 fans are expected to welcome him at Port Vale FC's stadium.\n\nReflecting on his 30-year career, Williams said celebrity could be an \"intoxicating\" but \"isolating\" experience, especially when young.\n\nDuring an interview on Radio 4's Today programme with BBC media editor Amol Rajan, the Angels singer, 48, said his life had been \"incredible\" since he became a teenage pin-up.\n\n\"I'm glad it happened to me when it did because there was nothing else happening to me,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned that \"extreme fame\" was like an illness and \"should come with a government health warning\", particularly for younger people.\n\n\"I do think you should know who you are and what you are,\" he said.\n\n\"It's something that isolates you and makes you feel weird.\n\n\"Everything that happens outside of your own body, with people looking at you and behaving in a certain way, makes you feels a certain way.\n\n\"If you're not that au fait with feeling good about yourself it can have a severe reaction, especially if you're not old enough to cope with it.\"\n\nWilliams - a lifelong Port Vale fan - said his homecoming gig was \"written in the stars\" after the side won promotion a week ago - beating Mansfield Town in the League Two play-off final at Wembley.\n\n\"The stage is basically opposite the directors' box and that's basically where I sat as a kid,\" he said.\n\nAbout 20,000 fans are expected to attend the show at Port Vale's stadium\n\nWilliams said he was confident the gig would be \"absolutely amazing\" but confessed he had feelings of trepidation.\n\n\"I don't know how Stoke's changed really. I've got a gilded cage that I arrive and leave in. But out of the window things look quite similar,\" he said.\n\n\"Where I'm from, you're not allowed to have a big head.\n\n\"You're not allowed to get ideas above your station. And even though the performance, the character I've played on stage really is full of himself I'm not really - I'm Rob from Stoke.\n\n\"They say you stop growing the day you get famous and I kind of get it, I'm like a 16-year-old inside a 48-year-old.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least four people were killed and about 30 injured when a train derailed in Germany's south-eastern state of Bavaria, police say.\n\nThe train, which was carrying many students, was heading to Munich when three carriages came off the tracks near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.\n\nInvestigators say they are working to establish what caused the accident.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz expressed shock at the incident and said his sympathy was with families of the victims.\n\nAn official from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen local authority had initially suggested that some 60 people had been injured, but Stefan Sonntag, a spokesperson for the German federal police, said that figure referred to the number of passengers on the train.\n\nThe accident happened at around 13:15 local time (11:15 GMT) on Friday, shortly after the train left Garmisch-Partenkirchen for Munich.\n\nMr Sonntag told reporters that 15 of the injured were in serious condition at a local hospital. Authorities also confirmed that a number of children were among those hurt.\n\nIt is unclear what caused the accident, which occurred as the train rounded a wide bend, but Bavaria's transport minister, Christian Bernreiter, told regional broadcaster BR that the accident may have been the result of a technical fault.\n\n\"There were no third parties involved here, so one must assume that some technical reason - either on the vehicle or on the rail - was the cause,\" he said.\n\nEmergency workers had to use ladders to climb down through windows to reach survivors trapped in upended carriages and officials said that people had been \"pulled through the windows\" to rescue them from the wreckage.\n\nSix helicopters, including three scrambled from the Austrian region of Tyrol, were sent to the scene to assist in rescue efforts.\n\nThe area has started preparations to host the G7 summit of world leaders later this month and a number of police and soldiers deployed to the region were enlisted as part of the rescue operation.\n\nA US soldier based at a nearby air base was driving past when the train derailed. He told local media the accident had been \"just awful - suddenly the train overturned\".\n\nThe accident comes as Germany launched a new discounted rail ticket and Mr Sonntag said the regional train was \"very crowded and many people were using it, hence the high number of injured\".\n\nPart of the route between Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been blocked off and traffic has been diverted, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn says.\n\nGermany's deadliest rail crash in modern times occurred in 1998 when a high-speed train derailed in Eschede in Lower Saxony, killing 101 people.\n\nThe country's most recent fatal crash took place in February, when one person was killed and 14 others were injured in a collision between two trains near Munich.\n\nIn a separate development, a carriage on an Italian high-speed train travelling from Turin to Rome derailed while approaching the capital.\n\nLocal emergency officials say nobody was injured in the incident, which saw the train's back carriage come off the tracks as it neared the Serenissima tunnel in Rome.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you see what happened? If it's safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Three dead in train crash near Czech-German border", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's Nations League campaign got off to a losing start as a disappointing display brought a deserved defeat by Hungary in Budapest.\n\nThis international was billed as taking place behind closed doors as Uefa punishment for racist and homophobic behaviour by Hungary's fans during Euro 2020.\n\nAnd yet it was played in front of a large crowd, consisting mainly of schoolchildren allowed in under Uefa rules - and the young supporters revelled in a poor England performance and Dominik Szoboszlai's winning goal from the penalty spot after Reece James fouled Zsolt Nagy.\n\nThe start of the game was overshadowed by loud jeering of England's players as they took the knee and what followed was a jaded, mediocre effort that carried all the hallmarks of the end of a long season.\n\nWest Ham's Jarrod Bowen worked hard on his debut but Leicester defender James Justin, also making his first appearance, suffered an injury and had to be replaced by Bukayo Saka - though the Arsenal man produced a rare England threat with a fine run and shot that Hungary keeper Peter Gulacsi saved with his legs.\n\nEngland now move on to Munich, where they face Germany in their second Nations League A3 game on Tuesday.\n\nEngland went into this game on the back of a highly impressive, and lengthy, run of good form that saw them qualify for the World Cup in comfort, so this performance will come as a disappointment to manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThey had not lost, other than to Italy on penalties in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley, since Belgium beat them in November 2020.\n\nEngland cannot, however, have any complaints about this outcome, other than perhaps the concession of a rather soft penalty.\n\nThere are, of course, mitigating circumstances in that these competitive fixtures - although even seasoned internationals such as Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne argue they are little more than glorified friendlies - come at the end of a gruelling season for so many England players.\n\nThe visitors lacked spark and it was perhaps no surprise that the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold looked so jaded having figured in Liverpool's losing Champions League final against Real Madrid only a week ago.\n\nWhat will concern Southgate was the sloppiness and lack of spark against a Hungary side who looked much fresher and more creative, especially Nagy, who won Szoboszlai's penalty, and Loic Nego.\n\nHarry Kane, seeking his 50th England goal, sparked only fleetingly, although service was sparse, while Southgate's side lacked the energy and zip of their opponents.\n\nThere was a competitive edge to this game as far as Hungary and their fans were concerned and how they celebrated at the final whistle.\n\nSouthgate will have learned little from this but he would have hoped for better - and will need to get it in Munich if England are not to suffer a similar fate.\n\nThis was meant to be a game played behind closed doors to punish Hungary and their fans for their behaviour at Euro 2020 and yet their victory was concluded amid joyous scenes and deafening roars at the final whistle.\n\nHungary invoked Uefa's Article 73 to invite children aged 14 and under to the game, who had to be accompanied by an adult.\n\nIt resulted in a large attendance, England's players being jeered when they took the knee before kick-off and then an almost festival atmosphere as Hungary's players went on a lap of honour.\n\nAs punishments go, this was allowed to become a celebration.\n• None Attempt saved. Martin Ádám (Hungary) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bálint Vécsei.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Reece James.\n• None Attempt missed. András Schäfer (Hungary) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. László Kleinheisler (Hungary) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ádám Szalai.\n• None Attempt missed. Conor Coady (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Reece James with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Jarrod Bowen (England) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?:\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "There was violence outside the Stade de France after the Champions League final had ended\n\nA week has gone by but the stadium \"fiasco\" remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.\n\nAmong Liverpool fans whose translated testimony has been circulating widely on social media is UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett, who said he had \"never been so scared in my life … as when I came out of that ground on Saturday night\".\n\n\"At least when you are in a cage it is one against one,\" the mixed martial artist said.\n\n\"There were groups of 30 men, running around in big packs. Some of them had weapons: machetes, knives, bars and bats. People were being pinned to the floor and having their watches taken.\n\n\"I saw people having their handbags taken off them, when [the thieves] would pull the bag from them and then slice the [strap] with a knife.\n\n\"The only thing I can compare it to is something like the film The Purge - where you can do what you like for 12 hours. There were no laws.\"\n\nThe Purge depicts an American dystopia where every year all crimes including murder are decriminalised for half a day.\n\nReal Madrid football club added its voice yesterday to those calling for an investigation into the violence against its fans who, it said, had been left \"helpless and defenceless\".\n\n\"Many of our supporters were attacked, harassed, set upon, mugged. Some even had to spend the night in hospital because of their injuries,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nThe head of a French police union said his colleagues \"had never seen anything like it\".\n\n\"At the start the ones jumping through the turnstiles were mainly locals, but very quickly other profiles emerged. Minors or pseudo-minors, foreigners, ultra-violent types from God knows where. Then everything changed,\" Patrice Ribeiro of Synergie-officiers told Le Figaro newspaper.\n\n\"They were attacking women, children, old people, and then merging back into the crowd when the police came. Some victims actually had their clothes taken from them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Le Parisien This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe post-match violence threatens to be an issue in parliamentary elections that will be held in two rounds from next weekend - with conservative and far-right opponents of President Macron spotting a massive opportunity.\n\nFor them, the real story was less the failures of organization (though these undoubtedly existed) and certainly not hooliganism by Liverpudlians (of which there was next to no evidence) - but rather the eruption of more thuggery from the run-down high-immigration areas around Saint-Denis.\n\nMore outrageous yet was the government's clear reluctance to call this out, for fear (according to critics) of alienating centre-left opinion by \"stigmatising\" the people of the Paris suburbs.\n\nLittle wonder that far-right leader Marine Le Pen is using the fiasco to galvanise her electorate ahead of the parliamentary vote.\n\n\"France has offered up a spectacle of what it is becoming,\" she tweeted. \"A zone of general lawlessness.\"\n\nMs Le Pen has seized on the disorder to attack President Emmanuel Macron's administration\n\nIn fact Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) is not the main threat to Macron at these elections. The real threat is from the left, and a new alliance created behind the radical Jean-Luc Mélenchon.\n\nBut if the effect of the Stade de France is to draw disaffected right-wing voters away from the Macron camp (where they'd pitched their tents in order to keep out Mr Mélenchon) and towards the RN (because \"Marine told it like it is\"), then the president's advantage over the left is weakened.\n\nAnd that could tell when the results come in on June 19.", "The Royal Family and guests have attended a service of thanksgiving for the Queen at St Paul's Cathedral - but without the monarch herself. She is resting at Windsor Castle and is believed to have watched the service on television.\n\nMany politicians were among the guests, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie.\n\nAmong the first members of the Royal Family to arrive were Zara Tindall, the daughter of Princess Anne, and her husband Mike Tindall.\n\nPrince Andrew was not at the service because he has Covid, but both his daughters were there. Princess Beatrice arrived with her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.\n\nSoon after, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrived at the service. It was the first time they have been seen in public since coming to the UK from their home in California to attend the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThey were followed by Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence, and Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex and their children.\n\nPrince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, came without their children.\n\nThe last guests to arrive were the Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThe most senior members of the Royal Family sat together at the front.\n\nThe Wessex family, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice and Prince Harry, sat across the aisle.\n\nAfter the service, the family left in a procession.", "Low-key was always going to be difficult to pull off when you are globally famous, members of the Royal Family, and haven't been seen in the UK together for two years after leaving in controversial circumstances.\n\nBut when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped out of the car at the Great West Door of St Paul's Cathedral they were back in the full glare of the royal spotlight.\n\nUnsurprisingly they looked slightly nervous. They held hands tightly. Meghan straightened out the collar of her Dior coat.\n\nThey chatted to one another but you could sense their caution.\n\nHuge crowds had gathered outside St Paul's Cathedral for Friday's Platinum Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving. Most of them dedicated supporters of the Royal Family.\n\nWould they welcome the return of Prince Harry and Meghan?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs the couple climbed the steps, the crowds clapped and cheered. It was a warm, spontaneous response to the couple making their first appearance together at a royal engagement since 2020.\n\nThat event was the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey held that March.\n\nThen the mood was far darker. The friction within the Royal Family was played out in front of the cameras for everyone to pick apart, with Prince William and Prince Harry barely exchanging a glance even though they were sitting near each other.\n\nThe mood at the 2020 Commonwealth Service was far darker\n\nThe choreography of royal events is always careful and precise and Friday was no exception.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan were seated on the opposite side of the aisle to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge avoiding any awkward visuals.\n\nThey sat alongside Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank on one side. The couples are close. Eugenie and Jack with their young son had visited the Sussexes in California back in February.\n\nOn the other side of them was Lady Sarah Chatto - the daughter of Princess Margaret and the Queen's much-loved niece. A calm and comforting presence. This was a safe seating plan.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan sat alongside Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank on Friday\n\nWhen the couple left the cathedral, there was the odd boo from the crowd but it sat amongst plenty of cheering. There was no real hostility.\n\nAmid the pomp, ceremony, party and reflection this weekend, the Platinum Jubilee is also about family with all its flaws and tensions.\n\nThe Queen had to watch from home but she had previously made it clear that, whatever the problems and history, her grandson, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, were very welcome at the Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThe first public hurdle of Harry and Meghan's brief return to royal duty has been successfully navigated.", "There is shelling every day in Mykolaiv. The Russians are on the outskirts to the east and south, pummelling surrounding villages and forcing thousands to flee.\n\nThe wail of the air raid siren is a prelude to a thud to our right as our car makes its way through the suburbs of this major port.\n\nA plume of smoke a few kilometres away confirms the hit - another rocket.\n\nWe are following a Ukrainian Red Cross van as they try to rescue some of those coming under regular shelling: yet another busload to add to the already historic human exodus from this country.\n\nThese farewells have become a familiar sight across Ukraine over the last 100 days, but they are no less heartbreaking to watch.\n\nLiudmyla has decided it is time for her youngest children to leave. She can't let them play outside as the bombardment continues and she wants them to be somewhere safe.\n\n\"I will see them again when the bombing stops,\" she tells me. But no-one knows when that will be.\n\nMykolaiv was one of the first cities attacked when the invasion began. Russian forces came close to the city limits but were pushed back.\n\nThis region is key to Russian's strategy to cut off the entire southern coast. A breakthrough here would allow the Kremlin's forces to approach Odesa - the country's largest civilian port, 130 km (80 miles) to the west.\n\nVladimir Putin could then complete his land bridge up to Transnistria, the breakaway republic of Moldova.\n\nRead more of Laura Bicker's report from Mykolaiv here", "The Queen made two appearances on Thursday - including to light the principal jubilee beacon\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend Platinum Jubilee celebrations across the UK later - although the Queen will miss her second event of the weekend.\n\nThe Queen has pulled out of the Epsom Derby and will instead watch it on TV from Windsor, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe third day of the celebrations will also see tributes from the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge at an open-air concert on Saturday evening.\n\nWilliam will also visit Cardiff, while Prince Edward is in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Queen has been experiencing mobility problems in recent months and the palace had warned in advance that the monarch would consider which Jubilee events she felt able to attend.\n\nThe 96-year-old earlier pulled out of Friday's Jubilee thanksgiving service after experiencing \"discomfort\" during Thursday's events.\n\nShe had been due to attend Saturday's iconic horse race, but her daughter, the Princess Royal, is expected to officially represent the monarch instead.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are heading to Cardiff to meet the performers and crew behind a Jubilee concert at Cardiff Castle, which is separate to Saturday evening's concert in London.\n\nAt the same time, the Earl and Countess of Wessex will carry out two engagements in Northern Ireland. Prince Edward - the Queen's youngest son - and his wife Sophie will meet children taking part in multicultural street performances, join in with art and craft sessions, and speak to people sharing their personal memories of meeting the Queen.\n\nOn Friday, Princess Anne visited Edinburgh Zoo to feed penguins and learn about caring for wildlife accompanied by Ukrainian refugee children.\n\nLater on Saturday, Prince Charles and Prince William will pay tribute to the Queen during a special Jubilee concert outside Buckingham Palace, called Party at the Palace.\n\nThey will address a live audience of 22,000 during the BBC's two-and-half-hour open-air show.\n\nIt is considered unlikely the Queen will be at the concert, given the avid horse racing fan is to miss the Derby, but confirmation of whether she will make an appearance is expected on the day.\n\nDiana Ross, Queen + Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Hans Zimmer, George Ezra, and Eurovision 2022 runner-up Sam Ryder are among the stars performing at the concert.\n\nSir David Attenborough, David Beckham and Stephen Fry will also feature, and there will be a specially recorded performance from Sir Elton John.\n\nMost Jubilee street parties will also take place this weekend, although some communities - like this one in Swanage - couldn't wait to start the festivities\n\nHundreds turned out to the celebration in the Dorset seaside town\n\nSpeaking ahead of the concert, disco legend Nile Rodgers told the BBC he was expecting an \"incredibly festive\" atmosphere.\n\n\"I've been playing in the UK since the early 1970s and I don't think I've ever seen the country this happy and zhuzhed up and decorated. I expect the concert to be completely out of control,\" he said.\n\nAnd Italian operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli said: \"The psychological condition when you do one of these performances... is like when a football player has to kick the last penalty - I just hope that after many years of my career, I can manage the pressure!\"\n\nSinger-songwriter Mabel told the BBC it was an \"honour\" to perform, and Ella Eyre - who was at Buckingham Palace for Prince William and Catherine's wedding - said it was \"surreal to be on the other side\", adding that the production was \"phenomenal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday, the Queen's love of horse racing was referenced amid tributes at a packed thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday,\n\nArchbishop of York Stephen Cottrell praised her for \"staying the course\" and said she was \"still in the saddle\", even though she was not able to attend.\n\nNew unseen footage showing the Queen's affection for horses will also be broadcast on Saturday, with clips of her caring for the animals at the Royal Stud Sandringham.\n\nIn the videos - to be shown as part of ITV's coverage of the Jubilee celebrations - she is seen feeding, observing and talking affectionately to several horses and foals, alongside her breeding and racing adviser John Warren.\n\nIn one clip as she observes two horses, the Queen is heard to say: \"I often wonder what goes through her head\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDerby Day will see the Queen's unprecedented 70 years on the throne celebrated by 40 retired and current jockeys who have ridden for the monarch, and will form a guard of honour.\n\nThe jockeys will dress in her distinctive purple, gold and red racing silks, and racecourse owners the Jockey Club say the Queen's Stand will be permanently renamed the Queen Elizabeth II Stand.\n\nThe Queen loves nothing more than a day out at the Derby, and of course a day out or two at Royal Ascot which is only two weeks away.\n\nThere are hopeful whispers around the racing community that Her Majesty, even though she can't make the races tomorrow, might be able to attend at least one day at Royal Ascot.\n\nThe Queen is of course a huge supporter of horse racing - she's absolutely been involved from the word go.\n\nFour days after her coronation in 1953, she came to Epsom to see her horse very nearly win the Derby.\n\nShe's been locked in from that day onwards - and has been to most of the Derbys ever since.\n\nSadly not to be this year - but I'm sure she'll be watching on, deeply interested.\n\nThe Queen's hopes of having a winner on this year's Derby Day ended earlier as her only runner was pulled out of a race.\n\nThoroughbreds owned by the Queen have won four out of the five flat racing classics, with only the Derby eluding her.\n\nThe Epsom Derby has always provided fond memories for the Queen, pictured here as 22-year-old Princess Elizabeth with her father King George VI in 1948\n\nThe Queen, pictured here alongside her husband the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother in 1967, has only missed the Derby a handful of times\n\nThe monarch has always been animated watching her favourite sport - as she is here in 1988 - giving photographers the chance to capture a different side of her personality\n\nThe last time she attended was in 2019, as the Derby was without spectators in 2020 and in front of a restricted crowd in 2021 due to the pandemic\n\nMeanwhile, a Jubilee attendee said she was told the Queen was \"fine\" by the Duchess of Cambridge during an event at London's Guildhall on Friday.\n\nGill Smallwood told PA news agency she had asked after the Queen during a conversation with the duchess, who replied that the monarch had found the first day of Jubilee celebrations \"very tiring\", but had a \"lovely time\".\n\nSaturday is also the first birthday of Prince Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet, who travelled with her parents and older brother Archie for her first visit to the UK.", "The Marriott hotel chain has announced it is leaving Russia after 25 years, saying Western restrictions made it \"impossible\" to keep operating there.\n\nThe company closed its Moscow office and paused investment in Russia in March, following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, its 22 hotels in the country are owned by third parties and remained open.\n\nMarriott said the process of suspending operations in Russia was \"complex\".\n\nBut in a statement, it said: \"We have come to the view that newly announced US, UK and EU restrictions will make it impossible for Marriott to continue to operate or franchise hotels in the Russian market.\"\n\nThe company said it remained \"focused on taking care of our Russian-based associates\" and had been supporting individuals in Ukraine and Russia to secure employment with Marriott outside countries affected by the conflict.\n\n\"We continue to join our associates and millions of people around the world in wishing for an end to the current violence and the start of a path towards peace,\" it added.\n\nMarriott joins McDonald's, Starbucks and other companies in heading for the exits in recent weeks as the war in Ukraine continues and Western sanctions aimed at isolating Russia economically tighten.\n\nPublic outcry over Vladimir Putin's invasion also put pressure on Western brands to distance themselves. Hotel brands drew attention for being among the slowest to respond.\n\n\"The process to suspend operations in a market where Marriott has operated for 25 years is complex,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nMarriott did not provide further details about its exit.\n\nFrench carmaker Renault's assets in the country were nationalised, while burger giant McDonald's sold its restaurants, many of which were directly owned by the company, to an existing franchisee.", "Lamar Jackson is a grime artist and the former partner of Scottish star Emeli Sande\n\nThe rapper ex-boyfriend of singer Emeli Sande has been stabbed to death at a Jubilee party.\n\nHypo, real name Lamar Jackson, was attacked in front of a \"large number of people\" at the bash in Redbridge, east London, police said.\n\nDespite efforts to save him the 39-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Scotland Yard is treating the case as a murder and has appealed for witnesses.\n\nDet Ch Insp Laurence Smith said it was possible the stabbing, in Chigwell Road, Woodford Green, and its aftermath were captured on people's phones.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who is yet to speak with us to come forward and let us know what you saw,\" he said.\n\n\"Please take a look and call us. It is vital that we establish what happened.\"\n\nVideo appearing to show the death of Mr Jackson, from Hackney, was shared on social media, with fans quick to condemn those passing it on.\n\nTributes were also quick to pour in, with fans of the grime artist hailing him as \"a pioneer\" in the industry.\n\nOthers said he was \"a clean-hearted guy\" and \"a real Hackney legend\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wreckage left behind by Russian troops at Chernobyl\n\nUkraine says the Russian army looted or damaged more than 1,000 computers at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and stole trucks and radiation dosimeters.\n\nChernobyl's information director Vitaliy Medved said nuclear equipment was not damaged and \"regarding radiation safety everything is OK\".\n\nThe losses caused by the Russian occupation - now ended - are put at more than 1.6bn hryvnia (£44m; $54m).\n\nThe explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe in 1986.\n\nThe decommissioned plant, north of Kyiv, lies near the Belarus border and was quickly occupied by Russian troops after their 24 February invasion.\n\nRussian forces controlled the plant for five weeks before withdrawing on 31 March.\n\nA team from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has just ended a visit to Chernobyl and its surrounding 2,700sq km (1,040sq mile) exclusion zone.\n\nAn IAEA statement says they \"provided support to their Ukrainian counterparts on radiation protection, safety of waste management and nuclear security\".\n\nUkraine's nuclear inspectorate has confirmed to the BBC that the Chernobyl site's radiation level is currently safe.\n\nIn the exclusion zone, however, there are some radiation hotspots which Chernobyl's managers blame on the Russian military activity, as troops dug trenches and their vehicles churned up dust.\n\nYevhen Kramarenko, head of the exclusion zone agency, said thousands of Russian vehicles including tanks had driven through the zone. He said Russia had based more than 1,000 soldiers at Chernobyl.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC's Yogita Limaye at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, now back under Ukraine's control\n\nIn April the agency said the Russians had plundered two labs at Chernobyl, stealing sources of ionising radiation.\n\nMr Medved told the BBC that Russian soldiers had stolen \"computer monitors, hard drives and software\". \"We're still checking the losses... [it's] more than 1,000 units, and whatever they didn't steal they broke.\"\n\nSome removed spare wheels from their armoured personnel carriers so that they could carry away more looted equipment, he said. Construction and firefighting vehicles were stolen, he said, without giving a figure.\n\nThe Russian military has also been accused of looting elsewhere in Ukraine, but has not commented on the reports. It denies indiscriminate targeting of civilian areas.\n\nChernobyl acting director-general Valeriy Seyda says the plant's losses amount to more than 1.6bn hryvnia. He says operations have resumed there safely. The staff, with help from the IAEA, have to monitor the dormant reactors closely and run scientific tests.\n\nThe Russian troops smashed up and looted Chernobyl's workshops, labs and offices, Mr Seyda said.\n\nTheir negligence of safety rules, he said, \"caused some deterioration in [the] radiation situation\" which, he added, has been mitigated.\n\nUkraine has now de-mined the area and disposed of ammunition left behind, Mr Seyda said. Repairs have begun on the damaged facilities, he said, but it is now urgent to ensure safe operations for radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.\n\nA sarcophagus covers the wrecked reactor that blew up in 1986\n\nMr Medved said staff living in Slavutych, a town near the site, had previously commuted easily by train. \"But now the bridges are blown, there is no direct route, they have to go by bus via Kyiv.\"\n\nAnd he said the whereabouts of 196 Ukrainian soldiers taken prisoner by the Russians at Chernobyl were still unknown.\n\nUkraine now has eight reactors connected to the grid - two at the Zaporizhzhia power station, which is under Russian occupation, three at Rivne, two at the South Ukraine power station and one at Khmelnytskyy. Its seven other reactors are shut down for regular maintenance or held in reserve.", "Prince William was in Cardiff with the Duchess of Cambridge and two of their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte - ahead of the Party at the Palace event on Saturday evening.\n\nPrincess Charlotte was seen laughing and smiling as she conducted an orchestra playing an instrumental version of the Disney hit, We Don't Talk About Bruno.\n\nYou can watch the Party at the Palace on iPlayer here.", "The Queen met her great-granddaughter Lilibet for the first time recently\n\nSenior royals have tweeted their birthday wishes to Lilibet - the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - who turned one on Saturday.\n\nThe greetings came from the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as her aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThis week would have been the first opportunity for the Queen to meet her great-granddaughter.\n\nHarry and Meghan are in London with their children for the Jubilee.\n\nLilibet \"Lili\" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, who was born in California, was named in honour of the Queen, whose family nickname has been \"Lilibet\" since she was a child.\n\nThe baby's middle name Diana was chosen in memory of her grandmother.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nHer parents made their first public appearance in the UK together since 2020 on Friday when they attended a service at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nRoyal commentator Omid Scobie speculated that Thursday was likely to have been the \"first moment or the first chance for her [the Queen] to meet her namesake\".\n\nHowever there has been no confirmation whether the Queen has met her great-granddaughter.\n\nThe couple stepped down as senior royals in early 2020 and moved to the US.\n\nNeither Lilibet nor her older brother Archie have been seen in public since they arrived in the country for the weekend's celebrations.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan travelled to the UK with Lilibet and Archie, their two children, for the Platinum Jubilee", "Michael Gove is the cabinet's Levelling Up Secretary\n\nGovernment plans to \"level up\" cities around the UK will cost billions more than thought, a think tank has said.\n\nResearch by the Resolution Foundation found differences in income across the UK were \"significant\" and \"persistent\".\n\nThe government's levelling up agenda is designed to close economic gaps between different parts of the UK.\n\nBut only traditionally poorer areas of London such as Hackney and Newham have seen significant improvement over the last 25 years, the new report found.\n\nThe think tank said levelling up will require investment that goes \"far beyond anything currently being contemplated\" by the government.\n\nThe government welcomed the report which it said showed the vital importance and urgency of \"levelling up all parts of the UK\".\n\nLindsay Judge, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said progress had been made in reducing employment gaps between cities but this had been \"offset by a surge in investment income among better-off families in London and the South East\".\n\nMs Judge said: \"The key to closing these gaps is to boost the productivity of our major cities outside London, which will also lead to stronger growth overall.\"\n\nThe richest part of the country, Kensington and Chelsea, is in the capital and its residents earn, on average, 350% more than those in Nottingham, which is the poorest.\n\nThe report also found that the average annual income in Oxford, which is in the top 25% of local authority areas, is a fifth higher than in Torbay, in Devon, which is in the bottom 25% of areas.\n\nResearchers found these gaps have been reinforced by how much income people in different parts of the country have made from investments.\n\nIn 2019, people living in the London borough of Camden made an average of £9,135 from investments, compared with just £806 in Knowsley, Merseyside, which is one of the most deprived boroughs in the country.\n\nIn a second report to be published on Thursday, the Resolution Foundation will argue that current government policies fall short.\n\nThe think tank said that closing the gap between London and Manchester, where productivity is 30% lower than in the capital, will require tens of billions of pounds of investment, an extra 300,000 workers moving to Greater Manchester and more university graduates working in the city.\n\nHenry Overman, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, said addressing disparities in productivity \"will require Britain to completely turn around its poor record on investment\".\n\nIn February, the government it set out its White Paper for levelling up - an official document outlining its strategy.\n\nAt the time, Levelling Up Secretary Mr Gove said \"while talent is spread equally across the United Kingdom, opportunity is not\".\n\nThe White Paper included £100m of new investment for innovation centres to boost research and development in Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and Glasgow, as well as a £1.5bn fund to give loans to small and medium-sized house builders for new homes mostly outside London and the South-East.\n\nMr Gove previously told the BBC the strategy was not aimed at providing new funding but ensuring money was spent effectively on local priorities.\n\nResponding to the Resolution Foundation report the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said that while the cost-of-living crisis would make levelling up more challenging it also made it more urgent and necessary.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We welcome this report and its findings, which highlight the vital importance and urgency of levelling up all parts of the UK.\n\n\"Our Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will enshrine in law our commitment to closing the gap in pay and productivity across regions.\n\n\"By investing in the areas that need it most, improving schools, supporting regeneration and generating higher paid jobs we will improve the lives of the poorest in areas across the UK.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman has been found dead at the scene of a major gas explosion that destroyed a house in Birmingham and damaged others.\n\nA man also suffered life-threatening injuries in the blast in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, on Sunday evening.\n\nSix other homes were damaged and properties were evacuated.\n\nNeighbours were given a temporary home in a pub, including a man who said \"we have nothing\" apart from \"clothes on our backs\".\n\nA man rescued from the house by people at the scene had suffered \"very serious\" injuries, the ambulance service said.\n\nHe remained in a \"critical\" condition in hospital, emergency services said on Monday.\n\nFour other men suffered minor injuries, following the blast just after 20:30 BST, but were discharged by paramedics.\n\nInvestigations at the scene are continuing\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said it was \"very sad to confirm that a woman has been found dead at the scene\".\n\nMartin Ward-White, incident commander, said the woman who died was found \"relatively quickly within the property that exploded\".\n\n\"The next steps for the fire service and gas board will be to start the investigation into what caused this explosion,\" Mr Ward-White said. \"We know it is gas but what actually caused that gas explosion?\"\n\nThe service said it could be days before the exact cause of the blast was known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage on social media shows flames, damage and debris from the terraced house in Kingstanding\n\nResidents said they had clambered past flaming debris and through rubble to reach the man.\n\nCh Insp Kelly Monaghan, from West Midlands Police, said: \"There [were]... some really heroic actions from members of the community last night.\"\n\n\"Everyone was watching, the house was on fire, nobody was going in, so we could see a way in - so we went in the house, me and about a dozen others,\" a man, who did not want to be named, told the PA news agency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Erdington Policing Constituency This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKiera Parkinson's boyfriend Callum Attwood was among those who rushed inside and she said the day had been \"a complete tragedy\".\n\n\"But we are so proud of every single person that risked their lives to go in there and help somebody else,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire chief thanks community after \"sad and tragic\" incident\n\nA neighbour who lives six doors away from the explosion said he heard a loud bang and came out to see efforts to help.\n\n\"[They] managed to pull somebody out of the rubble but as he was getting pulled out he was saying there was somebody left inside but they wasn't able to help any further as the flames started to get bigger and bigger,\" he said.\n\nKiera Parkinson said the explosion had been \"a complete tragedy\"\n\nKashif Mahmood was driving past with his family when the house exploded and the shockwave smashed into his car.\n\n\"All the airbags, windows, roof were broken,\" he said.\n\n\"It was really shocking and it was really scary. We are all OK but my kids are still in shock.\"\n\nIt is a scene of devastation today. The blast destroyed one house and has caused severe damage to several others.\n\nDebris is strewn across the street and one car which was upended has now been moved.\n\nFire investigators, working alongside specialists from the gas company, have begun sifting through the wreckage as they try to determine what caused the explosion.\n\nSome residents who were evacuated last night have been allowed to return to their homes this morning to collect any essentials but have been told they may not be allowed to stay in their homes again tonight.\n\nOthers simply can't access their properties because the damage is so extensive.\n\nCh Insp Monaghan said there were no suspicious circumstances \"at this stage\".\n\nAsked about reports the house had been up for sale and that the boiler had needed replacing, fire service area commander Alex Shapland stated: \"That may form part of the investigation.\n\n\"As I say, we've got colleagues and professionals who will be looking at all of the different circumstances.\"\n\nMr Shapland said a multi-agency inquiry was now under way and added: \"We have searched the properties we can get into.\"\n\nKashif Mahmood was driving past the house when it exploded and said it was \"really scary\"\n\nTwenty-one people were evacuated and had gone to stay at other houses and hotels provided by the city council.\n\nEmma Core, assistant manager at the nearby Kingstanding Inn, said the council asked the pub to take in people who had been evacuated.\n\n\"They were all feeling sad and low, worrying about their belongings. Some people came, they had not got shoes, they only had slippers on their feet,\" she said.\n\nLami Charlery said his family only has the \"clothes on our backs\" after having to leave their home\n\nLami Charlery, who was among neighbours given a temporary home in the pub, said he lives next door to the house that was destroyed and added: \"If I wasn't in the bathroom, I wouldn't have survived.\"\n\nHe stated: \"I didn't actually know what happened because I fell down on my head.\n\n\"The bathroom was OK. It was only when I came out of the bathroom I saw the ceiling was falling down and everything was falling down with it.\"\n\nMr Charlery said his house \"is such a goner\".\n\n\"There is nothing we can do so we have nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"The only thing is clothes on our backs. All the money is in the house, my car is at the house, everything.\"\n\nNearby Warren Farm Primary School was closed on Monday after the fire service said its windows were damaged.\n\nCadent, the gas emergency service for the West Midlands, said its teams were on site as part of the multi-agency response and added its thoughts were with those affected.\n\nSeveral other homes near the site of the explosion suffered significant damage, said police\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If you feel able to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. 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Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Dave Grohl has joined Paul McCartney on stage at Glastonbury, in his first public performance since the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins.\n\nGrohl was given a hero's welcome as he strode onto the Pyramid Stage to duet with McCartney on a gritty garage rock version of I Saw Her Standing There.\n\n\"This guy flew in specially to do this,\" McCartney said. \"We love you,\"\n\n\"I swear, I would never miss being right here with you, right now,\" Grohl replied.\n\nNot content with one surprise, McCartney then brought out Bruce Springsteen to play Glory Days and I Wanna Be Your Man.\n\nThe New Jersey rocker also acknowledged McCartney's 80th birthday, which took place last week, wishing him \"another glorious 80 years\".\n\nEarlier, fans had broken into a spontaneous rendition of Happy Birthday for the former Beatle, after he paused to say hello at the start of his set,\n\n\"For me?\" he asked, temporarily stopped in his tracks,\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSaturday's headline performance was one of the most-anticipated Glastonbury sets in years, with diehard fans staking out a front-row place more than 12 hours before the star was due to play.\n\nBy the time he took to the stage at 21:30BST, the crowd stretched as far as the eye could see, creating what could be the festival's biggest audience since Dolly Parton in 2014.\n\nThey were rewarded with a marathon two hour, 50 minute set that spanned his six-decade career. He opened with The Beatles' classic Can't Buy Me Love (itself 58 years old) and continued with the Wings' hit Junior's Farm - a cheeky nod to the Eavis family, who host Glastonbury on their Somerset farm each year.\n\nBruce Springsteen was McCartney's second special guest of the night\n\n\"Oh, man it's so good to be here. We were supposed to be doing this three years ago,\" said McCartney, referring to his Covid-cancelled performance in 2020.\n\n\"But here we are. We've got some old songs for you, we've got some new songs and we've got some in-betweeners... and I got a feeling we're going to have a great time.\"\n\nThe setlist featured some of rock's most seminal songs, including Love Me Do and Lady Madonna; Wings classics like Band On The Run; and more recent solo material like the rambunctious Come On To Me.\n\nMcCartney dedicated the Sinatra-style ballad My Valentine to his wife Nancy Shevell, and played Something on a ukulele given to him by its songwriter, George Harrison.\n\nLater, he duetted with the late John Lennon, whose vocals for I've Got A Feeling had been isolated from The Beatles rooftop concert in 1969.\n\n\"That is so special for me,\" said McCartney. \"I know it's virtual, but there I am singing with John again. We're back together.\"\n\nIn total, he played 36 songs, their deep-grained familiarity resulting in some awe-inspiring moments of audience participation: \"See how they run\", or \"you got to give the other fella hell\" and, of course, \"na na na na na na naaaaa..., Hey Jude\" - a refrain that rang around the field for a full four minutes and 40 seconds.\n\nOther choices felt more personal, like In Spite Of All The Danger by the Quarrymen, his pre-Beatles band with Lennon and Harrison alongside John Lowe and Colin Hanton.\n\nThe star acknowledged that some of the lesser-known tracks would throw casual fans.\n\n\"We know the songs you like,\" he said, \"'cause when we play a Beatles song the place lights up with phones like the galaxy. And when we play something new, its like a black hole. But we don't care. We're going to play them anyway.\"\n\nStill, the last half hour prompted enough phone lights to be seen from space: Get Back, I Saw Her Standing There, Band On The Run, Hey Jude, Helter Skelter and Live And Let Die (punctuated by an insane amount of fireworks).\n\nGrohl and Springsteen joined him again for the final song, an extended guitar jam to The End, the penultimate track on Abbey Road, before McCartney left to rapturous applause.\n\nFor anyone else, it would have been a career-defining show - but when you're responsible for shaping the entire sound, style and trajectory of rock music, the bar is set a little higher.\n\nIt's probably still in his top 10, though.\n\nSaturday's Glastonbury line-up also included performances from Noel Gallagher, Ghetts, Yungblud and US rapper Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nPop star Olivia Rodrigo drew an immense crowd to her early evening set at The Other Stage, with the audience apparently comprising every teenager at the festival.\n\n\"I've never seen so many people in my life,\" she exclaimed. \"I'm so nervous.\"\n\nBut that didn't last long.\n\nOlivia Rodrigo brought pop punk power chords - and a cover of Avril Lavigne's Complicated - to the festival\n\nThe audience sang along so forcefully to her signature hit Drivers License that Rodrigo stopped singing and conducted their performance from behind her beautiful mirrorball baby grand piano.\n\nHer all-female band added some stadium-sized heft to the ballad, without losing sight of its core emotion - creating one of the weekend's biggest highlights so far.\n\nAlso impressive were LA sister act Haim, who prowled the Pyramid Stage like three musical Cleopatras, playing the heart out of songs like Now I'm In It, The Steps and Gasoline.\n\nHaim gave one of the best all-out rock performances of the day\n\nDuring their set, bassist and singer Este Haim recalled the band's Glastonbury debut 10 years ago, when she had passed out on stage due to type 1 diabetes.\n\nThere was no such issue this time as the band - watched by Stella McCartney, Jude Apatow, Melanie C and Kate Hudson - powered through their percussive, riff-laden singles.\n\nEste explained why after they came off stage,\n\n\"My sisters made sure I ate this morning,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Don't you love sisters?\" Este chipped in, \"The joys and the trials and the tribulations.\"\n\nOn The Other Stage, former Glastonbury headliners Skunk Anansie gave one of the day's loudest and most raucous performances.\n\nFrontwoman Skin sported an impressive, inflatable punk hairdo, which stayed intact even after she jumped into the audience.\n\nLess fortunate were alt-pop band Easy Life, whose frontman Murray Matravers was dropped onto his head after attempting to crowdsurf at the Pyramid Stage.\n\n\"I was surprised, they dropped me pretty hard\" he told the BBC afterwards. \"But rest assured, it's not my first time.\n\n\"It was fine. I prefer it more when it's like that because it adds to the drama and the chaos.\"\n\nMegan Thee Stallion promised and delivered \"a good-ass time\" on The Other Stage, where she was programmed against McCartney's set.\n\nFlanked by dancers, she writhed and twerked and worked the crowd into a frenzy with the pulsing bass of hits like WAP and Body.\n\nLike many US performers this weekend, she also brought up the US Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion.\n\n\"You know I wouldn't be me if I didn't say something about these stupid ass men,\" the rapper declared.\n\n\"Texas really embarrassing me right now, y'all. The hot girls and hot boys do not support this shit. My body, my [expletive] choice!\"\n\nOther highlights of the second day included rock upstart Yungblud joining Squeeze songwriter Chris Difford on the acoustic stage for a surprise rendition of Up The Junction.\n\n\"This is definitely one of my Desert Island Discs,\" said the singer, who plays his own set on the John Peel stage later.\n\nElsewhere, rapper AJ Tracey made an impassioned speech about the Grenfell Tower disaster; and climate activist Greta Thunberg, addressed festival-goers on the need for action to prevent climate catastrophe.\n\nThe festival wraps up on Sunday with sets from Pet Shop Boys, Lorde, Charli XCX, Elbow and headliner Kendrick Lamar.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Patrick Grady is stepping away from his SNP membership while police investigate allegations of sexual harassment against him.\n\nThe move means he will not be an SNP MP at Westminster.\n\nThe Sunday Times and the Sunday Mail first reported that officers from the Met Police would be making further inquiries into allegations against him.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and the SNP Westminster leader have faced questions over the way the allegations were handled.\n\nThe Glasgow North MP, who will sit as an independent, was suspended from Parliament for two days after he was found to have made a sexual advance to a teenage SNP member of staff.\n\nMr Grady, the party's former chief whip, told the Commons he was \"profoundly sorry\" after an independent panel found he had touched and stroked the neck, hair and back of his colleague during a social event at a London pub in 2016.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: \"On Wednesday, 22 June police received an allegation of sexual assault that is said to have taken place in October 2016 at a commercial premises in Folgate Street, E1.\n\n\"The report was submitted online by a third party.\n\n\"Officers will now be making inquiries, including contacting the alleged victim, in order to assess what further action is required.\"\n\nAn SNP spokesman said: \"Patrick Grady is stepping away from his party membership while the police inquiry continues.\"\n\nLast week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP's Westminster group had questions to answer over its handling of the harassment complaint against Mr Grady.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she still had confidence in her party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford but said a victim who did not feel supported \"is by definition unsupported\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says her offer to meet with the complainer against Patrick Grady still stands\n\nAfter it was recommended that Mr Grady was suspended from Parliament for two days, it emerged that Mr Blackford had subsequently urged his party's MPs to \"give as much support as possible\" to the MP after audio of an SNP group meeting was leaked to the Daily Mail.\n\nMr Grady's victim told BBC Scotland on Thursday that the party was closing ranks and attempting to discredit him in order to limit the fallout from the case, and was more interested in finding the source of the leaked audio than addressing the issues that it raised.\n\nHe dismissed Mr Blackford's apology over what was said at the group meeting and his \"regret\" that the victim felt unsupported as a \"cop out\" and a \"publicity stunt\" that was done to protect the politician's position and reputation.\n\nIan Blackford has come under fire over his handling of the allegations\n\nIn response, Mr Blackford said he was willing to meet the victim, adding: \"If the complainant feels aggrieved, then I am sorry for that.\"\n\nHe said he had not yet had an opportunity to apologise in person because the investigation process had only just concluded, and said he also had a duty of \"pastoral care\" to Mr Grady.\n\nHe said he \"regrets the fact the discussion took place the way it did\" during the SNP group meeting, but denied his authority had been undermined by the situation. Mr Blackford also refused to directly call for Mr Grady to stand down but suggested he needed to \"reflect on his behaviour\".\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy MSP said: \"Patrick Grady should have been sacked long before this but the SNP have shown they have absolutely no backbone and would rather back the perpetrator over the victim.\n\n\"The abuser is gone but the poison remains in the SNP and the party leadership should be ashamed of the way they have handled this scandal.\n\n\"It's appalling that Nicola Sturgeon and Ian Blackford are still treating a disgraced MP with more sympathy than the victim who suffered sexual harassment.\"\n\nMr Hoy also called for Ian Blackford to be sacked \"so victims have confidence that they'll be taken seriously in the future\".\n\nHe said: \"At no point has Ian Blackford showed an ounce of leadership. He voiced absolute full support for Patrick Grady over the victim, allowed SNP whips to act menacingly and resorted to intimidation,\" he said. \"Ian Blackford must go.\"\n\nIt's not clear if Patrick Grady had much choice in \"stepping away\" from the SNP but the party has certainly given the impression that it was his decision.\n\nBy excluding himself from membership at a time when the party has begun the selection process for the next general election, Mr Grady may, in effect, be excluding himself as a candidate and ending his parliamentary career.\n\nThat may depend firstly on how long the police process takes and - if it is reasonably swift - whether or not they decide to take any action.\n\nThis is not the only follow-up to this story because while Nicola Sturgeon has expressed confidence in her Westminster leader Ian Blackford, she has also questioned his handling of the case.\n\nShe has also offered to meet face to face with the SNP staff member who was touched inappropriately by Patrick Grady. He has yet to decide whether or not to accept her invitation.\n\nThis is hardly the curtain-raiser the first minister would have wanted for her Holyrood statement on Tuesday on how she plans to bring about an independence referendum in October next year.", "Gareth Bale has joined Los Angeles FC on a 12-month deal following his departure from Real Madrid, saying: \"I cannot wait to get started.\"\n\nThe Wales captain, 32, has signed as a free agent after nine years in Spain with an option to stay there for the 2024 season.\n\n\"I am extremely excited for this move to LAFC,\" said Bale.\n\n\"This is the right place for me and my family and the right time in my career.\"\n\nLAFC co-president John Thorrington said: \"Gareth is one of the most dynamic and exciting players of his generation\n\n\"Adding a player who brings his talent and experience at the highest levels is an incredible opportunity to improve our club.\n\n\"I am grateful to Gareth's management team who helped make this happen.\n\n\"It is clear that Gareth is highly motivated to continue to win trophies and we are elated that he has made the choice to join LAFC and help lead us in our ultimate goal of winning championships.\"\n\nLAFC head coach Steve Cherundolo said: \"There are simply not many players in the world who can have an impact on a match like Gareth Bale.\n\n\"He can be dangerous in so many different ways, and we expect him to complement what we believe is already a strong team from the moment he arrives.\n\n\"His knowledge of the game and experience in playing in big games will be invaluable.\"\n\nThorrington earlier said negotiations with Bale had not been \"a financial conversation\".\n\nHe added: \"Our transfer window opens in early July when we can register [players]. We still have to go through paperwork, hopefully a week or the next 10 days to take care of that, to welcome him and his family to LA, get up to speed.\"\n• None How Gareth Bale has gone from hero to forgotten man\n\nOn Sunday Thorrington had expressed the wish for Bale's stay to run beyond November's World Cup in Qatar, where Wales will be making their first appearance at a finals since 1958.\n\n\"It was never about six months just for the World Cup. We were always talking about longer term than that. That was very clear from Gareth and his representative,\" he said.\n\n\"When Gareth is looking at what he needs to do, his priority will be at LAFC - we are absolutely sure of that - but we're not naive to the fact that he, like some other players of ours, have a World Cup on the horizon.\"\n\nThorrington, who is also Los Angeles FC's general manager, said that Bale's first game for the MLS side could potentially be the home derby against LA Galaxy at 03:00 BST on 9 July.\n\nThe five-time Champions League winner had been linked with a return to Tottenham Hotspur as well as a move to home-city club Cardiff.\n\nThe signing of Bale, who joined Real Madrid for a then world-record fee of £85m in 2013, follows LAFC's move for Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini earlier this month.\n\n\"We presented to them what we feel is an unique opportunity for them at a stage of their career to do something different,\" Thorrington said.\n\n\"But we want to win and we want winners, and we have a guy who's won five Champions Leagues and a guy who's won the World Cup [Chiellini].\n\n\"We have two great players who will continue to do great things in the next phase of their career here.\n\n\"We see them being great influences on the guys we already have here.\"\n\nThere was speculation that Bale would end his playing career had Wales missed out on qualification for the 2022 World Cup.\n\nBut after Robert Page's side booked their place in Qatar by beating Ukraine in their World Cup play-off final earlier this month, the only question about Bale's future was which club he would join.\n\nThere had been suggestions Bale would opt to join Cardiff, with his agents confirming last week that they had held talks with the Welsh club, and the Championship team's owner Vincent Tan believes he may yet one day play for his hometown club.\n\n'We were very very keen and of course he would have been a big coup for us and it would be great for Gareth Bale if he could play for his hometown,\" Malaysian businessman Tan told Talksport before Bale's move was confirmed.\n\n\"And of course all the Welsh would be very happy if Gareth Bale returned home and played in Cardiff.\n\n\"Unfortunately I think the LAFC offer was probably too attractive for him to turn down.\n\n\"But actually, originally he really wanted to come. The money wasn't the matter but we still tried to come up with what we thought would be a good offer to him.\n\n\"But finally it's very hard to compete when there is a lot of big American advertisers, the commercial deals there are very good for Gareth Bale.\n\n\"So we tried our best but we failed.\"\n\nAsked if he would try again in the future to sign Bale, Tan said: \"His contract runs for 12 months, let's see what happens. Maybe by then Gareth will probably want to come back.\"\n\nCardiff share a training ground with the Football Association of Wales, which would have allowed Bale to continue working closely with Wales' medical and fitness staff while on club duty had he opted to join the Bluebirds.\n\nHowever, he is instead heading for the MLS, where the season runs from February until October and the competition's secondary transfer window opens on 7 July.\n\n\"We have done incredible diligence and it was an open, transparent conversation and we quickly saw it was a right match in the face of stiff competition worldwide - and he [Bale] agreed and we're excited to welcome him in the next couple of weeks,\" Thorrington said.\n\n\"It wasn't a financial conversation with Gareth or us. If Gareth was making this decision with financial motives he wouldn't be in MLS.\n\n\"This league is really exciting globally and he saw an opportunity to make a real impact. He sees here an opportunity to make a difference with the stage we provide.\n\n\"He sees the chance to pull this sport up to competing with the other sports.\n\n\"As much as possible... understanding how to manage a player like Gareth, a Ferrari or thoroughbred racehorse, they need extra attention in order to succeed, we're confident we'll be able to do that.\n\n\"The benefit of him joining the group we have, we will have a player who can play as much as he can, but we will do so sensibly.\n\n\"His priority will be at LAFC, but we're not naive - he has a World Cup on the horizon and how we manage his preparation ahead of the World Cup will be important to Gareth and the success of LA, but we want him peaking after the game with the US!\n\n\"The exact preparation he needs will be the same for us as it is for the World Cup, which I know for Wales is an historic one.\"\n\nWales will head to Qatar in November, where they will face the USA, Iran and England in Group B at the World Cup.\n\nLAFC are currently top of the MLS' Western Conference and have 18 regular-season games to play.\n\nWhen asked what Bale and Chiellini will bring to his squad, Cherundolo said: \"Having been on phone calls and zooms with Gareth Bale and Chiellini, I know 100% they are here for the right reasons.\n\n\"I hope he [Bale] will bring what he brought to Tottenham, Real Madrid - goals, assists, constant threat - a prolific player who knows how to win championships.\"\n\nThe end-of-season play-offs follow, with the season-ending MLS Cup final to be played on 5 November - 16 days before Wales' World Cup campaign begins with a game against the USA.\n• None Jonny Cotsen explores what it means to live in two different worlds\n• None Police new recruits adapt to life on the beat", "There has been a resounding double defeat for the Conservatives after the Lib Dems took the south-western rural stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton and Labour made a decisive return to power in the northern seat of Wakefield.\n\nOur South West political editor Martyn Oates and Yorkshire political editor James Vincent have been following the candidates and speaking to voters in the two very different communities over the past few weeks. This is what they have learned.\n\nOn the face of it, the South West is a typical rural Conservative stronghold - and from the 2015 general election until this by-election electors across the peninsula returned a Conservative MP in all but two constituencies. But Devon and Cornwall also had serious socio-economic problems even before the cost of living crisis hit.\n\nGovernment funding has singled out Cornwall for special treatment. But research by Devon County Council shows this constituency is one of several areas of Devon where productivity per head is equal to or poorer than Cornwall's - without corresponding government recognition.\n\nLow wages contrast with soaring house prices. Spiralling fuel prices are a particular concern in highly-rural constituencies like this, where a car is often seen as essential to live and work.\n\nGetting the voice of the rural South West heard in Westminster has always been a challenge - and some think that has not become easier with the present government's anxiety to help its new friends in the North.\n\n2/ Farmers on collision course with government\n\nAgriculture shapes the whole landscape of this constituency, from Exmoor to the Blackdown Hills to the Jurassic Coast. And the government has put itself on a collision course with the farming community in at least three key policy areas.\n\nFarmers say they are once again ploughing crops back into the fields because they cannot source enough foreign labour under the government's strict new immigration rules.\n\nLivestock farmers - who predominate here - are also extremely worried about the new trade deals ministers have struck with Australia and New Zealand, fearing they will be undercut by a flood of cheap foreign meat. Even the government's own analysis found the agricultural sector would suffer as a result.\n\nAnd the ending of the old EU-style farm subsidies is especially feared somewhere like this where the typically small, family farm has relied on them to stay in business.\n\nBoris Johnson's barnstorming celebrity status and his unconventional approach to high office always risked being a double-edged sword, though many saw it as the trump card which won the Conservatives their huge majority in 2019. Two-and-half years into his premiership and with the partygate row and the confidence vote fresh in voter's minds, the PM's personality loomed perhaps unusually large in this by-election.\n\nThe candidates for the three big parties all brandished impressive local credentials. But another local - the ex-MP whose resignation triggered this by-election - was arguably the other big political personality here, albeit one with no active involvement. The enduring affection for Neil Parish, a farmer himself and widely credited for working hard for this farming community, is perhaps a reminder that strong local candidates can also help make or break the political weather.\n\nMany people in Wakefield are Leeds United fans. They will always support Leeds, but might not go to games if the team is not doing very well. That's potentially what happened here with the Conservatives.\n\nPeople who are natural Conservative voters may have just stayed at home rather than voting. The low turnout did them no favours and just like fans of a beleaguered club they perhaps showed their views by not showing them at all.\n\nFor football clubs, the way they get out of that rut is by changing the manager.\n\n2/ Prime minister's no-show may have had an impact\n\nMaybe leader visits do matter in election campaigns. Sir Keir Starmer was in Wakefield a number of times. Boris Johnson was due last week - but went to Ukraine instead. As usual, you can read this both ways. Maybe the Conservatives did not want the PM in front of microphones at difficult times. But it also might have looked like they were not taking the by-election here seriously.\n\nAlso, those nearby MPs that backed the PM in the confidence vote, did so in part because he was seen as a vote winner. He helped get some MPs their first-ever job in Westminster. But in Yorkshire today, he's not a vote winner. Will he ever come to Yorkshire as PM again?\n\n3/ Are voters in the North returning to Labour?\n\nLabour can take back \"red wall\" seats. I mean, no-one here calls it the red wall, but Labour thinks they can grab them back. The Conservatives think this election was called for such a specific reason it proves nothing.\n\nLabour were favourites, but the big question was how big they could win. A narrow victory could potentially have been shrugged off by the Conservatives and seen as Labour voters not taking to Sir Keir. Nearly 5,000 is big enough for Labour to see it as evidence people are coming back to them. But there is a big difference between a by-election and a general election.", "Some British Muslims who booked pilgrimages to Mecca have been unable to board a flight as problems with a new Saudi registration system continue.\n\nAbout a dozen people were told they could not fly from Manchester on Saturday as e-tickets covering flights and the Hajj were not issued in time, the Council of British Hajjis said.\n\nThey had to return home as they wait to hear if flights can be rearranged.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Saudi Embassy for a response.\n\nThe country recently launched an online portal where Muslims from Europe, North America and Australia must register if they want to take part in this year's Hajj pilgrimage, which is due to start in July.\n\nSelected applicants received booking confirmations for the packages in the past few weeks, although the system - known as Motawif - has prompted several complaints, including from some who had previously booked with separate operators and were concerned they could lose money.\n\nCouncil of British Hajjis chair Rashid Mogradia (left) said England cricketer Adil Rashid was among those who flew out\n\nMany pilgrims save for years, however the costs - ranging from £6,000 to more than £10,000 per person in the UK - often draw criticism about over-priced packages.\n\nRashid Mogradia, chair of the Council of British Hajjis (CBHUK), said Saudia staff at Manchester had been \"very helpful\" but it was \"heart-breaking\" to see some people unable to board the plane.\n\nHe said about 250 travellers, including England cricketer Adil Rashid, were able to fly out.\n\nHajj occurs during the last month of the Islamic lunar calendar\n\nSome applicants have told the BBC that they had received mixed messages about whether they could travel this year.\n\nAli Haider said he and his wife had returned to their Sheffield home after being unable to fly from Manchester on Saturday, despite paying £18,500 for their total package.\n\nHe said they had received booking and visa confirmations in the past week, adding: \"We assumed everything was sorted, but we were never emailed the e-ticket.\"\n\nMr Haider spoke to a Motawif representative on the phone from the airport, but said \"it was astonishing how inept they were\".\n\nThe organisation eventually apologised to Mr Haider on Twitter and said it planned to \"rearrange some flights due to high demand for plane seats on some dates\".\n\n\"It feels to us like they are kind of unanswerable to anybody,\" Mr Haider said.\n\n\"It would be unthinkable that a UK company would do anything like this. I think the whole process has been run badly.\"\n\nOn Monday, Motawif tweeted that it was aware of problems in a number of cases related to booking confirmations and was attempting to contact those affected within 72 hours.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact the organisation.\n\nVolunteers have been assisting pilgrims flying out to Saudi Arabia\n\nBritish and other Western pilgrims could previously book via Saudi-licensed agents in their home countries.\n\nProf Sean McLoughlin, from the University of Leeds, has been researching the Hajj industry since 2011, and said the new system was \"part of Saudi Arabia's strategy to centralise and simplify packages sales\".\n\nThe kingdom has said it will host a million pilgrims this year as it accommodates foreign visitors for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever it is not clear how many Hajj visas are being allocated to the UK, which was designated about 25,000 in 2019. Prof McLoughlin said figures have ranged from 3,000 to 12,000.\n\n\"While the previous system was sometimes exploited by fraudsters, the best agents sought to make the complexities of Hajj easier for their pilgrims,\" he said.\n\n\"Motawif's failed miserably as it's come far too late - it's not been piloted or trialled, and it hasn't proved as flexible or competitively priced as first claimed.\n\n\"The other problem is that Motawif is not communicating clearly and is contradicting itself - they don't seem to have the capacity to deliver and their technical system has let them down badly.\"\n\nHe said the process was \"at crisis point\" as people were \"turning up at airports and being told they could not travel\".\n\nA number of people have contacted the BBC with concerns that their bookings may not be fulfilled.\n\nYasmin Qureshi MP, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hajj and Umrah, had previously called on the Saudi government to delay the new system until next year.\n\nShe warned it was \"not going to work\" and asked Hajj minister Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah if refunds would be given.\n\nThe UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said it is \"aware that not all problems have been resolved and continue to seek information from the Saudi authorities\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Russian forces are now in control of the battered city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, its mayor says.\n\n\"The Russians have fully occupied Severodonetsk, our military has retreated to more prepared positions,\" Oleksandr Stryuk told Ukrainian TV.\n\nWeeks of heavy Russian shelling have reduced the city mostly to ruins.\n\nMany civilians have been sheltering at the vast Azot chemical plant, but Mr Stryuk said the only way out now was via Russian-held territory.\n\nPro-Russian rebels allied with the Russian army say they have moved into parts of Lysychansk, the city facing Severodonetsk across the Siversky Donets river. But Ukrainian officials have not confirmed that.\n\nSeverodonetsk, once home to some 100,000 people, has seen bitter street fighting and most of its residents have fled.\n\nTaking the city means Russia now controls nearly all of Luhansk region and much of neighbouring Donetsk - the two regions that form the industrial Donbas.\n\nBoth the Russian and Ukrainian military also confirm that Russian forces control the Severodonetsk suburb of Syrotyne and two small towns just south of it: Voronove and Borivske.\n\nUkraine's military command says its forces repelled Russian attacks to the south-west of Lysychansk.\n\nEarly on Saturday Russia launched a barrage of missiles at targets in the north and west of Ukraine.\n\nThe Ukrainian military says the attacks included - for the first time - missiles fired from Tu-22 bombers flying over Belarus to the north.\n\nOn Saturday Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg and pledged to deliver nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles to Belarus.\n\nRussia's 24 February invasion of Ukraine included Russian armoured columns sent in from Belarus. Iskander missiles have been deployed previously in Kaliningrad, a small Russian Baltic territory between Nato members Lithuania and Poland. They have a range of up to 500km (300 miles).\n\nMr Putin told President Lukashenko \"in the next few months we'll give Belarus tactical Iskander-M missile complexes, which can fire ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear types\", Russian RBC news reported.\n\nMr Lukashenko asked for Russia to make Belarusian warplanes nuclear-capable, and Mr Putin said Belarusian Su-25 fighter jets would be upgraded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins on why Kaliningrad is important in the continuing war in Ukraine\n\nRussian cruise missiles were also fired from ships in the Black Sea on Saturday, Ukraine's military said. Missiles struck military installations in the Lviv region, in the west, and Zhytomyr, north-west Ukraine, though a few were shot down, the reports said.\n\nUkraine also reported a heavy rocket strike on Desna, a village near Chernihiv in the north.\n\nAt the St Petersburg meeting, Mr Lukashenko also lashed out at Lithuania's decision to block Russia's rail transit of some goods to Kaliningrad via its territory. The Belarusian leader said Lithuania's move was \"a sort of declaration of war\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nSteel and some other Russian goods come under the EU sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lithuania says its measures affect only 1% of the normal Russian goods transit on the route, dismissing Russian talk of a \"blockade\" of Kaliningrad.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Brandon Lewis says Boris Johnson will win the Tories the next general election\n\nBoris Johnson has the drive to keep going as PM, despite two by-election defeats for the Conservatives, cabinet minister Brandon Lewis says.\n\nThe PM is facing criticism after Thursday's losses of Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton but said he is planning for a third term in office.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems have urged him to resign and one Tory MP wants party rules to change so he can be ousted.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said the PM would lead the Tories past the next general election.\n\nThursday's by-elections followed months of criticism of Mr Johnson over Covid rule-breaking parties in Downing Street and came amid the highest rate of inflation in 40 years.\n\nLabour took back Wakefield in West Yorkshire, which it had lost to the Tories in 2019, while the Lib Dems overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority to win Tiverton and Honiton, in Devon. Following the defeats Tory party co-chairman Oliver Dowden resigned.\n\nThe by-election defeats have also led to increased criticism of Mr Johnson, who won a vote of confidence in his leadership among Tory MPs earlier this month, but with 41% saying they did not want him to continue.\n\nOn Friday former Conservative leader Lord Howard told the BBC that the prime minister should go.\n\nBut asked if he would like to serve a full second term in office, Mr Johnson said: \"At the moment I'm thinking actively about the third term and what could happen then, but I will review that when I get to it.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Kigali, Rwanda, where he has been at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, the prime minister was asked to elaborate on his comment, replying that he was thinking \"about a third term - mid 2030s\".\n\nDowning Street later suggested he had been joking.\n\nAsked on BBC One's Sunday Morning programme if Mr Johnson's comments had been serious, Mr Lewis replied: \"Yes, but let's be clear about what he is saying.\n\n\"We often as politicians, particularly when you're in government, get criticised for making decisions looking at the next week, the next election, the next year, and not looking long term\"\n\n\"What I think is really good with this prime minister - and I see this every day - is his enthusiasm and drive to deliver for our country.\"\n\nMr Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, said Mr Johnson was \"the person who will lead us successfully through the next general election\".\n\nHe also took a swipe at Lord Howard, who was defeated by Labour leader Tony Blair at the 2005 general election.\n\n\"With all great respect to Michael Howard, who sadly wasn't able to win an election when he led our party, I think we have got somebody who has a proven record of winning elections, both as London mayor but also as prime minister in 2019,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor Labour, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the Conservatives had lost the by-elections because voters no longer had \"faith, confidence, trust in Boris Johnson\".\n\n\"They thought he lacked integrity and they didn't think that Boris Johnson was waking up every morning thinking about their concerns,\" he told Sunday Morning.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"People are very upset about our prime minister and they wanted to send a clear message to Conservative MPs that Boris Johnson has got to go.\"\n\nBoth opposition parties denied they had made any form of election pact to lend support to each other, after Liberal Democrats benefitted from a collapse in the Labour vote in Tiverton and Honiton, and Labour won after the Liberal Democrat vote slumped in Wakefield.\n\n\"You're seeing the voters work out for themselves who to get behind if they want to punish Boris Johnson,\" Mr Davy said.\n\nMr Lammy said: \"We fight for every single seat. The British people do not want politicians to stitch up who wins an election in formal pacts.\n\n\"There will be no pacts with any political party before the next general election.\"\n\nAs several Labour MPs defied leader Sir Keir Starmer's warning not to join picket lines during the rail strike, Mr Lammy said he expected the chief whip would speak to them and remind them that \"a serious party of government does not join picket lines\".\n\nHe said the party had to be prepared to sit down with both striking workers and management to resolve disputes if it was to lead the country.\n\nConservative backbench MP Andrew Bridgen, a longstanding critic of Mr Johnson, confirmed he wanted the party's rules changed so the leader could face another vote of confidence within the next 12 months.\n\nUnder the current rules, Mr Johnson is technically safe from a challenge until next June.\n\n\"Boris Johnson is actually galvanising an anti-Boris Johnson vote,\" Mr Bridgen told the BBC.\n\n\"The leader of the party should normally be more popular than the party itself, but what we're seeing with Johnson is he's a huge drag on the ticket.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Triathlon\n\nGreat Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee secured a British double with gold in the World Triathlon Championship Series in Montreal.\n\nTaylor-Brown, who came second in the previous round in Leeds, finished ahead of France's Cassandre Beaugrand in the women's race, with team-mate Beth Potter coming third for her first medal in the series.\n\nYee, the Olympic gold and silver medallist, then sprinted home in the men's race ahead of New Zealand's Hayden Wilde and Frenchman Leo Bergere.\n\nIt was revenge of sorts for Yee as Wilde was forced to apologise after the last round in Leeds for causing a crash that eliminated the Briton and his compatriot Jonny Brownlee.\n\nThe Canadian leg of the World Championship Series was a shorter sprint format than other rounds, with 30 competitors reduced to a final day after two elimination races, before a third race to decide the winner.\n\nTaylor-Brown, 28, came home in a time of 24 minutes 04 seconds and leads the overall championship standings.\n\n\"It was all about emptying the tank on the final leg,\" she said.\n\n\"That was really really hard. After the first race I came in and I felt, I don't think I can run any faster than that. But I seemed to get into it as the race got on. My swimming got better - either that or everyone else got slower.\"\n\nBritain's Sophie Coldwell was seventh in the event.\n\nHow does the sprint eliminator format work?\n\nThe top 30 qualifiers for each event take part in three-leg super sprint eliminators.\n\nThe slowest 10 are eliminated after each of the first two legs, with the fastest 10 competing in final race.", "Rudolf Hess, pictured to the right of Adolf Hitler, arrived in Wales 80 years ago\n\nWhen Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess arrived in a small south Wales town, mystery surrounded why he was there.\n\nSome suspected it was not really him. Even today no-one really knows why he was in the UK.\n\nHistorian Phil Carradice suspects Hess was sentimental about Wales because of a connection with his father, Carl Hess.\n\nHess arrived in Britain on 10 May 1941, when he parachuted into Scotland, where he was first detained.\n\nThen he was taken to the Tower of London and fortified Surrey mansion Mytchett Place before his arrival at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, exactly 80 years ago.\n\nThere was no attempt to keep his arrival at the former psychiatric hospital, Maindiff Court, a secret.\n\n\"It is possible that Carl Hess, Rudolf's father, actually lived in Cardiff for a short while,\" he said.\n\n\"Certainly Carl's first wife was buried in the parish churchyard at Michaelston-y-Fedw (on the city outskirts).\"\n\nHe believed Hess could have asked to be sent to Abergavenny because of the possible family connection and his friendship with Lord Tredegar.\n\n\"This might have suited the British authorities quite well as Abergavenny was out of the limelight and easier to protect Hess from himself and others who would have wanted to do him harm before he was brought to trial,\" Mr Carradice said.\n\nMystery surrounded the reason Rudolf Hess was in Wales\n\nMr Carradice said Hess arrived in Scotland apparently to negotiate an end to the war, but doubted he would have had the authority to do that.\n\n\"Everything to do with Hess involves a certain amount of guess work, as right up to his death he never really revealed his true thoughts,\" he said.\n\n\"One possibility was that he felt he was increasingly being edged out of Hitler's inner circle by the up-and-coming Nazis such as Himmler, Goring and Bormann.\n\n\"Another option is that he was simply more prescient than other Nazis and had already seen the writing on the wall for the ultimate outcome of the war.\"\n\nThere could be evidence for this, Mr Carradice explained.\n\n\"As early as the start of 1941, a Russian spy in Tokyo, Richard Sorge, was warning Stalin of an impending attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese,\" said Mr Carradice.\n\n\"Stalin ignored the threat and never shared the information with the Americans, but it's not a huge leap of faith to presume that if news had reached Moscow, Berlin were also aware of the plans.\n\n\"If Hess did know of the plans, he must have known Germany could never have won the war once America became involved, so maybe he was simply attempting to save his own neck.\"\n\nThis is something Hess actually achieved - while many Nazis were hanged after the Nuremburg trials, his co-operation with the Allies was taken into account and he received life imprisonment instead.\n\nHistorian Phil Carradice believes Hess (third from left) may have been sentimental about Wales\n\nBut Mr Carradice believes Hess didn't know what he was doing.\n\nHe said: \"He was an extremely mentally fragile man who craved attention, was deeply paranoid and who'd already attempted to take his own life while he was in custody in Surrey.\n\n\"I also think he had a deeply skewed impression of the power structure in Britain, through his association with Unity Mitford.\"\n\nMitford was an English aristocrat and Nazi, and one of the socialite Mitford sisters.\n\nMr Carradice thought Hess gained from her the idea the aristocracy were Britain's real powerbrokers, and that Hess could appeal to England and Germany's shared heritage.\n\nHess, pictured (right) with fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini, is rumoured to have dined with Lord Tredegar in Newport\n\nHe knew Mitford between 1935 and 1939, before a failed suicide attempt left her with a bullet lodged in her brain.\n\n\"Hess was wowed by everything aristocratic and the idea that he could talk to them on the same level flattered his sensitive ego,\" said Mr Carradice.\n\nAt Maindiff Court, Hess was heavily guarded, as much against suicide as escape, but he still enjoyed considerable freedom.\n\nHe was driven around the countryside by his jailers, and allowed to walk around the grounds.\n\nHe was let out to paint landmarks such as White Castle and The Skirrid mountain.\n\nOnce he is even rumoured to have dined with Lord Tredegar at Tredegar House in Newport.\n\n\"Lord Tredegar was something of an eccentric peer who was in charge of messenger pigeons during the war, just the sort of man who Hess thought he should be dealing with.\n\n\"Right up until the very end I believe he felt he could talk his way out of it, if only he'd gained access to the right class of people,\" said Mr Carradice.\n\nBut Hess couldn't talk his way out of it.\n\nIn 1945, Hess, pictured second from left, was among many high-ranking Nazis to stand trial in Nuremburg\n\nIn October 1945 he was taken from Abergavenny to stand trial at Nuremburg.\n\nThere he was convicted of being a key architect of the Nazi regime and sentenced life imprisonment at Berlin's Spandau Prison where he shared stories of Abergavenny with Welsh guard Colin Lambert.\n\nHess was the last prisoner at Spandau.\n\nFor the last 21 years of his life he had the entire jail to himself. After his death on 17 August 1987, the site was demolished.\n\nTo stop it becoming a Nazi shrine it was ground into powder and dumped in the North Sea.\n\nThe only known remains of Spandau are a set of keys in a Scottish museum.", "The star received a rapturous reception on the Pyramid Stage\n\nDiana Ross graced Glastonbury's legend slot on Sunday afternoon with a career-spanning greatest hits show that drew one of the weekend's biggest crowds.\n\nThe Motown star exuded glamour in a flowing white fur coat and feathered headdress, as she opened with the Pride anthem I'm Coming Out.\n\n\"I love singing during the daytime where I can see your faces and see your eyes,\" she declared, further seducing an already enthusiastic audience.\n\n\"Can you see me, 'cos I can see you?\"\n\nIn other words, Ross understood the brief: The Sunday teatime slot is all about audience goodwill; and she had it in spades.\n\nOften portrayed as a diva, she spoke openly about the difficulties of lockdown - \"I'm going to call it a vacation, a gap year, because I don't want to say what it really did\" - and confessed the need for a lyric sheet when she sang the title track of last year's Thank You album.\n\n\"I'm not perfect at it yet, but I will be,\" she joked.\n\nBest of all, the 78-year-old genuinely seemed to enjoy her own music - a phenomenon that's more uncommon than you'd think.\n\nAfter the band finished one of her newer songs, a euphoric disco cherry bomb called Tomorrow, she carried on the chorus a capella, apparently having the time of her life.\n\nThat joy was reflected back from the audience, who belted out Supremes classics like Can't Hurry Love, Baby Love and Stop In The Name Of Love (\"I've got a lot of songs about love, because everything we do is about love,\" Ross noted) as well as later solo hits like Chain Reaction and Love Hangover.\n\nTens of thousands sang along to hits like Chain Reaction and Upside Down\n\nRoss was first announced for Glastonbury's coveted legend slot in 2020, before Covid resulted in two successive festivals being cancelled.\n\nShe re-confirmed her appearance last November, claiming her place in the festival's hall of fame alongside Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Barry Gibb and Kylie Minogue.\n\nThe set traditionally draws the Glastonbury's largest crowds. Parton attracted the festival's largest-ever audience in 2014; while Minogue's triumphant performance was watched by 3.9 million TV viewers.\n\nRoss certainly drew a crowd to rival theirs, with a timeless catalogue of hits to match.\n\nThe highlight was the Chic-penned Upside Down, a song that's essentially a never-ending cycle of brilliant hooks.\n\nThe irresistible funk even encouraged the statuesque Ross to abandon her spot behind the microphone and shuffle down to the audience for a little shoulder shimmy.\n\n\"You've got to put your body into it,\" she exclaimed. \"You can't be unhappy when you're moving your body.\"\n\nThe singer said she felt 47, despite celebrating her 78th birthday in March\n\nLike Paul McCartney, who headlined the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, Ross's voice betrayed the signs of her advancing years. But when the 78-year-old missed the occasional high note or jumped ahead of the beat, she made it look intentional - as if it was the band's fault for not keeping up.\n\nViewers who watch the set back at home may find those moments uncomfortable but, for the audience at Worthy Farm, her razor-sharp backing singers carried her through.\n\nEven the newer songs from Ross's lockdown album Thank You, went down well, although it would have been nice to hear golden oldies like Love Child or Reflections, instead of the set-closing cover of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive (mashed up, inexplicably but brilliantly, with DJ Khaled's All I Do Is Win).\n\nBut you can't quibble with Miss Ross. She's earned the right to do whatever she wants. And in this case, that was a crowd-pleasing, uplifting, party-starting Glastonbury highlight.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Bono told host Lauren Laverne he had a \"complicated\" relationship with his father\n\nU2 singer Bono has revealed he has a half-brother, whose existence he was unaware of for decades.\n\n\"I have another brother, whom I love and adore, who I didn't know I had,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.\n\nThe singer said he found out about his half-brother in 2000, adding that he is \"at peace\" with it.\n\nThe 62-year-old told host Lauren Laverne that his mother Iris, who died in 1974, did not know her husband had a child with another woman.\n\n\"It's a very close family,\" Bono said, \"and I could tell my father had a deep friendship with this gorgeous woman, who's part of the family, and then they had a child. And this was all kept secret.\"\n\nAfter Bono found out, he spoke to his father Bob before his death in 2001.\n\n\"I asked him, did he love my mother, and he said yes,\" he recalled. \"And I said, how could this happen, and he said, 'It can', and that he was trying to put it right.\n\n\"He wasn't apologising, he was just stating, these are the facts. And I'm at peace with it.\"\n\nAsked whether his mother knew, Bono replied: \"No, nobody knew.\n\n\"My father was obviously going through a lot, but partly his head was elsewhere because his heart was elsewhere.\"\n\nThe singer also has an older brother called Norman.\n\nOn the programme, Bono discussed the death of his mother, from a brain aneurysm when he was 14, and how her death had a huge impact on his family.\n\n\"It's pocketbook psychology but I immediately just found another family - I formed U2, I found Ali [Hewson, his wife], it happened quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nLast month, Bono performed in a Kyiv subway session in a show of support for Ukraine after Russia's invasion\n\nBono described his relationship with his father as \"complicated\", adding: \"I'm sure I was hard to deal with.\n\n\"And he was coping with a lot. He didn't know quite what was going on. And I subsequently understood he was coping with other stuff.\"\n\nBono, who plans to release an autobiography later this year, rose to fame in the early 1980s and became one of the biggest rock stars on the planet.\n\nThe band's hits include Vertigo, Beautiful Day, One, With Or Without You and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.\n\nHe wrote many of the group's most successful songs, as well as becoming known as a human rights activist.\n\nDesert Island Discs is on Radio 4 at 11:15 BST on Sunday, and on BBC Sounds.\n• None U2's name and songs make me cringe, says Bono", "An unexploded Russian bomb is removed from a block in Kharkiv\n\nThe Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably dominate the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria.\n\nAnd the leaders of the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan face a difficult challenge.\n\nThey are aiming to put on a show of unity and resolve over the war. In recent months, the Western alliance has shown signs of strain and fatigue.\n\nSome voices - particularly in France, Germany and Italy - have asked if it might not be better for the war to end, even if it came at the cost of Ukraine having to cede territory. A recent cross-Europe opinion poll suggested some voters put solving the cost-of-living crisis ahead of punishing Russia.\n\nOthers argue about the need to salvage some kind of relationship with Russia in the future.\n\nCountries like the UK, Poland and the three Baltic States have been resisting these arguments, saying that any peace deal with Moscow that is not on Ukraine's terms would lead to further Russian aggression in the future. President Zelensky is likely to reinforce this argument when he addresses the summit virtually on Monday.\n\nSo the G7 leaders are expected to try to use the summit to clear these muddy waters, promising more weapons to Ukraine and more sanctions against Russia. The idea will be to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the West has the strategic patience to maintain its support for Ukraine, even if it faces domestic political pressure at home from voters concerned about rising prices.\n\nThe problem for G7 leaders is they also face growing pressure to show they are tackling the global economic crisis. The soaring price of fuel and food is causing hunger and unrest across the world. And some countries are pointing the finger at the West.\n\nMany countries in the global south do not share Western concerns about Russian aggression. They see the conflict as a European war and seem unmoved by Western arguments that Vladimir Putin is acting as a colonial aggressor. And they blame Western sanctions - as much as Russia's invasion - for the rising costs of gas and oil, and the massive shortage of wheat and fertiliser.\n\nTo try to resist this narrative, G7 countries are expected to use the summit to show they are acting to help countries round the world - with development aid, debt restructuring, climate finance, help finding alternative sources of energy and, of course, fresh efforts to get grain out of Ukraine's ports. That is why Germany has invited the leaders of India, Indonesia, Senegal, Argentina and South Africa to the summit, to hear their perspective and show the rest of the world the G7 is listening.\n\nSo on the one hand, these Western leaders must show resolve to keep backing Ukraine, and on the other, they must show a readiness to fix the global economic shocks that some blame, in part, on the war.\n\nOne senior US official described the dilemma thus: \"How do we maximise pain on Putin's regime? How do we minimise spillbacks back to the rest of the world?\"\n\nThat is quite a circle to square.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Drivers who kill could receive life sentences as part of changes coming into force this week.\n\nJudges will be able to hand down life sentences to dangerous drivers who kill and careless drivers who kill while under the influence of drink or drugs.\n\nThe current penalty for each crime is a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.\n\n\"Those responsible will now face the possibility of life behind bars,\" Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said.\n\nThe changes come into force as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.\n\nThe new legislation will also create an offence of causing serious injury by careless driving, meaning those who inflict long-term or permanent injuries also face tougher sentences.\n\nThe proposed law change was first announced in 2017 and comes into effect on Tuesday.\n\nThe increase will apply to offences in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, which has separate road safety laws.\n\nMr Raab added: \"Too many lives have been lost to reckless behaviour behind the wheel, devastating families.\"\n\nSteve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said: \"Drivers exhibiting the worst behaviour on the roads are a danger to us all.\n\n\"Those who behave with disregard to the risk they pose deserve the stiffest penalties when their actions rob others of their lives.\"\n\nMr Gooding said he hoped the threat of a life sentence will be enough to cause those who drive recklessly to change their ways, the Sunday Express reported.\n\n\"Involuntary manslaughter already carries a maximum penalty of up to life imprisonment so it is hard to argue that killing someone with a car doesn't warrant a possible sanction of similar severity,\" he said.\n\nThe government said it wants to ensure \"punishments reflect the severity of crimes and the misery killer drivers leave in their wake\".\n\nIt said the Crown Prosecution Service will still charge people with murder or manslaughter where there is evidence that a vehicle was used as a weapon to kill or commit grievous bodily harm.", "Tributes are being paid at the crime scene in the aftermath of overnight shootings in the centre of Oslo\n\nA 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting in the centre of Norway's capital, Oslo.\n\nTwo people died and 21 were wounded early on Saturday in what police called an \"act of Islamist terrorism\".\n\nThe shootings were in and near the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, the Herr Nilsen jazz club and another pub.\n\nNorway's prime minister told the BBC the suspect was questioned in May, but was not deemed a threat at the time.\n\n\"We now need to see the result of an investigation,\" PM Jonas Gahr Stoere told the BBC's Newshour programme late on Saturday.\n\nThe shooting started at about 01:15 local time on Saturday (23:15 GMT Friday), officials said.\n\nEyewitnesses said the suspect took out a gun from his bag and started firing, forcing terrified people to either throw themselves to the ground or flee.\n\nThe attacker was arrested by police officers - who were helped by bystanders - minutes later. Two weapons were retrieved at the crime scene by police, one of them a fully automatic gun.\n\nThe authorities later said the suspect was a Norwegian national.\n\nOf the 21 injured, 10 were in a serious condition.\n\nThe terror alert level in Norway has now been raised to its highest level, though the country's PST intelligence service said it currently had \"no indication\" further attacks were likely.\n\nOslo's annual gay Pride parade was due to be held on Saturday, and was formally cancelled on police advice.\n\nBut despite that, hundreds of people marched near the scene later in the day, shouting: \"We're here, we're queer, we won't disappear!\"\n\n\"I think it's fantastic that this march is taking place, otherwise he would have won,\" one woman in her 50s told AFP news agency.\n\nRainbow flags and flowers were laid near the scene of the attack, which was sealed off by police tape, and bystanders comforted each other with hugs.\n\nThe gunman was known to security services since 2015 as a \"suspected radicalised Islamist\", and had a history of mental illness, Norway's PST intelligence service said.\n\n\"There is reason to think that this may be a hate crime,\" police said earlier. \"We are investigating whether... Pride was a target in itself or whether there are other motives.\"\n\nKing Harald, Norway's monarch, said he and his family were \"horrified\" by the violence. He said \"we must stand together\" to defend \"freedom, diversity and respect for each other\".\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that she was \"shocked by the heinous attack on innocent people\", while French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"We stand stronger against hate if we stand together.\"\n\nIn the US, John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, said: \"We're all horrified by the mass shooting in Oslo today targeting the LGBTQI+ community there and our hearts obviously go out to the all the families of the victims, the people of Norway, which is a tremendous ally, and of course the LGBTQI+ community there and around the world,\"\n\nHundreds of people on Saturday marched in Oslo, chanting: \"We're here, we're queer, we won't disappear!\"\n\nWitnesses who were at the London Pub have told how they fled to the basement, where 80 to 100 terrified partygoers were trying to hide.\n\nBili Blum-Jansen told TV2: \"Many called their partners and family, it felt almost as if they were saying goodbye. Others helped calm down those who were extremely terrified.\"\n\nAnother survivor told how he was hit by flying glass.\n\n\"I just noticed that a shot was fired, and I was hit by a shard of glass. There were more and more and more shots, so I escaped into the inner bar and tried to get as many as possible with me,\" he told Norway's public broadcaster NRK.\n\nThe scene of the attack has been sealed off by police\n\nPolice are investigating whether Oslo's gay Pride was a target in the attack\n\n\"I saw a man arrive with a bag, he picked up a gun and started to shoot,\" said journalist Olav Roenneberg of public broadcaster NRK, who was in the area at the time.\n\nA woman told the Verdens Gang newspaper that the gunman had taken careful aim at his targets. \"When I understood that it was serious, I ran. There was a man covered in blood motionless on the floor,\" she said.\n\nAnother man told the newspaper he had seen a lot of people on the ground with head wounds.", "A survey has warned almost 80% of pools could shut because of fuel costs\n\nSwimming pools in Wales are facing an \"existential threat\" as heating costs rocket with the cost of living crisis.\n\nA survey by ukactive, which promotes leisure services, warned almost 80% of pools could shut because of fuel costs.\n\nCommunity-run leisure centre Calon Tysul, in Llandysul, Ceredigion, has already made service cuts as it faces losing £7,000 a month.\n\nIt is now paying almost three times as much as last year to heat the pool as a result of soaring fuel prices.\n\nSwim Wales said the centre was not alone and that many pools face uncertain futures because of increased running costs.\n\nIts aquatics and inclusion head Sioned Williams called it \"a huge concern\".\n\nShe said: \"We're still understanding the immediate risk [in Wales]. However, looking into the future it is dark.\n\n\"We are obviously looking at it from health and wellbeing for our community. It's the future of swimming in Wales.\n\n\"We need these facilities to ensure that the public has somewhere to swim on a weekly basis or just be aquatically active.\"\n\nIt was essential facilities remained open, Ms Williams said.\n\n\"Everyone in Wales should have the opportunity to be aquatically active,\" she added.\n\nCalon Tysul trustee and treasurer Iestyn ap Dafydd said a year ago diesel to heat the pool cost 40p a litre but has gone up to about £1.10 a litre.\n\n\"We use about 1,500 litres a week on heating, so that's a massive, massive increase,\" he said.\n\n\"We've just had to renew one of our electric contracts and that has gone from £1,800 a quarter to £1,800 a month. So the energy costs are phenomenal.\n\n\"It's costing us about £200 to £250 a day to heat the pool, so it's a real struggle.\"\n\nLeisure centre treasurer Iestyn ap Dafydd says the price of diesel has almost tripled\n\nTo cut costs, public swimming sessions have been reduced.\n\nAccording to manager Matt Adams, the centre is putting swimming lessons for children first.\n\nHe said: \"In the last week or so we've had to make some dramatic changes to our offering.\n\n\"Before, we would be opening the pool for 50-plus hours per week. We've had to break that down to about 30 hours a week just to save on our costs.\n\n\"We're doing things like turning off our boiler at night and turning it back on in the morning to see if that helps us.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a worrying time. It's definitely a sector-wide problem, I know that lots of pools are going to be in the same or similar situation as us.\"\n\nCalon Tysul plans to fit solar panels to bring down the electricity bill and is looking for a more sustainable way to heat the pool.\n\nCalon Tysul manager Matt Adams says the centre has been turning off the boiler at night to save cash\n\nSwim Wales' Ms Williams said other centres had also reduced hours.\n\nSome had considered dropping the water temperature.\n\nBut there were other factors, including staffing problems and a chlorine shortage.\n\nSwim Wales cited research that showed 52% of 7-11 year olds are unable to swim 25 metres unaided.\n\nMs Williams said: \"That's a stark warning to all of us that more needs to be done to ensure that children leave school with the ability to swim because ultimately it's a life skill and it could save their life one day.\"\n\nA survey by ukactive, which promotes leisure services, warned that swimming pools faced \"an existential threat this summer as energy prices risk the worst spate of insolvencies in the sector's history.\"\n\nIt found 79% of pools in the UK could close within six months and estimated the cost of heating the pools has risen from a total of £500m a year in 2019 to £1.25 billion this year.\n\nAt Calon Tysul staff and volunteers say they are determined to keep the centre open.\n\nMr Adams said the community fought to have the pool when they raised cash to open it in the 1970s.\n\n\"It's the kind of place where people are going to be really keen to make sure it stays open,\" he said.", "Like many Ukrainians trying to leave Russian-occupied areas, Andriy was forced to go through a process called filtration\n\nUkrainians who want to leave cities under Russian occupation cannot do so without undergoing a terrifying process known as filtration. Phones are searched, social media accounts scoured. Anything deemed incriminating can lead to beatings, civilians say, and many are forcefully sent to Russia.\n\nAndriy watched anxiously as Russian soldiers connected his mobile to their computer, trying to restore some files. Andriy, a 28-year-old marketing officer, was attempting to leave Mariupol. He had deleted everything he thought a Russian soldier could use against him, such as text messages discussing Russia's invasion of Ukraine or photos of the devastation in his city caused by weeks of relentless shelling.\n\nBut the internet in Mariupol, a once bustling port in southern Ukraine, had been cut off as part of the siege imposed by Russia, and Andriy had not been able to take down some of his posts on social media. He remembered the first days of the war, when he had shared some anti-Russian messages and speeches from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe soldiers, Andriy said, already had their focus on him. On that day in early May, when he first joined the queues for filtration in Bezimenne, a small village to the east of Mariupol, one of the Russians noticed his beard. The soldier, Andriy said, instantly assumed it was a sign that he was a fighter with the Azov regiment, a former militia in the city which once had links with the far right.\n\n\"Is it you and your brigade killing our guys?,\" Andriy was asked. He replied he had never served in the army, he started working directly after graduating, but \"they didn't want to hear it\".\n\nAs the soldiers went through his phone, they turned to his political views, and asked his opinion of Zelensky. Andriy, cautiously, said Zelensky was \"okay\", and one of the soldiers wanted to know what he meant by that. Andriy told him Zelensky was just another president, not very different from those who had come before, and that in fact, he was not very interested in politics. \"Well,\" the soldier replied, \"you should just say you aren't interested in politics.\"\n\nThey kept Andriy's phone and told him to wait outside. He met his grandmother, mother and aunt, who had arrived with him and had already been given a document that allowed them to leave. A few minutes later, Andriy said, he was ordered to go to a tent where members of Russia's security service, the FSB, were carrying out further checks.\n\nFive officers were sitting behind a desk, three wearing balaclavas. They showed Andriy a video he had shared on Instagram of a speech Zelensky had given, from 1 March. With it was a caption written by Andriy: \"A president we can be proud of. Go home with your warship!\" One of the officers took the lead. \"You told us you're neutral to politics, but you support the Nazi government,\" Andriy recalled being told. \"He hit me in the throat. He basically started the beating.\"\n\nAndriy said the soldiers found out he had shared speeches of President Zelensky after connecting his phone to their computer\n\nLike Andriy, Dmytro had his phone confiscated at a checkpoint as he tried to leave Mariupol in late March. Dmytro, a 34-year-old history teacher, said the soldiers came across the word \"ruscist\", a play on \"Russia\" and \"fascist\", in a message to a friend. The soldiers, Dmytro told me, slapped and kicked him, and \"everything [happened] because I used that word.\"\n\nDmytro said he was taken, with four other people, to a police station in the village of Nikolsky, also a filtration point. \"The highest-ranking officer punched me four times in the face,\" he said. \"It seemed to be part of the procedure\".\n\nHis interrogators said teachers like him were spreading pro-Ukrainian propaganda. They also asked what he thought about \"the events of 2014\", the year that Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and started supporting pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. He replied that the conflict was known as the Russo-Ukrainian war. \"They said Russia was not involved, and asked me whether I agreed that it was, in fact, a Ukrainian civil war.\"\n\nThe officers checked his phone again, and this time found a photo of a book which had the letter H in its title. \"We got you!\" the soldiers told Dmytro. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, claims his war in Ukraine is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" the country, and the soldiers, Dmytro said, believed he was reading books about Hitler.\n\nThe next morning, Dmytro was transferred with two women to a prison in Starobesheve, a separatist-controlled village in Donetsk. He counted 24 people in the four-bunk cell. After four days and another detailed interrogation, he was finally released, and eventually reached Ukrainian-held territory. Weeks later, he still does not know what happened to his cell mates.\n\nBack inside the tent in Bezimenne, Andriy noticed two other people with their hands tied behind them, who had been left in a corner while the officers paid attention to him. \"They started to beat me way harder,\" Andriy told me, \"everywhere\". At one point, after a blow to the stomach, he felt as if he was about to faint. He managed to sit on a chair.\n\n\"I wondered what would be better,\" he said, \"to lose consciousness and fall down or tolerate the pain further.\"\n\nAt least, Andriy thought, he had not been taken somewhere else, away from his family. Ukrainian officials say thousands of people are believed to have been sent to detention centres and camps set up in Russian-controlled areas during filtration. In almost all cases, their relatives do not know where they are being held, or why. \"I [was] very angry about everything,\" Andriy said, \"but, at the same time, I know it could've been much worse.\"\n\nHis mother tried to get into the tent, but was stopped by the officers. \"She was very nervous. She later said they had told her that my 're-education' had started,\" Andriy said, \"and that she shouldn't be worried.\" His ordeal, he told me, continued for two and a half hours. He was even forced to make a video saying \"Glory to the Russian army!\", a mockery of \"Slava Ukraini!\", the Ukrainian slogan.\n\nThe final question, Andriy said, was whether he had \"understood his mistakes\", and \"I obviously answered yes\". As he was being released, officers brought in another man, who had previously served in Ukraine's military and had several tattoos. \"They immediately pushed him to the ground and started to beat him,\" Andriy said. \"They didn't even talk to him.\"\n\n\"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic,\" Andriy said about filtration\n\nUkrainian authorities say Russian forces and Russian-backed separatists have carried out filtration in occupied territories as an attempt to establish residents' possible links with the military, law enforcement and even local government, as the invading forces try to restore services and infrastructure.\n\nMen of fighting age are particularly targeted, checked for bruises that could suggest recent use of weapons, such as on the fingers and shoulders. Strip searches are common, witnesses say, including for women. Oleksandra Matviychuk, the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, a Kyiv-based human rights group, said the process, even when not violent, was \"inhuman\". \"There's no military need for this... They're trying to occupy the country with a tool I call 'immense pain of civilian people'. You ask: 'Why so much cruelty? For what?'\"\n\nMaksym, a 48-year-old steelworker, said he was forced to strip naked while officers in Bezimenne checked even the seams of his clothes. He was asked whether he was from the Azov regiment or was a Nazi sympathiser - he denied being either - and why he wanted to leave Mariupol. \"I said, 'Actually, it's you who are on Ukrainian soil.'\" One of the officers, who he said were all Russian, reacted by hitting Maksym with the gun butt in his chest. He fell.\n\n\"I leaned my head on the ground, holding my ribs. I couldn't get up,\" he said. \"It was very painful to breathe.\"\n\nHe was taken to what he described as a \"cage\", where others were being held. He noticed that one man, a weightlifter, had a tattoo of Poseidon, the Greek god, with a trident. The soldiers, Maksym said, thought it was the Ukrainian coat of arms. \"He explained it to them but they didn't understand.\" Those detained in the \"cage\" were given no water or food, and had to urinate in a corner in front of everyone, Maksym told me. At one point, exhausted, he tried to sleep on the ground. An officer came in and kicked him in the back, forcing him to stand.\n\nPeople would be taken to be interrogated and, when they returned, \"you saw the person had been beaten,\" Maksym said. He witnessed a woman in her 40s lying in pain, apparently after being hit in the stomach. A man, who seemed to be around 50, had a bleeding lip and red bruises on his neck. Maksym believed he had been strangled. No-one in the \"cage\" asked or said anything to each other. They were afraid that FSB officers could be disguised as prisoners.\n\nAfter about four or five hours, Maksym was released and allowed to leave Mariupol. Days later, he reached safety in Ukrainian-controlled territory, and went to a hospital to treat the persistent pain in his chest. The diagnosis: four broken ribs.\n\nYuriy Belousov, who leads the Department of War at the Ukrainian general prosecutor's office, said his team had received allegations of torture and even killings during filtration. \"[It seems to be] a Russian policy which was designed in advance, and pretty well prepared,\" he told me. \"It's definitely not just a single case or [something] done by a local military guy.\"\n\nHe acknowledged it was difficult to verify the cases, or estimate the scale of the violence. The Ukrainian authorities are unable to carry out investigations in occupied territories and most victims remain reluctant to share their stories, concerned that relatives in Mariupol could be targeted if their identity is exposed.\n\nVadym, 43, who used to work at a state-owned company in Mariupol, said he was tortured in Bezimenne in March. Separatist soldiers had questioned his wife after finding out she had \"liked\" the Ukrainian army page on Facebook, and restoring a receipt on her phone of a donation she had made to them. \"I tried to stand up for her,\" he said, \"but was knocked down.\" He got up, but was beaten once more. A pattern, he said, that happened again and again.\n\nWhen Russian soldiers realised where he worked, they took Vadym to a different building. There, Vadym said, separatist soldiers asked him \"stupid things\" and started to beat him. \"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell and choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth,\" Vadym said. He vomited and fainted. \"They were furious. When I recovered consciousness, they told me to clean everything up and continued to give me electric shocks.\"\n\nThe torture, Vadym said, only stopped after Russian officers intervened. They carried out another round of questioning before finally freeing him. As Vadym left the building, he saw a young woman, who had been identified during the process as a court clerk, being carried out.\n\n\"A plastic bag was put on her head, and her hands were tied,\" Vadym said. \"Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter not to be taken away.\"\n\nVadym's release came with a condition: he would have to go to Russia. About 1.2 million people in Ukraine, including thousands of Mariupol residents, have been sent to Russia against their will since the invasion began in February, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia denies it is carrying out a mass deportation, which would constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law, and says it is simply helping those who want to go. Ukraine rejects this claim.\n\nSome of those sent to Russia have managed to escape to other countries and even return to Ukraine. How many, remains unclear. Vadym, with the help of his friends, moved to another European country - he did not want to reveal the exact location. He had lost some of his vision, he told me, and doctors said this was a result of head injuries from the beating. \"I feel better now, but rehabilitation will take a long time.\" I asked him what he thought about filtration. \"They separate families. People are being disappeared,\" he said. \"It's pure terror.\"\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests for comment on the allegations. The Russian government has previously denied it is carrying out war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nAndriy said his mother was told by a Russian soldier that he was going through \"re-education\"\n\nAndriy and his family have now settled in Germany, after also having been forced to go to Russia. Looking back, he believes the occupying forces seemed to be using filtration to show their \"absolute power\". Soldiers, he said, acted as if it was a \"type of entertainment\", something to \"satisfy their own ego\".\n\nI told him about another Ukrainian I had met, a 60-year-old retired engineer called Viktoriia. A soldier found out she had added a Ukrainian flag to her profile photo on Facebook, she said, and the message \"Ukraine above all.\"\n\nHe pointed his gun at her, she told me, and threatened: \"I'll put you in the basement until you rot!\" He then kicked her. Viktoriia struggled to understand why he had acted like that. \"What did I do? What right did they have?\"\n\nAndriy said he could not explain such behaviour. \"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic.\"\n\nBut, he said, \"there's no logic\".\n\nSome names have been changed to protect identities", "Here are some images from the attack in Kremenchuk which left a shopping centre in flames.\n\nTwo deaths have been confirmed but the number of victims is expected to rise significantly.\n\nMissiles struck the shopping mall at about 15:50 Ukraine time, officials in Kremenchuk say Image caption: Missiles struck the shopping mall at about 15:50 Ukraine time, officials in Kremenchuk say\n\nA fierce fire took hold of the site, covering an area of 10,000 sq m Image caption: A fierce fire took hold of the site, covering an area of 10,000 sq m\n\nLocal fire crews battle to dampen down the intense flames Image caption: Local fire crews battle to dampen down the intense flames\n\nThe full death toll is still not known, but two people are already confirmed to have died, with at least 20 others injured Image caption: The full death toll is still not known, but two people are already confirmed to have died, with at least 20 others injured\n\nThe city's mayor called the attack \"another Russian war crime, a crime against humanity\" Image caption: The city's mayor called the attack \"another Russian war crime, a crime against humanity\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show he would not play the first minister's \"games\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has said he will not take part in a \"pretend referendum\" if Nicola Sturgeon continues with plans for a second vote on Scottish independence.\n\nHe accused her of playing \"games\" and said there were more important issues facing the country.\n\nThe first minister is to set out details next week of how she plans to hold a second referendum.\n\nShe will make a statement in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nAnnouncing her plan for a second referendum earlier this year, Ms Sturgeon insisted she won last May's election with a \"clear commitment to give the people of Scotland the choice of becoming an independent country\".\n\n\"The Scottish Parliament therefore has an indisputable democratic mandate,\" she added.\n\nHer announcement next week is expected to include details of how she will seek to hold a referendum in October 2023 even if the UK government does not grant formal consent.\n\nBut the first minister has not yet formally asked for a section 30 order, and would still need to pass legislation to hold a referendum in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is due to make an announcement about her plans on Tuesday\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Douglas Ross said now was \"not the right time\" and that any referendum not sanctioned by the UK government would be \"a waste of time and resources\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm not going to play Nicola Sturgeon's games on this issue, I'm not going to take any part in her pretend referendum when there's real work to be done.\"\n\nHe highlighted what he said were more important issues including the cost of living crisis, supporting the NHS, improving education and the justice system.\n\n\"These are all the priorities I hear from voters right across the country, not an other independence referendum where Nicola Sturgeon just wants to divide us once again,\" Mr Ross added.\n\nMr Ross also said he believed the constitutional question of independence had been answered in 2014.\n\nA section 30 order refers to the section of the Scotland Act that allows Holyrood to pass laws normally reserved to Westminster.\n\nThese have been used 16 times since the Scottish Parliament was created in 1999, and have allowed MSPs to legislate in areas from the construction of railways to reducing the voting age in Scottish elections.\n\nA section 30 order was granted by the UK government ahead of the 2014 independence referendum, after Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond signed the \"Edinburgh Agreement\".\n\nFind out more: Scottish independence: What is a section 30 order?", "Donations were passed to the prince's charities and all the correct processes were followed, Clarence House said\n\nThe Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing a million euros in cash from a former Qatari prime minister, the Sunday Times has reported.\n\nThe paper says this was one of three cash donations from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim totalling three million euros.\n\nClarence House said donations from the sheikh were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities and all the correct processes were followed.\n\nThere is no suggestion the payments were illegal.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, Prince Charles received the three cash donations in person from the former prime minister between 2011 and 2015.\n\nIt is claimed that on one occasion the money was handed over in a holdall at a meeting at Clarence House. On another, the paper reported the cash was contained in carrier bags from the department store Fortnum and Mason.\n\nIn a statement, Clarence House said: \"Charitable donations received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities, who carried out the appropriate governance and have assured us that all the correct processes were followed.\"\n\nThe funds were received by the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund, whose stated aim is to \"transform lives and build sustainable communities\", by awarding grants to good causes in fields such as conservation, education, health and social inclusion.\n\nThe fund told the Sunday Times that its trustees had concluded the donor was legitimate and that its auditors had signed off on the donation.\n\nDonations to Prince Charles's charities have come under scrutiny in recent months following allegations that one of them offered a Saudi donor help to secure a UK honour and citizenship.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said earlier this year that it is investigating the claims about the Prince's Foundation under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.\n\nThe foundation is understood to be offering its full co-operation and Clarence House has said that Prince Charles had no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities.\n\nMichael Fawcett, the prince's former valet and chief executive of the foundation, resigned in November as the charity investigated the claims.\n\nThe investigation found that he co-ordinated with \"fixers\" over an honorary CBE for billionaire businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, who denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBut it concluded that there was no evidence that trustees were aware of the co-ordination.", "Neil Parish was the MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 2010 to May 2022\n\nFormer Tory MP Neil Parish says he was left \"frightened\" by the paparazzi and by death threats received after he was seen watching pornography at work.\n\nMr Parish resigned in May after he admitted watching pornography twice on his phone in Parliament.\n\nSpeaking on LBC's Swarbrick on Sunday he said \"three days of the paparazzi outside of your house shouting abuse at you, it is enough to frighten anybody\".\n\nHe also said police had \"kindly\" confiscated his shotguns at the time.\n\nMr Parish, who represented the Tiverton and Honiton constituency for 12 years before resigning, said: \"I have had a couple of death threats and you have got all these cameras outside your house. And David Amess ... you know, I had an office three doors down from him.\n\n\"I was not going to put my wife through this. I spent the whole three days trying to make sure they didn't have the house in full view of the cameras. I think I largely managed to succeed in that.\"\n\nHe also said he was wrong to be watching pornography but what he did was \"immoral [but] not illegal\".\n\n\"I was right in the corner of the House of Commons as you go into the lobby to vote, so this idea I think people have got that I was right in the middle of the House of Commons flaunting it is absolutely wrong,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed he had asked to be able to apologise but \"was not given that opportunity\" and was, instead, \"thrown to the press wolves\".\n\nMr Parish, from Somerset, went on to say that following the scandal the police \"kindly and rightly took away\" his shotguns, adding: \"Because when you have blown up your parliamentary career for 12 years, you are not feeling in the best place, and they took them away for my own safety.\"\n\nAsked about the recent by-election, when the Liberal Democrats overturned a Conservative majority of more than 24,000, he said he believed in \"normal times\" the Conservative majority may have been cut but that the vote had been a \"referendum on the Prime Minister\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, you can visit the BBC's Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rapper Kendrick Lamar has ended his Glastonbury headline set with a powerful protest at the roll-back of abortion rights in the US.\n\nWith blood pouring down his face from a crown of thorns, the star proclaimed: \"Godspeed for women's rights. They judge you, they judge Christ.\"\n\nHe repeated the phrase over and over with increasing intensity, eventually breaking off mid-sentence and throwing his microphone to the ground before walking off stage.\n\nIt was a forceful end to a theatrical performance that was unlike anything the festival has ever witnessed.\n\nThroughout the show, Lamar, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album Damn, addressed themes of guilt, greed, loyalty, power, ambition and prejudice, shouldering the audience's problems by examining his own.\n\nHe emerged flanked by 20 dancers to perform United In Grief - a song that looks back over his 19-year career and the mental health problems he has addressed over multiple albums.\n\nAs he stood still behind a mic stand, they lined up behind him, each representing a different aspect in the evolution of his personality. As they scattered, he began an almost-chronological journey through his catalogue.\n\nThe intricately-choreographed performance is a deep dive into the star's psychology\n\nBlood from the crown of thorns on the rapper's head poured down his face\n\nHighlights included Alright, his soulful protest against injustice and police brutality; Humble, a scathing rant against toxic masculinity; and Swimming Pools (Drank), which discusses his grandfather's alcoholism.\n\nAt every turn, dancers reflected the star's internal and external struggles. In the second verse of the recent single N95, which tackles wealth disparity, all the stage lights went off and the dancers turned flashlights onto Lamar, highlighting his own unease with fame and fortune.\n\nThe show was heavy on concept without alienating the audience. And unlike many live rap shows, Lamar's vocals were controlled and nuanced, allowing his lyrics to cut through.\n\nThe climax came on Savior, a song that examines Covid conspiracies, the Black Lives Matter movement, political correctness and his own personal flaws - which he juxtaposes with his faith in Christ.\n\nIntroducing the song, he explained the message was that \"imperfection is beautiful\", and that in our rush to judgment, we often lose sight of others' humanity.\n\nThe closing lyrics, \"Godspeed women's rights\", were added for Sunday night's performance; which came two days after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.\n\nLamar attracted a young and devoted audience to the Pyramid Stage\n\nIn some ways, Lamar's thorny and introspective songs made him a brave choice to headline Glastonbury's main stage. But in the event he rose to the challenge, delivering a visceral and compelling set that will be talked about for weeks.\n\nBritish rapper AJ Tracey, who gave a thrilling Pyramid Stage performance of his own on Saturday, said Lamar was one of the most important artists of his generation.\n\n\"He works very hard but he's also unwavering in his message,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There's a meaning behind everything he does. He always stands up for black people, for impoverished people, people who are unfairly treated - and that means a lot to people.\n\n\"When you're already a good rapper, it's easy to be on autopilot,\" he continued, \"but when you stand for something and you push a message, that's what makes people love you.\"\n\nPet Shop Boys lit up The Other Stage with a spectacular light and laser show during their set\n\nFestivalgoers who craved something more euphoric at the end of the long weekend had the option of going to see pop royalty Pet Shop Boys play a joyous greatest hits set on The Other Stage.\n\nThe metronomic house grooves of Its Alright and Vocal turned the field into a giant rave; while Go West (\"a song of gay liberation that became a football anthem,\" as Neil Tennant billed it) even had the security team singing along.\n\nThe band gave a valedictory performance of their debut single West End Girls and ended the night with Being Boring, which they dedicated to the victims of the Oslo Pride shooting.\n\nPop star Charli XCX also gave a full-throttle performance on the John Peel stage, that illuminated her ever-expanding catalogue of pop classics, from I Love It and Boom Clap, to more recent hits like Gone and New Shapes.\n\nSunday's music programme is traditionally more laid-back, giving revellers the chance to relax after five days of hedonism.\n\nThe Pyramid Stage opened with West Yorkshire's Black Dyke brass band, followed by Dhaka Brakha, whose unique blend of Ukrainian folk melodies with African rhythms broke through the morning gloom.\n\n\"People say they haven't heard anything like it before,\" frontman Marko Galanevych told the BBC. \"Most people say 'it's unusual but I like it'\".\n\nDuring their set, the band projected images of the devastation wreaked by Russia's invasion of their homeland - just days after a video message from President Volodymyr Zelensky urged festivalgoers to show solidarity with his country.\n\nHerbie Hancock brought decades of musicality to the Pyramid Stage\n\nAs morning turned to afternoon, jazz legend Herbie Hancock delivered a masterclass in cool, with a virtuoso set packed with classics like Cantaloupe Island and Take Five.\n\nHis set warmed the crowd up for Diana Ross, who drew one of the weekend's biggest audiences for the traditional Sunday teatime \"legend\" slot.\n\nDrawing on an enviable 60-year catalogue, she got the crowd singing and dancing to hits like Baby Love, I'm Coming Out and Upside Down - despite occasionally wobbly vocals.\n\nDiana Ross said she enjoyed playing in daylight, so she could see fans' faces\n\nGlastonbury stalwarts Elbow proved once again they're the perfect festival band, with frontman Guy Garvey powered entirely by the milk of human kindness.\n\n\"There was a period there where we thought we'd never see you again,\" he said, referring to Glastonbury's two-year hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic. \"We're so happy to be here, in the place love was invented.\"\n\nUS star Kacey Musgraves brought some Nashville glamour to The Other Stage in a glittering, dragon motif mini-dress... although she griped that she'd been advised to dress for mud and had ended up with sunburn.\n\n\"These wellies apparently had no purpose,\" she laughed, gesturing at her feet, \"but still, they're cute\".\n\nKacey Musgraves will support Adele at her Hyde Park shows next week\n\nLike Kendrick Lamar, and many other US acts over the weekend, she voiced her anger at the overturning of Roe v Wade.\n\n\"Honestly thinking about never going back to America,\" she quipped. \"Anyone know any positions for sheep farming going, as that sounds really great right now.\"\n\nMusically, the star somehow turned the artful sorrow of her divorce album, Starcrossed, into a celebration of freedom. She even threw in a karaoke version of Fleetwood Mac's scathing break-up anthem Dreams for good measure.\n\nAround 7pm the skies cleared and the sun started to set - the perfect moment to catch up-and-coming Jamaican star Koffee on the West Holts stage.\n\nHer easy-flowing songs had half the crowd engaged in sort of a low-slung dance, while the rest laid back and soaked up the sun-kissed grooves.\n\nBack on the Pyramid Stage, Lorde declared herself the \"ideal comedown shepherd\" for Glastonbury's exhausted festivalgoers.\n\n\"We're in this together. I'll be kind and gentle and when I think you're ready to handle it, I'll [mess] you up,\" she joked.\n\nShe kept her promise. Early in the set, she played a beautifully powered-down version of Stoned At The Nail Salon, accompanied by Arlo Parks and Clairo; but ended her performance with a massive dance party to a pounding version of Green Light.\n\nThe day also saw surprise sets from Jack White, his hair dyed blue to match his guitar, and George Ezra, whose crowd spilled out of the John Peel tent into the fields beyond.\n\nAfter Lamar, festival-goers will eke out their final hours in the dance tents and silent discos of the outer fields - but, by tomorrow morning, Glastonbury will be over.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America, experts say\n\nA whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North America.\n\nThe mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region on Tuesday.\n\nThe area of the find belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.\n\nThe Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007.\n\nIt said it was \"the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America\", and only the second such find in the world.\n\nThe baby, thought to be female, has been named Nun cho ga, meaning \"big baby animal\" in the Han language spoken by Native Americans in the area.\n\n\"Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world,\" said Yukon palaeontologist Grant Zazula.\n\nIt is about the same size as the Siberian baby Lyuba found in 2007, which was some 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a press release.\n\nIt is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America. The partial remains of a mammoth calf, named Effie, were found in 1948 at a gold mine in neighbouring Alaska.\n\nCBC News says Nun cho ga was unearthed after a miner called his boss over to examine something that was hit by his bulldozer in the mud at Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Prof Dan Shugar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None In pictures: Mammoths of the ice age", "The UK, US, Canada and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit Moscow's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe UK PM said the move would \"strike at the heart of Putin's war machine\".\n\nGold exports were worth £12.6bn ($15.4bn) to Russia in 2021, and the UK says their importance has increased since the invasion as oligarchs rush to buy bullion to avoid sanctions.\n\nIt comes as the G7 group of the world's richest nations meet in Germany.\n\nUS President Biden suggested the other G7 nations - Germany, France and Italy - would also join the ban.\n\n\"Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson added: \"We need to starve the Putin regime of its funding. The UK and our allies are doing just that.\"\n\nWith London a major global trading hub for gold, the UK government said the move would have a huge impact on President Putin's ability to raise funds.\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Western countries have introduced a range of sanctions targeting wealthy individuals, banks, businesses and state-owned enterprises.\n\nThe US, European Union, UK and other countries have sanctioned more than 1,000 Russian individuals and businesses so far.\n\nThe latest measure will mean UK import restrictions will apply to Russian exports worth around £13.5bn.\n\nThe UK said the gold import ban would come into force shortly, with legislation introduced in Parliament in the coming weeks.\n\nIt will apply to newly mined or refined gold, and does not impact gold previously exported from Russia.\n\nThere are no plans to extend restrictions to Russian gold purchased legitimately before the import ban was put in place.\n\nDiscussions at the G7 summit in Bavaria are expected to focus on the international response to the war in Ukraine, as well as soaring prices and the global food crisis.", "The prime minister has signalled controls on steel imports that were due to expire this week could be retained.\n\nWhen asked whether this could lead to a possible breach of international law, Boris Johnson responded \"these are tough choices we have to make\".\n\nIt follows a proposed approach set out by the international trade secretary on Thursday.\n\nBut the Department for International Trade said a final decision has not yet been made.\n\nSpeaking at the G7 summit in Germany, Mr Johnson said keeping the import controls on foreign steel would protect British producers which are already under pressure from rising energy prices.\n\n\"We need British steel to be provided with much cheaper energy,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"But until we can fix that, I think it is reasonable for UK steel to have the same protections that absolutely every other European steel economy does.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson linked the resignation of his ethics adviser Lord Geidt to a disagreement about future decisions on steel tariffs.\n\nBut Mr Geidt said that interpretation of his decision to quit didn't reflect \"the far wider scope of my objection\".\n\nThe limits on steel imports being considered were first introduced by the European Union in 2018 in response to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. The controls were mirrored by the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe restrictions, which add a tariff to steel imports once a certain quota has been reached, are known as \"steel safeguards\" because they are designed to protect the domestic market from surges of cheap steel from overseas.\n\nThe controls are currently in place for 15 categories of steel. While controls protecting 10 of those categories have already been extended to 2024, import limits on five categories are set to expire on 30 June.\n\nThe question of extending tariffs on steel imports is seen as potentially breaking World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments.\n\nThe prime minister has been at the G7 summit discussing shaping the global economy\n\nAsked whether the government was considering imposing tariffs which may be illegal, cabinet minister Brandon Lewis said the government was focused on \"ensuring we work within international law.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, the Northern Ireland Secretary said he was \"not saying the government is going to do this\" but that \"this is something that is supported across the sector\" and the government has \"got to look at all these things\" and \"get the balance right.\"\n\nUK Steel, the lobby group for the British steel industry, said it was confident extending the steel controls would be \"WTO compliant\" and \"there would be no legitimate reason for challenges\".\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it is consulting with foreign counterparts in adherence with World Trade Organization rules, before making a final decision on whether to extend the safeguards.\n\nUK Steel said ending the import controls would expose British steelmakers to a distorted global marketplace and that could cause as much as £150m a year in damage.\n\nAlso speaking on the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said Labour would support the prime minister in the tariffs being continued.\n\n\"It's an extension that both the EU and the Americans have continued with so we would support him,\" he said.\n\n\"Steel workers support him, the unions support him, industry supports him and Labour does support him.\"\n\nBut the Conservative MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Tom Tugendhat tweeted today: \"Protectionism is destructive to all of us. Tariffs are un-Conservative because they're a tax on consumers.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Ben Foakes has been ruled out of the final two days of the third Test against New Zealand after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nFoakes, 29, did not keep wicket on day three at Headingley on Saturday because of a stiff back with Jonny Bairstow taking the gloves in his place.\n\nEngland say after further medical assessment he has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nKent's Sam Billings will now replace Foakes as a Covid-19 substitute.\n• None England strike late to take charge of third Test\n\nWhile the series is not being played in Covid-19 bubbles, players are still required to isolate if they test positive for the virus.\n\nNew Zealand captain Kane Williamson missed the second Test at Trent Bridge and England batting coach Marcus Trescothick is absent in Leeds after a positive test two days before the match.\n\nFoakes was out for a duck in the first innings in Leeds but made 107 runs across the first two Tests, including an important unbeaten fifty in England's win in the first Test at Lord's.\n\nEngland hope he will be fit for the rearranged Test against India which starts on Friday at Edgbaston.\n\nBillings, 31, made his England debut in the fifth Ashes last in Hobart in January after a series of injuries. He will keep wicket on Sunday, rather than Bairstow.\n\nNew Zealand will resume on 168-5 in their second innings with a lead of 137 runs.", "TfL and London's boroughs have been handed expanded enforcement powers\n\nMotorists caught driving in cycle lanes on roads managed by Transport for London (TfL) are to be fined from Monday, the transport body has said.\n\nNew powers have been given to the authority and other London boroughs to fine drivers who cross the solid white lines which mark cycle tracks.\n\nExisting CCTV cameras will initially be used in \"key locations... to deter drivers contravening the road rules\".\n\nTfL said the move would make the capital's streets safer.\n\nOnly rental e-scooters within the various trial areas and pedal cycles can legally be used in cycle lanes.\n\nBut the government has provided new powers to local authorities, which allows them to fine motorists who infringe on cycle lanes and cycle tracks, in the same way that they currently do with bus lanes and yellow box junctions.\n\nDrivers will be handed a penalty charge notice (PCN) of £160, which is halved if paid within 14 days, said TfL.\n\nAn initial six month warning period will see first-time offenders handed a warning rather than the fine.\n\nTfL said it would begin enforcing the rules as part of its Cycling Action Plan and Vision Zero goal, which aims to eliminate death and serious injury on London's roads.\n\nSiwan Hayward, TfL's director of compliance, policing, operations and security, said: \"Protecting designated space for cyclists is essential in keeping them safe and improving confidence to cycle.\n\n\"We want to ensure a green and sustainable future for London, and to do this we must continue to make walking and cycling round our city safe and accessible to all Londoners.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Iskander - seen here in an archive photo - has a range of up to 500km (310 miles)\n\nRussia will send nuclear capable short-range missile systems to its ally Belarus in the coming months, President Vladimir Putin has said.\n\nHe said Iskander-M systems \"can fire ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear types\".\n\nThe systems have a range of up to 500km (310 miles).\n\nTensions between Russia and the West have escalated, following President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nMr Putin has made several references to nuclear weapons since then, which some have interpreted as a warning to Western countries not to intervene.\n\nSpeaking in St Petersburg, Mr Putin said Russia would help to modify Belarusian Su-25 warplanes so that they could carry nuclear weapons, in response to a query from Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nMeanwhile several explosions were reported in Kyiv on Sunday morning, the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.\n\n\"Ambulances and rescuers are on site. In two buildings, the rescue and evacuation of residents is under way,\" he added.\n\nAFP news agency reported that a residential complex in the city had been hit.\n\nOn Saturday Ukraine said Russian forces had \"fully occupied\" the key eastern city of Severodonetsk, following weeks of fierce fighting.\n\nTaking the city means Russia now controls nearly all of Luhansk region and much of neighbouring Donetsk - the two regions that form the vast industrial Donbas.\n\nIn his video address late on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to take back \"all our cities\" occupied by Russia.\n\nBut he said the war with Russia had entered an emotionally difficult stage and he did not know how many more blows and losses there would be.\n\nOn Friday night Russia launched a barrage of missiles at targets in the north and west of Ukraine. At least three people were killed and more may be buried under rubble in the town of Sarny west of Kyiv, a local official said.\n\nSome of the rockets were fired from Belarus, Ukraine said. Belarus has provided logistical support to Russia but its army is not officially taking part in the conflict.\n\nUkraine's intelligence service said the missile strikes were part of Kremlin efforts to draw Belarus into the war.\n\nRussia's capture of Severodonetsk comes ahead of a week of Western diplomacy, with US President Joe Biden flying to Germany for a G7 summit followed by Nato talks.\n\nIn recent months, the Western alliance has shown signs of strain and fatigue but on Saturday UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Ukraine could win its battle with Russia.\n\n\"Now is not the time to give up on Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who is due to attend the G7, said he would urge the Ukrainian and Russian leaders to restart dialogue.\n\n\"War has to stop and global food chains need to be reactivated,\" he said.\n\nAt Saturday's televised meeting with Mr Lukashenko in St Petersburg, Mr Putin said: \"We have made a decision: within the next few months we will hand over to Belarus the Iskander-M tactical missile systems.\"\n\nHe said all the details of the transfer would be worked out by the ministries of defence of the two countries.\n\nIskander missiles have already been deployed in Kaliningrad, a small Russian Baltic exclave between Nato members Lithuania and Poland.\n\nThe two presidents also discussed Lithuania's decision to prevent some goods being transported to and from Kaliningrad - a move that has angered Moscow.\n\nThe Belarusian leader said Lithuania's move was \"a sort of declaration of war\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nSteel and some other Russian goods come under the EU sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lithuania says its measures affect only 1% of the normal Russian goods transit on the route, dismissing Russian talk of a \"blockade\" of Kaliningrad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins on why Kaliningrad is important in the continuing war in Ukraine", "From left to right at the table: Italian PM Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis\n\nThe leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania have backed Ukraine's bid to join the EU, saying it should be given \"immediate\" candidate status.\n\n\"Ukraine belongs to the European family,\" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a joint briefing in Kyiv.\n\nBut he added that Ukraine still had to meet the accession criteria in full.\n\nMeanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the 27-member EU would stand by Ukraine until its victory against Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's continuing aggression as a war \"against the united Europe\", adding that the \"most effective weapon\" was unity.\n\nAnd he again appealed for more heavy weapons to be sent urgently for Ukraine to be able to defend itself more effectively and liberate territories seized by Moscow since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nLife is now slowly returning to Irpin - but the devastation is still seen everywhere\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the four EU leaders visited the devastated town of Irpin near Kyiv, which for several weeks was occupied by Russia.\n\nUkraine accuses Russian soldiers of committing war crimes by killing hundreds of civilians in Irpin and nearby towns such as Bucha - a claim denied by Moscow.\n\nThe visit to Kyiv comes as Russian troops are continuing their assault on the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nCapturing Severodonetsk - and its twin city of Lysychansk - has for weeks been a top military goal for Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to control all of the wider Luhansk region.\n\nPresident Macron and Chancellor Scholz, together with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, visited Ukraine for the first time since the war began.\n\nThe trip came a day before the European Commission is due to make a recommendation on whether to give Ukraine an EU candidate status. All 27 EU leaders will then discuss the issue at a summit on 23 and 24 June.\n\nSome of the bloc's members have been lukewarm about Ukraine's accession to the EU, and the words of support from France, Germany and Italy - the three EU heavyweights - could sway their position.\n\nHowever, candidacy status will only be the next step on the road to the full membership, which may take years.\n\nBefore the Kyiv visit, Ukrainian officials repeatedly criticised France, Germany and Italy for being slow in delivering weapons and placing too much focus on appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Macron said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion, suggesting that Mr Putin should have a way out of what he called a \"fundamental error\".\n\nMeanwhile in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, on Thursday criticised the EU leaders' trip on Twitter, using a dismissive slur relating to stereotypes of three of the EU nations' cuisines.\n\n\"European fans of frogs, liverwurst and spaghetti\" loved visiting Kyiv, he wrote. \"With zero use.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: the moment a stand collapses at a bullfight in Colombia\n\nAt least four people have been killed and more than 300 were injured after a stand collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia.\n\nFootage showed the three-storey wooden stand filled with spectators falling at a stadium in El Espinal, Tolima department.\n\nA bull continued to roam the ring as people fled the wreckage.\n\nThe traditional \"corraleja\" event involved members of the public entering the ring to engage the bulls.\n\nThe dead included two women, a man and a child, Tolima Governor Jose Ricardo Orozco said. The region's health official said hospitals had treated 322 people of whom four were in intensive care.\n\nSunday's event was part of celebrations of the popular San Pedro festival.\n\nOutgoing President Ivan Duque said there would be an investigation, while President-elect Gustavo Petro urged local officials to ban such events.\n\n\"I ask mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals,\" he said.\n\nIt was not the first time such an accident had happened, he added.\n\nOn Saturday several people were injured during corralejas in El Espinal. Earlier this month one person died after being gored by a bull during a corraleja in the town of Repelon.\n\nMr Orozco said his regional authority would move to ban the corralejas, saying they were dangerous and cruel to animals.\n\nIncoming leader Mr Petro banned bullfights in the main bullring of Colombia's capital Bogotá during his stint as the city's mayor.\n• None First left-wing leader brings new era to Colombia", "Forensic teams are investigating at the the scene\n\nThe youngest victim among the at least 21 people who died at a drinking place at the weekend was 13, police minister Bheki Cele has said.\n\nThe cause of the deaths was not immediately clear and the authorities are investigating.\n\nThe victims were found strewn across floors and tables at the Enyobeni Tavern in the town of East London.\n\nThe bodies were taken to mortuaries, where post-mortem examinations will be carried out.\n\nMr Cele, who had visited the scene and was briefed by the local police, said those who had died were between the ages of 13 and 17 - but a detailed list of the victims has not yet been produced. The legal minimum drinking age in South Africa is 18.\n\nThere are reports that people who had gone to the tavern were celebrating the end of school exams.\n\nSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his \"deepest condolences\" to families of the victims.\n\n\"This tragedy is made even more grave by its occurrence during Youth Month - a time during which we... advocate and advance opportunities for improved socio-economic conditions for the youth of our nation,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nOscar Mabuyane, premier of East Cape Province where the tragedy happened, did not give possible reasons for the deaths, but condemned the \"unlimited consumption of liquor\".\n\nSpeaking at the scene, he said: \"You can't just trade in the middle of society like this and think that young people are not going to experiment.\"\n\nThe incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nA provincial safety official told AFP news agency that a stampede had been ruled out as the cause of death as there were \"no visible wounds\".\n\n\"Forensic [investigators] will take samples and test to see if there was any poisoning of any sort,\" Unathi Binqose said.\n\nWere you in the area? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Amid the beauty of the Bavarian mountains and fields, a fundamental truth is immediately striking at this G7 Summit.\n\nWhen a collection of democracies gather, each national leader is flexing to the political and public mood back home, subtly, sometimes strikingly different from one country to the next.\n\nThe G7 has an opponent in Russia, whose leader faces no such democratic pressure, and is acutely savvy about the weaknesses, as he might see them, of the western model of governance.\n\nAmid the security and the choreography, the grip and grin photo ops and the alpine backdrops, the differences of emphasis between the G7 countries, and their desire to project a collective impression to the wider world is worth exploring in turn.\n\nThe prime minister, as we know, arrives here with domestic political issues having chased him north from the Commonwealth summit in Rwanda.\n\nIt'll probably chase him to the summit of the Nato defence alliance in Spain in a few days too.\n\nHe is out of the country for a week, while Conservatives back home from the cabinet speculate privately about his future.\n\nBut other leaders face domestic political pressures too.\n\nTake President Emmanuel Macron of France, for instance. A few months after being re-elected as president, he's lost control of the French National Assembly.\n\nThe British government feel Germany and in particular France are feeling the domestic political pressure of some of the consequences of the Ukraine war - not least spiralling prices.\n\nAfter Boris Johnson's meeting with President Macron, Downing Street told us: \"The prime minister stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability and give Putin licence to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss co-wrote something very similar, with her Ukrainian counterpart, in the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nPublicly, No 10 insists President Macron has done \"huge amounts\" to support Ukraine, but privately there is concern Paris is losing appetite for the long-term slog of the war, and its costs.\n\nBeyond the internal G7 diplomacy, there are then the efforts being made together to reassure countries beyond the group, some of whom blame western sanctions as much as Russian aggression for rising prices, as my colleague James Landale writes about here.\n\nArgentina, India and South Africa are among the other countries invited here to join discussions.\n\nI'm told that tomorrow a quad of key countries will meet here - the United States, France, Germany and the UK.\n\nThose around the prime minister talk about the need for a \"gear change\" on sanctions, and they believe the new ones on Russian gold contribute to this, and a \"game changer\" on military support, which will be talked about more at the Nato summit in Madrid.\n\nGetting there, this week and beyond, will require persuasion and patience. And it comes at a cost.", "Russia is believed to have defaulted on its debt for the first time since 1998 after missing a key deadline.\n\nRussia has the money to make a $100m payment, which was due on Sunday, but sanctions made it impossible to get the sum to international creditors.\n\nThe country had been determined to avoid the default, which is a major blow to the nation's prestige.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, said \"statements of a default were absolutely unjustified\".\n\nHe added that an intermediary bank had withheld the money and that the reserves were blocked \"unlawfully\".\n\nThe White House said that Russia had defaulted on paying yields on its international bonds, crediting sanctions for effectively cutting Russia off from the global financial system.\n\nRussia's finance minister called the situation \"a farce\" and said the situation is not expected to have short-term impact.\n\nThis is because Russia does not need to raise money internationally as it is reaping revenue from high-priced commodities such as oil, according to Chris Weafer, chief executive at Moscow-based consultancy Macro Advisory.\n\nBut he said it would create a \"legacy\" problem if the situation with Ukraine and international sanctions improves.\n\n\"This is the sort of action that will hang over the economy and make recovery much more difficult when we get to that stage,\" he said.\n\nThe $100m interest payment was due on 27 May. Russia says the money was sent to Euroclear, a bank which would then distribute the payment to investors.\n\nBut that payment has been stuck there, according to Bloomberg News, and creditors have not received it.\n\nMeanwhile, some Taiwanese holders of Russian bonds denominated in euros have not received interest payments, according to the Reuters news agency, which cited two sources.\n\nThe money had not arrived within 30 days of the due date, that is, Sunday evening, and so is considered a default.\n\nEuroclear would not say if the payment had been blocked, but said it adhered to all sanctions, introduced following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia disputed that it had defaulted on the debt. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it had made the payments due in May, and the fact that it was blocked by Euroclear because of sanctions was \"not our problem.\"\n\nRussia finance minister Anton Siluanov admitted foreign investors would \"not be able to receive\" the payments, according to the RIA Novosti news wire.\n\nBecause Russia wants to pay and has plenty of money to do it, he denied that this amounts to a genuine default, which usually occur when governments refuse to pay, or their economies are so weak that they cannot find the money.\n\n\"Everyone in the know understands that this is not a default at all. This whole situation looks like a farce.\"\n\nDefaulting nations usually find it impossible to borrow any more money, but Russia is already in effect barred from borrowing in Western markets by sanctions.\n\nAlso, Russia is reportedly earning about $1bn a day from fossil fuel exports, and its finance minister Anton Siluanov said in April the country had no plans to borrow more.\n\nThe default will trigger repayments on a large chunk of Russia's debt, according to Mr Weafer.\n\nAbout $40bn of Russia's debts are denominated in dollars or euros, with around half held outside the country.\n\n\"Some parts of that debt will now become automatically due because there will be early repayment clauses in all debt instruments so if you default on one it usually triggers the immediate demand for payment on the other debts, so Russia could certainly face immediate debt repayment of about $20bn at this stage,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nRussian finance minister Anton Siluanov says the so-called default is a farce\"\n\nRussia's last debt default of any kind was in 1998 as the country was rocked by the rouble crisis during the chaotic end of Boris Yeltsin's regime. At the time Moscow failed to keep up payments on its domestic bonds and defaulted on some overseas debt.\n\nRussia has seemed on an inevitable path to default since sanctions were first imposed by the US and European Union following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThese restricted the country's access to the international banking networks which would process payments from Russia to investors around the world.\n\nThe Russian government has said it wants to make all of its payments on time, and up until now it had succeeded.\n\nDefault seemed inevitable when the US Treasury decided not to renew the special exemption in sanctions rules allowing investors to receive interest payments from Russia, which expired on 25 May.\n\nThe Kremlin now appears to have accepted this inevitability too, decreeing on 23 June stating that all future debt payments would be made in roubles through a Russian bank, the National Settlements Depository, even when contracts state they should be in dollars or other international currencies.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Weafer, who is based in Moscow, said that life was more or less operating as normal despite sanctions and Western companies withdrawing from Russia.\n\n\"If you're in Moscow right now frankly, if you weren't reading the newspapers, you'd see there's been a price increase but otherwise life is as it was before February 24.\n\n\"In March and April there was a lot of concern that products would disappear, that factories would not be able to get components or materials to continue operating and we could be looking therefore at a severe drop in employment or a rise in unemployment by the summer [or] early autumn. That situation has improved,\" he added.\n\n\"We've seen alternative import routes opening via Kazakhstan and Turkey, the government has promoted what they call a parallel import scheme so effectively a lot of products that were blocked in March and April are now starting to reappear, albeit at a higher price.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scotland's national clinical director does not think mandatory Covid restrictions will return\n\nMandatory coronavirus restrictions are unlikely to return despite a significant rise in cases, Scotland's national clinical director has said.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said there would be \"small prices to pay\" in order to ensure \"normality\" continues.\n\nHowever, he added that he believed it would take a \"dramatic\" change for restrictions to be brought back.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates one in 20 people had the virus in the week ending 17 June.\n\nThe latest data estimates 250,700 people in private households in Scotland had Covid last week.\n\nThat is an increase on the previous week when about 176,900, or one in 30 people, had Covid.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said it would be \"sensible\" for people to wear face coverings indoors, however there is no legal requirement to do so.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Prof Leitch said he \"honestly\" did not believe restrictions would be reintroduced.\n\nHe said: \"Something dramatic would have to happen to the virus.\n\n\"We've got fatigue from this. We're all a bit fed up. People are going back about their business.\n\n\"Glastonbury is on, TRNSMT is on next week. I remember us talking about TRNSMT a year ago where we were struggling to get it back on.\n\n\"All of those things are really, really important to get back.\"\n\nBut he warned the public that they should take small measures to ensure \"normality\" continues.\n\n\"Science, vaccination, staying off your work, face coverings are small prices to pay in order to get society back,\" he added.\n\nProf Leitch has just recovered from Covid-19 himself after he shared a positive lateral flow test on social media.\n\nThe exact number of people with the virus in Scotland is unknown since regular testing of the public ended in April.\n\nProf Leitch said that while we should be \"concerned\" about the rise in cases, the spike was \"entirely predictable\".\n\nHe said people should not \"underreact\" but added \"let's not overreact either because vaccines, antivirals, we know what to do.\n\n\"We're able to live this in a different way that we could have before,\" he said.", "NHS patients in England who have been waiting more than two years for surgery are being offered hospital treatment in alternative parts of the country.\n\nMore than 6,000 long-term waiting-list patients are being offered travel and accommodation costs where appropriate to help the NHS through the backlog.\n\nHealth officials want to ensure nobody is waiting more than two years by the end of July.\n\nMore than 400 patients have already said they would be prepared to travel.\n\nThree patients waiting for surgery in Derby have already received treatment in the Northumbria health region, with another two patients booked in, NHS England said.\n\nAnd in south-west London, 17 orthopaedic patients from the South West of England are being treated, with another 11 patients set to follow in the coming weeks.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said the number of two-year waits had already reduced by two-thirds since January.\n\n\"Innovations like this are helping to tackle waiting lists and speed up access to treatment, backed by record investment,\" he said.\n\nMr Javid also pointed to more than 90 community diagnostic centres delivering more than a million checks and scans in the past year.\n\nWith weekend clinics and dedicated surgery hubs, he said NHS staff were making \"great progress\" in busting the Covid backlogs.\n\nBut British Medical Association leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul is warning that attempts to address what he called a \"once in a generation backlog of unimaginable proportions\" would be undermined by a lack of staff and beds.\n\nHe pointed out that there were already 100,000 vacancies in the NHS in England and that risked getting worse because doctors were \"utterly exhausted\" and their wellbeing was at \"rock bottom\".\n\nHe will tell the BMA's annual conference in Brighton later that the health service is \"at serious risk of haemorrhaging more doctors\", with many considering early retirement or likely to work fewer hours.\n\nHe will also say there is a \"parallel hidden backlog of potentially tens of millions waiting for medical, mental health and chronic disease care who don't feature in any government statistics\".\n\nThere were 22,500 people waiting more than two years for an operation in England in January, but this has fallen by 15,000.\n\nHowever, the latest monthly NHS figures show it was the busiest May for emergency care, with 2.2 million A&E attendances.\n\nAnd nearly 6.5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment - a record high - with many waiting for knee and hip replacements, and eye surgery.\n\nBacklogs built up during the Covid pandemic as hospitals treated thousands of people who were ill with the virus, forcing patients with other illnesses to wait much longer than usual for surgery or treatment.\n\nAmanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said: \"Millions who did not seek help earlier in the pandemic are now coming forward.\"\n\nBut she said despite the emergence of the Omicron variant and a difficult winter, the NHS was on track to \"eliminate two-year waiters\" by the end of July.\n\n\"One of the benefits of the NHS is that hospitals can work together to bring Covid backlogs down together, and so if people can and want to be treated quicker elsewhere in the country, NHS staff are ensuring that it can happen,\" Ms Pritchard said.\n\nHowever, even if patients are happy to be treated in another part of the country, it might not always be possible because of the specialist nature of their treatment.\n\nHow have you been waiting more than two years for surgery? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Major companies including Disney, JP Morgan and Facebook owner Meta have told staff they will cover employee travel expenses for abortions, as millions of US women face restricted access.\n\nIt follows a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court that overturned the constitutional right to abortion.\n\nThe judgement paves the way for individual states to ban the procedure.\n\nOther firms, such as Amazon, had already announced similar moves.\n\nBut since the ruling a growing number of companies have confirmed they will cover travel costs through their health insurance plans for employees who leave their home state to get an abortion.\n\nDisney said it had told employees it recognised the impact of the Supreme Court ruling and remained committed to giving them \"comprehensive access\" to affordable healthcare, including family planning and reproductive care, \"no matter where they live\".\n\nDisney employs around 80,000 people at its resort in Florida, where the governor has already signed into law a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is scheduled to take effect on 1 July.\n\nBanking giant JP Morgan also told its US employees it would cover travel expenses for medical services, including \"legal abortions\", according to a staff memo, dated 1 June and seen by Reuters news agency.\n\n\"We're focused on the health and well-being of our employees, and want to ensure equitable access to all benefits,\" a bank spokeswoman said on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Chaotic scenes as Taser drawn at US abortion protest\n\nAnother leading US investment bank, Goldman Sachs, also said it would cover travel expenses for employees who needed to go to another state to get an abortion from 1 July, according to Reuters.\n\nSocial media company Meta said it intended to reimburse travel expenses where permitted by law, \"for employees who will need them to access out-of-state health care\".\n\n\"We are in the process of assessing how best to do so given the legal complexities involved,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nOther companies which have indicated they will take similar steps include Vogue publisher Conde Nast, jeans brand Levi Strauss, and ride hailing companies Lyft and Uber.\n\nLyft also said it would legally shield drivers in abortion cases, with a spokesperson adding that \"no driver should have to ask a rider where they are going and why\".\n\nSeveral other companies, including Amazon, review website Yelp, and banking giant Citigroup, had already said before the Supreme Court ruling that they would reimburse employees who travel to circumvent local abortion restrictions\n\nYelp chief executive Jeremy Stoppelman said on Twitter that the court's decision \"puts women's health in jeopardy\", adding that \"business leaders must speak out\".\n\nAbortion will not automatically become illegal in the US - but individual states will now be allowed to decide if and how to allow abortions.\n\nA total of 13 states have already passed \"trigger laws\", which come into effect upon Roe v Wade being overturned, to outlaw abortion.\n\nMore than 20 states are making moves to limit access, according to the Guttmacher Institute.\n\nCompanies which offer to cover the cost of travelling to another state for the procedure are likely to face a backlash from anti-abortion Republicans.\n\nLawmakers in Texas have already threatened Citigroup and Lyft with legal repercussions, while the state's Republican Party chairman Matt Rinaldi urged Republicans not to use Citi's services.\n\nAbortion is a highly divisive issue in the US. A recent Pew survey found that 61% of adults say abortion should be legal all or most of the time, while 37% say it should be illegal all or most of the time.", "Asylum seekers had been moved into the Park Inn in response to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAn independent inquiry is to be held to look into the treatment of asylum seekers in Scotland during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.\n\nRefugees for Justice announced Baroness Helena Kennedy QC will lead the review.\n\nThe refugee group has been asking the Home Office for a public inquiry since six people were stabbed at the Park Inn in Glasgow in 2020.\n\nThe Home Office said it had made \"significant changes to keep asylum seekers safe\" since the attack.\n\nAs it is a private inquiry Baroness Kennedy will not be able to compel witnesses to attend or force disclosure of evidence.\n\nBaroness Kennedy said her inquiry would look at whether there were flaws in the care and treatment of asylum seekers in areas such as housing and mental health support.\n\nIn March 2020, the Home Office contractor Mears moved hundreds of asylum seekers from apartments into Glasgow hotels.\n\nBadreddin Abdalla Adam was shot by police after carrying out multiple stabbings\n\nOn 26 June 2020, Badreddin Abdalla Adam - a Sudanese asylum seeker - was shot dead by police after he stabbed six people in the Park Inn hotel, including three other asylum seekers, a police officer and two members of hotel staff.\n\nIt later emerged he had been struggling with his mental health during lockdown at the hotel and had called the Home Office and other organisations more than 70 times before the attack.\n\nAnother asylum seeker took his own life during the first Covid lockdown which Refugees for Justice also believe was a result of mental health problems exacerbated by being in a hotel.\n\nRefugees for Justice said it believed the root cause of both deaths was a decision by the Home office and housing contractor Mears to \"force\" refugees out of their homes and into hotel rooms \"with no safeguarding or support\".\n\nBaroness Kennedy told BBC Scotland the inquiry would examine \"whether there was proper provision for the welfare of those people, asking the question why was it they were moved out of places where they had made friends\".\n\nSix people were stabbed at the Glasgow hotel where asylum seekers were being held during the first lockdown\n\nShe said at a time everyone was isolated there should have been \"proper support and that didn't happen.\"\n\n\"As we know a tragedy took place,\" she said. \"Someone committed suicide, another person had a psychotic episode and injured people and was shot by police.\n\n\"The question is were there flaws in the care of those people and whether very bad decisions were made about the housing and was there any question of monetary benefit in the minds of those who made the decisions to move people to those hotels?\"\n\nShe added that \"a full public inquiry would have been the proper thing to happen\" but requests to the Home Office for a statutory inquiry had not resulted in action.\n\n\"If the Home Office is not prepared to self scrutinise publicly then others will have to do it,\" she said.\n\nBaroness Helena Kennedy will lead an independent inquiry into the\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Since this horrific incident we have undertaken a number of significant changes to keep asylum seekers safe, including how we, our contractors and charities spot vulnerable individuals and provide them with wrap-around support and appropriate accommodation.\n\n\"The use of hotels is unacceptable and we are working hard to find appropriate accommodation for asylum seekers but local authorities must do all they can to help house people permanently,\" they added.\n\nThe Home Office added that its increased use of hotels had been \"unprecedented\" because of the pandemic.\n\nBaroness Kennedy hopes to deliver a full report in the autumn.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speaking at the G7 summit, Boris Johnson praised the support for Ukraine from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz\n\nBoris Johnson has said leaders must be honest about rising costs due to the Ukraine war, but said the price of Russia succeeding was \"far higher\".\n\nHe said world leaders understand they must remain united with Kyiv despite fears of war fatigue.\n\nAllies were \"making the sacrifice\" over rising food and energy costs because \"the price of freedom is worth paying,\" he said.\n\nThe PM is at the G7 summit as he faces pressure over his leadership at home.\n\nAfter leaving Germany, Mr Johnson will head to Madrid for a Nato summit before flying home on Thursday - his first return to the UK since the Conservatives lost two by-elections.\n\nHe has rejected calls to resign, saying he is focused on the cost of living, the economy and \"standing up to violence and aggression\" in Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in the Bavarian Alps where the G7 summit is being held, Mr Johnson said leaders would be discussing how to keep the coalition of support together \"at a time when realistically there is going to be fatigue among populations and politicians\".\n\nHe said Nato and the G7 continue to be \"solid\" in their stand against the invasion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but to protect that unity they must have \"really, really honest discussions\" about the pressures each nation is under.\n\nThe prime minister gave the example of Germany, which is taking emergency measures after Russia cut gas supplies, saying: \"They're making the effort, they're making the sacrifice. That's because they see the price of freedom is worth paying.\"\n\nHe said the G7 and Nato were defending the principle that a free, sovereign country should not be \"violently invaded and have its boundaries changed by force\".\n\n\"The price of backing down, of allowing President Putin to hack off parts of Ukraine, to continue with his programme of conquest - that price will be far, far higher and everyone here understands that,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe G7 leaders have travelled to the Bavarian Alps for the annual summit\n\nIn an interview with CNN on Sunday Mr Johnson was asked about surviving a confidence vote and his party's by-election defeats and insisted the scrutiny he had faced had been a good thing.\n\nThe prime minister questioned whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine would have happened if Mr Putin had faced similar dissent and had \"the 1922 committee on his case\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to address the G7 countries - the UK, US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy - on Monday.\n\nUkraine is urgently asking for more financial help due to fears it could run out of funding by the autumn without further support.\n\nMr Johnson is due to pledge £429m to Ukraine in guarantees for World Bank lending, as its fight against the Russian invasion drags on.\n\nThe loan guarantees provided by the UK will take its package of economic and humanitarian support for Ukraine to £1.5bn.\n\nThe British government feels Germany and in particular France are feeling the domestic political pressure of some of the consequences of the Ukraine war - not least spiralling prices.\n\nAfter Boris Johnson's meeting with President Macron, Downing Street told us: \"The prime minister stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability and give Putin licence to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity.\"\n\nPublicly, No 10 insists President Macron has done \"huge amounts\" to support Ukraine, but privately there is concern Paris is losing appetite for the long-term slog of the war, and its costs.\n\nThose around the prime minister talk about the need for a \"gear change\" on sanctions, and they believe the new ones on Russian gold contribute to this, and a \"game changer\" on military support, which will be talked about more at the Nato summit in Madrid.\n\nGetting there, this week and beyond, will require persuasion and patience. And it comes at a cost.\n\nThe prime minister told CNN he thought Brexit had allowed the UK to better assist Ukraine in defending itself against Russia.\n\n\"I don't think that we would have been out in front as the first European country to arm the Ukrainians,\" he said.\n\nAt the summit on Sunday, Mr Johnson had talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, where the prime minister was said to have stressed that any attempt to settle the conflict now would only give Mr Putin \"licence to manipulate sovereign countries\".\n\nHe also had a meeting with Canada's Justin Trudeau, where Mr Johnson said Ukraine was \"on a knife-edge\" and needed defensive capabilities, training and intelligence to tip the balance in its favour.\n\nThe Canadian and UK prime ministers discussed what Ukraine needed to gain the advantage in the conflict\n\nAhead of the summit, Mr Johnson warned that Ukrainians should not be encouraged to \"settle for a bad peace\" where they were \"invited to give up chunks of their territory in return for a ceasefire\".\n\nHe said: \"Ukraine can win and it will win. But they need our backing to do so. Now is not the time to give up on Ukraine.\"\n\nBoris Johnson will also urge Western allies to increase sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK, Canada, the US and Japan were banning imports of Russian gold, saying the move will \"directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of Putin's war machine\".\n\nThe UK government says gold is a major Russian export, worth £12.6bn to its economy in 2021 and increasingly used by the country's oligarchs to try to avoid the impact of sanctions.\n\nAt the Nato summit, the prime minister will also push for increased defence spending across the alliance and support Sweden and Finland's bids to join the organisation.\n\nAsked if he thought there was going to be a global recession, the prime minister said the world was facing \"a lot of headwinds\" due to rising prices linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe said that it was pointless to focus \"on how bad things might get\" and that he believed things would get eventually better and inflation would slow.", "The 19-year-old activist criticised world leaders in a speech to festival-goers\n\nGreta Thunberg has made a surprise appearance at Glastonbury, to warn of the dangers of climate change.\n\nThe earth's biosphere is \"not just changing, it is destabilising, it is breaking down,\" the 19-year-old told festival-goers from the Pyramid Stage.\n\nShe criticised world leaders for \"creating loopholes\" to protect firms whose emissions cause climate change.\n\n\"That is a moral decision... that will put the entire living planet at risk,\" she added.\n\nBut she ended on a message of hope, telling festival-goers they had the power to make a difference.\n\n\"We are capable of the most incredible things,\" she said. \"Once we are given the full story… we will know what to do. There is still time to choose a new path, to step back from the cliff.\n\n\"Instead of looking for hope, start creating that hope yourself.\n\nThe climate activist also visited the festival's Park area during her visit\n\n\"Make no mistake, no-one else is going to do this for us,\" she concluded. \"Right here and now is where we stand our ground.\"\n\nThunberg was introduced on stage by Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis, who called her \"the most inspirational speaker of her generation.\"\n\nThe activist spoke against a backdrop of the \"warming stripes\", a vivid illustration of how the average global temperature has soared in recent decades.\n\nHer appearance was warmly received by the crowd, who joined her in a chant of \"climate justice\" at the end of her speech.\n\nThunberg's speech comes three years after Sir David Attenborough made a cameo on the Pyramid Stage.\n\nThe broadcaster thanked festival-goers for cutting their plastic use, after organisers banned single-use plastic bottles.\n\nThunberg spoke after an invigorating performance from rapper AJ Tracey, who opened his set with a powerful, angry message about the Grenfell Tower disaster.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video, the West London musician accused those responsible for the fire of \"hiding behind a legal framework\", while young black men were being \"arrested and convicted every day with haste for acts a lot less significant\".\n\nAJ Tracey gave one of the most compelling performances of the day so far\n\n\"The worst thing of the whole situation is [that] Grenfell could happen again,\" he continued.\n\n\"Our buildings are not safe and thousands of low-income people, people who grew up just like I did, go to bed every night not knowing if it'll be their last. They tuck their children in at night and don't know if they'll wake up in flames.\"\n\nTracey, who grew up in Ladbroke Grove, knows many of the victims, survivors and bereaved.\n\nHe ended his message by addressing the Prime Minister directly.\n\n\"Boris Johnson, I want to ask you a question: 72 of our friends and family are dead and there's been zero arrests,\" he said. \"Why?\"\n\nThe rapper went on to perform a muscular set of hip-hop, grime and 2-step, rearranging many of his songs to work with a live band.\n\n\"I'm hoping that the crowd are receptive to me trying to give them a different take on my usual set,\" he told BBC News ahead of the performance.\n\nHe said his musical versatility came from his upbringing.\n\n\"My dad used to be a rapper, my mum used to be a DJ on the radio, playing jungle, house, garage... so I've got quite a mix.\n\n\"My mum's Welsh and my dad's from Trinidad - so the British sounds and the Caribbean sounds come into one, and I've been inspired by it.\"\n\nThe star brought his mother to Glastonbury and she watched his show from the side of the Pyramid stage.\n\n\"She's going to be rocking out, man. She's my biggest fan,\" he said.\n\n\"She doesn't have a scrapbook but she's a photographer so she takes loads of personal pictures and has her own little personal archive.\"\n\nPaul McCartney will headline the festival later on Saturday night, and is scheduled to play a marathon two-and-three-quarter hour set.\n\nFans arrived at the barriers in front of the Pyramid stage early on Saturday morning to make sure they had a front row seat for the show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister convened a meeting to discuss options to protect women using clinics\n\nThe first minister has said legislation will be passed to enforce protester buffer zones at abortion clinics.\n\nNicola Sturgeon gave the Scottish government's backing to a member's bill protecting access to terminations.\n\nAt a summit in Edinburgh she said people were entitled to differing views on abortion, but women should not be intimidated while accessing healthcare.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged that there would be complexities around making legislation stand up to legal scrutiny.\n\nThe new legislation would see 150m (164 yard) no-go areas put in outside health facilities.\n\nThe first minister had invited councils, charities, police, health professionals and campaigners to the summit on abortion care following calls for action over protests outside clinics.\n\nPro-choice campaigners want to ensure that women can access services without fear, harassment or intimidation.\n\nAnti-abortion protesters at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow\n\nMs Sturgeon said she supported the member's bill, introduced by Green MSP Gillian Mackay.\n\nShe said: \"There's no doubt in my mind we need to aim for legislation in the long term.\n\n\"But we need to ensure we get the balance of that right so that it would be capable of withstanding any human rights challenge.\n\n\"There's further action we can take, working with councils and the police in the short term, to make sure that women do have access to healthcare.\n\n\"There are different views on abortion - we live in a democracy and people are free to have different views on abortion - but what I don't think any of us are free to do is to impede women's right to access healthcare without intimidation and harassment.\"\n\nThe summit follows recent reports of escalating incidents at the Sandyford clinic in central Glasgow.\n\nWomen's Health Minister Maree Todd, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that patients had told her that protests were intimidating.\n\nShe said: \"Everybody who is accessing healthcare at these sites has to run the gauntlet past them\n\n\"We have seen an escalation in behaviour. We have seen really, truly offensive signage being held up, voice amplification across the front of the building.\n\n\"People are unable to ignore the protests and we have potentially seen the use of bodycams which is a real invasion of privacy.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon faces some opposition from within her own party. MSP John Mason said he was \"not convinced\" the issue was a problem.\n\nHe said the protests he had seen were not intimidating and that people did not have to go near them.\n\nHe said: \"We have to listen to people's experience but there's two types of experience - people who say they are feeling harassed and intimidated, and people who say they are being coerced into abortions and are not being given the pros and cons.\"\n\nAnti-abortion groups, such as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, have said they would continue to defend the right to pray in public and offer help to women outside clinics.\n\nLois McLatchie, from the Christian campaigning group ADF UK, told the BBC her volunteers were offering support and advice on alternatives to abortion.\n\nShe added: \"Buffer zones ban legitimate offers of help and silent prayer and mean women may not be able to access those other options - practical help or financial help.\n\n\"Women have the right to hear about these options at the point of need and it is patronising of the government saying women don't want to hear this.\"\n\nThere are fears the recent reversal of abortion rights in the US will \"embolden\" protesters in Scotland\n\nHowever, Alice Murray of pro-choice group Back Off Scotland - said there was a misunderstanding from some anti-abortion campaigners over what happens at clinic appointments.\n\nShe said: \"Women don't need to be offered the other side by strangers outside. You are talked through the process and your options by a specific healthcare provider.\n\n\"We believe it should be the NHS and healthcare providers who give that information. A lot of the leaflets we see handed out outside these clinics have misinformation on them.\n\n\"These people outside can't be trusted to give accurate advice or support. It's highly inappropriate.\"\n\nThe summit came after the US Supreme Court struck down the landmark Roe v Wade decision, transforming abortion rights in America and allowing individual states to ban the procedure.\n\nGreen MSP Gillian Mackay, who introduced Scotland's members' bill, said the US move would \"stop safe abortions and put lives at risk.\"\n\nShe said: \"Here we need to continue to fight for progress. That means buffer zones, telemedical abortion and services safe and accessible for all.\n\n\"There is no place for the type of intimidation and harassment we are regularly seeing outside these healthcare facilities at the moment.\n\n\"Both healthcare staff, and those accessing services, have relayed horrifying stories of the impact this harassment can have.\"", "Monnow Street in Monmouth has been closed while police remain at the scene\n\nA man has suffered serious injuries after being found unconscious in an alleged assault.\n\nThe 43-year-old was taken to hospital after being found in Monnow Street, Monmouth, at about 01:15 BST.\n\nGwent Police arrested a 21-year-old man and two others, both aged 19, on suspicion of assault. Monnow Street was closed while police investigated.\n\nThe injured man, from Poole in Dorset, is being treated at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, the force said.\n\nThe man was found unconscious in the street in the early hours\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of PwC staff are to get a 9% pay rise in response to rising living costs and a competitive recruitment market, the accountancy giant has said.\n\nThe company said half of its more than 20,000 employees in the UK would get an increase of at least 9%, while 70% would get a rise of 7% or more.\n\nWith vacancies at a record high, many firms are offering pay rises to attract and retain staff.\n\nBut ministers have warned big salary rises could further fuel price rises.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices go up - hit 9.1% in the UK in May, the highest level for 40 years.\n\nHowever, for many people, wages are failing to keep up, with regular pay falling at the fastest rate in more than a decade when taking into account rising prices.\n\nPwC said salaries for many of its entry-level programmes would also increase, with starting salaries in audit roles rising by 10% and consulting graduates getting a rise of just over 8%.\n\nChairman Kevin Ellis said the company \"can't ignore market pressures and want to ensure pay at every level is as competitive as possible\".\n\n\"We know pay will be an increasingly important consideration given rising living costs - we want to stay competitive and continue attracting the best talent and skills from across the UK,\" he added.\n\nThe company said it was investing more than £120m in pay rises, as well as allocating a further £138m to bonuses this year - up £10m on the previous year.\n\nOther companies, such as Lloyds Bank, have offered staff one-off payments to help them cope with the rising cost of living.\n\nHowever, Mr Ellis said base pay was \"particularly important... given the bearing it can have on mortgages and future salary\".\n\nEarlier this week, a union representing Rolls-Royce workers rejected the company's offer of a £2,000 one-off payment, saying it fell \"far short of the real cost of living challenges which our members are experiencing\".\n\nOther sectors have also increased pay in recent months, with supermarket chains Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda all announcing rises as they battle for staff.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, which was at the centre of last week's rail strikes, is looking for a pay rise of at least 7%.\n\nThe union says Network Rail's offer of a 2% pay rise, with the possibility of a further 1%, was \"unacceptable\", pointing to the rising cost of living.\n\nIn May, official figures showed there were more job vacancies than unemployed people in the UK for the first time since records began.\n\nHowever, earlier this month, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke warned employees they should not expect their wages to rise in line with inflation.\n\nHe told the BBC big salary increases to meet the rising cost of living could end up with a 1970-style \"inflationary spiral\", where companies hike wages and then pass the cost on to customers through higher prices.\n\nThe independent public sector pay review bodies are due to report in the coming weeks on the level of increase for workers - including employees in health, schools and prisons.\n\nUnions are pressing to have the pay increases reflect the rising cost of living.\n\nBut Mr Clarke, the Treasury minister in charge of the pay review body process, said there was no automatic link between inflation and pay setting.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells Radio 4's Today there will be no \"psychological transformation\" from him.\n\nBoris Johnson has said a \"psychological transformation\" in his character is \"not going to happen\" after by-election defeats led to calls for change.\n\nThe PM was responding to Tory party chairman Oliver Dowden saying it could not be \"business as usual\" as he quit.\n\nBut he said he also had to distinguish between \"criticism that really matters and criticism that doesn't\".\n\nThe by-election defeats in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton on Friday came after the prime minister faced months of criticism over parties in Downing Street during lockdown, alongside soaring inflation and a narrower-than-expected win in a confidence vote from his own MPs.\n\nSpeaking from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Rwanda, Mr Johnson repeatedly said that policy was more important than allegations about his conduct.\n\nMr Johnson said voters were \"fed up with hearing conversation about me\" and wanted to focus instead on the cost of living, the economy and \"standing up to violence and aggression\" in Ukraine.\n\nThe PM was challenged by presenter Mishal Husain that a lot of the criticism had been about him personally and had come from people who had worked with him.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"As a leader, you have to try to distinguish between the criticism that really matters and the criticism that doesn't.\"\n\nAsked if there was any matter of principle he would consider resigning over, he said if he had to abandon Ukraine because it became too difficult or the costs were too great, he would quit.\n\nHe said that \"of course\" he regarded morality as a part of leadership.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was questioned about how he had not resigned over misleading the House of Commons, breaking the law for the Covid fine, or losing the support of 41% of his MPs in the confidence vote.\n\n\"Let's look at this in a more cheery way, if that's possible\" he said. \"Actually, what's happened is that I've got a renewed mandate from my colleagues, and I'm going to continue to deliver.\"\n\nThe prime minister did not engage with a question about the UK's top civil servant Simon Case having an informal conversation about job opportunities for his wife, Carrie.\n\n\"The worst thing I could do is get into conversations about my family,\" he said.\n\nThis was an interview in which the prime minister repeatedly attempted to detach his character and conduct, from policy.\n\n\"You have to try to distinguish between the criticism that really matters and the criticism that doesn't,\" he said.\n\nThere was an acknowledgement his character isn't going to change.\n\nAnd he sought to turn criticisms of it into policy disagreements - citing, for instance, the one Conservative MP who has advocated the UK re-joining the EU's single market.\n\nHis problem is many of his Conservative critics think the judgement of big chunks of the electorate, including among Tory voters, is set when it comes to his character.\n\nAnd there is restlessness, too, among some backbenchers on policy as well.\n\nHe is repeatedly struggling to change the record from one about his own future, and how much of one he has in Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in the Rwandan capital of Kigali later on Saturday, Mr Johnson was asked if he considered the question of his leadership settled and said: \"Yes.\"\n\nHe refused to comment on a report in the Times that he planned to build a £150,000 treehouse for his son Wilf in the grounds of Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, with possible funding from a Tory donor.\n\n\"I'm not going to comment on non-existent objects or non-existent jobs to do with my family,\" he said.\n\nAsked in his BBC interview about policies to ease the rising cost of living, Mr Johnson declined to offer a commitment to cut fuel duty further or remove VAT from energy bills.\n\n\"There may be more things we can do,\" he said, but he added that ministers are already \"doing a huge amount with the fiscal firepower we have\" and said the public understands the financial situation the government is in.\n\nThe PM refused to comment on reports he had planned a £150,000 treehouse for his son at Chequers\n\nTory backbencher Bob Neill told the BBC the prime minister's response to the by-election defeats was wrong.\n\n\"This is a genuine sense of growing frustration and growing alarm that the party is being taken down a track that will lead to it inevitably losing the next election,\" he said.\n\nCriticism of Mr Johnson was not just about \"personality\", but whether his \"character and adherence to the rules\" were consistent with standards that Conservative voters in particular expect, Mr Neill said.\n\nHe said there was also \"evidence of drift and lack of grip on economic issues\", while \"the highest rate of taxation for 40 years\" was not an economic policy Conservatives would recognise.\n\nThe prime minister's interview comes as two Tory MPs critical of his record say they may stand for election to the committee that runs the party's leadership contests, with one saying he would be in favour of changing the rules to allow a second confidence vote.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss, who has joined the PM in Rwanda for the summit of Commonwealth leaders, said people often want to \"send a message\" to government in by-elections and the defeats were not necessarily a predictor of general election failure.\n\n\"It hasn't been the predictor in the past and I don't believe it will be the predictor of the next general election,\" she said.\n\nAhead of a meeting of G7 and Nato leaders, she also urged governments to continue to support Ukraine's \"fight for freedom\", saying any concessions to Russia would be \"appalling\".\n\nAt the summit in Kigali, Mr Johnson also defended his government's policy of trying to deport asylum seekers to the east African nation.\n\nAsked by the BBC by how much Channel crossings in small boats needed to be reduced for the policy to be considered a success, he said: \"I'm not going to give you a figure.\"\n\nHe said it was a \"humane policy\" which was about \"breaking the business model of those who criminally abuse and cheat people crossing the Channel in unseaworthy vessels.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThird LV Insurance Test, Headingley (day four of five) England need further 113 runs to win\n\nEngland need 113 runs with eight wickets in hand to complete another superb final-day victory against New Zealand in the third Test at Headingley.\n\nSet 296 to win, England hurried along once again to reach 183-2 on day four.\n\nOllie Pope made 81 not out and Joe Root an unbeaten 55, putting on 132 after Alex Lees was run out for nine and Zak Crawley caught for a frantic 25.\n\nAfter chasing 277 in the first Test and breathlessly pursuing 299 to win the second, victory in Leeds will give England a 3-0 series clean sweep over the World Test champions.\n\nThey would have hoped to earn themselves a smaller target when New Zealand resumed on 168-5 - 137 ahead - but were thwarted by Tom Blundell's 88 not out.\n\nBlundell, who overturned an lbw decision on 52 and was dropped on 67, combined with Daryl Mitchell yet again for their fourth century stand of the series.\n\nMitchell fell lbw for 56 to the impressive Matthew Potts 50 minutes into the afternoon session before Jack Leach took the last four wickets to claim 5-66 and his first 10-wicket match haul in Tests.\n\nIf England pull off the win they will become the first team to chase 250 three times in a row.\n\nA full house is expected on Monday after Yorkshire followed the lead of Nottinghamshire, the hosts of the second Test, in allowing spectators in for free to watch this energised England side attempt to do so.\n• None 'I've never experienced anything like it' - Leach\n\nBefore this series, when England had won only one of their past 17 Tests, a chase of almost 300 would have looked way beyond them.\n\nBut they have been transformed under new coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes to the point that anything now looks possible.\n\nAt Trent Bridge last week they had 72 overs to chase 299 and did so in 50.\n\nWith four sessions to reach their target on this occasion, they batted in slightly more measured fashion but still eased along at more than four an over, Joe Root reverse sweeping his first ball and later playing an outrageous scoop for six off pace bowler Neil Wagner.\n\nNew Zealand's only spinner, part-timer Michael Bracewell, was ineffective and seamers Trent Boult and Tim Southee were neutered by a lack of movement and a flat pitch.\n\nShowers are forecast on Monday morning, but there should still be time for either side to force a win.\n\nRoot and Pope cruise after Crawley fails again\n\nIn truth, England would not have wanted the close to have come because Pope and Root were cruising in late-evening sunshine against bedraggled opponents hurt by the decision to leave out frontline spinner Ajaz Patel.\n\nBoth batters nicked between wicketkeeper and first slip off Bracewell's off-spin but otherwise were comfortable.\n\nPope batted at a spritely pace, as he did in his 145 in the second Test, and drove elegantly through the covers.\n\nHe also brought composure to proceedings after a frantic start during which Lees was run out in the fifth over after a mix-up with Crawley, who himself played an innings that summed up his international career.\n\nCrawley was dropped on nought playing a wild drive, cracked four elegant fours in one Boult over and then carelessly tried to hit Bracewell out of the rough to be caught at extra cover. He ended the series without a fifty.\n\nShortly after, New Zealand burned two reviews in consecutive balls to try to dismiss Root lbw, but on both occasions the ball hit him outside the line of off stump.\n\nIf the match seems to be following the pattern of the previous two Tests, the first session was also very familiar.\n\nEngland were resolutely blunted by Mitchell and Blundell, who became only the fifth pair to share four century stands in a series. Blundell's haul of 383 runs is the best by a visiting wicketkeeper in England.\n\nHe was left stranded when, after Mitchell perished playing across the line, the lower order tried to attack.\n\nLeach capitalised as Bracewell swiped to deep mid-wicket, Tim Southee was bowled and Neil Wagner was caught between the legs of wicketkeeper Sam Billings, who was rushed into the game as a Covid-19 replacement for Ben Foakes.\n\nLeach ended with match figures of 10-166 to become the first England spinner to take 10 in a Test since Moeen Ali five years ago.\n\nAlong with Pope and Jonny Bairstow, he looks to be one of the players to have benefitted most from the appointment of Stokes and McCullum.\n\n'New Zealand looked on the ropes' - what they said\n\nEngland's Jack Leach told BBC Sport: \"We have had a really strong day and are pleased how we batted with Joe Root and Ollie Pope.\n\n\"We stuck at it with the bowling this morning - we got our rewards. Matthew Potts was unbelievable and it was great to be part of.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"The New Zealand attack looked on the ropes.\n\n\"It's the best three Test matches England have played in many years, and you can see the players have bought into this brand of cricket.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"If England are able to start on time they might get them in a session tomorrow morning.\n\n\"If someone would have told me at the end of March in Grenada when England had lost to West Indies that New Zealand would be whitewashed here, I don't think anyone would have believed them.\"\n• None What's the controversy surrounding the new tournament?", "Boris Johnson has said he is \"actively thinking\" about a third term, amid criticism of his leadership.\n\nThe prime minister was asked if he would like to serve a full second term in office - to 2028 or 2029.\n\n\"At the moment I'm thinking actively about the third term and what could happen then, but I will review that when I get to it,\" he told reporters.\n\nOne Tory MP has said he wants the rules changed so Mr Johnson could face another confidence vote.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Kigali, Rwanda, where he has been at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, the prime minister was asked to elaborate on his comment, replying that he was thinking \"about a third term - mid 2030s\".\n\nNo 10 later suggested he was joking, but it points to Boris Johnson's bullish mood despite two bruising by-election defeats in the past week in Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton.\n\nFollowing the results, party co-chairman Oliver Dowden resigned, saying \"someone must take responsibility\".\n\nThe Lib Dems overturned a huge Tory majority in Tiverton and Honiton - their third by-election victory over Boris Johnson's party in a year.\n\nAnd Labour retook the seat of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, which it lost at the 2019 general election.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Michael Howard called on Mr Johnson to resign following the by-elections, adding \"members of the cabinet should very carefully consider their positions\".\n\nMr Johnson insisted he would lead his party into the next election, and said he wanted to keep driving forward his plan to reduce inequality across the country - what his government calls \"levelling-up\".\n\nWhile acknowledging it would take time, he added that a \"huge amount of progress\" could be made in two parliaments.\n\nHe told reporters: \"Forget about me, think about what this country, the UK could do and where it's gone.\n\n\"We've embarked on a massive project to change the government, the constitution of the country and the way we run our legal system, the way we manage borders, our economy, all sorts of things we're doing differently.\n\n\"Also at the same time we are embarked on a colossal project to unite and level up. I happen to believe in that incredibly strongly.\n\n\"Levelling-up is a great, great mission and it won't be easily accomplished and people will say it hasn't worked, it's not working yet, people in this constituency aren't feeling the benefits - it's going to take time and I want to keep driving it forward.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of \"taking voters for granted with impunity\", saying \"those days are over\".\n\n\"They now face a credible Labour Party: a government-in-waiting with a plan to deliver on the country's demands,\" Sir Keir wrote in the Observer.\n\n\"For months, Johnson has been privately claiming that he will hold an early election. My message to him is simple: bring it on,\" he added.\n\nDuring his trip to Rwanda to meet Commonwealth leaders, Mr Johnson showed little sign of the pressure he's faced from critics in his own party who've called on him to quit.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson refused to comment on a report in the Times that he planned to build a £150,000 treehouse for his son Wilf in the grounds of Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, with possible funding from a Tory donor.\n\nMr Johnson has faced renewed criticism from inside his party after losing the safe Tory seat of Tiverton and Honiton to the Liberal Democrats\n\nOn Saturday he said the question of his leadership was \"settled\" after he won a confidence vote among his own MPs.\n\nBut Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen confirmed he wanted the party's rules changed so that Mr Johnson could face another vote of confidence before 12 months are up.\n\nUnder the current rules, Mr Johnson is technically safe from a challenge until next June.\n\nMr Bridgen told the BBC: \"Boris Johnson is actually galvanising an anti-Boris Johnson vote.\n\n\"The leader of the party should normally be more popular than the party itself, but what we're seeing with Johnson is he's a huge drag on the ticket.\"", "Oslo Cathedral was decorated with rainbow flags for the memorial service\n\nA memorial service has been held at Oslo Cathedral to remember the victims of a shooting in the centre of Norway's capital, Oslo.\n\nTwo people died and 21 were wounded on Saturday in what police are treating as an \"act of Islamist terrorism\".\n\nA gay bar was one of the targeted locations. A 42-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts.\n\nBut speaking at the service, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said calling it off did not deter the fight \"against discrimination, prejudices and hate\".\n\nHe described how thousands of people had gathered on the city's streets waving rainbow flags [used as a symbol by the LGBTQ+ community], and laying flowers at the scene of the violence. Many shed tears, and were comforted by other bystanders.\n\n\"During the day, the city was full of people who wanted to speak out, about sorrow and anger, but also about support and solidarity and the will to continue on fighting, for the right of every individual to live a free life, a safe life,\" Mr Stoere said.\n\n\"These misdeeds remind us of this. This fight is not over. It is not safe from dangers. But we are going to win it, together.\"\n\nNorway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit attended the church service, and the cathedral was decorated with brightly-coloured flowers and rainbow flags.\n\n\"Bullets cannot kill love,\" said the head of the Norwegian Protestant Church, Olav Fykse Tveit.\n\nHe observed that the church had opposed equal rights for same-sex couples for years, noting: \"We see that we can learn, sometimes in spite of ourselves, that diversity is a present, a richness, and that many homosexuals have a capacity for love that we are incapable of.\"\n\nThe shootings happened in the early hours of Saturday, in and around Oslo's London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, the Herr Nilsen jazz club, and another pub.\n\nEyewitnesses said the suspect took out a gun from his bag and started firing, forcing terrified people to either throw themselves to the ground or flee.\n\nThe attacker was arrested by police officers - who were helped by bystanders - minutes later. Two weapons were retrieved at the crime scene by police, one of them a fully automatic gun.\n\nOn Saturday the terror alert level in Norway was raised to its highest level, though the country's PST intelligence service said it had \"no indication\" further attacks were likely.\n\nOne eyewitness told Norway's public broadcaster NRK he had stepped on the shooter's weapon while he was restrained. He described the situation as chaotic.\n\nAs the shooter was being tackled by four people, his gun was still on the ground.\n\n\"My thought then was to run and stand on it, so that no one would come\", the witness told NRK.\n\nThousands of people marched in Oslo after the shooting, some chanting: \"We're here, we're queer, we won't disappear!\"\n\nThe shooting suspect, described by police as a 42-year-old Norwegian man of Iranian descent who was known to the security services, was questioned by police for a second time on Sunday. Norwegian media have named him as Zaniar Matapour.\n\nThe suspect's lawyer, John Christian Elden, told broadcaster TV2 it was not possible to draw any conclusions about the motives or reasons for the attack.\n\n\"There is reason to think that this may be a hate crime,\" police said on Saturday. \"We are investigating whether... Pride was a target in itself or whether there are other motives.\"\n\nA woman who lived next door to Mr Matapour told NRK it was \"eerie\" to find out that he lived so close to her.\n\nShe told NRK the feeling was strengthened because her partner is a woman.\n\nThe neighbour told NRK she had attended the protest march on Saturday.\n\nAsked whether the shooting had ruined Pride, she replied: \"Our case is strengthened - not his.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sergei Lavrov speaks exclusively to the BBC about the war in Ukraine\n\nSince the Russian army attacked Ukraine nearly four months ago, thousands of civilians have been killed and whole towns reduced to rubble, while millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes.\n\nBut on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked me in the eye and told me things were not as they seemed.\n\n\"We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act.\"\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Lavrov has given only a few interviews to Western media.\n\nHe repeated the official Kremlin line that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Russian officials often claim that their military is \"de-Nazifying\" the country. Mr Lavrov caused uproar recently when he tried to justify the Nazi slur regarding Ukraine's president, who is Jewish, by making the ridiculous claim that Adolf Hitler had \"Jewish blood\".\n\nI quoted to him an official United Nations report about the Ukrainian village of Yahidne, in Chernihiv region, which states that \"360 residents, including 74 children and five persons with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a school… There were no toilet facilities, water…10 older people died\".\n\n\"It's a great pity,\" Mr Lavrov said, \"but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are being put under pressure by the West. And very often they're being used to amplify fake news spread by the West.\"\n\n\"Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are.\"\n\nSergei Lavrov (R) accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of Ukrainian actions in areas held by Russian separatists since 2014\n\nMr Lavrov, 72, has represented Russia on the international stage for the past 18 years, but Western sanctions have now been imposed on both him and his daughter.\n\nThe US has accused him of pursuing a false narrative of Ukraine as the aggressor, and of direct responsibility for Russia's invasion as a member of its Security Council.\n\nI then turned to Russian relations with the UK. It is on Russia's official list of unfriendly countries, and I suggested that to say relations were bad was an understatement.\n\n\"I don't think there's even room for manoeuvre any more,\" Mr Lavrov told me, \"because both [Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Liz] Truss say openly that we should defeat Russia, we should force Russia to its knees. Go on, then, do it!\"\n\nIt was last month that the UK foreign secretary said Russia's Vladimir Putin was humiliating himself on the world stage and that \"we must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mykola tied himself to a wall so he could sleep standing up\n\nWhen I asked Mr Lavrov how he viewed the UK now, he said it was \"once again sacrificing the interests of its people for the sake of political ambitions\".\n\nI asked him about two British men recently sentenced to death by Russian separatists in occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nWhen I pointed out that in the eyes of the West, it was Russia that was responsible for their fate, he responded: \"I am not interested in the eyes of the West at all. I am only interested in international law. According to international law, mercenaries are not recognised as combatants.\"\n\nI replied that the men had served in the Ukrainian armed forces and were not mercenaries, and Mr Lavrov said that should be decided by a court.\n\nHe then accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of what had been happening to civilians in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, \"when civilians were being bombed by Kyiv's troops for eight years\".\n\nI stressed that over the course of six years, the BBC had many times contacted the leadership in the separatist-run areas asking for permission to go and see what was happening. We were refused entry every single time.\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of genocide. However, in 2021, eight civilians were killed in the rebel-held areas, according to self-proclaimed pro-Russian \"officials\", and seven the year before. While every death was a tragedy, I said, that did not constitute a genocide.\n\nI suggested that if genocide really had taken place, then the Luhansk and Donetsk separatists would have been interested in us going there. Why were we not let in, I asked.\n\nA longer version of Steve Rosenberg's interview with Sergei Lavrov will be available on Saturday - on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and around the world on BBC World News and the BBC News YouTube channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is an important mood-making week for our biggest political parties.\n\nEncounters with the electorate always mould the mojo of our political leaders.\n\nFor when you are in the popularity business, the verdict of voters, however geographically piecemeal, can't be ignored.\n\nBut there can be other catalysts that prompt a smile or a frown, and both the Scottish National Party and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party each face one of those moments in the coming days too.\n\nBut let's take a look first at the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe result in Wakefield in West Yorkshire was less surprising but more important than the one in Devon.\n\nWhy? Because if Labour are to win a general election they need to take seats, and lots of them, from the Conservatives.\n\nThe party is pleased that, were the margin of Labour's victory there to be repeated at a general election (a big if, as they acknowledge, as by-elections are not about electing a government), they would have won a majority.\n\nThey take issue with the election guru Sir John Curtice's analysis.\n\nProfessor Sir John, of Strathclyde University, said the result implied there was still a question mark about the electorate's enthusiasm for Labour, as opposed to distaste for the Conservatives, given the decline in the Conservative vote was more than twice as big as the rise in the Labour vote.\n\nSenior figures point out that plenty assumed when Sir Keir Starmer became Labour leader that such was the electoral mountain the party faced, he would never himself make it to Downing Street, but instead make it possible for his successor to do so.\n\n\"The mantra in the office is we have to be Kinnock and Blair,\" says one source, a reference to Lord Kinnock's rebuilding of the party and Sir Tony's delivery of an election victory.\n\nThey believe such a victory is now seen as doable.\n\nAnother source recently described the Starmer project thus far as \"climbing out of the grave\" dug for them by former leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nParts one and two of the plan were detoxifying their brand, as they saw it, and portraying the government as inept.\n\nThey feel they have done both these things.\n\nThe third stage, which plenty of figures including influential ones in the shadow cabinet are getting impatient to see, is the case for why people should vote Labour.\n\nThe investigation by Durham Constabulary into alleged Covid law breaking by Sir Keir and his deputy Angela Rayner has hamstrung that and it won't begin in earnest until - if - they are cleared.\n\nPlanning is under way for the party conference in the autumn; after last year's focus on internal Labour machinations, this year's will be about their pitch to the country.\n\nWhat, then, of the Liberal Democrats?\n\nThey, in the words of one, are \"super chipper\" this weekend.\n\nLittle wonder; a third whopping win against the Conservatives in a by-election a year.\n\nConservatives have been known to privately describe Lib Dems as the 'yellow peril', a backhanded compliment to their by-election savvy, energy and ruthlessness.\n\nThe coalition years doused their brand in a political poison for many.\n\nThe antidote of time appears to have washed much of that away.\n\nThey are still parliamentary tiddlers - 14 MPs out of 650, just 2% of the Commons.\n\nLib Dem leader Ed Davey joined his newest MP Richard Foorde to celebrate his win\n\nBut they could play an outsized role in the politics of the next few years, injecting fear into the Conservative psyche about their potential capacity to wipe out swathes of Tory MPs.\n\nOne thing the Lib Dems are irritated by is the grumbles of Conservatives, most notably the Health Secretary Sajid Javid this weekend, about talk of a deal between the Lib Dems and Labour to work together to eject Tory MPs.\n\nAs Sir John Curtice has said, there appears to be a growing willingness of voters to vote for whichever party locally is best able to beat the Conservatives.\n\nBoth Labour and the Lib Dems insist there is no deal, there is no pact, it's parties focusing on where they can win.\n\nLib Dem sources also point out they couldn't possibly have won and won so big in three previously rock solid Conservative seats without luring former Tory voters to them, including, especially in Tiverton and Honiton, plenty who voted Leave.\n\nIt's 30 years since a party lost two by elections on the same day. The last time it happened, it was the Conservatives again who were on the receiving end of two chunks of the electorate's ire. On 7 November 1991, they lost Kincardine and Deeside to the Liberal Democrats and Langbaurgh in North Yorkshire to Labour.\n\nAnd what happened at the general election six months later?\n\nThe Conservatives won them both back. The idea that by-elections can be a psephological quirk — and they can be — and exaggerate a party's popularity or otherwise, is what Tories cling to this weekend.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC a \"psychological transformation\" in his character is \"not going to happen\"\n\nBut plenty of Boris Johnson's internal critics think the electorate's judgement on the prime minister's character is set and little can change that. His supporters hope his previous bounce-back-ability has at least one more boing in it.\n\nFinally, then, to the DUP and the SNP. Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists are refusing to go into devolved government at Stormont. They say they won't go back into power sharing until the part of the Brexit deal called the Northern Ireland Protocol is radically altered, removing that sense from many unionists that it was unpicking the stitches that hold the UK together, the overarching fear of their political creed.\n\nOn Monday, the proposed change in the law that could ditch chunks of the Protocol will be debated in the Commons.\n\nSome are outraged at what they see as the government intentionally breaking international law.\n\nMinisters insist it won't do that.\n\nWhat we shouldn't expect is rapid movement from the DUP. They feel they've been repeatedly let down by Boris Johnson and they have a mandate to ensure they get the Protocol sorted, as they see it, before returning to Stormont.\n\nDebating the Protocol Bill won't be enough to resolve that impasse.\n\nAnd so to the Scottish National Party. The first thing which always bears repeating is how, 15 years into government at Holyrood, they continue to be the colossus of Scottish politics; everyone else a shrimp in comparison.\n\nIt doesn't insulate them from problems; their Westminster leader Ian Blackford has faced calls to resign over his party's handling of a sexual harassment complaint.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford apologises to victim and says Patrick Grady should \"reflect\" on behaviour\n\nNot only has it raised questions about Mr Blackford's judgement in the eyes of his critics, but proven there is at least one mole within his ranks who has recorded and leaked what was meant to be a private meeting.\n\nOn Tuesday, party leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will set out how she plans to \"unlock the door to another independence referendum\", as one figure put it to me.\n\nExactly how they do that, with Boris Johnson refusing to countenance one, will be interesting.\n\nIt'll be a big moment at the core of the SNP's very reason for being - and so itself a mood-maker for them and Scottish politics more broadly.\n• None Six takeaways for Tories from by-election doorsteps", "Dozens of Russian missiles have struck targets across Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv enduring the heaviest barrage in months.\n\nA Kyiv apartment block was destroyed, killing at least one and wounding six others including a seven-year-old girl.\n\nUkraine says 14 missiles were fired at the Kyiv region on Sunday, but the strikes extended far beyond the city.\n\nOther areas included the central city of Cherkasy, where one person died, and the north-eastern Kharkiv region.\n\nThe strikes came as leaders of the G7 group of the world's richest nations began a three-day summit in Bavaria, southern Germany, with the war in Ukraine top of the agenda. They are expected to promise further military support for Kyiv and impose more sanctions on Moscow.\n\n\"We have to stay together,\" US President Joe Biden told Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz just before the summit at Schloss Elmau.\n\n\"[Russian President Vladimir] Putin has been counting on it from the beginning, that somehow Nato would, and the G7 would splinter and... but we haven't, and we're not going to.\n\n\"So, we can't let this aggression take the form it has and get away with it,\" President Biden said.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale, who is at the summit, says Western unity over the war has faltered in recent weeks, with some leaders discussing long-term relationships with Russia and others stressing strong, lasting support for Ukraine.\n\nBut the G7 leaders meeting in Bavaria were determined to put those divisions to bed, our correspondent adds.\n\nIn Kyiv, a large blast crater was gouged in a nursery school playground, near a nine-storey building whose top floors were ripped apart. The injured girl's mother - a Russian citizen - was also pulled from the rubble and taken to hospital, officials said.\n\nThey said the girl later underwent a surgery and was \"in stable condition\".\n\nUkraine's military says some missiles were launched from Tupolev bombers over the Caspian Sea, some 1,450km (900 miles) away. And on Saturday, it said, Russian missiles were fired from Tupolevs flying over neighbouring Belarus.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said high-precision weapons struck Ukrainian army training centres on Sunday in the regions of Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, and Zhytomyr and Lviv west of the capital.\n\nThe strike on Starychi district in Lviv was just 30km (19 miles) from the border with Nato member Poland.\n\nA missile caused this crater in a residential area of Kharkiv on Sunday\n\nKyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said the attacks were an attempt to intimidate Ukraine ahead of this week's G7 summit.\n\nThe last major Russian missile strike on Kyiv was on 5 June when a railway repair facility was hit.\n\nRussia has become internationally isolated through far-reaching sanctions since its 24 February invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAfter big early setbacks, Russia has made some advances in the east despite fierce Ukrainian resistance, and on Saturday finally captured Severodonetsk, a city now in ruins.\n\nMilitary analysts say it is now a war of attrition in the industrial eastern Donbas region, though Kyiv's forces are outgunned by Russian artillery and missiles.\n\nUkraine has urged the West again to speed up deliveries of heavy long-range weapons.\n\nA show of unity: G7 leaders at a summit in Bavaria, Germany\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson met French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit. A spokesperson for Mr Johnson said \"they agreed this is a critical moment for the course of the conflict, and there is an opportunity to turn the tide in the war\".\n\nThey agreed to sustain military support for Ukraine, and Mr Johnson \"stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability\" by giving \"licence\" to President Putin. He said leaders must be honest about the war's rising costs, but the price of Russia succeeding was \"far higher\".\n\nMr Scholz, hosting the G7, said unity over Ukraine was the group's clear message to Mr Putin.\n\n\"We are united by our world view and by our belief in democracy and rule of law,\" he said.", "One of the boats was towed to Ardglass, County Down after getting into difficulties during \"genuinely dangerous\" conditions\n\nThree crews taking part in a Great Britain rowing challenge have been rescued near Northern Ireland and Wales, following bad weather.\n\nA rowing vessel with five people on board was rescued from the Irish Sea on Sunday morning.\n\nIt followed a six-strong crew being rescued off the Antrim coast by the coastguard on Saturday evening.\n\nAnother vessel taking part in the same challenge also had to be rescued off the coast of Wales.\n\nAll 16 rowers from the three vessels were reported to be safe and well.\n\nThe vessels from the GB Row Challenge had left London Tower Bridge on 12 June to circumnavigate Great Britain and to collect environmental data in a project with the University of Portsmouth.\n\nAt 07:00 BST on Sunday, a rowing crew reported they had \"capsized and righted themselves, but were unable to row\".\n\nThey had been monitored throughout the night by HM Coastguard with frequent radio transmissions.\n\nThe crew were about 23 nautical miles north east of Ardglass, County Down, and were taken to the village where they were met by Newcastle Coastguard Rescue Team.\n\nJason McKinlay of the Team Sea Legs crew, whose vessel was towed in to Ardglass, said the conditions were \"genuinely dangerous\"\n\nJason McKinlay, who was part of the Team Sea Legs crew whose vessel was towed in to Ardglass, said the conditions were \"genuinely dangerous\" and the Coastguard made the right decision to rescue them.\n\n\"In all honesty, we may be smiling and grinning and bearing it, that's because we are safe and on land now, but obviously you think of the kids when you go and take on these challenges,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nThe rower, whose children are aged nine and 12, said it was \"genuinely dangerous out there once we were underwater\" and that it was only because the boat was efficient in self-righting that \"we are all safe and sound\".\n\nEmma Wolstenholme, another member of the crew, said they had been battling for the last three days with \"increasingly strong winds\".\n\n\"We knew that it was going to be 30 knots of wind, it just increased to 40, which meant bigger waves, really steep, and we were just battling with the elements and trying to keep the boat upright,\" she added.\n\n\"We did have one full capsize.\n\n\"As soon as we capsized and we got onboard, I spoke to Sophie who was on the cabin and said 'please get on the radio, talk to the Coastguard tell them what has happened'.\n\n\"It was just giving them a heads up, in the end they overrode our decision to continue and they sent out a boat to tow us in.\"\n\nEmma Wolstenholme said the Team Sea Legs crew had been battling with increasingly strong winds for the last three days\n\nMs Wolstenholme said they would monitor the weather, and liaise with GB Row Challenge, but that the team were \"still of that mindset\" to continue in the event if possible.\n\n\"We want to get to the finish line,\" she added.\n\nTony Watson, of HM Newcastle Coastguard, said the conditions on sea this weekend had been \"particularly rough\" and that the incident highlighted how \"even the most experienced and well-prepared sea farers can get into difficulty in such weather\".\n\nIt came after the six crew members of the GB Endurance team ran into trouble due to bad weather off the County Antrim coast of Northern Ireland on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe team were rescued by the Red Bay RNLI lifeboat and a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick in Scotland was also deployed.\n\nThe rowers were able to board the lifeboat shortly after 23:00 and no one required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were gale force eight winds with rough seas, according to the coastguard.\n\nAnother vessel taking part in the same challenge also had to be towed back to land after sustaining damage to it rudder at about midnight on Friday.\n\nIt was towed to Milford Haven in Wales after making the decision to head to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland as they were \"fatigued\" and concerned about worsening weather conditions.\n\nDue to the offshore location and delicacy needed in the towing, the lifeboat was out for nearly 12 hours, arriving with the rowers and their vessel just before 12:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe rowers did not need medical assistance.\n\nAlex Smith, commander at HM Coastguard, said that although all the rowers were prepared with all the appropriate safety equipment they still got \"caught out\".\n\n\"Whether you are rowing across the sea, sailing along the coast or going out for a paddle, always be prepared, check the weather, take the appropriate safety equipment and means of calling for help.\n\n\"Always tell someone where you are going and when you plan to come back.\"", "More than 100 migrants made it into the enclave, Spanish officials said\n\nAt least 23 migrants have died and others were hurt on Friday when a huge crowd tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla, officials from neighbouring Morocco say.\n\nReports say some of those who died had fallen from the top of a border fence.\n\nSeveral security personnel and migrants were admitted to hospital for treatment following clashes early on Friday.\n\nIt was the first such attempted mass crossing since Spain and Morocco resumed diplomatic ties in March.\n\nThe thaw in relations came after Spain supported Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed region of Western Sahara.\n\nSpanish officials say several hundred people tried to break through into the enclave after cutting fencing.\n\nMost were forced back but more than 100 got through and were being processed at a reception centre, they added.\n\nOriginally 18 deaths were reported, but officials said on Saturday that five more people had died of their injuries.\n\nMelilla and Ceuta, another Spanish enclave, have in recent years become a focal point for mostly sub-Saharan migrants attempting to reach Europe.", "Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russian President Vladimir Putin was destroying millions of lives in Ukraine and Russia\n\nThe Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has told the BBC the Russian public will eventually realise their young soldiers are dying for nothing more than Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambitions.\n\nThe former world heavyweight boxing champion was attending the funeral of a well-known 24-year-old anti-corruption activist when the remarks were made.\n\nVolunteer soldier Roman Ratushny was killed in Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, on 9 June.\n\nMayor Klitschko, who won legions of fans across the world during his long record-breaking career, said the Russian leader was destroying millions of lives in both Ukraine and his own country.\n\n\"This is also a tragedy for Russians and for the Russian Federation. The people do not understand that right now, but I am sure they will realise very soon the reality. The Russians die - for what? The ambition of Putin?\"\n\nThe mayor was among hundreds of mourners who turned out to pay their respects to Mr Ratushny - who came to prominence during pro-democracy protests in 2013 against the pro-Moscow former Ukrainian government.\n\nMourners pay their respects and leave flowers on the coffin of Roman Ratushny in Independence Square\n\nHis coffin was carried into Independence Square, where friends gave tributes and dozens of mourners stepped forward to leave bouquets of flowers.\n\nAt regular intervals, the crowd shouted \"Slava Ukraini\" - Glory to Ukraine.\n\nVitali Klitschko said Western allies showing solidarity with Ukraine was \"key for peace and freedom in Europe.\"\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who returned from an unannounced trip to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, has warned that \"Ukraine fatigue\" was beginning to set in around the world.\n\nMr Johnson said allies needed to demonstrate they were giving Ukraine \"strategic resilience\".\n\nThe prime minister's visit came just a day after the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania all arrived in Ukraine to give their support to the country's ambitions to join the EU.\n\nOn Friday, the European Commission gave its own recommendation that Ukraine should be given \"candidate status,\" which would start the path to accession.\n\nSome Ukrainian officials have expressed concerns that Western allies may push their country towards a peace deal with Russia in light of the ongoing fallout from the war on food and energy supplies and the global economy.\n\nWhen I asked Mayor Klitschko if he was concerned Ukraine could be pressured to make concessions to the Russians, he said ceding Ukrainian land should not happen.\n\n\"I'm more than sure we will be ready to talk with the Russians about some compromise. If the last Russian soldier left Ukraine, it will be time to talk but not yet. Russians have to go from our homeland.\"\n\nAs one of the most recognisable Ukrainians in the world, Mayor Klitschko's voice carries weight. But the ultimate decision on if and when to enter peace talks will be down to President Zelensky and his government.", "Tobias Weller was supported by people at Endcliffe Park who had been inspired by his fundraising\n\nA young fundraiser has completed a new challenge to raise money to create accessible playgrounds near his home.\n\nTobias Weller, 11, who has cerebral palsy and autism, has taken part in challenges in his home city of Sheffield, raising more than £158,000.\n\nHis latest feat saw him use his race walker to complete a 1km (0.62 mile) walk around a Sheffield park.\n\n\"It's not right that disabled kids can't access their local playgrounds and I want to change that,\" he said.\n\nThe Tobias in the Park event saw dozens of people join him on the walk at Endcliffe Park, with money raised going towards new play equipment accessible for children with disabilities.\n\n\"Look at how many people have come to show their support,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to raise awareness and money for accessible playgrounds.\"\n\nThe money raised from his efforts will go towards making two playgrounds, including one at Endcliffe Park, more accessible.\n\nHe has raised almost £3,000 in his latest challenge.\n\nThe 11-year-old was greeted by well-wishers as he completed the challenge\n\nTobias became the youngest person to feature in the Honours List when it was announced in December and is to receive the British Empire Medal.\n\nIt comes after he raised thousands of pounds for Paces School, where he is a student, and The Children's Hospital Charity by completing an Ironman challenge.\n\nCompleted over the course of a year, he did 180km (112 miles) on his trike, a 4km (2.5 miles) swim and ran the length of a full marathon.\n\nHis mother Ruth Garbutt said she was \"absolutely delighted\" at the support for the youngster, who was inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore during the pandemic.\n\n\"If disabled kids are able to use their local playground it will make a huge difference,\" Tobias said.\n\n\"It means they can enjoy themselves. Everyone should be able to do that.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police in Colombia posed for photos with some of the detained suspects earlier this month\n\nFour people accused of murdering a high-profile Paraguayan prosecutor while he was on his honeymoon have been sentenced to 23 years in prison.\n\nThe accused confessed to killing anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, 45, on a private beach resort in Colombia.\n\nMr Pecci investigated high-profile corruption and money-laundering cases in his native Paraguay.\n\nColombian authorities believe it is likely that organised crime groups arranged the murder.\n\nMr Pecci and his wife were on the sixth and final day of their honeymoon when he was killed on Baru, an idyllic island off the Caribbean coast.\n\nThe judge presiding over the case in the northern city of Cartegna said the full sentence of 47 years each for the four people was cut in half as part of a plea deal, but ruled out other benefits such as serving any of the sentences at home.\n\nA fifth person accused of involvement has pleaded innocent, while a sixth suspect remains at large, Colombian police said.\n\nAuthorities believe the Brazilian prison gang First Capital Command, a major exporter of cocaine, was involved in coordinating the murder, but said that they have been unable to identify the mastermind behind the attack.\n\nColombian Attorney General Francisco Barbosa told reporters during a press conference earlier this month that the men had been paid a sum of around $500,000 (£408,000) for their part in the hit.\n\nInvestigators added that the crime may be connected to international drug trafficking and \"radical terrorism\".\n\nJust two hours before the attack, Mr Pecci's wife, journalist Claudia Aguilera, had posted a picture on her Instagram account announcing that they were expecting a baby.\n\nShe said that they were on a stretch of private beach of Decameron Hotel on Tuesday morning when her husband was targeted.\n\n\"Two men attacked Marcelo. They came in a small boat, or on a jet ski, the truth is I did not see well,\" she told El Tiempo newspaper last month.\n\nShe said that one of the men got off and \"without a word he shot Marcelo twice, one [bullet] hit him in the face and another in the back\".\n\nMs Aguilera was not injured in the attack.\n\nMr Pecci was part of \"A Ultranza Py\", the biggest operation against cocaine trafficking and money laundering in Paraguay's history.\n\nAccording to Paraguayan media, the operation broke up a ring which smuggled drugs from cocaine-producing hotspots Colombia and Bolivia through Paraguay to Europe.\n\nHe was part of the international team which earlier this year seized hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and arrested dozens of suspects.\n\nThe US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs said that \"Pecci's work fighting organised crime stands as an example to us all - especially his efforts to bring to justice those who engaged in money laundering, drug trafficking, and corruption\".\n\nWhile Mr Pecci had bodyguards in Paraguay, he did not have any protection while on his honeymoon in Colombia, and the Colombian police said it had not been aware of his presence in the country.\n\nLast month, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo condemned what he called the \"cowardly assassination of the prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Colombia saddens all of the Paraguayan nation\".\n\n\"We condemn in the most energetic terms this tragic occurrence and redouble our commitment in the fight against organised crime.\"", "Seiriol and Jamie Dawes-Hughes will not travel to Qatar as the country outlaws homosexuality\n\nA gay Welsh football fan fears it is not safe for him and his husband to travel to the World Cup in Qatar.\n\nTournament organisers have said \"everybody is welcome\" despite homosexuality being illegal in Qatar.\n\nBut Seiriol Dawes-Hughes and husband Jamie said they would not travel this November, despite Wales qualifying for the first time in 64 years.\n\n\"Before my husband and I go on holiday, the first thing we do is Google gay rights in that country,\" he said.\n\n\"That's something that straight people do not have to do, but it's something that we do every time and it's remarkable how many countries that people go to regularly aren't safe for people like us, and Qatar is definitely one of those.\"\n\nFatma Al-Nuaimi, communications executive director of Qatar's supreme committee for organising the tournament, told BBC Sport this year's World Cup was a \"tournament for everyone\".\n\nMany LGBTQ+ supporters have already said they are boycotting the tournament over civil rights issues\n\nHowever, some of the Welsh national football team's staff, as well as members of Wales' official LGBTQ+ supporters' group, the Rainbow Wall, are boycotting Qatar over gay rights.\n\n\"This is front and centre for us as Welsh football fans and working in the industry,\" said Mr Dawes-Hughes, 35, from Caernarfon, Gwynedd.\n\n\"But there is no way I would go and it's an absolute disgrace that the World Cup is being held there.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said Wales should \"not look the other way\" from human rights concerns, while FAW chief executive Noel Mooney said the team would use the event as a \"platform\" to discuss the issue.\n\n\"This is the clearest and most brazen example of sportswashing I can think of,\" said Mr Dawes-Hughes.\n\nSportswashing is a term describing countries using sport to improve their image abroad.\n\n\"If this was the women's World Cup then a large percentage of the players [who are gay] could not play,\" he said.\n\n\"So the idea that Welsh female players can't go to support their male counterparts in the first World Cup since '58 is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nWales players celebrate qualifying for their first World Cup since 1958\n\nHe added: \"When the decision was made to host the World Cup in Qatar the footballing community needed to come together but that did not happen and it's now too late.\n\n\"We have turned a blind eye to human rights and rights of gay people.\n\n\"It shows a complete lack of backbone in the football community to make a stand against this. It's unacceptable to host the World Cup in Qatar but it's happening and what can we do - nothing.\"\n\nLlanelli MP Dame Nia Griffith said: \"I fully understand why fans from LGBT community are very nervous about going or perhaps have decided not to go for those reasons and that is very very sad.\n\n\"But we need to tackle these issues when decisions are taken on where these events are held.\"\n\nThe FAW said it was part of a working group, with other European nations attending the World Cup, around the matter.\n\nA spokesman added: \"The participating nations are keen to influence change as we fully believe in fans being their authentic selves.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Miller and Ffion Martin, from Carmarthen, have been engaged since the first lockdown\n\nA couple with Down's syndrome who stayed apart as they shielded through Covid are finally getting married.\n\nChris Miller popped the question to girlfriend Ffion Martin during the first national lockdown in 2020.\n\nThankfully Ffion said yes - only for Covid restrictions and the fact they were both shielding to put the wedding on hold.\n\nHowever the wait is over for the happy pair from Carmarthen when they tie the knot in nearby Llansteffan on Saturday.\n\nProfessional actors Ffion, 22, and Chris, 39, met at Hijinx theatre company, which works with actors who have learning disabilities.\n\nAfter two years of dating, Chris proposed, but during the second lockdown they were asked to shield as they were both considered clinically vulnerable.\n\nIt meant they were kept apart, using the phone as their only means of communication until lockdown rules were eased.\n\nFfion believes this weekend's wedding is a cause for a double celebration.\n\n\"We're going to have a very big party and I'm having a red carpet. I'm really looking forward to it,\" she said.\n\n\"We've had a difficult period, but we got through it.\"\n\nThe couple learned to waltz during lockdown and would like to perform the dance at their wedding\n\nFamily and friends have been busy making final preparations for the service at Llansteffan Memorial Hall.\n\nThe tables are laid, with balloons blown up and wedding favours for guests on each seat.\n\n\"We've had lots of time to prepare,\" said mother of the bride Janice Martin.\n\n\"Really we just want them to have a gorgeous wedding. All they want to do is get married and have a party. They don't care what's on the table.\n\n\"But we just wanted it to be special, so we've worked hard.\"", "Some of the women spoke about their allegations at a press conference in Tangier\n\nFour women in Morocco have filed complaints of sexual harassment against French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier.\n\nNow aged between 26 and 28, they had been employed by his firm in Tangier.\n\nThe women said they had been sacked after refusing to give in to harassment and intimidation.\n\nThe 75-year-old is under formal investigation in France for raping a minor and trafficking. He reportedly says he is the victim of blackmail.\n\nConsidered to be one of France's richest men, Mr Bouthier resigned as CEO of insurance brokers Vilavi, formerly known as Assu 2000, last month.\n\nOn Friday, the Moroccan Association for the Rights of Victims held a news conference about the allegations alleged to have occurred in Tangier between 2018 until April 2022.\n\nSome of Mr Bouthier's alleged victims appeared, wearing face masks and dark glasses to hide their identities, to tell journalists about their experiences.\n\n\"He asked to sleep with me and when I said no, he asked me to introduce him to a sister, a female cousin or a friend, saying he would give me a nice present in exchange,\" one is quoted by AFP news agency as saying.\n\nThe women also accused other French and Moroccan executives of involvement.\n\n\"Jacques on his own is not scary, but with his accomplices, above all in Tangier, that's when he's scary. So they started to harass me morally, real harassment once again, they pushed me to resign,\" another said.\n\nFrench police suspect the businessman of keeping up to seven teenagers in a flat over a number of years.\n\nThe French investigation began earlier this year when a 22-year-old woman went to a police station in the capital, Paris, saying she had been held captive by him for five years - forced to provide sex in return for food and lodging.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in Sao Paulo over Phillips and Pereira murders\n\nBritish journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were shot dead with hunting ammunition, Brazilian police have said.\n\nA day after police identified Mr Phillips' remains, the second set of remains were confirmed as those of Mr Pereira on Saturday.\n\nA third suspect in the murders has been taken into custody, police added.\n\nThe two went missing while on a reporting trip in the Javari Valley, in Brazil's Amazonas state on 5 June.\n\nTen days later, human remains were found after a suspect confessed to burying their bodies and led police to the spot where the remains were found, police said.\n\nThe suspect, a fisherman named by police as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, was the first person arrested.\n\nHis brother, Oseney da Costa, was also arrested earlier this week - he denies any involvement in the murders.\n\nA third suspect was arrested on Saturday. Jeferson da Silva Lima, also known as Pelado da Dinha, turned himself into a police station in the city of Atalaia do Norte, according to police.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper - he was in the area researching a book.\n\nMr Pereira, 41, who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nMr Pereira had received death threats prior to taking the trip, indigenous rights groups said.\n\nThe area in which they were travelling has become known for illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug-trafficking activities.\n\nThe region is known for violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people. It was these conflicts that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were documenting.", "The language in the UK military chief's letter was really remarkable; it was talking about the need to engage on the battlefield, it mentioned Russia by name.\n\nThis letter was not intended for public consumption, but it was sent very widely, so they must have known this might have come out.\n\nIn terms of how this will be received in Ukraine, they have been calling for Nato involvement in this war, but I don't think they're going to view this as a clear indication that the British Army will be getting involved.\n\nOn how the Russians might view it, they will probably take it much the same way, but if this is seen as something of a threat - and it could be - then maybe Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov would echo the sentiment he expressed in an interview last week when he was talking about Britain's desire to bring Russia to its knees, and he said: \"Go on then, do it”.\n\nThe mood music we're getting from Western capitals is that this is a conflict that is going on for the long term and that they need - Boris Johnson said it himself today - to offer military support in an ongoing basis to the Ukrainians if they're going to be able to hold on and win this war in the east.", "Rail and tube strikes will go ahead next week after talks failed to resolve a row over pay, jobs and conditions, union leaders have confirmed.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said discussions with Network Rail, train operators and London Underground had failed.\n\nThe strike will cause disruption across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was disappointing and that strikes should \"always be the last resort\".\n\nThe action, which will involve thousands of workers, will take place across 13 train operators and Network Rail on Tuesday, Thursday and next Saturday, and there will be a London Underground strike on Tuesday.\n\nOperators have said there will be knock-on effects on other days as well.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns and maintains the country's railways, said the union was \"dismissing talks before we've even finished\" with more discussions planned for Sunday.\n\nA Network Rail spokesperson said it was \"serious\" about trying to find a solution and a compromise which gave people a \"decent pay rise\", but was also affordable for taxpayers and farepayers.\n\nMick Lynch, the RMT's general secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme the latest offer from Network Rail was for a 2% pay increase, with a possible extra 1% if \"productivity\" conditions involving job cuts are accepted.\n\n\"We won't be bought off on that principle. We cannot have our members' lives disrupted in the way they are proposing,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he would support a so-called general strike if one were achievable.\n\n\"Working people in this country are fed up with low pay and precarious work as well as having decent conditions under threat,\" he said.\n\nIn a recent Q and A for members, the RMT said its position in all pay negotiations was for an above Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation pay rise.\n\nRPI, a measure of inflation used to calculate the cost of living, was 11.1% as of April 2022 - up from 2.9% a year earlier. The union said it had recently secured an 8.4% rise workers on the London Underground.\n\nAs to whether pay rises should be backdated to compensate for pay freezes, the union said any rise \"should reflect that members have not had a pay rise... and the drastic increase in the cost of living\".\n\nThe RMT says there are proposals to cut 2,500 maintenance jobs on Network Rail, which the union claims could \"increase the possibility of trains flying off the tracks\".\n\nNetwork Rail says it would never consider changes that make the railway or its people less safe.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers have been warned by Network Rail not to travel on trains unless necessary during strikes next week, with about half of all rail lines closed.\n\nA skeleton timetable on strike days will see about 20% of services running. For example, the last direct train from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday, the first day of the strike, departs at 12:30 according to the latest timetable from LNER.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said that \"no one wins in the event of a strike\" and said it would be working alongside Network Rail to keep as many services running as possible.\n\nThe group's chair Steve Montgomery said this week that taxpayers have supported the rail industry with \"the equivalent of about £600 per household since Covid\" adding that \"passenger numbers are still only at around 75% of pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said the government had committed £16bn to keeping the railways running during the pandemic, but warned the industry was still \"on life support\" and strikes could stop customers choosing rail travel in the future.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer he wanted all parties around the negotiating table \"even at this late hour\" as he did not want the strikes to go ahead.\n\n\"But, like the British public, I'm frustrated because the government is sitting it out, it's not lifting a finger to resolve these strikes,\" he said.\n\nHow are the rail strikes affecting you? Do you rely on trains? Are you having to make alternative travel arrangements? Will you miss an important event? Get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps: \"The strike is the last thing we need and it's jumping the gun\"\n\nIt is not for the government to intervene to stop rail strikes, the transport secretary has said - despite unions calling for talks.\n\nGrant Shapps said the RMT union's request for a meeting was a \"stunt\" and the union was \"determined to go on strike\".\n\nThe union said politicians were failing to prevent its three days of industrial action next week.\n\nLabour claimed ministers wanted the strikes to go ahead to \"sow division\".\n\nStrikes will take place on almost all major lines across Britain on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, as well as on the London Underground on Tuesday.\n\nThere will also be knock-on effects on services on non-strike days, including Monday.\n\nEven rail companies whose workers are not striking will be affected, as Network Rail workers are taking action - and they look after tracks and other infrastructure.\n\nA special timetable will be in place across England, Scotland and Wales from Monday until Sunday.\n\nThe RMT said on Saturday that talks between the union and Network Rail had failed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, the RMT's Mick Lynch claimed rail operators were refusing to sit down for discussions altogether.\n\nAnd he said Network Rail, which is government-owned, was being influenced by ministers.\n\n\"It's Shapps, [Boris] Johnson and Rishi Sunak who are stopping a deal being done in this dispute,\" he said.\n\nBut Network Rail said the RMT were dismissing talks before they had finished.\n\nAmid calls for ministers to step in, Mr Shapps said negotiations had to take place between unions and employers and accused the RMT of \"trying to create some sort of class war\".\n\n\"In any pay discussion, in any negotiation over terms, over in this case modernisation, it's always the employer and the union who need to get together to speak,\" he said.\n\nAlthough most rail operators are not owned by the government, they are not entirely independent.\n\nThe government provides subsidies to the network - including £16bn to keep the railways running during the pandemic - and owns Network Rail.\n\nSteve Montgomery, who chairs the Rail Delivery Group of operators, said it was clear the industry could not keep asking the taxpayer to fund it.\n\n\"Instead of striking, we need the RMT leadership to work with us to secure a deal that is fair to our staff, fair to our passengers and fair to taxpayers,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow levelling-up secretary Lisa Nandy told BBC One's Sunday Morning show the government had got to \"get round the table\" with rail workers.\n\nShe said it was \"simply not good enough\" that ministers had not met unions since 8 March.\n\nThe blame game is in full swing ahead of next week's strikes - the biggest on the railways in a generation.\n\nThe RMT says it is taking action to protect fair pay, conditions and to prevent job cuts. Other unions are warning they might take industrial action too if they don't get pay deals they deem to be acceptable. They believe inflation means a decent pay rise is essential.\n\nBut the government is up for the fight. Grant Shapps has been scathing of the RMT, saying its leadership seems to want a class war.\n\nTreasury ministers also warn that if pay goes up too much, it could just make inflation worse.\n\nThe government says it wants to avoid the strike - but in cynical political terms, a row with a left-wing union is comfortable political ground for the Conservatives.\n\nIt's more tricky for Labour. The party's leadership says it doesn't want next week's strike to happen.\n\nBut is it backing the striking rail workers? There's been no definitive answer.\n\nHow much is a fair pay rise? That's for the negotiations, the party says.\n\nLabour says everyone should get back around the table and find a way to avoid the strike - critics will see that as fence-sitting.\n\nThe RMT - which has 40,000 members across the rail network - has said its members are unhappy about stagnated pay and proposed job losses.\n\nMr Lynch denied the union was demanding a pay hike in line with the current RPI inflation rate - which was 11.1% in April - but said any proposed rise must reflect the higher cost of living.\n\nHe pointed out to Sky News that RPI in December, when he said a deal with Network Rail should have been struck, was 7.1%.\n\nMr Lynch earlier said the union had rejected a Network Rail offer of a 2% rise with a further 1% increase linked to job cuts. The RMT recently won an 8.4% pay rise on the London Underground, it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Lisa Nandy: \"The government has got to get around the table\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used a speech at a Labour event in Warwick to suggest Mr Shapps and Prime Minister Boris Johnson wanted the strikes to go ahead.\n\n\"They want the country to grind to a halt so they can feed off the division,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said the strike would mean businesses would struggle with freight, schools exams would be hard to get to and hospital appointments would be missed.\n\n\"That's why I have said the strikes should not go ahead,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat transport spokesperson Sarah Olney said of Mr Shapps: \"Not bothering to avert a crisis is a sackable offence in any other workplace.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson warned the railway industry was \"still on life support\" with passenger numbers down 25%.\n\nThey said train travel was now a choice - not a necessity - and strikes could risk losing customers in the future.\n\nHow are the rail strikes affecting you? Do you rely on trains? Are you having to make alternative travel arrangements? Will you miss an important event? Get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Mills brothers have taken to rap to vent their frustration\n\nIt is an idyllic seaside resort with pastel-coloured houses where thousands flock in summer.\n\nBut some young people from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, have turned to rap to vent their frustration at being priced out by second homes and holiday lets.\n\nWill and Niall Mills' music describes the \"collapse\" of the working class community in the town.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was taking \"immediate and radical action\" to protect communities.\n\nPembrokeshire council said it was using second home levies to develop \"community-led housing development\".\n\n\"We don't live in Center Parcs. We don't live in Butlin's, this is a town. It has schools, it has GP surgeries,\" said Will Mills.\n\nThe 27-year-old is rapping in his mum's spare room in Pentlepoir, on the outskirts of Saundersfoot.\n\n\"If you've got two homes then you need one less.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Young people in seaside towns like Tenby can not afford to buy their own homes\n\nHis sister, who works for the council, has had to leave her flat and move in and her possessions are in boxes around him as he raps a track from his EP.\n\nIt means when Will or his siblings are home they have to share a room with his mum while his dad, a business owner in Tenby, lives in a room in a shared house.\n\n\"There is a level of anxiety that you could be made homeless within six months and I see that all the time,\" he said.\n\nThe council's waiting list for social housing has increased to 5,400 and it said the number of people coming to the authority who were homeless had also increased.\n\nWill and Niall have produced protest T-shirts\n\nWill and his identical twin brother Niall believe second homes and holiday lets are pricing families like theirs out of Tenby and they have turned to music, placards and protest T-shirts to try and raise awareness.\n\nTheir music both draws on their experiences of being part of a community they feel is being displaced.\n\n\"People will walk down the street and listen to it, put their headphones in then that's gonna go way further,\" he said.\n\nWill and Niall's obituary T-shirts have been sold to people in coastal towns around the UK who object to the often lower wages in rural areas, compared to high rents and housing shortages.\n\n\"What people forget is in purchasing a second home and having two homes you are responsible in some way or another for displacing a family,\" he said.\n\nThe average house price in Wales increased by 11.7% last year, compared to 15% in Pembrokeshire, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe average price of a home in the county has risen to £229,882.\n\nWill acknowledged the area needed tourism, but questioned \"what's the point of bringing money into a community that I can't live in?\n\n\"I think that there's also this misconception that second home owners bring all this money into the town and we're on our hands and knees waiting for this money to come in.\"\n\nAfter Gwynedd, latest figures show Pembrokeshire has the second highest number of registered second homes in Wales, and it has increased 15% since last June.\n\nIn Tenby, even businesses dependent on tourism are feeling the strain.\n\nEbony Lindsay, 26, manages The Dennis Café, or Den's as it is known locally.\n\nIt has been in her family for 35 years, but they have never experienced anything like their current staffing shortages.\n\nEbony said it was because people could no longer afford to live near the town, and especially not on local wages in hospitality.\n\n\"Most of my friends don't live down here anymore or they move into Cardiff, or have moved to London because that's where the jobs are for that and then also they can actually find somewhere to live.\"\n\nMost of my friends don't live down here anymore or they move into Cardiff, or have moved to London\n\nTo compensate she and her father regularly work 74-hour weeks.\n\nNeither her, her father or her aunt can afford to buy or rent in Tenby as they are \"local people who do it just to take home a normal wage\".\n\nEbony is trying to buy a house, but said it was impossible as wealthy buyers offered cash above the asking price.\n\nShe wants to see local people given priority on purchases and rentals, saying homes need to be occupied year-round to keep businesses going in the off-season.\n\n\"Even though the second home owners and holiday lets think they're bringing the money into the town, they're necessarily not because their houses are vacant the majority of the time,\" she said.\n\n\"The winter is bleak in Tenby now, because there's no one here every house has got no lights on no-one lives there.\"\n\nThe second homes premium councils can charge will increase to 300% from April 2023 after changes made by the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru under their co-operation agreement.\n\nPembrokeshire council charges 100% and the majority of the money goes to the Pembrokeshire Community Fund, which is spent on supporting local schemes and housing initiatives.\n\nCouncillor Neil Prior said communities were at a \"tipping point\".\n\nThe council is also exploring community-led housing development, like Community Land Trusts.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"committed to taking immediate and radical action using the planning, property and taxation systems to tackle the injustices in the current housing market\".\n\nIt also promised to have a package of proposals soon to tackle the various problems.\n\n\"We also continue to work towards our commitment of delivering 20,000 new low carbon social homes for rent this government term,\" a spokesman added.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nFreddie Burns' last-minute drop-goal winner against Saracens clinched Leicester Tigers' 11th Premiership title and first for nine years.\n\nVictory completes Tigers' return to English rugby's summit, having avoided the drop two years ago after Sarries were relegated for salary cap breaches.\n\nDespite losing George Ford to injury, Hanro Liebenberg and Jasper Wiese tries put Tigers 12-6 up at the break.\n\nOwen Farrell then levelled the scores with two penalties before Burns won it.\n\nThe game appeared to be heading for extra time at Twickenham before Ford's replacement Burns nailed his kick from 25 metres with just seconds left against a Sarries side that was finishing strongly and had a one-man advantage following Matt Scott's sin-binning.\n\nGlory for the East Midlands club comes at the end of a season which they dominated, having topped the table at the end of every regular-season round.\n\nIn emotional scenes at the end of the game, outgoing captain Ellis Genge - who now leaves to join Bristol - held the trophy aloft with former skipper Tom Youngs, who retired from rugby weeks before his wife Tiffany passed away this month.\n\nVeteran scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth, who was handed a surprise start against his former club ahead of first-choice England number nine Ben Youngs, took his tally of record league appearances to 318 in a game which he finished as the oldest Premiership final winner aged 39.\n\nAn off-the-ball hit from Liebenberg allowed Farrell to tee up the game's first points from right in front inside four minutes.\n\nMako Vunipola, one of Saracens' galaxy of international stars that remained with the club despite relegation, led the north London side onto the Twickenham pitch ahead of captain Farrell on his 200th appearance for them.\n\nThe prop was typically ferocious in Saracens' pack early on, which showcased its power and poise under pressure as a Tigers scrum collapsed just five metres out in their first real attack in the 17th minute.\n\nFord then missed his side's first chance to get on the scoreboard, sending a penalty wide, before the Sale-bound fly-half's Tigers career was ended by an ankle injury.\n\nAn Aled Davies yellow card - which Tigers argued should have been red - for a high hit on Julian Montoya minutes later handed Leicester a numerical advantage that they were quick to exploit, Liebenberg crashing over after Chris Ashton went close to crossing against his old side.\n\nAfter Elliot Daly made it a one-point game with Saracens' second penalty, the former Sarries connection of Wigglesworth and Ashton almost combined for Tigers' second try, with the scrum-half charging down a Farrell kick which the winger collected.\n\nWhile the Premiership's all-time leading try-scorer was crowded out, a quick tap from captain Genge caught Saracens' defence scrambling before Wigglesworth put Wiese over with a clever short-side pass.\n\nBurns failed to hit the mark with a penalty attempt to start a draining second half, with both sides producing sensational defensive displays.\n\nEach side came at each other in waves after the interval, but neither relented until Farrell slotted a penalty with 16 minutes remaining.\n\nA bounding run from Andy Christie with just seven minutes left set Sarries up for a late raid. Jamie George was kept out and Farrell was repelled, only for a scrum to be earned close to the line.\n\nScott's hit to stop Billy Vunipola, as the number eight tore away from the bottom of the scrum, earned him a yellow card, and Sarries the penalty for Farrell to level.\n\nThe one-man advantage was not something they were able to exploit, as Burns kicked Tigers to glory in a dramatic finish.\n\nThe tense showdown was between two sides that finished first and second in the table, and who have both regrouped and rebuilt in the past two years.\n\nSarries did so after the indignity of an unprecedented 105-point penalty, a £5.36m fine and relegation in 2020, which is ultimately what saved Tigers from going down to the Championship themselves.\n\nSteve Borthwick, a Premiership winner with Sarries as a player, has overseen Leicester's revival - taking them to a long-awaited 11th title in just his second full season in charge.\n\nIt has been a season in which they have also had to deal with their own punishment for salary cap breaches, Tigers hit with a fine of almost £310,000 for overspending in each season between 2016-17 and 2019-20.\n\nSaracens' highly regarded director of rugby Mark McCall has remained throughout, and previously praised the unity of staff - which includes the loyalty of some of English rugby's biggest names, including Farrell, Maro Itoje and the Vunipola brothers - for \"saving\" the club.\n\nWhile they were able to take Sarries back to English club rugby's biggest day, they were unable to make history as the first side to win the Premiership title in their first season after promotion.\n• None Are you stuck for Father's Day ideas? Here's some simple yet sophisticated recipes that will do the trick\n• None Is this a new exciting tournament for golf or a method to cleanse the country's global reputation?", "The UK's Sam Ryder was recently pictured in a pink Kalush Orchestra hat, in a nod to this year's Ukrainian winners\n\nThe BBC is in talks with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to potentially host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in the UK - not Ukraine.\n\nThe show's organisers decided, after a \"full assessment and feasibility study\", that the event cannot be held in the winning country, Ukraine.\n\nThis is due to the ongoing war following Russia's invasion. So, they turned to the UK, which came second.\n\nBut Kyiv said it disagreed with the EBU's decision and would appeal.\n\nTraditionally, the winning country is asked to host the following year's contest.\n\nReacting to the EBU's decision, Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said Kyiv \"believes that it has grounds for conducting further talks on finding a solution that will satisfy all.\"\n\n\"Hosting Eurovision 2023 in Ukraine is a powerful signal to all the world, which is supporting Ukraine now. We will be demanding to change the decision, because we believe that we will be able to fulfil all our obligations\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mykola Chernotytskyi, head of the managing board of Ukrainian broadcaster UA: PBC, said: \"Security is, of course, our first priority. The team of UA: PBC, state and local authorities did a thorough job and offered different options.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is a pity to see such an unappealable statement, therefore, we ask our partners to hold further negotiations.\"\n\nSam Ryder came second for the UK, the country's best result since 1998, at this year's event in May.\n\nRyder topped the jury vote in Turin in May, but rap-folk band Kalush Orchestra, who were given special permission to leave the war-torn country to compete, soared to first place with 631 points in a symbolic show of public support.\n\nThe EBU said in a statement it had conducted the study with Ukrainian state broadcaster UA:PBC and external specialists, amid the conflict, but that the \"security and operational guarantees\" required to host the event cannot be fulfilled in the war-torn country.\n\nThe organisation thanked the winning nation's broadcaster for its \"wholehearted cooperation and commitment in exploring all scenarios\" and said it shared in \"their sadness and disappointment\", adding it would continue to support them.\n\n\"As a result of this decision, in accordance with the rules and to ensure the continuity of the event, the EBU will now begin discussions with the BBC, as this year's runner-up, to potentially host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in the United Kingdom,\" the statement read.\n\n\"It is our full intention that Ukraine's win will be reflected in next year's shows. This will be a priority for us in our discussions with the eventual hosts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK won the jury vote before Ukraine stormed into the lead following huge public support\n\nA BBC spokesman added: \"We have seen the announcement from the EBU. Clearly these aren't a set of circumstances that anyone would want. Following their decision, we will of course discuss the BBC hosting the Eurovision Song Contest.\"\n\nKatrina Leskanich, lead singer for the UK's winning 1997 Eurovision entry Katrina and the Waves with their song Love Shine A Light, tweeted: \"Practically hysterical over the announcement that the UK could host!\"\n\nDowning Street welcomed the possibility of the UK hosting Eurovision if Ukraine cannot, pledging to ensure it would \"overwhelmingly reflect Ukraine's rich culture, heritage and creativity\".\n\n\"Ukraine's victory... was richly deserved and as the rightful winner the government's firm wish has been to see next year's contest hosted there,\" said a government spokesperson.\n\n\"If the EBU decides the competition can't go ahead in Ukraine, we would of course welcome the opportunity to work closely with Ukraine and the BBC to host it here in the UK.\"\n\nThey added the government was also committed to \"building on the ongoing partnership between our two countries\".\n\nAsked if the government would help the BBC with the costs, the spokesman said \"we're slightly getting ahead of ourselves in terms of the process\".\n\nNorway's Give That Wolf A Banana were an eye-catching act at this year's contest\n\nA number of locations have put their hats in the ring if the UK does end up hosting the contest.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she wished Eurovision could be in Ukraine, but \"understand that in circumstances this isn't possible\".\n\n\"However, I can think of a perfect venue on banks of the River Clyde!\" she added, apparently suggesting the 14,300-capacity riverside OVO Hydro arena in Glasgow as a venue.\n\nBev Craig, the leader of Manchester City Council, also threw the city's hat in the ring, saying: \"Not the circumstances that anyone would want given the war in Ukraine. But if it's to be a UK city - I can't think of anywhere better, a great music city and fittingly home to a large Ukrainian community.\"\n\nLeeds had hoped to be European Capital of Culture in 2023, before Brexit prevented UK cities from entering that contest. The city is ploughing on with staging a year of culture anyway, and Leeds City Council said having Eurovision in the city \"could not come at a better time\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that the UK capital \"would welcome Eurovision with open arms\", adding: \"We're ready to step up and support Ukraine by hosting a contest that pays tribute to and honours the Ukrainian people, and also celebrates the very best of Britain too.\"\n\nLiverpool, Cardiff, Aberdeen, Brighton, Belfast and Birmingham have also all been suggested as possibilities.\n\nIf the UK is confirmed as the host country, cities would have to prove they have the right facilities and go through a bidding process.", "Videos are reported to have been filmed at Merville Barracks in Colchester, Essex\n\nThe deployment of paratroopers to Bosnia and Kosovo has been cancelled after videos emerged appearing to show some soldiers involved in sex acts.\n\nThe new head of the British Army Gen Sir Patrick Sanders said he had \"temporarily lost trust\" in the Parachute Regiment's 3rd battalion.\n\nThe footage was allegedly filmed at Merville Barracks in Colchester, Essex.\n\nSir Patrick wrote the alleged behaviour was \"unacceptable, corrosive and detrimental to the Army's reputation\".\n\nVarious clips were circulated of a woman having sex with troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade, the Times reported on 7 June.\n\nAbout 300 members of 3 Para were due to be deployed to the Balkans in September.\n\nMerville Barracks is based in Colchester, Essex and is the central camp of Colchester Garrison\n\nLt Gen Andrew Harrison, the colonel commandant of the Parachute Regiment, wrote a letter saying every member of the battalion \"will be devastated by the lost opportunity to serve on operations once again in the Balkans\" having \"temporarily lost the trust\" of the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Patrick.\n\nHe said: \"They will reflect on and where required adjust behaviours and culture that undermines the reputation and operational effectiveness of an exceptional battalion.\"\n\nIn a letter obtained by the Telegraph, Sir Patrick said the alleged behaviour in the video had been found to be consensual and the Royal Military Police established no crime was committed.\n\nBut he added it was \"unacceptable, corrosive and detrimental to the Army's reputation [and] could also be construed to denigrate women\".\n\n\"I know that the battalion will respond quickly and restore the reputation that they deserve,\" he said.\n\nSir Patrick took over from Gen Sir Mark Carleton Smith on Monday, shortly after the Armed Forces minister James Heappey said he was \"sorry and embarrassed\" about the \"disgraceful\" video.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A two-hour wait greeted Stuart Dempster on his return from holiday\n\nA sea of luggage has piled up at Heathrow's Terminal 2 after a technical malfunction.\n\nSome passengers had to fly without their bags while others faced delays at check-in, the airport said.\n\nTravellers complained on social media of two-hour waits at baggage reclaim.\n\nThe airport said the malfunction had now been fixed. Airport staff are working to reunite passengers with their belongings if they had to fly without them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stuart Dempster This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStuart Dempster tried to spot his own bags among the hundreds of suitcases packed into the hall.\n\n\"Two-hour delays for Heathrow Airport T2 baggage reclaim tonight apparently,\" he tweeted. \"Welcome back to Britain!\"\n\nFiona O'Driscoll posted pictures online of the terminal hall crammed with bags to pass the time.\n\nFiona O'Driscoll snapped the piles of bags from above the terminal hall\n\n\"Earlier today there was a technical issue with the Terminal 2 baggage system which has now been resolved,\" she said.\n\n\"Passengers are now able to check-in as normal, but a number of passengers who departed from Terminal 2 earlier today may have travelled without their luggage.\n\n\"We are working closely with airlines to reunite passengers with their luggage as soon as possible. We're sorry there's been disruption to passenger journeys.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has announced a training programme for Ukrainian forces he said could \"change the equation\" of the war.\n\nThe prime minister met President Volodymyr Zelensky during a surprise trip to the nation's capital Kyiv.\n\nHe pulled out of a conference of northern Tory MPs at the last minute and before the Wakefield by-election.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said PM's Kyiv trip had been \"important\", adding he was not \"affronted\" by him cancelling speaking at the conference.\n\nBut Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership business group, told the BBC it was a \"missed opportunity\" to engage with his MPs and people from the region.\n\n\"As much as I value and think the importance of him being in Ukraine is significant, the issue is timing. The prime minister could have done that potentially another time.\"\n\nMr Johnson was making his second visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February.\n\nHe had been due to speak at a conference in Doncaster ahead of the by-election in Wakefield, which was triggered after Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.\n\nMr Berry, the leader of the Northern Research Group group of Conservative MPs, said Mr Johnson's decision not to attend the conference was \"not a snub\".\n\nBut he later told Channel 4 News: \"Clearly, people were disappointed. We had 30-plus colleagues here and 400 members.\"\n\nMr Wallace said such visits had to be organised in \"total secrecy\" and it was important for Mr Johnson to show support for an ally that was at war.\n\n\"Helping Ukraine win and trying to help at home are linked. Part of the inflation we see comes from gas and food prices which are partly driven upwards because of this conflict,\" Mr Wallace tweeted.\n\nBefore turning up in Kyiv, Boris Johnson had been due in Doncaster to address some of his MPs from across the north of England.\n\nThey were poised to press the prime minister for more investment and local powers, and possibly pose tricky questions on taxation levels and the cost of living.\n\nJake Berry, the group's chair, insisted the decision to head to Ukraine instead of Yorkshire wasn't seen as a snub, saying the prime minister's plans can understandably change.\n\nBut there was clear disappointment from some MPs at the last-minute cancellation - and a warning that Boris Johnson had to deliver for those in the midlands and north of England.\n\nBoris Johnson's response to the war in Ukraine is regarded within his party as something he has handled well.\n\nBut with questions over his leadership and two difficult by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton taking place next week, his domestic woes aren't going anywhere.\n\nThe prime minister said the programme would use British expertise to rebuild Ukrainian forces and scale up their resistance\n\nSpeaking at a joint press conference earlier with President Zelensky, Mr Johnson outlined the UK's training programme for Ukrainian troops, saying it would harness \"that most powerful of forces, the Ukrainian determination to win\".\n\n\"Two months on from my last visit, the Ukrainian grit, determination and resilience is stronger than ever, and I know that unbreakable resolve will long outlive the vain ambitions of President Putin,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street said the UK-led training scheme would have the potential to train up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers every 120 days and would allow them to \"accelerate their deployment, rebuild their forces and scale-up their resistance\".\n\nSoldiers would learn \"battle-winning skills for the front line, as well as basic medical training, cyber-security and counter explosive tactics\".\n\nThe government added international partners would also be invited to host the programme.\n\nIf the offer is accepted by Mr Zelensky there would be discussions about the size of the training operation, which is expected to take place outside of Ukraine.\n\nThe previous Operation Orbital saw the UK train more than 22,000 Ukrainian personnel from 2015 up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nNo 10 said the leaders also discussed how the UK could \"play a pivotal role in ending the blockade of grain\".\n\nMr Zelensky's Telegram account posted a message saying: \"Many days of this war have proved that Great Britain's support for Ukraine is firm and resolute.\n\n\"Glad to see our country's great friend Boris Johnson in Kyiv again.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson's trip comes after visits to Ukraine by European leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nFollowing their trip, the European Commission has backed Ukraine's bid to be given candidacy status to join the EU - bringing it one step closer to joining the bloc.", "The attack on a Sikh prayer site in the Afghan capital, Kabul, began early in the morning.\n\nMilitants opened fire outside the fortified doors leading to the compound housing a Sikh gurdwara, as well as the homes of members of the community.\n\nThe assailants killed the security guard, and armed with grenades they managed to make their way inside, whilst Taliban members stationed at nearby checkpoints rushed after them.\n\n\"My house is just in front of the gurdwara, as soon as I heard firing I looked out the window, people were saying attackers are inside,\" Kuljit Singh Khalsa told the BBC. \"It was chaos, then all of a sudden there was a blast from outside.\"\n\nA bomb hidden inside a car, parked next to a Taliban checkpost, had been detonated, killing the unit's commander and ripping through the surrounding shops and homes.\n\nThe attack had begun around half and hour before daily morning prayers were due to start. \"If it had been later, there would've been even more people inside,\" Mr Khalsa said.\n\nAfghanistan was once home to tens of thousands of Sikhs and Hindus, but decades of conflict have seen the number dwindle to a tiny handful.\n\nIn recent years, those who have remained have been repeatedly targeted by the local branch of Islamic State (IS) militant group.\n\nIn 2018, a suicide bomber struck a gathering in the eastern city of Jalalabad, whilst another gurdwara was attacked in 2020.\n\n\"At the time of the attack in Jalalabad, there were around 1,500 Sikhs, after that people thought, 'We can't live here',\" Sukhbir Singh Khalsa said. More left after the attack in 2020, he, added, and by the time the Taliban took power last year, there were less than 300 Sikhs. Now there are just around 150.\n\n\"All our historical gurdwaras have been martyred already, and now the only one that was left has been, too.\"\n\nThe site was hit by a bomb early in the morning\n\nThe attack began half an hour before morning prayers\n\nSo far, there has been no claim of responsibility but it appears likely that IS was also behind this latest attack.\n\nAfghanistan's Shia and Sufi Muslim minorities have also repeatedly been targeted by the group.\n\nIS is much less powerful than the Taliban and does not control any territory, but has been responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in the country's history.\n\nOverall, levels of violence in Afghanistan have fallen dramatically since the Taliban returned to power - ending their insurgency - but IS is undermining the Taliban's promise to have finally brought security to the nation.\n\nKhalid Zadran, a spokesman for Kabul's police force, told the BBC that targeting civilians showed the \"cowardly\" nature of the attackers.\n\n\"Our comrades have sacrificed their lives for the Sikh community, it is their right under an Islamic state to be protected,\" he added.\n\nAll the attackers were killed around three hours after the assault began, during which time intense gunfire and multiple explosions could be heard. At least one Sikh man and one member of the Taliban's security forces were killed.\n\nWandering through the still smoking wreckage of the Gurdwara, Sikh community members said they were grateful for the Taliban's help in bringing the attack to an end, but that they did not feel safe and wanted to leave the country.\n\n\"We've appealed a lot to the Indian government, to find a way to give us visas, we don't want to live here anymore,\" said Sukhbir Singh Khalsa.\n\n\"Those of us left here are only here because we don't have visas, no-one wants to stay here. This has happened now, tomorrow it will happen again, and then again after that.\"", "Some asylum claimants who arrived in the UK in small boats or in the back of lorries could be electronically tagged under a new Home Office trial.\n\nA 12-month trial could apply to adults due to be removed from the UK after arriving via what the government calls \"dangerous or unnecessary\" routes.\n\nBoris Johnson said it was important to \"make sure asylum seekers can't just vanish into the rest of the country\".\n\nCritics say the plan treats those fleeing persecution as criminals.\n\nThe pilot comes days after the first flight taking asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled following a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nThe first to be tagged will likely be people who successfully challenged their removal from that flight.\n\nThe Home Office said the trial, which began on Thursday in England and Wales, would test whether tagging helps maintain regular contact with asylum claimants and progresses their claims more effectively. It will also collect data on how many people abscond from immigration bail.\n\nEven though the trial has begun, the Home Office would not say whether any migrant had been tagged yet.\n\nPeople who have been tagged may be subject to a curfew, and those who fail to comply with their conditions could be taken to detention, or prosecuted.\n\nThe guidance says those who are informed that they are to be removed from the UK may be at an increased risk of absconding and have less incentive to comply with immigration bail conditions.\n\nThe Home Office guidance says it will not include children or pregnant women.\n\nCaseworkers must also consider whether the device would cause serious harm to the person's mental or physical health, or whether they have been a victim of torture or modern slavery.\n\nHowever, the guidance says these factors do not in themselves prohibit imposing a tag.\n\nElectronic tags are already used in the UK alongside court or prison orders, including for curfews.\n\nThe prime minister told reporters on Saturday the UK was a \"very, very generous welcoming country\", citing recent schemes for people arriving from Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Ukraine, but said \"when people come here illegally, when they break the law, it is important that we make that distinction\".\n\n\"That is what we are doing with our Rwanda policy. That is what we are doing with making sure that asylum seekers can't just vanish into the rest of the country.\"\n\nThe government recently introduced the Nationality and Borders Act which made it illegal to enter the UK without permission.\n\nOn Friday, 230 people in five boats reached the UK by crossing the Channel, according to the latest Ministry of Defence update.\n\nMinisters and Home Office officials were left hugely frustrated this week when their attempt to send a first group of asylum claimants to Rwanda failed.\n\nFor years, they have been looking at ways of trying to bring down the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats - a figure that is already over 11,000 this year.\n\nThe idea of tagging will, the government hopes, show it is serious in getting tough on those it believes are exploiting the asylum system.\n\nBut it's not clear how many people will be tagged - or how keen immigration judges will be to introduce electronic monitoring as part of any bail conditions.\n\nAnd groups supporting refugees say once again government policy will lead to vulnerable people being demonised.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government was \"chasing headlines\" and said he did not think the migration plans would be able to stop criminal gangs smuggling people across the Channel.\n\nHe called for a \"serious and grown-up\" response working with French authorities.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said it was \"appalling\" the government was treating people fleeing \"war, bloodshed and persecution\" as criminals.\n\n\"This draconian and punitive approach not only shows no compassion for very vulnerable people; it will also do nothing to deter those who are desperately seeking safety in the UK.\"\n\nHe said the tagging trial was a \"diversion tactic\" from the government's \"complete failure to run the asylum system in an orderly fashion\", saying there were more than 100,000 awaiting a decision on their case.\n\nBut a Home Office spokesperson said: \"The government will not be deterred as we plan for the next flight to Rwanda.\n\n\"We will keep as many people in detention as the law allows, but where a court orders that an individual due to be on Tuesday's flight should be released, we will tag them where appropriate.\"\n\nTony Smith, the former head of Border Force, told the BBC he thought tagging those eligible to be removed was \"sensible\" in principle but said more details would be needed on the criteria for the measure.\n\nIt comes as Home Secretary Priti Patel said a decision by a European court which effectively grounded the first Rwanda-bound removal flight was \"absolutely scandalous\" and politically motivated.\n\nJudges at the ECHR granted an injunction that left a chartered plane to Kigali unable to depart, a decision Ms Patel told the Daily Telegraph had been \"opaque\".\n\nMr Johnson described the European court's intervention as a \"weird last-minute hiccup\" but said the government was very confident in the lawfulness of the Rwanda policy and would persevere with it.\n\nThe ECHR protects civil and political rights established in the aftermath of World War Two. It is separate to the EU.\n\nThe Rwanda plan, announced by the government in April, intends to give some migrants who cross the Channel to the UK a one-way ticket to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead.", "Several states across India, including Bihar and Telangana, have seen huge protests against a government plan to hire soldiers on fixed rather than permanent contracts.\n\nThe new Agnipath scheme is aimed at people aged between 17.5 and 21. Successful candidates will join the armed services for four years, after which only a quarter of them will be retained.\n\nProtesters say the government's plan to hire temporary soldiers will reduce their chances of getting coveted permanent military jobs, which guarantee fixed salaries and pensions.\n\nThe government says the reforms will reduce unemployment and military spending, and it has promised to create hundreds of thousands of other jobs for India's youth.", "Pamela Hall said she hoped to see Aiden Aslin and other men captured in Ukraine released\n\nThe grandmother of a man being held prisoner in Ukraine says she is not giving up hope after he was given a death sentence.\n\nAiden Aslin was captured while fighting against Russia and sentenced as a mercenary by a court not recognised by the international community.\n\nPamela Hall said she was \"very grateful\" for the backing people in his hometown of Newark have shown.\n\nAn event to rally support for Mr Aslin was held there on Saturday.\n\nAiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim were sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court\n\nMr Aslin was captured in Mariupol in April, one of the cities most affected by the war, and was sentenced alongside Briton Shaun Pinner and Moroccan national Brahim Saaudun.\n\nMs Hall said it was \"heartbreaking\" to see their situation, and hoped public events putting the spotlight on their plight can help efforts to free them.\n\n\"Time's running out,\" she said.\n\n\"I have to have optimism, I believe it will be sorted in due course, and that there will be peace in Ukraine.\"\n\nAn event showing support for Aiden Aslin and Ukraine took place in Newark on Saturday\n\nTony Byrne said other events will be held in support of Aiden Aslin to keep up support for efforts to free him\n\nTony Byrne, who organised the event to support Mr Aslin, said he hoped to see justice prevail.\n\n\"They [Russia] say that he's a mercenary, but actually he's a legal combatant in Ukraine.\n\n\"When Russia invaded Ukraine I think it was an outrage, and I want to do what I can, in whatever small way I can.\"\n\nAnother event in support of Aiden Aslin will take place in Nottingham next week", "Staff more than 6ft tall have experienced problems fitting into the Fiat ambulance cabs, the BBC has found\n\nDozens of staff at an ambulance trust claim they cannot drive its £54m fleet of new vehicles due to their height or body shape.\n\nDocuments reveal a string of problems with converted Fiats, which replaced the ageing Mercedes vans at the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST).\n\nThe vehicles are part of an NHS drive to standardise its fleet and are being adopted by trusts across the country.\n\nAn EEAST spokesperson said it had been working to address the issues.\n\nThe trust brought in a specialist to assess 160 staff members who, due to their height and body shape, had come forward having experienced a range of problems.\n\nNinety-four have now been identified as being unable to drive the vehicles.\n\nEntries from the trust's risk management system - and obtained via the Freedom of Information Act - reveal how taller staff in particular experienced difficulties fitting into the cabs of the modified Fiat Ducatos.\n\nComplaints ranged from back pain, not being able to see out of the windscreen properly to knees and shins scraping the dashboard.\n\nOne emergency medical technician told the BBC: \"I was told that anyone over 5ft 9in (1.75m) would be unable to drive it as they would not be able to achieve a comfortable and safe driving position.\n\n\"I did try to get into the driver's seat but I couldn't adjust the seat to allow me to operate the pedals properly and the steering wheel was pressed against my legs, making it difficult to steer safely.\"\n\nThey added there had been long delays when trying to book an alternative vehicle when starting a shift.\n\nAn alert issued by the East of England Ambulance Service warning of a burn risk due to the proximity of a heating outlet\n\nAn alert was also issued to staff after someone escorting a patient was severely burned on the leg by a heater outlet in the back of the ambulance.\n\nHowever, the trust said this was not an issue confined to the Fiats and is a known danger for floor vent type heating.\n\nThe adapted Fiat Ducatos have been rolled out across the country as ambulance services standardised their vehicle procurement following a report by Lord Carter of Coles in 2019, which led to a national specification.\n\nIn it, he stated \"it is simply unacceptable that trusts purchase different ambulances and stock them with different equipment and medicines\".\n\nEEAST uses a box design for its Fiats, whereas most trusts use the panel van version, though the cabs are the same.\n\nThis is because it was ahead of the national specification work.\n\nIt followed extensive testing with different trial vehicles, staff engagement and a board review that approved the purchase of the Fiats in 2018.\n\nThe trust branch of the union Unison is now working with colleagues around the UK to challenge the national specification.\n\nEEAST has raised concerns with NHS England and Improvement (NHSE&I).\n\nEEAST chief executive Tom Abell is now in talks with other ambulance bosses and NHSE&I to learn from the experience in the East of England.\n\nAn EEAST spokesperson said the fleet was rolled out three years ago, following \"extensive trials with colleagues and consultation with staff, trade unions, patients and carer groups\".\n\n\"Since the rollout, a small number of colleagues raised concerns about the cab area, which is the same as the current national ambulance specification,\" he said.\n\n\"We have been working to address these issues, which affect a small proportion of our colleagues, through assessment by an independent ergonomist to identify potential modifications to the vehicles.\"\n\nIt said some of its older Mercedes ambulances had been retained for staff unable to drive the Fiats, and it was \"exploring further options for a more permanent solution\".\n\nThere have also been issues with the cabs at another ambulance service.\n\nTaller staff at the South East Coast Ambulance Trust said they also had problems with seatbelts not fitting properly.\n\nA spokeswoman for Fiat said: \"The Fiat Professional Ducato, alongside all vehicles, must adhere to a European type approval as well as Euro NCAP, a rigorous set of safety tests.\n\n\"The installation of seat belts is carried out in accordance with rules set by the ECE14 and ECE16 standards.\n\n\"If these standards are not adhered to, the vehicle cannot be approved and therefore sold. Fiat Professional's vehicles, including the Ducato, fully comply with all legislation.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Boris Johnson's former ethics adviser has said he resigned from his role this week over the government's \"openness\" to breaking international law.\n\nIn a second letter outlining why he had quit, Lord Geidt said reports it was related to steel tariffs were a \"distraction\".\n\n\"I could not be a party to advising on any potential law-breaking,\" he said.\n\nLord Geidt was the second ethics adviser to quit under Mr Johnson, after Sir Alex Allan left in 2020.\n\nHe left his role on Wednesday, accusing the prime minister of putting him in an \"impossible and odious position\" over an issue he believed would amount to a breach of the ministerial code - the rules about standards in government.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC News on Friday evening, he elaborated on why he quit.\n\nLord Geidt told the chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Conservative MP William Wragg, there had been \"confusion about the precise cause of my decision\".\n\nHe said his concern expressed in his letter to the PM was \"simply one example of what might yet constitute deliberate breaches by the United Kingdom of its obligations under international law\".\n\nIn his letter, Lord Geidt added that former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler had represented his position \"precisely\" when he said, in a BBC interview on Thursday, that he had believed he should not \"be asked to give advanced cover to the prime minister where there is contemplation of doing something that may be in breach of international law\".\n\n\"My letter has been interpreted to suggest that an important issue of principle was limited to some narrow and technical consideration of steel tariffs,\" Lord Geidt wrote.\n\n\"The cautious language of my letter may have failed adequately to explain the far wider scope of my objection.\"\n\nIn his original resignation letter, Lord Geidt said he had come close to quitting over breaches of Covid lockdown rules in Downing Street.\n\nBut he said he ultimately stood down after had been asked for advice this week on another issue he believed would amount to a deliberate breach of the code.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Geidt \"wouldn't have taken this decision lightly\" - former PM adviser\n\nIn his response, Mr Johnson said his intention was to seek Lord Geidt's \"advice on the national interest in protecting a crucial industry\".\n\nDowning Street said on Friday it was right for the PM to take time to reflect on whether Lord Geidt should be replaced.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said: \"It may be that the prime minister decides to make a like-for-like replacement, or it might be that we set up a different body that undertakes the same functions.\"", "This week, a damning report led by Anne Whyte QC laid bare \"systemic\" issues of physical and emotional abuse in gymnastics, as well as some incidents of sexual abuse.\n\nThe £3m review and its 306-page report detailed incidents of athletes being made to train on broken bones, punished for needing the toilet, sat on by coaches, and subjected to excessive weight management - which left some with eating disorders described as the \"tyranny of the scales\" by Whyte.\n\nThe report anonymised the hundreds of athlete submissions it received and did not identify individual coaches.\n\nBBC Sport has worked on this story for two years and previously heard first-hand from some of the victims of this abuse, who then became whistleblowers.\n\nHere are some of their stories.\n\nNicole Pavier was one of the first gymnasts to speak to BBC Sport about her experiences of abuse in the sport. She developed bulimia when she was 14 and retired three years later after becoming \"a shell of a person\".\n\n\"I don't know how to describe it without just saying the whole situation was abusive - from the coaches we had screaming and shouting and swearing, being physically hands on when we would do things, not listening to us if we were injured.\n\n\"I had some twinging in my hip and my coach didn't believe me. Then I was on the floor and felt a crack in my back and then she screamed at me to finish my routine, and told my mum I wasn't doing anything I was told in training.\n\n\"[My coach] was very angry... and made me feel responsible for what was going on. The doctor found stress fractures in my lower back.\n\n\"[Gymnasts were weighed] twice a week at that point, and if we were gaining weight coaches would tell our parents to put us on a diet.\n\n\"If we couldn't do something or our routines weren't going well, it would be 'go and get on the scales, you've put on weight that's why, go and spend an hour on the cross trainer, do this conditioning, you need to lose weight by this point for your gymnastics to be any better'.\n\n\"Scales are still a major problem for me - part of my discharge from my eating disorder place was me not having scales in my house, and if I go to doctors now I have to get on [the scale] backwards so I don't see what I weigh because of all the bad memories and fear it brings back to me.\"\n• None 'This was child abuse' - gymnasts react to 'damning' report\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Will this be a turning point for welfare in sport?\n\nPoppy Wynn's former coach, Liz Kincaid, was pulled from Great Britain's coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics last year after a serious allegation was made against her. Kincaid denies all allegations.\n\nAt the age of 12, former Welsh gymnast Wynn - now 25 - tore her perineum after landing in oversplits - splits that go further than 180 degrees and bring the legs and feet above the hips - after a missed catch on the bars, when she was not being monitored.\n\n\"I went to Liz, I had blood dripping down my leg and she then took me into the office and gave me sanitary pads to effectively mop up the blood and then sent me back into the gym.\n\n\"I don't believe you could see what happened and think anything other than [that it was] quite a serious injury. She didn't ring my parents until later, because it was several hours until my mum came to pick me up.\n\n\"My mum had been told that it was not something to worry about, [that] I'd just started menstruating. I told my mum I'd had some sort of injury or accident, so she took a look, and she was horrified. She said it was worse than childbirth.\n\n\"She took me to hospital and they were so concerned. I saw a nurse, then a doctor, and they then said that a gynaecologist had to see me.\"\n\nFormer acrobatic gymnast Eloise Jotischky was the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport. The governing body admitted full liability.\n\nShe alleges she was left \"physically exhausted\" after being subjected to inappropriate weight management techniques by her former coach, Andrew Griffiths. Griffiths, who did not respond to BBC Sport requests for comment, has cancelled his British Gymnastics membership and is no longer permitted to coach under them.\n\n\"The weighing sessions could be more than once a week. It was every Saturday, but sometimes we'd also be weighed during the week as well if they didn't like the way we looked.\n\n\"We'd have to line up and step on the scales with everyone else there, and sometimes they'd announce our weight or tell us to step to the side if they weren't happy with our weight so that they could have a conversation with us afterwards.\"\n\nThis would make Jotischky so \"incredibly anxious\" that towards the end of each week her stress levels would make her feel sick. She would limit her water intake and sit in \"boiling hot\" baths to try to lose weight quickly.\n\nShe alleges Griffiths would also \"shout and scream\" at her and other gymnasts if he did not approve of their weight.\n\n\"We were sitting on the sofa just physically shaking. Having a grown man scream over you, it was terrifying.\n\n\"I think being scared from that then contributed to my routine on a Friday night having the hot baths because I was so terrified of what was to come, the consequences of not losing weight.\"\n\nAbuse in gymnastics - timeline & BBC reporting on this story\n\nThe Whyte Review report did not mention individual coaches or athletes.\n• July 2020: is among a number of gymnasts to make the first allegations of a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport of gymnastics.\n• None say abusive behaviour in gymnastics training became \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\", and then-British Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen says she is \"appalled and ashamed\" by the allegations.\n• None criticises British Gymnastics for the time it has taken to investigate a formal complaint she made in 2019.\n• None A helpline is launched by the NSPCC and British Athletes Commission to support gymnasts. It receives more than 120 calls in its first five weeks.\n• None steps aside after allegations are made against her. Both denied the allegations made against them.\n• None alleges gymnasts are \"treated like pieces of meat\".\n• September 2020: - are temporarily suspended pending investigation. Both denied the allegations made against them. Their temporary suspension has since been lifted.\n• November 2020: British Gymnastics sets up an independent complaints process to oversee allegations of mistreatment by athletes.\n• February 2021: A group of 17 start legal action against British Gymnastics. A further 20 later join the group claim.\n• June 2021: Sarah Powell is named British Gymnastics chief executive, and says she is \"under no illusions about the scale of change needed\" to improve the culture at the organisation.\n• August 2021: British Gymnastics chair Mike Darcey apologises to the gymnastics community for failing to act on allegations of mistreatment.\n• April 2022: was pulled from Great Britain's coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her. She denied wrongdoing.\n• May 2022: from her position with immediate effect. Previous claims against her were not upheld and her suspension was lifted, but another independent investigation is ongoing into \"further historical complaints\".\n• June 2022: Eloise Jotischky is the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport, with the organisation admitting full liability.", "Dame Kelly Holmes says she is \"getting rid of that fear\" as the Olympic champion reveals she is gay.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Mirror, the 52-year-old said she was both nervous and excited about coming out.\n\n\"I needed to do this now, for me. It was my decision. I'm nervous about saying it. I feel like I'm going to explode with excitement,\" she said.\n\n\"Sometimes I cry with relief. The moment this comes out, I'm essentially getting rid of that fear.\"\n\nDame Kelly became only the third woman in history and the first Briton since Albert Hill 84 years earlier to win the 800m and 1500m Olympic double at the Athens games in 2004.\n\nShe has achieved seven gold, eight silver and four bronze Olympic, Commonwealth and European medals throughout her athletic career.\n\nShe shared the news during Pride month, which celebrates and raises awareness about LGBTQ+ communities and will this year commemorate 50 years since the UK's first Pride march.\n\nWriting on Instagram as the interview was published online, Dame Kelly said: \"I can finally breathe.\n\n\"Yes I have been petrified of putting this out - you have no idea.\n\n\"This journey has been the hardest part of life. Living with any kind of fear is debilitating\".\n\nDame Kelly said she had also filmed a documentary for ITV about helping people \"live their authentic lives\" - it airs later this month.\n\nIn her interview with the Mirror, Dame Kelly spoke of her concern that she would be punished for being gay and serving in the Army.\n\n\"I was convinced throughout my whole life that if I admitted to being gay in the Army I'd still be in trouble,\" she said.\n\nShe described an incident where the Royal Military Police searched her accommodation in what she believed to be an attempt to uncover her sexuality.\n\n\"They pulled everything out of your cupboard, turned out the beds and drawers, read letters - everything - trying to catch us out, so we could be arrested, court martialled and potentially go to jail,\" she said.\n\nDame Kelly left professional running at 18 to join the Army in the late 1980s, becoming an HGV driver and a physical training instructor.\n\nShe was awarded an MBE for services to the Army in 1998, and in 2018, she became the first person to be appointed Honorary Colonel to a regular unit, the Royal Armoured Corps.\n\nGay, transgender and bisexual people in the military faced prison if their sexuality or gender identity was discovered.\n\nThe law was changed in 2000 after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for being gay, won a case in the European Court of Human Rights.", "A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nA murder probe has been launched following the discovery of a man's body.\n\nSteven John Davies was found by his neighbour at a property in Garth Avenue, Glyncoch, near Pontypridd at 11:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination into the 39-year-old's death concluded he died from a stab wound.\n\nA 34-year-old woman from Pontypridd has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody in Bridgend.\n\nSouth Wales Police's Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis said: \"This is clearly a shocking and upsetting incident for the community of Glyncoch and the wider Pontypridd area.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Steven's family and friends at this very difficult time.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Lewis said officers were still trying to locate the movements of Mr Davies between 1 and 15 June and believed he had spent some time in Rhydfelin.", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks.\n\nSince the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US.\n\nSo what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making?\n\nThe UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nCurrently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces.\n\nRussia claims the system has already been used against its forces.\n\nThe UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nThe UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nIn January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model.\n\nMany military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive.\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles.\n\nThe statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km).\n\nIt is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines.\n\nIn 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces.\n\nAnalysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement.\n\n\"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\"\n\nThe donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022.\n\nThe UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers.\n\nJack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\"\n\nThe UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.\n\nNlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot.\n\nCrucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk.\n\nThe weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says.\n\nMaritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022.\n\nBrimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy.\n\nThe missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks.\n\nLaunching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson.\n\nWhen used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage.\n\n\"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\"\n\nBritain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles.\n\nMastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices.\n\nAnalysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful.\n\nIt is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively.\n\nBritain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles.\n\nStarstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nIt ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\"\n\nHe says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground.\n\nThe UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles.\n\nOther equipment supplied by the UK includes:", "Firefighters have been battling wildfires in parts of Spain, as the country faces its warmest early summer in decades.\n\nParts of western Europe have been experiencing extreme heat under a wave of hot air that has moved north from Africa.\n\nTemperatures in both Spain and France have broken records, putting pressure on hospitals and energy grids.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Collin Reeves was arrested at his home after the stabbings\n\nA former soldier has been found guilty of murdering his neighbours after a long-running dispute about parking.\n\nCollin Reeves, 35, stabbed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple while their children slept upstairs.\n\nHe attacked them inside their home in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, with a ceremonial dagger he got from the Army.\n\nReeves, who had denied murder, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court and will be sentenced on Tuesday after a jury took five hours to deliberate.\n\nThe couple's children were asleep upstairs when the attack unfolded\n\nThe family of Mr and Mrs Chapple said in a statement: \"No verdict will bring back our beautiful Jennifer and Stephen.\n\n\"If anything, these past 10 days have prolonged us finding out how Jennifer and Stephen spent their final moments.\n\n\"The support of our friends and family has been what has got us through the past seven months.\n\n\"We now ask that we are left to process this in our own way, to be able to grieve properly and move forward as best we can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reeves repeatedly said \"no comment\" when questioned about the murders\n\nReeves looked at the floor while his guilty verdict was returned, while the family of Mr and Mrs Chapple held hands.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how Reeves had been involved in a long-running dispute with the couple over parking on their estate.\n\nThe rows escalated to the point that both Reeves' wife Kayley and Mrs Chapple had told their friends they were anxious about bumping into each other on the school run.\n\nOn the night of the killing, Reeves climbed a fence and entered the Chapple's house via their back door.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe stabbed Mrs Chapple six times in her upper chest and shoulder. Mr Chapple, 36, was stabbed six times.\n\nMrs Chapple, 33, was heard screaming in terror, the court was told she did not have the chance to stand up from the sofa to defend herself\n\nAfterwards, Reeves rang 999, telling the operator he had stabbed his neighbours with a dagger.\n\nHe had been given the ceremonial weapon when he left the Army in December 2017.\n\nAfter being arrested, he appeared confused and gave his name at the police station as \"Lance Corporal Reeves, sir\" along with his service number.\n\nTwo forensic psychiatrists concluded Reeves was not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or psychosis, but diagnosed him with moderate and mild depression respectively.\n\nJoana Clark, senior crown prosecutor for CPS South West, said: \"Collin Reeves murdered Jennifer and Stephen Chapple in a brutal and deliberate attack in what should have been the safety of their own home, whilst their young children were asleep upstairs.\n\n\"Reeves sought to avoid responsibility for murder by claiming his actions were the result of PTSD linked to his previous army service.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of Jennifer and Stephen Chapple at this difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People flocked to Bournemouth beach as temperatures climbed to record temperatures in the south this year\n\nIt has been the hottest day of the year in the UK for the third day in a row.\n\nSanton Downham, in Suffolk, recorded 32.7C (91F) on Friday afternoon followed by Heathrow Airport and Kew Gardens, which both recorded 32.4C.\n\nFriday's record warm weather triggered an official heatwave and surpassed the previous day's high of 29.5C (85.1F).\n\nThe UK heatwave status was reached when Kew Gardens recorded three consecutive days with maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave threshold.\n\nThis varies in different parts of the country and for Kew it is 28C.\n\nBut despite the warm weather in the south of the UK, the Met Office pointed out a marked difference in temperature further north with Glasgow recording 13.7C just after midday.\n\nThe record temperature comes close to the hottest June day ever in the UK, when the mercury reached the highs of 35.6C at Southampton Mayflower Park in June 1976 and Camden Square, London, in June 1957\n\nThe previous high this year was recorded at Northolt in west London.\n\nThe Met Office said the \"unusual\" temperatures for June were a result of high pressure over the southern half of the UK and a south-westerly airflow bringing warm air across to the UK from Europe.\n\nIn comparison temperatures in Zaragoza in Spain reached 40C, while in Bordeaux in France peaked at 32C.\n\nSwimmers also took a dip at London Fields Lido in Hackney, East London\n\nA man checks in on work during his lunch hour while on the beach in Southsea, Hampshire\n\nNobby the polar bear cools down in a lake at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster\n\nThe dress code at Royal Ascot was relaxed for spectators following the procession for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nA woman dons a large hat at Royal Ascot despite the heat\n\nAcross the UK, people flocked to beaches, parks and outdoor pools to make the most of the weather.\n\nIn Bournemouth, the town's council tweeted all of its seafront car parks had got full by 11.15.\n\nAt Guildford Lido in Surrey by 17:30 BST they had around 3,000 people visiting its outdoor pool.\n\nBecca James, from the lido, told the BBC: \"It's the busiest day we've had of the summer season so far and busiest day since we've come back from the pandemic, so really successful for us.\n\n\"Every has been really sensible. A few sun burns where we've had to step in and advise them to put sun tan lotion on and stay in the shade, but yeah a really good day.\"\n\nIn Berkshire, organisers at Royal Ascot relaxed the dress code for spectators of the horse racing event after there was a royal procession for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nHealth officials have warned about the dangers of hot weather. A level three heat health alert issued by the government remains in place for London, the south-east and east of England.\n\nAgostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"During periods of hot weather, it is especially important to keep checking on those who are most vulnerable, such as older people and those with heart or lung conditions.\n\n\"Make sure to look out for signs of heat exhaustion and follow our simple health advice to beat the heat.\"\n\nA woman poses for a photo in the moat of the Tower of London\n\nA group heads to the beach in Boscombe as cars queue up to park\n\nA ring-tailed lemur cools down with a specially prepared ice lollypop at Yorkshire Wildlife Park\n\nUpdate 12 July: This article was updated to include the temperature in Camden Square, London, in June 1957 and to clarify in the first picture caption that the record temperatures in the south referred to this year.", "Many of the artists in Circle of Fifths are from Cardiff's Butetown area\n\nAn artist whose uncle died during lockdown has made a show with other bereaved people about the importance of music and ritual during grief.\n\nMore than 179,000 people have died with Covid in the UK but restrictions meant many were not given the funeral they may have wanted.\n\nGavin Porter, from Butetown in Cardiff, was one of just 10 people at his relative's funeral.\n\nHe said his National Theatre Wales show had been an outlet for his grief.\n\n\"My uncle passed away during the height of the pandemic... I felt that we never really gave him the send-off that he deserved, it never felt like that moment in time had been marked,\" he said.\n\nCardiff's ethnically diverse dockland community Butetown is well known for its colourful funeral processions, which sometimes include hundreds of mourners and steel bands, something not possible during the Covid pandemic.\n\nGavin Porter has worked with National Theatre Wales on numerous projects over the past decade\n\n\"It made me realise the importance of ceremony in human existence really, how we mark a moment in time and are able to move on to a next moment in time,\" he said.\n\n\"I never really felt that, in an odd way, his life was concluded, if that makes sense.\"\n\nHe decided to start conversations with other bereaved people by asking them what songs they would like played at their own funeral and what songs they had chosen for their loved ones.\n\nThe result is Circle of Fifths, which is billed as an immersive experience that combines film, music and theatre to create a live documentary performance.\n\nNaomi Chiffi was moved by the congregational singing of Blur's Tender at her cousin's funeral\n\nNaomi Chiffi from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, is one of several people Porter interviewed for inclusion in the show after she lost both her father and cousin to suicide.\n\n\"Losing someone to suicide is a different kind of grief, you have to compartmentalise the grief a little bit,\" she said.\n\n\"If you try and deal with the fact that they've gone and they chose to do it all at once it's almost too much.\"\n\nShe said music had played a big part in her grief, particularly at her cousin's funeral.\n\n\"He had made really clear instructions in his letter about what he wanted that funeral to be and how he wanted himself to be remembered,\" she said.\n\n\"He requested at the end of the service they should play Tender by Blur, which is quite a big anthemic song, and that he wanted everyone to sing along to it.\n\n\"And so the whole place, and there were hundreds of people there, just erupted in song... 'love's the greatest thing that we have' and not one person was crying, everyone was just hugging each other, arms around each other, swaying back and fore, looking at each other and just holding on to each other with love and it was amazing.\"\n\nShe said the experience taught her an important lesson: \"The importance of giving out love... despite the horrible things that people go through the only thing that really matters is love.\n\n\"Once you die or when you lose somebody the love never goes away does it. That's the only thing that's everlasting.\"\n\nJustin Teddy Cliffe said his brother's wake was a celebration of the music he loved\n\nJustin Teddy Cliffe from Newport lost his brother in a freak accident when a tree fell on him.\n\n\"There's nothing you can do about it and no-one saw it coming,\" he said.\n\n\"You've got to live the rest of your life just dealing with the consequences of what happened because of that one second... complete chance, bad fortune, bad luck.\"\n\nHe said his brother's funeral was \"crazy\".\n\n\"Too many people for the church, spilling out into the car park, the whole village had basically come to this funeral.\"\n\nFor Justin the funeral was also \"the first step out of the limbo you're in\".\n\n\"The funeral was a release and such an important moment to deal with the tragedy.\n\n\"My memory of the wake was it was an amazing night... all of my brother's friends were there, we went to the local pub, everyone got wrecked, we listened to all of the music he would have liked, his mate DJed.\n\n\"I remember that night disconnecting with the idea that my brother was dead and feeling like somehow he was alive again.\"\n\nMany of Circle of Fifth's musicians and artist are from Butetown\n\nPorter said the process of making the show had been a way of \"rationalising and digesting\" his grief for his uncle and other relatives.\n\nIn recent months, Boris Johnson and his government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns.\n\nWhen asked how he felt about the partygate scandal, Porter said: \"To think that the poor guy [his uncle] never got to see his family for six months while people were partying - it's horrendous.\"\n\n\"People in the higher echelons of society think they can act in any way they want and those who serve them are kind of irrelevant - that's a learned behaviour - that mentality can be linked way back to colonialism and all those kinds of things and we're just serfs to them.\"\n\nHe said being \"Butetown born and bred\", he was glad the production reflected his community and showcased the talents of others from the area, many of whom had not worked in theatre before.\n\n\"Theatre is an artform that from my experience is not necessarily linked with working class communities,\" he said.\n\nHe said the production was \"a good opportunity to tell a different kind of theatre from different kinds of voices\".\n\nCircle of Fifths opens at the Dance House at Wales Millennium Centre on 18 June and runs until 26 June.", "Passengers have been advised not to travel on trains unless necessary during strikes next week, with only a fifth of services due to run.\n\nNetwork Rail said about half of all rail lines will be closed when thousands of workers walk out across Britain on 21, 23 and 25 June.\n\nThe services that run will start and finish earlier, from 07:30 to 18:30.\n\nThere will be no trains at all in many places including north from Glasgow or Edinburgh and to Penzance in Cornwall.\n\n\"Make no mistake, the level of service we will be able to offer will be significantly compromised and passengers need to take that into account and to plan ahead and only travel if it's really necessary to do so,\" Network Rail boss Andrew Haines said.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns and maintains the country's railways, said there would also be no passenger services to locations including Bournemouth in Dorset, Swansea in south Wales, Holyhead in north Wales, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool in Lancashire.\n\nOpen lines include the West Coast Main Line from London to Scotland via locations such as Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nHowever, with trains running for shorter hours on strike days, final departures will be much earlier than usual. For example, the last train from Manchester to London will leave at 14:47 and the last from Norwich to London at 16:00, with the last train from London to Edinburgh at 14:00.\n\nRural and district lines will be most affected by the action.\n\nThe timetable from 20 June to 26 June is still being finalised, but the number of services is expected to be around 4,500 compared with 20,000 normally, Network Rail said.\n\nDisruption is also expected to carry over into non-strike days during the week, when only about 60% of services are expected to run.\n\nThis is due to not enough staff being on shift overnight to get services ready for the following day.\n\nA number of train operators including Southeastern, TransPennine and Avanti West Coast have urged passengers to only travel by rail if necessary, while Northern has asked people \"not to travel\" on trains between Tuesday and Sunday.\n\nSeveral large events could be affected by the strikes, ranging from Glastonbury Festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, to a cricket Test match between England and New Zealand taking place from 23 to 27 June.\n\nPensioner Linda is supposed to be travelling by train from Great Yarmouth to London for a Rolling Stones concert on 25 June.\n\nShe paid £100 per ticket but she is now unsure if there is any way for her to get there now.\n\n\"If I was to book a coach, it would cost a lot more - plus increase the travel time; two-and-a-half hours on the train becomes five to six hours on a coach,\" she told the BBC. \"And there's no way we'd get to the concert in time.\"\n\nElsewhere, Megan, a 15-year-old pupil at Bradford Grammar School, doesn't know how she will get to school.\n\n\"Both my parents work. My mum is a doctor so she's got to be in [work] really early,\" she said. \"I think we'll just have to organise lifts with someone.\"\n\n\"It's just stressful. With traffic and everyone getting a lift in, it's going to be a nightmare,\" she added.\n\nMegan is worried how she'll get to school\n\nThe school's bursar Homera Najib said about 300 pupils travel in by train from across Yorkshire and Leeds using the nearby Frizinghall station.\n\nShe has contacted parents who have to make their own alternative arrangements to get their children to school, she said.\n\n\"We know this is going to be a real inconvenience for our pupils, especially at a time when we've got public examinations going on,\" she said.\n\n\"These are the first public examinations in two years so something like this that really throws a spanner in the works doesn't help the levels of stress.\"\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT union members from Network Rail and 13 train firms plan to walk out. The industrial action, which has been described as the \"biggest rail strike in modern history\", involves union members which include railway staff such as guards and signalling operators.\n\nRMT announced the strike action last week after talks over pay and redundancies fell through.\n\nOn the first day of the planned strike on 21 June, London Underground RMT workers plan to walk out in a separate dispute over pensions and job losses.\n\nAndrew Haines, Network Rail chief executive, said talks with the union had \"not progressed as far as I had hoped\" and so preparations had begun for a strike.\n\nThe strikes may be less disruptive for commuters, with more people now able to work from home since the pandemic.\n\nBut the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said \"millions of people\", including those who cannot work remotely, students sitting exams and others travelling for summer events, would still be affected.\n\nThe mood music right now is that not enough progress has been made in negotiations to stop next week's walkouts.\n\nAssuming they go ahead, there will be disruption across the whole week.\n\nThe involvement of Network Rail signalling staff means the number of trains that can run is particularly limited.\n\nOn strike days, the signallers' replacements can only cover 12 hours, hence services will start late and finish early - where they run at all.\n\nBusy, key routes have been prioritised, meaning vast swathes of the country will be left with no services at all.\n\nNetwork Rail says next week's action will cost up to £150m in lost revenue and aborted work.\n\nThe RMT union has claimed Network Rail plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs as part of a £2bn reduction in spending, with the proposed job cuts including workers who maintain tracks, signals and overhead lines.\n\nIt also said train operators had been subject to pay freezes and changes to their terms and conditions.\n\nThe RMT has called for a meeting with the transport secretary and chancellor, saying it had become clear that the Treasury was \"calling the shots and not allowing rail employers to reach a negotiated settlement\".\n\nBut a deal is \"unlikely at the moment\", said RMT's Eddie Dempsey, who accused the government of \"relishing the thought of having a dispute to distract from some other issues\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said unions had \"gone on the record saying they don't negotiate with this government\", adding: \"They're right: they must negotiate with the employers.\"\n\nThe rail industry is under pressure to save money due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and Network Rail has said it wants to modernise working practices.\n\nIt estimated between 1,500 and 2,000 fewer staff would be needed, but insists this could be achieved through voluntary means.\n\nAs part of a separate strike, Aslef, a union representing train drivers, has announced walkouts at three companies in rows over pay on 26 June at Hull Trains, at Greater Anglia on 23 June, and on Croydon Tramlink on 28, 29 June and 13 and 14 July.\n\nWill your travel plans be affected by the strike days? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner have returned questionnaires to police investigating whether they broke Covid rules, a party spokesman has said.\n\nDurham police are looking into whether the rules were violated after Sir Keir was caught on camera drinking a beer in an MP's office in April 2021.\n\nThey have said they will stand down if they are issued with fixed-penalty notices by police.\n\nAt the Durham gathering on 30 April, which was in the run-up to the Hartlepool by-election, people drank beer and ate curry in the constituency office of City of Durham MP Mary Foy.\n\nSocial distancing rules - including a ban on indoor mixing between households - were in place at the time.\n\nThere was an exemption for work purposes, but the rules did not mention socialising at work - and there was also an exemption if \"the gathering is reasonably necessary for the purposes of campaigning in an election\".\n\nLabour has argued the food was consumed between work events, meaning the gathering was within the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: If I get Covid fine, I will go - Starmer says he'll step down as leader\n\nDurham Constabulary last month reversed an earlier decision that no offence had been committed, after receiving \"significant new information\".\n\nIt comes following the fallout from the Metropolitan Police investigation into several parties in Downing Street and Whitehall during coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThat probe led to a total of 126 fines to 83 people, for events happening across eight different dates, including to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie Johnson and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nMr Johnson apologised but refused to resign over the fine. He later survived a vote of no confidence.", "Lesia Husar said it was a \"big relief\" to be at the City Hospital in Nottingham\n\nA Ukrainian mother has thanked staff at a hospital after they arranged a WhatsApp call so her husband could meet their new child.\n\nLesia Husar, 41, fled the city of Chernivtsi just weeks ago to escape the danger from Russian military action.\n\nShe gave birth to Richard on Sunday with the father 1,200 miles away.\n\nMrs Husar said it was a \"big relief\" to be at City Hospital in Nottingham and that her husband Taras, who is still in Ukraine, could share in the birth.\n\nMrs Husar said she left Ukraine due to the constant fear of Russian air raids\n\nStaff at the hospital said Mrs Husar, who travelled with her 14-year-old daughter Renatta, did not want to leave her home when pregnant but she was constantly in fear of air raids.\n\nShe was welcomed by a host family in Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire, and found her room stacked with supplies, a pram, cot and clothes, ready for the baby.\n\nMr Husar, 41, who was wounded while fighting Russian forces in 2014, is serving as a voluntary policeman.\n\nMrs Husar said: \"I am so grateful to everyone - my host family and their neighbours and the staff at the hospital here in Nottingham.\n\n\"I was so stressed during my pregnancy, which doctors have said might explain why Richard was so small when he was born, but it has been a big relief to be cared for in Nottingham by such kind and supportive doctors and midwives.\n\n\"I love my country and want to go back to Ukraine soon, hopefully by the summer, but the war must end first before I can take my children back there.\"\n\nThey had decided to call their son Richard before the war started but Mr Husar said the baby having an English name now felt right.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Putin also implored Russia's major businesses to keep working in Russia\n\nThe sanctions imposed by the West on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are \"mad and thoughtless\", President Vladimir Putin has said.\n\nSpeaking at a forum in St Petersburg, he said \"the economic blitzkrieg against Russia had no chance of succeeding from the very beginning\".\n\nHe said the restrictions were \"more harmful\" to those who imposed them.\n\nWestern nations have been seeking to strike a balance between punishing Russia and protecting their economies.\n\nBut speaking at the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Putin claimed the EU could lose more than $400bn (£326bn) because of its sanctions against Russia.\n\nHe said inflation was increasing across the 27-member bloc and the real interests of people in Europe were being sidelined - but did not explain what that meant.\n\nHowever, Mr Putin's own officials have warned that the Russian economy is suffering serious damage from the sanctions. Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Thursday that \"15% of the country's GDP\" was threatened by the international response.\n\nMs Nabiullina also seemed gloomy about the prospects of any imminent recovery, telling delegates at a conference in St Petersburg that \"it's obvious to everyone that it won't be as it was before\".\n\n\"External conditions have changed for a long time indeed, if not forever,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, the head of the country's largest lender, Sberbank, warned that it could take more than a decade for Russia's economy to return to 2021 levels.\n\nBut Mr Putin sought to strike an optimistic tone and also implored Russia's major businesses to keep working in the country, amid reports that an increasing number of business owners were refocusing their efforts on overseas operations.\n\n\"Invest here. It's safer in your own house. Those who didn't want to listen to this have lost millions abroad,\" Mr Putin said.\n\nThe 69-year-old leader also addressed fears of a global food crisis triggered by the continuing war in Ukraine, claiming that Russia was capable of significantly increasing its exports of grain and fertilisers. Grain exports alone could rise to some 50 million tonnes, he said.\n\nUkraine is one of the world's top grain producers along with Russia, but has been unable to send supplies abroad because of a blockade of its Black Sea ports.\n\nOn Friday, fierce fighting continued in Ukraine's eastern city of Severodonetsk.\n\nCapturing Severodonetsk - and its twin city of Lysychansk - has for weeks been the key target for Russian troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volodymyr Zelensky says he is \"very happy\" Boris Johnson remains UK prime minister\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was \"very happy\" Boris Johnson was still UK prime minister after he survived an attempt to oust him.\n\nMr Johnson won a confidence vote despite a major revolt that saw 148 of his own Tory MPs vote to remove him.\n\n\"I'm glad we haven't lost an important ally, this is great news,\" Mr Zelensky said at an online event.\n\nMr Johnson has forged a close relationship with President Zelensky since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe called Mr Johnson a \"true friend of Ukraine\" and a \"concrete\" supporter in an interview at a virtual conference hosted by the Financial Times on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK was among the first to provide weapons to support Ukraine's defence and - like its Western allies - has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian targets prosecuting the war.\n\nIn April, Mr Johnson pledged \"unwavering support\" on a visit to the capital Kyiv, where he did an unannounced walkabout of the city with President Zelensky.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson has faced a backlash from MPs and the public after he was fined by police for breaking his own lockdown laws at a 2020 party in Downing Street, where the prime minister lives and works.\n\nA report by a senior civil servant criticised failures of leadership in Downing Street, where officials and staff were issued with a total of 123 fines for breaking Covid rules on indoor gatherings during the pandemic.\n\nSome Conservative MPs had cited the war in Ukraine as a reason not to oust Mr Johnson from office in the confidence vote in Parliament on Monday.\n\nRallying his MPs ahead of the vote, Mr Johnson said it was the wrong time for \"unforced domestic political drama\" when Ukraine was fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces.\n\nMr Johnson won the backing of 59% of his MPs, describing the result as \"extremely good, positive, conclusive\" and insisting his leadership was now secure.\n\nHowever, those who had voted against Mr Johnson said the scale of the rebellion had weakened his authority, with some calling on him to resign.\n\nReacting to Monday night's result, cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi said he thought President Zelensky would be \"punching the air because he knows his great ally Boris Johnson will be prime minister tomorrow morning\".\n\nThose comments were criticised by some MPs, including Labour's Karl Turner, who urged Mr Zahawi to apologise for dragging the Ukrainian president \"into this Tory party civil war\".\n\nOn Monday, ahead of the confidence vote, Mr Johnson called Mr Zelensky to discuss Ukraine's defence of its eastern Donbas region, where Russian forces are advancing.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Johnson wrote: \"We're unwavering in our mission of ensuring Ukraine is defended and supported for the long-term.\"\n\nThe UK's military support to Ukraine amounts to £750m so far and includes thousands of anti-tank missiles, 20 armoured vehicles, 4.5 tonnes of plastic explosives, and electronic warfare kit.\n\nOn top of this, the UK says it is providing £220m of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.\n\nAs a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), the UK was the sixth largest donor of aid to Ukraine globally between January and May, according to research by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.\n\nLast month, the UK government said it would offer further aid and military support to Ukraine worth £1.3bn to boost the country's defence against Russia.\n\nMr Johnson spoke to President Zelensky on the phone ahead of the confidence vote on Monday\n\nUkrainian commentators and officials expressed relief that Mr Johnson had won Monday's confidence vote, with some noting that UK had become a key arms supplier for the country.\n\nMykhaylo Podolyak, one of Mr Zelensky's advisers, tweeted in English moments after the confidence vote.\n\nHe wrote: \"Leadership is always a heavy burden. Boris Johnson was one of the first who realised the menace of Russia & stood by Volodymyr Zelensky to protect the free world from barbaric invasion.\n\n\"The world needs such leaders. The UK is a Great friend of Ukraine. British crown is a shield of democratic world.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutdoor public events have been banned in an area of France as a record breaking heatwave sweeps across Europe.\n\nConcerts and large public gatherings have been called off in the Gironde department around Bordeaux.\n\nOn Thursday, parts of France hit 40C earlier in the year than ever before, with temperatures expected to peak on Saturday.\n\nScientists say periods of intense heat are becoming more frequent and longer lasting as a result of global warming.\n\nSpain, Italy and the UK are also experiencing high temperatures.\n\nIn Gironde, officials said public events, including some of the official 18 June Resistance celebrations, will be prohibited from Friday at 14:00 (12:00 GMT) \"until the end of the heat wave\". Indoor events at venues without air-conditioning are also banned.\n\nPrivate celebrations, such as weddings, will still be allowed.\n\n\"Everyone now faces a health risk\", local official Fabienne Buccio told France Bleu radio.\n\nThe French interior ministry warned people to be extremely careful and not expose themselves to the weather.\n\nState forecaster Meteo France said it was the earliest hot spell ever to hit the country, which has been caused by a mass of hot air moving from north Africa.\n\nOutdoor events continued in other areas of France - this man cooled down at a music festival in Clisson\n\nTemperatures have reached 44C in Montpellier in France\n\nTemperatures could hit 39C in Paris and droughts have also raised the risk of wildfires, the forecaster said.\n\n\"I'm 86 years old, I was born here, but I think this is the worst heatwave I've ever seen,\" Jacqueline Bonnaud told the AFP news agency in the southern city of Toulouse.\n\nThe increased use of air-conditioners and fans was forcing France to import electricity from neighbouring countries, grid operator RTE said.\n\nThere have been forest fires in Catalonia\n\nIn Spain, which has just experienced its hottest May since the beginning of the century, temperatures are forecast to hit highs of 43C this weekend, the Aemet weather service said.\n\nThere have been forest fires in Catalonia, including one which could grow to 20,000 hectares before it's contained, the regional government said.\n\nWater is so low in large stretches of Italy's largest river, the Po, that locals can walk through the middle of the expanse of sand and wartime shipwrecks are resurfacing.\n\nIn the UK, temperatures are expected to reach 33C in southern England, while a level three heat-health alert has been issued for London.\n\nThe river bed of the Po in Italy has dried up\n\nOn Wednesday a third of the entire population of the United States were advised to stay indoors due to record temperatures. In India, Delhi has recorded a maximum temperature of at least 42C on 25 days this summer, the India Meteorological Department reported.\n\nClimate change is causing global temperatures to rise. Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, released into Earth's atmosphere in large volumes are trapping the sun's heat, causing the planet to warm.\n\nThis has brought more extreme weather, including record-breaking high temperatures across the world.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky has made his first trip to Ukraine's war-torn southern frontline, as his forces mount a slow-moving advance in the region.\n\nVisiting the hold-out city of Mykolaiv, he inspected damaged buildings and met soldiers, officials and health workers.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader also visited the western city of Odesa, which has been subjected to periodic Russian shelling since the war began.\n\nBoth cities are targets in Russia's efforts to seize the Black Sea coast.\n\nMr Zelensky has regularly met with international leaders in Kyiv since Moscow pulled its forces away from the capital city, having decided to refocus its efforts on capturing the eastern Donbas region.\n\nBut he has also defied Russian troops by going to areas where fighting has been raging, and in recent weeks has visited other front-line cities, including Kharkiv in the east.\n\n\"It is important that you are alive. As long as you live there is a strong Ukrainian wall that protects our country,\" the Ukrainian leader told troops in Odesa.\n\n\"I want to thank you from the people of Ukraine, from our state for the great work you are doing, for your impeccable service.\"\n\nIn Mykolaiv, Mr Zelensky handed out medals to soldiers and urged them to \"take care of Ukraine - the only thing we have. And take care of yourself - only you can do it\".\n\nThe city has long been a key target for Russian forces and has been subject to heavy rocket and artillery bombardments.\n\nIt also lies just 100km (62 miles) north-west of Kherson, a city occupied by Russia since the opening days of the war - but which is now subject to a slow-moving but determined Ukrainian advance.\n\nUkrainian forces have been fighting Russian troops in a slow moving advance between Mykolaiv and Kherson\n\nEarlier this week, Mykolayiv Governor Vitaliy Kim claimed Russian troops were blowing up bridges near Kherson to slow Kyiv's counteroffensive on the city.\n\nLocal officials say any Ukrainian advance is dependent on long-range weapons promised by the West arriving in time.\n\nElsewhere, the UK's Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that Russia was likely to be renewing its efforts to advance into the Donetsk region - which, alongside the Luhansk, makes up the Donbas.\n\nThe Ukrainian military said it had \"repelled Russian attacks\" near Krasnopillya, in Donetsk, and Syrotyne, in Luhansk, with operations continuing around Severodonetsk.\n\nGovernor Serhiy Haidai told AFP news agency Russian forces were \"just shelling our troop positions 24 hours a day\" in the city, now the final Ukrainian holdout in the province.\n\nAnd pro-Russian officials in the eastern, separatist-held city of Donetsk said five civilians were killed and 12 injured by Ukrainian bombardment.\n\nThe secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council has dismissed reports from certain government officials that as many as 500 Ukrainian soldiers could be dying every day.\n\nOleksiy Danilov said the officials didn't have access to the relevant information. Previously Ukrainian officials have spoken of up to 100 deaths a day.\n\nIn Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko has told the BBC his country will only enter peace talks after the \"last Russian soldier has left Ukraine\".\n\nThe former boxer said the Russian people would eventually realise their own soldiers were dying for nothing more than President Vladimir Putin's ambition.\n\nAfter returning from his trip to Kyiv on Friday, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned against \"Ukraine fatigue\" setting in, saying it was important to show that allies were standing with Ukraine for the long haul in its war against Russia.\n\nHe said it would be a \"catastrophe\" if Mr Putin was able to secure territorial gains already made.\n\nRussia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, saying it aimed to \"de-Nazify\" and \"demilitarise\" its former Soviet neighbour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine\n\nIn the ferocious war which has followed, the UN says that more than 4,500 civilians have been killed and nearly 5,600 have been injured. Thousands of combatants have also been killed or injured on both sides.\n\nMore than 13 million people have fled their homes, according to the UN.\n\nThe West has responded to the invasion by imposing severe sanctions on Moscow and supplying weapons to Ukraine but has not intervened directly in the war against Russia, a nuclear superpower.", "Gavin Rawson (pictured) died trying to rescue his 19-year-old colleague Nathan Walker\n\nThe family of a man who drowned in a pig feed tanker while trying to save a teenager say he had no hope of escape.\n\nGavin Rawson, 35, died trying to rescue Nathan Walker, 19, at the site of food waste company Greenfeeds Limited in Leicestershire, in December 2016.\n\nMr Rawson's family demanded to know why the company had been allowed to continue operating, following a previous death at the site in 2005.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said firms needed to be responsible.\n\nNathan Walker's son was born 15 days after his death\n\nAt a hearing at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday, Greenfeeds co-owner Gillian Leivers was jailed for 13 years, with her husband also sentenced and the firm fined £2m.\n\nLeivers was convicted of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter and a health and safety offence.\n\nIan Leivers was jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nManager Stewart Brown was given a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, for a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nMr Rawson's mother Linda and brother Gareth are demanding to know why the company was allowed to continue operating\n\nSpeaking after the case, Mr Rawson's mother Linda said her son and Mr Walker had \"no hope whatsoever\" of escaping the tanker, due to the lack of ladders inside the tank and breathing equipment on the site.\n\n\"It was inevitable somebody was going to get hurt,\" she said.\n\n\"The place was disgusting with no health and safety.\n\n\"There was a little ladder outside the tanker but then you had to hold on to the rim and drop down into it.\"\n\nShe said Mr Walker had been asked to unblock the tanker's pump.\n\nThe court heard when he tried to do so, he had been overcome by carbon dioxide fumes, leading him to collapse and drown in the pig feed.\n\nAs a child, Mr Rawson loved to wear Superman pyjamas - his family say he became a real-life hero\n\nShe said her son had been driving a forklift truck at the time but, when he had heard what happened, he had run to help, before he too had been overcome.\n\n\"If only there had been ladders inside the tank, that would have saved them,\" she said.\n\n\"It's hard to pull yourself out of a swimming pool. You imagine if you had all those gases taking your oxygen away.\"\n\nThe family say there were no ladders inside the tanker to help the men escape\n\nShe said Mr Rawson had worked at the site on a casual basis for a year.\n\nShe described her son as a hero and recalled how, growing up, he had worn Superman pyjamas.\n\n\"On that day, he was a superhero,\" she said. \"People said Gavin helped them in situations. He always had their back.\n\n\"He wouldn't have thought about the gases; he would just have wanted to get [Nathan] out.\"\n\nMr Rawson's death has broken his family, they say\n\nShe demanded to know why the company was allowed to continue, following an incident in 2005 that saw Greenfeeds convicted for breaches after the death of an employee involved in tanker cleaning.\n\nShe said: \"Why was there no other enforcement to stop them?\n\n\"If the food industry was stricter, they should go in, check them and close them down. Why weren't they closed down after 2005? Why were they allowed to get away with it?\"\n\nThe firm is now in liquidation.\n\nMr Rawson's brother Gareth said the deaths had devastated the two families.\n\n\"I don't think we will ever be the same again,\" he said.\n\n\"It's destroyed us as a family. I haven't seen my parents as broken as they are.\n\n\"We can't ever be the same. There's a massive void.\"\n\nHe added the Leivers had never shown remorse.\n\n\"I'm so glad they have sent them to prison. Hopefully they will have time to think about what they have done,\" he said.\n\nThe deaths occurred three days before Christmas in 2016\n\nSpeaking after the case, HSE principal inspector Samantha Wells said: \"This incident could have been easily prevented by those in control by assessing the risks and putting appropriate control measures in place.\n\n\"It should serve as a reminder of the importance of an effective health and safety management system and the devastating consequences where these are not implemented and monitored.\n\n\"HSE encourages all directors and senior managers to understand their duties to manage health and safety across their business and to take their responsibilities seriously.\n\n\"Those who do not will be held to account for their failings as in this tragic case.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The remarkable resurgence of Kate Bush's 80s classic Running Up That Hill has culminated in the song going to number one in the UK singles chart.\n\nOriginally released in 1985, the song has enjoyed a new lease of life after featuring in the Netflix sci-fi show Stranger Things.\n\nAfter reaching number two last week, it has now replaced Harry Styles' As It Was in the top slot.\n\nBush said she was \"overwhelmed by the scale of affection\" for her song.\n\n\"It's all happening really fast, as if it's being driven along by a kind of elemental force,\" the star said in a statement. \"I have to admit I feel really moved by it all.\"\n\nThe achievement comes 44 years after Bush last reached number one, with her debut single Wuthering Heights.\n\nThat four-decade gap is the longest in chart history, beating Tom Jones, who had to wait 42 years between Green Green Grass of Home reaching the top in 1966 and his next number one, the charity single (Barry) Islands in the Stream.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRunning Up That Hill originally appeared on Bush's celebrated fifth album Hounds Of Love, which she self-produced and composed largely with a Fairlight CMI - a ground-breaking digital sampling synthesizer.\n\n\"When it came out all those years ago it sounded brand new,\" says BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt, \"and all these years later, it still sounds like nothing that anybody else has ever done.\n\n\"I think that's why she's able to resonate with so many people who are hearing it for the first time.\"\n\nMany of those people were introduced to Running Up That Hill through the latest series of Stranger Things, which premiered at the end of May.\n\nThe song features as a recurring motif, obsessively played by one of the teenage protagonists, Max Mayfield, as she struggles to come to terms with her brother's death.\n\nSpoiler alert: The following five paragraphs contain plot information about the latest series of Stranger Things.\n\nSadie Sink plays the role of Max in Stranger Things\n\n\"At the beginning of the series, Max is in a very despondent isolated place,\" explains Jamie Campbell-Bower, who plays this series' main antagonist, Vecna, a supernatural creature who preys on the vulnerable.\n\n\"Music is a safe place, the place she goes to feel like she's OK, and I think we can all relate to that. And Kate Bush is her favourite song.\"\n\nIn one pivotal scene, Vecna tries to invade Max's mind, but Kate Bush comes to the rescue.\n\n\"Her friends realise the best way to get her out of this state is to play music, to remind her of reality,\" says Campbell-Bower.\n\n\"All of a sudden, the song starts playing and it gives her the strength and the power to overcome that moment, which I think is absolutely beautiful.\"\n\nKate Bush says the renewed interest in her music is \"so exciting\"\n\nThe series introduced Running Up That Hill to a new generation, but the scale of its success has taken everyone by surprise.\n\nIt is currently the most-streamed song in the world, with more than 57 million global plays last week.\n\nOn TikTok, videos featuring the #RunningUpThatHill hashtag have been viewed more than 530 million times.\n\nAnd in addition to the UK, the song is number one in Norway, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Austria, while giving Bush her first ever top 10 hit in the US.\n\n\"I've never experienced anything quite like this before!\" wrote the star on her official website on Thursday. \"It's all so exciting\".\n\nShe's not the only one to benefit.\n\nKaty Smith, who performs as a Kate Bush tribute act, says her shows have been attracting more attention in the last few weeks.\n\nKaty Smith has been performing as Kate Bush for the last four years.\n\n\"We've seen a rise in ticket sales, which has been really amazing; and I think with this resurgence, we're going to see a lot more young people in the audience.\n\n\"It's so well-deserved and I hope it continues.\"\n\nThe song initially charted at number eight, the week after Stranger Things premiered; rising to number two last week.\n\nAt the time, it was already the UK's most-popular song, attracting nine million streams - but, due to a quirk in the way the charts are calculated, it was held off the top spot by Harry Styles.\n\nUnder chart rules, older songs have to achieve 200 streams to register as a \"sale\", compared to 100 for current releases.\n\nThe thinking is that the Top 40 should showcase new music, rather than people's favourite classics.\n\nHowever, when a song enjoys a surge of popularity, a record label can apply to have the sales ratios \"reset\" - which is what EMI did for Running Up That Hill.\n\nKate Bush has replaced Harry Styles' As It Was in the top slot\n\nWhen that rule took effect this week, Bush took up her rightful place at the top of the charts, beating everyone from Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris to Sam Ryder and Harry Styles.\n\n\"It's quite remarkable,\" says Everitt. \"Harry Styles is one of the biggest pop acts in the world, and there's a huge machine behind that. So to have something like this come from the leftfield is kind of unprecedented.\n\n\"And it's kind of glorious because people are hearing Kate Bush for the very first time - and now they're going to start their own little Kate Bush journey and discover more about this incredible artist.\"\n\n\"If more people get to hear her for the first time, that can only be a good thing,\" agrees Smith.", "An A-level law and GCSE physics paper included topics students were not expecting\n\nExam boards have been criticised by a watchdog for oversights on GCSE and A-level papers where pupils were tested on topics they were told would not come up or sat papers with mistakes.\n\nIn England students were given extra detail because of the pandemic.\n\nBut an AQA A-level law and GCSE physics paper included topics not listed in \"advance information\".\n\nWatchdog Ofqual said such mistakes caused \"distress\" for pupils.\n\nAnother exam board, Edexcel, has apologised for labelling Gabon as the Republic of Congo on a map of Africa, in its GCSE geography paper.\n\nAnd Wales' main exam board, WJEC, said sorry for excerpts from three Shakespeare plays being either partly or fully missing from their English language and literature paper.\n\nOn Friday, AQA said sorry to A-level law students for the \"confusion and stress\" after questions on nuisance were included in their paper, despite there being no advance warning that the subject would be included in the exam.\n\nThe exam board has not yet announced how the question will be marked.\n\n\"The fairest way to address this is for us to look at how students performed on this paper after we've marked it, and we'll take any action necessary to protect them,\" a spokesperson for AQA said.\n\nCoralie Foster, from Bolton, said her daughter was \"more angry than upset\" at the surprise question in the A-Level law paper on Monday.\n\nShe added: \"Nowadays these university offers are so high - so the pressure on these kids to get the top grades is immense.\n\n\"Advance information was meant to help focus that work, but it's all been completely undermined.\"\n\nLast week AQA apologised for a question on energy transfers and circuits that appeared in a GCSE physics paper. Circuits had not been included as a topic for revision in the advance information.\n\nThe board said it would give all students full marks for that question.\n\nGCSE student Eddie, from Greater Manchester, took the physics paper on 9 June, and said he was \"disappointed\" with AQA's response.\n\n\"I don't know how they could make a mistake like that,\" he said.\n\nHe said awarding full marks had rectified the error \"somewhat\", but believes it will not fully account for the students who spent extra time trying to answer the unexpected question.\n\n\"Pupils came home upset, disappointed and disadvantaged. It's just thrown a lot of spanners into the works,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the Confederation of School Trusts' annual conference on Friday, Jo Saxton - Ofqual's chief regulator - said the idea of providing advance information to help students prepare for exams had \"taken the stress off of [pupils'] shoulders\".\n\nBut she added: \"They love the idea of the advance information, but the reality is they found navigating it, in many cases, just one other thing to think about.\n\n\"I absolutely understand the distress that mistakes in advance information and exam papers cause.\"\n\nIn 2020 and 2021, students were graded based on assessments made by their teachers, with exams cancelled in order to reduce the spread of Covid.\n\nUnder the teacher assessments, more students passed exams and achieved higher marks, with record numbers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland securing top A-level grades.\n\nAlthough grades will be awarded normally this year, grade boundaries will be more lenient in England, Scotland and Wales. They will be set at a \"mid-point\" between the 2019 pre-pandemic boundaries and the grade levels used in teacher assessments in 2021.\n\nHowever, much of the support for exams this year will be scrapped in 2023.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of the story said AQA was criticised by Ofqual but the watchdog criticised exam boards, not specifically AQA.", "A Treasury minister has warned employees not to expect their wages to rise along with the soaring rate of inflation.\n\nSimon Clarke said that big increases in salaries to meet the rising cost of living could end up in a 1970s style \"inflationary spiral\".\n\nThis happens when wage rises help push up the cost of living.\n\nBut unions said that energy prices, not wages, were driving up the cost of living.\n\nMr Clarke said that employers should be \"very careful\" in setting pay rises that help drive up the cost of living.\n\nHe warned that inflation could become a \"self-fulfilling prophecy\".\n\nInflation measures an overall increase in prices over time. For example, if a loaf of bread costs £1 one year and £1.09 the next year, then that's an annual inflation rate of 9%.\n\nOn Thursday the Bank of England said that inflation could reach more than 11%.\n\nIn a BBC-commissioned survey of more than 4,000 people, 82% said they thought their wages should increase to match the rising price of goods and services.\n\nBut Mr Clarke, who is chief secretary to the Treasury, told the BBC that \"unrealistic expectations around pay\" could \"intensify this endless inflation problem\".\n\nHowever, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said: \"Energy prices are pushing up inflation - not wages.\"\n\n\"The government has cynically abandoned its commitment to a high-wage economy.\n\n\"The only way to give families long-term financial security is to get pay rising across the economy.\n\n\"British workers are suffering the longest wage squeeze in more than 200 hours years. They urgently need more money in their pockets.\"\n\nThe public sector pay review bodies are due to report in the coming weeks on the level of increase for workers - including employees in health, schools and prisons.\n\nUnions are pressing to have the pay increases reflect the rising cost of living.\n\nMr Clarke is the Treasury minister in charge of the pay review body process.\n\nHis comments are the clearest steer that public sector workers in general will not get settlements close to the current rate of inflation.\n\nThe Unison union said that essential workers aren't being offered big pay increases, \"so it's not public sector wages causing inflation to spiral\".\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"Ministers must realise the damage that will be done to public services if health, care, police and school staff don't receive a decent pay rise this year.\n\n\"Without one that protects against rising prices, many will quit for better paid and less stressful work elsewhere, leaving the public struggling to access vital services.\"\n\nThe independent bodies have begun to report back to relevant government departments about appropriate pay and recruitment difficulties.\n\nThe Treasury says those departments will have to find the cash from existing budgets for any pay rises above what is already planned.\n\nMr Clarke said there was no automatic link between inflation and pay setting and that inflation could \"run away from us\".\n\nEarlier this week, the ONS said that regular pay is falling at the fastest rate in more than a decade when taking into account rising prices.\n\nBetween February and April, pay excluding bonuses was down 2.2% from a year earlier when adjusted for inflation, according to the ONS.\n\nHowever, pay including bonuses is outpacing price rises, rising by 0.4% when taking inflation into account.", "Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of London to demand action from the government on the cost of living crisis.\n\nWorkers marched to Parliament to call for better pay and conditions as part of the event organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).\n\nThe union has called for a \"decent pay rise for public sector workers\" and a £15 minimum wage.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said it had \"stepped in to ease the burden\".\n\nThe spokesman added that the government was \"helping eight million of the most vulnerable British families through at least £1,200 of direct payments this year - and giving every household £400 to help pay their energy bills\".\n\nProtesters set off from Portland Place and headed towards Parliament Square at about 12:00 BST as part of the We Demand Better march.\n\nThe TUC said its research suggested workers have lost almost £20,000 since 2008 because pay has not kept pace with inflation.\n\nGeneral secretary Frances O'Grady told BBC News that ordinary working people were saying \"enough is enough\" after over 10 years of stagnant pay.\n\n\"We want government to listen - workers are not the cause of inflation, they are suffering the impact of inflation,\" she said.\n\nBen Robinson, 25, who works for a housing charity in Brixton, south London, was at the protest.\n\nHe said some residents faced a choice \"between feeding their own kids, not themselves, their own kids, and paying rent and heating, and that is just not a choice that anyone should have to face\".\n\nTeachers joined the Trade Union Congress protest to call for better pay\n\nMembers of NASUWT, the Teachers' Union, were among those who attended the march and called for the profession to receive a \"pay uplift and an urgent rebalancing of workload\".\n\nThe union said that with living expenses surging ahead of wages, the value of teachers' pay had fallen by 19% over the last 12 years.\n\nTeacher Stephen Brown said he was attending the march because many of those in his profession were now leaving - piling on the pressure for those who stay in classrooms.\n\n\"We've had a pay freeze for the past few years... teachers are leaving the profession because they are struggling so much, they just think it's not worth it,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it was \"incredibly grateful for the continued efforts of teachers and school leaders in supporting pupils\" and work was ongoing to \"deliver pay increases and pay awards for new and experienced teachers\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman added: \"As part of our £37bn support package we're also saving the typical employee over £330 a year through the imminent National Insurance tax cut, are allowing universal credit claimants to keep £1,000 more of what they earn and have made the biggest cut to all fuel duty rates ever.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Witnesses reported seeing the Trident jet drop out of the sky\n\nA memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the UK's worst air disasters has been held.\n\nThe service took place in Staines, Surrey, to remember British European Airways flight BE548 which crashed in a field in the town killing all 118 people on board.\n\nThe Brussels-bound Trident had taken off minutes earlier from Heathrow.\n\nRelatives of those who died, members of the emergency services and local people attended Saturday's event.\n\nAlso at the service at St Mary's church in Staines was the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux, Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the chairman of British Airways Sean Doyle.\n\nWreaths were laid at a monument for the crash in Waters Drive, just a couple of hundred metres from the crash site.\n\nBarry Dix, who worked as a journalist at Heathrow at the time of the crash, and lived in Staines, said: \"It was such a serious incident.\n\n\"Fifty years on I still can't come to terms that this thing happened right on my doorstep.\"\n\nThe flag at Spelthorne Borough Council's Offices was flown at half-mast in memory of those who lost their lives on 18 June 1972.\n\nCouncillor Susan Doran, the Mayor of Spelthorne, said: \"The thoughts of this council are with the families of the 118 people who lost their lives.\n\n\"We also pay thanks to the emergency services at the scene who dealt with the sheer horror of the tragedy.\"\n\nAn inquiry by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found a speed error had caused the plane to stall and the aircraft was not at a sufficient height for the crew to regain control.\n\nThe fuselage ploughed into trees and the tail section landed nearby.\n\nSaturday's events were the town's last official tribute to the disaster.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Campaigners lined up along a tape to mark out the size of vehicles expected to use the site\n\nAn application to drill for gas in Surrey has been approved by the government after it had been refused twice by the county council.\n\nUK Oil & Gas (UKOG) applied to explore a site south of Dunsfold Road and east of High Loxley Road, in Dunsfold.\n\nWaverley Borough Council said it was \"the worst possible outcome\" and the drilling could lead to \"irreversible harm\" to the environment.\n\nUKOG said it was looking forward to working with the local community.\n\nUKOG chief executive Steve Sanderson said: \"We welcome this decision and its backing for Loxley's gas as a secure, sustainable energy source with a far lower pre-combustion carbon footprint than imports.\"\n\nThe planning application had been opposed by campaigners and the Conservative MP for South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt.\n\nMr Hunt, who was attending protests against the drilling in January, said: \"It's absolutely extraordinary after COP26 in Glasgow that we are even thinking about drilling for oil and gas in this area.\"\n\nSurrey County Council had twice refused permission to build two exploratory wells at Dunsfold.\n\nAn appeal by UKOG was then lodged with the planning inspector and the plans were approved by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.\n\nCampaigners say access to the site at Pratts Corner is not suitable for the large vehicles needed to drill for gas\n\nA Surrey County Council spokesman said: \"Although the County Council has received the decision, officers had not yet had chance to review it in any detail.\"\n\nSteve Williams, Waverley Borough Council's portfolio holder for environment and sustainability, said: \"This is the worst possible outcome for the people of Waverley, and we are bitterly disappointed at the secretary of state's decision.\n\n\"Without doubt, allowing this planning application will lead to irreversible harm to our environment and to local people.\"\n\nThe borough council said it was concerned that \"UKOG does not appear to have the funds to pay for reinstatement of the site so that if oil is not found in commercially viable quantities, the company can simply walk away, effectively transferring liability for clean-up and restoration costs to the local community\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas\n\nWars ebb and flow. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is no exception.\n\nEarly fears of a swift conquest were succeeded by Russian retreat and Ukrainian resistance. That has now been met by a more focused Russian offensive in the east.\n\nBut 100 days on, where might this war go next?\n\nHere are five potential scenarios - they are not mutually exclusive, but all are within the bounds of plausibility.\n\nThe war might continue for months - if not years - as Russian and Ukrainian forces grind each other down.\n\nMomentum shifts to and fro as both sides make gains and losses. Neither side is willing to give up. Russia's President Putin judges he can gain by demonstrating strategic patience, gambling that Western countries will suffer from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and focus more on their economic crises and the threat from China.\n\nThe West, however, shows resolve and continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. Semi-permanent front lines are established. Steadily the war becomes a frozen conflict, a \"forever war\".\n\nMick Ryan, a retired Australian general and military scholar, says: \"There is little prospect of a crushing operational or strategic victory by either side in the short term. Neither belligerent has demonstrated the capacity to land a strategically decisive blow.\"\n\nWhat if President Putin were to surprise the world with a unilateral ceasefire? He could pocket his territorial gains and declare \"victory\".\n\nHe could claim his \"military operation\" was complete: Russian-backed separatists in Donbas protected; a land corridor to Crimea established. He could then seek the moral high ground, putting pressure on Ukraine to stop fighting.\n\n\"This is a ploy which could be used by Russia at any time, if it wants to capitalise on European pressure on Ukraine to surrender and give up territory in exchange for notional peace,\" says Keir Giles, Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank.\n\nRussia's President Putin may gamble on Western countries suffering from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and switching focus to their economies\n\nThe arguments are heard already in Paris, Berlin and Rome: no need to prolong the war, time to end the global economic pain, let's push for a ceasefire.\n\nThis, though, would be opposed by the US, the UK and much of eastern Europe, where policymakers believe Russia's invasion must fail, for the sake of Ukraine and the international order.\n\nSo a unilateral Russian ceasefire might change the narrative but not end the fighting.\n\nWhat if both Ukraine and Russia conclude they cannot achieve more militarily and enter talks for a political settlement?\n\nTheir armies are exhausted, running short of manpower and munitions. The price in blood and treasure no longer justifies further fighting. Russia's military and economic losses are not sustainable. The Ukrainian people tire of war, unwilling to risk more lives for an eternally elusive victory.\n\nWhat if the leadership in Kyiv - no longer trusting continued Western support - decide the time has come to talk? US President Joe Biden openly admits America's aim is for Ukraine to be \"in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table\".\n\nBut there may not be a battlefield stalemate for many months and any political settlement would be hard, not least because of Ukraine's lack of trust in Russia. A peace deal might not endure and could be followed by more fighting.\n\nCould Ukraine - against the odds - achieve something close to a victory? Could Ukraine force Russian troops to withdraw to where they were before the invasion?\n\n\"Ukraine will definitely win this war,\" the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky told Dutch TV this week.\n\nWhat if Russia fails to seize all Donbas and suffers more losses? Western sanctions hit Russia's war machine. Ukraine makes counter attacks, using its new long-range rockets, seizing back territory where Russian supply lines are stretched. Ukraine transforms its army from a defensive to an offensive force.\n\nThe US said it would supply Ukraine with weapons including medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)\n\nThis scenario is plausible enough for policymakers to worry already about its consequences. If Mr Putin were facing defeat, might he escalate, potentially using either chemical or nuclear weapons?\n\nThe historian Niall Ferguson told a seminar at Kings College, London recently: \"It seems unlikely to me that Putin is going to accept conventional military defeat when he has a nuclear option.\"\n\nAnd what of a possible Russian \"victory\"?\n\nWestern officials emphasise that Russia, despite early setbacks, still plans to seize the capital Kyiv and subjugate much of Ukraine. \"Those maximalist objectives remain in place,\" one official said.\n\nRussia could capitalise on its gains in Donbas, freeing up forces for use elsewhere, perhaps even targeting Kyiv once again. The sheer weight of Russian numbers come to bear. Ukrainian forces continue to suffer.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky met servicemen in the eastern Kharkiv region, where fighting has intensified\n\nPresident Zelensky already admits up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying and another 500 are wounded every day.\n\nThe people of Ukraine could divide, some wanting to fight on, others wanting to sue for peace. Some Western countries might tire of supporting Ukraine. But equally, if they thought Russia was winning, others might want to escalate.\n\nOne Western diplomat told me privately the West should test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific as a warning to Russia.\n\nThe future of this war is not yet written.", "The housing market is showing signs of cooling, Halifax has said, as households face a squeeze on their finances.\n\nThe mortgage lender said that while house prices continued to climb in May, with prices up 10.5% in 12 months, this was slowest rate of growth since the start of the year.\n\nThe rise meant the average price of a house hit another record of £289,099.\n\nHalifax said that house prices have now climbed for eleven consecutive months.\n\n\"Despite the very real cost of living pressures some people are experiencing, the imbalance between supply and demand for properties remains the primary reason driving the continued climb in house prices,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at Halifax.\n\n\"However, the housing market has begun to show signs of cooling. Mortgage activity has started to come down and, coupled with the inflationary pressures currently exerted on household budgets, it's likely activity will start to slow,\" he added.\n\n\"So, there is perhaps one green shoot for prospective purchasers; with overall buying demand down compared to last year, we may be past the peak sellers' market.\"\n\nEstate agents said the survey from Halifax confirms what they are seeing on the ground.\n\n\"The cost of living crisis and successive interest rate rises are finally having an impact on the housing market,\" said Jeremy Leaf, a North London estate agency owner and a former Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) residential chairman.\n\n\"Prices are still rising but not as rapidly as they were just a few months ago and activity is cooling.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Leaf said a major correction seemed \"unlikely\" while housing stock remained low, particularly for in-demand properties such as three- and four-bedroom family homes.\n\nAccording to Halifax, house prices increased by 1% month-on-month in May. It added that they had shot up by some 74% over the last 10 years.\n\nThe strongest inflation in that period has been in London (84.2%), followed by the East of England (84%) and the East Midlands (82.1%).\n\nDanni Hewson, a financial analyst at AJ Bell, said the latest figures were \"cold comfort\" to people trying to get onto the property ladder.\n\n\"Cooling, definitely but the housing market is unlikely to come off the boil, at least for the foreseeable future especially as it's becoming harder and more expensive to find places to rent.\"\n\nShe added that the \"age old problem\" of demand outstripping supply wouldn't go away without a period of \"unprecedented housebuilding\".\n\n\"And with money so tight at the moment, anyone who might have been thinking of hoisting the for-sale sign will probably hold off until inflation returns to something resembling normal,\" she added.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 9% in April, a 40-year-high, .\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation might reach 10% within months, as the prices of fuel and food put pressure on household budgets.", "MDMA is a class A drug, and possession can lead to prosecution and up to seven years in prison\n\nMDMA found at music festivals is more contaminated following Brexit and Covid lockdowns, according to new research.\n\nResearchers at Cardiff University analysed hundreds of samples of the illegal drug, also called ecstasy, at three UK festivals in 2019 and 2021.\n\nAbout half of the samples (45%) tested in 2021 contained no MDMA, compared to 7% in 2019.\n\nDr Michael Pascoe of Cardiff University said the UK's drugs market was seeing \"unprecedented turbulence\".\n\nThe report suggested Brexit-related disruption to supply chains, in addition to Covid lockdowns decreasing demand, had caused a shortage of MDMA.\n\n\"Without laboratory tests, it's impossible to tell what's really in the drugs people purchase - and the pandemic and Brexit appears to have exacerbated this issue,\" said Dr Pascoe, co-lead author of the study.\n\nThe study, led by drug checking charity The Loop, found that in many cases MDMA was substituted for other substances such as caffeine or alternative synthetic psychoactive drugs.\n\nResearchers from Cardiff University and the University of Liverpool found the presence of MDMA in samples sold as ecstasy fell from 93% in 2019 to 55% in 2021.\n\nReport co-author Professor Measham said no test can tell whether a substance is \"safe\" to take\n\nProf Fiona Measham, co-author of the study and director of The Loop, said testing facilities were made available to help people make informed decisions.\n\n\"We do not encourage or assist drug use and always highlight that no test can tell whether a substance is 'safe' to take,\" she added.\n\nOne 24-year-old woman from Cardiff, who did not want to be named, said the statistics were \"terrifying\".\n\n\"Of course there are risks that come with taking any drugs, but it's something that happens so often, especially at festivals, and it can't just be ignored.\n\n\"Labelling it illegal and ignoring the problem will just lead to kids dying, and preventing that with actual advice and testing is a much better way of actually trying to sort out the problem.\n\n\"I will definitely be testing any drugs I buy in the future. I think the normalisation of drug testing at festivals is really important, especially now.\"\n\nThe Loop has offered on site drug testing at a number of UK festivals\n\nIn the supposed MDMA samples analysed from 2021, one in five included caffeine, and another fifth included synthetic cathinones. Both substances were almost completely absent from the 2019 samples.\n\nSynthetic cathonines, also known as \"bath salts\", are part of a group of drugs that concern public health officials called new psychoactive substances (NPS).\n\nThese are drugs which are \"unregulated psychoactive mind-altering substances\", according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.\n\n\"This study illustrates how cathinones are mis-sold as MDMA during periods of scarcity in the MDMA market,\" added Dr Pascoe.\n\n\"Rapid onsite testing, dissemination of alerts, harm reduction information and associated risk communications through media and social media channels provide vital ways to inform drug-users, practitioners and policy makers to help reduce drug-related harms at festivals and beyond.\"", "Some Russian troops are refusing to return to fight in Ukraine because of their experiences on the front line at the start of the invasion, according to Russian human rights lawyers and activists. The BBC has been speaking to one such soldier.\n\n\"I don't want to go [back to Ukraine] to kill and be killed,\" says Sergey - not his real name - who spent five weeks fighting in Ukraine earlier this year.\n\nHe is now home in Russia, having taken legal advice to avoid being sent back to the front line. Sergey is just one of hundreds of Russian soldiers understood to have been seeking such advice.\n\nSergey says he is traumatised by his experience in Ukraine.\n\n\"I had thought that we were the Russian army, the most super-duper in the world,\" says the young man bitterly. Instead they were expected to operate without even basic equipment, such as night vision devices, he says.\n\n\"We were like blind kittens. I'm shocked by our army. It wouldn't cost much to equip us. Why wasn't it done?\"\n\nSergey joined the army as a conscript - most Russian men between the ages of 18-27 must complete one year of compulsory military service. But, after a few months, he made the decision to sign a two-year professional contract which would also give him a salary.\n\nIn January, Sergey was sent near the border with Ukraine for what he was told would be military drills. A month later - 24 February, the day Russia launched its invasion - he was told to cross the border. Almost immediately his unit found itself under attack.\n\nAs they stopped for the evening in an abandoned farm, their commander said: \"Well, as you will have worked out by now, this is not a joke.\"\n\nA convoy of Russian military vehicles heading towards the Donbas region - 23 February 2022\n\nSergey says he was completely shocked.\n\n\"My first thoughts were 'Is this really happening to me?'\"\n\nThey were continually shelled, he says, both when moving and when parked overnight. In his unit of 50 people, 10 were killed and 10 others wounded. Almost all his comrades were under the age of 25.\n\nHe heard of Russian servicemen so inexperienced that they \"did not know how to shoot and couldn't tell one end of a mortar from another\".\n\nHe says his convoy - travelling through northern Ukraine - broke up after just four days when a bridge they were about to cross exploded, killing comrades ahead of them.\n\nIn another incident, Sergey says he had to overtake comrades trapped inside a burning vehicle in front of him.\n\n\"It was blown up from a grenade launcher or something else. It caught fire and there were [Russian] soldiers inside. We drove around it and on, firing as we went. I didn't look back.\"\n\nLocal residents by a destroyed Russian tank in Sloboda, Chernihiv, Ukraine - 8 May 2022\n\nHis unit moved on through the Ukrainian countryside, but there was a clear lack of strategy, he says. Reinforcements failed to arrive and soldiers were poorly equipped for the task of taking a large city.\n\n\"We went without helicopters - just in a column, as though we were heading to a parade.\"\n\nHe believes his commanders had planned to capture strongholds and key cities very quickly - and had calculated that the Ukrainians would simply surrender.\n\n\"We rushed forward with short overnight stays, without trenches, without reconnaissance. We didn't leave anyone in the rear, so if someone decided to come in from behind and hit us there was no protection.\n\n\"I think that [so many of] our guys died largely because of this. If we had moved gradually, if we had checked the roads for mines many losses could have been avoided.\"\n\nSergey's complaints about lack of equipment have also emerged in phone conversations alleged to be between Russian soldiers and their families, intercepted and posted online by the Ukrainian security services.\n\nAt the beginning of April, Sergey was sent back over the border to a camp on the Russian side. Troops had been withdrawn from northern Ukraine and appeared to be regrouping for an assault in the east. Later that month he received an order to return to Ukraine - but told his commander that he was not prepared to go.\n\nBanner with the letters Z and V, in support of the Russian military, on a building in Moscow - 19 May 2022\n\n\"He said it was my choice. They didn't even [try to] dissuade us, because we weren't the first,\" Sergey told the BBC. But, he had been sufficiently worried about his unit's reaction to his refusal that he decided to seek legal advice.\n\nA lawyer told Sergey and two like-minded colleagues to return their arms and go back to their unit's headquarters - where they should file a letter explaining that they were \"morally and psychologically exhausted\" and could not continue fighting in Ukraine.\n\nSergey was told that returning to the unit was important because simply leaving could be interpreted as desertion, which can result in a two-year sentence in a disciplinary battalion.\n\nArmy commanders try to intimidate contract soldiers into staying with their units, according to Russian human rights lawyer Alexei Tabalov. But he stresses that Russian military law does include clauses which allow soldiers to refuse to fight if they don't want to.\n\nHuman rights activist Sergei Krivenko says he is not aware of any prosecutions of those refusing to return to the front.\n\nThat is not to say that prosecutions are not being attempted.\n\nRussian service personnel rehearse for the Victory Day Parade in Moscow - 7 May 2022\n\nOne commander in northern Russia requested a criminal case be brought against his subordinate who would not return to Ukraine, but a military prosecutor refused to proceed, according to documents seen by the BBC. Such an action would be \"premature\" without having assessed the harm to the military service he was involved in, the prosecutor said.\n\nAnd there is no guarantee that more prosecutions might not emerge in the future.\n\nSoldiers like Sergey - reluctant to return to the front line - are not unusual, according to Ruslan Leviev, the editor of Conflict Intelligence Team, a media project investigating the experiences of the Russian military in Ukraine through confidential interviews and open source material.\n\nLeviev says his team estimates a sizeable minority of the Russian contract soldiers sent to Ukraine to fight in the initial invasion refused to go back again.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin visits soldiers wounded during the conflict in Ukraine - 25 May 2022\n\nIndependent Russian media have also been reporting hundreds of cases of soldiers refusing repeat deployments to Ukraine since the beginning of April.\n\nSeveral lawyers and human rights activists the BBC spoke to said they had been regularly offering advice to men trying to avoid returning to Ukraine. Each of our interviewees had dealt with dozens of cases and believed those soldiers were also sharing advice with their colleagues.\n\nAlthough Sergey does not want to return to the front line, he does want to complete his outstanding military service in Russia to avoid any unforeseen consequences. But that means that - while his letter of refusal to fight was accepted - there are no guarantees he won't be sent back to Ukraine during his service period.\n\n\"I can see that the war continues, it is not going away,\" he told the BBC. \"In these months [of compulsory military service] that I have left, anything - including the worst - could happen.\"", "Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by his own MPs to oust him as Conservative Party leader and prime minister in a confidence vote. But the scale of the rebellion against him means he is not out of the woods yet. What's the next move for Tory rebels and Johnson loyalists?\n\nBoris Johnson used to make his party feel good. Anyone who has watched the prime minister work the crowd at a Conservative Party conference will have seen the effect he has on activists.\n\nBut that feelgood factor was hard to find among Tory MPs in Parliament this morning.\n\nBut any hope he had that his party would now move on was obliterated by the result - and the fact 41% of MPs who voted said they wanted Boris Johnson out.\n\nOne MP arriving in Parliament on Monday morning lamented simply: \"It's not good.\"\n\nThe rebellion was much bigger than many expected - and that exposes a divided party.\n\nA prominent rebel said: \"The cabinet should tell him to go but they won't because they are too weak - he kept them weak.\"\n\nIn theory, the prime minister is safe from another confidence vote for a year.\n\nUnder the current rules of the 1922 committee, which organises leadership contests, another challenge can't happen for 12 months after the incumbent wins.\n\nBut not everyone is convinced.\n\n\"All this assumption that he's safe for a year - I don't think anyone believes that,\" one backbencher told me this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee had considered changing the rules under Theresa May's premiership, to allow a second confidence a few months after she won a first.\n\nRebels are already talking about how they could force another vote on Boris Johnson's future.\n\n\"There will be huge pressure on [1922 committee chairman] Sir Graham Brady to change the rules,\" says a senior critic of the PM.\n\nIt's not guaranteed that change to the process will happen. My sources on the committee have talked of needing a period of calm.\n\nBut there are big political pitfalls ahead too, which could change minds.\n\nThe subject currently dominating talk among Tory MPs is the two by-elections later this month.\n\nOn 23 June, the Conservatives will be looking to defend Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon. Labour are aiming to take back Wakefield, one of the \"Red Wall\" northern strongholds that they lost in Boris Johnson's 2019 landslide.\n\nThe Lib Dems are throwing everything they have got at Tiverton and Honiton, where the Tories have a 24,000 majority, in the hope of pulling off another upset in the so-called \"Blue Wall\" of Tory heartland seats in the south.\n\nSenior Tories fear they will lose both contests - plunging Boris Johnson's leadership into a fresh crisis.\n\nA senior rebel I spoke to this morning said his focus will now be trying to change the minds of enough Tory MPs to shift the balance of power away from the prime minister.\n\nThey believe if they can persuade 30 MPs who backed Mr Johnson in Monday night's confidence vote to switch they will be able to bring him down.\n\nAnd some argue that any by-election evidence the prime minister has become a liability at the ballot box will help that persuasion process.\n\nAnother rebel told me if they get \"caned\" in both contests, it will spark another round of concern in the parliamentary party.\n\nSome of the PM's critics do now want to move on and say that mid-term by-elections won't change their mind.\n\nTory MP Nigel Mills told the BBC: \"We had a vote yesterday, we made a decision.\"\n\nThe key point though is this; many MPs just don't think the party can move on and they're looking at what the next crisis might be.\n\nThen there's Partygate - which isn't over yet.\n\nParliament's privileges committee is due to look into whether the prime minister misled the House of Commons - and sources close to that process believe that could be damning for Mr Johnson. The committee is thought likely to report in the Autumn.\n\nIf it concludes he knowingly misled parliament, more MPs might be persuaded of the need for a new leader. It may also produce new evidence of what went on in Downing Street during lockdown - and that could be damaging too.\n\nOne opposition source told me: \"We might have to wait for the committee to bring him down… this just going to rumble on.\"\n\nThere is also a wider question for the PM about his authority. Despite his significant majority, he will now have to look over his shoulder when it comes to contentious votes and controversial policies.\n\nWill those who want him out be harder to win over?\n\nThere will be efforts to pressure the prime minister to change the way he governs in the next few weeks.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told me the PM needed to \"cut the culture war crap\".\n\nCan he turn things around?\n\n\"He can do it,\" they said, \"but he doesn't have much time.\"\n\nAnother senior backbencher said the prime minister needed to be more Conservative in his policies (for many, that means cutting taxes). Some are calling for a reshuffle, to bring different voices around the cabinet table.\n\nWithin government itself there are those who want change too.\n\nOne minister told me: \"We have a window to show we get it…Things need to change, most of all him\".\n\nBut this person isn't optimistic: \"They are still bunker mode, telling people to get into line.\"\n\nThe prime minister called Monday night's result decisive - but there are few in his party who say the same privately today.\n\nOne MP concluded: \"Keir Starmer could have picked the result. The prime minister will think he has enough to go on. The rebels will be thinking 'one last heave'\".\n\nThe Conservative Party remains divided. The leadership questions rumble on.", "Bob Seely says he voted for Boris Johnson to stay on as prime minister at Monday's vote.\n\nA Conservative MP has said he voted for Boris Johnson to stay in his job after gaining assurances about funding for his local council.\n\nIsle of Wight MP Bob Seely said he had thought hard about whether to back the PM in Monday's confidence vote.\n\nHe told constituents he only made up his mind when ministers told him they would \"look again\" at funding for the south coast island.\n\nDowning Street said funding was not directly allocated by ministers.\n\nAsked about Mr Seely's comments, the PM's spokesman said money for local areas was decided by a process run by civil servants.\n\nMonday's confidence vote was triggered by Tory MPs angry at Boris Johnson's handling of widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, with many saying he had lost their trust.\n\nThe PM survived the vote, which saw 211 MPs backing him and 148 voting to remove him.\n\nWriting on his website, Mr Seely said he had decided to back the PM at the vote after \"some consideration and only after discussion with senior ministers\".\n\n\"It is clear that some foolish errors were made during Partygate. Boris has apologised. I hope now that he can focus on governing,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I talked again with ministers about why a fair funding package has not yet been forthcoming for the Isle of Wight Council.\n\n\"I have been assured they will look at this again and will do so in the very near future, ahead of the ongoing review of local government finance.\"\n\nHe added that the PM had been \"the only one ever to promise an improved funding settlement for the Island\".\n\n\"As such, and on balance, I would rather continue to focus on getting him to deliver on this commitment than start afresh with a PM who has not made, or may not offer to make, any such offer,\" he added.\n\nThe Isle of Wight says it needs extra support to deliver services compared to mainland Britain.\n\nIsle of Wight Council has long been pushing to get a bigger budget from the government to make up for the extra costs of being an island.\n\nMr Seely, elected as the island's MP in 2017, has campaigned for an \"Island Deal\" of extra support. Mr Johnson first said he would look at the idea during a visit to the island in the run-up to the 2019 Tory leadership contest.\n\nIn February, the government announced an additional £1m for the council's budget this year, due to the \"unique circumstances facing the Isle of Wight Council and its physical separation from the mainland\".\n\nThe council said it was disappointed with the uplift, which it said should have been more like £6m to make up for costs incurred by the island's remoteness.\n\nAfter his comments on the confidence vote were highlighted on Twitter, Mr Seely said he had been chasing up a commitment about the council's funding made to him by Mr Johnson in 2019.\n\n\"I'm making sure government delivers for my constituents,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I'm doing my job as the Island's MP, putting my people first. [I'm] unashamed to do so. It's my job.\"", "The UK government says it is not \"currently considering\" copying European Union plans for a common charging cable.\n\nThe EU has provisionally agreed all new portable electronic devices must, by autumn 2024, use a USB Type-C charger, a move it says will benefit consumers.\n\nCritics say it will stifle innovation.\n\nUnder the current post-Brexit arrangements, the regulation would apply to Northern Ireland, according to EU and UK officials.\n\nAccording to the a December 2021 parliamentary report, the \"new requirements may also apply to devices sold in Northern Ireland under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit agreement, potentially triggering divergence of product standards with the rest of the UK\".\n\nThe treaty works by keeping Northern Ireland inside the EU's single market for goods, while the rest of the UK is outside it.\n\nA row between the UK and EU about how to reform the Northern Ireland protocol remains unresolved.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said \"we are not currently considering replicating this requirement\".\n\nApple products such as iPhones and iPads will have to conform to the new regulation, as will, eventually laptop computers. Existing devices will be exempt.\n\nThe agreement will be brought before the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers after their summer recesses, where it can be formally approved and then published.\n\nApple told the BBC it had no new comment to make.\n\nIt argued against the proposal, when it was first introduced, in September 2021, with a representative telling BBC News: \"Strict regulation mandating just one type of connector stifles innovation rather than encouraging it, which in turn will harm consumers in Europe and around the world\".\n\nApple is the biggest manufacturer to use a custom charging port that is exclusive to some of its products - its iPhone series uses an Apple-made Lightning connector.\n\nThe new rule will cover a range of \"small and medium-sized portable electronics\", according the EU, including:\n\nAny of these charged using a wired cable will have to have a USB Type-C port, regardless of who makes the devices.\n\nLaptops will also have to abide by the ruling but manufacturers will have 40 months after it comes into effect to make changes.\n\nThe agreement also includes a plan to let customers choose whether or not they want a charging cable with their new electronics.\n\n\"This law is a part of a broader EU effort to make products in the EU more sustainable, to reduce electronic waste, and make consumers' lives easier,\" the EU said in its announcement.\n\nIt would save consumers \"up to €250m [£213m] a year on unnecessary charger purchases\" and cut 11,000 tonnes of waste per year, the EU added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Angela Eagle tells the PM he is \"loathed\" even within his own party\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is determined to \"get on\" with his job, in his first Commons appearance since surviving a confidence vote in his leadership.\n\nAmid testy exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle told Mr Johnson he was loathed and should resign.\n\nBut the prime minister said his political career had \"barely begun\".\n\nFour in 10 Tory MPs declared a lack of confidence in Mr Johnson's leadership in Monday's vote.\n\nThe worse-than-expected result followed several months of difficulties for the prime minister, who has received ongoing criticism over parties that took place in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nFollowing the vote, the prime minister promised to \"draw a line\" under his recent difficulties and announce a widespread programme of reforms to help deal with crime, the NHS and the rapidly rising cost of living.\n\nHis ministers have stood by him, but in the first departure from government since the vote, Baroness Helena Morrissey left her job at the Foreign Office on Wednesday.\n\nIn an interview with LBC radio, Baroness Morrissey said some Tory MPs considered the prime minister \"a liability\" and she had not seen \"any contrition\" from him after the confidence vote.\n\nThe BBC understands Foreign Secretary Liz Truss found Baroness Morrissey's comments \"outrageous\" and the peer \"jumped before she was pushed\".\n\nMeanwhile, at a noisy Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson reiterated his commitment to remain in power.\n\nAsking the first question, Dame Angela said: \"This week's events have demonstrated just how loathed this prime minister is, and that's only in his own party.\n\n\"As his administration is too distracted by its internal divisions to deal with the challenges we face, can the prime minister explain if 148 of his own backbenchers don't trust him why on earth should the country?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I can assure her in a long political career so far - barely begun - I've of course picked up political opponents all over and that is because this government has done some very big and very remarkable things which they didn't necessarily approve of.\n\n\"And what I want her to know is that absolutely nothing and no-one, least of all her, is going to stop us with getting on delivering for the British people.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer focused his questions on the government's record on the NHS, while the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, called Mr Johnson, who was fined in April for attending an illegal Downing Street gathering during lockdown, a \"dead man walking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson clash on the government's handling of the NHS\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"failing to recognise that these parties were against the law, it's that signal that the rules don't apply to him the way that they do for everyone else\".\n\n\"That's not the behaviour of someone who can remain in office, its someone that quite simply needs to be removed from office,\" Mr Blackford added.\n\nThe prime minister's victory in the confidence vote means that, under Conservative Party rules, he cannot face another such test of his leadership for another year.\n\nBut Mr Johnson is coming under pressure from some of his own MPs to cut taxes in an effort to boost the economy and help ease the burden on households caused by the rapidly rising cost of living.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, Health Secretary Sajid Javid and trade minister Penny Mordaunt all said they would like this to happen.\n\nBut the prime minister's spokesperson played down the immediate prospect of this happening, saying it was important to be \"responsible\" at a time when finances were in \"very difficult position following the global pandemic\".\n\nThey added that plans for further tax cuts would be set out \"as soon as it is fiscally responsible to do so\".\n\nThere were no unfriendly questions from Tory MPs about his future to the PM in the chamber, but in a column in the Times newspaper, Conservative former cabinet minister David Davis accused Mr Johnson of \"letting things slide\" and warned him to \"get his act together\" quickly or leave office.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nIsle of Man TT race organisers have confirmed that they named the wrong French sidecar competitor as having died in an incident on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement, they said rider Cesar Chanal had now been confirmed as having died in the crash during lap one of the first sidecar race of 2022 on the Mountain Course.\n\nOn Saturday, they wrongly said passenger Olivier Lavorel had died.\n\nHe remains in a critical condition in Aintree Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nIn the statement, organisers said: \"An initial identification procedure was conducted using established procedures and would appear to have resulted in a mistaken identification.\n\n\"We now believe it was Cesar Chanal who died at the scene of the accident on Saturday, 4 June. Olivier remains in a critical condition and continues to receive treatment.\"\n\nBoth competitors' families had now been informed and a \"thorough review of the processes relating to the identification of competitors will take place in due course,\" it added.\n\nThe incident took place less than a mile from the start line between the bottom of Bray Hill and Quarterbridge.\n\nIt led to the race being red-flagged, and the remainder of the day's schedule abandoned.\n\nThe races are organised by ACU Events Limited on behalf of the Isle of Man government's Department for Enterprise (DfE).\n\nThe statement by organisers added: \"One of the competitors sustained injuries that would not support life and was sadly declared dead at the scene. The second competitor was unconscious with severe injuries.\n\n\"The injured competitor was treated at the roadside before being transferred to Noble's Hospital, and then airlifted to a specialist hospital in Liverpool to receive treatment.\n\n\"An initial identification procedure was conducted using established procedures and would appear to have resulted in a mistaken identification.\"\n\nThe statement concluded: \"Our thoughts are with the family and loved ones of both Olivier and Cesar at this truly devastating time.\n\n\"We ask that people do not speculate on social media.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Isle of Man Constabulary confirmed officers would now be \"investigating the racing incident and the events leading up to it, and the aftermath\" on behalf of the island's coroner of inquests.\n\nBoth the DfE and the Isle of Man government have declined to comment at this stage.\n\nAlthough new to the TT, the pair have been regular competitors in the French F1 and F2 National Sidecar Championships, recording several podium finishes.\n\nTwo other competitors have died during the 2022 Isle of Man TT.\n\nWelsh rider Mark Purslow died in a crash in practice last week while Northern Ireland rider Davy Morgan suffered fatal injuries in an accident on Monday.", "Paul Gambaccini, Sir Cliff Richard and Daniel Janner QC take their campaign to Parliament\n\nSir Cliff Richard has made an impassioned plea to MPs and peers to grant anonymity for sexual offences suspects before they are charged.\n\nAt a meeting in the House of Lords, he spoke of \"how desperate it is to be accused of something you never did\".\n\nAnd he urged politicians to back a change in the law to protect people who are wrongly accused.\n\nPolice raided the singer's home in 2014 as part of an investigation into a sex assault claim. He was never arrested.\n\nHe told the meeting how the media coverage of the allegations had \"nearly destroyed\" him and that he would never fully get over it.\n\nBut he said he wanted the law to be changed to help \"regular people\" who had endured similar ordeals.\n\nSir Cliff successfully sued the BBC for breach of privacy over its coverage of the police raid, which it filmed from a helicopter and broadcast.\n\nCurrently, alleged victims of sexual offences receive lifelong anonymity but there is no law against naming a suspect.\n\nThe College of Policing advises officers not to name those arrested or suspected of any crime, \"save in exceptional circumstances where there is a legitimate policing purpose for doing so\".\n\nOnce a person is charged, they are normally named by police, but the media often names those who have been arrested but not charged.\n\nCampaign group FAIR (Falsely Accused Individuals for Reform) has called for pre-charge naming of sexual offence suspects to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales.\n\nThe group, backed by Sir Cliff and other high profile figures including DJ Paul Gambaccini, have drafted an amendment that would outlaw the practice.\n\nOpponents of anonymity argue that naming people under investigation for sex offences encourages other alleged victims to come forward.\n\nBut Mr Gambaccini told the meeting the police should be professional enough to build a case without encouraging \"bandwagoners\" with \"frivolous\" allegations.\n\n\"This is not the way you run a justice system. You don't throw out names and see who gets accused,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe group's proposed legislation would allow sexual offences suspects to be named if the courts believed they represented a threat in the \"present moment\", he added.\n\nMr Gambaccini was arrested over sex abuse allegations in 2013 but the case was dropped a year later.\n\nFormer Tory MP Harvey Proctor, who had his home raided and was publicly named during Scotland Yard's probe into fabricated claims of a VIP paedophile ring at Westminster, said the campaigners were \"united for a common cause to return fairness to our criminal justice system\".\n\nBut in a statement Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: \"This is not the first time these calls have been considered by parliamentarians.\n\n\"They've previously been rejected as a step backwards - one that would send a message to sexual offence victims that they are less likely to be believed than victims of any other crime.\"\n\nShe added that the legal system needed to be \"open and transparent\" to maintain public confidence.\n\n\"We urge these men to instead use their positions of power and status to highlight the real issue - that our criminal justice system is stacked against survivors, the vast majority of whom are women.\"\n\nFAIR is hoping its draft amendment will be added to a future criminal justice bill by a sympathetic peer.\n\nLabour peer Lord Campbell Savours, who hosted the meeting, said he believed it had a \"good chance\" of being passed by the Lords but would probably be blocked in the Commons by \"very articulate women MPs who feel very strongly that the law should not be weakened\".\n\nA number of other peers, including leading barrister Lord Pannick, and Conservative MPs Nigel Evans and Esther McVey, also backed the proposals, as did Christine Hamilton, who was at the meeting with former MP husband Neil.\n\nThe Hamiltons faced sex assault allegations in 2001, which were dropped by police.", "The Games will take place at venues across the West Midlands\n\nFive thousand short-term jobs still need to be filled ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, with the Army on standby to help out.\n\nThere are 50 days before the start of the event, which runs from 28 July to 8 August across the city and wider West Midlands.\n\nChief Executive Ian Reid said they had spoken to the military to take steps if necessary.\n\nLeaflets have been put through doors as part of a recruitment drive.\n\nOrganisers say they want to give people opportunities to get skills that will help in finding work after the Games.\n\nJobs in security, catering and cleaning still need to be filled.\n\nThe games start in 50 days as shown by the countdown clock in Centenary Square\n\nThe volunteer outfits, designed by students from across Birmingham, were unveiled recently\n\nMr Reid said: \"Up to 5,000 roles are still to be put in place. We're seeing a huge uptick of the back off the marketing campaign but there is still a lot of recruitment to be done over the next few weeks.\"\n\nSpeaking from the Sandwell Aquatics Centre earlier, he said they had a plan A and B in place, the latter being bringing in the Army, and they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nIn 2012, up to 13,500 military personnel helped to provide security at the London Olympic Games.\n\nSo far the preparations for the Games have gone smoothly.\n\nThe major venues - the Alexander stadium in Birmingham and the Sandwell Aquatic centre - are finished but, like many large employers at the moment, they are facing recruitment problems.\n\nChief Executive of the Organising Committee Ian Reid said lessons had been learned from London 2012, when the Army had to help at venues because of shortages of security staff.\n\nMr Reid said that unlike London they were working with a number of different security providers, instead of a single organisation, to spread the risk.\n\nChief executive Ian Reid, visiting Sandwell Aquatic Centre, said the situation is being monitored closely\n\nRichard Smith, from the Department of Work and Pensions, who was at a jobs fair at Villa Park, said people were still needed to fill roles in security, hospitality, stewardship and cleaning, which, he added, were also needed in the \"wider economy\" beyond this summer's international sports event.\n\nThomas Phipps, assistant branch manager at Verve People Birmingham, which is aiding recruitment, said the operation was \"huge\" for his agency.\n\n\"The demand is going to be there because thousands of people are going to be coming into Birmingham to watch the [Games].\"\n\nPosts range from three weeks to three months and people can fill in an expression of interest form online.\n\nTom Overton said he wanted to help local people increase their skills\n\nTom Overton, resourcing team leader for the summer jobs campaign at Birmingham 2022, said he wanted to use the opportunities to \"upskill\" local people who may not have formal qualifications but wanted to get into work.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former patients who may have come into contact with someone diagnosed with tuberculosis are being offered precautionary screening by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC News NI, those affected have been told the contact happened at ward 2F in the Royal Victoria Hospital in March 2019.\n\nTuberculosis can affect the lungs as well as other organs.\n\nThe infection is usually treated through antibiotics.\n\nAccording to the health trust, the risk of having the infection is very low but those contacted are being invited to attend screening as a precaution.\n\nThe letter also explained that while the infection was uncommon in Northern Ireland, a small number of cases were diagnosed every year.\n\nA woman who received a letter told BBC News NI it came as a shock and that she was very concerned as it went back to 2019.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be identified, said she lived with two people who were asthmatic and vulnerable.\n\n\"It is impossible for me to trace my footsteps over the past three years and I will probably worry until I am told that the X-ray is clear,\" she said.\n\n\"What I don't understand is why it took so long for them to contact those who are possibly affected.\"\n\nBelfast Health Trust said those identified were a \"low risk close contact of a patient who has since tested positive for tuberculosis when they were an inpatient\".\n\nIt said that \"the risk to all patients is very low\" as tuberculosis was not as easily transmitted as other infections and the patients identified were exposed for fewer than eight hours.\n\nIt added: \"All patients contacted have been offered a screening appointment as a precaution.\"\n\nPatients may have come into contact with the infection at a Royal Victoria Hospital ward\n\nThe trust did not answer a number of questions asked by BBC News NI, including how many people had been sent a letter and if it affected people across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe statement said those identified were a \"low risk close contact of a patient who has since tested positive for tuberculosis when they were an inpatient\".\n\nDedicated clinics will hold screenings for those affected starting on Monday 27 June at Belfast City Hospital.\n• None Persistent cough may be TB not Covid, doctor warns", "Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt reporting from close to where he was abused\n\nAn anti-lockdown protester has been sentenced after a BBC journalist was chased and called a traitor near Downing Street.\n\nJoseph Olswang, 39, was part of a group of people who shouted abuse at Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt on 14 June 2021.\n\nOlswang was given a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard he has bipolar disorder and was in the midst of a manic episode at the time.\n\nAt a previous hearing Olswang, of Richmond-upon-Thames, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment to Mr Watt.\n\nHe was found guilty of the same offence against PC Agnes Matvejeva. He had shouted at the Metropolitan Police officer for 35 minutes and called her a \"Brownshirt Nazi\" and \"evil scum\".\n\nJoseph Olswang was also ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work\n\nOlswang had been part of a group demonstrating against the government's extension of coronavirus restrictions in England by four weeks.\n\nFootage shared on social media showed demonstrators shouting abuse in the face of Mr Watt, who was wearing a BBC lanyard, as he tried to walk down the street behind a line of police officers.\n\nIn mitigation, Olswang's barrister Eleanor De outlined his health issues, adding that the pandemic had \"created a perfect storm for a mental health crisis\".\n\nPolice and demonstrators faced each other outside Downing Street\n\nDistrict Judge Daniel Sternberg described what happened as \"disgraceful\".\n\nHe told Olswang: \"You were part of a group of individuals who styled themselves as protesters but were doing very little more than harassing journalists and police officers - who were going about their business - and making their lives very unpleasant indeed.\"\n\nOlswang was banned from Whitehall and Parliament Square for 18 months and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and undertake 20 days of rehabilitation. He was also told to pay £1,748 in compensation and costs.\n\nFive others who are accused of the same public order offence are due to stand trial later this month.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aiden Aslin (left) and Shaun Pinner (centre) have been pictured in footage alongside Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim\n\nTwo Britons captured by Russian forces in Ukraine have appeared in court in territory held by pro-Russian rebels.\n\nAiden Aslin, 28, from Nottinghamshire, and Shaun Pinner, 48, from Bedfordshire, are being held in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThey are reportedly charged with being mercenaries. But their families say they were in Ukraine's military.\n\nIt is feared the court, which is not internationally recognised, could pass the death penalty if it convicts them.\n\nA video has emerged of the two Britons attending a court hearing alongside a third man, Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim.\n\nIn the footage, Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner spoke only to confirm they knew the charges against them and were happy for their case to proceed without the evidence of witnesses.\n\nBoth were able to stand unaided and seemed aware of their surroundings.\n\nThey have also been accused of violent seizure of power and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities.\n\nThe self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, was set up by pro-Russian separatists in 2014.\n\nAccording to Russia's Interfax news agency, leader of the DNR Denis Pushilin has said the men will be charged in the region's supreme court.\n\nFootage of Mr Aslin released shortly after his capture in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led many to fear for his wellbeing.\n\nThe families of both Mr Aslin, from Newark, and Mr Pinner released statements saying that they were long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not volunteers or mercenaries.\n\nBoth men are said to have lived in Ukraine since 2018.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Aslin's family said it \"was a very sensitive and emotional time for our family, and we would like to say thank you to all that have supported us\".\n\nThey added: \"We are currently working with the Ukrainian government and the Foreign Office to try and bring Aiden home. Aiden is a much-loved man and very much missed, and we hope that he will be released very soon.\"\n\nAsked about the case earlier, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told LBC radio: \"I don't know all the details, but of course we would expect the laws of armed conflict to be respected, and we will make sure that we will make all the representations.\n\n\"I know the Foreign Office will be looking at making sure all those representations are made.\"", "Now MPs have moved on to a debate about a levelling-up bill, we’ll be closing our live coverage of Prime Minister’s Questions shortly.\n\nBefore we do, let’s reflect on what happened in the House of Commons earlier when Boris Johnson appeared before MPs.\n\nWarm reception: The prime minister faced his own MPs for the first time since 148 of them voted to remove him as leader in a confidence ballot on Monday. He received loud cheers - and a few groans - as he entered the chamber.\n\nEnemies expected: When asked why the country should trust him by a Labour MP, Johnson said he’d \"picked up political opponents all over\" because, he said, of the \"remarkable things\" his government had done.\n\nFound wanting: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer mentioned the strife within the Conservative Party, but focused his questions on the government’s record on the NHS. He said NHS waiting lists had gone up on Johnson’s watch and said his government had been found \"wanting and inadequate\".\n\nNot working: Johnson said Starmer’s line of attack \"is not working\". He defended the government's handling of the NHS, while criticising Labour's record when in government.\n\nWise quack: The SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford MP, called Johnson a \"lame duck prime minister\" and repeated his call for him to resign.\n\nCulture change: Following PMQs, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said a \"culture change from the top\" in the NHS was necessary, as he gave a statement on a review of health and social care leadership.", "Police stand outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh as abortion-rights advocates protest on 11 May 2022\n\nA California man is facing a charge of attempted murder after his arrest near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nNicholas John Roske, 26, had planned to murder a Supreme Court justice and was armed with a pistol and tactical knife, court documents said.\n\nThe suspect was taken into custody at about 01:00 local time (06:00 BST).\n\nProtection for the justices has been beefed up ahead of a landmark ruling on US abortion rights.\n\nAccording to an affidavit filed in US District Court, Mr Roske was spotted by two US Deputy Marshals while getting out of a taxi in front of a Supreme Court justice's home.\n\nCarrying a suitcase and a backpack, Mr Roske turned to walk down the street.\n\nSoon after, local emergency services took a call from a man who identified himself as Mr Roske.\n\nMr Roske said he was having suicidal thoughts, had a gun and had come from California to \"kill a specific United States Supreme Court justice\". Local police officers were sent to the justice's home and arrested Mr Roske.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Justice Kavanaugh and his family were at home at the time of the arrest.\n\nWhile in custody, Mr Roske said he was \"upset\" about the leaked Supreme Court document on abortion, as well as the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, according to the affidavit.\n\nHe said he believed Justice Kavanaugh might issue rulings that would loosen gun control regulations.\n\nMr Roske was found to have a Glock 17 pistol, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, crowbar and duct tape.\n\nHe was asked a series of question by a judge during a brief court appearance on Wednesday afternoon, including whether he was thinking clearly when he was arrested.\n\n\"I think I have a reasonable understanding, but I wouldn't say I'm thinking clearly,\" he responded, confirming that he was a college graduate and had been taking an unspecified medication.\n\nHe is expected back in court on 22 June.\n\nIf convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for attempted murder of a United States judge, though actual sentences for federal crimes are usually less than the maximum penalties.\n\nA White House spokeswoman said President Biden \"condemns\" the action of the individual who threatened the justice.\n\nIn May, a leaked draft decision from the top court in the US suggested it would overturn Roe v Wade - the landmark 1973 case that guaranteed abortion access across the US.\n\nThe draft ruling spurred protests nationwide, including some peaceful demonstrations outside the homes of some of the nine justices on the court.\n\nLast month, a group of about 100 people marched from the home of Justice Kavanaugh to Chief Justice John Roberts' home nearby. Both justices are conservative and seen as potentially supportive of curtailing abortion rights.\n\nThe protests led Washington lawmakers to introduce legislation to Congress that would increase protections for Supreme Court justices. The legislation has passed the Senate, but has not yet been taken up by the House of Representatives.\n\nOne Democratic senator involved in negotiations on the proposed bill said that the remaining sticking points are over the scope of who will be protected. Democrats say that other employees of the top court, who are not judges, also deserve enhanced security, Senator Chris Coons told CNN on Wednesday.\n\nIn the aftermath of the draft ruling leak last month, the US Marshals Service has been providing \"around-the-clock security\" outside the homes of all nine justices, according to the Department of Justice.\n\nThey pointed to remarks by Senator Chuck Schumer in March 2020 in which he warned Justice Kavanaugh and another Trump-nominated conservative justice \"you will pay the price\" and \"you won't know what hit you\" if they voted to undo abortion protections.\n\nMr Schumer apologised the next day and denied he was threatening the judges.\n\nThe leak of a draft Supreme Court decision last month ignited a series of protests", "England is making it a legal requirement for doctors to notify their local council or health protection team about any suspected monkeypox cases.\n\nIt brings the infection in line with ones such as measles, scarlet fever and tuberculosis.\n\nThe move is intended to help manage the rare virus, which appears to have been affecting people in many countries, including the UK, in recent weeks.\n\nThe UK has reported more than 300 confirmed cases.\n\nAnother 26 countries have also had cases, including many in Europe.\n\nUntil recently, cases were seen in remote parts of central and West Africa only.\n\nMonkeypox is not spread easily between people but health officials say anyone can catch it, particularly after close contact with someone with symptoms.\n\nIt can be passed on through close contact with skin, clothes, bedding and towels - and, although not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, by direct contact during sex.\n\nHealth officials say people who develop a rash with blisters on any part of the body should contact NHS 111 or a sexual-health clinic.\n\nA large proportion of cases diagnosed in the UK are among gay and bisexual men.\n\nDoctors and public-health experts have spoken about the \"delicate balance\" of keeping those currently most at risk informed, without stigmatising them or letting others become complacent.\n\nWendi Shepherd, from the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"Rapid diagnosis and reporting is the key to interrupting transmission and containing any further spread of monkeypox. This new legislation will support us and our health partners to swiftly identify, treat and control the disease.\n\n\"It also supports us with the swift collection and analysis of data, which enables us to detect possible outbreaks of the disease and trace close contacts rapidly, whilst offering vaccinations where appropriate to limit onward transmission.\"\n\nLaboratories will have to notify the UK Health Security Agency if monkeypox virus is identified in a sample.\n\nJames Gallagher explains what it is and if we should be worried.", "John Paul McDonagh was fatally injured after a street fight on 11 April 2020\n\nThe mother of an 18-year-old who died after a street fight in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, has told a jury her son \"was murdered in front of me\".\n\nJohn Paul McDonagh sustained a fatal wound to his lower left leg following a violent altercation on 11 April 2020.\n\nJoseph Joyce, 32, from Clon Elagh in Londonderry is charged with murdering him.\n\nHe is further charged with four other offences arising from the same incident.\n\nMr Joyce denies all the charges and has claimed he was acting in self-defence following an attack from Mr McDonagh and his two brothers.\n\nMr McDonagh's mother, Rose McDonagh, gave evidence at Dungannon Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, on Tuesday.\n\nWhen asked about what she and her family were doing on the day in question, she said they were having a party in the back garden of her house in Coolcullen Meadow and enjoying a barbecue.\n\nMrs McDonagh told the court: \"Joe Joyce came over my back fence with a slash hook, waving it at my family. He was roaring and giving out.\"\n\nShe said that following this, Mr McDonagh ran after Mr Joyce and that her other sons, Gerard and Jimmy, \"tried to get him back\".\n\nWhen asked what happened on the street, Mrs McDonagh said: \"It all happened so fast ... I tried to stop it. I tried to get in the middle and get him to stop.\n\n\"I begged Joe [Joyce] to stop. I pleaded with him. My son was murdered in front of me.\"\n\nMr Joyce's barrister, Des Fahy QC asked Mrs McDonagh if her sons had armed themselves with weapons before walking from their house to Mr Joyce's house\n\nShe said she did not see Gerard or Jimmy McDonagh carrying anything, but said John might have been carrying \"a bit of a yoke\".\n\nMr Fahy also asked her about the incident at her back fence which occurred just before the street fight.\n\nJohn Paul McDonagh was fatally injured in the Coolcullen Meadow area of Enniskillen\n\nShe denied hearing her sons tell Mr Joyce: \"We are coming over to kill you and burn your house with your family in it\".\n\nWhen asked if any of her sons issued this threat, she said: \"That never happened.\"\n\nAnother witness called to give evidence was a person who lived in Coolcullen Meadow in April 2020.\n\nThey described what occurred outside their house as \"pandemonium\".\n\nThe witness said they looked up the street and saw \"three men coming down the street with weapons\".\n\nShe said this happened while Mr Joyce was standing at the bottom of the street \"with a big long stick with a hook on the end of it\".\n\n\"He wasn't really doing anything with it. These guys were coming down the street to attack him and yeah, they came down and attacked him,\" she said.\n\nThe witness then said she saw one of the three men walk back down the street \"grabbing his leg and he came up and lay down on the footpath in front of my house\".\n\nShe also recalled that a short time later the police arrived and performed CPR on the man.", "An organiser of a major conference aimed at getting more disabled people into work has said employers in Northern Ireland need to \"understand the depth of talent\" in the community.\n\nSeán Fitzsimons, who has muscular dystrophy, is one of the people behind the two-day Harkin Summit in Belfast.\n\nThe conference hopes to close the disability employment gap in Northern Ireland and internationally.\n\n\"It's about challenging for change,\" Mr Fitzsimons said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme, he said: \"I am very, very proud to be from the disabled community.\n\n\"I see all around me talented people that want to get into jobs, that are in jobs and want to advance, and people who are unfortunately experiencing difficulties in holding on to their jobs\".\n\nMr Fitzsimons is a lifelong disability campaigner and currently works in the civil service.\n\nHe said people with disabilities often faced barriers when looking for work and while in employment.\n\n\"There might be attitudinal barriers in relation to cultural ideas as to what disabled people are capable of and what they're not capable of,\" he said.\n\n\"There might be attitudes within the workplace where it is perceived because people have reasonable adjustment that they're doing less or that they're being treated more favourably\".\n\nHe said the conference, which is now in its second day at the International Convention Centre at the Waterfront Hall, is about \"building the community and policy around employment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Seán Fitzsimons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the two days, the event will bring together leaders and activists from across the world, as well as Northern Ireland.\n\nThe first day, on Tuesday, saw 630 in attendance from 30 countries.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey said creating employment for people with a disability was a \"crucial issue\".\n\n\"Hosting this summit, bringing together local and international leaders to build awareness, share best practice and challenge for change will ultimately help more people with disabilities and health conditions secure employment and meet their career aspirations,\" she said.\n\nThe minister said \"initiatives will flow from the conference\", which is sponsored by the Department for Communities.\n\nThese include 300 employment opportunities for young disabled people and 100 mentoring sessions between individuals and senior international leaders.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey spoke at the summit on Tuesday\n\nThe international summit was started by retired United States Senator Tom Harkin after seeing the issues experienced by his brother Frank, who is deaf.\n\nHe said: \"We have a lot to overcome and the best thing is to bring it out in the open and talk to people with disabilities, find out what they want and have an open dialogue and conversation.\n\n\"There's a lot of energy in the disability community that has been growing for a long time.\n\n\"An energy to do things different, to make sure their voices are heard and acted on\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPatients being told they may have to wait for up to 13 hours to be seen in an emergency department is \"not what anyone wants to see\", Sajid Javid said.\n\nThe health secretary was reacting to footage showing a nurse addressing patients at Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow, Essex, on Monday.\n\nPatients were told the wait time was seven-and-a-half hours, with warnings some may not be seen for much longer.\n\nThe hospital said there was \"extremely high demand\" on the department.\n\nThe footage was posted on Twitter and Mr Javid listened to the clip on BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Because of the impact of Covid... we know already from our NHS estimates, we think some 11 to 13 million people stayed away from the NHS because of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"Many of those people are coming forward, many of those to A&E, and we're seeing very high levels of demand.\n\n\"That is a real challenge for the NHS across the system.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A&E waits not what anyone wants to see - Sajid Javid\n\nTony Durcan, the Royal College of Nursing's senior officer for Essex, said the union's members were \"nursing under unsustainable pressure\".\n\n\"The government is risking lives by failing to take urgent action,\" he said.\n\n\"Nursing staff are being driven out of a job they once loved. They are tired, fed up, demoralised, and they feel undervalued for the complex and skilled work that they perform day in, day out.\"\n\nMr Javid said the government was investing \"record amounts\" in the NHS, including funding for ambulance trusts, the 111 on-call and online information service, and accident and emergency facilities across the country.\n\n\"So I think the NHS is doing everything it possibly can be doing,\" he said.\n\n\"The waiting times are improving, but it's not what anyone wants to see, those kind of waits.\"\n\nConservative MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon, who was due to meet the health secretary, said: \"The first thing I have to say is that the staff there are second to none - everyone tries to provide Harlow residents with a service that's wonderful.\n\n\"There are a number of issues here. First of all, even before Covid, we had amongst the highest accident and emergency use in England per head.\n\n\"We also have problems with the space in the hospital, which is why we are getting a new hospital.\n\n\"Nevertheless it's upsetting to see the video online.\"\n\nHe said there were also \"very complex issues\", including people struggling to get GP appointments and the backlog caused by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPrincess Alexandra Hospital patients were told on Monday some may not be seen for 13 hours\n\nIn November the Care Quality Commission published a report that rated the Princess Alexandra Hospital as \"requires improvement\" overall, with the hospital's emergency department rated \"inadequate\".\n\nThe CQC report said inspectors had to intervene after seeing two deteriorating patients waiting in a corridor.\n\nStephanie Lawton, chief operating officer at the NHS Trust, said it had seen a \"significant increase in attendances in our emergency department\".\n\n\"Our teams are working hard to assess and treat patients as quickly and effectively as possible to reduce delays, prioritising those in most clinical need,\" she said.\n\nShe urged members of the public to ease pressures by using the NHS 111 service for healthcare advice in non-urgent cases.\n\nIt's unusual to see videos like this with NHS staff being so candid about the pressures. But what's being described here is far from unique.\n\nOver recent months, a quarter of patients have been waiting more than four hours to be seen in A&E in England. The situation is even worse in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd even when they are seen, those who need to be admitted on to a ward for further treatment can face many hours in bays and corridors before a bed can be found.\n\nWaits have been worsening for the best part of a decade - and Covid has exacerbated the situation.\n\nPeople stayed away from the NHS during the first part of the pandemic and it means those seeking help now are more sick and have more complex conditions.\n\nThe NHS is also struggling to free up beds to get new patients in.\n\nThat's because of a lack of care in the community for those patients who are medically fit to leave hospital but need support in place to return home. Some are kept in for weeks before they can be discharged.\n\nOn top of this, the NHS is short of staff. One in 12 posts is unfilled. The problems are creating bottlenecks throughout the system.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the prime minister a \"failure to fix wanting and inadequate NHS buildings\" was \"putting patients at risk\".\n\n\"He [Boris Johnson] scrapped zero tolerance of 12-hour waits at A&E. 24 Hours in A&E used to be a TV programme, now it's policy,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson dismissed Sir Keir's comments and said his government were \"building 48 new hospitals thanks to the biggest capital investment programme in the NHS\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nNorthern Ireland rider Davy Morgan has been killed in a crash during the Supersport race at the Isle of Man TT.\n\nThe County Down rider crashed at the 27th Milestone on the third and final lap of Monday morning's event.\n\nMorgan, 52, from Saintfield, is the third competitor to lose his life at this year's TT.\n\nWelsh rider Mark Purslow died in a practice crash last week while sidecar driver Cesar Chanal suffered fatal injuries in an accident on Saturday.\n\nA statement issued by the race organisers it was \"with a heavy heart\" that they confirmed Morgan's death.\n\n\"The Isle of Man TT Races pass on their deepest sympathy to Davy's partner Trudy, his family, loved ones, and friends,\" continued the statement.\n\nMorgan was an extremely experienced competitor who was a regular fixture in racing paddocks across Ireland, the Isle of Man and at the Macau Grand Prix for almost three decades.\n\nHis first race was at the Bishopscourt short circuit in 1993 but it was racing on public roads that became his primary passion.\n\nAmong his greatest career achievements were a 250cc win at the North West 200 in 2005 and two victories in the same class at the Ulster Grand Prix in 2012 and 2017.\n\nAlthough he was very much associated with those two-stroke bikes, he was also accomplished on the larger capacity 600c and Superbike machines.\n\nThe Saintfield racer won the Senior Manx Grand Prix in 2004 and also enjoyed success on numerous Irish national road race courses and at the Southern 100 on the Isle of Man.\n\nHe competed at every TT since making his debut in 2002 and Monday's Supersport race was his 80th start.\n\nHis TT career included a seventh-place finish in the 2006 Senior TT and a career-best fifth position in the 2008 Lightweight TT.\n\nHis best lap around the TT Mountain Course was at an average speed of 125.134mph which he set in the 2010 Senior TT.\n\nDavy had recorded 49 finishes which included 25 top-twenty results, and his previous performances had earned him 14 Silver Replicas and 30 Bronze Replicas.", "The RAC has warned petrol and diesel could reach £2 a litre\n\nSoaring fuel prices have put the haulage industry in crisis with the cost of running one lorry up £20,000 on last year, a freight boss has said.\n\nLesley O'Brien, director of Freight Link Europe, said \"pretty much everything you buy comes on the back of a truck\" so customers were paying more.\n\nHer comments come as the RAC said it now costs £98 to fill the average car with petrol and £101.86 with diesel.\n\nThe motoring group has called for \"radical government intervention\".\n\nLatest figures from the RAC show the average cost of a litre of petrol rose from 177.88p on Sunday to 178.50p on Monday - a rise of 0.6p in 24 hours.\n\nOver the same period, the average diesel price rose from 185.01p to 185.20p.\n\nRAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams said: \"Drivers need to brace themselves for average fuel prices rocketing to £2 a litre which would mean a fill-up would rise to an unbelievable £110.\n\n\"We strongly urge the government to take drastic action to help soften the impact for drivers from these never-before-seen pump prices.\"\n\nLesley O'Brien said high fuel costs were being passed on to customers\n\nMotorists have been hit by record pump prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine led to an increase in the cost of oil because of supply fears.\n\nIn March, the government cut fuel duty by 5p a litre. It said this would save a car driver on average £100 a year, a van driver £200 and hauliers £1,500.\n\nIn some circumstances, haulage firms and other transport businesses can reclaim 100% of VAT on fuel paid for business purposes via HMRC.\n\nMs O'Brien told the BBC's Today programme: \"This certainly is a crisis as we've seen fuel prices escalate over the last year by 50% and no sight of a stop, so we absolutely as an industry need to keep on top of this.\n\n\"As a country we need to understand we need to support our transport industry which is the infrastructure of the whole economy,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Brien said fuel was a third of her business' running costs. This time last year, it would cost about £41,000 a year in fuel for an average articulated lorry at her company, but with prices soaring it now costs more than £61,000 a year.\n\nShe explained that her company added a fuel surcharge to its bills, to cover fluctuating prices.\n\n\"But never before has it been so high,\" she said. \"As an example, to run one of my artic vehicles is now costing me £20,000 more per year than in did last year.\"\n\nAnother firm, Countrywide Coaches told the BBC it had had to sell two coaches due to the rising price of diesel.\n\nDirector Olivia Bell from Countrywide Coaches said she had tried to mitigate rising diesel costs by putting up prices for some of her school customers - but parents ended up pulling their children off the school trip altogether.\n\nHer family-run company is now down to 14 coaches, catering to schools, private and military staff trips.\n\n\"Since September's price rise, we are paying an extra £2,000 per week in fuel costs. So we are hitting Plan B by selling coaches,\" she added.\n\nRod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association (RHA), said: \"Fuel represents over a third of a trucks operating costs yet profit margins are between 1% and 2%.\n\n\"To put this into perspective, the average 44 tonne truck gets less than two miles from a litre of fuel. That's why every penny increase makes a massive difference and as such, every penny must be made to count.\"\n\nSome 30% of fuel costs are duty taxes and the RHA wants the government to return this to \"essential users\" such as hauliers and coach operators. They could then lower their prices to customers, the RHA said.\n\nMs O'Brien said: \"If we help the haulage industry and we have an essential user rebate we will help everybody because pretty much everything you buy comes on the back of a truck and we will be able to pass that on to the end user.\"\n\nThe spiralling cost of fuel had added to pressures including a driver shortage, subsequently high salaries and an increase in companies' national insurance payments, she said.\n\nOn top of that there was an increase in lorry maintenance costs and a shortage of new lorries and parts due to a global shortage of chips.\n\nMeanwhile, a plan to name and shame petrol stations that fail to pass on a cut in fuel duty is \"still in the works\", a government source has told BBC News.\n\nA formal announcement had been expected last week, but it is understood officials at the Department for Transport are yet to finalise the policy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nHarry Kane's late penalty gave England a Nations League draw in Germany as he became only the second man to score 50 goals for the Three Lions.\n\nEngland captain Kane sent Germany keeper Manuel Neuer the wrong way from the spot with two minutes left, as a VAR review ruled he had been brought down by Nico Schlotterbeck.\n\nIt was a goal that gave England their first point in the tournament after defeat in Hungary on Saturday and moved Kane into second place in the all-time record standings, moving ahead of Sir Bobby Charlton to sit only three behind Wayne Rooney.\n\nEngland looked to be going down to their second defeat but came to life late on in Munich after going behind to Jonas Hofmann's deflected 50th-minute shot and will now look to build on this result when they face Italy at Molineux on Saturday.\n• None How you rated the players - Germany 1-1 England\n\nEngland can take heart from draw\n\nFor a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.\n\nThe introduction of Jack Grealish for Mason Mount with 18 minutes left gave England more positive attacking intent and there was also a fine cameo from West Ham United's Jarrod Bowen in the last 10 minutes.\n\nGermany looked more likely to add to their one goal than England did to equalise until the substitutes helped to change the game. Hansi Flick's side still had their chances, with goalkeeper Jordan Pickford saving from Thomas Muller and Timo Werner, but Southgate's side were much more progressive after the changes.\n\nSouthgate used a 4-2-3-1 formation but suffered disruption early on when Kalvin Phillips went off injured, although this gave another opportunity for Borussia Dortmund teenager Jude Bellingham to show his class.\n\nKane thought he had his 50th goal before his penalty when Neuer somehow turned his effort away from Grealish's cross while Bowen almost set up Sterling, who was only denied by a desperate block.\n\nSouthgate will not be satisfied with the soft concession of Hofmann's goal. Germany weaved some neat passes around the area but he was still afforded far too much space to score with an effort Pickford got to but could not keep out.\n\nKane's late leveller will make a big difference to England's morale before two home games against Italy and Hungary, as a second successive loss would have been dispiriting for a side suffering a physical and mental toll after such a long season.\n\nIs Musiala the one that got away?\n\nJamal Musiala could just have easily been playing in an England shirt - having played for them at Under-15 and Under-17 level alongside, among others, Jude Bellingham.\n\nBut instead, the 19-year-old Bayern Munich forward chose to play for Germany, and so lined up against England's Bellingham in Munich.\n\nFor the first hour at least, Musiala was the best player on the pitch, producing exciting moments with his running and skill before he tired and was substituted.\n\nHe certainly gave the impression he could have a distinguished international career - and that he would have been a big asset to England had he not decided to play for Germany.\n• None Goal! Germany 1, England 1. Harry Kane (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Nico Schlotterbeck (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Nico Schlotterbeck (Germany) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Kieran Trippier following a corner.\n• None Joshua Kimmich (Germany) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. John Stones (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Grealish with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Timo Werner (Germany) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Kyiv didn't feel like a city bracing itself for 150,000 Russian soldiers to cross the border into Ukraine.\n\nArriving in Kyiv in January I decided to brave the supermarket near my flat. You could get your hands on just about any kind of meat or vegetable it seemed, even a pint of beer on aisle six.\n\n\"It's all a bluff\", \"we're at war already\", were the most common responses when I asked people whether they were worried about what seemed to be the unthinkable at the time.\n\nOf course, within five weeks that all changed. Some in the West predicted Kyiv would fall within 72 hours.\n\nOver a period of 100 days the city has gone from stubborn normality, through complete darkness, and is now emerging into some sort of calm.\n\nIt's still far from what it was before the war, but it's nevertheless a picture of defiance.\n\n\"You'd better get your stuff together,\" was the short phone call I received at 04:50 on 24 February.\n\nI headed to the roof of our building.\n\nThere were regular thuds from air strikes. Low-flying jets occasionally flew overhead, and black plumes of smoke appeared on the horizon.\n\nThen, not for the last time, the howl of the siren.\n\nThe shadow of war had descended on this ancient city, and it felt almost immediate.\n\nMany of those who chose to stay in Kyiv headed underground\n\nHighways out of Kyiv were blocked by thousands of cars trying to get away from the Russian advance.\n\nPeople queued at ATMs, as well as recruitment offices for Ukraine's territorial defence. They would show ID and be issued with the now familiar yellow armband and an automatic weapon.\n\nJust before midday, President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that anyone prepared to defend Ukraine would be armed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Володимир Зеленський This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThese extraordinary words from a world leader matched the immediate threat his country faced.\n\nFrom our bomb shelter, people watched on the social media platform, Telegram, as Russian paratroopers tried to take the Hostomel air base to the north-west of Kyiv.\n\nThere was fierce fighting, and it was in this area where the new frontline formed.\n\nThe following weeks would see the Russians resort to longer-range missile strikes on central locations in the city. Kyiv's air defence systems often worked, but residential buildings were regularly hit.\n\nMore than half the city's four million population would leave. Across the country almost 15 million Ukrainians would be displaced, according to the United Nations.\n\nA direct hit on the Retroville shopping mall caused a square mile of damage\n\nThe common theme with each impact was the scale of the devastation.\n\nIn March a deadly strike left parts of the Retroville shopping mall in the north-east of the city flattened. Cladding was blown off neighbouring blocks.\n\nHere a kindergarten was damaged from shrapnel from an intercepted missile\n\nThousands of people were trapped in the fighting in surrounding towns like Irpin and Bucha.\n\nTemporary ceasefires allowed some to escape to Kyiv train station, where the majority would travel west towards cities like Lviv.\n\nMany took their chances under heavy shelling.\n\nResidents fled in terror Russia's occupation of towns just outside Kyiv\n\nThe Russian retreat allowed Kyiv to claw back some of the reality it had lost. There were no more military checkpoints in central parts of the city.\n\nExpressions of anger and fear were replaced with occasional smiles. Menus in cafes and restaurants were offering a greater choice. As the sun beamed overhead, it was like looking at Kyiv through a different filter.\n\nDespite fears at the time, the city didn't find itself under siege like Mariupol and Severodonetsk. Clear roads to the south kept blood pumping into it, keeping Kyiv alive.\n\nReprieve for the capital, however, exposed overwhelming evidence of war crimes.\n\nIn residential towns like Borodyanka not one building had been left undamaged.\n\nPolice found hundreds of soldiers and civilians in shallow graves and continue to do so.\n\nThe Kremlin has always denied committing war crimes and described this evidence as \"fake\". However, there is nothing artificial about the devastation that surrounds Kyiv.\n\nThe past few weeks has seen the city feel as normal as it has ever been. The nights are still silent with a 23:00 curfew, but the day brings more life.\n\nMuseums are open once more. Angry traffic jams are a thing again.\n\nOfficials believe the city is back to two-thirds of its original population. It certainly feels like it with busier parks, fuller theatres and subways being used to get the train once again.\n\nDespite the uncertainty remaining over whether the Russians will make another attempt on Ukraine's capital, the city seems determined to heal.\n\nWhat the next 100 days will bring is far from clear, and Ukrainians know it. Restoring normality is just as much a coping mechanism for people, as it is essential.", "Pharmacist Chand Kausar says she was petrified when she was threatened with a knife\n\nPharmacists say physical and verbal abuse against them has become unacceptably common and many now feel unsafe when at work.\n\nPolice forces say they are being called out to handle pharmacy-based crimes.\n\nA union for UK pharmacists says more needs to be done to enforce the NHS's zero tolerance policy on worker abuse.\n\nThe Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) says there have been reports of a stabbing and physical attacks in pharmacies around the UK.\n\nPharmacist Conor McAreavey was stabbed in the hand with a knife at his pharmacy in Belfast in March. He told the BBC he was \"very lucky\" not to have suffered tendon damage.\n\nGlasgow pharmacist Chand Kausar was threatened with a knife by an agitated patient, who - after demanding non-prescribed medication - produced a six-inch knife and cornered her against a wall.\n\n\"I just froze,\" explains Ms Kausar. \"My hands were above my head and I could hear all the noise around me, but I actually felt very calm. In my head all was quiet. I remember thinking it was like a movie scene. I'd never seen a knife like that, and I never imagined I'd have one held to my throat.\"\n\nThe police were alerted quickly and arrested her attacker, saving Ms Kausar from any physical injuries, but she is still haunted by the mental scars.\n\n\"I struggle now when a patient raises their voice to me. I have a little internal panic attack and then have to make sure I control it.\"\n\nMs Kausar says she used to face an abusive patient once a month before the pandemic. Now she says she rarely gets through two shifts without facing one.\n\nThe PDA launched an online survey in April 2022 and nearly 550 community pharmacists, mostly staff working in England, have responded so far.\n\nSome 468 of them - 85% - say they, or someone they work with, experienced verbal or racial abuse in the previous month while at work.\n\nCCTV images of staff being threatened in a pharmacy\n\nOne respondent said: \"I feel terrified going to work every single day, and yet management are ignoring the issue.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I now carry a rape alarm and a dye spray because of threats.\"\n\nOthers said they were considering leaving the profession.\n\nA recent Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee survey of about 1,000 team members, carried out in January 2022, revealed low job satisfaction scores.\n\nAccording to some pharmacists, the majority of violent or abusive incidents are triggered by:\n\nEarlier this year, a lack of lateral flow testing kits resulted in a spike of aggression from patients. Staff shortages continue to add more pressure, and increase waiting times and frustration, in community pharmacies.\n\nIn recent weeks, a shortage of Hormone Replacement Therapy has been an added pressure.\n\nAlison Jones, from the PDA, said: \"Staff shortages are already bad.. and they are only going to get worse.\n\n\"More patients are accessing the pharmacy than ever before and there is only a finite amount of staffing and hours. We are now in a situation where more and more pharmacists are considering whether they want to work in community pharmacy because of the working conditions and violence.\"\n\nSupt Patrick Holdaway, head of the National Business Crime Centre, said: \"Police forces around the country are aware of this new spike in pharmacy crime.\n\n\"We also know that the numbers we currently have are only a fraction of the actual crime taking place in pharmacies. Pharmacists feel a duty to their patients and so don't want to report them, but we would say please report these crimes to help the police map hotspot areas and offer the correct support.\"\n\nSupt Holdaway recommends pharmacies install more safety measures - including panic buttons, CCTV, bodycams. But as to who pays for these measures, that will fall on the pharmacy owners.\n\nAs part of the GP Winter Access Fund, doctors' surgeries can access a £5m fund for security enhancements. However, this fund is not accessible to community pharmacies.\n\nNHS England says community pharmacy can access health and wellbeing offers, such as coaching services and conflict resolution training.\n\nWhen asked if community pharmacies would receive further support after the rise in violence, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson told the BBC: \"This kind of behaviour is inexcusable and will not be tolerated.\n\n\"The NHS has set up a violence reduction programme to protect its workforce, and we have doubled the maximum prison sentence for common assault against NHS workers.\n\n\"We work closely with the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS to minimise disruption caused by medicine shortages on the rare occasions they arise.\"\n\nAs for Ms Kausar, her sympathies still lie with the patients: \"These are desperate people driven to desperate acts. They just need help,\" she said.\n• None Pharmacists say abuse from customers is increasing", "Azovstal - the vast industrial site with a maze of underground tunnels - was pummelled by Russia for weeks\n\nThe bodies of some Ukrainian fighters killed defending the key south-eastern port of Mariupol have arrived in Kyiv, according to the soldiers' families.\n\nThey say this was part of a swap with Russia, with each side receiving 160 bodies. Moscow has not commented.\n\nThe fighters spent weeks holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks. In May, the survivors were taken prisoner.\n\nMore than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers captured in Mariupol have reportedly been transferred to Russia.\n\nThe soldiers, who were being held in locations controlled by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, were moved to Russia for investigation, a Russian law enforcement source told Itar-Tass, a state-owned Russian news agency.\n\nThe same source said more prisoner transfers would follow.\n\nThere has been no confirmation from the Ukrainian side, but previously Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said he thought more than 2,500 Azovstal defenders - who also include border guards, police and territorial defence - were being held by Russia.\n\nKyiv says Mariupol's last defenders were given orders to save their lives after successfully completing their main goal of holding up Russian troops and not allowing them to be redeployed to other key battlefields.\n\nMoscow says the Ukrainian defenders were forced to surrender.\n\nUkrainian fighters were taken by bus from Azovstal to areas controlled by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine\n\nMariupol was captured by Russia in May after a months-long siege and heavy shelling that virtually wiped out the city. Ukrainian officials estimate that tens of thousands of people, including children, may have been killed.\n\nThey have also been warning of a possible outbreak of cholera in the city, where many bodies are still believed to be buried under the rubble, and sewage has reportedly contaminated main water supply chains.\n\nAfter Mariupol, Russian forces turned their attention to Severodonetsk - and the twin city of Lysychansk. Seizing them would give the Russians control of the Luhansk region - which, alongside Donetsk, makes up the wider Donbas, stated target of Russian operations.\n\nIn a post on Telegram late on Monday, the Ukrainian fighters' families said \"the bodies of the killed Azovstal defenders\" had arrived in the capital Kyiv.\n\nThey said that one-third of those were fighters from the Azov regiment, and that the identification process was continuing and could take up to three months.\n\nRussia has not officially confirmed the exchange of bodies.\n\nHowever, Russian war correspondent Irina Kuksenkova on Friday reported that the exchange did take place on the line of contact between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. She said each side received 160 bodies.\n\nPresident Zelensky has said Ukraine's intelligence officials were working on a plan to secure the release of the surviving fighters, without giving any further details.\n\nKyiv wants them all handed over, but several leading Russian lawmakers are demanding that some of the soldiers - specifically from the Azov regiment - should be put on trial.\n\nThe regiment was set up in 2014, with some of its members initially linked to far-right groups. Kyiv says the unit has since been reformed and is now outside politics.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that his \"special military operation\" launched on 24 February was to de-Nazify and de-militarise Ukraine. He provided no evidence to back his claims, but officials have often mentioned the Azov Regiment.\n\nIn Ukraine, however, many people regard Azov soldiers as national heroes fighting what they say is in fact the neo-Nazi regime of President Putin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine", "Tesco's adverts for one of its plant-based food ranges have been banned for being misleading about their environmental benefit.\n\nThe adverts for the Plant Chef campaign featured a woman biting into a veggie burger, along with the claim it was \"better for the planet\".\n\nThe UK's advertising watchdog said the supermarket's claims had not been substantiated.\n\nTesco said it was \"disappointed\" by the outcome.\n\nThe adverts were run last October and November across TV, radio and online, and received 171 complaints from the public, the Advertising Standards Authority said.\n\nThe ASA said that Tesco did not have knowledge of the full lifecycle of the burger featured in its advert, and was therefore unable to substantiate its claim that the plant-based patty was better for the planet than ones made from meat.\n\nTesco had said that the adverts did not make \"absolute environmental claims\", as they did not say that the product was \"wholly sustainable\".\n\nTesco claimed its plant-based burger is 'better for the planet'\n\nThe retailer said the focus of the adverts was to highlight price reductions for its Plant Chef vegan food range.\n\nThe ASA said that it was generally accepted that by switching to a more plant-based diet, consumers could cut their overall environmental impact.\n\nBut it added that some plant-based products contained a combination of ingredients and had \"complex production processes\" which could \"theoretically result in their having a similar, or greater, negative environmental impact than basic plant ingredients, or a meat-based alternative\".\n\nAs such, the ASA said the adverts could no longer run in their current form.\n\nTesco said in a statement: \"We're committed to making it easy and affordable for customers to incorporate plant-based meat alternatives into their diets and recipes.\"\n\nThe ASA said last year it was cracking down on misleading environmental claims made by firms, to ensure ads are \"socially responsible.\"\n\nIt comes as many corporations are accused by environmentalists of \"greenwashing\", which sees them exaggerate the environmental benefits of their products.\n• None Greenwashing tricks: Seven ways not to be fooled", "Sir Patrick's new honour represents an upgrade on the knighthood he received three years ago\n\nIt is \"disappointing\" Covid rules were not followed in Downing Street, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, has said.\n\nSir Patrick said it was \"really important\" that everyone stuck to the rules aimed at curbing the virus.\n\nSpeaking after collecting an honour at Buckingham Palace for his work during the pandemic, he also recalled tough days as the virus took hold in 2020.\n\nAnd he said next winter could be another test, but the NHS was prepared.\n\nThe scientist became a household name after regularly updating the public in televised Covid briefings from Downing Street, often standing alongside the prime minister during key moments in the pandemic.\n\nThe early days of the pandemic were the \"darkest\", he said, as lots of people became ill quickly amid \"huge uncertainty\" about the virus.\n\n\"Obviously people in the government fell ill and the prime minister was very ill and those were very difficult days.\n\n\"It was mostly about the uncertainty. We did not know much about the virus. We did not know much about exactly how it spread. We did not know there were going to be vaccines and treatments.\"\n\nAsked about the Partygate scandal, he said: \"It was really important at all stages that everyone stuck to the rules. It works when people stuck to them. It is disappointing that that wasn't the case.\"\n\nHis comments come the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote triggered by Tory MPs angry at staff partying in Downing Street while the UK was in lockdown.\n\nSir Patrick said the UK was now in a \"very different position\" with Covid because of high vaccination and immunity levels.\n\nBut he said there would be further waves of infection, \"maybe next winter\".\n\nThere would also probably be an annual vaccine for people over a certain age, he said, and eventually Covid would be \"more like a flu wave that we get every winter\".\n\n\"It will be difficult because there will be some people who are really affected by it but the key to this is proper vaccination and proper management in the health service.\n\n\"Then gradually over the next two or three years, I think this could settle into a background infection, but we are not quite there yet.\"\n\nAs the Duke of Cambridge presented Sir Patrick with an upgraded award, he joked that this was \"second time lucky\" as Sir Patrick was originally knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours list.\n\nPrince William joked with Sir Patrick as he presented him with the upgraded honour\n\nIt makes him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, an award that recognises the work of senior military officials and civil servants.\n\nSir Patrick - who previously was in charge of drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline - said the most positive time in the pandemic was when the UK became the first place in the world with an approved vaccine.\n\n\"We thought 'this is going to be a way out of this', even though it was over a year before it was finally a way to getting out of it,\" he said. \"It was the thing that changed the course of the pandemic.\"\n\nEighteen months after the vaccine rollout began, 93% of over-12s in the UK have now had a first dose, and 87% have had a second dose.\n\nSir Patrick also praised the \"most amazing scientists and experts\" who made sure the public was given up-to-date factual information during the pandemic.\n\n\"It has been one of those experiences where you realise the importance of other people, humanity and the goodwill, hard work, passion and expertise,\" he said.\n\n\"It is nice to feel trusted and I am grateful for that.\n\n\"What I have tried to do and what others have tried to do is to make sure we are as honest and straightforward as possible about how we saw the situation at any given moment in the pandemic and to be as realistic as possible - both in terms of treatments and vaccines coming along but also on what the course of the pandemic was.\"\n• None Time to draw a line under Partygate, says PM", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Colleen Snyder researched her family history during the Covid-19 pandemic, she did not expect to discover a connection to the legend of Irish giants.\n\nColleen, from Virginia in the United States, suffers from a rare genetic condition called acromegaly or gigantism.\n\nThe gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the \"Irish giant\", to grow more than 7ft 6in (2.3m) tall.\n\nMedical researchers have previously identified Mid Ulster as a \"hotspot\" where one in 150 people have the genetic mutation, compared to one in 1,000 in Belfast and one in 2,000 in the rest of the UK.\n\nColleen first developed symptoms when she was eight, but the condition was not diagnosed until she was 20.\n\nDoctors in the USA told her it was rare to develop acromegaly at such a young age.\n\n\"They would say we don't know anybody who had it so early so I knew that that was very, very unusual,\" Colleen explained.\n\n\"Through the years I kept trying to find somebody that had the same condition, get more information about it and I couldn't.\"\n\nThat was until she began to research her family history during the lockdown.\n\n\"I've always known that I've had Irish heritage and my given name is Mary Colleen which is quite an American-Irish name,\" she said.\n\nHer great-great grandfather John McGurk emigrated with his three siblings in 1861.\n\nShe thought the McGurks came from County Cork, where most ships departed for the transatlantic crossing to a new life in America.\n\nWhen she looked at her family tree she realised her ancestral home was in fact Clonoe, near Coalisland in County Tyrone, the centre of the giant gene \"hotspot\".\n\nBrendan Holland (centre) and Colleen Snyder (second from right) meeting with a group including Prof Marta Korbonits and Prof Michael Besser\n\nColleen contacted Marta Korbonits, professor of endocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, who discovered the genetic link for the Irish giant gene.\n\nShe sent the results of a DNA test to Professor Korbonits, who confirmed she had the same mutation.\n\nLiving carriers of the gene share a common ancestor who lived about 2,500 years ago.\n\nWhat is the 'giant gene'?\n\nA gene called AIP can result in a non-cancerous tumour in the pituitary gland, a pea-sized gland just below the brain.\n\nIt can lead to too much growth hormone being produced and released\n\nOnly 20% of carriers of the defective gene will develop symptoms.\n\nIn many cases it is disfiguring but it can also be life-threatening.\n\nThe condition, called acromegaly or gigantism, can be successfully treated with brain surgery and medication.\n\nProf Korbonits put Colleen in touch with Brendan Holland from Dungannon, County Tyrone, who is 6ft 9in (2.1m) and a distant relative of Charles Byrne.\n\nWithin minutes, Brendan and Colleen were talking on the phone, a moment Colleen described as \"very emotional\".\n\n\"I had been looking for 45 years for someone,\" said Colleen, \"and here's this Irish accent on the phone\".\n\n\"And all of a sudden I was talking to someone who can understand what it was like to have a pituitary tumour that causes you to have the excess growth and have all the kinds of physical problems that I had.\"\n\nColleen Snyder and her sister Cherie have been looking for the McGurk family graves at St Michael’s parish cemetery in Clonoe near Coalisland\n\nFor Brendan, speaking to Colleen was confirmation of his belief that the gene had been carried overseas by the many thousands of people who emigrated from County Tyrone.\n\n\"[Colleen] is actually a product of that immigration in 1861,\" said Brendan, \"and it just reinforced my conviction that this has to be more common than perhaps we realise.\"\n\n\"It was more than just finding somebody with the same condition, it was making a connection with someone who is fascinated by the whole story, has a shared interest in the history of it,\" he added.\n\nColleen recently made the trip to County Tyrone to meet Brendan in person and to visit the townland which the McGurks left for America more than 160 years ago.\n\nAfter more than a year of zoom calls on a computer, Colleen said the visit had revealed a \"rich world\" of giant folklore.\n\nColleen also accompanied Brendan to London to meet Prof Korbonits and others who are involved in treating and researching the condition.\n\nFor Brendan and Colleen, their shared experience is part of a mission to educate people about the importance of knowing if you have the gene so that they can be tested and treated to avoid the devastating effects which they experienced of having a tumour.\n\n\"For me, to find out that I'm the first person in the United States that they found with this, that's pretty cool, I feel great,\" said Colleen.\n\n\"It's wonderful, but wait a minute there's got to be other people.\"\n\nThey now plan to co-write a book to raise awareness amongst the Irish diaspora.", "Mark Drakeford was asked for his view in the Senedd\n\nThe first minister of Wales has said he believes \"transgender women are women\".\n\nMark Drakeford was asked to define what a woman is during a session at the Senedd.\n\nMr Drakeford was answering a question about the inclusion of trans athletes in sport, acknowledging it was an \"argument that divides people\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson does not believe transgender women should compete in female sports - a view he conceded may be \"controversial\".\n\nThere has been criticism of the UK Labour party's policies on trans and women's rights and the refusal of some politicians to publicly define what a woman is.\n\nIn the Senedd on Tuesday, Conservative MS Laura Anne Jones said: \"I think it's important that I make it clear that protecting women's rights does not for one moment mean that you're anti-trans rights. Female competitors deserve the same rights as male competitors.\n\n\"We all know the huge benefits that sports can offer, and we all, I'm sure, want to ensure trans athletes can participate in sport.\n\n\"But what we don't want is a situation where we're trying to be so inclusive that it is to the detriment of a particular group.\n\n\"We have a situation where women athletes are so disheartened that they are pulling out of their own female categories because they say that trans women taking part in a female category have a male puberty advantage.\"\n\nThe issue of transgender athletes - centred around the balance of inclusion, sporting fairness and safety in women's sport - has recently focused on the case of transgender cyclist Emily Bridges.\n\nBridges was recently ruled ineligible to compete in her first elite women's race by cycling's world governing body.\n\nSouth Wales East Ms Jones asked Mr Drakeford: \"First minister, do you believe that trans athletes should compete in female sports?\n\n\"Can you do something that many other Labour politicians have failed to do so far, which is define a woman?\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"My starting point is the same as Penny Mordaunt's - the UK minister responsible at the time - who said that the UK government's starting point was that transgender women are women. That's my starting point in this debate.\n\n\"It is a difficult area where people feel very strongly on different sides of an argument, and an argument that divides people who agree on most other things.\n\n\"What I say to the member is that in such a potentially divisive issue, the responsibility of elected representatives is not to stand on the certainties of their own convictions, but instead to work hard to look for opportunities for dialogue, to find ways of promoting understanding rather than conflict, and to demonstrate respect rather than to look for exclusion.\n\n\"I do not understand the point that the member makes that you can be too inclusive. To me, inclusivity is absolutely what we should be aiming for here.\"\n\nLia Thomas swam for the Pennsylvanian men's team before beginning hormone replacement therapy in 2019\n\nIn March, Lia Thomas became the first known transgender swimmer to win the highest US national college title with victory in the women's 500-yard freestyle.\n\nShe said athletes did not transition to gain a competitive advantage.\n\nMr Johnson said recently: \"I don't think biological males should be competing in female sporting events. Maybe that's a controversial thing to say, but it just seems to me to be sensible.\n\n\"I also happen to think that women should have spaces - whether it's in hospitals, prison or changing rooms - which are dedicated to women. That's as far as my thinking has developed on this issue.\n\n\"If that puts me in conflict with some others, then we have got to work it all out. It doesn't mean I'm not immensely sympathetic to people who want to change gender, to transition and it's vital we give people the maximum love and support in making those decisions.\n\n\"These are complex issues and they can't be solved with one swift, easy piece of legislation. It takes a lot of thought to get this right.\"", "Fans heading to the Scotland v Armenia game by rail will have to leave at half time to make the last train home.\n\nScotRail has urged those heading to Hampden Park for the Nations League match on Wednesday to consider their travel options due to reduced services.\n\nAn emergency timetable remains in place in an ongoing row over pay.\n\nKick-off is at 19:45 but the last train of the night from the national stadium's closest station leaves long before the final whistle.\n\nSupporters hoping to catch a train will either have to leave during the first half to get the last train from King's Park at 20:29 or at half time to get the 20:46 from Mount Florida.\n\nScotRail said there would be very limited journey opportunities departing from Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen Street after the match, with no trains on most routes out of the city centre.\n\nThe last service from Mount Florida, Hampden Park's nearest station, back to Glasgow Central will leave before the game ends.\n\nPhil Campbell, ScotRail's head of customer operations, said the operator was \"doing all we can to help football fans head to Hampden and cheer on the national team\".\n\nBut he warned: \"Customers should be aware that the last trains of the night will depart Mount Florida before the final whistle, so we urge fans to plan ahead and consider their travel options.\"\n\nFans will struggle to get home from Hampden Park after the game\n\nThe operator will be adding extra carriages to as many trains as possible from Glasgow Central to Mount Florida before the game.\n\nSome 700 services have been cut from the ScotRail timetable as a pay dispute rumbles on, with members of the Aslef union refusing to work on rest days as a result.\n\nTalks aimed at ending the dispute between Scotland's rail provider and train drivers will resume on Thursday, the union has said.\n\nThe union previously agreed an offer from ScotRail, but it was later rejected by the executive committee.\n\nMore talks were held on Monday, before being adjourned within a matter of hours, but ScotRail deemed the discussions to be \"constructive\".\n\nScotRail encouraged fans to get to the ground as early as possible as trains would be busy, with the turnstiles at Hampden Park opening at 18:00.\n\nThe operator also urged people to buy tickets ahead of time and said queueing systems would be in place at Glasgow Central before the game.\n\nHowever, ScotRail did add extra services on the day of the match to take fans to local areas and some further-away destinations such as Edinburgh, Stirling and Ayr.\n\nThe crowd is expected to be smaller than the one which attended the Ukraine game\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' transport spokesman Graham Simpson said the government should have intervened \"to ensure supporters were not left in the lurch\".\n\n\"The Tartan Army face travel chaos thanks to ScotRail's unacceptably poor service,\" he said.\n\n\"ScotRail's suggested solution - that fans leave at half-time to get the last train from Mount Florida to Glasgow Central - is insulting and tone deaf to the reality of being a football fan.\"\n\nAfter raising an urgent question on the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Simpson asked Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth if she wanted to apologise to the Tartan Army.\n\nMs Gilruth said the situation was \"deeply frustrating\" for supporters but that the dispute had made timetabling \"incredibly challenging\" for ScotRail.\n\nShe said that while 7,000 fans had travelled to the match between Scotland and Ukraine by train, only 2,500 had made the return journey because some fans preferred to walk back to the centre of Glasgow.\n\nThe minister said the crowd for the Armenia match was expected to be far smaller than the Ukraine game, and that ScotRail had advised that there was not enough capacity available to provide a replacement bus service from Hampden to the city centre.\n\nMs Gilruth said she wanted to see a resolution to the pay dispute so that ScotRail could get back to providing a full service for everyone.", "The price of petrol saw its biggest daily jump in 17 years on Tuesday with a rise of more than 2p a litre.\n\nThe RAC motoring group said the average cost of filling a typical family car with petrol was now £99.40 and could exceed £100 as soon as Thursday.\n\nSoaring fuel prices have been driven by the war in Ukraine and moves to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian oil.\n\nWith food and energy bills also surging, many households are under pressure.\n\nThe average price of petrol rose to 180.73p per litre on Tuesday, the RAC said.\n\nMeanwhile, the average price of diesel rose by almost 1.5p to another record high of 186.57p per litre, making the cost of filling a 55-litre family car £102.61.\n\nIn March, the government announced a 5p per litre cut to fuel duty to help reduce costs for motorists.\n\nHowever, motoring groups have raised concerns retailers are not passing on the cut to customers.\n\nOn Wednesday the prime minister's official spokesman said the government was \"not confident\" this was happening at all petrol stations.\n\nHe said the government was \"continuing to look at all possible options\" and \"transparency may have an important role to play\" in ensuring the cut is passed on.\n\nIt comes after a government source told the BBC a plan to name and shame petrol stations that fail to do so is \"still in the works\".\n\nThe government says any increases in VAT receipts it gets from rising fuel prices are likely to be largely offset by reduced household spending and VAT on other items.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said if it found sufficient evidence the 5p fuel duty cut had not been passed on to drivers, then it would launch an investigation that could lead to fines for offending retailers.\n\nRAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams said the accelerating costs of forecourt fuel was \"unprecedented\", adding it appeared prices were \"still some way from the peak\".\n\nBut he said while the average price of diesel is heading towards £2 a litre, the cost of wholesale petrol had unexpectedly dropped by about 5p a litre on Tuesday, which if sustained, could stem the flow of \"daily record petrol prices\".\n\nRetailers base their prices on the wholesale cost of petrol and diesel but there is typically a two-week lag for pump prices to reflect any changes in wholesale prices due to the time it takes for fuel to reach forecourts.\n\nMr Williams said the RAC's fuel watch data showed Asda had hiked its average petrol price by nearly 5p a litre in a single day, which he said was \"unheard of\".\n\nIn response, Asda said wholesale fuel prices had increased \"at an unprecedented rate\" and \"we will do all we can to minimise the impact of rising wholesale prices on our customers\".\n\nMeanwhile, some forecourts are already selling petrol above £2 per litre, according to price comparison website PetrolPrices.\n\nThe highest price was found to be 202.9p at BP sites on the A1 near Sunderland, the M4 near Chippenham in Wiltshire and the M6 near Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.\n\nThe AA motoring group said the 2p litre rise was a \"huge shock\", but said the speculation that petrol prices could rise to £2 per litre on average \"just gives the fuel trade licence to pile on extra cost and the misery\".\n\nFuel prices fell at the beginning of the Covid pandemic as many businesses temporarily closed and demand for energy collapsed.\n\nBut as global economies recovered, prices rose again and have surged further after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nChanges in prices at the pump are mainly determined by crude oil prices and the dollar exchange rate, because crude oil is traded in dollars.\n\nRussia is one of the world's major oil exporters and it is being targeted by economic and trading sanctions, which has led to potential supply concerns, pushing up oil prices.\n\nEU leaders have said they will block most Russian oil imports by the end of 2022 to punish Moscow, which has also had an effect on prices.\n\nThe UK - which gets 8% of its oil needs from Russia - has pledged to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year and though it is not as dependent on Russian oil as the EU is, it is impacted when global prices rise.\n\nEnergy and food prices are also being driven higher by the war in Ukraine.\n\nUK consumer prices are rising at their fastest rate for 40 years, with millions hit by an unprecedented £700-a-year increase to their energy bills in April.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 9% in April and is expected to continue to rise this year.", "Shevchenko says his mother has been able to leave Ukraine for Italy but his sister is still in Kyiv Image caption: Shevchenko says his mother has been able to leave Ukraine for Italy but his sister is still in Kyiv\n\nUkrainian football legend Andriy Shevchenko says President Volodymyr Zelensky is \"unbelievable\" and he is very proud of how his country and its people have been dealing with the war.\n\nShevchecnko, who played for teams including Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan and Chelsea, is Ukraine's record goalscorer and also managed the national team at last year's European Championship.\n\nHe said on a recent visit to Kyiv he had a \"very nice meeting with the president\", and they were positive they could defend their country and bring peace to Ukraine.\n\n\"At the most difficult time in our the history of Ukraine he has brought people together and sent a great message across the world,\" he tells BBC Radio 5 Live. \"Ukraine's people must not give up, we want our democracy we fight for our freedom and that's a massive message to everyone.\n\n\"I'm so proud how my country and the people united to stay strong and defend the country.\"\n\nThis weekend Shevchenko will play in Soccer Aid - an annual football match involving former players and celebrities. It raises money for Unicef and this year the charity says some of the money raised will go towards helping those impacted by the war.\n\n\"This event is going to help a lot of people in Ukraine,\" he says, \"especially kids, we're going to create a lot of great programmes to improve a lot of things for kids.\"\n\nShevchenko with President Zelensky at the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv last August Image caption: Shevchenko with President Zelensky at the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv last August", "Mrs Merkel attending her interview on Tuesday at the Berliner Ensemble\n\nFormer German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her record on handling Vladimir Putin in her first major interview since leaving office.\n\nShe said she had \"nothing to apologise for\" over her response to Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, when she supported sanctions.\n\nShe also defended her opposition in office to Ukraine joining Nato.\n\nMrs Merkel has been accused of leaving Germany vulnerable by pursuing business-led relations with Russia.\n\nThe Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry Russian natural gas directly to Germany was built while she was chancellor and only suspended by her successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nUnder pressure to impose stringent new sanctions over the invasion, Germany is struggling to reduce its dependence on Russian energy without damaging its own economy.\n\nBut Mrs Merkel said Europe and Russia were neighbours that could not ignore each other. \"We have to find a way to co-exist despite all our differences,\" she said.\n\nThe invasion was \"not just unacceptable but also a major mistake by Russia\", she told German journalist and author Alexander Osang in an interview televised by broadcaster ARD.\n\n\"If we start going back through the centuries and arguing over which bit of territory should belong to whom, then we will only have war,\" she said. \"That's not an option whatsoever.\"\n\nShe defended the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the annexation of Crimea and Germany's role in maintaining the Minsk peace process, which was meant to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine in 2014-15.\n\nThe peace process, she argued, allowed Ukraine time to develop as a nation and strengthen its military.\n\n\"I don't have to blame myself for not trying hard enough,\" she said. \"I don't see that I have to say 'that was wrong' and that's why I have nothing to apologise for.\"\n\nShe had opposed Nato membership for Ukraine in 2008, she said, because she had wanted to prevent escalation with Russia and because Ukraine itself was not ready. \"That wasn't the Ukraine we know today,\" she said. \"The country was not stable, it was riddled with corruption.\"\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country remains outside the Nato alliance despite extensive Western defence aid since the invasion, has described Germany's decision in 2008 as a \"miscalculation\".\n\nOn Tuesday Mrs Merkel, who left office six months ago, said she had \"the highest respect\" for Mr Zelensky and was impressed by \"the courage and passion\" with which Ukrainians were fighting for their country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will Germans miss about Angela Merkel? BBC Europe editor Katya Adler finds out on her road trip", "Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in the summer of 1996.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge the 70-year-old after a review of evidence gathered by the force.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it is alleged two offences took place between 31 July and 31 August 1996.\n\nThe alleged victim is a woman who is now aged in her 50s, the force said.\n\nRosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS special crime division, said: \"The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against the defendant are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.\"\n\nThe CPS said it was \"extremely important\" there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice the case.\n\nWeinstein's producer credits include Pulp Fiction (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and The King's Speech (2010).", "Declan Clarke was found hiding under a bed when police searched his house\n\nA fly-tipper who dumped 51 tonnes of tyres on waste ground across Glasgow has been jailed for 11 months.\n\nDeclan Clarke, 30, from Dumbarton, collected tyres from garages for a fee and hired workers and vans to dispose of them in car parks and empty land.\n\nHe was fly-tipping \"on an industrial scale\" between June and November 2020, said Sheriff John McCormick.\n\nMost of the tyres were dumped at Dalsetter Crescent in Drumchapel and consumed in a fire on 24 July, 2020.\n\nGlasgow Sheriff Court heard the fire caused so much smoke it disrupted flights at Glasgow Airport.\n\nCCTV captured two white vans dumping tyres 33 times at Dalsetter Crescent in Drumchapel\n\nGlasgow City Council workers cleared the remnants two days later and found the debris consisted of 51 tonnes of tyres and 17 tonnes of household waste.\n\nAbout 500 tyres were also dumped at Gartloch Farm, near Gartcosh to the east of Glasgow, in a two-week period in October 2020, with more deposited there on one day the following month.\n\nWildlife cameras installed at the farm after previous fly-tipping incidents captured Clarke, using several different hire vans, dumping tyres on 12 occasions.\n\nHe was eventually caught after the farm's owner spotted Clarke and a boy trying to free a van stuck in mud in one of his fields.\n\nScores of other tyres were left around the Drumchapel area at Drummore Road, Glenkirk Drive and the Donald Dewar Centre.\n\nClarke also dumped tyres at Drummore Road in Drumchapel\n\nPolice searched Clarke's home on 20 November, 2020 and found him hiding under a bed.\n\nThey also discovered a key for another hire van, which was parked outside his flat and found to be full of tyres.\n\nA mobile phone seized contained messages between Clarke and owners of garages and tyre fitters which discussed collecting the tyres.\n\nThe messages appeared to indicate that Clarke was charging £1-£2 per tyre. In one, from 18 November, 2020, he stated: \"It's getting a bit hot to get rid of them.\"\n\nClarke, who had pleaded guilty at a previous court hearing in April, was not connected to the fire.\n\nSentencing Clarke, Sheriff John McCormick said his actions constituted \"fly-tipping on an industrial scale\" at a number of locations.\n\nClarke was caught on camera dumping tyres at Gartloch Farm, near Gartcosh\n\n\"The photographs and videos I saw spoke volumes,\" he said.\n\nThe sheriff said Clarke continued to dump \"tens of tonnes of tyres\" even after he knew he was a suspect.\n\nIt was \"not a victimless crime\", he added, as there was a cost to the public purse and landowners also had to make a \"substantial\" contribution to having the debris cleared.\n\nProsecutors said the cost of cleaning up Dalsetter Crescent was £7,245.16, while the estimated cost of cleaning up Gartloch Farm was £120,000 and a further £2,800 to dispose of the remaining tyres.\n\nFiona Caldwell, procurator fiscal for wildlife and environmental crime, said: \"Declan Clarke's deliberate and criminal action showed a lack of consideration for the environment and undermines legitimate waste management companies.\n\n\"There is no excuse for illegal dumping of waste and those who choose to engage in it will be brought to account for their actions.\"\n\nSgt Nigel McDonald said Clarke was \"an opportunistic criminal using his illegitimate business to collect tonnes of rubbish for a fee before just dumping them across the city\".\n\nAs well as the \"significant\" cost involved in the clear-up operation, Sgt McDonald said there had been \"serious and long-lasting environmental damage\" to several areas where tyres or waste were heaped up and set on fire.\n\n\"It is sadly highly unusual for fly-tipping cases like this to result in a custodial sentence, but it goes some way to show the seriousness of Clarke's repeated offences,\" he added.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency said anyone that witnesses fly-tipping incidents is encouraged to report it immediately through the Dumb Dumpers website or by calling 0300 777 2292.", "Boris Johnson is coming under pressure from his MPs to cut taxes after surviving a vote of confidence.\n\nThe prime minister's supporters believe the move would help rebuild unity in the Conservative Party and help people cope with the rising cost of living.\n\nBut ex-cabinet minister David Davis accused Mr Johnson of \"letting things slide\" and warned him to \"get his act together\" quickly or leave office.\n\nA No 10 source said the PM wanted to bring in tax cuts \"in the longer term\".\n\nThey added that moving too fast in this direction could push up public borrowing and debt.\n\nMr Johnson is facing MPs in the House of Commons in Prime Minister's Questions for the first time since four in 10 of his own MPs backed ousting him in a confidence vote on Monday.\n\nThe result followed months of criticism over parties that took place in Downing Street during lockdown, with the prime minister himself being fined for attending one gathering. It also came amid a rapidly rising cost of living.\n\nMr Johnson has urged his party to \"draw a line\" under questions about his leadership, but some Conservative MPs are still publicly calling on him to quit.\n\nThe prime minister, whose government has recently raised National Insurance to help deal with NHS backlogs and social care funding, is now facing pressure to announce policies that would appeal to MPs from across his party.\n\nHe is said to have hinted at reductions to the tax burden - currently at its highest level since the 1940s - when he met them before Monday's vote.\n\nAnd at Tuesday's cabinet meeting, he said: \"We will have the scope, by delivering tax cuts, I think, to deliver considerable growth in employment and economic progress.\"\n\nBut the BBC has been told that no specific measures were discussed and, on Wednesday, a No 10 source said the prime minister wanted to cut tax \"in the longer term\", but cost-of-living support and dealing with the cost of Covid measures took \"priority at this stage\".\n\nTaxpayers will get some relief next month when a National Insurance threshold rise comes into effect, bringing the amount people can earn before they start paying it up to £12,570.\n\nBut NI payments went up at the beginning of April, meaning anyone currently earning more than £9,880 a year has to pay 1.25p more in the pound.\n\nAnd businesses are also due to pay more tax, with the rate of corporation tax, on company profits, due to rise from 19% to 25% for larger firms, starting in 2023.\n\nThe autumn Budget is expected to bring some tax cuts for companies, in an effort to encourage investment.\n\nOn Tuesday, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC he wanted to see tax cuts \"as soon as is possible\" - and he was joined by his cabinet colleague, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who said on Wednesday: \"I would like to see us do more on tax cuts.\"\n\nFormer Brexit minister Lord Frost, who resigned last year, said: \"All tax rises that we brought in, and the corporation tax ones that are due to come in soon, ought to be reversed\".\n\nAnd Trade minister Penny Mordaunt told the Guardian: \"To increase revenues and growth for the nation, [the government must] cut taxes.\"\n\nBut Mr Davis, who has previously called for Mr Johnson to quit, used a Times newspaper column to criticise the prime minister's leadership style, arguing he had \"been light on detail from day one\".\n\n\"What I hope Johnson will now avoid is a set of populist policies that are drafted in the hope of shoring up our immediate popularity,\" he added.\n\n\"This may work in the very short term, but if the policy is not thought through carefully enough, it will end up with dreadful headlines as it goes wrong.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party faces tricky by-elections in the seats of Wakefield in Yorkshire and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon at the end of this month.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mr Johnson did not have \"any sense of honour\" and should resign.\n\nCampaigning in Tiverton and Honiton on Wednesday, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokeswoman Christine Jardine said: \"This is a government in crisis, too divided and weak to offer the help people need to cope with the cost-of-living emergency.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng admitted the two mid-term by-elections would be \"challenging\", but added that such contests \"generally are\" for parties in government.\n\n\"People have written off Boris Johnson for 20 years. I've read his political obituary dozens of times,\" he said. \"But I think ultimately he is a winner\".\n\nThe prime minister is also to be the subject of an inquiry by the Commons privileges committee into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown rule-breaking in Downing Street.", "Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the new Saudi-funded golf tournament, as it prepares to get under way in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I don't want it to happen again' - Uvalde survivor\n\nA student who survived the Uvalde school shooting by covering herself in a classmate's blood has told the US Congress of the moment her teacher was killed during the massacre.\n\nHer graphic testimony left some representatives in tears.\n\n\"He told her goodnight, and shot her in the head,\" Miah Cerillo, 11, said.\n\nThe Texas primary school shooting claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 young children, and has renewed the US debate over gun laws.\n\nPast efforts to advance national gun-control regulations have often stalled.\n\nMiah's pre-recorded testimony before the congressional panel was part of a number of emotional appeals for Congress to act on gun violence.\n\nThis story contains details some readers may find distressing\n\nThe 11-year-old recalled her experience, which for her began when a teacher told students to hide after seeing the gunman.\n\nThe 18-year-old attacker shot her teacher as children took cover behind her desk and their book bags.\n\nMiah was wounded by fragments in her shoulders and head. She pretended to be dead before using her teacher's phone to call 911 and ask for police.\n\n\"I thought he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed the [her classmate's] blood and put it all over me,\" she said. \"I just stayed quiet.\"\n\nMiguel Cerrillo, father of Miah: \"She's not the same little girl\"\n\n\"I don't want it to happen again,\" she said.\n\nMiah's father, Miguel Cerrillo, said his daughter is traumatised.\n\n\"She's not the same little girl I used to play with,\" he said tearfully. \"Schools are not safe anymore. Something really needs to change.\"\n\nLawmakers also heard from the parents of Lexi Rubio, one of the students killed in the Uvalde shooting.\n\n\"Somewhere out there, a mom is hearing our testimony and thinking to herself, 'I can't imagine the pain',\" Kimberly Mata-Rubio said. \"Our reality will one day be hers, unless we act now.\"\n\nUvalde paediatrician Dr Roy Guerrero also spoke to the committee to describe the fatal injuries he witnessed.\n\n\"Two children, whose bodies had been pulverised by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. That the only clue as to their identities were the blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them,\" he recalled.\n\nHe added that lawmakers are like \"doctors and our country is the patient\".\n\n\"We are lying on the operating table, riddled with bullets like the children of Robb Elementary and so many other schools,\" he told lawmakers.\n\n\"We are bleeding out, and you are not there.\"\n\nThe testimonies came on the same day that the Department of Justice announced it would review the much-criticised police response to the shooting.\n\nIn Uvalde, the parents of two of Lexi's schoolmates - Annabell Rodriguez and Xavier Lopez - said on Wednesday the two would be buried next to each other at a local cemetery. The 10-year-olds had become sweethearts and were photographed together outside Robb Elementary just hours before the shooting.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 and ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.\n\nBut the proposal is unlikely to pass the divided Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew McConaughey: 'This should be a nonpartisan issue'\n\nOnly a handful of the 50 Republican senators appear open to new gun legislation, with Democrats seeking narrower measures as a compromise. Senators are expected to reach a final agreement by the end of the week.\n\nProposals with the greatest public support include a \"red flag\" law that would prevent individuals with mental illness or a criminal history from purchasing firearms, and expanded background checks on gun purchasers that would include private gun sales.\n\nRepublicans in the hearing argued that better school security - not gun control - was the answer.\n\nGeorgia Congressman and gun store owner Andrew Clyde said his military service taught him that \"the harder the target you are, the less likely you will be engaged by the enemy\". He also called for the creation of \"a volunteer force of well-trained and armed staff\" to assist the armed officers already stationed in schools.\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Washington DC, Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy organisation, told the BBC that the testimony of survivors and widespread public calls for change can be a \"powerful\" call to action.\n\n\"There's focus on the issue,\" she said. \"When there's a national shooting tragedy, we finally see more people in America decide they are going to get off the sidelines.\"", "The actor spoke at the White House to advocate for \"responsible gun ownership\".\n\nHe was born in Uvalde, Texas, where 21 people died in a school shooting last month.", "Arnulfo Reyes was shot along with 11 of his pupils\n\nA teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as \"cowards\" for delaying taking action while his pupils were killed.\n\nIn a harrowing interview with ABC News he said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting.\n\nEleven of them died when the gunman stalked his and an adjacent classroom for over an hour as police stood in the hall.\n\n\"You had a bulletproof vest. I had nothing,\" he said of the police.\n\nThe shooting claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 young children.\n\nThe attack by an 18-year-old local has led to renewed national debate about gun regulations.\n\nMr Reyes, a fourth grade teacher who has taught for 17 years, said that he thought \"it was going to be a good day\" as he headed to school on the day of the attack in May.\n\nThe students were watching a film when shots broke out. He told them to hide under tables and pretend to be asleep, as they were taught.\n\nBut the gunman entered through an adjacent classroom and began firing.\n\nMr Reyes was shot, then took the advice he had given his students and pretended to be asleep. As he lay near his desk, he could hear police who had rushed into the school only minutes behind the attacker.\n\nBut it took over an hour before police stormed the classroom and killed the attacker.\n\n\"I prayed and prayed that I wouldn't hear none of my students talk,\" he told the Good Morning America programme, adding that he believed he was going to die.\n\n\"One of the students from the other classroom was yelling, 'Officer we're in here. We're in here,'\" he continued.\n\n\"But they had already left. Then he [the killer] got up from behind my desk and he went over there and he began shooting again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew McConaughey: 'This should be a nonpartisan issue'\n\nAfter conflicting information, police now say the killer was holed up in the classroom for 77 minutes before police breached the door. Uvalde police have faced heavy criticism for the delay.\n\nMr Reyes said he felt abandoned by police, saying: \"There is no excuse for their actions and I will never forgive them.\"\n\nDuring the attack, children were frantically calling 911 to report multiple gunshot victims. Worried parents also tried to rush in, as police physically prevented them from entering.\n\nInvestigators say that messages from the children were not being relayed to officers at the scene, who were waiting for more firepower to arrive before confronting the rifle-wielding killer.\n\nOfficials say the police were \"wrong\" to think that the situation had changed from an active shooter to a barricaded subject, and that they had more time to prepare their response.", "A phone box in Suffolk still in service in 2020\n\nOfcom has brought in new rules to protect rural phone boxes from closure.\n\nThe UK telecoms regulator said it will stop British Telecom (BT) from closing down phone boxes in areas with poor mobile signals if they are needed by local communities.\n\nOfcom estimates there are at least 1,400 phone boxes in areas without good mobile coverage.\n\nThis is lower than its original estimate that 5,000 phone boxes would be protected by new rules.\n\nBut it is unclear how many phone boxes will be protected for other reasons. Ofcom said it would also protect boxes in areas with high frequencies of accidents or suicides, or where calls are being made to services like Childline.\n\nIt said 25,000 calls were made to Childline in the year to May 2020, and 20,000 to Samaritans.\n\nMeanwhile, phone boxes were used to make almost 150,000 calls to emergency services in the same period.\n\nA phone box will be saved if it fits one of the following criteria:\n\nA phone box that has been converted into a library in Wales\n\nFor the past few years, BT has been decommissioning unused payphones.\n\nLocal areas have had the option of purchasing them for £1, and using them for other purposes.\n\nOfcom said more than 6,000 former phone boxes have been sold and adapted in other ways - such as into local libraries or defibrillators.\n\nSelina Chadha, Ofcom's director of connectivity, said phone boxes \"can still serve as a vital lifeline - perhaps to call a helpline or the emergency services - when no other options are available\".\n\nShe added: \"Our new rules will ensure that many thousands of phone boxes will be protected for as long as they are needed.\"", "Cineworld has cancelled all UK screenings of a film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, after it prompted protests outside some cinemas.\n\nThe cinema chain said it made the decision \"to ensure the safety of our staff and customers\".\n\nMore than 120,000 people have signed a petition for The Lady of Heaven film to be pulled from UK cinemas.\n\nThe Bolton Council of Mosques called the film \"blasphemous\" and \"underpinned with a sectarian ideology\".\n\nBut the film's producer, Malik Shlibak, said \"no one should dictate for the British public what they can and cannot watch or discuss\", describing the protesters as \"fringe groups\".\n\nThe film, which was released in UK cinemas on 3 June, claims to tell the story of Lady Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad.\n\nIt has been criticised by some groups for depicting the Prophet Muhammad - which is seen as an insult in Islam - and for its portrayal of prominent revered figures in early Sunni Islam.\n\nIt was pulled from the Cineworld chain after reported protests in Bolton, Birmingham and Sheffield.\n\nIn Bolton, more than 100 people protested outside the cinema, Bolton News reported.\n\nIn an email to Cineworld - reported by Bolton News - Bolton Council of Mosques chairman Asif Patel said the film was \"underpinned with a sectarian ideology\" and \"misrepresents orthodox historical narratives and disrespects the most esteemed individuals of Islamic history\".\n\nThe Muslim news site 5Pillars also shared a picture on Twitter of what it said showed 200 Muslims protesting against the film outside a Birmingham branch of Cineworld on Sunday.\n\nVideo footage circulating online appears to show a manager of a Cineworld cinema in Sheffield informing protesters that a screening of the film had been cancelled, the Guardian reported.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 5Pillars This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Shlibak criticised the decision by Cineworld to pull the film, saying it was \"cowering\" to the protesters' demands.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Now they see any time they're upset or mildly offended they'll do the same.\"\n\nMr Shlibak added that there were millions of Muslims in the UK, and the protesters did not represent all of their views.\n\n\"We need to be very careful not to cower down to that and do the exact opposite, which is say to the people that we are tolerant, we accept different views and positions and we're happy to disagree, even passionately, but there should be no censorship involved.\"\n\nBut he also said the protests would fail at shutting down the film, adding that a \"large, large population across the UK have just heard about the film for the first time, so that's brilliant for us\".\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid also criticised the decision to pull the film.\n\nSpeaking to TalkTV on Wednesday, the health secretary said: \"You might not like what someone's got to say, but they have a right to say it.\"\n\nMr Javid pointed out that there are no blasphemy laws in the UK and warned that would be \"an incredibly dangerous road to go down\".\n\n\"What we have in this country is freedom of speech and expression and that is a fundamental value,\" he added.\n\nUnlike some incidents in the past, opposition to the film is not primarily about the way the Prophet Mohammed is depicted - though there is a CGI portrayal of him in it.\n\nCriticism mainly centres around the way the Shia Muslim film-maker and cleric Yasser Al-Habib has portrayed prominent revered figures in early Sunni Islam, implying that there are comparisons between their actions with those of the Islamic State group in Iraq.\n\nLeaders of the protests have said while they want the film banned, their demonstrations were peaceful, but cinemas clearly felt their behaviour was intimidating enough to warrant screenings to be pulled.\n\nOutrage since that happened - including from some Muslims who had wanted to see the film - has been because a relatively small number of people have managed to exert their will in a way that that appears to normalise censorship on the grounds of blasphemy.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain, the UK's largest Muslim umbrella organisation, has described the film as \"divisive\".\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the organisation said it \"supports those scholars and leaders who are advocating for greater unity and for the common good\".\n\n\"There are some - including many of this film's supporters or those engaging in sectarianism in their response - whose primary goal is to fuel hatred,\" the statement added.\n\nScreenings of the film were still scheduled for Wednesday at a number of Vue cinemas in London and south-east England.\n\nScreenings went ahead at this Vue cinema in west London, despite protests outside\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson said: \"Vue takes seriously the responsibilities that come with providing a platform for a wide variety of content and believes in showcasing films of interest to diverse communities across the UK.\n\n\"Vue will only show a film once the BBFC (the independent British Board of Film Classification) has assessed and rated a film. The Lady of Heaven has been BBFC accredited and is on show in a number of our cinemas.\"\n\nThe company would not confirm whether any screenings had been cancelled, but added: \"Decisions about how long a film remains on show are taken on a site-by-site basis and based on a variety of commercial and operational factors.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cineworld said: \"Due to recent incidents related to screenings of The Lady of Heaven, we have made the decision to cancel upcoming screenings of the film nationwide to ensure the safety of our staff and customers.\"", "Uber has built a \"private-label\" version of its delivery platform to help the United Nations deliver food and water supplies to war-torn areas of Ukraine.\n\nThe tech firm is working with the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).\n\nIt's difficult for large delivery trucks to access some parts of Ukraine because of structural damage and the threat of attack.\n\nUber's platform enables the WFP to co-ordinate a fleet of smaller vehicles.\n\nThe WFP is hand-picking its own drivers and vehicles, but some are former Uber drivers who worked in Ukraine before the Russian invasion.\n\nUber boss Dara Khosrowshahi said his firm had given the WFP \"their own private-label Uber\".\n\nIt's a bespoke version of the Uber Direct delivery platform which is available commercially - big name customers include Apple and Tesco. Usually, businesses pay Uber a commission per delivery for the service, but the WFP is not being charged.\n\nIt can use the software to co-ordinate distribution, and track deliveries and drivers within a 100km range of its warehouses.\n\nThe scheme is being trialled in the central city of Dnipro. The hope is that it will be rolled out later across four other cities: Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Chernivtsi.\n\nThe WFP is aiming to provide monthly supplies to 3m people in Ukraine by the end of June\n\nThere are a number of aid organisations working to provide emergency supplies to those in need, including the Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee and Save the Children.\n\nUber's platform was up and running within a few weeks of its first contact with the World Food Programme.\n\n\"It's not like you can wait a month to get food to people - people have got to get food immediately,\" said WFP executive director David Beasley.\n\n\"You can't go a few weeks without food, and so using Uber's technology, their distribution systems, their dispatch systems… it really is a great success story.\"\n\nUber has had a turbulent few years. Its ride-sharing service was hit hard during the pandemic as people stayed at home, and the firm has been forced to reform its driver policies, giving them better workers' rights.\n\nThe move into deliveries has, however, been a success - Mr Khosrowshahi says that when he first became CEO in 2017, Uber's delivery arm was in its infancy, but it is now poised to become the firm's biggest service.\n\nIn 2021, 96% of Uber's delivery orders were for restaurant food. It was also the first year in which the 13-year-old firm reported a profit.\n\n\"I ultimately think that delivery can be bigger in scope because it's not just about food. It's groceries - and also empowering any local merchant to try to out-Amazon Amazon,\" said Mr Khosrowshahi.\n\n\"If Amazon can deliver next day, your local merchant can deliver in the next hour or two hours… people want delivery of everything at home as quickly as possible, and we can ride that wave.\"", "Countries around the world are facing recession as the Ukraine war hits economies already rocked by the Covid pandemic, the World Bank has warned.\n\nLess developed countries in Europe and east Asia face a \"major recession\", it said.\n\nThe risk of high inflation and low growth - so-called \"stagflation\" - is also higher, World Bank President David Malpass said.\n\nEnergy and food bills have been rising around the world.\n\n\"The war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China, supply-chain disruptions, and the risk of stagflation are hammering growth. For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid,\" Mr Malpass said.\n\nHe also warned in the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report for June that the danger of stagflation was \"considerable\".\n\n\"Subdued growth will likely persist throughout the decade because of weak investment in most of the world. With inflation now running at multi-decade highs in many countries and supply expected to grow slowly, there is a risk that inflation will remain higher for longer.\"\n\nAlso on Tuesday, the World Bank approved $1.49bn (£1.2bn) of additional funding for Ukraine, which it said \"will be used to pay for wages for government and social workers.\"\n\nThe new financing is part of a more than $4bn support package for the country, which covers areas including healthcare, education and sanitation.\n\nMore than a hundred days have passed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but only now is the sobering size of the shock waves hitting nations and households thousands of miles away from that epicentre becoming clear.\n\nDeveloping nations were already struggling to get back on their feet. For every $20 households there typically earned pre-pandemic, they now only get $19.\n\nBut soaring food and energy costs threaten to throw livelihoods further into reverse, spelling misery and hardship for the most vulnerable.\n\nAnd that's not just true for poorer countries. One survey shows one in six British households have turned to a food bank.\n\nThat global struggle could be compounded by the higher interest rates being used to ease inflation, just as government support to ease the impact of the pandemic is evaporating.\n\nThe World Bank is urging immediate action, from debt relief, to urging nations not to put restrictions on food exports.\n\nInstead they want policymakers to show they are acting together to safeguard food and energy supplies, reassure volatile markets, and ease price spikes,.\n\nPolicymakers have already had to tackle an extraordinary battle.\n\nBut if we down tools now the World Bank suggests we could face an even more prolonged and painful crisis.\n\nHardship today doesn't just mean misery and social unrest, it can blight lives for years.\n\nThe countries in Europe that are most likely to suffer a sharp drop in economic output in 2022 are Ukraine and Russia, the World Bank forecast.\n\nBut it warned that the fallout from the war and the Covid pandemic would be wider.\n\n\"Even if a global recession is averted, the pain of stagflation could persist for several years - unless major supply increases are set in motion,\" Mr Malpass said.\n\nBetween 2021 and 2024, global growth is projected to slow by 2.7 percentage points, Mr Malpass said, more than twice the slow down seen between 1976 and 1979, when the world last saw stagflation.\n\nThe report warned that interest rate increases needed to control inflation at the end of the 1970s were so steep that they touched off a global recession in 1982, and a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies.\n\nHowever, in the 1970s the dollar was weaker and oil was relatively more expensive.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ayhan Kose, director of the World Bank's Prospects Group said \"There is not much governments can easily do\" to tackle rising energy prices.\n\n\"They shouldn't introduce export bans, they shouldn't introduce subsidies, they shouldn't introduce price controls,\" Mr Kose said.\n\n\"Those type of interventions distort prices and they translate into even higher prices,\" he added.", "Sri Lanka's prime minister says the country needs at least $5bn (£4bn) over the next six months to pay for essential goods as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years.\n\nRanil Wickremesinghe told parliament the money is needed for basic items such as food, fuel and fertiliser.\n\nIn May, Sri Lanka defaulted on its debts with international lenders for the first time in its history.\n\nThe country has held bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Wickremesinghe, who is also the country's finance minister, told parliament that more money was required this year to meet Sri Lanka's basic needs.\n\nHe said the island nation, which has a population of around 22 million, requires $3.3bn for fuel imports, $900m for food, $600m for fertiliser, and $250m for cooking gas.\n\nIt comes as Sri Lankan lawmakers accepted a $55m loan for fertilisers from India's Exim Bank.\n\nThe United Nations also plans to make a worldwide appeal for Sri Lanka, and has pledged $48m for food, agriculture and healthcare, Mr Wickremesinghe added.\n\nHe also warned of a slowdown in government payments to businesses and workers across the country, as funds are redirected to pay for food supplies.\n\n\"A lot of people will be without food, so the food programme we are initiating will ensure that all families, even if they have no income, they will have food,\" Mr Wickremesinghe said.\n\n\"We can have community kitchens in temples [and] churches to supply the food. The community has to get involved,\" he added.\n\nThe South Asian nation will also try to renegotiate a $1.5bn financial support deal with China, Mr Wickremesinghe said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSri Lanka is struggling with its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from the UK in 1948.\n\nThe country's economy has been hit hard by the pandemic, rising energy prices, and populist tax cuts.\n\nA shortage of medicines, fuel and other essentials has also helped to push the cost of living to record highs.\n\nSri Lanka's official rate of inflation, the pace at which prices rise, rose by 39.1% year-on-year in May. At the same time, food prices in its largest city Colombo increased by 57.4%.\n\nMr Wickremesinghe is set to unveil an interim budget next month, as he faces the challenge of slashing overall government spending while still providing social welfare payments.\n\nLast week, Sri Lanka's agriculture minister called on farmers to grow more rice as he said the country's \"food situation is becoming worse\".\n\nThe government also announced an immediate increase to value added tax (VAT) from 8% to 12%. The move was expected to boost revenue by 65bn Sri Lankan rupees ($181m; £144m). It also said corporate tax would rise in October from 24% to 30%.", "The price of petrol surged by nearly 5p a litre in the week that included the bank holiday break, the RAC says, and could soon hit 180p a litre.\n\nThe motoring body said the average cost of a litre of petrol had hit a \"frightening\" 177.88p by Sunday.\n\nOil prices remain high due to the war in Ukraine and sanctions to reduce Europe's dependence on Russia.\n\nIn March, the government cut fuel duty by 5p a litre for a year, but the RAC called for more help for motorists.\n\nRAC spokesperson Simon Williams, said: \"More radical government intervention is urgently needed, whether that's in the form of a further reduction in fuel duty or a VAT cut.\"\n\nOver the week from 30 May to 5 June, average diesel prices also rose from 182.58p a litre to 185.01p.\n\n\"Sadly, we expect to see the average price of petrol break through the 180p mark this week with diesel moving further towards 190p,\" said Mr Williams.\n\nAA fuel price spokesman Luke Bosdet said: \"Shock and awe is the only way to describe what has been happening at the pump during the half-term break.\"\n\nHe added: \"The forces behind the surge have been oil jumping back above $120 a barrel for the first time since late March, combined with petrol commodity prices being boosted by summer motoring demand.\"\n\nMany UK households are struggling with the rising cost of living and the consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation reached 9% in the year to April. The rise in the price of petrol and diesel was a major contributor to the increase in inflation.\n\nAs well as the war in Ukraine, Brent crude prices remain elevated after major oil producer Saudi Arabia said on Monday that it would increase its selling price from July.", "The UK has decided not to impose direct rule on the British Virgin Islands, despite a report finding gross failures of governance in the territory.\n\nThe review said the BVI's constitution should be suspended and its government dissolved amid corruption concerns.\n\nBut the foreign secretary will instead allow a new administration to implement reforms in the next two years.\n\nIf they fail to meet targets, Liz Truss has taken new powers to make imposing direct rule easier.\n\nThe former leader of the BVI, Andrew Fahie, was arrested in April for alleged drug smuggling and money laundering in the US.\n\nThe inquiry was commissioned in 2021 amid claims about corruption and misuse of taxpayers' money but was not directly connected to the arrest of Mr Fahie.\n\nLed by British judge Sir Gary Hickinbottom, the report described the state of governance in the BVI as \"appallingly bad\".\n\nHe found that millions of dollars of state funds were spent each year by politicians and ministries without proper process, there was \"serious dishonesty\" relating to sales of public property, and there was widespread abuse of appointments.\n\nIn his conclusions, Sir Gary called for a two-year suspension of the BVI constitution, cessation of the elected ministerial government and the imposition of direct rule by the UK.\n\nHe also recommended reviews of the government's welfare payments, the sale of public land, and law enforcement on the islands.\n\nOutlining her reasons for not imposing direct rule on the BVI, Ms Truss pointed to changes that have been made since Sir Gary's report in April, including the removal of Mr Fahie from his role and the creation of a new government of national unity, which has begun criminal investigations.\n\nMs Truss said she believed the BVI's new government should be given the opportunity to \"demonstrate their commitment to reform\" and implement the 48 recommendations made by Sir Gary and the further measures the administration has proposed.\n\nBut she added: \"If it becomes clear that this approach is not delivering the reform the people of the BVI want and deserve we will take action. This may require the swift implementation of the final report recommendation [imposing direct rule].\"\n\nAndrew Fahie was arrested in April on drug and money laundering charges\n\nIn May, Mr Fahie pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to launder money and import cocaine to the United States, according to Reuters news agency.", "Young shoppers risk building up debts by borrowing money to make buy now pay later repayments, Citizens Advice says.\n\nHalf of 18 to 34-year-olds used different types of credit - such as credit cards or borrowing from family - to make the payments, it said.\n\nAlthough the results were drawn from a survey, the charity said the answers highlighted the issue of people relying on one debt to cover another.\n\nChanges are being made that make some of these debts clearer to lenders.\n\nBuy now pay later has become a commonplace method of payment and credit for UK shoppers in recent years. It allows people to pay for purchases in instalments over a short-term fixed-payment schedule, and interest-free.\n\nSome 17 million people in the UK, including 30% of those aged in their 20s, have used it. While popular, it has led to concerns over levels and visibility of debt - particularly as budgets are squeezed by the rising cost of living.\n\nCitizens Advice surveyed 2,288 people who had used buy now pay later during the past 12 months.\n\nIt found that most (52%) made repayments from their current account, but 23% used a credit card, 9% used a bank overdraft, and 7% borrowed from friends and family.\n\nMillie Harris, a debt adviser at Citizens Advice in East Devon, said: \"Most of the people I speak to who are using buy now pay later live off overdrafts and credit cards, so are using these for repayments. It is just relying on one debt to pay off another debt.\n\n\"What scares me most is how easily people can slip into using it. They come to rely on it much more quickly than other forms of credit. It's just a few clicks at a checkout. Too often that means people don't realise how serious it is - that it is credit and there are consequences if they don't repay it.\"\n\nOne in 10 people in the survey said they did not fully understand how repayments would be set up.\n\nChloe Porter, from Birmingham, used to use buy now pay later and admitted she was uneducated about credit.\n\n\"When I moved out [from her parents' home], I was struggling to keep the repayments up and I ended up having to use credit cards to make the repayments. I just dug myself a hole,\" she said.\n\nSince the start of June, banks and credit companies have been able to see whether shoppers use services from Klarna - the biggest buy now pay later company in the UK.\n\nThe firm said this could help or hinder its customers' ability to get credit for loans such as mortgages, but did offer more clarity to potential lenders.\n\nBuy now pay later firms have been under pressure from watchdogs over contract terms and conditions and they information they give to credit agencies. Stricter regulation is expected soon.\n\nThe biggest operators in the UK are Klarna, Laybuy and Clearpay.\n\nA spokeswoman for Clearpay said: \"Globally, 90% of Clearpay transactions are made with a debit card and 95% of instalments are paid on time, demonstrating that our customers use their own money to pay for purchases and that they understand how our repayments are set up.\"\n\nShe said the company was supportive of good regulation.\n\nEarlier in the week, technology giant Apple said it was planning to launch a buy now pay later option for users of Apple Pay, initially in the US.", "An investigation by BBC NI Spotlight looked at how Northern Ireland Limited Partnerships (NILPs) are used for Russian money laundering\n\nA Northern Ireland corporate loophole that is exploited by international money launderers should be closed, MPs have said.\n\nAn investigation by BBC NI's Spotlight programme has looked at the use of Northern Ireland Limited Partnerships (NILPs) for money laundering.\n\nThe secretive companies can be set up in seconds from anywhere in the world.\n\nHundreds have been created since Scotland made regulatory changes disclosing the ownership of similar entities there five years ago.\n\nNILPs do have legitimate purposes, but are open to abuse as vehicles for disguising the proceeds of crime.\n\nEarlier this year, the government promised to increase transparency around limited partnerships.\n\nSouth Belfast MP Claire Hanna told Spotlight she wants to see action in Westminster to tighten the rules.\n\n\"It should just be closed down,\" Ms Hanna said. \"There aren't any economic benefits for us.\n\n\"There's no tax occurring, no jobs being created. There are only downsides and we don't want to get the reputation as a region that is used for that sort of activity because it undermines other legitimate businesses.\"\n\nVeteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, who helped reform the rules for Scotland, is surprised that a loophole was left in Northern Ireland and wants to ensure it is closed.\n\n\"I hope that my colleagues in Northern Ireland, from wherever they come in the political spectrum, will join with me in that drive to root out dirty money from the UK.\n\n\"It doesn't do us any good. Doesn't do Northern Ireland any good. And it won't help in the long term to create prosperity and economic growth,\" she said.\n\nPeter Geoghegan, editor-in-chief of Open Democracy, has investigated the growing problem of NILPs and told Spotlight he discovered a system that was a gift for criminals.\n\n\"It's quite remarkable. To set up a Northern Ireland Limited Partnership you don't even have to find out where Northern Ireland is on a map.\n\n\"You could be thousands of miles away. You can do it online. You pay quite a small amount of money, fairly quickly, you've got yourself an NILP, and you can pretty much do whatever you want with it.\n\n\"And you can own things. You can trade, but most importantly for the people who've got them, they're great for money laundering.\"\n\nHe added there was \"no transparency, no taxes, no accounts, and anonymous owners\".\n\nOne NILP, Jasterport, was named with others in a report into a huge theft of government funds in Moldova.\n\nInvestigators hired by the Moldovan parliament examined how these entities helped steal about $1bn (£798m) in government funds.\n\nThe limited partnerships can then be used, with a Northern Ireland registered address and the respectable stamp of a UK legal framework, to open bank accounts elsewhere in the world into which proceeds of crime can flow.\n\nBut when the money emerges from these accounts, it has a veneer of respectability and is on its way to be laundered into other bank accounts or assets like property.\n\nThe ownership of the NILPs often remains obscure and rooted through secret companies in offshore territories such as the British Virgin Islands.\n\nWhat the NILPs are doing and who owns them only becomes apparent through data leaks, whistle-blowers or criminal investigations.\n\nA search of the companies registry reveals hundreds of these limited partnerships created in Northern Ireland in recent years, a boom in activity that has been spurred by the tightening of rules elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, for example, more rigorous checks on ownership of limited partnerships were introduced in 2017.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, ownership can remain obscure and unverified.\n\nThe number of NILPs registered annually jumped almost five-fold during the Scottish crackdown, but the number of NILPs has fallen again in recent years.\n\nIn one street in south Belfast there are more than 100 NILPs registered at one address.\n\nOne registered there, Norinvest Universal, has been named in legal proceedings in Ukraine in connection with a multi-million grain fraud.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy described money laundering as a \"despicable crime\".\n\nIt added that the forthcoming Economic Crime Bill \"will reform the law on limited partnerships across the UK, including those in Northern Ireland, as well as strengthening the powers of Companies House to give it a bigger role in tackling economic crime\".\n\nThe Spotlight investigation follows a money trail that began with the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in Russia, saw payments moved into Ireland, and winds up on Montenegro's Adriatic Coast.\n\nSpotlight: From Russia with Blood is on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22:40 on Tuesday 7 June and on iPlayer", "A former soldier stabbed a married couple in their home while their children slept upstairs using the ceremonial dagger given to him when he left the Army, a court has heard.\n\nCollin Reeves is accused of murdering Stephen and Jennifer Chapple in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, on 21 November.\n\nMr Reeves, 34, had been involved in a long-running dispute with the couple over parking spaces, a court heard.\n\nHe denies their murder but admits manslaughter.\n\nBristol Crown Court was told Mr Reeves launched a frenzied minute-long attack on the couple in their living room, stabbing both \"multiple times\".\n\nMrs Chapple, 33, suffered six stab wounds to her upper chest and shoulder, causing fatal injuries to a major blood vessel and her heart, prosecutor Adam Feest QC said.\n\nHer 36-year-old husband was found close to the rear door and had also suffered six stab wounds, as well as three other minor injuries.\n\nCollin Reeves is accused of murdering his neighbours\n\nOn the night of the killing, Mr Reeves climbed the fence separating his garden from the victims', and entered via the back door of their home on Dragon Rise.\n\nThe jury was shown a clip from the Chapple's back door camera of Mr Reeves climbing their fence and entering via the back door.\n\nA few seconds later Mrs Chapple can be heard screaming in terror.\n\nMr Feest said neither had any defensive injuries, indicating the speed of the attack.\n\nAfter the killings, Mr Reeves climbed back over the fence and phoned the police to tell them he had stabbed his neighbours.\n\nThe couple were stabbed to death inside their home in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset\n\nJust a few days before the attack, Mrs Chapple was the victim of a \"particularly unpleasant verbal assault\" by Mr Reeves, Mr Feest said, which was captured on the victims' front door camera.\n\nAs well as the parking dispute, Mr Reeves had also been suffering problems in his marriage, with his wife having told him that she wanted to try a trial separation, the jury was told.\n\n\"Whether it was this parking dispute, tensions within the defendant's marriage, or a combination of these things which led the defendant to kill his neighbours is unclear,\" said Mr Feest.\n\nSandrine Moreira, who worked with Mrs Chapple in the coffee shop of a nearby garden centre, said the victim had been \"very scared\" of Mr Reeves.\n\n\"(Mrs Chapple) was very afraid. She knew (Mr Reeves) would kill her if she would say or do anything against him, she knew he was ex-military,\" Ms Moreira told the court.\n\nMs Moreira described an incident in which Mr Reeves had brought his two daughters into the coffee shop and adjusted his chair so he could stare at the counter where Mrs Chapple was working.\n\nPsychiatrist Dr Lucy Bacon found that Mr Reeves was not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from his time in the army between 2002 and 2017.\n\nShe concluded that he had symptoms of moderate depression, but there was nothing to suggest it undermined his ability to form a rational judgment or exercise self-control, and the defence of diminished responsibility did not apply.\n\nMr Reeves claims he was suffering an \"abnormality of mental functioning\" and jurors were told it will be their job to decide whether this was true.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A teacher was killed and 14 schoolchildren were injured after a car hit a crowd on a busy street in the German capital, Berlin.\n\nThe group was on a school trip to Berlin from the state of Hesse. A second teacher was seriously hurt.\n\nPolice say the driver, a 29-year-old man, was arrested at the scene.\n\nBerlin Interior Affairs Minister Iris Spranger said evidence suggested the driver was a \"mentally ill person running amok\".\n\nThe incident occurred shortly before 10:30 (08:30 GMT) in the heart of western Berlin, on one of its busiest shopping streets.\n\nThe woman who died has been identified as a schoolteacher who was on a trip with a class of teenagers from the central state of Hesse. Berlin police say she died on the spot.\n\n\"There are seriously injured people among the more than a dozen injured,\" police spokesperson Thilo Cablitz said.\n\nBad Arolsen Mayor Marko Lambion said a bus was on its way to pick up the children from Berlin. \"We're doing everything we can to bring them home,\" he said at the press conference.\n\nThe driver has dual German and Armenian citizenship and lives in Berlin. Earlier reports that he had left a note in his car were denied by officials.\n\nWitnesses described seeing a silver Renault Clio veering into a crowd of people on the pavement near Berlin's busy Kurfürstendamm shopping avenue, before driving back on to the road and crashing into a shop window.\n\nA witness who would only be named as F Kacan said the driver had abandoned the car and had taken off running but \"we were able to stop him\", AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe actor John Barrowman tweeted that he had been nearby when the incident took place and in a video posted from the scene said the car had repeatedly mounted the footpath before crashing into the storefront.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Barrowman MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarrowman told the BBC the car had careened through tables of people sitting outside having breakfast, before smashing into the storefront.\n\n\"It was just horrific\", he said. \"I saw somebody being resuscitated, I saw somebody being literally thrown onto a stretcher and put into an ambulance.\"\n\nSome 130 emergency workers went to the scene and a body lay in the middle of the road, covered in blankets.\n\nIt happened opposite Breitscheidplatz, where 12 people were killed in a terrorist attack in 2016 when a truck was deliberately driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market.\n\nBerlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said it was too early to know if the area had been chosen deliberately, but she said: \"It's a situation where you think, for God's sake, not again!\"\n\nAfter the Christmas market attack in 2016, the militant group Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the killings which had been carried out by an unsuccessful asylum seeker. He was later shot dead by police in Italy.", "Homes in Irpin were often taken over by Russia's occupying forces and just destroyed\n\nIn a corner of the leafy town of Irpin, the brutality of the Russian occupation was clear from the start. The body of a young woman in a red coat would remain in the street for four weeks - lying where she had been trampled not once, but over and over again, under the wheels of Russian armoured vehicles.\n\nIrpin is on the doorstep of Kyiv, and in early March Russian troops intent on conquering the capital took hold of the town.\n\nIts blown-up bridge and river crossing became known internationally as a risky escape route from next-door Bucha, the scene of many of Russia's alleged war crimes.\n\nIn Irpin itself, the bodies of 290 civilian victims have been found and witnesses and prosecutors tell of a month of terror in a narrow zone in the town's south-western quarter. A disproportionate number of victims were women.\n\nWarning: You may find some of the details of this story distressing\n\nBefore the war, a handful of streets a short bus-ride away from the capital were a haven for families from the bustle of a busy capital. Now Pushkinska St, Lermontova St, Davidchuka and Vygovskogo all bear the scars of a brutal occupation.\n\nWalking along Pushkinska St shortly after it was liberated, I saw signs of damage to almost every home. Many had been burned to the ground.\n\nBut far more terrifying than the destruction were the accounts of violence against civilians, of shootings and summary executions and of people being held by force in a basement.\n\nDuring the occupation, Pushkinska St became a vital artery - a route to safety for civilians. If you made it out to Universytetska St, then it was a short drive to the ring road and a Ukrainian-held position. All the way down Universytetska St, civilian cars were riddled with bullets and shrapnel.\n\nClose to Central Park, near the junction with Pushkinska, one of the local deputies Artem Hurin says he saw bodies in three cars and an elderly man lying dead on the street.\n\nEleven units of the Russian army and police are alleged by Ukraine's intelligence and prosecutors to have taken part in the occupation and destruction in Irpin, Bucha and nearby Hostomel.\n\nRussian troops set up firing positions here and in another building used as a checkpoint\n\nAmong them was the 141st motorised regiment - otherwise known as the notorious Kadyrovtsi from Chechnya. So was the 234th airborne assault regiment, whose servicemen were once rewarded for taking part in the occupation of Crimea.\n\nArmoured vehicles were stationed behind almost every house in Pushkinska St, according to Hurin, who served as a military volunteer when Irpin was under attack.\n\nInside this narrow quarter the Russians set up at least two fortified checkpoints with firing positions on Lermontova St, where it meets Kyivska and Pushkinska.\n\nThere were at least two bases, at a former children's sanatorium at Lastivka, on the south-western corner of the quarter, and at a big residential complex close by.\n\nRussian armoured vehicles left their base in Vygovskogo St in a hurry - resident Oleksandr Bielokon shows the damage they left behind\n\nThe complex was close to the junction of Pushkinska and Vygovskogo St where the woman in the red coat was run over by Russian armoured vehicles.\n\nTown mayor Oleksandr Markushyn and several other residents told the BBC that her body lay there for almost a month.\n\nHer face was unrecognisable from being run over numerous times, said Artem Hurin: \"But I saw from her hands she was very young.\"\n\nOn the other side of the street lay the body of an older man: \"From his age he could have been her dad.\"\n\nUkrainian military volunteers found a plastic card and a handwritten shopping list in the woman's purse and determined that she was probably around 25. \"We didn't find any ID on her,\" said Petro Korol, in charge of gathering bodies for burial.\n\nMore than half the victims in this part of Irpin were shot. So many of the dead in this residential quarter were women that the mayor renamed it the place of \"women's killings\".\n\nOn 8 March local residents risked constant shelling and gunfire to bury four people shot by the Russians in a shallow grave beside a bus stop where Davidchuka meets Lysenka St.\n\n\"We buried a civilian woman in a pink coat in her 40s with a man. They were killed in the car,\" resident Tetyana told me. \"And two territorial defence volunteers were shot dead in their car.\" The volunteers were later identified as local residents Dmytro Ukrainets and Sergiy Malyuk.\n\nThe bodies of a man and a woman in a pink coat were found in this car after the Russians left\n\nDozens of the 290 victims are yet to be identified, but prosecutors told me so far they had details of 161 men, 73 women and one child. Many were shot dead in Pushkinska and neighbouring streets. Others died by artillery fire or starved to death.\n\nMost of the suspected war crimes here, as identified by prosecutors and witnesses, happened in mid-March and then in the final days before the Russian withdrawal.\n\nAs the Ukrainian army regained control of the outskirts of Kyiv, the Russians became more nervous and began shooting on sight. For residents, misunderstanding an order or refusing to wear a white armband as the Russians insisted could end in death.\n\n\"I heard shots in the middle of March beneath the windows of my flat,\" recalled Ludmila Menkivska, 54, who lives in a residential building on Pushkinska St.\n\nThe next morning she saw a woman's body on the street through her window. There was nothing she could do. Had she tried to bury her, she could have been killed herself.\n\nLudmila Menkivska had already fled war once in 2014\n\n\"Every morning for over two weeks I came to my window to check if she was still there. Then every time I looked from my window after shelling I saw her again. I knew nothing about her but my heart was broken. She looked between 40 and 45.\"\n\nRather than leave her home, Ludmila decided to stay where she was. No stranger to war, she had fled her home in eastern Ukraine when war broke out in 2014 between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists.\n\nAfter the liberation, the woman's body was taken away. She was called Alyona and had a hearing disability, said local resident Mykhailo Kuzmenko, who fears she was killed because she failed to hear the orders of Russian soldiers.\n\nThe last week of occupation proved to be the deadliest.\n\nLarisa Osypova,75, had run the local kindergarten for years, raising generations of children. Around 24 March she was shot dead in her backyard with her husband Vadym at 8A Davydchuka St.\n\nThey had been sheltering in their house from shelling when shots rang out.\n\n\"I saw my neighbour running out to help me,\" said Kostyantyn Bielkin. \"Then I heard a round of gunshots and Vadym crying out 'Larisa! Larisa, then there was an explosion and more shots across the fence.\"\n\nHe was hit three times and remembers nothing more. His neighbours were left unburied for days. Osypova was shot in the face.\n\nLarisa Osypova was known throughout Irpin for bringing up generations of kindergarten children\n\nFor 43 years she had run the Vinochok kindergarten, retiring not long before. \"People keep calling me and saying: 'We grew up in her hands.' Nobody can believe what happened,\" says her niece Natalya Dovga.\n\n\"Kids used to run up to her immediately,\" said Vinochok's new head teacher Oksana Ptashnyk. \"They never understood she was elderly. For thousands of children she was like a mother, warm, caring and easy-going.\"\n\nAround the same time, Oleksandr Sheremet and two other men were shot dead in the yard of his apartment block at 9A Vygovskogo St, just around the corner from Larisa Osipova's house. Inside the building a fourth man was killed in his flat.\n\nSheremet, 37, was a children's orienteering coach and had just returned home on the eve of the invasion with a group of children he had taken to the Carpathian Mountains. He had sent his wife Yulia and two of their three children to stay with friends in France.\n\nYulia Sheremet said her husband Oleksandr had just returned from a trip to the mountains when the Russians invaded\n\n\"He could have fled to the west of Ukraine or abroad but he chose to stay to look after his father, the elderly and to help evacuate children,\" she said.\n\nHis father Leonid saw him alive for the last time on 22 March. He next saw his body in Kyiv morgue with five bullet wounds, to his chest, stomach, hand and leg.\n\nIrpin's other summary executions took place around the same time at 42 Davidchuka St.\n\nTwo men, one of them an elderly disabled man, were shot. Another man was killed at a sports club in the same block - award-winning boxer and children's trainer Oleksiy Dzhunkivsky,\n\nAlmost next door to the murders in Davidchuka St, Tetiana Levchenko spent the final days of occupation holed up in a basement with other residents, at the mercy of Russian soldiers.\n\n\"I was worried they would force all of us to sit on their tanks and act as a human shield.\"\n\nHer son and daughter had fled with their children but Tetiana, a 54-year-old engineer, had decided to stay hiding in the basement.\n\n\"On 23 March the Russian military forced open the door. The next day they forced almost 30 people altogether to stay with us. As they were bringing people in, they killed a male civilian,\" she recalls.\n\nWhile she had been in the basement, her elderly parents remained at home. \"The Russians blew up two grenades next to them and fired a round of shots into the wardrobe. That was how they made the elderly reveal where the younger people were hiding.\"\n\nFreedom came finally on 26 March, but Tetiana and the others waited for hours to venture outside, scared that the Russians were still there.\n\nBefore the war she had worked as an activist to keep Irpin green and keep the local river clean. \"Then the foreigners came in and destroyed our town and our lives.\"\n\nFew of the buildings in Vygovskogo St were left untouched by the occupation\n\nVisit Vygovskogo and Pushkinska St now and you will find residents in almost every backyard, trying to clean up and rebuild. They have learned to take pleasure in the simple things - like having their electricity, gas and water restored. Those whose homes are still standing can even cook in their own kitchens.\n\nBut beneath this facade of normality, the atrocities committed in four weeks in March are never far away.\n\nPushkinska St resident Oleksandr Bielokon shows me an enormous stain on the road where the body of a woman in a red coat lay throughout the occupation.\n\n\"Look, it's still here: the bloody silhouette of a woman run over by Russian tanks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Erica says she is using her story as “power to fight back against the law\"\n\nVictims of alleged domestic abuse are seeing their cases dropped at a rapidly increasing rate, according to data obtained by the BBC.\n\nThe time limit to charge common assault - including instances of domestic violence - is six months.\n\nNearly 13,000 cases were dropped in England and Wales over five years after the authorities hit that limit.\n\nCampaigners say women are being denied justice and the police and prosecutors should be given more time.\n\nThe new figures relate to common assault cases - which includes things like a push, threatening words or being spat at - and which are normally dealt with at magistrates court.\n\nBut three-quarters of all domestic abuse cases - including sexual assaults - are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a report by HM inspector of constabulary.\n\nAnd just 1.6% of rape allegations in England and Wales result in someone being charged, something the government has said it is \"deeply ashamed\" about.\n\nVictims of domestic common assault are sometimes reluctant to come forward and the cases can be complex - which is why campaigners say the police should be given more time to investigate them.\n\nA government spokesman said all allegations should be investigated and pursued where possible, and money had been invested to support victims of such crimes during the pandemic.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it was another example of the criminal justice system failing to understand violence against women and girls.\n\n\"This is a shocking fact that thousands of cases a year - and getting worse - are just being timed out,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"There are so many reasons why victims and survivors of domestic abuse might not be able to report an assault straight away. But then to be told that the perpetrator is just going to be let off because they've run out of time is completely wrong. That is why the law needs to change.\"\n\nThe six-month time limit is meant to keep the criminal justice system moving - but campaigners are calling for it to be extended to two years in instances of domestic violence.\n\nErica Osakwe, who founded Victims Too, was encouraged to report her abuse to police on leaving her relationship, but was later told no charges could be brought because the police had failed to properly file the initial report and the time limit had expired.\n\nShe said: \"There was a pit in my stomach that didn't leave me for weeks or months. I felt like they took me for a joke. I wasn't taken seriously. It didn't seem like they've valued my story.\n\n\"To me, six months isn't enough time to even fathom that sort of experience and allow someone to get the support they need before coming forward.\n\n\"This six months not only applies to victims of abuse but also applies to the police as well to get it done. The police might not be able to gather the evidence they need in the six months to even get that prosecution charge.\"\n\nMs Osakwe and campaign group Refuge are backing moves by Ms Cooper to amend the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill currently making its way through Parliament.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC using Freedom of Information from 30 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, reveals a huge increase in allegations of common assault involving domestic abuse - but a fall in the number of charges being brought.\n\nFrom 2016-17 to 2020-21 there were at least 12,982 cases of common assault that were flagged as involving domestic abuse in which no-one was charged due to the time limit.\n\nThere has been a 159% increase in the number of times common assaults flagged as involving domestic abuse have not been charged because of this time limit.\n\nThe data was not broken down by gender, and covers both men and women.\n\nBetween 2016-17 and 2020-21 the total number of common assaults flagged as instances of domestic abuse increased by 71% from 99,134 to 170,013.\n\nIn the same time period, the number of these common assaults that resulted in charges being brought fell by 23%.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"All allegations should be investigated and pursued rigorously through the courts where possible, and there is no time limit on reporting crimes such as bodily harm or those that add up to coercive behaviour.\n\n\"We have invested millions into vital services to support victims throughout the pandemic, and continue to urge anyone at risk of harm to come forward and get the help they need.\n\n\"Perpetrators of domestic abuse do untold damage and we sympathise with any victim whose life has been affected by such acts.\"\n\nLouisa Ralfe, the lead for domestic abuse at the National Police Chiefs' Council, said: \"We know there are many reasons why victims may not immediately report offences, particularly in cases of domestic abuse where victims can face coercion and other barriers to coming forward.\n\n\"We are supporting the Home Office in their analysis of this issue and we will continue to work with them and the Crown Prosecution Service to understand the scale and ensure that every victim is able to achieve the justice they deserve.\"", "Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean.\n\nCovering 48 million sq km (18.5 million sq miles), this chart for the first time details a new deepest point - a depression lying 7,432m (24,383ft) down called the Factorian Deep.\n\nKnowledge of the shape of the ocean's bottom is essential to safe navigation, marine conservation, and understanding Earth's climate and geological history.\n\nBut we still have much to learn.\n\nVast tracts of terrain have never been properly surveyed.\n\nThe International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) has taken five years to compile and updates the first attempt at a comprehensive map, which was published in 2013.\n\nThe IBCSO project and others like it around the world are gradually filling in the gaps in our scant knowledge of the bottom of the world's oceans.\n\nShips and boats are being encouraged to routinely turn on their sonar devices to get depth (bathymetric) measurements; and governments, corporations, and institutions are being urged not to hide away data and put as much as possible into the public domain. This is paying dividends.\n\nThe new map covers all the Southern Ocean floor poleward of 50 degrees South. If you divide its 48 million sq km into 500m grid squares, 23% of these cells now have at least one modern depth measurement.\n\nThat's a big improvement on nine years ago.\n\nThe tracks of surveying ships. Low-resolution satellite measurements must fill in the rest\n\nBack then, IBCSO began only at 60 degrees South, and less than 17% of its grid boxes had a modern measurement.\n\n\"You have to realise just what the change from 60 degrees to 50 degrees means; we've more than doubled the area of the chart,\" said Dr Boris Dorschel from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute.\n\n\"So, we've increased the area coverage, but we've also increased the data density, because, in parallel, we've kept on acquiring new data and knocking on doors to free up existing data,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMuch of the information in the chart comes from the ice-strengthened ships that support scientific endeavours in Antarctica, including from the UK's former polar ship, the RRS James Clark Ross. (In future, this British contribution will come from its successor, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, affectionately known as Boaty McBoatface.)\n\nAs these vessels shuttle back and forth between the White Continent and the likes of Chile, South Africa and Tasmania - their echosounders make a habit of surveying the submerged terrain below.\n\nAnd this activity is increasingly coordinated, with research organisations from different nations working together to try to offset slightly the routes taken by their icebreakers.\n\nThe UK's new polar ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, is equipped to map millions of sq km of ocean bottom over its career. The above image shows the ship's hull in dry dock. The yellow rectangle in the centre is a cover made of a synthetic material over the 8m-long array of transmitting transducers for the deep-water multibeam echosounding system.\n\nBetter seafloor maps are needed for a host of reasons.\n\nThey are essential for safe navigation, obviously, but also for fisheries management and conservation, because it is around the underwater mountains that marine wildlife tends to congregate. Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot.\n\nIn addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water. This is information required to improve the models that forecast future climate change - because it is the oceans that play a pivotal role in moving heat around the planet.\n\n\"We can also study how the Antarctic Ice Sheet has changed over thousands of years just by looking at the seafloor,\" explained Dr Rob Larter from the British Antarctic Survey.\n\n\"There's a record of where the ice flowed and where its grounded zones (places in contact with the seafloor) extended. This is beautifully preserved in the shape of the seafloor.\"\n\nThe new map was made possible by financing from Japan's Nippon Foundation and the support from Seabed2030, the international effort to properly chart Earth's ocean floor by the end of the decade.\n\nAt the moment, our knowledge of four-fifths of the planet's underwater terrain comes only from low-resolution satellite measurements that have inferred the presence of tall seamounts and deep valleys from the gravitational influence these features have on the sea surface. Water piles up over the mass of a large submarine mountain and dips slightly where there is a trench.\n\nOne key finding in the years between the first and second versions of IBCSO is the recognition of the Southern Ocean's deepest point. It's a depression called Factorian Deep at the far southern end of the South Sandwich Trench. It lies 7,432m down. It was measured and visited by the Texan adventurer Victor Vescovo in his submarine Limiting Factor in 2019.\n\nThe remote and often inhospitable nature of the Southern Ocean means substantial sections of it are unlikely to get mapped unless there is dedicated undertaking. There's high hope that an emerging class of robotic vessels could be given this task in the years ahead.\n\nThe International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean is published in the journal Scientific Data.", "Officials in Florida took an unusual step to catch a suspected thief.\n\nBodycam footage from the Volusia Sheriff's Office showed officials asking to borrow a family's boat to track down the man, who was adrift on a stolen water scooter.", "Residents in areas such as Cornwall have long complained about second-home owners pushing up housing costs.\n\nLevelling Up Secretary Michael Gove has vowed to end the \"scourge\" of unoccupied second homes, as part of government plans to boost housing.\n\nMr Gove said a new bill making it easier to charge higher council tax on empty properties in England would \"bring life back\" to communities.\n\nHe also said new powers to force landlords to rent out empty shops would regenerate urban areas.\n\nBut Labour said the legislation would not be enough to help struggling areas.\n\nThe new powers are in the government's Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which started its journey through Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has said \"levelling up\" economic imbalances between regions is a priority, but has faced criticism that its plans are vague.\n\nThe proposals over second homes are among a range of planning powers for England contained in the bill.\n\nA separate planning bill containing sweeping plans to replace England's case-by-case application system with new rules based on zones was abandoned earlier this year, after a backlash from Tory backbenchers.\n\nThe government has said it wants to redirect new housing towards under-developed \"brownfield\" areas in urban areas, and has set higher housing targets for England's 20 largest towns and cities.\n\nAmong provisions in the levelling up bill:\n\nThe new bill will also allow local authorities, from April 2024, to double council tax on owners of second homes that are furnished but unoccupied.\n\nThey will also be able to charge the higher rate on unfurnished empty properties after just one year instead of the current two.\n\nIt follows a separate announcement introducing new requirements for owners of holiday lets, who can avoid council tax and pay a reduced rate of business tax instead, to prove their properties are in fact being rented out.\n\nMinisters argue the new powers will benefit people in areas, particularly beauty spots, where second-home ownership has driven up the price and availability of local homes to buy and rent.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, said for many people in rural areas buying or renting a home had become a \"pipe dream\".\n\nHe said the government needed to go further, by making holiday lets a \"separate category\" in the planning system - which he argued would give local councils \"more control\" over housing in their areas.\n\nIn Wales, the Labour-run Welsh government plans to allow councils to charge up to four times the standard level of council tax on second homes.\n\nFor Labour, shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said the bill \"contains more aimed at dealing with housing and planning than it does on levelling up,\" and would not \"turn around\" lower economic performance outside London.\n\nShe added that under-performance reflected \"the brutal reality of a decade of underinvestment\" outside the capital.\n\nShe called for details on the government's plans for \"street votes\", which said said appeared to have been \"drawn up on the back of an envelope\".\n\nShe also urged the government to explain further proposals in the bill to replace the system by which property developers negotiate contributions towards local infrastructure and affordable housing.\n\nMinisters say their new levy will give councils more certainty about what money will be raised. However, the details have not been announced and are subject to a an ongoing consultation.\n\nMs Nandy said there was \"no clarity in the bill\" about whether the new model would raise more or less money - something MPs were \"entitled to know\" as it progresses through Parliament.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe wife of a British journalist who disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon has urged the country's authorities to do more to find \"the love of my life\".\n\nDom Phillips, 57, went missing in a remote part of the Amazon on Sunday along with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, 41.\n\nIn an tearful video, Mr Phillips's wife Alessandra Sampaio said she still had \"some small hope\" of finding them.\n\nMr Pereira's family have also asked the authorities to speed up the search.\n\nOn Tuesday, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro appeared to blame the missing men for their disappearance.\n\n\"Two people in a boat in a region like that, completely wild - it's an unadvisable adventure. Anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe there was an accident, maybe they were executed,\" he said.\n\nBrazilian police have opened a criminal investigation following news that Mr Pereira had been threatened.\n\nMr Pereira, an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon who has worked for the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, had clashed with some in riverside communities over illegal fishing.\n\nDom Phillips, a veteran journalist, was travelling with Mr Pereira by boat through the Javari Valley near Brazil's border with Peru as part of his research for a book on conservation efforts in the Amazon.\n\nThe huge region is home to around 6,300 indigenous people from more than 20 groups and is under threat from illegal loggers, miners and hunters.\n\nIndigenous rights groups that Mr Pereira worked with raised the alarm when the two failed to arrive as planned in the municipality of Atalaia do Norte on Sunday.\n\nThe groups said that Mr Pereira had received death threats in the week before his disappearance over his fight against illegal fishing.\n\nReuters news agency reported that the police had interviewed several local fishermen - including one man who is being treated as a potential suspect - who are believed to be among the last people to have seen the journalist and indigenous expert in the Javari Valley.\n\nA police official was quoted by Brazilian news G1 as saying that the suspect had denied any involvement in the disappearance of Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira.\n\nThe official, Alex Perez, said the suspect had told police he had merely seen the two men speed past in their boat.\n\nPolice are also trying to locate the fisherman suspected of writing a threatening letter to Mr Pereira just last week.\n\nThe rights group which first sounded the alarm about the disappearance said that the security forces had failed to follow up on key leads.\n\nEliesio Maruba of the Univaja rights group said that neither the police nor the navy had turned up to a scheduled meeting at which Univaja wanted to inform them about those it suspects of being behind the threats and their whereabouts.\n\nThe response by the Brazilian authorities has been widely criticised as slow and inadequate.\n\nAt first, only about a dozen people were sent to search the vast rainforest area crisscrossed by rivers. A helicopter was only sent on Tuesday and the number of soldiers deployed has been upped to 150.\n\nThe size of the search team has been boosted but was small at first\n\nBut the sluggishness of the search has caused further anguish for the men's families.\n\nMr Pereira's wife has also released a video message urging quicker action and saying that she hoped the men's disappearance was down to their boat breaking down.\n\nHowever many fear the pair may have been targeted.\n\nAs well as rising tension over illegal fishing, the area has seen incursions by illegal gold miners, loggers and drug traffickers who smuggle cocaine from neighbouring Peru.\n\nMr Phillips has documented many of these threats in his articles for the Guardian newspaper in the UK as well as other publications such as the Financial Times and the Washington Post.\n\nColleagues of the two have stressed that the men have deep knowledge of the region and carefully planned their trip.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Time to draw a line and take country forward - PM to Cabinet\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to cut taxes and government waste after surviving an attempt by his own MPs to oust him.\n\nThe prime minister thanked ministers for their support in a confidence vote, which saw 41% of Tory MPs saying they had lost faith in him.\n\nHe urged them to \"draw a line\" under questions about his leadership and vowed a return to \"fundamental\" Tory economic policies.\n\nThe number of rebels in Monday night's vote was higher than predicted.\n\nAnd some Conservative MPs are still publicly calling on him to quit over widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street.\n\nTobias Ellwood, a longstanding critic of the PM, said the \"honourable way forward\" would be for him to \"step back\" and accept that the task of uniting the Conservative Party to win the next general election is \"too big\".\n\nBut he added: \"We have to deal with the reality that those days of an honourable resignation are not there.\"\n\nSenior government figures have come out to defend Mr Johnson, including Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab who said there was \"no credible alternative\" to the prime minister.\n\nAnd backbencher Philip Davies - who voted against Mr Johnson on Monday - said: \"The prime minister won fair and square. My view is that you've got to accept the result. If you lose a vote, you accept it. That's the whole point of democracy.\"\n\nThe PM has also received support from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who told a Financial Times event he was \"very happy\" the UK leader had remained in post.\n\nThe prime minister may want to draw a line under questions over his leadership - but many of his MPs are not willing to do so.\n\nSenior MPs have told the BBC that there would be significant pressure on the 1922 committee to change the current rules - which protect the prime minister from another confidence vote for 12 months.\n\nRebels believe if the Conservatives lose the two by-elections being held later this month, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and Tiverton Honiton, in Devon - that will prompt a new leadership crisis.\n\nThey also believe the scandal over lockdown parties in Downing Street is far from over, with the Commons privileges committee still to look into whether the PM misled Parliament when he denied parties had been held in downing street and insisted all rules had been followed.\n\nThat could unearth new evidence - and the conclusions could be highly damaging.\n\nLast night's confidence vote result does not resolve the debate on Boris Johnson's future.\n\nAs one senior backbencher put it, it means the prime minster thinks he can stay on - but the rebels think they are within touching distance of bringing him down.\n\nIn the confidence vote, triggered by Partygate, Mr Johnson was backed by 211 Conservative MPs, but 148 voted to remove him.\n\nMr Johnson hailed this as a \"decisive\" victory - and on Tuesday morning told a cabinet meeting his \"fundamental Conservative instinct\" was to allow people to decide how to spend their money.\n\nHe urged cabinet ministers to find ways to make savings and told them \"delivering tax cuts\" would help deliver \"considerable growth in employment and economic progress\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mr Johnson did not have \"any sense of honour\" and should resign.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, she said Tory MPs who voted to keep the PM in office were \"just not listening to the scale of frustration and anger across the country\".\n\n\"There's really got to be some consequences when someone just isn't telling the truth, isn't fit for office, isn't taking the action the country needs\".\n\nMr Johnson won the confidence of 59% of his MPs, however, his critics have noted that his predecessor Theresa May secured the support of 63% when she faced her own confidence vote but was still forced out of office six months later.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey described Mr Johnson as a \"lying lawbreaker\" who was \"clinging on by the skin of his teeth\" while SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford likened him to a \"dead man walking\".\n\n\"Whether it's by Tory MPs finally acting in a responsible manner or indeed the Privileges Committee taking action against him, he will be gone,\" Mr Blackford said.", "Joel Pennington (middle) and friends at the River Rhine in Dusseldorf\n\nThousands of people have been stranded abroad after flights were cancelled, but while some wait around others are taking matters into their own hands.\n\nJoel Pennington was due to take a three-hour flight to Manchester from Germany. Since his flight was axed, he has spent 25 hours trying to get home.\n\nHe flew from Germany to Norway and onto London, where he is waiting to get to Manchester, paying out £700 extra.\n\nHe is one of many taking drastic action to get home from their trips abroad.\n\nAirlines have cancelled hundreds of flights over the past week due to staff shortages, with many changes made at short notice over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nWhile some families never reached their destination or arrived late, others have found their return flights are not operating.\n\nMore than 100 flights to and from the UK were cancelled on Monday, according to the data analytics firm Cirium, and dozens more were scrapped on Tuesday.\n\nEasyJet, which is the biggest operator at London Gatwick, has been badly affected by disruption over the past week. The airline initially did not say how many flights it had cancelled on Tuesday, but has now confirmed that 60 have been cancelled to and from the UK in total.\n\nWizz Air has also been affected, while British Airways cancelled a large number of services in advance.\n\nJoel was due to fly home with Lufthansa, which arranged his alternative route.\n\nThe 23-year-old from the Lake District said he was now resting in London at a friend's house as he was \"too exhausted\" to make the final leg of his journey.\n\n\"I've just given up and am staying in London for the night. I can't continue travelling right now,\" he said.\n\nMr Pennington says the experience has affected his mental health, and the stress of the journey home has overshadowed the good time he had on holiday.\n\nHarshal Shah (middle) has paid out £6,000 for new flights, accommodation and food\n\nHarshal Shah is stuck in Crete after his flight to take his family and two other families home was cancelled on Monday.\n\nRather than wait for a later EasyJet flight, the group has spent almost £3,000 to fly with Jet2 to Birmingham on Wednesday instead, where they will then get taxis to their homes in London.\n\nHarshal, who spent a week in Crete with his family and friends for their first holiday since before the coronavirus pandemic, said his return flight had been cancelled four hours before it was due to depart on Monday.\n\nHe said the next available EasyJet flight was not until Thursday, so he decided to make alternative plans.\n\nHarshal told the BBC he had to pay out £6,000 in total for the new flights, accommodation and food for two further nights and said he had received \"no response at all\" from EasyJet.\n\n\"The communication in terms of everything is shocking,\" he added. \"Honestly, EasyJet, they should not be EasyJet at all - it's not easy at all.\"\n\nAlex Settle (left) and friends say they don't trust EasyJet\n\nAlex Settle, a police officer from Hull, and her hen party of 14 were told their flight from Portugal to Manchester had been cancelled by EasyJet when they arrived at the airport.\n\nEasyJet re-booked them on a Wednesday flight back to UK - but the group were worried about further delays so booked a Jet2 flight for Tuesday instead.\n\nEach of them is having to pay £366 for the new flight and an extra night's stay.\n\n\"It's been really stressful, with lots of tears,\" said Alex. \"This has really tainted the whole trip.\n\nThe group are due to arrive at Luton Airport in the early hours of Thursday, and are now having to plan how to get back to Hull.\n\nAirlines have been being blamed for taking more bookings than they can manage following staff cuts during the height of the pandemic when travel ground to a halt.\n\nBut industry leaders have said the government could have done more to support the sector.\n\nThe sector has also called for immigration rules on hiring overseas workers to be relaxed to plug staff shortages, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ruled out such a move.\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nEasyJet said it was \"very sorry and fully understand the disruption this will have caused for our customers\".\n\n\"We are providing options to rebook or receive a refund as well as hotel accommodation and meals where required, along with information on how to arrange this quickly online or via the app.\n\n\"Our customer service hours and hotel accommodation sourcing have been extended to support impacted customers and help get them to their destination as soon as possible.\"", "The HS2 project aims to build high-speed rail links between London and Manchester, Birmingham and the East Midlands\n\nThe government has scrapped plans to build a new £3bn rail link between HS2 and the West Coast Main Line.\n\nThe 13-mile (21km) Golborne Link in Cheshire and Greater Manchester will not be built despite its earlier inclusion in the Integrated Rail Plan for improving the Midlands and North.\n\nThe Railway Industry Association, Rail Freight Group and High Speed Rail Group fear a \"bottleneck\" will be the result.\n\nThe government said it would study alternative plans.\n\nThe Golborne Link would have branched off the the high-speed line between Crewe and Manchester and cut through Cheshire and Trafford to join the West Coast Mainline south of Wigan.\n\nHS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson said the government would now explore how HS2 trains could best get to and from Scotland.\n\nThe timing of the announcement, just 30 minutes before the outcome of the confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party was revealed, has been criticised.\n\nIn their joint statement, the three railway industry bodies said: \"It is hugely disappointing to discover that, on a day when much political attention was focused elsewhere, the government confirmed that the Golborne Link is to be removed from the HS2 project.\n\n\"Only six months ago, the Golborne Link was included in the Integrated Rail Plan, as well as the HS2 Phase 2b Bill.\n\n\"The link has been provided for in the budget for HS2 and is needed to allow adequate capacity on the national rail network to fulfil its vital function of handling the nation's longer distance movements of both passengers and freight.\n\n\"Without this connection, a bottleneck will be created north of Crewe on the West Coast Main Line, which in turn will negatively impact outcomes for passengers, decarbonisation and levelling up.\"\n\nThey said it was now \"absolutely essential\" for the government to \"confirm as quickly as possible how ministers intend to protect the benefits of HS2 investment.\n\n\"Such an important, strategic question of how HS2 services connect into Scotland cannot be left open or uncertain,\" the statement added.\n\nThe announcement comes six months after the government dropped its plan to extend HS2 to Leeds.\n\nConstruction on the Golborne Link had been due to start in the early 2030s, with the connection expected to open towards the end of that decade or in the early 2040s.\n\nMr Stephenson said: \"HS2 is a once-in-a-lifetime project that will transform travel across the entire UK as we know it and serve millions of people for hundreds of years to come, and it's absolutely vital that we get this right from the outset.\n\n\"Removing this link is about ensuring that we've left no stone unturned when it comes to working with our Scottish counterparts to find a solution that will best serve the great people of Scotland.\"\n\nPlans for the Golborne Link faced fierce criticism from MPs, councillors and local residents.\n\nLeader of Warrington Council Russ Bowden said: \"We have had concerns about the Golborne Link since the idea was first proposed, and I'm therefore really pleased to see that it is now no longer part of High Speed Rail plans.\n\n\"We recognise the huge benefits HS2 will bring to the north of the country, providing Warrington with better access and transport links.\n\n\"The Golborne Link, however, has always been a deal-breaker for us. It would have had profound and unnecessary impacts on many of our communities with no discernible benefits for our town.\"\n\nGavin Newlands MP, the Scottish National Party's transport spokesman at Westminster, criticised the decision's effect on Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"The original investment would have drastically improved Scotland's rail links with the north west of England, but yet again this Westminster government is tearing it apart.\"\n\nDarren Caplan, chief executive of the Railway Industry Association, told BBC Radio Scotland: \"The way it's come out is a pretty negative start to it all.\n\n\"The danger in this is there is not even a solution on the table. We need to know what the plans are.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Plane carrying 35 tonnes of baby formula arrives in the United States\n\nUS firm Abbott says it is restarting production at a baby formula plant after its shutdown contributed to a national shortage of the baby food.\n\nThe plant in Michigan - one of America's largest - was closed in February because of contamination.\n\nCoupled with global supply chain issues, the factory's closure led to acute shortages.\n\nParents were left scrambling for supplies, seeking formula from food banks, friends and doctor's offices.\n\nSome turned to social media to try to track down baby milk, while others attempted to make their own substitutes (against medical advice).\n\nThe facility has met initial government sanitary requirements for reopening, the company said in a statement.\n\nAbbott said it would initially prioritise the production of its EleCare speciality formulas for babies with severe food allergies and digestive problems.\n\n\"We're also working hard to fulfil the steps necessary to restart production of Similac and other formulas,\" Abbott said, referring to its more mainstream products. It plans to ramp up production as quickly as possible \"while meeting all requirements\", it said.\n\nThe company said it would take about three weeks before new formula from the plant began reaching stores.\n\nLast month, US President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act, a war-time measure, to boost domestic production of formula, and ordered the Pentagon to fly in shipments from overseas.\n\nA bill to alleviate the shortage was also overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives.\n\nOther countries have supplied formula to boost supplies during the crisis.\n\nThe Abbott plant shut down in February after the death of two babies, and the company issued a product recall amid concerns over bacterial contamination.\n\nInspectors for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) say they uncovered a number of anomalies at the plant, including bacterial contamination, leaks in the roof and a lack of basic hygiene.\n\nThe company says there is no conclusive evidence linking its products to infant illnesses or deaths.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal could pass fellow Spaniard Andres Gimeno's as the oldest French Open men's singles champion in history - a record set 50 years ago Coverage: Live text and radio commentary across BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC Sport website and app Rafael Nadal will bid for a record-extending 14th French Open title when he meets Casper Ruud on Sunday, in a meeting between master and student. The Spaniard, who turned 36 on Friday, recorded a 111th win on the Paris clay to reach a 14th final at Roland Garros. Norwegian eighth seed Ruud, 23, has trained at 21-time Grand Slam champion Nadal's academy in Mallorca since 2018. \"He's playing a student from his academy so it's going to be fun. It's something I've dreamed of,\" Ruud said. First-time finalist Ruud, the first player from his country to reach a singles final at a Slam, added: \"Nadal is the last of the very top players in the world I have never played against. \"I guess this is perfect timing and worth the wait. To finally play him in a Grand Slam final will be a special moment for me.\"\n• None Zverev injury 'not the way' Nadal wanted to reach Paris final Fifth seed Nadal was leading 7-6 (10-8) 6-6 when semi-final opponent Alexander Zverev was forced to retire because of injury on Friday. That result meant he became the second oldest men's singles finalist in French Open history, behind American Bill Tilden, 37 when runner-up in 1930. The Spaniard said he has \"huge respect\" for first-time major finalist Ruud, with whom he has often hit at the Rafa Nadal Academy, although they are yet to meet on the tour. \"Casper is a professional,\" Nadal said. \"He has a very good character for tennis. He's very relaxed, humble. He's always in a positive mood about learning. \"I think in the academy we were able to help him a little bit during this period of time but, more than anything, I like to see good people achieving their dreams. \"I'm happy for him, I'm happy for his mum and dad, who I know very well. For me it is not a big surprise. He did a lot of great things the last couple of years.\" Rafael Nadal is 13-0 in French Open finals and has never lost two sets when playing for the Coupe des Mousquetaires Victory on Sunday would take Nadal a second title clear of 20-time major winners Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in the race to finish on top among the 'big three'. He had feared his career was over last year when a chronic foot problem restricted him to one tournament in the final seven months of 2021. But he won the Australian Open in January to complete an incredible comeback and, after missing six weeks because of a rib stress fracture sustained in March, now stands on the verge of back-to-back major triumphs for the first time since 2010. \"Physically, I'm OK. Normally my problem is not the physical performance,\" said Nadal, who suffers from the degenerative foot condition Mueller-Weiss Syndrome. \"I was not very positive after [the Italian Open earlier in May] about my foot, but I was positive that I will be able to play here. \"Here I am. I played, I fought, I did all the things possible to give myself a chance to be where I am. I'm happy to be able to give myself another chance to play in the final of Roland Garros. \"That means a lot to me. All the sacrifices and all the things that I need to go through to try to keep playing really make sense when you enjoy moments like I'm enjoying in this tournament.\" Casper Ruud is the first Scandinavian man to reach a Grand Slam final since Robin Soderling did so at Roland Garros in 2010 Ruud, projected to rise to a career-high world number six on Monday, leads the ATP Tour for total wins (66), titles (seven) and finals (eight) on clay since 2020. He had never been beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam, but overcame the experienced Marin Cilic to set up the biggest match of his career, where he will face an opponent who has long been an inspiration. \"Rafa has been my idol all of my life,\" said Ruud, who would become the youngest Grand Slam men's champion since Juan Martin del Potro at the 2009 US Open. \"He has played so many finals, but at least he is playing a student from his academy this time. \"I could probably tell you all the finals, who he has played and who he has beaten, because I watched them all on TV. It's going to be amazing to be there myself.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone The last player to triumph in his first Grand Slam quarter-final, semi-final and final at the same event was Nadal, at Roland Garros, in 2005. \"To play Rafa in a Roland Garros final is probably the greatest challenge there is in this sport,\" Ruud added. \"It might sound like an impossible task but of course I will give it a shot. \"We all know what a great champion he is and how well he plays in the biggest moments and the biggest matches. \"I will need to play my best tennis ever. But I still have to believe that I can do it.\"\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "Police have blocked off roads to prevent people from joining the illegal rave\n\nHundreds of people are thought to have descended on a huge illegal rave in Cornwall.\n\nThe event, on Davidstow Moor near Camelford, began on Friday night and has grown to cover \"quite a large area\", police said.\n\nOfficers have been turning people away from the gathering, which has caused gridlock on surrounding roads.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it was working to disperse revellers from the scene.\n\nColin Caudery said he was pulling people \"out of their minds\" on drink and drugs out of ditches\n\nColin Caudery, who lives nearby, said he had not managed to get any sleep because of the \"absolutely awful\" noise.\n\nHe said: \"We called the police about 20:30 BST last night and from about 22:00 BST onwards we were kicking people out of the garden and off the land.\n\n\"Drunkards from Scotland, Liverpool, Brighton, London, everywhere -- it's just been total chaos.\"\n\nSue and Paul Fencott said \"To wake up in the morning and find there was a huge rave on the doorstep and it's likely to carry on tonight, that's really worrying.\n\n\"The road is completely full of cars, even now, so we couldn't get out now if we wanted to.\"\n\nTony said ravers didn't mean to worry anyone\n\nTony had come to the rave from Suffolk \"to enjoy some music with my friends... in the middle of nowhere\".\n\nWhen asked about the neighbours, he said: \"Shame about the circumstances, obviously, people worried about it and the disruption it's caused but that wasn't down to me and if I had it my way it probably wouldn't have happened like that.\"\n\nA force spokesperson said \"several hundred\" were still thought to be in attendance, although some had left on Saturday morning and officers have prevented new arrivals from entering.\n\nThree arrests - for various driving offences - have been made so far, the force said.\n\n\"There is currently a police cordon in place around the site and a number of local roads in the area until further notice,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"There is heavy traffic and travel disruption around Camelford and other areas so motorists should expect delays and are urged to avoid the area.\"\n\nThe force asked anyone considering attending the event to not do so \"in the interest of public safety\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM and his wife were at the Platinum Jubilee concert on Saturday evening\n\nBoris Johnson's bank holiday weekend hasn't involved much downtime. The prime minister attended a number of events to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee - including the service at St Paul's, where he was booed by part of the crowd.\n\nHe's also been putting the finishing touches to a major housing policy speech, pencilled in for Thursday, which will see his own answer to help-to-buy as its centrepiece.\n\nMr Johnson wants us all to know he wants to get on with the job. But in between attending jubilee parties, many Tory MPs have been plotting.\n\nAnd within days, some believe the PM will be engaged in a fight to stay in office.\n\nAll eyes will be on Sir Graham Brady when Parliament returns on Monday. He is the chairman of the 1922 committee - the shop steward for Conservative MPs.\n\nIf 15% of the party's MPs - 54 of them - write letters or emails to him calling for a confidence vote in the prime minister, it happens.\n\nOnly Sir Graham knows how many have been sent in so far. That caveat cannot be overstated; nobody knows for sure what will happen over the next few days.\n\nBut, speaking to Conservative MPs this weekend, many rebels think the threshold will be reached within days.\n\n\"The expectation is that it will likely be next week,\" one critic of the prime minister told the BBC. \"Colleagues have to make a decision - finally they will have to make their minds up.\"\n\nA number of others echoed those sentiments. Within government, some concede a vote could be triggered in the coming days \"by accident\" - not because of well organised rebellion from a section of the party, but because enough disparate groups of MPs are fed up enough to submit a no confidence letter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nSince Parliament broke up for recess on the same day the full Sue Gray report was published, there has been a growing number of MPs who have spoken out to say they think the prime minister should go. The BBC has 28 on the record saying so.\n\nPrivately there are others who are angry.\n\nOne MP said: \"I know there are people who have put letters in who haven't said so publicly.\" Enough to definitely force a vote this week? \"I don't know,\" they replied.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to a minister who is among those furious at the situation.\n\nBoris Johnson is said to be \"sanguine\" about the prospect of a confidence vote in the near term.\n\nAnd that is because if a vote happens, the bar to remove the prime minister from office is high. It would take a majority of Tory MPs - 180.\n\nOne of the rebels admitted to the BBC the most likely outcome of a confidence vote this week was a victory for the prime minister - but that Tory MPs couldn't sit on their hands any longer and wait for the next crisis before making a move.\n\nOthers think if a tipping point isn't reached this week, the best opportunity for rebels could come later this month, after the result of two by-elections triggered by Tory MPs standing down from Parliament.\n\nThere is a realistic chance the Conservatives will lose both Wakefield (a previous red wall seat that Labour will want to win back) and Tiverton and Honiton (a previous Tory safe seat in Devon, where many believe the Liberal Democrats are on course for another coup).\n\nIf the prime minister was seen to be losing in both the north and the south of England, it would probably lead to more of his MPs concluding he is no longer an election winner who can keep them in power.\n\nOne senior MP told the BBC: \"If I was them, I would wait until the by-elections… I'd be surprised if it's this week.\"\n\nThere are other reasons why some Tory MPs may hold back this week. Firstly, the prime minister is protected from another confidence vote for a year after winning one.\n\nThat means Tory MPs wouldn't have another opportunity after the by-elections unless they change the rules.\n\nSecondly, the expectation is that the prime minister would stay on even if he won the vote narrowly.\n\nAs one source close to the PM said this weekend: \"His opponents should not underestimate this man's determination to do what he promised to do.\" He is not, they said, going to give up the keys to Downing Street easily.\n\nThe PM's allies are scathing of those plotting to bring him down. They argue his critics have no alternative plan, no obvious leader and no discernible strategy.\n\n\"It's a random bunch of discontented people who don't have a plan but want to blow up the joint\".\n\nThe government should be focussing, the source argued, on the cost of living crisis, energy policy and the war in Ukraine. \"I can't imagine anything more insane and self-indulgent than deciding a Conservative beauty parade trumps all of that.\"\n\nBut if it happens, we already have a sense of how the prime minister will try to win a confidence vote. Mr Johnson's allies argue he is the only one who can keep together the diverse coalition of voters that won the party a stonking majority at the last election.\n\n\"The north of England was voting for Boris… he is conscious of the support he still has and the massive mandate he won.\"\n\nAnother source added: \"There is no alternative that doesn't blow apart the red wall. It's a huge decision for the party - if you get rid of him, you chuck the progress of the last few years in the bin\".\n\nThe Lib Dems are hopeful of success in Tiverton and Honiton\n\nThat is clearly not a view shared by many of his MPs. The prime minister's critics have spent the past week looking at polls - and concluding a change is needed.\n\nAmong the most despairing are those who have spent time on the doorsteps ahead of the by-election in Tiverton and Honiton.\n\nOne told the BBC the picture in the constituency was \"appalling\" with some voters saying they wouldn't back the Conservatives again without a change of leader.\n\nThere is no shortage of nerves among Tory MPs who could face a similar challenge at the next election - there are even some who have concluded they have no chance of winning their seat next time.\n\nIn the coming days or weeks, they will have a decision to make. Whether to act - or to keep the prime minister in office.\n\nWill June be a moment of truth for the Conservative Party - or another damp squib in the long running leadership psychodrama? Many Tory MPs are weighing that up as the bank holiday draws to a close.", "Police were called to reports of a man armed with a screwdriver and shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road\n\nA man who was rescued from the River Thames after police used a Taser to try to restrain him has died.\n\nThe Met Police said it was called at 09:03 BST on Saturday to reports of a man shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road armed with a screwdriver.\n\nHe was rescued from the water but died in hospital that night, The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nIt is investigating the contact the Met Police had with the man who was in his early 40s.\n\nThe IOPC said investigators had obtained accounts from the officers involved and secured police body-worn video footage.\n\nSteve Noonan, IOPC director, said: \"We have spoken to the man's family to express our sincere condolences and explain our involvement.\n\n\"Our sympathies remain with them at this terrible time.\n\n\"Our independent investigation is under way into the police actions at the bridge and we have begun gathering and reviewing evidence.\"\n\nThe Met said officers \"challenged a man on Chelsea Bridge\".\n\n\"A Taser was discharged but this did not enable the officers to safely detain him,\" the force said.\n\n\"The man, who is believed to be aged in his 40s, subsequently entered the river.\"\n\nCommander Alexis Boon said: \"My thoughts are with the family of the man at this very difficult time.\n\n\"I offer my sincere condolences to them for their tragic loss.\n\n\"Officers go to work every day to keep the public safe, and so any incident in which a person comes to harm following contact with police is understandably concerning.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man critical after Taser and fall into Thames\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I never thought I'd see Wales at a World Cup\"\n\nThat is just one of the emotions from Wales football fans as they celebrated their team qualifying for their first World Cup finals for 64 years.\n\nWales beat Ukraine 1-0 in Cardiff on Sunday to set-up a World Cup group with England, USA and Iran at November's World Cup.\n\n\"Wales in the World Cup...This is bliss,\" said fan Sal Farreed, 50, from Lampeter.\n\n\"I never thought I'd ever see this in my lifetime, I never thought this day would come.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps was asked by the BBC's Sophie Raworth if Boris Johnson would win a confidence vote\n\nBoris Johnson would win a confidence vote on his leadership, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said, as the PM continues to face calls to resign.\n\nSome Tory MPs have told the BBC such a ballot could be triggered this week, but Mr Shapps disagreed.\n\nHe also shrugged off crowds booing the PM, saying politicians didn't expect to be \"popular all the time\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a sign voters were \"fed up\" with the government.\n\nHe argued the jeers that greeted the prime minister when he attended a Platinum Jubilee celebration were a response to the government's \"inaction\" over the cost of living crisis.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, Mr Shapps said prime ministers had to make difficult decisions and not everyone would approve.\n\nHe also noted that Conservative ministers were booed at the London Olympic games in 2012, but still went on to to win the general election in 2015.\n\nHe suggested that at the next general election, voters would judge whether the government had \"done a good job as a whole\" and that decisions on Brexit, coronavirus and the economy would be what mattered to people.\n\nThe transport secretary also insisted Mr Johnson would not lose a confidence vote among his own MPs.\n\nA confidence vote would be triggered if 15% of the Conservative MPs - 54 of them - wrote letters or emails asking for one.\n\nSo far 28 Conservative MPs have publicly called on Boris Johnson to step down over revelations of widespread Covid-rule breaking in Downing Street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nHowever, only MP Sir Graham Brady - chair of the 1922 committee which represents Conservative backbench MPs - knows exactly how many have formally submitted requests for a confidence vote.\n\nSome Conservative MPs have privately told the BBC they believe the threshold for triggering a vote could happen in the coming week.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said he didn't think there would be a vote this week.\n\nAsked if the prime minister could win such a vote he said: \"Yes, he will.\"\n\nAll eyes will be on Sir Graham Brady when Parliament returns on Monday.\n\nOnly he knows how many letters have been sent in so far. That caveat cannot be overstated; nobody knows for sure what will happen over the next few days.\n\nBut, speaking to Conservative MPs this weekend, it seems many rebels think the threshold will be reached within days.\n\nWithin government, some concede a vote could be triggered in the coming days \"by accident\" - not because of a well-organised rebellion from a section of the party, but because enough disparate groups of MPs are fed up enough to submit a no confidence letter.\n\nOthers think if a tipping point isn't reached this week, the best opportunity for rebels could come later this month, after the result of two by-elections triggered by Tory MPs standing down from Parliament.\n\nWill June be a moment of truth for the Conservative Party - or another damp squib in the long running leadership psychodrama? Many Tory MPs are weighing that up as the bank holiday draws to a close.\n\nPressure on Mr Johnson to resign has been increasing since allegations emerged of parties taking place inside Downing Street while coronavirus restrictions were still in place.\n\nDuring an investigation into rule-breaking events in government buildings, the police issued a total of 126 fines to 83 people.\n\nMr Johnson himself was fined for attending a birthday party held for him in the Cabinet Room.\n\nThe prime minister did not receive a fine for attending this leaving do on 13 November 2020\n\nThe police's inquiry has been concluded, but the Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan said their rationale for fining people looks \"odd\" when taking into consideration photos released in the Sue Gray report.\n\nHe suggested a legal challenge of police decisions - launched by the Liberal Democrat politician and former senior police officer Brian Paddick - would ensure the public could see the evidence in relation to each individual case and \"resolve\" questions about why some people were fined and others not.\n\n\"What we don't want is the perception to be given that it is one rule for them, the rule-makers, and one rule for the rest of us,\" he said.", "Lamar Jackson, who performed under the name Hypo, was the former partner of singer Emeli Sande\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a rapper who was fatally stabbed at a Jubilee party in east London.\n\nLamar Jackson, who performed under the name Hypo, was attacked in front of a \"large number of people\" in Redbridge on Friday, police said.\n\nA post-mortem examination said the 39-year-old died from \"sharp force trauma to the chest\".\n\nThe Met Police said officers were called at about 00:10 BST on Friday to a venue in Chigwell Road in Woodford Green.\n\nMr Jackson was found with stab injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, the force said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Laurence Smith said: \"This attack happened at a party and we know that a large number of people would have been in attendance.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who is yet to speak with us to come forward and let us know what you saw.\"\n\nMr Smith said it was possible that events leading up to and possibly the death of Mr Jackson were captured on people's phone.\n\n\"Please take a look and call us. It is vital that we establish what happened,\" he said.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royals and officials filled St Paul's Cathedral on Friday for a service to thank the Queen, who is marking 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe Queen herself was not able to attend, having experienced \"discomfort\" the previous day.\n\nReferring to her love of horse racing, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said she was \"still in the saddle\".", "There was a heavy police presence in Hong Kong on Saturday, with some activists detained by police\n\nSix people have been arrested in Hong Kong as authorities moved to restrict public commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nSaturday was the 33rd anniversary of the highly sensitive incident in which China's rulers crushed peaceful protests with tanks and troops.\n\nUntil recently, Hong Kong was one of the few Chinese territories which commemorated the event.\n\nBut Beijing has effectively banned the city's annual public vigil.\n\nHong Kong Police confirmed five men and one woman had been arrested in the vicinity of Victoria Park, where a candlelight vigil marking the 1989 crackdown in Beijing would have been held.\n\nThe six are now in police custody.\n\nSome images shared on social media appeared to show people being detained and led away by police officers in the city. Others were seen being searched.\n\nHundreds of police, some with sniffer dogs, were also seen patrolling the area around the park in the evening.\n\nDozens of people - in an apparent attempt to replicate the annual candlelit vigil - turned on their mobile phone torches in an area near to the park on Saturday. They were then warned by police to turn them off, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nOfficials earlier warned that any unauthorised assembly could see demonstrators facing prison sentences of up to five years.\n\n\"For 33 years it has always been peaceful, but today it's like [the police] are facing a big enemy,\" one activist, Chan Po-ying, told AFP. \"The hearts of people will live on.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing became the focus for national demonstrations calling for greater political freedoms in 1989. Thousands of people - mainly students - camped for weeks in the square before the military moved in on 4 June and opened fire.\n\nOne unidentified protester became an international symbol of protest for blocking an advancing column of tanks in video footage which was seen around the world.\n\nThe Chinese government says 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to as many as 10,000.\n\nThe actions of the authorities have been seen by activists as part of China's broader agenda to snuff out political dissent in Hong Kong.\n\nChina's erasure of public displays of June Fourth - as the Tiananmen anniversary is popularly known in Chinese - has become near-total in Hong Kong since Beijing enacted a national security law on the island in 2020.\n\nSelf-ruled Taiwan is one of the only parts of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be commemorated openly, and on Saturday hundreds of people gathered in the capital Taipei.\n\nTaiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen criticised the \"collective memory of 4 June being systematically erased in Hong Kong\".\n\n\"But we believe that such brute force cannot erase people's memories,\" she wrote on social media.\n\n\"It's a symbol of how democracy is precious and fragile at the same time, and how people who care about democracy need to stand up,\" Jeremy Chiang, who attended the event in Taipei, told Reuters.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nTop seed Iga Swiatek underlined why she was the red-hot French Open favourite by beating Coco Gauff in straight sets to win her second Grand Slam title.\n\nPoland's Swiatek, 21, won 6-1 6-3 against the American teenager to record her 35th straight victory - equalling the longest WTA streak this century.\n\nGauff, 18, was contesting a first major singles final and made a nervy start.\n\nSwiatek, who also won Roland Garros in 2020, took full advantage and went on to win her sixth successive title.\n\nBy fighting back from a break down in the second set, Swiatek won the 56th of her past 58 sets.\n\nShe also maintained her streak of winning in finals, extending that record to nine in a row.\n\n\"I try to treat a final like any other match,\" Swiatek said.\n\n\"That is pretty hard and kind of not possible, because there are always going to be bigger amounts of stress.\n\n\"I'm also aware that my opponents are also going to be stressed. So I try to not panic and just be less stressed than they are.\"\n• None Re-live how Swiatek beat Gauff to win the French Open title\n• None 'Coco could become a rival for years' - Iga Swiatek column\n\nWith clouds darkening and thunder rumbling overhead, Swiatek brought up two championship points and took the first when Gauff hit a forehand long.\n\nAfter a warm embrace with Gauff, Swiatek dashed off court to hug her team in the stands - and Poland footballer Robert Lewandowski, who came to watch on his day off from Nations League duty.\n\n\"Two years ago winning this title was something amazing and never expected,\" said Swiatek, who finished her victory speech to send a message of support to Ukraine following the invasion by Russia.\n\n\"This time I had worked hard to get here and did everything I could, even though the pressure was tough. The pressure was big but I did it.\"\n\nThe celebrations were in stark contrast to the sight of Gauff, who was distraught as she sat alone on her chair and broke into tears before putting a towel over her head.\n\n\"I'm super proud of myself and feeling a lot of emotions. A mix of happiness and sadness,\" the 18th seed said.\n\n\"I'm going to take this experience and hopefully learn from it and get better.\"\n\nNot since Serena Williams in her prime had there been as strong a favourite for a Grand Slam women's singles title as Swiatek.\n\nIn a stunning start to 2022, the Polish player won five consecutive tournaments - in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome - and took over as the WTA world number one following Ashleigh Barty's surprise retirement in March.\n\nSince then, her level has increased even further and to a point far higher than any of her rivals on the WTA Tour.\n\nA dominant win against Gauff saw her overtake Serena Williams and moved alongside Venus Williams in terms of the longest streaks by WTA players this century.\n\n\"Having that 35th win and kind of doing something more than Serena did, it's something special,\" Swiatek said.\n\nThe differing levels of experience at this stage of tournaments between Swiatek and Gauff - playing in her first final this year - showed from the start.\n\nThe American produced a double fault for 0-30 and then a weak backhand for the first break point of the match. That went Swiatek's way when Gauff hit a forehand long.\n\nIt continued Swiatek's record of breaking her opponent's serve at the first attempt in every match at Roland Garros this year.\n\nA couple of backhand winners down the line in the next game seemed as if they might settle the American as she took Swiatek to deuce.\n\nHowever, Swiatek held serve with an ace and a forehand winner and then swamped her opponent's serve to break again for a 3-0 lead.\n\n\"I wasn't as nervous really entering the match,\" Gauff said.\n\n\"When I lost the first couple of games the nerves started to come, but when I lost the first set I really came out in the second and had a new mindset.\"\n\n\"But for the most part I think that Iga was just too good.\"\n\nSupported by a sympathetic crowd who wanted to see a contest, Gauff got on the scoreboard to huge cheers at 4-1 but continued to be overwhelmed as Swiatek wrapped up the opening set in 32 minutes.\n\nGauff nipped off court at the end of the first set and returned to break in the first game of the second and then held for a 2-0 lead.\n\nBut her forehand continued to break down under severe pressure as Swiatek rattled off the next five games to turn the set around.\n\nIn the end, Swiatek's greater experience in finals - she has lost only one of her nine at the top level and that was her first in April 2019 - helped secure a victory which most had predicted before the clay-court Grand Slam started.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nIga Swiatek has the ability to overwhelm opponents from the very first ball, and is especially ruthless in finals - she has now won nine in a row in straight sets.\n\nHaving celebrated her 21st birthday last Tuesday, she has become the youngest woman to win multiple Grand Slams since Maria Sharapova claimed her second major title at the US Open of 2006.\n\nShe has almost precisely twice the number of ranking points of any other player, and that gulf has been all too evident in the six tournaments she has won since her last defeat in the middle of February.\n\nCoco Gauff struggled with her forehand, in the first set especially. It is her weaker side, and so it is of no great surprise that the stroke malfunctioned amid the pressure of a first Grand Slam final.\n\nAnd once the tears have dried, Gauff will be able to look forward to the future with even greater optimism. She has only just graduated from high school, and yet already has a Grand Slam final under her belt.\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "The Duchess of Cambridge and her children baked the cakes for the Jubilee street party in Cardiff\n\nIt's not every day you have a royal street party - or get to eat cakes baked by princes and a princess.\n\nBut some celebrating the Platinum Jubilee had a right royal treat when they turned up to their street party in Heath, Cardiff.\n\nFairy cakes, made by the Duchess of Cambridge and her children, were left as a surprise following the the royal visit on Saturday.\n\n\"We hope you like them\", the Duke and Duchess posted on twitter.\n\n\"It was a lovely thought for the Royal children to make cakes for the children in the Heath,\" said Cardiff Lord Mayor Graham Hinchey.\n\nMr Hinchey said he met the Royal couple on Saturday at Cardiff Castle and they made the offer to provide the cakes for his community in the Heath.\n\n\"Welcoming the Royal couple and children to Cardiff was lovely, I took them through the Castle event, it was really nice and has made my week as Lord Mayor very special,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe fairy cakes arrived at a Platinum Jubilee street party in Heath, Cardiff\n\n\"It was really lovely to welcome the Duke and Duchess and to have the children come to Cardiff for their first royal visit, they were so friendly so welcoming and so relaxed,\" the lord mayor added.\n\nOn Saturday Prince George and Princess Charlotte joined their parents in the Welsh capital for their first official outing in Wales.\n\nThey met a host of performers including singer Bonnie Tyler and drumming weatherman Owain Wyn Evans, and greeted hundreds of well-wishers before leaving to head back to the celebrations in London.\n\nHundreds of people are expected to visit Cardiff's Bute Park on Sunday for the Big Jubilee Picnic, while similar events are set to take place across the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Princess Charlotte conducts orchestra at Jubilee rehearsal in Cardiff during Saturday's visit\n\nElsewhere in Wales, a planned Jubilee carnival in Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, was almost thrown into chaos after a marquee hired for the carnival was blown away by the wind on Saturday.\n\n\"The marquee, it just took off, I was trying to hang onto it but I couldn't,\" said Janett Bickley, chair of the carnival committee, who is dressed as The Queen.\n\nSunday's Jubilee carnival in Aberfan was saved after the local community centre stepped in to host\n\nHowever the celebration was saved after the local centre stepped stepped in in to host, and the party was saved.\n\n\"We've been planning this since January,\" said Ms Bickley, adding that she still expected a big turnout for the event.\n\nIt's so exciting, we had a massive venue, it was going to a festival spirit, but obviously because of weather issues we've had to relocate to the community centre.\n\nThere's going to be at least five hundred people, I don't know how we're going to fit them all in, but it's so brilliant to see everybody here smiling and bringing the community back together.\"\n\nThe jubilee carnival was saved, and the local community centre is now hosting more than 500 people\n\nMeanwhile, around 90 portions of fish and chips have been served up at a Jubilee party for veterans and residents living in Offa, Wrexham.\n\nThe party - initially meant to be held in Bellevue Park - also moved into the community centre after concerns about thunderstorms.\n\nAt the party was 97-year-old Ted Edwards - Wrexham's last remaining Normandy veteran - who said he was \"very proud\" of the Queen.\n\nTed Edwards said that the Queen - 12 months his junior - was \"still a baby\"\n\n\"The Queen was a driver in the war. She did a wonderful job,\" said Mr Edwards.\n\n\"I think she's feeling it now that she's lost her husband. I know how she feels, when I lost my wife.\"\n\nHe added that at 96, 12 months younger than him, the Queen was \"still a baby\".", "Leicestershire Police say two people were injured in the incident\n\nThree men have been arrested after a Jubilee street party in Leicestershire descended into a mass brawl.\n\nMore than 20 people were involved in the fight in Shields Crescent, Castle Donington, on Saturday at 22:54 BST.\n\nLeicestershire Police said two people were injured and stones were thrown and the windscreen of a car was damaged.\n\nThe men arrested over the brawl remain in police custody. The force said inquiries were continuing to establish the circumstances of the fight.\n\nOfficers from Charnwood Police, East Midlands Airport Police and North West Leicestershire Police were in attendance.\n\nFour police cars were pictured outside the property on the residential estate.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen met her great-granddaughter Lilibet for the first time recently\n\nSenior royals have tweeted their birthday wishes to Lilibet - the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - who turned one on Saturday.\n\nThe greetings came from the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as her aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThis week would have been the first opportunity for the Queen to meet her great-granddaughter.\n\nHarry and Meghan are in London with their children for the Jubilee.\n\nLilibet \"Lili\" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, who was born in California, was named in honour of the Queen, whose family nickname has been \"Lilibet\" since she was a child.\n\nThe baby's middle name Diana was chosen in memory of her grandmother.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nHer parents made their first public appearance in the UK together since 2020 on Friday when they attended a service at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nRoyal commentator Omid Scobie speculated that Thursday was likely to have been the \"first moment or the first chance for her [the Queen] to meet her namesake\".\n\nHowever there has been no confirmation whether the Queen has met her great-granddaughter.\n\nThe couple stepped down as senior royals in early 2020 and moved to the US.\n\nNeither Lilibet nor her older brother Archie have been seen in public since they arrived in the country for the weekend's celebrations.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan travelled to the UK with Lilibet and Archie, their two children, for the Platinum Jubilee", "Airlines including EasyJet and Wizz Air have cancelled dozens of flights as UK air travel disruption continues.\n\nEasyJet said it had cut 80 flights on Sunday, and apologised to customers for the disruption.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC the aviation industry cut too many jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and it must not oversell flights.\n\nHe said he wanted airlines to automatically compensate passengers.\n\nPassengers have faced a raft of UK flight cancellations causing disruptions for many families on half-term holidays.\n\nTen-year-old Noah and his younger sister Beau won't be in school on Monday morning after a cancelled EasyJet flight left their family stranded in Dalyan, Turkey.\n\nTheir mother, Emma, a hairdresser has had to cancel clients by text.\n\nThe family of six, including Emma's parents, spent 10 hours on Saturday night at the airport waiting to see if they would be able to fly out as planned, before finally being bussed back to the hotel at 4.30am.\n\nEasyJet offered them a flight on Thursday to Liverpool, but their car is parked at Gatwick.\n\n\"The [EasyJet] app literally says rearrange your flight or get a refund,\" says father Scott. \"So we've just spend £3,000 on a flight home tomorrow night... flying to Stanstead.\"\n\nScott and Emma have spent £3,000 on flights home, money they hope they'll be able to claim back\n\nEasyJet said it had cancelled about 80 flights on Sunday \"due to the ongoing challenging operating environment\".\n\n\"We are very sorry and fully understand the disruption this will have caused for our customers,\" the airline said, adding it was doing everything possible to get passengers to their destinations.\n\nIt said it had extended its customer service opening hours from 07:00 to 23:00, and was helping those affected find hotel accommodation.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC One's Sunday Morning programme that labour shortages were behind the travel disruption, resulting in airlines \"finding it difficult to get people on board\".\n\n\"When someone has bought a ticket for a flight, they've every right to expect that flight will take off, and not find that flight has been cancelled,\" he said.\n\n\"Airlines should be cautious about not overselling those flights, [and] where there are problems they need to fix them quickly.\"\n\nHe said the government had provided £8bn of support to the sector during the pandemic, along with furlough support, so decisions to cut staff had been made by the industry.\n\nMr Shapps added that airlines had \"cut too deep\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Clearly [the airlines] have been taken by surprise by the way in which people have returned to travel after two years of being locked down,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he wanted a \"proper charter\" for passengers so they could get \"quick and straightforward compensation or be put on other flights\".\n\nMr Shapps said he wanted a similar system to \"Delay Repay\" train passenger refunds \"where it's an automated process\".\n\nHowever, he again rejected the idea of easing aviation labour shortages by relaxing immigration requirements.\n\nAirlines have called on the government to issue special immigration visas to allow them to recruit overseas workers in the short term, as was done for the haulage and meat processing industries.\n\nThat idea was backed by London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan who said airport jobs should be opened up to people from the European Union.\n\n\"This is self-inflicted from the government. This is about Brexit plus Covid.\"\n\n\"What we don't want is this spring misery turned into summer misery,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said after the government eased immigration rules in the haulage industry only 27 lorry drivers had come over from the European Union to help ease the chronic shortage, which instead had been alleviated by government measures.\n\nGatwick Airport said that 52 departures and 30 arrivals were cancelled on Sunday.\n\nThe majority were EasyJet flights, but British Airways, Wizz Air and Vueling were also affected.\n\nFlights from Barcelona, Nice, Madrid, Belfast, Geneva, Corfu, Faro in Portugal and Glasgow were among those cancelled.\n\nA Gatwick spokesperson said the airport was \"operating normally\" but would be busy with 830 flights.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said that on a typical day you would expect to see half a dozen flights being cancelled to and from the UK, with those spread over all airlines.\n\nHe said in addition about 3,000 passengers heading for Luton on Sunday had been diverted after a power failure affected air traffic control systems.\n\nWizz Air issued a statement saying it was doing as much as it could to help passengers reach their destinations. It said several things were causing \"operational instability\" in the travel industry, including staff shortages within air traffic control, ground operations and baggage handling, security and across airports.\n\nIt offered customers affected its \"sincere apologies\" and said they would be offered alternative flights with Wizz Air, a full refund or 120% in airline credit, which it aimed to process within one week.\n\nHas your flight been cancelled at the last minute? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Queen, Diana Ross, Duran Duran and more perform at the Platinum Party at the Palace\n\nAt most pop concerts, the audience don't turn their backs on the stage. But this wasn't a normal pop concert, and this wasn't a normal audience.\n\nFor most of the 22,000 fans attending The Platinum Party at the Palace, the Royal Family were the real stars.\n\nTen minutes before the show started, Prince Charles walked the short distance from Buckingham Palace to the temporary grandstand, waving cheerfully at the crowd as they shouted \"Charles! Charles! Sir! Sir!\" and zoomed their camera phones in to get a better glimpse of the heir to the throne.\n\nAnd while acts like Queen, Elbow and Duran Duran took to the stage, the audience craned their necks to see what was happening in the royal box.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nThe concert began with a celebration of the Queen's love of humour - as she shared a pot of tea with Paddington Bear in a pre-filmed, heart-warming sketch. Immediately afterwards, Queen (the band) kicked off the music in style, embellishing We Will Rock You with military pomp, courtesy of the Royal Marine Drummers.\n\nBut many other acts seemed to leave the royal-watchers in the audience mystified.\n\n\"I'm not really into gigs,\" admitted one man standing next to me. \"Who's that?\" shouted another when host Lee Mack introduced chart-topping dance act Sigala.\n\nAnd when Jax Jones took to the stage, were the crowd nodding in time to his slick house-pop, or in acknowledgement of his opening song, You Don't Know Me?\n\nMore familiar artists fared better. Sir Rod Stewart received a hero's welcome as he ran through Baby Jane; George Ezra's Shotgun triggered an enthusiastic sing-along; and when Mack announced \"please go crazy for Duran Duran\", the crowd duly obliged.\n\nSir Rod Stewart made full use of the four interconnected stages at the front of Buckingham Palace\n\nOther highlights included Elbow, who performed One Day Like This with a choir of refugees representing more than 30 countries; and US star Alicia Keys, who retooled her songs of female empowerment as a tribute to the monarch's endurance.\n\nAs she sang at the piano, the words \"strength\" and \"superwoman\" were projected onto the facade of Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"Is this girl on fire?\" asked the singer, introducing a song of the same name, before declaring: \"Yes, Queen!\" - cheekily appropriating a term that originated in black and LGBTQ club cultures in the US.\n\nAlicia Keys played a medley of hits including Superwoman, Girl On Fire and Empire State Of Mind\n\nSam Ryder also impressed with a full-throated rendition of his Eurovision smash Space Man, which achieved interstellar orbit via a call-and-response chorus and a squealing guitar solo.\n\nSir Elton John's rendition of Your Song, taped in the red drawing room of Windsor Castle, was genuinely moving. And so, to my surprise, was the moment that drones floating above Buckingham Palace created an image of the Queen's beloved corgis.\n\nThere were also pre-taped messages from stellar names like Sir Paul McCartney, who said: \"I love you like many other people, so congratulations and thank you for 70 beautiful years\"; and Michelle Obama, who thanked the Queen for her \"extraordinary kindness towards our children\".\n\nSam Ryder was dressed for the occasion in a union jack outfit\n\nFor viewers at home, in particular, it was a slick, encyclopaedic journey through seven decades of rock and pop - with a few gaps (counter-cultural movements like punk and Britpop didn't get a showing).\n\nAnd, as with all events on this scale, there were inevitably some moments that didn't quite work.\n\nDiana Ross struggled to find her key as she sang Chain Reaction (viewers at home, apparently spared this moment, complained her microphone was too quiet); and George Ezra seemingly self-censored the lyric \"You better throw a party on the day that I die\", drawing more attention than if he'd left it intact.\n\nDiana Ross closed the show with a stunning rendition of Ain't No Mountain High Enough\n\nRod Stewart introduced a rendition of Sweet Caroline - chosen as a tribute to the Queen by the audience of BBC Radio 2 - by announcing: \"This isn't a fun one to sing but the BBC made me sing it. Make it fun for me.\"\n\nThe Royal Family did their best, singing along and waving flags in time to the Neil Diamond classic.\n\nThere were also a couple of references to politics. Standing in front of Buckingham Palace's front gates, Mack joked: \"Finally we can say the words 'party' and 'gate' and it's a positive,\" prompting jeers for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was in the royal box.\n\nLater, Stephen Fry referred to the number of prime ministers the Queen has \"tolerated\" during her seven-decade reign.\n\nThe Prince of Wales read a touching tribute to his mother\n\nFry also jokingly asked: \"How many concerts of raucously loud music has she had to endure outside her house?\"\n\nThe Queen watched similar events 10 and 20 years ago, but was unable to attend this concert in person, having already missed the Epsom Derby earlier in the day and a service of Thanksgiving on Friday.\n\nPrince Charles did speak on stage, explaining that his mother had missed the show with \"intense regret\". But it is hard to know what she would have made of it all.\n\nWe do know her favourite songs predate the rock era. A playlist of her top 10, released to mark her 90th birthday in 2016, includes Dame Vera Lynn's White Cliffs of Dover and Fred Astaire's Cheek to Cheek alongside hymns and songs from musical theatre.\n\nSo she probably would have enjoyed Andrea Bocelli's Nessun Dorma and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's medley of theatre hits more than Sigala's Came Here With Love.\n\nPop singer Mabel gave one of the night's most energetic performances\n\nBut, as Prince Charles pointed out towards the end of the two-and-a-half hour extravaganza, that wasn't necessarily the point.\n\n\"The scale of this evening's celebration - and the outpouring of warmth and affection over this whole Jubilee weekend - is our way of saying thank you,\" he said, affectionately addressing the monarch as \"mummy\".\n\nHe then encouraged the crowd to make a noise loud enough for her to hear in Windsor Castle, 20 miles away.\n\nAnd so the audience turned away from the stage one last time, facing west as they gave the Queen three cheers.\n\nThousands of people crammed into the Mall to watch the show, alongside 22,000 ticketholders who gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace\n\nElbow and the Citizens of the World Choir\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Columns of dark smoke rose above Kyiv's skyline on Sunday\n\nA number of explosions shook parts of Kyiv early on Sunday in the first assault on Ukraine's capital for weeks.\n\nRussia claims it targeted a site storing tanks supplied by Europe, but Ukraine says rockets hit a train repair plant where no tanks were held.\n\nColumns of black smoke could be seen above the city after the attack and at least one person was hurt.\n\nKyiv has been largely spared in recent months as Russian forces concentrate attacks on Donbas in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe capital has felt like it is returning to some sort of normality; bars and cafes are open and people are back on the streets.\n\nBut watching columns of black smoke rising over Kyiv in the early hours of Saturday morning, that illusion was shattered.\n\nJust a few moments before, Russian cruise missiles had slammed into two sites in the east of the city. Dramatic video on social media showed a number of explosions. The man filming cursed the Russians as he ducked for cover.\n\nAt the site of one of the strikes, normal life continued. The factory itself was sealed off, but families nearby went about their business, and buses dropped off passengers. One man came and rather angrily demanded we stop filming.\n\nMoscow claimed it was targeting a delivery of tanks and armoured vehicles sent in by Ukraine's eastern European allies. Kyiv denied this, saying it was a train repair plant dealing with \"gondola cars and grain trucks\".\n\nThe strike damaged a building in the Darnitsky district of Kyiv\n\nIt comes as Russia's advances into the eastern Donbas region seem to be stalling, with one Ukrainian politician saying the attack on Kyiv was revenge for Moscow's frustrations.\n\nSome of the fiercest fighting is currently in the city of Severodonetsk - one of the few parts of Luhansk region not fully under Russian control. Luhansk is one of two regions which makes up the Donbas.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said there was street-fighting in Severodonetsk and that it was still possible for Ukrainian forces to retake it.\n\n\"Russians understand that if there is a stable supply of ammunition to Ukrainians, they will not be able to hold the city.\"\n\nSeverodonetsk lies across the river from the city of Lysychansk, which remains under Ukrainian control. Mr Haidai said it held more strategic value.\n\n\"Lysychansk is much more important because it is located on the hill. It is easier for the military to defend and strike,\" he said.\n\nUkrainian forces are also hoping that more advanced rocket systems promised by the US will arrive soon, tipping the balance in their favour.\n\nBut speaking on Russian television on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if the West carried through with its promises of sending the weapons to Ukraine, he would hit \"new targets they had not attacked before\".\n\nIt wasn't clear what he meant by that, but it would most likely mean more nights for Kyiv like the one it has just endured.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales overcame another monumental effort from Ukraine to qualify for their first World Cup since 1958 on a night of high emotion and drama in Cardiff.\n\nHaving beaten Scotland in an emotionally draining semi-final four days earlier, the Ukrainians - with the backdrop of their country's war with Russia - were deeply impressive once again but fell just short in their attempt to reach only a second World Cup in their history.\n\nInstead, it was Wales who achieved that feat at a delirious Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nTheir winning goal came against the run of play as Gareth Bale's first-half free-kick was inadvertently headed in by Ukraine captain Andriy Yarmolenko, a particularly cruel way for the visitors to concede having dominated before then.\n\nBoth teams tired but threw players forward in a chaotic second half, with Bale wasting a golden opportunity and substitute Brennan Johnson hitting the post for Wales.\n\nUkraine also had several chances to equalise but were repelled by the phenomenal goalkeeping of Wayne Hennessey and defending of Ben Davies.\n\nThis was not a vintage Welsh performance but they played with great resolve, and the scenes of celebration inside a deafening Cardiff City Stadium spoke of how cathartic it is for this footballing nation to rid itself of its 64-year World Cup drought.\n\nNow Wales can finally look forward to being a part of football's greatest competition in November, where England, the United States and Iran await in their group in Qatar.\n\nAs for this Ukrainian team, playing to the backdrop of Russia's invasion of their homeland, they have been an inspiration.\n\nThey were cheered on in Cardiff by their passionate supporters, including 100 refugees who were given tickets for free by the Football Association of Wales, while home fans showed their appreciation for the away side with warm applause before kick-off.\n\nHowever, Wales' mantra in the build-up to this game - as cold as it may have sounded - was that they had to take the emotion out of this occasion and temporarily put their compassion to one side.\n\nAnd they did it to realise their own, long-held dream.\n\nSince their only other World Cup appearance in 1958, Welsh football history has been littered with tales of near misses. From Scotland in 1977 and 1985 to Romania in 1993, Wales have stood on the brink of history before - only to stumble at the final hurdle.\n\nBut these are different times. This is Wales' golden era, in which their players are not burdened by that past.\n\nQualifying for Euro 2016 ended their 58-year wait for a major tournament and reaching a first semi-final in France took Welsh football to new heights.\n\nThen they followed that success by qualifying for Euro 2020 - but a World Cup is another level again.\n\nAnd while this Wales side might not be shackled by the memories of previous failures, Robert Page's men were never going to make it easy for themselves.\n\nWales started in a panic, hurrying into tackles and picking up yellow cards for Joe Allen and Daniel James inside two minutes as Ukraine controlled the early exchanges.\n\nThe visitors dominated possession and forced Hennessey into a flurry of early saves, while Oleksandr Zinchenko had a goal disallowed after shooting from a free-kick taken too quickly.\n\nWhile Ukraine's noisy blue and yellow contingent enjoyed their team's vibrant start, a sense of unease spread through the home fans at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nTheir anxiety increased as Zinchenko, orchestrating matters artfully in midfield, called Hennessey into action yet again with a firm left-footed shot from long range.\n\nAnd yet for all the Ukrainian pressure, it was Bale - who else - who conjured the moment, with some luck, which led to Wales' opening goal.\n\nPeripheral for the first half an hour, the Wales captain lashed a free-kick towards the Ukrainian goal but, as the ball seemed to be drifting wide, it was steered in by the diving Yarmolenko.\n\nUkraine's skipper thought he would have a chance to redeem himself when he appeared to be tripped by Allen inside the Wales box but, after a VAR check, no penalty was given.\n\nFortuitous as the goal might have been, Wales' lead meant that Ukraine attacked with abandon in the second half and left themselves vulnerable defensively.\n\nAaron Ramsey had a glorious opportunity as Kieffer Moore pulled the ball back to him inside the Ukrainian penalty area, but the Juventus midfielder miscued his shot wide.\n\nThe game soon become so open it was ragged, both sides exchanging chances like two punch-drunk boxers trading blows.\n\nHennessey blocked instinctively from Viktor Tsygankov, before Davies slid in to deny Yarmolenko in a goal-saving intervention that brought to mind his block against Slovakia at Euro 2016.\n\nJohnson came on to hit the post and, moments later, Bale could only shoot straight at Ukraine keeper Georgiy Buschchan from close range.\n\nThe longer Wales went without scoring a second goal, the more the nerves crept back in as Ukraine exerted more pressure.\n\nHennessey pulled off a majestic, flying save to deny Artem Dovbyk and, the more time ticked away, the more desperate the Ukrainian attacks became.\n\nTheir commitment was faultless but so was Wales' as they held firm to free a nation from its past.\n• None Mykhailo Mudryk (Ukraine) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Andrii Yarmolenko (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Serhii Sydorchuk.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrii Yarmolenko (Ukraine) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrii Yarmolenko (Ukraine) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Oleksandr Karavaev.\n• None Attempt missed. Serhii Sydorchuk (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Vitalii Mykolenko (Ukraine) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Wilson (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Karavaev (Ukraine) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mykola Shaparenko.\n• None Attempt saved. Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Vitalii Mykolenko with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need 61 runs to win, New Zealand five wickets\n\nJoe Root and Ben Stokes gave England huge hope of a stunning victory on a gripping third day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nChasing a challenging 277, England reached 216-5, needing another 61 runs. Though captain Stokes was out for 54, former skipper Root remains on 77, having added 57 with Ben Foakes.\n\nThe fifth-wicket pair dragged the home side from 69-4 and England would have been 76-5 had Colin de Grandhomme not overstepped in bowling Stokes when he had only one.\n\nThe Stokes-Root partnership added 90 and was only ended by Stokes trying a needless uppercut that gave impressive pace bowler Kyle Jamieson a fourth wicket.\n\nEngland's turnaround began in the morning session, when they took three wickets in three balls to spark a New Zealand collapse of 6-34.\n\nDaryl Mitchell completed a century, but after he was out for 108 and Tom Blundell for 96, the Black Caps were dismissed for 285.\n\nThen came the ups and downs of the England chase, leaving the prospect of a grandstand conclusion on the fourth morning.\n• None Broad has 'good feeling' England can beat New Zealand\n\nThis was a fascinating, fluctuating day of Test cricket, one on which each side enjoyed periods of momentum and ultimately ended with the match balanced on a knife-edge.\n\nThe Stuart Broad over in which England claimed the triple strike was electric, the hosts' top-order collapse depressingly familiar, and the Root-Stokes fightback filled with tension.\n\nIn the case of Stokes, the captain evoked memories of the 2019 World Cup final, when he hauled England to a famous victory on this ground against the same opponents.\n\nStokes' reprieve was a huge moment, a present on his 31st birthday. It was part of a miserable day for De Grandhomme, who was run out from the only ball he faced, took the wicket off a no-ball then hobbled out of the game with a heel strain.\n\nIf Stokes had remained, England would have started the fourth day as overwhelming favourites and probably much closer to victory, but New Zealand will return knowing they need only one wicket to expose a lengthy tail.\n\nA second new ball is still 15 overs away, yet England are likely to have to come through that challenge if they are to win.\n\nAfter England lost four wickets for 38 runs, it would have taken the most optimistic supporter to believe they would not lose inside three days, let alone end Saturday possessing such a chance of winning.\n\nWith Jamieson causing havoc, Alex Lees shouldered arms to one that kissed off stump, Zak Crawley offered his trademark edge and Jonny Bairstow was bowled playing a booming drive. In between, Ollie Pope was twisted inside out in being bowled by Trent Boult.\n\nEven skipper Stokes looked skittish, often dancing down the pitch, just as he did when was bowled off the De Grandhomme no-ball.\n\nIn among the chaos, Root was a reassuring presence, the former captain closing in on 10,000 Test runs with flicks, punches and busy running.\n\nAs Stokes settled, he launched spinner Ajaz Patel over mid-wicket with three thrilling sweeps for six. Just as England were getting on top, Stokes looked for an ambitious ramp and gloved Jamieson behind.\n\nThough Foakes only moved to nine, he offered determined support to Root, who sensed a weariness in a New Zealand attack missing De Grandhomme and accelerated late in the day.\n\nTo have any hope of winning this match, England had to utilise the second new ball to restrict New Zealand's second innings, which began Saturday on 236-4.\n\nMitchell moved from 97 to 100 from the first ball he faced, only to edge Broad and become the first of the three wickets to fall in as many balls.\n\nWith Broad revving up the crowd, De Grandhomme was distracted by an lbw appeal and was run out by Pope's direct hit from fourth slip, then Jamieson was bowled off his pad.\n\nAfter watching the chaos from the other end, Blundell got trapped leg before by one that James Anderson got to nip back.\n\nWhen Tim Southee slashed to slip for Matt Parkinson's first Test wicket, England had taken the last six New Zealand wickets in the space of eight overs.\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was really enjoyable, great to get the crowd going. We knew that new ball had to count, if they got past 300-320 it was a taller ask.\n\n\"Things went our way, we had to execute our chance and as a bowling group we should be very proud.\n\nNew Zealand all-rounder Daryl Mitchell: \"Scoring a Test century at Lord's is a big honour. It was nice to get it done nice and early. It hasn't sunk in just yet.\n\n\"We will show up tomorrow morning with the chance to open up an end and get stuck into their bowlers.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"I have England as the favourites, despite the fact it will do more in the morning. It always does more in the morning at Lord's.\n\n\"England have shown great character. They looked vulnerable, it looked tricky with the bat and, when Jonny Bairstow got out, I thought that was it.\n\n\"Joe Root just read the game and upped his rate once Ben Stokes got out.\"", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police found the man on Chelsea Bridge Road, near the River Thames\n\nA man is in a critical condition after being Tasered by police and falling in the River Thames.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man armed with a screwdriver and shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road, in Chelsea, just after 09:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nOfficers challenged a man in his 40s before shooting him with a Taser. He then fell into the river.\n\nThe man is in a critical condition in hospital and an internal investigation has been launched by the Met Police.\n\nA Met spokesman said shooting the man with a Taser \"did not enable the officers to safely detain him\" and he \"subsequently entered the river\".\n\nVideo shared online shows two officers confronting the man, who falls to the ground after the Taser is discharged.\n\nHe eventually gets up and runs to the side of the bridge, and is seen to pull himself over the edge before either officer can reach him.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"A rescue operation was immediately organised.\n\n\"The man was rescued from the water by the RNLI and taken to hospital, where his condition has been assessed as critical.\"\n\nPolice are trying to reach the man's family to offer them support from specialist officers.\n\nMeanwhile, the force's Directorate of Professional Standards is probing the circumstances and the Met has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nDet Ch Insp Rory Wilkinson said: \"My thoughts are with this man, who is extremely unwell in hospital.\n\n\"Officers are making every effort to make contact with his family.\n\n\"I understand that there are always concerns about incidents in which people come to harm having been in contact with police.\n\n\"All Met officers know that they are accountable for their actions, and a full investigation is under way to establish exactly what happened.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the IOPC confirmed an independent investigation is under way.\n\nShe said: \"Investigators have been deployed to their post-incident procedure and the scene.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "An average of nearly 12 million people in the UK watched the Platinum Party in the Palace on BBC One on Saturday.\n\nThe concert saw stars including Diana Ross, George Ezra, Queen and Elbow perform in front of a Buckingham Palace crowd including the Royal Family.\n\nIt attracted the BBC's biggest audience of the year, peaking at 13.4 million.\n\nA huge pageant in central London and thousands of street parties across the UK are highlights of the final day of Jubilee celebrations.\n\nSaturday evening's concert also saw speeches from Prince Charles and Prince William, with Charles paying tribute to the Queen and her reign of seven decades on the throne.\n\nIts audience beats many other recent high-profile events - December's Strictly Come Dancing final averaged 11 million viewers; last month's Eurovision Song Contest averaged nearly nine million; and the Queen's Christmas message drew an audience of 8.96 million.\n\nThe BBC said it had a 74.3% share of the audience, adding: \"The Platinum Party at the Palace on BBC One was the most watched programme of the year so far.\"\n\nSinger Mabel was among those performing at the Platinum Party at the Palace\n\nThe Queen, who has been experiencing mobility problems in recent months, was not able to attend the event herself.\n\nIt began with a pre-filmed comedy sketch showing her sharing a pot of tea with Paddington Bear, where they both confessed to carrying around a marmalade sandwich.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nSome 10 million people are expected to take part in the final day of Platinum Jubilee street parties and celebrations across the UK.\n\nMore than 85,000 have signed up to host Big Jubilee Lunches. Prince Charles and Camilla appeared at one at south London's Oval cricket ground on Sunday morning.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla did not tuck in to this table of food at the Big Jubilee Lunch at the Oval - it's all knitted\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have tweeted pictures of Kate and their three children baking cakes in a kitchen decorated with Union Jack bunting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe caption explained the cakes were for people in Cardiff to enjoy at a Platinum Jubilee street party taking place this weekend.\n\nThe Jubilee pageant, against the backdrop of Buckingham Palace, will involve more than 10,000 people, including key workers and members of the armed forces, as well as performers.\n\nA two-mile carnival procession - featuring a huge cast, puppets and celebrities - will move down London's Mall and past the palace.\n\nThe evening finale at 17:00 BST will feature Ed Sheeran performing, and the singing of the national anthem in front of the palace.\n\nSinger Elaine Paige, ambassador for the Royal Voluntary Service which hosted Platinum Champions at The Oval lunch, met Charles and Camilla at the event and said they seemed to be having a \"marvellous time\".\n\n\"I think he seemed very relaxed and full of good humour,\" she said. \"I think his opening comment was - because it was only half past 11 - 'It's a little early for lunch'.\"\n\nThe West End star added the Queen's sketch with Paddington Bear showed perfect timing and said: \"I thought to myself what a brilliant actor she is.\"\n\nSarah Friar, CEO of neighbourhood social media app Nextdoor, sat opposite the Prince of Wales. \"He said at the end how great it was that everyone comes together this weekend,\" she said.\n\nMs Friar said Charles commented: \"When it comes to Monday are we going to go back to all the bickering again? Let's hope we don't do that.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cornwall are not the only royals to be at a Big Jubilee Lunch - Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have been at an event organised by Westminster Council for local volunteer and community groups who helped during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThese people have dressed up for a Big Jubilee Lunch in Windsor\n\nCrowds have also begun lining the streets ahead of the pageant in London\n\nThe Cambridges were in Cardiff on Saturday as part of a series of visits to the UK nations by royals across the bank holiday weekend, which also saw Prince Edward and his wife Sophie meet crowds in Northern Ireland.\n\nPrincess Anne visited Edinburgh and represented the Queen at Saturday's Derby Day at Epsom.\n\nSunday's weather in much of the UK does not look ideal for outdoor festivities. England and Wales are forecast to see spells of heavy and thundery rain in places, with yellow weather warnings in place.\n\nIn London, where the pageant takes place, some sunshine is expected during the afternoon but heavy showers are likely too.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Scotland should be mostly sunny and dry, however.", "William and Kate's children have been hard at work baking cakes for a party in Cardiff\n\nStreet parties and celebrations have been taking place across the country, as thousands of people turn out to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe monarch's 70-year reign is being marked with four days of celebrations over the extended bank holiday weekend.\n\nHere is a selection of images, as communities gather together to enjoy the occasion.\n\nSome people in Cardiff had a chance to enjoy a cake baked by a royal - Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte rolled their sleeves up to produce a batch of fairy cakes.\n\nSunday's rainy weather did not dampen the mood of these seafront partygoers in Morecambe, Lancashire.\n\nOne of the youngest partygoers was in Morecambe - the appropriately dressed Sophia.\n\nPrincesses Beatrice and Eugenie joined in the fun and games at the Jubilee Big Lunch event organised by Westminster Council...\n\n...while the Countess of Wessex chatted to some children at the lunch party in Windsor.\n\nThe Windsor party is taking place on the Long Walk, leading up to the castle.\n\nLilly the corgi was one of the canine guests at the Royal Pooch Party in Manchester.\n\nUnion flag outfits were the order of the day at this party in Reading.\n\nLaura McKnight holds a cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth II as her sons Noah (5) and Louis (2) play mini golf at a picnic in Newry.\n\nThere were plenty of people - and balloons - at this street party in Cookham, Berkshire.\n\nChelsea Pensioners found themselves the focus of attention at a party near their home in west London.\n\nHundreds of people turned out for the party in Swanage, with tables stretching far along the streets.\n\nLocals also gathered to mark the occasion in Kelvindale, Glasgow.\n\nMeanwhile, in Trafford, Greater Manchester, one family had fun with fancy dress masks.\n\nIn Leicester, residents welcomed Morris dancers for some traditional entertainment.\n\nIn Belfast, people had fun dressing up in royal-themed costumes.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "LNER, Grand Central and Thameslink services are among the affected routes\n\nMore than 100 trains were delayed and at least 20 cancelled on the line connecting London and Edinburgh after a trespasser got on to the tracks.\n\nServices on the East Coast mainline came to a standstill on Saturday.\n\nThe disruption threatened to add to crowding and queues as people headed to big events including Jubilee celebrations and Liam Gallagher's concert in Knebworth.\n\nThe trespasser was eventually found hiding in a tree in Hertfordshire.\n\nTrains were stopped while British Transport Police used a helicopter and dog teams to help search for the person in the Potters Bar area, said Great Northern which operates some services on the line.\n\nLNER, Grand Central and Thameslink services were also affected.\n\nIt is understood the trespasser avoided capture for some time before being found in the tree.\n\nA Network Rail spokesperson said: \"Services from London King's Cross have been severely disrupted this afternoon owing to a trespass incident in the Potter's Bar area.\n\n\"The individual has been safely removed from the railway and services are up and running again, however, passengers should check the status of their journey before travelling as delays are likely to continue through the afternoon.\n\n\"Anyone travelling to an event such as Slam Dunk in Hatfield or to Stevenage for Liam Gallagher should be aware that due to the earlier disruption, a significantly disrupted service is expected on Saturday evening with queuing at stations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, was poisoned in London in 2006\n\nOne of the main suspects in the murder of the former Russian spy and Kremlin critic, Alexander Litvinenko, has died of Covid-19.\n\nDmitry Kovtun was one of two men UK authorities say fatally poisoned Mr Litvinenko in London in 2006.\n\nMr Kovtun died at a hospital in the Russian capital Moscow, the Tass state news agency reported on Saturday.\n\nAnother suspect in the killing, Andrei Lugovoi, wrote on social media that his \"faithful friend\" had died.\n\nMr Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who became a British citizen and outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with a radioactive substance at a London hotel where he had met the two men.\n\nHe fell ill shortly after the meeting and was admitted to hospital. His condition worsened and he died weeks later on 23 November.\n\nA UK public inquiry conducted 10 years later concluded that the killing was \"probably approved\" by Russian President Vladimir Putin. From his deathbed, Mr Litvinenko accused President Putin of ordering his killing.\n\nRussia has always denied any involvement in the murder.\n\nThe UK inquiry said Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun, both former KBG officers, deliberately poisoned Mr Litvinenko by lacing his cup of green tea with the potent substance Polonium-210.\n\nBritish investigators found traces of the substance at sites across London where the two men had been, including in offices and hotels.\n\nSeparately, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled last year that Russia was responsible for the killing.\n\nBoth men denied carrying out the murder and Russia refused to extradite them to face trial in the UK.\n\nDmitry Kovtun, pictured in 2015, denied carrying out the murder\n\nMr Kovtun was born in 1965 and trained at the Soviet command academy in Moscow before joining the protection unit of the KGB.\n\nHe was serving in East Germany as the Soviet Union collapsed and fled with his first wife to Hamburg to claim political asylum.\n\nMr Kovtun later returned to Russia, where he was allegedly recruited by Mr Lugovoi.\n\nAfter the UK report was released, Mr Kovtun told the Interfax news agency: \"I am not involved in Litvinenko's death. As for the outcome of the public inquiry that has been published in London, [it] could not have reached any other conclusions based on the falsified and fabricated evidence.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal reclaimed his crown as the king of the French Open, winning a record-extending 14th title by beating Norway's Casper Ruud in straight sets.\n\nSpain's Nadal, 36, won 6-3 6-3 6-0 against eighth seed Ruud to also extend his record number of Grand Slam men's singles titles to 22.\n\nHe moves two ahead of his great rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.\n\nNadal, who lost to Djokovic in the semi-finals last year, has won 112 of his 115 matches on the Paris clay.\n\nAfter also winning the Australian Open in January, Nadal has claimed back-to-back major titles for the first time since 2010 - when he won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in a row.\n\nTwo days after his 36th birthday, Nadal becomes the oldest French Open men's singles champion and surpasses fellow Spaniard Andres Gimeno, who won aged 34 in 1972.\n\nThe left-hander dropped his racquet to the court in amazement after taking his second match point to win in two hours and 18 minutes.\n• None Reaction to Nadal beating Ruud in the French Open men's final\n\nNadal's achievements are even more impressive in the context of the physical issues that have hampered him in recent times.\n\nAt the end of last year the former world number one thought he would have to retire because of a chronic foot problem and was troubled by the issue at the Italian Open earlier this month.\n\nA stress fracture of the rib also caused him to miss two months of the season shortly after his 21st major win at the Australian Open.\n\n\"It takes a lot of energy to keep going. I want to say 'merci, merci beaucoup',\" Nadal said after lifting the Coupe des Mousquetaires.\n\n\"I don't know what will happen in the future but I will keep fighting to keep going.\"\n\nNadal far from best but still has too much quality\n\nRuud, 23, was making his debut in a Grand Slam final and facing Nadal for the first time in a professional match.\n\nWhile fifth seed Nadal was far from his best, he had enough nous and quality to clinically see off his younger opponent.\n\nA miscue from Ruud in the first point of the match perhaps indicated his nerves, but he could do little to prevent Nadal taking his serve for a 2-0 lead with a vicious forehand winner.\n\nNadal's serve has been far from impenetrable and he was broken in the next game after two double faults, which were perhaps indicative of the discomfort he has been feeling with his long-standing foot problem.\n\nBut he re-established his lead in the fourth game when Ruud's groundstrokes - a wide backhand, even wider forehand and a poor contact - let him down.\n\nNadal, often targeting his opponent's backhand and then forcing him into mistakes on his forehand, held his serve to take the opening set in 48 minutes.\n\nNadal had won 100 of the 101 previous matches at Roland Garros where he had won the opening set, with last year's semi-final defeat by Djokovic being the only exception.\n\nMore pressure came on the Ruud serve in the opening game of the second set, saving three break points to hold.\n\nThat allowed him to then move 3-1 ahead when Nadal produced a terrible service game, although Ruud brilliantly constructed a point for 0-40, and hit a double fault on the first break point.\n\nNadal instantly broke back, patiently pummelling Ruud on the baseline and punching the air when a forehand went long.\n\nLike in the first set, Ruud could not follow up a break with a hold and lost his serve again for 4-3 when a lob went long.\n\nAfter saving three set points, he produced a double fault on the fourth to hand over a two-set lead.\n\nNobody had ever beaten Nadal at Roland Garros from that position in 90 attempts, with few even taking him to a fourth.\n\nThat never looked likely with Ruud's confidence dropping further and Nadal ruthlessly wrapping up the third set in just 30 minutes.\n\nLike so many of the younger players on the tours, Ruud classes Nadal as an idol and watched the Spaniard's 2013 victory over David Ferrer from the Chatrier stands.\n\nRuud has trained at Nadal's academy in Majorca since he was a teenager and has modelled much of his game on him.\n\nRuud, who will rise to a career-high world number six on Monday, has enjoyed more success on the clay than other surfaces and leads the ATP Tour for total wins (66), titles (seven) and finals (eight) on clay since 2020.\n\nWhile they have trained together many times, the real thing proved as difficult as Ruud feared.\n\nAfter his semi-final win over Marin Cilic, Ruud said facing Nadal in a French Open final was the \"greatest challenge\" in men's tennis and said he would have to play his \"best ever tennis\" to win.\n\nBut the hallmarks of his game - his aggressiveness from the baseline and ability to unleash his forehand - were missing.\n\n\"We know you're a great champion and I got to feel what it is like to play against you in a final. I am not the first victim,\" Ruud told Nadal in his runners-up speech.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Teenagers who dream of being the next generation of motorcycle stars\n• None Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen on returning to their iconic Star Wars characters", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen makes balcony appearance to end the Platinum Jubilee celebrations\n\nThe Queen has said she was \"humbled and deeply touched\" by the Platinum Jubilee celebrations held across the UK.\n\nIn a \"thank you\" letter after a concluding pageant in London, she said she remained committed to serving as monarch with the support of her family.\n\nThe Queen said despite not being at every event marking her 70-year reign: \"My heart has been with you all.\"\n\nShe was joined by three generations of her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the finale of the pageant.\n\nHer appearance rounded off a huge star-studded procession along The Mall which saw carnival floats celebrating the seven decades of her reign.\n\nMillions of people also held Jubilee parties and street lunches in towns and cities across the UK on the final day of the four-day bank holiday weekend.\n\nThe Platinum Pageant, along The Mall, was the last of the official events for the Queen's Jubilee\n\nIn a statement issued as the long weekend's events drew to a close, the Queen, who is 96, said she had been inspired by the kindness, joy and kinship she had seen over during the four-day celebration.\n\nIt said: \"When it comes to how to mark 70 years as your Queen, there is no guidebook to follow. It really is a first. But I have been humbled and deeply touched that so many people have taken to the streets to celebrate my Platinum Jubilee.\n\n\"While I may not have attended every event in person, my heart has been with you all; and I remain committed to serving you to the best of my ability, supported by my family.\n\n\"I have been inspired by the kindness, joy and kinship that has been so evident in recent days, and I hope this renewed sense of togetherness will be felt for many years to come.\n\n\"I thank you most sincerely for your good wishes and for the part you have all played in these happy celebrations.\"\n\nSunday's pageant began with a military parade with personnel from the UK's armed forces and from across the Commonwealth.\n\nThe 260-year-old Gold State Coach which carried the Queen to her coronation in 1953 rode through the streets, with the Queen appearing as a hologram inside.\n\nAs the floats made their way past during the two hour show, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George - the next three generations of monarchs - all watched from the royal box.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge later tweeted: \"Amazing display of street art, theatre, music, sport and more... what a joyous occasion!\"\n\nPrince Charles took a turn keeping Prince Louis engaged - bouncing him on his knee\n\nThe military section was followed by colourful open-top double-decker buses depicting the different decades of the Queen's reign - with a host of celebrities representing achievements in music, fashion and the arts aboard each one.\n\nThere was a peloton of 300 cyclists on bikes of all shapes and sizes, led by the Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy, and a parade of vintage cars that saw a fleet of Morris Minors in various vivid colours drive up The Mall. It was followed by a collection of James Bond cars - all moving very slowly.\n\nA fleet of vintage cars and mopeds made their way along The Mall\n\nThe car carrying Bake Off judge Prue Leith had to be pushed after it broke down\n\nKate Moss and Patsy Kensit danced on the 90s bus\n\nTV personalities, musicians, chefs, sportspeople, designers, and artists who have helped shape British culture of the last 70 years took part.\n\nAmong them were singer Cliff Richard, boxer Chris Eubank, model Naomi Campbell and athlete Sir Mo Farah.\n\nCultural icons such as the Trotters' yellow van from sitcom Only Fools and Horses, the video game character PacMan, and children's TV characters filled the streets.\n\nThe pageant also saw street theatre acts and urban dance from groups across the UK.\n\nThere was a float featuring well known children's TV characters\n\nParticipants performed a Bollywood wedding scene in one section of the parade\n\nThere was a carnival section that saw people dressed in a blaze of colours\n\nA number of enormous animal puppets depicting swans, a bull, snakes, ravens and a rainbow peacock then moved along the route.\n\nThere was a big Bollywood wedding party, with dancers parading an enormous tiered cake topped with a number of corgis, and puppets of African animals - including elephants, giraffes and flamingos.\n\nThe show ended with a performance of Perfect from Ed Sheeran, and the mass rendition of God Save the Queen.\n\nHowever, a planned flypast by the Red Arrows was cancelled due to poor weather.\n\nSo the Queen appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the final event of the Jubilee.\n\nThere was rapturous applause from a crowd, who were surprised as well as delighted to see her.\n\nAfter so many concerns about her health there had been doubts about her being there.\n\nThe Red Arrows didn't make it, because of the weather, but she made it. It seemed appropriate for such a tenacious monarch.\n\nShe arrived at the end of the pageant. That parade had been an hallucinogenic Jubilee cocktail of music, puppets, dancers, classic cars and even older celebrities.\n\nIt was baffling, brilliant and bonkers.\n\nThe Queen's appearance had its own symbolism, accompanied by those who will follow her, Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine and their children.\n\nIt felt like a bit of history and an image we'll see in the years ahead.\n\nThe event rounds off a long weekend of celebrations across the UK.\n\nSaturday night saw affectionate tributes from the Prince of Wales and national figures during the evening's Platinum Party at the Palace.\n\nStars including Diana Ross, George Ezra, Queen and Elbow performed in front of a crowd of about 22,000, and an average of nearly 12 million people in the UK watched the show on BBC One.\n\nThe Queen, who has been experiencing mobility problems in recent months, was not able to attend the event herself.\n\nBut she kicked off the event with a pre-filmed comedy sketch showing her sharing a pot of tea with Paddington Bear, where they both confessed to carrying around a marmalade sandwich.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nThe Platinum Jubilee events began on Thursday, with Trooping the Colour - at which the Queen also appeared on the balcony.\n\nThere was a service of thanksgiving on Friday, which she was unable to attend because of discomfort she felt on Thursday.\n\nShe had to cancel her appearance at the Epsom Derby on Saturday for the same reason.\n\nAway from Buckingham Palace, some 10 million people have been holding Big Jubilee Lunches, picnics and barbecues, across the UK.\n\nCharles and Camilla began the day by meeting guests at a street party in south London amid tables strung with union jack bunting and laden with cakes.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla did not tuck in to this table of food at the Big Jubilee Lunch at the Oval - because it was all knitted\n\nA group raised their glasses to the Queen at a street party on the seafront in Morecambe\n\nAnd in Reading, people also drank to the Queen's 70 years", "The US agreed to send medium-range HIMARS rockets to Ukraine on the condition they were not used to strike over the Russian border\n\nRussia will expand the list of targets it will attack in Ukraine if Western countries send long-range weapons to Kyiv, President Vladimir Putin says.\n\nThe warning came as explosions shook parts of Kyiv on Sunday in the first air strikes on the capital for weeks.\n\nRussia says it hit tanks supplied by European countries. Ukraine says it was a railway repair plant.\n\nIn another development, a Russian general was killed in fighting in the Donbas region.\n\nRussia refocused its military efforts on the Donbas at the end of March after pulling back from the Kyiv region.\n\nAs Russia makes slow but steady progress on the ground there - hundreds of kilometres to the east - several countries have pledged to send advanced weapons to Kyiv.\n\nMost recently, the US announced it was sending the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which fires precision-guided rockets that can hit targets up to 70km (45 miles) away - far further than the artillery Ukraine currently possesses.\n\nWhite House officials say they agreed to provide the rockets only after gaining assurances from President Volodymyr Zelensky that they would not be used to attack targets inside Russia.\n\nThe package also includes helicopters, anti-tank weapons, tactical vehicles and spare parts.\n\nGermany also promised to send its most modern air defence system - the Iris-T - to enable Ukraine to shield an entire city from Russian air attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Meet the baby as old as the Ukraine war\n\nIn an interview on Russian state TV on Sunday, Mr Putin said: \"In general, all this fuss about additional arms supplies, in my opinion, has only one goal - to drag out the armed conflict as long as possible.\"\n\nThe Russian leader said what the US was supplying was \"nothing new\".\n\nBut he warned against sending missiles with longer ranges: \"If they are supplied, we will draw appropriate conclusions from this and use our weapons, of which we have enough, to strike at those targets that we are not striking yet.\"\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister asked Western countries to keep up a steady supply of weapons to help defeat Russia.\n\n\"We have already entered into a protracted war and we will need constant support. The West must understand that its help cannot be a one-time thing, but something that continues until our victory,\" Hanna Malyar told local media.\n\nA Ukrainian service member on the front line in Donbas on Sunday\n\nSome of the fiercest fighting is currently in the eastern city of Severodonetsk. Capturing the city would deliver the Luhansk region to Russian forces and their local separatist allies, who also control much of neighbouring Donetsk. The two regions form the heavily industrial Donbas.\n\nLuhansk's governor Serhiy Haidai said Ukrainian forces held about half of Severodonetsk, having pushed Russian forces back.\n\nHe said 15,000 people remained in the city, but evacuation was \"currently impossible\".\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said he visited Lyshchansk, the town which faces Severodonetsk across the Donets river, on Sunday as part of a new tour of the front lines which also took in Zaporizhzhia in the south.\n\n\"I am proud of everybody I met, everyone I shook hands with, everyone with whom I connected and had expressed my support,\" he said in a video released by his press service.\n\nMaj-Gen Roman Kutuzov, a Russian airborne forces commander, was killed leading separatist troops of the unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic, Russian state TV reports.\n\nAccording to separatists, he was killed on Sunday at the village of Mykolaivka in the Popasna area, near Severodonetsk. The Ukrainian military said it had fought off assaults in the area on Sunday, inflicting substantial losses.\n\nRussian state TV said Kutuzov was the fourth Russian general to die in the Ukraine fighting, while Ukraine itself says it has killed as many as 12 Russian generals since the invasion began on 24 February.\n\nTens of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes, despite diplomatic efforts to bring about a ceasefire.", "Transport for London has advised people not to travel \"unless necessary\"\n\nTransport for London has advised people to avoid travelling on the network on Monday due to a planned tube strike.\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are due to walk out for 24 hours.\n\nThe RMT said the strike was over proposals for 600 job losses, changes to working agreements and pensions.\n\nTfL said no proposals had been tabled on pensions or terms and conditions, and nobody would lose their jobs due to the proposals it had set out.\n\nThe transport organisation has proposed not replacing up to 600 posts when they become vacant as part of plans to achieve financial sustainability.\n\nTfL said customers should \"check before they travel\" due to station closures\n\nTfL said it expected \"severe disruption\" from the start of service on Monday to 08:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nMany stations, especially those in central and south London, will be closed and others might only operate for limited periods.\n\nOther services, including DLR, London Overground and Trams, are not affected by the industrial action but could be busier than normal.\n\nAndy Lord, TfL's chief operating officer, said: \"I'd like to apologise to London for the impact this strike will have on journeys.\n\n\"We know it's going to be damaging to London and the economy at a time when public transport is playing a crucial role in the capital's recovery.\n\n\"While our focus is always on helping everyone travel around London whenever they want, the expected impact of the RMT's action means we have to advise people to only travel tomorrow if necessary, as many stations may be closed.\n\n\"Alternatives to the Tube, including the bus and rail networks, are likely to be much busier than usual.\"\n\nRMT general secretary, Mick Lynch, said: \"We are demanding a direct face-to-face meeting with Mayor Sadiq Khan to sort this mess out.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The WHO says this the first time so many cases hae been reported at the same time in widely disparate areas\n\nThere have been 780 confirmed cases of monkeypox in countries where the virus is not usually found, the World Health Organization says.\n\nThat is roughly triple the 257 cases it reported a week ago.\n\nIt says the figure - for the past three weeks - is probably an underestimate and assesses the global risk level as \"moderate\".\n\nThe infection is usually mild, but this is the first time it has spread widely outside Central and West Africa.\n\nThe WHO said cases had been identified in 27 countries where it is not already \"endemic\" - meaning places it is expected to be found.\n\nMost of these new cases are in Europe and North America as well as small numbers in Mexico, Argentina, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe UK has the most cases, with 207, followed by Spain with 156 and Portugal with 138.\n\nIn its latest update, the WHO said some countries were reporting that new cases were appearing beyond known contacts of previously confirmed cases, which it said suggested chains of transmission were being \"missed through undetected circulation of the virus\".\n\n\"It is highly likely that other countries will identify cases and there will be further spread of the virus,\" it added.\n\nWhile the current risk to human health for the general public \"remains low\", the public health risk could \"become high\" if the virus becomes widespread in countries where it is not normally found, it said. No deaths have been reported as a result of the current outbreak.\n\nThe global health body said most, but not all, of the reported cases so far have involved men who have sex with men. There is no evidence that monkeypox is sexually transmitted, but it is passed on through close contact.\n\nThe organisation said many cases were not presenting with the typical clinical picture for monkeypox, with some describing pustules appearing before symptoms such as fever.\n\nMost cases of the virus clear up on their own within a few weeks. Symptoms include fever, headaches, swellings, back pain, aching muscles, as well as a rash which goes through different stages.\n\nMonkeypox can sometimes be more severe, however, and has been reported to have caused deaths in West Africa in the past.", "Liam Gallagher has returned to Knebworth for the first time since Oasis played a legendary weekend set in 1996\n\nLiam Gallagher's latest gigs led to traffic chaos as fans wandered on to a nearby motorway.\n\nThe former Oasis frontman performed two nights at Knebworth, near Stevenage.\n\nOn Friday, Hertfordshire Police fined several drivers for using the A1(M) as a drop-off point, and closed it for two hours on Saturday as people spilled on to the carriageway.\n\nFans said the organisation of the event was \"a shambles\". Promoter Festival Republic has been asked for comment.\n\nFollowing Friday's show, Hertfordshire Police tweeted to warn fans it had issued fixed penalty notices to those using the motorway to to drop off and pick up attendees.\n\nIt said this would \"not be tolerated\" and urged drivers to use designated on-site areas.\n\nOn Saturday, National Highways: East tweeted that the road was closed in both directions due to a \"police incident\" and \"pedestrians wandering on to the A1(M)\".\n\nIn response to someone pointing out that this would have impacted on the \"tens of thousands of cars leaving Knebworth\", it responded: \"We had to close to the road due to pedestrians from the event wandering into the carriageway.\"\n\nFans have criticised the event set-up, describing \"chaos\" in the car parks.\n\n\"The organisation around leaving the event was truly dreadful; not enough staff, no signs, limited lighting,\" tweeted one gig-goer.\n\n\"People were breaking down fences because they were trapped.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grace Keegan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGrace Keegan flew from Dublin for the show and said \"everything about the gig was epic\" but trying to get back to her accommodation afterwards was \"horrendous\".\n\nSeveral taxi companies turned her down, even when she tearfully pleaded that she was alone, she said.\n\nShe eventually flagged down a taxi and paid £76 for the 14-mile drive to St Albans, arriving at her bed and breakfast three hours after the gig ended.\n\n\"I would have paid anything at that point,\" she added.\n\n\"The gig was amazing, just after it was very scary.\"\n\nOther Gallagher fans complained of waiting in a car park for hours after the gig, with one quipping: \"The year is 2032, I'm still sat in the car park at Knebworth\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Macron told French regional media that Russia's leader had \"isolated himself\"\n\nUkraine's foreign minister has hit out at French President Emmanuel Macron after he said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion.\n\nMr Macron said it was crucial President Vladimir Putin had a way out of what he called a \"fundamental error\".\n\nBut Dmytro Kuleba said allies should \"better focus on how to put Russia in its place\" as it \"humiliates itself\".\n\nMr Macron has repeatedly spoken to Mr Putin by phone in an effort to broker a ceasefire and negotiations.\n\nThe French attempts to maintain a dialogue with the Kremlin leader contrast with the US and UK positions.\n\nForeign minister Kuleba said in a tweet that \"calls to avoid humiliation of Russia can only humiliate France and every other country that would call for it\".\n\nKyiv says Russia must not get territorial concessions from Ukraine, as the Russian invasion has been condemned internationally as brutal aggression.\n\nEarlier, Mr Macron told French regional media that Russia's leader had \"isolated himself\".\n\n\"I think, and I told him, that he made a historic and fundamental error for his people, for himself and for history,\" he said.\n\n\"Isolating oneself is one thing, but being able to get out of it is a difficult path,\" he added.\n\nItaly's Prime Minister Mario Draghi has aligned himself with Mr Macron, suggesting Europe wants \"some credible negotiations\".\n\nThe eastern city of Severodonetsk remains the epicentre of fighting in Ukraine, with Ukrainian forces fiercely resisting Russian tanks, infantry and intense artillery barrages.\n\nCapturing the city would deliver the Luhansk region to Russian forces and their local separatist allies, who also control much of neighbouring Donetsk region.\n\nIn Soledar, not far from Severodonetsk, a woman sits in her wrecked apartment after a missile strike\n\nThe region's Ukrainian governor Serhiy Haidai said his forces had reclaimed about a fifth of Severodonetsk and could hold on.\n\n\"As soon as we have enough Western long-range weapons, we will push their artillery away from our positions. And then, believe me, the Russian infantry, they will just run,\" he said.\n\nThe US plans to give Kyiv's forces precision rocket systems, so that they can hit Russian positions from a longer range. The UK will also send them a number of large multiple-rocket batteries.\n\nFacing Severodonetsk across the Siverskyi Donets river lies Lysychansk. Both cities are strategically important for Russia: Severodonetsk has the giant Azot chemical plant, which produces nitrogen-based fertilisers, and Lysychansk has Ukraine's second biggest oil refinery.\n\nThe fighting has now left most of Severodonetsk in ruins, but thousands of civilians are still sheltering in basements there.\n\nGovernor Haidai said Russian forces were blowing up bridges on the river to prevent Ukraine bringing in military reinforcements and delivering aid to civilians.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFrench Open champion Rafael Nadal says he \"doesn't want to keep playing\" if he continues to need anaesthetic injections to numb chronic foot pain.\n\nNadal, 36, won his record-extending 14th title at Roland Garros having \"no feeling\" in his left foot.\n\nThe Spaniard had multiple injections during a tournament where he won a 22nd Grand Slam title on Sunday.\n\n\"It's obvious with the circumstances that I am playing, I can't and I don't want to keep going,\" said Nadal.\n\nThe two-time Wimbledon champion says he would not play at the All England Club, where the grass-court major starts on 27 June, if a nerve-burning treatment next week cannot solve the issue.\n\nNadal suffers from Mueller-Weiss syndrome - a rare degenerative condition that affects bones in the feet - and was limping at the Italian Open just 10 days before Roland Garros began.\n\n\"I have been playing with injections on the nerves to numb the foot and that's why I was able to play during these two weeks,\" Nadal said after his 6-3 6-3 6-0 victory over Casper Ruud.\n\n\"I have no feelings in my foot, because my doctor was able to put anaesthetic injections on the nerves. That takes out the feeling on my foot.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm going to be in Wimbledon if my body is ready to be in Wimbledon. That's it. Wimbledon is not a tournament that I want to miss. I think nobody wants to miss Wimbledon. I love Wimbledon.\n\n\"If I am able to play with anti-inflammatories, yes; to play with anaesthetic injections, no. I don't want to put myself in that position again.\"\n\nNadal said he would soon have radiofrequency ablation - which uses heat on the nerve to quell long-term pain - but would have to consider surgery if that treatment did not provide a sufficient solution.\n\n\"If that works, I am going to keep going. If that doesn't work, then it is going to be another story,\" he said.\n\n\"Then I will have to ask myself if I am ready to do a major surgery that doesn't guarantee me to be able to be competitive again and could take a long time to be back.\"\n\nInjections 'only chance' to let Nadal play in Paris\n\nLast year, Nadal feared his career was over because of the condition and cut short his season last year, including missing Wimbledon and the US Open, to deal with the problem.\n\nA stress fracture of the rib also caused him to miss two months of the season shortly after his 21st major win at the Australian Open.\n\n\"As everyone knows in the world of tennis, my preparation was not ideal,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"But Roland Garros is Roland Garros. Everybody knows how much this tournament means to me, so I wanted to keep trying and to give myself a chance here.\n\n\"That's was the only way to give myself a chance here. So I did it.\"\n\nSpeaking on court, Nadal said he never thought he would still be competing at the highest level at his age.\n\n\"I never believed I would be here at 36, playing in the most important court of my career one more time in a final,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't know what can happen in the future, but I'm going to keep fighting to try to keep going.\"\n\n'What Nadal has achieved is super human'\n\nTwo days after his 36th birthday, Nadal has claimed back-to-back major titles for the first time since 2010 - when he won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in a row.\n\n\"To start the year by winning the Australian Open and French Open, it is astonishing,\" said former British number one Greg Rusedski, who was working as a BBC Radio 5 Live analyst for Sunday's final.\n\n\"In my generation, anything over 30 was bonus time and if you won a Slam over 30 it was a heck of an accomplishment. Now it seems the norm because of Nadal, [Roger] Federer and [Novak] Djokovic.\n\n\"When we first see Nadal come on the scene here in 2005, when he won for the first time, most of us thought he would be retired by the age of 27 or 28 with the physicality he plays with.\n\n\"We didn't think he would be capable to achieve what he has achieved. What he has achieved is super human.\n\n\"We will never see anybody in our lifetime achieve what he has achieved on a clay court. It is not possible.\"\n\n'Statue is not enough' - tennis and sporting world hail Nadal\n\nNadal already has a statue outside Court Philippe Chatrier - the site of his French Open wins - but Croatian former player Ivan Ljubicic said the stadium should be renamed.\n\nNadal's achievements were also recognised by Spanish football club Real Madrid - who Nadal supports - and India cricket great Sachin Tendulkar.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Teenagers who dream of being the next generation of motorcycle stars\n• None Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen on returning to their iconic Star Wars characters", "Robbie Williams is playing a homecoming gig at his team's football stadium, Vale Park\n\nSinger Robbie Williams has said fame \"should come with a health warning\" as he gears up for a homecoming gig.\n\nThe star, who has had a string of hits since joining Take That at 16 years old in 1990, returns to his native Stoke-on-Trent later for the one-off concert.\n\nAbout 20,000 fans are expected to welcome him at Port Vale FC's stadium.\n\nReflecting on his 30-year career, Williams said celebrity could be an \"intoxicating\" but \"isolating\" experience, especially when young.\n\nDuring an interview on Radio 4's Today programme with BBC media editor Amol Rajan, the Angels singer, 48, said his life had been \"incredible\" since he became a teenage pin-up.\n\n\"I'm glad it happened to me when it did because there was nothing else happening to me,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned that \"extreme fame\" was like an illness and \"should come with a government health warning\", particularly for younger people.\n\n\"I do think you should know who you are and what you are,\" he said.\n\n\"It's something that isolates you and makes you feel weird.\n\n\"Everything that happens outside of your own body, with people looking at you and behaving in a certain way, makes you feels a certain way.\n\n\"If you're not that au fait with feeling good about yourself it can have a severe reaction, especially if you're not old enough to cope with it.\"\n\nWilliams - a lifelong Port Vale fan - said his homecoming gig was \"written in the stars\" after the side won promotion a week ago - beating Mansfield Town in the League Two play-off final at Wembley.\n\n\"The stage is basically opposite the directors' box and that's basically where I sat as a kid,\" he said.\n\nAbout 20,000 fans are expected to attend the show at Port Vale's stadium\n\nWilliams said he was confident the gig would be \"absolutely amazing\" but confessed he had feelings of trepidation.\n\n\"I don't know how Stoke's changed really. I've got a gilded cage that I arrive and leave in. But out of the window things look quite similar,\" he said.\n\n\"Where I'm from, you're not allowed to have a big head.\n\n\"You're not allowed to get ideas above your station. And even though the performance, the character I've played on stage really is full of himself I'm not really - I'm Rob from Stoke.\n\n\"They say you stop growing the day you get famous and I kind of get it, I'm like a 16-year-old inside a 48-year-old.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's Nations League campaign got off to a losing start as a disappointing display brought a deserved defeat by Hungary in Budapest.\n\nThis international was billed as taking place behind closed doors as Uefa punishment for racist and homophobic behaviour by Hungary's fans during Euro 2020.\n\nAnd yet it was played in front of a large crowd, consisting mainly of schoolchildren allowed in under Uefa rules - and the young supporters revelled in a poor England performance and Dominik Szoboszlai's winning goal from the penalty spot after Reece James fouled Zsolt Nagy.\n\nThe start of the game was overshadowed by loud jeering of England's players as they took the knee and what followed was a jaded, mediocre effort that carried all the hallmarks of the end of a long season.\n\nWest Ham's Jarrod Bowen worked hard on his debut but Leicester defender James Justin, also making his first appearance, suffered an injury and had to be replaced by Bukayo Saka - though the Arsenal man produced a rare England threat with a fine run and shot that Hungary keeper Peter Gulacsi saved with his legs.\n\nEngland now move on to Munich, where they face Germany in their second Nations League A3 game on Tuesday.\n\nEngland went into this game on the back of a highly impressive, and lengthy, run of good form that saw them qualify for the World Cup in comfort, so this performance will come as a disappointment to manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThey had not lost, other than to Italy on penalties in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley, since Belgium beat them in November 2020.\n\nEngland cannot, however, have any complaints about this outcome, other than perhaps the concession of a rather soft penalty.\n\nThere are, of course, mitigating circumstances in that these competitive fixtures - although even seasoned internationals such as Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne argue they are little more than glorified friendlies - come at the end of a gruelling season for so many England players.\n\nThe visitors lacked spark and it was perhaps no surprise that the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold looked so jaded having figured in Liverpool's losing Champions League final against Real Madrid only a week ago.\n\nWhat will concern Southgate was the sloppiness and lack of spark against a Hungary side who looked much fresher and more creative, especially Nagy, who won Szoboszlai's penalty, and Loic Nego.\n\nHarry Kane, seeking his 50th England goal, sparked only fleetingly, although service was sparse, while Southgate's side lacked the energy and zip of their opponents.\n\nThere was a competitive edge to this game as far as Hungary and their fans were concerned and how they celebrated at the final whistle.\n\nSouthgate will have learned little from this but he would have hoped for better - and will need to get it in Munich if England are not to suffer a similar fate.\n\nThis was meant to be a game played behind closed doors to punish Hungary and their fans for their behaviour at Euro 2020 and yet their victory was concluded amid joyous scenes and deafening roars at the final whistle.\n\nHungary invoked Uefa's Article 73 to invite children aged 14 and under to the game, who had to be accompanied by an adult.\n\nIt resulted in a large attendance, England's players being jeered when they took the knee before kick-off and then an almost festival atmosphere as Hungary's players went on a lap of honour.\n\nAs punishments go, this was allowed to become a celebration.\n• None Attempt saved. Martin Ádám (Hungary) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bálint Vécsei.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Reece James.\n• None Attempt missed. András Schäfer (Hungary) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. László Kleinheisler (Hungary) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ádám Szalai.\n• None Attempt missed. Conor Coady (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Reece James with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Jarrod Bowen (England) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Could an afternoon nap boost your health?:\n• None The Sports Desk looks at the potential causes and its problems", "The Queen returned to the balcony with the next generations of her family\n\nThe Queen was there on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the closing moment of the Jubilee weekend - as she had been there as it started.\n\nIn between there had been worries about her health - so there was a sense of surprise and excitement in the big crowd, who roared with anticipation when the windows on the famous balcony began to open.\n\nIt was a spontaneous shout of support and affection when the Queen appeared, in a weekend that otherwise had been choreographed and stage managed to the last royal detail.\n\nOnly a few hours before it had been unclear whether the Queen would be there for another balcony appearance.\n\nIn a display where nothing is accidental, she stood on the balcony beside those who would follow her, Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine and their children. It framed the dynastic moment.\n\nThey were standing together, in the same place that the Queen as a child had stood with her father and grandfather. She has been appearing on that balcony for more than 90 years.\n\nThis appearance by the Queen provided an uplifting end to the jubilee's grand finale.\n\nThe Red Arrows had to cancel the flypast because of the weather. But the Queen had made it. It seemed appropriate for such a tenacious monarch.\n\nA pen of Peppa Pigs took part in the Platinum Pageant\n\nIf the first days of the Jubilee weekend had been about pomp and splendour, and serious state ceremonies, the final push on Sunday had been a festival of the friendly and the quirky.\n\nThe pageant around the streets of central London was a mind-bending Jubilee cocktail of music, giant puppets, dance troupes, classic cars and veteran famous faces.\n\nThe crowd cheered the open-top buses representing the decades of the Queen's reign and tried to remember who those celebs used to be.\n\nAs a spectacle it was baffling, brilliant and bonkers.\n\nEarlier in the day Prince Charles and Camilla had gone to the Oval in south London for the Big Jubilee Lunch, a mini-street party celebrating the work of grassroots organisations that bring local communities together.\n\nIt was a post-pandemic call for greater neighbourliness and cohesion, with the royal couple going around the tables chatting to the guests.\n\nBy all accounts they still had Sweet Caroline echoing from Sir Rod Stewart strutting his stuff at the Platinum Party the night before.\n\nCharles and Camilla encouraged community togetherness at an event at the Oval\n\nAfter the big names at the glitzy concert, the Big Jubilee lunch was a good humoured cake-fest honouring the unsung heroes and heroines of local communities.\n\nAs the celebrations ended on Sunday, the Queen made her own thank-yous.\n\nHer message was a reminder that this was a one-off event, there had never been a Platinum Jubilee before and it's unlikely that many of us will ever see one again.\n\n\"There is no guidebook to follow,\" she said in her message.\n\nBut her comments picked out a note that might have resonated with the crowds in The Mall, or those showing support for local community groups at the Oval, that was a \"sense of togetherness\".\n\nThe windows of the balcony closed. The music stopped. The long bank holiday was ending. The headlines are unlikely to be about \"togetherness\" in the days ahead.\n\nThe last image projected was of the Queen, defying the odds to turn up despite the concerns about her age and frailty, flanked by the next generations.", "China has carried out many military drills over the South China Sea\n\nAustralia has accused the pilot of a Chinese fighter jet of carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre near one of its aircraft over the South China Sea.\n\nIt says the Chinese aircraft released flares and cut in front of the Australian surveillance plane.\n\nThe Chinese jet then released \"chaff\" - an anti-radar device which includes small pieces of aluminium which entered the Australian plane's engine.\n\nBeijing claims most of the region as its own territory.\n\nThe Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted on 26 May by a Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft, during what was a routine maritime surveillance activity, Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese said.\n\n\"The intercept resulted in a dangerous manoeuvre which did pose a safety threat to the P-8 aircraft and its crew,\" he said.\n\nDefence Minister Richard Marles said the Chinese jet flew very close in front of the RAAF aircraft and released a \"bundle of chaff\" containing the small pieces of aluminium that were ingested into the Australian aircraft's engine.\n\n\"Quite obviously this is very dangerous,\" Mr Marles told ABC television.\n\nIn a statement, Australia's defence ministry said it had \"for decades undertaken maritime surveillance activities in the region\" and \"does so in accordance with international law, exercising the right to freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace\".\n\nBeijing has not commented on the incident. China has been building up military infrastructure there in recent years.\n\nBut the US, neighbouring countries and others, including Australia, dispute its claim.\n\nIn February, Australia accused a Chinese navy ship of shining a military grade laser towards one of its warplanes over the Arafura Sea off northern Australia.\n• None Why is everyone fighting over the South China Sea?", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the force's new commissioner would need to work on restoring trust and confidence\n\nSadiq Khan has described the Metropolitan Police as a force facing \"real challenges\" and \"real problems\".\n\nLondon's Labour mayor told Sophie Raworth on BBC One's Sunday Morning that evidence of \"systemic sexism, racism, homophobia, discrimination, misogyny\" had emerged in recent months.\n\nWhile he \"recognised the dedicated, decent, brave officers\" on the force he said its new commissioner would need to work at restoring trust and confidence.\n\nThe role has yet to be filled.\n\nStephen House became acting commissioner when Dame Cressida Dick quit in February after Mr Khan said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nHer departure followed a series of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman and her handling of racist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers at Charing Cross police station.\n\nDame Cressida Dick resigned after Sadiq Khan criticised her handling of racist, misogynist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers\n\nMr Khan said: \"One of the reasons why i lost confidence in the previous commissioner was my lack of confidence in her plan to address the two big issues.\n\n\"Addressing the systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny, but also the trust and confidence required from our public.\n\n\"That's one of the things that they will be checking the new commissioner for.\"\n\nWhen asked if the Met Police was a \"failing force\", Mr Khan said: \"We're losing trust and confidence, so if that's the criteria of measurement, you could say so.\n\n\"But actually, in relation to crime going down... we're making huge progress.\n\n\"The police have made really good progress in the last six years in reducing those crimes but I can't escape the fact that too many people on our city haven't got the confidence they should have in our police service.\"\n\nLast year, the Met announced an independent review of its culture and standards would be led by Baroness Casey of Blackstock.\n\nThe force said the review would examine its vetting, recruitment and training procedures, as well as looking into cases of sexual misconduct and sexual abuse allegations where those accused remain in the Met.\n\n\"This significant piece of work is part of a range of measures that aim to help restore the trust of Londoners in the aftermath of the horrific murder of Sarah Everard by a Metropolitan Police Officer and other cases that have undermined trust,\" the force said at the time.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As celebrations come to a close, a thank you message from the Queen has come from Buckingham Palace.\n\nShe says: \"I have been humbled and deeply touched that so many people have taken to the streets to celebrate my Platinum Jubilee.\n\n\"While I may not have attended every event in person, my heart has been with you all; and I remain committed to serving you to the best of my ability, supported by my family.\n\n\"I have been inspired by the kindness, joy and kinship that has been so evident in recent days, and I hope this renewed sense of togetherness will be felt for many years to come.\n\n\"I thank you most sincerely for your good wishes and for the part you have all played in these happy celebrations.\"", "Heartbreak and elation - here are the most striking images as Wales beat a strong Ukraine team to secure a place at the 2022 football World Cup.\n\nGareth Bale's 34th minute shot - deflected in off Ukraine's Andriy Yarmolenko - was the only goal Wales needed to secure victory.\n\nThe win saw Rob Page's Wales secure their place the World Cup finals for the first time since the 1958 tournament - held in Sweden.\n\nFans in the stadium - and around Wales - were overjoyed at the final whistle. With many having not seen Wales play at World Cup in their lifetime.\n\nIt was heartbreak for Ukraine - a team that, despite playing against a backdrop of their country's war with Russia, came within just one game of qualifying for only their second World Cup.\n\nWales fans showed solidarity and support with supporters from Ukraine, who saw their team perform well and on many occasions almost level the score.\n\nWales were knocked out of the 1958 tournament at the quarter-finals by Pele's Brazil. But after the heroics of recent years fans will be hoping that they can improve on that result in Qatar this winter.", "A huge pageant has taken place in central London, on the final day of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nMore than 10,000 people - including the military, performers and key workers - took part, while politicians and members of the Royal Family watched from stands outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere was a starring role for the Gold State Coach, which the Queen rode in for her coronation, and in processions for previous jubilees. This time, she appeared as a hologram on screens in the windows.\n\nThe next part of the pageant was called The Time Of Our Lives, a through-the-ages celebration exploring seven decades of music, fashion, technology, trends, and culture from 1952 to 2022.\n\nA vintage car carrying Bake Off judge Prue Leith had to be pushed after it broke down.\n\nA section celebrating the 1950s featured the first of some unexpected celebrity appearances. Katherine Jenkins, Chris Eubank and Sir Cliff Richard stood together on top of the 1950s bus.\n\nThe 1960s were represented, in part, by Anthea Turner and Basil Brush.\n\nOn the 1990s bus were model Erin O'Connor, model Kate Moss, make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, actress Patsy Kensit and models Rosemary Ferguson and Naomi Campbell.\n\nOn the 2000s bus were Chris McCausland, Sir Mo Farah, Sally Gunnell, Dame Kelly Holmes and Gok Wan - and a photograph of singer Amy Winehouse was on the side of the bus.\n\nThere was a bus with children's TV characters from across the decades, featuring the Teletubbies, Peter Rabbit and characters from Peppa Pig.\n\nPrince Louis stole the show again, pulling faces then sitting on the lap of his grandfather, Prince Charles.\n\nThe final part of the pageant featured carnival floats.", "Singaporean dancer Janice Ho will play the Queen in the Jubilee Pageant on Sunday. Her dance performance symbolises the responsibility of the throne and will feature a dragon puppet the size of a double-decker bus.\n\nAhead of the Pageant, Janice spoke to the BBC about the pressures of portraying the monarch and the demands of the role.", "Pop legends Diana Ross and Queen were among the stars who honoured the Queen at the Platinum Party at the Palace, a concert to celebrate the monarch's 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe band Queen opened the event by performing We Will Rock You in front of the Victoria Memorial, outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe bill ranged from veterans to newcomers like Sam Ryder, who was in in patriotic attire just three weeks after shooting to fame when he represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nDiversity performed a dance routine to songs by British acts of the last 70 years, from The Beatles to The Spice Girls and Stormzy.\n\nSir Rod Stewart gave an energetic performance after being persuaded to sing Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family - including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children Princess Charlotte and Prince George - were seen singing along and waving their flags to Sir Rod's rendition of Sweet Caroline.\n\nThe Queen herself was not at the event in person, but did appear in a pre-recorded comedy sketch with Paddington Bear, in which she admitted to keeping a marmalade sandwich in her handbag.\n\nGeorge Ezra played his hits Shotgun and Green Green Grass - although he tactfully dropped lyrics referring to \"the day that I die\" from the latter.\n\nDuran Duran were joined by guitarist Nile Rodgers and rapper Ms Banks when they played their 1986 hit Notorious.\n\nModels then walked along a catwalk in a celebration of British fashion as the band played Girls On Film.\n\nAs darkness fell, impressive visuals were projected onto the facade of Buckingham Palace, including images of the Queen from throughout her reign.\n\nCraig David congratulated the monarch as he performed his songs Ain't Giving Up, Rewind and Fill Me In.\n\nJason Donovan sang Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as part of a celebration of stage musicals.\n\nPop star Mabel said afterwards that she \"definitely felt the energy when I was on stage that it was all about happiness and celebration\".\n\nMabel performed with Jax Jones, who was also joined by Stefflon Don, John Newman and 12-year-old drumming sensation Nandi Bushell.", "The rave site seen from the air with hundreds still in attendance on Sunday\n\nAn illegal moorland rave is continuing into its third day with several hundred people still at the site, according to police.\n\nNearby residents complained about being kept awake as partygoers descended on Davidstow Moor in Cornwall on Friday.\n\nSome would-be revellers are being turned away, Devon and Cornwall Police said on Sunday.\n\nThe force said it would be seeking to take action against the organisers.\n\nRevellers take shelter from the rain which has created mud on the site\n\nOfficers said the event was covering quite a large area and they believed there are several hundred people in attendance.\n\n\"A number of people have left this morning and others attempting to enter have been turned away,\" the force said.\n\n\"In the interest of public safety, we are asking anyone thinking about attending the event not to do so.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the local communities and wider public that we are taking this matter seriously and where appropriate, we will seek to take action against those attending and running the event.\"\n\nRevellers turning up at the site on Sunday were being turned away by police\n\nOne reveller said the site was \"very muddy\" after rain fell over the weekend on the moor.\n\nColin Caudery, who lives nearby, said he had not managed to get any sleep because of the \"absolutely awful\" noise.\n\n\"Drunkards from Scotland, Liverpool, Brighton, London, everywhere, it's just been total chaos,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThere is currently a police cordon in place around the site and a number of roads in the area until further notice.\n\nThere is heavy traffic and travel disruption around Camelford and other areas so motorists should expect delays and are urged to avoid the area.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nWales' thrilling World Cup play-off final win over Ukraine on Sunday is the national team's \"greatest\" result, says Gareth Bale.\n\nThe talismanic forward made the difference when his 34th-minute free-kick was headed into his own net by Ukraine captain Andriy Yarmolenko.\n\n\"It's the greatest result in history for Welsh football,\" Bale told Sky Sports.\n\n\"It means everything. It's what dreams are made of. I'm speechless because I'm so happy.\n\n\"Words can't describe how we feel at the moment.\"\n\nWales will now head to Qatar in November, where they will face England, USA and Iran in Group B at the World Cup.\n\n\"It's difficult to put it into words,\" added Bale on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's what we've been working all our careers for and to do this for the fans, the nation, ourselves and our families is an incredible achievement - and it will be something that we will be forever proud of.\n\n\"It means everything. It is the last piece of the jigsaw that we all wanted and we're going to celebrate well tonight.\"\n\nKeeper Wayne Hennessey made a string of fine saves and Wales manager Rob Page said on Sky Sports: \"I'm so proud of the guys, they thoroughly deserved it.\n\n\"The one thing these boys were missing was a World Cup and now we've got there.\n\n\"These are the best supporters in world football, they helped us from the first minute.\n\n\"When you see what these guys do in training, I had full trust in them.\"\n\nThe other side of the coin was the end of Ukraine's fairytale, bidding to reach just the second World Cup finals in their history.\n\nTheir run had included beating Scotland at Hampden in the semi-final, giving much-needed cheer to a nation torn apart by war since Russia's invasion a little more than 100 days ago.\n\nUkraine's Manchester City player Oleksandr Zinchenko told Sky Sports: \"The goalkeeper for Wales [Wayne Hennessey] did amazing, he is definitely man of the match.\n\n\"I feel sorry for our fans, but I wish Wales all the best for the World Cup.\"\n• None The collapse of a football team run by a wannabe pop star\n• None Chew over the week's football with Elis James", "Stars of stage, screen and the sporting world have performed at the Platinum Party at the Palace, to honour the Queen's 70 years on the throne.\n\nQueen and Duran Duran were just some of the acts playing the Platinum Jubilee concert, which was closed with a performance by Diana Ross - who has not performed live in the UK for 15 years.\n\nHere are some of the best moments from the show, which you can watch in full on iPlayer here.", "Sergei Lavrov forged close ties with Serbia before the Ukraine war\n\nA visit to Serbia by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been cancelled because three of Serbia's neighbours have refused to let his plane use their airspace.\n\nEU member Bulgaria imposed the flight ban, along with North Macedonia and Montenegro - countries hoping, like Serbia, to join the EU.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine triggered an EU airspace ban in February.\n\nMr Lavrov has blamed \"the Brussels puppeteers\" for the latest move.\n\nSerbia has not joined the EU's wide-ranging sanctions against Russia, and remains friendly with the nation. The EU and UK imposed a blanket flight ban on Russian planes - including the private jets of oligarchs - days after the 24 February invasion.\n\nLike many other European countries, Serbia relies heavily on Russian gas. Mr Lavrov was to have had talks in Belgrade with President Aleksandar Vucic on 6-7 June.\n\nIn a statement broadcast on Russian state news channel Rossiya 24, he described the decision as \"unprecedented\" and said that \"no one will be able to destroy our relations with Serbia\".\n\nHe also said: \"It seems that the Brussels puppeteers very much did not want to again give us a platform so that in the capital of Serbia we could confirm Russia's position on the problem of Kosovo and the problem of Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\n\"They probably did not want us to express support for Belgrade's initiative to realise the open Balkans project in the interests of making healthier, stronger relations between all the countries of the region.\"\n\nThe Kremlin strongly backs Serbia's refusal to recognise Kosovo's independence. Russia was angered by the Nato bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999 during the Kosovo war.\n\nIn his statement on Monday, Mr Lavrov accused Nato and the EU of wanting to \"turn the Balkans into their own project called closed Balkans.\"\n\nCommenting on the move to bar Mr Lavrov's flight, a Russian foreign ministry source said \"our diplomacy has yet to master teleportation\".\n\nSerbia's interior minister, Aleksandar Vulin, said he deeply regretted the \"obstruction\" of Lavrov's visit, adding \"Serbia is proud that it is not part of the anti-Russian hysteria\".\n\nIn early March thousands of pro-Russian Serbs marched through Belgrade, reflecting the countries' traditionally close ties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as thousands of pro-Russia Serbs march through the centre of Belgrade", "Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian band which won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, have sold their trophy for $900,000 (£720,000; €839,000) to raise money for the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe crystal microphone was auctioned on Facebook, with the aim of buying drones for Ukraine's military effort.\n\nBand leader Oleh Psiuk told the BBC's Sophie Raworth why he decided to part with the prize.", "Michael Gove is the cabinet's Levelling Up Secretary\n\nGovernment plans to \"level up\" cities around the UK will cost billions more than thought, a think tank has said.\n\nResearch by the Resolution Foundation found differences in income across the UK were \"significant\" and \"persistent\".\n\nThe government's levelling up agenda is designed to close economic gaps between different parts of the UK.\n\nBut only traditionally poorer areas of London such as Hackney and Newham have seen significant improvement over the last 25 years, the new report found.\n\nThe think tank said levelling up will require investment that goes \"far beyond anything currently being contemplated\" by the government.\n\nThe government welcomed the report which it said showed the vital importance and urgency of \"levelling up all parts of the UK\".\n\nLindsay Judge, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said progress had been made in reducing employment gaps between cities but this had been \"offset by a surge in investment income among better-off families in London and the South East\".\n\nMs Judge said: \"The key to closing these gaps is to boost the productivity of our major cities outside London, which will also lead to stronger growth overall.\"\n\nThe richest part of the country, Kensington and Chelsea, is in the capital and its residents earn, on average, 350% more than those in Nottingham, which is the poorest.\n\nThe report also found that the average annual income in Oxford, which is in the top 25% of local authority areas, is a fifth higher than in Torbay, in Devon, which is in the bottom 25% of areas.\n\nResearchers found these gaps have been reinforced by how much income people in different parts of the country have made from investments.\n\nIn 2019, people living in the London borough of Camden made an average of £9,135 from investments, compared with just £806 in Knowsley, Merseyside, which is one of the most deprived boroughs in the country.\n\nIn a second report to be published on Thursday, the Resolution Foundation will argue that current government policies fall short.\n\nThe think tank said that closing the gap between London and Manchester, where productivity is 30% lower than in the capital, will require tens of billions of pounds of investment, an extra 300,000 workers moving to Greater Manchester and more university graduates working in the city.\n\nHenry Overman, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, said addressing disparities in productivity \"will require Britain to completely turn around its poor record on investment\".\n\nIn February, the government it set out its White Paper for levelling up - an official document outlining its strategy.\n\nAt the time, Levelling Up Secretary Mr Gove said \"while talent is spread equally across the United Kingdom, opportunity is not\".\n\nThe White Paper included £100m of new investment for innovation centres to boost research and development in Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and Glasgow, as well as a £1.5bn fund to give loans to small and medium-sized house builders for new homes mostly outside London and the South-East.\n\nMr Gove previously told the BBC the strategy was not aimed at providing new funding but ensuring money was spent effectively on local priorities.\n\nResponding to the Resolution Foundation report the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said that while the cost-of-living crisis would make levelling up more challenging it also made it more urgent and necessary.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We welcome this report and its findings, which highlight the vital importance and urgency of levelling up all parts of the UK.\n\n\"Our Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will enshrine in law our commitment to closing the gap in pay and productivity across regions.\n\n\"By investing in the areas that need it most, improving schools, supporting regeneration and generating higher paid jobs we will improve the lives of the poorest in areas across the UK.\"", "Adil Khan (left) and Qari Rauf (right) were jailed in 2012 for a catalogue of serious child sex offences\n\nA ringleader of a grooming gang has avoided being deported so it would therefore be wrong to deport two other gang members, a tribunal has heard.\n\nAbdul Aziz, 51, Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Rauf, 52, were among nine gang members jailed in 2012 for a catalogue of child sex offences in Rochdale.\n\nA tribunal heard Aziz, known as \"the Master\", has been told he will not be deported by the Home Office.\n\nKhan and Rauf claim deportation would interfere with their human rights.\n\nThe tribunal heard how all three were liable to be deprived of UK citizenship and deported as they also held Pakistani nationality, and then-home secretary Theresa May ruled it would be \"conducive to the public good\".\n\nSince being released from jail, the men have fought a long legal battle against deportation, mounting multiple legal challenges and appeals, spanning several years.\n\nIt emerged at the immigration tribunal hearing in London, Aziz had already been told he will not be stripped of his UK citizenship and deported.\n\nAziz had renounced his Pakistani citizenship on 13 July, 2018, six years after he was jailed, but just days before the Court of Appeal ruled he could be deprived of his UK citizenship.\n\nRauf and Khan only renounced their Pakistani citizenship in September of the same year after the Court of Appeal ruling.\n\nLawyers for Rauf said the law demands consistency of treatment and although Rauf could regain his Pakistani nationality simply by signing a form, he refuses to do so because he does not want to be deported.\n\nKhan told the hearing: \"I have a question for the Home Secretary, whether Mr Aziz was an angel and I am a devil?\"\n\nAziz was jailed for nine years in 2012, for conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child by penetrative sex and trafficking for sexual exploitation a 15-year-old girl.\n\nHe took his victim to flats in Rochdale where she was plied with vodka and drugs and coerced into sex with gangs of men in return for payment to him.\n\nRauf, a father-of-five, trafficked a 15-year-old girl for sex, driving her to secluded areas to have sex with her in his taxi and ferry her to a flat in Rochdale where he and others had sex with her.\n\nKhan got a 13-year-old girl pregnant, but denied he was the father, then met another girl, 15, and trafficked her to others using violence when she complained.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned with a decision on deportation expected later this year.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts has revealed she's free from cancer after eight months of treatment.\n\nWriting on Instagram, she said it was \"the day I've been waiting for\" and the news \"took my breath away\".\n\nAdele first revealed she was undergoing treatment for bowel cancer on 24 October 2021.\n\n\"Everything we've been through seems to be swirling around in my body and life feels a bit surreal at the moment,\" she wrote.\n\n\"But I am so grateful! I am counting my blessings.\"\n\nAdele has spoken openly about her cancer journey, and her stoma, during her treatment.\n\nAdele told her followers the good news on Instagram on Monday 27 June 2022\n\nIn her post, she also paid tribute to other people with cancer, revealing they had inspired her during treatment.\n\n\"I am also in awe of anyone dealing with cancer. The courage, the strength, the determination… and at times, the humour you have shown has been nothing short of super human,\" she wrote.\n\n\"You've inspired me and given me the fire to never give up. You're warriors and it's thanks to seeing you being so strong that's kept me going.\n\n\"Feel the fear and do it anyway. Sometimes it took me all my strength just to get out of bed and face the day but I still did it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdele also thanked her friends, family and doctor for their support during the past eight months.\n\nShe gave a special mention to partner Kate Holderness, calling her \"the reason I had the strength to get out of bed every morning\".\n\n\"I will never leave you and I will always find you. In this life and the the next,\" Adele wrote about her partner Kate in her Instagram post\n\nAdele was recently honoured at the Diva Awards, picking up the Diva Choice Award for for raising LGBTQ+ awareness in broadcasting, and for sharing her cancer journey.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, has been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn unassuming patch of red dirt in remote Australia has made history as the site of Nasa's first rocket launch from a commercial spaceport outside the US.\n\nThe sub-orbital rocket blasted off from the tiny site early on Monday local time.\n\nIt will enable astrophysics studies that can only be undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere, Nasa says.\n\nThe launch was also the first in Australia in more than 25 years.\n\nThe rocket is Nasa's first of three to blast off from the newly constructed Arnhem Space Centre on the edge of the Northern Territory.\n\nScientists hope it will help them study the impact of a star's light on the habitability of nearby planets.\n\nOnlookers who travelled to the remote site glimpsed the rocket for only about 10 seconds before it shot out of view.\n\n\"It was in the blink of an eye, but to me, it was like it was in slow motion because the whole area just lit up,\" Yirrkala School co-principal Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"It went up, and then the sound, it was just like a rumbling boom, like nothing I've ever heard. And I just shook with amazement.\"\n\nThe sounding rocket's tenure in space was similarly short - the 13m-long projectile fell back to Earth after a planned 15 minutes.\n\nBut the data gathered by the mission's X-ray camera in that time will help illuminate the secrets of Alpha Centauri A and B, the closest double-star system to Earth that is located just 4.3 light-years away.\n\nNorthern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles hailed the launch as an \"extremely proud\" moment for Australia, adding it was conducted with the blessing of the region's Aboriginal traditional owners.\n\n\"Here on Yolngu land, young Territorians can look up at the sky and know what can be done,\" Ms Fyles said.\n\n\"When we see the oldest living culture combining with the science of space, as we have here, it's something we can all reflect on and be very proud.\"\n\nNasa consulted with Aboriginal custodians of the land before the launch\n\nAustralia has stepped up its space efforts in recent times, unveiling a defence agency focused on countering Russia and China's ambitions in space.\n\nThe Arnhem Space Centre is the first and only commercially owned and run equatorial launch site in the world.\n\n\"We have achieved a remarkable feat and made a huge mark in the history of Australia's journey in space,\" Mr Jones said in a statement.\n\n\"[It] confirms that we and Australia can provide access to space and this is just the beginning for us.\"\n\nThe next launch is expected to take place on 4 July.\n\nNasa has pledged to collect all material and debris and return them to the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman has been found dead at the scene of a major gas explosion that destroyed a house in Birmingham and damaged others.\n\nA man also suffered life-threatening injuries in the blast in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, on Sunday evening.\n\nSix other homes were damaged and properties were evacuated.\n\nNeighbours were given a temporary home in a pub, including a man who said \"we have nothing\" apart from \"clothes on our backs\".\n\nA man rescued from the house by people at the scene had suffered \"very serious\" injuries, the ambulance service said.\n\nHe remained in a \"critical\" condition in hospital, emergency services said on Monday.\n\nFour other men suffered minor injuries, following the blast just after 20:30 BST, but were discharged by paramedics.\n\nInvestigations at the scene are continuing\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said it was \"very sad to confirm that a woman has been found dead at the scene\".\n\nMartin Ward-White, incident commander, said the woman who died was found \"relatively quickly within the property that exploded\".\n\n\"The next steps for the fire service and gas board will be to start the investigation into what caused this explosion,\" Mr Ward-White said. \"We know it is gas but what actually caused that gas explosion?\"\n\nThe service said it could be days before the exact cause of the blast was known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage on social media shows flames, damage and debris from the terraced house in Kingstanding\n\nResidents said they had clambered past flaming debris and through rubble to reach the man.\n\nCh Insp Kelly Monaghan, from West Midlands Police, said: \"There [were]... some really heroic actions from members of the community last night.\"\n\n\"Everyone was watching, the house was on fire, nobody was going in, so we could see a way in - so we went in the house, me and about a dozen others,\" a man, who did not want to be named, told the PA news agency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Erdington Policing Constituency This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKiera Parkinson's boyfriend Callum Attwood was among those who rushed inside and she said the day had been \"a complete tragedy\".\n\n\"But we are so proud of every single person that risked their lives to go in there and help somebody else,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire chief thanks community after \"sad and tragic\" incident\n\nA neighbour who lives six doors away from the explosion said he heard a loud bang and came out to see efforts to help.\n\n\"[They] managed to pull somebody out of the rubble but as he was getting pulled out he was saying there was somebody left inside but they wasn't able to help any further as the flames started to get bigger and bigger,\" he said.\n\nKiera Parkinson said the explosion had been \"a complete tragedy\"\n\nKashif Mahmood was driving past with his family when the house exploded and the shockwave smashed into his car.\n\n\"All the airbags, windows, roof were broken,\" he said.\n\n\"It was really shocking and it was really scary. We are all OK but my kids are still in shock.\"\n\nIt is a scene of devastation today. The blast destroyed one house and has caused severe damage to several others.\n\nDebris is strewn across the street and one car which was upended has now been moved.\n\nFire investigators, working alongside specialists from the gas company, have begun sifting through the wreckage as they try to determine what caused the explosion.\n\nSome residents who were evacuated last night have been allowed to return to their homes this morning to collect any essentials but have been told they may not be allowed to stay in their homes again tonight.\n\nOthers simply can't access their properties because the damage is so extensive.\n\nCh Insp Monaghan said there were no suspicious circumstances \"at this stage\".\n\nAsked about reports the house had been up for sale and that the boiler had needed replacing, fire service area commander Alex Shapland stated: \"That may form part of the investigation.\n\n\"As I say, we've got colleagues and professionals who will be looking at all of the different circumstances.\"\n\nMr Shapland said a multi-agency inquiry was now under way and added: \"We have searched the properties we can get into.\"\n\nKashif Mahmood was driving past the house when it exploded and said it was \"really scary\"\n\nTwenty-one people were evacuated and had gone to stay at other houses and hotels provided by the city council.\n\nEmma Core, assistant manager at the nearby Kingstanding Inn, said the council asked the pub to take in people who had been evacuated.\n\n\"They were all feeling sad and low, worrying about their belongings. Some people came, they had not got shoes, they only had slippers on their feet,\" she said.\n\nLami Charlery said his family only has the \"clothes on our backs\" after having to leave their home\n\nLami Charlery, who was among neighbours given a temporary home in the pub, said he lives next door to the house that was destroyed and added: \"If I wasn't in the bathroom, I wouldn't have survived.\"\n\nHe stated: \"I didn't actually know what happened because I fell down on my head.\n\n\"The bathroom was OK. It was only when I came out of the bathroom I saw the ceiling was falling down and everything was falling down with it.\"\n\nMr Charlery said his house \"is such a goner\".\n\n\"There is nothing we can do so we have nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"The only thing is clothes on our backs. All the money is in the house, my car is at the house, everything.\"\n\nNearby Warren Farm Primary School was closed on Monday after the fire service said its windows were damaged.\n\nCadent, the gas emergency service for the West Midlands, said its teams were on site as part of the multi-agency response and added its thoughts were with those affected.\n\nSeveral other homes near the site of the explosion suffered significant damage, said police\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If you feel able to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC journalist Olga Malchevska returns to bombed Kyiv home for the first time\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to urge delivery of more heavy weapons when he addresses the G7 group of wealthy nations later.\n\nIt follows a barrage of Russian missile strikes on Kyiv and other areas over the weekend, which killed at least one.\n\nIn eastern Ukraine, Russia has taken full control of Severodonetsk and is targeting nearby Lysychansk.\n\nOn Sunday Mr Zelensky said delaying arms deliveries was \"an invitation to Russia to strike again and again\".\n\nSpeaking via his daily video address he also called for air defence systems and new sanctions on Russia.\n\n\"Partners need to move faster if they are really partners, not observers,\" he said.\n\nThe war in Ukraine is top of the G7 agenda and nations are expected to promise further military support for Kyiv and more sanctions on Moscow.\n\nWestern leaders are attempting to present a united front, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying Russian missile strikes showed it was \"right to stand together and support Ukrainians\". Earlier US President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was counting on Nato and the G7 to \"splinter... but we haven't and we're not going to\".\n\nHowever, BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale, who is at the summit, says Western unity over the war has faltered in recent weeks, with some leaders discussing long-term relationships with Russia and others stressing strong, lasting support for Ukraine.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Chris Mason reports that some UK government officials fear France, in particular, is losing its appetite for the long-term slog of the war as domestic political pressure mounts.\n\nThe G7 summit in Bavaria will be followed by a Nato meeting in Spain later in the week at which Mr Zelensky is also expected to speak.\n\nThis summit has a broad agenda, from tackling climate change to helping poorer countries with infrastructure. But Ukraine continues to dominate.\n\nThe G7 leaders are expected to offer more support and further sanctions on Russia. But even Boris Johnson - one of Mr Zelensky's most vocal supporters - admits defending Ukraine's sovereignty has tough consequences for the rest of the world, particularly the rising costs of food and energy.\n\nThat's why the leaders of South Africa, Indonesia, India and Senegal have been invited to join the summit today, to discuss what more can be done to tackle global inflation. One idea being looked at is a cap on the price of Russian oil.\n\nRussia's missile strikes targeted Kyiv, the central city of Cherkasy where one person died and the Kharkiv region in north-eastern Ukraine, along with Chernihiv in the north and Zhytomyr and Lviv west of the capital. The strike on Starychi district in Lviv was just 30km (19 miles) from the border with Nato member Poland.\n\nSome missiles were launched from Tupolev bombers over the Caspian Sea, some 1,450km (900 miles) away, Ukraine's military said. Others were fired earlier from Tupolevs flying over neighbouring Belarus.\n\nIn Kyiv a nine-storey apartment building had its upper floors ripped apart. A seven-year-old girl was injured and underwent surgery. Her condition was later described as stable. Her mother - a Russian citizen - was also pulled from the rubble.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said high-precision weapons had struck Ukrainian army training centres and denied hitting civilian targets.\n\nKyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said the attacks were an attempt to intimidate Ukraine ahead of the G7 summit.\n\nIn eastern Ukraine Russia has taken Severodonetsk after weeks of fighting that has reduced much of the industrial city to rubble.\n\nUkrainian troops are thought to have withdrawn to the nearby city of Lysychansk, which sits on higher ground across the Siversky Donets river.\n\nIt is one of the few remaining areas in Luhansk region still in Ukrainian hands. Luhansk together with neighbouring Donetsk form the Donbas region and President Putin says gaining control of the Donbas is Russia's main war aim.", "Patrick Grady is stepping away from his SNP membership while police investigate allegations of sexual harassment against him.\n\nThe move means he will not be an SNP MP at Westminster.\n\nThe Sunday Times and the Sunday Mail first reported that officers from the Met Police would be making further inquiries into allegations against him.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and the SNP Westminster leader have faced questions over the way the allegations were handled.\n\nThe Glasgow North MP, who will sit as an independent, was suspended from Parliament for two days after he was found to have made a sexual advance to a teenage SNP member of staff.\n\nMr Grady, the party's former chief whip, told the Commons he was \"profoundly sorry\" after an independent panel found he had touched and stroked the neck, hair and back of his colleague during a social event at a London pub in 2016.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: \"On Wednesday, 22 June police received an allegation of sexual assault that is said to have taken place in October 2016 at a commercial premises in Folgate Street, E1.\n\n\"The report was submitted online by a third party.\n\n\"Officers will now be making inquiries, including contacting the alleged victim, in order to assess what further action is required.\"\n\nAn SNP spokesman said: \"Patrick Grady is stepping away from his party membership while the police inquiry continues.\"\n\nLast week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP's Westminster group had questions to answer over its handling of the harassment complaint against Mr Grady.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she still had confidence in her party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford but said a victim who did not feel supported \"is by definition unsupported\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says her offer to meet with the complainer against Patrick Grady still stands\n\nAfter it was recommended that Mr Grady was suspended from Parliament for two days, it emerged that Mr Blackford had subsequently urged his party's MPs to \"give as much support as possible\" to the MP after audio of an SNP group meeting was leaked to the Daily Mail.\n\nMr Grady's victim told BBC Scotland on Thursday that the party was closing ranks and attempting to discredit him in order to limit the fallout from the case, and was more interested in finding the source of the leaked audio than addressing the issues that it raised.\n\nHe dismissed Mr Blackford's apology over what was said at the group meeting and his \"regret\" that the victim felt unsupported as a \"cop out\" and a \"publicity stunt\" that was done to protect the politician's position and reputation.\n\nIan Blackford has come under fire over his handling of the allegations\n\nIn response, Mr Blackford said he was willing to meet the victim, adding: \"If the complainant feels aggrieved, then I am sorry for that.\"\n\nHe said he had not yet had an opportunity to apologise in person because the investigation process had only just concluded, and said he also had a duty of \"pastoral care\" to Mr Grady.\n\nHe said he \"regrets the fact the discussion took place the way it did\" during the SNP group meeting, but denied his authority had been undermined by the situation. Mr Blackford also refused to directly call for Mr Grady to stand down but suggested he needed to \"reflect on his behaviour\".\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy MSP said: \"Patrick Grady should have been sacked long before this but the SNP have shown they have absolutely no backbone and would rather back the perpetrator over the victim.\n\n\"The abuser is gone but the poison remains in the SNP and the party leadership should be ashamed of the way they have handled this scandal.\n\n\"It's appalling that Nicola Sturgeon and Ian Blackford are still treating a disgraced MP with more sympathy than the victim who suffered sexual harassment.\"\n\nMr Hoy also called for Ian Blackford to be sacked \"so victims have confidence that they'll be taken seriously in the future\".\n\nHe said: \"At no point has Ian Blackford showed an ounce of leadership. He voiced absolute full support for Patrick Grady over the victim, allowed SNP whips to act menacingly and resorted to intimidation,\" he said. \"Ian Blackford must go.\"\n\nIt's not clear if Patrick Grady had much choice in \"stepping away\" from the SNP but the party has certainly given the impression that it was his decision.\n\nBy excluding himself from membership at a time when the party has begun the selection process for the next general election, Mr Grady may, in effect, be excluding himself as a candidate and ending his parliamentary career.\n\nThat may depend firstly on how long the police process takes and - if it is reasonably swift - whether or not they decide to take any action.\n\nThis is not the only follow-up to this story because while Nicola Sturgeon has expressed confidence in her Westminster leader Ian Blackford, she has also questioned his handling of the case.\n\nShe has also offered to meet face to face with the SNP staff member who was touched inappropriately by Patrick Grady. He has yet to decide whether or not to accept her invitation.\n\nThis is hardly the curtain-raiser the first minister would have wanted for her Holyrood statement on Tuesday on how she plans to bring about an independence referendum in October next year.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan is set to retire from international cricket.\n\nAn official announcement could be made on Tuesday.\n\nUnder Morgan, England won the 2019 World Cup and reached the top of the one-day and Twenty20 rankings.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who took charge of the T20 side in 2012 and one-day side in 2014, has struggled for form and fitness in recent times, with Jos Buttler the favourite to replace him.\n\nEngland face India in a three-match T20 series starting on 7 July, while the T20 World Cup in Australia begins in October.\n\nMorgan is England's leading run-scorer in one-day and T20 cricket with 6,957 and 2,458 runs respectively.\n\nHis tally of 225 ODIs and 115 T20s is also an England record.\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special: \"It is exactly the right time for him to step aside.\n\n\"He really is the legacy white-ball captain and in 30-40 years' time people will still remember him what he's done England's white-ball team. He must be wonderful to play under and he was a brilliant batter.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who was part of the World Cup-winning squad, said: \"He's done a remarkable job.\n\n\"It is strange to comprehend the side without him. Things move on and you have to get used to it, but it is sad.\n\n\"I'm not surprised at the same time because he is a very selfless person and probably is thinking about the team more than anything.\"\n\nMorgan took over from Alastair Cook as ODI captain and oversaw England's miserable 2015 World Cup campaign when they were knocked out in the group stages.\n\nBut he implemented a new, attacking approach which helped England break the record for the highest one-day total three times.\n\nThey achieved that feat most recently in making 498-4 against the Netherlands last week, but Morgan made ducks in his two innings in the series and missed the third ODI with a groin problem.\n\nHe has only one half-century in his past 26 white-ball innings for England.\n\n\"To change the mindset of a whole country and the way they play their cricket is a massive achievement - it is so difficult to do,\" Moeen said.\n\n\"To then be a very good captain on top of that, tactically on the field and to look after the players...\n\n\"There were so many times where people were caught on the boundary and they were like 'I should have just hit a single' and he was like 'no, no, next time you hit it out of the ground'. We'd never come across a captain like that before.\"\n• None What's the controversy surrounding the new tournament?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The RSPCA says there is an issue in Wales with illegal dog breeding\n\nThe number of investigations into illegal dog breeding in Wales rose by 63% last year, figures have shown.\n\nRSPCA Cymru said there were 366 cases being investigated by councils, although prosecutions remained low with figures doubling to just eight.\n\nThe rise has been more notable since the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was supporting councils in tackling illegal dog breeding, including training of more enforcement officers.\n\nRaspberry, a six-month-old English Bulldog, was rescued along with her mother Blackcurrant from an unlicensed breeder.\n\nShe has already had an operation to treat a defective soft palate and is expected to suffer with health complications throughout her life.\n\nBoth are being cared for by staff at the Hope Rescue centre in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and are just two of the 219 dogs rescued by this centre alone over the past 12 months.\n\nPreviously the number has been closer to 30 dogs per year.\n\n\"Blackcurrant is three years old and has had a number of puppies,\" said Sara Rosser, head of welfare and adoption at Hope Rescue, which works in partnership with RSPCA Cymru.\n\n\"The skin rolls on her head need cleaning or they become infected, she has suffered ear infections and she has also had an operation on her eye since she came here.\"\n\nShe added: \"Unfortunately during Covid we had an explosion in low-welfare breeders, but we are thankful that the public seem to be more aware of animal welfare issues and are reporting those concerns.\"\n\nRaspberry and Blackcurrant are two of the 219 dogs helped by Hope Rescue in Pontyclun in the past year\n\nRSPCA Cymru's figures follow the charity's freedom of information requests to Welsh councils to find out how much of a challenge they are facing\n\nIt said the figures may only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to poor puppy breeding practices in Wales, and is calling for more council investigators and for more irresponsible breeders to be sent to prison.\n\n\"There is clearly an issue in Wales,\" said RSPCA's Chris O'Brien.\n\n\"We know that the early years are so important for puppies in terms of their health and development and their future behaviour and so the conditions in these establishments are crucial and it is disturbing to hear that there has been such a big increase in complaints and investigations.\n\n\"We've historically had a problem in Wales with poor breeding standards and practices, and while there are good dog breeders out there these statistics show the problem has not gone away. Indeed the problem has escalated to a concerning level through Covid.\n\n\"We do have dog breeding laws in Wales, but we want to see those strengthened.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Trading Standards Wales, Alison Farrar, said the \"lack of prosecutions\" does not mean there is a \"problem\".\n\n\"I actually see that as a good thing,\" she said, \"because it's only when things are really bad that you have to get as far as a prosecution.\n\nAlison Farrar says social media influencers are driving demand for dog breeds, with some people paying up to £4,000 for a puppy\n\n\"The work of trading standards isn't to go straight for a prosecution,\" Ms Farrar said, explaining its role is to help \"breeders bring their business into compliance\".\n\nMs Farrar said there has been an upsurge in dogs being advertised on social media, including adverts being shared on online groups.\n\n\"We want to encourage the public if they see any dogs being advertised anywhere they're not sure we want them to report them to our Crimestoppers line,\" she said. \"We'll go out and check the licensing... things like the microchips on the dogs to make sure that everything is above board.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said its animal welfare plan for 2021-26 outlined the actions it will take.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Our new regulations on pet sales which came into force in September 2021 with funding support for enforcement, work alongside the delivery of existing dog breeding regulations, and are already resulting in lasting improvements to the welfare standards of puppies bred in Wales.\"", "An unexploded Russian bomb is removed from a block in Kharkiv\n\nThe Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably dominate the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria.\n\nAnd the leaders of the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan face a difficult challenge.\n\nThey are aiming to put on a show of unity and resolve over the war. In recent months, the Western alliance has shown signs of strain and fatigue.\n\nSome voices - particularly in France, Germany and Italy - have asked if it might not be better for the war to end, even if it came at the cost of Ukraine having to cede territory. A recent cross-Europe opinion poll suggested some voters put solving the cost-of-living crisis ahead of punishing Russia.\n\nOthers argue about the need to salvage some kind of relationship with Russia in the future.\n\nCountries like the UK, Poland and the three Baltic States have been resisting these arguments, saying that any peace deal with Moscow that is not on Ukraine's terms would lead to further Russian aggression in the future. President Zelensky is likely to reinforce this argument when he addresses the summit virtually on Monday.\n\nSo the G7 leaders are expected to try to use the summit to clear these muddy waters, promising more weapons to Ukraine and more sanctions against Russia. The idea will be to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the West has the strategic patience to maintain its support for Ukraine, even if it faces domestic political pressure at home from voters concerned about rising prices.\n\nThe problem for G7 leaders is they also face growing pressure to show they are tackling the global economic crisis. The soaring price of fuel and food is causing hunger and unrest across the world. And some countries are pointing the finger at the West.\n\nMany countries in the global south do not share Western concerns about Russian aggression. They see the conflict as a European war and seem unmoved by Western arguments that Vladimir Putin is acting as a colonial aggressor. And they blame Western sanctions - as much as Russia's invasion - for the rising costs of gas and oil, and the massive shortage of wheat and fertiliser.\n\nTo try to resist this narrative, G7 countries are expected to use the summit to show they are acting to help countries round the world - with development aid, debt restructuring, climate finance, help finding alternative sources of energy and, of course, fresh efforts to get grain out of Ukraine's ports. That is why Germany has invited the leaders of India, Indonesia, Senegal, Argentina and South Africa to the summit, to hear their perspective and show the rest of the world the G7 is listening.\n\nSo on the one hand, these Western leaders must show resolve to keep backing Ukraine, and on the other, they must show a readiness to fix the global economic shocks that some blame, in part, on the war.\n\nOne senior US official described the dilemma thus: \"How do we maximise pain on Putin's regime? How do we minimise spillbacks back to the rest of the world?\"\n\nThat is quite a circle to square.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Nearly 6.5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment - a record high, latest NHS figures show.\n\nThat represents one in nine people in the population who are waiting for care such as knee and hip replacements and eye surgery.\n\nOne in 20 of them has been waiting for more than a year.\n\nBut NHS England said there were signs of progress, with fewer people waiting for tests and the number of people waiting more than two years falling.\n\nTim Mitchell, of the Royal College of Surgeons, agreed, saying there was some \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\n\"Surgical teams have been working around the clock to reduce the enormous waiting list which built up during the pandemic.\n\n\"However, there are still big challenges ahead. As people return to the NHS, demand is only getting stronger.\"\n\nHe added that there was a need for more staff to increase the amount of surgery that could be done - ministers have warned the waiting list could keep rising until 2024.\n\nThe data showed cancer services were also struggling.\n\nSome 21% waited more than two weeks for a check-up with a cancer specialist in April after an urgent referral from a GP.\n\nAnd 35% waited more than the target time of two months for treatment.\n\nProf Pat Price, co-founder of Catch Up With Cancer, said: \"It defies all reason that government can look at these cancer statistics and not see a crisis. We are desperately short of treatment capacity.\n\n\"Increasing diagnosis means nothing if all we do is pile backlog patients onto sky-high waiting lists.\"\n\nBut Prof Sir Stephen Powis, of NHS England, praised \"hard-working NHS staff\", saying significant progress was being made.\n\nHowever, he warned there was \"no doubt\" the NHS was still facing pressures, including an increasing number of Covid patients.", "Here are some images from the attack in Kremenchuk which left a shopping centre in flames.\n\nTwo deaths have been confirmed but the number of victims is expected to rise significantly.\n\nMissiles struck the shopping mall at about 15:50 Ukraine time, officials in Kremenchuk say Image caption: Missiles struck the shopping mall at about 15:50 Ukraine time, officials in Kremenchuk say\n\nA fierce fire took hold of the site, covering an area of 10,000 sq m Image caption: A fierce fire took hold of the site, covering an area of 10,000 sq m\n\nLocal fire crews battle to dampen down the intense flames Image caption: Local fire crews battle to dampen down the intense flames\n\nThe full death toll is still not known, but two people are already confirmed to have died, with at least 20 others injured Image caption: The full death toll is still not known, but two people are already confirmed to have died, with at least 20 others injured\n\nThe city's mayor called the attack \"another Russian war crime, a crime against humanity\" Image caption: The city's mayor called the attack \"another Russian war crime, a crime against humanity\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show he would not play the first minister's \"games\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has said he will not take part in a \"pretend referendum\" if Nicola Sturgeon continues with plans for a second vote on Scottish independence.\n\nHe accused her of playing \"games\" and said there were more important issues facing the country.\n\nThe first minister is to set out details next week of how she plans to hold a second referendum.\n\nShe will make a statement in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nAnnouncing her plan for a second referendum earlier this year, Ms Sturgeon insisted she won last May's election with a \"clear commitment to give the people of Scotland the choice of becoming an independent country\".\n\n\"The Scottish Parliament therefore has an indisputable democratic mandate,\" she added.\n\nHer announcement next week is expected to include details of how she will seek to hold a referendum in October 2023 even if the UK government does not grant formal consent.\n\nBut the first minister has not yet formally asked for a section 30 order, and would still need to pass legislation to hold a referendum in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is due to make an announcement about her plans on Tuesday\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Douglas Ross said now was \"not the right time\" and that any referendum not sanctioned by the UK government would be \"a waste of time and resources\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm not going to play Nicola Sturgeon's games on this issue, I'm not going to take any part in her pretend referendum when there's real work to be done.\"\n\nHe highlighted what he said were more important issues including the cost of living crisis, supporting the NHS, improving education and the justice system.\n\n\"These are all the priorities I hear from voters right across the country, not an other independence referendum where Nicola Sturgeon just wants to divide us once again,\" Mr Ross added.\n\nMr Ross also said he believed the constitutional question of independence had been answered in 2014.\n\nA section 30 order refers to the section of the Scotland Act that allows Holyrood to pass laws normally reserved to Westminster.\n\nThese have been used 16 times since the Scottish Parliament was created in 1999, and have allowed MSPs to legislate in areas from the construction of railways to reducing the voting age in Scottish elections.\n\nA section 30 order was granted by the UK government ahead of the 2014 independence referendum, after Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond signed the \"Edinburgh Agreement\".\n\nFind out more: Scottish independence: What is a section 30 order?", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritish women's number one Emma Raducanu and two-time champion Andy Murray are set for Centre Court when Wimbledon gets under way on Monday.\n\nRaducanu makes her debut on the main show court against Belgian Alison van Uytvanck at about 16:00 BST.\n\nThe 19-year-old says she is \"ready to go\" at SW19 after a week of uncertainty caused by a side strain.\n\nAsked if it led to concerns she could not play, she said: \"There were moments in the week we weren't really sure.\"\n\nMurray has also faced a race to be fit but says the past few days have been \"really positive\" after being hampered by an abdominal injury which forced him out of Queen's.\n\n\"I feel like I'm in a good place,\" said the 35-year-old unseeded Scot, who plays Australia's James Duckworth on the 15,000-seater court after Raducanu's match.\n\nSerbia's Novak Djokovic, who is the defending men's champion, opens the tournament on Centre Court at 13:30 as tradition dictates.\n• None Live scores, results and order of play from SW19\n\nAs well as Raducanu and Murray, there are seven other British players in action on Monday.\n\nBritish men's number one Cameron Norrie, seeded ninth, opens play on court two at 11:00 against Spain's Pablo Andujar.\n\nHeather Watson and Ryan Peniston play back-to-back on court three, with Lily Miyazaki, Jodie Burrage, Jay Clarke and Katie Swan also bidding to reach the second round.\n\nTunisia's Ons Jabeur opens Court One at 13:00 when she faces Swedish qualifier Mirjam Bjorklund, followed by the opening matches for Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz and 2018 champion Angelique Kerber.\n• None Serena has given me more confidence I can win Wimbledon - Ons Jabeur column\n\nRaducanu pulled out of the Eastbourne International last week because of the strain, leaving her short of grass-court preparation before Wimbledon.\n\nShe managed just seven games against Viktorija Golubic at the Nottingham Open before retiring from the match, which has been her only outing on the grass this summer.\n\nRaducanu practised at Wimbledon as scheduled on Saturday, appearing to serve normally and with a full range of shots.\n\nAfterwards in her pre-tournament news conference, the 10th seed did not say if she was still feeling pain because of the problem.\n\n\"Right now I'm fit. I'm ready to go. I'm looking forward to it - that's it,\" said Raducanu, who reached the last 16 on her Wimbledon debut last year.\n\n\"We were sort of going to see how the week goes, but it went pretty well.\n\n\"Now it's full steam ahead. Everyone's really looking forward to it.\"\n• None Raducanu 'not being distracted by commercial interests', says agent\n• None The Sports Desk: Can Raducanu shake off US Open hangover?\n\nMurray has been left frustrated by an abdominal injury which he picked up in the Stuttgart final on 12 June.\n\nIt is the latest niggling setback for the former world number one and came just as he began to look in good form on the grass courts.\n\nAfter saying on Monday he could still not hit specific shots because of the injury, Murray has upped the workload and appeared to be serving normally in practice with fellow Briton Dan Evans on Friday.\n\n\"I've been able to gradually progress my training this week and got to play a few sets, a lot of points,\" said the 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon champion.\n\n\"The past few days have been good.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Neil Parish was the MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 2010 to May 2022\n\nFormer Tory MP Neil Parish says he was left \"frightened\" by the paparazzi and by death threats received after he was seen watching pornography at work.\n\nMr Parish resigned in May after he admitted watching pornography twice on his phone in Parliament.\n\nSpeaking on LBC's Swarbrick on Sunday he said \"three days of the paparazzi outside of your house shouting abuse at you, it is enough to frighten anybody\".\n\nHe also said police had \"kindly\" confiscated his shotguns at the time.\n\nMr Parish, who represented the Tiverton and Honiton constituency for 12 years before resigning, said: \"I have had a couple of death threats and you have got all these cameras outside your house. And David Amess ... you know, I had an office three doors down from him.\n\n\"I was not going to put my wife through this. I spent the whole three days trying to make sure they didn't have the house in full view of the cameras. I think I largely managed to succeed in that.\"\n\nHe also said he was wrong to be watching pornography but what he did was \"immoral [but] not illegal\".\n\n\"I was right in the corner of the House of Commons as you go into the lobby to vote, so this idea I think people have got that I was right in the middle of the House of Commons flaunting it is absolutely wrong,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed he had asked to be able to apologise but \"was not given that opportunity\" and was, instead, \"thrown to the press wolves\".\n\nMr Parish, from Somerset, went on to say that following the scandal the police \"kindly and rightly took away\" his shotguns, adding: \"Because when you have blown up your parliamentary career for 12 years, you are not feeling in the best place, and they took them away for my own safety.\"\n\nAsked about the recent by-election, when the Liberal Democrats overturned a Conservative majority of more than 24,000, he said he believed in \"normal times\" the Conservative majority may have been cut but that the vote had been a \"referendum on the Prime Minister\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, you can visit the BBC's Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donations were passed to the prince's charities and all the correct processes were followed, Clarence House said\n\nThe Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing a million euros in cash from a former Qatari prime minister, the Sunday Times has reported.\n\nThe paper says this was one of three cash donations from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim totalling three million euros.\n\nClarence House said donations from the sheikh were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities and all the correct processes were followed.\n\nThere is no suggestion the payments were illegal.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, Prince Charles received the three cash donations in person from the former prime minister between 2011 and 2015.\n\nIt is claimed that on one occasion the money was handed over in a holdall at a meeting at Clarence House. On another, the paper reported the cash was contained in carrier bags from the department store Fortnum and Mason.\n\nIn a statement, Clarence House said: \"Charitable donations received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities, who carried out the appropriate governance and have assured us that all the correct processes were followed.\"\n\nThe funds were received by the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund, whose stated aim is to \"transform lives and build sustainable communities\", by awarding grants to good causes in fields such as conservation, education, health and social inclusion.\n\nThe fund told the Sunday Times that its trustees had concluded the donor was legitimate and that its auditors had signed off on the donation.\n\nDonations to Prince Charles's charities have come under scrutiny in recent months following allegations that one of them offered a Saudi donor help to secure a UK honour and citizenship.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said earlier this year that it is investigating the claims about the Prince's Foundation under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.\n\nThe foundation is understood to be offering its full co-operation and Clarence House has said that Prince Charles had no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities.\n\nMichael Fawcett, the prince's former valet and chief executive of the foundation, resigned in November as the charity investigated the claims.\n\nThe investigation found that he co-ordinated with \"fixers\" over an honorary CBE for billionaire businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, who denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBut it concluded that there was no evidence that trustees were aware of the co-ordination.", "Rapper Kendrick Lamar has ended his Glastonbury headline set with a powerful protest at the roll-back of abortion rights in the US.\n\nWith blood pouring down his face from a crown of thorns, the star proclaimed: \"Godspeed for women's rights. They judge you, they judge Christ.\"\n\nHe repeated the phrase over and over with increasing intensity, eventually breaking off mid-sentence and throwing his microphone to the ground before walking off stage.\n\nIt was a forceful end to a theatrical performance that was unlike anything the festival has ever witnessed.\n\nThroughout the show, Lamar, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album Damn, addressed themes of guilt, greed, loyalty, power, ambition and prejudice, shouldering the audience's problems by examining his own.\n\nHe emerged flanked by 20 dancers to perform United In Grief - a song that looks back over his 19-year career and the mental health problems he has addressed over multiple albums.\n\nAs he stood still behind a mic stand, they lined up behind him, each representing a different aspect in the evolution of his personality. As they scattered, he began an almost-chronological journey through his catalogue.\n\nThe intricately-choreographed performance is a deep dive into the star's psychology\n\nBlood from the crown of thorns on the rapper's head poured down his face\n\nHighlights included Alright, his soulful protest against injustice and police brutality; Humble, a scathing rant against toxic masculinity; and Swimming Pools (Drank), which discusses his grandfather's alcoholism.\n\nAt every turn, dancers reflected the star's internal and external struggles. In the second verse of the recent single N95, which tackles wealth disparity, all the stage lights went off and the dancers turned flashlights onto Lamar, highlighting his own unease with fame and fortune.\n\nThe show was heavy on concept without alienating the audience. And unlike many live rap shows, Lamar's vocals were controlled and nuanced, allowing his lyrics to cut through.\n\nThe climax came on Savior, a song that examines Covid conspiracies, the Black Lives Matter movement, political correctness and his own personal flaws - which he juxtaposes with his faith in Christ.\n\nIntroducing the song, he explained the message was that \"imperfection is beautiful\", and that in our rush to judgment, we often lose sight of others' humanity.\n\nThe closing lyrics, \"Godspeed women's rights\", were added for Sunday night's performance; which came two days after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.\n\nLamar attracted a young and devoted audience to the Pyramid Stage\n\nIn some ways, Lamar's thorny and introspective songs made him a brave choice to headline Glastonbury's main stage. But in the event he rose to the challenge, delivering a visceral and compelling set that will be talked about for weeks.\n\nBritish rapper AJ Tracey, who gave a thrilling Pyramid Stage performance of his own on Saturday, said Lamar was one of the most important artists of his generation.\n\n\"He works very hard but he's also unwavering in his message,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There's a meaning behind everything he does. He always stands up for black people, for impoverished people, people who are unfairly treated - and that means a lot to people.\n\n\"When you're already a good rapper, it's easy to be on autopilot,\" he continued, \"but when you stand for something and you push a message, that's what makes people love you.\"\n\nPet Shop Boys lit up The Other Stage with a spectacular light and laser show during their set\n\nFestivalgoers who craved something more euphoric at the end of the long weekend had the option of going to see pop royalty Pet Shop Boys play a joyous greatest hits set on The Other Stage.\n\nThe metronomic house grooves of Its Alright and Vocal turned the field into a giant rave; while Go West (\"a song of gay liberation that became a football anthem,\" as Neil Tennant billed it) even had the security team singing along.\n\nThe band gave a valedictory performance of their debut single West End Girls and ended the night with Being Boring, which they dedicated to the victims of the Oslo Pride shooting.\n\nPop star Charli XCX also gave a full-throttle performance on the John Peel stage, that illuminated her ever-expanding catalogue of pop classics, from I Love It and Boom Clap, to more recent hits like Gone and New Shapes.\n\nSunday's music programme is traditionally more laid-back, giving revellers the chance to relax after five days of hedonism.\n\nThe Pyramid Stage opened with West Yorkshire's Black Dyke brass band, followed by Dhaka Brakha, whose unique blend of Ukrainian folk melodies with African rhythms broke through the morning gloom.\n\n\"People say they haven't heard anything like it before,\" frontman Marko Galanevych told the BBC. \"Most people say 'it's unusual but I like it'\".\n\nDuring their set, the band projected images of the devastation wreaked by Russia's invasion of their homeland - just days after a video message from President Volodymyr Zelensky urged festivalgoers to show solidarity with his country.\n\nHerbie Hancock brought decades of musicality to the Pyramid Stage\n\nAs morning turned to afternoon, jazz legend Herbie Hancock delivered a masterclass in cool, with a virtuoso set packed with classics like Cantaloupe Island and Take Five.\n\nHis set warmed the crowd up for Diana Ross, who drew one of the weekend's biggest audiences for the traditional Sunday teatime \"legend\" slot.\n\nDrawing on an enviable 60-year catalogue, she got the crowd singing and dancing to hits like Baby Love, I'm Coming Out and Upside Down - despite occasionally wobbly vocals.\n\nDiana Ross said she enjoyed playing in daylight, so she could see fans' faces\n\nGlastonbury stalwarts Elbow proved once again they're the perfect festival band, with frontman Guy Garvey powered entirely by the milk of human kindness.\n\n\"There was a period there where we thought we'd never see you again,\" he said, referring to Glastonbury's two-year hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic. \"We're so happy to be here, in the place love was invented.\"\n\nUS star Kacey Musgraves brought some Nashville glamour to The Other Stage in a glittering, dragon motif mini-dress... although she griped that she'd been advised to dress for mud and had ended up with sunburn.\n\n\"These wellies apparently had no purpose,\" she laughed, gesturing at her feet, \"but still, they're cute\".\n\nKacey Musgraves will support Adele at her Hyde Park shows next week\n\nLike Kendrick Lamar, and many other US acts over the weekend, she voiced her anger at the overturning of Roe v Wade.\n\n\"Honestly thinking about never going back to America,\" she quipped. \"Anyone know any positions for sheep farming going, as that sounds really great right now.\"\n\nMusically, the star somehow turned the artful sorrow of her divorce album, Starcrossed, into a celebration of freedom. She even threw in a karaoke version of Fleetwood Mac's scathing break-up anthem Dreams for good measure.\n\nAround 7pm the skies cleared and the sun started to set - the perfect moment to catch up-and-coming Jamaican star Koffee on the West Holts stage.\n\nHer easy-flowing songs had half the crowd engaged in sort of a low-slung dance, while the rest laid back and soaked up the sun-kissed grooves.\n\nBack on the Pyramid Stage, Lorde declared herself the \"ideal comedown shepherd\" for Glastonbury's exhausted festivalgoers.\n\n\"We're in this together. I'll be kind and gentle and when I think you're ready to handle it, I'll [mess] you up,\" she joked.\n\nShe kept her promise. Early in the set, she played a beautifully powered-down version of Stoned At The Nail Salon, accompanied by Arlo Parks and Clairo; but ended her performance with a massive dance party to a pounding version of Green Light.\n\nThe day also saw surprise sets from Jack White, his hair dyed blue to match his guitar, and George Ezra, whose crowd spilled out of the John Peel tent into the fields beyond.\n\nAfter Lamar, festival-goers will eke out their final hours in the dance tents and silent discos of the outer fields - but, by tomorrow morning, Glastonbury will be over.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Households could get discounts on electricity bills if they use less energy at peak times.\n\nNational Grid hopes to roll out a scheme where people can save cash if they avoid high-power activities, such as cooking or charging electric cars, when demand is high.\n\nThe move follows a trial where Octopus Energy offered incentives for 100,000 customers who reduced consumption.\n\nNational Grid is asking all suppliers for feedback on its plans.\n\nThe company said the scheme was \"not about energy rationing\", despite fears over energy supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine affected oil and gas supplies to Europe.\n\nA spokesman told the BBC the move was to \"create flexibility\" in its network and was part of longer-term plans to not add to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nHe added it \"should not have a negative impact\" on consumers as its aim was to balance the power grid at times of the year when heating and lighting causes overall electricity demand to be higher.\n\nLast week, National Grid ESO hosted a webinar with energy suppliers to ask and understand how feasible its proposals would be if it rolled out the scheme country-wide, following its trial with Octopus Energy in February.\n\nIt is understood a scheme could be established across suitable homes in Britain within months if energy firms agree.\n\nThe Times, which first reported the story, said it had seen estimates that households, which typically pay 28.34p for each kilowatt-hour of electricity they use, could potentially be paid as much as £6 for each kilowatt-hour that they avoid using at peak times.\n\nThe way customers would redeem savings has not been established, but Octopus Energy said its consumers received credit on their energy accounts and also had a \"self-refund option\" where they could get cash transferred to their bank accounts.\n\nPrices overall are continuing to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years, with UK inflation at 9.1%, the highest level since March 1982, biting into household budgets.\n\nChanges to the energy price cap meant typical energy bills rose by an unprecedented £700-a-year in April, and are due to rise by even more in October.\n\nEnergy supplier Octopus Energy, which trialled National Grid's proposals, said smart meter customers who reduced their consumption on evenings when demand is highest manged to save cash.\n\nIt said consumers on average saved 23p per each two-hour trial window, but some participants saved up to £4.35.\n\n\"However, savings over winter could potentially be much higher if this becomes a real service, but of course this depends on how much National Grid would pay households per kWh,\" the company said.\n\nGreg Jackson, chief executive and founder of Octopus Energy said traditionally at times when demand was high, National Grid would pay large companies to reduce their usage, or pay for \"diesel generators to switch on to produce electricity\".\n\nHe said the new plan, which he hopes will be in place this winter, wasn't \"life changing stuff\", but would offer households a chance to get paid if they reduced demand on the network.\n\n\"When some people take part in these turn downs, it reduces the price for them but actually by making the system more efficient, it reduces it for everyone.\n\n\"These small amounts add up,\" he said.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has fuelled a massive rise in energy bills and concerns over energy security.\n\nEnergy firms have been asked to delay the closure of UK coal-fired power plants by the government, which has said it is exploring \"a wide range of options to further bolster our energy security and domestic supply\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng wrote to EDF, Drax and Uniper this month to ask that they temporarily extend the operation of the coal plants, which are used for back-up generation.\n\nThe UK gets very little of its power from coal, but generates a lot of electricity from gas.\n\nNational Grid said its hoped the new scheme would help to avoid the need to burn more coal for energy.\n\nReducing your energy bill a little by switching on appliances at a \"cheaper\" time of day is not, as Octopus boss Greg Jackson says, life changing. Nor is it a new idea.\n\nBut any way to keep costs down will be looked at with interest by consumers who are only seeing their bill go one way at the moment - and that's up.\n\nIt has long been the selling point of smart meters, that this kind of thing is made easier to monitor and reward when suppliers have a minute-by-record of your energy use.\n\nBut there will be some safety concerns. For example, a fire caused by a faulty washing machine or tumble dryer is more of a risk to life if it occurs in the middle of the night, when everyone at home is upstairs asleep, than it would during the day.", "The UK, US, Canada and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit Moscow's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe UK PM said the move would \"strike at the heart of Putin's war machine\".\n\nGold exports were worth £12.6bn ($15.4bn) to Russia in 2021, and the UK says their importance has increased since the invasion as oligarchs rush to buy bullion to avoid sanctions.\n\nIt comes as the G7 group of the world's richest nations meet in Germany.\n\nUS President Biden suggested the other G7 nations - Germany, France and Italy - would also join the ban.\n\n\"Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson added: \"We need to starve the Putin regime of its funding. The UK and our allies are doing just that.\"\n\nWith London a major global trading hub for gold, the UK government said the move would have a huge impact on President Putin's ability to raise funds.\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Western countries have introduced a range of sanctions targeting wealthy individuals, banks, businesses and state-owned enterprises.\n\nThe US, European Union, UK and other countries have sanctioned more than 1,000 Russian individuals and businesses so far.\n\nThe latest measure will mean UK import restrictions will apply to Russian exports worth around £13.5bn.\n\nThe UK said the gold import ban would come into force shortly, with legislation introduced in Parliament in the coming weeks.\n\nIt will apply to newly mined or refined gold, and does not impact gold previously exported from Russia.\n\nThere are no plans to extend restrictions to Russian gold purchased legitimately before the import ban was put in place.\n\nDiscussions at the G7 summit in Bavaria are expected to focus on the international response to the war in Ukraine, as well as soaring prices and the global food crisis.", "Ukraine was forced to withdraw from the city after weeks of Russian attacks\n\nIt may have felt like an inevitability, but that does not make the fall of Severodonetsk any less painful for Ukraine.\n\nFor weeks it had been the main focus of Russia's invasion, huge artillery barrages and air strikes reducing much of the old industrial city to rubble.\n\nIn the end, Ukrainian commanders said defending the ruins would cost too many lives.\n\nIn his Saturday night address after Russia had confirmed complete control of Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was a difficult day, \"morally and emotionally\" for his country.\n\nThere is no denying it, the loss of the largest city they still held in the Luhansk region does bring one of Russia's key strategic aims one step closer. Ever since the failure of their initial attempts to capture the whole country, Moscow has focussed on taking the wider eastern area known as the Donbas.\n\nThat is composed of two oblasts, or regions, Donetsk and Luhansk. Taking one of those would allow President Putin to present his people with a genuine achievement, something he badly needs after the failures of the start of this invasion.\n\nBut, taking the entirety of Luhansk is still not guaranteed, even if it is increasingly likely. In Russia's path is the city of Lysychansk, just a few miles away from Severodonetsk - but still in Ukrainian hands.\n\nIt is to here that Ukrainian forces are thought to have withdrawn after abandoning Severodonetsk.\n\nTo understand why Lysychansk matters, we need to understand the geography of the region and the role it has played in the war so far.\n\nThe two cities sit on the Siversky Donets river: it runs through the Donbas and has been the scene of a number of very costly battles for Russia.\n\nIn particular, one attempt to cross it a month ago cost an entire battalion tactical group.\n\nHundreds of men and dozens of armoured vehicles were wiped out by Ukrainian artillery as they attempted to reach the other side.\n\nIndeed, with all bridges between Severodonetsk and Lysychansk destroyed, the curve of the river presents a significant natural barrier to any Russian advance.\n\nAdd to that Lysychansk's position on top of a hill, and taking the last Ukrainian positions in Luhansk will be an uphill struggle, figuratively and literally.\n\nThe analysts at the Institute for the Study of War release daily briefings on the conflict. In their assessment on 24 June they noted \"Ukrainian forces will occupy higher ground in Lysychansk, which may allow them to repel Russian attacks for some time if the Russians are unable to encircle or isolate them\".\n\nRussian units were destroyed as they tried to cross the river in May\n\nBut it seems that is what Russia is focussed on doing. They are pushing up from the south, claiming to be within visual range of the city.\n\nA spokesman for Russian-backed fighters claimed that the Ukrainian forces' attempt to defend Lysychansk and Severodonetsk was \"pointless and futile\".\n\n\"At the rate our soldiers are going, very soon the whole territory of the [self-declared] Luhansk People's Republic will be liberated,\" said Andrei Marochko, a representative for the Kremlin-backed army in Luhansk.\n\n\"Our troops are already in the city areas of Lysychansk. So we can say we fully control all movements of Ukrainian troops.\"\n\nThe key question is: what is Russia's endgame?\n\nWill they try to take the Donbas, attempting to force Ukraine to accept a ceasefire, annexing the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and redrawing the national boundaries?\n\nThis is plausible, especially if Russia's forces are as exhausted as many analysts say.\n\nIt could be presented back home as a success. The \"special military operation\" had \"liberated\" the Donbas, or what is left of it.\n\nRussia might hope that realpolitik would kick in, with Ukraine being pressured to accept the loss of territory in the name of peace and global stability.\n\nUkraine would almost certainly reject this, with a frozen conflict the end result.\n\nAlternatively, will President Putin want to finish what he started, maybe taking all of the south, or even making another push for Kyiv?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC speaks to some of the thousands of foreign soldiers who have joined the fight against Russia\n\nOnly one man really knows the answer to that, and he's not sharing his plans. But if we want to look for clues as to how this \"special military operation\" might finish, we need to look at the words of Mr Putin himself.\n\nIn a speech at the start of June, he openly compared himself to Peter the Great, equating Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the Russian tsar's expansionist wars some three centuries ago.\n\nIt was, implicitly, an admission that his own war was a land grab.\n\n\"It seems it has fallen to us, too, to reclaim and strengthen [our lands],\" Mr Putin said. Speaking to a group of young entrepreneurs, a smile flickered across his face. It was quite clear he was referring to his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia made crucial errors at the start of this war. They underestimated the will of the Ukrainian people to resist as well as the capability of their armed forces.\n\nTheir rush to the capital was met with crushing defeat. It was a painful experience, but also a valuable lesson.\n\nTheir slow but relentless march into the Donbas shows they have learned from their mistakes and seem determined not to repeat them.", "Local officials say more than 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a missile strike at a crowded retail area in Kremenchuk, a city in central-eastern Ukraine.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were inside when the building was hit by a Russian missile strike, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.\n\nFootage posted on social media shows flames engulfing the building, while firefighters struggle to tackle the blaze.\n\nYou can read more about this story here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 18 people have died in a missile strike on a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk.\n\nSome 1,000 civilians were estimated to be inside the busy mall at the time of the attack at around 15:50 (12:50 GMT), President Volodymyr Zelensky said.\n\nThe leaders of the G7 group of richest nations - who are meeting in Germany - condemned the attack as \"abominable\".\n\n\"Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute a war crime,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nRussia has been blamed for the attack, which also injured at least 59 people, and there are fears the death toll will continue to rise.\n\nPictures online showed the building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke billowing into the sky.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky described the attack as one of the \"most brazen terrorist acts in European history\".\n\nHe said the mall had no strategic value to Russia and posed no danger to its forces - \"only the attempt of people to live a normal life, which so angers the occupiers\".\n\n\"Only totally insane terrorists, who should have no place on earth, can strike missiles at such an object,\" he added.\n\nRussia's Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, called the attack a \"Ukrainian provocation\", but cited no evidence to suggest that the missile strike had been staged.\n\nThe local governor, Dmytro Lunin, described the attack as a crime against humanity, writing on Telegram that is was \"an obvious and cynical act of terror against the civilian population\".\n\nAuthorities say 440 people from emergency services are working on location, including 14 psychologists brought in to support those affected.\n\nPhotos from the scene show the blackened and charred shell of the building with the roof caved in.\n\nIn one video taken shortly after the strike, a man can be heard calling out: \"Is anybody alive… anybody alive?\" Soon after, ambulances arrived to take the injured to hospital.\n\nBut there are still people missing and as night fell, family members gathered at a hotel over the road, where rescue crews have set up a base to wait for any news. Lights and generators have been brought to the site so crews can continue the search overnight, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe central-eastern city of Kremenchuk is located about 130km (81 miles) from Russian areas of control.\n\nHere in Kremenchuk, you can still smell the smoke throughout the town, hours after the missile strike on the shopping mall.\n\nAll that is left is the mangled shell of the building.\n\nThe area is eerily quiet: the only sound is that of the rescuers moving debris as they search for people underneath.\n\nAn official informs us that the fire has been fully extinguished, but smoke is still billowing from the building.\n\nThe mall was struck at 16:00 local time and it is not yet clear how many people were inside when it happened. But there are fears that the death toll could rise.\n\nHundreds of firefighters were involved in putting out the fire, which burned for several hours\n\nThe Ukrainian Air Force command said the shopping centre was struck by Kh-22 missiles launched from Tu-22M3 long-range bombers. However, the BBC has been unable to verify this.\n\n\"The centre was just destroyed. Before, we had strikes on the outskirts of the city, this time around, this is the centre of the city,\" an eyewitness, Vadym Yudenko told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm out of words,\" he added. \"I did not expect that something like this could happen in my town.\"\n\nThe missile strike took place as the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US and UK gathered in Germany for the G7 summit to discuss - among other things - toughening sanctions against Russia.\n\nIn addition to strongly condemning the attack, a joint statement issued by the Western leaders vowed to \"continue to provide financial, humanitarian as well as military support for Ukraine, for as long as it takes\".\n\nKremenchuk, in the Poltava province of Ukraine, is one of Ukraine's largest industrial cities, with a population of nearly 220,000 people in a 2021 census.\n\nIt is not the first time the city has been hit by missiles - there was one strike recorded in April and another 10 days ago at a nearby oil refinery.\n\nSpeaking after the shopping mall attack, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it the \"latest in a string of atrocities\", while UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would strengthen the resolve of Western allies to stand by Ukraine.\n\n\"This appalling attack has shown once again the depths of cruelty and barbarism to which the Russian leader will sink,\" Mr Johnson said.", "Japan's government has urged people in Tokyo and its surrounding area to use less electricity on Monday, as it warned that supplies will be strained as the country faces a heatwave.\n\nThe Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry expects demand for power to be \"severe\" this afternoon local time.\n\nIt said people should switch off unnecessary lights but still use air conditioning to avoid heatstroke.\n\nFor weeks, officials have warned of a power crunch as temperatures rise.\n\nOver the weekend, the temperature in central Tokyo rose above 35C, while the city of Isesaki, northwest of the capital, saw a record 40.2C. That was the highest temperature ever recorded in June for Japan.\n\nJune marks the start of summer in Japan, with temperatures typically staying below 30C during the month.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that excess generating capacity for electricity was expected to drop to 3.7% on Monday afternoon in Tokyo and eight surrounding prefectures. It views a buffer of 3% as necessary for stable power supply.\n\nThe government asked people to turn off unnecessary lights for three hours from 15:00 Tokyo time (07:00 BST) while \"properly using air conditioning and hydrating during hot hours\".\n\nAlthough electricity providers are working to increase supply, the ministry said the situation was \"unpredictable\" as temperatures climb.\n\n\"If there is an increase in demand and sudden supply troubles, the reserve margin will fall below the minimum required of 3%,\" it said.\n\nJapan's power supply has been tight since an earthquake in its northeastern region in March forced some nuclear power plants to suspend operations.\n\nOfficials have also closed several aging fossil fuel plants in an attempt to cut carbon dioxide emissions.\n\nThese issues, along with a surge in demand for electricity, have resulted in a power squeeze.\n\nEarlier this month, the Japanese government called on households and companies to save as much electricity as possible during the summer.\n\nMeanwhile, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported that 46 people in Tokyo had been taken to hospital for suspected heatstroke, as of Sunday afternoon.\n\nIt also said a 94-year-old man in the nearby Kawagoe city was suspected to have died from the condition.\n\nThe news comes after Australian officials urged households in New South Wales - a state which includes the country's biggest city Sydney - to switch off their lights in the face of an energy crisis. Restrictions on the Australian wholesale energy market were lifted late last week.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are UK energy prices so high?", "The prime minister has signalled controls on steel imports that were due to expire this week could be retained.\n\nWhen asked whether this could lead to a possible breach of international law, Boris Johnson responded \"these are tough choices we have to make\".\n\nIt follows a proposed approach set out by the international trade secretary on Thursday.\n\nBut the Department for International Trade said a final decision has not yet been made.\n\nSpeaking at the G7 summit in Germany, Mr Johnson said keeping the import controls on foreign steel would protect British producers which are already under pressure from rising energy prices.\n\n\"We need British steel to be provided with much cheaper energy,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"But until we can fix that, I think it is reasonable for UK steel to have the same protections that absolutely every other European steel economy does.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson linked the resignation of his ethics adviser Lord Geidt to a disagreement about future decisions on steel tariffs.\n\nBut Mr Geidt said that interpretation of his decision to quit didn't reflect \"the far wider scope of my objection\".\n\nThe limits on steel imports being considered were first introduced by the European Union in 2018 in response to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. The controls were mirrored by the UK after Brexit.\n\nThe restrictions, which add a tariff to steel imports once a certain quota has been reached, are known as \"steel safeguards\" because they are designed to protect the domestic market from surges of cheap steel from overseas.\n\nThe controls are currently in place for 15 categories of steel. While controls protecting 10 of those categories have already been extended to 2024, import limits on five categories are set to expire on 30 June.\n\nThe question of extending tariffs on steel imports is seen as potentially breaking World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments.\n\nThe prime minister has been at the G7 summit discussing shaping the global economy\n\nAsked whether the government was considering imposing tariffs which may be illegal, cabinet minister Brandon Lewis said the government was focused on \"ensuring we work within international law.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, the Northern Ireland Secretary said he was \"not saying the government is going to do this\" but that \"this is something that is supported across the sector\" and the government has \"got to look at all these things\" and \"get the balance right.\"\n\nUK Steel, the lobby group for the British steel industry, said it was confident extending the steel controls would be \"WTO compliant\" and \"there would be no legitimate reason for challenges\".\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it is consulting with foreign counterparts in adherence with World Trade Organization rules, before making a final decision on whether to extend the safeguards.\n\nUK Steel said ending the import controls would expose British steelmakers to a distorted global marketplace and that could cause as much as £150m a year in damage.\n\nAlso speaking on the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said Labour would support the prime minister in the tariffs being continued.\n\n\"It's an extension that both the EU and the Americans have continued with so we would support him,\" he said.\n\n\"Steel workers support him, the unions support him, industry supports him and Labour does support him.\"\n\nBut the Conservative MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Tom Tugendhat tweeted today: \"Protectionism is destructive to all of us. Tariffs are un-Conservative because they're a tax on consumers.\"", "Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will address MSPs at Holyrood\n\nNicola Sturgeon will explain later how she plans to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThe first minister will make a statement in the Scottish Parliament shortly after 14:00 BST.\n\nShe is expected to lay out her plan for holding a lawful vote in October next year, with or without the formal consent of UK ministers.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said ahead of the statement that the UK was \"stronger working together\".\n\nThe UK government has held firm its view that \"now is not the time\" for another referendum.\n\nIn the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, the \"no\" side won with 55% of the vote.\n\nThe statement comes after Ms Sturgeon published the first in a series of papers earlier this month aimed at making a fresh case for independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon claims that she has a democratic mandate for a referendum as independence-supporting parties - the SNP and the Scottish Greens - have a majority at Holyrood.\n\nAnd she said the UK government's \"continued efforts to thwart the will of the people\" would weaken its standing at home and on the international stage.\n\nMs Sturgeon explained: \"Bluntly, the UK government is in no position to lecture any other country about the need to respect democratic norms if it is intent on trying to thwart democracy at home.\n\n\"The UK is either a partnership of consent or it is not a partnership worthy of the name.\"\n\nShe added: \"Westminster rule over Scotland cannot be based on anything other than a consented, voluntary partnership.\n\n\"It is time to give people the democratic choice they have voted for, and then with independence to build a more prosperous, fairer country in a true partnership of equals between Scotland and our friends in the rest of the UK.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack has said he does not consider the pro-independence majority at Holyrood a mandate because \"less than a third of the electorate\" voted for the SNP.\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum went ahead after the UK government agreed to a section 30 order, allowing Holyrood to pass laws in areas normally reserved to Westminster.\n\nUK minsters have said they would consider any request for a section 30 order but they have indicated they would be unlikely to grant the request.\n\nAhead of her statement to Holyrood later, Ms Sturgeon promised a \"significant update\" on how a \"lawful\" vote could be held without the UK government agreeing to the power transfer.\n\nShe has said her plan would show how the Scottish government intends to \"forge a way forward, if necessary without a section 30 order\".\n\nIt has led to speculation that she could be a preparing a \"consultative\" referendum on independence.\n\nThis could see proposals for people to be asked a different question to the 2014 referendum's \"yes/no\" on whether Scotland should become an independent country.\n\nFor example, voters could instead be asked if they believed the Scottish government should begin negotiations with the UK government on Scotland leaving the UK.\n\nSome commentators believe this is less likely to be successfully blocked by the UK government through the courts\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show he would not play the first minister's \"games\"\n\nThere have been suggestions that the pro-UK parties could boycott any referendum that was held without the consent of the UK government - which could potentially refuse to recognise the result.\n\nOn Sunday, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said he would not take part in a \"pretend referendum\".\n\nHe accused Ms Sturgeon of playing \"games\" when there were more important issues facing the country.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Tuesday that the UK was stronger as a union.\n\nHe said: \"We think the number one priority the country is facing is the economic pressure - the spikes in the cost of energy.\n\n\"Our plans for a stronger economy certainly means that we think we're stronger working together\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Ian Murray, the shadow Scotland secretary, said: \"This is a transparent attempt to whip up division and distract from the chaos engulfing the SNP.\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon is in no position to lecture anyone about listening to the people of Scotland, as she ignores the cost of living crisis hanging over people's lives and ploughs ahead with a costly, unwanted and damaging referendum.\n\n\"The reality is the Tories and the SNP are working hand in hand to tear communities apart in a bid to distract from their own failures.\"\n\nPlan A was to win a Holyrood majority for indyref2 and watch Westminster opposition crumble. That hasn't worked.\n\nThe SNP and Greens have their majority but it has not produced a referendum deal with the UK government and there's not one in prospect.\n\nPlan B was to introduce a referendum bill at Holyrood anyway and fight any legal challenge in court. That's still possible.\n\nIt may be there is a further initiative but exactly what that is and whether it amounts to a plan C or not is not clear.\n\nThe details are being kept really tight. Nicola Sturgeon is only sharing details with her full Cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nAhead of her statement, she's warned UK ministers not to \"thwart democracy\" but the Conservatives accuse her of an \"obsessive push\" for an unwanted referendum.", "From left to right at the table: Italian PM Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis\n\nThe leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania have backed Ukraine's bid to join the EU, saying it should be given \"immediate\" candidate status.\n\n\"Ukraine belongs to the European family,\" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a joint briefing in Kyiv.\n\nBut he added that Ukraine still had to meet the accession criteria in full.\n\nMeanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the 27-member EU would stand by Ukraine until its victory against Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's continuing aggression as a war \"against the united Europe\", adding that the \"most effective weapon\" was unity.\n\nAnd he again appealed for more heavy weapons to be sent urgently for Ukraine to be able to defend itself more effectively and liberate territories seized by Moscow since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nLife is now slowly returning to Irpin - but the devastation is still seen everywhere\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the four EU leaders visited the devastated town of Irpin near Kyiv, which for several weeks was occupied by Russia.\n\nUkraine accuses Russian soldiers of committing war crimes by killing hundreds of civilians in Irpin and nearby towns such as Bucha - a claim denied by Moscow.\n\nThe visit to Kyiv comes as Russian troops are continuing their assault on the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nCapturing Severodonetsk - and its twin city of Lysychansk - has for weeks been a top military goal for Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to control all of the wider Luhansk region.\n\nPresident Macron and Chancellor Scholz, together with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, visited Ukraine for the first time since the war began.\n\nThe trip came a day before the European Commission is due to make a recommendation on whether to give Ukraine an EU candidate status. All 27 EU leaders will then discuss the issue at a summit on 23 and 24 June.\n\nSome of the bloc's members have been lukewarm about Ukraine's accession to the EU, and the words of support from France, Germany and Italy - the three EU heavyweights - could sway their position.\n\nHowever, candidacy status will only be the next step on the road to the full membership, which may take years.\n\nBefore the Kyiv visit, Ukrainian officials repeatedly criticised France, Germany and Italy for being slow in delivering weapons and placing too much focus on appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Macron said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion, suggesting that Mr Putin should have a way out of what he called a \"fundamental error\".\n\nMeanwhile in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, on Thursday criticised the EU leaders' trip on Twitter, using a dismissive slur relating to stereotypes of three of the EU nations' cuisines.\n\n\"European fans of frogs, liverwurst and spaghetti\" loved visiting Kyiv, he wrote. \"With zero use.\"", "Family members of the victims have been gathering at the tavern\n\nYellow police tape now cordons off the drinking place in the South African city of East London where 21 teenagers died in unexplained circumstances.\n\nA forensic team has been going through the site at the Enyobeni Tavern to try to understand what exactly took place.\n\nThere were no visible injuries on the bodies of the deceased, the authorities have said, so a crush seems an unlikely explanation.\n\nSome have said the victims were poisoned, but this is not confirmed.\n\nSouth Africa's liquor board has said the owners of the tavern would face criminal charges after allegedly breaching licensing agreements.\n\nSome family members of the victims have been gathering at the tavern to try and find out the latest news.\n\nAmong them was Xolile Malangeni.\n\nHis 17-year-old daughter, Sinako, snuck out of her home on Saturday night but never returned.\n\n\"[She] always loved and took care of me when I was ill,\" her father told the BBC with tears in his eyes.\n\nAlongside her there are 20 other victims in a nearby mortuary. Post-mortem examinations have now been completed but one person remains unidentified and the provincial authorities have called on possible family members to come forward.\n\nThe youngest of those who died was 13 and the oldest was 17, according to Police Minister Bheki Cele - but a detailed list of the victims has not yet been produced.\n\nThe minimum drinking age in South Africa is 18, so they should not have been allowed in.\n\nA forensic team has been inspecting the site where the tragedy happened in the early hours of Sunday\n\n\"The venue was packed. Entrance was free... and free alcohol was also being dished out. We started drinking and having fun with others,\" a 16-year-old girl who did not want to be named told the BBC.\n\n\"Those that were outside were trying to force their way in. Only two bouncers were at the scene to control the crowd. That's when people started collapsing, they were dropping like flies.\n\n\"I thought they were just passing out because they had too much to drink. Many others including myself escaped through the windows. My friends are dead now and we've all been left traumatised.\"\n\n\"They die[d] as they danced. They dance, fall, and die - literally. Others would just feel dizzy, sleep on the sofa, [and] die,\" South African website News24 quotes Mr Cele as saying on Monday.\n\nThe tavern, a two-storey building, sits amid residential properties in a densely populated area of East London's Scenery Park township.\n\nIt has been the focus of a lot of community anger, residents said. They had previously complained to the police about the noise and the late opening hours.\n\nIt is not clear why there were so many young people there on Saturday night. The owner has been quoted in local media as saying they had come to celebrate the end of school exams, having gone there after a \"pens down\" party ended elsewhere.\n\nA birthday party was also being held at the tavern.\n\nTwo of the victims died either on the way to hospital or in hospital, but the other 19 died inside the venue itself.\n\nThey were found slumped over tables or on the floor.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, community members gathered in a church hall near the tavern for a subdued prayer service. Between hymns people spoke about the tragedy of parents burying children.\n\nThere has been a prayer service and the community has been offered counselling\n\nThe tavern's entertainment manager, Promise Matinise, told the BBC that he saw people collapsing one after the other in the early hours of Sunday morning. At first he assumed they had passed out from drinking too much and then realised that some had stopped breathing.\n\nEarlier, he said, bouncers had struggled to control the large crowds that had entered the establishment.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Oscar Mabuyane, premier of Eastern Cape province where the tragedy happened, did not give possible reasons for the deaths, but condemned the \"unlimited consumption of liquor\".\n\nVisiting the scene, he said: \"You can't just trade in the middle of society like this and think that young people are not going to experiment.\"", "Forensic teams are investigating at the the scene\n\nThe youngest victim among the at least 21 people who died at a drinking place at the weekend was 13, police minister Bheki Cele has said.\n\nThe cause of the deaths was not immediately clear and the authorities are investigating.\n\nThe victims were found strewn across floors and tables at the Enyobeni Tavern in the town of East London.\n\nThe bodies were taken to mortuaries, where post-mortem examinations will be carried out.\n\nMr Cele, who had visited the scene and was briefed by the local police, said those who had died were between the ages of 13 and 17 - but a detailed list of the victims has not yet been produced. The legal minimum drinking age in South Africa is 18.\n\nThere are reports that people who had gone to the tavern were celebrating the end of school exams.\n\nSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his \"deepest condolences\" to families of the victims.\n\n\"This tragedy is made even more grave by its occurrence during Youth Month - a time during which we... advocate and advance opportunities for improved socio-economic conditions for the youth of our nation,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nOscar Mabuyane, premier of East Cape Province where the tragedy happened, did not give possible reasons for the deaths, but condemned the \"unlimited consumption of liquor\".\n\nSpeaking at the scene, he said: \"You can't just trade in the middle of society like this and think that young people are not going to experiment.\"\n\nThe incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nA provincial safety official told AFP news agency that a stampede had been ruled out as the cause of death as there were \"no visible wounds\".\n\n\"Forensic [investigators] will take samples and test to see if there was any poisoning of any sort,\" Unathi Binqose said.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If it is safe to do so email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "\"Sarah\" says she stopped going to group sessions, in Brighton\n\nA woman who is suing a rape crisis charity says she felt unable to speak at a support group after a transgender woman began attending the same meeting.\n\n\"Sarah\", who says she was raped in her 20s, stopped going to the sessions, saying she became uncomfortable sharing details of her past with the group.\n\nShe says the centre could have offered separate groups, telling the BBC: \"I think my case is about women's rights.\"\n\nThe charity, Survivors' Network says it plans to vigorously defend the claim.\n\nIt says male victims of sexual violence are referred to neighbouring services, but trans women \"are welcome into all of our women-only spaces\".\n\nHowever, Sarah's lawyers claim that by adopting a trans-inclusive approach - and not providing a session for women who were born female - the charity, in Brighton, failed to meet the needs of all sexual violence victims.\n\nSarah is bringing the case under the Equality Act, claiming indirect discrimination as well as victimisation and harassment. She said: \"I think women have sex-based rights and protections and these are under threat at the moment from trans activism.\"\n\nShe told the BBC she had been groomed and sexually abused when she was a child and later, in her 20s, a man she knew raped her. She did not go to the police.\n\nLast year, she knew she was going to have to come into contact with the man who attacked her. \"I was finding it really hard to cope and I was having increased anxiety attacks,\" she says. \"So I decided to approach Survivors' Network for help.\"\n\nShe says she felt an immediate benefit from the group sessions. \"We had either been abused as children or had experiences as women. It was a very safe space to speak about the feelings we had been through.\"\n\nShe added: \"We spoke a lot about how we were manipulated and coerced by men. I can't tell you how much it helped me mentally.\"\n\nSarah says a new person attended a session, whom she understood to be a trans woman. She said the person presented as typically male, wearing male clothing. \"I was a bit taken aback. I decided I wasn't going to speak that week because I wasn't comfortable.\"\n\n\"I don't trust men because I have been raped by a man. I've been sexually abused by men. And I just don't necessarily trust that men are always who they say they are,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she says the person running the session asked her to speak to the group. \"I felt manipulated and coerced into talking,\" she said. \"When I left the session I had a panic attack, I was absolutely distraught.\"\n\nSurvivors' Network says it learned of the impending legal action on social media and it has not yet received any legal paperwork to clarify the details and basis of the claim.\n\nIt said all survivors, including Sarah, had been assessed and received a copy of the group handbook, which says survivors should only speak if they feel comfortable. It says there was no obligation for Sarah to speak in the session.\n\nIt added: \"In both the assessment and in the handbook, it is explained that all women, including trans women, are welcome in the women's only group. The claimant was made aware of Survivors' Network trans-inclusive position prior to attending the group.\"\n\nHowever, Sarah says she felt the presence of the trans woman in the group changed the atmosphere and discussion. She says she is not transphobic, but feels she now can't use the service.\n\n\"I think it's fantastic that trans survivors feel that there is a safe space for them that they can go and seek help. But for me personally, a mixed sex space doesn't work.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think having just one additional group for women who are born female would be the answer.\"\n\nA protester with the transgender flag draped over them\n\nIn April, the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued guidance for organisations in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt says that in certain places, such as hospital wards or changing rooms, providers can offer single sex services that \"prevent, limit or modify\" trans people from attending, if it is \"a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim\" and balances the needs of service users.\n\nSarah's lawyer, Kate Lea, says that while the guidance is welcome, it does not go far enough and clarification is needed from the courts. \"We see this very much as a test case. We need further guidance in this area. We recognise that there are really difficult decisions to be made by service providers.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Survivors' Network, which is funded by a number of bodies, including the Ministry of Justice and the NHS, said in a statement: \"Continuing to deliver our services supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse is of paramount importance and we want to reassure all our current survivors and anyone seeking support that we are still here for them.\"", "Former prime minister Sir John Major has described the contaminated blood scandal as \"incredibly bad luck\", drawing gasps from families watching him give evidence under oath to the public inquiry into the disaster.\n\nUp to 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s after being given blood treatments or transfusions on the NHS.\n\nSir John later apologised for his choice of language.\n\nHe said: \"I obviously caused offence inadvertently this morning when I referred to the fact that it was awful that people had been fed infected blood and I referred to it as sheer bad luck.\n\n\"I can only say to people it wasn't intended to be offensive. I was seeking to express the fact that I was concerned about what happened.\n\n\"It was intended simply to say that it was a random matter and I perhaps expressed it injudiciously.\"\n\nHe appeared before the inquiry to answer questions about the government's actions, including decisions on financial assistance for those affected by the contaminated blood incident.\n\nThe public inquiry into the scandal, chaired by former judge Sir Brian Langstaff, started taking evidence in April 2019 with hearings in Belfast, Leeds, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London. It is expected to publish its final report in mid-2023.\n\nQuestions have been asked about what the government knew about the risks of the blood treatments, and whether patients were given sufficient warning.\n\nIt has been called the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history and was the result of a new treatment intended to make lives better.\n\nFactor VIII was a therapy designed to help blood clot. It was imported from the United States where it was distilled from the pooled blood of thousands of individuals, including prisoners, who were often paid to donate.\n\nPeople with haemophilia, including many young children, were infected, along with others who were given blood transfusions after surgery.\n\nDame Anita Roddick, the founder of the Body Shop chain and human rights activist, contracted hepatitis C in 1971 after being given blood during childbirth. She died in 2007 of a brain haemorrhage linked to the disease.\n\nCampaigners say those infected decades ago are now dying at the rate of one every four days as a result.\n\nThe UK-wide inquiry was launched after years of campaigning by victims, who claim the risks were never explained and that the scandal was covered up.\n\nSir John Major did not hold a position in government in the 1970s or early 1980s when most of those infected were treated with contaminated blood products.\n\nBut he did hold senior positions, including as Chancellor and PM, when financial support for the families affected were being discussed in the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nDes Collins from Collins Solicitors, which represents some of the people affected by the contaminated blood scandal, said: \"Apart from his 'bad luck' gaffe, Sir John was actually not without sympathy for victims this morning. Yet his evidence was as measured as you would expect.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was claimed a suitcase of cash was handed over to Prince Charles\n\nThe Charity Commission is examining whether it needs to carry out a review of donations received by a charity of the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that millions of euros in cash were handed over by a former prime minister of Qatar.\n\n\"We will review the information to determine whether there is any role for the commission in this matter,\" said the charities regulator.\n\nPrince Charles's representatives said \"all correct processes were followed\".\n\nThe Charity Commission will examine whether it needs to take any action over the claimed donations of a total of three million euros from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim to Prince Charles's charity, between 2011 and 2015.\n\nSome of the money was reported to have been in cash in a suitcase and in carrier bags from the upmarket shop Fortnum and Mason.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker has written to the Metropolitan Police, asking for these latest reports to be included in continuing investigations into claims of cash for honours, involving another of the prince's charities.\n\nMr Baker told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme it showed Prince Charles was personally involved in accepting money from the Qatari donor.\n\nAnd he said it raised the question of whether there had been any more payments in 95 other meetings since 2011 between the prince and members of Middle Eastern royal families.\n\nThere have been no suggestions of any wrongdoing but Mr Baker said it looked \"grubby and scuzzy\".\n\n\"We really don't think the heir to the throne should be behaving in a way accepting cash in Fortnum and Mason bags behind closed doors in secret. The optics are really terrible,\" he said.\n\nThe billionaire donor of the cash, Sheikh Hamad, was the prime minister of the wealthy Gulf state of Qatar between 2007 and 2013.\n\nAs head of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, he had been called \"the man who bought London\" after investments in landmark properties and businesses such as the Shard and Harrods.\n\nThe reported donation was for the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund, which provides grants for conservation, environment, education and social inclusion projects.\n\nIt's understood that donations were also made by bank draft and there could be a challenge about the details of the amounts and how payments were handed over.\n\nMore recent financial accounts from the Charity Commission, between 2017 and 2021, show the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund had an annual income between £10m and £15m.\n\nThe charity regulations allow donations to be made in cash and for donors to remain anonymous.\n\nBut charities would have to carry out due diligence to ensure that the funds were from a legitimate source.\n\n\"Charitable donations received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities, who carried out the appropriate governance and have assured us that all the correct processes were followed,\" said a statement from Clarence House.\n\nEarlier this year the Charity Commission ran a formal inquiry into the charities of Viateschlav Kantor, a billionaire oligarch sanctioned by the UK over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Kantor's charity had made donations to another of Prince Charles's charities, the Prince's Foundation.\n\nCharity records show £600,000 was paid to the foundation over two years, as part of a pledge for £3m, that had been intended to be paid in stages until 2028.\n\nThe Prince's Foundation had said it wouldn't comment on individual donations, but donors would have been subject to a process of due diligence, based on what was known at the time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: the moment a stand collapses at a bullfight in Colombia\n\nAt least four people have been killed and more than 300 were injured after a stand collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia.\n\nFootage showed the three-storey wooden stand filled with spectators falling at a stadium in El Espinal, Tolima department.\n\nA bull continued to roam the ring as people fled the wreckage.\n\nThe traditional \"corraleja\" event involved members of the public entering the ring to engage the bulls.\n\nThe dead included two women, a man and a child, Tolima Governor Jose Ricardo Orozco said. The region's health official said hospitals had treated 322 people of whom four were in intensive care.\n\nSunday's event was part of celebrations of the popular San Pedro festival.\n\nOutgoing President Ivan Duque said there would be an investigation, while President-elect Gustavo Petro urged local officials to ban such events.\n\n\"I ask mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals,\" he said.\n\nIt was not the first time such an accident had happened, he added.\n\nOn Saturday several people were injured during corralejas in El Espinal. Earlier this month one person died after being gored by a bull during a corraleja in the town of Repelon.\n\nMr Orozco said his regional authority would move to ban the corralejas, saying they were dangerous and cruel to animals.\n\nIncoming leader Mr Petro banned bullfights in the main bullring of Colombia's capital Bogotá during his stint as the city's mayor.\n• None First left-wing leader brings new era to Colombia", "Amid the beauty of the Bavarian mountains and fields, a fundamental truth is immediately striking at this G7 Summit.\n\nWhen a collection of democracies gather, each national leader is flexing to the political and public mood back home, subtly, sometimes strikingly different from one country to the next.\n\nThe G7 has an opponent in Russia, whose leader faces no such democratic pressure, and is acutely savvy about the weaknesses, as he might see them, of the western model of governance.\n\nAmid the security and the choreography, the grip and grin photo ops and the alpine backdrops, the differences of emphasis between the G7 countries, and their desire to project a collective impression to the wider world is worth exploring in turn.\n\nThe prime minister, as we know, arrives here with domestic political issues having chased him north from the Commonwealth summit in Rwanda.\n\nIt'll probably chase him to the summit of the Nato defence alliance in Spain in a few days too.\n\nHe is out of the country for a week, while Conservatives back home from the cabinet speculate privately about his future.\n\nBut other leaders face domestic political pressures too.\n\nTake President Emmanuel Macron of France, for instance. A few months after being re-elected as president, he's lost control of the French National Assembly.\n\nThe British government feel Germany and in particular France are feeling the domestic political pressure of some of the consequences of the Ukraine war - not least spiralling prices.\n\nAfter Boris Johnson's meeting with President Macron, Downing Street told us: \"The prime minister stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability and give Putin licence to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss co-wrote something very similar, with her Ukrainian counterpart, in the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nPublicly, No 10 insists President Macron has done \"huge amounts\" to support Ukraine, but privately there is concern Paris is losing appetite for the long-term slog of the war, and its costs.\n\nBeyond the internal G7 diplomacy, there are then the efforts being made together to reassure countries beyond the group, some of whom blame western sanctions as much as Russian aggression for rising prices, as my colleague James Landale writes about here.\n\nArgentina, India and South Africa are among the other countries invited here to join discussions.\n\nI'm told that tomorrow a quad of key countries will meet here - the United States, France, Germany and the UK.\n\nThose around the prime minister talk about the need for a \"gear change\" on sanctions, and they believe the new ones on Russian gold contribute to this, and a \"game changer\" on military support, which will be talked about more at the Nato summit in Madrid.\n\nGetting there, this week and beyond, will require persuasion and patience. And it comes at a cost.", "More than 115,000 Royal Mail workers will begin voting on Tuesday over whether to go on strike over pay.\n\nBallot papers will be dispatched to the Communication Workers Union (CWU) members, with the result on 19 July.\n\nIf workers back action, the CWU says it could amount to the biggest ever strike by its members. Royal Mail says there are \"no grounds\" for strike action.\n\nThe CWU is the latest of several unions to ballot for strikes in recent weeks as the cost of living soars.\n\nPrices are rising at their fastest pace for 40 years, with UK inflation at 9.1%, the highest rate since March 1982.\n\nHigher costs for fuel, energy and good are biting into household budgets and workers and unions are pushing for pay rises to cope with them.\n\nBut the government has warned against employers handing out big increases in salaries over fears of a 1970s style \"inflationary spiral\", where firms hike wages and then pass the cost on to customers through higher prices.\n\nBritain's railways were disrupted when thousands of RMT Union members walked out last week and hundreds of British Airways workers at Heathrow Airport have also voted to go on strike over their wages.\n\nSeparately, 114 Post Offices are to be closed on 11 July when workers strike over pay.\n\nCWU deputy general secretary Terry Pullinger said in a video posted on Twitter that the union wanted an \"inflation-based, no-strings pay award\" for its Royal Mail members.\n\n\"The company has imposed a 2% pay award, miles away from where inflation is, totally inadequate,\" he said.\n\nThe CWU said the pay award was \"despite previous agreements that no immediate executive action would be taken over pay\".\n\n\"Throughout this entire dispute, Royal Mail management have conducted themselves insultingly and disrespectfully to key workers,\" Mr Pullinger said.\n\n\"Their conduct, and particularly the imposition of such an aggressive pay offer, has eroded trust among loyal employees.\"\n\nBut Royal Mail said it believed there were \"no grounds for industrial action\".\n\n\"We offered a deal worth up to 5.5% for CWU grade colleagues, the biggest increase we have offered for many years, which was rejected by the CWU,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe company said further talks were scheduled with the union this week and it hoped an agreement could be reached.\n\nChinelo Awa, founder of Good Cake Day, relies mostly on Royal Mail to deliver her brownies and cookies to customers.\n\nShe told the BBC's Wake Up to Money programme that any strike action would affect her business as she would most likely have to use a more expensive courier.\n\nMs Awa said: \"I want everyone to receive a fair pay, so from a personal view I sympathise, but as a business owner there is a need to take a sit back and go OK, what is this going to do? Is this a busy period? Is this going to impact us?\n\n\"Sometimes we can be really busy and we are sending out upwards of a 100 brownies orders in a week. If that is happening and we are relying on Royal Mail for that then we go for courier companies but that typically means higher costs.\"\n\nMs Awa, whose shop is based in Battersea, London, said where Royal Mail would charge £5.05 for next day recorded delivery, a courier would charge \"upwards of £6.58 to about £8\".\n\n\"In isolation that doesn't sound like a lot of money but then when you multiply it by a 100 it starts to add up,\" she said.", "Video broadcast by state-owned AlMamlaka TV showed the dock engulfed in a cloud of yellow gas\n\nA leak of toxic chlorine gas at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba has killed 13 people and injured more than 260 others, state media report.\n\nAuthorities said a chemical storage container fell while being transported as a result of a crane malfunction.\n\nCCTV footage showed the container being hoisted into the air and then suddenly dropping on to a ship and exploding.\n\nA large cloud of bright yellow gas is seen spreading across the ground, sending people running for safety.\n\nState media said on Monday night that 123 of the injured were still being treated at local hospitals for chemical exposure. Some were reportedly in a critical condition.\n\nChlorine is a chemical used in industry and in household cleaning products. It is a yellow-green gas at normal temperature and pressure, but is usually pressurised and cooled to change it into a liquid for storage and shipment.\n\nWhen chlorine is inhaled, swallowed or comes into contact with skin, it reacts with water to produce acids that damage cells in the body. Inhaling high levels of chlorine causes fluid to build up in the lungs - a life-threatening condition known as pulmonary oedema.\n\nThe container was filled with between 25 and 30 tonnes of chlorine being exported to Djibouti\n\nResidents of Aqaba city, which is 16km (10 miles) north of the port, were advised to stay inside and close windows and doors following the leak, which happened at 15:15 (12:15 GMT) on Monday.\n\nAqaba's southern beach, which is only 7km away and is a popular tourist destination, was also evacuated as a precaution, AFP news agency reported.\n\nAfter several hours Minister of State for Media Affairs Faisal Shboul declared that there was no longer any risk to the city and its residents.\n\nThe Civil Defence Department sent specialist teams to the port to deal with the leak and clean-up operation.\n\nPrime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh flew to Aqaba and visited a hospital that was treating some of the injured.\n\nHe ordered Interior Minister Mazen Faraya to oversee a transparent investigation into the \"regrettable\" tragedy and to guarantee \"all resources to ensure the total security of workers at the ports and all necessary precautions in relation to hazardous materials\".\n\nThe deputy director of Aqaba's port told AlMamlaka TV that an \"iron rope\" carrying the container \"broke\" while it was being loaded on to a vessel.\n\nThe container was filled with between 25 and 30 tonnes of chlorine and was being exported to Djibouti.", "The Queen has arrived in Edinburgh with members of her family for the start of a week of royal events in Scotland.\n\nShe was joined by her youngest son, Prince Edward, and his wife, Sophie, for a traditional ceremony opening the Royal Family's Holyrood week.\n\nThe 96-year-old has mobility issues and the decision to travel to Edinburgh was only confirmed on Monday morning.\n\nShe has cut back on engagements recently and was last seen in public during the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nFollowing her arrival in Edinburgh, the Queen took part in the Ceremony of the Keys on the forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nDuring the ceremony, which marks the beginning of Royal Week in Scotland, the monarch is symbolically offered the keys to the city by the Lord Provost.\n\nBut tradition dictates that she then returns them, entrusting their safekeeping to Edinburgh's elected officials.\n\nThe Queen took part in the Ceremony of the Keys at the Palace of Holryoodhouse\n\nThe Queen inspected the keys presented by the Lord Provost Robert Aldridge during the ceremony\n\nThe Queen is expected to be in residence at the palace - her official residence in the Scottish capital - until 1 July.\n\nOn Tuesday she will attend an armed forces ceremony in the gardens of Holyroodhouse.\n\nAll three services will be represented in the parade, which will mark the Platinum Jubilee in Scotland and pay tribute to her role as head of the UK armed forces.\n\nHowever, the Queen will not take part in the annual garden party at Holyroodhouse on Wednesday.\n\nInstead the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Edward and Sophie will host the party to recognise people who have made positive contributions to communities across Scotland.\n\nOther events include a reception for gold Duke of Edinburgh award winners, hosted by Prince Edward at Holyroodhouse.\n\nThe guard of honour was inspected by Prince Edward on the forecourt of the palace during the ceremony\n\nThe guard of honour was provided by the Balaklava Company, the 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland\n\nLast October, the monarch spent a night in hospital and for three months was under doctors' orders to only carry out light duties, missing a number of prominent events.\n\nDuring the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, she pledged to continue to serve the country \"to the best of my ability supported by my family\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Charity Commission is examining whether it needs to carry out a review of donations received by one of Prince Charles' charities.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that millions of euros in cash were handed over by a former prime minister of Qatar.\n\nThe prince's representatives say \"all correct processes were followed\".\n\nPrince Charles has also been named as a patron of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, following in the footsteps of his father, the Duke of Edinburgh.", "Russia is believed to have defaulted on its debt for the first time since 1998 after missing a key deadline.\n\nRussia has the money to make a $100m payment, which was due on Sunday, but sanctions made it impossible to get the sum to international creditors.\n\nThe country had been determined to avoid the default, which is a major blow to the nation's prestige.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, said \"statements of a default were absolutely unjustified\".\n\nHe added that an intermediary bank had withheld the money and that the reserves were blocked \"unlawfully\".\n\nThe White House said that Russia had defaulted on paying yields on its international bonds, crediting sanctions for effectively cutting Russia off from the global financial system.\n\nRussia's finance minister called the situation \"a farce\" and said the situation is not expected to have short-term impact.\n\nThis is because Russia does not need to raise money internationally as it is reaping revenue from high-priced commodities such as oil, according to Chris Weafer, chief executive at Moscow-based consultancy Macro Advisory.\n\nBut he said it would create a \"legacy\" problem if the situation with Ukraine and international sanctions improves.\n\n\"This is the sort of action that will hang over the economy and make recovery much more difficult when we get to that stage,\" he said.\n\nThe $100m interest payment was due on 27 May. Russia says the money was sent to Euroclear, a bank which would then distribute the payment to investors.\n\nBut that payment has been stuck there, according to Bloomberg News, and creditors have not received it.\n\nMeanwhile, some Taiwanese holders of Russian bonds denominated in euros have not received interest payments, according to the Reuters news agency, which cited two sources.\n\nThe money had not arrived within 30 days of the due date, that is, Sunday evening, and so is considered a default.\n\nEuroclear would not say if the payment had been blocked, but said it adhered to all sanctions, introduced following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia disputed that it had defaulted on the debt. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it had made the payments due in May, and the fact that it was blocked by Euroclear because of sanctions was \"not our problem.\"\n\nRussia finance minister Anton Siluanov admitted foreign investors would \"not be able to receive\" the payments, according to the RIA Novosti news wire.\n\nBecause Russia wants to pay and has plenty of money to do it, he denied that this amounts to a genuine default, which usually occur when governments refuse to pay, or their economies are so weak that they cannot find the money.\n\n\"Everyone in the know understands that this is not a default at all. This whole situation looks like a farce.\"\n\nDefaulting nations usually find it impossible to borrow any more money, but Russia is already in effect barred from borrowing in Western markets by sanctions.\n\nAlso, Russia is reportedly earning about $1bn a day from fossil fuel exports, and its finance minister Anton Siluanov said in April the country had no plans to borrow more.\n\nThe default will trigger repayments on a large chunk of Russia's debt, according to Mr Weafer.\n\nAbout $40bn of Russia's debts are denominated in dollars or euros, with around half held outside the country.\n\n\"Some parts of that debt will now become automatically due because there will be early repayment clauses in all debt instruments so if you default on one it usually triggers the immediate demand for payment on the other debts, so Russia could certainly face immediate debt repayment of about $20bn at this stage,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nRussian finance minister Anton Siluanov says the so-called default is a farce\"\n\nRussia's last debt default of any kind was in 1998 as the country was rocked by the rouble crisis during the chaotic end of Boris Yeltsin's regime. At the time Moscow failed to keep up payments on its domestic bonds and defaulted on some overseas debt.\n\nRussia has seemed on an inevitable path to default since sanctions were first imposed by the US and European Union following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThese restricted the country's access to the international banking networks which would process payments from Russia to investors around the world.\n\nThe Russian government has said it wants to make all of its payments on time, and up until now it had succeeded.\n\nDefault seemed inevitable when the US Treasury decided not to renew the special exemption in sanctions rules allowing investors to receive interest payments from Russia, which expired on 25 May.\n\nThe Kremlin now appears to have accepted this inevitability too, decreeing on 23 June stating that all future debt payments would be made in roubles through a Russian bank, the National Settlements Depository, even when contracts state they should be in dollars or other international currencies.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Weafer, who is based in Moscow, said that life was more or less operating as normal despite sanctions and Western companies withdrawing from Russia.\n\n\"If you're in Moscow right now frankly, if you weren't reading the newspapers, you'd see there's been a price increase but otherwise life is as it was before February 24.\n\n\"In March and April there was a lot of concern that products would disappear, that factories would not be able to get components or materials to continue operating and we could be looking therefore at a severe drop in employment or a rise in unemployment by the summer [or] early autumn. That situation has improved,\" he added.\n\n\"We've seen alternative import routes opening via Kazakhstan and Turkey, the government has promoted what they call a parallel import scheme so effectively a lot of products that were blocked in March and April are now starting to reappear, albeit at a higher price.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK PM compares standing up to Nazi Germany with today's war after Russia invaded Ukraine\n\n\"The price of freedom is worth paying,\" Boris Johnson has said when asked about the cost of helping defend Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking from a G7 summit, he argued that letting Russia \"get away with\" invading Ukraine would have \"chilling\" consequences and lead to instability.\n\nLikening the conflict to defeating Nazi Germany in World War Two, the PM said that war had been \"very expensive\" but delivered \"long term stability\".\n\nIt comes as the Ukrainian president calls for more military support.\n\nOver a video link, Volodymyr Zelensky told the leaders of the world's advanced democracies at the summit that his country needed more anti-aircraft defence systems to help repel Russia's invasion.\n\nHe also said they needed to impose more sanctions to keep the pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nG7 leaders, meeting in Germany, are expected to offer more military support as well as further sanctions against Russia, with some planning to ban Russian gold imports.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's political editor Chris Mason from the summit, Mr Johnson said there was \"no alternative\" to supporting Ukraine regain its sovereignty.\n\nHe argued that the consequences of letting Mr Putin \"get away with the violent acquisition of huge chunks of another country\" would be \"absolutely chilling\".\n\n\"In terms of the economic effects, that would mean long-term instability and anxiety across the world,\" he said.\n\nAsked if there was any limit on the amount of money or support the UK would offer Ukraine, Mr Johnson replied: \"The price of freedom is worth paying.\"\n\nHe said defeating dictators in World War Two \"took a long time\" and was \"very expensive\" but brought \"decades and decades of stability\" and delivered \"long-term prosperity\".\n\nThe UK government has said it is spending £1.3bn ($1.6bn) on military support for Ukraine.\n\nAnd at the summit, the UK pledged £10m to repair damaged Ukrainian rail infrastructure, to create an overland route to get grain out of the country.\n\nThe ongoing conflict in Ukraine has pushed up oil and gas prices leading to higher energy bills, while a squeeze on Ukrainian global grain production has pushed up the cost of food.\n\nAddressing the repercussions on the UK at a time of rising costs of living, Mr Johnson said: \"Just to reassure people at home, I think the economic impacts on the UK will start to abate. Cost pressures will start to come down.\"\n\nIn an interview over the weekend, Mr Johnson was asked on Radio 4's Today programme if there was any matter of principle he would consider resigning over, and he said if he had to abandon Ukraine because it became too difficult or the costs were too great, he would quit.\n\n\"If it was put to me that we had to abandon the Ukrainian cause, because it was simply getting too difficult and that the cost of supporting that people in their heroic fight for freedom was too great in terms of inflation, in terms of economic damage,\" he said.\n\n\"I think I would, accept that I'd lost a very important argument.\"\n\nMr Johnson is currently facing pressure from some of his own MPs after his party lost two by-elections last week - including the previously safe seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon.\n\nFollowing the defeats, the Conservative Party chair, Oliver Dowden resigned telling the prime minister it could \"not be business as usual\".\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson survived a confidence vote among his own MPs - although 148 voted against him.\n\nUnder party rules, Mr Johnson cannot face another leadership challenge for another year. However some Conservative rebels have suggested the party rules could be changed to enable another contest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson could also be pressured into stepping down if several senior ministers resigned.\n\nBut speaking from the G7 summit, he insisted he had the authority to continue governing and had a mandate from the public as well as his own MPs to stay in office.\n\nHe said he was focused on his job adding: \"It is a huge, huge privilege to do it and nobody abandons a privilege like that.\"\n\nConservative MP - and critic of the prime minister - David Davis has said he opposed forcing another confidence vote in the prime minister.\n\n\"He's got to use the year he has to prove to us that actually, he can deliver on the promises we gave at the 2019 election - which was low tax,\" he said.\n\n\"I have people, working class voters in council estates, saying you're not behaving like a Conservative government... that's a terrible thing to have to face down.\"", "NHS patients in England who have been waiting more than two years for surgery are being offered hospital treatment in alternative parts of the country.\n\nMore than 6,000 long-term waiting-list patients are being offered travel and accommodation costs where appropriate to help the NHS through the backlog.\n\nHealth officials want to ensure nobody is waiting more than two years by the end of July.\n\nMore than 400 patients have already said they would be prepared to travel.\n\nThree patients waiting for surgery in Derby have already received treatment in the Northumbria health region, with another two patients booked in, NHS England said.\n\nAnd in south-west London, 17 orthopaedic patients from the South West of England are being treated, with another 11 patients set to follow in the coming weeks.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said the number of two-year waits had already reduced by two-thirds since January.\n\n\"Innovations like this are helping to tackle waiting lists and speed up access to treatment, backed by record investment,\" he said.\n\nMr Javid also pointed to more than 90 community diagnostic centres delivering more than a million checks and scans in the past year.\n\nWith weekend clinics and dedicated surgery hubs, he said NHS staff were making \"great progress\" in busting the Covid backlogs.\n\nBut British Medical Association leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul is warning that attempts to address what he called a \"once in a generation backlog of unimaginable proportions\" would be undermined by a lack of staff and beds.\n\nHe pointed out that there were already 100,000 vacancies in the NHS in England and that risked getting worse because doctors were \"utterly exhausted\" and their wellbeing was at \"rock bottom\".\n\nHe will tell the BMA's annual conference in Brighton later that the health service is \"at serious risk of haemorrhaging more doctors\", with many considering early retirement or likely to work fewer hours.\n\nHe will also say there is a \"parallel hidden backlog of potentially tens of millions waiting for medical, mental health and chronic disease care who don't feature in any government statistics\".\n\nThere were 22,500 people waiting more than two years for an operation in England in January, but this has fallen by 15,000.\n\nHowever, the latest monthly NHS figures show it was the busiest May for emergency care, with 2.2 million A&E attendances.\n\nAnd nearly 6.5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment - a record high - with many waiting for knee and hip replacements, and eye surgery.\n\nBacklogs built up during the Covid pandemic as hospitals treated thousands of people who were ill with the virus, forcing patients with other illnesses to wait much longer than usual for surgery or treatment.\n\nAmanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said: \"Millions who did not seek help earlier in the pandemic are now coming forward.\"\n\nBut she said despite the emergence of the Omicron variant and a difficult winter, the NHS was on track to \"eliminate two-year waiters\" by the end of July.\n\n\"One of the benefits of the NHS is that hospitals can work together to bring Covid backlogs down together, and so if people can and want to be treated quicker elsewhere in the country, NHS staff are ensuring that it can happen,\" Ms Pritchard said.\n\nHowever, even if patients are happy to be treated in another part of the country, it might not always be possible because of the specialist nature of their treatment.\n\nHow have you been waiting more than two years for surgery? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A former human rights lawyer has denied fraud charges linked to claims made against British Iraq War veterans.\n\nPhil Shiner, 65, from Birmingham, pleaded not guilty to three counts at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe former boss of Public Interest Lawyers was struck off by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2017 for pursuing false torture and murder allegations against British troops.\n\nHe was granted bail ahead of a hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 27 July.\n\nMr Shiner appeared for the hearing via a video-link.\n\nThe three charges relate to allegations of fraud offences over legal aid claims made in 2007 and information provided to the Solicitors Regulation Authority in April 2015.\n\nMr Shiner is alleged to have committed fraud by false representation in response to a question from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, which he \"knew was untrue and misleading\".\n\nHe is also alleged to have cold called clients in Iraq \"in relation to alleged killings of Iraqi civilians by British Army personnel at the battle of Danny Boy\".\n\nThe 2004 battle gave rise to claims against British soldiers after an order to remove the bodies of the Iraqi dead from the battlefield and take them back to a nearby camp along with nine prisoners of war.\n\nAmong the dead was 19-year-old Hamid Al-Sweady, who lent his name to a public inquiry after his uncle claimed he was murdered at the British camp.\n\nTwo charges allege Mr Shiner dishonestly failed to disclose information relating to a legal aid claim over an application for a judicial review of the Ministry of Defence's decision not to hold an independent inquiry into the death.", "Speaking at the G7 summit, Boris Johnson praised the support for Ukraine from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz\n\nBoris Johnson has said leaders must be honest about rising costs due to the Ukraine war, but said the price of Russia succeeding was \"far higher\".\n\nHe said world leaders understand they must remain united with Kyiv despite fears of war fatigue.\n\nAllies were \"making the sacrifice\" over rising food and energy costs because \"the price of freedom is worth paying,\" he said.\n\nThe PM is at the G7 summit as he faces pressure over his leadership at home.\n\nAfter leaving Germany, Mr Johnson will head to Madrid for a Nato summit before flying home on Thursday - his first return to the UK since the Conservatives lost two by-elections.\n\nHe has rejected calls to resign, saying he is focused on the cost of living, the economy and \"standing up to violence and aggression\" in Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in the Bavarian Alps where the G7 summit is being held, Mr Johnson said leaders would be discussing how to keep the coalition of support together \"at a time when realistically there is going to be fatigue among populations and politicians\".\n\nHe said Nato and the G7 continue to be \"solid\" in their stand against the invasion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but to protect that unity they must have \"really, really honest discussions\" about the pressures each nation is under.\n\nThe prime minister gave the example of Germany, which is taking emergency measures after Russia cut gas supplies, saying: \"They're making the effort, they're making the sacrifice. That's because they see the price of freedom is worth paying.\"\n\nHe said the G7 and Nato were defending the principle that a free, sovereign country should not be \"violently invaded and have its boundaries changed by force\".\n\n\"The price of backing down, of allowing President Putin to hack off parts of Ukraine, to continue with his programme of conquest - that price will be far, far higher and everyone here understands that,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe G7 leaders have travelled to the Bavarian Alps for the annual summit\n\nIn an interview with CNN on Sunday Mr Johnson was asked about surviving a confidence vote and his party's by-election defeats and insisted the scrutiny he had faced had been a good thing.\n\nThe prime minister questioned whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine would have happened if Mr Putin had faced similar dissent and had \"the 1922 committee on his case\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to address the G7 countries - the UK, US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy - on Monday.\n\nUkraine is urgently asking for more financial help due to fears it could run out of funding by the autumn without further support.\n\nMr Johnson is due to pledge £429m to Ukraine in guarantees for World Bank lending, as its fight against the Russian invasion drags on.\n\nThe loan guarantees provided by the UK will take its package of economic and humanitarian support for Ukraine to £1.5bn.\n\nThe British government feels Germany and in particular France are feeling the domestic political pressure of some of the consequences of the Ukraine war - not least spiralling prices.\n\nAfter Boris Johnson's meeting with President Macron, Downing Street told us: \"The prime minister stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability and give Putin licence to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity.\"\n\nPublicly, No 10 insists President Macron has done \"huge amounts\" to support Ukraine, but privately there is concern Paris is losing appetite for the long-term slog of the war, and its costs.\n\nThose around the prime minister talk about the need for a \"gear change\" on sanctions, and they believe the new ones on Russian gold contribute to this, and a \"game changer\" on military support, which will be talked about more at the Nato summit in Madrid.\n\nGetting there, this week and beyond, will require persuasion and patience. And it comes at a cost.\n\nThe prime minister told CNN he thought Brexit had allowed the UK to better assist Ukraine in defending itself against Russia.\n\n\"I don't think that we would have been out in front as the first European country to arm the Ukrainians,\" he said.\n\nAt the summit on Sunday, Mr Johnson had talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, where the prime minister was said to have stressed that any attempt to settle the conflict now would only give Mr Putin \"licence to manipulate sovereign countries\".\n\nHe also had a meeting with Canada's Justin Trudeau, where Mr Johnson said Ukraine was \"on a knife-edge\" and needed defensive capabilities, training and intelligence to tip the balance in its favour.\n\nThe Canadian and UK prime ministers discussed what Ukraine needed to gain the advantage in the conflict\n\nAhead of the summit, Mr Johnson warned that Ukrainians should not be encouraged to \"settle for a bad peace\" where they were \"invited to give up chunks of their territory in return for a ceasefire\".\n\nHe said: \"Ukraine can win and it will win. But they need our backing to do so. Now is not the time to give up on Ukraine.\"\n\nBoris Johnson will also urge Western allies to increase sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK, Canada, the US and Japan were banning imports of Russian gold, saying the move will \"directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of Putin's war machine\".\n\nThe UK government says gold is a major Russian export, worth £12.6bn to its economy in 2021 and increasingly used by the country's oligarchs to try to avoid the impact of sanctions.\n\nAt the Nato summit, the prime minister will also push for increased defence spending across the alliance and support Sweden and Finland's bids to join the organisation.\n\nAsked if he thought there was going to be a global recession, the prime minister said the world was facing \"a lot of headwinds\" due to rising prices linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe said that it was pointless to focus \"on how bad things might get\" and that he believed things would get eventually better and inflation would slow.", "Members of the Unite union, employed by Caterpillar in Larne and Belfast, have been on strike since April\n\nCaterpillar, the manufacturing company, is making a pay offer directly to its Northern Ireland workforce after failing to reach agreement with a trade union.\n\nMembers of the Unite union, employed by the firm in Larne and Belfast, have been on strike since April.\n\nCaterpillar said it is going directly to the workforce because a 14-month process has not produced a resolution.\n\nThe firm has emphasised that it was not attempting to de-recognise the union.\n\nIn a letter to staff it said: \"We are not walking away from our relationship with the union and remain committed to collective bargaining procedures for future terms and conditions.\"\n\nCaterpillar said it is offering a 9% base salary increase effective from 1 April 2022 and a one-time lump sum equal to 2.6% of wages earned from 1 April 2021 to 1 April 2022.\n\nThe package also includes an annual opportunity to cash in up to two days of leave.\n\nGeorge Brash, Unite regional officer, described the move as \"a direct attack on the trade union\".\n\n\"It's just a clear attempt to circumvent the collective bargaining process and its an anti-trade union tactic,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We'll certainly be consulting our members on what the company has proposed as well as looking at all legal avenues to challenge them on it.\"\n\nA major union objection to the package is that it is tied to a change in overtime arrangements which would involve compulsory overtime to deal with periods of high customer demand.\n\nThe company says this \"customer-driven overtime\" would come with 30-days notice and no more than 120 hours of overtime in a rolling 12-month period.\n\nThe union has said the deal also still amounts to a real terms pay cut compared to RPI inflation.\n\nA Caterpillar spokesperson said: \"After 14 months of direct meetings with the union, four different mediation sessions through the Labour Relations Agency, and considerable movement from our first offer, we made it clear to Unite and our workforce that the offer on the table was final.\n\n\"The negotiations process is now exhausted and we have reached an impasse - all while Unite continues to extend the period of strike action.\n\n\"As a result, we've started the process of making direct offers to our workforce.\"\n\nIt is understood each individual worker will be asked to accept the new pay and conditions on a \"take it or leave it\" basis in the coming weeks.", "Delays unloading ambulances at busy hospitals are causing serious harm to patients, a safety watchdog is warning.\n\nThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has been investigating how the long waits are delaying 999 emergency response times across England.\n\nKenneth Shadbolt, 94, waited more than five hours for an ambulance after a bad fall - an accident that proved fatal.\n\nLogs show that in his final 999 call he asked: \"Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead.\"\n\nThe BBC has been given permission from the coroner to view detailed evidence into his recent death.\n\nKen Shadbolt had been in good shape for his age.\n\nA retired factory worker and carpenter, he lived alone in a semi-detached house in the market town of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, and could often be spotted cycling around the local housing estate on his electric trike.\n\nOn the night of Wednesday, 23 March 2022, he called one of his five sons for a chat before turning in for the night.\n\nJust before 03:00, he got out of bed to go the bathroom and fell, hitting a wardrobe before collapsing on the floor.\n\nHe had hurt his hip - how badly he didn't know - and couldn't get up. He could reach his mobile on his bedside, though, and dialled 999 for help.\n\nThe BBC has seen transcripts of the three separate phone calls he made to South Western Ambulance Service that night.\n\nThe first was short and factual, covering the basic details of his injury.\n\nHe seemed calm and lucid but made clear he was in pain and needed an ambulance.\n\nHe was told by the call handler not to try to move unless he felt in danger and assured that help was \"being arranged\".\n\n\"How long will it be?\" he asked.\n\n\"I don't know, unfortunately, [but] we will try to get someone there as soon as we can,\" came the reply.\n\nHe then spoke to one of his sons who offered to drive up that night from the other side of the country.\n\nKen said he thought an ambulance was on the way, and not to worry.\n\nInternal call logs seen by the BBC show that at this point Ken was triaged as a category two emergency, meaning paramedics should arrive in 18 minutes, on average.\n\nAbout 15 minutes later, he called 999 for a second time.\n\nIt was clear by now that he was starting to worry.\n\nHe said he couldn't move his right leg and talked about an injury to his shoulder as he'd hit the floor. He was worried about his mobile phone, saying the battery \"won't last forever\".\n\n\"When I rang up 999 I thought I would get some treatment straight away,\" he told the next person on the line.\n\n\"It is still down as an emergency response,\" the call handler replied. \"We are extremely busy at the moment but we are working on getting that help to you as quickly as we possibly can, ok?\"\n\nAn internal ambulance service log seen by the BBC shows that South Western Ambulance Service was indeed busy that night.\n\nIt talks about \"high demand\" in the Gloucester area, with more than 60 patients waiting for help, some for more than eight hours.\n\nBut something else was going on at the same time.\n\nThe local A&E was very full, so paramedics arriving outside the emergency department were unable to unload their sick patients straight away.\n\nThe ambulance service log warns there were \"long delays with unloading at GRH [Gloucestershire Royal Hospital]\" that night.\n\nData seen by the BBC shows that 75% of ambulances were delayed for at least half an hour at Gloucester or its sister hospital in Cheltenham on 24 March, with 54% having to wait for more than an hour.\n\nThat handover should be completed in under 15 minutes.\n\nIf paramedics are queuing outside A&E, then they are not able to get back on the road and quickly pick up the next patient who needs help.\n\nA doctor's report into Ken's case specifically refers to \"a lack of ambulances available\" that night.\n\nAmbulances waiting to unload patients at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on 13 June, 2022.\n\nAnother hour passed before he made his third and final call to 999.\n\nIt was clear now that he was in serious pain. He felt \"terrible sick\" and said his \"breathing is going too\".\n\n\"I need an ambulance because I'm going to fade away quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nThe same reply came back: \"The ambulance service is just under a lot of pressure at the moment... we are doing our best.\n\n\"I appreciate that you've been stuck for quite some time, Ken... we've not forgotten about you at all.\"\n\nLater in the call he said he was cold and could not reach his duvet. He'd already tried phoning one of his neighbours but could not get through, and said they \"might be away\".\n\nHe was told by the 999 call handler to \"try to stay still\".\n\n\"Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead,\" he said.\n\n\"Send me the undertaker, that would be the best bet.\"\n\nHe put the phone down for the last time.\n\nKenneth Shadbolt's son Jerry says his father must have felt abandoned\n\nAn ambulance finally got to Kenneth Shadbolt's house at 08:10 that morning, four hours after that final call.\n\nBy then one of his sons had contacted a neighbour, who found him unconscious on his bedroom floor.\n\nHe arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital at 09:59, and was handed over to the trauma team.\n\nA doctor phoned the family and told them to come straight away and explained that his injuries were not survivable.\n\nKen died at 14:21 that afternoon, with the cause of death given as a \"very large subdural haematoma\" or bleed on the brain.\n\nHis son Jerry Shadbolt said: \"The doctors were saying his injuries were non-survivable but would they have been non-survivable if he'd arrived at hospital four hours earlier? I'd like an answer to that question.\n\n\"He was on his own and he knew he was on his own. He must have felt abandoned and alone on his bedroom floor. That's the most troubling part of it for me.\"\n\nJenny Winslade, executive director of quality and clinical care for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, offered her \"sincere condolences\" to the family and friends of Mr Shadbolt.\n\nShe said delays handing over patients to A&E, and busy hospitals, meant it was \"taking us too long to get an ambulance to patients\".\n\n\"This is a risk which we recognise is unacceptable,\" she said.\n\n\"We continue to work on a daily basis with our partners to ensure our crews can get back out on the road as quickly as possible, to respond to other 999 calls.\"\n\nProf Mark Pietroni, medical director and acting chief executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said local and national health systems were \"under intense pressure\" and continued to face significant challenges \"in response to unrelenting demand\".\n\nThe trust said that, currently, 240 hospital patients - out of a total of 837 beds for patients - were waiting for support to go home or be moved to other locations in the community.\n\nDoctors and paramedics have become increasingly concerned about long ambulance wait times across the UK this year.\n\nIn England as a whole, the average response for a category two emergency, such as a heart attack or stroke, was almost 40 minutes in May - more than twice as long as the 18-minute target.\n\nLast month, Dr Katherine Henderson, an A&E consultant and president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, described the situation as \"more serious than we've ever seen it\".\n\nShe said the problem is often caused by delays discharging patients from hospital wards into a care setting, which then creates a bottleneck in A&E, leaving no space for new patients arriving by ambulance.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to people who have spent hours waiting outside emergency departments this year, sometimes transferred between different ambulance vehicles because there is no room to treat them in the hospital itself.\n\nThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) says the delays are causing harm to patients, including some deaths.\n\nIts final report will be published later this year, but the interim findings - released on Thursday - show that staff who have witnessed harm to patients and their families are traumatised.\n\n\"Harm is happening on a daily basis,\" said the HSIB's national investigator Neil Alexander.\n\nHe referred to patients deteriorating in ambulances while waiting for treatment in emergency departments, and patients getting infections in hospital because they were staying there too long.\n\n\"And we are no longer using the word 'risk' in this investigation, because risk is being realised and is now harm,\" Mr Alexander said.\n\nThe government said it would carefully consider the HSIB's report and would \"respond in due course\".\n\n\"The NHS has allocated £150m of additional funding to address pressures on ambulance services, with the number of ambulance and support staff increasing by almost 40% since February 2010,\" said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\n\"We have also established a national taskforce to identify ways to reduce delayed discharges and ensure patients are only in hospital for as long as they need to be.\"\n\nYou can follow Jim on Twitter.\n\nHave you been affected by ambulance waits? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Emergency Covid powers required landlords to seek approval for evictions from a tribunal\n\nLandlords are warning that new laws on tenant evictions in Scotland could cut the number of rental homes.\n\nEmergency powers granted during the Covid pandemic required landlords to seek approval for evictions from a tribunal. MSPs are due to decide whether this should be made permanent.\n\nThe Scottish Association of Landlords said members would \"lose confidence\" and sell their homes if it goes ahead.\n\nThe final stage of the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) Bill will be debated in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nThe Scottish Association of Landlords, the National Farmers' Union of Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland and Scottish Land & Estates claim the proposals could backfire.\n\nThe organisations said up to one in five landlords could withdraw from the market, with rental homes already in short supply.\n\nJohn Blackwood, chief executive of the Scottish Association of Landlords, said: \"We are appealing to our parliamentarians to think again.\n\n\"There is a tried and tested eviction process which already works well and protects tenants and landlords.\n\n\"There is a very real danger that if this goes ahead landlords will lose confidence and simply sell homes at a time when they are in great need.\"\n\nSarah Jane Laing, chief executive of Scottish Land & Estates, said: \"Whether you are a landlord with a single buy to let flat or someone with multiple properties, the prospect of not being able to regain possession of the home you own scares landlords, driving them from the sector and reducing availability of homes for tenants.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it would continue to seek improvements in the sector to ensure tenants are treated fairly and can access good-quality properties.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Over the last 20 years, there have been a range of necessary changes to the private rented sector aimed at improving quality and accountability.\n\n\"Although stakeholders have often warned that such changes would lead to a reduction in supply of private rented homes, the private rented sector has more than doubled over that time.\n\n\"Good landlords recognise the case for keeping tenants in their homes where possible, so adding a final check from the tribunal will support responsible management, recognise financial and other pressures that tenants can face and help prevent homelessness.\"", "Asylum seekers had been moved into the Park Inn in response to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAn independent inquiry is to be held to look into the treatment of asylum seekers in Scotland during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.\n\nRefugees for Justice announced Baroness Helena Kennedy QC will lead the review.\n\nThe refugee group has been asking the Home Office for a public inquiry since six people were stabbed at the Park Inn in Glasgow in 2020.\n\nThe Home Office said it had made \"significant changes to keep asylum seekers safe\" since the attack.\n\nAs it is a private inquiry Baroness Kennedy will not be able to compel witnesses to attend or force disclosure of evidence.\n\nBaroness Kennedy said her inquiry would look at whether there were flaws in the care and treatment of asylum seekers in areas such as housing and mental health support.\n\nIn March 2020, the Home Office contractor Mears moved hundreds of asylum seekers from apartments into Glasgow hotels.\n\nBadreddin Abdalla Adam was shot by police after carrying out multiple stabbings\n\nOn 26 June 2020, Badreddin Abdalla Adam - a Sudanese asylum seeker - was shot dead by police after he stabbed six people in the Park Inn hotel, including three other asylum seekers, a police officer and two members of hotel staff.\n\nIt later emerged he had been struggling with his mental health during lockdown at the hotel and had called the Home Office and other organisations more than 70 times before the attack.\n\nAnother asylum seeker took his own life during the first Covid lockdown which Refugees for Justice also believe was a result of mental health problems exacerbated by being in a hotel.\n\nRefugees for Justice said it believed the root cause of both deaths was a decision by the Home office and housing contractor Mears to \"force\" refugees out of their homes and into hotel rooms \"with no safeguarding or support\".\n\nBaroness Kennedy told BBC Scotland the inquiry would examine \"whether there was proper provision for the welfare of those people, asking the question why was it they were moved out of places where they had made friends\".\n\nSix people were stabbed at the Glasgow hotel where asylum seekers were being held during the first lockdown\n\nShe said at a time everyone was isolated there should have been \"proper support and that didn't happen.\"\n\n\"As we know a tragedy took place,\" she said. \"Someone committed suicide, another person had a psychotic episode and injured people and was shot by police.\n\n\"The question is were there flaws in the care of those people and whether very bad decisions were made about the housing and was there any question of monetary benefit in the minds of those who made the decisions to move people to those hotels?\"\n\nShe added that \"a full public inquiry would have been the proper thing to happen\" but requests to the Home Office for a statutory inquiry had not resulted in action.\n\n\"If the Home Office is not prepared to self scrutinise publicly then others will have to do it,\" she said.\n\nBaroness Helena Kennedy will lead an independent inquiry into the\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Since this horrific incident we have undertaken a number of significant changes to keep asylum seekers safe, including how we, our contractors and charities spot vulnerable individuals and provide them with wrap-around support and appropriate accommodation.\n\n\"The use of hotels is unacceptable and we are working hard to find appropriate accommodation for asylum seekers but local authorities must do all they can to help house people permanently,\" they added.\n\nThe Home Office added that its increased use of hotels had been \"unprecedented\" because of the pandemic.\n\nBaroness Kennedy hopes to deliver a full report in the autumn.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scotland's national clinical director does not think mandatory Covid restrictions will return\n\nMandatory coronavirus restrictions are unlikely to return despite a significant rise in cases, Scotland's national clinical director has said.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said there would be \"small prices to pay\" in order to ensure \"normality\" continues.\n\nHowever, he added that he believed it would take a \"dramatic\" change for restrictions to be brought back.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates one in 20 people had the virus in the week ending 17 June.\n\nThe latest data estimates 250,700 people in private households in Scotland had Covid last week.\n\nThat is an increase on the previous week when about 176,900, or one in 30 people, had Covid.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said it would be \"sensible\" for people to wear face coverings indoors, however there is no legal requirement to do so.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Prof Leitch said he \"honestly\" did not believe restrictions would be reintroduced.\n\nHe said: \"Something dramatic would have to happen to the virus.\n\n\"We've got fatigue from this. We're all a bit fed up. People are going back about their business.\n\n\"Glastonbury is on, TRNSMT is on next week. I remember us talking about TRNSMT a year ago where we were struggling to get it back on.\n\n\"All of those things are really, really important to get back.\"\n\nBut he warned the public that they should take small measures to ensure \"normality\" continues.\n\n\"Science, vaccination, staying off your work, face coverings are small prices to pay in order to get society back,\" he added.\n\nProf Leitch has just recovered from Covid-19 himself after he shared a positive lateral flow test on social media.\n\nThe exact number of people with the virus in Scotland is unknown since regular testing of the public ended in April.\n\nProf Leitch said that while we should be \"concerned\" about the rise in cases, the spike was \"entirely predictable\".\n\nHe said people should not \"underreact\" but added \"let's not overreact either because vaccines, antivirals, we know what to do.\n\n\"We're able to live this in a different way that we could have before,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister convened a meeting to discuss options to protect women using clinics\n\nThe first minister has said legislation will be passed to enforce protester buffer zones at abortion clinics.\n\nNicola Sturgeon gave the Scottish government's backing to a member's bill protecting access to terminations.\n\nAt a summit in Edinburgh she said people were entitled to differing views on abortion, but women should not be intimidated while accessing healthcare.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged that there would be complexities around making legislation stand up to legal scrutiny.\n\nThe new legislation would see 150m (164 yard) no-go areas put in outside health facilities.\n\nThe first minister had invited councils, charities, police, health professionals and campaigners to the summit on abortion care following calls for action over protests outside clinics.\n\nPro-choice campaigners want to ensure that women can access services without fear, harassment or intimidation.\n\nAnti-abortion protesters at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow\n\nMs Sturgeon said she supported the member's bill, introduced by Green MSP Gillian Mackay.\n\nShe said: \"There's no doubt in my mind we need to aim for legislation in the long term.\n\n\"But we need to ensure we get the balance of that right so that it would be capable of withstanding any human rights challenge.\n\n\"There's further action we can take, working with councils and the police in the short term, to make sure that women do have access to healthcare.\n\n\"There are different views on abortion - we live in a democracy and people are free to have different views on abortion - but what I don't think any of us are free to do is to impede women's right to access healthcare without intimidation and harassment.\"\n\nThe summit follows recent reports of escalating incidents at the Sandyford clinic in central Glasgow.\n\nWomen's Health Minister Maree Todd, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that patients had told her that protests were intimidating.\n\nShe said: \"Everybody who is accessing healthcare at these sites has to run the gauntlet past them\n\n\"We have seen an escalation in behaviour. We have seen really, truly offensive signage being held up, voice amplification across the front of the building.\n\n\"People are unable to ignore the protests and we have potentially seen the use of bodycams which is a real invasion of privacy.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon faces some opposition from within her own party. MSP John Mason said he was \"not convinced\" the issue was a problem.\n\nHe said the protests he had seen were not intimidating and that people did not have to go near them.\n\nHe said: \"We have to listen to people's experience but there's two types of experience - people who say they are feeling harassed and intimidated, and people who say they are being coerced into abortions and are not being given the pros and cons.\"\n\nAnti-abortion groups, such as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, have said they would continue to defend the right to pray in public and offer help to women outside clinics.\n\nLois McLatchie, from the Christian campaigning group ADF UK, told the BBC her volunteers were offering support and advice on alternatives to abortion.\n\nShe added: \"Buffer zones ban legitimate offers of help and silent prayer and mean women may not be able to access those other options - practical help or financial help.\n\n\"Women have the right to hear about these options at the point of need and it is patronising of the government saying women don't want to hear this.\"\n\nThere are fears the recent reversal of abortion rights in the US will \"embolden\" protesters in Scotland\n\nHowever, Alice Murray of pro-choice group Back Off Scotland - said there was a misunderstanding from some anti-abortion campaigners over what happens at clinic appointments.\n\nShe said: \"Women don't need to be offered the other side by strangers outside. You are talked through the process and your options by a specific healthcare provider.\n\n\"We believe it should be the NHS and healthcare providers who give that information. A lot of the leaflets we see handed out outside these clinics have misinformation on them.\n\n\"These people outside can't be trusted to give accurate advice or support. It's highly inappropriate.\"\n\nThe summit came after the US Supreme Court struck down the landmark Roe v Wade decision, transforming abortion rights in America and allowing individual states to ban the procedure.\n\nGreen MSP Gillian Mackay, who introduced Scotland's members' bill, said the US move would \"stop safe abortions and put lives at risk.\"\n\nShe said: \"Here we need to continue to fight for progress. That means buffer zones, telemedical abortion and services safe and accessible for all.\n\n\"There is no place for the type of intimidation and harassment we are regularly seeing outside these healthcare facilities at the moment.\n\n\"Both healthcare staff, and those accessing services, have relayed horrifying stories of the impact this harassment can have.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritain's Jodie Burrage rushed to help a ball boy who was taken unwell during her first-round defeat at Wimbledon.\n\nBurrage raced over to the fridge for water and got an energy gel from her bag when he was struggling early in the second set, later handing him sweets while he sat on a chair.\n\nThe 23-year-old watched over him, talking to him for several minutes before medical assistance arrived.\n\n\"I just reacted how I think anyone would,\" she told a news conference.\n\n\"He was not in a good spot. I just tried to help him out as much as possible.\"\n\nThe boy was helped off court 18, walking shakily, and the All England Club later said \"he's fine\".\n\nBurrage said the youngster had told her he was feeling \"really faint\".\n\n\"He couldn't actually really talk. It was quite distressing to see,\" she said.\n\n\"I've fainted a few times. I actually had a panic attack once in juniors here, so I've been where he is. I kind of know a little bit how he was feeling. So I just tried to help as much as I could. Hopefully I did.\"\n\nShe said she had tried to give him an energy gel but that they \"are not the nicest thing to have\".\n\n\"I was just like, 'This kid needs sugar'. Someone just shouted on the side, 'Got some sweets here if you want'.\"\n\nThe match had only just started again after play had been suspended for more than an hour because of rain at 5-2 to Lesia Tsurenko in the first set.\n\nThe Ukrainian, who stood at the net keeping warm during the incident, eventually won 6-2 6-3 to go through to the second round.\n• None Follow live coverage of day one from Wimbledon\n• None 'The good vibes are the same' - the queue returns\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What's the controversy surrounding the new tournament?", "Zara Aleena is believed to have been the victim of a stranger attack while walking in east London\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a suspected stranger attack on a woman in east London.\n\nZara Aleena, 35, was assaulted as she walked along Cranbrook Road, towards Gants Hill station in Ilford, in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe Met Police believe she was the victim of an \"opportunist stranger attack\". She died later in hospital.\n\nThe 29-year-old man was detained at an address in Ilford shortly after 16:00 BST.\n\nParamedics were at the scene of the assault at 02:45 BST on Sunday after Ms Aleena, who lived locally, was found by members of the public.\n\nIn a statement, Ch Supt Stuart Bell said: \"It is now believed that she was the victim of an opportunist stranger attack. Her family are aware of this and they will continue to be updated.\"\n\nHe added there was no evidence of any weapons being used in the beating, which left Ms Aleena with fatal head injuries.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed she had \"multiple serious injuries\".\n\nThe area around Cranbrook Road has been cordoned off\n\nCh Supt Bell said a full forensic examination of the scene and surrounding area had taken place, as had house-to-house inquiries.\n\nDetectives were focused on identifying all available CCTV and anyone who may have been in the area, including those driving through, should contact the Met, he said.\n\nHe described officers as working \"at pace\" to establish what had happened.\n\nMs Aleena's friends said she was a \"lifeline\" for her mother and grandmother\n\nFriends of Ms Aleena said she was \"so soft and gentle, she never had a bad word to say about anyone\".\n\nKarina - who did not provide her surname - and Sherit Nair described her as someone who cared and looked after all her friends and was a \"lifeline for her mother and grandmother\" as she did all of their shopping and arranged their medication.\n\nThe friends, who had known Ms Aleena for years, said she graduated in October after extensive studying and had only been working at the Royal Courts of Justice for a few weeks.\n\nThey believe she was heading home from a night out with friends when she was attacked, adding that she walked everywhere, preferring not to drive.\n\nShopkeeper Kuldip Singh said he worried for the safety of women and the elderly in particular\n\nRafia Ahmed, who lives nearby, said she and her friends were worried about their safety and whether they should only go out in groups.\n\n\"Because it's literally on our doorstep it scares you. As a female you think twice about going out by yourself.\"\n\nShopkeeper Kuldip Singh said he was concerned by the level of violence in the area, highlighting how Ms Aleena's death was the third homicide in five years.\n\n\"This one was quite brutal,\" he said. \"It was a young lady but people don't really feel safe in this location as much as they used to.\n\n\"If I was an elderly person or a female, especially in the winter months, walking through this road you could be at risk.\"\n\nSubhash, 60, who lives just off Cranbrook Road, said he \"worries\" for other local women because this is \"happening on my doorstep\".\n\n\"It's not just my daughter, it's other daughters, other girls, other women in the area,\" he said.\n\n\"It's quite a serious matter, how safe are you in your own area.\"\n\nA 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"heartbroken\" by Ms Aleena's murder.\n\n\"Understandably, women living in the area and across London will be feeling distressed and fearful after this awful attack and the death of another woman at the hands of a man,\" he said.\n\nHe added he was in regular contact with the police and urged anyone who was in the area at the time to contact police.\n\nA significant police presence is expected to remain in the area in the coming days.\n\nCh Supt Bell said he understood Ms Aleena's death was an \"incredibly distressing incident\" for women.\n\n\"Women should not have to change their behaviour and should be able to go about their business feeling safe any time of day or night and it is our job to ensure that happens.\n\n\"Officers cannot be in all places at all times. We urge the community, especially women, to report any suspicious or unwanted behaviour or to seek help if you feel threatened.\"\n\nOf London's 46 homicide victims in 2022, 16 (35%) have been women, according to data collected by the Met Police, British Transport Police and City of London Police.\n\nBy the same time last year, there had been 58 London homicide victims, 12 (21%) of whom were female, according to the data.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of PwC staff are to get a 9% pay rise in response to rising living costs and a competitive recruitment market, the accountancy giant has said.\n\nThe company said half of its more than 20,000 employees in the UK would get an increase of at least 9%, while 70% would get a rise of 7% or more.\n\nWith vacancies at a record high, many firms are offering pay rises to attract and retain staff.\n\nBut ministers have warned big salary rises could further fuel price rises.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices go up - hit 9.1% in the UK in May, the highest level for 40 years.\n\nHowever, for many people, wages are failing to keep up, with regular pay falling at the fastest rate in more than a decade when taking into account rising prices.\n\nPwC said salaries for many of its entry-level programmes would also increase, with starting salaries in audit roles rising by 10% and consulting graduates getting a rise of just over 8%.\n\nChairman Kevin Ellis said the company \"can't ignore market pressures and want to ensure pay at every level is as competitive as possible\".\n\n\"We know pay will be an increasingly important consideration given rising living costs - we want to stay competitive and continue attracting the best talent and skills from across the UK,\" he added.\n\nThe company said it was investing more than £120m in pay rises, as well as allocating a further £138m to bonuses this year - up £10m on the previous year.\n\nOther companies, such as Lloyds Bank, have offered staff one-off payments to help them cope with the rising cost of living.\n\nHowever, Mr Ellis said base pay was \"particularly important... given the bearing it can have on mortgages and future salary\".\n\nEarlier this week, a union representing Rolls-Royce workers rejected the company's offer of a £2,000 one-off payment, saying it fell \"far short of the real cost of living challenges which our members are experiencing\".\n\nOther sectors have also increased pay in recent months, with supermarket chains Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda all announcing rises as they battle for staff.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, which was at the centre of last week's rail strikes, is looking for a pay rise of at least 7%.\n\nThe union says Network Rail's offer of a 2% pay rise, with the possibility of a further 1%, was \"unacceptable\", pointing to the rising cost of living.\n\nIn May, official figures showed there were more job vacancies than unemployed people in the UK for the first time since records began.\n\nHowever, earlier this month, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke warned employees they should not expect their wages to rise in line with inflation.\n\nHe told the BBC big salary increases to meet the rising cost of living could end up with a 1970-style \"inflationary spiral\", where companies hike wages and then pass the cost on to customers through higher prices.\n\nThe independent public sector pay review bodies are due to report in the coming weeks on the level of increase for workers - including employees in health, schools and prisons.\n\nUnions are pressing to have the pay increases reflect the rising cost of living.\n\nBut Mr Clarke, the Treasury minister in charge of the pay review body process, said there was no automatic link between inflation and pay setting.", "Rescuers used ladders to reach trapped and injured passengers\n\nAt least three people have been killed and dozens more are reported injured after a passenger train derailed after hitting a truck in Missouri.\n\nAbout 243 passengers were on board the Los Angeles-Chicago train when it came off the tracks at a rail crossing near the town of Mendon.\n\nSeven cars and two locomotives were derailed in the incident, which took place at 12:42 local time (17:52 GMT).\n\nEmergency crews from the area have been dispatched to the scene.\n\nIn a statement, Amtrak - the US national rail operator - said that the \"Southwest Chief\" train travelling eastward from Los Angeles struck \"a truck that was obstructing a public crossing\" near Mendon, a town of approximately 160 people located 84 miles (135km) from Kansas City. Twelve crew members were also on board.\n\nMissouri Highway Patrol officials confirmed that two people on the train and one person in the truck were killed in the collision.\n\nA member of the local ambulance service said at least 50 people were injured.\n\n\"It all happened like slow motion. It started to rock... and then flicker, and then it just all of a sudden - all this dust was through my window,\" Robert Nightingale, who had been asleep in the train, told CNN.\n\nAmtrak said that its incident response team had been activated and additional emergency personnel are being sent to the scene, where an investigation is ongoing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dax McDonald This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nImages shared on social media show passengers sitting atop derailed cars in a flat green field. In one image, a woman can be seen crawling upwards through a broken window.\n\nOne passenger also tweeted a picture taken at a local school, where uninjured passengers were taken following the crash.\n\nThe BBC is unable to independently verify the pictures.\n\nThe incident comes one day after an Amtrak train crashed into a car in Brentwood, California, killing three women and injuring several others.\n\nThough derailments of Amtrak trains are rare, there have been several in recent years.\n\nIn September last year, a train derailment in Montana killed three people and injured dozens more.\n\nIn 2018, three people were killed when an Amtrak train travelled onto the wrong track and hit a parked freight train.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray maintained his record of never losing in the first round at Wimbledon with an encouraging win over Australia's James Duckworth.\n\nAfter a slow start, likely a result of a recent abdominal injury, Murray found rhythm and his quality shone through.\n\nThe former world number one, now ranked 52nd, won 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 at 21:35 BST under the floodlights on Centre Court.\n\nThe 35-year-old Scot will now face big-serving American John Isner, seeded 20th, in the second round on Wednesday.\n\n\"It is amazing to be back out here again with a full crowd,\" said Murray, a two-time Wimbledon champion.\n\n\"I'm getting on a bit now so I don't know how many opportunities I will get here.\n\n\"I'm pleased I managed to get through and hopefully I will get another match here on Centre in a couple of days.\"\n• None 'The good vibes are the same' - the queue returns\n\nQuestions had been raised all week about Murray's fitness and he answered with more than a hint of doubt last Monday when revealing he had not been able to hit specific shots - thought to be the serve.\n\nAn abdominal injury picked up in the Stuttgart final earlier this month had stalled his progress in an encouraging grass-court season and prevented him from playing at Queen's Club.\n\nBut as the week went on, and he was seen in practice sessions at Wimbledon hitting serves, it seemed clear he would be fine to return to the scene of his finest triumphs.\n\nOf course, the intensity of a match is a different circumstance to practice and it took a little while for him to find his rhythm with his serve.\n\nBut once he did, Murray looked completely at ease against world number 74 Duckworth.\n\n\"The ab felt absolutely fine today,\" said Murray, who added another scan this week showed the injury had healed.\n\nWhile it was not quite vintage Murray, there were lots of moments of quality to keep the enthusiastic home crowd entertained.\n\nThere was even opportunity for Murray to throw in an underarm serve - rarely seen during his career - in the third set to bring laughter from the fans.\n\nBut the main takeaway for those who stayed late was the 2013 and 2016 champion, a dangerous unseeded floater in the draw, looks fit enough to cause problems for more opponents this fortnight.\n\nMurray's slow start allowed Duckworth to successfully implement his intended plan of playing aggressively and dictating the points.\n\nWith Murray often left scampering, he knocked a forehand into the net for a break point at 4-4 and Duckworth took it with a rasping forehand winner to leave him serving for the set.\n\nAnother blast from that wing sealed the opener for the Australian, leaving the home fans on Centre Court murmuring their surprise.\n\nMurray started to land more first serves in the second set, giving him the platform to quickly put pressure back on to Duckworth.\n\nMurray only dropped two points in his service games, helped by landing more first serves and winning 100% of those points.\n\nHis returning game also started to improve, with Murray highlighting that as a key factor in the turnaround.\n\nLike Murray, Duckworth has also seen his career hampered by injuries and had hip surgery earlier this year.\n\nSince coming back in May he had played just eight matches - losing six of them - and adrenalin alone was never going to be enough to win a five-set match at a Grand Slam.\n\nMurray's superior quality continued to shine through in the third, dominating to move into a 4-1 lead before digging deep to see off pressure in his next service game.\n\nWith the court getting darker, Duckworth wanted the roof closed and the floodlights switched on but was made to wait until Murray wrapped up the third set.\n\nThe fourth set was delicately poised without any breaks of serve until two double faults from Duckworth at 4-4 enabled Murray to serve out victory.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What's the controversy surrounding the new tournament?", "Nato has announced plans to massively increase the number of its forces at high readiness to over 300,000 troops.\n\nThe bloc's rapid reaction force currently has 40,000 troops at its disposal, with many of those based along the alliance's eastern flank.\n\nSecretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the increase followed a direct threat from Russia to European security.\n\nHe earlier said that \"the new military blueprint\" would \"drastically upgrade\" the bloc's eastern defences.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said several Nato battlegroups in eastern Europe would be bolstered to \"brigade level\" - tactical units of several thousand troops - which the bloc's civilian leader said was intended to send a clear message of deterrence to Russia.\n\n\"I'm confident that Moscow, President Putin, understands our collective security guarantees, understands the consequence of attacking a Nato-allied country,\" Mr Stoltenberg told reporters at a news conference in Brussels.\n\n\"It will trigger a response from the whole Alliance. And to underpin that message, we are increasing the Nato presence.\"\n\nNato's rapid reaction force is a combination of land, sea and air assets designed to be deployed quickly in the event of attack. It has steadily grown in size from 13,000 troops to 40,000 since 2014.\n\nFollowing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many of these forces were placed at \"high readiness\" for the first time. Multinational battlegroups are now active in a number of countries on Russia's border, including Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nThere are additional plans to deploy more battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.\n\nThe moves announced by Mr Stoltenberg are expected to be approved at this week's Nato summit in Madrid, which will follow the G7 meeting of industrial democracies currently taking place in Germany.\n\nMembers are also expected to change the alliance's official stance towards Russia, which was adopted in 2010 and described Moscow as a \"strategic partner\".\n\n\"That will not be the case in the strategic concept that we will agree in Madrid,\" Mr Stoltenberg told reporters. \"I expect that allies will state clearly that Russia poses a direct threat to our security, to our values, to the rules-based international order.\"\n\nUS officials have also briefed that new, \"strong\" language will be adopted towards China.\n\nBoth the US and UK have reportedly pushed for a more forceful stance to combat what they see as an increasing threat of attack against the democratic island of Taiwan by Beijing.\n\nBut Nato diplomats told the Reuters news agency that France and Germany prefer adopting more restrained measures to tackle China.\n\nJens Stoltenberg describes the huge increase in Nato's quick reaction force as part of \"the biggest overhaul of our collective deterrence and defence since the Cold War\".\n\nThe current Nato response force is around 40,000 strong with, in theory, military personnel ready to deploy within 15 days. Nato says the new response force will provide a much larger pool of high readiness forces across land, sea and air.\n\nAgain, in theory, some of the 300,000 will be able to deploy within days, others over a longer period. An official said there would be \"different tiers of readiness\".\n\nThis is clearly designed to send Russia a message, which has now become \"the most significant and direct threat to the alliance\".\n\nIt's also meant to reassure those allies with borders closest to Russia. Nato first deployed battlegroups of around 1,000 troops to each of the Baltic states in response to Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014.\n\nWith the invasion of Ukraine, Nato have already sent hundreds more and is ready to expand those forces. But is that enough to satisfy members who wanted to see a sizeable increase in Nato forces in their own countries - like the Baltic states?\n\nKeeping troops at high readiness in their own countries is clearly a compromise - and the less costly option.", "Amy says her dream is to get well\n\nA woman from north Wales with anorexia has said she believes she will die without specialist treatment which is only available privately in England.\n\nAmy Ellis from Broughton, Flintshire, is trying to raise thousands of pounds to fund the treatment after being told it would not be paid for by the NHS.\n\nShe is now cared for by her mum and needs mobility aids to get around.\n\nThe Welsh government said every health board had received funding to improve eating disorder services.\n\nWarning: You may find some of the following content distressing\n\nFormer charity worker Amy, 42, has suffered with eating disorders all her life, but was diagnosed with a form of anorexia four years ago when her weight plummeted, and now has to use a wheelchair or walking stick to get around.\n\nThe care Amy wants offers a combination of treatments, including cognitive behavioural therapy, and dialectical therapy, as well as dietic and body image support.\n\nThere is no specialist eating disorder unit in Wales, and the care offered in England is residential and private, costing about £7,500 a week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy Ellis is trying to raise money for anorexia treatment not available on the NHS in Wales\n\n\"Where I am... I am at that dying point now,\" she said.\n\n\"If I don't have help, I am going to die, that's where this brings you to if you don't have help.\n\n\"I want to survive this, I deserve to live, surely I matter, everybody deserves to live.\n\n\"I have been with the NHS for 20 years, they could offer no help, because there is no help.\"\n\nAmy said she believed NHS Wales had funded others in her situation to get the private treatment, but said she was told she was \"not sick enough\" and that she has a care plan which is helping her locally.\n\nAmy's mum Lyn says her daughter used to be \"so full of life\"\n\nHowever, Amy's mum Lyn Ellis said there was no-one who could help her daughter.\n\n\"It's very frustrating, someone with a different illness is given the treatment they need, for people with eating disorders, they either put them in psychiatric unit or put them on a drip to feed them, and then off you go... it's not enough,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks my heart to hear her (Amy) in the toilet crying, I don't want to do this anymore, she knows it's straining her heart and that alone could take her,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government recently said since 2017, health boards had received an additional £4.1m to support improvements such as early intervention and improved waiting times.\n\nIt added: \"Improving support for eating disorders is a priority for Welsh government and as part of the additional £50m to improve mental health and well-being in 2022-23, we are providing an additional £2.5m for eating disorder services.\"\n\nProf Alberto Salmoiraghi, from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, said it was unable to comment on Amy's treatment because of patient confidentiality, but said it intended to get in touch with her to discuss her concerns.\n\nProf Salmoiraghi, medical director for mental health and learning disabilities, said: \"We share Amy's desire to ensure that she receives the most appropriate care.\n\n\"Our specialist adult eating disorder service provides highly specialist interventions and treatment for moderate to severe eating disorders, these treatments are compliant with NICE guidelines.\n\n\"Each patient is provided with a comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment plan based on their unique presentation and difficulties, this can include referral to specialist providers outside of north Wales where clinically appropriate.\"\n\nAmy, who is documenting her struggle with daily videos on TikTok, where she has about 53,000 followers, said she felt a huge responsibility to them.\n\n\"It's unbelievable, all the support from around the world, from sufferers, and from people that just didn't understand that this isn't a life choice.\n\n\"What's been hard for me is seeing the amount of people, not just from Wales, but the whole of the UK, going through what I'm going through, with no help,\" she said.\n\nShe said her dream was to get well so she could bring eating disorders to the forefront and help others.\n\nHer childhood friend, Simon Quick, who has run half marathons to raise money for Amy's treatment and helps her run the Saving Amy Cymru campaign, said it was hard to see her struggle with the illness.\n\n\"It seems like one of the worst diseases anyone can have, she's down, depressed, in a lot of pain - we just want her to get better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sergei Lavrov speaks exclusively to the BBC about the war in Ukraine\n\nSince the Russian army attacked Ukraine nearly four months ago, thousands of civilians have been killed and whole towns reduced to rubble, while millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes.\n\nBut on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked me in the eye and told me things were not as they seemed.\n\n\"We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act.\"\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Lavrov has given only a few interviews to Western media.\n\nHe repeated the official Kremlin line that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Russian officials often claim that their military is \"de-Nazifying\" the country. Mr Lavrov caused uproar recently when he tried to justify the Nazi slur regarding Ukraine's president, who is Jewish, by making the ridiculous claim that Adolf Hitler had \"Jewish blood\".\n\nI quoted to him an official United Nations report about the Ukrainian village of Yahidne, in Chernihiv region, which states that \"360 residents, including 74 children and five persons with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a school… There were no toilet facilities, water…10 older people died\".\n\n\"It's a great pity,\" Mr Lavrov said, \"but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are being put under pressure by the West. And very often they're being used to amplify fake news spread by the West.\"\n\n\"Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are.\"\n\nSergei Lavrov (R) accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of Ukrainian actions in areas held by Russian separatists since 2014\n\nMr Lavrov, 72, has represented Russia on the international stage for the past 18 years, but Western sanctions have now been imposed on both him and his daughter.\n\nThe US has accused him of pursuing a false narrative of Ukraine as the aggressor, and of direct responsibility for Russia's invasion as a member of its Security Council.\n\nI then turned to Russian relations with the UK. It is on Russia's official list of unfriendly countries, and I suggested that to say relations were bad was an understatement.\n\n\"I don't think there's even room for manoeuvre any more,\" Mr Lavrov told me, \"because both [Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Liz] Truss say openly that we should defeat Russia, we should force Russia to its knees. Go on, then, do it!\"\n\nIt was last month that the UK foreign secretary said Russia's Vladimir Putin was humiliating himself on the world stage and that \"we must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mykola tied himself to a wall so he could sleep standing up\n\nWhen I asked Mr Lavrov how he viewed the UK now, he said it was \"once again sacrificing the interests of its people for the sake of political ambitions\".\n\nI asked him about two British men recently sentenced to death by Russian separatists in occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nWhen I pointed out that in the eyes of the West, it was Russia that was responsible for their fate, he responded: \"I am not interested in the eyes of the West at all. I am only interested in international law. According to international law, mercenaries are not recognised as combatants.\"\n\nI replied that the men had served in the Ukrainian armed forces and were not mercenaries, and Mr Lavrov said that should be decided by a court.\n\nHe then accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of what had been happening to civilians in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, \"when civilians were being bombed by Kyiv's troops for eight years\".\n\nI stressed that over the course of six years, the BBC had many times contacted the leadership in the separatist-run areas asking for permission to go and see what was happening. We were refused entry every single time.\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of genocide. However, in 2021, eight civilians were killed in the rebel-held areas, according to self-proclaimed pro-Russian \"officials\", and seven the year before. While every death was a tragedy, I said, that did not constitute a genocide.\n\nI suggested that if genocide really had taken place, then the Luhansk and Donetsk separatists would have been interested in us going there. Why were we not let in, I asked.\n\nA longer version of Steve Rosenberg's interview with Sergei Lavrov will be available on Saturday - on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and around the world on BBC World News and the BBC News YouTube channel.", "Dozens of Russian missiles have struck targets across Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv enduring the heaviest barrage in months.\n\nA Kyiv apartment block was destroyed, killing at least one and wounding six others including a seven-year-old girl.\n\nUkraine says 14 missiles were fired at the Kyiv region on Sunday, but the strikes extended far beyond the city.\n\nOther areas included the central city of Cherkasy, where one person died, and the north-eastern Kharkiv region.\n\nThe strikes came as leaders of the G7 group of the world's richest nations began a three-day summit in Bavaria, southern Germany, with the war in Ukraine top of the agenda. They are expected to promise further military support for Kyiv and impose more sanctions on Moscow.\n\n\"We have to stay together,\" US President Joe Biden told Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz just before the summit at Schloss Elmau.\n\n\"[Russian President Vladimir] Putin has been counting on it from the beginning, that somehow Nato would, and the G7 would splinter and... but we haven't, and we're not going to.\n\n\"So, we can't let this aggression take the form it has and get away with it,\" President Biden said.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale, who is at the summit, says Western unity over the war has faltered in recent weeks, with some leaders discussing long-term relationships with Russia and others stressing strong, lasting support for Ukraine.\n\nBut the G7 leaders meeting in Bavaria were determined to put those divisions to bed, our correspondent adds.\n\nIn Kyiv, a large blast crater was gouged in a nursery school playground, near a nine-storey building whose top floors were ripped apart. The injured girl's mother - a Russian citizen - was also pulled from the rubble and taken to hospital, officials said.\n\nThey said the girl later underwent a surgery and was \"in stable condition\".\n\nUkraine's military says some missiles were launched from Tupolev bombers over the Caspian Sea, some 1,450km (900 miles) away. And on Saturday, it said, Russian missiles were fired from Tupolevs flying over neighbouring Belarus.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said high-precision weapons struck Ukrainian army training centres on Sunday in the regions of Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, and Zhytomyr and Lviv west of the capital.\n\nThe strike on Starychi district in Lviv was just 30km (19 miles) from the border with Nato member Poland.\n\nA missile caused this crater in a residential area of Kharkiv on Sunday\n\nKyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said the attacks were an attempt to intimidate Ukraine ahead of this week's G7 summit.\n\nThe last major Russian missile strike on Kyiv was on 5 June when a railway repair facility was hit.\n\nRussia has become internationally isolated through far-reaching sanctions since its 24 February invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAfter big early setbacks, Russia has made some advances in the east despite fierce Ukrainian resistance, and on Saturday finally captured Severodonetsk, a city now in ruins.\n\nMilitary analysts say it is now a war of attrition in the industrial eastern Donbas region, though Kyiv's forces are outgunned by Russian artillery and missiles.\n\nUkraine has urged the West again to speed up deliveries of heavy long-range weapons.\n\nA show of unity: G7 leaders at a summit in Bavaria, Germany\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson met French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit. A spokesperson for Mr Johnson said \"they agreed this is a critical moment for the course of the conflict, and there is an opportunity to turn the tide in the war\".\n\nThey agreed to sustain military support for Ukraine, and Mr Johnson \"stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability\" by giving \"licence\" to President Putin. He said leaders must be honest about the war's rising costs, but the price of Russia succeeding was \"far higher\".\n\nMr Scholz, hosting the G7, said unity over Ukraine was the group's clear message to Mr Putin.\n\n\"We are united by our world view and by our belief in democracy and rule of law,\" he said.", "Thousands of Post Office staff are to strike in a dispute over pay.\n\nMembers of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at 114 Crown Post Offices - the larger branches often sited on high streets - will walk out on 11 July.\n\nIt will be the third strike by Post Office workers this year, with the union saying members rejected a pay offer it said was worth 3% and a £500 lump sum.\n\nThe Post Office said the vast majority of its branches would be unaffected.\n\n\"There are 114 branches, typically in city centres, that are directly managed by Post Office and on previous strike days over a third have opened as usual,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Post Office workers are the latest to go on strike over pay, with workers and unions pushing for pay rises to cope with the higher cost of living.\n\nPrices are rising at their fastest rate for 40 years, with UK inflation at 9.1%, the highest level since March 1982. Higher costs for fuel, energy and goods are biting into household budgets.\n\nThe government has warned against employers handing out big increases in salaries over fears of a 1970s style \"inflationary spiral\" where firms hike wages and then pass the cost on to customers through higher prices.\n\nThousands of RMT Union railway workers walked out last week over pay and hundreds of British Airways workers at Heathrow Airport have also voted to go on strike over their wages.\n\nBut CWU assistant secretary Andy Furey said this pay dispute was about \"dignity and respect for hard-working employees - essential public servants who, as key workers, provided unprecedented customer service during the pandemic\".\n\n\"No worker wants to be in this situation, but Post Office bosses can't be surprised that callous decisions are challenged by our members,\" he said.\n\n\"Our members feel betrayed and will not tolerate their living standards being smashed by people in charge of a public service that due to our members' efforts made tens of millions of pounds in annual profits.\"\n\nAround 3,500 members of staff are involved in the dispute. A strike already took place at the start of May.\n\nThe union branded the Post Office's pay offer as \"massive real-terms pay cut\" and Mr Furey said there was \"more than enough money for a reasonable pay rise\" for workers.\n\nThe Post Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the planned strike but was \"hopeful\" of reaching a pay agreement soon.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Republic of Ireland claimed a maiden Nations League win at the 13th time of asking as they saw off Scotland in surprisingly comfortable fashion in Dublin.\n\nBadly in need of points after defeats by Armenia and Ukraine in their first two games, the Republic took a 20th-minute lead through Alan Browne with Troy Parrott doubling the advantage after being teed up brilliantly by the impressive Michael Obafemi.\n\nObafemi then capped an outstanding individual display by thundering home the Republic's third from distance five minutes before being forced off injured.\n\nThe Irish thought they had netted a fourth just after the hour but a VAR review found that Grant Hanley had hooked Scott Hogan's header off the line before it crossed.\n\nWhile the Republic will bask in the relief of a long-awaited win in this competition, for Scotland it is a disappointing result given how they bounced back from losing their World Cup play-off semi-final with Ukraine by beating Armenia on Wednesday.\n\nVictory lifts the Republic up to second in Group B1, ahead of the third-placed Scots but having played a game more.\n\nScotland boss Steve Clarke had admitted to being wary of an Irish backlash after their winless start to the Nations League and that is exactly what happened with the Republic looking much sharper and hungrier from the outset at a noisy Aviva Stadium.\n\nObafemi, one of five players drafted in by Stephen Kenny after the Ukraine defeat, was key to the Republic's rejuvenation in what was the 21-year-old Dubliner's first international start.\n\nIt was Obafemi who robbed Scotland centre-back Grant Hanley of the ball before finding James McClean, and the Swansea striker would have connected with McClean's cross at the far post had it not been for Scott McKenna's header flicking the ball behind for a corner.\n\nThankfully for the hosts, McClean's corner was headed back into the danger area where Browne was able to bundle the ball past Craig Gordon from point-blank range.\n\nWhile Obafemi played a minor role in bringing about the corner for the Republic's opener, he was the architect for the second.\n\nAfter picking up a loose ball in midfield, Obafemi checked back to gain a yard on Callum McGregor, took a step-over and, having spotted Parrott's clever dart between Anthony Ralston and Jack Hendry, deftly lifted the ball in for the 20-year-old to nod past Gordon.\n\nIt was, however, an even first half for the most part, and the Republic were fortunate not to have been punished for a couple of sloppy Shane Duffy passes out of defence, both of which resulted in John McGinn shots from the edge of the area with the second coming immediately before the Republic's second goal.\n\nBut this was clearly the Republic's day and Obafemi put the game beyond Scotland when he lashed a fierce right-footed shot past Gordon after Billy Gilmour had lost the ball in a dangerous position.\n\nAside from Hogan being denied by Hanley, the Republic dropped off after Obafemi was withdrawn in the 56th-minute because of injury but the home side's third goal had effectively killed the game as a contest with Scotland failing to muster a meaningful response.\n\nClarke's side must now look to do that by managing what the Republic could not by beating Armenia in Yerevan on Tuesday (17:00 BST) while the Irish will hope to maintain momentum when they travel to Poland to take on Ukraine later that evening (19:45).\n\nScotland's first defeat in Ireland since 1963 - match stats\n• None Republic of Ireland have won their first ever game in the Nations League at the 13th attempt of trying (W1 D5 L7), scoring more goals (3) than they managed in their first 12 matches in the competition combined (2).\n• None Scotland suffered just their second away defeat to Republic of Ireland (P7 W2 D3 L2) and first since June 1963 (1-0).\n• None This was Republic of Ireland's biggest competitive win on home soil since October 2014, when they beat Gibraltar 7-0 in a European Championship qualifier.\n• None Republic of Ireland had two players aged 21 or under (Michael Obafemi & Troy Parrott) score in a competitive game for the first time since September 1997 (David Connolly & Mark Kennedy vs Iceland).\n• None Parrott (20y 127d) became the youngest player to score a competitive goal for Republic of Ireland since Stephen Ireland in October 2006 (20y 46d vs Cyprus in a European Championship qualifier).\n• None Obafemi and Parrott became the first players to both score and assist in a competitive game for Republic of Ireland since both Robbie Keane and Wes Hoolahan did so against Gibraltar in October 2014.\n• None Attempt missed. Ross Stewart (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.\n• None Callum Robinson (Republic of Ireland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Anthony Ralston (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ross Stewart (Scotland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Substitution, Scotland. John Souttar replaces Scott McKenna because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Jacob Brown (Scotland) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Volunteers have been clearing up the damage\n\nVandals have attacked a heritage railway for the third time in a week, causing more than £25,000 worth of damage.\n\nVolunteer-run Foxfield Railway at Caverswall, Staffordshire, said the latest attack was \"absolutely gut-wrenching\".\n\nOn Friday evening, 24 panes of glass on a Class 142 Pacer were smashed and another heritage coach was damaged.\n\nCCTV cameras were also smashed and train signals broken.\n\nStaffordshire Police is investigating the attack which happened between 18:00 and 20:00 BST, said the society which runs the railway.\n\n\"We put our heart and soul into keep our heritage alive. To see it reduced to tatters in a manner of minutes by mindless individuals is absolutely gut-wrenching,\" the society said.\n\nHarry Alcock - a volunteer for 12 years - said the Pacer was a recent addition to the railway and a lot of work had gone into getting it ready for passenger trips this summer.\n\nHe said this was unlikely to happen now, but they hoped to resume steam train trips next month.\n\nVolunteers had been working hard to get vehicles and tracks ready for their first summer since lockdown and this was \"another setback\", Mr Alcock said.\n\nVolunteer Harry Alcock said it was a setback at the start of the summer season\n\n\"It's quite frustrating. For me the biggest thing is that volunteers have extremely busy work lives and home lives but we've got time for the railway because we make time for it.\"\n\nThe society was set up to preserve the line after the colliery closed in 1965 and they were keen to tell its story, he added.\n\n\"The time and effort we have been putting into the track work - we have to pull away from that to repair assets like this that have been damaged. So it's real frustration for everybody here.\"\n\nMr Alcock, an operational engineer, said security had been stepped up following previous attacks.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oliver Bierhoff questioned the criteria used to select Qatar to host the World Cup\n\nThe treatment of gay people in World Cup host Qatar has been described as \"absolutely unacceptable\" by German football official Oliver Bierhoff.\n\nMr Bierhoff told German newspapers he was unhappy that homosexuality was still illegal in the Gulf state.\n\nThe former German football star also questioned the criteria used in selecting Qatar to host the tournament.\n\nFifa has said all LGBTQ+ symbols will be allowed in stadiums during the event, which begins in November.\n\nBut Qatari authorities have appealed for outsiders to respect their \"conservative\" culture.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Qatar and human rights organisation Amnesty International has said women and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer or questioning) people \"continue to face discrimination in law and practice\".\n\nQatar has been heavily criticised over the country's human rights record, including the the treatment of migrant workers building stadiums for the competition.\n\nMr Bierhoff, the technical director of the German football team and a World Cup runner-up in 2002, said Qatar's position on gay rights \"does not correspond in any way to my convictions\".\n\nHe also questioned how the rich state won the right to hold the competition - the first time it will be held in the Middle East.\n\nThe decision, announced in 2010, prompted allegations that Fifa officials had been bribed to award the World Cup to Qatar - although an independent investigation commissioned by Fifa later found no hard evidence of this.\n\n\"What criteria does FIFA actually use to award a World Cup?\", Mr Bierhoff asked.\n\n\"The awarding of a tournament is the most powerful weapon to push for the necessary changes,\" he said, but those changes \"must occur before the choice of the country and not after, otherwise we have no more means of pressure.\"\n\nQatar has spent billions on hosting the World Cup\n\nWorld Cup organisers have been struggling to convince lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fans that they will be safe. Some 1.4 million people are expected to go to Qatar for the event.\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate previously said it would be \"a great shame\" that some fans will feel they cannot attend the World Cup because of the strict anti-LGBTQ+ laws, while captain Harry Kane said he wants to \"shine a light\" on the issues surrounding the Qatar tournament.\n\nIn March, Qatar's secretary general of the World Cup said criticism by players and managers of the state had been \"ill-informed\", adding that \"everybody is welcome\" to attend the event.", "Every recent mass shooting in America has been followed by an increasingly familiar political drama: Democrats call for new gun-control measures, such as a ban on assault-style weapons, and point out how the US is alone among industrialised nations in its high levels of gun violence.\n\nRepublicans counter that the right to possess firearms is enshrined in the US Constitution and that new gun-control legislation would be counterproductive.\n\nThen, because of the nature of US government, little changes on a national level.\n\n\"We have to do more to stop gun violence,\" US President Joe Biden said after the April mass shooting that killed six at a school in Nashville, Tennessee. \"It's ripping our communities apart.\"\n\nBut doing more, at least on the national level, faces a number of serious obstacles.\n\nHere's a look at some of those challenges.\n\nIn the weeks after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012, a majority of US senators supported passing legislation requiring expanded background checks for gun purchases.\n\nBut because of the filibuster - a parliamentary procedure that requires at least 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate to pass most legislation - a simple majority was not enough.\n\nAfter another school tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, the House of Representatives, then controlled by the Democrats, approved an assault-weapons ban but the measure stalled in the Senate.\n\nAlthough polls indicate majorities of Americans support such an effort, many Republican senators represent states with large pro-gun communities.\n\nAnd the Republican voters whose support lawmakers need to win primary elections (the selection process within each party) are even more opposed to reform. So unless sentiment shifts among that constituency, the Republicans are unlikely to change course.\n\nWith the House of Representatives back in Republican hands, it is more probable that the chamber will try to expand gun rights, not limit them.\n\nAlthough congressional efforts at sweeping gun control were stymied in 2015, gun-control activists made substantive progress in passing new laws at the state level.\n\nIn Connecticut, for instance, there was overwhelming support for reform from the communities still reeling from the brutality of the Sandy Hook attack. Other Democratic-controlled states - like New York, Maryland and California - passed their own legislation, closing gun-show loopholes, limiting magazine sizes and prohibiting the sale of certain types of firearms.\n\nBut the states that have the political majorities to pass gun-control regulations have already done so. And in many Republican controlled states, the momentum on the gun issue is towards less regulation, not more. In April, Florida became the 26th state - all Republican - to allow its residents to carry a concealed handgun without a government licence.\n\nDemocratic politicians in those states, frustrated by the lack of progress, have cited recent school shootings as reason to act. Nashville Mayor John Cooper denounced what he called the \"cult of the gun\" in comments made shortly after his city's violence.\n\n\"The country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that again is making it too available and too convenient and too first-of-mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts,\" he said.\n\nTennessee is one of the states with broad protections for permitless gun ownership - a fact that the state's national politicians have celebrated. In 2021, Nashville's congressional representative Andy Ogles sent a Christmas photo of his family in which all but the youngest child was carrying some type of firearm.\n\n\"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honour with all that's good,\" the congressman said in a holiday message accompanying the photo online.\n\nEven if the political calculus changes in Congress or among states hostile to enacting gun-control legislation, there is a significant and growing obstacle to any attempts at reform - the courts.\n\nIn 2008, a narrow 5-to-4 majority in the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which says \"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed\", guarantees a personal right to possess a handgun.\n\nThat interpretation, although subject to furious debate, has embedded gun ownership rights in the text of the Constitution itself. And since that decision, the courts have only become more supportive.\n\nOne of President Donald Trump's lasting legacies was to appoint hundreds of conservative judges to the federal courts, including naming three new Supreme Court justices.\n\nLast year, two Trump-appointed appellate court judges in California struck down a state law prohibiting the sale of assault rifles to those under the age of 21.\n\nThat opinion, if upheld by the Supreme Court, could be of particular relevance given that the perpetrators in Uvalde and Sandy Hook fall into that category.\n\n\"America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,\" one of the judges wrote. \"Today we reaffirm that our constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice - the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.\"\n\nLast year, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that restricts who may obtain concealed handgun licences in the next month, with Justice Clarence Thomas firmly grounding a broad right to own and carry firearms in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.\n\n\"The Second Amendment guaranteed to all Americans the right to bear commonly used arms in public subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions,\" he wrote in a 6-to-3 opinion that was joined by the five other conservative justices on the court.\n\nWith gun laws already on the books being ruled unconstitutional, it appears likely that any new laws will face legal challenges as well - and may not survive long.", "Veteran journalist Dom Phillips has been living in Brazil for over a decade\n\nBrazilian police have found possible human remains in their search for UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.\n\nThe police say experts will analyse the \"organic material\" found in a river near the town of Atalaia do Norte in the remote Amazon rainforest.\n\nThe pair went missing while travelling by boat on a reporting trip on Sunday.\n\nBlood traces found on a boat belonging to a fisherman, who has been arrested, will also be tested.\n\nIndigenous groups say both men have received threats for their work in the region, which has seen illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking.\n\nThe Brazilian authorities have said they are hopeful of finding the two men alive, but have not ruled out any outcome, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nBoth Mr Pereira, 41, and Mr Phillips, 57, who has written for publications such as the Guardian and the Washington Post, are hugely experienced and planned their journeys thoroughly. They reportedly had a new boat and plenty of fuel.\n\nPaul Sherwood, partner of Mr Phillips' sister Sian, said reports that police had found human remains were \"shocking\" and the pair's disappearance \"suggests sinister events\".\n\n\"It is clear that there were threats and armed people in the area who issued those threats and may have been responsible for attacking them, so we obviously have to hope that wasn't the case but the evidence seems to be mounting that something like that has happened,\" Mr Sherwood said.\n\nThe blood traces were found on the boat of fisherman Amarildo da Costa, known locally as \"Pelado\", who was questioned in the town of Atalaia do Norte. He has been charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition.\n\nPolice say he was one of the last people to see Mr Pereira and Mr Phillips.\n\nPlacards outside the Brazilian embassy showed Dom Phillips (L) and Bruno Pereira\n\nA lawyer for the fisherman, Davi Oliveira, told Reuters his client was not involved in the disappearance of the two men. The same lawyer has since stepped away from the case, the news agency adds.\n\nSix other people have been questioned in connection with the men's disappearance.\n\nSome 250 members of the security forces have been taking part in the search, up from just about a dozen in the first days. They include divers and experts in jungle terrain. Two helicopters are also being used, as well as more than a dozen boats and drones.\n\nThe Brazilian government has been criticised as not acting fast enough to try to find the men.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Heather Wheeler is reported to have made the remark at a conference this week\n\nGovernment minister Heather Wheeler has apologised after describing Birmingham and Blackpool as \"godawful\" places.\n\nThe Conservative MP for South Derbyshire made the remark at a conference in London as she launched the government's new digital strategy.\n\nMrs Wheeler, a parliamentary secretary in the Cabinet Office, said she made an \"inappropriate remark that does not reflect my actual view\".\n\nMrs Wheeler, also an assistant government whip, is reported to have said: \"I was just at a conference in Blackpool or Birmingham or somewhere godawful.\"\n\nApologising on Friday, Mrs Wheeler tweeted: \"Whilst speaking at a conference on Thursday, I made an inappropriate remark that does not reflect my actual view.\n\nBlackpool Council leader Lynn Williams said the comments had made her \"quite cross\".\n\nThe Labour councillor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"People love Blackpool. Maybe she needs to come and have a look round and enjoy the world-famous illuminations on our beautiful promenade.\n\n\"We know we've got a lot of social inequalities to deal with and we're actually meant to be working with the government to deal with those as part of the levelling up programme, so... it's just frustrating.\"\n\nBirmingham is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games this summer\n\nMs Rayner said: \"The level of disrespect is off the scale. It's frankly embarrassing that she is still in her position as a minister.\"\n\nShadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy called the comment \"clueless and offensive\".\n\nBlackpool is one of the UK's most popular seaside resorts\n\nThe Cabinet Office when asked to comment referred back to Mrs Wheeler's apology.\n\nHer comments comes as Birmingham prepares to host the Commonwealth Games this summer.\n\nIn March Blackpool was one of 20 English areas chosen for regeneration as part of the government's levelling up agenda.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "There are early signs of a possible increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid in England and Northern Ireland, officials from the Office for National Statistics say.\n\nTheir report suggests the small rise is likely to be driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.\n\nStudies show these variants may be able to spread slightly more easily than \"older\" Omicron variants.\n\nThe latest estimates suggest around 990,000 people in the UK have Covid.\n\nThat is about 1.5% of the population (roughly one in 65 people) - up from about one in 70 the week before.\n\nThe latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) covers the week ending 2 June.\n\nWhile infections have risen in some parts of the UK, the overall trends in Wales and Scotland are uncertain.\n\nThe ONS compiles the data by testing thousands of people from UK households at random - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much virus is around.\n\nThey provide the most accurate picture of Covid infection since free testing for the public came to an end in England and Scotland.\n\nSome free testing will continue in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.\n\nSarah Crofts, from ONS, said: \"Today's data shows a mixed picture for infection rates across the UK, with small increases in England and Northern Ireland, likely driven by increasing trends in Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants.\n\n\"Infections with Omicron BA.2 remain the most common variant of Covid-19 and continue to decrease across much of the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The interest rate on student loans in England is to rise by less than originally predicted this autumn.\n\nThe rate on repayments had been predicted to rise from the current 4.5% to 12% by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but the government says it will now be capped at 7.3%.\n\nHigher Education Minister Michelle Donelan said the level of the cap would provide \"peace of mind for graduates\".\n\nBut the National Union of Students said the cap was \"still cruelly high\".\n\nThe IFS welcomed the announcement but said it would \"have little or no effect\" on most graduates' repayments.\n\nThe interest rate on the loan for those currently at university in England is calculated by adding 3% to the retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation.\n\nThe RPI figure confirmed in April set the interest rate for the coming academic year - and the IFS said the maximum rate on student loans would jump from 4.5% this year to 12% from September 2022.\n\nConfirmation of student interest rates is usually made in August, but Ms Donelan said the government had \"brought forward this announcement to provide greater clarity and peace of mind for graduates at this time\".\n\n\"The government has always been clear that where it can help with rising prices we will, and I will always strive for a fair deal for students,\" she added.\n\nHowever, Larissa Kennedy, NUS president in the UK, said: \"These interest rate figures are still cruelly high.\n\n\"While some graduates might breathe a sigh of relief that the interest rate is no longer in double figures, ministers should be prioritising providing urgent cost-of-living support here and now,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the government \"should introduce rent protections, offer basic levels of maintenance support and announce a cost-of-living payment for all students\".\n\nThe announcement from the government does not change the amount that borrowers repay each month.\n\nFor students starting degree courses from 2023, the interest rate will be fixed at a lower level.\n\nBen Waltmann, senior research economist at the IFS, said it was \"great\" that the government has decided to take action - but \"for most graduates this announcement will have little or no effect on their repayments\".\n\nThat is because most people with undergraduate loans will \"likely never pay off their loans in full, so the interest rate never affects their repayments\", he said.\n\n\"Even for the typically high-earning graduates who do pay off their loans, very high interest rates from September to February would have been counterbalanced by very low interest rates further down the line, which now won't come to pass either,\" he added.\n\nCorrection 27th June: This article was amended on the 11th of June to make clear that the Government was announcing a cap on the student loan interest rate - so the top rate from September 2022 will be lower than the IFS originally predicted - and that it was not announcing a reduction from the current top rate.", "Prices for petrol and diesel has exceed £2 in parts of the Highlands, but operators said there were various factors behind the costs\n\nPeople living in the Highlands have long been used to higher fuel prices, even before the recent rapid rise in costs.\n\nThe RAC estimates that the average price for a litre of petrol in the UK has increased to 182.31p and 188.05p for diesel, the fuel of choice for many in the region.\n\nBut in many parts of the Highlands, petrol now costs just a few pennies short of £2. And at one filling station at Cluanie in Glen Shiel, it costs 208.7p for petrol and 221.7p for diesel.\n\nOperators said various factors - including higher supplier costs - had pushed up the costs.\n\nThe AA says prices have historically been high in the Highlands because smaller stations sell very low volumes of fuel, so recouping their costs is much harder.\n\nMany of these sites survived because local people know if they did not use them, they would be forced to close.\n\nHighland councillor Margaret Paterson has concerns for families and older people\n\nMargaret Paterson worries the impact of the soaring prices goes beyond a financial burden.\n\n\"Some parts of the Highlands have always suffered from high prices due to their rurality,\" said the Highland councillor, and grandmother of 17.\n\n\"But this is a new hardship, and it is being felt worst in the rural areas because of the distance from shops and other services, and the lack of public transport.\n\n\"For some people, their car is a lifesaver.\"\n\nThe Dingwall-based councillor fears older people, particularly those who live alone, will be among those hardest hit.\n\nShe said: \"I was speaking to a gentleman in the shops yesterday and he said he looks forward to coming into town because for him it is a day out. He can see and chat to people while getting his messages.\n\n\"But he was worried he will have to give up his car because he won't be able to afford to run it.\n\n\"People are not going to just struggle financially, this is going to have an effect on their wellbeing.\n\n\"For the older generation separated from families during the Covid pandemic, they now face not being able to see children and grandchildren because they cannot afford to travel.\"\n\nThe owners of pumps at the Cluanie Inn have a poster advising customers where they can get lower-priced fuel\n\nBlack Sheep Hotels, owners of the Cluanie Inn and its fuel pumps, said there were a number of reasons behind the cost of its petrol and diesel.\n\nIt said it had to buy its fuel from independent suppliers at much higher rates than branded filling stations and, because there was no main power supply at the site, had to run a generator for electricity 24 hours a day. There were also costs around the software and hardware for the automated pumps.\n\nBlack Sheep said it had a poster at the pumps advising customers how far away lower-priced fuel was available. It added that it had a plan to close the pumps because they were loss-making, but had kept them open following appeals from customers.\n\nPete Malone runs a small petrol station as part of Bettyhill General Merchants in Bettyhill on the north Highland coast. His prices are 184.5p for petrol and 196p for diesel.\n\nIt is one of three or four filling stations on a stretch between Thurso and Durness - a two-hour, 71 miles (114km) journey by road.\n\nPete told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme that they had been used to having relatively high prices for many years.\n\n\"We are a small petrol station and we have taken the view that we need to support our local community so we are running on as low a margin as can possibly get by on,\" he said.\n\n\"We are hampered slightly by the fact there aren't many people who will deliver fuel as far north as we are, but we can set the price we want.\"\n\nAnd he added: \"If you look at the people who rely on petrol and diesel in the area, it's the school bus, it's the NHS care workers, it's the doctor, it's the fire engine and the ambulance. The are all going to have to pay higher costs.\"\n\nFuel forms an important part of Laura Moon's work as a tour guide with her husband Ian Deveney.\n\nBased in Inverness, they have been in business for five years and take small private groups all over Scotland and northern England.\n\nThey have a small fleet of cars, which all run on diesel.\n\nShe said: \"We often do what we call multiday tours. This is where we pick up from the airports of Edinburgh and Glasgow then over several days we take our guests anywhere from Hadrian's Wall to the Orkney Islands - and everywhere in-between.\"\n\nLaura said higher fuel prices started to bite around February.\n\nTour guides Laura and Ian said rising costs were a huge concern\n\n\"It's a shock when you're at the pump and you are aware the tank isn't full and the digits are still going up,\" she said.\n\nThe weekly fuel bill for their three vehicles is now in the region of £500 per car.\n\nLaura said the costs were a huge concern.\n\n\"With the two years of the pandemic many in our industry hadn't earned a penny until about March 2022,\" she said.\n\n\"Tourism is booming again but - like many - we held our 2019 prices for people that postponed rather than cancelled their bookings.\n\n\"Those were all priced at the fuel prices from 2019. In a year when everyone needs help to get back onto their feet we are struggling with a much-reduced profit margin.\"\n\nNyomi Dixon runs the Whisky Away cafe in Inverness and branched out into mobile catering in April, selling home-bakes and teas and coffees from a customised caravan.\n\nShe said higher prices were making that side of the business harder.\n\nCafe owner Nyomi Dixon worries how rising costs will impact on her new business\n\n\"Running the generator on petrol has increased from about £4 for three hours to now costing around £14,\" Nyomi said.\n\n\"Depending on how many days we trade obviously changes how much we spend weekly. Diesel to tow the caravan with our van has hiked up in the last three months.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm definitely worried the increase will continue to rise and what that may mean for our business in the future, but hopefully we have a great summer and then Whisk On Wheels can hibernate and hopefully fuel costs will be lower next year.\"\n\nThe haulage industry warned earlier this week that the cost of running just one lorry was up £20,000 on last year.\n\nLochaber-based self-employed haulier Sandy MacCallum fills his lorry's diesel tank two to three times a week.\n\nAt the end of last year it cost about £480 each visit, but the haulier said it was now up to £930.\n\nSandy, who hauls machinery, industrial equipment and logs, said he and others had long lived with higher Highland fuel prices.\n\n\"You just keep adjusting,\" he said. \"In November the fuel prices really started to hit. Soon I was thinking: 'This isn't slowing down, this isn't going to stop'.\"\n\nSelf-employed lorry driver Sandy MacCallum worries that fuel costs will continue to rise\n\nSandy is now into his third year driving his own lorry. He had expected to be making money back by this stage, after losses in the first year and breaking even in the second.\n\n\"But the fuel costs mean I'm having to press the restart button,\" he said.\n\nSandy said rising costs were being felt right across his industry, and filtering through the wider economy.\n\nHe said: \"The wee bit of money I have left at the end of the week to spend on what I want is now going on fuel.\"\n\nSandy added that he was now hoping that hauliers would stage protests to force a reduction in prices. He believes lorry drivers should join with other workers, including those in the NHS, to take action in the coming weeks.\n\n\"Either that or we are going to drive ourselves into the ground,\" he said.", "A group of people, thought to be asylum seekers, arriving at Dover (file image)\n\nA flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda next Tuesday has been allowed to go ahead by the High Court.\n\nCampaigners failed in an initial legal bid to halt the removals to the east African country, but have confirmed they will take the case to the Court of Appeal on Monday.\n\nUnder the policy, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.\n\nAbout 31 people have been told they may be on the first flight.\n\nThere will be a full judicial review, where the High Court will hear a challenge to the policy as a whole, before the end of July, it heard.\n\nIn his decision, the judge Mr Justice Swift accepted there was a \"material public interest\" in Home Secretary Priti Patel being able to carry out her policies.\n\nMs Patel praised his judgement and said the government would go ahead with its plans, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the ruling as \"welcome news\".\n\nHowever, campaigners who brought the case expressed concern for the welfare of people set to be \"forcibly deported\".\n\nOne asylum seeker - an Iranian ex-police commander - who was told he will be deported on Tuesday has said he fears being killed by Iranian agents in Rwanda.\n\nHe has been held at a detention centre since arriving in the UK from Turkey in May.\n\nIt comes as the Daily Mail and the Times reports the Prince of Wales has been privately critical of the government's policy - quoting a source saying he thinks the approach is \"appalling\".\n\nPrince Charles is to represent the Queen in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, at a Commonwealth summit later this month. His office reiterated he remains \"politically neutral\".\n\nThe government hopes the scheme will discourage asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel, by making it clear many cases will now be dealt with by Rwanda.\n\nMore than 10,000 people have made the dangerous sea journey so far this year.\n\nWhile their application is considered by Rwanda those affected will be given accommodation and support and, if successful, will be able to remain there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nThose who fail in their asylum bids in Rwanda will be offered the chance to apply for visas under other immigration routes if they wish to remain in the country, but could still face deportation.\n\nCampaigners had sought to block the flight from leaving, as well as individual people being placed on it.\n\nAn excerpt of the document given to some asylum seekers by the Home Office\n\nThe case was brought by lawyers representing asylum seekers set to be deported, alongside the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) - which represents more than 80% of UK Border Force staff - and migration charities Care4Calais and Detention Action.\n\nTheir lawyers raised concerns about shortcomings in the Rwanda asylum system and the possibility that people could be sent on to countries where they would be persecuted - a process known as refoulement.\n\nHome Office lawyers had told the court the plan must not be stopped by legal challenges because it was in the public interest, and also urged the judge to reject challenges on behalf of individual asylum seekers.\n\nAt the hearing, the UN's refugee body, the UNHCR, also intervened to distance itself from the policy amid claims the Home Office has misrepresented its position on the scheme.\n\nLawyers for the UNHCR also said it had warned the Home Office twice that its arrangement with Rwanda was unlawful.\n\nIn his judgement, Mr Justice Swift ruled against a temporary block on the deportation flights before the full hearing on the policy in July.\n\nHe said he did not consider there was any evidence there would be \"ill-treatment, refoulement\" or anything that violated their rights under article three of the UK's Human Rights Act.\n\nArticle three protects people from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and deportation or extradition to a country where there is a real risk they will face torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.\n\nMr Justice Swift said part of the case to block the initial flights focused on the argument that Ms Patel's \"decision to treat Rwanda as a safe country is either irrational or based on insufficient investigation\".\n\nHe said this argument, along with other parts of the case, would be heard with evidence at the full judicial review, to be held across two days before the end of July.\n\nA judicial review sees a judge looking at how a decision, or action, has been made by a public body. It does not consider whether the decision itself is correct or not.\n\nBut Mr Justice Swift noted that, while the campaigners had enough evidence for a review, their claim was \"not conspicuously strong\".\n\nHe also denied interim relief to two people who face removal on Tuesday, one from Syria and another from Iraq, who are still set to be on the plane to Rwanda.\n\n\"I accept that the fact of removal to Rwanda will be onerous,\" he added.\n\nHowever, the judge granted the campaigners and migrants the right to appeal against his decision and said the Court of Appeal would be able to hear their case on Monday.\n\nFollowing the judgement, Ms Patel said the government would \"continue to deliver on progressing\" the plan.\n\nShe said: \"People will continue to try and prevent their relocation through legal challenges and last-minute claims, but we will not be deterred in breaking the deadly people smuggling trade and ultimately saving lives.\n\n\"Rwanda is a safe country and has previously been recognised for providing a safe haven for refugees - we will continue preparations for the first flight to Rwanda, alongside the range of other measures intended to reduce small boat crossings.\"\n\nMr Johnson tweeted: \"We cannot allow people traffickers to put lives at risk and our world leading partnership will help break the business model of these ruthless criminals.\"\n\nJames Wilson, deputy director of campaign group Detention Action, said it was disappointed, but added there were \"some positives\" from the case - noting that six of the eight original claimants had their removal orders withdrawn by the Home Office in advance of the judgement.\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, said the charity was \"deeply concerned for the welfare of people who may be forcibly deported to Rwanda, a fate that could profoundly harm their mental health and future\".\n\nThe PCS union has called for urgent talks with Ms Patel to discuss the removal policy following the ruling.", "The man was detained when he arrived in the UK by boat\n\nAn Iranian ex-police commander due to be deported from the UK to Rwanda under a controversial scheme says he fears being killed by Iranian agents there.\n\nThe man previously gave testimony to a UK-based rights groups' tribunal investigating alleged Iranian atrocities during protests in 2019.\n\nHe has been held at a detention centre near Gatwick Airport after arriving in the UK from Turkey in May.\n\nThe first asylum seekers are set to be deported under the scheme on Tuesday.\n\nTheir applications will be processed in Rwanda, where they will be given accommodation and help. If successful, they will be able to remain in Rwanda with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nHowever the plan has been criticised by politicians and charities, who have raised concerns about the African nation's human rights record.\n\nThe former commander, who is not being named in order to protect his identity, was sentenced by an Iranian military court to almost five years in jail in Iran and a demotion for refusing to shoot protesters during anti-government demonstrations triggered by a sharp rise in petrol prices. The former commander was in charge of 60 police officers at the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters took to the streets across Iran as fuel price rises were introduced\n\nAmnesty International documented the cases of 304 men, women and children it says were killed by security forces over five days - most from gunshot wounds. Reuters said at least 1,500 were killed in less than two weeks.\n\nWhen he was out on bail pending his appeal, the former commander escaped to Turkey, where in November 2021 he gave testimony via Skype to the Aban Tribunal, organised by three human rights groups in London.\n\nHe says he lived in hiding in Turkey for 14 months before arriving in the UK. Although his face was covered when he gave evidence, he says Iran's security forces managed to identify him and persecuted his family.\n\n\"My family in Iran paid a heavy price and this [deportation] decision means all they went through was in vain,\" he said by telephone from Brook House detention centre.\n\n\"They put pressure on my family so that I return and they can capture me,\" he said.\n\nHe arrived in the UK on a boat on 14 May and was immediately detained.\n\nHis notice of removal - seen by BBC Persian - was given to him on 31 May, informing him that he would be sent on a direct flight to Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June.\n\nThe notice says \"the right of appeal may be exercised only on limited grounds and only from outside the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe former commander said he feared for his life if he is deported to Rwanda, saying \"Iran's Revolutionary Guards operate in Africa\".\n\nThe Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) is Iran's most powerful military force and runs a shadowy overseas operations arm called the Quds Force.\n\nOne of the organisers of the Aban Tribunal, Shadi Sadr, said the man's life was \"in real danger as Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which is known for kidnapping and assassinating dissidents, operates in many African countries\".\n\nIn recent years, Iran has been accused of targeting dissidents in its neighbouring countries, including Turkey.\n\nLast week the former commander was given malaria pills in preparation for his trip, but he refused to take them.\n\n\"You can only send my dead body to Rwanda,\" he said he told officers.\n\n\"Why Rwanda? I'd rather be sent to Iran,\" he said. \"At least, I know the consequences. I can't live with uncertainty and in fear anymore.\"\n\nMs Sadr said the man was suffering from a heart condition \"confirmed by a Home Office medical professional\".\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended the deportation programme, saying the partnership with Rwanda was \"a key part of our strategy to overhaul the broken asylum system and break the evil people-smugglers' business model\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson told BBC Persian that \"in Rwanda, [deportees] will be given the opportunity to rebuild their lives\".", "Canada's government is proposing putting health warnings on individual cigarettes in what would be a world-first way of tackling the habit.\n\nMental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett said she hoped the measure would help reach more people.\n\nShe said the key target were young people who often access cigarettes \"in social situations sidestepping the information printed on a package\".\n\nA 75-day public consultation period on the issue starts on Saturday.\n\n\"Adding health warnings on individual tobacco products will help ensure that these essential messages reach people,\" Ms Bennett told reporters.\n\nShe added that photo warnings on cigarette packets - introduced in Canada in 2001 - were no longer as effective as the government had hoped.\n\nThe Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada welcomed the new proposal.\n\n\"Canada will now have the strongest health warning regime for cigarettes in the world,\" the foundation's CEO, Doug Roth was quoted as saying by Canada's CBC public broadcaster.\n\n\"These are deadly products, and these measures will help to further reduce their appeal to youth and non-smokers, as well as to support current smokers in their efforts to quit.\"\n\nIn 2020, more than four million Canadians were daily or occasional smokers, according to Statistics Canada.\n\nTobacco use is still the leading preventable cause of illness and premature death in the country with the population of more than 38 million.\n\nAn estimated 48,000 Canadians die each year as a result of smoking, according to the Canadian Lung Association.", "Police officers outside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas on 25 May\n\nAmid widespread criticism, a Texas school district police chief has defended the actions of officers responding to the Uvalde mass shooting.\n\nOfficers reportedly delayed confronting the gunman despite knowing children were wounded inside a classroom.\n\nSchool district police chief Pete Arredondo claimed that officers risked their lives without hesitation.\n\nNineteen children and two adults were killed in the 24 May shooting at Robb Elementary.\n\nThe police response has come under increasing scrutiny in the weeks since the shooting, in which the gunman was locked in two adjoining classrooms with students for more than an hour before police stormed in and killed the attacker.\n\nSome parents have condemned the response as being chaotic and slow.\n\nWhile Texas Governor Greg Abbott initially defended the \"amazing bravery\" of the officers, he later said he was \"livid\" about being misled about the response.\n\nIn his first extensive interview since the incident, with the Texas Tribune, Mr Arredondo, 50, said he was unaware that he had overall command of the response to the shooting, and assumed someone else had taken on that role.\n\nIt had previously been reported that he told police to not attempt to breach the classroom.\n\nWhile he denied the claim, Mr Arredondo said he believed the situation had changed from being that of an \"active\" shooter to one where the gunman was barricaded inside.\n\n\"Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,\" he said. \"We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced.\"\n\nThe police chief also said he left his police and campus radios outside as he responded to the shooting.\n\nHe said he thought the radios would slow him down at a time when he believed he was the first officer at the scene.\n\nHis lawyer, George Hyde, told the Tribune that Mr Arredondo arrived at the scene committed to stopping the shooter even at the risk of his own life.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to Mr Hyde for additional comment.\n\nAccording to Mr Arredondo, police came under fire soon after entering the school, wounding several officers. After determining that officers would be unable to kick in a reinforced door to the classrooms, Mr Arredondo called for tactical gear, a sniper and keys for the door.\n\nHe described trying dozens of keys unsuccessfully before police were able to open the door and kill the shooter, 77 minutes after the incident began.\n\nSix of seven law enforcement officers contacted by the Tribune, however, said that the police response suffered from serious lapses.\n\nMr Arredondo's lack of radio communications, experts believe, may have contributed to a disjointed police response to the shooting. Without a radio, he said he was unaware of 911 calls coming in from students.\n\nOn Friday, a New York Times review of law enforcement documents and video appears to show officers waiting for protective equipment before entering a classroom to stop the gunman, even as senior officers on the scene were told some of those trapped inside needed medical attention.\n\nThe newspaper reported that, according to transcripts from police body cameras, a man believed to be Mr Arredondo says: ''People are going to ask why we're taking so long.\"\n\n\"We're trying to preserve the rest of the life.''\n\nThis week, the US justice department announced a review of the police response to the mass shooting, which will include \"an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses\".", "More than half of UK homes have reduced the amount of gas and electricity they use as worries about the cost of living grow, new data shows.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also found that high numbers of people are spending less on food.\n\nThe rate of inflation is rising at its fastest rate in decades due to factors such as high energy prices.\n\nThe ONS said around three-quarters of households were \"somewhat worried\" or \"very worried\" about growing costs.\n\nWage growth is failing to keep up with inflation - the rate at which prices rise - leaving many households struggling.\n\nIn a survey covering 25 May to 5 June, the ONS said 52% of respondents said they were using less energy around the house.\n\nThe survey also found that 41% were spending less on food and \"essentials\".\n\nAround 9 in 10 adults said their cost of living had risen over the past month, with food shopping, gas and electricity bills and the price of fuel the most common reasons given.\n\nHigher manufacturing and supply costs are lifting food prices. The war in Ukraine, which is a major provider of grains and fertilizer globally, has had a major impact.\n\nRussia, which launched an assault on Ukraine in February, is one of the world's largest oil suppliers and is facing widespread sanctions following its attack.\n\nThe ONS said 40% of those questioned said that they were cutting back on non-essential journeys in their vehicles. This week, petrol prices in the UK reached a new high, meaning it now costs £100 to fill a 55-litre car.\n\nMeanwhile, energy bills have soared, with the average household seeing a 54% increase in April when the price cap - the maximum amount per unit suppliers can charge in England, Scotland and Wales - rose. Bills are expected to rise even further in October.\n\nThe government has announced a range of measures to help people cope with rising costs, including a £400 discount on fuel bills for all UK households in October.\n\nMore than eight million low-income households will also get an additional £650.", "Denise Gun said she is also suffering from grief, having lost her parents and partner within 12 months\n\nA woman has said she cannot remember the last time she had a hot meal due to the rising prices of her bills.\n\nDenise Gun, 57, works for a creche run by Chell Area Family Action Group in the Whitfield Valley Centre, Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nAfter taking to Facebook to ask local friends where to get help for food from, Ms Gun got financial advice from the organisation Potteries Moneywise.\n\n\"My fridge is empty, my purse has been empty for months,\" Ms Gun said.\n\n\"I never have money for what people would deem luxuries of life like going out for a drink or just having a little treat - that's just a dream now.\"\n\nThe Whitfield Valley Centre is a base for the charity Chell Area Family Action Group as well as recently running sessions of how to budget\n\nLloyd Myatt a financial advisor from Potteries Moneywise runs regular sessions on budgeting.\n\nHe told the BBC due to the cost of living crisis, they were \"seeing a different demographic to the normal client we tend to see\".\n\n\"Not the one who may be claiming some type of benefit, we're seeing clients in that middle income bracket,\" he said.\n\nMum-of-two Julie Jackson has made changes to make her money go further.\n\n\"We've started buying meat in bulk from the abattoir rather than getting it at the supermarkets,\" she said.\n\n\"My partner now rides a scooter to work instead of using the car,\" Ms Jackson added.\n\nMs Jackson is a mum-of-two and has found different ways to budget\n\nOn Thursday, the cost of filling an average family car with petrol hit £100 for the first time.\n\nBoth the AA and the RAC have urged the chancellor to cut VAT on fuel or to reduce fuel duty further.\n\nA local newsagent on Fegg Hayes Road said they have seen a difference in the way people are spending\n\nDown the road from the centre on Fegg Hayes Road is the local newsagents.\n\nThe owner told the BBC that for the 30 years he has been in the city, residents are used to budgeting.\n\n\"The budgeting's not new - people have always done that here, if you've got a limited income you've been used to doing this for a long time,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added he has noticed a change in customer's spending, especially those using pre-loaded gas and electricity cards.\n\nHe said people coming in once a week were now coming two or three times but not loading as much on, instead, putting \"£3 or £4 on a day\".\n\nTom who volunteers at the centre, doesn't currently work due to health problems. He says his debts are mounting as he struggles to pay bills.\n\n\"I'm £900 in debt [for electricity] and they want me to pay nearly £100 a month and I can't afford that,\" he said.\n\nHe added he does not use the heating even if it is freezing cold and instead wears more layers and a dressing gown.\n\nHe said he felt \"embarrassed and upset\".\n\nLast month, the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced that all UK households will get a grant which will reduce energy bills by £400 from October.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boy died in hospital after being found injured at a house in the Miles Platting area\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was found stabbed at a house in Manchester and later died in hospital has been named by police.\n\nJakub Szymanski was found injured by paramedics at an address on Bednal Avenue in Miles Platting on Thursday.\n\nA 44-year-old man from Manchester was arrested on Friday and continues to be questioned on suspicion of murder.\n\nIn a statement released by Greater Manchester Police, Jakub's family said he was a \"funny and a cheeky boy\" who loved supporting Manchester City.\n\nIt said: \"Jakub was lovingly known as Kuba to his family and Jakub to his friends. He was always a popular child making friends wherever he went due to his friendly and chatty nature.\n\n\"He always spoke his mind, he was mischievous, funny and a cheeky boy. He loved his Xbox and football, supporting Manchester City.\n\n\"He was like every other teenage boy and was helpful to so many people, even those he just met. To our family, he's our hero.\"\n\nJakub's mother, in her 40s, was also found stabbed at the scene on Thursday and taken to hospital, where she remains in a stable condition.\n\nThe 44-year-old man, who is in police custody, was arrested in Kent on Friday night and was believed to be known to Jakub and his mother, said police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alicia Smith, from GMP's Major Incident Team, said: \"We're still continuing with our investigation and last night's arrest has been a huge step in potentially getting a grieving family the answers they so badly need.\n\n\"A teenage boy who had his whole life ahead of him has tragically lost his life and not only is his mother grieving at the loss of her son, but she is also recovering from what will have been no doubt, hugely traumatic.\"\n\nShe appealed for anyone with information to get in touch with police or Crimestoppers.\n\nA large police cordon was set up at the scene on Bednal Avenue\n• None Man arrested over fatal stabbing of boy in house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people testing positive for Covid in Scotland rose last week, according to the latest figures.\n\nOffice for National Statistics (ONS) data estimated that about one person in 40 had the virus - an increase from one in 50 the previous week.\n\nPublic health expert Jillian Evans has warned that the UK could be at the start of a fresh Covid wave driven by new variants of the Omicron strain.\n\nShe said there were \"early signs\" that things were changing.\n\nBut national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said it was \"a little early to say\" that there was a new wave.\n\nThe ONS figures said there were signs of a possible increase in cases among those aged between 30 and 40 in Scotland.\n\nEngland and Northern Ireland also saw small increases in cases last week, although the virus continues to be less prevalent there than in Scotland.\n\nIt is estimated that one in 70 people has the virus in England, compared to one in 65 in Northern Ireland and one in 75 in Wales.\n\nThe rise across the UK is believed to have been caused by a jump in infections compatible with the original Omicron variant BA.1, along with the newer variants BA.4 and BA.5.\n\nOmicron BA.1 caused a surge in infections across the UK in December and early January, while BA.4 and BA.5 are newer variants that were recently classified by the UK Health Security Agency as \"variants of concern\".\n\nAnalysis has found both of the newer variants are likely to have a \"growth advantage\" over other strains.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Scotland's Drivetime programme, Ms Evans - the head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian - said the latest data \"definitely looks to me as if it's the early sign of something changing\".\n\nShe said infection rates in Scotland had been \"plateauing\" at about one in 45 or one in 50 in Scotland for the past month after a big decline earlier in the year.\n\nMs Evans added: \"What is marked today I think, when we look at the ONS publication, is how it is changing in the rest of the UK and particularly England.\"\n\nShe said experts at the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) now believe that \"this may be the start of a new wave starting\".\n\nBut she said it \"may not be be as high as we have seen with the previous Omicron wave\".\n\nShe added: \"It certainly signals a change in Covid infection levels and is something we need to sit up and take notice of.\"\n\nMs Evans said the new wave appeared to be driven by \"not one or two, but a few new variants that are starting to gather dominance\".\n\nThe ONS data is seen as being the most accurate measure of Covid rates since the end of mass testing\n\nShe said: \"It's the growth that we're very concerned about - the proportion of cases that are the new variant seemed to be really rising very fast.\n\n\"That's a worry, because those cases are more transmissible than the previous version of Omicron.\"\n\nMs Evans said it was still true that Covid is a very mild illness for many people.\n\nBut this is not the case for everyone, with the number of people in hospital with the virus remaining high and an estimated two million people in the UK suffering from long Covid.\n\nProf Leitch said he did not want to argue with Ms Evans but it was a \"little early to say\" if there as a new wave.\n\n\"I don't think it is encouraging,\" he said\n\n\"I don't think going from one in 50 to one in 40 is good news but there is some mixed news if you look at the data in the round.\"\n\nHe said there were now 600 people in hospital with Covid, well down on earlier levels.\n\nProf Leitch added that people should make sure they are vaccinated to protect themselves against the disease.\n\nThe latest data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that in the week to 5 June, 20 deaths involving Covid were registered - 26 fewer than the previous week.\n\nIt means 14,820 deaths have now been registered in Scotland where the virus was mentioned on the death certificate.", "The US will no longer require air travellers to have proof of a negative Covid-19 test before entering the country from abroad.\n\nOfficials said they were dropping the requirement due to the \"tremendous progress\" the country had made in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe travel industry has been pushing for an end to the policy, which they say has deterred bookings, as families fear getting stranded abroad.\n\nThe change comes into effect on Sunday.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will re-evaluate the policy in 90 days. The administration said it would \"not hesitate to act\" to reinstate the rule should new variants make officials believe it is necessary.\n\n\"We are able to take this step because of the tremendous progress we've made in our fight against the virus: We have made lifesaving vaccines and treatments widely available and these tools are working to prevent serious illness and death, and are effective against the prevalent variants circulating in the US and around the world,\" a senior official told reporters.\n\nThe US introduced rules requiring air travellers to test negative within three days of their flight - or provide proof of recent recovery from the virus - in January 2021.\n\nUS President Joe Biden tightened the policy to within one day of flying in December, as the Omicron variant pushed virus cases higher. The testing measure did not apply to land crossings.\n\nMost non-US citizens must still be vaccinated to travel to the country.\n\nThe number of Covid cases in the US has dropped sharply since January, though the figures had started to rise again in recent weeks before plateauing. Deaths remain much lower than during the height of the pandemic because of the impact of the vaccination programme.\n\nThe travel sector, which has seen demand surge as concerns about the pandemic wane, has said the US has lagged behind other countries in re-evaluating testing policies.\n\nThe UK removed all Covid-19 test requirements for travel in March, as did Canada. Italy ended its testing requirements this month.\n\nOn Friday, Canada also said it would pause random Covid testing at airports for the rest of June in order to reduce wait times for travellers.\n\nUS Travel Association president Roger Dow said the change in policy would \"accelerate the recovery of the US travel industry\", while the International Air Transport Association said it was \"great news\" the \"ineffective\" measure was being dropped.\n\nAirline Virgin Atlantic also welcomed the move, saying it would \"boost consumer confidence even further and support the rebound in transatlantic travel this summer\".\n\nThe US has been slowly easing Covid national restrictions. Last November, it lifted restrictions on travellers from more than 30 countries, including the UK, after a more than 18-month ban.\n\nIn April, the US dropped its requirement that passengers wear masks on planes after a court voided the CDC's mandate.\n\nAccording to research by the US Travel Association, eliminating the test requirement is likely to bring an additional 5.4 million visitors to the US this year, boosting travel spending by 12%,\n\n\"Today marks another huge step forward for the recovery of inbound air travel and the return of international travel to the United States,\" Mr Dow said.", "The US criticises China for increased military activity in the area\n\nChina has warned the US that any attempt to make Taiwan independent from China will trigger military action by Beijing's forces.\n\nChinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe met his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of an Asian security summit in Singapore.\n\nSplitting Taiwan from China would leave the Chinese military with no choice but to \"fight at any cost\", Mr Wei said.\n\nHe said there were record numbers of Chinese aircraft flying near the island on a near-daily basis, which \"undermine peace and stability in the region\".\n\nChina views self-ruled Taiwan as an integral part of China's territory, a stance that prompted Mr Wei to condemn US arms sales to Taiwan.\n\nA spokesman quoted him as saying: \"If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will have no choice but fight at any cost and crush any attempt of 'Taiwan independence' and safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.\"\n\nMr Austin said the US was committed to maintaining the status quo - recognising Beijing as the sole government of China and opposing Taiwanese independence.\n\nHe insisted there must be no attempt to resolve tensions through force.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin (left) had his first face-to-face meeting with China's Wei Fenghe\n\nIt was the first meeting of the US and Chinese defence chiefs and lasted nearly an hour, at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit.\n\nMr Wei said the talks \"went smoothly\", and both sides described them as cordial.\n\nMr Austin spoke of the importance of maintaining fully open lines of communications with China's military, to avoid any misunderstanding.\n\nIn late May Taiwan said it had deployed fighter jets to warn off 30 warplanes sent by China into its air defence zone. The incident marked the biggest Chinese incursion since January.\n\nThe incident involved 22 Taiwanese fighters, as well as electronic warfare, early warning and anti-submarine aircraft, Taiwan's defence ministry said.", "Ronaldo denies the allegations and has never been charged\n\nA US judge has dismissed a rape allegation lawsuit against Cristiano Ronaldo because the accuser's lawyer relied on leaked and stolen records.\n\nKathryn Mayorga alleges that the Manchester United footballer raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009.\n\nHe denies the allegations and has never been charged.\n\nShe reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with the star in 2010, but has been seeking millions more than the $375,000 (£304,000) she received.\n\nMs Mayorga said that while she had agreed to the settlement shortly after the alleged incident, her emotional trauma at the time did not allow her to participate in the mediation process, and she felt pressured to accept the offer.\n\nBefore filing her complaint, Ms Mayorga's lawyer, Leslie Stovall, received \"ill-gotten\" information and documents which were confidential and privileged, US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey wrote.\n\nThe judge said the lawyer harmed Mr Ronaldo, 37, by conducting himself in \"bad faith\" through repeated use of stolen, privileged documents to prosecute the case.\n\nIn a 42-page ruling released on Friday and quoted by AFP, Judge Dorsey accused Mr Stovall of \"abuses and flagrant circumvention of the proper litigation process\" and said that as a result, \"Mayorga loses her opportunity to pursue this case.\"\n\nLast year, a magistrate judge recommended the case be dismissed due to Mr Stovall's conduct.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Stovall for comment.\n\nIn 2019, US prosecutors said Cristiano Ronaldo would not face charges over the accusations as they could not \"be proven beyond reasonable doubt\".\n\nThe Clark County District Attorney's office in Las Vegas said Ms Mayorga reported an assault in 2009, but refused to state where it had happened or who the attacker was. As a result police were unable \"to conduct any meaningful investigation\". But the allegations were investigated again in 2018 at her request.\n\nIt followed a 2017 article in German magazine Der Spiegel, which reported that in 2010, Ms Mayorga reached an out-of-court settlement with the footballer for agreeing never to go public with the allegations.\n\nMs Mayorga's lawyer said she had been inspired to re-open the case by the #MeToo movement.\n\nMr Ronaldo has not denied that the two met in Las Vegas in 2009, but said that what happened between them was consensual.\n\nThe BBC does not generally name people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but Ms Mayorga has given consent to make her name public.", "Hanef Bhamjee was awarded an OBE for his fight against apartheid\n\nA memorial event has been held in tribute to a lifelong anti-apartheid campaigner who died in January.\n\nHanef Bhamjee, of Cardiff, was born in apartheid-era South Africa and campaigned against its whites-only rule from the age of 10.\n\nHe fled South Africa in the 1960s because of involvement in the student wing of the African National Congress.\n\nMr Bhamjee was awarded an OBE for race relations in recognition of his fight against apartheid.\n\nSpeaking to the crowd of more than 100 people at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay, his younger brother Yusuf said \"H\" had begun to \"exile himself from me\" even before he went into exile from his home country.\n\nHe added: \"It was only in years later that I realised... he was trying to shield us.\"\n\nHe met Nelson Mandela on his visit to Cardiff\n\nMore than 100 people attended the memorial service\n\nFor decades Mr Bhamjee, who was originally from Marikana and knew Nelson Mandela from the age of 15, ran the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement from his home, with the help of volunteers.\n\nThat organisation, succeeded by Action for Southern Africa Wales, campaigned vigorously for an end to racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa.\n\nCampaigners signed an anti-apartheid poster which will be displayed in the museum in St Fagans\n\nMr Bhamjee, who was one of the guests when Mandela visited Wales, said at the time the then-South African president had a \"special place in the hearts of Welsh people\".\n\n\"The anti-apartheid campaign was always very strong here, possibly stronger than in any other part of Britain,\" Mr Bhamjee added.\n\nHe said his brother had carved himself into the history of Wales and of South Africa and dubbed him a \"true internationalist\".\n\n\"He has inspired so many young people to campaign for the cause of justice and that, I think, is his legacy.\"\n\nHe said while his brother was no saint, he had \"touched our lives uniquely\".\n\nWales' First Minister, Mark Drakeford, said Hanef Bhamjee had left an \"enormously important legacy\".\n\n\"All those things that motivated Hanef and made him the astonishing force that he was, we have to capture that and go on putting that to work,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"I'll be remembering him with huge fondness. But as so many people said here today, he was a man for whom, and I mean this in the best possible sense, nothing was ever good enough.\n\n\"No matter how hard you worked, no matter how many times you turned up, no matter how many articles you wrote, there was always more that he wanted.\n\n\"And every movement needs people like that.\"\n\nMark Drakeford said every movement needed people like Hanef Bhamjee\n\nAnti-apartheid campaigner and former Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain, remembered the anti-apartheid struggle as \"long, hard and bitter\".\n\nHe said: \"Everybody takes for granted now that it was ultimately victorious, but were it not for Hanef here in Wales, driving the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement, who knows, apartheid may still be with us.\n\n\"Because it was not defeated just on its own. It took a lot of hard and bitter struggle, and he was a legend in that struggle.\"\n\nStepdaughter Robyn Griffiths said the memorial was \"really special\"\n\n\"We are really grateful for everyone who's travelled so far to come and celebrate Hanef's life and his achievements and just remember everything today,\" she said.\n\nAnti-apartheid campaigner and lifelong friend of Hanef Bhamjee, Gulam Mayet, lived in Cardiff from 1968 to 79 but returned to South Africa to work in the education department.\n\nFriends Gulam Mayet and Gaynor Legall both said Hanef Bhamjee's life was to be celebrated\n\nHe said: \"I'm very sad that he's gone. It was too early.\n\n\"He had a lot to contribute still, I'm sad he never went back to South Africa.\n\n\"He's made such a big contribution here. We sort of value his life, we celebrate his life but we don't mourn.\"\n\nAnti-racism campaigner Gaynor Legall, from Butetown, Cardiff, added: \"I've lost a good friend and I'll miss the talks and the debates and the arguments, but we celebrate his life.\"", "Ukraine’s president says Lysychansk is already dead, along with neighboring Severodonetsk - both ghost cities now.\n\nRussia is not just destroying apartment buildings, flats and homes, it’s destroying history and the fabric of cities. This is a deliberate tactic - bomb, shell, burn, and leave nothing but scorched earth.\n\nThose who remain make brief escapes from their basements to cook outdoors. The city has no power or running water.\n\nThe city is running out of time. This is now an artillery war and Ukraine doesn’t have enough big guns or ammunition.\n\nJust a short distance away, neighbouring Severodonetsk is burning and may soon fall.\n\nUkrainian troops there are fighting building to building, street to street but all bridges to the city have now been destroyed.\n\nUkraine is facing an enemy that has learned lessons and is imposing crushing losses in battle. Troops fight on but the handful of advanced weapon systems promised by Britain and the United States may be too little, too late.\n\nHere in the Donbas region right now, it looks like a losing battle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five key moments from the US Capitol riot hearing\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has hit back at his daughter Ivanka after she distanced herself from his unfounded claims of mass voter fraud.\n\nA probe into the 2021 US Capitol riots on Thursday aired a previously unseen clip of Ms Trump rejecting the claims.\n\nMr Trump said Ivanka had not been looking at election results and \"had long since checked out\".\n\nDemocrats argue the mob attack on Congress was the culmination of a months-long attempted coup by Mr Trump.\n\nGraphic footage and testimony of the 6 January 2021 raid on the Capitol in Washington DC was televised on Thursday by the US House of Representatives select committee.\n\nThe prime-time hearing drew 20 million viewers on the TV networks.\n\nThe broadcast included a clip of testimony by former US Attorney General Bill Barr saying he had repeatedly dismissed the outgoing president's claims that mass voter fraud had caused him to lose the election.\n\nAnother excerpt was aired of Ivanka Trump's interview from April with the committee when she was asked about her reaction to Mr Barr's assessment.\n\n\"It affected my perspective,\" Ms Trump said. \"I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he was saying.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widow of fallen officer: \"6 January was the worst day of his life\"\n\nMr Trump responded on his social media site, Truth Social, on Friday, labelling the inquiry a \"WITCH HUNT!\"\n\n\"Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results,\" he added.\n\n\"She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!).\"\n\nThe president also lambasted Mr Barr as a \"coward\", while continuing to insist the election was \"rigged\".\n\nMs Trump was a presidential adviser in her father's administration and accompanied him to the rally that he hosted outside the White House just before the US Capitol attack unfolded.\n\nA handful of voter fraud cases have been prosecuted since the November 2020 election, but no concrete evidence has emerged of such criminal activity on any scale that could have swayed President Joe Biden's victory.\n\nThe House select committee will hold another five hearings over the coming fortnight.\n\nNext Monday's session will attempt to show that Mr Trump and his inner circle knew he had lost the election, but spread claims of voter fraud anyway.\n\nThe panel has conducted 1,000 interviews and gathered 140,000 documents over the year-long inquiry.", "The Download Festival is being held about one mile (1.6km) from East Midland Airport\n\nFlights at East Midlands Airport have again been disrupted after drones were spotted nearby.\n\nEight services were diverted on Friday evening and the runway was closed.\n\nIn the week, overnight flights faced problems, while two passenger flights were diverted to Leeds and Manchester on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe airport, Leicestershire Police and the organisers of the nearby Download Festival said they were closely monitoring the situation.\n\nThe three-day rock and heavy metal festival is taking place until Sunday at Donington Park in Leicestershire, about one mile (1.6km) from the airport.\n\nThe airport's runway was closed for an hour from 23:15 BST and six passenger and two cargo flights were forced to reroute.\n\nClare James, the airport's managing director, said: \"It beggars belief that someone would do this.\n\n\"It's a criminal offence, it is very inconvenient for passengers, it costs thousands of pounds for cargo carriers but most of all it is a flight safety risk.\n\n\"We have detection equipment here, we are working with police, so my message to whoever is doing this is just stop or face prosecution.\"\n\nIn a joint statement on Friday, the police, airport and festival team said: \"Both the festival organisers and the police have enhanced the number of patrols on site and the surrounding areas.\n\n\"The public are reminded that flying a drone in proximity to an operational airport is an offence under the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and is a huge risk to public safety. The police will take appropriate action if necessary.\"\n\nAs well as a busy passenger airport, East Midlands hosts the UK's largest dedicated air cargo operation, which handles more than 440,000 tonnes of goods a year.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ice cream van owners are feeling the effects of fuel price hikes\n\nIce cream vendors could be forced to ditch their livelihoods as fuel prices rise, industry chiefs have warned.\n\nThe doughty purveyors of frosted treats are a welcome summertime sight, but their vans use diesel-guzzling engines.\n\nMany need to keep their vehicles ticking over, even when stationary, and can clock up high mileage as they travel to events or profitable patches.\n\nIndustry body chairman Maurice \"Moz\" Murray, said of this summer: \"Beyond doubt, we will lose vans.\"\n\nThe cost of petrol has soared in recent days, with the average litre of unleaded costing 182.31p, and diesel 188.05p.\n\nMr Murray said the Ice Cream Mobilisers and Associated Trades Alliance (ICMAT), and its 2,500 members from Scotland to Cornwall, were \"deeply concerned\".\n\n\"It's only going to get worse over the summer when we visit various events over the summer holiday,\" he said.\n\nMr Murray, who trades in Lancashire, said the industry was at breaking point and the latest fuel hikes threatened to put some out of business.\n\nIce cream van seller Maurice Murray usually does a roaring trade over the summer\n\n\"My own fuel costs have gone up by a good third,\" he said. \"Ice cream is not a necessity. It's a luxury. People are having to cut back on luxuries.\"\n\nHull-based Lawrence Glauser said he had gone from spending £25 per day on diesel for his Mercedes Sprinter van to about £50.\n\nHe explained that Mr Whippy machines need to be into mains power or run off the van's engine, which needs to be kept running.\n\n\"It works a bit like a car's air conditioning system,\" said Mr Glauser. \"From 11:30am to 7:30pm, my van is chugging away.\"\n\nIan Smith with his 'pride and joy' vintage van\n\nIan Smith, whose company Mr Whippy Leeds operates a fleet of eight vans, said paying over £100 to fill up a van \"is [previously] unheard of\".\n\n\"Not everyone can stand the extra cost, especially if they're driving around or travelling a long way to sites,\" he said.\n\nMr Smith said there was currently no viable alternative to diesel.\n\n\"We're stuck with it until someone develops an electric van capable of carrying the weight that we require,\" he said. \"But even then electricity is going up too.\"\n\nMr Glauser is adamant that he won't swap to selling soft scoop ice cream, which is stored in battery-powered freezers.\n\nHe said: \"I'm a Mr Whippy man, not a scoop man. If I can't afford to keep the engine running, I guess I'll be just be another ice cream man that bites the dust.\"\n\nMr Glauser, who has been in the industry since 2000, said it would be a crying shame if ice cream vans were to be consigned to history.\n\n\"There's nothing like the feeling you get when you see a little kid's smile at being handed an ice cream,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Russia's President Vladimir Putin has openly compared himself to Peter the Great\n\nVladimir Putin's admiration for Peter the Great is well known but he now seems to have ideas of \"Great\"-ness himself.\n\nHe has openly compared himself to the Russian tsar, equating Russia's invasion of Ukraine today with Peter's expansionist wars some three centuries ago, and making his strongest acknowledgment yet that his own war is a land grab.\n\nMr Putin's apparent empire-building ambitions bode ill for Ukraine and have irked other neighbours, including Estonia, which called his comments \"completely unacceptable.\"\n\nRussia's president was meeting young scientists and entrepreneurs when he made the remarks. Before talking IT and tech development he talked politics and power: the new battle he sees for geopolitical dominance. In that, he told his select audience that Peter the Great was a role model.\n\n\"You might think he was fighting with Sweden, seizing their lands,\" Mr Putin said, referring to the Northern Wars which Peter launched at the turn of the 18th Century as he forged a new Russian Empire.\n\n\"But he seized nothing; he reclaimed it!\" he said, arguing that Slavs had lived in the area for centuries.\n\n\"It seems it has fallen to us, too, to reclaim and strengthen,\" Mr Putin concluded, with a near-smirk that left no doubt he was referring to Ukraine and his aims there.\n\nPeter's rule, he suggested, was proof that expanding Russia had strengthened it.\n\nPutin spoke of Peter the Great as a role model during the meeting\n\nMr Putin has taken to citing Russia's past a lot lately, always carefully curated to suit his present-day cause. Several months before he attacked Ukraine, he produced a giant essay in which he essentially argued away the country's historical right to exist.\n\nWhen Russia invaded its neighbour on 24 February, Putin falsely claimed it was a \"special operation\" limited to the eastern Donbas region to \"de-Nazify\" Ukraine and reduce the supposed threat to Russia.\n\nBut even as he was uttering those words, his troops were moving on Kyiv and bombing land even further west. More than 100 days later, a fifth of Ukrainian territory is under Russian military control, with puppet administrations who talk of referenda on joining Russia.\n\nAnd now Putin feels bold enough to admit that his \"operation\" is in fact an occupation.\n\nHe also seems to believe the West will ultimately accept the reality his troops are fighting to create on the ground.\n\nAt the time, \"not one European country\" recognised Russia's claim to the land where Peter created St Petersburg as Russia's bold new capital, Mr Putin said. Now they all do.\n\nHis comments have also rattled the Baltic countries. The Estonian foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to condemn his reference to Peter the Great's assault on Narva, now in Estonia, as Russia \"reclaiming and strengthening\" its territory.\n\nPeter travelled incognito through Europe to get inspiration for modernising Russia\n\nPutin's use of history is selective.\n\nPeter the Great, though a ruthless autocrat, was a huge admirer of Western ideas, science and culture, famously building St Petersburg as a \"window on Europe\" and travelling that continent thirsty for knowledge to help drag Russia towards modernity.\n\nPutin's increasingly repressive rule slowly closed that window on the West; the war on Ukraine has slammed it shut. The idea of the Russian leader touring Holland or Greenwich in search of ideas and inspiration, as the Tsar once did, now seems impossible.\n\nAs Putin lectured the young entrepreneurs on an 18th Century tsar, a series of words flashed up behind them: 'future', 'confident', 'victory'.\n\nRussia is determined to project defiance in the face of Western condemnation and sanctions and Putin himself certainly appeared relaxed rather than beleaguered.\n\nBut perhaps there is another lesson from the history books.\n\nPeter the Great did eventually conquer land from the Baltics to the Black Sea. But Russia was fighting its Great Northern War for 21 years.", "Australia has announced a €555m ($585m; £475m) settlement with France's Naval Group as compensation for scuppering a submarine contract with Paris.\n\nAustralia angered France last year by suddenly cancelling a €35bn deal to build a fleet of submarines.\n\nInstead, it chose to build nuclear-powered submarines with US and UK technology - the so-called Aukus deal.\n\nThe settlement draws a line under a bitter row that threatened to torpedo EU-Australia trade agreement talks.\n\nAnthony Albanese, who became Australia's prime minister last month, said it was a \"fair and an equitable settlement\".\n\nHe added that he would travel to France soon to \"reset\" a relationship beset by \"pretty obvious\" tensions.\n\nFrench Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said the settlement \"permits us to turn a page in our bilateral relations with Australia and look to the future\".\n\nThe agreement between Australia, the US and UK will see Canberra being given the technology to build at least eight nuclear-powered submarines as a way of countering China's influence in the contested South China Sea.\n\nThe pact will also cover artificial intelligence and other technologies in what analysts say is one of the countries' biggest defence partnerships in decades.\n\nIt means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nBut the decision by Australia to end its submarine contract with France drew fury from Paris, with President Emmanuel Macron accusing Australia's former PM Scott Morrison of lying, and recalling his ambassador from Australia in protest.\n\nRelations between the two countries were on ice until last month when Australia elected centre-left leader Mr Albanese - the first Labor leader to come to power in more than a decade.\n\n\"We are re-establishing a better relationship between Australia and France,\" Mr Albanese said, after speaking to Mr Macron about the settlement.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to taking up president Macron's invitation to me to visit Paris at the earliest opportunity.\"\n\nMr Albanese added that the failed French submarine contract will have cost Australian taxpayers A$3.4bn (US$2.4bn; €2.28bn) with almost nothing to show for it.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Albanese's government has also made tentative steps to conduct ministerial-level talks with China after a range of political and trade disputes between the countries.\n\nRelations went into decline after Australia called for a probe into the origins of coronavirus and banned Chinese firm Huawei from building its 5G network.\n\nSpeaking in Singapore on Saturday, Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australia wanted \"respectful\" relations with all countries in the region, adding: \"This includes China.\"\n\n\"Australia values a productive relationship with China. China is not going anywhere. And we all need to live together and, hopefully, prosper together,\" he said.\n\nChina has previously accused Australia, the US and UK of having a \"Cold War mentality\" over the Aukus agreement.", "The boy died in hospital after being found at a house in the Miles Platting area\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a boy was stabbed at a house in Manchester.\n\nThe 15-year-old died in hospital after being stabbed alongside his mother, who remains in a stable condition, at their home in the Miles Platting area on Thursday night.\n\nPolice said a 44-year-old man, from Manchester, was arrested in Kent on Friday evening.\n\nDetectives believe he was known to the family.\n\nGreater Manchester Police say they were called by paramedics to the house in Bednal Avenue at about 21:30 BST.\n\nThe boy and the woman, who is in her 40s, were treated at the scene for stab wounds, before being taken to hospital. The boy died about hour later.\n\nPolice are continuing to appeal for information.\n\nA large police cordon has been set up at the scene on Bednal Avenue\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hywel Morgan died after rescuing two children who were caught in a rip current, police say\n\nA man has died after rescuing two children who got into difficulty off the coast of Wales, police say.\n\nPolice were called to Poppit Sands, near St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire at about 20:40 BST on Friday after a number of people got into difficulty.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said Hywel Morgan, 47, died after being recovered from the sea. The two children were taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nMr Morgan's family said he was a \"hero\" and a \"devoted and loving father\".\n\nMr Morgan, who was known as Hyw by family and friends, had helped rescue a group of children who were caught in a rip current.\n\nPoppit Sands beach is near St Dogmaels, which sits the other side of the River Teifi to Cardigan\n\nIn a statement issued by police, his family said: \"Hyw was a hero. Despite our pain and grief, it gives us comfort that he selflessly tried to prevent others from losing their lives.\n\n\"Hyw was a selfless individual who always gave up his time for others. He was a devoted and loving father and was loved and respected by all who knew him.\n\n\"As a family, we would now like time to grieve and would ask for privacy in which to do so.\"", "Russian troops in occupied Melitopol in May\n\nThe Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine say they have started handing out Russian passports to locals in two cities - Kherson and Melitopol.\n\nUkraine condemns the creation of Russian citizens on its territory as \"Russification\". President Vladimir Putin is fast-tracking the procedure.\n\nRussia's Tass news agency says the first 23 Kherson residents got Russian passports at a ceremony on Saturday.\n\nTass says thousands have applied for them, but its claim cannot be verified.\n\nThe Russian-appointed military governor in Kherson, Volodymyr Saldo, said \"all our Khersonite comrades want to receive the passport and [Russian] citizenship as soon as possible\".\n\nUkraine denounced the move as a \"flagrant violation\" of its territorial integrity, saying President Putin's decree was \"legally void\".\n\nThe policy follows Russia's distribution of passports to residents of Ukrainian regions its forces have occupied since 2014 - Crimea and much of the Donbas.\n\nRussia annexed Crimea and created self-styled \"people's republics\" in Donetsk and Luhansk - moves condemned internationally.\n\nUkraine now fears the same process is under way in areas seized by Russian forces in the current invasion. Once locals become Russians, the Kremlin can claim it has to \"protect\" them.\n\nThere are reports of Ukrainians defying a Russian order to use roubles, instead of the Ukrainian currency hryvnia, in Kherson.\n\nMelitopol is in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, most of which is now held by Russian forces, including Europe's biggest nuclear power station.\n\nIn Crimea and Russian-held Donbas - the industrial region made up of Donetsk and Luhansk - Russia has introduced the rouble and forced schools to adopt the Russian curriculum.\n\nIt has also ousted local officials appointed by Kyiv - and repeated such action in the newly-occupied areas.\n\nHeavy fighting continues to rage in the Donbas city of Severodonetsk. The Kyiv-appointed head of Luhansk, Serhiy Haidai, says Ukrainian forces are still holding the city's industrial zone, including the huge Azot chemical plant.", "Sarah Panitzke was arrested by police and HMRC officers in February\n\nA fraudster who became the UK's most wanted woman after fleeing to Spain while on trial for money laundering has been jailed for eight years.\n\nSarah Panitzke, 48, from York, went missing in 2013 while on trial for her part in a £1bn mobile phone tax scam.\n\nShe spent nine years on the run before being arrested while dog walking in Santa Barbara, Tarragona, in February.\n\nPanitzke appeared at Kingston Crown Court in London after being extradited back to the UK.\n\nShe had initially been charged with conspiracy to acquire criminal property in relation to her role in a multimillion-pound VAT fraud in 2010, and was found guilty in her absence in 2013.\n\nPanitzke was sentenced to eight years in her absence, which Friday's judge, Sarah Plaschkes QC, said should start immediately after her appearance in court.\n\nShe was arrested while walking her dogs in Santa Barbara, Tarragona\n\nThe judge recapped to the court the sentence handed down in 2013, before adding: \"That sentence will start today now that you have been extradited to this country.\"\n\nPanitzke, who was part of a scheme which laundered cash through offshore accounts, was told she would spend at least four years behind bars before she was eligible for parole.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Sarah Panitzke was detained in Spain\n\nA £2.4m confiscation order was also made against her in 2016.\n\nShe was given three months to pay the full amount or face an additional nine years in prison.\n\nNo money has ever been paid against this, leaving the amount including interest, standing at £3.4m in May 2022.\n\nInterest continues to accrue at a rate of £538 a day.\n\nNational Crime Agency international deputy director Tom Dowdall said Pantizke had been on their most wanted list for a decade and her jailing was the result of \"years of hard work\".\n\nSimon York, director of the HMRC fraud investigation service, said: \"Panitzke thought she had put herself outside of the reach of HMRC, but through our work with UK law enforcement and international partners we have tracked down another tax fugitive.\n\n\"No tax criminal is beyond our reach.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old was extradited and appeared in court on Friday\n\nA HMRC spokesman said Panitzke played a \"pivotal role\" in the fraud and laundered \"extraordinary volumes\" of stolen money through offshore bank accounts.\n\nThey said Panitzke and her 17 co-conspirators were given sentences totalling 135 years for the fraud.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Justin Bieber has revealed he is suffering from facial paralysis after cancelling shows this week.\n\nThe 28-year-old said in an Instagram video that the condition is due to a diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt syndrome.\n\n\"As you can see this eye is not blinking. I can't smile on this side of my face... So there's full paralysis on this side of my face,\" he said.\n\nRamsay Hunt syndrome is when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near someone's ears, say medical experts.\n\nEarlier this week, Bieber's Justice World Tour - which began in February - announced three shows would be postponed.\n\n\"It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis,\" the Canada-born singer said in the three-minute video, indicating the right side of his face.\n\nHe asked for his fans to be patient, and said of his forthcoming shows that he is \"physically, obviously, not capable of doing them\".\n\nHe also smiled and blinked, showing his 240 million followers how the right side of his face did not move.\n\n\"This is pretty serious, as you can see. I wish this wasn't the case, but, obviously, my body's telling me I've got to slow down,\" he said. \"I hope you guys understand. I'll be using this time to just rest and relax and get back to a hundred percent so that I can do what I was born to do.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by justinbieber This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBieber added that he has been doing facial exercises to \"get back to normal\", but that he does not know how long it will take to recover.\n\nHe had been due to play in Washington DC and Toronto earlier this week, with concerts also planned in New York and Los Angeles in the coming weeks.\n\nBieber and wife Hailey on the red carpet\n\nAccording to the Mayo Clinic in the US: \"In addition to the painful shingles rash, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss in the affected ear.\"\n\nThe Mayo Clinic says that for most people, the symptoms of Ramsay Hunt syndrome are temporary, but can become permanent.\n\nThe inability for patients to close one eyelid can also cause eye pain and blurred vision, the organisation says, adding that it is most common in people over 60 years old.\n\nIn March, the singer's wife, Hailey Bieber, was admitted to hospital due to a blood clot in her brain.\n\nShe later said she had suffered a stroke and had undergone surgery to close a hole in her heart.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's winless start to their Nations League campaign continued as an experimental Three Lions side failed to break down European champions Italy in a goalless draw at Molineux.\n\nThis was a game played behind closed doors as punishment for the chaos that preceded the last meeting between these two, when Italy beat England in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley.\n\nSeveral thousand excitable schoolchildren in attendance did however provide Gareth Southgate's side a lively backdrop in Wolverhampton and almost got the goal they craved when Mason Mount crashed an effort against the crossbar in the first half.\n\nRaheem Sterling, captain for the evening with Harry Kane among the substitutes, also skewed a glorious opportunity over from close range from Reece James' whipped delivery after the break.\n\nBut the hosts also needed goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale to be alert on several occasions to stop the Azzurri inflicting another defeat on Southgate's outfit, who remain bottom of Group A3 with two points after three games.\n\nThis was the third of four games in 11 days for England, after a draw in Germany followed an opening defeat by Hungary, and saw boss Southgate make six changes from that result in Munich.\n\nThe packed schedule comes straight after a long domestic season which itself the players had little time to recover for following last summer's delayed Euros, when Southgate's side finished as runners-up to a buoyant Italy outfit.\n\nDespite that, and having taken England to the semi-finals at the 2018 World Cup, Southgate continues to divide opinion - which England manager hasn't? - and perhaps the combination of tired legs and an unfamiliar starting XI caused their lack of cohesion in attack.\n\nThe hosts were not adventurous enough, and too predictable, to trouble a well-organised but hardly vintage Italian side as much as they would have liked, with Roberto Mancini's outfit also barely recognisable from their Euros victory last summer.\n\nThat said, England will feel they had chances to win the game.\n\nTammy Abraham, who finished the season with 17 goals in Serie A, was presented a glorious chance when goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma fluffed his pass but Manuel Locatelli's last-ditch challenge threw the forward off his stride as he shaped to shoot.\n\nMount then fired against the bar after being played in by Sterling, who could only help James' enticing delivery from the right-hand side over the top himself in the second half.\n\nThat was the result of a long, patient build-up, but too often England were slow in transition and easy to defend against.\n\nAt the other end, Arsenal's Ramsdale, in for Jordan Pickford, did his future with the national team no harm by making several smart stops from a flurry of swift Italy attacks in the first half.\n\nIt means England remain without a victory over Italy since 2012, and in a competitive fixture since 1977.\n\nWhile Italy's last meeting with England saw Mancini's side crowned European champions, the Azzurri were eliminated in World Cup qualifying in a shock play-off semi-final defeat by North Macedonia in March and will not be heading to Qatar later this year.\n\nTheir Nations League campaign got off to a more promising start with a draw against Germany and victory over Hungary and they remain unbeaten after a well-earned draw in Wolverhampton, as former Manchester City boss Mancini plots for their long-term future.\n\nJust two of the players who started against England in the final at Wembley last summer began this one, but the visitors still managed to create several decent openings, especially in the first half.\n\nDavide Frattesi missed a huge chance to give them the lead in the opening moments when he slid a low effort beyond the far post, while Ramsdale produced a superb stop to keep out Sandro Tonali.\n\nGinaluca Scamacca also sliced over from a dangerous position as Italy finished the opening 45 minutes with purpose, but were unable to build on that momentum after the break.\n• None Sandro Tonali (Italy) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None James Ward-Prowse (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dafydd Iwan's Yma O Hyd was written in response to Thatcherism and the unsuccessful Welsh devolution referendum of 1979\n\nA folk song that brought the house down after Wales qualified for the World Cup on Sunday has enjoyed a revival with a flurry of streams 40 years after it was written.\n\nAs the rain lashed down, a visibly emotional Dafydd Iwan joined the players on the pitch to perform an epic rendition of his Welsh-language song Yma O Hyd, which means \"still here\".\n\nThe song has cemented its place in the nation's heart, with fans seeking out Yma O Hyd tattoos and art prints bearing the song's title selling fast.\n\nFor Iwan, 78, who has spent a lifetime campaigning and has even been imprisoned for his defence of the Welsh language, it was a very special moment.\n\n\"Singing is an emotional experience anyway, but singing along with 30,000 or whatever it was - it just adds to the emotion and knowing that so many followers of football who don't speak Welsh are so engrossed in this song... it's a tremendous feeling,\" he said.\n\n\"It's as if I've been practising for 39 years to arrive at this point and it was a tremendously fulfilling moment for me.\"\n\nEarlier this week it reached number one in the iTunes chart, knocking off Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nYma O Hyd was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1983.\n\nIt tells the story of how Welsh language and culture has survived more than 2,000 years against all the odds.\n\nThe chorus goes: \"Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth, Ry'n ni yma o hyd\", which translates as \"Despite everyone and everything, We're still here\".\n\n\"It's a song of survival really and that resonates with people in various ways,\" said Iwan.\n\n\"We've gone through a dark period, we're coming out the other end and we're going to survive.\"\n\nDafydd Iwan said he was delighted to see the Wales team singing his Welsh lyrics\n\nIt is the second time the song has found itself at the top of the charts in recent years. In January 2020, the song also reached number one in the iTunes UK song chart, partly due to a campaign by independence movement YesCymru.\n\nSpotify said streams of the track increased 200% between Saturday and Sunday.\n\nBut what is it about the song that has such an impact on people?\n\nRhys Thompson (second left in the front) sang along to Dafydd Iwan's anthem at the game on Sunday\n\nRhys Thompson, 22, from Pencoed in Bridgend county, was at the game on Sunday.\n\nDespite not being a Welsh speaker, he knows every word to Yma O Hyd and said he got caught up in the \"massive feeling\" of the crowd.\n\n\"It's just a massive feeling and a pride to be Welsh, we're still here... we're always going to be there, no matter what,\" the Newcastle University student said.\n\nHe said the song was played at his grandfather's funeral in March, so he found the rendition on Sunday particularly emotional.\n\n\"Tears were streaming down my face... [the song] means even more to me now.\"\n\nRhys Thompson (right) with a friend at the game\n\nDafydd Iwan, who is from Brynamman, Carmarthenshire, has heard this sort of thing many times before: \"People talk about goose bumps and hairs standing up on the back of their necks,\" he said.\n\n\"Others have said, 'I've never heard a song like this'.\"\n\nHe said the Welsh comedian Mike Bubbins told him he had first heard the song when lifting weights at the gym and it had made him feel like he could lift 100 tonnes.\n\n\"What gives a song that power is beyond me but I'm glad, it is something I will always be thankful for,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think I will ever write a song with more power and which gets more of a reaction than this one.\"\n\nArt prints of Cardiff City Stadium emblazoned with the song's title have been selling quickly since Sunday's game\n\nKatdemon Ink Tattoo Studio, in Cardiff, said it had people who wanted to get a Yma O Hyd tattoo on its waiting list.\n\nDesigner Matthew Wood, in Sheffield, has sold more than 50 prints of Cardiff City Stadium emblazoned with the song's title since Sunday's game.\n\nHe said he already knew the song through BBC Radio 5 Live presenter and Wales fan Elis James.\n\n\"Hearing it live in the stadium was just very powerful, and the message behind it - still here - just really speaks to me,\" he said.\n\n\"I think I should have patented the phrase a long time ago, missed a trick there,\" joked Iwan.\n\n\"It will be here a long time after I've gone.\"\n\nDafydd Iwan was released from Cardiff prison on 6 February 1970 after being imprisoned for daubing English road signs with slogans\n\nIn recent years the folk song has been adopted by several sports teams, including rugby clubs and Wrexham AFC, but its origins are more political than sporting.\n\n\"I wrote it during a time which was not very good to me personally and also quite a disastrous period in the history of Wales,\" said Iwan, who went on to be Plaid Cymru's president.\n\n\"[It was] during Thatcherism, the closing of the mines and the steel mills, and the farmers were under pressure - there was a general air of discontent, we'd just failed miserably in the devolution referendum of '79, so by the early '80s we felt that we needed something to raise our hopes and boost our self-confidence so Yma O Hyd was written with that purpose in mind.\"\n\nNow he hopes the song will play a part in teaching the world about Wales and its language during the World Cup.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The World Cup will be a tremendous platform for us to show what we can do and to teach people about Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"We've had enough of going to other countries and having to explain what Wales is and that we're not in England.\n\n\"We've got a different way of doing things, different culture, we have a different language.\"\n\nBut Wales fans hoping for a repeat of Sunday's performance from the man himself when it kicks off in Qatar in November are going to be disappointed: \"I don't go to away games really and nothing much draws me to Qatar, but I'll be wearing all the paraphernalia in front of the TV.\"\n\nHe is hoping the song will travel with the fans: \"It's driven by the supporters and that's what I like about it.\n\n\"It's not something which has been foisted on them or suggested by a PR guru, it's something which has grown from the roots.\"", "The 2021 winner, Hannah Lowe, was chosen from these books from five categories\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, the only major prize open solely to authors living in the UK and Ireland, are to end after 50 years, organisers say.\n\nCosta Coffee said it had taken the \"difficult decision\" to end its sponsorship of the literary prize, which gave awards in five categories.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Costa Coffee to ask why the awards have ended.\n\nThe prize has previously given £30,000 to its main winner, while its category winners - for first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children's book - would each win £5,000.\n\nThe ceremony held earlier this year in February was its last - it was celebrating the winners of the 2021 prize, which had been delayed by Covid.\n\nThe prize was established in 1971, and was called the Whitbread Book Awards up until 2006, when Costa took over.\n\nThe organisers said: \"After 50 years of celebrating some of the most enjoyable books written by hugely talented authors from across the UK and Ireland, Costa Coffee has taken the difficult decision to end the awards.\n\n\"We are incredibly proud to have played a part in supporting some of the best-selling authors of the last 50 years, as well as trail-blazing diverse and fresh voices, tackling a broad range of themes and ideas,\" they added.\n\n\"We are honoured to have helped both these new and established talents reach a wider audience of readers.\"\n\nHannah Lowe was named 2021's winner at a ceremony in London\n\nAuthor Kate Mosse, whose books include best-seller Labyrinth, called the announcement \"such sad news\" while former judge Sarah Turner added she was \"so sad to see it ending as I have made some brilliant book/author discoveries over the last few years thanks to it\".\n\nWriter Louise Doughty, a former Costa and Booker Prize judge, said being shortlisted in 2010 for her novel Whatever You Love had been \"transformative\" for her career.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Louise Doughty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAuthor Damian Barr described the news as \"a shame\", saying: \"Oh no! I was a judge this year - all the category judges and your team did such great work. The prizes have done so much to get so many books to so many people. Is this decision final? What a shame!\"\n\nScience fiction and romantic comedy writer Jenny Colgan said: \"Oh that is such rotten news about the Costa Book Awards responsible for some of the best beloved books of the last 20 years.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nTens of thousands of protesters have rallied across the US to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings.\n\nThose taking part at the hundreds of marches carried slogans like \"I want freedom from getting shot\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden backed the protests, calling on Congress to \"pass common sense gun safety legislation\".\n\nDespite this any attempt to change the law is likely to be blocked by Republicans.\n\nNineteen children and two adults were killed in the 24 May shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.\n\nThat attack, and another days earlier in Buffalo, New York, in which 10 people were killed, has led to renewed calls for action on gun control in the US.\n\nOn Saturday, gun safety group March For Our Lives - founded by survivors of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida - said some 450 rallies would be held across the country, including Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.\n\nThe group said it would not let politicians \"sit back\" as people continue to die.\n\nMarch For Our Lives (MFOL) said political leaders' inaction was killing Americans.\n\n\"We will no longer allow you to sit back while people continue to die,\" Trevon Bosley, a MFOL board member, said in a statement.\n\nSpeaking to protesters in Washington DC, one of the survivors of the Parkland shooting, David Hogg, said the killings of children in Uvalde \"should fill us with rage and demands for change, not endless debate, but demands for change, now.\"\n\nGarnell Whitfield, whose 86-year-old mother was killed in the racially-motivated shooting in Buffalo, New York on 14 May, told crowds in Washington: \"We are here to demand justice.\n\n\"We are here to stand with those who are bold enough to demand sensible gun legislation.\"\n\nAmong other policies, MFOL has called for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns and a national licensing system, which would register gun owners.\n\nThe theme of this rally is: This time it will be different - and that's what the thousands of protesters here in Washington DC are chanting.\n\nTeenagers Calvin Chrisfield and Ani Arzoumanian have travelled from Maryland. They tell me that members of their school sports teams have had to take shelter from gun attacks while at games. They are more hopeful than optimistic about change, but say addressing gun violence is the \"biggest push\" of their generation \"because we're the ones dying\".\n\nHafiza Kazi is holding a sign that says: \"My Muslim uncle gets more background checks than a gun.\"\n\nShe was born on the day of the mass shooting at Columbine high school. Her friend Annie DiGuglielmo believes there is new momentum now: She says she's seen some Republicans who've previously been against gun control change their mind.\n\nAnd Lindsey Erin is a primary school teacher who is adamant that teachers should not be armed, as advocated by some Republicans.\n\n\"Children hug you, they grab things on your shirt… it's a recipe for absolute disaster.\"\n\nThe first MFOL protest was held days after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, in which 14 students and three adults were killed. Organisers say it was the largest gun safety rally in one day in US history, and thousands of students across the country left their classrooms to join the demonstrations.\n\nPresident Biden, a Democrat who this month urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other gun control measures, said he supported Saturday's protests.\n\n\"Today, young people around the country once again march with @AMarch4OurLives to call on Congress to pass common sense gun safety legislation, supported by the majority of Americans and gun owners,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I join them by repeating my call to Congress: do something.\"\n\nTens of thousands of people attended rallies across the US on Saturday\n\nIn Washington DC, protesters held slogans \"Act! Fear has no place in our schools\" and \"Not one more\"\n\nIn New York, demonstrators gathered at the city's famous Brooklyn Bridge\n\nIn recent weeks, a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators have vowed to hammer out a gun control deal, though they have yet to reach an agreement.\n\nTheir effort is focused on relatively modest changes, such as incentivising states to pass \"red flag\" laws that allow authorities to keep guns from individuals deemed a danger to others.\n\nThis week the US House of Representatives voted through a series of measures regulating the sale of guns.\n\nBut Republican opposition in the Senate means the bill has little chance of entering law.", "The government is expected to reject proposals to introduce a new salt and sugar tax in England when it announces its food strategy next week.\n\nMonday's policy paper comes after Henry Dimbleby's review recommended taxing salt and sugar used in processed foods, restaurants and catering.\n\nBoris Johnson previously called the proposal \"unattractive\". But a government source stressed its strategy would promote healthier diets.\n\nLabour said it \"failed to deliver\".\n\nThe government-commissioned independent review of the food system, led by Leon restaurant chain founder Mr Dimbleby last year recommended the tax to incentivise manufacturers to reduce salt and sugar in food to improve people's health.\n\nMr Dimbleby said money raised should be spent on addressing the inequalities around food, by expanding free school meals, funding holiday activity and food clubs, and providing healthy food to low-income families.\n\nIt follows a levy on sugary drinks implemented in 2018.\n\nThe government is expected to accept many recommendations from Mr Dimbleby's review.\n\nBut the prime minister has said he did not want the strategy to impact on \"hard-working people\".\n\nAnd BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said that amid the rising cost of living and pressure on the prime minister from Conservative MPs to adopt more traditional Conservative policies, ruling out a salt and sugar tax would be no surprise.\n\nInstead the government is expected to say its plan will create a food system aimed at maintaining and increasing production levels where possible, our correspondent said.\n\nThe government source said the strategy will also say more research is needed to determine the link between processed food and obesity, adding: \"Calorie intake is one of the drivers of obesity, particularly among children.\n\n\"Progress has already been made on reformulation and there are various industry-backed initiatives that have shown the power of positive advertising to promote the consumption of healthy food.\"\n\nIt is also expected that schools will be required to publish a food vision on their websites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Henry Dimbleby talks about his plan last year\n\nJim McMahon, shadow secretary of state for the environment, food and rural affairs, said a food strategy was \"vital\" but the government appeared to have \"dithered, delayed and now failed to deliver\".\n\nHe said: \"This is nothing more than a statement of vague intentions, not the concrete proposals to tackle the major issues facing our country.\"", "Julee Cruise said it was \"so much fun\" to be part of Twin Peaks' success\n\nTwin Peaks creator David Lynch has paid tribute to Julee Cruise, who recorded the TV show's haunting theme, as \"a great musician, a great singer and a great human being\".\n\nCruise sang Falling from Lynch's 1990 drama, with the song reaching the top 10 in the UK singles chart.\n\nShe also performed on the soundtrack to his 1986 film Blue Velvet.\n\nCruise's husband Edward Grinnan earlier wrote on Facebook that the 65-year-old had \"left this realm on her own terms\".\n\nMusicians paying tribute included singer-songwriter John Grant, who said she was \"one of the greatest\".\n\nIn his tribute on YouTube, Lynch said: \"I just found out that the great Julee Cruise passed away. Very sad news. So it might be a good time to appreciate all the good music she made and remember her as being a great musician, a great singer and a great human being.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DAVID LYNCH THEATER This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCruise first collaborated with Lynch after working as a talent scout for composer Angelo Badalamenti, who had been asked to work on the song Mysteries of Love for the Blue Velvet soundtrack.\n\nCruise struggled to find a suitably ethereal vocalist, so decided to have a go at singing the track herself.\n\n\"I actually never sang in that trademark 'Julee Cruise voice' before I worked with Angelo and David,\" she told The Guardian in 2017. \"I was always a real belter, lots of power. Working with them changed me.\"\n\nCruise with director David Lynch (left) and composer Angelo Badalamenti in 1989\n\nThe trio worked together on the 1989 album Floating into the Night, with Lynch writing the lyrics and Badalamenti composing the music. The LP included Falling and other songs that would go on to feature in Twin Peaks the following year.\n\nCruise also had a small role in the series, and in the 1992 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and the 2017 revival Twin Peaks: The Return.\n\n\"It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!\" she told the Los Angeles Times in 2017. \"You didn't know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on.\"\n\nCruise recorded a second solo album, The Voice of Love, with Lynch and Badalamenti in 1993, and Lynch directed her in an avant-garde one-hour concert film, Industrial Symphony No 1, in 1990.\n\nBeyond those collaborations, she also toured with the B-52s, filling in for Cindy Wilson in the 1990s, and performed with Bobby McFerrin.\n\nEdward Grinnan wrote on Facebook: \"She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace.\n\n\"Having had such a varied music career she often said that the time she spent as a B, filling in for Cindy while she was having a family was the happiest time of her performing life.\"\n\nMany other musicians paid tribute to her on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chrystabell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A group of people, thought to be asylum seekers, arriving at Dover (file image)\n\nCampaigners against the government's policy to send migrants to Rwanda say they will now take their fight to the Court of Appeal on Monday.\n\nIt comes after the High Court said the first flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda could go ahead.\n\nAbout 31 people have been told they could be on that flight on Tuesday, with more planes to go later this year.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has been caught up in the row after two papers reported he had called the policy \"appalling\".\n\nThe prince is travelling to the east African country later this month to represent the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held in the capital, Kigali.\n\nClarence House, which represents the prince, reiterated that he remains \"politically neutral\" and said that it would not comment on \"supposed anonymous private conversations\".\n\nUnder the government policy, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.\n\nThe government hopes the scheme will discourage asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel, with more than 10,000 people making the dangerous sea journey so far this year.\n\nBut campaigners who brought the High Court case said they were deeply concerned for the welfare of people set to be \"forcibly deported\". They had wanted to block the first flight from leaving, as well as individual people being placed on it.\n\nSpeaking at the High Court on Friday, Mr Justice Swift said there was a \"material public interest\" in Home Secretary Priti Patel being able to carry out her policies. He said he did not consider there was any evidence asylum seekers would be ill treated.\n\nBut he said there would be a full judicial review, where the High Court will hear a challenge to the policy as a whole, before the end of July.\n\nThe first claim had been brought by lawyers on behalf of some asylum seekers, alongside the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) which represents more than 80% of Border Force staff, as well as groups Care4Calais and Detention Action.\n\nMs Patel has praised the judgement, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling it \"welcome news\".\n\nOne asylum seeker - an Iranian ex-police commander who has been held at a detention centre since arriving in the UK in May - has said he fears being killed by Iranian agents in Rwanda.\n\nThe former commander, who is not being named in order to protect his identity, was sentenced by an Iranian military court to almost five years in jail in Iran and a demotion for refusing to shoot protesters during anti-government demonstrations in 2019.\n\nWhen he was out on bail pending his appeal, the former commander escaped to Turkey, where in November 2021 he gave testimony via Skype to a UK-based rights groups' tribunal investigating alleged Iranian atrocities during the protests\n\nHe says he lived in hiding in Turkey before arriving in the UK in May. Although his face was covered when he gave evidence, he says Iran's security forces managed to identify him and persecuted his family.\n\n\"Why Rwanda? I'd rather be sent to Iran,\" he said. \"At least, I know the consequences. I can't live with uncertainty and in fear any more.\"\n\nHe has been told he will be deported on Tuesday.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union - which has called for urgent fresh talks with Ms Patel - said those being removed to Rwanda faced the risk of being sent back to the countries they had been fleeing, and where they faced persecution.\n\nJames Wilson, deputy director of campaign group Detention Action, said it was disappointed, but added there were \"some positives\" from the case - noting that six of the eight original claimants had their removal orders withdrawn by the Home Office in advance of the judgement.\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, said the charity was \"deeply concerned for the welfare of people who may be forcibly deported to Rwanda, a fate that could profoundly harm their mental health and future\".\n\nBut Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake said while the policy is not ideal, it is the only viable solution.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4: \"I don't think anybody is particularly comfortable with the situation where we are shipping asylum seekers off to a far distant land - but, nevertheless, we have got to do something that acts as a disincentive for people to make money out of other people's perilous journeys.\n\n\"In the absence of any other workable policy I don't see any other option other than to support this one.\n\nThe government's policy will see people given accommodation and support in Rwanda while their asylum application is being considered by the country. If they are successful, they can stay there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nThose who fail in their asylum bids in Rwanda will be offered the chance to apply for visas under other immigration routes if they wish to remain in the country, but could still face deportation.\n\nMr Justice Swift said part of the case to block the initial flights focused on the argument that Ms Patel's \"decision to treat Rwanda as a safe country is either irrational or based on insufficient investigation\".\n\nHe said this argument, along with other parts of the case, would be heard with evidence at the full judicial review, to be held across two days before the end of July.\n\nA judicial review sees a judge looking at how a decision, or action, has been made by a public body. It does not consider whether the decision itself is correct or not.\n\nUp to 130 people so far have been notified they could be flown to Rwanda at some point in the future. It emerged during the High Court hearing on Friday that removal directions for three people set to be on the first flight had been dropped by the Home Office, with two more having them cancelled.\n\nMr Justice Swift denied an injunction to the remaining two claimants trying to avoid being removed.\n\nConservative MP Peter Bone, former chairman of the all-party group against human trafficking, said he believes the scheme will work.\n\n\"These people smugglers - they're just out to make money. They don't want to get caught and they don't want to do anything difficult,\" he told BBC Radio 4.", "The AA said some people steal fuel out of desperation while others are organised and do it for profit\n\nRising petrol prices have led to an increase in fuel thefts from petrol station forecourts, according to new figures from industry experts.\n\nPetrol prices hit record highs last week, with the cost of filling a typical family car passing £100.\n\nForecourt Eye, which works with 1,000 garages in the UK, said there was a 39% increase in non-payments since January.\n\nThese included motorists driving off without paying or claiming to have forgotten their wallet.\n\nNick Fisher, chief executive of the digital debt recovery company that traces and track non-payers, said: \"This is not a good thing for anyone as more theft is going on.\"\n\nHe said forecourt theft had been rising month on month since Christmas, with a 19.5% spike in January and February, which he linked to the rising cost of fuel.\n\nThis was followed by another rise of 4.5% in March, 8% in April and a further 7% in May.\n\nThe soaring price of fuel is down to supply issues caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a weak exchange rate between the US dollar and the UK's sterling.\n\nMr Fisher said: \"At the moment, we're seeing a spike of people claiming to forget their wallets. Some people are trying to get away with it.\n\n\"Then there are people who fill up, they go buy a coffee and don't pay for the fuel. And then there's the others who put in £30 [of fuel] and just drive off.\"\n\nThe British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) is a non-profit organisation that campaigns to reduce fuel crime on UK forecourts.\n\nIt said that in the first week of June, incidents of unpaid fuel increased by 22% compared to May.\n\nClaire Nichol, its executive director, said there is \"no doubt\" that there is a link between rising fuel prices and increased incidents of forecourt fuel crime.\n\n\"Motorists claiming to have no means of payment account for 70% of incidents which re-emphasises a shift away from drive-off incidents,\" she added.\n\nThe AA's Luke Bosdet said some people are stealing fuel out of desperation while others are organised and doing it to profit.\n\nHe explained: \"The thief is someone who relies on their car, motorbike or scooter to get to or go about their work but their finances have been broken by the cost of living crisis. Stealing fuel then becomes an act of desperation.\n\n\"And then you have the organised thieves who see the high price of an essential item as highly lucrative and easily sold on.\n\n\"They will have their preferred method of stealing the fuel, whether that's putting an extra tank on the back seat and then taking the fuel from forecourts, or taking jerry cans and cutting fuel lines on cars to drain tanks in the street.\n\nThe latter will know which cars are easiest to steal from and target those.\"", "An \"unprecedented shortage\" of a substitute for illegal heroin in England is putting hundreds of lives at risk, say drug workers.\n\nDiamorphine is a pharmaceutical form of the drug prescribed when methadone and other medications are ineffective.\n\nFormer heroin users have told the BBC they have relapsed for the first time in decades as a result of the shortage.\n\nDoctors say the problem is also affecting some end-of-life patients who are given diamorphine for pain relief.\n\nThe Department of Health says alternative medications \"remain available\", while pharmaceutical companies say they are working hard to address supply issues.\n\nDiamorphine hydrochloride is a pure chemical form of heroin prescribed to around 200 former drug users in England who have not responded well to other forms of treatment.\n\nPatients take it at home and are regularly tested to prove they are not buying extra doses of illegal heroin on the black market, which is often contaminated - or cut - with other chemicals and impurities.\n\nSarah, not her real name, has been injecting several doses of diamorphine a day since first getting help for drug addiction in the 1990s.\n\n\"It completely removes any desire to use heroin and stops me from using any illicit drugs whatsoever,\" she says.\n\n\"Diamorphine doesn't sedate me at all so I'm able to function normally and I'm able to work.\"\n\nSarah, who is now in her 60s and married with grandchildren, has a job as a senior care worker in south-west England.\n\nShe told the BBC that a \"total absence\" of diamorphine from pharmacies in her area means she has relapsed and started using street heroin for the first time in more than a decade.\n\n\"After all that hard work and effort, the stability that I've had for years and years has just gone,\" she says.\n\n\"You are angry for letting yourself do it, especially when you've tried so hard to be away from it all, but you can't stop yourself because any replacement medication is just not as effective.\"\n\nPharmacies have repeatedly warned about \"significant shortages\" of some key drugs this year, as the pandemic has stretched global supply chains and the price of the precursor chemicals used to make medicines has increased.\n\nDiamorphine is supplied in England by two large generic drug manufacturers: Accord Healthcare and Wockhardt, which are both based in India with British subsidiaries.\n\nThe companies confirmed they are out of stock of certain quantities of the treatment, which comes in different-sized ampules or phials.\n\nAccord said the manufacturing process is complex and the problem is not with a shortage of raw materials, but in processing the medication into its final freeze-dried form.\n\nThere have been intermittent supply problems with diamorphine for the last four years but drug workers say the current situation in England is \"completely unprecedented\" with patients left without their regular medication since March.\n\n\"This is the worst shortage that I've ever been aware of,\" says Claire Robbins, nurse advocate and drugs adviser at the charity Release.\n\n\"These are patients who have not used street heroin for decades in some cases and there is a real risk that someone is going to die in this current drought.\"\n\nAccord Healthcare said it is working closely with the government and the medicines regulator, the MHRA, to test and release the next batch of diamorphine as quickly as possible.\n\nWockhardt said it is addressing supply issues and anticipates that by July \"sufficient access to the drug will be restored\".\n\nDrug charities warn that swift action is needed at a time when a far stronger, more dangerous form of street heroin cut with the chemical isotonitazene has been detected in parts of the UK.\n\n\"We urgently need to secure a stable supply of diamorphine for these patients,\" says Ms Robbins.\n\n\"The UK is currently experiencing the highest rate of drug-related deaths on record. This is a crisis.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has also been affected by the shortage. In Wales, drug workers say diamorphine is not prescribed in the same way, while in Scotland a different product is shipped from Switzerland, which hasn't suffered from the same supply problems.\n\nDiamorphine is also used as a strong painkiller in hospitals after some types of surgery, or in hospices for end-of-life care.\n\nDoctors say they have struggled to access the medicine, with the situation getting worse over the pandemic.\n\nThere are alternative treatments, such as morphine, but they have to be given in much larger quantities to have a similar effect, which is not always medically possible.\n\n\"You just can't leave people in extreme pain. It is immoral to do that with a terminal illness,\" says Dr Amy Proffitt, a hospital consultant and president of the Association of Palliative Medicine.\n\n\"Back in May 2020 we were told this was going to get better by the summer. Two years on and we really need someone to get a grip and address this situation.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said the government was aware of an \"ongoing issue with diamorphine injections\".\n\n\"We want to reassure patients that alternative opioid products, including all forms of morphine, remain available and if they have any concerns, they should speak to their prescriber or pharmacist,\" she said.\n\n\"We are working with suppliers to manage the issue, and with NHS England and national experts on advice for healthcare professionals regarding alternative treatments for affected patients.\"\n\nYou can follow Jim on Twitter.", "Mr Subhani's body was found near Gerrards Cross six months after he was reported missing\n\nThree people have been charged with the murder of a father-of-one whose remains were found in woodland in 2019.\n\nMohammed Shah Subhani, 27, known as Shah, was reported missing in May 2019 when he failed to return to his home in Hounslow, west London.\n\nHis remains were found six months later in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.\n\nRaneel Poonia, 25, and Gurditta Singh, 25, both from Slough, and Amraj Poonia, 26, from Horley are also charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire has badly damaged the pub, with most of the roof destroyed\n\nA pub part-owned by England and Nottinghamshire cricketer Stuart Broad has been badly damaged by a fire.\n\nFirefighters were called to the Tap and Run in the village of Upper Broughton, on the border of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, at about 03:20 BST.\n\nThe roof and first floor of the pub - which is also owned by former cricketer Harry Gurney - have been destroyed.\n\nThe owners said they were \"devastated\" and the fire service said the cause was believed to have been accidental.\n\nThe cricketers thanked the public for their support and promised the pub would open again\n\nNo-one was injured and the fire service said the road outside had reopened just after 13:00.\n\nIn a statement, Broad and Gurney said: \"We are devastated to announce that due to a significant fire in the early hours of June 11th The Tap & Run will not be trading for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the outpouring of support.\n\n\"And finally... we will be back! Watch this space.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Tap & Run, Upper Broughton. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Tap & Run, Upper Broughton.\n\nThe blaze came as Broad was preparing to face New Zealand on day two of the second Test at Trent Bridge.\n\nHis England team-mate James Anderson told Test Match Special: \"He's obviously devastated but he's here and will be out there.\n\n\"He's just happy that no-one's hurt. It's obviously gutting because it's such a huge part of his and Harry's lives.\"\n\nResidents were asked to avoid the area and keep windows closed\n\nEight fire crews from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire were at the scene at the height of the blaze.\n\nThe fire service said an aerial ladder platform, water carrier and command support vehicle were also deployed.\n\nPeople living nearby were advised to keep their doors and windows closed.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many medical facilities in Mariupol have been destroyed\n\nThe Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, all but destroyed by weeks of shelling and now under Russian control, is at risk of a major cholera outbreak, the UK defence ministry says.\n\nMuch of the city's infrastructure is damaged or destroyed and water has mixed with sewage, according to the UN.\n\nCholera is usually caught by eating or drinking contaminated food or water and is closely linked to poor sanitation.\n\nUncollected dead bodies and rubbish add to the unsanitary conditions.\n\nThere have been outbreaks of the disease in Mariupol before, and isolated cases have been reported in the past month.\n\nThe city's Ukrainian mayor, Vadym Boychenko told BBC Ukrainian that \"cholera, dysentery and other infectious diseases are already in the city\", and that the city has been closed off to avoid a larger outbreak.\n\nThe claims cannot be verified by the BBC, and the Russian-appointed mayor says regular testing takes place and no cases of cholera have been recorded.\n\nUkraine's health ministry said it has limited access to information from Mariupol, but has conducted testing in Ukraine-held territory and not uncovered any cases.\n\nEarlier this week, the UN said that water had mixed with sewage in Mariupol, increasing the risk of a cholera outbreak. The Red Cross has warned that the destruction to sanitation infrastructure had set the ground for the spread of water-borne diseases.\n\nCholera can be a very serious illness. In the most severe cases, if left untreated, the disease can kill within hours.\n\nIt is caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae and people tend to catch it by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the bug.\n\nThe spread of cholera is closely linked to poor sanitation facilities and unsafe drinking water where the bug can thrive and spread.\n\nIt is a disease that often adds to the suffering in humanitarian crises - when there is disruption of water and sanitation supplies and people shelter in crowded spaces, with extra pressure on water systems.\n\nOnce infected, some people get watery diarrhoea and become severely dehydrated. This needs rapid treatment with fluids and antibiotics.\n\nOthers get mild to moderate symptoms and many with the disease do not have symptoms at all, but they can still carry the bug in their faeces.\n\nVaccines and improved sanitation can help get cholera outbreaks under control.\n\nIn addition, sanitary conditions in the city are said to be extremely poor, with piles of rubbish on the streets and bodies still lying under the rubble.\n\n\"Many corpses are lying on the ground and inside the buildings... bodies are rotting there. Lots of cockroaches, flies. A pile of dirt. Garbage that no one takes out,\" Kyiv resident Anastasiia Zolotarova, whose mother left Mariupol last week, told the BBC.\n\nMariupol fell into Russian hands in May after a brutal assault lasting nearly three months, which left the city in ruins.\n\nIn April, the Ukrainian mayor said more than 10,000 civilians had already died. The battle raged for several more weeks after that, suggesting the death toll could be far higher.\n\nMakeshift cemeteries have been built around the city to deal with the huge number of bodies, and many more are buried in back yards, parks and squares, according to Mr Boychenko.\n\nMany graves have been dug in residential areas\n\nEarlier this week, the Mariupol city council warned that a cholera outbreak could kill tens of thousands of people, listing a number of factors that could lead to an \"explosive\" epidemic, including a lack of medicine and medical facilities.\n\n\"They (the Russians) destroyed our infectious diseases hospital with all the equipment, killed the doctors,\" Mr Boychenko told the BBC.\n\nAnother Ukrainian Mariupol official recently claimed there was a \"catastrophic\" shortage of medics in the city, adding that the Russian-appointed authorities were trying to persuade retired doctors, even those over the age of 80, to return to work.\n\nBodies are said to still lie under the rubble\n\nBodies lying under piles of rubble and mountains of uncollected rubbish is not the image of Mariupol the Russian-appointed authorities want to portray.\n\nThey prefer to describe it as a city returning to normal life, posting pictures on social media of children returning to classrooms and lorries collecting rubbish.\n\nBut much of the city still lies in ruins, and an outbreak of cholera or any other infectious disease would be a further huge challenge for the estimated 100,000 people still living there after the horror of the last few months.", "The assault has re-ignited debate about gender violence in China\n\nNine people have been arrested in China after a video went viral of a brutal attack by a group of men on women in the city of Tangshan, police say.\n\nIt has led to an outcry on social media and re-ignited debate about gender violence in China.\n\nThe incident began when a man put his hand on a woman's back in a restaurant and she pushed him away.\n\nThe man is seen striking her before others drag her outside and continue attacking as she lies on the floor.\n\nThe group of men are also seen attacking her dining partners.\n\nTwo of the women were admitted to hospital and were in a \"stable condition and not in mortal danger\", while two others sustained minor injuries, officials said.\n\nPolice in Tangshan, in northern Hebei province, said they had arrested nine people on suspicion of violent assault and \"provoking trouble\".\n\nThe attack dominated discussion on Chinese social media on Saturday, taking up the top six places of Weibo's most-discussed topics. State television called for the suspects to be severely punished.\n\n\"All of this could happen to me, could happen to any of us,\" said one commenter in a post liked over 100,000 times.\n\n\"How is this sort of thing still happening in 2022?\" wrote another. \"Please give them criminal sentences, and don't let any of them get away.\"\n\nA widely shared WeChat post took issue with the initial official framing of the attack as a simple act of violence.\n\n\"This happened in a society where violence against women is rampant,\" the anonymous post said.\n\n\"To ignore and suppress the perspective of gender is to deny the violence that people - as women - suffer.\"\n\nActs of violence against women are frighteningly common in China.\n\nTen years ago, while I was living in the country, I witnessed on multiple occasions men assaulting their partners in broad daylight. It was common to see groups of bystanders simply watching on.\n\nHistorically, many have viewed such incidents as being a private matter between a couple. Some have feared involving themselves, either for their own personal safety or because they're afraid of being implicated in a crime.\n\nChina only made domestic violence punishable by law in March 2016. Before 2001, physical abuse was not even grounds for divorce.\n\nEven though sexual violence has become more prosecutable, the atmosphere on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo is despondent. Many feel the outcome of this case will be a light sentence and a small fine.\n\nIn recent years, women have had little success in holding sexual harassment or assault to account. Few cases have been ruled in the victim's favour unless they have footage to support it, and China's persistent lockdowns over the last two years have exacerbated domestic attacks.", "Winston Irvine appeared in court charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition in suspicious circumstances.\n\nA leading loyalist has been remanded in custody after police found firearms and ammunition in a bag in the boot of his car in Belfast, a court has been told.\n\nWinston Irvine, 46, was denied bail by a judge at Belfast Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe appeared in court charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition in suspicious circumstances.\n\nHe was arrested on Wednesday by police investigating a security alert at an event attended by Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney in March.\n\nPolice said officers had planned to arrest him on an \"unrelated matter\" when they saw him opening and closing the boot of his vehicle shortly after a van had parked behind him.\n\nMr Irvine's car was searched a short time later in the Shankill Road area.\n\nOfficers discovered two suspected firearms, magazines and more than 200 rounds of ammunition in a holdall in the boot, the court heard on Saturday.\n\nThe 46-year-old told officers that he could not account for the bag in his boot which contained the holdall.\n\nThe court heard that during five police interviews, lasting almost four hours, Mr Irvine declined to comment.\n\nThe defendant told police that the items found in the bag after the search off the Shankill Road were nothing to do with him.\n\nThe court also heard that a number of Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) pins and pendants were found following a search of Mr Irvine's home, as well as a balaclava.\n\nThe detective inspector told the court that police were objecting to bail on the grounds of the danger of further offences and interference with justice.\n\nA lawyer acting for Mr Irvine told the court his client was a renowned peacebuilder who has been involved in intensive work in the community over the last 20 years.\n\nMr Irvine will appear in court again on 1 July.", "Scotland should not have food products \"forced\" on it because of the easing of regulations around gene editing, a government minister has said.\n\nThe UK government has introduced a Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill which would set different rules from the EU following Brexit.\n\nIt had asked Holyrood ministers to consider allowing gene-edited crops to be grown in Scotland.\n\nBut the idea has been dismissed by environment secretary Mairi McAllan.\n\nShe has written to UK environment secretary George Eustice and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, saying Scotland would not make the same changes as England if the bill passed.\n\nMs McAllan said the Scottish government \"will not accept any constraint on the exercise of its devolved powers to set standards within devolved policy areas\".\n\nGene editing allows scientists to change a plant or animal's DNA.\n\nScientists can engineer crops that are more disease or drought resistant, without adding genetic material from another species.\n\nUnder the UK's internal market act, anything approved for sale in one part of the UK must be available across the whole of the UK.\n\nTomatoes developed by scientists in Norwich to produce high amounts of vitamin D could be among the first gene-edited produce to go on sale.\n\nHowever, Scotland and Wales could potentially use their powers to restrict the use of genetically edited produce.\n\nIn her letter, Ms McAllan said: \"If the UK government is determined to press ahead with this legislation, it must take steps to ensure that its revisions to the definition of a GMO (genetically modified organism) do not force products on Scotland which do not meet standards here without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nGene-edited tomatoes that boost vitamin D are among the foods that could be commercially developed\n\nShe also raised concerns about the impact of the bill on Scotland's food exports to the EU.\n\n\"As your impact assessment for the Genetic Technologies (Precision Breeding) Bill acknowledges, removing gene-edited products from England's GM regulatory regime would mean divergence from the EU approach and as such could have implications for compliance costs and future trade,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The impact assessment also raises the prospect that new trade barriers could come in the form of checks and certification requirements on UK food exports entering the EU's single market.\n\n\"It states that this would not only affect products exported to the EU which contain precision-bred plant material, but also those in the same product categories which do not.\"\n\nIn turning down the UK government's offer to include Scotland in its gene editing scheme, the Scottish government is not saying \"never\".\n\nIts preference is to wait for an EU-wide review of the technology, rather than to press ahead, with England, using the policy-making freedom that Brexit allows.\n\nThat is partly political - SNP ministers opposed Brexit and want to stay closely aligned to EU rules in the hope Scotland can one day rejoin the union as an independent country.\n\nThere's also a more practical consideration - that divergence could lead to new trade barriers with the European single market if it wants to keep gene-edited produce out.\n\nThe constitutional flashpoint is the operation of UK single market rules that mean any gene-edited produce approved in England must automatically be allowed into the Scottish market.\n\nHolyrood ministers hate how that could cut across their powers to regulate what's suitable for sale and are seeking an exemption, without saying what action they might take if they don't get one.\n\nGene editing is supported by the National Farmers Union (NFU) in Scotland but Scottish ministers have consistently railed against it, aiming to keep as close as it can to EU regulations.\n\nHowever, the EU has recently launched a consultation on bringing forward similar legislation for plants, food and feed produced from new genomic technologies.\n\nUK cabinet minister George Eustice previously wrote to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, saying the new bill provided \"the opportunity to make the UK the best place in the world to invest in Agritech innovation\".\n\nHe said: \"Outside the EU we are free to follow the science.\n\n\"These precision technologies allow us to speed up the breeding of plants that have natural resistance to diseases and better use of soil nutrients so we can have higher yields with fewer pesticides and fertilisers.\n\n\"The UK has some incredible academic centres of excellence and they are poised to lead the way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFather and son Roger and Bradley Stockton have been killed in a crash during racing at the Isle of Man TT, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe pair from Crewe both died as the result of the incident at Ago's Leap during the second lap of the second sidecar race on Friday.\n\nPassenger Bradley, 21, was a newcomer to the event, while his father Roger, 56, last competed at the TT in 2017.\n\nFive riders have now died at this year's event.\n\nIn a statement, organisers said it was \"with a deep sense of sorrow\" that they could confirm both racers were \"killed in an incident on the second and final lap of the second sidecar race\".\n\n\"The Isle of Man TT Races pass on their deepest sympathy to Roger and Bradley's families, loved ones, and friends,\" it added.\n\nThe pair secured an eighth-place finish in the first sidecar race of the 2022 event on Monday.\n\nFollowing the incident, organisers said the remainder of the day's racing had been called off due to deteriorating weather conditions.\n\nThe six-lap Senior TT will now be held at 11:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThree other competitors have died at the 2022 TT which returned after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSidecar driver Cesar Chanal died in a crash during lap one of the first sidecar race on Saturday, while Northern Ireland's Davy Morgan suffered fatal injuries in the Supersport race on Monday, and Welsh rider Mark Purslow was killed in qualifying last week.", "The campaign posters feature Tom Channon who died in 2018 in Spain\n\nTeenagers heading on their first holiday with friends will get advice on staying safe abroad after an 18-year-old died in a popular Spanish resort.\n\nTom Channon fell 70ft (21m) over a knee-high wall in Magaluf during his first trip abroad with friends in 2018.\n\nThe bilingual education packs created with the Channon family are being sent to schools and colleges across Wales.\n\nTom's mum, Cheri Channon, said: \"We all want our youngsters to go away, have fun and come home.\"\n\n\"We wanted that with Tom and the worst possible thing happened to us,\" she added.\n\n\"For us, this is Tom's legacy. Tom would have achieved great things and this is his achievement now, that he'll hopefully make more and more people aware that when they go away, there are dangers.\"\n\nTom, from Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, fell over the knee-high wall at an apartment complex in Magaluf after he decided to return to his hotel alone following a night out with his friends.\n\nHis body was found the next morning at the Eden Roc apartment complex near to where he was staying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Channon's mother says she is \"proud\" the safety checks will be in her son's name\n\nIn 2019, a coroner concluded that Tom's death could have been avoided if simple safety measures had been in place.\n\nSafety improvements have since been made at the Eden Roc complex.\n\nThe Stay Aware, Stay Safe, Stay Together campaign contains provides practical information for young people planning their first independent trip.\n\nIt contains a series of videos which include interviews with Tom's parents and some of his closest friends.\n\nA further video also highlights common holiday scenarios and advice on the best ways to enjoy a holiday safely.\n\nIt is hoped the material will be used in well-being and pastoral sessions to prompt further discussion among students about how to enjoy their holiday with friends safely.\n\nAt St David's Catholic College, Cardiff, where Tom studied for his A-levels, students have already had the opportunity to experience the new holiday safety session.\n\nIago is planning a holiday with friends after finishing his A-level exams\n\nIago Parish has planned a short break away with friends after his A-level exams this summer.\n\nHe said: \"Even though you might not think about all the dangers and the risks, you just have to be careful because something can happen to anyone really.\"\n\nHedagwi said you cannot take risks abroad because it is an unfamiliar environment\n\nAnother sixth-form student, Hedagwi Gwom, said: \"When you think you have an opportunity to go on holiday, you might think you have the same freedom as you'd have here.\n\n\"But a lot of people don't realise that you don't have the same freedom.\"\n\n\"You're comfortable and perfectly aware in your home city or home town, but you can't take as many risks abroad because it's not the same environment at all.\"\n\nVinay Yadh said: \"There are a lot of valuable points we've gathered form this session like being aware of your surroundings and keeping your passport safe.\"\n\nEthan, Vinay and Elinor found the session on safety abroad very useful\n\nEthan Baff added: \"I found the session really quite eye opening. It can happen to anyone and anything can go wrong, so you need to be prepared.\"\n\nHonours and pastoral teacher at the college, Paul Thomas, said: \"I've taught PSE in pastoral lessons across schools in Wales, but I've never taught anything on safety abroad.\n\n\"It's so poignant for this age group. It's their first time abroad, it's a rite of passage of a person going from a youngster to an adult and it's never been approached before as far as I know in pastoral lessons.\n\n\"The videos are a really good stimulus, I let the students talk it through and maybe the penny drops and they have a safer holiday.\n\n\"I think all students, not just in Wales but across the UK, should be taught this. The message is key and I think it's essential and needs to be taken seriously.\"\n\nJohn and Ceri Channon hope the campaign will help prevent other families experiencing a similar tragedy\n\nMinister for Education Jeremy Miles said: \"John and Ceri Channon have shown tremendous courage following the tragic death of their son, Tom and the family continues to do important work in raising awareness of accidents which can happen on holiday.\n\n\"I'm pleased Welsh government could work with the Channon family to promote the Stay Aware, Stay Safe, Stay Together campaign, which provides some really practical information for young people planning their first independent trips away.\n\n\"We will be making the safety campaign materials available on our Hwb platform, so that all schools and colleges have access to them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities in Saudi Arabia have been seizing rainbow-coloured toys and children's clothing, which they claim encourage homosexuality, state TV says.\n\nAn Al-Ekhbariya report showed commerce ministry officials removing a range of items from shops in the capital Riyadh.\n\nOne official said the items \"contradict the Islamic faith and public morals, and promote homosexual colours targeting the younger generation\".\n\nThe commerce ministry tweeted separately that its teams were confiscating \"products that contain symbols and signs calling for deviation and contradicting common sense\".\n\nShops found to be selling them would face legal penalties, it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn December, authorities in neighbouring Qatar announced that they had confiscated rainbow-coloured pop-its and other toys from shops for \"bearing slogans that go against Islamic values\".\n\nAlthough Sunni Muslim-ruled Saudi Arabia has no laws regarding sexual orientation or gender identity, sexual relations outside marriage, including homosexual sex, are strictly prohibited.\n\nUnder the country's interpretation of Islamic law, consensual same-sex sexual conduct is punishable by death or flogging, depending on the perceived seriousness of the case.\n\nIt is also illegal for men to \"behave like women\" or to wear women's clothes, and vice versa, and for anyone to carry out online activity impinging on \"public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy\".\n\nShops selling the confiscated items would face legal penalties, the commerce ministry said\n\nIn April, cinemas in the kingdom did not screen the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness after Disney refused a request from Saudi authorities to cut what they called \"LGBTQ references\".\n\nA source close to Disney told AFP news agency on Tuesday that its new animated film Lightyear, which features a same-sex kiss, had also been banned in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSaudi officials have not yet confirmed such a move, but the kingdom's two main cinema chains are not advertising screenings.\n\nThe United Arab Emirates culture ministry said it had banned Lightyear on Monday \"due to its violation of the country's media content standards\".", "The pound's weakness against the dollar and the euro spells bad news for British holidaymakers this summer.\n\nFears over the UK economy are weighing on markets, causing sterling to sink below $1.20 on Tuesday, its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, before partly recovering on Wednesday.\n\nVersus the euro, the pound is hovering near thirteen-month lows.\n\nAs a result many Brits travelling in the next few weeks will find their spending money won't stretch as far.\n\n\"The pound remains a very vulnerable currency,\" said Jane Foley, head of foreign exchange strategy at the Dutch bank Rabobank.\n\n\"A lot of this is related to fears about growth,\" she continued, noting that political uncertainty and a potential trade conflict with the European Union were likely to add to investors' concerns about the UK's economic outlook.\n\nThe weakness of the pound will \"add to the gloom\" for British holidaymakers, who are already facing the prospect of travel disruption, said Ms Foley.\n\nAfter more than two years of Covid restrictions, many people are planning their first trips overseas, with the peak summer holiday season and the long school break hovering on the horizon.\n\nBut when they get there, they could find the pound in their pocket doesn't go as far, Ms Foley warned.\n\n\"If you're going to the Eurozone or the United States, you're going to be able to purchase less,\" she said.\n\n\"When we look at the dollar, it's very strong, so holidaymakers going to the US are really going to see the weakness.\"\n\nSome holidaymakers will already have adjusted for this, however.\n\n\"Sterling's been on the backfoot for several years, so to some extent this weakness is already expected,\" Ms Foley said.\n\nFears have grown over the prospects for the UK economy after figures showed it shrank again in April for the second month in a row, with businesses feeling the impact of rising prices.\n\nThere is uncertainty over how fast the Bank of England - which is expected to raise interest rates again on Thursday - can tighten policy this year to tame inflation without further hurting the economy further.\n\nHowever the pound's weakness is also a result of a strong dollar, Ms Foley said, with rising interest rates there making the US currency more attractive.\n\n\"A more aggressive pace of US interest rate hikes is certainly propping up the dollar,\" she said. The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, is expected to raise rates substantially after its policy meeting on Wednesday, to try to curb rising inflation there.\n\n\"Also, the dollar does have this safe haven appeal, so when we're looking at concerns perhaps about China, perhaps about the gas crisis in Europe, a large part of this does create an environment where people want to hold dollars.\"\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting your travel plans? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurse Johanna Black retired after 37 years' service but is back doing her old role as part of the NHS staff bank\n\nA nursing union has warned some nurses are retiring when they do not want to because of a lack of flexibility from Scotland's health boards.\n\nLatest figures show nearly one in 10 nursing and midwifery posts are vacant.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing Scotland says health boards failing to accommodate staff who want to change their working patterns rather than leave is making the problem worse.\n\nScottish ministers say they are working to increase flexibility for nurses.\n\nThe overall number of vacant nursing and midwifery posts across Scotland at 31 March this year was 6,209.\n\nThis is up from 4,495 at the same point in 2021, an increase of more than 38%.\n\nRCN Scotland says the issue of retaining staff is equally as important as hiring new people to fill these vacancies.\n\nThe union is concerned about a \"retire and rehire\" trend where nurses leave their posts and then join staffing banks in order to get the reduced hours or flexibility they want.\n\nRCN Scotland director Colin Pullman said: \"People are wanting to continue in a flexible way but, for whatever reason, these opportunities are not being looked at so we're missing the opportunity to retain expertise and knowledge in the service.\n\n\"We just need to be a bit more creative, work with people and make sure their work-life balance is right.\n\n\"We have over 6,000 vacancies in the NHS so employers need to work with individuals who are either retiring or wish to come back into service, to give them the flexible option that they are looking for.\"\n\nNursing and Midwifery Council data shows the number of people leaving its permanent register in Scotland has increased for the first time after two years of decline.\n\nIn 2021/22 a total of 2,750 people left the council's register, a 16.3% increase on the tally for 2020/21.\n\nNHS workforce statistics show spending on bank nurses between 2014 and 2022 increased by 36% to £321m, with spend on agency nurses more than doubling (126.2%) to £88.9m in the same period.\n\nMuch of this increase was as a result of the pandemic where there was more reliance on temporary staff.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme on Monday, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the Scottish government and health boards were \"putting in a lot of effort\" to improve conditions for staff who he said had been left \"completely knackered\" from dealing with the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Recruitment is one side of the story, the other side of the story is retention.\n\n\"I have spoken to a number of nurses who tell me that having worked 30 years in the NHS they are really struggling to stay on.\n\n\"I have asked my chief nursing officer to look at whether we can be more flexible right across the board in terms of working patterns and working shifts.\"\n\nJohanna Black worked for the NHS for nearly four decades and was a senior charge nurse in a community mental health team\n\nJohanna Black was overwhelmed with the cards and warm messages she got when she retired from her role as a community nurse in East Dunbartonshire last year.\n\nThe 55-year-old had worked in the NHS for 37 years so was in a position to start receiving her NHS pension and look for another nursing role with reduced hours.\n\nBut it was not what she wanted to do.\n\n\"If it hadn't been for Covid I would have kept my job,\" she said.\n\n\"I loved my job, worked in a great team and was really proud of the service we provided, especially in the pandemic, but I would say the past two years have impacted my health.\n\n\"I think I may have been able to negotiate a slight reduction in my hours but financially I wasn't in a position to do that, so my only option was to retire so I could pick up work with less hours that I could cope with.\"\n\nJohanna with her leaving presents when she retired from her role with NHS Forth Valley\n\nJohanna has ended up temporarily back in the same senior charge nurse role she retired from, with reduced hours, but thinks the future will involve doing bank nursing shifts.\n\nThe 55-year-old thinks there \"should be more options\" for NHS staff in her position as she argues \"a lot of people still have a lot to give\".\n\nShe said: \"I think people, if they have various options open to them, they might not choose to leave.\"\n\nJohanna said she was not critical of NHS Forth Valley but added that all of Scotland's health boards \"need to think what can be done to retain that experience.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said staffing across NHS Scotland was at a record high.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"Since 2006 we have increased the number of qualified nurses and midwives by over 5,500, or by 13.7%; the number of medical and dental consultants by over 2,000, or by 63.2%, and the number of allied health professionals (excluding paramedics) by over 2,000, or by 26.3%.\n\n\"The latest workforce statistics also showed that nursing and midwifery vacancies have started to reduce in the last quarter.\n\n\"We have recruited more than 1,000 additional healthcare support staff since last October and almost 200 registered nurses from overseas to help address the unprecedented challenges facing the NHS.\"\n\nHe said work was ongoing to enhance NHS workforce levels and support health boards to fill posts.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"This is backed by our £1bn NHS recovery plan which introduced a range of direct workforce investments and new measures to support health boards' capacity for both domestic and international recruitment.\"", "The flat faces bred into bulldogs can cause a \"lifetime of suffering\" and vets are urging people not to buy one.\n\nThe bulldog has twice the health risks of other dogs, a study has found.\n\nUrgent action is needed to reshape the breed and stop the UK joining the list of countries where the dog is banned, say Royal Veterinary College experts.\n\nThey want people to stop buying English bulldogs and two other popular breeds - the French bulldog and the pug - until breeding issues are addressed.\n\nThey're also calling on the public to stop \"promoting\" the dog on social media by posting and liking pictures.\n\nThe bulldog has soared in popularity over the past decade.\n\nThe breed, also known as the English or British bulldog, earned comparisons with Winston Churchill for its jowly face, and was historically seen as a symbol of courage and endurance.\n\nA fashion for ever more extreme features, such as a flat face, wrinkled skin and squat body, has made the breed prone to health complaints, raising welfare concerns.\n\nWith their large bulging eyes and flat face, the dogs are undeniably \"cute\", said Dr Dan O'Neill of the Royal Veterinary College, one of the authors of the study, but their extreme body shape after years of selective breeding has become their downfall.\n\n\"For breeds such as English bulldogs where many dogs still have extreme conformations (a dog's structure and appearance) with poor innate health, the public have a huge role to play by demanding dogs with moderate and healthier conformations,\" he said.\n\n\"Until then, prospective owners should stop and think before buying a flat-faced dog.\"\n\nThe English bulldog was once a muscular and athletic breed, but over the years has become a popular pet, with a trend towards a short skull, protruding jaw, skin folds and a squat build.\n\nThe public has an important role to play in driving change by not posting pictures of the dogs on social media or liking posts, thereby \"inadvertently advertising\" them, Dr O'Neill said.\n\nBut he admitted the \"phenomenal\" popularity of the bulldog is understandable, given the psychological effect they have on us. With their large heads, big eyes and docile temperament, they remind us of babies, triggering our nurturing instincts.\n\nBulldogs are also more likely to develop heatstroke than other dogs\n\n\"We interpret this as the dogs being cute, and this is totally understandable and, in fact, very hard to fight against as a human,\" he said.\n\n\"What we deem is cute from the outside, if you're living the life as that dog, is anything but cute. It is, in many cases, a lifetime of suffering.\"\n\nThe breeding of the bulldog is already banned in several countries, and, according to an expert working group of vets and welfare groups, including the Royal Veterinary College, the same could happen here if nothing is done.\n\nOwners who already have one should look out for health issues such as eye problems, difficulty breathing and skin fold infections, and seek veterinary advice if concerned, they say.\n\nVeterinary historian, Dr Alison Skipper, of King's College London, said many of the diseases linked to body shape had been known by breeders for more than a century. Responsible breeding, prioritising health, could \"improve the welfare of this popular and iconic breed,\" she said.\n\nAnd The Kennel Club said a ban risked driving the problem underground.\n\n\"We urgently want to see people choosing dogs not just because they like the way they look, which is often driven by celebrity and social media, and instead find breeders who use the health tools available and breed a non-exaggerated dog, where health comes first, as described in the breed standard,\" said spokesperson, Bill Lambert.\n\nThe study, published in the journal of Canine Medicine and Genetics, compared the health of thousands of English bulldogs kept as pets with that of other dog breeds. It found English bulldogs were twice as likely to have one or more disorders in a single year than other dogs.\n\nThe commonest health complaints were infections in skin folds (38 times more likely than in other dogs), an eye disorder known as cherry eye (26 times more likely), protrusion of the lower jaw (24 times more likely) and breathing problems (19 times more likely).\n\nA recent study by the same team found pugs were also at high risk of health complaints.", "A total of 25 windows were smashed at one centre in St Asaph\n\nAn anti-vax campaigner caused £11,000 worth of damage at two Covid vaccination centres because he believed the jab was a \"public danger\".\n\nPaul Edwards, 58, of Warrington, smashed 30 windows at north Wales centres over two nights in December.\n\nHe targeted a centre in Llandudno before vandalising the OpTIC building on St Asaph business park.\n\nEdwards was found guilty at Mold Crown Court of two counts of damaging property.\n\nHe told the jury he had been trying to obstruct the vaccination programme which was putting the public \"in danger\" and also claimed there had been \"deliberate scaremongering\" over the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaldr health board praised staff and volunteers at the time for continuing with its booster rollout despite the damage.\n\nAs of 9 June, more than 7.3 million Covid jabs have been given in Wales\n\nNumbers in critical care with Covid are averaging eight a day, the same as a week ago, latest figures show. This is the lowest number since mid-July last year.\n\nEdwards will be sentenced on Thursday.", "Scotland's largest union for NHS staff is to consult its members over a \"disappointing\" 5% pay offer from the Scottish government.\n\nUnison had called for an above-inflation pay rise to reflect the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe union described the offer as a real-terms pay cut for health service workers.\n\nThe Scottish government said it represented the largest single-year increase since devolution.\n\nDepending on roles and experience, the government said frontline workers would receive pay rises ranging from around £1,000 to £2,400.\n\nAll staff would be paid at least £10.50 per hour, with the offer backdated to 1 April.\n\nKay Sillars, Unison Scotland's regional manager, said: \"This will come as a blow to health workers who are already struggling to make ends meet as day-to-day living expenses continue to rise.\n\n\"Achieving a significant pay increase is essential to support the retention of current staff and to stem the flow of staff leaving NHS Scotland over the next year.\n\n\"We already have 6,500 nursing vacancies across the country and offering health workers another real-terms pay cut is only storing up future problems for the NHS.\"\n\nThe GMB union also said it could not recommend that its members accept the one-year offer.\n\nScotland organiser Karen Leonard said: \"Ministers need to go further on pay for these key workers.\n\n\"Frontline NHS services are chronically under-staffed and if we want to improve this for patients then we need to recruit and retain the people needed to deliver them, and that starts with proper value.\n\n\"In the grip of the biggest cost of living crisis in 40 years, we cannot recommend to our hard-pressed members the acceptance of a deal that doesn't sufficiently confront soaring inflation and eye-watering energy bills, or a funding settlement that awards the most to the highest earners.\"\n\nThe potential pay dispute comes as the Scottish government is involved in similar negotiations with other public sector staff, including rail workers in the newly-nationalised ScotRail and local authority workers, who are being balloted for strike action in August.\n\nPolice officers are also considering what industrial action they could take after rejecting a flat £565 annual pay increase as \"derisory\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF) turned down the pay deal, saying there was \"palpable anger\" among officers.\n\nReacting to the NHS offer, the federation's general secretary Calum Steele said health service workers were \"worth every penny, and more\".\n\nThe Scottish government said NHS staff in Scotland continued to be the best paid in the UK\n\nBut he was critical of how the government has handled negotiations with health service unions compared to the police.\n\nMr Steele told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"It is particularly galling to read from anyone in the Scottish government that these offers are being made following negotiations with unions.\n\n\"When it comes to the police, there has been nothing but silence and a wall of silence continues to this day.\n\n\"Discussions are not ongoing, despite what Scottish government spokespeople are saying to the contrary.\n\n\"All that is happening is that the anger among police officers is rising to unprecedented levels.\"\n\nScotland's health secretary, Humza Yousaf, said the 5% offer to NHS staff was \"a demonstration of how much we value our NHS staff who have worked tirelessly to keep us safe during the course of the pandemic\".\n\nHe added: \"Our NHS Agenda for Change workforce - like nursing and midwifery staff, porter staff, and therapy staff - have long had the best pay and conditions in the UK, and with today's offer of a 5% pay rise we're demonstrating our commitment to ensuring that continues to be the case.\n\n\"Experienced porters will receive more than £1,000 extra, while a healthcare support worker will see more than £1,200 extra. Experienced nurses will see their pay rise by more than £1,600 and an experienced advanced nurse practitioner will receive almost £2,400 more.\n\n\"In fact, as we're building on NHS Scotland staff being the best paid in the four nations, the UK government would need to deliver pay uplifts of between 6% to 14% to front line NHS England Agenda for Change staff to catch up with pay levels in Scotland.\n\n\"This has been another exceptionally challenging year for our health service and I am pleased that the Scottish government is able to recognise the service and dedication of our healthcare and support staff. We will be forever grateful for their professionalism and care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazilian soldiers have been looking for the missing men in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest, near the border with Peru\n\nBrazilian police have arrested a second suspect as they probe the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.\n\nOseney da Costa de Oliveira was detained on suspicion he was involved in the case with his brother, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, local media report.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, went missing in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June.\n\nSome of their belongings, including clothes and a laptop, were found on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement, federal police said they had seized ammunition and an oar in the village of Sao Gabriel, where the two men were last seen. The items have been taken for forensic analysis.\n\nAlex Perez, a police investigator, said Oseney da Costa de Oliveira \"did not resist arrest on suspicion of homicide, based on witness accounts that placed the two suspects at the supposed scene of the crime\".\n\nA spokesperson for the indigenous group Univaja, which has been searching for the missing men, said the effort was nearing an end as the area left to examine was getting smaller.\n\nBriton Mr Phillips had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper. He was working on a book about the Amazon.\n\nMr Pereira, a Brazilian who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes.\n\nDays before the pair went missing, indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing in the area.\n\nPolice have seized ammunition and an oar for forensic analysis\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier this week, Mr Phillips' sister, Sian, said: \"I think it's likely they've been ambushed by some illegal criminal activity there, possibly to do with illegal fishing.\"\n\nIt is an \"incredibly distressing and awful situation\", she added.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Phillips' brother-in-law told the BBC that the Brazilian embassy in the UK had informed the family that two bodies had been found tied to a tree.\n\nLater that day, Brazilian police denied the report and said they had only found belongings and \"biological material\", which would be tested.\n\nThe Brazilian ambassador in the UK has now apologised to Mr Phillips' family for the miscommunication, Reuters reports.\n\nAmbassador Fred Arruda said the information had come from investigating officials in Brazil, adding: \"I wholeheartedly apologise.\"\n\nIn Brazil's capital, Brasilia, indigenous protesters carried banners emblazoned with the missing men's faces to the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday, calling for justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Family and friends of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira want answers about their disappearance", "UK airlines have been told to cancel flights they can't deliver this summer to stop a rerun of May's travel chaos.\n\nThe government and the aviation regulator wrote to carriers on Tuesday telling them to ensure their summer timetables were \"deliverable\".\n\nThey added that earlier cancellations were \"better\" than axing flights at the last minute.\n\nIt comes after tens of thousands of passengers have been affected by cancellations and delays at airports.\n\nThe problem was particularly bad during Easter and last month's half-term school holiday, and British Airways, TUI and Easyjet have apologised.\n\nStaff shortages have been blamed, after thousands of airline jobs were cut during the pandemic and have yet to be replaced despite a spike in post-pandemic travel demand.\n\nIn their joint letter, the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority set out five \"specific expectations\" for the sector.\n\nThey wrote: \"We think it's important that each airline reviews afresh its plans for the remainder of the summer season until the end of September to develop a schedule that is deliverable.\n\n\"Your schedules must be based on the resources you and your contractors expect to have available, and should be resilient for the unplanned and inevitable operational challenges that you will face.\n\n\"While cancellations at any time are a regrettable inconvenience to passengers, it is our view that cancellations at the earliest possibility to deliver a more robust schedule are better for consumers than late notice on-the-day cancellations.\"\n\nEasyJet is one of the airlines to have cancelled flights\n\nThe letter stated that airlines must \"keep consumers informed\" about their rights during disruption, such as having \"sufficiently staffed call centres and user-friendly digital channels\".\n\nIt also urged airlines, ground handlers, air traffic control and the Border Force work more closely to try to prevent problems.\n\nAirlines and unions told MPs on the Commons Business Committee on Tuesday that the staffing shortages blighting the industry were likely to persist this summer.\n\nOliver Richardson, national officer for civil air transport at the Unite union, told MPs it was unlikely the situation would be fixed \"unless we work together\".\n\nRepresentatives from BA, Easyjet and ground handling firm Swissport said they also faced long delays to get security clearance for new staff.\n\nSwissport's UK boss, Jude Winstanley, said it had hired 3,000 people since the start of the year, but it was taking up to 90 days to get them a full airside pass due to the referencing process.\n\nAccording to the CAA, up to 4% of UK flights were cancelled during half term and the Platinum Jubilee weekend - up from the usual rate of 1%.\n\nBoss Richard Moriarty called the situation distressing and unacceptable, adding that the industry needed to get a grip - although he said it was \"not solely a UK specific issue\".\n\nThere have been calls for EU aviation workers to be added to the government's shortage occupation list, but aviation minister Robert Courts denied this would help.\n\nHe told the committee that EU HGV drivers - another industry facing shortages - had been offered up to 5,000 visas to fill gaps in the UK, and only 27 had come forward.\n\n\"If there were spare workers in Europe they would be in Schiphol [Amsterdam airport],\" he said.\n\nDo you work in the aviation industry? Are you a passenger affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Mr Johnson looks at names of British personnel who lost their lives in the Falklands\n\nCommemorations have taken place to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War.\n\nBoris Johnson joined veterans, bereaved family members and senior defence figures at a service at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"incredible daring and bravery\" of Falklands veterans.\n\nSome 255 British troops, 649 Argentine military personnel and three Falkland islanders died during the conflict.\n\nThe 10-week war began in April 1982, when troops from Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British colony in the south Atlantic ocean.\n\nArgentina said it had inherited the islands from Spain in the 1800s and wanted to reclaim them. The British had ruled the islands for 150 years and sent armed forces by sea to take the islands back. Argentina's troops surrendered on 14 June.\n\nOn Tuesday, veterans, civilians and bereaved family members attended a service hosted by the Royal British Legion at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas to remember the end of the conflict. At the same time a service was held at Port Stanley, the Falklands capital.\n\nMr Johnson - who laid a wreath at the service - told journalists afterwards: \"The first thing is to remember what an incredible thing it was that they achieved back in 1982 to make an opposed landing, to take back territory in the way that they did.\n\n\"The incredible daring and bravery of those young men and women. And we salute that - we remember that today.\"\n\nHe added that the \"greatest tribute\" to those who had laid down their lives was that the Falklands Islands had since \"thrived in peace and freedom\".\n\nWreaths were laid by military personnel as well as Mr Johnson\n\nThe city of Stanley on the Falkland Islands struck a sombre tone on Tuesday's morning under a grey winter drizzle.\n\nHundreds turned out to watch the band parade along the harbour front to the city's monument, where islanders paid their respects and to those who lost their lives in the conflict 40 years ago.\n\nSoon after the memorial was over, the mood changed to celebration.\n\nThis is a defiant nation and one that wants the world to know it takes its freedom seriously, not taking a moment of it for granted.\n\nThe festivities will continue long into the night, a momentary breath of fresh air away from the dark cloud that continues to hang over these islands 40 years on, that of Argentina.\n\nA military band also performed at the service\n\nEvents have also been taking elsewhere in the country, including at Portsmouth and Southampton, where ships departed for the islands, as well wreath-laying services in Dorset.\n\nOne survivor of HMS Coventry, which was bombed during the war, shared his memories with the BBC, saying: \"I think about it nearly every day and you know it is part of my life and it is part of this nation's heritage.\"\n\n\"I remember my lost friends every year and sadly there is additions because we are all getting older,\" said Mick Kerry, from Warwickshire, who was a 21-year-old marine engineer on the Royal Navy destroyer when it was bombed.\n\nMick Kerry said he thinks about the Falklands conflict \"nearly every day\"\n\nA parade was also held at Invicta Park Barracks in Maidstone, Kent\n\nElsewhere, a woman who was born in the Falkland Islands three months before the war has been telling the BBC how she became a soldier to repay a debt of gratitude she felt towards the soldiers who fought in the conflict.\n\nSara Halford, who joined the British Army aged 17 and serves with 16 Medical Regiment in Colchester, said islanders would be \"forever grateful\".\n\nMeanwhile, a collection of portraits of seven veterans from across Scotland have been revealed as part of a virtual exhibition by Glasgow photographer Wattie Cheung.\n\nOn Saturday, a national remembrance parade and service will be held in Edinburgh, where hundreds of current and former servicemen and women are expected to take part.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Although the war had ended, some of the veterans found the celebrations back at home difficult\n\nOn Sunday, members of the Tumbledown Veterans and Families Association marched to the cenotaph on Blackpool promenade. Nine men died at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, overlooking Port Stanley, in the final days of the conflict.", "Rap artist Lil Wayne has not performed in the UK for more than 10 years\n\nAmerican rapper Lil Wayne will no longer play at the Strawberries and Creem festival after being denied entry to the UK, organisers have said.\n\nSaturday's performance was due to be his first in the UK in several years.\n\nThe 39-year-old's 2011 UK tour was cancelled after his visa application was reportedly rejected by UK border authorities due to prior convictions.\n\nThe Home Office said applications were refused for people sentenced to a year or more in custody.\n\nLil Wayne has been contacted for comment.\n\nIn a statement on their website, festival organisers said: \"Due to extreme circumstances beyond our control or influence, we are very sorry to inform you that Lil Wayne is now unable to perform at the festival...\n\n\"Lil Wayne has been refused entry to the UK directly by the Home Office in a last-minute decision. We are deeply disappointed by this sudden and negative ruling.\"\n\nThey said Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris would play a \"UK exclusive\" set on Saturday instead.\n\nRapper and actor Ludacris would perform at the festival instead, organisers said\n\nThe Home Office said it did not routinely comment on individual cases.\n\nHowever, it said: \"Any individual who has been sentenced to a custodial sentence of 12 months or more must have their application refused.\"\n\nIn 2010, the rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to gun possession.\n\nThe charges were linked to his arrest in 2007 when a gun was found on his tour bus.\n\nHe was also found to be carrying a gun and bullets when police searched a private plane in Miami in December 2019 and could have faced up to 10 years in prison.\n\nBut he was granted a full White House pardon by former US President Donald Trump on his last full day in the job.\n\nStrawberries and Creem has been running since 2014,\n\nThe music event will run for three days at Childerley Orchard in Cambridge.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manesh Gill lured the woman to a hotel bedroom then attacked her\n\nA doctor who raped a student nurse after contacting her through a dating app has been jailed for four years.\n\nManesh Gill, 39, lured the woman to a hotel room in Stirling in December 2018 and attacked her.\n\nA judge at the High Court in Edinburgh told Gill the woman described their encounter as \"distressing and frightening\".\n\nThe married father-of-three, who worked as a GP in Edinburgh, was convicted after a trial earlier this year.\n\nAt his sentencing, judge Lord Tyre told Gill: \"You have no criminal record and you have clearly been a valued member of the medical profession.\"\n\nBut the judge said he was in \"no doubt\" that the gravity of the offence could only be marked by a custodial sentence.\n\nHe told Gill that he would be placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.\n\nThe court earlier heard that Gill and his victim met after connecting on dating app Tinder.\n\nGill called himself \"Mike\" and he \"superliked\" the young woman's profile, before they spent six weeks messaging each other on Snapchat.\n\nWhen they met in a hotel, Gill got her to go to his room to use the toilet and poured a \"really strong\" pink gin and lemonade before she was attacked.\n\nDuring evidence at Gill's earlier trial, the woman fought back tears as she described how her body \"shut down\" as she was sexually assaulted.\n\nShe told prosecutor Stephanie Ross: \"He was on top of me. I was trying to push him off. I couldn't.\n\n\"I just felt like my whole body was stuck to the bed. He was having sex with me. I wanted to go home. I felt as if I couldn't move. I couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\nShe said she told Gill \"no\" and \"stop it\" during the attack. She eventually managed to get up and went to the bathroom. She said: \"I came out of the bathroom and said 'I know what you've been doing to me'.\" She left the hotel and contacted police.\n\nGill, of Corstorphine, in Edinburgh, admitted that he brought a condom, Viagra and a bottle of the woman's favourite drink - pink gin - to the hotel.\n\nBut he denied raping the woman, claiming the sex was consensual.\n\nGill said: \"I'm a married man with a professional job and I was meeting women on dates. I didn't want it connected with my job or my wife.\"\n\nHe was unanimously convicted of the sex crime committed when the victim was incapable of giving or withholding consent.\n\nDefence solicitor advocate Iain McSporran said Gill maintained his denial of the offence. He said Gill was \"greatly respected and valued\" as a GP.\n\nDet Insp Forbes Wilson, of Police Scotland's Public Protection Unit, said: \"Gill must now face the consequences for his horrific behaviour.\n\n\"The victim has shown tremendous bravery in coming forward. I hope today's outcome will give her some form of closure.\"", "Hannah Conway, 11, is happier since being home educated, her mum says\n\nChildren need more support to get them into school full-time, as mental-health problems surge, a report says.\n\nPupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are among those currently being let down in England's schools, the report by children's commissioner Rachel de Souza says.\n\nConcern has grown after an estimated 1.8 million children regularly missed school this autumn.\n\nThe government has said improving attendance is a top priority.\n\nMs De Souza's report says reasons for missing school are often \"highly individual and complex\".\n\nFor some, it was daunting to return to school after long periods of studying at home during the pandemic.\n\nAnd some parents felt they were not listened to about the needs of their children, especially those with SEND.\n\nAmanda Conway took her daughter Hannah out of school because she felt she had too little support for her additional needs.\n\nHannah, 11, was born prematurely, which has led to delays to her development and school learning.\n\nIn Year 5, she was given an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) - for children who need extra help such as one-to-one support.\n\nBut she had still not been given the help she needed, Mrs Conway told BBC News.\n\nAnd in Year 6, she began having \"severe anxiety attacks\" and started refusing to go to school for several days most weeks.\n\n\"Her anxiety got so bad she would be shaking and making herself physically sick,\" Mrs Conway said.\n\nSome schools' \"one size fits all\" approach left children feeling broken by a system focused on academic achievement, she said.\n\nIncreasingly worried about how she would cope at a large secondary school, Hannah's parents decided to educate her at home instead.\n\nSince then, her anxiety has lessened and she is able to enjoy learning.\n\nIn response to the growing mental-health issues among schoolchildren, Ms De Souza's report recommends every school in England has access to a support team - in contrast to current government plans for such teams to reach 35% of pupils by 2023.\n\nSome schools and local authorities were dealing with \"multiple suicide attempts per week\", the report found.\n\nThe government said it had put £79m into speeding up the introduction of mental-health support teams for schools. And it has launched a review of support for children with SEND, which it says will lead to an ambitious set of changes.\n\nThe children's commissioner sees September as a chance for a reset, \"a new start, full of hopes and dreams\" for pupils who want to be in school.\n\nSchools should aim for 100% attendance on the first day of the autumn term, Ms De Souza told BBC News.\n\nOther recommendations she made for reaching this level include:\n\nThe areas that had managed children's absences best were those that talked directly to children about their needs and adopted a \"whatever it takes\" attitude to getting them to attend school, Ms De Souza said.\n\nThe government said it was introducing a much more consistent approach to dealing with absence from school across England.", "A man has been arrested at Gatwick Airport by counter-terror police on suspicion of spying.\n\nThe arrest followed an investigation involving MI5 and the Metropolitan Police.\n\nIt is thought the case relates to Russia.\n\nThe suspect, in his 40s, was detained on Monday evening as he attempted to leave the country. He remains in police custody in London as inquiries continue.\n\nA force spokesperson confirmed that a man in his 40s had been arrested on suspicion of offences under section one of the Official Secrets Act 1911.\n\nSection one of the Act relates to information contained within notes, plans or sketches that might be useful to an enemy.\n\nRussia and Britain have had a difficult relationship for years, hitting low points with the fatal 2006 poisoning of former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko in London and the attempted killing of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a nerve agent in Salisbury in 2018.\n\nTensions have escalated since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and on Tuesday the Russian Foreign Ministry issued an expanded list of British people now banned from entering the country, including journalists, politicians and defence chiefs.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Netflix is recruiting participants for a reality TV show inspired by its most popular series of all time, Squid Game.\n\nHowever, it will not be life or death that is at stake, as depicted in the South Korean dystopian drama.\n\nInstead, 456 recruits from around the world will play games where \"the worst fate is going home empty-handed\" - missing out on a $4.56m (£3.8m) prize.\n\nNetflix also confirmed that the popular series would be renewed for a second season earlier this week.\n\nOn Wednesday, the platform announced that its new 10-episode series - Squid Game: The Challenge - would offer the \"largest cast and lump cash prize in reality TV history\".\n\n\"As [players] compete through a series of games inspired by the original show - plus surprising new additions - their strategies, alliances, and character will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them,\" it added.\n\nParticipants need to be at least 21 years old. They must speak English, and be available for up to 4 weeks in early 2023 for filming.\n\nThe 456 participants are a nod to the fictional series, which features the same number of players, with its main protagonist Seong Gi-hun also referred to as Player 456.\n\nThe South Korean thriller series tells the story of debt-ridden people competing for a huge cash prize in a deadly series of children's games.\n\nIt holds the record as Netflix's most-popular series of all time, and it was streamed by 111 million users in its first 28 days of its launch.\n\nDirector, writer and executive producer of Squid Game Hwang Dong-hyuk said in a statement on Monday: \"It took 12 years to bring the first season of Squid Game to life last year. But it took 12 days for Squid Game to become the most popular Netflix series ever.\"\n\nNetflix faces intense competition from streaming rivals, but was also hit after it raised prices and left Russia.\n\nIn April, it revealed a sharp drop in subscribers and warned millions more are set to quit the streaming service.\n\nThis wiped more than $50bn off the firm's market value as experts warned it faced a struggle to get back on track.", "In a field about six miles from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the J9 army unit is doing its grim job - digging up bodies of Russian soldiers.\n\nIn a shallow mass grave under a tree, there are six dead, piled on top of one another in a rough heap. No one here knows who buried them - local residents or retreating Russians.\n\nThe bodies are swarmed by flies and the smell is overpowering, but the members of the J9 unit and the two diggers who help them are unfazed. They are used to it.\n\nThe J9 soldiers and gravediggers, including Yurii (front right), carry the bodies out Image caption: The J9 soldiers and gravediggers, including Yurii (front right), carry the bodies out\n\nYurii, one of the gravediggers, got this job after he found five bodies buried in his own garden in a different village, and called the J9 unit to dig them up.\n\n\"I helped them dig and they liked the way I worked, because I was a gravedigger before, so now I'm helping them,\" he said.\n\nThat means going from village to village, every day, exhuming bodies - Ukrainians and Russians. These dead Russians will be taken to the morgue, sampled for identification, and eventually swapped for Ukrainian dead.\n\nYurii served in the army in the Soviet Union. \"Someone is waiting for these men – their fathers and mothers, children,\" he said. “I understand that.”", "The average person in Pakistan consumes 1kg of tea each year, according to estimates\n\nPeople in Pakistan have been asked to reduce the amount of tea they drink to keep the country's economy afloat.\n\nThe country's low foreign currency reserves - currently enough for fewer than two months of all imports - have left it in urgent need of funds.\n\nPakistan is the world's largest importer of tea, buying in more than $600m (£501m) worth last year.\n\n\"I appeal to the nation to cut down the consumption of tea by one to two cups because we import tea on loan,\" Mr Iqbal said, according to Pakistani media.\n\nBusiness traders could also close their market stalls at 20:30 to save electricity, he suggested.\n\nThe plea came as Pakistan's foreign currency reserves continue to fall rapidly - putting pressure on the government to cut high import costs and keep funds in the country.\n\nThe request to reduce tea drinking has gone viral on social media, with many doubting the country's serious financial problems can be addressed by cutting out the caffeinated beverage.\n\nPakistan's foreign exchange reserves dropped from around $16bn (£13.4bn) in February to less than $10bn (£8.3bn) in the first week of June, barely enough to cover the cost of two months of all its imports.\n\nLast month officials in Islamabad restricted the import of dozens of non-essential luxury items as part of their bid to protect funds.\n\nThe economic crisis is a major test for the government of Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Imran Khan as Pakistan's prime minister in a parliamentary vote in April.\n\nShortly after being sworn in, Mr Sharif accused Imran Khan's outgoing government of mismanaging the economy and said putting it back on track would be a huge challenge.\n\nLast week his cabinet unveiled a fresh $47bn (£39bn) budget aimed at convincing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to restart a stalled $6bn (£5bn) bailout programme.\n\nThe IMF deal was negotiated in 2019 to ease an economic crisis created by low foreign currency reserve supplies and years of stagnating growth - but was later paused after lenders questioned Pakistan's finances.", "The Bridge Inn in Topsham, Devon has an unusual parlour behind the main serving area\n\nEleven pubs across England have been recognised for their historic or unusual interiors.\n\nThe pubs have been listed, upgraded or relisted by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.\n\nThe Grade II Bridge Inn in Topsham, Devon is among those relisted.\n\nHistoric England said the interiors help \"tell the fascinating story of pubs over the centuries and how they reflected society\".\n\nThe other pubs can be found in Leeds, London, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Lancashire.\n\nWhitelock's Ale House was described by poet John Betjeman as \"the very heart of Leeds\"\n\nThe Bridge Inn has been run by the same family since 1897 and retains many of its historic features.\n\nIt includes a panelled corridor, rare historic glazed advertising, a stone fireplace and a hatch through which drinks are fetched.\n\nIt has been relisted to update the way it was described on the National Heritage List, which was written 30 years ago.\n\nThe Black Horse in Preston is an example of a Victorian urban pub building\n\nThe list of pubs was put forward by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Pub Heritage Group, as part of a collaboration with Historic England.\n\nDuncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England said: \"At a time when many historic pubs in England are susceptible to change or at risk of closure, we are pleased to celebrate pubs that have kept their remarkable interiors.\n\n\"These rare interiors help tell the fascinating story of pubs over the centuries and how they reflected society.\"\n\nThe Harrow Inn near Petersfield retains historical features including informal bar hatches, rather than bar fronts\n\nKings Head (Low House) in Laxfield, Suffolk, dates from the 16th Century\n\nHeritage Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"Our historic pubs are national institutions that have sat at the heart of local communities for generations, bringing people together and shining a light on our shared past.\n\n\"These listings recognise and celebrate the importance of the local pub to people across the country and will make sure their legacy endures for many years to come.\"\n\nThe Prince Alfred in Maida Vale, London has a lavish interior\n\nThe Victoria in great Harwood, Lancashire has a lobby, drinking corridor and staircase with full-height Art Nouveau tiling with flower motifs\n\nHistoric England said Grade II buildings are of \"special interest\", with Grade II* being \"particularly important buildings of more than special interest\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ria Evans was sentenced to 24 weeks for assaulting a police officer\n\nA hospital patient has been jailed for spitting in a police officer's face.\n\nRia Evans, 41, became aggressive towards staff and other patients at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital while waiting for treatment on 5 June.\n\nShe was escorted outside by security and later spat in the face of a female police officer who was trying to calm her down, South Wales Police said.\n\nEvans, of Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, was jailed for 24 weeks at Merthyr Crown Court for assaulting a police officer.\n\nSupt Matt Codd said protecting officers was a priority for the force.\n\nHe said: \"Assaulting an officer who is trying to carry out their duties - in this instance offering to try to help the woman involved - won't be tolerated.\n\n\"Assaults on police officers and front-line staff have a significant impact on individuals both physically and psychologically.\"\n\nHospital security called police after escorting Evans out of the building\n\nHe added: \"Whilst the nature of policing is such that it requires officers to handle difficult and hostile situations, assaults upon them are serious matters and wholly unacceptable.\n\n\"We are committed to preventing and decreasing the number of assaults on our staff and an effective way of achieving this is to ensure perpetrators of assaults on police, without fail, are arrested, charged and put before the courts.\"", "ScotRail says it will have to cancel more than 90% of its usual services when a UK-wide strike by signal workers takes place next week.\n\nMembers of the RMT union working for Network Rail are due to take action next Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.\n\nScotRail says it will only be able to run about 180 services on five routes in the central belt, and warns there will also be disruption on other days.\n\nThe train operator usually operates 2,150 services on its full timetable.\n\nIt is currently running a reduced timetable of about 1,500 services due to a separate pay dispute with the drivers' union Aslef, which is now asking its members to accept a revised deal.\n\nOn the strike days of 21, 23 and 25 June, ScotRail will only run trains on the routes from Edinburgh to Glasgow via Falkirk High; Edinburgh to Bathgate; Glasgow to Hamilton/Larkhall; Glasgow to Lanark; Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.\n\nRail lines will only be open between 07:30 and 18:30, and ScotRail says the last trains will depart well before 18.30. Information for passengers will be available on its website.\n\nOther operators will also run some trains on the east coast and west coast mainlines.\n\nScotRail's service delivery director David Simpson said: \"Customers should expect significant disruption to services next week, including on the days between strike action.\n\n\"On the five routes where we are able to operate a very limited service on strike days, we're advising customers to seek alternative means of transport and to only travel if they really need to.\"\n\nEvents happening in Scotland on the strike days include the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh, which runs from 23 June to 26 June, and a Barry Manilow concert at the Hydro in Glasgow on 23 June.\n\nThe industrial action, which has been described as the \"biggest rail strike in modern history\", is expected to involve more than 40,000 RMT members.\n\nThis includes staff working for Network Rail Scotland and cross-border train operators LNER, CrossCounty, Avanti West Coast and TransPennine Express.\n\nAlthough ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper staff are not participating in the strike, their services will also be disrupted.\n\nThe signal workers are employed by Network Rail, which manages most of the UK's railway tracks and stations.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland's route director Liam Sumpter said: \"We understand the disruption this strike will cause and apologise to passengers for the impact on their journeys.\n\n\"We are continuing talks with our trade unions to seek a compromise that would avoid this damaging strike action.\"\n\nThe RMT has said it is open to meaningful negotiations, and that its members have been subject to pay freezes, threats to jobs and attacks on their terms and conditions.\n\nThe action is separate to the dispute between ScotRail and the Aslef union, which has seen hundreds of trains cancelled each day after many drivers opted not to work overtime.\n\nSome late night rail services resumed after a breakthrough in pay talks last week.\n\nAslef says it is now recommending that its members accept the deal on the table. Results of the ballot should be known on 11 July.", "Germany has accused Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom of attempting to push up energy prices by sharply reducing supplies.\n\nGazprom said it was limiting the amount of gas to Germany to under 70m cubic metres per day - well under half the current rate.\n\nThe reason it gave was to service equipment in the Nord Stream pipeline.\n\nBut German economy minister Robert Habeck said it was \"a political decision\" and not a technical one.\n\n\"It is obviously a strategy to unsettle and drive up prices.\"\n\nGazprom said initially on Tuesday it was cutting the Nord Stream 1 gas flow from 167m cubic metres a day to 100m but then on Wednesday announced it would be cut further to 67m cubic metres.\n\nGazprom also reduced its gas supply to Italy by around 15% on Wednesday, energy firm ENI said. Italy, like Germany, is heavily reliant on Russian gas, which accounts for 40% of its imports.\n\nThe Russian company's move came two weeks after European Union leaders agreed to block most Russian oil imports by the end of 2022 to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine.\n\nPoland, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands have already had their Russian natural gas deliveries suspended after they refused a demand for \"unfriendly countries\" to pay in Russian roubles.\n\nRussia's payment demand was seen as an attempt to boost the rouble after it was hit by Western sanctions. Greater foreign exchange demand for roubles was likely to increase demand and push up the currency's value.\n\nMr Habeck said Russia's actions showed European countries needed to end their dependency on fossil fuels urgently. In February, Germany suspended the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, shortly before Russia launched its war in Ukraine.\n\nThe minister said he would wait to see how the move affected the European and German gas markets but said suppliers had always managed to find gas from other sources.\n\n\"We don't have a supply problem in Germany either,\" he said. \"Gas will probably continue to be stored. We have made very good progress in this area in the last few days and weeks.\n\n\"However, we will certainly have to wait two or three days to get a complete overview of how things are developing now.\"\n\nIn another development on Wednesday, the EU signed a framework agreement with Israel and Egypt aimed at increasing the amount of Israeli natural gas exported to European countries.", "After progress was made in pay talks with Aslef, more weeknight trains have been added\n\nScotRail has confirmed the return of some late night rail services after Thursday's breakthrough in pay talks with its drivers.\n\nWeeknight services will be extended from next week following a review of the current temporary timetable.\n\nPassengers have struggled for two weeks after more than 700 services were cut.\n\nDrivers had refused to work on rest days during the dispute between ScotRail and Aslef. The union has now agreed a 5% pay deal in principle.\n\nScotRail's temporary timetable was introduced on 23 May \"to provide greater certainty and reliability for customers\" after Aslef said it would ballot for industrial action over pay.\n\nUnder the first version of ScotRail's temporary timetable, the last train from Edinburgh to Glasgow left at 22:15 instead of 23:45.\n\nThe last service from Glasgow to Stirling left at 19:49, and to get from Glasgow to Aberdeen travellers had to head to the station for 18:41 instead of 21:40.\n\nOn 28 May, ScotRail began to reintroduce additional late evening trains on Fridays and Saturdays.\n\nThe latest announcement will mean late services return Monday to Saturday.\n\nScotRail hopes later services will help support the night-time economy and ease pressure for shift workers across the country while the temporary timetable remains in place.\n\nThe train operator is also reviewing changes it can make to rural services in Inverness and will provide an update as soon as possible.\n\nDavid Simpson, ScotRail's service delivery director, said: \"While running a temporary timetable is frustrating, it's encouraging that we have made progress with driver pay talks, and I'm pleased we can extend the use of late-night services for customers.\n\n\"We have listened to the feedback from customers and businesses and have acted.\n\n\"The temporary timetable is providing customers with greater certainty and reliability as we seek to reach agreement with Aslef.\"\n\nThe operator has been adding more trains since its emergency timetable was introduced on 23 May\n\nOn Thursday, ScotRail confirmed it had made progress with driver pay talks after the operator made an improved offer to resolve the dispute.\n\nMembers will now vote in a referendum on whether to accept the 5% increase after rejecting offers of 2% and 4.2%. Aslef has recommend acceptance of the offer.\n\nMeanwhile, the RMT union said it had not rejected a similar pay offer to its members.\n\nThe union, which represents other rail workers, said no decision had been taken on whether to ballot for strike action.\n\nFollowing negotiations, ScotRail said RMT officials had rejected the offer, describing the move as \"frustrating\".\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"This matter has not been considered by our national executive committee and will be put before them next week so they can make a decision.\"", "Happy the elephant must remain in the Bronx Zoo, a judge has ruled\n\nHappy the elephant, a long-time resident of the Bronx Zoo, must remain there after a New York court ruled she is not legally a person under US law.\n\nOn Tuesday, the state's highest court voted 5-2 to reject an animal rights group's argument that Happy was being illegally confined at the zoo.\n\nWhile elephants are \"impressive\", the court said, they are not entitled to the same liberty rights as humans.\n\nThe animal rights group sought to have Happy moved to an elephant sanctuary.\n\nThe court dispute centred on whether the legal principle of habeas corpus - which guards against illegal detention - should be extended to emotionally complex and intelligent animals.\n\n\"While no one disputes the impressive capabilities of elephants, we reject petitioner's arguments that it is entitled to seek the remedy of habeas corpus on Happy's behalf,\" wrote Chief Judge Janet DiFiore on behalf of the majority.\n\n\"Habeas corpus is a procedural vehicle intended to secure the liberty rights of human beings who are unlawfully restrained, not nonhuman animals.\"\n\nThe decision follows that of lower courts which had repeatedly taken the side of the Bronx Zoo in the case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project, a New York-based legal non-profit.\n\nThe group had pushed to remove the 51-year-old elephant from the Bronx Zoo, saying she was imprisoned in her one-acre enclosure.\n\nBut the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, rejected this description, saying Happy and her fellow elephant at the zoo are well cared for. It did not respond immediately to a request for comment following the ruling.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the Nonhuman Rights Project celebrated the decision's dissenting opinions, calling them \"powerful\" and adding that it planned to use them in another elephant rights case underway in California.\n\nIn her dissent, Judge Jenny Rivera wrote: \"[Happy's] captivity is inherently unjust and inhumane. It is an affront to a civilized society, and every day she remains a captive—a spectacle for humans—we, too, are diminished.\"\n\nHappy was born in the wild in Thailand in the 1970s, captured and brought to the US when she was about one. She has lived at the Bronx Zoo since 1977.\n\nShe is one of two remaining elephants at the zoo, which has said it will eventually end its captive elephant programme.", "As the WNBA season continues without her, fans and players alike have pushed for her safe return\n\nUS basketball star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia has been extended again, Russian state media report.\n\nThe Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player will remain in detention until at least 2 July, reports Tass.\n\nThe Phoenix Mercury star was detained on 17 February at a Moscow-area airport after cannabis oil was allegedly found in her luggage.\n\nMs Griner, 31, could face 10 years in prison if convicted on drug charges.\n\nOn Tuesday, her detention was extended for an additional 18 days at \"the request of the investigation\", according to a representative from the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region, reports Tass.\n\nA Russian court previously extended her time in custody until 19 May and then again until mid-June, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.\n\nRepresentatives for Ms Griner did not respond to requests for comment but her agent, Lindsay Colas, wrote on Twitter that the extension was \"further reinforcement that Brittney Griner - an Olympian and an American citizen - is being used as a political pawn\".\n\n\"Her detention is inhumane and unacceptable.\"\n\nAccording to Ms Colas, the WNBA star has not had a single phone call in her nearly four months of detention.\n\nA US representative last met with Ms Griner on 19 May, the State Department said, and reported she was doing \"as well as can be expected\".\n\nState department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday that Ms Griner \"should not be detained for a single day longer\".\n\n\"Our position for some time on this has been very clear: Brittney Griner should not be detained,\" Mr Price said in response to questions about her case.\n\nLast month, nearly 100 days after she was held, the state department designated Ms Griner as \"wrongfully detained\".\n\nState department officials, including a representative from a hostage affairs unit, met on Monday with Ms Griner's WNBA team-mates to discuss the administration's work to bring her home.\n\n\"There is a lot involved in getting her back home and safe, they're working relentlessly,\" Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi said after the meeting, in a statement released by the team.\n\n\"We're here to do whatever we can to amplify and keep BG at the forefront, which is more important than any basketball game and anything else that's going on in our lives.\"\n\nMs Griner is rated as one of the best female basketball players in history\n\nThe current WNBA season, which would have been Ms Griner's eighth, has been marked by her absence. A three-time league champion and seven-time All-Star, she is considered one of the most dominant players in her sport's history.\n\nIn recent weeks players in both the women's and men's leagues have intensified calls for her release, many wearing clothing with her Mercury jersey number - 42 - and the phrase \"We Are BG\".\n\nMs Griner's loved ones and fellow basketball players have been able to communicate with her through email. The emails are printed out and delivered to her by her lawyer after they are examined by Russian officials.\n\nMs Griner had initially travelled to Russia to play for EuroLeague team UMMC Ekaterinburg, where she had worked since 2014 during the US off-season. Roughly half of WNBA players compete overseas in the off-season.\n\nFor most, it's a way to augment their domestic income: WNBA players receive roughly five times more in Russia than they do in the US.", "Up to seven people had been expected to be moved to Rwanda on Tuesday evening\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart has told Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford to \"put his own house in order\" before lecturing Tory ministers on humanity.\n\nWelsh Labour's leader described the refugee flights to Rwanda as \"cruel, inhumane and a dark day for the UK\".\n\nMr Hart said that the experience of some patients using the Welsh NHS amounted to inhumanity, with eight hour waits for ambulances.\n\nUK ministers say taking some asylum seekers who cross the English Channel to the UK to claim asylum in Rwanda will discourage others from crossing the Channel.\n\nThe first flight to take asylum seekers to East Africa was cancelled minutes before take-off on Tuesday, after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nUp to seven people had been expected to be removed to Rwanda on the Boeing 767, and Home Secretary Priti Patel has said preparation for the next flight is beginning now.\n\nCondemning the policy on Tuesday, Mr Drakeford tweeted: \"Today is a dark day for the UK.\n\n\"This policy is a new low for the UK government - and a cruel and inhumane response to those seeking safety and sanctuary in our country.\n\n\"It is in stark contrast to Wales' position as a nation of sanctuary.\"\n\nAt a Wales Office media briefing on Wednesday, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP Mr Hart asked the first minister to visit a hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\nHe said: \"Can I suggest he comes to Withybush Hospital and look at the care his NHS is giving my constituents?\n\n\"They are waiting for an ambulance for eight hours, they cannot get a doctor's appointment even when the surgery says that they need one.\n\n\"If he wants to talk about humanity and cruelty I am very happy to talk in public with him about his treatment of the people of Wales.\"\n\nMr Hart suggested that the first minister stick to policy areas controlled by the Welsh government.\n\n\"Rwanda is a reserved matter [controlled by the UK government],\" he said.\n\n\"My suggestion is he gets his humanitarian house in order on his own doorstep.\"\n\nWelsh Economy Minister, Vaughan Gething said it was \"extraordinary to try to compare the way that a modern health service works with an immoral policy that has been condemned by the leadership of every major faith in the UK and to try to say the two are equivalent - they're simply not\".\n\nHe told BBC Wales half a million pounds had been \"wasted on the first abortive flight\".\n\n\"The UK should really think about what sort of country do we want to be, what message do we want to send to people around the world and, crucially, how do we make the best use of public monies?\" Mr Gething said.\n\nEarlier, a Welsh government spokesperson described Mr Hart's comments as \"completely unacceptable\" and \"hugely inappropriate and disrespectful to the life-saving and life-changing work people receive from the NHS every day across Wales and the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hart also confirmed that the Wales Office had not been consulted about the controversial appointment of Welsh businessman David Buttress as the UK government's new cost of living tsar.\n\nMr Buttress is a prominent supporter of Welsh independence and a long-standing and vocal critic of Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Hart said he would nonetheless not have expected to have been consulted given the \"dozens\" of government appointments each day, and he extolled the virtues of a \"broad church\" of opinion.\n\nMr Buttress starts his unpaid six-month role in July and is understood to be looking at a UK-wide discount scheme with major retailers for parents buying school uniform in the summer.", "James Patterson has topped Forbes' best paid authors list several times\n\nAuthor James Patterson has apologised for saying older white writers face \"just another form of racism\", which makes it harder for them to find work.\n\nThe best-selling US writer made his comments to The Sunday Times last week.\n\nBut following a backlash, he posted an apology and said he did not actually think white writers suffered racism.\n\n\"I apologise for saying white male writers having trouble finding work is a form of racism,\" the 75-year-old wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.\n\n\"I absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers.\n\n\"Please know that I strongly support a diversity of voices being heard - in literature, in Hollywood, everywhere.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by James Patterson This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nPatterson is one of the world's most successful authors, having sold roughly 450 million books - thrillers, non-fiction and romance novels - over several decades.\n\nHe was the best-selling author of adult fiction in the UK in 2020, according to Nielsen Book Research, and was recently announced as the most-borrowed author from British libraries for the 14th year in a row.\n\nHis best-known works include the Women's Murder Club novel series and another series about Alex Cross, a black detective and psychologist, portrayed by actors Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry in film adaptations.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, Patterson said he worries that it is hard for white men to find writing jobs in film, TV, theatre and publishing.\n\n\"What's that all about?\" Patterson said. \"Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It's even harder for older writers. You don't meet many 52-year-old white males.\"\n\nMany people online took umbrage at the comments. Author Keith Boykin, who wrote Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, noted on Twitter that \"as recently as 2020, the heads of all big five publishing houses were white\", and around three quarters of published authors are white.\n\nFrederick Joseph, author of The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person, offered: \"From a Black man who has had over 50 rejections of books (all of which are now bestsellers) because white editors don't understand them or 'already have Black male authors'… shut up.\"\n\nDr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This Is Why I Resist, described Patterson's \"false equivalence\" of racism as \"white supremacy personified\". She said: \"He's missing good old days when White men had ALL the writing gigs?\"\n\nRebecca Carroll, whose memoir was titled Surviving the White Gaze, added: \"Imagine being born the year Jackie Robinson was the first Black MLB [Major League Baseball] player in history, and then growing up to be one of the richest authors in America talking about struggles for white men is 'another form of racism'.\"\n\nArtist and cartoonist Shing Yin Khor said Patterson and other celebrities had \"ridden their waves of privilege far beyond their own skill levels\".\n\nHell of a Book author Jason Mott was left almost speechless.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Mott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scotland must \"forge a way forward\" to a referendum, without section 30 order \"if necessary\", Nicola Sturgeon said\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled what she called a \"refreshed\" case for independence.\n\nShe told a press conference in Edinburgh that her government had an \"indisputable mandate\" for a second independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon was launching the first of a series of papers setting out the case to break away from the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the 2014 referendum result should be respected.\n\nAnd opposition parties accused the Scottish government of being obsessed with independence.\n\nThe first minister said it was now time to set out \"a different and better vision\" for Scotland.\n\nShe said it was time to talk abut independence and then to make that choice.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted she won last May's election with a \"clear commitment to give the people of Scotland the choice of becoming an independent country\", and that Holyrood had a \"decisive majority\" of MSPs in favour of independence.\n\n\"The Scottish Parliament therefore has an indisputable democratic mandate,\" she added.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie at the launch of the new paper\n\nHowever, she conceded that a future referendum faced challenges, including what she described as an issue of process. She said Holyrood's power to hold a vote was \"contested\".\n\nIf a referendum bill was introduced without Westminster agreement it could be challenged in the courts.\n\nBefore the 2014 referendum, the Scottish government struck an agreement with the UK government which transferred authority on a temporary basis to Holyrood. This was called a section 30 order.\n\nThe UK government has so far shown no indication that it would be willing to do so again.\n\nMs Sturgeon said any referendum \"must be lawful\", and that only parties opposed to independence would benefit from doubt about the process.\n\n\"If this UK government had any respect at all for democracy, the issue of legality would be put beyond doubt, as in 2014,\" she added.\n\nAn agreement was reached between the Scottish and UK governments ahead of the 2014 referendum,\n\nShe said she had made clear to Boris Johnson that she was \"ready to discuss the terms of such an order at any time\".\n\nThe first minister said her government had a mandate for another referendum, adding: \"If we are to uphold democracy here in Scotland, we must forge a way forward if necessary without a section 30 order.\"\n\nAn update on the Scottish government's plans for holding a referendum would follow soon, she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the independence papers would set the scene for the debate about Scotland's future in the UK.\n\nShe said they would cover how Scotland can benefit from the \"massive opportunities\" independence would present, but also address the challenges and not shy away from tough questions.\n\nShe said independence would put \"the levers that determine success into our own hands\", and away from Westminster - which was taking Scotland \"in the wrong direction\".\n\nThe first paper - called Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer: Why Not Scotland? - makes comparisons between Scotland and other European countries - all of which Ms Sturgeon said were independent, wealthier and fairer than the UK.\n\nSubsequent papers will look at a areas including currency, tax and spend, defence, social security and pensions, and EU membership and trade.\n\nMs Sturgeon was joined at the press conference by Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Green Party and a member of the Scottish cabinet.\n\nThe SNP and the Greens are both pro-independence and struck a power sharing arrangement at Holyrood after last year's election.\n\nMr Harvie said Scotland \"could chart a different future\" with independence and set out a vision for a greener, fairer and more prosperous Scotland.\n\nBoris Johnson said the 2014 result should be respected. He said the UK government should focus on the economy and Covid recovery, adding: \"That's the focus of the government. We're working with our friends in the Scottish government, in the Scottish administration, on those issues.\"\n\nAt Holyrood, the presiding officer stopped a minister from making a statement to MSPs on Tuesday afternoon because the details had already been released to the media.\n\nAlison Johnstone said the \"benefits of independence\" announcement should have been made in the chamber first \"as a matter of courtesy and respect to the parliament\".\n\nShe skipped instead to response from Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who said energy was being wasted on the wrong priorities.\n\nHe said: \"Pushing for another divisive referendum... is the wrong priority, at the worst possible time.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Ms Sturgeon's speech was \"a disappointing return to the politics of the past\", adding that the majority were opposed to independence.\n\nHe said the first minister should not \"turn her back\" on important issues in order to \"focus on her own obsession\" with independence.\n\nAlex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Lib Dem leader, said the first minister \"must be wired to the moon if she thinks that breaking up the UK is the priority for people\".\n\nWhy is this renewed push for independence happening? The answer is simple. The people of Scotland voted for it. Of course there is plenty of opposition to, and concern about, a second independence referendum but it remains an inescapable fact that in last year's elections to the Scottish Parliament voters returned a majority of MSPs, both SNP and Green, who had pledged to hold one.\n\nWhen this happened in 2011, there was a referendum. If that was the accepted trigger then, why is it not the trigger now?\n\nThat is primarily a question for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The SNP's argument is that if his Conservative Party previously regarded a majority at Holyrood as a mandate for a poll, why is he thwarting the will of Scotland's voters now?\n\nToday the SNP leader did not or could not detail the alternative path she intends to follow if Mr Johnson persists in his refusal.\n\nThere are also difficult questions for both Ms Sturgeon and Mr Johnson about the \"why\" as well as the \"how\" of independence.\n\nIndependence is never far from the surface in Scottish politics. It is the principle fault line. The great divide.\n\nThe question will persist unless and until a) independence actually happens or b) the public tire of the political parties that promote it.\n\nNeither of those possibilities seem very likely anytime soon and so the debate continues.\n\nIt was largely put on hold during the pandemic but when the SNP won the Holyrood election in 2021, they did so having promised another referendum.\n\nTogether with the Scottish Greens who share power with them in the Scottish government, they have a majority in parliament for indyref2.\n\nWhat they do not have is the explicit power to hold a vote.\n• None Independence in the Modern World. Wealthier, Happier, Fairer- Why Not Scotland- - gov.scot The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People relax in the sun on the grass at the Royal Crescent, Bath, on Monday\n\nA heat health alert has been issued for parts of England, as the UK gets set for its hottest days of the year so far.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to reach 33C (91.4F) in parts of the south-east of England on Friday as hot air spreads up from Spain, Portugal and north Africa.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency issued a level two alert for southern and central England - the first this year.\n\nIt means high temperatures could affect the public's health.\n\nThe Met Office has already warned sunbathers to \"avoid overdoing it\" and stay out of the sun in the midday hours.\n\n\"[It will be] the first hot spell of weather of the year for some parts of the country,\" said the Met Office's Alex Deakin. \"But quite a contrast, it's not going to be hot and sunny everywhere.\"\n\nHe said temperatures will be \"ticking up day on day\" from Wednesday, with highs of 28C (82.4F) expected across the South East - although just 15C (59F) across the far north-west of the UK.\n\nThe peak of the temperatures is set to be Friday, when the South East could see up to 33C (91.4F) around north London and Cambridge, accompanied by high UV levels and high pollen levels. In the east of Scotland, temperatures could hit the mid-20s.\n\nBut temperatures would need to beat 35.6C (96.1F) to break the record for the UK's hottest June day, which was recorded in Southampton in 1976.\n\nIt comes as parts of Europe are also experiencing extreme heat - with Spain in the grip of a heatwave as temperatures top 40C, and the hot weather set to spread to parts of southern France from Tuesday.\n\nA dolphin flicks up a small flat fish at the mouth of the Tyne at Tynemouth on the north-east English coast on Tuesday\n\nThe level two heat health alert - issued by the UK Health Security Agency - is the first one of this year. They are issued to help people, including health workers, prepare for conditions potentially posing a threat to health.\n\nThe alert comes into force from 00:01 BST on Friday to 00:01 on Sunday, and covers the East Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West regions.\n\nA separate level one alert - the \"minimum state of vigilance\" - has been issued for northern England.\n\n\"It is especially important to keep checking on those who are most vulnerable, such as older people and those with heart or lung conditions,\" said Dr Agostinho Sousa from the UKHSA. \"Make sure to look out for signs of heat exhaustion and follow our simple health advice to beat the heat.''\n\nThe hottest day of the year may come as early as Wednesday or Thursday, BBC Weather's Sarah Keith-Lucas said.\n\nBut from Saturday the picture is more uncertain, she said, with a cold front sweeping in from north to south pushing away the hot air and threatening heavy downpours and thunderstorms.\n\n\"However, the timing and detail of the change to cooler, wetter weather is still uncertain at this stage,\" she said. \"The heat may linger for a day longer in the South East.\"\n\nEndangered Asian elephants Beth and her mother Karishma cool down in their pool at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire\n\nA BBC Weather Watcher sent in this picture from Loose in Kent on Tuesday morning\n\nAn official heatwave is not out of the question, which is when at least three consecutive days have daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.\n\nThe threshold varies by county, and in the UK's is between 25C and 28C depending on the part of the country. The threshold was raised by 1C in some areas earlier this year.\n\nExperts say that while heatwaves are extreme weather events, scientific research shows that climate change is making these events more likely.\n\nThe Met Office has not yet issued a weather warning for extreme heat, which it did for the first time ever last July.\n\nBut animal charities have urged pet owners to be careful. The RSPCA warned of the dangers of walking dogs hot weather, while the Blue Cross urged cat owners to be careful when leaving windows open after a kitten fell from three storeys and fractured her leg.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMet Office forecaster Craig Snell previously told the PA news agency: \"Very high UV levels are expected in the south this week, meaning people should really avoid being in the sun during the midday hours.\n\n\"Wearing sunglasses, a shirt, a hat and sunscreen are essential to protect the eyes and skin, and drinking lots of water is important - long exposure to the sun can be dangerous.\n\n\"People should avoid overdoing it. We all love the sunny weather, but being sensible can help you avoid a nasty sunburn.\"\n\nLifeboat charity the RNLI is urging anyone heading to the coast to choose a beach where there are lifeguards and to swim between the red and yellow flags.\n\n\"If you get into trouble in the water, Float to Live: lean back, using your arms and legs to stay afloat. Control your breathing, then call for help or swim to safety,\" it said. \"In a coastal emergency, call 999 or 112 for the Coastguard.\"\n\nThe Royal Life Saving Society UK which promotes water safety has issued a plea to those looking to cool off in water, urging people to understand the dangers of drowning.\n\nLee Heard of RLSS UK said: \"Ahead of the expected 30C temperatures in the coming week and with June, July, and August proving to be the months with the most fatalities, it is vitally important that everyone has an understanding of water safety, especially during the summer months.\n\n\"We have seen a rise in the number of drownings over the last few years, with peaks during the summer.\"", "The World Health Organization says it is working with experts to come up with a new name for monkeypox.\n\nIt comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the \"urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising\" name for the virus and the disease it causes.\n\nContinued reference to the virus as African is both inaccurate and discriminatory, they said.\n\nSome 1,600 cases of the disease have been recorded globally in recent weeks.\n\nWhile 72 deaths have been reported in countries where monkeypox was already endemic, none have been seen in the newly affected 32 countries, such as the UK.\n\nAt the latest count, as of 12 June, there were 452 confirmed cases in England, 12 in Scotland, 2 in Northern Ireland and 4 in Wales.\n\nWatch What Is Monkeypox? on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe World Health Organization says it will hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern - the highest alarm the UN agency can sound.\n\nThe only other diseases this has happened for in the past are Swine flu, polio, Ebola, Zika and Covid.\n\nWorld Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: \"The outbreak of monkeypox is unusual and concerning.\n\n\"For that reason I have decided to convene the Emergency Committee under the international health regulations next week, to assess whether this outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.\"\n\nMonkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe.\n\nOne new name for it that's been suggested by scientists is hMPXV, but we'll need to wait to hear what the WHO thinks of that.\n\nInfections are usually mild and the risk to the general population is low, but the UK government has bought stocks of smallpox vaccine to guard against more cases.\n\nThe virus has been spreading in an unusual manner around the world in recent months. Previous outbreaks have been mainly confined to parts of Africa where rodents - not monkeys - are thought to be the main animal host.\n\nThe infection causes a rash that looks a bit like chickenpox. The virus can be spread when someone is in close contact with an infected person.\n\nIt has not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by close contact.\n\nAnyone with the virus should abstain from sex while they have symptoms.\n• None What is monkeypox and how do you catch it?", "For travellers, the past fortnight has brought a tidal wave of bad news.\n\nCancelled flights, proposed rail strikes and record-breaking petrol prices have thrown people's plans into disarray - and now the peak summer holiday season and the long school break are hovering on the horizon.\n\nAfter more than two years of Covid restrictions, this should be a summer of fun.\n\nBut are we now heading into a summer of misery?\n\nWe take a look at where things stand for planes and trains over the weeks ahead.\n\nThe UK air travel industry has just faced what is arguably its biggest test since coronavirus rules were lifted and it is fair to say, it has been a bumpy ride.\n\nOver the Jubilee bank holiday, which coincided with many schools' half-term breaks, 750 flights out of the UK were cancelled, according to aviation data firm Cirium. Around 466 return flights were axed.\n\nAlthough cancellations made up a small percentage of total flights, many passengers were only informed at short notice and faced long queues to check-in bags and get through security.\n\nStaff shortages from job cuts made at the height of the pandemic have been driving cancellations and delays, heightening holidaymakers' anxiety that problems will continue into the key summer season.\n\nAdd to that the threat of strike action. British Airways workers have voted in favour of supporting industrial action, in a ballot conducted by the Unite union, while Ryanair is facing walkouts by staff in parts of Europe.\n\nJess Baker has been put off travelling abroad this summer after a recent \"nightmare\" 18-hour journey home from Iceland.\n\nShe, her husband Shaun and their two children had their EasyJet flight into Luton cancelled on Monday.\n\nThey were given the option to travel home on Thursday but needed to get back sooner so paid £1,000 to fly into Glasgow with Icelandair. They shelled out an additional £340 to hire a car to drive down to Luton to collect their own vehicle.\n\nJess Baker and her family had their EasyJet flight cancelled from Iceland to Luton\n\n\"It's been an absolute nightmare,\" says Ms Baker. \"We quickly decided that we'll go camping here instead. It's not worth the hassle all over again.\"\n\nOthers may have the same idea. Sykes Holiday Cottages says it has seen a 22% rise in bookings in the past two weeks compared to the same period last year.\n\nChief executive Graham Donoghue says it is \"at least in part due to widespread reports of overseas travel disruption\".\n\n\"Travellers simply don't want to have to tackle airports and take the risk that their family holidays could be cancelled,\" he says.\n\nSince cutting staff, airlines, airports and the companies that provide baggage handling have been recruiting but because new workers have to pass security checks, it takes time.\n\nHeathrow airport's boss John Holland-Kaye recently told the Financial Times it could take up to 18 months for the aviation sector to \"fully recover capacity\".\n\nAviation consultant Chris Tarry tells the BBC the situation should improve as more staff are security cleared, but he warns there are \"unlikely to be enough workers in certain areas given wages and working conditions\".\n\nAnd airports \"only work if all of the elements are in place\", he says.\n\nGlastonbury Festival returns this year on 22 June, but it might not be that easy to get there now rail strikes have been announced.\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT Union members from Network Rail and 13 train operators are set to walk out after talks over pay and redundancies broke down.\n\nThe strikes are due to take place on 21, 23 and 25 June but it is likely services across the whole week will be disrupted. Train drivers are also going to hold their own strikes over pay.\n\nPassengers have been advised not to travel on trains unless necessary during the strikes.\n\nZahid Fayyaz, a solicitor from Brixton who is planning to travel to Glastonbury by train, is worried about the impact the potential strikes might have.\n\nZahid Fayyaz is having to change his travel plans to get to Glastonbury Festival\n\nHe originally had a ticket for 23 June but because of the planned strike on that day he and his two friends have bought new tickets to travel the day before. It cost them £240 and an extra day off work.\n\n\"It's going to take an extra two hours, but aside from this I'll be fine. But other people won't be able to take time off work or afford the extra money,\" the 40-year-old says.\n\nMr Fayyaz says he is broadly sympathetic to the rail workers striking, but believes the \"timing is wrong\".\n\nGlastonbury Festival is one of several events impacted by potential travel disruption, along with a cricket test match between England and New Zealand in Leeds.\n\nSome people are switching their mode of transport to buses and coaches. Chris Hardy, managing director of National Express, said the firm had seen an increase in enquiries and bookings during the days of the rail strikes.\n\nThe walkout could yet be called off if all parties can reach an agreement.\n\nThat's what John Kuehne, from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, is hoping for.\n\nJohn Kuehne, a Yes fan from Florida, faces rail disruption during his trip to the UK\n\nHe's traveling to England along with many of his friends from around the world to see prog-rock legends Yes, who are performing at London's Royal Albert Hall on 21 June.\n\nBut \"everything is up in the air\" now, he says. \"Car rentals, parking, fuel, tolls, and congestion zone fees make it very expensive and inconvenient.\"\n\nMr Kuehne also happens to be arriving in the UK just as the cost of filling an average family car hit £100 for the first time.\n\nHe says labour disputes happen but that \"all sides need to come together quickly to find a reasonable solution\".\n\n\"What they do in the next two weeks will affect the lives of thousands of people who just want the wonderful experience of modern British mass transit.\"", "The decision has been taken not to try and protect Happisburgh in north Norfolk from sea level rises\n\nNearly 200,000 properties in England may have to be abandoned due to rising sea levels by 2050, a report says.\n\nIt looks at where water will cause most damage and whether defences are technically and financially feasible.\n\nThere is consensus among scientists that decades of sea level rise are inevitable and the government has said that not all properties can be saved.\n\nAbout a third of England's coast will be put under pressure by sea level rise, the report says.\n\n\"It just won't be possible to hold the line all around the coast,\" says the report's author Paul Sayers, an expert on flood and coastal risks, adding that tough decisions will have to be made about what it is realistic to protect.\n\n\"These are the places we are going to hold, and these are the places we're not going to hold, so we need that honest debate around how we're going to do that and support communities where they are affected.\"\n\nThe study is published in the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.\n\nSayers' report lists the South West, the North West and East Anglia among parts of England with the highest number of properties at risk of flooding. Raised sea levels not only increase the risk of flooding on the coast and in estuaries but also accelerate coastal erosion through larger more powerful waves.\n\nThe study for the first time looks at places where the costs of improving defences may be too high or technically impossible. It found that by 2050 assuming a conservative sea level rise caused by temperature increases of 2C by 2100, up to 160,000 properties are at risk of needing relocation. That's in addition to between 30,000 and 35,000 properties that have already been identified as at risk.\n\n\"There's no real engineering limit to how well we can protect ourselves, so for London for example, the Thames barrier and the all the walls and embankments, they continue to be raised in response to sea level rise.\" Sayers explained to BBC News on the beach at Happisburgh in north Norfolk.\n\n\"There's not going to be money, under current funding rules to protect everyone.\"\n\nHappisburgh, a small picturesque old Anglo-Saxon village with a distinct red-and-white-striped lighthouse, is unlikely to receive any more money for sea defences. And its coast is already crumbling fast.\n\nBryony Nierop-Reading has already been made homeless by coastal erosion once\n\nThe ground under Bryony Nierop-Reading's bungalow fell into the sea in 2013 and there's now a safety barrier across her street which ends abruptly at the top of the cliff.\n\n\"Road Closed\" the red-and-white sign says. On it are handwritten dates and numbers where for the past six months the 77-year-old has been documenting the retreating tarmac.\n\n\"Eight metres in December 2021, it's 3.4 metres now,\" she says with a sigh.\n\nBryony has good reason to monitor the erosion. When her bungalow was demolished, she chose to move just 50m up the road to a house that is also destined to crumble into the sea. \"It'll probably last until 2030,\" she says.\n\nBryony does not accept the decision from the district council that Happisburgh should not be protected by new sea defences. She points to a £20m project just up the coast where large amounts of sand have been dumped on the shore to protect a gas terminal.\n\n\"It's just such a feeble and unpatriotic attitude,\" she says. \"I think that we should be saying that our country, our land, our agricultural land, is sufficiently important that we need to divert funding to it.\"\n\nBryony has launched an organisation to try and attract renewed interest in some new sea defences.\n\n\"It's the Save Happisburgh Action Group,\" she tells me. \"The name Shag makes people snigger but a shag is a seabird who has to fight for survival against impossible odds. That's very appropriate for Happisburgh.\"\n\nBryony's view is not universally held in Happisburgh. And hers is not the only campaign group.\n\nMalcolm Kerby helped organise the \"roll-back\" of homes at risk from the sea\n\n\"The sea is very powerful. Even more powerful than Boris Johnson,\" says the booming voice of Malcolm Kirby, one of the founders of Happisburgh's Coastal Action Group.\n\nMalcolm is 81 and has been involved in finding a solution for Happisburgh's erosion problem for more than 20 years. Back in 2009, he helped devise a government-backed \"Pathfinder\" project whereby the owners of homes that were about to fall into the sea were offered market price by the government and helped to resettle further inland. He calls it \"roll-back\".\n\n\"You either commit to spending billions over an extended period,\" he says. \"Or you say OK in the light of what's coming with climate change and sea level rise we will do a properly managed withdrawal and look after the people as we go.\"\n\nParts of Happisburgh have already crumbled into the sea\n\nHappisburgh's Pathfinder project is now being looked at as an example of how the rest of the UK might adapt. Along with East Yorkshire, north Norfolk has been chosen to be part of a £36m Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme which will look at a ideas such as establishing \"green buffer zones\" between communities and facilitating the \"managed transition of communities from high-risk land\".\n\nAt Happisburgh's pub, landlord Clive Stockton says the realisation that the village will slowly fall into the sea casts a long shadow.\n\n\"As soon as the decision is made that there is no defence, then all normal commercial transactions, whether it be commercial loans for businesses or insurance stop existing,\" he says.\n\n\"The problem doesn't just start when the properties start to go over the cliff.\"\n\nClive believes there's a middle ground and would like to see a mix of relocation and defence to slow the sea's advance.\n\n\"Inevitable is a long way away,\" he says.\n\n\"Climate change was created by the whole human race over the last 40 or 50 years. Why should a small proportion of people on the coast pay the price for that?\"", "The head of the Federal Reserve is under pressure as price rises accelerate\n\nThe US central bank has announced its biggest interest rate rise in nearly 30 years as it ramps up its fight to rein in soaring consumer prices.\n\nThe Federal Reserve said it would increase its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.\n\nThe rise, the third since March, comes after inflation in the US surged unexpectedly last month.\n\nMore hikes are expected, adding to the uncertainty facing the economy.\n\nForecasts released after the meeting showed officials expect the rate the Fed charges banks to borrow could reach 3.4% by the end of the year, the moves rippling out to the public in the form of higher borrowing costs for mortgages, credit cards and other loans.\n\nAs central banks around the world take similar steps, it marks a massive change for the global economy, where businesses and households have enjoyed years of low borrowing costs.\n\n\"Most advanced economy central banks and some emerging market central banks are tightening policy in sync,\" said Gregory Daco, chief economist at strategy consulting firm EY-Parthenon.\n\n\"That is a global environment that we've not been accustomed to in the past few decades, and that will represent ramifications for the business sector and for consumers throughout the world.\"\n\nIn the UK, where consumer prices jumped 9% in April, the Bank of England is expected to announce its fifth rate rise since December on Thursday, pushing its benchmark rate above 1% for the first time since 2009.\n\nBrazil, Canada and Australia have also raised rates, while the European Central Bank has outlined plans to do so later this summer.\n\nThe housing sector is feeling the impact of higher rates\n\nIn the US, which slashed rates to support the economy when the pandemic hit in 2020, the Fed has already raised rates twice this year, by 0.25 percentage points in March and another half point in May.\n\nAt the time, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said officials were not considering sharper rises.\n\nBut figures on Friday, which showed US inflation rising to 8.6% in May - the fastest pace since 1981 - pushed officials to move more aggressively, Mr Powell said at a press conference following this week's meeting.\n\n\"It is essential that we bring inflation down,\" he said, acknowledging that a 0.75 percentage point rise was \"unusually large\".\n\n\"Inflation has obviously surprised to the upside over the past year and further surprises could be in store,\" he said. \"We therefore will need to be nimble.\"\n\nMany analysts say the Fed is struggling to catch up, after Mr Powell and others last year dismissed price rises as a temporary problem related to supply chain issues.\n\nSince then, inflation has sharpened due to factors like the war in Ukraine and ongoing Covid-19 shutdowns in China.\n\nRecent surveys suggest the public expects the problem will continue to worsen, despite the Fed's vows to act.\n\n\"The Fed is under the gun and facing an inflation credibility test,\" said economist David Beckworth, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.\n\nIgnacio Lopez isn't convinced the Fed's moves will successfully contain price increases affecting his business\n\nIgnacio Lopez is eager to see inflation brought under control.\n\nFor the last 18 months, the Boston-based chef has been watching food prices climb as he stocks up for his restaurant. Prices for items with complicated supply chains, like packaged goods and imported cheese, are particularly under pressure, he says.\n\n\"It's crazy and it doesn't stop,\" he says. \"Every week things go up.\"\n\nThe business has raised its own prices to offset the costs, but he says he can't go too far without losing customers. So his profits are still taking a hit.\n\nHe is worried that the rate increases won't help, noting that demand remains weak due to Covid, which has cut into the after-work gatherings that used to drive his business.\n\n\"We're just going to keep managing it as tight as we can, trying not to increase our prices beyond our market and hope things calm down,\" he says.\n\nThe last time the Fed announced a rate hike of this size was 1994.\n\nThe move, which makes borrowing more expensive, is expected to cool demand and slow economic activity - in theory, easing price pressures.\n\nBut by acting late, and now moving more aggressively to compensate, policymakers face a greater chance that their actions will induce an economic downturn, Mr Daco said.\n\n\"I'm increasingly worried,\" he added. \"I wouldn't be surprised that around the turn of the year we face an environment where growth is stalling and we're pretty close to a recessionary environment, with the unemployment rate on the rise and no longer declining.\"\n\nHigher food prices are one of the factors driving up inflation\n\nMr Powell said the US is well poised to handle higher rates, pointing to still robust job growth.\n\nBut projections released by the Fed show officials expect economic growth to slow to about 1.7% this year, a full percentage point lower than they forecast in March.\n\nUnemployment, now at 3.6%, is expected to rise to 3.7% and reach 4.1% by 2024.\n\nOfficials also removed a line from their end of meeting statement - which typically shows little change - saying the labour market would remain strong as the Fed raised rates.\n\nMr Powell said the omission reflected the fact that many forces driving inflation - like the war in Ukraine - are out of the bank's control.\n\n\"So much of it is really not down to monetary policy,\" he said. \"That just didn't seem appropriate anymore so we took it out.\"\n\nWith Wednesday's rise, the rate the Fed charges banks to borrow will return to where it was before the pandemic hit in 2020, remaining relatively low by historic standards.\n\nBut the increases are already having an impact.\n\nThe average petrol price in the US has hit $5 a gallon, creating a political problem for President Joe Biden\n\nHigher rates have helped to boost demand for dollars, sending the currency up 10% since the start of the year and putting other countries, especially emerging markets with large amounts of debt in dollars, under pressure.\n\nIn the US, financial markets have slipped, with the S&P 500, which tracks hundreds of America's biggest companies, losing a fifth of its value since the start of the year, as multinationals warn that inflation and the rise in the dollar is hurting their profits.\n\nHome sales have also slowed precipitously as mortgage rates follow the Fed rate higher.\n\nData on Wednesday also showed retail sales slipped last month, as people spent more at the pump due to rising petrol costs and deferred purchases of big ticket items like cars.\n\nMr Powell said gaining control of the price increases was essential to economic stability and progress would take time.\n\n\"At the end of the day, the outlook is very uncertain,\" Mr Beckworth said. \"The Fed has to be at some level, lucky.\"", "The UK government says the Northern Ireland Protocol has disrupted trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain\n\nThe EU has announced new legal action against the UK government over its plans to scrap parts of the post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters outlined a bill on Monday aimed at unilaterally changing trade, tax and governance arrangements in the 2019 deal.\n\nThe treaty was agreed by both sides but the UK says it has disrupted trade and power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the EU says overriding parts of the deal would break international law.\n\nEuropean Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said there was \"no legal or political justification whatsoever for unilaterally changing an international agreement\".\n\n\"So let's call a spade a spade, this is illegal,\" Mr Sefcovic said, adding that the UK's decision \"left us with no choice\" but to take legal action.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesperson said his government was disappointed the EU had taken legal action and continued to favour a negotiated resolution.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is a special arrangement that keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, avoiding a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe arrangement ensured free trade could continue across the Irish land border, which is a sensitive issue because of the history of conflict in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the protocol brought in some new checks on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and has been criticised by unionist politicians.\n\nHowever, the majority of politicians elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in last month's elections support the arrangements.\n\nThe European Commission said it would restart legal action - paused in March 2021 - over the UK's decision to delay checks on certain goods arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nThe Commission also launched two new proceedings over claims the UK has failed in its obligations to share trade data and set up border inspection posts.\n\nThese legal steps could eventually lead to the UK being fined under a dispute process overseen by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).\n\nBut the dispute process can take months to complete and the Commission has insisted its \"door remains open\" for talks with the UK to find a resolution.\n\nThe launch of legal action by the EU may sound dramatic but this is a process stretching over many months.\n\nUK legislation, to scrap parts of the protocol, will likewise take some time with the bill set to face resistance in Parliament.\n\nRegardless, the stakes have been raised this week in a dispute that has been bogged down for months.\n\nBut worth noting is the emphasis from the European Commission's Maros Sefcovic that his door is open; he's saying the EU wants to talk.\n\nHowever the fact remains that the two sides can't even agree on quite what they should talk about.\n\nDemands by Britain for changes on tax and governance are a non-starter for the EU. There's more common ground on customs and the hope in Brussels is that they can show progress is possible within the terms of the existing treaty.\n\nBut the mood isn't optimistic with diplomats frequently suggesting they think the issue is mired in Tory party politics.\n\nAnd if nothing changes the slow-burn passage of legal action and legislation could eventually explode into an even bigger confrontation. But as officials are keen to stress, we're not there yet.\n\nThe UK government says it would prefer to agree changes with the EU, rather than act alone to scrap parts of the protocol.\n\nThe government justified its move under a legal principle called the \"doctrine of necessity\", insisting the protocol was causing \"peril\" to society and politics in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government's chief legal adviser, Suella Braverman, told the BBC the protocol was \"adversely and seriously affecting\" Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said her preferred alternative was negotiation but accused the EU of failing to do that \"meaningfully for over two years now and that's why we've regrettably been left with no option but to take these measures\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's power-sharing administration cannot be formed without the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which has refused to take part until reforms are made to the protocol.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss has urged the DUP to \"get on with it\", but the party's leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, has said that would depend on whether the bill to change the protocol passed into law.\n\nEarlier Philippe Lamberts, a Belgium member of the European Parliament, told the BBC the protocol changes proposed by the UK were \"about political posturing\".\n\nHe said patience in Brussels \"has been tested to the extreme by Boris Johnson\".\n\nIn March 2021, the EU launched legal action against the UK for delaying the full implementation of checks on some goods, including argi-food products.\n\nThe infringement proceedings were paused last year but have now been resumed by the EU.\n\nIf the UK government does not reply within two months, the EU could take the matter to the ECJ, which has powers to impose penalties.\n\nThe EU has also launched two new actions for further alleged breaches of the protocol.\n\nThese relate to alleged UK failures to carry out its obligations under the EU's sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules and \"provide the EU with certain trade statistics data\".\n\nThe actions do not directly relate to the UK's draft legislation, with the EU reserving the right to take further action if that law ever comes into effect.\n\n\"If this draft bill becomes law, of course I cannot exclude anything,\" Mr Sefcovic said.\n\nThe EU also gave more detail on its own proposals to ease checks which they say can resolve issues of concern in Northern Ireland.\n\nThese include an expanded trusted trader arrangement covering more products and companies and a cut to customs administration.\n\nMr Sefcovic said the proposals were \"all about simplification\" and at the news conference, attempted to demonstrate this by holding up three documents.\n\n\"These are the three pages that need to be filled. Not 300, not 30, three,\" he said.\n\nEchoing the UK prime minister's Brexit rhetoric, Mr Sefcovic said the proposals were \"oven-ready\", while adding this was not an \"unconditional offer\".\n\nMaros Sefcovic said the EU's proposals would simplify administration\n\nBut the UK has previously rejected the EU's proposals saying they would make things worse, and if differences are not resolved, there are fears that the row over the protocol could trigger a trade war, which involves putting up barriers to the exchange of goods.\n\nA trade war could increase costs for consumers, possibly compounding pressure on household budgets driven by inflation at 40-year highs.", "People with a worrying cough, problems swallowing or blood in their urine will soon be able to be referred for scans and checks by a pharmacist, rather than having to wait to see their GP.\n\nThe new pilot scheme, in England, aims to diagnose more cancers early, when there is a better chance of a cure.\n\nHigh Street pharmacies will be funded to refer customers for the checks.\n\nThe NHS will also send out more \"roaming trucks\" to perform on-the-spot scans in the community.\n\nLung-scanner vans driven to locations, including supermarket car parks and football stadiums, have already resulted in more people having checks.\n\nNow, some liver lorries will join them.\n\nAbout 6,100 people a year are diagnosed with liver cancer - the number has doubled over the past decade and is expected to continue to rise.\n\nAbout half of all cancers are diagnosed early - but the NHS wants this to be at least three-quarters.\n\nIt also plans to offer Jewish people genetic screening - as up to one in 40 has Brca mutations, linked to a higher risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, compared with one in 400 in the general population.\n\nNHS England boss Amanda Pritchard will tell the NHS ConfedExpo conference, in Liverpool: \"We want to make it as easy as possible for those most at risk to get vital, lifesaving tests.\n\n\"These plans have the power to truly transform the way we find and treat cancer - and ultimately spare thousands of patients and their families from avoidable pain and loss.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Ensuring patients can access diagnosis and treatment easily in their communities and on High Streets is a fundamental part of our 10-Year Cancer Plan.\"\n\nDr Anthony Cunliffe, national clinical adviser for primary care, at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"Doctors and nurses are working tirelessly to diagnose and treat the tens of thousands of people entering a very busy cancer care system.\n\n\"This pilot will give people the opportunity to access more trained professionals in their community to get symptoms investigated.\"\n\nMichelle Mitchell, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"By changing the way people engage with the health service, we have the potential to help diagnose more cancers at an earlier, more treatable stage.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing how these efforts will support the NHS's ambitious early diagnosis targets.\"", "Eluned Morgan has apologised \"unreservedly\" for her behaviour\n\nWales' health minister is to be reprimanded after she was banned from driving for repeatedly speeding.\n\nMembers on the Welsh Parliament's standards committee called for Eluned Morgan to be censured by the Senedd, saying her behaviour fell short of the standards expected.\n\nBut it stopped short of calling for the more serious punishment of a ban from the Senedd.\n\nMs Morgan and the Welsh government have declined to comment.\n\nShe has apologised \"unreservedly\" after she was banned from driving for six months and fined £800 at Mold Magistrates Court in March.\n\nBefore the conviction Ms Morgan was found to have committed speeding offences on three other occasions in September 2019, June 2020 and April 2021.\n\nThe Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales' censure will be put to the Senedd for a vote - a motion that is unlikely to be rejected.\n\nMSs said the motion will be an \"opportunity for the member to apologise for her conduct to the Senedd as a whole\".\n\nThe findings of the cross-party standards committee follow an investigation by the Welsh Parliament's Standards Commissioner Douglas Bain, who found the minister showed \"a disregard for the law and a failure to take action to avoid repetition of unlawful conduct\".\n\n\"Receiving a driving ban and the associated fine for speeding offences is a serious matter,\" the committee said in a report.\n\n\"The number of offences over a relatively short period of time, which led to this conviction, shows a pattern of behaviour that is below the standard expected of a Member of the Senedd.\"\n\nThe committee agreed that she had broken the code of conduct, including rules requiring MSs to uphold the criminal law.\n\nThis saga has been particularly embarrassing for Eluned Morgan's boss, the first minister, who called for Boris Johnson to resign over Partygate saying \"law makers can't be law breakers\".\n\nThat statement came back to haunt Mark Drakeford subsequently, though he insisted there was \"no equivalence\" between the two criminal offences.\n\nEluned Morgan's opportunity to repeat her apology in front of her Senedd colleagues will likely come next week.\n\nShe'll be hoping that draws a line under this story.\n\nMark Drakeford decided to take no action against Eluned Morgan\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford chose not to take further action against Ms Morgan when he considered the matter under the separate ministerial code process earlier this year.\n\nHe said she did not uphold the high standards expected, but accepted her apology.\n\nThe Conservatives said the \"discrepancy between the first minister and the committee clearly emphasises the need for an independent arbitrator on the ministerial code\".\n\nMr Bain's report reveals a trail of emails sent by Ms Morgan to the commissioner.\n\nIn an email in March entitled \"I wish to refer myself to the commissioner\", she informed Mr Bain of her driving ban.\n\nTwo days later she wrote another email to say she was not referring herself, saying she was anxious to ensure he was aware of the situation.\n\nMr Bain's investigation was instead triggered by a complaint made by someone else.\n\nUnder current rules the standards commissioner cannot launch investigations members refer themselves or a third party complains.\n\nThe report said this is inconsistent with other parliaments in the UK which allow standards watchdogs to start initiate investigations.\n\nThe committee also said it was a \"matter of regret\" that Mr Bain's report was released to the media before the committee had completed their consideration of the complaint.\n\nBBC Wales reported the findings of Mr Bain's investigation before it had been published earlier this year.\n\nA censure is a formal reprimand which registers the Senedd's disapproval of a member's behaviour, but does not result in further action.\n\nIn the previous Senedd term several Senedd members were banned for short periods of time over their conduct, including Rhianon Passmore after failing to give a breath test, and Michelle Brown for a racial slur.\n\nMr Bain's own report into his investigation was not included with the committee's public findings, as is usually the case with standards committee reports, despite a reference to his findings being listed in the document's table of contents.\n• None Living costs tsar called for Boris Johnson to go", "Crown Courts are to be upgraded with better technology while staff will receive specialist training to help with rape trials, the government says.\n\nThe pilot, in Newcastle, Leeds and London, will see independent advisers on hand in courts to support victims.\n\nEarlier this year, the police and court watchdog called for specialist rape courts to help clear a cases backlog.\n\nOne victim, who may have to wait five years for her trial, said a generation of women \"have no faith\" in the system.\n\nEarlier this year, data compiled by BBC News suggested serious sexual offences were taking the longest time on record to go through Crown Courts.\n\nElla - not her real name - is the living reality behind those statistics. In 2018, she reported to police that she had been raped. Initially police closed the investigation. But after she complained and demanded a review, suspects were charged last year.\n\nOn Tuesday, she was told her case would be delayed and wouldn't come to trial before June 2023.\n\n\"By the time I actually make it to trial it will be five years since I first reported it,\" she said. \"It's very hard to choose one word about how I feel about the whole situation.\n\n\"It will be easy to say 'angry' but that kind of doesn't cut it. Disappointed, disillusioned, tired, frustrated. It is just an incredibly tiring process to continue to fight for the basic right of being believed.\"\n\nAs part of the pilot scheme, all court staff, police and prosecutors working on cases will receive specialist trauma training.\n\nOne room in each crown court will be upgraded with the technology needed for rape trials - such as the means to show witness cross-examinations that have been pre-recorded.\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC he had no control over court listings and they had judicial independence. This means courts can't dedicate courtrooms to hear only rape cases.\n\nBut he said the courtrooms in Newcastle, Leeds and Snaresbrook in east London will have the necessary technology and training, as well as independent sexual violence advisers to support rape victims.\n\n\"They will be dedicated in prioritising those rape cases,\" he told the BBC, while visiting a rape crisis centre in Sheffield. \"We're specifically targeting areas where there are high volumes of rape and other sexual violence cases coming through, and they need those dedicated courtrooms or otherwise the backlog will grow.\"\n\nEarlier this year, a government report suggested rape victims were waiting an average of 706 days from reporting an offence to the case reaching court.\n\nFigures for the year until December 2021 for England and Wales show there had been 67,125 rapes recorded by police. In 2020-21 there were just 1,557 prosecutions. The fear is that those reporting rapes are just giving up on pursuing their attackers.\n\nThe government has said court delays have been caused by the pandemic, but barristers blame funding cuts.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMr Raab highlighted Ministry of Justice figures suggesting there was a 67% increase in the number of rape convictions in 2021, compared with 2020.\n\n\"We want to ramp up the volume of convictions - I think that will be ultimately the acid test,\" he added. \"I'm anxious to go further and faster.\"\n\nBut Ella is clear much more needs to be done: \"There's a whole generation of women that have no faith in the justice system,\" she said.\n\n\"And we're going to pass it down to our children and they're going to pass it on to theirs and it's not going to change just by making a simple structural change, by putting more specialised courts in.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCharges have been brought against \"a number of individuals\" by English cricket's governing body in relation to allegations of racism at Yorkshire.\n\nThe accused, who have not been named, could be banned or fined by the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nYorkshire itself has also been charged with breaching the anti-racism rules.\n\nDetails of abuse first surfaced in September 2020 when former player Azeem Rafiq said discrimination left him feeling suicidal.\n\n\"In matters of this nature, our normal practice is not to identify individuals charged at this stage,\" said the ECB.\n\nYorkshire said the \"allegations relate to charges as far back as 2004 up until 2021\".\n\nIn a statement, the County added: \"The club will need the cooperation of those in position during this time in order to fully consider and respond to the matters raised.\"\n\nSince Rafiq's accusations became public, 16 members of staff have left Yorkshire in a widespread overhaul of its senior leadership.\n\nThe ECB said it had carried out a \"thorough and complex\" investigation to establish the grounds for the charges against both the county and the individuals involved.\n\nIt said the charges arose from alleged breaches of a directive regarding \"conduct which is improper or which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any cricketer into disrepute\" and its anti-discrimination code.\n\nThe governing body expects hearings to take place in September or October and for the outcome of each case to be published after decisions are reached.\n\n\"It is standard practice for the cricket discipline commission disciplinary panel to publish its decisions and written reasons in full following the hearing,\" the ECB added.\n\n\"I welcome today's announcement by the ECB and hope we can move to the hearing quickly,\" said Rafiq.\n\n\"This has been another gruelling but unfortunately necessary process. It has been a long two years since I went public about my experiences, but I hope this all means that no young player ever goes through such pain and alienation again.\n\n\"My preference would be for this hearing to take place publicly, but I am hopeful that we are at least nearing a point where there will be some sense of closure for my family and me.\"\n\nBBC Sport understands Rafiq is himself likely to be charged at a later date over historical anti-Semitic posts on social media.\n\nRafiq apologised and said he was \"deeply ashamed\" for using the language in Facebook messages in 2011, which emerged after his appearance in front of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nRafiq gave an interview to ESPN Cricinfo in September 2020 alleging \"institutional racism\" at Yorkshire had left him close to taking his own life.\n\nYorkshire launched \"a formal investigation\" in response and, a year later, an independent panel upheld seven of the 43 allegations made by Rafiq.\n\nHowever the panel's report was not published and no player, employee or executive faced disciplinary action as a result of its findings.\n\nThe outcome sparked widespread criticism and in November 2021 the ECB suspended Yorkshire from hosting international matches at Headingley \"until it has clearly demonstrated that it can meet the standards expected\".\n\nClub chairman Roger Hutton stepped down, as did chief executive Mark Arthur.\n\nWhen approached by BBC Sport, the ECB declined to name any individuals charged.\n\nFormer Yorkshire and England captain Michael Vaughan, who works as a pundit for BBC Sport and others, revealed he had been accused of making racist comments to Rafiq and others players, but has repeatedly denied the claims.\n\nVaughan told the BBC he never made racist comments while at the county. He admitted regret at some tweets he had sent in the past.\n\nLater in November, Rafiq gave details of the racist abuse he suffered to a committee of MPs, claiming captain Gary Ballance and bowler Jack Brooks had used racist nicknames for team-mates.\n\nBallance admitted using racist language, adding that he \"deeply regretted\" doing so.\n\nRafiq also mentioned the attitudes of Tim Bresnan, Andrew Gale and Matthew Hoggard towards him at the club.\n\nBresnan has denied \"frequently making racist comments\", saying it is \"absolutely not true.\"\n\nThe ECB has not named those charged.\n\nRafiq's testimony has been backed by others.\n\nEx-Pakistan seamer Rana Naved-ul-Hasan said he had encountered the same prejudice during his two stints with the county while former Yorkshire academy players Irfan Amjad and Tabassum Bhatti have also shared their experiences of racism.\n\nEngland bowler Adil Rashid said he, like Rana Naved and Rafiq, had heard Vaughan make a racist comment.\n\nIn December, head coach Gale and director of cricket Martyn Moxon were among 16 people to leave the club.\n\nGale won a claim for unfair dismissal - alongside second-team coach Ian Dews, bowling coach Rich Pyrah, academy lead Richard Damms and strength and conditioning coaches Ian Fisher and Peter Sim.\n\nThe ECB announced a wide-ranging review into racism in the sport and appointed a Muslim inclusion advisory body to help their reforms on Tuesday.\n\nHeadingley returned to the international fixture list in March after members voted through reforms to the county's leadership structure. It will host the third and final Test against New Zealand next week.", "The BBC has been allowed rare access to the military nerve centre where Western powers are coordinating efforts to supply weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nIn the attic of an austere US military barracks in the German city of Stuttgart, dozens of military personnel from 26 nations are working round the clock to deliver weapons to Ukraine.\n\nFrom this room, Western allies have already helped deliver nearly $8bn (£6.6bn) worth of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine's armed forces. That's 66,000 tonnes - the equivalent of 5,000 London double-decker buses, as one British officer worked out.\n\nMost of what happens at Patch Barracks is highly classified. We are asked to leave all electronic devices behind and we are not allowed to film or talk to the Ukrainians who are part of the International Donors Coordination Cell (IDCC).\n\nMilitary personnel from dozens of countries bash the phones and pore over computer screens. They include a small team from Ukraine, led by a three-star general. At the start of each day he sets out what his country needs. The situation in the Donbas appears increasingly bleak, but here in Stuttgart there's more a sense of urgency than panic.\n\nUS M777 Howitzers have arrived in Ukraine\n\nAround one set of desks a team is tasked with locating supplies. Sometimes they'll find a nation willing to provide weapons, but will then have to track another country for the right ammunition or the means to transport them. They've now developed a database where the Ukrainians can list their priorities. Donor nations can access that information and decide what they're willing and able to supply.\n\nBrig Chris King, the senior British officer, says that military aid is being delivered by air, road, rail and sea and to multiple locations \"in order to ensure we don't have any single points of failure\".\n\nHe says that Russia has tried to step up its attacks on supply lines but there's been no \"significant\" interruption to their delivery.\n\nI ask if any supplies have been hit.\n\n\"Yes, I presume so,\" he replies.\n\nThe task of moving the weapons and ammunition across the border is left to the Ukrainians themselves, says Rear Adm Duke Heinz, the senior US commander at the IDCC.\n\n\"In Poland and the other countries, the Ukrainians come and get it - so they're the ones who determine how it gets across the border.\" Once the weapons cross the border, they can arrive at the front line \"within 48 hours\".\n\nI am confident they are not going to run out of ammunition.\n\nRecently there have been alarming warnings from Ukraine that the flow of weapons is too little and too late. As Russia continues to bombard the Donbas, pleas for more help are sounding more desperate by the day. Ukraine's deputy defence minister says that, so far, the country has only received 10% of what it has asked for.\n\nHere in Stuttgart, Rear Adm Heinz gives a very different message: \"I am confident they are not going to run out of ammunition.\"\n\nDespite the grim news from the Donbas, he says \"I wouldn't say they're losing, I'd say they're holding their own.\"\n\nUkraine's demands have changed significantly over the past few months. The IDCC was set up in late February - bringing together two separate efforts being led by the US and the UK. At the start of the war they were sending small arms and ammunition - such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. Now Ukrainians are asking for heavier weapons - artillery, multiple rocket launchers and air defence systems.\n\nIn the early days of the war the IDCC tried to source stocks of old Soviet weapons and ammunition from former Soviet bloc countries - the same systems Ukraine's armed forces had been using for decades. Brig King says those supplies have slowly been running out. There is now just one factory in Europe that produces Soviet-compatible 152mm artillery ammunition.\n\nSlowly, they have been transitioning to Nato-standard equipment. Over the past few months Ukraine has been sent more than 100 M777 US howitzers and 300,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition.\n\nThis brings an additional challenge, as Ukrainian forces need to be trained in how to use the weapons and ammunition. The IDCC is organising that training outside Ukraine. Some Ukrainian troops are now being trained in the UK on new artillery guns and British-supplied multiple rocket launchers. Simpler systems can be taught virtually, using videos and training manuals.\n\nIf we don't do enough we will sow the seeds for future conflict.\n\nNeither Rear Adm Heinz nor Brig King believe this war will be over quickly. They both say they're preparing to carry on this work for the long term. When I ask the brigadier for how long, he replies, \"It's not going to be months, I think we'll be here for a number of years.\"\n\nBut there are some within Nato who question whether the West is really geared up for a war that could go on for years. It could certainly test its unity, resolve and limited stocks of weapons and ammunition.\n\nIn Stuttgart they know the stakes couldn't be higher. Rear Adm Heinz describes the mission of providing Ukraine with weapons and ammunition as \"the most important work this command has done\" since US EUCOM (European Command) was set up in 1952.\n\nBrig King calls it \"a generational moment\" and says the choice is stark: \"We either help Ukraine to fight or we accept that, maybe not straight away but in the next few years, we're going to be fighting somewhere else. If we don't do enough we will sow the seeds for future conflict.\"\n• None 'The war has destroyed three generations'", "The action is expected to cause disruption to services in Wales, England and Scotland\n\nJust a handful of train routes will run in Wales when rail workers go on strike next week, Network Rail has said.\n\nDuring the action Transport for Wales (TfW) will run a service from Radyr, in Cardiff, to Treherbert, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare.\n\nA replacement bus service will take passengers from Radyr to Cardiff Central.\n\nThe only other service that will run is Great Western Railway's (GWR) Cardiff to Severn Tunnel route.\n\nStrikes will \"shut down\" the railway network on 21, 23 and 25 June, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said.\n\nTfW's managing director, Jan Chaudhry Van Der Velde, said TfW was not in dispute with the unions but would still be affected.\n\n\"That's because the vast majority of our lines rely on Network Rail signallers to keep the trains moving,\" he added.\n\n\"On the strike days next week we will have a situation where very few of our trains will be able to run because of the strike action at Network Rail.\n\n\"For the rest of the network, we will be in a position where we cannot run any trains on those strike days at all.\"\n\nPeople who have already booked tickets will be able to use them on another day or get a full refund.\n\nJust two trains will run in Wales, according to Network Rail\n\nWorkers at Network Rail, which maintains the railways throughout Britain, will also strike.\n\nNetwork Rail Wales and Borders said it believed next week would be \"tough\" for passengers.\n\n\"This planned strike action means we simply can't run the vast majority of passenger and freight services as we will have fewer specialist signallers available,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Transport for Wales is not in dispute with rail unions, but its trains will be severely impacted as we rely on each other to provide services for passengers across most of Wales and Borders.\n\n\"The line between the Severn Tunnel and Cardiff will remain open with a very limited timetable. Transport for Wales is providing a shuttle service on the parts of the core Valley lines network it's solely responsible for.\"\n\nTrain driver members of the Aslef union will strike over pay at Greater Anglia on 23 June, on 26 June at Hull Trains and on Croydon Tramlink on 28, 29 June and 13 and 14 July.\n\nIn Scotland, the RMT has announced a strike ballot over ScotRail's pay offer, although it is not yet known when any action will take place.\n\nAbout 4,500 services, compared with 20,000 normally, will run during the strikes, according to Network Rail.\n\nTrains that do run will start later and finish much earlier than usual, between 07:30 and 18:30.\n\nDisruption is also expected on non-strike days, because of too few staff working overnight.\n\nA special timetable from 20 to 26 June will be published on Friday.", "A competition to win free beer for Father's Day circulating on WhatsApp is a scam, Heineken has said.\n\nThe message offers the chance to win one of 5,000 coolers full of lager and links to a fake quiz-style competition.\n\nBut Heineken said this was a phishing scam - a way of tricking someone into clicking a malicious link or entering personal information like bank details.\n\nA WhatsApp spokesperson said: \"We encourage users to report the message to us for review for spam or abuse.\"\n\nAnyone who got the scam message should \"delete it immediately\", Heineken's spokesperson said.\n\nThey added: \"We're aware of the current phishing scam circulating through social networks, which is not sanctioned by Heineken. We have alerted the relevant authorities.\"\n\nConsumer rights group Which? said people should \"always be suspicious of a message from an unknown number, no matter how tempting the offer may be\".\n\n\"Never click on links in messages as scammers can use URLs to download malware onto your device or take you to a website that will try to steal your personal and bank details,\" it said in a warning about the Heineken scam on its website.\n\nAnyone who clicked a suspicious link who thinks they might have given details away should contact their bank immediately and report the scam to Action Fraud, it said.\n\n\"If you receive a random text or WhatsApp message from a brand that you discover is fraudulent, open up the WhatsApp chat from the unknown number, open the sender's contact details and select Block and Report, it said.\n\nSuspicious text messages could be reported to 7726, a free spam reporting service, as well as to the company the text was claiming to be from, it said.\n\nIan McShane, vice president of strategy at cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf said this particular scam was \"a not-so-subtle illustration of how cybercriminals prey on consumer greed and love for a freebie\".\n\n\"The scam suggests the first 5,000 respondents will receive a free fridge of beer in return,\" he said.\n\n\"Scammers and cybercriminals are experts at using social media to tap into our likes and desires and will use urgency as a way to hasten someone's response and lower their guard.\n\n\"Often people will respond to the \"only the first XX people will win\" before considering that this might not actually be legit.\"\n\nWhile onlinethreatalerts.com said the scam was spreading \"like wildfire\" it was difficult to track within private messages, said Annelie Helgelin, from digital consumer intelligence company Brandwatch.\n\n\"Many scammers take advantage of these household brands because they know consumers trust them,\" she added.\n\nWhatsApp said it protected its users' personal messages with end-to-end encryption, but everyone could play a role in keeping their accounts safe by remaining vigilant to the threat of scammers.\n\n\"We advise people never to share their six-digit PIN code with others, not even friends or family, and recommend that all users set up two-step verification for added security,\" a spokesperson said.", "Petrol prices have hit new record highs every day for the past month, according to motoring organisation the RAC.\n\nThe cost to fill a family car now stands at about £103 for petrol, and £106 for diesel, it said.\n\nThe war in Ukraine and moves to reduce dependence on Russian oil have helped drive up fuel prices, putting households under pressure as food and energy bills also soar.\n\nThe average petrol price is now 186.59p per litre, with diesel at 192.48p.\n\nThe RAC called on the government to cut fuel taxes to ease the cost burden on motorists, and to help lower the cost of living.\n\n\"New records in the average price of petrol have been set every day for the last month, with a litre rising 21p, which has added more than £11 to a tank,\" said RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams.\n\nHe said that RAC analysis of wholesale diesel prices indicates that diesel could hit \"a previously unthinkable average of £2 a litre\", and that \"unfortunately, it has already crossed this threshold at motorway services\".\n\nHowever, rival motoring organisation the AA said wholesale fuel costs had been steady recently, while pump prices had been rising.\n\n\"Another penny on petrol is a surprise given that wholesale costs have been level if not lower since the Jubilee,\" said Luke Bosdet, the AA's spokesman on fuel prices.\n\nHe said if petrol continues to go up at the same rate heading into the weekend, \"the government has yet another reason to call the retailers out\".\n\nHe said that diesel may yet hit £2 per litre, but \"why invite the fuel trade to speed up the pump price rises?\"\n\n\"It's a volatile market, nothing is guaranteed until it happens,\" he added.\n\nThe Treasury cut the tax in March by 5p per litre in a bid to help motorists, and has asked the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate whether that cut is being passed on to motorists quickly enough.\n\nThe RAC called on the government to temporarily lower VAT on fuel, and make a further cut in fuel duty, saying the rise in VAT takings since March was now more than cancelling out the fuel duty cut.\n\nSo far the government has ruled out cutting VAT, saying higher receipts from fuel price increases will be largely offset by lower receipts from household spending less on other goods and services.\n\nThe government has put together a £37bn package to help families as energy, food and fuel bills soar.\n\nMore than eight million UK homes on benefits are set to receive £326 by the end of July, with a second payment of £324 in the autumn.", "Tom Rice was one of 10 congressional Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump\n\nA Republican congressman who voted to impeach former US President Donald Trump has been thrown out of office by voters in his district.\n\nTom Rice, a five-term South Carolina incumbent, was beaten in a primary election by Trump-backed challenger Russell Fry, a state legislator.\n\nBut another Republican in the state who had criticised Mr Trump, Nancy Mace, comfortably won her vote.\n\nMs Mace had later visited Trump Tower in a show of loyalty.\n\nCongressional votes were held on Tuesday in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Texas.\n\nMr Rice had been a reliable supporter of Mr Trump until the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, when he became one of 10 Republicans who sided with Democrats days later to impeach the outgoing president for inciting insurrection.\n\nMr Trump was acquitted of the political charge in the Senate. A Democratic-led congressional inquiry is currently conducting public hearings into the Capitol riot, accusing the former president of plotting an attempted coup.\n\nMr Rice had acknowledged his impeachment vote could end his political career, but had maintained he was following his conscience. He lost on Tuesday night by more than 26 points.\n\nThe 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump have faced varying outcomes. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger have become vocal Trump critics and currently sit on the US House of Representatives committee that is investigating the Capitol riot. Mr Kinzinger is among those who are not running for re-election. Others are fighting for their political lives.\n\nMs Mace did not vote to impeach Mr Trump, but she incurred his displeasure by condemning him for the Capitol riot and voting to certify President Joe Biden's win in the 2020 White House election.\n\nShe tried to make amends by filming a video in New York City this year outside Trump Tower to remind her constituents that she was one of the former president's earliest supporters.\n\nNancy Mace won her vote despite Mr Trump endorsing her opponent\n\nMr Trump endorsed her opponent, former state legislator Katie Arrington. But Ms Mace comfortably passed the 50% vote threshold needed to avoid a run-off election.\n\nMr Trump, who turned 76 on Tuesday, had asked supporters to give him two birthday presents by defeating Mr Rice and Ms Mace.\n\nPolitical analysts expect the winners of the Republican primaries in ruby-red South Carolina to prevail in the election against their Democratic challengers in November's mid-term elections.\n\nIn other results, for the first time Republicans flipped a heavily Hispanic seat in Texas.\n\nDuring a special election in the 34th district Mayra Flores became the first Mexican-born congresswoman.\n\nThe victory comes as Mr Biden's approval rating fell for a third straight week to 39% in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, as Americans grapple with soaring inflation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The phone mast that runs off solar and wind power\n\nThe UK's first \"off-grid\" mobile phone mast is being switched on in a two-year pilot to deliver 4G coverage to a remote village.\n\nThe mast near Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, has its own wind turbine, solar panels and battery storage.\n\nVodafone said, if successful, it could mean connectivity for \"not-spots\" in other remote and rural locations.\n\nOfcom Wales called it a positive initiative that could help bring more equal access to the digital economy.\n\nElinor Williams, the principal of regulatory affairs for Ofcom Wales, said: \"While mobile coverage has improved, too many areas still struggle for a signal.\n\nVodafone said a new type of wind turbine being used can generate power even in light winds.\n\nDeveloped by Crossflow Energy in Port Talbot, the turbines roll in the wind like a water wheel.\n\nIt makes them quieter than traditional turbines and more visible to birds and bats, making the mobile mast more suitable for the countryside and in sensitive sites.\n\nThe mobile phone mast has its own wind turbine, solar panels and battery storage\n\nThe trial at Home Farm, Eglwyswrw, will find out how much power the wind turbine and solar panels create, and the amount of energy the batteries can store.\n\nVodafone said it had earmarked another site for a similar \"self-powering mast\" in Wales before the end of the year.\n\nPaul Davies, Member of the Senedd (MS) for Preseli Pembrokeshire said: \"This is a really exciting development, which could be a game-changer for tackling not-spots in rural areas like Eglwyswrw.\"\n\nPaul Davies said he was pleased Pembrokeshire was \"at the forefront of this rollout\"\n\n\"I hope the pilot is a huge success for the local area so that we can build on this innovative technology and roll it out to as many communities as possible in the future,\" he said.\n\nA digital connectivity survey run in Wales in June last year found \"a gaping hole between urban and rural areas when it comes to access and stability of broadband and mobile phone reception,\" according to the National Federation of Women's Institutes, which commissioned the research.\n\nIts chair, Eirian Roberts, said she \"welcomed any opportunities to improve mobile phone signal in rural areas as a matter of equality\" and they would be following the pilot scheme \"with great interest\" .\n\nMike Childs, head of science at Friends of the Earth, said: \"The cost of solar panels and wind turbines is now extraordinarily low, which is a boon not just for the environment but for those with limited access to power in hard-to-reach rural areas in the UK and across the world.\n\n\"Clean technology is the future, and can open up a world of possibilities. It's time we turned our back on the age of fossil fuels.\"\n\nThe Welsh government's Economy Minister Vaughan Gething said this was a \"really interesting development in terms of digital inclusion\" and hoped it could \"lead to further mobile coverage in remote areas, supporting one our key aims of improving access to digital infrastructure\".\n\nHe added he was \"very proud the Welsh government has been able to support Crossflow and the development and implementation of this innovative and ground breaking project over a number of years\".", "Delays unloading ambulances at busy hospitals are causing serious harm to patients, a safety watchdog is warning.\n\nThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has been investigating how the long waits are delaying 999 emergency response times across England.\n\nKenneth Shadbolt, 94, waited more than five hours for an ambulance after a bad fall - an accident that proved fatal.\n\nLogs show that in his final 999 call he asked: \"Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead.\"\n\nThe BBC has been given permission from the coroner to view detailed evidence into his recent death.\n\nKen Shadbolt had been in good shape for his age.\n\nA retired factory worker and carpenter, he lived alone in a semi-detached house in the market town of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, and could often be spotted cycling around the local housing estate on his electric trike.\n\nOn the night of Wednesday, 23 March 2022, he called one of his five sons for a chat before turning in for the night.\n\nJust before 03:00, he got out of bed to go the bathroom and fell, hitting a wardrobe before collapsing on the floor.\n\nHe had hurt his hip - how badly he didn't know - and couldn't get up. He could reach his mobile on his bedside, though, and dialled 999 for help.\n\nThe BBC has seen transcripts of the three separate phone calls he made to South Western Ambulance Service that night.\n\nThe first was short and factual, covering the basic details of his injury.\n\nHe seemed calm and lucid but made clear he was in pain and needed an ambulance.\n\nHe was told by the call handler not to try to move unless he felt in danger and assured that help was \"being arranged\".\n\n\"How long will it be?\" he asked.\n\n\"I don't know, unfortunately, [but] we will try to get someone there as soon as we can,\" came the reply.\n\nHe then spoke to one of his sons who offered to drive up that night from the other side of the country.\n\nKen said he thought an ambulance was on the way, and not to worry.\n\nInternal call logs seen by the BBC show that at this point Ken was triaged as a category two emergency, meaning paramedics should arrive in 18 minutes, on average.\n\nAbout 15 minutes later, he called 999 for a second time.\n\nIt was clear by now that he was starting to worry.\n\nHe said he couldn't move his right leg and talked about an injury to his shoulder as he'd hit the floor. He was worried about his mobile phone, saying the battery \"won't last forever\".\n\n\"When I rang up 999 I thought I would get some treatment straight away,\" he told the next person on the line.\n\n\"It is still down as an emergency response,\" the call handler replied. \"We are extremely busy at the moment but we are working on getting that help to you as quickly as we possibly can, ok?\"\n\nAn internal ambulance service log seen by the BBC shows that South Western Ambulance Service was indeed busy that night.\n\nIt talks about \"high demand\" in the Gloucester area, with more than 60 patients waiting for help, some for more than eight hours.\n\nBut something else was going on at the same time.\n\nThe local A&E was very full, so paramedics arriving outside the emergency department were unable to unload their sick patients straight away.\n\nThe ambulance service log warns there were \"long delays with unloading at GRH [Gloucestershire Royal Hospital]\" that night.\n\nData seen by the BBC shows that 75% of ambulances were delayed for at least half an hour at Gloucester or its sister hospital in Cheltenham on 24 March, with 54% having to wait for more than an hour.\n\nThat handover should be completed in under 15 minutes.\n\nIf paramedics are queuing outside A&E, then they are not able to get back on the road and quickly pick up the next patient who needs help.\n\nA doctor's report into Ken's case specifically refers to \"a lack of ambulances available\" that night.\n\nAmbulances waiting to unload patients at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on 13 June, 2022.\n\nAnother hour passed before he made his third and final call to 999.\n\nIt was clear now that he was in serious pain. He felt \"terrible sick\" and said his \"breathing is going too\".\n\n\"I need an ambulance because I'm going to fade away quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nThe same reply came back: \"The ambulance service is just under a lot of pressure at the moment... we are doing our best.\n\n\"I appreciate that you've been stuck for quite some time, Ken... we've not forgotten about you at all.\"\n\nLater in the call he said he was cold and could not reach his duvet. He'd already tried phoning one of his neighbours but could not get through, and said they \"might be away\".\n\nHe was told by the 999 call handler to \"try to stay still\".\n\n\"Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead,\" he said.\n\n\"Send me the undertaker, that would be the best bet.\"\n\nHe put the phone down for the last time.\n\nKenneth Shadbolt's son Jerry says his father must have felt abandoned\n\nAn ambulance finally got to Kenneth Shadbolt's house at 08:10 that morning, four hours after that final call.\n\nBy then one of his sons had contacted a neighbour, who found him unconscious on his bedroom floor.\n\nHe arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital at 09:59, and was handed over to the trauma team.\n\nA doctor phoned the family and told them to come straight away and explained that his injuries were not survivable.\n\nKen died at 14:21 that afternoon, with the cause of death given as a \"very large subdural haematoma\" or bleed on the brain.\n\nHis son Jerry Shadbolt said: \"The doctors were saying his injuries were non-survivable but would they have been non-survivable if he'd arrived at hospital four hours earlier? I'd like an answer to that question.\n\n\"He was on his own and he knew he was on his own. He must have felt abandoned and alone on his bedroom floor. That's the most troubling part of it for me.\"\n\nJenny Winslade, executive director of quality and clinical care for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, offered her \"sincere condolences\" to the family and friends of Mr Shadbolt.\n\nShe said delays handing over patients to A&E, and busy hospitals, meant it was \"taking us too long to get an ambulance to patients\".\n\n\"This is a risk which we recognise is unacceptable,\" she said.\n\n\"We continue to work on a daily basis with our partners to ensure our crews can get back out on the road as quickly as possible, to respond to other 999 calls.\"\n\nProf Mark Pietroni, medical director and acting chief executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said local and national health systems were \"under intense pressure\" and continued to face significant challenges \"in response to unrelenting demand\".\n\nThe trust said that, currently, 240 hospital patients - out of a total of 837 beds for patients - were waiting for support to go home or be moved to other locations in the community.\n\nDoctors and paramedics have become increasingly concerned about long ambulance wait times across the UK this year.\n\nIn England as a whole, the average response for a category two emergency, such as a heart attack or stroke, was almost 40 minutes in May - more than twice as long as the 18-minute target.\n\nLast month, Dr Katherine Henderson, an A&E consultant and president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, described the situation as \"more serious than we've ever seen it\".\n\nShe said the problem is often caused by delays discharging patients from hospital wards into a care setting, which then creates a bottleneck in A&E, leaving no space for new patients arriving by ambulance.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to people who have spent hours waiting outside emergency departments this year, sometimes transferred between different ambulance vehicles because there is no room to treat them in the hospital itself.\n\nThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) says the delays are causing harm to patients, including some deaths.\n\nIts final report will be published later this year, but the interim findings - released on Thursday - show that staff who have witnessed harm to patients and their families are traumatised.\n\n\"Harm is happening on a daily basis,\" said the HSIB's national investigator Neil Alexander.\n\nHe referred to patients deteriorating in ambulances while waiting for treatment in emergency departments, and patients getting infections in hospital because they were staying there too long.\n\n\"And we are no longer using the word 'risk' in this investigation, because risk is being realised and is now harm,\" Mr Alexander said.\n\nThe government said it would carefully consider the HSIB's report and would \"respond in due course\".\n\n\"The NHS has allocated £150m of additional funding to address pressures on ambulance services, with the number of ambulance and support staff increasing by almost 40% since February 2010,\" said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\n\"We have also established a national taskforce to identify ways to reduce delayed discharges and ensure patients are only in hospital for as long as they need to be.\"\n\nYou can follow Jim on Twitter.\n\nHave you been affected by ambulance waits? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Passengers have been advised not to travel on trains unless necessary during strikes next week, with only a fifth of services due to run.\n\nNetwork Rail said about half of all rail lines will be closed when thousands of workers walk out across Britain on 21, 23 and 25 June.\n\nThe services that run will start and finish earlier, from 07:30 to 18:30.\n\nThere will be no trains at all in many places including north from Glasgow or Edinburgh and to Penzance in Cornwall.\n\n\"Make no mistake, the level of service we will be able to offer will be significantly compromised and passengers need to take that into account and to plan ahead and only travel if it's really necessary to do so,\" Network Rail boss Andrew Haines said.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns and maintains the country's railways, said there would also be no passenger services to locations including Bournemouth in Dorset, Swansea in south Wales, Holyhead in north Wales, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool in Lancashire.\n\nOpen lines include the West Coast Main Line from London to Scotland via locations such as Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nHowever, with trains running for shorter hours on strike days, final departures will be much earlier than usual. For example, the last train from Manchester to London will leave at 14:47 and the last from Norwich to London at 16:00, with the last train from London to Edinburgh at 14:00.\n\nRural and district lines will be most affected by the action.\n\nThe timetable from 20 June to 26 June is still being finalised, but the number of services is expected to be around 4,500 compared with 20,000 normally, Network Rail said.\n\nDisruption is also expected to carry over into non-strike days during the week, when only about 60% of services are expected to run.\n\nThis is due to not enough staff being on shift overnight to get services ready for the following day.\n\nA number of train operators including Southeastern, TransPennine and Avanti West Coast have urged passengers to only travel by rail if necessary, while Northern has asked people \"not to travel\" on trains between Tuesday and Sunday.\n\nSeveral large events could be affected by the strikes, ranging from Glastonbury Festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, to a cricket Test match between England and New Zealand taking place from 23 to 27 June.\n\nPensioner Linda is supposed to be travelling by train from Great Yarmouth to London for a Rolling Stones concert on 25 June.\n\nShe paid £100 per ticket but she is now unsure if there is any way for her to get there now.\n\n\"If I was to book a coach, it would cost a lot more - plus increase the travel time; two-and-a-half hours on the train becomes five to six hours on a coach,\" she told the BBC. \"And there's no way we'd get to the concert in time.\"\n\nElsewhere, Megan, a 15-year-old pupil at Bradford Grammar School, doesn't know how she will get to school.\n\n\"Both my parents work. My mum is a doctor so she's got to be in [work] really early,\" she said. \"I think we'll just have to organise lifts with someone.\"\n\n\"It's just stressful. With traffic and everyone getting a lift in, it's going to be a nightmare,\" she added.\n\nMegan is worried how she'll get to school\n\nThe school's bursar Homera Najib said about 300 pupils travel in by train from across Yorkshire and Leeds using the nearby Frizinghall station.\n\nShe has contacted parents who have to make their own alternative arrangements to get their children to school, she said.\n\n\"We know this is going to be a real inconvenience for our pupils, especially at a time when we've got public examinations going on,\" she said.\n\n\"These are the first public examinations in two years so something like this that really throws a spanner in the works doesn't help the levels of stress.\"\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT union members from Network Rail and 13 train firms plan to walk out. The industrial action, which has been described as the \"biggest rail strike in modern history\", involves union members which include railway staff such as guards and signalling operators.\n\nRMT announced the strike action last week after talks over pay and redundancies fell through.\n\nOn the first day of the planned strike on 21 June, London Underground RMT workers plan to walk out in a separate dispute over pensions and job losses.\n\nAndrew Haines, Network Rail chief executive, said talks with the union had \"not progressed as far as I had hoped\" and so preparations had begun for a strike.\n\nThe strikes may be less disruptive for commuters, with more people now able to work from home since the pandemic.\n\nBut the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said \"millions of people\", including those who cannot work remotely, students sitting exams and others travelling for summer events, would still be affected.\n\nThe mood music right now is that not enough progress has been made in negotiations to stop next week's walkouts.\n\nAssuming they go ahead, there will be disruption across the whole week.\n\nThe involvement of Network Rail signalling staff means the number of trains that can run is particularly limited.\n\nOn strike days, the signallers' replacements can only cover 12 hours, hence services will start late and finish early - where they run at all.\n\nBusy, key routes have been prioritised, meaning vast swathes of the country will be left with no services at all.\n\nNetwork Rail says next week's action will cost up to £150m in lost revenue and aborted work.\n\nThe RMT union has claimed Network Rail plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs as part of a £2bn reduction in spending, with the proposed job cuts including workers who maintain tracks, signals and overhead lines.\n\nIt also said train operators had been subject to pay freezes and changes to their terms and conditions.\n\nThe RMT has called for a meeting with the transport secretary and chancellor, saying it had become clear that the Treasury was \"calling the shots and not allowing rail employers to reach a negotiated settlement\".\n\nBut a deal is \"unlikely at the moment\", said RMT's Eddie Dempsey, who accused the government of \"relishing the thought of having a dispute to distract from some other issues\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said unions had \"gone on the record saying they don't negotiate with this government\", adding: \"They're right: they must negotiate with the employers.\"\n\nThe rail industry is under pressure to save money due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and Network Rail has said it wants to modernise working practices.\n\nIt estimated between 1,500 and 2,000 fewer staff would be needed, but insists this could be achieved through voluntary means.\n\nAs part of a separate strike, Aslef, a union representing train drivers, has announced walkouts at three companies in rows over pay on 26 June at Hull Trains, at Greater Anglia on 23 June, and on Croydon Tramlink on 28, 29 June and 13 and 14 July.\n\nWill your travel plans be affected by the strike days? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Microsoft is finally retiring the consumer version of Internet Explorer.\n\nIt announced the plan last year, making Internet Explorer 11 its final version.\n\nInternet Explorer debuted on Windows desktop computers in 1995 and by 2004, had cornered 95% of the market.\n\nBut now, Google Chrome, Apple's Safari and Mozilla Firefox are dominant.\n\nUsers wanting to stick with Microsoft are being directed to Microsoft Edge, launched in 2015, alongside Windows 10.\n\nInternet Explorer's popularity was dented by the launch of faster browsers such as Chrome and Firefox, as users seized on new applications to navigate platforms including Google Search, Facebook and YouTube.\n\nThe rise of smartphones then arguably delivered the fatal blow, with Apple's pre-installed Safari browser and Google Chrome on Android phones helping to shift internet access and usage into the mobile realm.\n\nMobile and tablet internet usage overtook desktop worldwide for the first time in October 2016, according to independent web analytics company StatCounter.\n\nAnd earlier that year, StatCounter saw Google Chrome account for more than 60% of desktop internet usage worldwide, with Internet Explorer and Edge's combined share of the desktop market narrowly falling behind that of Firefox for the first time.\n\nEdge retains an inbuilt \"IE mode\" for developers and those seeking to access legacy applications.\n\nMicrosoft says access to its legacy desktop browser will be maintained on older versions of Windows, including Windows 8.1, Windows 7 Extended Security Updates and limited versions of Windows 10.\n\nAnd Internet Explorer's legacy is sure to live on after its retirement, having come pre-installed on Windows computers for more than two decades.\n\nIn 1995, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the launch of Windows 95 - and Internet Explorer with it - would form part of the technology giant's efforts to ride the \"internet tidal wave\".\n\nWhile his vision of \"a microcomputer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software\" might now seem reminiscent of a bygone era of dial-up internet, Internet Explorer is set to be remembered as one of the key tools that shaped the way the internet is used and accessed even today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wayne Humphreys' fine and costs for passing this cyclist too closely were more than £1,800\n\nA motorist has been ordered to pay more than £1,800 after passing a cyclist too closely.\n\nWayne Humphreys, 77, was fined and given four penalty points for failing to leave enough space in his Audi Q8.\n\nRoad safety partnership GoSafe said the outcome showed that these submissions are taken seriously and given the appropriate amount of attention.\n\nMr Humphreys had refused to attend a course or pay a fixed penalty notice, but said the fine was \"appalling\".\n\nGoSafe said Mr Humphreys had been offered a place on a driver awareness course as an alternative to prosecution after it received footage of the incident.\n\nThe cyclist recorded the close pass on a GoPro camera and reported the incident to roads policing teams.\n\nGoSafe added that Mr Humphreys, of Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, also later failed to comply with a fixed penalty notice, resulting in the prosecution on 8 June, when he was fined £1,152 and ordered to pay £620 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.\n\nThe warehouse boss was then prosecuted at Cardiff Magistrates' Court for driving without due care and attention and ordered to pay £1,887 in a fine and costs, and received four points on his licence.\n\nMr Humphreys, said: \"The fine is absolutely appalling. I am 77 years of age and the last fine I had was 35 to 40 years ago.\n\n\"Other than that I have never had a fine and I have had a licence for 60 years.\"\n\nFollowing the narrow miss along the B4280 Pant Hirwaun outside Heol-y-Cyw, near Bridgend in September 2021, Mr Humphreys said he and his son later measured the road and claimed the gap he left for the cyclist was sufficient and safe.\n\nHe said: \"Taking into account the cyclist and his bike, there would have still been at least 4ft (1.2m) space.\"\n\nMotorists must now leave a 1.5m (5ft) gap when overtaking cyclists, as well as slowing down. The gap must be 2m (6.5ft) when passing pedestrians or horse riders.\n\nChanges in the language of The Highway Code came in to force from 29 January mean a driver is now more likely to be penalised for putting other road users in harm's way - especially if caught on camera.\n\nNew laws came into force in January\n\n\"I find it absolutely incredible this has happened. I don't know whether to appeal it or not. It will probably just cost me more money.\n\n\"This has already cost me about £4,500 with the money for the court and the solicitor. It doesn't make sense to me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGoSafe said the organisation had \"worked closely with drivers and cycling groups\" to develop Operation Close Pass, which looks to educate both drivers and cyclists on how to stay safe on our roads.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China has long said that Britain's rule in Hong Kong did not usurp its sovereignty over the territory\n\nNew textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state the territory was never a British colony, local media report.\n\nInstead, the books declare the British \"only exercised colonial rule\" in Hong Kong - a distinction drawn to highlight China's claims of unbroken sovereignty.\n\nChina has always asserted it never gave up sovereignty and its surrender of Hong Kong to the British was due to unfair Opium War treaties in the 1800s.\n\nThe UK returned Hong Kong to China in 1997 after ruling for over 150 years.\n\nDuring its rule, it referred to Hong Kong - a port with a deep harbour that grew into a booming city state, and one of the world's leading financial centres - as a colony, as well as a dependent territory.\n\nThe United Kingdom governed the area from 1841 to 1941, and from 1945 to 1997, after which it was handed back to China.\n\nBritain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, a date specified by treaty requirements\n\nChina maintains Hong Kong has always been its territory - that the British only occupied it after 1842.\n\nAnd while the Qing government at the time signed successive treaties ceding and leasing parts of the territory to Britain, China argues those were signed \"under coercion\" and never accepted them.\n\nHong Kong's government has been following Beijing's rhetoric since the 1997 handover. It never says sovereignty was \"transferred\" to China, but rather Hong Kong has \"returned to the motherland\".\n\nGovernment museums used to describe Hong Kong as a \"British colony\", but those words were removed in 2020 - a move locals said was indicative of China's strengthening control in the semi-autonomous city.\n\nThe latest move is in line with Beijing's attempt in recent years to instil a \"Chinese identity\" among Hong Kong students - to sow the idea that Hong Kong has always been part of China, but was taken away for a period under British rule.\n\nThe new textbooks take pains to explain the differences between a colony and colonial rule - with the texts declaring that for a country to call an external territory a colony it needs to have sovereignty as well as governance over the area.\n\nIn the case of Hong Kong, the British \"only exercised colonial rule… so Hong Kong is not a British colony\", the textbooks say, according to local media reports.\n\nThe books have been drawn up for a specific course to be taught in Hong Kong schools focusing on citizenship ideals, lawfulness and patriotism.\n\nThe subject replaces a liberal studies course that sought to teach students greater critical thinking skills and ideas on civic engagement.\n\nChinese authorities directly criticised this course during the city's mass pro-democracy protests in 2019, saying such education had \"radicalised\" young people and given them the wrong ideas.\n\nThe new textbooks - which have yet to printed, and are pending final approval by Chinese authorities, local media say - also reflect Beijing's characterisation of the mass pro-democracy protests in 2019 as a security threat.\n\nSome Hong Kongers carried the Union Jack during the pro-democracy protests in 2019\n\nThe South China Morning Post reported one excerpt on the protests reading: \"Secession and subversion against the government were advocated in some of those activities posting a threat to national sovereignty, security and interests.\"\n\nWhile incidents of violence did occur during the 2019 protests, the majority of protests were largely peaceful. Human rights groups have also raised accusations of police brutality and mistreatment of peaceful protesters during the period.\n\nTimothy Lee, a former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker who is now exiled from the territory, was among critics expressing concerns about a \"rewriting\" of history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Timothy Lee 李軒朗 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the handover in 1997, China's Communist rulers classified the city as a special administrative region with its own governing and economic system, allowing individuals more freedoms than on the mainland.\n\nFollowing the major 2019 protests, China cracked down on civil freedoms formerly allowed in Hong Kong.\n\nIn 2020, it passed a national security law that has in effect outlawed almost all forms of political criticism.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted his Partygate fine did not amount to a breach of ministerial rules\n\nBoris Johnson's ethics adviser says it is \"reasonable\" to suggest the prime minister may have breached the ministerial code after being fined for attending a lockdown party in No 10.\n\nLord Geidt did not deny he considered resigning over Mr Johnson's response to the fine by police.\n\nLast month, Lord Geidt urged the PM to explain why he had not broken the code.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, he said he was \"glad\" the PM had now addressed \"things about which I was frustrated\".\n\nLast month Mr Johnson's government made changes to the ministerial code, which outlines the conduct rules ministers must follow, including the \"overarching duty\" on them to comply with the law.\n\nThere has long been an expectation that ministers should quit their role in government if they are found to have broken the code.\n\nThe prime minister is responsible for enforcing the code, based on advice from his standards adviser, Lord Geidt, who investigates potential breaches.\n\nOn Tuesday, Lord Geidt appeared in front of the Commons Public Administration Committee to discuss the recent changes to the code and other issues related to his role.\n\nThe peer told the committee of MPs he believed he had \"new powers\" to initiate investigations of potential breaches of the code.\n\nUpdated guidance on his role says he still has to \"consult the prime minister who will normally give his consent\" for an investigation. Previously, Lord Geidt had to wait until asked by the prime minister to start an investigation.\n\nDuring the hearing, SNP MP Ronnie Cowan asked Lord Geidt if he would use his new powers to initiate an investigation into the prime minister's fine.\n\nHe said: \"I think it's reasonable that some - and indeed many people had written to me making this point - it's reasonable to say that, perhaps a fixed penalty notice and a prime minister paying for it, may have constituted not meeting the overarching duty under the ministerial code, of complying with the law.\"\n\nLord Geidt said he had never sought to open his own investigation into whether there were breaches of the code at parties in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nBut he said Mr Johnson had been \"in potential scope of the code\" on several occasions, citing an investigation into the refurbishment of the prime minister's flat, and senior civil servant Sue Gray's report into lockdown-busting events.\n\nLast month, in an annual report on ministers' interests, Lord Geidt there was a \"legitimate question\" over whether the PM's fine amounted to a breach of the code.\n\nMr Johnson responded in a letter, insisting \"there was no intent to break the regulations\" and \"I did not breach the code\".\n\nLord Geidt said he had asked the prime minister \"to speak up for his own conduct\" and was satisfied he had done so in the letter.\n\nLord Geidt published his annual report on ministers' interests last month\n\nOne committee member, Labour MP John McDonnell, suggested to Lord Geidt that his role as the PM's adviser was \"little more than a tin of whitewash\".\n\nIn reply, Lord Geidt said \"how can I defeat the impression that you are suggesting of a cosy, insufficiently independent relationship? It is very hard.\"\n\nAnd Lord Geidt conceded that his role was not truly independent, saying, \"I am asset of the prime minister\" rather than a \"free-orbiting adviser with a different source of authority\".\n\nThe changes to the code follow a review by advisory body the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which made a series of recommendations for reforms in a report.\n\nFor the first time, the code introduced the idea of a \"minor\" breach and sanctions \"which the prime minister may decide to issue in a given case\".\n\nBut Lord Geidt contested the suggestion that the code had been \"watered down\".\n\n\"That sort of interpretation is not quite correct,\" he said, calling the reforms \"fair and proportionate\".", "Lord Geidt did not look like a man in love with his job as he addressed MPs on Tuesday\n\nHis demeanour and delivery screamed exasperation, even if his words were carefully chosen. When Lord Geidt appeared before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, for the best part of two hours, he didn't look like a man in love with his job.\n\nJust over 24 hours later, in a written statement of few words and even less detail, came confirmation that he really didn't.\n\nHe was resigning, the second such ethics adviser to the prime minister to walk in the last eighteen months. It appears he had concluded his position was untenable, enough was enough.\n\nIt also appears there are more details he is privy to about what has been going on than are currently known about more widely.\n\nSo what do we know about what happened in the last few days?\n\nI'm told that on Monday, Lord Geidt met the prime minister and offered to serve in the job for another six months.\n\nHe was also asked by Boris Johnson to advise on a commercial decision the government is contemplating - and whether this would breach any existing commitments and so not be in line with the ministerial code.\n\nWe don't know the details of this yet, nor if this request contributed to his resignation, but the specific timing of his departure has left No10 baffled, given his commitment to stay.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Lord Geidt phoned the prime minister's principal private secretary to tell him he was resigning. Mr Johnson was informed of the decision at about 18:30 BST, shortly after finishing a phone call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nBut while the particular timing has surprised some in Downing Street, Lord Geidt's discomfort in the job has been evident for a while.\n\nJust last month he had said in a report that it was a legitimate question to ask if Boris Johnson had breached the ministerial code by breaking Covid laws.\n\nBut, as Lord Geidt put it, the code's \"author and guardian\" is Mr Johnson. The prime minister hadn't sought an investigation from Lord Geidt into whether he had, and was of the view that he hadn't.\n\nAs Lord Geidt put it: \"I have attempted to avoid the independent adviser offering advice to a prime minister about a prime minister's obligations under his own ministerial code.\n\n\"If a prime minister's judgement is that there is nothing to investigate or no case to answer, he would be bound to reject any such advice, thus forcing the resignation of the independent adviser. Such a circular process could only risk placing the ministerial code in a place of ridicule.\"\n\nLord Geidt also spelled out in the report that he didn't like the terms of his job - \"the prevailing arrangements still remained insufficiently independent to be able to command the confidence of the public\" as he put it.\n\nNo 10 would point out some of those arrangements have since changed. But it is also true that so too had new guidelines meaning ministers wouldn't get sacked for \"minor\" breaches of the ministerial code.\n\nNo 10 was baffled by the resignation of the PM's ethics adviser - for the second time in 18 months\n\nThe truth is we don't yet know definitively why Lord Geidt resigned, as his resignation letter has not been published - which itself is unconventional.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to write back to Lord Geidt on Thursday morning, and that reply may well be made public.\n\nWhat we do know is it wasn't just Partygate that caused headaches: a row about the renovation of the prime minister's flat led Lord Geidt to rebuke Boris Johnson for showing \"insufficient\" respect for his role.\n\nAnd remember, too, Lord Geidt's predecessor resigned as well. Sir Alex Allan walked out in November 2020 after concluding the Home Secretary Priti Patel had breached the ministerial code, which conventionally results in a resignation or sacking. And yet Ms Patel didn't leave and the prime minister didn't sack her.\n\nSo twice in a year-and-a-half, the person appointed to oversee ethics and conduct in Mr Johnson's government has given up.\n\nJust as Mr Johnson had managed to shift the political conversation away from his behaviour and on to policy, a swirl of headlines about this appears.\n\nAnd along with the headlines, comes a vacancy in government. I walked down Whitehall earlier on; I can't say I spotted a queue of people lining up to take the job on.", "Sir Lenny Henry made the comments ahead of the 2022 festival at Worthy Farm\n\nSir Lenny Henry has said it is \"interesting\" to see the apparent lack of black people in the audience at Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe actor and comedian, 63, said he was also \"surprised\" by the lack of diverse faces at other UK festivals.\n\nHe made the comments while in conversation with BBC journalist and presenter Clive Myrie for Radio Times.\n\nIt comes as the event's co-organiser, Emily Eavis, said Stormzy's performance in 2019 was \"a little bit late\".\n\nThe daughter of festival founder Michael Eavis was speaking in a new BBC Two documentary.\n\nThe grime artist and rapper performed a headline set, becoming the first black solo British headliner in the festival's history.\n\nMs Eavis said: \"He was representing the black community in a very predominately white festival and obviously that's a really important moment for us, but it's also a little bit late maybe.\n\n\"We should have probably done it before.\"\n\nStormzy headlined the festival in 2019 - but Sir Lenny has questioned the apparent lack of black audience members\n\nSir Lenny was discussing diversity and places where different groups do not mix when he said: \"It's interesting to watch Glastonbury and look at the audience and not see any black people there.\n\n\"I'm always surprised by the lack of black and brown faces at festivals. I think, 'Wow, that's still very much a dominant culture thing'.\"\n\nGlastonbury Festival has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe festival is held at Worthy Farm in Somerset and is finally celebrating its 50th anniversary after being delayed by the pandemic.\n\nSir Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish and rapper Kendrick Lamar have been confirmed as headliners.\n\nSir Lenny Henry said of his view of the audience that white faces were a \"dominant culture thing\"\n\nSir Lenny, who is fronting a two-part documentary about Caribbean culture in the UK, also addressed Mr Myrie recently becoming the first black host of long-running BBC quiz show Mastermind.\n\nHe said: \"It's great to have David Olusoga on television talking about black British history that goes back to Hadrian's Wall.\n\n\"Somewhere the gatekeepers have changed, because now we're allowed to have you on Mastermind. But how long did that take?\n\n\"We still want more representation because we deserve it. We are British citizens, we are colonials.\n\n\"We've been in this country, we have grown up in this country, we've contributed and a lot of us feel it still isn't being reciprocated enough.\n\n\"That's also what this documentary is about. It's about that feeling of 'well, come on, I fitted in. Now what? I've integrated, now what happens?'.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had earlier met those affected by the disaster in a private meeting\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have joined bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire to mark its fifth anniversary.\n\nSeventy-two people were killed by the blaze in North Kensington, west London, on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe couple joined mourners at the base of the tower for a special service having earlier met several during a private meeting.\n\nA 72-second silence was observed by attendees, concluding with applause.\n\nThe couple placed a wreath during the service\n\nThe attendance of the duke and duchess was \"huge\" for the community, a local resident said.\n\nMuna Hussain, whose children went to the same school as five of those who died, said: \"I was glad to see at least they know how we are feeling as a community and they shared that feeling.\n\n\"It makes me very happy. It's massive, it's huge for us. It makes you feel better.\"\n\nStormzy - who has long offered his support to those affected by the disaster - was also at the event\n\nSome watched the service on big screens\n\nA silent two-mile march was held after the service\n\nDuring the service, actor Tim Downie said: \"At today's service we honour the 72 innocent men, women and children, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and friends who needlessly lost their lives.\n\n\"We must never forget them and carry them with us forever in our hearts.\"\n\nMany mourners wore green scarves and clothing to match the green hearts that adorn the wall below the tower and which have become a symbol of the tragedy.\n\nFloral tributes and personal notes have been left beside the wall, including a \"72\" made of white flowers.\n\nAfterwards, several hundred people carried out a two-mile walk around the area.\n\nDozens of firefighters lined the streets, with many holding green hearts reading \"Grenfell\", and onlookers applauded as the mourners passed.\n\nWatch Grenfell: Has Anything Changed? on iPlayer.\n\nA memorial service for the 72 people killed in the fire took place at 11:00 at Westminster Abbey\n\nIt began with the names of the victims being read out followed by a reply of \"forever in our hearts\" from the congregation.\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Housing Secretary Michael Gove were among those in the congregation.\n\nPeople placed white roses in memory of the victims\n\nTheresa May, who was prime minister when the fire happened, spoke to volunteers ahead of the memorial service\n\nJournalist Jon Snow, who was invited to speak at the service, said: \"Grenfell, set in the richest borough in Britain, speaks to the grotesque inequality with which our society has been riven.\n\n\"We must now confront the issues raised by the Grenfell disaster.\"\n\nLawyer Imran Khan, who also addressed the congregation, said: \"For the residents of Grenfell, their home wasn't their castle, it was their deathbed.\"\n\nThe names of each of the 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower fire were read out\n\nFrom scarves and flowers, to altar cloths and decorations, Westminster Abbey was adorned in green as hundreds gathered for this memorial service to remember those who lost their lives on this day five years ago.\n\nAt the very heart of the service was a sense of unity and remembrance. Members of the congregation held hands, comforting those who were weeping, as the names of each of the 72 victims were read out.\n\nHer father Ray \"Moses\" Bernard lost his life in the fire. His daughter spoke of her trauma and how she and other family members often relive that night.\n\nPerhaps the loudest round of applause came after lawyer Imran Khan's speech. He spoke of his disbelief over a lack of criminal charges and described the public inquiry into the fire as ineffective.\n\nAs the congregation filed out of the Abbey, 72 candles were left flickering on the altar, a reminder that the Grenfell victims will never be forgotten.\n\nElsewhere in the capital, a 72-second silence was observed at 14:00 at the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush.\n\nPeople observed a 72-second silence at the Grenfell memorial wall in the nearby Westfield shopping centre\n\nFirefighters will provide a guard of honour as survivors and the bereaved walk from Grenfell Tower\n\nNatasha Elcock, chairwoman of campaign group Grenfell United, said this week would be difficult for all of those affected.\n\n\"For many of us the events five years ago are still so raw in our minds and our losses remain heavy in our hearts,\" she said.\n\nRaheleh Afraseibi, who lost her mother Fatemeh and aunt Sakineh in the fire, said the \"catastrophe is never-ending for us\".\n\n\"We don't want them to just say 'Never forget', we want it cemented in some way,\" she added.\n\nMembers of the Grenfell Next of Kin group, which also represents those bereaved by the tragedy, said they did not want their loved ones' deaths to have been in vain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLondon fire commissioner Andy Roe said he had found the strength and dignity of the Grenfell community \"humbling and inspiring\".\n\nHe added: \"I give my commitment that we will continue to listen and make changes to our service and work to drive improvements in the built environment to ensure such a tragedy can never happen again.\"\n\nWhile a criminal investigation into the disaster is under way, the Met Police has said no prosecutions will be brought until the public inquiry is finished and its findings are published.\n\nSo far, fewer than half of the recommendations from the inquiry have been adopted into law, according to the Home Office.\n\nSurvivors and bereaved families and friends have held a campaign for criminal proceedings to be sped up\n\nThe government first received data demonstrating the danger of polyethylene-cored cladding in 2002.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) said it was taking steps to ensure buildings were safer.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The Grenfell Tower tragedy must never be allowed to happen again and our thoughts are with the bereaved families, survivors and residents.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A photobook of Grenfell survivors tells the story in their own words\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC correspondents Nick Beake, Orla Guerin and Clive Myrie have all reported on the war inside Ukraine\n\nRussia has barred top UK-based journalists and defence figures as part of sanctions, in response to UK measures on Russian public figures.\n\nThe BBC's Clive Myrie, Orla Guerin, Nick Robinson and Nick Beake, who have reported from Ukraine, and Director General Tim Davie are on the list.\n\nThe BBC \"will continue to report independently and fairly\", a spokesperson said.\n\nSky TV, Times, Guardian, Channel 4 and ITV journalists are also barred.\n\nRussia has already banned hundreds of elected British MPs.\n\nThe foreign ministry in Moscow announced that work on expanding the list, which includes 29 members of the media and 20 persons \"connected to the defence complex\", would continue.\n\n\"The British journalists included on the list are involved in deliberate dissemination of false and one-sided information about Russia and events in Ukraine and Donbas,\" Russia's foreign ministry said. \"With their biased assessments they also contribute to fuelling Russophobia in British society.\"\n\nIn her most recent piece for the BBC, Orla Guerin reported from the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, where she said the fabric of the city was being destroyed in a deliberate scorched earth policy. Clive Myrie reported live from Kyiv as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, attempting to capture the capital in the early days of the war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery\n\nThe other BBC staff on the list are diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams, who has also reported from Ukraine, and corporation chairman Richard Sharp.\n\nSky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is also on the list, was wounded in a Russian ambush while reporting outside Kyiv at the same time.\n\nAmong the other high-profile journalists on the list are John Witherow, editor of The Times, Chris Evans of the Telegraph, Katharine Viner of the Guardian and Ted Verity of the Daily Mail.\n\nCorrespondents Shaun Walker and Luke Harding of the Guardian are on the list, along with presenters Sophy Ridge of Sky News and Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News, columnists Con Coughlin of the Daily Telegraph and Gideon Rachman of the FT, and Russia academic Mark Galeotti.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Galeotti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShaun Walker said he was not racing to visit Russia but it was still a \"very strange/sad feeling\" to be on the list, after living in Russia for more than a decade.\n\nRussia has closed down independent media outlets and criminalised reporting of anything it considers to be \"false information\" about its war in Ukraine. Moscow refuses to call its invasion a war, labelling it a \"special military operation\".\n\nRussia has also targeted journalists and other figures it does not like with the label \"foreign agent\". The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that this legislation violated the rights of those involved.\n\nBeyond the world of journalism there are senior figures on the sanctions list in the armed forces, including Royal Navy chief Adm Sir Ben Key and Air Force chief Sir Michael Wigston. The head of Thales UK, Alex Cresswell, and several senior colleagues are barred from Russia as are a number of top figures from BAE Systems, including overall CEO Charles Woodburn.", "The seven members of BTS are aged between 24 and 29\n\nSouth Korean boy band BTS, whose catchy, upbeat songs have won them legions of fans, have announced they will be taking a break.\n\nThe group told fans during a televised dinner celebrating their anniversary that they would be pursuing solo projects.\n\nBand member Jimin said the group had been going through a \"rough patch\".\n\n\"We're trying to find our identity and that's an exhausting and long process,\" he explained.\n\nBTS made the announcement on Tuesday during their annual FESTA dinner, which saw the group reminisce and discuss the future.\n\nTheir whole conversation, which lasted more than an hour, was uploaded to their official YouTube channel.\n\nAn English translation showed one member calling the break a \"hiatus\" - but a representative for the band later disputed that.\n\n\"To be clear, they are not on hiatus but will take time to explore some solo projects at this time and remain active in various different formats,\" said Hybe, the entertainment company that manages BTS.\n\nThe FESTA dinner was scheduled to celebrate the founding of the Grammy-nominated group, which is made up of RM, Jungkook, Jin, Jimin, Suga, J-Hope and V.\n\nDuring the conversation, RM said that while they had achieved a great deal as BTS, the individual members needed to grow and mature as individuals.\n\n\"I always thought that BTS was different from other groups, but the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don't give you time to mature,\" he said.\n\n\"You have to keep producing music and keep doing something.\"\n\nThe singer added that he now wanted to take the time to consider the future of BTS as a group and as individuals.\n\nThe group recently joined White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the daily briefing\n\nOther members agreed, adding that going on a break was a difficult decision.\n\n\"We can't help but think of our fans no matter what, we want to be the kind of artists that are remembered by our fans,\" Jimin said.\n\n\"I think that's why we're going through a rough patch right now, we're trying to find our identity and that's an exhausting and long process.\"\n\nV told fans the group was not splitting for good, adding that they would get back together \"later, when we gather again as a group, that synergy will be like no other\".\n\nBTS, whose ages range from 24 to 29, released their debut EP in 2013.\n\nTheir biggest hits include Dynamite, Butter and the Coldplay collaboration My Universe - all of which reached number three in the UK singles chart.\n\nThe announcement may be tied to the fact all able-bodied South Korean men under the age of 30 must perform around two years of military service, and BTS have not been granted an exemption.\n\nBTS were named as the world's best-selling artists of 2021 in a chart recently compiled by music industry body the IFPI.\n\nEarlier this month, the group released the music video for Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment) - the title track of their new compilation album Proof.\n• None BTS were the top-selling act in the world last year", "Boris Johnson said he had \"no intent to break the regulations\"\n\nBoris Johnson's standards adviser says there is a \"legitimate question\" over whether the PM broke the ministerial code after getting fined for Partygate.\n\nLord Geidt said he repeatedly told the PM's team to be ready to explain if his actions stuck within the rules - even if he thought there was no breach.\n\nBut he said the advice had not been \"heeded\", calling on Mr Johnson to set out his case to the public.\n\nThe PM said being fined by the police does not break the ministerial code.\n\nWriting to Lord Geidt, Mr Johnson said he had \"no intent to break the regulations\", and that he had been \"fully accountable to Parliament and the British people\".\n\nThe ministerial code outlines the rules government ministers must follow when in office, including the \"overarching duty\" on them to comply with the law.\n\nIf the code is broken, the convention in Westminster is for a minister to resign.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the report was \"the latest sign of the rampant sleaze engulfing Downing Street\", adding: \"This prime minister has been found out and his days are numbered.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain said it showed the PM's own ethics adviser \"no longer trusts him to tell the truth\", and that Mr Johnson was \"not fit to hold public office\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police carried out an investigation into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall after allegations surfaced towards the end of 2021.\n\nA total of 126 fines were handed out to 83 people as a result of the force's investigation into 12 events during the pandemic.\n\nAnd a wider report by senior civil servant Sue Gray revealed a drunken party culture within No 10 while the rest of the country was ordered to stay at home.\n\nMr Johnson - along with his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak - was given a fixed penalty notice by the Met for attending a birthday party thrown in his honour in June 2020.\n\nFollowing Ms Gray's report last week, the PM apologised to the Commons, saying he had been \"humbled by the whole experience\" and had learned lessons.\n\nBut pressure has continued to grow, with at least 12 MPs calling on him to resign since the report's publication.\n\nDespite some critical language in Lord Geidt's report, the Cabinet Office is stressing that he's not resigning.\n\nBut a Downing Street source would not deny reports - published in The Times - that Lord Geidt threatened to quit on Tuesday unless Boris Johnson publicly explained his conduct.\n\nThe prime minister did publish a letter, in which he denied breaching the code, insisting there was no intent to break the rules.\n\nHe went on to stress that he'd apologised.\n\nLord Geidt also reveals that he repeatedly advised the prime minister - via his officials - to address this very issue in the wake of his fine.\n\nHe adds he was assured this was conveyed to Boris Johnson. In his reply Mr Johnson says there may have been \"a failure of communication\" between their offices.\n\nThis is the latest development raising questions about Boris Johnson's conduct, at a time when almost 30 of his own MPs have publicly called on him to go.\n\nIn his annual report on ministers' interests, Lord Geidt said questions around Mr Johnson's behaviour had led to an \"impression... the prime minister may be unwilling to have his own conduct judged against\" the ministerial code.\n\nThe standards adviser said it would be \"especially difficult to inspire that trust in the ministerial code if any prime minister, whose code it is, declines to refer to it\".\n\nHe said when it came to the Partygate fine, \"a legitimate question has arisen as to whether those facts alone might have constituted a breach of the overarching duty within the ministerial code of complying with the law\".\n\nAnd even if the PM thought there was no breach, he should \"should respond accordingly, setting out his case in public.\"\n\nLord Geidt - who reports to the prime minister - said he had avoided \"offering advice\" to Mr Johnson about the PM's \"obligations under his own ministerial code\" as he would be forced to resign if Mr Johnson rejected the advice.\n\nBut after repeatedly contacting his team \"to ensure that the prime minister should publicly be seen to take responsibility for his own conduct under his own ministerial code\", the prime minister had \"made not a single public reference\" to it.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"not aware of the weight... put on the absence of an explicit reference to the ministerial code\".\n\nBut in his letter to his adviser, he insisted he had not broken it by being fined.\n\nThe PM wrote: \"I have taken full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch, and reiterate my apology to the House and to the whole country...\n\n\"I have also been clear that there was no intent to break the regulations\", he added, before saying: \"Paying a fixed penalty notice is not a criminal conviction.\"\n\nMr Johnson also said that, in his view, the same principles applied to the chancellor.", "Before we heard from Priti Patel on Rwanda, we had the weekly session of PMQs. So what did the MPs talk about?\n\nThe economy featured heavily, with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly asked Boris Johnson about the UK's economic performance following the third month of negative growth and wages not rising to keep in line with inflation.\n\nHe accused the prime minister of being like Star Wars character Jabba the Hutt and said that the prime minister was \"actively making things worse\" in the UK.\n\nThe PM insisted that the UK will have the fastest growth in the G7 this year, because the right decisions were taken following the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP challenged Boris Johnson on Scottish independence, saying that the evidence was \"overwhelming\" that Scotland would perform better outside of the UK.\n\nThe PM replied to say that now wasn't the time to talk about it.\n\nMeanwhile, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the government was not doing enough to help rural communities, who are mostly reliant on cars, with the rising cost of fuel duty.\n\nBoris Johnson said the Lib Dems were \"bamboozling\" voters with their policies on rural areas.", "A haul of counterfeit chocolate bars has been seized in raids on American candy shops on Oxford Street.\n\nThe \"Wonka Bars\" were confiscated on Tuesday by trading standards staff, who took merchandise worth about £100,000, according to Westminster Council.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) warned: \"If you have bought these knock-off bars, do not eat them.\"\n\nThe council has been targeting US-themed sweet shops amid claims nearly £8m of business rates are owed.\n\nIt says it has netted about £475,000 of counterfeit and illegal goods in the past six months.\n\nCouncil leader Adam Hug said: \"We need landlords to take responsibility about who they let to.\"\n\n\"The problem is that owners of buildings are turning a blind eye to those who sublet them as it means they are not liable for business rates,\" the new council leader said.\n\n\"This needs to stop and we will be stepping up pressure on landlords to make it clear they are responsible for Oxford Street being overrun with these kinds of stores.\"\n\nThe FSA has also issued a warning as it believes the chocolate is being produced or repackaged by unregistered businesses and individuals who could be bypassing food hygiene, labelling and traceability laws.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTina Potter, from the FSA, said some of the counterfeit bars had been found to contain allergens that were not listed on the label, posing a major health risk to anyone with a food allergy.\n\nShe said: \"There is no way of knowing what ingredients are in these bars or what food hygiene practices are being followed by the people making or repackaging them.\"\n\nShe added that any Wonka-branded chocolate without a Ferrero trademark was likely to be counterfeit.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she was disappointed the flight to Rwanda did not go ahead as planned\n\nFor more than 20 years, successive governments have wrestled, often with limited success, with what to do about people who reach the northern coast of France, dreaming of a future in the UK.\n\nFrom clinging to lorries, to perilous crossings in small boats, home secretaries from David Blunkett to Priti Patel have cast around for solutions.\n\nThe magnetism for many of Britain hasn't diminished; in fact the opposite; there's been an exponential rise in small boat crossings in recent years.\n\nThe Rwanda policy comes at considerable cost; £120m as an upfront payment to Kigali, for a start, and while ministers say the number of people who might be sent there is \"uncapped\", it's thought it may number just hundreds per year.\n\nIt so far numbers zero - after confirmation just 20 minutes or so before the first flight was due to leave that all those asylum seekers due to be on it had obtained legal injunctions that granted them a reprieve.\n\nThe irritation from those in government is palpable and they are determined to press ahead with their plans.\n\nThey make the case that there is a moral compulsion to act, given the risks those crossing the Channel are subjecting themselves to and the costs are spiralling as the number of arrivals spiral too.\n\nSo, they conclude, a deterrent with shock value is deemed necessary.\n\nLet's talk about two things: the law and public opinion.\n\nWhile plenty of those possessed of titles and opinions, and platforms from which to articulate them, have expressed their outrage, from archbishops to lawyers and, privately, at least it would seem - the heir to the throne - public opinion is considerably more nuanced.\n\nIt brings me back to a point I've made before: noisy people in politics attract attention. Quieter people, rather less of it.\n\nSo people with big job titles and bigger opinions command headlines, but let's look a little deeper.\n\nThe plane had been due to fly to Rwanda on Tuesday evening\n\nPolling suggests, yes, it's a divisive idea - there is no doubt many are repulsed by it - but an overwhelming majority had previously been critical of the lack of a government plan.\n\nYou might remember last November at least 27 people died in the Channel trying to cross to reach England.\n\nShortly after, according to a poll by Savanta Comres, just one in five thought the Home Secretary Priti Patel was handling the issue well, rising to three in 10 Conservative voters.\n\nFigures in government tell me those working on the issue increasingly felt the situation was unsustainable, that something new and different and bold was now necessary.\n\nWhen the Rwanda policy was announced, a poll immediately afterwards, again by Savanta, found that just under half of the public supported it, compared with 26% who opposed it.\n\nTen days later, the same polling company found support had slipped a bit, to 41%, while 28% were against it.\n\nA punctured dinghy used by people to cross the English Channel is pulled into the Port of Dover\n\nThe very act of trying to do something appeared valued by many people, even if some thought the idea had problems.\n\nYou can read an interesting analysis of the numbers from Savanta Comres's political research director here.\n\nBy Monday, a poll by YouGov suggested 44% of people supported the plan, 40% were opposed, which implies that scrutiny of the policy might be chipping away at its popularity, but more people approve of it than reject it.\n\nIt is also worth pointing out that there appears to be considerably more support for the policy among Conservative supporters, according to YouGov (74%) than there is among those who support other political parties (among Labour supporters it's 19%, it's 26% of Liberal Democrat backers).\n\nI was chatting to a senior Conservative MP earlier, who acknowledged when they first heard about the Rwanda scheme they gulped - but had concluded a drastic measure was necessary to smash the business model of the people smugglers and put people off getting into rickety boats.\n\nIt remains an open discussion whether this policy can do that and at what cost. It might fail. Let's be frank: the early evidence doesn't bode well for the government.\n\nLet's see where the grounding this first flight leaves people's views.\n\nThe flight to Rwanda has triggered protests outside the Home Office in London\n\nLabour argue it not only abandons what they call \"British values of common sense and decency\" but claim it will prove to be \"unworkable, unethical, extortionately expensive and risks making smuggling and trafficking worse\".\n\nBut ministers are absolutely determined to make it work.\n\nThe prime minister has said he would be willing to change the law to make delivering the policy easier.\n\nAnd this is where having a look at the Conservative manifesto from the last general election is instructive.\n\nOn page 48, there is a commitment to \"update the Human Rights Act.\"\n\nThat is a bit of law now 24 years old, which Conservatives feel gold plates the European Convention on Human Rights, the very thing that has led to some asylum seekers being offloaded from the flight to Kigali.\n\n\"It is very surprising that the European Court of Human Rights has intervened despite repeated earlier success in our domestic courts,\" the Home Secretary Priti Patel said.\n\nWe can expect to hear soon from the government about its wider plans on the Human Rights Act, plans the Tories described in their manifesto as ones that would mean legal interventions are \"not abused to conduct politics by another means or to create needless delays\".\n\nThose were words written three years ago, but appear very topical right now.", "A property on the Gwel yr Wyddfa estate was advertised as Sandy Retreat\n\nA property firm advertising a holiday home using an English name rather than the original Welsh showed \"pure disrespect\", a council leader has said.\n\nLlinos Medi said Anglesey Homes showed \"a lack of understanding\" by promoting 9 Gwel yr Wyddfa, in Llanfaelog, Anglesey, as 9 Sandy Retreat.\n\nThe firm said it was a misunderstanding and the official name had not changed.\n\nPlaid Cymru's deputy leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth asked if deleting Welsh was part of the company's business plan.\n\nThe furore over Gwel yr Wyddfa, which translates as view of Snowdon, has prompted further calls for the Welsh government to pass legislation to protect Welsh place names.\n\nIn response, the government said it was taking the matter \"seriously\".\n\nIn social media posts that prompted hundreds of responses, Anglesey Homes said: \"We've renamed our Gwel-yr-Wyddfa property! It is now known as 9 Sandy Retreat - available for eight guests, pet friendly, and in the beautiful village of Llanfaelog.\"\n\nGwyneth Parry said she was \"disgusted\" and \"annoyed\" by the estate agent\n\nGwyneth Parry, who lives nearby, said she was disgusted by the post.\n\n\"How can they put a name like Sandy Retreat? The sand is a good walk away, you're not on the beach here,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully we'll be able to stop this. I know a lot of people are unhappy about this. It's the Welsh language, we're on Anglesey and we should keep houses with Welsh names. It's important.\"\n\nAnglesey Homes said it was \"proud\" to have named the development Gwel yr Wyddfa\n\nSpeaking on Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast, Ms Medi called the promotion \"disappointing\", saying it showed \"pure disrespect towards us and our language\".\n\n\"If they want to attract holidaymakers, they're bringing them to the Welsh language, to feel part of Welsh society,\" she added.\n\nAnglesey Homes said it named the development Gwel yr Wyddfa as part of an agreement with Anglesey council.\n\nBut the nine properties were sold to third parties, it said, including the number nine unit.\n\nAnglesey Homes said the owners of the property mounted this plaque\n\n\"The owners of the property have independently decided to attach a plaque to their house, 'Sandy Retreat',\" it added.\n\n\"They feel their house is a retreat to them - as an owner they are entitled, like anyone else, to put a plaque on their property,\" Anglesey Homes said in a statement.\n\n\"But this does not have any effect on the address of the development and road which is proudly named and will remain named Gwel Yr Wyddfa.\"\n\nMs Medi said she was frustrated by people placing blame on the council, whose \"hands are tied\" when it comes to changing the name of individual properties.\n\nIt is council policy to write to developers who choose to change Welsh names into English, but they have no means of \"enforcing [rules] in any way\".\n\nAnglesey Homes said the owners chose the name Sandy Retreat in addition to its official address\n\nThe situation underlines the need to legislate to protect Welsh place names, she added.\n\n\"The problem is that they've got the right [to change names] because the government won't stand up for the Welsh language and our right to maintain our heritage.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"committed to act to ensure that Welsh language place names in the built and natural environments are safeguarded and promoted for future generations\".", "A widower has won a landmark legal case in the High Court, to allow him to try for a baby with a surrogate, using the last remaining IVF embryo he created with his late wife.\n\nTed Jennings, 38, has argued he has the blessing of Fern-Marie Choya, who died, aged 40, in 2019, while pregnant with their twins.\n\nThe court ruled he did not need written consent from Ms Choya to proceed.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority had rejected his request.\n\nIt will carefully consider the judgement before deciding whether to appeal, it says.\n\nMr Jennings, from Highbury, north London, had told the judge he did not recall he or his wife having any \"negative emotions towards parenthood in the event of using a surrogate, donated embryos or adopting a child\".\n\n\"Our emotional journey was going from the helplessness of the infertility compounded by the feeling of unjustness given all the other medical issues already faced,\" he said.\n\n\"We eventually got to the position of accepting that having given IVF our best shot, this would be the last time and the final embryo would be saved for surrogacy.\"\n\nThe couple had discussed what should happen if either died or there was a risk of either Ms Choya or the twins dying, Mr Jennings told Mrs Justice Theis, and Ms Choya had been \"adamant\" the girls should be saved if there had to be a choice between her and them.\n\nThe couple, who moved to the UK from Trinidad, had two previous pregnancies that ended in miscarriage.\n\nThey later tried IVF and remortgaged their home to pay for private treatment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Downing Street says it is \"unlikely\" the UK's Rwanda asylum policy will come up when Boris Johnson meets the Prince of Wales on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister had said he would defend the scheme if it was raised, but his spokesman later said it would not be at the forefront of his mind.\n\nPrince Charles is reported to have criticised plans to remove asylum seekers to the African country.\n\nThe pair are in the Rwandan capital Kigali for a Commonwealth summit.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said the policy was not something the Mr Johnson was focused on at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) summit, and emphasised challenges facing the Commonwealth such as sustainability, climate change and girls' education were the priority.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said he would not be commenting on \"supposed remarks made in private\" except to say that \"the prince is politically neutral\" and that policy was a matter for the government.\n\nThe policy has been criticised by politicians, refugee organisations and the Church of England, with some pointing to Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nThere have been several legal challenges in the UK against the policy, with the first flight due to take people to Africa prevented from taking off earlier this month.\n\nEarlier, the prime minister said Rwanda had \"undergone an absolute transformation\" in the last couple of decades and had come on \"leaps and bounds\" in education and \"taking society forward\".\n\n\"People need to keep an open mind about the policy, the critics need to keep an open mind about the policy,\" he said.\n\nBoris Johnson is due to meet the Prince of Wales in Kigali\n\nIt was reported in the Times, that Prince Charles had privately criticised the plan of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda as \"appalling\".\n\nBut the prime minister, who said he had discussed the matter with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, said it was \"absolutely necessary and right to fix the problem of illegal cross-Channel trafficking of people\".\n\nPrince Charles, who is with his wife the Duchess of Cornwall, has met business leaders in Rwanda as part of the Commonwealth Business Forum.\n\nThe Prince of Wales attends a Commonwealth Business Forum Exhibition at Kigali Cultural Exhibition Village, as part of his visit to Rwanda\n\nPrince Charles' wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, has joined him on the trip\n\nBoris Johnson is also joined by his wife Carrie in Rwanda\n\nUnder the Rwanda asylum plan, announced in April, the government intends to remove some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK, sending them via a one-way ticket to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead.\n\nIt has been criticised with some pointing out that last year the UK had raised concerns about restrictions to civil and political rights in the country.\n\nAfter the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was cancelled, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the scheme had \"never been a serious policy\" and described it as a \"shambles\" and \"shameful\".\n\nWhen the policy was first announced, the Liberal Democrats accused the government of \"slamming the door\" in the face of refugees.\n\nDuring his visit to Rwanda, Mr Johnson will not be visiting any of the accommodation set aside for the scheme, with his spokesman saying his time was limited.\n\n\"We think that the best use of his time for this short period he's in Rwanda is to dedicate himself to some of the issues that will be raised at the summit and to work with other world leaders on some of those issues we've talked about, not least Ukraine and global security,\" he said.\n\nDuring a speech as part of the summit, Mr Johnson spoke of the UK's support for green energy projects in Africa, including the announcement of up to £162m investment, via British International Investment, in the hydropower sector.", "The quake hit in a remote, rural area which rescuers face a difficult task just accessing\n\n\"A couple of helicopters came to help but it is not clear what else they can do other than moving the dead bodies.\"\n\nThis is how one Afghan described the situation after a powerful earthquake left hundreds dead.\n\nThe quake happened in the early hours of the morning, causing houses to collapse and crush people sleeping inside.\n\nRescuers have in some cases been digging with their bare hands, if they have been able to reach the affected areas at all. Rural eastern Afghanistan is not an easy place to travel to. The toll is expected to grow as the picture becomes clearer.\n\n\"It was shortly after 01:30 that the earthquake happened. I was scared. I tried to find my friends. Some of them lost their relatives. Some are ok but their homes are damaged,\" said Ahmad Nour.\n\n\"You can hear the ambulances' sirens everywhere. I talked to people. They are so frustrated. They lost their beloved ones. They are in a miserable situation.\"\n\nWitnesses at the scene described a desperate situation. \"Every street you go, you hear people mourning the deaths of their beloved ones,\" said one journalist.\n\nA photo seen by the BBC shows a young girl - three or four - covered in dust standing in front of a partially collapsed house. She looks dazed and it is not clear what happened to the rest of her family. The BBC is trying to find out more about her wellbeing.\n\nAlem Wafa, 49, travelled to one of the worst-affected parts of Paktika province to help pull out those trapped.\n\n\"There are no official aid workers, but people from neighbouring cities and villages came here to rescue people,\" he said.\n\n\"I arrived this morning and I, myself, found 40 dead bodies. Most of them are young, very young children.\"\n\nAfghans are already facing hardship on several fronts. Poverty is rampant, and the country has endured decades of conflict. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan last year, many countries cut development aid.\n\nAlready thinly stretched services are unlikely to be able to cope.\n\n\"Doctors and nurses are among the victims,\" said one doctor from Gayan district in Paktika.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We didn't have enough people and facilities before the earthquake, and now the earthquake has ruined the little we had. I don't know how many of our colleagues are still alive.\"\n\nAid agencies are trying to help but communications and water provisions are adding to the challenge. They are focussing on bringing food, medicine and emergency shelter to those in need.\n\n\"We have got our mobile health and nutrition teams in the affected districts giving first aid to those who are injured,\" said Sam Mort of Unicef.\n\n\"We've also got aid trucks on the way with supplies such as hygiene kits and blankets and tents and tarpaulins. Right now it is throwing it down with rain which is complicating the rescue efforts as well.\"\n\n\"And of course this is against a back drop of communities of people who were starving, were poor, were sick, were suffering with the drought,\" she added.\n\n\"This is not a strong and resilient population.\"", "Ros Atkins examines why a dispute between the RMT union and employers has led to the biggest rail strike in decades.", "The second day of rail strikes is under way after talks between unions and rail bosses broke down\n\nPlans are under way to change the law to enable employers to use agency staff to cover staffing gaps during strikes, the government has announced\n\nMinisters say the measure, which needs Parliament's approval, would limit the impact of future strikes.\n\nBut opposition parties and unions have criticised the plan, arguing it would undermine pay and working conditions.\n\nIt comes as rail strikes in Britain resumed after talks between unions and rail bosses broke down on Wednesday.\n\nRail workers are holding their second strike this week - the largest action of its kind in decades - in a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, with just 20% of services expected to run.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union is calling for a pay rise of at least 7% to offset the cost of living crisis, but employers have offered a maximum of 3%, on condition that the union accepts new working practices.\n\nThe government argues that changing laws that were introduced in the 1970s will keep services running during strikes by giving businesses the freedom to access agency staff quickly.\n\nThe changes - which would apply across England, Scotland and Wales - would cover employers in both the private and public sector and would likely come into effect in mid-July.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng accused trade unions of holding the country to \"ransom\" by bringing businesses and public services to a halt.\n\nHe said: \"Repealing these 1970s-era restrictions will give businesses freedom to access fully-skilled staff at speed, all while allowing people to get on with their lives uninterrupted to help keep the economy ticking.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said the proposal was \"welcome news\" that could help it provide a better service during strike days if the dispute \"drags on\".\n\n\"While key safety-critical roles require many months of training, there are many other roles where they could be used, such as in security operations, which would make a real difference.\"\n\nBut the Trades Union Congress said the plan would undermine the right to strike, adding that bringing in less qualified agency staff to deliver services would endanger public safety.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"The government should be getting people around the table to find a fair resolution to this rail dispute.\n\n\"But ministers are more interested in cynically picking a fight with unions than reaching a negotiated settlement.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said it would undermine pay and working conditions and risk public safety.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' transport spokesperson, Sarah Olney, said the proposals were \"too little too late\" to stop the disruption caused by rail strikes.\n\nPassengers across Britain faced journeys hours longer than usual and surging road traffic on Tuesday\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has said a teachers' strike would be \"unforgiveable\".\n\nThe National Education Union this week warned that it would hold a ballot on industrial action if its demands for an \"inflation-plus\" pay rise were not met.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Zahawi said a strike would be \"irresponsible\" given the disruption children and young people had endured as a result of the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Zahawi said: \"Young people have suffered more disruption than any generation that's gone before them, and to compound that now, as recovery is in full swing and families are thinking about their big step following school or college, would be unforgivable and unfair.\"", "Natasha Wynne says she became fixated on counting calories\n\nSeeing calories on restaurant menus in Wales is \"triggering\", a woman in recovery from an eating disorder said.\n\nNatasha Wynne collapsed at home in 2008 after becoming \"fixated on counting calories\".\n\nA charity said people living with eating disorders in Wales have not been able to escape a \"dangerous\" calorie labelling law in England.\n\nThe Welsh government is considering similar rules to tackle obesity in a respond to its consultation.\n\nMs Wynne, 32, from Cardiff, said at her worst she was setting \"really strict targets on how many calories I'd have in a day, how much fat I'd have in a day, how many steps I'd do to burn it off\".\n\n\"It's horrific. You find yourself really stuck all the time making these extra decisions that other people maybe don't think about,\" she added.\n\nAlthough she has recovered over the years, she said seeing calories popping up on menus in Cardiff's restaurants recently has been difficult.\n\n\"It took me, through treatment, a really long time to un-learn all that calorie information,\" she said.\n\n\"Thinking about calories on menus, this is why I find this so stressful.\n\n\"It's like everything through treatment I had to unlearn because fixating on calories was an unhealthy behaviour, now I'm constantly confronted with this calorie information which I know, for people like me, is really triggering.\"\n\nCalories have been appearing on menus in Wales since becoming a requirement in England\n\nLarge restaurants and takeaways in England have needed to list calories on menus since April as part of the UK government's plans to tackle obesity.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and takeaways with more than 250 staff in England must print how many calories are in meals on their menus, websites and on delivery platforms.\n\nEating disorder charity Beat said this was already causing distress in Wales.\n\nBeat said it had seen a 300% increase in the number of people asking for help with eating disorders over the past year.\n\nMost restaurants provide an alternative menu without the information.\n\nBut when Megan Davies, 19, went out for a meal with her friends in Cardiff last month, the group asked for a menu without calories.\n\nMegan Davies and her friends were left unhappy at not being able to see a calorie-free menu\n\n\"After we asked, the waitress was very sympathetic, but she said 'no, I'm really sorry, there isn't one available',\" she said.\n\n\"My friends and I were really let down because we didn't want to see the calorie information.\n\n\"It's not yet a rule here to have calories on menus so we were really disappointed.\"\n\nThe restaurant has apologised to Megan after she complained.\n\nThe Welsh government is considering the same rule as part of its consultation on healthy eating.\n\nDietician Sioned Quirke said making calorie labelling mandatory on menus in Wales was a \"very good idea\" and could lead to people making healthier choices.\n\nSioned Quirke is in favour of the new rules\n\n\"Having the actual facts on a menu is much better than trying to calculate ourselves what might be in a meal,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't know how it's cooked, portion sizes are so different, so if you've got the facts there in front of you, you're making an informed choice.\"\n\nBut she added that having an alternative menu without calories on request is \"important\" to give people an option.\n\nBeat disagrees. \"It's estimated that we have over 58,000 people living with eating disorders in Wales,\" said Siân Brough, deputy service manager at the charity.\n\n\"We know that calories on menus can cause severe mental distress to people with this serious mental illness.\n\n\"It can contribute to eating disorder thoughts and behaviours worsening.\n\n\"We're asking the government to send out a clear message to restaurants, cafes and takeaways across the nation that calorie labelling on menus is not mandatory.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was considering \"a range of measures\" as part of its consultation on health eating.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Whilst labelling is not currently mandatory in Wales, some outlets have already introduced calories on menus and we would ask that where possible restaurants provide menus that do not feature calorie details on request.\"", "A police chief accused of botching the response to the fatal shooting of 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, has been put on leave.\n\nPedro \"Pete\" Arredondo, head of the school district police force, has been blamed for law enforcement delays in confronting the gunman.\n\nDefending his actions, the 50-year-old has said he did not think he was the official in charge at the time.\n\nPublic anger has risen as more details of the 24 May attack emerge.\n\nState lawmakers are investigating why police waited for more than an hour outside the Robb Elementary School classroom in which the assailant had barricaded himself before a team made entry.\n\nSchool district superintendent Hal Harrell said on Wednesday he had placed Mr Arredondo on administrative leave effective immediately, citing \"the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive the results of the investigations\".\n\nHe said he had originally planned to \"wait until the investigation was complete before making personnel decisions\", but was \"still without details\" of what the inquiry has found.\n\nMr Arredondo has not spoken in a public capacity since last month's shooting.\n\nIn an interview with the Texas Tribune earlier this month, however, he said he \"took on the role of a front-line responder\" during the attack and assumed another official had taken control of the broader response.\n\nHe said officers on the scene could not find a key to unlock the door to the classroom until 77 minutes after the attack started.\n\nBut Texas public safety chief Steven McCraw said on Tuesday the door was not locked and there was no evidence officers tried to open it.\n\nMr McCraw testified to a state Senate hearing that there were enough police on the scene to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building.\n\nLabelling the response an \"abject failure\", Mr McCraw also said Mr Arredondo had \"decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about the shooting to scapegoat local law enforcement and deflect scrutiny from the state's response to the attack.\n\nThe decision to remove Mr Arredondo as police chief comes amid uncertainty over his future on the Uvalde city council.\n\nNewly elected to the council last month, and sworn in one week after the massacre at Robb Elementary, he is yet to attend a council meeting and had requested a leave of absence.\n\nBut the council unanimously denied his request at its Tuesday meeting after angry residents opposed the move, some calling for his firing.\n\n\"Please, please, we're begging you, get this man out of our lives,\" Berlinda Arreola, the grandmother of murdered 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, said.", "Monet's The Water-Lily Pond, 1899, will be among the 12 paintings to be loaned by the National Gallery\n\nThe National Gallery will send some of its finest masterpieces around the UK for its 200th anniversary.\n\nTwelve famous artworks including Constable's The Hay Wain, Botticelli's Venus and Mars, and Renoir's The Umbrellas travel across the UK.\n\nSimultaneous exhibitions will open on 10 May 2024 at 12 institutions, putting more than half of the population within an hour of one of the masterpieces.\n\nSome of the paintings have never been loaned by the gallery before.\n\nThe £95m bicentenary plans also include a blockbuster Van Gogh show, the creation of a new digital gallery to make the collection accessible around the world, a UK road trip of art workshops and a refurbishment of the National Gallery site at London's Trafalgar Square.\n\nTurner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has been commissioned to create a work celebrating 200 years of public art.\n\nThere will also be a \"surprise\" announcement closer to the bicentenary relating to one of the National Gallery's most famous works, Van Gogh's Sunflowers.\n\nThe National Gallery says it has exciting plans for one of its most popular paintings, Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888)\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said art is \"for all of us to share, not just the privileged few\".\n\n\"We've lost touch with that particular idea over the years, but it's something the National Gallery really understands and it's the central issue which guides me as culture secretary,\" she said. \"I want everyone to have access to our world class art and culture, no matter who they are or where they came from.\"\n\nThe National Gallery was set up almost 200 years ago by Parliament to create a collection of paintings for the use of the public. But for much of the past two centuries, the only way that the public could see the art was in person in London.\n\nThe entire collection has been moved only once, to protect it from German bombs rather than to engage with a wider audience. In World War Two, the paintings were transported to temporary sites in Wales before all 2,000 pictures were hidden in a former quarry in Snowdonia for safe keeping.\n\nThe Manod Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, was almost impregnable to bombing. In a top secret venture, works by Turner, da Vinci, Van Dyck and other Old Masters were packed into airtight, climate-controlled brick huts in a huge cavern in the heart of the Manod mountain until the war ended.\n\nSome of the National Gallery's works en route to Manod Quarry, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd in 1941\n\nA painting of Cardinal de Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne is brought out for inspection at Manod Quarry in 1942\n\nIt was many decades, though, before a National Gallery masterpiece returned to Wales. While the institution did loan works increasingly to others, you were sometimes more likely to see one of the gallery's Rembrandts or Monets in a museum abroad than in a gallery in the UK, despite the fact that UK taxpayers fund and co-own the collection.\n\nIn recent decades, the gallery has stepped up its efforts to share its art more widely across the nation. After it bought a self-portrait by acclaimed 17th Century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi in 2018, the painting went on a tour of the UK, not to museums and galleries but to places where different kinds of people might actually see it.\n\nThe work spent time in a GP's surgery in Yorkshire, a girls' school in Newcastle, a library in Glasgow and even a women's prison in Surrey.\n\nInmates in a women's prison had the chance to see Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (about 1615-17) in 2018\n\nThe 12 masterpieces that are part of the bicentenary plans will be sent to 12 museums and galleries across the four nations of the UK. Two of the works have never been loaned by the National Gallery before. Botticelli's Venus and Mars and the 14th Century Wilton Diptych, one of the greatest pictures ever produced in the UK, will be seen for the first time in National Gallery history outside London.\n\nVenus and Mars by Botticelli (circa 1485) is one of the paintings that are going on loan for the first time\n\nThe work known as The Wilton Diptych (about 1395-9) is also going on loan for the first time\n\nBut with only 12 paintings out of a collection now totalling around 2,400 being lent for the NG200: National Treasures exhibitions, the gallery's plans could be accused of being small-scale in outlook.\n\nAnd of the 12 on loan from May 2024, only one is by a woman.\n\nArtemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria will be on the road again, a sign she is viewed by the gallery as one of its most significant and popular artists.\n\nArt institutions around the world have been trying to address the lack of female artists in their collections. The National Gallery, which holds work from the 1400s to the 1900s, has already been found to have a particular problem, according to a recent study by Cambridge's all-female Murray Edwards College. Only around 1% of the works in the collection are by female artists.\n\nDorothy Byrne, the president of Murray Edwards, said the \"token woman\" of the 12 artists on the list illustrates the issues revealed by her college's research. She said the other paintings depict women \"as virgins, love goddesses and servants\", adding: \"This is an appalling representation of women to be sending round the country.\"\n\nThe National Gallery is a historical collection, dating from a time when women artists weren't recognised, although it does regularly showcase the work of contemporary female artists in its galleries. It points out that NG200: National Treasures is one part of a wider plan to get its art out to audiences in the UK and across the world for its anniversary.\n\nThe Umbrellas by Renoir (circa 1881) is among the 12 paintings that will be lent to another institution in the UK\n\nDr Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery, said it was \"the most ambitious, national programme we have ever undertaken\".\n\nIt is \"all about reaching out right across the nation\", he said, adding: \"A significant amount of the activities are in regional locations and are mostly free. We also want to reach out globally and promote the UK.\"\n\nThe programme will open in May 2024. The 12 places that will host the 12 masterpieces will be announced in due course.", "Work in 2017 on the mooring of a fibre-optic cable between the US and Spain\n\nInternet cables that crisscross the sea-floor could be used to detect earthquakes and tsunamis or monitor how climate change alters ocean currents.\n\nThese telecoms cables could be used as a giant array of deep-sea scientific sensors, the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and its partners say.\n\nScientists tested the technique on an optical-fibre link between the UK and Canada.\n\nThe research is published in Science Magazine.\n\nBecause installing permanent sensors to monitor the ocean floor is very costly, only a few exist globally, the scientists say.\n\n\"70% of the Earth's surface is water but all the seismic stations are on land, because it is too difficult and expensive to install permanent sensors on the seafloor\" Dr Giuseppe Marra of the NPL told the BBC.\n\nBut numerous optical-fibre cables carry data across the world's seas and oceans.\n\nIt is estimated there are more than 430 around the world, spanning distances of 1.3 million km (800,000 miles)\n\nAccording to Dr Marra vibrations, pressure and temperature changes affect, by a very small amount, the speed of light as it travels through the cable which extremely sensitive instruments can then detect.\n\nThe researchers said they had detected earthquakes and \"ocean signals\", such as waves and currents, using a 5,860km EXA Infrastructure optical-fibre link between Southport, Lancashire, and Halifax, Canada.\n\nThe scientists were able to use individual spans of cable between repeaters - devices that help boost the signal - as separate sensors.\n\n\"If we apply this technique to a large number of cables\", Dr Mara said, \"we could transform this underwater infrastructure into a giant array of detectors for earthquakes, ocean currents and more.\n\n\"Extending the seismic network from land to the seafloor will improve our understanding of the internal structure of the Earth and its dynamic behaviour\" he added.\n\nCable-based sensors could identify the \"epicentral area\" of an earthquake in the same way as land-based seismometers, the researchers suggest.\n\nAnd the technique opened other possibilities, such as monitoring deep-water currents for changes caused by global warming.\n\nThere is also the untested possibility of using cables to monitor how climate change alters sea-floor temperatures.\n\nTechnology-giant Google was involved in the research as well as the University of Edinburgh, the British Geological Survey, and the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, in Italy.\n\nBrian Baptie, head of the Earth seismology team for the British Geological Survey, said the research could transform scientists' ability to make measurements over vast areas of Earth's surface where it was very difficult to use conventional technologies.\n\n\"It creates an amazing opportunity to observe earthquakes in the middle of oceans at close range as well as the tantalising possibility of measuring other natural phenomena like submarine volcanic eruptions and tsunami in future,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen has praised the Windrush \"pioneers\" for their \"profound contribution\" to British life as a statue to them was unveiled.\n\nThe monument, at Waterloo Station, pays tribute to the thousands of people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nIt depicts a man, woman and child standing on top of suitcases and was revealed to mark Windrush Day.\n\nThe government gave £1m to fund the statue, designed by Basil Watson.\n\nIn a message to mark the occasion, signed Elizabeth R, the Queen said she hoped the statue would \"inspire present and future generations\" as she sent her \"warmest good wishes on this historic occasion\".\n\nWindrush Day marks the arrival of Caribbean immigrants to the shores of Britain on 22 June each year - the day HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in 1948.\n\nThe Queen's grandson the Duke of Cambridge helped to unveil the statue, alongside his wife the Duchess of Cambridge, and also paid tribute to the contributions of the Windrush generation, and their descendants to British life.\n\n\"Without you all Britain would simply not be what it is today,\" he said. \"I want to say a profound thank you to every member of that generation and the generations that have followed.\"\n\nBut Prince William also talked about how the \"past weighs heavily\" on the people of the Caribbean and the Windrush generation.\n\nHe said members of the Windrush generation had been victims of racism when they arrived and said \"discrimination remains an all too familiar experience for black men and women in Britain in 2022\".\n\nThe duke referred to the Windrush scandal, which broke in April 2018, and said it still \"rightly reverberates through the Caribbean community here in the UK\".\n\nThe scandal, which saw members of the Windrush generation and their children wrongly detained and even deported, led to the UK government apologising for the deportation threats many faced.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Baroness Floella Benjamin, Windrush passengers Alford Gardner and John Richards and children at the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station\n\nWindrush passengers Alford Gardner and John Richards helped the royals to unveil the statue.\n\nJamaican artist and sculptor Mr Watson has said he was \"truly honoured\" to have been chosen to create the monument.\n\nThe government said the statue would \"create a permanent place of reflection and inspiration and be a visible statement of our shared history and heritage\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the \"profound contribution\" of the Windrush generation to the fabric of British life\n\nEarlier to mark Windrush Day, Prince William and Catherine met young British-Caribbean creatives at the Brixton House theatre in south London, with the duchess trying her hand at photography and the duke chatting to R&B musician Abdoulaziz Lelo Ndambi.\n\nThey also met youth workers at Lambeth Council's Elevate programme and attended a workshop led by production agencies Iconic Steps and Oxygen Art.\n\nHigh-profile names, including actor Lenny Henry and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have called for next year's Windrush Day to be a \"major national moment\" to mark the 75th anniversary.\n\nMore than 100 leaders across different sectors have signed a joint letter, published in The Times, starting the one-year countdown to the milestone.\n\nThe letter reads: \"This is not only black history - it is British history. It should be something we all know and commemorate.\"\n\nPatrick Vernon, convenor of the Windrush 75 network, which is co-ordinating efforts over the next 12 months, said it was a piece of history \"every child should learn about at school\" and called for it to be commemorated as a major event.\n\nJamaican immigrants being welcomed by RAF officials after HMT Empire Windrush's arrival in 1948\n\nBut not everyone has been supportive of the unveiling of the statue with activist Prof Gus John describing it as \"a monument to unforgivable political illiteracy and an entrenched colonial mindset\".\n\nIn an open letter to Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, dated 9 June, declining an invitation to the unveiling, he said the \"entire Windrush narrative distorts the history of Caribbean engagement with Britain and of Britain's relentless efforts to keep us out\".\n\nVincent McBean, president of the West Indian Association of Service Personnel, supported the creation of the memorial but said it could have been located in a better place.\n\n\"In the heart of Brixton is Windrush Square, what would have been more befitting for it to have been put in the square,\" he said, adding that it had been Lambeth Council which had initially embraced those who arrived from the Caribbean.\n\nThe government says the location was chosen because thousands of members of the Windrush generation passed through Waterloo Station on their way to start new lives across the UK.\n\nThey are known as the Windrush generation, in reference to the HMT Empire Windrush, one of the ships that carried them to the UK to fill labour shortages, in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration.\n\nUnder the 1971 Immigration Act, all Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain.\n\nBut thousands of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK as children and did not have official documentation. Following immigration law changes in 2014, many were told they were in the UK illegally, despite living and working in the country for decades.", "Daniel Kinahan co-founded MTK Boxing which had links with many top boxers\n\nMany boxers have been exploited and preyed upon by the Kinahan organised crime group, a senior officer has said.\n\nThe US recently imposed sanctions on the gang's leaders and banned hundreds of people with suspected connections to the cartel from entering the country.\n\nA number of prominent boxers from Northern Ireland were formerly associated with the MTK boxing management company, which was co-founded by Daniel Kinahan.\n\nThe boxers had no involvement in crime.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll said the United States shares information with the Irish authorities about some people who are banned from entering the US.\n\n\"That is a matter for the US authorities and we would not necessarily know all of the people who are refused entry in such circumstances. But, where it would be relevant to us, and where it may assist us in our investigations, that information is shared by the US authorities,\" he explained.\n\nShortly after the US sanctions and reward were announced, MTK announced that it was closing down.\n\nFor years, the company was involved with some of the best boxers in the world, including some high profile boxers from Northern Ireland - Carl Frampton, Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlon.\n\nCarl Frampton and Paddy Barnes had retired, and Michael Conlon had disassociated himself from MTK, before it ceased operations.\n\nThese boxers had no involvement with crime.\n\nIn April, US authorities said a $5m reward was being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gang's leaders\n\nBBC News NI asked Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll if any boxers - who were associated with MTK in the past - could be among the 600 people who've been banned from entering the US.\n\nHe responded: \"It is a matter for interaction between a particular individual and the US authorities as they attempt to enter the US. But, from my knowledge, if they can assure the US authorities that they have disassociated themselves from people or entities that are problematic, that the prospect is there that they will be allowed entry to the US into the future.\"\n\nThe senior officer, who has been to the forefront of the international efforts to bring down the Kinahan cartel, believes the gang took advantage of many boxers from Northern Ireland and elsewhere.\n\n\"We see many people who are involved in boxing, in particular young people, being exploited by that organised crime group,\" he outlined.\n\n\"These are people who have, maybe, dedicated their life to pursuing a career in boxing, and who have no knowledge of the activities of the Kinahan organised crime group, but have been preyed upon by them and find themselves in circumstances that were not of their own making and they are people that we are attempting to protect also, in targeting the criminal activity engaged in by the Kinahan organised crime group.\"\n\nCommenting on the continuing international efforts against the gang leaders and their assets, the Dublin-based assistant commissioner said there was an important cross-border dimension to the operation.\n\n\"Northern Ireland features from a number of perspectives. Firstly, it may feature in the drug trafficking route involved. So, while cocaine obviously, imported into Ireland by the Kinahan organised crime group, will in some cases be destined for Ireland, on other occasions it'll be destined for the UK, and the route which it will take may include transportation through Northern Ireland,\" he explained.\n\n\"Or indeed, it may in some cases be intended to supply a demand for that drug in that part of the UK also.\"\n\nHe added: \"Movement takes place on a regular basis among those who are involved in the criminal organisations concerned.\n\n\"So, you may find movement that is temporary in nature. On occasions, people may stay somewhat longer. But, all of those movements are subject to ongoing monitoring in the relevant jurisdictions.\"", "The Republic of Ireland's population is at an all-time high in the history of the state, according to latest census figures.\n\nThe data, which was collected in April 2022, shows that the population has reached 5.1 million people.\n\nIt is the first time the population has exceeded five million since the census of 1851.\n\nThe population across the island of Ireland has not yet recovered to pre-famine levels.\n\nThe 2022 census figures mark a 7.6% increase since the survey was last held in 2016.\n\nAll 26 counties recorded a growth in population with Longford and Meath seeing the biggest rises at 14.1% and 12.9%, respectively.\n\nThe preliminary figures released by the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the the population was 5,123,536 on 3 April.\n\nThe population increase of 361,671 was made up of a natural increase (births minus deaths) of 171,338 and estimated net inward migration (population change minus natural increase) of 190,333.\n\nThe population across the island of Ireland was devastated by the famine which occurred between 1845 and 1852.\n\nThe counties comprising the modern day Republic of Ireland had a population of about 6.5 million at the 1841 census with 1.6 million in Northern Ireland's counties.\n\nAbout one million people died as a result of the famine with a further two million emigrating.\n\nThe latest figures reveal there were slightly more females than males recorded in the census at 2,593,600 and 2,529,936, respectively.\n\nCensus figures released last month by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) show that Northern Ireland's population has grown to just under two million.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin said the growth showed \"the benefits of economic and employment growth in recent years\".\n\nHe also welcomed that population increases have happened across every region.\n\nCormac Halpin, senior statistician in the CSO's census division, said: \"The results provide valuable initial insights into how our population and housing situation is changing and developing since Census 2016.\n\n\"We are busy working on the completed census forms and look forward to begin sharing the full set of detailed results from April next year.\"", "Ian Blackford is the SNP's leader at Westminster\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has announced an external review of support available to party staff who make complaints.\n\nIt follows the suspension of MP Patrick Grady after he was found to have made a sexual advance to a teenage SNP staffer.\n\nThe handling of the complaint has drawn criticism from the victim.\n\nMr Blackford said he regretted that the complainant did not feel fully supported.\n\nThe staffer said his life had been made a \"living hell\" after he lodged a complaint against the Glasgow North MP.\n\nMr Grady was suspended from parliament for two days after an independent panel found he had touched and stroked the neck, hair and back of a colleague during a social event in 2016.\n\nThe former SNP chief whip, who was also suspended from the party for a week, told the House of Commons he was \"profoundly sorry\".\n\nEarlier this week a leaked audio recording of an SNP group meeting led to calls for Mr Blackford to resign.\n\nIn it he can be heard apparently encouraging colleagues to \"give as much support as possible\" to Mr Grady.\n\nAnother SNP MP, Amy Callaghan, who is also apparently heard on the tape, later apologised.\n\nIn a statement published on Tuesday, Mr Blackford said Mr Grady's inappropriate behaviour towards a member of staff was \"completely unacceptable and should never have happened\".\n\n\"I'm sorry it did,\" he added.\n\nThe MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber said staff must have full confidence the SNP Westminster group takes complaints seriously and they have a right to feel fully supported when a complaint is made.\n\n\"I regret that the complainant does not feel that this is the case,\" he said.\n\n\"The way that this situation has played out publicly over the last few days, including recordings from the parliamentary group, has caused distress to the complainant amongst others and I am sorry that is the case.\n\n\"We will consider all lessons that must be learned to make sure staff have full confidence they will receive the support they need.\n\n\"As such, I am initiating an external review of support available to staff, to sit alongside the independent advice service and independent complaints process.\n\n\"Raising complaints of this nature is never easy, and I am determined that staff have the support they need.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP MP apologises after a report says he should be suspended from Parliament for two days for breaching policies.\n\nScottish Conservative Party chairman Craig Hoy repeated his party's calls for Mr Blackford to resign.\n\nHe said: \"It's astounding that it took Ian Blackford this long to realise he should apologise.\n\n\"The SNP Westminster leader has shown appalling judgement and is only now saying sorry in a desperate bid to save his own skin.\n\n\"His credibility is in tatters and he must go, so that no victim is ever let down this atrociously again.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Neil Bibby said: \"This is not a real apology, it is the apology of someone who got caught.\"\n\nHe also called for Mr Blackford to stand down.\n\n\"From the start, the SNP have behaved in a way that is disgraceful - closing ranks and intimidating people who tried to bring this story to light,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no place in politics for men who turn a blind eye to abuse because it has been perpetrated by a friend.\n\nMeanwhile the BBC has been told that SNP MP Patricia Gibson has been cleared of allegations she made inappropriate comments to a male staff member.\n\nThe staffer in question was the same person who made the complaint about Mr Grady.\n\nThis complaint was upheld by Parliament's Standard's Commissioner, which Ms Gibson appealed.\n\nOn 28 March the commissioner had found she had broken parliament's sexual misconduct policy, but not victimised the complainant. The findings were passed to parliament's Independent Expert Panel to decide on sanctions.\n\nThe BBC understands Ms Gibson won her appeal and has now been cleared by the independent panel.\n\nThe SNP has been approached for comment.", "Survivors of the earthquake in Barmal district assess the damage\n\nSurvivors of Afghanistan's deadliest earthquake in two decades say they have nothing to eat, no shelter, and fear a possible cholera outbreak. The BBC's Secunder Kermani reports from Paktika province, the hardest hit by the disaster.\n\nSearching through the debris, in what is left of his family home, Agha Jan's eyes well up with tears.\n\n\"These were my sons' shoes,\" he says, brushing the dust off them. His three young children and two wives were killed in the earthquake as they slept.\n\nAs the tremors struck in the early hours of Wednesday, Agha Jan rushed towards the room where his family was staying.\n\n\"But everything was under the rubble,\" he tells the BBC. \"Even my shovel. There was nothing I could do. I called out to my cousins to help but when we pulled my family out, they were already all dead.\"\n\nThe area around Agha Jan's village in Barmal district, Paktika province, is one of the worst affected by the earthquake, in which around 1,000 people are believed to have been killed and 3,000 more injured.\n\nAgha Jan (far left) with surviving family members in his remote village in Barmal, Paktika\n\nIt's a three-hour drive to the nearest big city, on mostly dirt roads - the remote location making it all the more difficult to transport the injured. Some had to be flown to hospital in the Taliban's military helicopters.\n\nAlmost every house in the village, generally constructed from mud and stone, appears to be badly damaged. Almost every family seems to be grieving a lost relative.\n\nHabib Gul was across the border in the Pakistani city of Karachi, working as a labourer, when he heard the news. He rushed back to his village in Barmal to discover 20 of his relatives had been killed - 18 of them in a single house.\n\n\"Whose names can I give you? So many of my relatives were martyred, three sisters, my niece, my daughter, young children.\"\n\nEvery villager we meet wants to show us the destruction to their home. Partly because they want the world to see the devastation, but also, more practically, because they are hoping their names can be added to aid distribution lists.\n\n\"If the world looks on us like brothers and helps us, we will stay here on our land,\" Habib Gul tells the BBC. \"If they don't, we will leave this place where we have spent so long with tears in our eyes.\"\n\nOverhead, military helicopters whir through the sky. They're no longer transporting injured victims but delivering supplies. Taliban officials tell us the rescue operation has been completed and is now over.\n\nThe most pressing need is shelter for the hundreds of families left homeless.\n\nAgha Jan and one of his surviving sons are pitching a large sheet of tarpaulin between wooden sticks on a piece of empty ground. Other families are in tents, flanked by the remnants of homes they worked so hard to construct.\n\nGrandfather Khalid Jan with surviving members of his family\n\nKhalid Jan is now responsible for his five young grandchildren who mill around by his feet. Their father, his son, was killed in the earthquake, along with two other of Khalid Jan's children.\n\n\"I am all they have left,\" he tells the BBC, perched on a metal charpoy - a traditional bed - underneath a tent. \"But the house and everything here has been destroyed and I will never be able to rebuild it.\"\n\nAfghan and international aid agencies are assessing the damage and delivering supplies, but this is a major and developing crisis, one which comes on top of the country's already dire humanitarian situation.\n\nThe United Nations, which is also helping support victims, is warning of the risk of a possible cholera outbreak.\n\nAt Habib Gul's village, men have gathered to offer prayers commemorating the dead. Almost 50 people have been killed out of a population of around 250. Attention will now turn to the survivors, and how fast aid can reach them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall at their London wedding in 2016\n\nMedia tycoon Rupert Murdoch and actress Jerry Hall are getting a divorce, US media report.\n\nThe divorce would be a fourth for Mr Murdoch, 91. Ms Hall, 65, was previously long-term partner to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.\n\nRepresentatives for Mr Murdoch and Ms Hall, who wed at a church in central London in 2016, are yet to comment.\n\nTheir split comes as a surprise to those close to the family, according to the New York Times.\n\nThat newspaper and the Washington Post cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the separation.\n\nMr Murdoch - whose News Corporation empire controls major outlets including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal in the US, and The Sun and The Times in the UK - was previously said to have been devoting more time to his new wife.\n\nAt the time of his marriage, the billionaire announced on Twitter that he was \"the luckiest AND happiest man in world\", and that he would stop posting on the platform.\n\nIn 2018, his elder son Lachlan was named as his successor as chief executive of Fox Corp. Mr Murdoch also sold most of 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company.\n\nThe couple had also been spotted together in public on several occasions.\n\nLast year, Ms Hall was seen \"doting on\" her partner at his 90th birthday party, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe Texan model-turned-actress was previously in a long-term relationship with Mr Jagger, with whom she had four children. The pair tied the knot in a Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, in 1990. The marriage was annulled less than a decade later in London's High Court of Justice, which ruled that the marriage had never been legal under British or Indonesian law.\n\nMr Murdoch was previously married to Australian flight attendant Patricia Booker, from 1956 to 1967; Scottish-born journalist Anna Mann, from 1967 to 1999; and Chinese-born entrepreneur Wendi Deng, from 1999 to 2014.\n\nAcross their marriages, the pair have 10 children.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 500m perimeter is being implemented to aid the protection of Endurance, the ship famously lost in the Antarctic by explorer Ernest Shackleton.\n\nThe vessel's position on the Weddell Sea floor was finally identified in March, 107 years after its sinking.\n\nMember states of the Antarctic Treaty have already declared the wreck, which lies in 3,000m of water, a Historic Site and Monument (HSM).\n\nNow they have asked for a management plan to guide its ongoing conservation.\n\nThis will be drawn up by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT). It will determine the kinds of restrictions and responsibilities that will be placed on anyone who goes near Endurance in the future.\n\nEven now a permit is required to visit the ship.\n\nRemotely operated submersibles were used to find the wreck\n\nIt's noteworthy that the Treaty parties have agreed to publish the exact coordinates of the wreck, at 68°44'21\" South, 52°19'47\" West.\n\nA little vagueness might have been regarded as more appropriate given the way some marine archaeological sites have been looted in the past. But the location's general inaccessibility as a result of it being covered by perennial sea-ice is a unique deterrent, says Amanda Milling, the minister responsible for polar regions at the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).\n\n\"At present, its best protection is its location 3,000m below an ice-covered Weddell Sea,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"That may not be forever, not least due to climate change and shrinking sea-ice. That is why we have commissioned the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust to work with experts to prepare a conservation management plan, and to consider whether additional protection measures are needed.\n\n\"We have already declared it a historic site and Antarctic Treaty members have agreed to increase the protection zone around it from 150m to 500m.\n\n\"This incredibly well-preserved ship, and its artefacts, are a part of the Shackleton legacy - they must be safeguarded so they can inspire future generations.\"\n\nAgulhas II icebreaker viewed from space: The Weddell Sea is routinely covered in frozen floes\n\nThe Endurance story is one that has captivated the world for decades.\n\nIt recounts how Shackleton led his men to safety against all the odds when their expedition ship was trapped and then holed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915.\n\nThe vessel's discovery on 5 March this year was nothing short of a sensation.\n\nIt had been regarded as perhaps the single most difficult wreck to find anywhere on the globe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shackleton's diary records the day the Endurance went down\n\nThe Endurance22 project, led by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, managed the feat using robot submersibles launched from the South African Agulhas II icebreaker.\n\nThe sunken vessel's timbers were pristine. The hull looked reminiscent of its condition seen in photos taken just days before the plunge into the deep more than a century ago.\n\nThe new 500m perimeter has been established to encompass any objects that may have separated from Endurance as it descended to the seabed. This would include parts of the ship (although it looks very intact in the submersible scans) and any of the crew's belongings.\n\nThe future management plan may look to extend the perimeter upwards into the water column by several hundred metres, and conceivably all the way to the surface.\n\nThe purpose would be to put strict, permit-driven controls on activities in this three-dimensional space.\n\nToday, with the brutal ice conditions that persist in the Weddell Sea, those activities are going to be few and far between. But for how long?\n\nWithin weeks of the discovery, this correspondent received a message from a tourist company that was offering its paid-up passengers \"the unique opportunity to view the wreckage for themselves\".\n\nSuch a prospect is divorced from reality today but that might not always be the case.\n\n\"As you know, tourism is growing around the Antarctic Peninsula, and people are looking for new opportunities, and new adventures, and trips into the Weddell Sea will definitely be on the cards. But it'll be a while, I think, before ice conditions change to allow a super yacht to get that deep into the Weddell Sea,\" said Camilla Nichol, the CEO of UKAHT.\n\n\"Perhaps the greatest danger going forward may be from longline fishing, or some sort of fishing activity in that area. If it's not controlled it could cause accidental damage to the wreck.\"\n\nEndurance's status as an Antarctic Historic Site and Monument meant Endurance22 had to promise not to remove any artefacts. The search team wouldn't have got its permit from the FCDO without that pledge.\n\nOthers will undoubtedly want to make a follow-up visit. For deep-sea biologists, the ship would represent a fascinating study. Endurance is now covered in all manner of organisms that are exploiting it as a platform from which to feed on any morsel of food moving through the water current.\n\nNow is the time to work out how this kind of access might work.\n\nProf Mike Meredith, from the British Antarctic Survey, told a recent meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions: \"A big retreat in sea-ice has been identified recently, due to many factors, and 2022 was the lowest recorded minimum in the Weddell Sea. There's no doubt that the effects of climate change on sea-ice cover will make the Endurance wreck more accessible in the future.\"\n\nThe UKAHT expects to have a management plan ready for consideration by Antarctic Treaty members at a meeting next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bethany Evans was determined to go to the World Cup until she realised the cost\n\nFootball fans priced out of a World Cup trip to Qatar plan to enjoy the tournament from... Tenerife.\n\nBethany Evans suggested the idea on Twitter after having a lightbulb moment on realising the cost of going.\n\nShe said she has had \"a plane full\" of interest in response as people look to recreate a Wales-on-tour vibe elsewhere.\n\nFootball Supporters' Association Cymru's Vince Alm said Tenerife and Cyprus were popular with Wales fans.\n\nWales qualified for their first World Cup in 64 years after beating Ukraine in a play-off this month.\n\nTheir three group games are against the USA, Iran and England in Qatari capital Doha between 21 and 29 November in a 40,000-capacity stadium.\n\nFootball Association of Wales (FAW) chief Noel Mooney said last week Wales was due to get 3,200 tickets per game, or 8% of the stadium, but were hoping for more.\n\nMatch tickets go on sale from Fifa on 5 July.\n\nThe plan to hold the competition in Qatar has come under fire because of the country's poor human rights record, including it being illegal to be gay.\n\nQatari officials have insisted it will be a \"tournament for everyone\".\n\nBethany Evans suggested the idea on Twitter after a lightbulb moment\n\nBethany Evans, from from Nelson, Caerphilly county, told Wales Live her first thought after the nation qualified was: \"I need to get out there.\"\n\nThe cost soon became a barrier.\n\n\"The cheapest I could price it up for was £3,500-£4,000,\" the 25-year-old said.\n\n\"Plan B came around from a bit of a joke really.\n\n\"There was a post in one of the Cardiff City forums that was talking about people going to Qatar and the cost of things, and somebody said wouldn't it be really funny if we all got together in Benidorm or Tenerife.\"\n\nPeople liked the idea - after posting about it on Twitter, Ms Evans said \"it got a lot more traction than I ever thought it was going to\".\n\nSo far 16 have booked and 100 others have shown interest.\n\n\"It's just about bringing people together so that we can experience that Wales-away feeling,\" Ms Evans said.\n\nMr Alm said some Wales supporters worried Qatar's strict laws would stop them having fun.\n\nVince Alm said some Wales supporters worried Qatar's strict laws would stop them having fun\n\nHe said: \"The football community, for me, is when you get five or six countries' supporters maybe just pitch up in a town or city centre somewhere, where they're crossing over to go to other cities, and they spend the night together, buying beers for each other, singing on the karaoke, buying each other pizzas and stuff like that.\n\n\"That will all be lost in Doha.\"\n\nFootball coach Ross Struel Clarke, from Swansea, moved to Doha a few months ago.\n\nHe was \"so proud\" to see the Wales flag go up on Doha's waterfront promenade, called the Corniche, after they qualified.\n\nFor those travelling to Qatar and not Tenerife, he advised Wales fans to respect the culture and not be too rowdy.\n\n\"In and around Qatar, if you go to Souq Waqif (marketplace), the Corniche or West Bay, just be a bit mindful of your actions,\" he said.\n\nElin Thomas is paying between £2,500 and £3,000 for her trip to Doha\n\nCardiff's Elin Thomas has decided not to risk missing Wales at the World Cup, despite the expense and her concerns about Qatar.\n\nShe is paying between £2,500 and £3,000 for her trip to Doha and is confident she'll get match tickets.\n\n\"What we've got as a team and as a Red Wall is absolutely awesome,\" said Ms Thomas.\n\nA spokesman for the tournament's organising committee said Qatar was on track to ensure fans could book an affordable place to stay which \"guarantees a great World Cup experience\".\n\n\"Our accommodation capabilities have been designed to cope with the demand of any ticketed fan looking to book a room,\" it said.", "Voting continues at polling stations in Tiverton and Honiton, and in Wakefield where the two English by-elections are being held.\n\nThe two seats, in West Yorkshire and Devon, were won by the Conservatives at the last general election, in 2019.\n\nPeople in the constituencies have until 22:00 to cast a ballot.\n\nThe weather has been warm and sunny in Wakefield, while there has been sunshine and showers in Honiton and Tiverton.\n\nEight candidates are running in Honiton and Tiverton.\n\nFifteen candidates are standing in Wakefield. They are (in alphabetical order):", "Children are routinely vaccinated against polio in the UK, but uptake is lower than usual in London\n\nThe virus that causes polio has been detected in a concerning number of sewage samples in London, health officials have said.\n\nThe disease was common in the UK in the 1950s but was eliminated by 2003.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it was probably imported to London by someone who was recently vaccinated overseas with a live form of the virus.\n\nIt says the risk is low, but parents should ensure their children have been fully immunised against the disease.\n\n\"Most of the UK population will be protected from vaccination in childhood, but in some communities with low vaccine coverage, individuals may remain at risk,\" said Dr Vanessa Saliba, consultant epidemiologist at UKHSA.\n\nAn inactivated polio vaccine is used in the UK as part of the routine childhood programme. It is given to children three times before the age of one, and then again at three and 14 years of age.\n\nTake-up of the first three doses is about 86% in London, well below target levels, with the rest of the UK over 92%.\n\nHealth authorities have now declared a national incident and informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the situation.\n\nOver the past four months, the UKHSA has found the polio virus in samples collected from the Beckton sewage works, which serves a population of four million in north and east London.\n\nScientists believe the virus originated from someone who was immunised abroad with the live oral polio vaccine, which hasn't been used in the UK since 2004.\n\nThat person then shed traces of the virus from their gut which were detected by the sewage sampling.\n\nIn rare cases, that form of the virus can then be transmitted to others and mutate into what is known as \"vaccine-derived\" polio.\n\nAlthough weaker than the original or \"wild\" form of the disease, it can still cause serious illness, including paralysis, in people who are unvaccinated.\n\nA tiny number of samples of the polio virus are detected each year in sewage surveillance, but this is the first time that a cluster of genetically-linked samples has been found repeatedly over a period of months.\n\nHealth officials say this suggests there has been some spread between closely linked individuals in London.\n\nNo actual cases of polio have been detected and there have been no reports of rare but serious symptoms in the UK.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid told the BBC that he was not \"particularly worried\" about the detection of polio.\n\nHe added that he had been reminded by the UK's Health and Security Agency that the UK has a high vaccination rate against the virus, with no cases since 2003.\n\nJane Clegg, chief nurse for the NHS in London, said the health service would be contacting parents of children aged under five in London who are not up to date with their childhood jabs.\n\n\"Parents can also check their child's vaccination status in their red book, and people should contact their GP practice to book a vaccination should they or their child not be fully up to date,\" she said.\n\nPolio is a rare disease and it can be caught from food or water that's been in contact with the faecal matter of someone who has the virus, or in rarer cases by coughing and sneezing.\n\nMost people don't have any symptoms and will fight off the virus without even realising they were infected. A small number will experience flu-like symptoms for up to three weeks.\n\nIn a very small number of cases, thought to be between one in 100 and one in 1,000, the polio virus attacks the nerves in the spine and base of the brain.\n\nThis can cause paralysis, usually in the legs. If the breathing muscles are affected, it can be life-threatening.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stations opened later than usual on Wednesday with only 60% of normal services running\n\nA second day of rail strikes is under way after talks between the RMT union and railway employers broke down.\n\nThe RMT accused Transport Secretary Grant Shapps of \"wrecking\" negotiations by refusing to allow Network Rail to withdraw redundancy threats.\n\nMr Shapps called the claim \"a total lie\", adding the union was solely to blame for the \"massive disruption\".\n\nThursday's strike is set to have a similar impact as Tuesday's, with just 20% of services running.\n\nMillions were affected on Tuesday at the start of the largest strike in decades. Another walkout is due on Saturday.\n\nThe second day of strikes will see half of the rail network in Britain closed.\n\nIn London, there are no strikes taking place on the Tube network, though operator TFL has warned of disruption to some services, including the London Overground.\n\nIt comes as the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across much of southern England, potentially adding to disruption.\n\nThe breakdown in talks between the RMT and rail companies led to recriminations between the union and the government.\n\nMick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) workers' union, claimed Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had \"wrecked\" negotiations by not allowing Network Rail to withdraw its letter threatening redundancy for 2,900 of our members.\n\nMr Shapps called the claim \"a total lie\", saying he had no involvement in the letter.\n\nThe Department of Transport has said the rail industry is leading the negotiations, but a contract seen by the BBC says that train operating companies' handling of strike action is \"subject to the secretary of state's direction\".\n\nA Network Rail source told the BBC little progress was made in Wednesday's talks, with the union's position appearing to have hardened. No new pay offer was made.\n\nBoth sides in this dispute insist that in recent days they had thought progress was being made. But Wednesday's talks again ended without an agreement.\n\nAs things stand, a deal to avert the third strike going ahead on Saturday isn't looking particularly likely.\n\nThe RMT union says that in talks, it asked Network Rail to withdraw Monday's letter about pressing ahead with a formal consultation over changes to working practices in maintenance teams - which would entail redundancies.\n\nA source at Network Rail, which maintains and operates the tracks, described this as a \"red herring\". They insisted the letter could be ripped up if the union would properly negotiate on the reforms.\n\nThere wasn't a new pay offer yesterday. So far, both train companies and Network Rail have offered an unconditional 2%, with a further 1% conditional on accepting changes they say are necessary to modernise ways of working.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers face another day of travel misery.\n\nMore rail commuters can switch to working from home than would have been possible in the past, but not everyone has that option and many plans will be disrupted.\n\nThe RMT is calling for a pay rise of at least 7% to offset the cost of living crisis, as inflation hits 9.1% and is forecast to reach 11% in the autumn.\n\nEmployers have offered a maximum of 3%, on condition that the union accepts new working practices.\n\nBut rail employers said they had suffered a loss of income, with passenger numbers only at 80% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operating companies, said it wanted to give \"a fair deal on pay while taking no more than its fair share from taxpayers\", which meant modernising the railway to attract passengers back.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister urged the country to \"stay the course\" and resist high pay rises he said could further fuel inflation.\n\nServices started later than normal on Wednesday as trains were delayed depots\n\nOn Tuesday about 40,000 RMT members working for Network Rail walked out, leaving many parts of the country with no rail service at all.\n\nDisruption continued on Wednesday, with only about 60% of normal services running.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson and the transport secretary of not \"lifting a finger\" to stop the strikes.\n\nMr Johnson responded that the government was doing \"everything we can to prevent these strikes\" and it was up to the railway companies to negotiate.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is planning to introduce a new law this week to make it legal for employers to bring in agency staff to replace striking workers - but it will not impact the planned rail strikes on Thursday and Saturday.\n\nHow are you affected by the rail strikes? Do you have an important event to attend during the strike period? What alternative travel arrangements have you made? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The inquests into the deaths of four men killed by Stephen Port are to examine if their lives may have been saved if police had acted differently.\n\nBetween June 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25.\n\nThey were all given fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.\n\nJurors heard the inquests will consider whether opportunities were missed to uncover what happened earlier.\n\nPort, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nIn 2016, Port was found guilty of their murders and attacking several others. He was given a whole life prison term.\n\nIn her opening statement to the jury, Judge Sarah Munro QC - who is sitting as the coroner - said Port's trial did not answer the question of whether the deaths \"might have been prevented had the police investigated any of the deaths differently\".\n\nShe added Port would \"not play any part in these inquests but you will hear a great deal about him and his lifestyle\".\n\nJurors heard police did not realise the men had been murdered by Port until after the final death.\n\nJudge Sarah Munro QC said the inquests would look into whether the deaths could have been prevented\n\nPort met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his home where they were drugged and raped.\n\nThe inquests are taking place at Barking Town Hall, just yards from the east London flat where Port's victims were given fatal overdoses.\n\nMs Munro said the function of the inquests was not to attribute criminal or civil liability.\n\nShe told the jury: \"If there appear to have been shortcomings in the way in which the police investigated these deaths, we must consider those shortcomings dispassionately and resist the temptation to look for scapegoats.\"\n\nShe stressed the ultimate responsibility for the four men's murders lies with Port.\n\nPort presented a very different version of himself online (left)\n\nProviding an overview of the four deaths, Ms Munro said Mr Walgate was found outside Port's flat in Cooke Street, Barking, on 19 June 2014. Port had called an ambulance, however he did not provide his real name.\n\nIt was decided the local police team rather than the Met's specialist homicide command should lead the investigation into the fashion student's death.\n\nInvestigators quickly established it was Port who had called an ambulance for Mr Walgate, but when questioned he lied to police and gave no indication he knew him.\n\nIt was a week later before they realised that Port, using the name Joe Dean, had in fact arranged to meet Mr Walgate, who was working as an escort at the time.\n\nA special post-mortem examination could not establish the cause of death and it was another two months before it emerged he had died from an overdose of GHB.\n\nPort was arrested and convicted of perverting the course of justice.\n\nMr Kovari and Mr Whitworth's bodies were found in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church\n\nIn the months before he was imprisoned, he killed Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth three weeks within each other in August and September 2014.\n\nThe two young men's bodies were found in St Margaret's churchyard, some 300m (1,000ft) from Port's flat.\n\nAt the time, Mr Kovari's death was treated as \"unexplained\" but not suspicious, the court was told.\n\nToxicology tests found he had GHB in his system and he died from a \"mixed drug overdose\".\n\nWhen Mr Whitworth was found, a fake suicide note - written by Port - was in his hand. The note appeared to claim Mr Whitworth had accidentally killed Mr Kovari and was taking his own life in response.\n\nMs Munro said the note was a lie, written by Port in an attempt to \"cover up\" the death - but that only became clear \"much later\".\n\nThe first three deaths were not treated as homicides until weeks after the final one.\n\nThe court heard inquests into the deaths of Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth were held in 2015, however they were later set aside at the High Court in the wake of the murder trial.\n\nDuring the first inquests, a friend of Mr Kovari, John Pape, had asked if it had ever been considered there could be a link with the earlier death of Mr Walgate. In response, a police officer said it had been considered but no link established.\n\nOpen conclusions were given, with the original coroner saying she had concerns about \"third party involvement\" in Mr Whitworth's case, so she could not be sure he took his own life, the court heard.\n\nMr Taylor was found in Barking Abbey ruins on 14 September, 2015, just over the wall from where Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth were discovered.\n\nToxicology tests found he had traces of alcohol and GHB in his blood.\n\nThe police established that on 13 September Mr Taylor had taken a taxi to Barking station, where CCTV footage showed him meeting an unidentified man.\n\nOn 15 October, Port was arrested on suspicion of murder after a police officer, who was working on the investigation into Mr Walgate's death, identified Port as the man seen walking with Mr Taylor as he happened to see the CCTV images.\n\nThe hearing is expected to last 10 weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lycett said the joke - which he considers one of his best - would remain in his routine\n\nA police complaint about a joke by comedian Joe Lycett was made in Belfast, it has emerged.\n\nThe stand-up wrote in an Instagram post that a complaint was filed about a segment from one of his shows that referenced a donkey, but did not identify where it was made.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed it received a complaint after a show in Belfast on 8 June.\n\nLycett performed at Belfast's Waterfront Hall on 8 and 10 June.\n\nThe PSNI statement, first reported by journalist Amanda Ferguson, added that enquiries were made and no offences found.\n\nLycett wrote in his original Instagram post: \"To be fair to them the fuzz were very nice about it all but felt they had a duty to investigate.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old comic, who is from Birmingham, said he was asked to explain the context of the joke to the police.\n\nHe said the joke, which he considered \"one of the best I've ever written\", would remain in his routine and that he hoped the police were \"charmed and hopefully amused\" by his response.\n\n\"The tour continues until September, unless I am jailed,\" he wrote.\n\nHe shared an image of the police statement telling him the matter was considered closed.\n\nLycett has appeared in comedy shows including Taskmaster, 8 Out of 10 Cats and QI, and became known for his stand-up routines in which he would recall humorous email exchanges when handling issues such as parking fines and scammers.\n\nHe went on to host a Channel 4 consumer rights show and also has performed a number of public stunts in recent years, including storming off the set of Steph's Packed Lunch in 2021 and changing his name to Hugo Boss in 2020.", "Elon Musk says Tesla's new factories in Germany and the US are \"losing billions of dollars\" due to battery shortages and supply disruptions in China.\n\nThe multi-billionaire also called the plants in Berlin and Austin, Texas \"gigantic money furnaces\".\n\nCovid-19 lockdowns in China this year, including in Shanghai where Tesla has a huge factory, have made it increasingly difficult for manufacturers to operate.\n\nIn recent weeks Mr Musk has been warning of job cuts at the firm.\n\n\"Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. It's really like a giant roaring sound, which is the sound of money on fire,\" said Mr Musk, who is the electric vehicle maker's chief executive.\n\nThe plants are \"losing billions of dollars right now. There's a ton of expense and hardly any output,\" he added in an interview with the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley, a company-recognised club.\n\nMr Musk said the so-called gigafactories have been struggling to increase production since they were opened earlier this year.\n\nTesla's site in Austin currently produces a \"tiny\" number of cars, partly because some components for its batteries were \"stuck\" at a Chinese port \"with no one to actually move it\", he said.\n\n\"This is all going to get fixed real fast but it requires a lot of attention,\" Mr Musk added.\n\nThe interview was recorded at the end of last month but this part of the conversation was only posted on Wednesday.\n\nAuthorities in China locked down a number of its cities earlier this year in response to a surge in Covid-19 infections.\n\nTough restrictions were imposed on the movement of people and materials including in the financial, manufacturing and shipping hub of Shanghai.\n\nMr Musk said the shutdown of Shanghai was \"very, very difficult\" for Tesla, which reportedly halted most of its production at its 'gigafactory' in the city for weeks.\n\nThe site will largely be closed again for two weeks next month for upgrading works, according to the Reuters news agency, which cited an internal memo.\n\nThis is aimed at boosting the site's output, bringing it closer to the company's goal of the plant producing 22,000 cars every week, the report said.\n\nTesla did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nLast week, the company raised the price of its whole range of cars in the US by almost 5%, as the cost of raw materials including aluminium and lithium rose.\n\nThis week, Mr Musk said Tesla planned to shed 3.5% of its global workforce after earlier saying that he had a \"super bad feeling\" about the economy.\n\nMeanwhile, German carmaker BMW said on Thursday that it had formally begun production at its new $2.2bn (£1.8bn) facility in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.\n\nBMW said the plant, which is its third in China, will increase its annual output in the country from 700,000 to 830,000.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla... published in 2021", "Carl McGrath, Ross Ballantine and Alan Minard died after their fishing boat, the Nicola Faith, sank\n\nThree fishing crew died off north Wales because their boat was unstable and heavily loaded, a report has found.\n\nJae Jones from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said a capsize was \"almost inevitable\".\n\nRoss Ballantine, 39, Alan Minard, 20, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, all died when their boat, the Nicola Faith, sank off the Conwy coast on 27 January 2021.\n\nInvestigators believe the boat sank too quickly for them to raise the alarm and the men were not wearing lifejackets.\n\n\"A huge volume of catch onboard and retrieved pots... was equivalent to four family cars or two Range Rovers on the deck,\" Mr Jones told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"Bearing in mind this boat is only 10m (30ft) long... the capsize was almost inevitably going to happen.\"\n\nIt reported the boat was regularly \"operated in an unsafe manner\", with the priority on carrying a large whelk catch, rather than on making sure it was stable at sea.\n\nExtensive modifications had also been made to the Nicola Faith, which made it more likely to capsize.\n\nInvestigators raised the boat from the seabed and carried out extensive tests to see how stable it would have been on the evening it sank.\n\nThe Nicola Faith had been modified but these were not approved, according to the report\n\nIt emerged the Nicola Faith had nearly capsized twice before while heavily loaded.\n\nBut even though the skipper had been on \"stability awareness training, he prioritised the benefits of heavily loading the boat over the risk of capsize\", investigators said.\n\nThe report also concluded \"the crew's chance of survival was reduced by the vessel not being fitted with an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB)\".\n\nAndrew Moll, MAIB chief inspector, said: \"Nicola Faith had been modified, and the modification had not been approved.\n\n\"Nonetheless, the vessel could have been operated safely with care.\n\n\"On the day of the accident, the crew were relocating their pots to a new area and were carrying a full day's catch as well.\n\n\"The combined weight of the catch and fishing gear piled on deck was far more than the boat was designed to carry; it capsized, and all three crew were lost in that accident.\"\n\nWhelk pots from the boat were recovered from the seabed\n\nOn the day of the accident, the boat had left its home port of Conwy at about 10:00 GMT, and was due back late evening to unload its catch of whelks.\n\nInvestigators retrieved the Nicola Faith's inshore vessel monitoring system, which records its location, and which enabled them to conclude that it sank around 18:00.\n\nA local shellfish buyer texted the skipper later that evening to ask how large the catch would be, and when it was due to be landed, but received no reply.\n\nBut it was the next morning before the crew were reported missing, sparking a large air and sea search, but nothing was found.\n\nThe men's bodies washed up on the shore of north-west England six weeks later, and it was late May 2021 before the wreck of the Nicola Faith was located.\n\nThe chief inspector says fishermen should avoid the temptation to overload boats due to fuel price pressures\n\n\"There are important lessons about stability from this accident that must be understood and acted upon by all small fishing boat operators,\" Mr Moll added.\n\n\"The first lesson is that modifications, unless properly planned, can significantly erode a vessel's margin of stability.\n\n\"It is essential that skippers know the limitations of their vessels, and that any modifications to the vessel or changes to fishing methods are properly assessed and approved before fishing resumes.\n\n\"The second lesson is that any vessel can become unstable if overloaded.\n\n\"Fishermen will always be tempted to land a big catch but moving fishing gear at the same time can be overwhelming.\n\n\"As fuel prices soar, the temptation to carry more and do fewer trips makes economic sense, but where stability is concerned the results can be catastrophic.\n\n\"Three families' lives have been shattered by this accident, which was entirely avoidable.\n\n\"To all fishing vessel crews I have this simple message: safety begins with good stability; know your boat's limitations and operate within them.\"\n\nThe families of three men lost at sea have donated money and have been personally involved in courses aimed at improving safety at sea\n\nMr Jones said new amendments to the regulations are in place as a result of previous reports requiring \"stability checks to be done on boats to give skippers an idea of what their own boat's capability is.\"\n\nHe said the men's families had done \"a tremendous amount of work\" to get the message out about the importance of wearing life jackets.\n\nTwo of the men were unable to take training courses because of the closure of a training centre at Rhos-on-sea because of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"If the fishing community can take on board some of the lessons learned, hopefully, we can prevent another tragedy from happening in future,\" he said.", "The 2004 Olympic silver medallist was with his wife Faryal at the time\n\nThree men have been charged after former world boxing champion Amir Khan was robbed at gunpoint.\n\nHe was with his wife on 18 April when he said a gun was pointed in his face on High Road in Leyton, east London, and his £72,000 watch was taken.\n\nAhmed Bana, 25, Nurul Amin, 24, and Dante Campbell, 20, are in custody and will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court later, the Met Police said.\n\nThey are all accused of conspiracy to commit robbery.\n\nThe 35-year-old boxer said at the time that \"the main thing is we're both safe\".\n\nNo shots were fired and no-one was injured, police said.\n\nMr Bana and Mr Campbell have also been charged with possession of an imitation firearm.\n\nMr Campbell, from Hornsey, is also accused of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and possession of ammunition for a firearm without certificate.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Makeshift facilities have been set up outside the clinic to help injured people who have nowhere else to go\n\n\"Of 500 patients who have come to the clinic since the morning, 200 have died\" - that is the blunt assessment of Muhammad Gul, a staff member at a tiny clinic in Gyan, in eastern Afghanistan.\n\nThe facility has just five beds, but Tuesday's earthquake left even these meagre resources unusable.\n\n\"All the clinic's rooms have been destroyed,\" Mr Gul told the BBC.\n\nHe said a helicopter had airlifted a handful of patients from the remote district in Paktika province to cities for treatment, and two doctors were manning a makeshift outdoor clinic to try to treat people who had nowhere else to go.\n\nThe generator supplying power has only a limited supply of fuel, and the help promised by other provinces has yet to materialise.\n\nMeanwhile, casualties keep on arriving.\n\n\"There are dozens of people who need immediate medical help. I don't think they will survive the night,\" Mr Gul added.\n\nThe earthquake struck impoverished hilly areas with weak buildings, ill-equipped to handle the shock. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and there have been landslides.\n\nGyan is one of the worst-hit areas. Many people remain trapped under the rubble.\n\nInternational development agencies set up the clinic there a couple of years ago. It was meant to deal with minor health conditions and refer people to hospitals in major cities for more significant treatment. It had no accident and emergency department.\n\nSince the hard-line Islamist Taliban took power across the country last August, many international aid agencies have left the country. The medical system has been dealing with severe shortages of supplies and staff.\n\nThe clinic was only intended to deal with minor health conditions\n\nWhen the Taliban's acting district governor toured Gyan on Tuesday, people shouted at him, telling him to leave, a volunteer from a neighbouring district told the BBC.\n\n\"The Taliban are not capable of dealing with this disaster. There is no system in place,\" the volunteer, who did not want to be named, said.\n\n\"And we cannot be hopeful for international help. The world has forgotten Afghanistan.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEven before the Taliban takeover, the country's emergency services in its larger towns and cities had limited capacity to respond to natural disasters. There were few aircraft and helicopters available.\n\nAccording to Paktika's medical authorities, there is a severe shortage of painkillers and antibiotics in the region.\n\nOne of the doctors at Gyan's makeshift clinic went there from the neighbouring district of Ghazni to volunteer.\n\nThere was one young father who had suffered a chest fracture, and who was crying and asking for his family members, including his children, the doctor said. \"He asked me to let him die if they were not alive.\"\n\nMost of the patients were men, as women and children were less likely to be able to free themselves from debris and destroyed buildings, the doctor said.\n\nSome children were at the clinic without their parents, including a severely injured boy of eight.\n\n\"He was begging people to go and help his parents and siblings who were trapped in their house,\" said the doctor.\n\n\"He then overheard someone tell me that they were all dead, and he cried and fell unconscious.\"\n\nThe BBC has been shown photos of people with open wounds waiting to be seen at the clinic.\n\nBodies are reported to be lying on the ground in the area.\n\nThere are no official aid workers present, but people from neighbouring areas are arriving to help with rescue efforts.\n\nOne volunteer rescue worker from the nearby city of Urgun was helping to pull trapped people from the rubble.\n\nHe said he had found 40 bodies since the morning, mostly of young children.\n\nBut even for those who did make it out of the devastation alive, the immediate future looks bleak.\n\n\"We don't even have access to clean water to wash the wounds and it's extremely hot,\" the volunteer doctor said. \"I think soon, infection will spread.\"", "What's unusual is that this ballot wasn't about pay increases, people saying their pay should go up to keep pace with the cost of living, this was about workers at Heathrow, mainly female check-in staff, part-time workers.\n\nThey wanted to go back to pay levels they had before the pandemic - if you remember, a couple of years ago, the aviation industry was in crisis, and as a result, the airline puts a lot of pressure on staff to accept pay reductions.\n\nThat happened at British Airways and these staff, about 700 of them, had to have their pay cut by around 10%. Now they want it back.\n\nBritish Airways is not doing that, what they did offer was a 10% one-off payment this year while other negotiations continue.\n\nThe ground crews unions, GMB and Unite, say that's not good enough, they want a commitment that they are going to get back what they lost.\n\nBA says the airline industry still isn't back up and running properly yet, there are still problems, it’s still not profitable, it lost £4bn over the past two years.\n\nTherefore, we have a conflict between two sides and now the workers have decided enough is enough, they're going to go out on strike.\n\nWhen will we see these strikes?\n\nThere will probably a few days of disruption in the second half of July and then in August.\n\nWe understand BA has contingency plans, so that's likely to be, for example, managers operating check in desks, but we'll have to wait and see how serious any disruption is going to be.", "'Black sludge' which coated a three-mile river stretch near the plant in 2018\n\nOne of the UK's biggest cheddar cheese suppliers has been fined more than £1.5m after admitting a host of pollution and odour charges.\n\nThe Dairy Crest Ltd plant at Davidstow, Cornwall, polluted the local area over a five-year period up to 2021, killing fish and creating strong odours.\n\nThe firm, which produces Cathedral City, Clover and Country Life, said the issues had been rectified.\n\nIt was fined a total of £1.52m at Truro Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nThe judge said £272,746 costs had already been paid.\n\nThe court was told there were \"plant failures\", leaks and overspills at the company site, owned by Saputo Dairy UK.\n\nDairy Crest had previously admitted 21 of 27 charges, relating to pollution incidents and permit breaches, which were brought by the Environment Agency (EA).\n\nFish were killed in nearby rivers due to the pollution\n\nThe court heard the incidents led to odours so bad that they stopped local residents from sleeping, leaving them with headaches and vision problems.\n\nWaste was also discharged several times into the River Inny, killing fish.\n\nThe river is used for breeding Atlantic salmon and is home to native wild brown trout and smaller species like bullheads and loaches.\n\nThe Davidstow plant is where the well-known Cathedral City cheese is manufactured\n\nProsecuting, Richard Banwell from the EA said the firm failed to notify the agency about incidents.\n\nThe firm previously said the offences arose after commissioning new processes, unique in the UK.\n\nFollowing the hearing, a company spokesperson said: \"Once again, the company would like to express its sincere apologies to those who have been affected.\n\nThey added that \"considerable work has been undertaken to rectify the historic issues to which the prosecution related\" and that the company \"remains committed to supporting its local communities and becoming a better neighbour\".\n\nThe biggest employer in north Cornwall, it employs 195 workers and operates 24 hours a day, buying 1.3 million litres of milk from around 370 local farmers daily.\n\nSentencing, Judge Simon Carr said there were problems from the start but Dairy Crest continued to operate.\n\nHe also said there were senior and middle management failures and a culture of bullying and intimidation at the firm's waste water facility.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wakefield goes to the polls next Thursday in a closely-watched by-election\n\nWakefield, in West Yorkshire, was part of Labour's \"red wall\" which crumbled to the Conservatives in the 2019 general election. Sir Keir Starmer knows Labour needs to win it back in next week's by-election if his party is to convince voters it can form the next government.\n\nThe neon lights in Richard Wheater's workshop change from red to blue, and back to red again.\n\nLabour will be hoping that enough voters in Wakefield do the same next week.\n\nRichard voted Conservative for the first time in 2019, but is now having second thoughts.\n\nHe told me he had wanted Labour to ditch Jeremy Corbyn, and had cast something of a protest vote for the Tories. He's now undecided, but is listening closely to the local Labour candidate's pitch.\n\n'For me, this isn't about Boris Johnson. It's about local leadership and making things happen positively for Wakefield and its people,\" he says.\n\nAre Richard Wheater's neon signs a guide to how the polls will go?\n\nMr Wheater is one of the swing voters that will determine whether Labour can overturn the Conservative majority of 3,358, gained when they won Wakefield for the first time since 1932.\n\nThe constituency is seen not so much as a brick in the \"red wall\" of traditional Labour seats snatched by Boris Johnson's party on a promise to \"get Brexit done\" - but something of a foundation.\n\nIt's a test of whether the defection of white working-class voters, in particular, to the Conservatives in swathes of northern England is temporary or permanent.\n\nTo underline the by-election's importance to Labour, Sir Keir Starmer has already visited twice and will be back before polling day. It also suggests a high degree of confidence that his candidate will win.\n\nYou are never far from open countryside in Wakefield\n\nTo be fair, as one Conservative insider points out, the opposition parties have been given a fair wind in the two by-elections taking place in England on 23 June.\n\n\"In one seat the MP was a paedophile, in the other he was caught watching porn,\" the insider says.\n\nThe former is reference to Imran Ahmad Khan in Wakefield, sent to prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old old boy. The latter is a dig at Neil Parish, the former MP for Tiverton and Honiton - where the Liberal Democrats are the main challengers.\n\nBen Harrison, a young university graduate I met on the doorstep in Netherton, a fiercely-contested part of the Wakefield constituency, said Khan's behaviour was having a \"big impact\" on the campaign,\n\n\"It's not a good look,\" he added.\n\nLabour were not slow to highlight Khan's conviction in a leaflet entitled \"Tory shame\", with a picture of the former MP and a stark question: \"Who next?\"\n\nLabour's election leaflet angered Carole, who felt it was too negative\n\nThis had outraged Carole, who until recently tended to vote Labour, but told me she had been shocked to see a negative, attack leaflet land on her doormat.\n\nShe said she had emailed Labour to complain about the leaflet, which had not been included in the campaign literature I had requested from the party, but had not received a response.\n\n\"They can't justify it,\" she told me.\n\n\"We vote for policies and what they are going to do, not for a person. I said in my email 'Where are your policies - tell me what you are going to do?'\"\n\nLabour say they have not put out any \"attack\" literature of this kind in weeks - and only once since their candidate, Simon Lightwood, was selected.\n\nThe party is also issuing leaflets and newsletters about policies, but these are carefully targeted at different parts of what is a diverse constituency - the city of Wakefield is surrounded by former mining communities and a rural hinterland.\n\nSo, for example, while there are constituency-wide messages, such as scrapping the National Insurance rise or the need for more police, the state of local bus services is especially emphasised in the villages.\n\nBut Labour are also continuing to target personalities. Well, one personality in particular - Boris Johnson.\n\nThe party is urging traditional Conservative voters to \"lend\" their support to Labour, to help kick Mr Johnson out of Downing Street.\n\nLifelong Conservative John Dyer, a former Royal Marine, who now gets around - at breakneck pace - on a mobility scooter, told me his political allegiances were on the move too, thanks to the PM's behaviour.\n\n\"I have to say - and I hoped I don't get sued for this - but he [Boris Johnson] is an oaf.\n\n\"He is sort of the centrepiece of everything that has deteriorated. I was a great believer - and still am - in Margaret Thatcher. You may not like her, but she wouldn't lie.\"\n\nTory voter John Dyer is not impressed by the prime minister\n\nHe is not totally convinced by Sir Keir Starmer, describing him as \"not strong enough\", but said he has hopes that the Labour leader will improve.\n\nFormer Labour voters John and Jane - who have lived in Wakefield for many years - said they saw the prime minster as flawed, but still felt he was better than the alternatives.\n\n\"He [Boris Johnson] has made mistakes,\" Jane told me, \"but to be honest I don't care if he had a piece of cake at his party.\"\n\nLabour insist they have a great \"ground operation\" in Wakefield - contacting more voters than at many by-elections.\n\nBut two party members I spoke to off the record said this does not tell the whole story.\n\nJohn and Jane are sticking with Boris Johnson\n\nOne said: 'We've made a personal choice not to campaign [in the by-election] because of the selection process - not because we don't support Labour. A significant amount of our activists are doing the same. If I campaigned it would feel that I was endorsing the process.\"\n\nLeft wingers in particular felt local candidates were frozen out in favour of those approved by Labour HQ in London - 16 members of the Wakefield party executive walked out over it.\n\nThe pair I spoke to insisted that not all the local would-be candidates were \"Corbynites\".\n\nThe Conservatives selected a candidate who lives in the constituency\n\nBut they claimed local membership has fallen by a quarter since Keir Starmer became party leader, which they warned could harm the party's ability to get out the vote at a general election.\n\nLabour insisted candidate Simon Lightwood had strong local connections, having worked for MP Mary Creagh, when she held the seat, and many local activists had taken part in the selection process.\n\nThe Conservatives have also had a little local difficulty. They chose a candidate, Nadeem Ahmed, who lives in the constituency.\n\nBut the fact that he lost a vote of confidence among his Tory colleagues on the local council last year, allowed Labour to run a social media ad reminding people that 40% of Tories had no confidence in Boris Johnson.\n\nA Labour insider said it had been the most successful ad of the campaign so far.\n\nAgainst this \"less than optimal backdrop\", as one Conservative campaign insider put it, the feeling is that the Tory vote has not taken a total hammering.\n\nInterestingly, where Labour and the Conservatives agree is that polls suggesting a substantial swing to the opposition are not matched by the reality on the ground.\n\nOf course, this message is in both parties' interests - talk of a closer race might prompt longstanding Conservatives to go to the polls while for Labour, it would guard against complacency.\n\nPaymen Karimi wants Boris Johnson to put Partygate behind him\n\nIn truth, at Conservative HQ there is talk of how to \"manage\" news of a defeat. While Labour insiders expect to win, they don't think it will be \"seismic\" so they too have to manage expectations.\n\nSo far, Boris Johnson has not visited Wakefield, and I'm told front-rank government ministers tend to pop in briefly to gladhand the Conservative candidate, knock off an endorsement video and head back to Westminster.\n\nBut more than 70 Tory MPs have done the hard yards of door-knocking and leafleting in the constituency, with campaign literature pointing to police recruitment, promises on jobs, and \"taking back control of immigration\".\n\nIn a seat where nearly two thirds of voters backed Brexit, one MP from a nearby seat expressed relief but also surprise that the vote was holding up in the area where he was canvassing.\n\nThat said, the vote of confidence in the prime minister was taking place at Westminster just as people in Wakefield were receiving their postal vote forms.\n\nCampaigners say that while Partygate has hardened the views of those already disenchanted with the PM, his supporters are ready to move on.\n\nAnd the party is retaining some recent support for other reasons.\n\nPaymen Karimi, who owns a chain of restaurants in West Yorkshire employing 300 people, says was grateful to the government for the furlough scheme.\n\nHe decried what he saw as a lack of policies from Labour and praised Boris Johnson for standing up to his own backbenchers.\n\nHe even had some sympathy for the PM over Partygate, as one of his own restaurants had incurred a lockdown fine. saying it was time for the PM to \"go forward and look at the problems of the country\".\n\nThere is no shortage of options if voters decide that neither the main party of government or opposition at Westminster warrants their vote.\n\nWhich way will Wakefield go next Thursday?\n\nThe Yorkshire Party's candidate David Herdson was a Conservative until 2019 - and left after Boris Johnson became the party leader. He is campaigning for a regional parliament for Yorkshire, an expansion in house-building, and scrapping VAT on energy bills.\n\nReform UK - the former Brexit Party - say they are picking up not so much apathy as hostility towards mainstream parties particularly, though not exclusively, in former mining communities outside the city of Wakefield.\n\nTheir candidate, Chris Walsh, is campaigning for lower taxes, cheaper energy and secure borders.\n\nThe party has called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights following the legal action which grounded the migrant flight to Rwanda.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' presence isn't hugely obvious around Wakefield but they say there is no pact with Labour to keep a low profile.\n\nThey have been canvassing with an aim of building up local support, and their candidate - Jamie Needle - also ran in the 2019 election. But a spokesman added: 'We know where we can get a good result -Tiverton. It's very close there.\"\n\nHere in Wakefield the Lib Dem message on the doorstep is that \"the Conservatives have let you down\". And their leaflets call for \"urgent action on the cost of living and cleaning up the local waterways\".\n\nThe political parties aren't just fighting each other.\n\nFor all the activity on Wakefield's doorsteps, they are, they say, often met with apathy.\n\nLabour are worried in particular that people will assume that they will now win, and too many won't bother to vote.\n\nAnd perhaps that isn't entirely misplaced.\n\nJanine, who lives in affluent Newmillerdam, told me she was no fan of Boris Johnson.\n\n\"Oh he needs his nappy changing - he is a spoiled brat. He needs grounding, like I did with my children!\"\n\nSo would she be voting to try to oust him?\n\n\"I haven't voted for 10 years,\" she says, adding that in her view politicians were all useless.\n\nNext Thursday, we will know the verdict of those voters who do participate.\n\nWith a prime minister apparently put on probation by sections of his parliamentary party and grumbles within Labour's ranks about Sir Keir Starmer's style of leadership, the result in Wakefield will have a big impact at Westminster.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoctors in Afghanistan have told the BBC that many children may have been killed in Wednesday's earthquake.\n\nMore than 1,000 people died in the disaster, and heavy rain, threadbare resources and rugged terrain are hampering rescue workers.\n\nUnknown numbers were buried in the rubble of ruined, often mud-built homes by the magnitude 6.1 earthquake.\n\nOne woman in hospital in Paktika province told reporters she had lost 19 family members.\n\n\"Seven in one room, five in another, four in another, then three in another, have all been killed in my family,\" she said from her bed.\n\nBy Wednesday night Taliban officials said search and rescue operations had finished in most places, although in remoter areas some continued still.\n\n\"We can't reach the area - networks are too weak,\" a Taliban spokesman was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying earlier.\n\nThe United Nations is among those scrambling to provide emergency shelter and food aid to remote areas in Paktika.\n\nSurvivors and rescuers have told the BBC of villages completely destroyed near the epicentre of the quake, of ruined roads and mobile phone towers - and of their fears that the death toll will rise further. Some 1,500 people were also injured, officials say.\n\nThe Taliban authorities have called for more international aid.\n\nVillagers and rescue workers examine the damage in Bernal district\n\nMost of the casualties found so far have been in the Gayan and Barmal districts of Paktika. Locals report dozens of villages collapsed.\n\n\"There was a rumbling and my bed began to shake,\" a survivor called Shabir told the BBC.\n\n\"The ceiling fell down. I was trapped, but I could see the sky. My shoulder was dislocated, my head was hurt but I got out. I am sure that seven or nine people from my family, who were in the same room as me, are dead.\"\n\nA mother of six who was badly injured in the earthquake told the BBC many in her village had been killed, including seven of her own family members.\n\n\"We are very poor. We cannot reconstruct our homes again,\" she said. \"We have nothing to eat.\"\n\nAll her family's food supplies are buried under the rubble.\n\n\"There is nowhere to go,\" she added. \"I demand the Taliban rebuild our houses.\"\n\nAll the villagers we meet want to show us the damage to their homes done by the earthquake.\n\nThey have lost their loved ones, alongside homes and livelihoods. Possessions are scattered amongst the debris: blankets, pots, beds stick out from the rubble.\n\nThe villagers want the world to see how their lives have been devastated, but also more tangibly, to have their names added to aid distribution schemes. A number of aid agencies have reached the scene but it's clear more help is needed.\n\nOne man we meet has just arrived back in his village from Pakistan where he works as a labourer. Twenty members of his family were killed in the earthquake including his daughter.\n\nAnother, elderly man now finds himself responsible for his five young grandchildren - after their father died. The valleys here are overflowing with tragedy.\n\nMany of the families are now living in makeshift tents, flanked by the rubble of the homes they had worked so hard to construct.\n\nThe deadliest earthquake to strike the country in two decades is a major challenge for the Taliban, the Islamist movement which regained power last year after the Western-backed government collapsed.\n\nThe earthquake struck early on Wednesday about 44km (27 miles) from the city of Khost and tremors were felt as far away as Pakistan and India.\n\nAfghanistan is in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis, and Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a senior Taliban official, said the government was \"financially unable to assist the people to the extent that is needed\".\n\nThe head of the UN, António Guterres said the agency had \"fully mobilised\" over the disaster.\n\nBut Mohammad Amin Huzaifa, head of information for Paktika province, told AFP it was proving \"very difficult\" for rescuers to reach areas \"affected by floods because of heavy rains last night\".\n\nAfghanistan is prone to quakes, as it is located in a tectonically active region, over a number of fault lines including the Chaman fault, the Hari Rud fault, the Central Badakhshan fault and the Darvaz fault.\n\nOver the past decade more than 7,000 people have been killed in earthquakes in the country, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports. There are an average of 560 deaths a year from earthquakes.\n\nEven before the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan's emergency services were stretched to deal with natural disasters - with few aircraft and helicopters available to rescuers.\n\nAccording to the UN, 93% of households in Afghanistan suffer food insecurity. Lucien Christen, from the Red Cross, said Afghanistan's \"dire economic situation\" meant \"they're [Afghan families] not able to put food on the table\".", "Four different covers were created beneath the front page (centre)\n\nTime Out magazine has published its final print edition after 54 years.\n\nDistribution was delayed by two days due to Tube strikes, an issue it has poked fun at many times over the years.\n\nWriting in the final issue, global editor-in-chief Caroline McGinn said: \"It's been a privilege and a pleasure to serve you in print for 54 years. Long may our love affair continue.\"\n\nThe listings magazine first launched as a newsletter by founder Tony Elliott on the King's Road, Chelsea, in 1968.\n\nFour London artists created bespoke covers for the last print edition, beneath the main front page.\n\nMs McGinn added: \"Thank you to the expert, hilarious mavericks who made this mag: there's no better team in the business.\n\n\"Thank you Londoners for going out with us for half a century.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Time Out London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Time Out London\n\nThe food, drink and entertainment magazine had a circulation of 50,000 and cost £3.25 in 2012. In September of that year, it relaunched a slimmed-down edition and became free for readers.\n\nIn March 2020, it was rebranded temporarily as Time In when the national coronavirus lockdown prevented people from socialising and businesses from opening.\n\nTime Out London's first cover in 1968\n\nAs well as providing listings, Time Out's reviews of theatre, cinema and restaurants offered a slice of life in the capital for generations of Londoners.\n\nThe title will now focus on digital-only content.\n\nLaura Lee Davies, editor between 1999 and 2004, started at Time Out in 1987, when the music section was \"pages and pages\" long, and told BBC Radio London she is \"saddened\" by the print edition's demise.\n\nShe said: \"When you open a paper magazine you get those wow moments and those things you don't know you're looking for whereas online... you don't necessarily find what you didn't know what you were looking for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Radio London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thiomargarita magnifica: For comparison, a US dime coin is about 18mm across\n\nYou're supposed to need a microscope to see bacteria, right? Not Thiomargarita magnifica.\n\nThis giant cell is clearly visible to the naked eye, having the size and shape of a human eyelash.\n\nNow classified as the world's biggest bacterium, T. magnifica was discovered living on sunken, decaying mangrove tree leaves in the French Caribbean.\n\nFear not, the organism isn't dangerous and can't cause disease in humans. But do marvel at its proportions.\n\n\"These bacteria are about 5,000 times larger than most bacteria. And to put things into perspective, it is the equivalent for us humans to encounter another human who would be as tall as Mount Everest,\" said Jean-Marie Volland from the Joint Genome Institute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in the US.\n\nCentimetre-long T. magnifica is not the largest single-celled organism on Earth. That's probably a type of aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia which is 10 times longer still. But the bacterium is definitely impressive when you consider there are many, much more complex life forms on Earth that require some sort of magnification to be observed. Think of those really teeny worms and flies out there.\n\nT. magnifica was first identified back in 2009 in Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. But it was initially put to one side. Only recently have Dr Volland and colleagues got around to studying it in detail.\n\nOne key finding from their investigations concerns the way the cell organises its interior. Bacteria would normally have their DNA floating freely in the liquid, or cytoplasm, that fills their bodies.\n\nT. magnifica, on the other hand, stores its genetic material in compartments the researchers are calling pepins, from the French for fruit seeds.\n\nIt's a significant revelation because until now, the packing of DNA inside a membrane-bound compartment was considered the preserve of so-called eukaryotic cells, which are the building blocks of higher organisms such as humans, other animals and plants.\n\nT. magnifica exploits the decaying matter in the sediments around the mangroves' roots\n\nAnd T. magnifica carries a lot of DNA. If you count all the \"letters\", or bases, in its life code, or genome, there are some 12 million. But in each cell, there may be half a million copies of the genome.\n\n\"If you now take the genome size of 12 million bases, multiply that by the number of genome copies - so, half a million - you end up with approximately 6,000 giga, or billion, bases, of DNA. For comparison, a diploid human genome is approximately six giga bases in size. So this means that our Thiomargarita stores several orders of magnitude more DNA in itself as compared to a human cell,\" explained Dr Tanja Woyke, also from Lawrence Berkeley.\n\nIn all that DNA, there are clues to the drivers of the organism's great size, she added. Some genes associated with elongation seem to be duplicated and some genes ordinarily involved in division appear to be missing.\n\nThe T. magnifica filament has the shape and size of a human eyelash\n\nT. magnifica is a chemosynthetic bacterium. It makes the sugars it needs to fuel itself by oxidising the sulphur compounds produced by the rotting organic matter in the sediments of the mangrove swamp. All it needs is something solid to hang on to.\n\n\"I found them attached to oyster shells, to leaves and branches, but also on glass bottles, plastic bottles, or ropes,\" said Prof Olivier Gros, a microbiologist with the University of the Antilles.\n\n\"They just need some hard substrate to be in contact with the sulphides and in contact with the seawater to get oxygen and CO2. The highest concentration of Thiomargarita I found was on a plastic bag - unfortunately.\"\n\nThe research team has published its description of the bacterium in this week's edition of Science Magazine. The researchers concede they have much to learn about how the organism operates.\n\n\"This project has really opened our eyes to the unexplored microbial diversity that exists. We're really just scratching the surface, and who knows what interesting things we are yet to discover,\" commented Dr Shailesh Date from the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems at Menlo Park in the US.\n\nThe mangroves of the Caribbean have the perfect environment for the giant bacterium", "Hundreds of British Airways workers at Heathrow Airport have voted to go on strike over pay.\n\nUnite and GMB union members who are mostly check-in staff backed industrial action on Thursday.\n\nA total of 700 workers are set to strike during the summer holidays, when demand from travellers is expected to be near pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe unions said the action was due to a 10% pay cut imposed during the peak of the pandemic not being reinstated.\n\nSome 500 Unite members recorded a 94.7% vote in favour of industrial action, while 95% of GMB members backed the walkouts.\n\nThe strike dates will be confirmed in the coming days.\n\nThe proposed action relates to fewer than 50% of British Airways staff based at Heathrow in customer-facing roles only, and there are other customer service workers who have not been balloted.\n\nIt is understood that if strikes go ahead, BA, which operates from terminals three and five at Heathrow, has plans to cover staff, including managers potentially dealing with check-ins.\n\nHowever, there would still be disruption for passengers, especially at terminal five, leading to cancellations, which would be focused on routes with several daily flights.\n\nThe GMB claimed that while other British Airways workers have been given a 10% bonus, \"the check-in staff have had nothing\".\n\nBA said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the result of the ballot.\n\n\"Despite the extremely challenging environment and losses of more than £4bn, we made an offer of a 10% payment which was accepted by the majority of other colleagues,\" a statement said.\n\nThe airline said it was committed to talks to \"find a solution\" with unions.\n\nThe BBC understands a 10% pay rise has been accepted by other parts of BA's business, including by ground operations, engineering and cabin crew workers, who are also represented by Unite and GMB.\n\nUnite officer Russ Ball accused BA of having \"insulted this workforce, slashing pay by 10% to restore it to managers but not to our members\".\n\nMr Ball said the airline had a \"short window of opportunity\" to up workers' pay to pre-pandemic levels or face walkouts that would \"inevitably cause severe disruption\".\n\nMeanwhile, Nadine Houghton, GMB national officer, said BA had \"tried to offer our members crumbs from the table in the form of a 10% one-off bonus payment, but this doesn't cut the mustard\".\n\n\"It's not too late to save the summer holidays - other BA workers have had their pay cuts reversed, do the same for ground and check in staff and this industrial action can be nipped in the bud,\" she added.\n\nDowning Street urged both sides \"to come together to find a settlement\", adding that strike action \"would only add to the misery being faced by passengers at airports\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the government expects BA \"to put in place contingency measures to ensure that as little disruption is caused, and that where there is disruption that passengers can be refunded\".\n\nThis is going to be a difficult summer for British Airways.\n\nIT problems and staff shortages have already hit its operations this year. Now you can add industrial action to the mix.\n\nCheck-in staff at Heathrow are set to walk out during the summer peak. The airline will have contingency plans in place, but with systems already under strain, disruption seems inevitable.\n\nThe airline insists it wants to work with staff, and that its 10% one-off bonus offer was a prelude to meaningful pay talks. It is still under pressure too - the industry has not fully recovered.\n\nBut the problem it's facing is that when the cuts were first imposed, many staff were deeply upset by what they saw as the heavy-handed approach of the airline's management.\n\nAnd now, it's pretty clear that many workers simply don't trust the word of their managers.\n\nJeff Payne worked as a BA supervisor at terminal five at Heathrow, but took voluntary redundancy in August 2020 and is now a postman in Surrey.\n\nMr Payne, who worked for the airline for 24 years, said he had the option to return to BA when international travel restarted, but decided against it when he was offered his old job for less money.\n\n\"It was £3,000 a year less than what I was being paid when I left,\" he said.\n\n\"When I left the pay was £23,000 plus shift pay, which is an extra amount you get for starting at irregular hours like 4am. When they offered me my job back it was £20,000 plus shift pay and no guarantee over what shifts we would be put on.\n\n\"To be honest it's not worth getting out of bed for. I loved working there and I do miss it.\"\n\nMr Payne said he believed BA was a \"great company\" and its staff cared for passengers, but added its bosses \"need to manage it better\".\n\nTens of thousands of passengers have been hit by airport disruption and flight cancellations in recent weeks.\n\nHundreds of flights across the UK were cancelled during the week of the Platinum Jubilee and school half-term holidays, and concerns have been raised of further travel woes during the summer.\n\nThe disruption has been caused by several factors, but staff shortages have left the aviation industry struggling to cope with resurgent demand for overseas travel.\n\nHeathrow Airport has increased its annual passenger forecast once again.\n\nThe UK's largest airport says it expects 54.4 million passengers to travel through its terminals, up by nearly nine million on the guidance it gave in December.\n\nAdditional reporting from Rozina Sini of the BBC's UGC team.\n\nAre you a BA worker who plans to strike? Do you and your family have a holiday coming up? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 2008 Olympic silver medallist was with his wife Faryal at the time\n\nThree men have appeared in court after former world boxing champion Amir Khan had his £72,000 watch snatched at gunpoint on an east London street.\n\nMr Khan, 35, had his custom-made Franck Muller watch stolen after leaving a restaurant with his wife, Faryal Makhdoom, and a friend in April.\n\nAhmed Bana, 25, Nurul Amin, 24, and Dante Campbell, 20, of north London, are charged with conspiracy to commit robbery at Thames Magistrates' Court.\n\nThey were remanded into custody.\n\nA further hearing is set to take place at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 25 July.\n\nMr Bana and Mr Campbell have also been charged with possession of an imitation firearm.\n\nMr Campbell faces further counts of possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and possession of ammunition for a firearm without a certificate.\n\nThe court heard that after Mr Khan left the venue on High Road, in Leyton, a car pulled up on the street and a number of men jumped out.\n\nThe boxer was then threatened with a firearm and robbed of his watch, prosecutors told the court.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy Callaghan was elected MP for East Dunbartonshire in 2019\n\nAn SNP MP has apologised after she was heard calling on colleagues to back Patrick Grady after his suspension over inappropriate behaviour.\n\nAmy Callaghan's comments emerged in an audio recording leaked to the Daily Mail newspaper.\n\nShe can allegedly be heard telling SNP MPs they should be \"rallying together\" to support Mr Grady.\n\nThe party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford also appeared to back Mr Grady.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have both called for Mr Blackford to resign over his handling of the situation.\n\nMr Grady was suspended from Parliament for two days over his actions. He was also suspended from the SNP's Westminster group for a week.\n\nThe move came after he was found to have made a sexual advance to a teenage member of the party's staff in 2016.\n\nMr Grady, a former chief whip, told the Commons he was \"profoundly sorry\" after an independent panel found he had touched and stroked the neck, hair and back of a colleague during a social event.\n\nOn the tape there is applause after Ms Callaghan apparently tells her fellow SNP MPs \"we should be rallying together around him to support him at this time\".\n\nMr Blackford replies by saying he \"would encourage\" his colleagues to give \"as much support as possible\" to Mr Grady.\n\nMr Grady told MPs he was \"profoundly sorry\" for his actions\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter Ms Callaghan, who represents East Dunbartonshire, said she was making a \"wholehearted apology\" for what she called her \"insensitive, poorly worded and misguided\" comments.\n\nShe added that the SNP was \"falling short in supporting complainants\" and said she was proposing that the party undertakes a full independent review of the way it deals with allegations of misconduct and harassment.\n\nThe handling of the complaint has drawn criticism, most notably from the victim himself, who was 17 years Mr Grady's junior.\n\nHe said he had been made to feel as though it was his fault and his life had been made a \"living hell\".\n\nIn its report, the Independent Expert Panel, which recommends punishments for MPs over bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct, wrote: \"An unwanted physical touching, with sexual intent, from a senior MP to a junior member of staff, even on a single occasion, is a significant breach of the policy.\"\n\nIt noted that Mr Grady had shown \"genuine remorse\" and made \"efforts to address his behaviour\", but recommended that he \"be suspended for two sitting days, make a public apology in the House of Commons, and a private one to the complainant\".\n\nThe panel was responding to a report by Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone, who found that Mr Grady had remained at a SNP work social event on 20 October 2016 after his fellow MPs had left.\n\nUnder the influence of alcohol, he made an \"unwanted sexual advance to the complainant that included the touching and stroking of the complainant's neck, hair, and back\", she said.\n\nMr Grady stepped aside as SNP chief whip last year after the claims about his behaviour emerged.\n\nParty leader Nicola Sturgeon said that she had previously been aware of \"a concern\", but not of any \"formal complaint\" being made.\n\nA spokesperson for the SNP Westminster parliamentary group said it accepted the recommended actions from the Independent Expert Panel.\n\n\"We welcome Mr Grady's apology and note that he previously apologised for this incident when the matter was dealt with informally in 2018,\" the spokesperson said.", "Failings by the Met Police contributed to the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port's final three victims, an inquest jury has ruled.\n\nPort, 46, is serving a whole-life term for murdering Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in Barking over 16 months.\n\nThe deaths were not regarded suspicious until weeks after the fourth murder.\n\nThe case was branded \"one of the most widespread institutional failings in modern history\" by the men's families.\n\nNeil Hudgell, a solicitor representing the victims, added: \"Our firmly held belief is that the Metropolitan Police's actions were, in part, driven by homophobia.\"\n\nThe Met failed to carry out basic checks, send evidence to be forensically examined, and exercise professional curiosity while Port was embarking on his killing spree, the inquest heard.\n\nPort is serving a whole-life term for the four murders\n\nPort killed the four men, who were all aged in their early 20s, by giving them overdoses of the \"date rape\" drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) at his east London home between June 2014 and September 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2016 for the murders and a string of sex assaults.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sisters of Port's final victim blame police for his death\n\nPolice refused to class the partner of Daniel Whitworth, with whom he shared a home and a bank account, as next of kin.\n\nRicky Waumsley said he would have been treated differently if he was a \"straight, white woman\".\n\nCoroner Sarah Munro QC said: \"These inquests have, on any view, raised a number of serious concerns.\"\n\nShe added she would be preparing a prevention of future deaths report.\n\nThis year has also seen the force accused of institutional corruption, misogyny, racism and, today, institutional homophobia. The official graphs illustrating Londoners' perception of the Met show every line reflecting performance heading substantially downwards.\n\nA national poll by Ipsos Mori this week suggested the proportion who trust the police had fallen from 76% to 63% in the last two years.\n\nThere have been more \"heartfelt apologies\" today, but sorrow and regret alone will not reverse the reputational decline of the force which pioneered \"professional policing\".\n\nThe nine-week long inquests at Barking Town Hall were told police had ignored multiple chances to uncover that Port had been responsible for the first murder - Anthony Walgate, 23, in June 2014 - with the result being the later deaths were preventable.\n\nThe jury found a murder team should have taken over that first inquiry.\n\nReferring to the inquiries made by officers in Barking and Dagenham into the deaths of Gabriel Kovari, 22, and Daniel Whitworth, 21, the jury said there were \"fundamental failings in these investigations from the beginning\".\n\nThis meant Port was free to kill Jack Taylor, 25, a year later.\n\nThe bodies of Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth were found in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church\n\nThe inquest also ruled the failings were by both officers in Barking and in the Met's homicide command.\n\nIn written conclusions, the jury acknowledged officers had faced a \"heavy workload\", but said there were failures which \"cannot be overlooked\".\n\nDuring the inquests police admitted a series of \"terrible mistakes\" were made.\n\nCoroner Sarah Munro QC ruled out homophobia as an issue for the jury to consider\n\nMr Hudgell told a press conference: \"We are incensed by the police's successful attempts to prevent the jury from examining whether [homophobic] prejudice played any part in the police's action.\"\n\nHe added that \"had the police done their job properly in the first place, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack would not have been killed and other young men would not have been drugged and raped by him\".\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball offered \"my own and the Met's heartfelt apologies\" and said she and Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick have offered to meet personally with the victims' loved ones to hear concerns.\n\nShe said: \"We completely accept people's trust in us has been damaged by a number of recent events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asst Commissioner Helen Ball described the jury's conclusion as \"a devastating finding\"\n\n\"What has happened in connection with each of the deaths of these four young men is part of that damage, and we know has a particular impact in communities local to Barking and LGBT+ communities across London.\n\n\"It is very important now to show that we are trustworthy, that we care, that we have changed, and that we are learning.\"\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said it is considering reopening investigation into handling of the deaths.\n\nAlthough 17 officers were interviewed, 16 gave \"no comment\" interviews, submitting written statements instead.\n\nNone faced gross misconduct charges but nine officers \"fell below the standard required\".\n\nIOPC Regional Director Graham Beesley said: \"We are examining if anything was said by the officers who gave evidence during the inquests which could alter our findings and give grounds to re-open our investigation.\"\n\nGay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said some police officers \"have got to face serious disciplinary action\".\n\n\"Every single gay person who raised concerns about the young gay men was ignored, dismissed and treated with contempt, even the partner of one of the victims,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American flags flew half mast in New Jersey this morning\n\nThis tragedy has reignited the debate over gun control in the US. But realistically, it is unlikely to result in significant reform. The argument over guns has simply become too politically divisive and culturally entrenched to allow for meaningful change.\n\nIt is important to remember that guns are normal in many parts of America. They are not seen as exceptional or frightening as they do to outsiders. They are a part of everyday life.\n\nAmerican gun owners - and there are an estimated 80 million of them - see their firearms as protection: a way to defend their own freedoms and property.\n\nIn a country where there is a real prospect of an armed criminal breaking into your home or assaulting you on the street, many consider carrying one to be a sensible precaution.\n\nGuns are so ubiquitous in America that no one will be able to get them out of the hands of felons. And so the argument goes: the good guys should have them too.\n\nWe all know that the right to bear arms is protected by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. What is less clear to those on the outside is why a document written nearly 250 years ago in response to a revolutionary war still has such resonance in 2022.\n\nFreedom and the right to defend yourself is fundamental not just to America's origin story - but to how many in America think about their country and their values today.\n\nSome of the most vociferous arguments in favour of guns are made by the rich and powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) who want to defend their supporters' profits. But many of the arguments come from ordinary citizens too.\n\nA Texas ranger takes up a woman's offer of hugs in Uvalde yesterday\n\nFor many, your right to carry a gun is considered as fundamental as your right to free speech. Banning or restricting guns is viewed as a breach of your rights as an American.\n\nThose rights have been up for debate before, especially in the wake of tragedies like the one in Texas.\n\nBack in 2012 a lone gunman rampaged through Sandy Hook primary school - killing six adults and 20 children. Afterwards there was a groundswell of support for gun control similar to what we're seeing now.\n\nPresident Barack Obama vowed to do everything in his power to act and his Democrats proposed US-wide laws banning specific models of firearms and enhancing background checks.\n\nSome of those measures received Republican support - but it was never enough to make it through Congress and into law.\n\nThe families of the Sandy Hook dead were so frustrated by the failure of gun reform that they took matters into their own hands - choosing to directly sue the manufacturer of the AR-15 rifle used in the 2012 attack.\n\nEarlier this year Remington Arms settled with nine of the families for $73m (£53.9m), which makes more of these lawsuits likely in the future.\n\nTears run down President Obama's face as he calls for gun reform in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting\n\nHuge numbers of Americans are sickened by the high rates of gun violence in their country and calls today are louder to at least tighten restrictions on gun ownership.\n\nReform advocates talk about other types of freedom - like a child's right to go to school without fear of being shot. All in a country where guns are now the leading cause of death amongst children and teens.\n\nThe numbers are staggering. More than 4,300 under-18s died from firearm-related injuries in 2020. By comparison, some 50 American police officers died from gunfire injuries in the same year.\n\nBut do not expect the kind of political response provoked in 1996 by the Dunblane massacre in the UK - which MPs responded to by effectively outlawing all privately-owned handguns.\n\nArguments will rage across US cable shows and on social media in the coming days over who should be allowed to buy guns and what kinds of weapons they are permitted - but not over their right to bear arms.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended restoring the triple lock, which could see pensions rise by 10% in line with inflation.\n\nIt comes as the government warns workers not to expect pay rises to keep pace with increasing costs.\n\nEconomist and Labour adviser Jim O'Neill said the \"constant protection of pensioners\" was \"ludicrous\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak said pensioners were \"among the most vulnerable in society\" and needed to be protected.\n\nInflation - the rate at which the price of things like food and fuel rise - has hit a 40-year high of 9.1% and the Bank of England has predicted it will grow to 11% later this year.\n\nMany trade unions have called for pay rises to help workers with increasing costs and the RMT union, which represents rail workers, are holding strikes in part to secure better wages.\n\nThe RMT is calling for a pay rise of 7%, while employers have offered a maximum of 3%.\n\nElsewhere barristers have voted to strike over pay and conditions, while two teaching unions are considering asking their members if they want to strike over pay.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said it was \"right that we reward our hard working public sector workers with a pay rise\" but added that it needed to be \"proportionate and balanced with the need not to make the inflationary pressures worse and what's affordable for the taxpayer\".\n\nHe argued that it was right to restore the pensions triple lock, which ensures that the state pension will always increase each year in line with either inflation, the average wage increase or 2.5%, whichever is the highest.\n\nThe triple lock was introduced in 2010 and the Conservatives promised in their 2019 election manifesto to keep it in place.\n\nHowever, the government suspended it for one year between 2022-2023 citing the pressures of the pandemic on public finances.\n\nDowning Street has confirmed that the triple lock will be restored. The rise will match the inflation rate in September but will only be paid from April 2023.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4, Lord O'Neill - who served as a Treasury minister in a Conservative government but is now working on a review of business start-ups for Labour - said he had \"no idea\" why the triple lock had been restored.\n\n\"The constant protection of pensioners seems ludicrous in itself and in these circumstances is particularly crazy,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak said the government had provided a support package which was \"generous and well-targeted at those who need our help\".\n\nHe said the \"most vulnerable in our society\" would receive £1,200 of support adding: \"There is help available for everyone.\"\n\nHe also argued that pension increases would not add to inflation in the same way as pay rises.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke said the government should: \"Stop giving me money.\"\n\n\"I've got £1,100 out of the latest package from the government - it's absurd, I've got two houses... I don't need it.\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said Lord Clarke could \"send a cheque back to HMRC if he feels that strongly about it\".\n\nAsked if the triple lock was motivated by the fact that older people are more likely to vote, Ms Coffey said: \"When politicians make a decisions we think about the individuals, we think about the people who are worried if they have enough money to heat their homes.\"\n\nThe UK's welfare bill of about £250bn a year is always going to be a hotly-debated political issue - but, at its heart, it remains vital to the everyday finances of millions of people.\n\nThe basic state pension in the UK is far from the most generous compared with entitlements in other European countries, although the Pension Credit top-up does assist lower-income pensioners.\n\nA potential double-digit increase in April for pensions and benefits may raise eyebrows, but it still reflects the higher prices people will be paying for many months beforehand.\n\nThat is why there had been calls to bring forward part of this increase to tackle the financial strain being felt now. Instead, the chancellor decided on a system of targeted cash payments aimed at helping households cover energy bills and the soaring cost of living in general.", "Maradona died of a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home, aged 60\n\nEight medical personnel are to stand trial accused of criminal negligence in the death of legendary Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona.\n\nA judge has ordered a culpable homicide trial after a medical panel found Maradona's treatment was rife with \"deficiencies and irregularities\".\n\nMaradona died in November 2020 of a heart attack in Buenos Aires, aged 60.\n\nHe had been recovering at home from surgery on a brain blood clot earlier that month.\n\nA few days after his death Argentine prosecutors launched an investigation into the doctors and nurses involved in his care.\n\nLast year, the panel of 20 experts appointed to examine his death found Maradona's medical team acted in an \"inappropriate, deficient and reckless manner\".\n\nIt also concluded that the footballer \"would have had a better chance of survival\" with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility, according to the court ruling.\n\nAmong those facing charges are Maradona's neurosurgeon and personal doctor, Leopoldo Luque, a psychiatrist and psychologist, two doctors, two nurses and their boss. They have all denied responsibility for his death.\n\nAll eight will be tried on a legal definition of homicide based on negligence committed in the knowledge that it may lead to a person's death.\n\nThe crime can hold a sentence of eight to 25 years in prison, according to Argentina's penal code. A date for the trial is yet to be set.\n\nMaradona was one of the greatest football players of all time\n\nMario Baudry, a lawyer for one of Maradona's sons, told Reuters that the football legend was \"in a situation of helplessness\" by the time of his death.\n\n\"As soon as I saw the cause, I said it was homicide. I fought for a long time and here we are, with this stage completed,\" he said.\n\nThe legal proceedings were prompted by a complaint filed by two of Maradona's daughters. They raised concerns about their father's treatment after the brain operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an emotional press conference in November 2020, Dr Luque cried, saying he had done all he could to save the life of a friend.\n\nAt one point, the doctor shot back at reporters: \"You want to know what I am responsible for? For having loved him, for having taken care of him, for having extended his life, for having improved it to the end.\"\n\nThe doctor said he had done \"everything he could, up to the impossible\".\n\nDiego Maradona is largely considered to be one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game. He was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, scoring the famous 'Hand of God' goal against England in the quarter-finals.\n\nDuring the second half of his career, Maradona struggled with cocaine addiction and was banned for 15 months after testing positive for the drug in 1991.\n\nThe news of his death threw the football world - and his home country of Argentina - into deep mourning, with many thousands of people queuing for hours to walk by his coffin at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires.\n\nNot even the most fanatical Maradona supporter would deny the damage that years of addiction had done to his body or the debilitating effects of his gruelling brain surgery. Yet there was a sense in Argentina that, aged just 60, probably the greatest player ever to have graced the pitch was taken before his time.\n\nAs the demands for answers grew with each revelation about his treatment, the subsequent findings by the medical panel were damning in the extreme.\n\nThe outpouring of grief and respect in Argentina following Maradona's death is still fresh in the memory - when thousands of fans trooped past his flag-draped coffin in tears in the presidential palace over three days of national mourning.\n\nIt was far earlier than they had wanted to say goodbye to him. These charges may at least provide them with answers over the exact circumstances behind the death of one of Argentina's greatest sons.", "Many stations, including London Bridge, were quiet on Thursday\n\nThe rail strikes this week had threatened to bring the country to a halt.\n\nBut after two days of industrial action - as well as the knock-on impact on services for the rest of the week - there is little evidence this has happened.\n\nEmpty stations, half-full trains to Glastonbury Festival, and broadly similar traffic levels mean that for the most part, it appears to have been business as usual for many people across the country.\n\nHowever, for those who can't work remotely and city centre businesses which rely on footfall from office workers and commuters, the impact has still been substantial.\n\nThe pandemic has meant many firms are now geared up to switch to remote working.\n\nAccording to official figures, 38% of workers now spend some of the week working from home.\n\nOne office workspace firm in Cheltenham has seen a 30% upturn in business this week from people booking individual day passes.\n\nClaire Storey said the rail strikes have been good for her business\n\nClaire Storey, founder of the Workplace Network in Cheltenham, says she has a lot of clients who normally commute once or twice a week but during the strikes were unable to do so, meaning they booked more days at her co-working space.\n\nOffice occupancy data across the UK on Tuesday was just 22%, compared to 40% the same day last week, according to workplace technology firm Freespace.\n\nBen Willmott, head of public policy for HR trade body the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, says more flexible ways of working have helped employees work from home with short notice.\n\n\"This takes pressure off the public transport system and reduced services for those who do have to travel to work,\" he adds.\n\nPre-pandemic, the rail strikes would have taken more of a toll on Leeds Building Society, but boss Richard Fearon says a 30% reduction in the number of people in the office went \"seamlessly\".\n\n\"In 2019, we only could accommodate about 120 people working from home but now we can accommodate 1,000 wfh and can take these things in our stride,\" he adds.\n\nWorking from home and the high cost of fuel also seem to have mitigated the impacts on the roads.\n\nThe AA says it appears most drivers have been able to go about their journeys \"without too much disruption\". AA breakdown rates are also slightly lower than usual.\n\n\"It looks like the early strike notice has given those who can work from home the chance to continue to do so while those who have to travel to work appear to have planned ahead by setting off early and car-sharing,\" a spokesperson says.\n\nThe AA's data showed some localised congestion close to major events like Glastonbury and Goodwood festivals, but it expected this to ease once festival-goers are on-site.\n\nMore drivers are also choosing to car-share, according to Liftshare.com, who are seeing a new member added to their network every minute.\n\nNational Highways also said there hadn't been a spike in traffic, with levels down 1% on Tuesday compared to 2019.\n\nLocation technology firm TomTom found congestion had increased \"only slightly\" on Thursday morning across most UK cities compared to the same time a week ago.\n\nWhen people did need to travel, many appear to have turned to other modes of transport.\n\nOn the first day of the strike there was a big jump in the number of people using cycle and e-scooter hire in London.\n\nSantander Cycle hires, which typically number about 30,000 per day, jumped to 67,000 hires on Tuesday, Transport for London said. This is the second biggest day for the scheme since it began.\n\nE-scooters in London have had around 6,500 hires per day in June but this jumped to more than 10,000 hires on Tuesday.\n\nA rise in bus use was recorded by National Express, which saw a \"significant increase\" in enquiries and bookings for strike dates. The firm said all of its services are \"very busy\" this week, with 70% of seats sold out across its UK-wide network. It anticipates this to hit close to 90% by the week's end.\n\nMeanwhile, Uber said demand in London was up by around 50% on Tuesday. However this reduced significantly on Thursday, which the company said could be an indication of more people working from home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany music fans heading to Glastonbury also appear to have heeded advice to travel on other days or find other ways of getting to the festival.\n\nThose travelling from London Paddington on Thursday morning were relieved to find the station was quiet, with plenty of space on trains.\n\nWith fewer people commuting, businesses based in city centres have been hit by reduced footfall.\n\nHigh Street footfall was 16.1% lower to 13:00 BSTon Thursday compared with the same day last week, according to retail analysts Springboard.\n\nIn central London, the drop from last week was more than double the national average.\n\nAshley Davis, who runs Morning Sunshine coffee shop at Warwick Parkway station, says the lack of footfall is \"really disheartening\".\n\n\"If this strike action does not get sorted, if the government do not get involved, we are left as collateral damage. Our bills still have to be paid every month,\" he adds.\n\nAshley Davis says businesses like his need support\n\nSo does the lack of impact on many workers mean rail unions have less power to negotiate?\n\nGemma Dale, a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University's business school, says with more office workers now able to do their job from home there is less pressure on the government to resolve the dispute than pre-pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested he's willing to wait it out - and has asked people to \"stay the course\".\n\nBut the RMT union at the centre of the dispute has said more rail strikes are \"extremely likely\" if talks between rail bosses and unions continue to fail.\n\nMs Dale points out the strike is still causing disruption for those who can't work remotely.\n\n\"It is still of course a huge issue to not have an effective rail service running across most of the country.\"", "Twitter is trialling a new feature allowing users to share \"notes\" as long as 2,500 words.\n\nThe social media platform normally limits posts to 280 characters.\n\nTwitter said the move was a response to seeing people use the platform to post pictures of longer announcements and steer followers to outside newsletters.\n\nThe test will run for two months and involve a small group of writers in Canada, Ghana, the UK and US.\n\nThe new feature aims to keep audiences in the Twitter eco-system, with readers able to see a headline and access the longer note by clicking on a link.\n\nWriters will be able to embed gifs, photos and other features into long-form essays that can be read on and off Twitter. Notes can also be edited after they have been published.\n\n\"Since the company's earliest days, writers have depended on Twitter to share their work, get noticed, be read, create conversation - everything but the actual writing,\" the company said, making the announcement using the new Notes product.\n\n\"With Notes, the goal is to fill in that missing piece.\"\n\nThe move follows Twitter's purchase last year of Revue, a Dutch newsletter start-up.\n\nSocial media expert Dr Laura Toogood said the trial was a significant step for Twitter. She said the feature would encourage people to stay within the platform itself, rather than linking out to other websites that can host long-form content.\n\n\"Adding this extra capability means that Twitter is now in a position to compete with some of the popular blogging platforms and potentially attract a new audience and a different type of user,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It will also encourage existing users to blog within Twitter, rather than move to other websites for this purpose, which will help to retain their audience.\"\n\nIn 2017 Twitter increased the maximum number of characters for tweets from 140 to 280, following a trial among a small group of users.\n\nThe latest move comes amid scrutiny of the Twitter's business prospects, as Elon Musk's planned takeover of the company raises questions about its direction.\n\nThe firm announced in April it was working on an edit button, shortly after Mr Musk - who had called for such a feature - revealed he had bought a large stake in the company. Twitter said the events were unrelated.\n\nMr Musk has also said he sees potential in a subscription model in which people would pay to use the platform.\n\nDr Nikki Usher, a journalism professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said it was hard to know whether Twitter was trying out new formats out of profitability or a genuine desire to try to improve the platform.\n\n\"In this case, one of the things we do know is that people do not like to read long texts online,\" they told the BBC.\n\n\"So whether giving people 2,500 characters to work with will ultimately make a difference in the quality of the digital public sphere - well, I think it's unlikely. Is it a chance to grab headlines in advance of some major changes at the company? Absolutely.\"", "Liam Hall, Stacey Salmon, Daniel Wright and Samuel Whibley were jailed for a total of 31 years\n\nMembers of a \"fascist\" cell who made gun parts on a 3D printer and rejoiced at mass shootings have been jailed.\n\nThe three men and one woman were convicted of 18 offences in March following a two-month trial.\n\nProsecutors said they had \"celebrated racist violence and killing\".\n\nAt Sheffield Crown Court, Daniel Wright, 29, Liam Hall, 31, and Stacey Salmon, 29, all from Keighley, and Samuel Whibley, 29, from Anglesey, were jailed for a total of 31 years.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors had heard that a partially constructed 3D-printed gun was found at the home of Hall and his partner Salmon at Hill Top Walk, Keighley.\n\nFirearms experts said despite being incomplete, the weapon could have proved lethal if fully assembled.\n\nOther weapons were also recovered from the gang, as well as chemicals and practical guides for making explosives.\n\nAn undercover police officer had infiltrated the group, which used the Telegram online messaging app to exchange terror manuals and share racist ideology, the trial heard.\n\nThe group also posted videos of atrocities, including mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019.\n\nDaniel Wright, 30, of Whinfield Avenue, Keighley, was found guilty of seven offences, including an offence of manufacturing a firearm, and was jailed for 12 years.\n\nHall was found guilty of manufacturing a firearm and possessing a firearm, and was jailed for six years.\n\nSalmon was convicted of possessing a firearm and was jailed for three years.\n\nSamuel Whibley, 29, of Derwen Deg, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, was found guilty of eight terrorism offences, including the encouragement of terrorism and the dissemination of a terrorist publication, and was jailed for 10 years.\n\nAt the start of the trial, prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said the defendants were members of an \"extreme fascist\" cell during the first four months of 2021.\n\nAfter the sentencing, temporary Det Ch Supt Peter Craig, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said the unit worked tirelessly to identify those who had \"an extremist mindset and threaten the safety and unity of our diverse communities\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "The US is banning the sale of all products sold by Juul, one of the country's top e-cigarette companies.\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it did not have enough data to be sure that marketing the firm's products was \"appropriate for the protection of public health\".\n\nJuul said it would challenge the move.\n\nIt comes after other recent anti-smoking efforts by the FDA, including plans to reduce the amount of addictive nicotine allowed in cigarettes.\n\nThe agency had already barred the fruity flavours that helped make Juul a phenomenon among teenagers a few years ago.\n\n\"Today's action is further progress on the FDA's commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,\" FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf said in a statement.\n\nJuul, founded in California in 2015 by a pair of former smokers, has promoted its vaping pods as a healthier alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes.\n\nBut the products, which contain high concentrations of nicotine, raised alarm as use among teens exploded, with more than quarter of high schoolers using e-cigarettes in 2019, according to a federal survey.\n\nIn 2020 the FDA said it would require companies to submit their e-cigarette products for approval. It has since granted some of them a green light.\n\nIn its statement, the FDA said it had not received any information to suggest an \"immediate hazard\".\n\nBut it also noted the major role Juul, whose products under review had nicotine levels of 3% and 5%, still plays in the market.\n\n\"We recognise these make up a significant part of the available products and many have played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping,\" Mr Califf said.\n\nJuul said it would seek a stay of the ruling, which would allow it to keep selling as it explores options including an appeal.\n\n\"We respectfully disagree with the FDA's findings and decision and continue to believe we have provided sufficient information and data based on high-quality research to address all issues raised by the agency,\" the firm's chief regulatory officer, Joe Murillo, said in a statement.\n\n\"We intend to seek a stay and are exploring all of our options under the FDA's regulations and the law, including appealing the decision and engaging with our regulator.\n\n\"We remain committed to doing all in our power to continue serving the millions of American adult smokers who have successfully used our products to transition away from combustible cigarettes, which remain available on market shelves nationwide,\" he added.\n\nJuul has already seen its business hit by regulatory action, as officials investigated its marketing practices to teens and tightened rules on what flavours could be sold. International restrictions have also limited its expansion outside the US.\n\nAltria Group, which took a 35% stake in the company in 2018 for more than $12bn, has been forced to write off much of the value of its investment.\n\nThe firm's shares sank 9% on Wednesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported plans for the ban.", "Ingrida Simonyte said a tiny proportion of Russian goods were affected by EU sanctions\n\nLithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has said Russian claims of a rail blockade of its territorial outpost in Kaliningrad are a lie.\n\nKaliningrad is on the Baltic Sea and uses a rail link to Russia via Lithuania for passengers and freight.\n\nWhen Lithuania banned the transit of steel and other ferrous metals under EU sanctions last Saturday, Russia threatened to respond.\n\nThe Kremlin condemned the sanctions as illegal and unacceptable.\n\nMs Simonyte explained that passengers were still able to travel freely across Lithuanian territory from Russia to Kaliningrad and only about 1% of Russian freight was affected.\n\nOne senior diplomat in Brussels said that Russian talk of a blockade was disinformation and completely untrue.\n\n\"Lithuania is complying with the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for its aggression and war against Ukraine,\" the prime minister said.\n\nEU sanctions on steel were imposed in March, but a three-month transition period was allowed for existing contracts to wind down.\n\nRussia annexed Kaliningrad after World War Two in 1945 and roughly one million people live there.\n\nDiplomats say no goods trains have yet been barred from crossing Lithuania\n\nIt was not clear what Russian security council chief Nikolai Patrushev meant when he threatened a \"serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania\".\n\nThe foreign ministry in Moscow said merely that retaliation would be practical as well as diplomatic. Regional governor Anton Alikhanov said that as well as reprisals, Kaliningrad would organise shipments by sea.\n\nOne option would be to disconnect Lithuania from the electricity network it shares with Russia, Belarus and the other Baltic states, although officials in Vilnius have said for months they are ready to connect through Poland to the West European grid.\n\nThe Lithuanian prime minister told the BBC that it was important not to overreact, as this was the latest in a series of threats used by Russia or Belarus to threaten their neighbours, such as attempted cyber-attacks on public institutions and utilities.\n\nEstonia called on Russia to stop issuing threats and suggested Moscow was flexing its muscles ahead of next week's Nato summit in Madrid, where Sweden and Finland hope to get backing to join the Western defence alliance.\n\nAs Lithuania is a member of the Nato as well as the EU, the prime minister said lessons needed to be learned and security had to be in place, given that Russia's neighbour Belarus had acted as an accomplice, allowing its soil to be used as a staging post for invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"We need a significantly higher presence in the region,\" she told the BBC's Katya Adler, citing a 100-km (62-mile) corridor of territory that connects Lithuania and the other two Baltic states to Poland.\n\n\"The Suwalki Gap is a place which is crucially important, not only for my country or Poland, but also for Nato, because this is a short corridor and there is a need to take its defence and security seriously.\"\n\nShe was speaking on the eve of an EU summit, where diplomats said the Russian threats were bound to come up.\n\nOne diplomat told the BBC that when sanctions had been imposed, it was unlikely that they were designed to stop Russia moving goods internally. The European Commission might seek to de-escalate the situation, the source added.\n\nHowever, another senior European diplomat said the legal argument was clear, that there would be no derogation for allowing banned Russian goods from crossing EU territory.\n\nFurther sanctions are due to come into force in August and December, covering luxury goods and crude oil, so the aim is for the Commission to make a public statement on what is seen as legal and what is not.", "Inquests for the four victims of Stephen Port have exposed how failings by the Metropolitan Police contributed to the deaths of three men.\n\nPort killed four gay men - Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor - between June 2014 and September 2015. For the first time, during the inquests, the Met Police responses to the deaths were fully revealed.\n\nHere is the story of what happened.\n\nAnthony Walgate from Hull was studying fashion in London and occasionally worked as an escort. Using an alias, Stephen Port arranged for him to visit his Barking flat in June 2014.\n\nPort then drugged Anthony with GHB and raped him. He died after being given a fatal overdose of the drug. In the early morning of 19 June, Port dragged Anthony's body to the pavement outside his flat and used his own mobile phone to call an ambulance. He didn't give his name but told an operator that he had been driving past and had seen a \"young boy\" looking unwell. Port then returned to his flat.\n\nA paramedic who checked Anthony's body requested that police attend the scene. They arrived shortly afterwards with homicide detectives.\n\nAnthony's phone was missing, his underpants were on back-to-front, and he had bruising under his arms consistent with being moved by another person. The cause of death would eventually be attributed to a GHB overdose, although friends would tell police during their inquiries he was not a GHB user. This in itself should have been seen as critical.\n\nAt the police station, a trace of the mobile phone number showed that the caller - Stephen Port - lived in the flat right next to where Anthony's body was found.\n\nPolice visited him and he immediately changed his account of what happened. The bus garage chef claimed he had returned from a night-shift to find \"a male lying in my front door\" and had called 999.\n\nA police records check at the station revealed Port had previously been accused of drugging and raping a teenager, but somehow investigators on the ground did not become aware of this for several days.\n\nThe case was then left with local officers from Barking, rather than being taken on by a specialist Scotland Yard murder investigation team.\n\nAnthony's mother Sarah Sak says the call she received from police was so brief it was like a discussion about a lost pet. She says police liaison officer, DS Paul Slaymaker, described Anthony's death as \"not suspicious at the moment\".\n\nBut she knew this was wrong. \"It just started literally from day one. They just weren't interested - they just didn't listen to any of us,\" she tells the BBC.\n\nAnthony's friends, who also realised something was seriously amiss, told officers he had travelled to Barking to meet a new client who called himself Joe Deen. Anthony had shared a photo of the man with them - and that person turned out to be Stephen Port.\n\nPort was arrested for lying to police about his dealings with Anthony, and was questioned at Barking police station - but only by a junior borough detective on his own. The killer gave a rambling and inconsistent account, ultimately claiming the deceased had visited his flat, died after taking his own drugs, and he only placed Anthony outside after panicking.\n\nAt the recent inquests, the junior officer revealed that he thought Port had killed Anthony and that an experienced homicide team should have carried out the interview.\n\nAt this point, DCI Tony Kirk, head of Barking and Dagenham CID, asked for a murder inquiry team to take over. He messaged a senior Scotland Yard homicide detective to say Port had previously drugged and raped someone and that, on balance, it appeared Anthony had died \"at the hands of another\".\n\nHe added: \"I feel we as an organisation have a duty to his friends and family to get to the bottom of his death in what are increasingly suspicious circumstances.\"\n\nThe request was refused, but specialist detectives were sent to interview Port. They obtained more information from him, yet, according to details from the inquests, failed to follow a basic interview strategy or challenge Port on things he said.\n\nUnprompted, the killer revealed that he had previously been searched and questioned by police at Barking railway station after helping out a friend who was unwell.\n\nOfficers thought this information seemed significant and left a note for the borough team. But nothing was done to establish any more detail and Port was released on bail.\n\nA police intelligence log, available on a national database, would have shown Port was referring to an incident two weeks before Anthony's death, when British Transport Police were called to reports of him assaulting an unwell man at Barking station. But a basic check wasn't made.\n\nPort had claimed the man had possibly taken \"G\" - a reference to GHB - and he had found him on drugs outside the flat after they met online. It was not until more than a year later - by which time four men had been killed - that a murder investigation team traced the victim of the assault. He described having been surreptitiously drugged, waking naked and disoriented in Port's flat.\n\nHomicide officers now accept they would have taken on the case had they known about the incident.\n\nMonths after Port's police interviews, he was charged with perverting the course of justice for lying about his dealings with Anthony. But nothing more was done to investigate the death itself - Scotland Yard's homicide division was not contacted again by Barking officers despite an order for them to be updated and consulted on developments.\n\nThe inquests would also hear that, at that time, formal advice from homicide officers to check a laptop and phone belonging to Port was ignored. Had they been sent for forensic analysis Port's obsession with drugging and raping young men would have been uncovered.\n\nWhen they were eventually analysed the following year - after a request from a coroner - they showed that Port had persistently watched \"drug rape\" pornography. Even then, a detective failed to even look at the relevant sections of the forensic report. By then, police had closed their investigation.\n\nAn interaction with a coroner showed the investigation's poor grasp of key details.\n\nDS Martin O'Donnell, who was managing the inquiry, told the coroner that Port \"stated he hadn't used escorts before and didn't know about the costs\" even though he had told detectives he used male prostitutes and had worked as an escort himself.\n\nAnthony's mother, Sarah Sak, was so concerned by the lapsed police investigation and unhappy with her liaison officer, DS Slaymaker, that she was forced to approach her MP for help.\n\nThe killer had \"literally got away with murder\", Ms Sak says now. She believes detectives \"just couldn't be bothered\" to investigate properly.\n\nWhile he was on bail, Port went on to kill two more young men.\n\nGabriel Kovari, a 22-year-old from Slovakia who was planning to work as a translator, became Port's flatmate in August 2014. He was killed within days.\n\nHis body was discovered by a dog-walker in a Barking graveyard near Port's flat. Like Anthony, his mobile phone was missing and he was eventually found to have died due to a GHB overdose.\n\nPolice treated the death as unexplained but not suspicious. The resulting inquiries were shallow.\n\nJohn Pape, with whom Gabriel had lived in south London for several weeks, was contacted as his was the last known address. Pape said that Gabriel had headed east, but he did not know where.\n\nDetectives could have discovered that he moved to Cooke Street - where Port lived - if they had sought out a man who helped Gabriel move to Barking. The young Slovakian had sent his friend a map showing the new residence and several photos from inside Port's flat.\n\nIn September 2014, three weeks after Gabriel died, the body of Daniel Whitworth was found in exactly the same spot of the same graveyard by the same dogwalker. Daniel, too, had died of a GHB overdose, and his phone was missing.\n\nThe ambitious young chef lived in Gravesend and had no connection to Barking. On him was an apparent suicide note claiming he had accidentally killed Gabriel, and had taken his own life as a result. The note had actually been written by Stephen Port, but police fell for his lies.\n\nTaken at face value, which the police did, since the note referred to an apparent homicide, Scotland Yard policy demanded a murder investigation team take the lead.\n\nHomicide detectives were consulted, but the death was never investigated by them. Again, the case remained with local officers. Their performance was a disaster. No forensic tests were conducted on items found with Daniel and Gabriel. Had they been, Port would have been identified since his DNA was on record.\n\nPolice could have established the \"suicide note\" was fake if they had scrutinised it properly. It was not sent to a handwriting expert, despite promises being made to Daniel's family.\n\nHis father Adam Whitworth was emailed a small piece of the note, with DC Yinka Adeyemo-Phillips of Barking police then telling officers that he had confirmed the writing as Daniel's.\n\nBut Mr Whitworth says he never confirmed it, and says he has \"no idea\" how the detective decided he did.\n\n\"She has done an abominable thing there and it's led to tragic consequences,\" he says.\n\nThe note also stated \"btw please do not blame the guy I was with last night\". Officers failed to establish that person's identity. If they had, it would have led them to Stephen Port.\n\nWeeks after Daniel's death, his father was shown the full note by DS Slaymaker, who also worked on the Anthony Walgate inquiry.\n\n\"The first thing I said to him was, there's nothing in here that identifies it as Daniel, there's no names of anybody, there's no words and phrases that he would use,\" says Mr Whitworth.\n\n\"Slaymaker had an opportunity there in that room, when we was telling him our concerns, to put that right.\"\n\nDetectives also refused to show the note to Daniel's long-term partner, Ricky Waumsley, with whom he shared a home and a bank account, after refusing to class him as next of kin.\n\nHe says \"I felt like I was being put to one side and I felt like they were being homophobic towards me. If it was a straight woman who'd been found dead, and that was my partner, I think I would have been treated very, very differently.\"\n\nQuestioned about Daniel's whereabouts at the time Gabriel had died in east London, Ricky Waumsley checked his phone and told officers they appeared to have been together at home in Kent, far from Barking.\n\nThis gave Daniel an alibi and meant he could not have killed Gabriel. But officers ignored this fundamental point. DS Slaymaker, was ordered to get mobile phone data, which would have shown Daniel's real location on the key date, but failed to do so.\n\nIn reality, the victims never met one another.\n\nMandy Whitworth, Daniel's stepmother, says being told by police that Daniel was a killer was incredibly distressing. \"I don't think I can even tell you not only how angry that has made us, but how deeply that has wounded us for life.\"\n\nDetectives also ignored a series of warnings about the two deaths being linked to that of Anthony Walgate.\n\nGabriel's former flatmate John Pape and boyfriend Thierry Amodio both suggested there might be link, after reading an anonymised local newspaper report about the earlier death. But they were ignored.\n\nAmodio, making his own inquiries, ended up in contact with a Facebook user calling himself Jon Luck. This person appeared to know important information about the last days of Gabriel and Daniel and made alarming suggestions about parties at which young men were drugged and exploited. He was plainly a central witness.\n\nAmodio sent the Facebook account to DC Adeyemo-Phillips but nothing was done to investigate the account or the person behind it. It turned out to be a fake account used by Stephen Port to spread lies.\n\nOfficers did not bother taking a statement from Amodio, who lived in Spain, and refused to keep him updated as they did not regard him as 'next of kin'.\n\nWhen Amodio resorted to emailing the local coroner for information, one of the leading detectives on the case - DS Debbie Turrell - wrote to her colleague that he was \"fishing for information\".\n\nPape persistently contacted detectives to raise concerns about the threat to gay men, but he was totally ignored. In one email he wrote: I worry about what is happening to young men in Barking\".\n\nHe resorted to asking LGBT organisations to contact the Met, but the force continued to be dismissive.\n\nThe officer who ignored Pape's warnings was DC Jacqueline Baxter, who had also been appointed as \"family liaison officer\" for Gabriel's family in Slovakia.\n\nBut she failed in her role by not making any effort to contact them.\n\nDC Baxter then misled a coroner's officer. In an email, she wrongly stated that \"uniformed officers kept this case as it was not deemed suspicious.\n\nShe then named the wrong country by stating, \"I just dealt with the burial company in Lithuania\".\n\nThe inquests also heard about serious failings by DI Rolf Schamberger, who oversaw the Barking and Dagenham Police team that examined the deaths of Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth.\n\nHe signed off a series of actions as complete, even though they had not been carried out, such as the crucial demand to obtain phone data on Daniel.\n\nSchamberger personally prepared flawed reports for the men's first inquests, which took place in June 2015, giving evidence at both.\n\nHe falsely told the coroner that a \"diary\" had been used to confirm Daniel Whitworth's handwriting on the suicide note, even though no diary was ever seized.\n\nHaving been asked at Gabriel's first inquest in 2015 about a possible link to the death of Anthony Walgate, the detective said \"there was consideration given to there being a link, but, to the best of my knowledge, no link was ever established\".\n\nThe officer, who has since been promoted, claimed at this year's inquest not to have known anything about Anthony's case at the time, saying it is \"hard to say\" what he meant in his answer back then.\n\nIn 2015, Schamberger told the coroner that no testing had taken place on a bedsheet found with Daniel's body, contrary to a pathologist's recommendation, adding the \"circumstances at the time indicated towards no other external parties being involved\".\n\nHe now says he \"can't really explain\" that answer, given the investigation had considered the possibility that other people might have been involved.\n\nThe bedsheet was covered in the killer's DNA.\n\nEven before the pathologist's report on Daniel had concluded, the detective had written \"the investigation is complete and the report can be closed\".\n\nJack Taylor was found dead in September 2015, slumped against the other side of the graveyard wall to where Gabriel and Daniel had been discovered.\n\nLike the other three young men, his phone was missing and he died of a GHB overdose. Like the others, he was not a user of drugs, meaning the circumstances were unusual.\n\nDespite some detectives attending the scene who had been present at the earlier deaths, no connection was made to them. Officers decided Jack's death was non-suspicious.\n\nThe Taylor family were briefly visited and told that Jack had died, but then heard nothing more from police.\n\nPC Jon Taylor, whose job was to patrol local parks, found out he was running the investigation from a digital crime report entry, rather than because anyone told him. He was not a detective but had been put in charge because he had been the person flagged down in the street when the body was discovered.\n\nHe asked for help from the local CID team - the same unit that had run inquiries into the earlier deaths - but a detective refused and stated: \"I deal with more protracted/unexplained deaths\".\n\nAlmost a fortnight had passed when Donna Taylor, Jack's sister, contacted the Met, furious at the lack of contact.\n\nIn that time Donna and younger sister Jenny had launched their own investigation, spotting the links to the earlier deaths.\n\n\"We should never have had to investigate and do everything behind the scenes ourselves,\" says Jenny Taylor. \"Why couldn't they have done that? Saying they didn't have enough resources or enough training, we've got no training, we had no resources, we had a laptop - that's all we had - and it makes us very angry.\"\n\nThe Taylor family kept pushing the police to do more.\n\nFor example, when police confirmed there was CCTV of Jack meeting a tall man at Barking station and walking away together, the Taylor sisters insisted that officers issue a public appeal to identify the stranger. At first, officers refused to do so, but relented following pressure from the sisters.\n\nIt was one of the original Anthony Walgate detectives who recognised the tall blonde stranger as Stephen Port after seeing the appeal images on a colleague's desk.\n\nDonna Taylor says the Met \"didn't look into anything\" and have \"allowed that man to take three innocent people's lives\".\n\nFamilies of the dead men say the Met made false assumptions about their loved ones, with homophobia playing a role in the flawed decision-making.\n\nScotland Yard accepts failing the victims, but denies that prejudice was a factor.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Helen Ball said: \"I don't think the Met is an institutionally homophobic organisation. I do think that we need to make a great deal of change to our investigative practices. We have done that - and people need to be reassured that we have done that.\"\n\nSeventeen police officers involved in the original response into the four deaths were investigated by the police watchdog.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct did not refer any of them for misconduct proceedings. Seven of the officers have since been promoted.\n\nThe Taylor sisters, whose persistence led the police to the killer, say they will not accept this result. \"We've never gone away - the Taylor family, the Taylor sisters - will never will go away. We want to see people held accountable.\"", "Digging down to level up? Proposals for a new mine at Whitehaven are highly controversial\n\nGoverning is about choices - and it's about decisions.\n\nAnd, every so often, a decision comes along that encapsulates the dilemmas ministers face.\n\nConsider what the government might think of as its core, even defining priorities.\n\nHigh up on the list would be what it calls \"levelling up\", the idea that geography shouldn't be destiny, that regional inequalities should be lessened.\n\nAlso up there would be the commitment to net-zero-carbon emissions by 2050 to restrict climate change.\n\nAnd then, in light of the war in Ukraine, there is boosting energy security and reducing the UK's dependence on Russia.\n\nNow think of the decision, being reached within government right now, on whether to allow a new coal mine to be opened near Whitehaven in Cumbria.\n\nThe black stuff in question, under the Irish Sea, is what is called metallurgical coal, which is used in making steel.\n\nAround 40% of this type of coal the UK needs is imported from - yes, you guessed it - Russia.\n\nCoal is widely seen as one of the dirtiest and most polluting energy sources.\n\nBut west Cumbria is crying out for skilled, long-term, well-paid private-sector jobs.\n\nSo what should ministers do?\n\nYou can imagine the criticism, whether they say yes or no.\n\nMost of the UK's coalmining industry is gone\n\nI've been following this for the last year or so, mesmerised by its awkwardness for those who have to decide.\n\nIt reminds me of a fundamental truth about reporting: it is a privilege to be an observer, asking sceptical questions.\n\nBut it's undeniably easier to ask questions than to answer them.\n\nThis is how the new coal mine could look\n\nSo tricky has been this, the prospect of the first new deep-coal mine in the UK in 30 years, that noisy disagreement and dither have dominated.\n\nThe government asked the Planning Inspectorate to examine the arguments. It has done that and handed its report to the government.\n\nAnd a deadline of Thursday 7 July was set for a decision by the Communities Secretary Michael Gove.\n\nThat is a fortnight away.\n\nWest Cumbria is in need of high-skilled, long-term jobs\n\nOn Wednesday, tantalisingly, we got what looked like a glimpse of the government's instinct.\n\nDeep into Prime Minister's Question Time, Conservative MP Chris Green asked about the importance of levelling up and the approach of other countries to the burning of different types of coal.\n\nThe prime minister knew the question was coming. Boris Johnson could have offered a generic answer. He could have ducked it entirely.\n\nBut instead he said this: \"We can all be proud of the way in which we reduced CO2 emissions in this country, but plainly it makes no sense to be importing coal, particularly for metallurgical purposes, when we have our own domestic resources.\"\n\nTo supporters of the mine in and around Whitehaven, that sounded like a possible prime ministerial thumbs-up for it getting the go-ahead.\n\nThose around Mr Gove remain tight-lipped and sources in No10 caution about reading too much into the PM's comment.\n\nIf Mr Johnson's outlook is soon reflected in the formal decision, we can expect to see opponents of the mine challenge it in court.\n\nAnd the government will face questions on precisely how this will level up, as they describe it. These include:\n\nAnd if they say no to the mine:\n\nThere are tough, legitimate, sceptical questions, whatever - difficult - decision is reached.", "Patrycja Wyrebek moved here from Poland in 2006\n\nA 25-year-old man who murdered his girlfriend in Newry will serve at least 20-years in prison before being considered for parole.\n\nDawid Lukasz Mietus beat and strangled 20-year-old Patrycja Wyrebek at their Drumalane Park home in the early hours of 2 August 2020.\n\nAfter a search operation he was tasered by police while holding a knife to his neck in a neighbours garden.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to the murder of Patrycja Wyrebek in April 2022.\n\nAt the time it was confirmed he would face a life sentence.\n\nMietus initially claimed Ms Wyrebek's death had been caused by a consensual erotic game gone wrong.\n\nToday Mr Justice O'Hara said that this was an assault on her good name.\n\n\"He tried to be cute and clever but instead was stupid,\" he added.\n\nMs Wryebek moved to Northern Ireland from Poland in 2006. She was the eldest of five siblings.\n\nShe moved in with Mietus in January 2020.\n\nBefore her death she had reported Mietus to the police for violence.\n\nIn a victim impact statement her family said they had been overwhelmed by grief.\n\nMr Justice O'Hara described her as \"a happy, cheerful young woman. Happy and loved.\"\n\nThe court heard that Mietus, who was also from Poland, had had a 'miserable upbringing' before moving here in February 2019.\n\nDawid Lukasz Mietus pleaded guilty to the murder of Patrycja Wyrebek in April 2022\n\nThe court heard he described Ms Wryebek as his first love but that he was jealous and immature.\n\nIt was stated in court that the fatal assault may have begun after Ms Wryebek said Mietus previously had a homosexual relationship.\n\nHowever, Mr Justice O'Hara said: \"Only the defendant knows exactly what happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"I do not accept that significant remorse has been shown.\"\n\nMr Justice O'Hara said Mr Mietus must spend at least 20 years in prison before being considered for parole.\n\nReading a statement on behalf of the family after the sentencing, Det Insp Mark Gibson said: \"We will never understand why Patrycja was taken from us. We will suffer her loss for the rest of our lives. Our children are the only thing that give us something to live for.\n\n\"Our hearts are broken and will never be the same again.\"", "Raheem's mother Shantal said her son had been bullied \"from the get-go\"\n\nAn 11-year old boy who lost his finger reportedly fleeing bullies was subjected to months of racist abuse and bullying, his mother has said.\n\nRaheem Bailey, a pupil at Abertillery Learning Community in Blaenau Gwent, caught his finger climbing a fence trying to escape.\n\n\"It seems like he has constantly been bullied,\" his mother Shantal said.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council said \"the safety and well-being of all learners\" was \"of the utmost importance\".\n\n\"He has always been at least name-called and mocked for his height,\" Ms Bailey told BBC Radio 5 Live. The abuse was not always racist, she said, but there had been \"proper racism\" as well.\n\n\"He has been called the n-word as well... I don't think he understood 100% what the n-word meant,\" she said, but added that any adult would have identified it as racism.\n\nRaheem is recovering after his ordeal\n\n\"Each day he had to build himself up to go in because he knew he was going to get picked on... that's painful, that a child has to almost prepare themselves before going into a place that's meant to be safe and tranquil.\"\n\nShe became concerned after seeing his relief after her suggestion that they might move from the area.\n\nMs Bailey said teachers and head teachers need to step up efforts to ensure it is not the bullied child that ends up having to be moved from a school. More needs to be done to make parents take the complaints more seriously, she said.\n\n\"I understand not everyone's home life is great so sometimes... they come to school and take it out.\n\n\"But it shouldn't be the child that's coming to school and behaving that's feeling the pressure,\" she said.\n\nShe set up a fundraising campaign following the incident which has received over £100,000 in donations.\n\nRaheem underwent surgery following the incident but doctors had to amputate the finger. His mother is now looking into having a prosthetic fitted.\n\nHe has mostly accepted that this is his \"new normal\", she said, although he does occasionally get down.\n\nGwent Police said its investigations into the incident are still ongoing and a Welsh government spokesperson condemned bullying and racial harassment.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council said: \"The safety and well-being of all learners at Abertillery Learning Community has always been, and continues to be, of the utmost importance.\n\n\"We are continuing to work with Gwent Police as part of their investigation into an alleged assault of a pupil at the secondary campus site.\n\n\"Abertillery Learning Community is unable to offer any comments at this time due to the ongoing police investigation, but an update will be provided when the investigation is concluded.\"", "European countries say they have received less Russian gas than expected recently\n\nThe head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.\n\nFatih Birol says he believes a complete shutdown is not the most likely scenario but that Europe needs to work on contingency plans just in case.\n\nIn recent weeks, several European countries said they received significantly less Russian gas than they expected.\n\nRussian officials deny it's deliberate and have blamed technical issues.\n\nBefore the invasion of Ukraine, Europe imported about 40% of its natural gas from Russia but that figure has now fallen to about 20%.\n\nMr Birol says he believes that recent Russian reductions in gas supply are \"strategic\". The falls are making it harder for European countries to fill up their gas storage and increasing Russia's leverage this winter.\n\n\"I wouldn't rule out Russia continuing to find different issues here and there, and continuing to find excuses to further reduce gas deliveries to Europe and maybe even cut it off completely,\" Mr Birol told BBC News.\n\nLast week the flow of natural gas through Nord Stream 1, one of the main pipelines from Russia to Europe, was just 40% of capacity. Many experts are sceptical of the Russian explanation that this was caused by \"technical issues\".\n\nAcross Europe, shortfalls in gas supply continue to be reported. On Friday the Italian firm energy firm Eni said that it had only received half of the gas that it was expecting from the Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom, while Slovakia and Austria have also reported falls.\n\nFrance says it has received no Russian gas from Germany since 15 June while Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands have had their Russian gas deliveries suspended after they refused a demand to pay in Russian roubles.\n\nLast month European countries agreed to try to protect themselves from the volatility of gas prices by filling up their storage facilities. They jointly committed to reaching at least 80% capacity by November, with the latest data suggesting they are at about 55%.\n\nMr Birol said the ongoing gas crisis now justified emergency short-term measures to reduce demand, such as increasing the use of coal-fired power stations, and if possible prolonging the life of nuclear power plants. If there was a complete shutdown of Russian gas supply, he says drastic measures may be needed.\n\n\"I don't exclude the possibility that Europe will need a planned and orderly rationing of gas,\" Mr Birol says.\n\n\"I don't say this is the base scenario, but looking at the last several months, if not several years, the experiences we have had with Russia as an energy partner, this is a scenario we cannot afford to exclude for the time being.\"", "The US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun-carrying rights, in its most important judgement on guns in over a decade.\n\nIt expands gun rights amid a fierce national debate over the issue.\n\nThe decision, which jeopardises similar regulations in states like California and New Jersey, is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.\n\nAbout a quarter of Americans live in states that could be affected if their own gun restrictions are challenged.\n\nThe court found that a New York law requiring residents to prove \"proper cause\" - or a good reason - to carry concealed firearms in public violates the US Constitution.\n\nJustice Clarence Thomas, writing on behalf of the six conservative judges who make up the court's majority, ruled that Americans have a right to carry \"commonly used\" firearms in public for personal defence.\n\nThe three liberal justices - Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer - dissented, meaning they disagreed with the majority opinion.\n\nThe court's decision clears the way for legal challenges to similar restrictions in Maryland, California, New Jersey, Hawaii and Massachusetts.\n\nIt comes amid political divisions over how to address gun violence, which were deepened by high-profile shootings at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, last month.\n\nThursday's ruling came as new legislation that would tighten access to firearms passed the US Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment a Republican pulls out guns during a Congress debate on new gun legislation\n\nPresident Joe Biden said he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the Supreme Court's decision, which he said \"contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should trouble us all\".\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would review other ways to restrict gun access, such as by tightening the application process for buying firearms and looking at bans at certain locations.\n\n\"We cannot allow New York to become the wild, wild west,\" he added.\n\nThe gun lobby had helped back plaintiffs in the case, Robert Nash and Brandon Koch - two New Yorkers who had applied for a concealed carry permit but were denied them, despite having licences for recreational gun ownership.\n\nMore than 390m guns are owned by civilians in the US. In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died from firearms-related injuries including homicides and suicides.\n\nThe Supreme Court decision continues a steady pattern of rulings that have expanded gun rights, holding that the right to carry firearms both at home and in public is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.\n\nEven in the shadow of the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court stood by a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nThe last landmark gun decision issued by the court was in 2010, which upheld individual gun-ownership rights within homes on a national basis.\n\nAs these court precedents pile up, it will be increasingly difficult for future Supreme Court justices to change course and interpret the Constitution as permitting broader gun restrictions.\n\nIn his dissent, Justice Breyer noted that gun violence has taken a significant number of lives in the US this year.\n\n\"Since the start of this year alone, there have already been 277 reported mass shootings - an average of more than one per day,\" he said.\n\nThe Senate meanwhile passed the first national gun control bill in nearly three decades on Thursday night by 65-33.\n\nThe new law includes measures such as expanding background checks for gun buyers under-21 and offering funding to states that have emergency programmes in place to seize guns from people deemed dangerous by a judge.\n\nThe bill will next have to clear the US House of Representatives before going to President Biden's desk for his signature.", "The young men killed by Port: Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor\n\nThe way Metropolitan Police initially handled the deaths of four men murdered by serial killer Stephen Port is to be reinvestigated by the police watchdog.\n\nPort, 47, is serving a whole-life term for the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in Barking, East London.\n\nThe deaths were not seen as suspicious by police until after the fourth death.\n\nA solicitor representing the families said they believed the police's actions were \"driven by homophobia\".\n\nHe added the Met Police had \"blood on their hands\", and said: \"It is time for them to be held accountable.\"\n\n\"Basic failings\" in the way the Metropolitan Police handled the four men's deaths were identified at a jury inquest that concluded in December.\n\nThe force failed to carry out basic checks, send evidence to be forensically examined, and exercise professional curiosity while Port was embarking on his killing spree, the inquest heard. Officers also made assumptions about the gay community, jurors were told.\n\nIn 2019 the police watchdog, the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), decided no officers had a case to answer for misconduct or gross misconduct as a result of the failures to catch the serial killer until after the fourth killing.\n\nStephen Port is serving a whole-life prison term for the four murders\n\nNow, the IOPC has said that since new information heard at the inquest had found \"material flaws\" in its own inquiry, it had decided to re-open its investigation with a new team in place.\n\nRegional Director Graham Beesley said: \"Following analysis of the new information provided at the inquest, we have concluded that the original investigation needed to be wider in scope and, therefore, certain lines of inquiries were not followed,\" he added.\n\n\"Had this information been known at the time it may have led to different decisions on outcomes.\"\n\nBetween June 2014 and September 2015, Port killed Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London, by giving them overdoses of the \"date rape\" drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) at his east London home.\n\nHe met the victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his flat where they were drugged and raped. He dumped the victims' bodies near his flat.\n\nPort was found guilty of the murders and a string of sex assaults against other men in 2016 and was given a whole-life jail term.\n\nFollowing the announcement of the new IOPC inquiry, the families' solicitor Neil Hudgell said relatives had been \"left traumatised by their treatment at the hands of the police\".\n\n\"The inadequate investigations by the Metropolitan Police into the four deaths is one of the most widespread institutional failures in modern history, exacerbated by a woeful lack of remorse, regret or sympathy displayed at the inquests by some of the officers involved,\" Mr Hudgell added.\n\n\"Port was jailed for life, but the police have blood on their hands too. It is time for them to be held accountable.\"\n\nFrom almost the first moment, the families of the four men who were murdered by Stephen Port have been let down by the Metropolitan Police and the IOPC.\n\nLast year, the inquests heard excruciating details of how basic police work was not done, how detectives lacked curiosity, did not follow up on things, and jumped to conclusions.\n\nThe family liaison officer in the Gabriel Kovari murder never even contacted the family.\n\nWhen Port was finally caught and put on trial in 2016, it seemed obvious that there had been serious police failings, but the IOPC decided none of the detectives had a case to answer for \"gross misconduct\" or even \"misconduct.\"\n\nNow - more than eight years after the first murder - the IOPC is re-opening its investigation, conceding that the inquests had identified \"material flaws\" in its original inquiry.\n\nIt has added to the clamour for reform of both the Metropolitan Police and the IOPC.\n\nThe partner of Mr Whitworth, Ricky Waumsley, said he welcomed the IOPC's fresh investigation.\n\nMr Waumsely said he had given evidence at the inquest about \"many blatant shortcomings\", including that he had not been shown a fake suicide note because police did not consider him to be Mr Whitworth's next of kin.\n\nHe told the inquest he believed he was treated differently because they were a \"gay unmarried couple\".\n\nWelcoming the new inquiry, he said: \"The inquest jury found that Daniel's death could have been avoided had the police properly investigated the previous murders. The previous IOPC investigation had significant flaws in it.\n\nGabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth's bodies were found in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church\n\n\"I continue to believe that the Metropolitan Police suffer from institutional prejudice which, frustratingly, they continue to deny.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the quality of the Met's investigation into the murders \"raised a number of concerns, particularly around homophobia\".\n\nHe added: \"It is vital that London's LGBTQ+ community has confidence in our police and the Met are able to gain the trust and confidence of all the communities it serves so that every Londoner, regardless of background or postcode can feel safe, protected and served.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There will be more than 7000 pupils in special schools in September 2022\n\nMore than 300 children with a statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN) are without a school place for September.\n\nThat includes 91 children waiting for a place in a special school and 202 seeking a place in a mainstream school.\n\nThe Education Authority (EA) said there had been a \"significant rise\" in demand for special school places.\n\nIt said it was \"working hard\" to ensure children with SEN had \"an appropriate place\" for 2022/23.\n\nAccording to statistics from the Department of Education (DE), more than 22,000 school pupils in Northern Ireland have a statement of SEN.\n\nA statement sets out a description of a child's needs and the help that is required to meet them in school.\n\nAbout 6,650 of those pupils attended special schools in 2021/22 but the EA said that 668 more children needed a place in special schools by September 2022.\n\nIn response to questions from BBC News NI, the EA said that 91 of those 668 children still did not have a confirmed special school place - around 12% of those seeking a place.\n\nMeanwhile, another 148 children are still seeking places in specialist learning support units in mainstream primary and post-primary schools.\n\nThose are special classes or units which provide extra support to pupils with additional needs.\n\nThat means almost a quarter of children (22%) with statements of SEN who need a place in specialist provision in a mainstream school still do not have one.\n\nTina Blackburne (left) says her daughter Leila (right) is still without a school place for September\n\nTina Blackburne's 12-year-old daughter Leila has not been to school in five months and is still without a school place for September.\n\nLeila has an official autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis and statement of education, ADHD and chronic anxiety.\n\n\"Since March of this year I can only describe as what we're going through as absolute hell,\" Ms Blackburne said.\n\n\"Leila went to mainstream school and was given a full-time classroom assistant but unfortunately it didn't work out for a number of reasons and I had to remove her from that school in March because she was traumatised from the experience she had been having.\n\n\"Last week I got a call to say 'sorry, the school you have chosen is full'\".\n\nMs Blackburne, who lives in East Belfast, said Leila was offered a place in a school in Ballynahinch instead, something she finds \"would be completely inappropriate\" due to her diagnosis and make the situation even worse.\n\nShe has also said the Education Authority (EA) is failing children and parents who need help.\n\n\"I'm banging my head against a wall and dealing with a child that is really unwell and who desperately needs support,\" Ms Blackburne said.\n\n\"Imagine how you would feel if you were told you don't have a place in school...in a world you already feel different in.\n\n\"It is mentally, emotionally and physically draining.\n\n\"I don't feel the EA has been there to support me and a lot of other parents.\"\n\nRaymond McFeeters, acting principal of Ardnashee School and College in Londonderry, said many of the children waiting for a special school place will have \"heightened anxiety levels and difficulty with change and transition\".\n\n\"It is much more important for those kids to know where they are going to, where they are going to be placed, and that people are able then to prepare them for that transition and change in their lives,\" he said.\n\nMr McFeeters said every parent has a right to know where their child is going to be educated\n\n\"It is really disappointing that we haven't been able to do more to facilitate that,\" he said.\n\nMore than 60 other children with statements are also waiting for a place in a mainstream school to be confirmed, although they do not need to enter specialist units.\n\nThe EA said there had been a rise of around 35% in the number of pupils in special schools in just five years.\n\nThere were 5,407 pupils in special schools in 2017 but that will rise to over 7,320 pupils in September 2022.\n\nThe EA said that indicated \"a significant increase in demand for special school places\".\n\nIn 2021, a former high school in north Belfast became an additional special school to help meet demand.\n\nThe former Castle High School became a second campus for Harberton Special School.", "The mural was stolen in the early hours of 26 January 2019 and recovered 18 months later\n\nThree years after an artwork by graffiti artist Banksy was stolen from a door at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, eight people have been convicted of theft or handling stolen goods.\n\nThe mural \"sad girl\" was stencilled as a tribute to the 90 people murdered in a 2015 terror attack on the venue.\n\nA hooded gang removed it from an emergency door with angle grinders in January 2019.\n\nIt was found 18 months later in an attic at a rural farmhouse in Italy.\n\nThe mural was painted on a door that leads into an alley used as an escape route by many of the spectators who had been watching a concert by US band Eagles of Death Metal on the night of the 2015 attack.\n\nThe gang drove a white van with obscured licence plates into the alley, cut away the door and drove it away.\n\nSome of the police who took part in the investigation had responded to the attack on the Bataclan on 13 November.\n\nAcross Paris, 14 men are on trial, accused of taking part in a night of militant Islamist attacks on Paris that night, including at the Bataclan. The trial is due to end next week.\n\nThe artwork was painted on an emergency door in a side street\n\nSeven French men and an Italian, aged 31 to 58, were given jail terms ranging from a few months to four years - although parts of the sentence will be served wearing electronic tags rather than in prison.\n\nA trio in their thirties admitted to the theft. A fourth man man, described as a 41-year-old millionaire lottery-winner with a passion for street art, was convicted of helping them conceal the door in the south of France. The court rejected allegations that Mehdi Meftah was the mastermind behind the theft.\n\nAnother three men were found guilty of transporting the door and a 58-year-old hotel owner in Italy was given a six-month suspended sentence. The Banksy work was eventually moved from his hotel on the Adriatic coast to a farm 15km (nine miles) inland.\n\nThe crime provoked outrage, and Bataclan staff told the trial that the artwork had been a symbol of contemplation for Parisians and the rest of the world.\n\nBanksy's works have always been much sought-after, and \"sad girl\" was one of a number attributed to him that appeared around Paris in June 2018.\n• None Paris attacks: Who were the victims?", "The Ukrainian president says Russia is seeking to reduce Severodonetsk to rubble as it did to the port city of Mariupol\n\nA key adviser to Ukraine's president has said the battle for the eastern cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk has reached a \"fearsome climax\".\n\nOleksiy Arestovych said Russian forces could soon encircle the twin cities and cut them off from Ukrainian territory.\n\n\"The threat of a tactical Russian victory is there, but they haven't done it yet,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of trying to \"destroy\" the Donbas region.\n\n\"There were massive air and artillery strikes in Donbas. The occupier's goal here is unchanged, they want to destroy the entire Donbas step-by-step,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.\n\nHe also repeated his calls for Western leaders to speed up the delivery of heavy artillery to his troops.\n\n\"We again and again emphasise the acceleration of arms deliveries to Ukraine. What is quickly needed is parity on the battlefield in order to halt this diabolical armada and push it beyond Ukraine's borders.\" he said.\n\nUkrainian troops have been trying to hold the twin cities against a relentless Russian assault\n\nRussia has directed much of its attention to Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which are the final Ukrainian outposts in the Luhansk region, and in recent days Moscow's forces appear to be making some progress in their attempt to encircle Ukrainian troops there.\n\nRegional Governor Serhiy Haidai said on Thursday that two key settlements to the south of the cities had been captured and suggested that troops in the town of Zolote, which has been on the front line of fighting since 2014, may be forced to retreat.\n\nIn its daily update, the UK's Ministry of Defence said that Russian forces have advanced over 5km (3 miles) towards the southern perimeter of Lysychansk this week.\n\n\"Some Ukrainian units have withdrawn, probably to avoid being encircled. Russia's improved performance in this sector is likely a result of recent unit reinforcement and heavy concentration of fire,\" UK officials said.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Haidai said Russian shelling has \"significantly destroyed infrastructure and housing\" in Lysychansk.\n\nHe added that Severodonetsk is also shelled \"every day\", despite Moscow's forces having seized much of the city. Hundreds of civilians remain trapped there, with many of them seeking shelter in the sprawling Azot chemical plant.\n\nBut Mr Arestovych said fighting in both cities had slowed significantly after Ukraine inflicted heavy losses on Russian forces, which he claimed are now made up of significant numbers of conscripted troops. The BBC cannot verify this claim and Russia denies using conscripts in the war.\n\n\"It's like two boxers grappling with each other in the 18th round of a bout and barely able to move things forward. This operation started on 14 April and has been going on for nearly 80 days,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere, Russia resumed its shelling of Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv on Wednesday morning.\n\nMany civilians had started to return to the city after Russian forces were pushed back across the border, but fears have grown that Moscow could be planning a fresh assault in the region.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia accused Ukraine of using drones to attack an oil refinery in the Rostov region, close to the Ukrainian border.\n\n\"As a result of terrorist actions from the western border of the Rostov region, two unmanned aerial vehicles struck at the technological facilities of Novoshakhtinsk,\" representatives of the plant said in a statement.\n\nSocial media footage appeared to show the unmanned vehicles smashing into the refinery in a rare direct assault on Russian territory. Officials in Kyiv have yet to comment on the attack.\n\nAnd near the occupied city of Kherson, the pro-Russian administration accused \"Ukrainian saboteurs\" of attempting to carry out the \"failed assassination\" of the Moscow appointed head of a town.\n\nThe Russian state news agency Tass claimed the head of Chernobaevka, Yuri Turulev, was injured in an attempted car bombing by Ukrainian partisan forces.\n\nIt is difficult to determine the extent of the pro-Kyiv insurgency in Kherson, but several attacks have been reported in the city and a dedicated government department, the Centre for National Resistance, has been set up to coordinate partisan activity.\n\nThe intense fighting comes as EU leaders are expected to approve Ukraine's application for candidate status of the bloc.\n\nWatch how Alina from Ukraine found a safe home with Beth in the UK, and how her life changed overnight.\n\nSomewhere Safe: Alina's story, available now on BBC iPlayer.", "We’re about to close the page - but before we go let’s take a look at what’s been happening in the aftermath of the two Tory by-election defeats.\n\nBoris Johnson says he’ll “listen and learn” and get on with the job to “continue with the work that we're doing to help people in the short term with the pressures they're facing”.\n\nThe PM's defended his record saying his government has “not only achieved remarkable things” but will “continue to do some great things for the people of this country”.\n\nHe also told a press conference in Rwanda that Oliver Dowden, who quit as Conservative Party co-chairman following the by-election results, \"did a lot of good work\".\n\nBut former Tory leader Michael Howard says Johnson should resign for the good of the Tory Party and believes the country would be better off under new leadership.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Keir Stamer reacted to his party’s victory in Wakefield saying they \"absolutely smashed it\".\n\nHe says the result was a “judgement\" on the Tory party and Johnson, adding \"they are out of touch and out of ideas\".\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats marked their big win in Tiverton and Honiton by literally showing Johnson the door.\n\nThey used the prop with the words \"It's time to show Boris the door\" emblazoned across it to emphasise what they say people on the streets of east Devon have been telling them.\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey (right) celebrates with Richard Foord, the newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton Image caption: Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey (right) celebrates with Richard Foord, the newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton", "The number of young people who went missing from NI care homes and are at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE) is at its highest since 2018, figures show.\n\nA total of 37 young at-risk people went missing across the five health trusts in 2021/2022, according to the Department of Health.\n\nThe highest number was recorded in the Western Health Trust.\n\nThe total figure doubled from seven in 2020/2021 to 14 in 2021/2022.\n\nChild sexual exploitation can happen in person or online, according to Paul McCafferty from the Voice of Young People In Care.\n\n\"CSE can be physical contact sexually with a child or young person, but it can also include non-physical activities,\" Mr McCafferty told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"This can include young people producing sexual images, (someone) forcing a young person to watch sexual images or to take part in different things.\n\n\"The actual grooming of a child can also be classed as child sexual exploitation as well.\"\n\nMr McCafferty said they are seeing more vulnerable young people entering the care system than ever before and believes there \"are more risks out there\" if they go missing.\n\nHe described the latest figures as \"scratching the surface\" and said \"it's a failure if even one young person is a victim of CSE\".\n\n\"We need to work together to try to stop this from happening, but my main thing is we need to listen to the young people that have experienced this,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about getting young people involved in what we do moving forward.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Public Protection Branch said it has a dedicated child sexual exploitation team that works closely with partners to identify children at risk.\n\nIt said it puts measures in place to safeguard and aid investigations if a child is reported missing.\n\n\"When a missing child is located and returned back to a care home, officers have a number of safeguarding processes to follow depending on the circumstances,\" Det Supt Gary Reid said.\n\n\"These are put in place to mitigate any future risk of that child going missing and to identify whether or not they have been a victim of any form of criminality,\" he added.\n\nChild sexual exploitation can happen in person or online, according to Paul McCafferty from the Voice of Young People In Care\n\nA Western Trust spokesperson said that when a young person goes missing from the care system there is a collaborative response from the trust and the PSNI.\n\n\"The Western Trust, like other trusts across the region, is required to report to the Department of Health in relation to instances when young people are missing from their care for 24 hours or more.\n\n\"This is particularly the case when a child has been reported missing and at risk of child sexual exploitation,\" they said.\n\nThe spokesperson added the Western Trust is \"proactive in reporting young people who go missing\" and \"will continue to work in collaboration to protect at-risk children/young people from child sexual exploitation\".\n\nThe Department of Health said there were \"well-established arrangements in place\" requiring relevant agencies to take \"actions to safeguard any child who goes missing and prevent future risk of harm\".\n\n\"Those at risk of CSE are identified by a co-ordinated, interagency and multi-disciplinary risk assessment.\n\n\"On the basis of that assessment, actions are taken to safeguard and protect a child or young person who is a victim of CSE or who has been assessed as being at risk of CSE.\"\n\nThe department accepted that while there has been an increase in the number of young people at risk of child sexual exploitation reported as having been missing for a period of time over the last four years, it said that there \"has been an overall decrease since reporting commenced in 2016/17 of 10%\".\n\nIt noted that \"this decrease was within the context of a significant increase in the number of children in care\".\n\nIt added that as of 31 March 2021, 3,530 young people were looked after in care in Northern Ireland and that it is the highest recorded number since the introduction of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.\n\nSafeguarding Board for Northern Ireland's (SBNI) chair Bernie McNally said the figures are worrying.\n\nA number of initiatives have been in place over recent years to protect children, she added.\n\nThat includes specialist social workers being placed with police teams, additional training with care home staff and an awareness-raising campaign to encourage people - especially those who work in the night-time economy - to come forward with information should they see anything untoward.\n\nThe SBNI brings together a number of agencies and organisations which oversee the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people in Northern Ireland.\n\nMs McNally said all organisations who work with at -risk children \"are really trying to work alongside the young people\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this report, support is available at the BBC Action Line.", "Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan has suffered from such chronic instability and conflict during its modern history that its economy and infrastructure are in ruins, and many of its people are refugees.\n\nThe Taliban, who imposed strict Islamic rule following a devastating civil war, were ousted by a US-led invasion in 2001, but made a rapid comeback to take over almost all of the country after US forces left in 2021.\n\nThough the war ended with the Taliban takeover, there are attacks on the Taliban by Islamic State, as well as an anti-Taliban insurgency in some areas.\n\nHibatullah Akhundzada became the supreme commander of the Taliban in 2016, and is now head of state of the interim government in Kabul, called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.\n\nHe fought in the resistance to the Soviet military occupation in the 1980s, and went on to lead the Islamic courts during the Taliban's last period in government in 1996-2001.\n\nAfghan media have faced difficulties since the Taliban took power in Kabul in August 2021.\n\nOutlets have endured severe restrictions, an economic crisis and waning Western support.\n\nThere is growing self-censorship and editorial appeasement of the Taliban. Freedom of expression has largely disappeared.\n\n18th Century - The modern state of Afghanistan begins with Ahmad Shah Durrani (ruled 1747-1772) and the Durrani Afghan Empire that at its maximum encompasses northern India and eastern Iran.\n\n1826 - With the decline of Durrani dynasty Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai becomes Emir of Afghanistan.\n\n1839-42 - First Anglo-Afghan War: British initially successfully invade, deposing Dost Mohammad and replacing him with the former emir Shah Shujah but the British forces are almost completely massacred during their retreat.\n\n1878-80 - Second Anglo-Afghan War: British invade forcing Amir Sher Ali Khan to flee. Ali's successor signs a peace treaty but after the massacre of a British diplomatic mission fighting restarts. The Afghans defeat a British force at the Battle of Maiwand but the British decisively defeat the Afghans outside Kandahar to end the war.\n\n1893 - Durand Line established as the border between British India and the Emirate of Afghanistan by British diplomat Mortimer Durand and Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. However, the exact line of the border remain remains disputed.\n\n1919 - Third Anglo-Afghan War: Afghanistan invades British India. Peace treaty results in Afghanistan gaining control of its foreign affairs from Britain.\n\n1926 - Emir Amanullah Khan declares himself king and the Emirate of Afghanistan becomes the Kingdom of Afghanistan.\n\n1928-29 - Afghan civil war: Facing armed opposition to his reforms, King Amanullah abdicates. Kabul is temporarily captured by opposition forces, who are defeated by Prince Mohammed Nadir Shah, Amanullah's cousin.\n\n1933 - King Nadir Shah adopts more gradual approach to modernization, but is assassinated. Mohammed Zahir Shah reigns as king from 1933 to 1973, pursuing a policy of neutrality.\n\n1973 - Mohammed Daoud Khan deposes the king in a bloodless coup and becomes Afghanistan's first president.\n\n1978 - Communists under Nur Muhammad Taraki seize power in a coup against President Mohammed Daoud Khan. They start land distribution reforms and oppress political dissent, provoking strong opposition which quickly expands into civil war.\n\n1979 - Taraki is assassinated in a power struggle led by then-prime minister Hafizullah Amin. Displeased with Amin's government, the Soviet Union invades, capturing Kabul and killing Amin, installing a more complaint communist regime.\n\n1979-89 - Soviet-Afghan War: Soviet troops in substantial numbers are sent to stabilize Afghanistan marking the beginning of a bitter war.\n\nThe US and Pakistan send military aid to resistance groups. Between 560,000 and two million Afghans are killed, six million become refugees.\n\n1989 - Soviet forces leave and Afghanistan collapses into renewed civil war. Some 400,000 Afghans are estimated to have been killed between 1990-2001.\n\n1996 - Taliban seize control of Kabul and impose hard-line version of Islam.\n\n2001-2021 - War in Afghanistan: The United States, including Nato and other allies intervene militarily following September 11 attacks on the US. The Taliban are ousted from Kabul and Hamid Karzai becomes head of an interim power-sharing government.\n\nThe war becomes the United States' longest military engagement as the Taliban regroup and regain control of large areas of the countryside.\n\n2014 - Nato formally ends its combat mission in Afghanistan, handing over to Afghan forces - supported by US troops - who face a growing insurgency. Between 176,000-212,000 people are killed in the 20-year war.\n\n2020 - Unable to defeat the Taliban militarily, the US and Taliban sign the Doha Agreement: US troops will withdraw, in return for which Afghan territory will not be used for militant attacks against the US and its allies.", "US government lawyers threatened to quit en masse as then-President Donald Trump hounded them almost daily to help overturn his 2020 election defeat, a congressional inquiry has heard.\n\nJustice department officials said they told Mr Trump there was zero evidence for his claims of mass voter fraud.\n\nThe attorneys also testified that the president's plan to reverse his loss in key states was \"a murder-suicide pact\".\n\nThe panel is investigating last year's US Capitol riot as an attempted coup.\n\nThe House of Representatives select committee is seeking to build a case that Mr Trump's efforts to stay in power in the lead-up to the violent raid by a horde of his supporters on Congress on 6 January 2021 amounted to illegal conduct.\n\nMr Trump, a Republican, has described the inquiry as a \"kangaroo court\" designed to distract Americans from the \"disaster\" of Democratic-led governance and spiralling inflation ahead of November's mid-term elections.\n\nWith President Joe Biden's popularity at an all-time low, Mr Trump has been indicating he may run for president again in 2024.\n\nThursday's public hearing, the fifth so far, focused on a pressure campaign waged by Mr Trump against the Department of Justice - the federal agency that enforces US law and is supposed to be independent from the White House.\n\nFormer acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said Mr Trump had reached out to him \"virtually every day\" before the attack on the Capitol, where lawmakers were assembled to certify Mr Biden's election win.\n\nAccording to Mr Rosen, Mr Trump asked that the justice department issue a statement calling the election results into question, adding \"leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen\".\n\nMr Rosen said he refused. \"We did not think they were appropriate based on the facts or the law,\" he told the committee.\n\nFormer acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified that he had knocked down Mr Trump's \"arsenal of [voter fraud] allegations\" one by one in a 90-minute conversation in December 2020.\n\nCommittee member Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, noted that Trump administration officials had at one point investigated a bogus claim that Italian satellites switched votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\n\"This is one of the best examples of the lengths to which President Trump would go to stay in power, scouring the internet to support his conspiracy theories,\" he said.\n\nThe session heard that at least five allies of Mr Trump, who had supported his attempts to overturn the election, had asked for presidential pardons to protect them from any future prosecutions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five key moments from the US Capitol riot hearing\n\nThe session also heard of an explosive Oval Office showdown on the night of 3 January 2021 between Mr Trump and three top justice department officials.\n\nMr Trump outlined a plan during the meeting to replace Mr Rosen with a loyalist named Jeffrey Clark, an environmental lawyer, who had no relevant experience to run the department, the committee heard.\n\nOn official headed paper, Mr Clark had drafted a memo advising lawmakers in states that Mr Trump narrowly lost on how to throw out their election results.\n\nPat Cipollone, then the White House counsel, had warned the letter would be \"a murder-suicide pact\", Mr Donoghue said.\n\nHe testified that he, Mr Rosen and another senior official, Steven Engel, warned the president there would be a mass exodus from the justice department if he installed Mr Clark. Mr Trump ultimately backed off the plan.\n\nThe committee said Mr Clark had refused to answer its questions, invoking his right not to self-incriminate. Thursday's hearing was held shortly after it was reported that the FBI had raided Mr Clark's home.\n\nThe BBC's Tara McKelvey, who was at the hearing, said the search of Mr Clark's property raises the possibility of criminal charges over the alleged election plot, including against the former president himself.\n\nThursday's session also heard claims that six congressional Republicans had requested pre-emptive presidential pardons from Mr Trump in case they were prosecuted after he left office for having backed his challenge to the election results.\n\nEx-White House aides named the lawmakers as Mo Brooks of Alabama, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona. None of them received pardons.\n\nTwo more open hearings will take place next month before the committee prepares a report on the Capitol attacks.\n\nThe panel cannot bring charges against the former president, but is expected to refer its findings to the justice department.", "Paul and Amanda Riesel were close to giving up on their long-planned wedding on Skye\n\nIslanders rallied to save an American couple's wedding after their luggage - including the bride's dress - was lost on their trouble-hit trip to Skye.\n\nAmanda and Paul Riesel arrived the night before their big day with only their wedding rings and flowers after their flight was diverted and delayed.\n\nSkye wedding photographer Rosie Woodhouse took to social media to ask islanders for help.\n\nBy the next morning they had provided a dress and a kilt.\n\nAmanda, who had been ready to give up and go home, said Rosie and the community of Skye saved the day.\n\nShe said: \"Our perfectly imperfect wedding was only a possibility because of Rosie and the wonderful folks in Skye.\n\n\"Fate had a hand in our happy day because local Broadford Primary dinner lady, Theresa, was the owner of my dress and I'm also a dinner lady back home.\n\n\"Wearing it meant even more to me knowing it came from someone who loves and feeds her students just like I do.\"\n\nIslanders provided a kilt and wedding dress to the couple\n\nProblems started for the couple from Orlando, Florida, when their flight to the UK was diverted to Philadelphia.\n\nThis then led to a series of knock on delays to their 4,000-mile journey that included stops at London Heathrow and Inverness.\n\nThe couple ended up spending a total of three days stuck in airports - and their luggage disappeared along the way.\n\nPaul said: \"All of us had breakdowns along the way. It was delay, delay, delay.\"\n\nThey eventually arrived on Skye at about 23:00 on Monday - the night before their wedding.\n\nPhotographer Rosie offered to try to salvage the occasion - which had been two years in the planning.\n\nShe said: \"I told them I was sure I could make this work, and Skye is an amazing place.\"\n\nRosie posted an appeal to a Skye social media site and by 07:30 on Tuesday she had been flooded with offers of help.\n\n\"We had a full kilt set for Paul and a beautiful wedding dress for Amanda,\" she said.\n\nAfter a 4,000-mile journey lasting several days there was a happy ending to Amanda and Paul's wedding woes\n\nThough their schedule had be changed slightly, the couple's humanist ceremony went ahead smoothly.\n\nAmanda said: \"Every single person Rosie introduced us to and that offered to help will forever have a place in our hearts.\n\n\"The people of Skye will be famous in Orlando because we will tell anyone who will listen that they are the reason our love was cemented into a perfectly imperfect wedding day.\"", "For travellers, the past fortnight has brought a tidal wave of bad news.\n\nCancelled flights, proposed rail strikes and record-breaking petrol prices have thrown people's plans into disarray - and now the peak summer holiday season and the long school break are hovering on the horizon.\n\nAfter more than two years of Covid restrictions, this should be a summer of fun.\n\nBut are we now heading into a summer of misery?\n\nWe take a look at where things stand for planes and trains over the weeks ahead.\n\nThe UK air travel industry has just faced what is arguably its biggest test since coronavirus rules were lifted and it is fair to say, it has been a bumpy ride.\n\nOver the Jubilee bank holiday, which coincided with many schools' half-term breaks, 750 flights out of the UK were cancelled, according to aviation data firm Cirium. Around 466 return flights were axed.\n\nAlthough cancellations made up a small percentage of total flights, many passengers were only informed at short notice and faced long queues to check-in bags and get through security.\n\nStaff shortages from job cuts made at the height of the pandemic have been driving cancellations and delays, heightening holidaymakers' anxiety that problems will continue into the key summer season.\n\nAdd to that the threat of strike action. British Airways workers have voted in favour of supporting industrial action, in a ballot conducted by the Unite union, while Ryanair is facing walkouts by staff in parts of Europe.\n\nJess Baker has been put off travelling abroad this summer after a recent \"nightmare\" 18-hour journey home from Iceland.\n\nShe, her husband Shaun and their two children had their EasyJet flight into Luton cancelled on Monday.\n\nThey were given the option to travel home on Thursday but needed to get back sooner so paid £1,000 to fly into Glasgow with Icelandair. They shelled out an additional £340 to hire a car to drive down to Luton to collect their own vehicle.\n\nJess Baker and her family had their EasyJet flight cancelled from Iceland to Luton\n\n\"It's been an absolute nightmare,\" says Ms Baker. \"We quickly decided that we'll go camping here instead. It's not worth the hassle all over again.\"\n\nOthers may have the same idea. Sykes Holiday Cottages says it has seen a 22% rise in bookings in the past two weeks compared to the same period last year.\n\nChief executive Graham Donoghue says it is \"at least in part due to widespread reports of overseas travel disruption\".\n\n\"Travellers simply don't want to have to tackle airports and take the risk that their family holidays could be cancelled,\" he says.\n\nSince cutting staff, airlines, airports and the companies that provide baggage handling have been recruiting but because new workers have to pass security checks, it takes time.\n\nHeathrow airport's boss John Holland-Kaye recently told the Financial Times it could take up to 18 months for the aviation sector to \"fully recover capacity\".\n\nAviation consultant Chris Tarry tells the BBC the situation should improve as more staff are security cleared, but he warns there are \"unlikely to be enough workers in certain areas given wages and working conditions\".\n\nAnd airports \"only work if all of the elements are in place\", he says.\n\nGlastonbury Festival returns this year on 22 June, but it might not be that easy to get there now rail strikes have been announced.\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT Union members from Network Rail and 13 train operators are set to walk out after talks over pay and redundancies broke down.\n\nThe strikes are due to take place on 21, 23 and 25 June but it is likely services across the whole week will be disrupted. Train drivers are also going to hold their own strikes over pay.\n\nPassengers have been advised not to travel on trains unless necessary during the strikes.\n\nZahid Fayyaz, a solicitor from Brixton who is planning to travel to Glastonbury by train, is worried about the impact the potential strikes might have.\n\nZahid Fayyaz is having to change his travel plans to get to Glastonbury Festival\n\nHe originally had a ticket for 23 June but because of the planned strike on that day he and his two friends have bought new tickets to travel the day before. It cost them £240 and an extra day off work.\n\n\"It's going to take an extra two hours, but aside from this I'll be fine. But other people won't be able to take time off work or afford the extra money,\" the 40-year-old says.\n\nMr Fayyaz says he is broadly sympathetic to the rail workers striking, but believes the \"timing is wrong\".\n\nGlastonbury Festival is one of several events impacted by potential travel disruption, along with a cricket test match between England and New Zealand in Leeds.\n\nSome people are switching their mode of transport to buses and coaches. Chris Hardy, managing director of National Express, said the firm had seen an increase in enquiries and bookings during the days of the rail strikes.\n\nThe walkout could yet be called off if all parties can reach an agreement.\n\nThat's what John Kuehne, from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, is hoping for.\n\nJohn Kuehne, a Yes fan from Florida, faces rail disruption during his trip to the UK\n\nHe's traveling to England along with many of his friends from around the world to see prog-rock legends Yes, who are performing at London's Royal Albert Hall on 21 June.\n\nBut \"everything is up in the air\" now, he says. \"Car rentals, parking, fuel, tolls, and congestion zone fees make it very expensive and inconvenient.\"\n\nMr Kuehne also happens to be arriving in the UK just as the cost of filling an average family car hit £100 for the first time.\n\nHe says labour disputes happen but that \"all sides need to come together quickly to find a reasonable solution\".\n\n\"What they do in the next two weeks will affect the lives of thousands of people who just want the wonderful experience of modern British mass transit.\"", "A by-election deep in once-safe Conservative territory threatens to upend British politics. For the parties fighting it, the stakes are huge - but they're picking their battles in very different ways.\n\nIt's a hot summer morning in mid-Devon and Kayleigh Diggle stands in the bookshop she runs, feeling conflicted. The 32-year-old, who normally supports the Greens, is annoyed with the Conservative government and is considering a tactical vote for the Liberal Democrats. But the sheer relentlessness of the latter's campaign makes her recoil.\n\n\"It's their constant leafleting,\" says Kayleigh. She's sick, too, of looking at the party's Day-Glo yellow-and-black diamond-shaped posters (\"Winning here!\") everywhere she goes. \"It's very, very, over-the-top.\"\n\nVoters in Tiverton and Honiton aren't used to anyone having to fight quite this hard for their votes.\n\nSprawling from the fringes of Exmoor to a stretch of the Jurassic Coast, this cluster of villages and market towns was seen until recently as an extremely safe Conservative seat.\n\nThen erstwhile MP Neil Parish admitted watching pornography in Parliament after, by his own account, searching online for tractors.\n\nNow there's a by-election to replace him. Partygate, turmoil on the Tory benches and the cost of living crisis have made the 23 June vote a crucial test of the public's mood.\n\nAnd with another by-election taking place on the same day in the northern \"Red Wall\" battleground of Wakefield, Tiverton and Honiton has been tasked with delivering an interim verdict from the Tories' southern base on Boris Johnson's government.\n\nThe Lib Dems came third here in 2019, while the Conservative winning margin was a gargantuan 24,239. But having recently won a brace of safe Tory seats at by-elections in Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire, Lib Dem campaigners have poured into the seat.\n\nHowever, the Conservatives are also battling hard to hold on to what was theirs, albeit with a lower-key, tightly controlled strategy that couldn't be more different to the Lib Dems' electoral shock and awe.\n\nAnd despite talk of an informal alliance between opposition parties, Labour's candidate, who came second here in 2019, insists she hasn't given up the fight, either.\n\nOn Honiton's handsome Georgian High Street, Jubilee bunting flutters against the florists and tea rooms. It's here that the Lib Dems have set up one of their campaign headquarters in an empty shop unit.\n\nInside, a crudely sketched map on the wall shows where party volunteers have travelled from - Orkney, Carlisle, Kingston-upon-Hull. The party say that last weekend, 350 activists knocked on 14,000 doors.\n\nPiles of leaflets are carefully arranged into neat bundles by polling district. Canvassers are given issues specific to each area to discuss - river pollution in Axminster, for instance, or lack of dental services here in Honiton.\n\nIn charge of directing volunteers today is Chessie Flack, 24. What gives her a political identity, she says, is \"this perfect Lib Dem machine of a load of activists in socks and sandals, and they knock on every door in the constituency and they win the campaign\".\n\nBut no-one is under any illusions that overturning such a huge majority will be easy.\n\nIn a cafe across the street, the party's candidate Richard Foord empties a pile of miniature marshmallows into his hot chocolate and stirs. Bookmakers have named him the favourite to win but he knows he'll need all the energy he can summon.\n\n\"I think we can't entirely take at face value the bookies' odds as a predictor or a forecast of this election outcome,\" Foord says.\n\n\"We are absolutely working for every single vote but recognising that there's a mountain to climb, frankly.\"\n\nIn his Tattersall shirt, Foord, who lives locally, looks like he's stepped out of the pages of Country Life magazine. He has the military bearing, too, of a man who spent a decade in the Army, having risen to the rank of major. On the front page of a leaflet distributed by his campaign, he is pictured in uniform above the slogan: \"I served my country. Now I'm fighting for Devon.\"\n\nAlong with the Union Jack bunting in the window of the campaign office, this looks a lot like a pitch to the 58% of voters in the seat who voted to leave the EU.\n\nEarlier in the day I spotted Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on a train heading west, and asked if his party's \"Stop Brexit\" slogan under former leader Jo Swinson in 2019 damaged its chances here in 2022. He was emphatic that it didn't: \"Traditionally we've been strong in rural communities, Liberal Democrats have been strong in the West Country,\" said Sir Ed. \"So in many ways this is going back to where our roots are.\"\n\nIn a 1980s estate on the fringe of Tiverton, the sun blazes down on a near-empty car park outside a community centre. Half an hour ago, the phone in my pocket buzzed and a Tory press officer summoned me here to meet candidate Helen Hurford.\n\nPreviously, the Independent reported that she had been \"ordered not to speak to the media\". The Financial Times wrote that she \"was being shielded from the national media\" and the Times described her as \"somewhat elusive\".\n\nBut now a car pulls up and out steps Hurford, in a blue dress and trainers. With a broad smile, she flatly rejects the suggestion that she'd been kept hidden from the press corps.\n\n\"If you'd wanted to find me you could have just followed me around, knocking on the doors - you would have easily found me,\" she says.\n\nHer focus, she suggests, is on the residents of Tiverton and Honiton, not reporters: \"The people of the constituency come first.\"\n\nShe talks about the need to improve the area's road and rail network and support local farmers. Hurford emphasises, too, that she was born and brought up in Honiton and was the head teacher at a local school. \"She has probably taught a large part of the population around here,\" says local Conservative activist Luis Gordon.\n\nIt's not the only way in which the Conservative campaign appears to have been carefully managed. While Johnson has visited the constituency during the campaign, his appearances have been low-key and without advance fanfare.\n\nThe Lib Dems have accused the prime minister of \"hiding away\" - but equally, it makes sense for the Tories not to take risks. \"It's a small-C and big-C Conservative area,\" says Dr Hannah Bunting, a political scientist at the University of Exeter. \"It would really be remarkable if we saw the seat changing hands, even under the current conditions.\"\n\nPrivately, senior Lib Dem insiders concede that the Conservatives are taking this contest a lot more seriously than they did prior to their December 2021 defeat in North Shropshire.\n\nAnd while national issues might be a headache for the Tory campaign, it's not clear that the circumstances of Neil Parish's departure are having much of an impact. The former MP, a farmer himself, enjoyed a lot of goodwill among the agricultural community, according to Richard Tucker, chair of the local National Farmers Union.\n\n\"As farmers we felt we were well represented in this area,\" adds Tucker. At a recent NFU hustings, he says, \"all the candidates were pretty open in acknowledging that they weren't as agriculturally qualified as Neil. But they're all open to learning - well, they've got to be.\"\n\nIssues they'll need to have brushed up on include the government's new food strategy, the phasing out of taxpayer-funded direct payments to farmers under an EU scheme and the surging cost of fertiliser - all of huge concern to those working in agriculture locally.\n\nAmong those contesting the by-election are the United Kingdom Independence Party, which came second in the seat in 2015, and Reform UK, which shares some of its political DNA, having also once been led by Nigel Farage.\n\nThe Green Party, which attracted more than 2,000 votes here in 2019, is also standing again.\n\nAbove all, what seems to motivate Conservative activists is the suggestion that Labour - who are concentrating their fire on Wakefield - have agreed to give the Lib Dems a free run in Tiverton and Honiton. Both opposition parties strenuously deny there has been any kind of formal agreement.\n\nBut Chris Daw, a local councillor who has been campaigning for Hurford, is visibly riled at the notion of any stitch-up. \"It annoys me because I think, you know, let's just be honest with each other,\" she says. \"Not just put out hints. I believe they should be straight up front and say what they're doing.\"\n\nIf anyone could confirm or deny the existence of a pact, it's Liz Pole. This is the second time she has stood as Labour's candidate in Tiverton and Honiton. On the previous occasion, in 2019, she earned more than 11,000 votes while finishing second, albeit distantly.\n\nOver tea in a cafe in Cullompton, in the west of the constituency, Pole is emphatic that there has been no deal. \"That is definitely not part of my political DNA whatsoever,\" she says. \"I'm fighting to win this constituency, I want to see Labour thriving and growing.\"\n\nHowever, Pole, who runs a software business and has lived locally for 20 years, admits it's \"frustrating\" to read articles anointing the Lib Dems as the main challengers. Remarks by nearby Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw were interpreted as calling for a Lib Dem win, although Pole says his comments were \"taken a little bit out of context\".\n\nWhile Labour's big beasts, including party leader Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner, have flocked to Wakefield, it's harder to detect them in this part of Devon. Asked about this, Pole replies that she's expecting a visit from shadow food, farming and fisheries minister Daniel Zeichner - a frontbencher, certainly, but perhaps not one with the greatest box-office appeal.\n\nSo Pole is getting help from closer to home. She says Labour has activists in each of the seat's 24 wards and their campaign will go into each of them with her messages about affordable housing, the cost of living crisis and food strategy.\n\nRichard Clarke, 49, has travelled here from Cawsand, south-east Cornwall, to campaign for Pole. He says that on the doorstep, voters are receptive to what she's saying.\n\n\"People know we need a change of government - and people also know that needs to be a Labour government, because obviously you don't get Liberal governments, unless you're living in 1906,\" he says.\n\nThere's a sense among Labour's activists, however, that the by-election has come at an inopportune time for the party.\n\nBroader trends suggest traditional north-south political divides are being upended and in 2021's local elections Labour won district council seat in Honiton, its first in East Devon for more than two decades. Parish's resignation, some volunteers feel, interrupted that momentum.\n\n\"Voters are looking for a home, I think, and a by-election isn't necessarily the best time to find that,\" says retired academic Paul Furlong, 73, from Aveton Gifford in south Devon.\n\nNonetheless, Tiverton and Honiton has until Thursday to find a berth, temporary or otherwise.", "A government rescue helicopter has attended the scene of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan's Paktika province.\n\nMore that 1000 people have been killed and hundreds more injured, Taliban officials have said.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nAmerican artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships.\n\nThe 25-year-old was not breathing and had sunk after completing her routine in the solo free final in Budapest.\n\nHer coach, Andrea Fuentes, pulled Alvarez to the surface before she was taken away on a stretcher.\n\nThe US swim team later released a statement from Fuentes saying Alvarez \"feels good now\".\n\nAlvarez previously fainted following a routine during an Olympic qualifier in Barcelona last year, with Fuentes also rescuing her on that occasion.\n\nOf the more recent incident, Fuentes said: \"Anita is OK - the doctors checked all vitals and everything is normal - [her] heart rate, oxygen, sugar levels, blood pressure etc. All is OK.\n\n\"We sometimes forget that this happens in other high-endurance sports [such as] marathon, cycling, cross country. We all have seen images where some athletes don't make it to the finish line and others help them to get there.\n\n\"Our sport is no different than others, just in a pool, we push through limits and sometimes we find them.\n\n\"Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is OK. Tomorrow she will rest all day and will decide with the doctor if she can swim free team finals or not.\"\n\nSpanish newspaper Marca reported four-time Olympic medallist Fuentes as saying she had jumped in \"because the lifeguards weren't doing it\".\n\nAnd speaking to Spanish radio, she said: \"It felt like a whole hour. I said things weren't right, I was shouting at the lifeguards to get into the water, but they didn't catch what I said or they didn't understand.\n\n\"She wasn't breathing. I went as quickly as I could, as if it were an Olympic final.\"\n\nAlvarez scored 87.6333 points for her routine, finishing seventh in the final.", "Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.\n\nData from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020.\n\nWhile suicides contributed to the toll, the data shows that homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths.\n\nMore than 390 million guns are owned by US civilians.\n\nAccording to the research - which was published this week in the New England Journal Medicine - the rise in gun-related deaths among Americans between the ages of one and 19 was part of an overall 33.4% increase in firearm homicides nationwide.\n\nOver the same time period, the rate of firearm suicides in the US rose by 1.1%.\n\nThe overall rate of gun deaths of all reasons - suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined - among children and teenagers rose by 29.5%, more than twice that of the wider population.\n\n\"We continue to fail to protect our youth from a preventable cause of death,\" said a research letter published in the journal on Wednesday.\n\nThe rate of gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents rose among both men and women and across ethnic demographics between 2019 and 2020, with the largest increase among black Americans.\n\nIn past years, gun-related deaths were second only to car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans. Car deaths, however, have fallen over time and in 2020 approximately 3,900 Americans under 19 died in vehicle crashes.\n\nIncidents of drug overdoses and poisonings rose 83.6% between 2019 and 2020, and now are the third leading cause of death in that age group. A separate study published earlier in April found that 954 young people died of overdoses in 2020, compared to 492 in 2019.\n\nGun violence in the US has increased since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020.\n\n\"The reasons for the increase are unclear,\" the research letter said. \"It cannot be assumed that firearm-related mortality will later revert to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nA separate study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in February, found that 7.5 million US adults - just under 3% of the population - became first-time gun owners during the pandemic between January and April 2021.\n\nThis, in turn, exposed 11 million people to household firearms, including five million children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Aiden Aslin (right) with Alex Tobiassen, who served in the same unit as Aiden\n\nA British man sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court for fighting in Ukraine has been told the execution will be carried out, his family say.\n\nAiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were sentenced by a court which is not internationally recognised, in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).\n\nMr Aslin told his family his captors said there had been no attempt by UK officials to negotiate on his behalf.\n\nThe foreign secretary discussed his case with Ukraine earlier in June.\n\nLiz Truss said she and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba had spoken about \"efforts to secure the release of prisoners of war held by Russian proxies\" and has called the death sentences a \"sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy\".\n\nThe Foreign Office is known to be actively investigating cases of British nationals who have been detained in Ukraine, and is providing support to the families of Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner.\n\nMr Aslin's family said they had spoken to him in a phone call in which he said he had been told \"time is running out\" by his captors.\n\n\"There are no words, just no words, it's got to be everyone's worst nightmare to have a member of your family threatened in this way\", Mr Aslin's grandmother Pamela Hall told the BBC.\n\n\"Aiden was extremely upset when he called his mother this morning. The bottom line is Aiden has said the DPR has told him nobody from the UK has made contact, and that he will be executed.\"\n\n\"I have to believe what Aiden has said to us, that if the DPR don't get some response then they will execute him. Obviously I hope that isn't true.\"\n\nMr Aslin and Mr Pinner moved to Ukraine in 2018, and had served as part of Ukraine's armed forces for several years before the Russian invasion.\n\nBoth had Ukrainian partners and had made the country their home. They were captured after spending weeks defending the besieged city of Mariupol.\n\nBut the Russian-proxy court called them \"mercenaries\", accusing them of being sent to fighting in a foreign conflict for money.\n\nThey were charged with crimes including the violent seizure of power, and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities, according to Russian news outlets RIA Novosti.\n\nEarlier this month Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky told British students that what Russia was doing to the British pair was a \"tragic habit\" and said \"there cannot be any justifications for such actions\".\n\nHe said it was \"a very powerful and dangerous signal\" to other countries that Russia was \"acting this way towards citizens of any country\".\n\nThe UK government has said they should be treated as prisoners of war under the laws laid out in the Geneva Conventions.\n\n\"I have cried buckets over this, but crying doesn't help, I want to do so something but I don't know what to do,\" Mrs Hall said.\n\n\"After Aiden's call this morning what am I supposed to think? I don't want to lose heart but it's very hard.\n\n\"I can't help but think that contact should be made between the UK and Russia.\"\n\nBut UK government sources indicate that ministers are currently unwilling to negotiate with Russia directly because it may risk fuelling a false Russian narrative that the men are mercenaries.\n\nMr Aslin had shortly been due to marry his Ukrainian fiancée, who has come to the UK since his capture.\n\n\"He would have been married by now, it's something that I would have dearly loved. I want him to be married and have the life that he wanted,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"I know that Boris Johnson has been over to Kyiv and spoken again to President Zelensky and I am hoping they spoke about these guys.\"\n\nIn recent weeks Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner have been mocked by presenters on pro-Kremlin television programmes in Russia, which have been showing videos of the men in captivity.\n\nAlex Tobiassen, who also joined the Ukrainian marines with Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner, said the men were now known as \"heroes\" among many Ukrainian soldiers who continue to fight.\n\nHe said their supposed death sentence had galvanised Ukrainian troops even further.\n\n\"It actually rallies more people behind them\" he said, speaking to the BBC from Ukraine.\n\n\"We have family ties here. I'm fighting for my friends, for my family, for my house, and this is absolutely how Aiden saw it.\n\n\"Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner came here before this invasion started, they made a life for themselves in this country, they settled down.\n\n\"They enlisted in the military as a contracted marine, just like anybody who enlists in the military whether in the UK or US.\n\n\"These guys went into the office, they went through their medical process, they went through the background checks, they signed up and made an oath for their commitment, these men are not mercenaries, it's clear.\n\n\"But, as we see, the Russians just completely have disregard for that.\"\n\nAiden Aslin (left) and Shaun Pinner (centre) have been pictured in footage alongside Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim\n\nRegarding the threat of the death sentence being carried out Mr Tobiassen said: \"It's absolutely dire, at this point I really hope that the UK government as well as the Ukrainian government is going to step up and figure out some way to negotiate their release.\n\n\"That's all I can hope for and that's all that I pray for.\"\n\nA protest rally is being planned in support of Mr Aslin by the Ukrainian community in Nottingham this weekend.\n\n\"There are a lot of people out there supporting Aiden and the other guys who are being held prisoner,\" his grandmother said.\n\n\"I would tell Aiden we all send our love and support, and that there are thousands of people who there who support him and the other guys.\n\n\"The people of Newark have been tremendous in their support.\"", "The days of spending paper banknotes in the shops are numbered: 100 days, to be exact - so start hunting at home.\n\nRemaining paper £20 or £50 notes should be spent or deposited by the end of September, the Bank of England said.\n\nAn estimated 163 million paper £50 banknotes and about 314 million £20 paper notes were still in circulation, the Bank said.\n\nThese notes are being replaced with plastic versions, just like the £5 and £10 note, which are more durable.\n\nThe Bank said the newer, polymer notes were also harder to counterfeit.\n\n\"The majority of paper banknotes have now been taken out of circulation, but a significant number remain in the economy, so we're asking you to check if you have any at home,\" said the Bank's chief cashier, Sarah John, whose signature is on the new notes.\n\nFrom October, people with a UK bank account should still be able to deposit the paper notes into their account or at the Post Office, but spending them will be impossible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPaper £20 and £50 notes issued by Clydesdale Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland will also be withdrawn on the same date.\n\nThe paper £20 notes issued by Bank of Ireland, AIB Group, Danske Bank, and Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland will also be withdrawn after 30 September.\n\nThe Bank of England's paper £20 featuring economist Adam Smith has been in circulation since 2007, but has been gradually replaced by the plastic version which includes the work and portrait of artist JMW Turner.\n\nAlso being withdrawn is the paper £50 note which shows the manufacturers Matthew Boulton and James Watt. This entered circulation in 2011 but is now substituted for the polymer note featuring Alan Turing.\n\nHe helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine, and so shortening World War Two and saving lives. He was also pivotal in the development of early computers, first at the National Physical Laboratory and later at the University of Manchester.\n\nTuring was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal and he was convicted for having a relationship with a man. The government apologised for his treatment in 2009, and Turing received a posthumous Royal pardon in 2013. His appearance on the new £50 note has been welcomed by parts of the LGBT+ community as a symbol of a country facing up to the way gay men were persecuted.\n\nThe polymer fiver featuring Winston Churchill launched in 2016, and the plastic £10 note including the portrait of Jane Austen was first issued in 2017.\n\nAll old paper banknotes can be exchanged by the Bank of England at any time.", "Nike has announced plans to leave Russia, becoming the latest Western brand to quit the country since the invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nThe US sportswear giant halted online orders and closed the stores it owned in the country in March.\n\nShops run by local partners continued to operate, but the firm is winding down those agreements.\n\nNetworking giant Cisco also said it would start to fully shut down operations in Russia and Belarus.\n\nOther companies that have finalised plans to leave in recent weeks include McDonald's and Starbucks.\n\n\"Nike has made the decision to leave the Russian marketplace,\" the company said in a statement. \"Our priority is to ensure we are fully supporting our employees while we responsibly scale down our operations over the coming months.\"\n\nRussia has grown increasingly economically isolated since the invasion, as the West and allies impose sanctions and international companies head for the exits.\n\nThe country is now working on legislation that would punish foreign companies seeking to leave, allowing the government to seize their assets and impose criminal penalties, according to Reuters.\n\nNike has more than 50 stores in Russia, about a third of which are closed, according to its website.\n\nIn May, Russian media reported that the company was ending its agreement with its largest franchisee in Russia, responsible for 37 stores.\n\nNike had previously disclosed that Russia and Ukraine together accounted for less than 1% of the company's revenue.\n\nCisco said on Thursday that it had \"made the decision to begin an orderly wind-down of our business in Russia and Belarus\".\n\nThis decision will affect a few hundred employees, the US company said, adding that it wanted to ensure they are \"treated with respect\".\n\n\"Cisco remains committed to using all its resources to help our employees, the institutions and people of Ukraine, and our customers and partners during this challenging time,\" a spokesperson for the firm said.\n\nThe networking giant had already stopped business operations, including sales and services, in the region in March, taking a $200m (£160m) hit to third quarter revenues.", "Ike Ekweremadu has been a senator in Nigeria since 2003\n\nA Nigerian senator has been charged with conspiring to transport a boy to the UK in order to harvest organs.\n\nIke Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in west London earlier on Thursday.\n\nThe 15-year-old alleged victim has been taken into care. The Met Police said agencies were working to support him.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Ekweremadu, who is both a politician and a barrister, was deputy president of the Senate.\n\nThe defendants live in Nigeria but have family in London, magistrates were told. Both are accused of conspiracy to arrange and/or facilitate the travel of another person with a view to exploitation.\n\nThe pair were asked by the clerk for their address, to which they both replied: \"Nigeria\".\n\nThe court heard the prosecution needed permission to proceed because of jurisdiction issues.\n\nProsecutor Damla Ayas told the court: \"In respect of these offences the (UK) Attorney General's consent is required and the Crown require 14 days for that to be obtained.\"\n\nMost of the alleged offences took place in the UK, magistrates heard. The Ekweremadus, who were arrested two days ago, have been remanded in custody to appear at the same court on 7 July.\n\nMr Ekweremadu, who was recently made a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln, served three terms as deputy president of the Senate, from 2007 to 2019.\n\nA member of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), he has been a senator since 2003.\n\nAn investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime Team took place after detectives were alerted to potential modern-day slavery offences.\n\nOrgan-harvesting involves removing parts of the body, often for commercial gain and against the will of the victim.\n\nA University of Lincoln spokesman said: \"Visiting professors are often, as is in this case, non-resident at the university, unpaid and advisory.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned about the nature of these allegations but as this is an active police investigation, we cannot comment further at this stage.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Texas police have said the gunman who shot 21 people dead at a school last week entered through a door that was supposed to lock, but somehow did not.\n\nThe Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), which is investigating the shooting response, confirmed a teacher had initially propped open the door.\n\nBut a spokesman on Tuesday said the teacher closed the door once the gunman entered the campus.\n\nPublic anger has risen as new details of the shooting emerge.\n\nInitial reports of the gunman getting into the school via an exterior door that was accidentally left open by a teacher had suggested a breach of school policy. Employees at Robb Elementary School are required to keep doors closed and locked.\n\nHowever, an attorney for the unnamed employee told the San Antonio Express-News on Tuesday that she had closed it and \"thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked\".\n\nDon Flanary said the woman had propped the door open with a rock so she could carry food from a car into a classroom, but she \"kicked the rock away when she went back in\" after realising a gun-wielding assailant was on campus.\n\nTexas DPS spokesman Travis Considine said on Tuesday that video footage verified the door had been shut. He said investigators were now looking into why it had not locked.\n\n\"She came back out while on her phone, she heard someone yell, 'He has a gun!', she saw him [the gunman] jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside,\" Mr Considine said, adding that the employee had removed the rock as she re-entered the building.\n\nThe DPS also confirmed on Tuesday that Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo had not yet responded to a Texas Rangers' request made \"a couple of days ago\" for a follow-up interview.\n\nThe school and the city police force have faced intense scrutiny since last week's attack.\n\nAt a heated news conference on Friday, DPS chief Steven McCraw confirmed 19 police officers had lingered in the hallway as the gunman barricaded himself inside a classroom.\n\nHe said the commanding officer had waited until the school janitor arrived with the keys because he did not believe it was still an \"active shooter\" situation.\n\n\"Of course it was not the right decision,\" Mr McCraw said. \"It was the wrong decision.\"\n\nThe first funerals after the shooting took place on Tuesday, as Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Rodriguez, both 10, were laid to rest.\n\nMore funerals are planned for Wednesday, including a joint service for Irma Garcia, a 48-year-old teacher, and her husband, who died of a suspected heart attack two days after the shooting.\n\nMeanwhile, President Joe Biden said he plans to meet members of Congress to look for any possible way forward on gun control.\n\nBut the prospect of any such measure passing on a polarised Capitol Hill is widely seen as being unlikely.", "Development of a major North Sea gas field has been approved by regulators.\n\nThe Jackdaw field, east of Aberdeen, has the potential to produce 6.5% of Britain's gas output.\n\nThe regulatory approval comes as the UK government seeks to boost domestic energy output following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nShell's proposals were initially rejected on environmental grounds in October.\n\n\"We're turbocharging renewables and nuclear, but we are also realistic about our energy needs now,\" he said on Twitter.\n\n\"Let's source more of the gas we need from British waters to protect energy security.\"\n\nUnder the new plan, Shell plans to start production from the field in the second half of 2025.\n\nThe oil and gas company said the approval came \"at a time when UK energy security is critically required.\"\n\nShell said it expected to spend £500m in the UK to develop the new facility.\n\nIt said the Jackdaw field should be able to provide gas to 1.4m British homes, and its carbon emissions should eventually be captured for storage, if a large project in Peterhead secures funding.\n\nBut environmental campaigners have condemned the move.\n\nThe activist group Greenpeace said it believed the approval could be unlawful and it was considering legal action.\n\n\"Approving Jackdaw is a desperate and destructive decision from Johnson's government, and proves there is no long-term plan,\" said Ami McCarthy, a political campaigner for Greenpeace.\n\nThe approval comes as Britain struggles with soaring energy prices in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 24 February.\n\nEnergy independence was a major theme of the UK energy strategy announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in early April.\n\nThe main focus was investing in renewable and nuclear power but it also promised new licences for gas projects in the North Sea arguing that producing gas in UK waters has a lower carbon footprint than doing so abroad.\n\nIt is understood that Shell has changed the way it processes natural gas before it brings it onshore.\n\nThe plan had been to vent excess gas at an offshore hub to reduce the corrosive CO2 content in the pipes.\n\nThe UK was one of 100 countries that pledged to cut methane gas emissions by 30% over the next 10 years.\n\nUnder the new plan Shell will bring a higher percentage of gas ashore.\n\nIt was the Cambo oil field, west of Shetland, that got the attention as world leaders gathered in Glasgow seven months ago to show their commitment to tackling climate change.\n\nCambo was the test of how serious the UK government really was. As minority partner in the development, Shell pulled out. It was expensive, in deep water, and the politics of it made it a riskier investment.\n\nIt had other projects to consider first. Jackdaw, a gas field close to existing infrastructure, was what Shell describes as a \"vanilla\" project - relatively, very straight forward.\n\nPermission to install a tie-back (subsea link) to a nearby platform had been refused last year, on the grounds that production would raise emissions unacceptably.\n\nShell appealed. It wants to capture those emissions at the carbon capture and storage plant it is helping to plan for St Fergus in Aberdeenshire (but which the UK government put on the back burner). And it plans also to re-power its offshore platforms with renewable electricity rather than burning gas.\n\nAlong with the sudden rise in concern about energy security that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, those arguments appear to have won over the UK government and its regulator.\n\nThe fight doesn't stop here. The industry saw Jackdaw as a test of whether the UK government is serious about energy security: but for environmental campaigners, it's a test of whether the UK government is serious about climate change.", "\"We are selling loads and loads of bunting, loads of queen masks,\" said trader Deborah Williams\n\nPubs and hotels are \"absolutely booming\" as events including the Platinum Jubilee weekend draw crowds, Cardiff's business group has said.\n\nFOR Cardiff said \"tens of thousands\" of people were attending a busy schedule of events across the half term week.\n\nCelebrations began with three nights of Ed Sheeran concerts in Cardiff, with a Wales match and Jubilee events to come.\n\nEconomist, Prof Max Munday from Cardiff University said the extra bank holiday was likely to cut productivity overall.\n\nHalf term began with Ed Sheeran performing to thousands of fans at the Principality Stadium, although the volume of visitors has caused traffic and travel issues.\n\nUpcoming jubilee celebrations include a military music parade in Cardiff Bay on Thursday, followed by the lighting of a beacon in the evening.\n\nAled Jones and Bonnie Tyler will headline a concert at Cardiff Castle on Saturday night, while a Big Jubilee Picnic takes place at Bute Park on Sunday.\n\nFootball fans will also descend on the city on Sunday to watch Wales play either Scotland or Ukraine in the World Cup play-off following their game later.\n\nCarolyn Brownell: \"It is a really fantastic time for Cardiff\"\n\nFOR Cardiff, which was previously called Cardiff's Business Improvement District (BID), said the events were proving a big draw.\n\n\"It is not only a boost to the morale of the Welsh people, but also to business and the wider economy,\" said its associate director, Carolyn Brownell.\n\n\"From the conversations we are having with hoteliers, the licensees and retail, there is a real sense of optimism and positivity now.\n\n\"The hotels are predominately full, particularly with the events happening over the weekend.\n\n\"Retail is having a huge amount of intertest in its empty units, and licensees are absolutely booming over the weekend with lots of people wanting to enjoy the festivities and the plethora of restaurants and bars.\n\n\"It is a really fantastic time for Cardiff, and you can really see the businesses rallying together.\n\n\"That has been one of the positive outcomes of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\nWhile hospitality and some retailers expect to benefit from the jubilee, economists say bank holidays generally have a negative impact on growth because so many people are off work.\n\nProf Max Munday is director of the Welsh economy research unit at Cardiff University.\n\nHe said: \"There will be output lost in a lot of industries. They are going to be shut down, so output will be lost there.\n\n\"But then you have got sectors such as transport, food and restaurant services that are likely to see a boost of output.\"\n\nProf Munday said previous jubilee bank holidays showed a negligible impact on the economy, but that other impacts were harder to measure.\n\n\"Generally, if we were to look at the Golden Jubilee, and the Diamond Jubilee back in 2012, overall most of the assessments show there was probably a net loss of output.\n\n\"Of course there are things we can't measure with pounds and pence, such as people's wellbeing. Those things are much harder to estimate.\"\n\nBusinesses are also making the most of the appetite for items to celebrate the jubilee.\n\n\"We are selling loads and loads of bunting, loads of queen masks,\" said Deborah Williams whose shop, based opposite Cardiff Castle, has been decorated with union flags and cardboard cut-outs of the Queen.\n\n\"People are getting really, really excited,\" she said.\n\n\"In the last week it has really ramped up a lot.\"\n\nShe said she was aware of \"loads\" of street parties, care homes having parties and businesses were also \"throwing parties\" for staff.\n\n\"It seems to be that everyone just wants to get involved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen has said she is \"inspired\" by the goodwill of the nation as celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee begin.\n\nIn a Jubilee message, she thanked the public for organising events and said \"many happy memories\" would be made.\n\nMillions are gearing up for street parties to mark the monarch's 70 years on the throne over the four-day bank holiday weekend.\n\nA new official photograph of the Queen at Windsor Castle was also released.\n\nAs well as community celebrations across the country, there are a series of official events, starting with Thursday's Trooping the Colour parade and ending on Sunday with a Jubilee Pageant through London.\n\nThe monarch said: \"I continue to be inspired by the goodwill shown to me, and hope that the coming days will provide an opportunity to reflect on all that has been achieved during the last 70 years, as we look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm.\"\n\nThe portrait released along with her message was taken by Ranald Mackechnie in the Victoria Vestibule at Windsor Castle earlier this year.\n\nIt shows the Queen looking contented, sitting on a cushioned window seat at the castle which has been her main home for the last couple of years. The famous Round Tower is visible through the window.\n\nMr Mackechnie took two previous portraits of the Queen alongside the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George to mark her 90th birthday in 2016.\n\nPrinces George and Prince Louis with Princess Charlotte arrived by carriage with their mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall\n\nMore than 1,500 soldiers, with hundreds of musicians and horses, are taking part in Trooping the Colour\n\nPeople gathered on the Mall early on Thursday, with some having camped overnight\n\nThe traditional Trooping the Colour parade to mark the Queen's official birthday involves more than 1,500 officers and soldiers and 350 horses from the Household Division, as well as an RAF flypast.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch, who has mobility issues and has recently cancelled several public appearances, is likely to join members of the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace to watch the display.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are watching the parade, although they will not appear on the balcony.\n\nThe couple, who now live in the US, have a prime vantage point from the Duke of Wellington's former office, overlooking Horse Guards Parade, where they can see Prince Charles inspect the guardsmen and officers and take their salute in his mother's place.\n\nThey travelled with their children Archie, three, and Lilibet, who turns one on Saturday. Lilibet is the Queen's family nickname.\n\nThe Queen's son Prince Andrew, whose royal titles were returned to the Crown amid a lawsuit in the US, is not present.\n\nThe Platinum Jubilee celebrates something that has never happened before.\n\nNo British monarch has ever reigned for 70 years - it's a remarkable length of time on the throne.\n\nTo put it in perspective, the Queen's reign is already longer than the reigns of her four predecessors put together.\n\nHer time as monarch has stretched over multiple eras, across 14 different UK prime ministers and 14 US presidents.\n\nOlder readers might be scratching their heads finding it hard to believe it's 45 years since the Silver Jubilee and the long, hot summer of 1977.\n\nThe nearest comparison in length of reign is Queen Victoria's 63 years - and in international terms, the Queen isn't far behind the 72 years of the Sun King of France, Louis XIV.\n\nReaching the age of 96 is also unprecedented for a British monarch. The Queen is one of about 138,000 people in the UK over the age of 95, the great majority of them women.\n\nApart from Elizabeth II, only two other monarchs have even lived into their eighties - Victoria and George III.\n\nOn Thursday evening, more than 3,000 beacons will be lit across the UK and the Commonwealth in tribute to the Queen, with the Tree of Trees beacon illuminated outside the palace.\n\nThe monarch is to lead the lighting of the principal Jubilee beacon in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nAlso on Thursday the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will guest star in an episode of TV soap EastEnders, on BBC One at 19:30 BST.\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William rode on horseback during the parade\n\nHouses in Windsor - and across the country - were decorated with flags and balloons for the weekend\n\nRoyal enthusiasts began camping out on the Mall on Wednesday for a good view of the events\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla join the residents of Albert Square at their jubilee street party.\n\nAt a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday, there will be other accommodations made for the Queen's comfort, with no ceremonial journey to the event.\n\nIf the monarch does attend, she will use a different entrance rather than scaling the steps.\n\nAnd it is not certain she will make the planned trip to Epsom for the Derby on Saturday.\n\nOn that evening, the BBC's Party at the Palace concert - set on three stages in front of Buckingham Palace - will see Diana Ross, George Ezra, Alicia Keys and Nile Rodgers entertain a live crowd of 22,000 people and a television audience of millions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe last time the Royal Family appeared on the balcony was in 2019 - with Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and Prince Andrew\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds flocked to the Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace to get an early taste of the Jubilee celebrations\n\nAt the concert, heir to the throne Prince Charles and his son, the Duke of Cambridge, will pay tribute to the Queen who will be watching on television.\n\nOn Sunday there will be street parties, picnics and barbecues across the UK with more than 85,000 Big Jubilee Lunches planned.\n\nThe finale of the weekend will be the Jubilee Pageant which will make its way through the streets of the capital with a cast of 6,000 performers and close to 200 celebrities.\n\nIt will end with Ed Sheeran singing the national anthem with a choir made up of \"national treasures\" outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nAhead of the celebrations, the Queen took a short break at Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, but returned to Windsor on Tuesday.\n\nSaturday is the first birthday of Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet - who is named after the Queen's family nickname.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Princess Eugenie has led tributes to her in an article in the Spectator, describing her \"grannie\" as \"a woman who has transcended time and has been that constant rock for so many when the world can feel so fragile\".\n\nShe said she would love her son August to \"have her patience, her calmness and her kindness, while always being able to laugh at himself and keep a twinkle in his eye\".\n\nNot everyone will be celebrating the occasion. Anti-monarchy campaign group Republic said a recent poll had shown the British public \"just aren't that bothered about royal events\".\n\nSpeaking for the group, Graham Smith said: \"The Jubilee is not a national celebration, it is a carefully staged event to promote the monarchy and the royal brand.\"", "Police say a gunman killed four people in Tulsa\n\nFour people have been killed in a shooting spree at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police say.\n\nOfficers confirmed that the suspected shooter, who was armed with a rifle and a handgun, was also dead.\n\nPolice arrived at the scene on Wednesday afternoon at St Francis Hospital in three minutes - which they say ensured the death toll wasn't higher.\n\nMultiple injuries had also been confirmed, officials added.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Deputy Police Chief Eric Dalgleish said: \"Right now we have four civilians that are dead, and one shooter that is dead.\"\n\nHe said the shooter, who has not yet been identified, sustained fatal gunshot wounds which were believed to have been self-inflicted.\n\nThe suspect \"had one long gun and one hand gun on the scene at the time\", he said.\n\nNo information was available about a possible motivation for the attack.\n\nDeputy Dalgleish said that police received a call about an active shooter at 16:52 local (20:52 GMT) and arrived at the scene within three minutes.\n\n\"The officers who did arrive did hear shots in the building and that's what directed them to the second floor,\" he said.\n\nOfficers are currently interviewing witnesses throughout the building, including those who were on the second floor - where the attack took place.\n\nSpeaking to ABC News, Captain Richard Meulenberg said that by the time police arrived at the medical campus they \"found a few people have been shot\" and some of them had already died.\n\nIt was a \"catastrophic scene\", he said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has been briefed on the Tulsa shooting, White House officials also said in a statement.\n\nLast Saturday, President Biden urged Americans to make their voices heard to prevent further gun violence, following the killing of 19 children and two teachers at a school in Texas.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA heroic Ukraine roused a performance of spirit, endeavour and courage to stun Scotland and earn a historic World Cup play-off final against Wales.\n\nWith their country enshrouded in trauma amid the ongoing war with Russia, a team hauled together shone brightly at a sun-drenched Hampden.\n\nAndriy Yarmolenko and Roman Yaremchuk struck either side of half-time, before Callum McGregor gave Scotland hope late on. But Artem Dovbyk sealed a Qatar 2022 showdown in Cardiff on Sunday with the last kick of the ball.\n\nWhile images of fans watching on in war-torn Ukraine circulated, 3,500 fans bedecked in light blue and yellow - including 65 orphans invited by the Scottish FA - celebrated wildly in Glasgow on a night none will forget.\n• None 'Suffering Scotland will get back on horse'\n• None Podcast: 'Scotland were lamentable. It was going on 6-0'\n• None All the reaction from emotional night at Hampden\n\nIt was an evening which started with the lyrics of the Ukrainian national anthem striking an emotional chord at a charged Hampden.\n\nMoments after their side strode on to the pitch draped in flags of their homeland, the words which were belted out took on a whole new significance. \"The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished. Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.\"\n\nAs it transpired, luck had little to do with their team's triumph here. In perhaps their finest hour, they were peerless.\n\nThis match was a long time coming. Originally planned for March but postponed in the hope Ukraine would be capable of playing the fixture, a series of friendlies were all Olexandr Petrakov had to prepare.\n\nIt's been a gut-wrenching journey, with the tears on the face Oleksandr Zinchenko in Tuesday's pre-match news conference offering a poignant reminder to all what this game means against the backdrop of Ukraine's struggles.\n\nBut in Glasgow, there was no emotional fatigue. Not a hint of an adrenaline rush fading, not a whiff of the event getting the better of them.\n\nBarring a late rally from the hosts, Petrakov's men exposed Scotland's vulnerabilities, which were made even more pronounced by the absence of Arsenal's Kieran Tierney. The opener on 33 minutes articulated that perfectly.\n\nYarmolenko timed his run on to a through ball to perfection as Scotland's high line failed. It was just him and the whites of Craig Gordon's eyes. Those eyes soon gazed up as the ball floated sublimely over the goalkeeper's head and into the back of the net.\n\nSteve Clarke shuffled his pack at half-time, throwing on Ryan Christie. But just four minutes after the restart, Scotland were again ripped open with ease.\n\nOleksandr Karavaev was given the freedom of Mount Florida to bowl in another cross and Yaremchuk dealt with Aaron Hickey's attention without much trouble, his arching header back across goal looping in.\n\nClarke stood still at the edge of his technical area as the Benfica striker raced to his countrymen and women behind the goal.\n\nIn truth, the warning signs had been there. Gordon had denied Viktor Tsygankov on the half volley, while the Hearts goalkeeper saved from Yarmolenko at point-blank range with the game goalless.\n\nThen came the moment when Scotland saw their world flash in front of them. John McGinn, the Tartan Army's darling, was gifted a header from six yards after Georgiy Bushchan flapped at a cross. With the goal at his mercy, the Aston Villa man headed wide. He looked on in disbelief.\n\nOn the touchline, Clarke seemed unmoved, preparing two substitutes for a late charge.\n\nScotland charged but toiled still, yet with 11 minutes they were gifted a lifeline. McGregor's effort was again not dealt with by an increasingly rattled Bushchan, who palmed the ball into the air and just over the line before it was hacked clear. Hampden erupted in a primal roar of desperate hope rather than founded expectation.\n\nBut as Scotland pushed, they were even more exposed at the back. A series of long punts in the closing stages broke down, with one final roll of the dice allowing the Ukrainians to burst forward deep into injury time.\n\nSubstitute Dovbyk had all the time he wished to eventually dispatch the ball by Gordon. The Dnipro-1 forward, who has not played a competitive match since December, showed little emotion as the ball ruffled the net. Around him, his compatriots celebrated wildly on an astonishing night for Ukraine as a football team, and a nation.\n\nWhat does this mean?\n\nIn what is perhaps the finest moment for the Ukraine national team, even in victory the celebrations are against a sombre backdrop.\n\nCoach Petrakov spoke from the heart in his post-match news conference. He dedicated the result to the people of Ukraine, and they may yet have another chapter to pen in this saga on Sunday. Don't bet against it.\n\nClarke acknowledged that his team were outplayed by their opponents, and captain Andy Robertson said Scotland didn't show up. It's hard to argue with either point.\n\nFor Scotland, there have been some truly bruising moments in the pursuit of tournament football since France '98. But the sting from this one will eat away more than most.\n\nThe level of expectation surrounding the national team has been raised. Regardless of the condition of the opponents, there was a confidence that Scotland would be in Wales this Sunday.\n\nBut what we saw was reminiscent of the deflating false hope experienced at last summer's Euros, when the Czechs dealt the Scots a heavy blow. They seemed caught out by the occasion. A shot at glory did not fall through their grasp, it was yanked away.\n\nAs either Ukraine or Wales can look forward with excitement to Qatar, self reflection will be the immediate thought for Clarke and his players whatever happens in the coming days.\n• None Scotland have failed to qualify for the last six men's World Cups since 1998. Between 1974 and 1998 they missed only one of seven tournaments.\n• None Ukraine have progressed from a World Cup qualifying play-off tie for the first time at the fifth attempt, after failing in 1997, 2001, 2009 and 2013.\n• None This was only the third meeting between the sides, with Ukraine now winning two, adding to a 2-0 victory in October 2006.\n• None Yaremchuk has scored four goals in 2022 World Cup qualifying - the most of any Ukraine player. Three of those four goals have come away from home in Kazakhstan, Finland and Scotland.\n• None McGregor scored only his second goal in his 43rd game for Scotland, adding to an effort against Croatia at Euro 2020.\n• None Aged 39 years and 152 days, Gordon became the oldest player to appear for Scotland in a World Cup or World Cup qualifying match since Jim Leighton at the 1998 finals (39 years 334 days vs Morocco).\n• None Yarmolenko scored his 45th goal for Ukraine, and is now only three behind Andriy Shevchenko (48).\n\nWhile Ukraine go to Cardiff, Scotland will have to try and rouse themselves for their Nations League opener against Armenia at Hampden next Wednesday (19:45 BST), followed by trips to Ireland and Armenia in the following six days.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, Ukraine 3. Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Hickey.\n• None Attempt missed. Oleksandr Zubkov (Ukraine) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by John McGinn with a cross following a corner.\n• None Mykola Shaparenko (Ukraine) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ryan Christie (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, Ukraine 2. Callum McGregor (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The train drivers' union Aslef has rejected the latest 4.2% pay deal from ScotRail.\n\nThe union's national executive said it would ballot for industrial action unless ScotRail offered further talks.\n\nMany drivers have been refusing to work overtime or on rest days during the pay dispute.\n\nThe driver shortage has led to the now-nationalised train operator cutting a third of services under a temporary timetable.\n\nScotRail said it was frustrated by the decision of Aslef and described the decision not to put the improved pay deal to its members as \"astonishing\".\n\nTransport Scotland said it was disappointed the union had rejected a deal which it described as \"both fair and affordable\".\n\nScotland's Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth had said earlier this week she was hopeful the 4.2% pay offer would resolve the dispute.\n\nHowever, it was turned down by a meeting of Aslef's national executive committee on Wednesday.\n\nScottish organiser Kevin Lindsay said: \"Aslef wants to negotiate a fair deal for our members, we are once again calling on ScotRail to return to the talks, so we can negotiate a fair pay offer that we can put to our members.\"\n\nScotRail's service delivery director, David Simpson, urged the union to reconsider the pay offer, which includes a improved maternity and adoption leave and a 10% increase in the Sunday working allowance.\n\nHe said: \"We're incredibly disappointed and frustrated that Aslef bosses have rejected this improved pay offer. It's astonishing that they will not even put this offer to their members.\n\n\"Our substantially improved pay offer reflects the cost-of-living challenges faced by families across the country, while balancing it against the need to provide value for the taxpayer.\n\n\"We have offered to meet Aslef but, in the meantime, would urge them to reconsider this offer in the interest of their members and the future of the railway in Scotland.\"\n\nScotRail say they are astonished, incredibly disappointed and frustrated that Aslef won't even put the offer to members.\n\nThey've offered further talks, but they also want Aslef to reconsider the existing offer.\n\nIt's worth remembering that ScotRail said last week that the 4.2% offer was final.\n\nScotRail introduced an emergency timetable last month to give customers a degree of certainty about services after being hit by numerous cancellations.\n\nBut the timetable involved almost 700 fewer services a day, with many later trains no longer running.\n\nThe train operator has introduced extra services for Wednesday's Scotland v Ukraine World Cup play-off.\n\nExtra evening services were also provided on Friday and Saturday last week, but Sunday again saw more than 300 cancellations. ScotRail had said it will again provide extra Friday and Saturday services this coming weekend.\n\nSeparately from the Aslef pay dispute, ScotRail also faces a threat of strike action by RMT members who have been offered a 2.2% pay rise.\n\nUK-wide action is also possible this summer by RMT members who are in dispute with Network Rail, although talks are continuing.\n\nScotRail has said the shortage of available drivers is due to disruption to training during Covid pandemic, forcing it to ask the existing workforce to work extra hours.\n\nThe Scottish government has said a train driver in Scotland typically earns about £50,000, and has urged workers to ask for \"sensible\" pay increases during the \"precarious\" economic situation.\n\nA spokesperson for Transport Scotland said: \"We are disappointed that Aslef, having given due consideration to the terms they negotiated, have decided to reject the very good offer on the table, an offer which is in part self-funded through increased revenue and efficiencies.\n\n\"While we understand any unions desire to obtain the best deal possible for their members, the stark realities of the financial pressures we are facing across government are evidenced by the spending review published just yesterday.\n\n\"We all need to work together to make nationalisation a success. Ministers are committed to ensuring that the railway unions are part of that success.\n\n\"However, to be part of the vision moving forward, the unions need to agree on a deal that is both fair and affordable, particularly in the context of wider public sector pay policy.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' transport spokesman Graham Simpson accused the government of \"complacency\" over the situation.\n\n\"It's clear she [Jenny Gilruth] and the SNP government just assumed the offer would be accepted,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, it appears, we're back to square one and the Scottish public will have to endure the woefully-inadequate reduced ScotRail timetable for even longer.\"", "A Texas law forbidding social media giants from regulating certain forms of online speech has been blocked by the US Supreme Court.\n\nThe legislation would have prevented larger tech companies from banning or censoring Texas users for their views.\n\nRepublicans in the state said it was necessary to combat what they claimed was social media's liberal bias.\n\nBut tech groups argued that the law was a violation of the private companies' freedom of speech rights.\n\nIn a rare 5-4 ruling, the US's top court agreed on Tuesday to a request supported by tech giants to temporarily block the law from coming into force.\n\nIndustry groups suing against the legislation argued that it violated the right to free speech, which included the freedom of private companies to decide what content to publish on their platforms.\n\nWithout the ability to moderate their platforms, Silicon Valley campaigners claimed that the state legislation would have turned Facebook, Twitter and YouTube into \"havens of the vilest expression imaginable\".\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott said the law prevented Texans from \"wrongful censorship\"\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott, who signed the bill into law in September last year, said at the time that the opposite was true - that the measure was intended to prevent bias against conservative viewpoints and protect free speech.\n\nSocial media companies are \"our modern-day public square\" where debate should flow freely, he argued. \"There is a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas\".\n\nThe law stated that social media platforms with more than 50 million users could not ban people based on their political viewpoints.\n\nFacebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube all fell within its scope.\n\nOn Tuesday, an unlikely group of five Supreme Court justices - appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents - joined forces to block the law from taking effect while lawsuits over its legality continue.\n\nThe majority, who provided no explanation for the emergency decision, included Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer.\n\nTheir order follows a separate ruling by another federal court last week which found a similar law in Florida likely violated the right to free speech enshrined in the US Constitution.\n\nIn the past few months, a number of Republican-led US states have accused social media companies of being biased against conservative views and have passed laws attempting to constrain them.\n\nThe question of how far free speech extends on social media platforms - and whether attempts by US states to legislate against the companies may themselves count as censorship - is likely to be tested increasingly in US courts in the coming years.", "Tributes have been pouring in from shocked fans and colleagues\n\nIndians are paying their tributes to popular singer KK, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday night, hours after performing at a concert.\n\nThe 53-year-old, whose real name was Krishnakumar Kunnath, sang hundreds of songs over his career, which began in the 1990s.\n\nHe collapsed at his hotel in Kolkata city and was rushed to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.\n\nThe cause of death hasn't been confirmed yet.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, 'Not KK' trended on Indian Twitter as fans and colleagues registered their shock and disbelief at the news.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi led the tributes, tweeting his grief at the singer's \"untimely demise\".\n\n\"His songs reflected a wide range of emotions and struck a chord with people of all age groups. We will always remember him through his songs,\" Mr Modi said.\n\nKK's death, two days after the murder of Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moose Wala, came as a double blow to music lovers in India this week.\n\nBorn in Delhi in 1968, KK began his career singing advertising jingles - he sang more than 3,500 of them before getting his big break in film music - and went on to perform in several Indian languages, including Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.\n\nBut it was his work in the Hindi music industry that made him the voice of a generation.\n\nKK was an energetic performer on stage\n\nHe made his Bollywood debut as one of the four singers of the powerful Chod Aaye Hum Voh Galiyan (We've Left Behind Those Streets) - on the comradeship between four young men on a rebellious journey - in the 1996 movie Maachis, which was set against the backdrop of the insurgency in Punjab.\n\nFriendship and the bittersweet weight of nostalgia were recurring themes in KK's songs - this was perhaps best captured in the soulful Pal (Moment) and Yaaron (Friends). The lyrics, along with the velvety youthfulness of his voice, struck a chord with millennials coming of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s, who would hum along to it at parties and perform it at college festivals.\n\nKK was also the voice behind several iconic romantic songs many of which were produced by music composer Pritam and duo Vishal-Shekhar. His biggest hits included Tadap Tadap Ke, Khuda Jaaney, Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai, Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai and Dus Bahane.\n\nHis ability to evoke anger, passion and yearning - that had been largely excluded from the vocabulary of pop songs - solidified his position in the music industry, spurring a new genre of rock-style music that featured slick sounds of the electric guitar and drums.\n\nMany of his colleagues from the Indian music industry remembered their association with him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pritam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by VISHAL DADLANI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAcclaimed singer Shreya Ghoshal tweeted, \"This is too hard to accept! Heart is shattered in pieces.\"\n\nMusician Shankar Mahadevan paid his respects with a line from KK's song Pal: \"Hum rahe ya na rahen yaad aayenge ye pal (We'll remember these moments whether we're here or not.)\"\n\nActor Emraan Hashmi, whose most popular songs were sung by KK, said the singer would \"live eternally\" through his music.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Emraan Hashmi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKK's last Instagram post showed him standing in front of a packed crowd at his final concert at Kolkata.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kk_live_now This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe post was flooded with comments from tearful fans after news of his death broke.\n\nKK was in Kolkata to perform at two college festivals, The Times of India reported.\n\n\"He was brilliant at the show and was the showstopper,\" the newspaper reported, quoting a spectator at the concert.\n\nKK is survived by his wife and two children.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nRafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic agreed their French Open quarter-final started too late after the four-hour match ended at 01:15 in Paris [00:15 BST].\n\nNadal won in four sets to beat his great rival in Tuesday's night session.\n\nAsked if it was too late to be playing, Nadal said: \"It is without a doubt. I understand television pays a lot of money but we need to find a balance.\"\n\nDjokovic added: \"Broadcasters say it's going to be night match, day match. They give the money. They decide.\"\n\nSpanish fifth seed Nadal, going for a record-extending 14th men's singles title at Roland Garros, won 6-2 4-6 6-2 7-6 (7-4) against Serbia's Djokovic.\n\nDespite the late finish to Nadal's win over Djokovic and temperatures dropping to about 10C, few fans decided to leave Court Philippe-Chatrier and many of those who stayed were wrapped up in blankets.\n\nThe clay-court Grand Slam introduced night sessions for the 2021 tournament, although they were not fully open to fans because of coronavirus restrictions in France.\n\nThe night matches are shown on Amazon Prime in France and have started at 20:45 local time.\n\nNadal's win over Djokovic was the second-latest finish in French Open history, falling 11 minutes short of the 2020 quarter-final between the Spaniard and Italy's Jannik Sinner.\n\n\"There are difference of opinions about the night sessions,\" said world number one Djokovic.\n\n\"I think they are starting too late. But again, TV decides. That's the world we are living in.\"\n\nWomen's matches 'not as attractive' for TV audience\n\nFormer Wimbledon and Australian Open champion Amelie Mauresmo is in her first year as the tournament director of the French Open.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, night sessions in the stadium are definitely appropriate, because it was always full to the brim every night,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a real enthusiasm. People could actually work during the day and yet watch the match during the evening.\n\n\"I'm learning a lot of things regarding the scheduling of the tournament. We will actually have a feedback session on this at the end, but it's just 10 night matches overall.\"\n\nThe late sessions, which have separate ticket sales from the day time, have also drawn criticism for the lack of women's matches.\n\nOnly one of the 10 night sessions this year has been a women's match, when France's Alize Cornet beat Latvian 13th seed Jelena Ostapenko in three sets on Thursday.\n\nMauresmo said it was \"more difficult\" to put women's matches on late.\n\n\"In this era we are in right now - and as a woman, a former woman's player, I don't feel bad or unfair saying this - you have more attraction and appeal, in general, for the men's matches,\" said the former world number one.\n\nFormer British number one Annabel Croft, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, said she \"understands\" Mauresmo's comments.\n\n\"Would you honestly replace Nadal against Djokovic last night with a women's match?\" Croft said. \"There is a natural demand and that is what it is. You can't force it.\n\n\"It's hard to put a finger on what creates that star quality that attracts people. You can't just pretend that it's there.\n\n\"There have been periods when the women's game has been more interesting than the men's but I have to say the women's game has had a bit of a dip lately.\"\n\n'I am pouring everything I have to play this tournament'\n\nAfterwards, 21-time major champion Nadal thanked the near-15,000 crowd for showing their \"love\".\n\nHe will play third seed Alexander Zverev, who beat Carlos Alcaraz in Tuesday's day session, in the semi-finals on Friday.\n\n\"It has been a very emotional night for me,\" said Nadal. \"I'm still playing for nights like this.\"\n\nNadal had feared his career was over because of a chronic foot problem which restricted him to only one tournament in the final seven months of 2021.\n\nThe problem flared up again during the Italian Open and he said the crowd at Roland Garros \"have been amazing since the beginning of the tournament\" because they probably \"know that I'm not going to be here a lot more times\".\n\nHe added: \"I said in Rome that I am going to have my doctor here with me. Having the doctor here, you can do things that help. It's not the moment to talk about that. We will talk about that when my tournament finishes.\n\n\"I am pouring everything that I have to try to play this tournament with the best conditions possible. Honestly, I don't know what can happen after it, but here I think I'm going to be fine.\n\n\"I have what I have in the foot. If we are not able to find an improvement or small solution to that then it's becoming super difficult for me. I am just enjoying every day that I have the chance to be here without thinking much about what can happen in the future.\n\n\"Of course, I will keep fighting to find a solution but, for the moment, we haven't.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can The Outlaws outsmart the criminal underworld?\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?", "The first flight to Rwanda carrying migrants who cross the English Channel is set to leave in two weeks' time on 14 June, the Home Office has said.\n\nOfficials have begun issuing formal directions to the first people set to be flown to the African country.\n\nIt is expected there will be legal challenges against the move.\n\nThe controversial plan has been criticised by politicians, charities and the Archbishop of Canterbury who called it the opposite of God's nature.\n\nUnder the scheme, some asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK are being sent to Rwanda where their application will be processed.\n\nWhile their application is considered they will be given accommodation and support and, if successful, they will be able to remain in Rwanda with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the partnership with Rwanda was \"a key part of our strategy to overhaul the broken asylum system and break the evil people-smugglers' business model\".\n\nMore than 4,850 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, with more than 3,000 making the dangerous journey in March compared to 831 in the same month last year.\n\nThe Home Office has not confirmed how many people will be issued with the removal notices at first, but one official told BBC News all those who will be issued with the directions are currently in asylum detention.\n\nA source said \"fewer than hundreds\" of migrants were being given directions at first.\n\nThe removal directions confirm to people that they are being sent to Rwanda, and when.\n\nThe Home Office is expecting legal action, both by individuals threatened with removal and by campaign groups opposed to the government's policy.\n\nMs Patel said issuing the removal directions was \"another critical step\" and that while she knew \"attempts will now be made to frustrate the process and delay removals\" she said she would not be deterred.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tour of the Rwandan hotel where some UK asylum seekers will stay\n\nThe Home Office said officials are working to ensure individuals are given the \"appropriate support\" ahead of departure.\n\nThe scheme will focus mainly on single people who arrive in the UK in small boats or lorries and those who arrived by such means since 1 January will be considered to be sent to Rwanda.\n\nThose who fail in their asylum bids in Rwanda will be offered the chance to apply for visas under other immigration routes if they wish to remain in the country, but could still face deportation.\n\nCritics of the scheme have described it as \"cruel\" and have raised concerns about the African nation's human rights record.\n\nLast year the UK government expressed concern at the United Nations over \"continued restrictions to civil and political rights and media freedom\" in Rwanda, but when announcing the scheme Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as one of the safest countries in the world.\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said on Tuesday the scheme was not about deterring criminal gangs or small boat crossings but \"chasing headlines\".\n\n\"This is a completely unworkable, extortionately expensive, and deeply un-British policy,\" she said. \"There is no proper process for identifying people who have been trafficked or tortured.\"\n\nMs Cooper added that the Home Office still had not announced how much the scheme will cost per person on top of an initial £150m.", "Liverpool fans got stuck outside the Stade de France in Paris\n\nFrance's Interior Minister has defended how police handled Saturday's Champions League final in Paris which saw some Liverpool fans being tear gassed.\n\nGérald Darmanin said the event could clearly have been handled better but that enough police were at the game.\n\nOf the two sets of supporters, Real Madrid and Liverpool, he said only the English club's fans posed problems.\n\nLiverpool fans have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the showpiece game.\n\nThey have strongly contested the version of events from French authorities, who have blamed ticket fraud and accused Liverpool football club of failing to control their fans.\n\nThe match, which was eventually won by Real Madrid, was delayed when long queues of Liverpool fans built up outside the stadium in Paris.\n\nFrench police used tear gas and pepper spray on some supporters.\n\nAppearing before a Senate committee, Mr Darmanin said French police would be sent to the UK and Spain next week to help any citizens who believed they were victims of crime to file a complaint.\n\nQuestioned about security at the game he said: \"The negative image of this match is a wound to our national pride and it is obvious that things could have been better organised. Did we avoid the worst? Yes. Could we have planned more? No doubt.\"\n\nHe apologised for \"disproportionate\" use of tear gas, saying that two cases had been referred to France's police watchdog. But he also said tear gas had prevented crowd crushes.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said earlier he fully supported the interior minister, who has faced criticism over how police handled the final. A spokeswoman said he wanted the light \"shone on what really happened, in full transparency, and very quickly\".\n\nBut behind the scenes, French media have said the president is furious with Mr Darmanin's response. And satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné said the president had found the events outside the Stade de France \"shameful\" and \"unworthy of France\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liverpool fans were tear gassed by police ahead of the Champions League Final\n\nEurope's football governing body Uefa has commissioned an independent report into what happened at the final.\n\nLiverpool's chairman Tom Werner complained that \"the Uefa Champions League final should be one of the finest spectacles in world sport, instead it devolved into one of the worst security collapses in recent memory\".\n\nMany fans said they had arrived at the stadium hours before kick-off but were barred from getting into the ground.\n\nIt has also emerged that supporters were targeted by local gangs, with reports of mobile phones being stolen and girls and young women being groped. Six people appeared in court on Tuesday after dozens of people were arrested.\n\nFootballing sources told AFP that 2,800 fake tickets were detected at the stadium gates, while the French Football Federation alleged that some 35,000 people had shown up with fake tickets or with no tickets at all, causing disorder by blocking the gates.\n\nMathieu Valet, a spokesman for France's independent police commissioner's union (SICP) told the BBC that it was not fake tickets or ticketless supporters who were the main problem: \"It's clear that we needed more police - we didn't have enough on the ground.\"", "British Columbia saw hundreds of fatal overdoses last year\n\nCanada has announced it will temporarily decriminalise the possession of small amounts of some illicit drugs in British Columbia (BC).\n\nThe province asked for the criminal code exemption after overdoses claimed more than two thousand lives in BC last year.\n\nThis time-limited three-year trial is the first of its kind in Canada.\n\nAdults will be allowed to possess a combined total of 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA.\n\nWhile those substances will remain illegal, adults found in possession for personal use will not be arrested, charged or have their drugs seized. Instead, they will be offered information on available health and social services\n\nIn its request to the federal government last year, BC said it asked for the drug laws exemption in order \"to remove the shame that often prevents people from reaching out for life-saving help\".\n\nFederal minister of mental health and addictions Carolyn Bennett said on Tuesday that \"for too many years, the ideological opposition to harm reduction has cost lives\".\n\n\"We are doing this to save lives, but also to give people using drugs their dignity and choices.\"\n\nVancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart said the decision \"marks a fundamental rethinking of drug policy that favours healthcare over handcuffs\".\n\nThe programme will run from 31 January 2023 to 31 January 2026. There are some exemptions to the scheme, which will not apply to primary and secondary school grounds, child-care facilities, airports, or to members of Canada's military.\n\nBC declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency five years ago, and overdose deaths have since reached historic highs in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 9,000 people have died of drug overdose in the province since 2016.\n\nThere have been growing calls for a shift in drug policy towards a public health approach from regions across the country. That has included support for some decriminalisation from a number of public health officials as well as the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.\n\nMs Bennett said the scheme in BC could become \"a template for other jurisdictions across Canada\".\n\nIn 2020, Oregon became the first US state to drop criminal penalties for the possession of some illicit drugs.\n\nThe state saw a drop in drug arrests though there has been debate as to whether it has prompted more drug users to seek help for their substance use.\n\nCanada legalised the use of recreational cannabis for adults nationwide in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vancouver's unusual approach offers opioid users injection sites, antidotes and even heroin on prescription.", "The rise in reports of violence against GPs is distressing, say doctors' leaders\n\nViolent incidents at GP surgeries have doubled in less than five years, according to figures from police forces across the UK.\n\nAn investigation by the British Medical Journal found the number of assaults at surgeries and health centres resulting in injury had almost doubled too.\n\nPolice forces recorded 1,068 violent incidents between 2021 and 2022, up from 586 between 2017 and 2018.\n\nThe chairman of the Royal College of GPs called the findings \"unacceptable\".\n\nProfessor Martin Marshall told the BBC: \"The findings from this investigation need to be taken seriously.\n\n\"It's entirely unacceptable for anyone working in general practice to be at the receiving end of abuse of any kind when they are just doing their best to deliver vital care and services to patients, but the increase in reports of physical violence is particularly distressing.\"\n\nProf Marshall said the abuse would have \"a significant impact on the mental health, wellbeing and morale of individual doctors and practice staff\".\n\nDr Adam Janjua, who has worked as a GP in Fleetwood near Blackpool for 13 years, told the BBC he'd been shoved in the chest and a patient had threatened to stab him.\n\nIntimidation and social media abuse were commonplace and \"staff constantly faced demeaning comments from angry patients\", he said.\n\nDr Janjua said the situation was \"unprecedented\" and GPs had been wrongly portrayed by the government as unwilling to see patients face-to-face during the pandemic.\n\n\"Political meddling needs to stop,\" he said.\n\n\"We make for good villains when the NHS is down on its knees.\"\n\nBut he said there was a conversation to be had about what the NHS can realistically deliver with fewer GPs, fewer staff and more pressures.\n\n\"When something is free, people take it for granted,\" Dr Janjua said.\n\nThere are concerns that more GPs may leave the profession because of harassment and threats of violence faced at work.\n\nThe pandemic has been cited as a cause for the increase in violence, as services came under more pressure.\n\nSome patients also believed services had closed altogether, leading to added frustration.\n\nThe BMJ was able to obtain complete and comparable data from 32 police forces across the UK, the BBC's health editor Hugh Pym reports.\n\nAround 70% of the UK's police forces had responded to Freedom of Information requests on recorded crimes at GP sites over the last five years, the BMJ said.\n\nThe figures showed a near doubling of incidents of violence over that time to more than 1,000 in the last year - and up over 200 on the previous year .\n\nIt revealed there were 182 assaults resulting in injury in the last year - almost double the 98 recorded in 2017-18.\n\nThere was also a large increase in malicious communications including letters and emails.\n\nRecorded incidents of stalking and harassment at surgeries and health centres also tripled in the same period, from 85 in 2017 to 223 in the last year.\n\nThe UK annual conference of local medical committees recently proposed that surgeries should be given more power to remove abusive patients immediately and strike them off their register.\n\nDr Richard Van Mellaerts, who sits on the British Medical Association's GP committee, said the BMJ figures matched the experience of doctors he's spoken to, including those in his own clinic in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey.\n\nHe said: \"I regularly hear abuse directed at reception staff in my practice. We've had to call the police several times over the last year.\n\n\"I know GPs who have been attacked, their reception area has been damaged, and their consultation room has been wrecked.\n\n\"It is absolutely appalling. Any single instance of abuse or violence or harassment towards any GP or practice staff or any NHS staff is one too many, and it should never be tolerated.\"\n\nDr Van Mellaerts said there could be several reasons for the increase in violence, including patient frustration at remote or telephone appointments instead of in-person visits.\n\nHe also pointed out that \"fewer GPs are doing more and more\", meaning it was difficult for people to access the help they needed.\n\nBut he said that should not \"excuse any kind of violence\".\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "'Evidence matters, but the jury are fans too'\n\nIf you were to take a look at social media over the past month, you'd see that to many, Heard lost in the court of public opinion weeks ago. \"What's interesting about public opinion in this case is that we can measure it,\" said journalist and author Cooper Lawrence, who has written extensively on celebrity culture. \"#JusticeForJohnnyDepp has more than 18 billion hits on TikTok. Amber Heard has only a tiny percentage of that.\" Each day of the trial, Depp would pass hundreds of screaming fans on the short walk from his car to court. Jurors had been instructed to stay offline and ignore all coverage of the case. But the noise around this case will have been hard to ignore. \"I think it will be really interesting to see how the jury responds to the cult of celebrity that's in front of them,\" Lawrence said before the verdict. \"Evidence matters, but the jury are fans, too.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner have received police questionnaires as part of an inquiry into alleged Covid rule-breaking.\n\nThey both attended a gathering in Durham on 30 April last year, at which people drank beer and ate curry.\n\nDurham Constabulary initially decided against an investigation, but opted last month to go ahead with one.\n\nThe Labour leader was seen on camera as he drank a bottle of beer while in the constituency office of City of Durham MP Mary Foy.\n\nBoth Sir Keir and his deputy have said they will resign if they are fined for breaching Covid rules.\n\nAt the time of the Durham gathering, in the run-up to the Hartlepool by-election on 6 May, social distancing rules were in place, including a ban on indoor mixing between households.\n\nThere was an exemption for work purposes, but the rules did not mention socialising at work - and there was also an exemption if \"the gathering is reasonably necessary for the purposes of campaigning in an election\".\n\nLabour has said it has evidence showing it was a work event, and that Sir Keir was eating \"between work demands\".\n\nDurham Constabulary initially decided that no offence had occurred, but amid calls for the police to re-examine the incident, the force announced an investigation saying it had since received \"significant new information\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: If I get Covid fine, I will go - Starmer says he'll step down as leader\n\nIt came amid the fallout from the Metropolitan Police investigation into several parties in Downing Street and Whitehall during coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThat probe led to a total of 126 fines to 83 people, for events happening across eight different dates, including to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie Johnson and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nMr Johnson has apologised but refused to resign over the fine. On Tuesday his standards adviser has called on him to explain why he thought his actions did not breach the ministerial code.\n\nThe prime minister is facing continued pressure following the publishing of senior civil servant Sue Gray's report into lockdown busting parties at the heart of government, with several of his own MPs submitting letters of no confidence in him.", "West Ham's Kurt Zouma given 180 hours of community service for kicking and slapping his pet cat Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWest Ham United defender Kurt Zouma has been ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to kicking and slapping his cat. The 27-year-old has also been banned from keeping cats for five years. He had admitted two offences under the Animal Welfare Act at a hearing at Thames Magistrates' Court in May. Zouma's brother Yoan, who plays for Dagenham and Redbridge, was ordered to carry out 140 hours of community service at the 15-minute hearing. The case was brought following an RSPCA investigation. Yoan admitted one count of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring his older brother to commit an offence. \"Both of you took part in this disgraceful and reprehensible act with this pet cat,\" said district judge Susan Holdham. \"The cat looked up to you to care for its needs. On that date in February you did not provide for its needs. You must be aware that others look up to you and many young people aspire to emulate you.\" Yoan, 24, filmed the incident at his older brother's home and posted it on Snapchat with 'laughing' emojis on 6 February. Kurt could be seen kicking the Bengal cat across his kitchen, before throwing a pair of shoes at it and slapping its head, while the video also showed him saying \"I swear I'll kill it\". The court heard Yoan, whose contract with Dagenham and Redbridge has been extended, had 80 followers on Snapchat, and only five accounts viewed it before it was deleted a few minutes after being posted. Kurt was also told to pay court costs of nearly £9,000 in addition to the 12-month community order. \"We are pleased there has been swift justice in this awful case and our focus now is matching these beautiful cats to the loving homes they deserve,\" said RSPCA chief inspectorate officer Dermot Murphy. \"This case sends a really clear message that animals should never be treated like this, and posting videos of animals being harmed on social media for likes is abhorrent. \"We believe teaching children to treat animals with kindness will lead to a more compassionate society. We need positive role models to help us do that.\" West Ham hope Zouma can 'learn from his mistake and move on' The hearing in May had heard that West Ham had fined the player £250,000 and he had lost a \"substantial\" sponsorship deal with sportswear firm adidas. \"West Ham United wishes to make clear that we condemn in the strongest terms any form of animal abuse or cruelty,\" said a statement from the Premier League club after the sentencing. \"This type of behaviour is unacceptable and is not in line with the values of the football club. \"Within 48 hours of the footage emerging, we fined Kurt the maximum available to the club. \"Every single penny of this money is now with a number of deserving charities, all dedicated to animal welfare.\" The Hammers added: \"Kurt admitted at the earliest opportunity that what he did was wrong. He has apologised without reservation. \"We hope that now the court has reached its decision, everyone will allow Kurt the chance to learn from his mistake and move on.\"\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "She's one of the most photographed women in history and over the past 70 years has defined what it means to dress like a queen.\n\nNot trendsetting or daring, but iconic.\n\nShe's become famous for her brightly coloured dresses and coats paired with a matching hat, accessorised with her signature square handbag, three strand pearl necklace and a jewelled brooch. It sounds simple but the Queen's style has become a powerful formula.\n\nIt's a style that has been honed and refined over seven decades, helped by the close relationships she has developed with trusted designers and dressers.\n\n\"Royal fashion is fun, powerful and steeped with meaning,\" says author and royal fashion commentator Elizabeth Holmes. \"Her image is a huge part of her legacy.\"\n\nThe Queen has always had a very clear idea of what she wanted to look like, says historian Michael Pick.\n\n\"People have said she has no idea about clothes, but that is simply not true. She is very astute about what suits her,\" Pick says.\n\nWhen she was in her 20s, Princess Elizabeth began working with designer Norman Hartnell, a relationship she inherited from the Queen Mother. Full-skirted dresses with a nipped in waist, influenced by French couture, were paired with white fur stoles and diamond tiaras.\n\nAs she took on her new role as Queen, Hartnell helped her to dazzle her way through state banquets and royal tours in a host of tulle and satin gowns, intricately embellished with seed pearls, crystals and beads.\n\nHartnell also created two of the most important dresses she would ever wear - her wedding dress and the gown she wore for her coronation. He describes the process as a collaboration. \"For her coronation dress Hartnell produced about eight designs and she chose elements from them all and made it her own,\" Pick says.\n\nFor the Queen, working with the same people was not just about trust, but was also down to necessity. Hartnell had the largest couture house in London along with the largest embroidery workroom, and for someone as busy as the Queen who needed hundreds of new outfits each year, it meant he had the capacity to design and produce what she needed.\n\nStill, the scale of the job meant she also asked designer Hardy Amies to work with her, beginning with a wardrobe of looks for a tour of Canada in 1951.\n\nAmies led the Queen into a slightly more crisp and understated look, with tailored day clothes and sleeker eveningwear. Then Ian Thomas took her through the 1970s and 1980s in a flurry of brightly coloured chiffon, floral prints and bows.\n\nFor the last 24 years her outfits have been designed and produced in-house by a small team of around 10 people, led by her personal dresser Angela Kelly.\n\nEach item the Queen wears is bespoke, and before the pandemic she was attending more then 300 engagements a year. \"It's a huge amount of work,\" Pick says. \"You don't want the monarch wearing something someone else is wearing. The public expects something different.\n\n\"Hartnell and Amies made her more individual, while Angela Kelly has been very clever and managed to take her individual style and make it sparkle.\"\n\nWhen the Queen steps out in public every aspect of her appearance has been meticulously planned.\n\nFabrics are checked to see how they drape or might behave in a breeze. The bright colours, chosen for the season and occasion, give instant impact so that she stands out in a crowd. A hat gives her slight stature more height and highlights her face.\n\nShe wears sensible block-heeled shoes - handmade and worn in by Kelly herself to make sure they are comfortable - and there is always a clear umbrella with a colour-matched trim on standby, so even the unpredictable British weather won't get in her way.\n\nThis uniform-way of dressing maximises her comfort on long days, but also helps define her role, says Elizabeth Holmes.\n\n\"Her job is to be a calm and consistent presence. Her clothes are a mix of knowing what to expect but also with an ability to surprise and delight.\n\n\"Even in the casual moments there is a sense of uniform, with her headscarf and wellies. It keeps the continuity and also shows she is never off duty.\"\n\nArguably the most iconic part of the Queen's look is the thing that has remained virtually unchanged throughout her reign: her famous shampoo and set is almost identical to the style she wore when she came to the throne in 1953.\n\nBut for the change in colour as she got older and embraced her natural grey, it has retained the two distinctive wave curls at the front and firm and structured curls around the back, formed perfectly to host a crown or hat.\n\nThe traditional style, set on rollers under a dryer, was the hairstyle of choice for many of Britain's fashion conscious women in the post-war years but while trends have moved on the Queen has been loyal to it ever since.\n\n\"Her hair is quite conventional for a woman her age, but it is a strong look, softened by curls to give it a gentleness,\" says royal and celebrity hairdresser Richard Ward. \"I think her hair sums up what we all really value about her,\" he says. \"It is sensible, practical and elegant.\"\n\nAnother of the Queen's most iconic style points is the famous top-handled Launer handbag.\n\nUnlike other classic designer bags such as the Hermes Birkin or the Chanel 2.55, which are popular with women aged from their 20s to their 70s, Launer is not as fashionable or desirable for younger women, says Charlotte Rogers, a luxury accessories expert.\n\nBut there is still a big market for them in other countries, especially the Middle East. The Queen's royal seal of approval changes everything for a brand. \"The fact the Queen still uses Launer bags is huge,\" Rogers says. \"Royals are the ultimate influencers.\"\n\nThe handbags retail for around £1,500-£2,000, and the Queen is said to have a collection of over 200 in different colours and styles.\n\nIt seems in her Jubilee year the Queen has become more influential than ever, which is no mean feat for a woman in her 90s, says Rogers.\n\n\"She's age appropriate, a style much like my grandmother used to wear for special occasions and I think she is influential to older ladies,\" she says. \"Pins and brooches were seen as so unfashionable and now I can't buy enough of them. They sell so quickly.\"\n\nThe Queen's clothes are not just style choices but also brand statements, steeped with meaning and influence. Whether she's wearing a jewelled gown or a tweed skirt every outfit says something about her and her role as an ambassador and figurehead.\n\n\"Her wardrobe is her communication,\" says Matthew Storey, curator at Historic Royal Palaces.\n\nShe has to be prepared, reliable and traditional. But while walking the line of being accessible and reassuring her clothes also \"have to be worthy of royalty,\" Holmes says.\n\n\"It's part of the bedazzling of the crown. With the Queen her clothes are bespoke. You can't buy them but it means they can be seen and admired.\"\n\nThere's also a diplomatic role, subtle nods to a country or event shown in emblems or colours she wears.\n\n\"The subtle pink coloured dress she wore to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games was chosen because it was on none of the national flags. It stood out but it also wasn't showing any allegiance,\" Storey says.\n\nLike other iconic brands she also means many different things to people.\n\n\"Like a work of art you interpret her in your own way,\" says Jeetendr Sehdev, author and celebrity branding expert.\n\n\"Do we really know who she is? I'm not sure we do. But what we do know is what she means to us and the things she stands for - her strength, boldness and authenticity - remain relevant even among young people.\"\n\nYounger royals like Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are clearly inspired by her, but the Queen stands far and above, he says.\n\nThere's great affection for how she looks, Holmes says. She has a signature style that will forever remind people of her.\n\n\"No-one else dresses like her,\" she says. \"That's her job and it's profound.\"\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shauna McFarland first raised a complaint of sexual harassment in September 2016\n\nA woman who brought a sexual harassment case against Morelli's ice cream firm has been awarded £20,000.\n\nShauna McFarland said she had been sexually harassed verbally while working for the firm by Remo Di Vito, who is in his 40s, a member of the extended Morelli family.\n\nThe tribunal found his conduct was \"by any standard, sleazy and sustained\".\n\nMorelli's said it accepted the criticism levelled at it and Mr Di Vito no longer worked for the firm.\n\nIt apologised to all those who had been affected.\n\nThe tribunal's decision was made in November 2019 but publication was delayed after Ms McFarland challenged an anonymity order made by the tribunal judgement.\n\nThat order was removed by the tribunal in May.\n\nThe tribunal heard Ms McFarland, now 31 and from Coleraine, started working for Morelli's production centre in the north-coast town in 2015 as an administrative assistant.\n\nMs McFarland first raised a complaint of sexual harassment against Mr Di Vito in September 2016.\n\nThe tribunal found no investigation into the allegation was conducted but a verbal warning was issued to Mr Di Vito, who was a supervisor at the company.\n\nMs McFarland felt her complaint was not taken seriously and the family \"closed ranks\".\n\n\"In the view of the tribunal, the extreme leniency of the penalty imposed appeared to be symptomatic of grudging minimal compliance with the requirement to address it,\" the judgement said.\n\nShe said the \"unwanted and unwelcome sexual attentions\" - amounting to crude sexual references - started again within weeks.\n\nThe tribunal described Mr Di Vito's conduct as \"probably and predictably facilitated\" by the employer.\n\nShauna McFarland left work on a combination of sick leave and maternity leave\n\nIn December 2017, Mr Di Vito sent her a text message - described by the tribunal as \"by any stretch of the imagination obscene\" - to which she did not respond.\n\nIn it, he used crude language to refer to female genitalia.\n\nIn January 2018, she alleged she was subjected to further verbal harassment and, as a result, submitted a formal letter of complaint.\n\nShe then left work on a combination of sick leave and maternity leave.\n\nThe tribunal found that while Mr Di Vito accepted his conduct, he persisted in his assertions that Ms McFarland \"had been as bad as he was\" - although there was no evidence to support these allegations.\n\nIt also found Morelli Ice Cream had \"by its action and inaction, at crucial points throughout the case, knowingly placed the claimant in harm's way\".\n\nIt said the company gave the \"clear message\" that \"it was she who was the problem\", and not Mr Di Vito.\n\nThe tribunal said it was satisfied the company was \"vicariously liable\" for the acts of Mr Di Vito and it was ordered to pay £20,000 for injury to Ms McFarland's feelings.\n\nMs McFarland, whose case was supported by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, said she wished her complaints had been dealt with from the beginning.\n\n\"I had no choice but to challenge this horrible and disgusting behaviour,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope by speaking out, it will help other women in similar situations to seek support and challenge it too.\n\n\"No woman should have to put up with this kind of behaviour at work.\"\n\nMorelli Ice Cream Ltd said it deeply regretted that a then member of their team was subjected to harassment by a previous member of staff.\n\n\"We respect the decision of the tribunal and accept the criticism levelled at the company, using the findings to develop our procedures to safeguard all staff while in our employment,\" the firm said.\n\n\"As a company with a strong family ethos, we pride ourselves on the relationships we have with our team, promoting dignity and respect in the workplace and sincerely apologise to all those who have been affected.\"", "Rhys McClenaghan has said his \"personal identity is in a very difficult place\" following the FIG ruling\n\nThe NI secretary has called for a decision to ban three gymnasts from Northern Ireland from this summer's Commonwealth Games to be overturned.\n\nThe International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ruled Rhys McClenaghan, Eamon Montgomery and Ewan McAteer could not compete for Northern Ireland.\n\nIt issued the ban because the athletes have represented Ireland in international events.\n\nBrandon Lewis has written to the FIG president disputing the decision.\n\nHe said it \"appears to frustrate the birth right\" of the three gymnasts.\n\nMcClenaghan from Newtownards in County Down won Northern Ireland's only gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, taking the pommel horse title on Australia's Gold Coast.\n\nHe said his \"personal identity is in a very difficult place\" following the decision, which has prompted outcry from many in Irish sporting circles.\n\nCommonwealth Games NI accused the FIG of \"completely disregarding\" the Good Friday Agreement, which states that people in Northern Ireland can consider themselves British, Irish or both.\n\nThe FIG has offered two options to resolve the dispute - one of which is for the gymnasts to change the nationality from Irish on their FIG licence.\n\nIts second suggestion is that the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the event organiser, removes the relevant gymnastics competitions from the FIG's calendar.\n\nIn his letter to Morinari Watanabe, Mr Lewis said: \"It is the UK government's firm position that given that these athletes were born in Northern Ireland, they should, consistent with their rights as set out in the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, be free to compete both for Ireland and the UK\".\n\n\"Forcing these athletes to 'change their FIG license nationality registration', as proposed in your press statement on 27 May, would be incongruent with these rights.\n\n\"I therefore ask that you reconsider this decision in the context of Northern Ireland's unique circumstances, and enable these athletes to participate on behalf of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Stormont parties signed a letter proposed by UUP MLA Mike Nesbitt urging the decision to be overturned.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey has asked the FIG for an urgent meeting, and told BBC's Sunday Politics programme that the three athletes \"should be in the Commonwealth Games\".\n\n\"I support them in that endeavour as sports minister and I will do all that I can,\" she said.\n\nThe Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar also called on the FIG to overturn its decision, which he said was \"wrong\".\n\nThe FIG is the only governing body of a sport at the Commonwealth Games to have barred athletes from Northern Ireland who have represented Ireland.", "There were long queues outside Dublin Airport on Sunday\n\nThe operator of Dublin Airport has announced measures to try to avoid a repeat of weekend chaos that caused about 1,400 people to miss flights.\n\nDAA has been under political pressure to improve its performance ahead of the June bank holiday weekend and busy summer period.\n\nIts plan focuses on maximising staff, increasing the number of security lanes and improving queue management.\n\nThe firm also said it will operate a triage system when terminals get busy.\n\nThat means that priority will be given to those whose departures are most imminent with those arriving too early asked to wait in a special holding area.\n\nThe operator is advising those on short-haul flights to the UK and Europe to arrive at least two-and-a-half hours before departure and those on long-haul flights should give themselves at least three-and-a-half hours.\n\nDAA's chief executive Dalton Phillips detailed the measures to the Irish parliament's transport committee.\n\n\"Though challenges remain, the measures we have taken will very substantially mitigate risk this weekend and beyond.\n\n\"And, should unanticipated issues arise, we have appropriate escalation and triage mechanisms focused on ensuring no passengers will miss their flights,\" Mr Phillips said.\n\nTim Neill took this image of the Dublin Airport queues as he missed a flight to England on Sunday\n\nMr Philips said that he \"appreciated the anger and frustration caused\" and he was aware of the international reputational damage caused.\n\nThe DAA chief executive stopped short of guaranteeing there would be no repetition of last weekend's chaos.\n\nHe told the committee he and his team \"don't envisage a repeat of what happened last Sunday.\"\n\nMr Philips told TDs (MPs) and senators that 40 additional security staff would be working this weekend including some from Cork Airport.\n\nHe stated that will be 10% more than were on duty last Sunday.\n\nThe DAA chief executive conceded that the company had cut its security staff \"too deeply\" during the pandemic at a time when it was losing €1m (£852,000) a day at one stage.\n\nOther measures the DAA said it will put in place include documents being checked to access the appropriate terminal and special consideration to those needing extra assistance.\n\nThe airport operator has also said it will put in place cover outside to protect from bad weather, seating and extra toilets to deal with any over-flow problems.\n\nLast weekend, long queues developed outside the terminal due to security delays.\n\nThe transport committee also heard that the airport was down 37 security officers last weekend.\n\nIt was told 20 were absent and another 17 had not completed their training to allow them to work last Sunday.", "A time-lapse shows preparations being made ahead of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThe area outside Buckingham Palace is being transformed for events such like Trooping of Colour, lighting of the beacons and the Platinum Party at the Palace.\n\nA national celebration of the Queen's 70 years of service will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend in June.", "Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook's parent company Meta, has announced that she is leaving the business after 14 years.\n\nMs Sandberg announced her departure in a Facebook post, saying she hoped to focus on her foundation and philanthropic work in the future.\n\nHer departure comes as Meta faces a slowdown in advertising sales and more competition from rivals such as TikTok.\n\nMs Sandberg is one of the most high-profile women in the tech industry.\n\n\"When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years,\" wrote Ms Sandberg, known as a powerful second-in-command at the company. \"Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life.\"\n\nJavier Olivan, currently Meta's chief growth officer, will take over Ms Sandberg's position in the company when she leaves.\n\nMs Sandberg, whose husband died suddenly in 2015, is getting re-married this summer. She said she planned to leave the company in the autumn but would remain on the board.\n\nFollowing her announcement, shares in Meta fell 4%.\n\nMs Sandberg joined Facebook when it was still a small company led by Mark Zuckerberg, a then-23 year-old Harvard dropout. A veteran of Google, she helped turn its advertising business into a profit powerhouse, as the company grew to include Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.\n\nLast year, the company reported more than $117bn in revenue and said more than 2.8 billion people globally used one of its apps daily.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. COO of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg on the importance of female success in the workplace\n\nBooks she wrote, including Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - which she described as a \"sort of feminist manifesto\" - made her a global celebrity.\n\nBut her star power faded as the company faced criticism for its handling of personal data in relation to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and targeted adverts as well as its moderation of social media posts.\n\nMs Sandberg, who was initially responsible for Facebook's response, appeared to acknowledge some of those challenges in her post, writing: \"The debate around social media has changed beyond recognition since those early days.\"\n\n\"To say it hasn't always been easy is an understatement. But it should be hard,\" she wrote. \"The products we make have a huge impact, so we have the responsibility to build them in a way that protects privacy and keeps people safe.\"\n\nIn his own post, Mr Zuckerberg said Ms Sandberg's departure marked the \"end of an era\", noting that it was \"unusual\" for a business partnership like theirs to last so long.\n\n\"Sheryl architected our ads business, hired great people, forged our management culture, and taught me how to run a company,\" he added. \"She created opportunities for millions of people around the world, and she deserves the credit for so much of what Meta is today.\"\n\nHe said Mr Olivan's responsibilities would differ from Ms Sandberg's, with Mr Olivan taking on a \"more traditional\" chief operating officer role that was more focused internally and operationally.\n\nMeta is facing new challenges as countries tighten social media regulations and iPhone maker Apple changes its privacy rules, hitting the social media firm's targeted ad business.\n\nGrowth in the number of Facebook users in key markets, such as the US, has been stalled, and it has lost younger users to rivals such as TikTok.\n\nMr Zuckerberg has been pushing the company to invest heavily in virtual and augmented reality platforms, which he sees as driving the firm's next phase of growth. He renamed the company Meta last year in honour of the shift to the \"metaverse\".\n\nInsider principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson said Ms Sandberg \"had an enormous impact on Facebook, Meta, and the broader business world\".\n\n\"She helped Facebook build a world-class ad-buying platform and develop ground-breaking ad formats, which enabled the company to become the second largest digital ad business in the world behind Google,\" she said.\n\n\"However, Facebook also faced huge scandals under her watch, including the 2016 election, the Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle in 2018, and the Capitol riots that took place after the 2020 election. And in 2022, Meta is facing a slowdown in user growth and ad revenue that is now testing the business foundation that the company was built on.\n\n\"The company needs to find a new way forward, and perhaps this was the best time for Sandberg to depart.\"", "The French international defender is accused of rape, sexual assault and attempted rape\n\nManchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been charged with another count of rape.\n\nThe 27-year-old is now accused of eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape after a new complainant came forward.\n\nMr Mendy pleaded not guilty last month to all but the latest charge, which has not yet been put to him.\n\nThe details of the latest charge can be published after a reporting restriction was lifted at Chester Crown Court.\n\nAll of the offences are alleged to have taken place at Mr Mendy's home between October 2018 and August 2021.\n\nMr Mendy, from Prestbury in Cheshire, will go on trial on 25 July along with his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, who has also entered not guilty pleas.\n\nMr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight young women, between July 2012 and August 2021.\n\nBoth men remain on bail ahead of the trial next month.\n\nMr Mendy, who has made 50 Premier League appearances for Manchester City since joining from Monaco in 2017 and has 10 international caps for France, was suspended by the club after being charged.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Horizon Europe is the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation\n\nUniversities have called for an urgent resolution to a row about UK access to a major EU research programme.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 140 institutions, fears ministers could be about to abandon the Horizon scheme.\n\nIn a letter to the European Commission, seen by the BBC, it describes the situation as \"close to the precipice.\"\n\nThe EU has indicated UK participation is tied to the row about post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.\n\nHorizon Europe is the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation, with a current budget of €95.5bn (£81.2bn).\n\nThe UK's associate membership was agreed in principle under the 2020 Trade and Co-operation Agreement, but ministers have been drawing up alternatives after complaining access was being blocked by Brussels.\n\nThe EU's ambassador to London, João Vale de Almeida, has described Horizon access as \"collateral damage\" in the impasse over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which governs post-Brexit trading rules for Northern Ireland.\n\nHe reportedly said that the \"lack of trust\" was having \"a negative impact in other areas\".\n\nTensions between the EU and UK have escalated since Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said a new law would be introduced to potentially scrap parts of the protocol unilaterally.\n\nThe EU accepts the post-Brexit treaty, which Boris Johnson's government signed up to, is causing disruption for Northern Ireland but wants changes within the existing agreement.\n\nIn its letter to European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic, Universities UK says that scientific collaboration should not be compromised by \"unrelated political disputes\".\n\nIt warns that many of its members have reported researchers being \"forced\" to leave projects.\n\nAnd that the delay is being \"keenly felt\" by both EU and UK institutions, with the situation \"deteriorating every day that the uncertainty drags on\".\n\n\"Failure to secure UK association to Horizon Europe would be a lose-lose for health, wealth and wellbeing and would do a disservice to future generations in Europe and beyond,\" the letter adds.\n\nUniversities UK believes a decision by ministers to abandon association could come within weeks in what it anticipates would be an irreversible move.\n\nThe UK minister for science, research and innovation, George Freeman, has said membership remains the priority but a plan B is being kept on standby.\n\nScientists and academics have for months raised the alarm that delays in access are creating problems because funding cannot be released to UK collaborators without a formal agreement. And they have expressed concerns that EU researchers will not include UK scientists in their projects.\n\nIn March the UK government extended a funding guarantee for successful Horizon Europe applicants, until the end of the 2022.\n\nLiz Truss has raised UK government concerns over the Northern Ireland Protocol\n\nLast year, Cancer Research UK told the BBC that exclusion from Horizon Europe would be a \"significant blow\" in efforts to combat cancer. Sir Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust described Horizon as \"the world's biggest international science funding programme\".\n\nThat programme brings together researchers from industry and academia, with projects ranging from fundamental research to tackling issues such as combating climate change and efforts to find treatments for debilitating diseases.\n\nUniversities UK's letter, signed by Prof Paul Boyle of Swansea University, requests a meeting between Mr Sefcovic and UK vice-chancellors.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"It's hugely disappointing the EU continues to politicise scientific co-operation by delaying our accession to Horizon.\n\n\"If the UK is unable to associate soon, and in good time to make full use of the opportunities they offer, we will introduce a comprehensive alternative to promote global science, research and innovation collaboration.\"\n\nThe European Commission said it looked forward to a \"prompt resolution\" and that it recognised \"the mutual benefit in cooperation in science, research and innovation, nuclear research and space\".\n\nBut it added the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement did not provide for a specific obligation to associate the UK \"at this point in time, nor for a precise deadline to do so\".", "A woman in Cardiff is \"furious\" her father's care home is charging £18 an hour to take him to hospital appointments\n\nCare home providers have been criticised for charging top up fees to residents for taking them to medical appointments.\n\nThe Older People's Commissioner Helena Herklots said providers should be open and honest about extra fees and social care should be made free.\n\nSue Simms, whose dad is in a care home, said: \"It feels mean and underhanded.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said care homes were legally required to set out any extra charges.\n\nMs Simms, from Cardiff, cares for her father 78-year-old Peter Faint.\n\nMr Faint, who was a research and development scientist, requires full-time nursing care as he has Parkinson's Disease, vascular dementia and multiple sclerosis.\n\nMs Simms, a nurse, said she was \"astonished and furious\" when his care home told her she would have to start paying £18 an hour for every hospital appointment that she could not take her father to.\n\n\"I know from my background in A&E that if dad needed an ambulance, you could have a number of hours outside hospital, then 10 or 12 hours inside with an overnight wait for transport home.\n\n\"You could come away with a bill of hundreds of pounds,\" she said.\n\nSue Simms says she fears people who do not have family support could face bills they cannot afford\n\nMs Simms said she always tried to take her father to appointments but she worried about other people who may not be able to do the same for their relatives.\n\n\"We all think that everybody's got somebody but there are a lot of people who don't have anyone,\" she said.\n\n\"A lot of people don't have children and only an elderly spouse at home. A lot of people can't afford it. It feels mean and underhanded.\"\n\nMs Simms, who is an only child, has reduced her working hours in order to care for both her mother and father.\n\nShe said she had no idea about the top-up fees when her father moved into the home more than six months ago.\n\n\"It's another unnecessary pressure. Am I going to get a call saying my dad has an appointment and I have to juggle work? It's a pressure on my mum too and she's not well,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for the home where her dad lives, said: \"We do charge an escort fee for hospital appointments as standard at our home.\n\n\"We ask for the fee because when a carer is needed to accompany a resident, it means they are away from the home and the other residents under their care. In some cases, we will need to ensure an extra team member is on shift to cover their duties.\n\n\"In Sue's case, we apologise that the escort fees were not communicated to her and her family.\"\n\nThe care home added these fees were paused during the height of the pandemic and when charges restarted this should have been clearly communicated to everyone.\n\nThe Older People's Commissioner for Wales, Helena Herklots, said that it was not always clear how much extra people might have to pay. She added that some of the examples they had heard were \"extraordinary\".\n\nHelena Herklots, the Older People's commissioner, says the Welsh Government should make social care free as soon as possible\n\n\"We've heard of one example where someone was being charged to get access to go into the garden. That's at the extreme end,\" she said.\n\nShe said the worry about extra costs was causing families and older people \"a lot of stress\".\n\n\"It's affecting their mental health, it's making them anxious and worried because they're not sure they can afford these additional costs,\" she added.\n\nShe has called on the Welsh government to reform social care funding to make it free at the point of need as soon as possible.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was committed to creating a National Care Service.\n\nChief executive of Care Forum Wales, Mary Wimbury, explained that the financial situation for care homes was \"really challenging\".\n\nShe said that care home fees were not increasing in line with increased costs of food, heating and staffing.\n\n\"We've got to have an honest conversation across Wales about how much care costs, how much we're prepared to pay, what we want in terms of standards, in terms of things like staff ratios,\" said Ms Wimbury.\n\nShe added that accompanying someone for a long hospital visit meant backfill staff would be needed in the home which would cost providers.\n\nCare Forum Wales, which represents care homes in Wales, says they are struggling with increased costs\n\n\"There's either got to be an additional charge or it's got to be part of the general fee,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh government said it expected care home providers to be clear and upfront about the fees they charge.\n\n\"They are required by law to set out this information in their written guide for the service as well as an individual's service agreement,\" it said.\n\n\"Creating a National Care Service, that is free at the point of need, is a commitment in the Co-operation Agreement between the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru and we will be setting up an expert group to support this shared ambition.\"\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association, which represents councils, said social care services needed \"significant and sustainable\" long term investments to make permanent improvements.\n\n\"The current cost of living crisis will only further exacerbate some of the current pressures, with social care facing a funding gap for current services, increasing each year due to inflation and other costs.\n\n\"This is without considering the immediate need to address unmet and under met need on these overburdened systems.\n\n\"Without adequate funding, some councils will face a battle to balance budgets, worsening existing pressures and running the serious risk of impacts on the ability to deliver timely and quality care to those who draw on it.\"", "One of Boris Johnson's strongest cabinet allies has hit out out Tory MPs trying to oust him, accusing them of doing \"the opposition's work\".\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries claimed growing calls for the PM to resign were the result of a \"co-ordinated campaign\" by backbenchers.\n\nCriticism of Mr Johnson among Tory MPs has increased since Sue Gray's Partygate report last week.\n\nBut Ms Dorries said the \"overwhelming\" majority still backed him.\n\nTwelve Conservative MPs have called on Mr Johnson to quit since the release of Ms Gray's report laid bare the scale of Covid rule-breaking in No 10.\n\nIt takes the number now openly calling on him to resign to 28. Most of have written letters of no confidence in him, although the total number formally calling for a contest may be higher.\n\nMr Johnson has dismissed calls for him to quit, adding it would not be \"responsible right now given everything that's going on\".\n\nUnder Tory party rules, 54 letters are required to set up a vote on the PM's position, a move which could eventually lead to a contest to replace him.\n\nOnly Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench committee that organises leadership contests, knows exactly how many have been submitted.\n\nNadine Dorries is urging Tory MPs to unite behind the prime minister\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Ms Dorries said the debate over Partygate had become a \"Westminster bubble issue\" and the public was \"ready to move on\".\n\n\"There is obviously, I think probably led by one or two individuals, a campaign behind the scenes to try, attempt to remove the prime minister for individual reasons to do with personal ambition or other reasons,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"The people who most want to get rid of Boris Johnson are Keir Starmer and the SNP\".\n\n\"I would just ask my colleagues to reflect on that, and do we really want to do the opposition's work - and do we really believe the public will vote for a party that they think is divided?\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has also backed the prime minister, telling Conservative MPs who want to remove him to \"forget it\", BBC political correspondent Helen Catt reports.\n\nMs Patel told the Daily Mail that writing letters of no confidence was a \"sideshow\" and warned that the public \"wouldn't thank the Conservative Party for talking about itself at a time when people had anxieties, concerns [and] apprehensions\".\n\nShe also warned colleagues against overshadowing the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, saying \"all the focus\" this weekend should be on the Queen and her \"long-standing dedicated service\".\n\nDespite the uncertainty over the number of no-confidence letters, there has been mounting speculation Mr Johnson could face a no-confidence vote soon.\n\nOn Monday, former Tory leader Lord Hague said the PM was in \"real trouble\" and predicted a vote could take place as early as next week, when MPs return from their short early summer recess.\n\nBut speaking earlier, deputy PM Dominic Raab told Sky News he doubted the number of letters could be \"that high\".\n\nThere is no consensus among Tory MPs about who should be their next leader, but Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and senior backbencher Tom Tugendhat are among those being discussed as possible challengers.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak was widely seen as a potential leadership rival to the PM, but his prospects are thought to have waned after he picked up his own Partygate fine and was embroiled in a controversy over his wife's finances earlier this year.\n\nThere's no obvious thread linking the MPs that have publicly called on the prime minister to go.\n\nSome of the calls have come in quick succession, others months apart.\n\nThey've come from MPs elected in different years, with different ideologies. Some of them backed Boris Johnson at the last Tory leadership contest, others backed his rivals.\n\nSome Tory MPs are convinced there is a degree of co-ordination behind closed doors.\n\nOne senior Tory told me he believes supporters of Jeremy Hunt are among those being particularly critical publicly.\n\nOthers attribute the steady drip-drip of letters in recent days to a ripple effect. As soon as a few critical MPs came out publicly, they argue, others felt emboldened to do the same.\n\nCo-ordination or not, there is no doubt MPs do talk to each other - there are Whatsapp groups and sub-Whatsapp groups of Tory MPs.\n\nEven before Sue Gray's report came out, I was told the tea rooms of Westminster were alive with chatter about who was \"ready to move\".\n\nSome of that chatter has been more muted as MPs are out of office for recess - with some arguing the Jubilee weekend is not the time for \"internal warfare\".\n\nBut that could all liven up again quite quickly when they return next week.\n\nMeanwhile, the debate over the PM's future has been given fresh impetus after his standards adviser Lord Geidt called on him to explain how his own Partygate fine tallied with the rulebook for ministers, which says they have a duty to comply with the law.\n\nAlong with his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Mr Johnson was fined for attending a birthday party for him in the Cabinet Room in June 2020.\n\nIn a report on Monday, Lord Geidt wrote there was a \"legitimate question\" over whether this constituted a breach of the ministerial code.\n\nIn a written reply, Mr Johnson said he had not fallen foul of the code because he had not broken Covid laws on purpose.\n\nIn an interview with Mumsnet on Tuesday, the prime minister insisted he thought the gathering in the Cabinet Room counted as a work event, and he was \"very, very surprised\" and \"taken aback\" to have received a fine.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner accused the prime minister of ignoring Lord Geidt's advice, and finding himself innocent of breaching ministerial rules in \"his own courtroom\".\n\nAdding that Mr Johnson was \"dodging questions\", she called for him to \"make a statement\" on his \"apparent breach\" of the rules.\n\nFor the SNP, MP Mhairi Black called on Scotland's six Tory MPs to \"step up and do the right thing\" and submit no-confidence letters in \"this Partygate prime minister\".", "The new rules, prompted by the Grenfell fire, will only apply to future development projects, not existing properties or those currently being built\n\nFive years after the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, the government has banned the specific type of cladding which allowed the blaze to spread so rapidly.\n\nMetal composite panels with an unmodified polyethylene core now cannot be used on any building of any height.\n\nThe government first received data demonstrating the danger of polyethylene-cored cladding in 2002.\n\nPreviously, the ban applied only to buildings higher than 11m (36ft).\n\nThere are new restrictions on other combustible materials, but some will be permitted on buildings under 18m (59ft), subject to a large-scale fire test.\n\nAll new residential buildings higher than 11m will have to include a secure information box, which will give fire and rescue services access to building details in case of fire, and an evacuation alert system - an alarm that can trigger an evacuation if a fire is out of control.\n\nThe changes announced on Wednesday also extend the scope of the ban on combustible materials above 18m to include hotels and boarding schools, which the government had previously chosen to exclude. Hospitals are already covered.\n\nChanges to building regulations and guidance are not retrospective, meaning the new rules will only apply to future newbuild projects, not existing properties or schemes that are already under way.\n\nIn May, the home secretary published a Fire Reform White Paper to incorporate recommendations made by the Grenfell public inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry said the controversial \"stay put\" policy - asking residents of most buildings to wait inside for rescue services, rather than leaving in the event of a fire - should be changed.\n\nHowever, Home Office papers outlined plans to keep the policy in place.\n\nBuilding and Fire Safety Minister Lord Greenhalgh said: \"We have introduced the biggest improvements to building safety in a generation, under the Building Safety Act.\n\n\"These changes will support our tough new regulatory regime - ensuring fire safety measures are incorporated into new high-rise homes and all new residential buildings meet the same safety standards.\n\n\"It does not end here and I urge the industry act quickly to update their practises in line with these new rules.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Despite a 32-hour delay, the flight crew faced a race against time to leave Manchester Airport\n\nA co-pilot helped load luggage on to a 32-hour delayed flight to ensure it was finally able to take off.\n\nPassenger Jenny Cook said the co-pilot, called Simon, was cheered by grateful passengers on the Tui flight to Crete from Manchester Airport on Monday.\n\nHe was described as a \"legend\" by passengers for his \"heroic\" actions.\n\nManchester Airport has once again been hit by travel chaos with passengers facing long queues amid cancellations and delays.\n\nTui has yet to comment on the co-pilot's actions but it has announced it will cancel six flights a day until the end of June \"to provide stability and a better customer service\".\n\nMrs Cook, from Warrington, Cheshire, said the pilot on the flight, which was due to depart at 07.55 GMT on Sunday, told passengers they were doing all they could to get the flight in the air but they only had a 40-minute window.\n\nPassengers had to queue for hours on the bridge connecting terminals at Manchester airport\n\n\"He said 'even my co-pilot is loading bags' so we looked out of the window and there he was,\" she said.\n\n\"The next thing we knew we were taxiing to the runway. We were all cheering.\n\n\"Simon had gone above and beyond.\"\n\nMrs Cook is now enjoying her holiday in Greece with her husband and daughters, which she said was partly thanks to Simon.\n\nShe added: \"As a HR director, employee recognition is key, after all the negative press Tui has had recently and the journey we had been on, we were all taken aback on what Simon had done.\n\n\"I think Tui need to do something to recognise Simon.\"\n\nJenny Cook (right) said the family were now finally enjoying their holiday thanks to the co-pilot\n\nKatherine Cox, from Warrington, who was also on the delayed flight, said: \"The crew and pilot on the flight were amazing\", adding Simon was the \"hero of our holiday\".\n\nIf it was not for \"Simon's heroics we would have missed our air traffic control slot\", she added.\n\nManchester Airport said Tui and Swissport, which provides ground services such as baggage handling, \"are experiencing temporary staff shortages, in common with other aviation and travel companies\".\n\nA Tui spokeswoman said the firm was aware of videos \"showing one of our amazing Tui pilots supporting our operation by loading bags on to one of our aircraft bound for Crete from Manchester\".\n\n\"Whilst not something our pilots would normally do, this video is one example of the incredible dedication of Tui colleagues who are doing everything they can to get customers away on their holidays,\" she said.\n\n\"We can't thank him enough for his swift and decisive actions.\"\n\nA spokesperson from Swissport apologised for its part in the delays and disruption.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can to address our role in meeting our resource challenges, welcoming over 2,000 new colleagues since the start of the year, and we continue to work with our partners to identify contingency measures and improve baggage and aircraft turnaround times.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olexander Guz says Russian soldiers tortured him for information\n\nWhile his homemade borsch bubbles on the hob, Olexander Guz shows me pictures of his bruised body on his phone.\n\nThe injuries, he says, were inflicted by the Russian authorities. \"They put a bag on my head,\" Olexander tells me. \"The Russians threatened that I would not have kidneys left.\"\n\nThe BBC has gathered several graphic testimonies of residents in Kherson who say they were tortured.\n\nWarning: this report contains some graphic content that readers may find distressing.\n\nOlexander used to live in Bilozerka, a small village in the Kherson region. He was one of the village's deputies. As a young man he was a conscript in the army, but now runs his own business.\n\nHe and his wife were publicly anti-Russia: she attended pro-Ukrainian rallies, he tried to stop Russian troops entering their village.\n\nIt wasn't long after Russia took over that soldiers came looking for him.\n\n\"They tied a rope around my neck and another around my wrists,\" he recalls. He says they told him to stand with his legs wide apart while they questioned him.\n\n\"When I didn't answer them, they hit me between my legs. When I fell, I started to suffocate. As you try to get up, they beat you. Then they ask again.\"\n\nOlexander took pictures of his bruises after being released by Russian authorities\n\nRussian troops took control of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, early in the war. Ukrainian TV stations were quickly replaced with Russian state broadcasts. Western products were changed for Russian alternatives.\n\nAccording to multiple first-hand testimonies, people also began to disappear.\n\nPiecing together what is happening inside Kherson is difficult. As Russia has tightened its grip on the region, people have become increasingly frightened to speak out.\n\nThose who manage to leave often delete all the photos and videos from their phones for fear of being stopped and detained at Russian checkpoints. Olexander sent images of his injuries to his son, who was abroad, for safe keeping before wiping his phone.\n\nIt means to corroborate testimonies, it is necessary to speak to multiple people who say they have been victims of torture.\n\nOleh Baturin is one of them. He was a journalist for an independent newspaper in the Kherson region. Within days of Russia's invasion, he says he was kidnapped.\n\n\"They shouted, 'On your knees',\" he says. \"They covered my face... and put my hands behind my back. They beat me on the back, ribs and legs... and hit me with the butt of a machine gun.\"\n\nIt was only later, when he went to see a doctor, that Oleh realised they had broken four of his ribs. He says he was imprisoned for eight days. In that time, he heard others being tortured and witnessed a young man's mock execution.\n\nOleh Baturin says he witnessed several people being tortured while he was imprisoned\n\nBoth Olexander and Oleh are now in Ukrainian-held territory. They provided the BBC with photos of what they said were police reports of the abuse.\n\nSome allegations of torture are particularly graphic. I spoke to one doctor who worked in a hospital in Kherson. He asked to remain anonymous, but provided me with a picture of his hospital ID.\n\n\"There were signs of bodily mutilation,\" he says, listing haematomas (localised bleeding outside blood vessels that appears as a bad bruise), abrasions, cut marks, signs of electrocution, traces of binding on the hands and strangulation marks on the neck.\n\nHe says he also saw burns on people's feet and hands, and that one patient told him he was beaten with a hose filled with sand.\n\n\"Some of the worst were burn marks on genitals, a gunshot wound to the head of a girl who was raped and burns from an iron on a patient's back and stomach. The patient told me two wires from a car battery were attached to his groin and he was told to stand on a wet rag\", the doctor adds.\n\nHe believes there were many others severely injured who did not receive treatment.\n\nSome stay at home because they are too intimidated to go outside. And some, he says, are \"psychologically pressured\" by the Russians. \"They threaten that their families will be killed, and they intimidate them in every possible way.\"\n\nHe says he asked the patients why they had been picked by the Russian authorities.\n\n\"They were tortured if they did not want to go over to the Russian side, for being at rallies, for being in the territorial defence, for the fact that one of the family members fought against the separatists, some got there randomly.\"\n\nRussian troops have occupied Kherson since the beginning of the war\n\nSome people are afraid their loved ones could be next.\n\nVictoria (not her real name) fears for her parents, who are still in Kherson. Her father used to be in the Ukrainian territorial defence and has already been kidnapped and beaten once, she tells me.\n\n\"They dropped him in the middle of a field. When he got home, after a few minutes he burst into tears, even though he is not a sentimental person. I'm trying to help, but it all made me feel like a little girl.\"\n\nNow Victoria worries it could happen again.\n\nThe BBC is not the only one investigating what is going on in Kherson. Both the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and Human Rights Watch have told us they are also concerned about the allegations of torture and enforced disappearances.\n\nBelkis Wille, from Human Rights Watch, says the testimony gathered by the BBC is consistent with what they are hearing.\n\nShe says the concern is that Russian forces, in areas they are occupying, are continuing to a certain extent to \"terrorise the local civilian population and use abusive practices like arbitrary detention and forced disappearance and torture\".\n\n\"These are potential war crimes we're looking at,\" she adds.\n\nThe Russian Ministry of Defence did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. Previously, the Kremlin spokesperson said allegations of war crimes in Bucha were \"obvious fakes and the most egregious ones are staged, as has been convincingly proved by our experts.\"\n\nExactly what is happening in Kherson is near impossible to establish from the outside, but as more testimonies are gathered, many paint a picture of fear, intimidation, violence and repression.\n\nVictoria is trying to get her parents out.\n\n\"In Kherson, now people go missing all the time,\" she tells me. \"There is a war going on, only this part is without bombs.\"", "Passengers have expressed fury over what they see as poor treatment after travel giant Tui axed dozens of flights amid continued misery at UK airports.\n\nChris Thompson, whose flight home from Turkey was cancelled minutes before departure, told the BBC that Tui's organisation was \"absolutely abysmal\".\n\nAbout 34,000 customers were told their June holidays out of Manchester had been axed, some in overnight emails.\n\nTui apologised and said the vast majority of its flights were operating.\n\n\"We understand that last minute cancellations are incredibly disappointing and we would like to reassure our customers that we are doing everything we can to get them on holiday as planned,\" it said.\n\nOther airlines, including EasyJet and British Airways have also cancelled flights, amid staff shortages and other issues that have coincided with rising demand for foreign travel after the pandemic.\n\nMr Thompson, who is on holiday with his wife and three children in Izmir, Turkey, said the family were told their Tui flight home had been cancelled after they had already got through passport control.\n\nThe family were put up in a hotel on Tuesday night after spending more than five hours at the airport and were told they could get a flight back to Manchester at 16:00.\n\n\"Not knowing what's going on is becoming frustrating,\" he said. \"The Tui number is constantly engaged.\"\n\nHe was later given a new estimated flight time of 02:20 on Thursday.\n\nChris Thompson said the disruption was \"an absolute shambles\"\n\nSteve Butcher, from Gravesend, was due to fly on holiday to Paphos, Cyprus, on Wednesday morning.\n\nBut he woke up to an email from Tui saying their holiday was cancelled.\n\n\"My wife was in tears, she was so looking forward to it. We were all packed and ready to go,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSteve said he then received another email from Tui saying their flight would now be on Thursday morning, but he is unsure whether to go to the airport tomorrow.\n\n\"If we do, we have to stay in a Travelodge as we will need to arrive in the early hours. But what if it gets cancelled again?\"\n\nTui is cancelling six daily flights at Manchester Airport, a quarter of its schedule at the hub\n\nAbout 34,000 customers due to fly with Tui from Manchester Airport in June have been told their flights are now cancelled. For some, the news came overnight in emails sent after 02:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nPat Karney, a councillor in Manchester, said he received an early-hours message confirming his holiday to Girona on 18 June had been cancelled.\n\nHe described the situation as a \"shambles\" and asked: \"Why book us in the first place?\"\n\nMichael Dunne, who also received a notification, said he was assured by Tui his holiday was not affected when he phoned the firm on Tuesday evening - only to find out it was cancelled overnight.\n\n\"I made a phone call to them late last night and managed to actually get through... and I was told at that point last night that there was no impact to my holiday and it was going ahead,\" he said.\n\n\"I woke up in the middle of the night to find an email cancelling the holiday in its entirety, and if I would like to rebook using the website but cannot do so until Friday.\"\n\nMr Dunne told BBC Radio 5 Live that when he looked on the Tui website for the same holiday, flying on the same dates, to the same hotel but on a different flight, the quoted price was £5,000 higher than he paid.\n\nTui has said staffing shortages are partly to blame for the cancellations\n\nAccording to flight tracking firm Cirium, 377 flights have been cancelled from UK airports during the last week (25-31 May), with EasyJet the most affected airline and Gatwick the airport worst hit.\n\nIt comes as up to two million people prepare to fly over the next few days, with the Jubilee bank holiday coinciding with half-term.\n\nThe aviation industry is suffering from staff shortages as it struggles to recruit replacements for the thousands of workers it laid off during the pandemic when international travel was halted.\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps met with senior leaders from airports, airlines and ground handling companies to discuss the disruption on Wednesday evening.\n\nHe reiterated that airline bosses should have been preparing for a \"surge in passenger demand following two years of travel closures\", the Department for Transport said.\n\nMr Shapps said he understood the sector's staffing problems but added it \"does not excuse poor planning and overbooking flights that they cannot service\".\n\n\"The companies who have seen the most disruption need to learn from those who ran services smoothly,\" he added.\n\nLabour's Louise Haigh accused the government of being \"missing in action\" and called on ministers to address the backlog in security checks for new airline staff and address \"chronic low-pay\".\n\nThe transport secretary said the government had \"made the changes needed to allow the sector to prepare for summer\" and said it was now up to the industry \"to do their bit\".\n\n\"We have been crystal clear - run services properly and according to schedule or provide swift, appropriate compensation,\" he added. \"We do not want to see a repeat of this over the summer.\"\n\nThe final Covid restrictions for people travelling to the UK were lifted on 18 March.\n\nAirlines UK had said the sector had \"only a matter of weeks to recover and prepare for one of the busiest summers we've seen in many years\" but, despite this, \"the vast majority\" of flights this week would be operating as scheduled.\n\nAfter the meeting, chief executive of Airlines UK Tim Alderslade added: \"This isn't an airline issue or an airport issue or a government issue.\n\n\"We're in this together and we look forward to exploring options with ministers to move the sector forwards as we approach the summer.\"\n\nSome European airports have also seen disruption this week.\n\nEarlier the Paris Airport authority, which manages Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, said software problems were affecting border controls leading to delays, although by lunchtime it said the system was gradually returning to normal.\n\nEurostar said an IT issue at the French border also led to delays of 30 to 60 minutes to train services.\n\nMeanwhile, the operator of Dublin Airport said it could not guarantee the long delays seen last weekend would not be repeated over the bank holiday.\n\nAre you going on holiday? How have you been affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sports Direct owner Frasers Group has bought Missguided for £20m, after the online fashion retailer collapsed into administration.\n\nChief executive Michael Murray said the group, which also owns House of Fraser, was \"delighted to secure a long-term future\" for the fast fashion company.\n\nSome 87 staff will be made redundant and 147 are expected to move to Frasers Group, the BBC understands.\n\nAdministrator Teneo would not comment on job losses.\n\nIt will run the business for a transition period of around eight weeks. Frasers will then take it on as a \"standalone business\" within the group.\n\nMissguided has suffered from supply chain problems, rising freight costs and increasing competition from rivals.\n\nSuppliers had accused the business of leaving millions of pounds of debts unpaid.\n\nFrasers Group confirmed it had bought the intellectual property of Missguided and its sister brand Mennace.\n\nMr Murray said: \"Missguided's digital-first approach to the latest trends in women's fashion will bring additional expertise to the wider Frasers Group.\"\n\nThe Manchester-based business was founded by Nitin Passi in 2009 and grew to become one of the UK's biggest online fashion players. But in the last few years it has struggled to make a profit.\n\nLast autumn it was rescued by the finance firm Alteri Investors, with Mr Passi stepping down as chief executive in April.\n\nBeth Davies ordered £200 worth of clothes from Missguided and they have not arrived\n\nMissguided customers have been tweeting the company to complain that orders have not arrived, returns not processed and refunds not received.\n\nAmong them is Beth Davies, a 24-year-old business support manager from Sheffield, who ordered £200 of potential outfits for a wedding on Saturday.\n\nShe received a reply that said an IT issue meant her order had not been sent by next day delivery.\n\nBy then the news of Missguided's collapse had broken with i newspaper reporting the warehouse had been shut since Thursday - two days before Ms Davies placed her order.\n\n\"Yesterday I was at work feeling so frustrated,\" she said. \"They said it's on the way when that's clearly a lie if the warehouse has been shut since last week.\"\n\nNew owners Frasers Group said fulfilment of orders was the responsibility of administrator Teneo, which declined to comment.\n\nProf Dilys Williams, director of the centre for sustainable fashion at London College of Fashion, said the company's collapse exposed the \"fragility\" of the fast fashion model.\n\nShe said many customers were becoming more interested in sustainability and moving away from cheap, throwaway clothing.\n\nMissguided once had a lucrative sponsorship deal with reality dating show Love Island but this year the series has partnered with eBay to style the stars in second-hand pieces.\n\n\"The culture of being able to buy second hand and it being a great thing is a change in how people are thinking about fashion,\" Prof Williams told the BBC.\n\nHowever, the brand had also faced increased competition from fast fashion rivals such as Boohoo and Shein, a Chinese company which saw its popularity surge during the pandemic.\n\nDarcey Jupp, apparel analyst at GlobalData, said Frasers Group was taking a punt on Missguided as it was a different direction to its sports and premium brands.\n\n\"Operating Missguided as a standalone brand is a wise move, as its young target audience would not be inclined to shop at its other fascias like House of Fraser,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"Continuing its concessions in select Asda stores would be a good way to capture demand from convenience-seeking consumers.\"\n\nThe Frasers Group deal comes as it embarks on a modernisation strategy under a new boss, with plans to open up to 10 flagship Sports Direct stores across the UK.\n\nMr Murray took over from founder Mike Ashley - his future father-in-law - in May.\n\nMissguided will become the latest troubled brand to join the group, after it snapped up Game, Evans Cycles, Jack Wills and Sofa.com in similar deals.\n\nRetailers Boohoo, Asos and JD Sports had also been rumoured to be interested in a potential rescue deal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jayesh Patel says police were called in to tell passengers their flight was cancelled\n\nPassengers have again faced long queues at Manchester Airport with flights cancelled and baggage lost.\n\nHalf-term travel delays at the weekend have continued with some describing airport scenes earlier as \"carnage\".\n\nManchester Airport has apologised for passengers' inconvenience after queues of nearly three hours to check-in.\n\nJames Sutton who was stuck at the airport for 11 hours before his flight to Greece was cancelled, said: \"It was a complete nightmare.\"\n\nMr Sutton, 50, of Warrington, Cheshire, had been due to take off on Sunday on a 07:55 BST flight to Heraklion in Crete.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It was a shambles. It took nearly three hours just to check-in with our bags.\n\n\"When we did get on the flight it couldn't take off as they didn't know where anyone's bags were.\"\n\nMr Sutton added: \"After a few hours, the pilot decided to take everyone off and the flight was cancelled.\n\n\"There were lots of angry people with many in tears.\n\n\"The police came at one point as I think staff were worried it was going to boil over.\"\n\nPassengers had to queue for hours on the bridge connecting terminals at the airport\n\nThose who did fly away on holiday were shocked to find their bags did not arrive.\n\nNikki Scragg's luggage was lost after she flew to Menorca for a two-week holiday with her family.\n\nShe said: \"We have literally just got the clothes we arrived in.\n\n\"Fortunately for me I packed a bikini and a strappy top in my hand luggage.\n\n\"My husband has had to go out and buy a pair of shorts.\"\n\nNikki Scragg says it is \"horrible\" as she is having to wash her pants every day on holiday in Menorca\n\nShe added: \"I have got one pairs of pants and there is nowhere to buy them.\n\n\"We are having to wash them out every day. It is horrible.\"\n\nThere were also reports of empty shelves in airport shops and low supplies of food in restaurants.\n\nJayesh Patel was stranded at the airport for 10 hours after his Tui flight to Kos, Greece, was cancelled.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of places had run out of food. Queues for drinks were really long and a lot of places were closed.\"\n\nPassengers waiting at Manchester Airport where flights have been cancelled and baggage lost\n\nMr Patel added: \"A few police officers later turned up as people were getting visibly angry.\n\n\"There were people on that flight who were going to get married or on their honeymoon.\"\n\nOther passengers also told of their frustration as former soldier Chris Pike said it took him more than two hours to check-in and it was \"very poor and slow\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAirline Tui has apologised to its customers for flight and baggage delays.\n\nThe operator said a \"sudden increase\" in visitor numbers combined with \"operational and supply chain issues\" had affected a small number of flights.\n\nA spokeswoman said May half-term holidays were \"always incredibly busy\" but added it was the \"first peak period in more than two years\" that was not impacted by Covid restrictions.\n\nManchester Airport has previously blamed staff shortages and a post-pandemic spike in demand for recent travel chaos.\n\nIt said it was aware of challenges being faced by a number of airlines and handling agents which had led to delays in check-in and baggage reclaim for some passengers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nRafael Nadal demonstrated once again why he is the greatest player in French Open history by beating long-time rival Novak Djokovic in a late-night thriller to reach the men's singles semi-finals.\n\nNadal, going for a 14th title, started superbly and fought off resistance from defending champion Djokovic to win 6-2 4-6 6-2 7-6 (7-4) at Roland Garros.\n\nNadal secured victory at 1:15am local time after over four hours on court.\n\nThe 21-time Grand Slam winner now faces third seed Alexander Zverev on Friday.\n\nGermany's Zverev, 25, reached the semi-finals for the second successive year after surviving teenage sensation Carlos Alcaraz's fightback earlier on Tuesday.\n\n\"To win against Novak there is only one way: to play your best from the first point to the last,\" said 35-year-old Nadal, who thanked the Paris crowd for showing their \"love\".\n\n\"This is one of those magic nights for me.\"\n\nVictory for fifth seed Nadal avenged his semi-final defeat by Djokovic last year and extended his all-time record on the Roland Garros clay to 110 wins in 113 matches.\n\nThe rivalry between the pair is the most enduring in men's tennis, with Nadal winning their 59th meeting seeing him narrow the gap to 30-29 in the head-to-head.\n\n\"Nadal showed why he is a great champion and stayed mentally tough. No doubt he deserves it,\" said Djokovic.\n\nThis was a gripping, captivating match with some ferocious hitting and also human frailty on display.\n\nThe plot twists were numerous and startling: especially Djokovic fading in a fourth set he had led 5-2.\n\nPerhaps a lack of intense matches cost him. He did after all miss the Australian Open, Indian Wells and Miami and had not played a match longer than three sets since September's US Open semi-final.\n\nNadal's 29th win over Djokovic will only be truly significant if he goes on to win a 22nd Grand Slam title. And don't for one moment consider that a formality now even with Djokovic and Alcaraz are out of the draw.\n\nThe 35-year-old has spent eight and a half hours on court in his past two matches, and will be grateful for an extra day of rest before Friday's semi-final.\n\nIn front of an adoring crowd, Nadal earned another memorable win on the court where he has enjoyed the greatest successes of his career.\n\nAt the end of last year the Spaniard thought he would have to retire because of a chronic foot problem and was hampered by the issue at the Italian Open earlier this month.\n\nA stress fracture of the rib also caused him to miss two months of the season shortly after his record-breaking 21st major win at the Australian Open.\n\nDespite turning 36 later this week, and needing five sets to beat Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime on Sunday, he dug deep into his physical and mental reserves to beat top seed Djokovic.\n\nNadal blew Djokovic away in fast starts in both of the pair's matches at Roland Garros in 2020 and 2021 and, although those matches ended in different conclusions, he set out to do the same this time.\n\nThe left-hander played superbly in the first set, pinning Djokovic back in the court and punishing him with fizzing forehand winners.\n\nNadal took two of his four break opportunities, while saving both of Djokovic's two, to win a 50-minute opening set.\n\nHitting 12 winners compared to six unforced errors was a complete contrast to his slow start in the previous round against Auger-Aliassime.\n\nThat laid the platform for Nadal to eventually go on to reach a record 15th semi-final at Roland Garros.\n\n\"It was an emotional night and I still play for nights like tonight,\" said Nadal, who won seven of 17 break points and saved eight of 12 for Djokovic.\n\n\"But it is just a quarter-final and I still have a semi-final to come. I will stay emotionally stable and get ready for the semi-final.\"\n\nWhile Nadal has had fitness issues, Djokovic's season has been disrupted by not being allowed to play in the Australian Open and tournaments in the United States because he was not vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam champion looked to be heading towards peak form, winning the title in Rome and then not dropping a set at Roland Garros going into the quarter-finals.\n\nMany had thought playing the match in the colder night-time conditions would also favour the Serb.\n\nHowever, two-time champion Djokovic was far from his best after being overwhelmed by Nadal in the early stages.\n\nMaintaining his sky-high level proved to be the issue for Nadal in last year's semi-final, but the Spaniard broke again and moved into a 3-0 lead in the second set.\n\nWhile temperatures started to drop, Djokovic began to warm up and fought back to level at 3-3 after a sixth game lasting almost 19 minutes.\n\nLengthy games with few routine holds continued and the set eventually tipped in the favour of Djokovic when Nadal cracked a forehand long on the second set point.\n\n\"He was the better player in the important moments, he started well and I didn't start so well,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"I gained momentum in the second set and I thought I was back in the game. But he was able to take his tennis to another level.\"\n\nNadal broke to love at the start of the third set and moved into a 4-1 lead when a double fault from Djokovic was followed by the Serb dragging a crosscourt backhand wide.\n\nNadal served out for a two-sets-to-one advantage with few problems as time passed midnight in Paris and a chill whipped around the stands.\n\nYet few fans decided to leave and many of those who stayed were wrapped up in blankets.\n\nDjokovic broke for a 2-0 lead early in the fourth but missed two set points when serving at 5-3 and was punished when Nadal nailed a crosscourt forehand winner to put the set back on serve.\n\nMost of the 15,000-capacity crowd was supporting Nadal and their patience was rewarded when he dominated the tie-break to earn a stunning victory.\n\nNadal led 6-1 in the breaker and took his fourth match point with a driving backhand down the line before soaking up the acclaim of a jubilant Chatrier.", "There were jubilant scenes in City Park as the announcement was made\n\nBradford has won the competition to be named the UK's City of Culture for 2025.\n\nThe decision was announced on The One Show on BBC One by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.\n\nBradford will follow Coventry, the current holder of the title, and those behind the city's bid believe it will generate £700m and create 3,000 jobs.\n\nCounty Durham, Southampton and Wrexham had all been shortlisted alongside Bradford.\n\nShanaz Gulzar who led the Bradford bid described the win as a \"huge opportunity\".\n\n\"To celebrate our extraordinary cultural heritage and for our young, ethnically diverse population - who have been so involved in shaping our bid - to become leaders and changemakers and begin a new chapter in our story.\"\n\nThe artist said for too long the city had been overlooked and underestimated.\n\n\"It's now our time to shine.\"\n\nBradford's council leader Susan Hinchcliffe said the win would bring \"so many opportunities\" and the area had started \"to come to life as never before\".\n\n\"Being UK City of Culture brings with it so many opportunities for people not only in terms of creativity and culture, but also for employment, attracting inward investment, boosting the local economy and opening up opportunities for young people to enhance their skills,\" she added.\n\nThe landmark year is set to deliver more than 1,000 new performances and events, including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as national and international collaborations.\n\nCrowds gathered in City Park to watch the announcement\n\nWest Yorkshire's Mayor Tracy Brabin said she was delighted Bradford had been chosen.\n\n\"No city deserves this more,\" she said.\n\n\"As one of the youngest and most diverse places in the UK, Bradford will benefit so much from this platform to highlight everything it has to offer.\"\n\nShe said the year would be a fitting showcase for the \"incredible cultural and artistic\" talent in the city.\n\nCrowds in Bradford's City Park watched the announcement live and reacted with jubilation, and the city council tweeted: \"OMG we've only gone and done it.\"\n\nThe winner was approved by Ms Dorries based on independent advice from a panel of experts led by TV writer-producer Sir Phil Redmond.\n\nShe said Bradford was a \"worthy winner\".\n\n\"Art and culture should be accessible to everyone and this prestigious title will help Bradford deliver unforgettable events for communities on their doorstep.\n\n\"There was stiff competition and I thank County Durham, Southampton and Wrexham County Borough for their excellent bids.\"\n\nThe bid team hope winning will generate thousands of new jobs and investment in the city\n\nSouthampton bid director Claire Whitaker said she was proud of the \"passion and support of the city\" despite losing out to Bradford.\n\nNeal Thompson, co-founder of Focus Wales Festival and a key partner in Wrexham's bid, said the story was not over.\n\nOn behalf of Durham's bid, the leader of Durham County Council Amanda Hopgood said they were \"disappointed\" but congratulated Bradford.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA UK City of Culture is chosen every four years and has previously been awarded to Derry (2013), Hull (2017) and Coventry (2021).\n\nBradford will receive £270,000 in initial funding to assist it in developing its plans and will also be eligible for a £3m grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\nFor the first time the three runners up will receive £125,000 to enable them to move forward with some of the elements of their bids.\n\nSir Phil Redmond said the choice was never about one bid being better than another.\n\n\"It is more that one bid has the potential to make a bigger and deliverable impact.\"\n\nHe said he was looking forward to seeing how far Bradford could raise the cultural bar.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Passengers are facing ongoing disruption ahead of the bank holiday weekend\n\nAirlines and operators have \"seriously oversold flights and holidays\" relative to their capacity to deliver, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.\n\nMr Shapps said it had been \"very distressing\" to see people facing more disruption at airports with \"holidays cancelled and plans left in disarray\".\n\nPassengers are facing travel problems ahead of the Jubilee weekend, with several airlines cancelling flights.\n\nUp to two million people are preparing to fly over the next few days.\n\nThe vast majority of flights will be operating as scheduled, said Airlines UK which represents Tui, EasyJet and British Airways.\n\nMr Shapps said the government had been clear that it was up to industry leaders to tackle travel disruption, which was also seen at Easter.\n\nThe transport secretary said he would meet with airports, airlines and ground handlers to \"find out what's gone wrong and how they are planning to end the current run of cancellations and delays\".\n\n\"Despite government warnings, operators seriously oversold flights and holidays relative to their capacity to deliver. This must not happen again and all efforts should be directed at there being no repeat of this over the summer - the first post-Covid summer season,\" he added.\n\nPassengers are facing ongoing disruption ahead of the bank holiday weekend, with holiday giant Tui announcing it will cancel six flights a day until the end of June, affecting around 34,000 travellers in all.\n\nAround 10,000 flights are set to leave the UK between Thursday and Sunday, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.\n\nOther airlines, including EasyJet, have also cancelled flights, with the aviation industry suffering from staff shortages as it struggles to recruit replacements for the thousands of workers it laid off during the coronavirus pandemic when international travel halted.\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nMr Shapps said the government had helped the aviation industry with £8bn of support during the pandemic\n\nPaul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency and a former Virgin Atlantic director, said the industry had been \"overwhelmed\" since demand for flights returned after the pandemic but argued the government itself was \"responsible for this chaos\".\n\n\"[The transport secretary] has got a bit of a nerve I'm afraid,\" he told the BBC. \"It's because of government restrictions that changed so much during the pandemic, and then the shutdown of the industry with the Omicron variant last December, that has created this problem.\"\n\nHe added that without certainty over when travel restrictions would be eased, the industry was not able to recruit more staff.\n\nKelly Sandhu, from the Aviation Recruitment Network, said the process of hiring new workers took a long time so there was \"not a quick fix\" .\n\nAirlines UK said the sector had \"only a matter of weeks to recover and prepare for one of the busiest summers we've seen in many years\" but, despite this, \"the vast majority\" of flights this week would be operating as scheduled.\n\nMichael Turner managed a smile despite the frustrations he faced in trying to fly off with his family on holiday\n\nMichael Turner, a nurse from Shoreham, has abandoned his family holiday to Tenerife after their flights were cancelled three times.\n\nDue to fly from Gatwick last Thursday, Mr Turner was told his EasyJet flight had been cancelled 20 minutes before departure.\n\nHe rebooked a Tui flight which was all that was available and said he experienced \"absolute chaos\" in the departure lounge at Manchester Airport.\n\nAfter boarding the plane, Mr Turner said they spent three hours waiting only to be then escorted off to collect their baggage.\n\nThey were put on a coach without being told where they were going and then waited to be taken back to the airport for a flight on Tuesday evening.\n\nBut the family's flight was cancelled again and they have declined a fourth rescheduled flight offer for Wednesday instead opting to go home.\n\nManchester Airport said Tui and Swissport, which provides ground services such as baggage handling, were \"experiencing temporary staff shortages, in common with other aviation and travel companies\".\n\nA spokesperson for Swissport apologised for its part in any disruption, adding that the return of demand for flights was \"exacerbating resource challenges across the aviation industry\".\n\nElsewhere, Glasgow Airport said the airport had been \"busier than it has been for more than two years\", while at Edinburgh Airport some passengers had to queue outside the terminal building to check in luggage.\n\nProspect, the union which represents staff across air traffic control and in aviation engineering, warned that things could \"get worse before they get better\".\n\nGarry Graham, its deputy general secretary, said that while the furlough scheme had helped people, the government had ignored that it \"ended well before the majority of international restrictions on travel came to an end\".\n\nBut Mr Shapps said the government had helped the industry through \"changing the law to speed up bringing in newly recruited staff\" as well as providing £8bn of support during the pandemic.\n\nThe Airport Operators Association, which represents the industry, said big recruitment campaigns had been under way since before the start of this year and additional staff were now being deployed.\n\nAre you going on holiday? How have you been affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Members of the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth lined up on parade grounds to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\n\nSailors around the world have sent traditional Royal Navy tributes to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThose on deployment in the Gulf of Oman, on patrol in the Atlantic, safeguarding home waters and undergoing training at UK bases have marked her 70-year reign.\n\nThe Britannia Royal Naval College, and various vessels including HMS Queen Elizabeth paid tribute.\n\nMembers lined up on parade grounds and flight decks to mark the occasion.\n\nMore than 300 sailors on board HMS Queen Elizabeth formed ER 70\n\nThe Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth said it had \"personal and emotional ties\" with the monarch, and members paid tribute on the parade ground in front of the college.\n\nCapt Sarah Oakley said: \"On behalf of all the officers, cadets and staff at the college, I send our warmest and most sincere greetings to Her Majesty as she celebrates her Platinum Jubilee.\"\n\nMore than 300 sailors on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, located off the south coast of England, formed ER 70 on its flight deck.\n\nCommanding Officer Capt Ian Feasey said: \"Each of us that has the honour to serve in HMS Queen Elizabeth takes inspiration from our sponsor, Her Majesty the Queen, who has dedicated her life to service and duty.\n\n\"These selfless qualities are central tenets of our ship's ethos and the Royal Navy.\"\n\nA total of 250 sailors on board were also presented with Platinum Jubilee medals, awarded to those with more than five years' service.\n\nMore than half of the crew of HMS Lancaster, on patrol in the Atlantic, formed on its flight deck to make its tribute\n\nHMS Montrose joined in the celebrations upon return from the Gulf of Oman\n\nAt HMS Sultan in Gosport trainee sailors formed a 70 and two large propellers\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The incredible change the Queen has seen The UK has undergone huge social, scientific and technological change over the last 70 years - but Queen Elizabeth II has remained a constant, stabilising presence. Take a visual journey through this incredible period of history the Queen has witnessed and been part of. From the dawn of the Space Age, to plans to populate Mars The Space Age kicked off with the launch of the first space satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957. Just over a decade later humans landed on the Moon for the first time, but the race into Space also brought challenges. The Apollo 13 mission had to be aborted in 1970 and the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch in 1986. Helen Sharman became the first British astronaut in space in 1991, while Briton Tim Peake was the first to be publicly-funded. Now, Nasa rovers continue to explore Mars and plans are afoot to populate the red planet. The 1950s saw TV sets become standard in homes and commercial channels begin to emerge. In 1953, the Queen’s coronation was a national TV event, with more than 20 million people gathering to watch. The 1960s saw the beginnings of colour TV and viewers become gripped by popular TV programmes like Doctor Who. Cable and satellite TV arrived in the 1980s and the UK's parliament is televised for the first time. Programmes are now watched on demand and virtual reality is the new frontier. From the birth of rock ‘n roll to music streaming Elvis Presley bursts onto US TV screens in 1956 as vinyl sales began to soar. In the 1960s, Beatle-mania took the world by storm, while icons Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, David Bowie and the Sex Pistols went on to take music to new places. Hip hop emerged from New York's Bronx district in the 1970s and the the 1980s saw Madonna earn her title 'Queen of Pop'. Rave music swept the UK in the 1990s and Grime became a major British export a decade later. Music fans can now listen to any kind of music wherever they want on demand. The US outlawed segregation in schools on the basis of race in 1954 but a voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, a decade later was met with violence from authorities. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. Apartheid ended in South Africa in the early 1990s and Nelson Mandela was released from jail, before going on to become South African president. In the US, meanwhile, riots took place in Los Angeles over the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating African-American Rodney King. The #blacklivesmatter hashtag was used for the first time in 2013 and has grown into a political movement, particularly after the death of African-American George Floyd, murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. From Cold War, to the end of the Soviet Union Communist East Germany began building a wall through Berlin in 1961 to stop mass defections. A year later, the Soviet Union threatened to deploy nuclear missiles to Cuba - not far from the US. The US and Soviet Union then agreed not to increase arms, while pro-democracy movements in eastern Europe led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The US and Russia signed another agreement and West and East Germany became reunited. The Soviet Union broke up and US President Bill Clinton and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin announced a new era in relations. In recent years, Russia invaded Ukraine twice, bringing it in conflict with the West once again. From the decriminalisation of homosexuality, to same-sex marriage Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967 but the gay community continued to campaign for equal rights. The Stonewall riots in 1969 in New York, in response to police harassment, galvanised gay and lesbian activism. The Aids epidemic devastated lives in the 1980s. Thousands marched against \"Section 28\" and Stonewall UK was set up. A bombing at the Admiral Duncan, one of Soho's oldest gay pubs, in 1999 killed three. The first same-sex marriage was celebrated in 2014 and the pride movement's flag was later updated to celebrate the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. From the dawn of the tech industry, to voice-activated devices Tech giants Apple and Microsoft were founded by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the 1970s. The work of US engineer Radia Perlman helped computers talk to each other, leading to the birth of the internet in the 1980s. British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee then invented the world wide web in 1989. The web nurtured platforms such as eBay, Google, Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter. Mobile technology advanced from brick phones to smaller devices and smartphones. Voice-activated and wearable tech at home and on the move means we can now access information wherever we are. While witnessing history take these gigantic leaps, the Queen has also seen her own role transformed. The end of the British Empire and a shrinking Commonwealth means she is now monarch of just 15 countries, rather than the 70 overseas territories at the start of her reign. She remains the longest-serving British monarch in history, reaching seven decades on the throne.\n\nThe incredible change the Queen has seen The UK has undergone huge social, scientific and technological change over the last 70 years - but Queen Elizabeth II has remained a constant, stabilising presence. Take a visual journey through this incredible period of history the Queen has witnessed and been part of. From the dawn of the Space Age... From the birth of rock ‘n roll... to the end of the Soviet Union From the decriminalisation of homosexuality... From the dawn of the tech industry... While witnessing history take these gigantic leaps, the Queen has also seen her own role transformed. The end of the British Empire and a shrinking Commonwealth means she is now monarch of just 15 countries, rather than the 70 overseas territories at the start of her reign. She remains the longest-serving British monarch in history, reaching seven decades on the throne.\n\nHer Majesty's journey is best viewed in portrait mode", "Seven million Germans have so far bought the €9-ticket, which entitles travellers to a month of travel this summer\n\nFor the next three months, Germans will be able to travel the country for just €9 (£7.50; $9.50) a month in a drive to tackle the soaring cost of living.\n\nAll local and regional transport on trains, buses and metro is included in the government's initiative, although inter-city trains are not.\n\nThe cheap tickets are also aimed at getting people to leave their cars.\n\nHowever, fuel tax has also been reduced by around 30 cents a litre for petrol, bringing prices down below €2.\n\nThe tax has been brought down to the EU minimum, again for the next three months, so diesel prices are also being cut by around 14 cents a litre.\n\nThe cut in fuel prices was visible at petrol stations early on Wednesday despite warnings of an initial lag\n\nTransport Minister Volker Wissing has described the €9-a-month tickets as a great opportunity: \"It's a success that we've already sold seven million tickets.\"\n\nHowever, rail company Deutsche Bahn is already struggling with overcrowding, delays and cancellations and the prospect of millions of extra passengers has prompted criticism of the plan.\n\nFewer than 70% of long-distance trains were on time in April, but Mr Wissing says the rail network is only running at 80% capacity. No major rail problems were reported in the hours after the scheme kicked in on Wednesday morning.\n\nAs in much of the rest of the world, Germans have been hit by rising energy prices, with inflation up to 7.9% last month. Chancellor Olaf Scholz told members of the German parliament on Wednesday that the main cause of the increase in prices was Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe federal government, which includes the Green party, has promised Germany's 16 state authorities €2.5bn in compensation for the extra costs expected in staffing and fuel.\n\nAlthough the €9-ticket does not include inter-city travel, it is possible to cross the country using regional trains.\n\nThe scheme prompted German social media users to discuss whether to use the ticket to travel to work, or head to the beach on the North Sea holiday island of Sylt. Cologne library announced humorously: \"We have moved tomorrow's social media team meeting to Sylt. FYI\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stadtbibliothek Köln This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral other measures are being taken to alleviate the rising cost of living:", "There is shelling every day in Mykolaiv. The Russians are on the outskirts to the east and south, pummelling surrounding villages and forcing thousands to flee.\n\nThe wail of the air raid siren is a prelude to a thud to our right as our car makes its way through the suburbs of this major port.\n\nA plume of smoke a few kilometres away confirms the hit - another rocket.\n\nWe are following a Ukrainian Red Cross van as they try to rescue some of those coming under regular shelling: yet another busload to add to the already historic human exodus from this country.\n\nThese farewells have become a familiar sight across Ukraine over the last 100 days, but they are no less heartbreaking to watch.\n\nLiudmyla has decided it is time for her youngest children to leave. She can't let them play outside as the bombardment continues and she wants them to be somewhere safe.\n\n\"I will see them again when the bombing stops,\" she tells me. But no-one knows when that will be.\n\nMykolaiv was one of the first cities attacked when the invasion began. Russian forces came close to the city limits but were pushed back.\n\nThis region is key to Russian's strategy to cut off the entire southern coast. A breakthrough here would allow the Kremlin's forces to approach Odesa - the country's largest civilian port, 130 km (80 miles) to the west.\n\nVladimir Putin could then complete his land bridge up to Transnistria, the breakaway republic of Moldova.\n\nRead more of Laura Bicker's report from Mykolaiv here", "She's one of the most photographed women in history and over the past 70 years has defined what it means to dress like a queen.\n\nNot trendsetting or daring, but iconic.\n\nShe's become famous for her brightly coloured dresses and coats paired with a matching hat, accessorised with her signature square handbag, three strand pearl necklace and a jewelled brooch. It sounds simple but the Queen's style has become a powerful formula.\n\nIt's a style that has been honed and refined over seven decades, helped by the close relationships she has developed with trusted designers and dressers.\n\n\"Royal fashion is fun, powerful and steeped with meaning,\" says author and royal fashion commentator Elizabeth Holmes. \"Her image is a huge part of her legacy.\"\n\nThe Queen has always had a very clear idea of what she wanted to look like, says historian Michael Pick.\n\n\"People have said she has no idea about clothes, but that is simply not true. She is very astute about what suits her,\" Pick says.\n\nWhen she was in her 20s, Princess Elizabeth began working with designer Norman Hartnell, a relationship she inherited from the Queen Mother. Full-skirted dresses with a nipped in waist, influenced by French couture, were paired with white fur stoles and diamond tiaras.\n\nAs she took on her new role as Queen, Hartnell helped her to dazzle her way through state banquets and royal tours in a host of tulle and satin gowns, intricately embellished with seed pearls, crystals and beads.\n\nHartnell also created two of the most important dresses she would ever wear - her wedding dress and the gown she wore for her coronation. He describes the process as a collaboration. \"For her coronation dress Hartnell produced about eight designs and she chose elements from them all and made it her own,\" Pick says.\n\nFor the Queen, working with the same people was not just about trust, but was also down to necessity. Hartnell had the largest couture house in London along with the largest embroidery workroom, and for someone as busy as the Queen who needed hundreds of new outfits each year, it meant he had the capacity to design and produce what she needed.\n\nStill, the scale of the job meant she also asked designer Hardy Amies to work with her, beginning with a wardrobe of looks for a tour of Canada in 1951.\n\nAmies led the Queen into a slightly more crisp and understated look, with tailored day clothes and sleeker eveningwear. Then Ian Thomas took her through the 1970s and 1980s in a flurry of brightly coloured chiffon, floral prints and bows.\n\nFor the last 24 years her outfits have been designed and produced in-house by a small team of around 10 people, led by her personal dresser Angela Kelly.\n\nEach item the Queen wears is bespoke, and before the pandemic she was attending more then 300 engagements a year. \"It's a huge amount of work,\" Pick says. \"You don't want the monarch wearing something someone else is wearing. The public expects something different.\n\n\"Hartnell and Amies made her more individual, while Angela Kelly has been very clever and managed to take her individual style and make it sparkle.\"\n\nWhen the Queen steps out in public every aspect of her appearance has been meticulously planned.\n\nFabrics are checked to see how they drape or might behave in a breeze. The bright colours, chosen for the season and occasion, give instant impact so that she stands out in a crowd. A hat gives her slight stature more height and highlights her face.\n\nShe wears sensible block-heeled shoes - handmade and worn in by Kelly herself to make sure they are comfortable - and there is always a clear umbrella with a colour-matched trim on standby, so even the unpredictable British weather won't get in her way.\n\nThis uniform-way of dressing maximises her comfort on long days, but also helps define her role, says Elizabeth Holmes.\n\n\"Her job is to be a calm and consistent presence. Her clothes are a mix of knowing what to expect but also with an ability to surprise and delight.\n\n\"Even in the casual moments there is a sense of uniform, with her headscarf and wellies. It keeps the continuity and also shows she is never off duty.\"\n\nArguably the most iconic part of the Queen's look is the thing that has remained virtually unchanged throughout her reign: her famous shampoo and set is almost identical to the style she wore when she came to the throne in 1953.\n\nBut for the change in colour as she got older and embraced her natural grey, it has retained the two distinctive wave curls at the front and firm and structured curls around the back, formed perfectly to host a crown or hat.\n\nThe traditional style, set on rollers under a dryer, was the hairstyle of choice for many of Britain's fashion conscious women in the post-war years but while trends have moved on the Queen has been loyal to it ever since.\n\n\"Her hair is quite conventional for a woman her age, but it is a strong look, softened by curls to give it a gentleness,\" says royal and celebrity hairdresser Richard Ward. \"I think her hair sums up what we all really value about her,\" he says. \"It is sensible, practical and elegant.\"\n\nAnother of the Queen's most iconic style points is the famous top-handled Launer handbag.\n\nUnlike other classic designer bags such as the Hermes Birkin or the Chanel 2.55, which are popular with women aged from their 20s to their 70s, Launer is not as fashionable or desirable for younger women, says Charlotte Rogers, a luxury accessories expert.\n\nBut there is still a big market for them in other countries, especially the Middle East. The Queen's royal seal of approval changes everything for a brand. \"The fact the Queen still uses Launer bags is huge,\" Rogers says. \"Royals are the ultimate influencers.\"\n\nThe handbags retail for around £1,500-£2,000, and the Queen is said to have a collection of over 200 in different colours and styles.\n\nIt seems in her Jubilee year the Queen has become more influential than ever, which is no mean feat for a woman in her 90s, says Rogers.\n\n\"She's age appropriate, a style much like my grandmother used to wear for special occasions and I think she is influential to older ladies,\" she says. \"Pins and brooches were seen as so unfashionable and now I can't buy enough of them. They sell so quickly.\"\n\nThe Queen's clothes are not just style choices but also brand statements, steeped with meaning and influence. Whether she's wearing a jewelled gown or a tweed skirt every outfit says something about her and her role as an ambassador and figurehead.\n\n\"Her wardrobe is her communication,\" says Matthew Storey, curator at Historic Royal Palaces.\n\nShe has to be prepared, reliable and traditional. But while walking the line of being accessible and reassuring her clothes also \"have to be worthy of royalty,\" Holmes says.\n\n\"It's part of the bedazzling of the crown. With the Queen her clothes are bespoke. You can't buy them but it means they can be seen and admired.\"\n\nThere's also a diplomatic role, subtle nods to a country or event shown in emblems or colours she wears.\n\n\"The subtle pink coloured dress she wore to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games was chosen because it was on none of the national flags. It stood out but it also wasn't showing any allegiance,\" Storey says.\n\nLike other iconic brands she also means many different things to people.\n\n\"Like a work of art you interpret her in your own way,\" says Jeetendr Sehdev, author and celebrity branding expert.\n\n\"Do we really know who she is? I'm not sure we do. But what we do know is what she means to us and the things she stands for - her strength, boldness and authenticity - remain relevant even among young people.\"\n\nYounger royals like Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are clearly inspired by her, but the Queen stands far and above, he says.\n\nThere's great affection for how she looks, Holmes says. She has a signature style that will forever remind people of her.\n\n\"No-one else dresses like her,\" she says. \"That's her job and it's profound.\"\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright", "Passengers are being urged not to arrive early for flights after large queues formed at Scottish airports.\n\nAhead of the Jubilee weekend, Glasgow Airport said it was the busiest it had been since the start of the pandemic.\n\nSimilar issues have been reported at Edinburgh Airport where passengers waited outside the terminal building to check in luggage.\n\nThe appeal follows reports of major delays at UK airports linked to staff shortages and a surge in demand.\n\nFormer BBC Scotland journalist John Morrison witnessed \"crazy scenes\" before the security barriers at Glasgow Airport.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Queue snakes it's way round the first floor shops and back into the car park. Never seen it this bad. Most people heading on holiday and in a good mood. If you're flying today, arrive early.\"\n\nMr Morrison later told BBC Scotland he had checked in online and arrived at the airport at 05:45, an hour before his scheduled departure to London.\n\nHe went straight to the escalator as he had no luggage for his day trip.\n\nMr Morrison said: \"There were hundreds of people waiting to get through the barriers before security.\n\n\"The queue was snaking round the first floor shops all the way back to the car park entrance.\"\n\nIt would be disingenuous to suggest the issues in Scotland are anything like the recent chaos witnessed at airports such as Manchester and Dublin.\n\nAlthough the industry across the whole of the UK and Ireland is experiencing the same challenges, the staffing crisis has not yet led to mass cancellations or passengers missing their flights in Scotland.\n\nThe country's international airports are not immune though.\n\nThere are pressures, which inevitably will lead to bigger queues and increasingly frustrated travellers as we edge towards the peak summer holiday period.\n\nOne senior source told me that while previously one of the problems staff were dealing with was drunk passengers, workers were now feeling the frustrations of those looking to get abroad for the first time in years.\n\nThe aviation industry continues to play catch-up in a bid to deliver the same experiences passengers enjoyed before the pandemic.\n\nDespite the scenes, airport bosses have appealed for passengers to arrive at their airline's specified check-in time, not earlier or later.\n\nA Glasgow Airport spokesman said: \"This morning's average queue time at security was longer than usual, however, passengers moved through at a steady pace to reach their flights.\n\n\"The airport is busier than it has been for more than two years as passenger demand continues to increase.\n\n\"Our teams are working extremely hard and we would ask passengers to ensure they come prepared for security inspection and, crucially, arrive at the airport as per their airline's stated check-in opening time and not before.\"\n\nThe spokesman also thanked passengers for their patience while the issues were resolved.\n\nMeanwhile, a passenger at Edinburgh Airport tweeted a picture of a large queue outside the terminal for the Ryanair bag drop.\n\nAn airport spokesman said: \"An airline handling agent opened up a number of flights at the same time for check-in this morning instead of staggering them and that resulted in a build-up of people.\n\n\"We also had two self-service check-in machines going down but they were quickly brought back online and helped to clear queues quickly.\"\n\nThere were also issues reported at Edinburgh Airport\n\nIt is understood the disruption is not on the same scale as England and Ireland with average wait times at Glasgow said to be up to 38 minutes and Edinburgh less than 10.\n\nAirports admit they still do not have the numbers of staff they need as they get busier.\n\nElsewhere in the country, there were no issues reported at Aberdeen or Inverness Airports.\n\nStaff shortages have been a problem across the travel industry as thousands of people left the aviation industry during the pandemic.\n\nIn January, Scotland's airports warned it could be 2026 before passenger numbers recovered to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nDisruption was also reported over the Easter break due to cancelled Easyjet and British Airways flights and problems with P&O Ferries.", "Andy Montgomery was booked on a flight to Rome that was cancelled\n\nAndy Montgomery, his wife and daughters, 11 and 13, got up at 3am on Monday to get to Gatwick in good time for their flight to Rome.\n\nBut he isn't going anywhere now, after his flight was cancelled and the airline couldn't find him an alternative.\n\n\"It's absolutely diabolical,\" he said.\n\nThe Montgomerys are just one of hundreds of families left with their holiday plans in tatters after flights were cancelled.\n\nThe low-cost airlines Vueling and easyJet, in particular, are facing a barrage of customer complaints online.\n\nIt was going to be the family's first trip by air since the pandemic began. But Andy said: \"We've been put on one flight - cancelled. Put on another flight - cancelled. And then literally told we can't fly anywhere.\"\n\n\"We said we'll fly anywhere you can get us to,\" he said. \"[But] there are no flights anywhere for three days.\"After two years of restrictions, air travel is enjoying a post-pandemic bounce-back but airlines and airports are struggling to keep up with higher levels of demand after cutting thousands of jobs during lockdown.\n\nPassenger numbers are still below pre-Covid peaks. But with school half-term holidays coinciding with the extra Jubilee bank holiday, airports are now busier than at any point since before the pandemic.\n\nOver the weekend travellers at Gatwick, Bristol and Manchester airports faced long queues for check-in desks, security, and boarding.\n\nTui and EasyJet cancelled dozens of flights to try to ease the pressure.\n\nVueling, part of IAG which also owns British Airways, said \"several operational issues\" had affected its flight schedules on Friday, with a knock-on effect over the weekend.\n\n\"We always strive to offer a timely service, however, if this isn't possible our priority is to organise the best alternatives for our customers,\" said Vueling.\n\n\"Our team at Gatwick worked diligently to resolve these issues and our customer service team is in touch with those affected by the delays\".\n\nA spokesperson for Gatwick airport said there had been some difficulties over the weekend, but \"not to the extent of the disruption that has been reported\".\n\nJames, his wife and three children were told at the gate their Vueling flight has been cancelled\n\nJames, his wife and three children aged 16, five and two, were due to fly from Gatwick to Valencia on a 20.10 flight with Vueling on Saturday.\n\nBut they were told at the gate they couldn't board the flight because it was full.\n\nNot happy with the idea of waiting for an early morning flight to a different Spanish airport, they spent £330 on a taxi home, and eventually flew out on Sunday evening 24 hours later than planned.\n\n\"It was gutting, very stressful, particularly for the children who were very distressed,\" said James.\n\nOther customers who opted to wait in the airport said restaurants closed at 8.30pm and they were left without anything to eat.\n\nAlan Black was supposed to be attending his nephew's wedding in Seville. He and his wife won't be there after his flight with easyJet was cancelled while they were waiting at the boarding gate.\n\n\"We tried very hard to get an alternative flight but as you can imagine everyone else has been trying to do the same,\" he told BBC Sussex.\n\nThe groom had lined up two best men for the wedding, but since both were booked on the same flight as Alan, they're also unlikely to make it.\n\nAlan Black will be holidaying at home after his easyJet flight was cancelled\n\nHe says the easyJet staff at the gate \"knew pretty much nothing\" and described customer services as \"really poor\".\n\nEasyJet said at the weekend it had taken the decision to make advance cancellations over the half-term break because it believed it was \"necessary to provide reliable services over this busy period\".\n\nIt said passengers had been informed in advance and offered the chance to rebook or receive a refund.\n\nA \"rare cancellation\" might take place without warning, said easyJet, due to \"a live operational issue on that specific flight\".\n\nAirline sector expert John Strickland said the removal of the final Covid restrictions in March had come too late for the industry to feel confident about ramping up staffing levels.\n\n\"It's a structural challenge for the industry pretty much globally, to get back to [full] manpower levels,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nMr Strickland said it may be some time before the airlines can solve their staffing challenges.\n\n\"The level of pay on many of these frontline jobs that are so important to airlines, whether its security search, or check-in or baggage loading and so on, have always been pretty low. They're becoming less competitive now against other industries.\n\n\"Many of these jobs are physically and mentally demanding and so regardless of the pay... that pressure of day-to-day, dealing with the strain and getting the kick-back from passengers that are unhappy, means that it is going to be a structural question for the industry for the future.\"", "We're going to leave our coverage of the holiday travel situation in the UK here now.\n\nIf you want to read more - we have a report on the anger among some Tui customers here.\n\nAnd here we have an explainer on why flights are being cancelled, and how long the problem is likely to last.\n\nIf you're one of the unlucky ones, and wondering what your rights are because your flight has been cancelled, you can check our advice here.\n\nAs ever, our colleagues on the website will keep across any major developments, and you'll be able to find them on the main news page.", "Jack Woodley's family said they were devastated by his death\n\nTen teenagers have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old man as he walked home from a funfair.\n\nJack Woodley suffered a fatal stab wound while being punched, kicked and stamped upon in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, on 16 October.\n\nHe was \"surrounded and isolated\" by the group, who were strangers to him, and chased down an alleyway beside a pub.\n\nThe youths, aged 14 to 18, will be sentenced in August, Newcastle Crown Court heard.\n\nAt the start of the trial in March, the boys all denied murder and manslaughter charges, aside from a 15-year-old who admitted manslaughter. None of them can be identified for legal reasons.\n\nJurors took more than three days to reach their unanimous verdicts and as they were read out several of the defendants looked shocked and distressed, clutching their heads and rocking back and forth.\n\nProsecutors said the youths had been intent on attacking someone at the Houghton Feast funfair on 16 October and Mr Woodley came to their attention for a \"trivial reason\".\n\nHe was challenged to a \"one on one fight\" but declined, then he and his four friends were followed by about 30 young people as they walked into the town centre.\n\nJack Woodley was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped upon before being stabbed\n\nAs Mr Woodley neared the Britannia Inn a 16-year-old boy ran up from behind and punched him in the head.\n\nOthers separated him from his friends and joined in the assault, having covered their heads moments before.\n\nAmid the frenzy of punches and kicks, there were shouts of \"get the chopper out\" and a 15-year-old boy pulled a \"Rambo-style\" knife from his trousers and stabbed Mr Woodley in the back.\n\nThe boy with the knife fled but the rest continued to rain blows on Mr Woodley and pursued him down an alley where the attack resumed.\n\nJack Woodley died in hospital a day after being attacked near the Britannia Inn in Houghton-le-Spring\n\nJurors heard that the group \"prevented him from escaping and other people from helping him\".\n\nWitnesses described the scene as like animals attacking a piece of meat, with one telling the jury it appeared to be a deliberate attempt to kill.\n\nThe onslaught lasted just over a minute and ended with Mr Woodley, who witnesses described as looking petrified, collapsing beside the pub.\n\nThe gang fled as horrified pubgoers attempted to give Mr Woodley first aid but he never regained consciousness and died the following day.\n\nOne of the 10 defendants admitted stabbing Jack Woodley with a 9in (25cm) knife\n\nSpeaking after the verdicts, Mr Woodley's mother, Zoey McGill, said: \"The trauma of reliving this whole incident over a long trial has had a devastating effect on us all.\n\n\"We feel imprisoned by our grief and trauma. We cannot see a way of recovering from this.\n\n\"The devastation of losing Jack is immense and far-reaching.\"\n\nShe said said her son had collected the keys for a new home in Sunderland the day he was attacked and was due to start a new job the following Monday.\n\nHis father, John Woodley, added: \"My son went to a fair with his girlfriend to enjoy a night out and he didn't come back.\n\n\"The pain and fear he must have endured that night is unthinkable.\n\n\"Jack had his whole life ahead of him. Those who attacked our Jack get to see their families and have a future, Jack does not.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Joanne Brooks of Northumbria Police said the case showed the \"devastating consequences\" of carrying weapons.\n\n\"Dozens of lives have been destroyed by what happened that night,\" she said.\n\n\"Look at the pain this incident has caused - not only could you take away someone else's future and destroy the lives of their loved ones, but also your own and those of your family and friends.\"\n\nAndrea Milsom, Senior Crown Prosecutor for the North East, said: \"The attack on Jack last year was as cowardly as it was senseless.\n\n\"Significantly outnumbered, Jack was chased down by a group of teenagers, some armed with weapons, before being viciously and fatally assaulted in front of his friends and other members of the public.\"\n\nThe youths have been remanded into custody ahead of sentencing.\n\nThe judge, His Honour Judge Rodney Jameson QC, excused the jurors further service for 20 years because of the amount of time they had spent on the case.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Learners say they have paid more than £200 for a test - more than twice the standard fee\n\nDriving tests are being bulk booked and resold for profit, as a chronic backlog means learners are otherwise waiting months for a test date.\n\nLearner drivers say they have paid more than £200 for a practical test - more than twice the standard fee.\n\nOne operator said it used automated software to book tests, and the BBC has seen evidence encouraging driving instructors to sell tests for profit.\n\nThe DVSA urged applicants to only book tests via its official website.\n\nThe demand for driving tests, caused by the pandemic, means in many places - including London, Birmingham and Cardiff - tests aren't available to book online for up to six months. At other centres, the earliest availability is September or October.\n\nIt has seen many learners turn towards a secondary market. Some are paying a nominal fee to companies which find them cancelled tests. Others are buying from sellers which offer tests for vastly inflated prices.\n\nAmelia, not her real name, told the BBC she had paid £210 for a cancelled test through her instructor in London.\n\nThe standard fee is £62 for a weekday test and £75 for one in an evening, at the weekend or over a bank holiday, if booked through the Driving Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). The DVSA is the official body that carries out driving tests in Great Britain.\n\n\"It was very on-the-go,\" 23-year-old Amelia said. \"My driving instructor would call me and say, 'quick, there's a cancellation, do you want it?' The day we booked my test it all happened within a three or four-minute phone call.\"\n\nShe said she'd had to reply with a picture of her provisional licence number, after which she received a reference number allowing her to change the test booking with her own details.\n\nAnother driver said her instructor had paid £235 for her test. A third paid £186 - although £54 of this was for the car hire and £62 for the standard test fee.\n\nThe BBC has looked into how this is possible. One operator claimed to be using \"AI-powered software\" to scoop up vacant test slots as soon as they became available on the DVSA website.\n\nThey said they used software that constantly refreshes the agency's booking website, together with VPNs, or virtual private networks, to hide their computer's identity, meaning it avoided being banned.\n\nThey sent an email - seen by the BBC - to driving instructors, encouraging them to use their service to profit from pupils.\n\nAn email sent to driving instructors encouraging them to profit from their pupils\n\nWhen we contacted them, they said: \"This software… [is] like if you're pressing on the search button. It just automates your press, or clicks, on the button.\"\n\nWe also found multiple posts on Facebook Marketplace and within some Facebook groups, offering a variety of test times for sale.\n\nBehind such posts are people like Alex, who runs a \"short-notice driving exam business\". He posted an advert on Facebook claiming he \"can guarantee exam bookings within three weeks\".\n\nThe advert said approved driving instructors who work with him \"make upwards of £400-£600 a week\" by reselling exams to pupils.\n\nWhen contacted, Alex would not reveal how his business booked tests. But the BBC found one way of booking a slot and then transferring it - or potentially selling it - to someone else.\n\nAn advert on Facebook, which claims instructors can make over £400 by reselling tests (ADIs stands for 'approved driving instructors')\n\nLearners only have access to the main DVSA booking system, where they have to manually search for available test dates.\n\nThey can only book one test per person. And if they want to change their test date, they have to find an alternative one manually.\n\nHowever, we registered on the DVSA's site as a fake driving school, giving us access to a different part of the booking system - one that is not available to most learners.\n\nThe system is intended to allow driving schools to book tests for multiple pupils - using a single contact number and email address.\n\nBut the BBC found there was little verification to check who was signing up. It took us five minutes to register, with no requirement for official documentation. After receiving a simple verification code by email, we were given access.\n\nOnce inside we were able to set alerts for when tests became available and could book multiple tests on the account. And while each booking still required a different provisional licence number, the system allowed exams to be swapped between candidates.\n\nIn effect, anyone with instructors' access, could purchase a test - either one in the distant future, or a cancellation - and then sell it on at a premium by swapping appointments.\n\nWe also found it was possible to book tests without the provisional licence holder ever knowing.\n\nTo test the system, we booked a practical driving test, using a BBC email address and the provisional licence number of a learner, who had given us their permission.\n\nThere was no verification required on the learner drivers' part and the booking confirmation was sent to our email address - meaning the learner would not know about the booking.\n\nWhen challenged on whether the booking system was robust enough, the DVSA said the system was \"imperfect\" as it \"relies on trust\". It said it was only illegal to book a driving test using someone else's details without their consent.\n\nCharles Moffat, chairman of the Approved Driving Instructors' National Joint Council, the UK's leading driver instructor association, said the organisation had heard accounts of tests being resold for a profit. \"We abhor such practice and will always report such conduct to the DVSA,\" he added.\n\nThe DVSA said it would continue to do all it could to provide as many tests as possible, including conducting out-of-hours testing and recruiting more examiners.\n\nDVSA chief executive Loveday Ryder said in a statement to the BBC: \"We've already put in place measures to monitor and prevent bots from accessing our systems while also strengthening our firewall to tackle the issue.\n\n\"We will continue to work tirelessly to crack down on companies that are exploiting learner drivers. \"We've closed the system to new registrations and will rapidly close down accounts that do not belong to driving instructors and driving schools. We'll also be taking further steps to make sure all future accounts are linked to driving instructors and those with training businesses.\"\n\nAs of 2 June the DVSA has reduced the number of times a driving test appointment can be changed from 10 to the pre-pandemic limit of six.\n\nIt has also stopped accepting new automatic online registrations to use the service - any new applications must be made by email - and has stopped accepting any new registrations from companies who do not directly employ a driving instructor.", "Clover is known to almost 4,500 Facebook followers as Sainsbury's Cat\n\nA social media star cat that vanished from its adopted home at a supermarket has been located 25 miles away.\n\nClover, known to almost 4,500 Facebook followers as Sainsbury's Cat, is believed to have disappeared from Cardiff's Thornhill store on 21 May.\n\nShe was found in Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, by a volunteer who tracked her down, with the help of cat biscuits.\n\nOwner Sarah Hamilton, who owns two other cats named Daisy and Violet, said she was happy to have Clover back.\n\nThe GP said she was contacted to say she had been found at about 22:00 BST on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"The lady who went to find her last night, she saw something on a community Facebook page in Brynmawr. Someone had seen a cat that looked like Clover.\n\n\"They went out in the dead of night and managed to find her in quite a quiet area.\"\n\nClover, who is 15 years old, was found with her collar missing.\n\nShe went missing from her usual Sainsbury's haunt about 10 days before being found\n\nBut she was identified after her microchip was scanned.\n\nDr Hamilton said Clover now spends most of her time at Sainsbury's. She has been going there for about seven years.\n\nHer Facebook page shows she spends time there snoozing in trolleys, snoozing on bags of soil and snoozing among potted plants.\n\nDuring her waking hours she has been known to pose for passing photographers.\n\nMum-of-three Dr Hamilton said: \"She likes the attention and the free food.\"\n\nDaisy and Violet are happy to live at the 49-year-old's Cardiff home.\n\nDr Hamilton sometimes checks Facebook to see how Clover is doing and said it was \"lovely\" to see her keeping people company during the first wave of pandemic.\n\n\"Despite everything Clover was still there doing her thing,\" Dr Hamilton said.", "\"My hunch is it's in the high 40s.\"\n\nSo says a Conservative MP to me, as we indulge in a spot of guesswork about how many Tory MPs might have formally requested a vote of confidence in the prime minister.\n\nWhat we are witnessing right now are the aftershocks, the tremors provoked by the publication of the report into pandemic parties on Boris Johnson's watch.\n\nFor months, many Conservative MPs - who collectively have the capacity to give their leader the boot - invoked the name of the senior civil servant tasked with the inquiry: let's wait for Sue Gray, they would say.\n\nWell, her words and pictures have sprung into the spring sunshine and provoked a dance. Some of those steps we are seeing in public, with a handful of MPs saying publicly for the first time Mr Johnson's time is up.\n\nPlenty more such steps are happening privately. So, here are the numbers that matter.\n\nFor Conservative MPs to try to topple a leader, 15% of them have to write to the chair of the party's 1922 Committee, which represents backbench Tory MPs.\n\nFifteen percent of the current number is 54 MPs. And the chairman of the committee in question is Sir Graham Brady.\n\nSir Graham - depending on your point of view - is admirably or frustratingly discreet about how many bits of correspondence he has rattling around in his jacket pocket.\n\nAll we can say definitively is 54 hasn't been reached yet, or we'd soon be hearing about it.\n\nNature abhors a vacuum. And Westminster's solution is a vast quantity of speculation. Journalists, MPs, advisers - we all do it.\n\nAnd so you get the political equivalent of that children's party game Pin the Tail on The Donkey.\n\nRemember it? You have a blindfold put on you, get spun round half a dozen times, and then try to stick the furry fly swatter somewhere close to where an anatomical diagram would suggest it should be.\n\nBut your very best effort has it protruding from the beast's forehead.\n\nSir Graham Brady announced a confidence vote in Theresa May in December 2018\n\nWell, a little like the unfortunate creature sporting an appendage in an unlikely location, MPs' best efforts at guessing the number of letters submitted are exactly that - guesses.\n\nAnd the whole thing is complicated further because some people have put in letters and then taken them out again.\n\nOthers have put them in, but only just said so publicly. So the number appears to have gone up, but actually it hasn't.\n\nOthers have talked about writing a letter, but not yet got round to it, or decided against it. And plenty have absolutely no intention of doing so.\n\nEven if 54 letters are sent, and a vote of confidence happens, another 126 Tory MPs would have to join them in rejecting the PM to ensure he is a goner.\n\nThis assumes, of course, that he would not quit upon the 54 threshold being passed.\n\n54 + 126 = 180, which is half of all Conservative MPs plus one more - i.e. a majority.\n\nThat is a high bar: 126 MPs who didn't feel sufficiently strongly to put in a letter who then decide they want him removed.\n\nSo they are the numbers. What about the words?\n\nWithout question, plenty of Conservative MPs are asking themselves the big question: is Boris Johnson still an asset, or now a liability?\n\nIt's one thing having a duff policy, one MP tells me. In that situation you can change it or go quiet about it. When it's about the character of your leader, it is much harder.\n\nOne MP who submitted a letter of no confidence in the last few days told me they had had seven emails expressing their disappointment in their actions.\n\nAnd 479 saying good on you.\n\n\"I know of so many MPs who are on the verge of sending a letter,\" says another MP. \"We can't be that far away.\"\n\nAt a gathering in the last few days of Tory MPs representing marginal seats - which happened to take place on the same day as Sue Gray's report came out - I hear there was much chatter about this very question.\n\nWhat is provoking a fair dollop of soul searching for some is less the gory detail of wine and fines, vomit, and a fight.\n\nInstead, it is what critics see as a lack of attention to detail.\n\nIt is corroding MPs' confidence, I am told, in whether big policy promises can be kept - on levelling up, on the Northern Ireland Protocol, or on the hospital building programme.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto in 2019 promised \"we will build and fund 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years.\"\n\nNow some MPs, asking questions about when their local one might be coming, are hearing the long-winded process hasn't even started yet.\n\nSo what might happen next? There are three options:\n\nSo how likely is it that we reach 54 letters?\n\nA growing number think it is imminent, although we went through this rigmarole earlier in the year and it didn't happen.\n\n\"We could get there by accident,\" one MP tells me, suggesting the trickle is happening spontaneously rather than being co-ordinated, with irritation emerging from different wings of the party.\n\nOne MP who wants Mr Johnson out tells me they fear No10 want it to be reached so they can \"face it down\" and \"secure a year's immunity.\"\n\nThat's a reference to another quirk of the rules - if a leader survives a vote of confidence, no new vote can happen for 12 months.\n\nAnother of the same view also thinks Mr Johnson would win a vote of confidence. It's back to those big numbers again.\n\n\"Unlike any one normal (Theresa May etc) he could win a confidence vote by one and carry on regardless,\" an MP says.\n\nTheresa May survived a vote of confidence in December 2018, comfortably arithmetically, less comfortably politically.\n\nAnd while technically winning by one would allow a leader to continue, this MP suggests most would walk at that point - but Mr Johnson would not.\n\nAnother says the current half-term break could be crucial.\n\n\"I suspect over this week quite a few colleagues will make their minds up. Sue Gray was the public holding position for many. Developments since then won't have helped the prime minister.\"\n\nWhen following any political story, remember an important rule: account for the people not making a lot of noise, as well as those who are.\n\nPlenty remain loyal to Boris Johnson. Plenty have him to thank for making it to Parliament in the first place.\n\nSome think the Sue Gray report could have been a whole lot worse, and didn't tell them anything they didn't already know.\n\nPlenty think huge chunks of the electorate have heard enough about parties and would much rather the focus be on the cost of living.\n\nThey've priced in the prime minister's failings, goes the theory, now let him get on with what he was elected to do.\n\nSo, assuming in the short to medium term Boris Johnson continues as prime minister, the other thing worth bearing in mind is the parliamentary inquiry into his conduct.\n\nOn Monday 6 June, when MPs return from the half term recess, the Privileges Committee will complete its existing work.\n\nAt that point, the Labour MP Chris Bryant will stand down as its chairman, having recused himself from the investigation into Boris Johnson, given his known criticisms of him.\n\nAnother Labour MP will be taken on by the committee, and under its rules, a Labour MP will become its new chair.\n\nThey will then begin an inquiry into whether Mr Johnson knowingly misled parliament in what he said about Partygate.\n\n\"It's very difficult to see into someone's mind,\" says one committee member, acknowledging proving an intent to mislead won't be easy.\n\nIt's thought the committee's work could take until October - when, incidentally, the Conservatives gather for their conference in Birmingham.\n\nIt can demand documents and witnesses - and who knows what they might turn up - and the whole thing will hang over the prime minister for months.\n\nWhatever happens, the political legacy of Covid rule-breaking in government is going to stick around for a bit yet.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: I am humbled and I have learned a lesson\n\nStaff partied in Downing Street while the rest of the UK was in lockdown, with the approval of their bosses, according to Sue Gray's report.\n\nThe senior civil servant said many events \"should not have been allowed\" and the PM and his officials \"must bear responsibility for this culture\".\n\nThe report highlights excessive drinking, with staff being sick, and abuse of cleaning and security staff.\n\nWarnings about parties breaking Covid rules were ignored, it says.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he took \"full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch\", had been \"humbled by the whole experience\" and had learned lessons.\n\nAnd, speaking at a Downing Street press conference, he ruled out resigning, saying: \"I've got to keep moving forward.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who is himself being investigated by police over his own lockdown event - called on Tory MPs to tell Mr Johnson \"the game is up\" and it was \"time to pack his bags\".\n\nThe PM's key aide Martin Reynolds was urged to cancel a \"bring-your-own-booze\" party in the Downing Street garden in May 2020, as it posed \"somewhat of a comms risk\".\n\nAn unnamed special adviser also told Mr Reynolds via WhatsApp that it would be \"helpful\" if people avoided \"walking around waving bottles of wine etc\" ahead of the event, as it was taking place immediately after a televised Covid press conference.\n\nMr Reynolds later told an unnamed adviser \"we seem to have got away with\" the party. He has since left Downing Street, returning to his job at the Foreign Office.\n\nA dictionary definition of \"responsibility\" is: \"The state or fact of being answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.\"\n\nSo when the prime minister declared that he had taken \"ultimate responsibility\" for the events in Downing Street some of the more sceptical of his MPs will have wondered if his subsequent words lived up to that billing.\n\nHe said he had not seen the empty bottle-filled bins, the altercation, the vomiting. And even when he was present and raising a glass at some of the controversial events, he was merely showing ''leadership\" - wishing departing staff well.\n\nHe had left before any parties had really got started and had \"no knowledge of subsequent proceedings because I simply wasn't there\".\n\nVoters will not be able to give their verdict on his veracity at a general election for quite some time.\n\nIt's his own MPs who will decide the prime minister's future. The judgment they must reach is whether this version of events is credible - or credible enough - to move on from 'Partygate'.\n\nMr Johnson joined five special advisers in a meeting with \"food and alcohol\" in his Downing Street flat on the evening of the announcement of Dominic Cummings' departure in November 2020, Ms Gray found.\n\nThe senior civil servant conceded that she had collected \"limited\" information because she had only begun gathering details before the Metropolitan Police launched an inquiry, and had not returned to it.\n\nIn the conclusion to her report, Ms Gray said: \"Many of these events should not have been allowed to happen.\n\n\"It is also the case that some of the more junior civil servants believed that their involvement in some of these events was permitted given the attendance of senior leaders.\n\n\"The senior leadership at the centre, both political and official, must bear responsibility for this culture.\"\n\nIn total, 83 people have been fined by the Metropolitan Police for breaking lockdown laws in Downing Street.\n\nThese include Mr Johnson, his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who received Fixed Penalty Notices for attending the PM's birthday party in June 2020, which is among 16 events covered by the Gray report.\n\nMr Johnson and chancellor Rishi Sunak have been fined over the PM's birthday party\n\nMr Johnson told MPs he had already brought in the senior management changes Ms Gray recommends.\n\nHe denied lying to MPs over lockdown parties but admitted it had not been correct when he told Parliament that the rules had been followed at all times.\n\nThe PM is facing an investigation by a committee of MPs into claims he knowingly misled Parliament, a finding of which would normally result in resignation.\n\nHe told MPs: \"I am happy to set on the record now that when I said - I came to this House and said in all sincerity - the rules and guidance had been followed at all times, it was what I believed to be true.\n\n\"It was certainly the case when I was present at gatherings to wish staff farewell, and the House will note that my attendance at these moments - brief as it was - has not been found to be outside the rules.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer to Boris Johnson: \"You cannot be a law maker and a law breaker\"\n\nHe added that he had been \"shocked\" and \"appalled\" by some of Ms Gray's findings, especially over the treatment of security and cleaning staff, but it was now time to \"move on\".\n\nMr Johnson said at the press conference later that he had personally apologised to Downing Street cleaners and custodians for the \"utterly unacceptable\" behaviour they had been subjected to.\n\nSir Keir Starmer - who has said he will resign if he is fined by police over a lockdown event - said the Gray report \"laid bare the rot\" in No 10 and showed how people in No 10 had \"treated the sacrifice of the British people with utter contempt\".\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford branded the report \"damning\" and called the prime minister to resign for \"orchestrating\" the scenes in Downing Street.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"Any other PM would be forced to resign by a report as damaging as this, yet still Conservative MPs defend Johnson and allow him to cling on.\"\n\nLater on Wednesday, the prime minister faced a meeting of Tory MPs who could ultimately decide his fate.\n\nIn the Commons, senior backbencher Tobias Ellwood, a prominent critic of the PM, asked fellow Tories: \"Are you willing day in and day out to defend this behaviour publicly?\"\n\n\"Can we win the general election on this current trajectory?\" he added.\n\nHow were you and your family affected by the pandemic? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Beth Harvey managed to get her money back via buy now pay later service Klarna\n\n\"Missguided is my little treat,\" said Beth Harvey who orders about once a month. But when her latest fashion parcel didn't arrive she joined a queue of customers left chasing their orders and refunds.\n\n\"I've always loved the quality of the clothing especially for a curvy woman,\" said the 25-year-old, who orders different styles and sends back what she doesn't need.\n\nBut in April she noticed her refunds weren't going through and in May her parcel didn't arrive at all.\n\nThen came the news that the fast-fashion retailer had collapsed because it owned millions of pounds to suppliers.\n\nMissguided and its sister brand, Mennace, have now been bought by Sports Direct owner Frasers Group.\n\nIt is understood 87 staff have been made redundant and 147 are expected to move over to Frasers.\n\nHowever, many customers with outstanding orders and refunds say they are still in the dark.\n\nBeth Harvey said she felt let down by Missguided\n\nFor the next eight weeks, administrators Teneo will run Missguided before its new owners take over. But Teneo won't comment on whether it will clear the backlog of customer complaints.\n\nMeanwhile, the Missguided website is still advertising offers and taking orders despite reports that its warehouse shut down last Thursday.\n\nWhen Miss Harvey asked what had happened to her order she was told an IT issue had delayed the delivery and it would get to her.\n\nThe BBC has seen multiple examples of similar messages from Missguided to customers.\n\nBut an insider claims staff were told orders were not being processed and should be cancelled and refunded with a generic response blaming IT issues.\n\n\"All orders are ultimately stuck in limbo and are being refunded if customers contact us,\" they said.\n\nMissguided told Beth Davies an IT error was to blame for her order being delayed\n\nOn Friday Miss Harvey spotted a 50% discount so ordered almost £100 worth of dresses hoping to find \"the one\" for an upcoming night out.\n\nBut her clothes have have not arrived. Miss Harvey, from Derbyshire, managed to get a refund through buy-now-pay-later service Klarna.\n\n\"It's disgusting how they've left so many women in the dark,\" she added. \"I'm an NHS worker, who works hard for their cash and I was getting really frustrated at the fact that they'd taken my money easily but it was a nightmare to get it back.\"\n\nJenessa Sawyer placed an order on Missguided US only to find the website had disappeared days later\n\nJenessa Sawyer, 23, from Maine in the US said she buys from Missguided \"religiously\" and loves their activewear and dresses.\n\n\"They're fast fashion which is convenient but the quality is pretty good and there are a good amount of options,\" she said.\n\nThe mum-of-one explained she was \"enticed\" by discounts and placed an order costing just under $100 for summer clothes on Missguided's US website.\n\nWhen she did not receive an order confirmation or her parcel she checked the app.\n\n\"The app wasn't working so I went to the website and there's absolutely nothing, it's like it never existed,\" she said.\n\nShe added the only online presence she could find for Missguided was on Twitter, where she came across many messages from other unhappy customers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It seems they're still taking orders and advertising discounts on the UK site,\" she said.\n\n\"It's strange to me as it's a big company, you feel you can trust them, you don't expect them to take off with your money.\"\n\nMiss Sawyer said she had not received a confirmation of her order from Missguided, so the only proof of her payment was with buy-now-pay later service Afterpay.\n\nBeth Davies ordered £200 of clothes from Missguided and they have not arrived\n\nBeth Davies, a 24-year-old business support manager from Sheffield, said Missguided was her go-to when she was looking for an outfit for a wedding on Saturday.\n\nShe ordered 10 items totalling almost £200 to give her options to try on and send back.\n\nWhen she didn't receive a dispatch note or her parcel she tweeted Missguided to find out what was happening.\n\nThe Manchester-based company replied saying an IT issue meant her order had not been sent by next day delivery.\n\nThe message said: \"I want to try and reassure you that your parcel is on its way…allow until Friday.\"\n\nBy then the news of Missguided's collapse had broken with i newspaper reporting the warehouse had been shut since Thursday - two days before Miss Davies placed her order.\n\n\"Yesterday I was at work feeling so frustrated. They said it's on the way when that's clearly a lie if the warehouse has been shut since last week,\" she said.\n\n\"So as it stands, I am assuming they haven't sent my items, but they happily took my money. I have asked them to cancel both orders, but haven't had a reply.\n\n\"I paid by PayPal so hopefully I will have some protection, I certainly can't afford to lose £200.\"\n\nMissguided's new owner Frasers Group said administrator Teneo was responsible for the running of the business for the next eight weeks.\n\nTeneo declined to comment on any of the claims made by customers and insiders to the BBC.", "Boris Johnson said he had \"no intent to break the regulations\"\n\nBoris Johnson's standards adviser says there is a \"legitimate question\" over whether the PM broke the ministerial code after getting fined for Partygate.\n\nLord Geidt said he repeatedly told the PM's team to be ready to explain if his actions stuck within the rules - even if he thought there was no breach.\n\nBut he said the advice had not been \"heeded\", calling on Mr Johnson to set out his case to the public.\n\nThe PM said being fined by the police does not break the ministerial code.\n\nWriting to Lord Geidt, Mr Johnson said he had \"no intent to break the regulations\", and that he had been \"fully accountable to Parliament and the British people\".\n\nThe ministerial code outlines the rules government ministers must follow when in office, including the \"overarching duty\" on them to comply with the law.\n\nIf the code is broken, the convention in Westminster is for a minister to resign.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the report was \"the latest sign of the rampant sleaze engulfing Downing Street\", adding: \"This prime minister has been found out and his days are numbered.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain said it showed the PM's own ethics adviser \"no longer trusts him to tell the truth\", and that Mr Johnson was \"not fit to hold public office\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police carried out an investigation into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall after allegations surfaced towards the end of 2021.\n\nA total of 126 fines were handed out to 83 people as a result of the force's investigation into 12 events during the pandemic.\n\nAnd a wider report by senior civil servant Sue Gray revealed a drunken party culture within No 10 while the rest of the country was ordered to stay at home.\n\nMr Johnson - along with his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak - was given a fixed penalty notice by the Met for attending a birthday party thrown in his honour in June 2020.\n\nFollowing Ms Gray's report last week, the PM apologised to the Commons, saying he had been \"humbled by the whole experience\" and had learned lessons.\n\nBut pressure has continued to grow, with at least 12 MPs calling on him to resign since the report's publication.\n\nDespite some critical language in Lord Geidt's report, the Cabinet Office is stressing that he's not resigning.\n\nBut a Downing Street source would not deny reports - published in The Times - that Lord Geidt threatened to quit on Tuesday unless Boris Johnson publicly explained his conduct.\n\nThe prime minister did publish a letter, in which he denied breaching the code, insisting there was no intent to break the rules.\n\nHe went on to stress that he'd apologised.\n\nLord Geidt also reveals that he repeatedly advised the prime minister - via his officials - to address this very issue in the wake of his fine.\n\nHe adds he was assured this was conveyed to Boris Johnson. In his reply Mr Johnson says there may have been \"a failure of communication\" between their offices.\n\nThis is the latest development raising questions about Boris Johnson's conduct, at a time when almost 30 of his own MPs have publicly called on him to go.\n\nIn his annual report on ministers' interests, Lord Geidt said questions around Mr Johnson's behaviour had led to an \"impression... the prime minister may be unwilling to have his own conduct judged against\" the ministerial code.\n\nThe standards adviser said it would be \"especially difficult to inspire that trust in the ministerial code if any prime minister, whose code it is, declines to refer to it\".\n\nHe said when it came to the Partygate fine, \"a legitimate question has arisen as to whether those facts alone might have constituted a breach of the overarching duty within the ministerial code of complying with the law\".\n\nAnd even if the PM thought there was no breach, he should \"should respond accordingly, setting out his case in public.\"\n\nLord Geidt - who reports to the prime minister - said he had avoided \"offering advice\" to Mr Johnson about the PM's \"obligations under his own ministerial code\" as he would be forced to resign if Mr Johnson rejected the advice.\n\nBut after repeatedly contacting his team \"to ensure that the prime minister should publicly be seen to take responsibility for his own conduct under his own ministerial code\", the prime minister had \"made not a single public reference\" to it.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"not aware of the weight... put on the absence of an explicit reference to the ministerial code\".\n\nBut in his letter to his adviser, he insisted he had not broken it by being fined.\n\nThe PM wrote: \"I have taken full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch, and reiterate my apology to the House and to the whole country...\n\n\"I have also been clear that there was no intent to break the regulations\", he added, before saying: \"Paying a fixed penalty notice is not a criminal conviction.\"\n\nMr Johnson also said that, in his view, the same principles applied to the chancellor.", "SSE Airtricity has announced a 42.7% increase in gas prices from 1 July - a move which will hit 186,000 customers in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes on top of a 33% hike in the company's electricity prices which came into effect on Wednesday.\n\nThe Consumer Council said the gas price increase would mean an additional £1.02 per day onto the typical household bill.\n\nThis is the company's fourth increase in gas prices in just 15 months.\n\nIt follows a 39% rise in April 2022, a 21.8% rise in October 2021 and a 9.8% rise in April 2021.\n\nHuge increases in the wholesale cost of gas are the main reason for the increases as wholesale costs make up about half of the typical household bill.\n\nAndrew Greer, SSE Airtricity general manager (NI), said this was \"not the news our customers want to hear\".\n\n\"The cost of purchasing natural gas has remained at its highest level in over a decade and at times in recent months, it has hit record highs,\" he said.\n\n\"We would encourage any customer who is having difficulty with their energy costs to please contact us.\"\n\nThe company said it had also made a £1m donation to a local charity to support people struggling with the cost of living.\n\nIn March 2021, gas cost around 50 pence per therm, that cost has risen to around £2 per therm after hitting as high as £4.50 per therm late last year.\n\nTheir tariffs are independently scrutinised and approved by the Utility Regulator in consultation with the Consumer Council and the Department for the Economy.\n\nThe electricity price rise is the second increase in six months\n\nAccording to the Utility Regulator, the average household bill in Northern Ireland was £514 in April 2021 - that rose to £626 in October 2021, and £870 in April 2022.\n\nThe announcement comes on the same day that a previously announced 33% rise in SSE Airtricity electricity prices comes into effect.\n\nThe company is Northern Ireland's second largest electricity provider, with about 158,000 domestic customers.\n\nIt is the second electricity price increase in six months for customers in Northern Ireland following a 9% rise last December.\n\nHigh and volatile prices on global wholesale energy markets are being blamed.\n\nThe Consumer Council said the latest increase means the SSE standard tariff for electricity credit meter and pay-as-you-go customers would increase by £248 to just over £1,000 a year.\n\nIn May, Electric Ireland increased its prices by 30%, while Budget Ireland raised prices by 27%.\n\nLast week, Power NI announced a 27.5% increase to domestic electricity prices from 1 July 2022.\n\nThis will add £204 onto the average annual household bill bringing it to £944 a year.\n\nKatie Daly said it felt like all the price increases were happening at once\n\nThe latest has price hike come as UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, hit a 40-year high.\n\nHigher fuel and food prices, driven by the Ukraine war, are pushing the cost of living up.\n\nKatie Daly told BBC News NI that she felt the Executive was \"letting us down big time\".\n\n\"A shop normally costing £50 is coming to £70, it's a jump when you're a single parent with two kids,\" she said.\n\n\"I used to get £10 electric on a Monday morning. I think it's about £25 a week now, that's over 100% increase.\n\n\"On my gas alone, I think I'm spending £100 a month. My son has asthma and I need to have heating on for him but the price of that is killing me.\"\n\nStephanie Waite said she had not used her gas heating in winter because of the high cost\n\nStephanie Waite is also struggling with increasing power costs.\n\n\"I used to be able to be good for £20 a week on my electric, but now you're guaranteed about three days, four at best with £20,\" she said.\n\n\"The gas bills ... I haven't had my heating on over the winter, I bought myself a wee radiator just because it's either food or heating at the minute.\"\n\nPeter McClenaghan from the Consumer Council, said: \"While price increases are happening due to global reasons it doesn't make it any easier for people to pay their bills, particularly those in vulnerable circumstances.\n\n\"If you are struggling to pay your bills, the first thing to do is contact your supplier directly for help and information. There are measures that can be put in place.\"\n\nCarers NI said the increases were putting increasing pressure on carers\n\nCraig Harrison from Carers NI said: \"Carers are being hit by the double whammy of pre-existing financial pressures that are just being compounded by these sky-rocketing energy costs.\"\n\nHe said the stress was having \"a massive impact\" on people's health.", "A WhatsApp group in which serving police officers exchanged sexist, pornographic and racist messages has been exposed by BBC NI Spotlight.\n\nMore than 20 PSNI officers belonged to the group, which used abusive language about senior female officers.\n\nImages of sex toys were photoshopped on to the faces of female colleagues.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne told Spotlight the type of messages displayed in the WhatsApp group were \"wholly unacceptable\".\n\nFormer police ombudsman Baroness Nuala O'Loan, who examined some of the messages, said they raised wider concerns about police culture.\n\n\"The cumulative effect of those WhatsApp messages is to suggest a group of people who are out of control, who think that they can do or say anything they want to say, and that is really not acceptable,\" she said.\n\nThe messages were exposed after two whistleblowers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) began looking into alleged performance failings in the Causeway Coast and Glens policing district in early 2020, at the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nPC John O'Connor and temporary Ch Insp Donna Bowden initially uncovered evidence of slack behaviour among one group of officers.\n\n\"Domestics weren't being attended to for an hour and a half,\" said PC O'Connor, who has been a police officer for almost 18 years.\n\n\"I started to realise very, very quickly that people just weren't attending calls at all.\n\n\"It became almost like a summer camp when Covid hit.\n\n\"There were officers sleeping on duty, there was officers bringing camp beds to work, they were bringing sleeping bags, they were setting up the briefing room to be a cinema, were going out and getting popcorn so they could all watch a movie on night shift instead of patrolling.\n\n\"I kept raising the fact that drug dealing didn't change in Covid. People still wanted to commit crime.\"\n\nSpotlight wrote to some officers alleged to have performance failings.\n\nA solicitor responded, saying that because of ongoing internal investigations the officers were not at liberty to comment.\n\nWeeks after PC O'Connor and temporary Ch Insp Bowden reported their findings about colleagues, they found themselves subject to internal complaints and moved to other duties.\n\nWhile defending themselves, they discovered the WhatsApp group and its shocking contents.\n\nBBC NI Spotlight examined hundreds of messages that were sent over an 11-month period.\n\nThey included messages that mocked Arabic and Islamic people and linked the success of senior female officers to the performance of sexual acts.\n\nRetired Dep Ch Con Judith Gillespie, the most senior woman to have served in the PSNI, said she was sickened by the messages and shocked that other officers in the WhatsApp group tolerated them.\n\n\"Would you want a police officer who displays this attitude to be in a position of power over your daughter? Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife, your partner, your friend?\n\n\"Would you really want that because that's the key question here. It goes to the heart of public confidence in policing.\"\n\nSpotlight revealed the PSNI have assessed 12 officers for their involvement in the group.\n\nThree male officers are currently under investigation for gross misconduct as a result of the WhatsApp thread, and two female officers are being investigated for misconduct.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said because those investigations were ongoing, the law and principles of fairness constrain what he could say.\n\n\"However, I wish to make it absolutely clear that WhatsApp messages (or communications of any kind, whether digital or oral), which display traits inconsistent with the Code of Ethics' commitment to integrity, equality and diversity are wholly unacceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"For the avoidance of any doubt, police officers or staff members who display any discriminatory or misogynistic traits can expect to be subject to robust investigation by PSD [Professional Standards Department] and prosecution, where relevant, for misconduct.\"\n\nThe WhatsApp group was first reported to the PSNI two years ago.\n\nMr Byrne said he accepted criticism about delays, saying it undermines public confidence.\n\nHe said he has proposed reforming police misconduct hearings in Northern Ireland by replacing senior police officers with \"legally-qualified chairs\", who could speed up proceedings and increase public confidence in the independence of decisions.\n\nThe Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI), which represents PSNI officers, said it viewed the allegations made in the Spotlight programme \"with the utmost seriousness\".\n\nIt said that inappropriate internal conduct and behaviour by police officers that potentially breaches the PSNI's code of ethics \"should be reported without delay to the PSNI's Professional Standards Department for investigation\" and \"thoroughly and objectively investigated\".\n\n\"The PFNI has consistently made clear its commitment to a workplace free of misogyny, sexism, bullying and sectarianism.\"\n\nPolicing Board chair Doug Garrett said the board had had a series of recent discussions with the chief constable and his leadership team on professional standards, ethics and culture within the service with assurances sought that the policies and procedures in place are robust in dealing with inappropriate behaviours and actions.\n\n\"The board expects all police officers and police staff to act professionally and ethically in the delivery of their duties, and that those ethics apply both on and off duty, on and off line. This is central to confidence in the service and those delivering that service.\n\n\"The board had already agreed to bring extra scrutiny and focus to this area. With Board reconstitution now confirmed, members will be able to question the chief constable on issues raised in the programme in the coming weeks.\"\n\nSpotlight's Police, WhatsApp & Whistleblowers will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer", "Amber Heard in court on 26 May\n\nAmber Heard says she felt humiliated and had faced hundreds of daily death threats after testifying at Johnny Depp's trial against her.\n\nSpeaking on the final day of the trial before closing statements, the actress said: \"Perhaps it's easy to forget, but I am a human being.\"\n\nMr Depp, 58, is suing Ms Heard, 36, over an article she wrote in which she said she was the victim of abuse.\n\nHe has repeatedly denied her claims.\n\nOver more than a month of testimony, jurors have been presented with starkly different versions of incidents that took place throughout the couple's troubled two years together.\n\nBoth actors accuse the other of being the aggressor in the relationship and have called witnesses to testify on their behalf. A number of the witnesses called by Mr Depp's team have directly contradicted Ms Heard's claims.\n\n\"I know how many people will come out and say whatever for him,\" Ms Heard said in court on Thursday. \"That's his power. That's why I wrote the op-ed. I was speaking to that phenomenon.\"\n\nMs Heard's testimony on Wednesday also led to a tense exchange with Camille Vasquez - Mr Depp's now viral lawyer - over an image of spilled wine. It is one of several pictures Ms Heard has presented, allegedly from a huge fight the couple had in 2016 which ended with Mr Depp assaulting her.\n\nAt one point, Ms Heard turned to jurors and claimed the photos had been redacted or edited by Mr Depp's lawyers to benefit her ex-husband's case.\n\n\"I'd appreciate if you wouldn't be making arguments to the jury,\" Ms Vasquez said sternly. \"I didn't ask you about anything.\"\n\nThroughout her testimony, Ms Heard repeatedly denied accusations she was lying or misled jurors during the trial.\n\nHer testimony, she added, had led to \"hundreds\" of death threats on a daily basis and forced her to \"relive the trauma\" of her marriage.\n\n\"This is horrible... this is humiliating for any human being to go through and perhaps it's easy to forget, but I am a human being,\" she said. \"As I stand here today, I can't have a career. I can't even have people associate with me because of the threats and the attacks that they will have to endure.\"\n\nMr Depp is suing Ms Heard for $50m (£40m) for a 2018 comment article she wrote in the Washington Post in which she said she was the victim of abuse.\n\nWhile he wasn't named, his attorneys have said it \"incalculably\" damaged his career. She has countersued him for $100m.\n\nClosing arguments will begin on Friday, followed by jury deliberations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Kate Moss testify: \"Did Mr Depp push you down the stairs?\"", "Amber Heard and Johnny Depp at an event together in 2015\n\n\"It wasn't meant to be a viral video. I was, like, in my pyjamas.\"\n\nYasmine Bedward, a social media manager, was speaking from a house in Jamaica about the moment her interest in the libel case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard 'blew up'.\n\n\"No one in my real life cared about my thoughts on this matter, so I turned to TikTok as we millennials do,\" said Ms Bedward, 30.\n\nHer video comparing the two psychologists who gave evidence to the celebrity libel case has now topped 4.3 million views - just a fraction below the audience figure for the evening news programme on the US television network CBS.\n\nIt has definitely \"blown up\".\n\nFor another media comparison, the number of people who watch TV news each evening in America is about 18 million. The number of views of videos on TikTok with the hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp is, at the time of this writing, about 18 billion.\n\nThe trial between two Hollywood actors turned warring ex-spouses is a reminder that when it comes to certain stories the idea of a mass media or a mainstream media dominated by a few major news organisations is beginning to look a bit creaky.\n\nIt is also, for some, deeply troubling.\n\nThere have been essentially two cases here - one decided by a jury and another by the public.\n\nAnd from its early days, it was clear the overwhelming weight of online traffic was siding with Johnny Depp and deeply suspicious of Amber Heard.\n\nThe level of doubt in polling, and from even the most cursory search of social media, was in direct contradiction of the previous libel trial in the UK, where the allegations that Ms Heard suffered domestic abuse were judged to be \"substantially true\".\n\nThe way her testimony and character has been vilified in the US trial has alarmed domestic violence campaigners.\n\nOne question now is, what impact this verdict will have? Has Mr Depp saved his career and reputation with his victory in court?\n\nBut there is also another question in the parallel \"trial by TikTok\": Who has been generating all this online traffic - and what effect has it had?\n\nJohnny Depp waving to supporters outside the courthouse on 27 May\n\nCyabra, an Israeli firm that tracks online disinformation, has been following the Depp/Heard case for weeks. It analyses accounts that are spreading memes, videos and comments and tries to assess if they are genuine members of the public.\n\nThe results so far are startling, according to the company's spokesman, Rafi Mendelsohn.\n\n\"From the beginning of the trial, we were really interested to see what people are actually saying and how much of that conversation is driven by fake accounts.\n\n\"We were amazed to see that actually nearly 11% of the conversation around the trial was driven by fake accounts, which is a very high number,\" Mr Mendelsohn said.\n\n\"To give some context, at any given conversation on average, we see maybe around 3 to 5% of the conversation involving fake accounts,\" he added.\n\nThe best comparison for a conversation with this level of bot and fake accounts would be a big election campaign, he said.\n\nAmber Heard has said she faces hundreds of death threats and online harassment each day\n\nCyabra is not alone in being interested in the level of pro-Depp online traffic.\n\nMs Heard raised the issue at the beginning of the trial, and throughout the case two Heard supporters, Cristina Taft and Daniel Brummit, have been regular visitors to the Virginia court house to voice concerns about what is happening online.\n\nThey have written a book together called Amber Heard and Bots.\n\n\"We saw new accounts and new postings in February and January,\" Ms Taft said, noting that in those two months, the Daily Mail news paper published two audio recordings of the former couple on YouTube.\n\n\"Then it went to Twitter and there are new accounts that… post like two days later,\" she said.\n\nThe problem is proving who is behind the fake accounts. All that can be said is that this pattern of fake accounts is increasingly spreading from politics to other parts of public life, according to Mr Mendelsohn of Cyabra.\n\n\"When we talk about disinformation and fake accounts, very often people think about big geopolitical campaigns, elections, politics generally,\" he said.\n\n\"But actually, what we're seeing is anyone with a global or a public reputation is a brand online, whether that's a celebrity or a consumer brand… there's an increase in the number of inauthentic profiles, but it's very difficult to know who is behind the fake accounts.\"\n\nJohnny Depp supporters taking photos outside the court on 27 May\n\nBut 11% fake still means that 89% are real. What is going on with this case?\n\nThe first obvious answer is the video feed of the courtroom.\n\nAnd it's not just the courtroom. We are seeing reaction shots of the main participants. We have been able to watch facial expressions in a way that it is impossible for even people in the room, and we have seen some extraordinary moments unrelated to the main narrative.\n\nThe sight of the doorman, Alejandro Romero, delivering his testimony via Zoom from his car while vaping and then driving off is something new even for American justice. The look on Judge Penney Azacarte's face at the end of his testimony was proof enough. It is simply compelling to watch.\n\nIt is also a puzzle. Two people arguing a completely opposed view of events that took place behind closed doors means that millions can see the evidence for themselves and make up their own mind. We can all be detectives.\n\nBut there is another and perhaps more important thing going on here. Domestic violence is an issue that touches people's lives around the planet. This case has become symbolic.\n\nFor Haider Ali in Islamabad, Pakistan, this is personal. The 27-year-old designer, whose commentary on the trial on YouTube has attracted millions of views, said he had experienced violence and identifies with what Mr Depp claims he had faced.\n\n\"I was browsing Twitter and I saw a live feed, watched it a few minutes and realised that there were a lot of things I could relate to when I heard Johnny Depp testify in court,\" he told BBC.\n\n\"Because there were a lot of similarities between Johnny Depp's case and my own. I decided to post the trial videos on my YouTube channel in the hopes to create a community of people who have also been abused,\" he said.\n\n\"My goal was to bring out people who have been silenced.\"\n\nAnd Ms Bedward, who has been getting millions of views for her TikToks, also feels personally connected.\n\n\"I just related to him [Mr Depp]... people perceive certain people in a certain way and they automatically deem them as guilty or just not a good person,\" she said.\n\n\"As a black woman in America, I experienced that…. some people are just seen as guilty without their case even being you know, proven and so I that's what brought me into it\".\n\nAnd there is another issue that has been expressed over and over again by the largely female followers of the cases. Amber Heard was an ambassador for a movement. In the wake of MeToo, she had become a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union, a charity that, among other things, represents victims of domestic abuse.\n\nFor Ms Bedward, that is deeply troubling.\n\n\"This is someone who has become the face of a movement that women have been fighting for, for years, and so to have someone be at the front of that and not be truthful is damaging to not only the organisation, but I think women overall,\" she said.\n\nSo to dismiss this case as just celebrity gossip or fan worship is to deeply misunderstand the variety of ways in which people are relating to what they are seeing.\n\nBut the scale of that reaction and its tone are also causing some to worry.\n\nDeborah Vagins, who is the head of the National Network to End Domestic Violence feels the treatment of Amber Heard will resonate widely - and not in a good way.\n\n\"Victims are watching this, and they are thinking about how will I be treated if I come forward?\" she said.\n\nThis public trial to restore a public reputation will have consequences.\n\nBut, there is also another conclusion.\n\nThis is a news story where everyone has had equal access to the source material, the journalist in court sees exactly what you see at home, the playing field has been levelled. Such access has empowered millions to engage and discuss.\n\nIt is also a news story that has broken free of the boundaries, language and stylistic conventions of traditional journalism.\n\nThere may be bots, there may be fake accounts, but the vast majority of the traffic is made up of real people who want to join a boisterous, global conversation about justice, truth and conflict in relationships.\n\nIt may not be decorous or polite, but it is a news story that has touched lives in a way that really matters to people who often feel the news is distant, dull and unconcerned with matters that affect them.\n\nThis article will likely only be read by a fraction of the number of people who have been following Ms Bedward or Mr Ali.\n\nAnd just to repeat that figure: 18 billion TikTok views.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp - the trial so far, in their own words", "George Kemp suggested south Wales to Guglielmo Marconi for the experiment\n\nA sculpture honouring Guglielmo Marconi could be abandoned after councillors learned of his support for Mussolini.\n\nCardiff council had planned to erect the artwork to celebrate Marconi's feat of transmitting a radio signal across open sea off the Welsh coast in 1897.\n\nThe 4m (13ft) high sculpture of a radio is due to be part of a £1.1m project for the Cardiff Bay barrage area.\n\nHowever the plans are now under review after the council became aware of his support of Italy's fascist government.\n\nRegarded as the \"father of radio\", Marconi was a joint-winner of the Nobel prize for his work with \"wireless telegraphy\", which included discoveries that allowed messages to be sent via radio waves.\n\nHe moved to the UK after the Italian government refused to fund his work and was assisted by George Kemp, a Cardiff-based Post Office engineer.\n\nFlat Holm lies off the south Wales coast in sight of Cardiff Bay barrage\n\nOn 13 May 1897, he transmitted radio messages between Lavernock Point in the Vale of Glamorgan to Flat Holm island.\n\nHowever, in 2002, documents discovered in Rome showed Marconi stopped Jewish scientists joining the Academy of Italy, which he ran. He was found to have marked shortlists of candidates with the letter \"E\", standing for Ebreo - the Italian word for Jew.\n\nMarconi was appointed to the post by Benito Mussolini, which made him a member of the Grand Council of Fascism, a ruling body of the government.\n\nA spokesman for Cardiff council said: \"Whilst Flat Holm Island is rightly famous as the site of the world's first radio transmission over open sea, radio pioneer Marconi's involvement with the Italian Fascist Party, and his role in excluding Jewish scientists from the Academy of Italy is less well-known and understood.\n\n\"Having been made aware of these matters, the project team will be contacting all funding partners immediately and beginning a review of the sculpture proposals to ensure that the fascinating history of Flat Holm Island is celebrated in a way that's consistent with Cardiff's values as a tolerant and welcoming city where equality and diversity is championed and celebrated.\"", "Campaigners lined up along a tape to mark out the size of vehicles expected to use the site\n\nAn application to drill for gas in Surrey has been approved by the government after it had been refused twice by the county council.\n\nUK Oil & Gas (UKOG) applied to explore a site south of Dunsfold Road and east of High Loxley Road, in Dunsfold.\n\nWaverley Borough Council said it was \"the worst possible outcome\" and the drilling could lead to \"irreversible harm\" to the environment.\n\nUKOG said it was looking forward to working with the local community.\n\nUKOG chief executive Steve Sanderson said: \"We welcome this decision and its backing for Loxley's gas as a secure, sustainable energy source with a far lower pre-combustion carbon footprint than imports.\"\n\nThe planning application had been opposed by campaigners and the Conservative MP for South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt.\n\nMr Hunt, who was attending protests against the drilling in January, said: \"It's absolutely extraordinary after COP26 in Glasgow that we are even thinking about drilling for oil and gas in this area.\"\n\nSurrey County Council had twice refused permission to build two exploratory wells at Dunsfold.\n\nAn appeal by UKOG was then lodged with the planning inspector and the plans were approved by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.\n\nCampaigners say access to the site at Pratts Corner is not suitable for the large vehicles needed to drill for gas\n\nA Surrey County Council spokesman said: \"Although the County Council has received the decision, officers had not yet had chance to review it in any detail.\"\n\nSteve Williams, Waverley Borough Council's portfolio holder for environment and sustainability, said: \"This is the worst possible outcome for the people of Waverley, and we are bitterly disappointed at the secretary of state's decision.\n\n\"Without doubt, allowing this planning application will lead to irreversible harm to our environment and to local people.\"\n\nThe borough council said it was concerned that \"UKOG does not appear to have the funds to pay for reinstatement of the site so that if oil is not found in commercially viable quantities, the company can simply walk away, effectively transferring liability for clean-up and restoration costs to the local community\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas\n\nWars ebb and flow. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is no exception.\n\nEarly fears of a swift conquest were succeeded by Russian retreat and Ukrainian resistance. That has now been met by a more focused Russian offensive in the east.\n\nBut 100 days on, where might this war go next?\n\nHere are five potential scenarios - they are not mutually exclusive, but all are within the bounds of plausibility.\n\nThe war might continue for months - if not years - as Russian and Ukrainian forces grind each other down.\n\nMomentum shifts to and fro as both sides make gains and losses. Neither side is willing to give up. Russia's President Putin judges he can gain by demonstrating strategic patience, gambling that Western countries will suffer from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and focus more on their economic crises and the threat from China.\n\nThe West, however, shows resolve and continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. Semi-permanent front lines are established. Steadily the war becomes a frozen conflict, a \"forever war\".\n\nMick Ryan, a retired Australian general and military scholar, says: \"There is little prospect of a crushing operational or strategic victory by either side in the short term. Neither belligerent has demonstrated the capacity to land a strategically decisive blow.\"\n\nWhat if President Putin were to surprise the world with a unilateral ceasefire? He could pocket his territorial gains and declare \"victory\".\n\nHe could claim his \"military operation\" was complete: Russian-backed separatists in Donbas protected; a land corridor to Crimea established. He could then seek the moral high ground, putting pressure on Ukraine to stop fighting.\n\n\"This is a ploy which could be used by Russia at any time, if it wants to capitalise on European pressure on Ukraine to surrender and give up territory in exchange for notional peace,\" says Keir Giles, Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank.\n\nRussia's President Putin may gamble on Western countries suffering from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and switching focus to their economies\n\nThe arguments are heard already in Paris, Berlin and Rome: no need to prolong the war, time to end the global economic pain, let's push for a ceasefire.\n\nThis, though, would be opposed by the US, the UK and much of eastern Europe, where policymakers believe Russia's invasion must fail, for the sake of Ukraine and the international order.\n\nSo a unilateral Russian ceasefire might change the narrative but not end the fighting.\n\nWhat if both Ukraine and Russia conclude they cannot achieve more militarily and enter talks for a political settlement?\n\nTheir armies are exhausted, running short of manpower and munitions. The price in blood and treasure no longer justifies further fighting. Russia's military and economic losses are not sustainable. The Ukrainian people tire of war, unwilling to risk more lives for an eternally elusive victory.\n\nWhat if the leadership in Kyiv - no longer trusting continued Western support - decide the time has come to talk? US President Joe Biden openly admits America's aim is for Ukraine to be \"in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table\".\n\nBut there may not be a battlefield stalemate for many months and any political settlement would be hard, not least because of Ukraine's lack of trust in Russia. A peace deal might not endure and could be followed by more fighting.\n\nCould Ukraine - against the odds - achieve something close to a victory? Could Ukraine force Russian troops to withdraw to where they were before the invasion?\n\n\"Ukraine will definitely win this war,\" the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky told Dutch TV this week.\n\nWhat if Russia fails to seize all Donbas and suffers more losses? Western sanctions hit Russia's war machine. Ukraine makes counter attacks, using its new long-range rockets, seizing back territory where Russian supply lines are stretched. Ukraine transforms its army from a defensive to an offensive force.\n\nThe US said it would supply Ukraine with weapons including medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)\n\nThis scenario is plausible enough for policymakers to worry already about its consequences. If Mr Putin were facing defeat, might he escalate, potentially using either chemical or nuclear weapons?\n\nThe historian Niall Ferguson told a seminar at Kings College, London recently: \"It seems unlikely to me that Putin is going to accept conventional military defeat when he has a nuclear option.\"\n\nAnd what of a possible Russian \"victory\"?\n\nWestern officials emphasise that Russia, despite early setbacks, still plans to seize the capital Kyiv and subjugate much of Ukraine. \"Those maximalist objectives remain in place,\" one official said.\n\nRussia could capitalise on its gains in Donbas, freeing up forces for use elsewhere, perhaps even targeting Kyiv once again. The sheer weight of Russian numbers come to bear. Ukrainian forces continue to suffer.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky met servicemen in the eastern Kharkiv region, where fighting has intensified\n\nPresident Zelensky already admits up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying and another 500 are wounded every day.\n\nThe people of Ukraine could divide, some wanting to fight on, others wanting to sue for peace. Some Western countries might tire of supporting Ukraine. But equally, if they thought Russia was winning, others might want to escalate.\n\nOne Western diplomat told me privately the West should test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific as a warning to Russia.\n\nThe future of this war is not yet written.", "ECB president Christine Lagarde said a further rate rise was likely in September\n\nThe European Central Bank (ECB) has said it intends to raise interest rates for the first time in more than 11 years next month as it tries to control soaring inflation in the eurozone.\n\nThe ECB said it would raise its key interest rates by 0.25% in July, with further increases planned for later in the year.\n\nThe bank also intends to end its bond-buying stimulus programme on 1 July.\n\nThe latest eurozone inflation estimate was 8.1%, well above the ECB's target.\n\n\"High inflation is a major challenge for all of us. The [ECB] governing council will make sure that inflation returns to its 2% target over the medium term,\" the ECB said in a statement.\n\n\"It is not just a step, it is a journey,\" ECB President Christine Lagarde said of the moves.\n\nThe ECB's main policy interest rate is currently at -0.50% and it could be back at zero or above by the end of September, the bank said. The last time it raised interest rates in the eurozone was in 2011.\n\nInflation in May \"again rose significantly\" as energy and food prices surged, it added.\n\nBut it said inflationary pressures had \"broadened and intensified, with prices for many goods and services increasing strongly\".\n\nAs a result, the bank has upped its estimate for annual inflation this year to 6.8%, before slowing to 3.5% in 2023 and 2.1% in 2024.\n\nThe ECB also cut its growth forecast for the eurozone from 3.7% to 2.8% for 2022, and from 2.8% to 2.1% for 2023.\n\nSeveral other central banks have already started raising interest rates as they try to slow inflation that has been accelerating amid surging energy costs.\n\nIn the US, the Federal Reserve has now raised rates twice this year, while a series of moves by the Bank of England has now lifted UK rates to 1% - the highest level for 13 years.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference after the ECB's decision, the bank's president, Christine Lagarde, said inflation would remain \"undesirably elevated for some time\".\n\nEnergy prices are up nearly 40% from a year earlier, she said, while food prices rose 7.5% in May, partly due to the impact of the war in Ukraine on food supplies.\n\n\"Do we expect that the July interest rate hike will have an immediate impact on inflation? The answer is no,\" she said.\n\nSeema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors, said: \"With this inflation outlook and the unavoidable path for higher rates, the ECB is facing stagflation threats full-frontal.\n\n\"The strangling hold of desperately high living costs means that euro area growth will slow through the second half of this year, with recession increasingly likely - particularly now with sharp policy tightening in the near-term horizon.\"", "Taylor Jones had panic attacks and on one occasion threw up, as a result of how lonely he felt at uni\n\nAlmost one in four students are lonely most or all of the time, according to new research.\n\nThat is four times worse than the one in 20 adults who said they were similarly lonely in the most recent data for the general population.\n\nThe findings on student wellbeing are part of a wider snapshot of experiences of being at university in the UK.\n\nThe Higher Education Policy Institute surveyed more than 10,000 students for its annual study.\n\nTaylor Jones threw up and had panic attacks because of how lonely he was in the first three months of university.\n\n\"I had people I spoke to in my classes but outside of my classes, I would spend time sitting in the car or sitting in the toilets, waiting for any free time to be over,\" Taylor told BBC News.\n\nTaylor, now 23, was living with his family and getting the train to campus each day.\n\nHe said not living in student accommodation, or with others on his course, made it hard to make friends.\n\nHe was left feeling isolated and miserable and soon developed panic attacks, which became so acute that one day he vomited.\n\n\"I left halfway through the class and sat in the toilets and just waited for the day to be over so I could go home,\" he said.\n\nWhen he asked the university for advice, Taylor says staff told him loneliness was \"normal\". He soon dropped out of the course due to the lack of support.\n\nA total of 59% of students said they were lonely most of the time, all of the time, or at least once a week. The contrast with the general population could be even more stark, as the data for adults was collected during the pandemic, when loneliness levels were thought to be at their height.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis year there is a very slight improvement on other measures of student life, with 35% saying their course was good or very good value for money.\n\nThis is still lower than before the disruption of the Covid pandemic and reflects continuing concern about the overall cost of being a university student - especially with the recent rise in the cost of living.\n\nThe NUS Vice-President for Higher Education, Hillary Gyebi-Ababio said it was \"deeply concerning\" that most students didn't feel they were getting value for money.\n\n\"We're hearing from students who are working three jobs, can't afford the bus ticket to their university library, and who are cutting back on cooking food to avoid spiralling energy costs\" she added.\n\nUniversities in England have been under pressure from ministers over the amount of face-to-face teaching.\n\nAcross the UK, 38% of students had at least half of their lectures delivered online, but 63% said they were satisfied with their contact hours.\n\nStudents also reported frustration at the disruption caused by industrial action by university staff over pensions and working conditions.\n\nMental health remains a concern, and some universities have increased support.\n\nTaylor has since signed up to a different university and is due to graduate this year.\n\nHe met the support team at the University Campus of Football Business in Burnley before he started - and found the smaller university more friendly.\n\n\"It felt like a comfort blanket, an arm around my shoulder if I needed it,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't necessarily need the support but knowing it was there was so helpful.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.", "Some Russian troops are refusing to return to fight in Ukraine because of their experiences on the front line at the start of the invasion, according to Russian human rights lawyers and activists. The BBC has been speaking to one such soldier.\n\n\"I don't want to go [back to Ukraine] to kill and be killed,\" says Sergey - not his real name - who spent five weeks fighting in Ukraine earlier this year.\n\nHe is now home in Russia, having taken legal advice to avoid being sent back to the front line. Sergey is just one of hundreds of Russian soldiers understood to have been seeking such advice.\n\nSergey says he is traumatised by his experience in Ukraine.\n\n\"I had thought that we were the Russian army, the most super-duper in the world,\" says the young man bitterly. Instead they were expected to operate without even basic equipment, such as night vision devices, he says.\n\n\"We were like blind kittens. I'm shocked by our army. It wouldn't cost much to equip us. Why wasn't it done?\"\n\nSergey joined the army as a conscript - most Russian men between the ages of 18-27 must complete one year of compulsory military service. But, after a few months, he made the decision to sign a two-year professional contract which would also give him a salary.\n\nIn January, Sergey was sent near the border with Ukraine for what he was told would be military drills. A month later - 24 February, the day Russia launched its invasion - he was told to cross the border. Almost immediately his unit found itself under attack.\n\nAs they stopped for the evening in an abandoned farm, their commander said: \"Well, as you will have worked out by now, this is not a joke.\"\n\nA convoy of Russian military vehicles heading towards the Donbas region - 23 February 2022\n\nSergey says he was completely shocked.\n\n\"My first thoughts were 'Is this really happening to me?'\"\n\nThey were continually shelled, he says, both when moving and when parked overnight. In his unit of 50 people, 10 were killed and 10 others wounded. Almost all his comrades were under the age of 25.\n\nHe heard of Russian servicemen so inexperienced that they \"did not know how to shoot and couldn't tell one end of a mortar from another\".\n\nHe says his convoy - travelling through northern Ukraine - broke up after just four days when a bridge they were about to cross exploded, killing comrades ahead of them.\n\nIn another incident, Sergey says he had to overtake comrades trapped inside a burning vehicle in front of him.\n\n\"It was blown up from a grenade launcher or something else. It caught fire and there were [Russian] soldiers inside. We drove around it and on, firing as we went. I didn't look back.\"\n\nLocal residents by a destroyed Russian tank in Sloboda, Chernihiv, Ukraine - 8 May 2022\n\nHis unit moved on through the Ukrainian countryside, but there was a clear lack of strategy, he says. Reinforcements failed to arrive and soldiers were poorly equipped for the task of taking a large city.\n\n\"We went without helicopters - just in a column, as though we were heading to a parade.\"\n\nHe believes his commanders had planned to capture strongholds and key cities very quickly - and had calculated that the Ukrainians would simply surrender.\n\n\"We rushed forward with short overnight stays, without trenches, without reconnaissance. We didn't leave anyone in the rear, so if someone decided to come in from behind and hit us there was no protection.\n\n\"I think that [so many of] our guys died largely because of this. If we had moved gradually, if we had checked the roads for mines many losses could have been avoided.\"\n\nSergey's complaints about lack of equipment have also emerged in phone conversations alleged to be between Russian soldiers and their families, intercepted and posted online by the Ukrainian security services.\n\nAt the beginning of April, Sergey was sent back over the border to a camp on the Russian side. Troops had been withdrawn from northern Ukraine and appeared to be regrouping for an assault in the east. Later that month he received an order to return to Ukraine - but told his commander that he was not prepared to go.\n\nBanner with the letters Z and V, in support of the Russian military, on a building in Moscow - 19 May 2022\n\n\"He said it was my choice. They didn't even [try to] dissuade us, because we weren't the first,\" Sergey told the BBC. But, he had been sufficiently worried about his unit's reaction to his refusal that he decided to seek legal advice.\n\nA lawyer told Sergey and two like-minded colleagues to return their arms and go back to their unit's headquarters - where they should file a letter explaining that they were \"morally and psychologically exhausted\" and could not continue fighting in Ukraine.\n\nSergey was told that returning to the unit was important because simply leaving could be interpreted as desertion, which can result in a two-year sentence in a disciplinary battalion.\n\nArmy commanders try to intimidate contract soldiers into staying with their units, according to Russian human rights lawyer Alexei Tabalov. But he stresses that Russian military law does include clauses which allow soldiers to refuse to fight if they don't want to.\n\nHuman rights activist Sergei Krivenko says he is not aware of any prosecutions of those refusing to return to the front.\n\nThat is not to say that prosecutions are not being attempted.\n\nRussian service personnel rehearse for the Victory Day Parade in Moscow - 7 May 2022\n\nOne commander in northern Russia requested a criminal case be brought against his subordinate who would not return to Ukraine, but a military prosecutor refused to proceed, according to documents seen by the BBC. Such an action would be \"premature\" without having assessed the harm to the military service he was involved in, the prosecutor said.\n\nAnd there is no guarantee that more prosecutions might not emerge in the future.\n\nSoldiers like Sergey - reluctant to return to the front line - are not unusual, according to Ruslan Leviev, the editor of Conflict Intelligence Team, a media project investigating the experiences of the Russian military in Ukraine through confidential interviews and open source material.\n\nLeviev says his team estimates a sizeable minority of the Russian contract soldiers sent to Ukraine to fight in the initial invasion refused to go back again.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin visits soldiers wounded during the conflict in Ukraine - 25 May 2022\n\nIndependent Russian media have also been reporting hundreds of cases of soldiers refusing repeat deployments to Ukraine since the beginning of April.\n\nSeveral lawyers and human rights activists the BBC spoke to said they had been regularly offering advice to men trying to avoid returning to Ukraine. Each of our interviewees had dealt with dozens of cases and believed those soldiers were also sharing advice with their colleagues.\n\nAlthough Sergey does not want to return to the front line, he does want to complete his outstanding military service in Russia to avoid any unforeseen consequences. But that means that - while his letter of refusal to fight was accepted - there are no guarantees he won't be sent back to Ukraine during his service period.\n\n\"I can see that the war continues, it is not going away,\" he told the BBC. \"In these months [of compulsory military service] that I have left, anything - including the worst - could happen.\"", "Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by his own MPs to oust him as Conservative Party leader and prime minister in a confidence vote. But the scale of the rebellion against him means he is not out of the woods yet. What's the next move for Tory rebels and Johnson loyalists?\n\nBoris Johnson used to make his party feel good. Anyone who has watched the prime minister work the crowd at a Conservative Party conference will have seen the effect he has on activists.\n\nBut that feelgood factor was hard to find among Tory MPs in Parliament this morning.\n\nBut any hope he had that his party would now move on was obliterated by the result - and the fact 41% of MPs who voted said they wanted Boris Johnson out.\n\nOne MP arriving in Parliament on Monday morning lamented simply: \"It's not good.\"\n\nThe rebellion was much bigger than many expected - and that exposes a divided party.\n\nA prominent rebel said: \"The cabinet should tell him to go but they won't because they are too weak - he kept them weak.\"\n\nIn theory, the prime minister is safe from another confidence vote for a year.\n\nUnder the current rules of the 1922 committee, which organises leadership contests, another challenge can't happen for 12 months after the incumbent wins.\n\nBut not everyone is convinced.\n\n\"All this assumption that he's safe for a year - I don't think anyone believes that,\" one backbencher told me this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee had considered changing the rules under Theresa May's premiership, to allow a second confidence a few months after she won a first.\n\nRebels are already talking about how they could force another vote on Boris Johnson's future.\n\n\"There will be huge pressure on [1922 committee chairman] Sir Graham Brady to change the rules,\" says a senior critic of the PM.\n\nIt's not guaranteed that change to the process will happen. My sources on the committee have talked of needing a period of calm.\n\nBut there are big political pitfalls ahead too, which could change minds.\n\nThe subject currently dominating talk among Tory MPs is the two by-elections later this month.\n\nOn 23 June, the Conservatives will be looking to defend Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon. Labour are aiming to take back Wakefield, one of the \"Red Wall\" northern strongholds that they lost in Boris Johnson's 2019 landslide.\n\nThe Lib Dems are throwing everything they have got at Tiverton and Honiton, where the Tories have a 24,000 majority, in the hope of pulling off another upset in the so-called \"Blue Wall\" of Tory heartland seats in the south.\n\nSenior Tories fear they will lose both contests - plunging Boris Johnson's leadership into a fresh crisis.\n\nA senior rebel I spoke to this morning said his focus will now be trying to change the minds of enough Tory MPs to shift the balance of power away from the prime minister.\n\nThey believe if they can persuade 30 MPs who backed Mr Johnson in Monday night's confidence vote to switch they will be able to bring him down.\n\nAnd some argue that any by-election evidence the prime minister has become a liability at the ballot box will help that persuasion process.\n\nAnother rebel told me if they get \"caned\" in both contests, it will spark another round of concern in the parliamentary party.\n\nSome of the PM's critics do now want to move on and say that mid-term by-elections won't change their mind.\n\nTory MP Nigel Mills told the BBC: \"We had a vote yesterday, we made a decision.\"\n\nThe key point though is this; many MPs just don't think the party can move on and they're looking at what the next crisis might be.\n\nThen there's Partygate - which isn't over yet.\n\nParliament's privileges committee is due to look into whether the prime minister misled the House of Commons - and sources close to that process believe that could be damning for Mr Johnson. The committee is thought likely to report in the Autumn.\n\nIf it concludes he knowingly misled parliament, more MPs might be persuaded of the need for a new leader. It may also produce new evidence of what went on in Downing Street during lockdown - and that could be damaging too.\n\nOne opposition source told me: \"We might have to wait for the committee to bring him down… this just going to rumble on.\"\n\nThere is also a wider question for the PM about his authority. Despite his significant majority, he will now have to look over his shoulder when it comes to contentious votes and controversial policies.\n\nWill those who want him out be harder to win over?\n\nThere will be efforts to pressure the prime minister to change the way he governs in the next few weeks.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told me the PM needed to \"cut the culture war crap\".\n\nCan he turn things around?\n\n\"He can do it,\" they said, \"but he doesn't have much time.\"\n\nAnother senior backbencher said the prime minister needed to be more Conservative in his policies (for many, that means cutting taxes). Some are calling for a reshuffle, to bring different voices around the cabinet table.\n\nWithin government itself there are those who want change too.\n\nOne minister told me: \"We have a window to show we get it…Things need to change, most of all him\".\n\nBut this person isn't optimistic: \"They are still bunker mode, telling people to get into line.\"\n\nThe prime minister called Monday night's result decisive - but there are few in his party who say the same privately today.\n\nOne MP concluded: \"Keir Starmer could have picked the result. The prime minister will think he has enough to go on. The rebels will be thinking 'one last heave'\".\n\nThe Conservative Party remains divided. The leadership questions rumble on.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSue Barker will step down from her role as the presenter of the BBC's Wimbledon coverage after the 2022 tournament.\n\nBarker, 66, first joined the coverage in 1993 and since 2000 has anchored the network's broadcast.\n\nThe decision brings to an end Barker's 30-year career at the BBC in which she has also presented the Olympic Games and Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nBarker - the 1976 French Open champion - was the first woman to lead BBC presentation for a crown jewel event.\n\nCrown jewel events include the Olympic Games, Grand National and Wimbledon - all of which Barker has presented.\n\nShe began broadcasting after she retired from professional tennis in 1984.\n\nBarker has also been at the helm of coverage of Queens tennis, the Commonwealth Games, the World Athletics Championships, the London Marathon and Royal Ascot, as well as quiz show A Question of Sport.\n\n\"What a wonderful time I've had working on some of the biggest sporting events around the world,\" Barker said.\n\n\"I will miss it terribly but after 30 years I feel the time is right for me. I've worked with the best of the best.\"\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said Barker's \"contribution to tennis, the BBC, sports presenting and for blazing a trail for women in broadcasting cannot be overstated\".\n\n\"Sue Barker has been the face and voice of Wimbledon for three decades,\" Davie added.\n\n\"Many of our viewers will not know of a summer in SW19 without her. She is a consummate professional, an outstanding presenter and a wonderful colleague, loved by current and former players, all of us at the BBC and audiences across the UK and beyond.\"\n\nBBC Sport director Barbara Slater described Barker as \"a national treasure\", adding: \"We'd have loved for her to continue in her role for many years to come.\n\n\"We do of course respect her decision and understand why, after 30 years of leading Wimbledon presentation, she's ready to make this year her last.\n\n\"A consummate professional who audiences will remember for her skill, authority and warmth on screen, Sue will be equally remembered with fondness and affection by colleagues who had the privilege to work alongside her, experiencing the same professionalism and warmth behind the scenes.\"\n\nBarker's final match will be the Wimbledon men's final on Sunday, 10 July.\n• None Is food as addictive as drugs? Explore the latest evidence underpinning the scientific basis for overeating\n• None Joe Wicks and Russell Brand discuss fatherhood and going grey", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.\n\nHe is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.\n\nThe indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.\n\nHere are the key moments from 6 January 2021.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.\n\nMembers of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: \"We're taking our country back.\"\n\nOne of the group has a radio. \"It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day\n\nPresident Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.\n\n\"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nAs the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.\n\nTrump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: \"Fight for Trump.\"\n\nSome have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to\n\nMinutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.\n\nMr Trump ends his speech with the words: \"We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.\"\n\n\"They're throwing metal poles at us,\" he says. \"Multiple law-enforcement injuries,\" he adds in a panicked voice.\n\nProtesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.\n\nMinutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. \"We're going to give riot warnings,\" he says. \"We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot\n\nMeanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.\n\nSecret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.\n\nThe protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.\n\nAn immediate recess of the Senate is called.\n\nA minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.\n\nThe mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.\n\nOfficer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack\n\nHe lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.\n\nBy that point, the rioters are \"within 100ft\" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.\n\nAt the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.\n\nHer staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.\n\nStaff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.\n\nThe rioters chant: \"Where are you Nancy?\" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: \"They're pounding on doors trying to find her.\"\n\nOne man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.\n\nRioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.\n\nThey open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nThe House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.\n\nThe House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.\n\nBut minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.\n\n\"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way,\" lawmakers are told.\n\nDemocratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: \"I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me\".\n\nThe mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.\n\nPresident Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.\n\nAccording to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.\n\nMr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. \"I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go.\"\n\nHouse impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.\n\nAshli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.\n\nHouse Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.\n\nIn a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants \"break it down, break it down\".\n\nFootage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.\n\nPeople still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.\n\nIn the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.\n\n\"Is this the Senate?\" one demands to know. \"Where are they?\" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.\n\nVideo footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. \"There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags,\" one says.\n\nTrump tweets asking for people to \"remain peaceful\".\n\nMeanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.\n\nFootage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.\n\nTrump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.\n\nFifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.\n\nHe refers to those at the Capitol as \"great patriots\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Angela Eagle tells the PM he is \"loathed\" even within his own party\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is determined to \"get on\" with his job, in his first Commons appearance since surviving a confidence vote in his leadership.\n\nAmid testy exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle told Mr Johnson he was loathed and should resign.\n\nBut the prime minister said his political career had \"barely begun\".\n\nFour in 10 Tory MPs declared a lack of confidence in Mr Johnson's leadership in Monday's vote.\n\nThe worse-than-expected result followed several months of difficulties for the prime minister, who has received ongoing criticism over parties that took place in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nFollowing the vote, the prime minister promised to \"draw a line\" under his recent difficulties and announce a widespread programme of reforms to help deal with crime, the NHS and the rapidly rising cost of living.\n\nHis ministers have stood by him, but in the first departure from government since the vote, Baroness Helena Morrissey left her job at the Foreign Office on Wednesday.\n\nIn an interview with LBC radio, Baroness Morrissey said some Tory MPs considered the prime minister \"a liability\" and she had not seen \"any contrition\" from him after the confidence vote.\n\nThe BBC understands Foreign Secretary Liz Truss found Baroness Morrissey's comments \"outrageous\" and the peer \"jumped before she was pushed\".\n\nMeanwhile, at a noisy Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson reiterated his commitment to remain in power.\n\nAsking the first question, Dame Angela said: \"This week's events have demonstrated just how loathed this prime minister is, and that's only in his own party.\n\n\"As his administration is too distracted by its internal divisions to deal with the challenges we face, can the prime minister explain if 148 of his own backbenchers don't trust him why on earth should the country?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I can assure her in a long political career so far - barely begun - I've of course picked up political opponents all over and that is because this government has done some very big and very remarkable things which they didn't necessarily approve of.\n\n\"And what I want her to know is that absolutely nothing and no-one, least of all her, is going to stop us with getting on delivering for the British people.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer focused his questions on the government's record on the NHS, while the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, called Mr Johnson, who was fined in April for attending an illegal Downing Street gathering during lockdown, a \"dead man walking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson clash on the government's handling of the NHS\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"failing to recognise that these parties were against the law, it's that signal that the rules don't apply to him the way that they do for everyone else\".\n\n\"That's not the behaviour of someone who can remain in office, its someone that quite simply needs to be removed from office,\" Mr Blackford added.\n\nThe prime minister's victory in the confidence vote means that, under Conservative Party rules, he cannot face another such test of his leadership for another year.\n\nBut Mr Johnson is coming under pressure from some of his own MPs to cut taxes in an effort to boost the economy and help ease the burden on households caused by the rapidly rising cost of living.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, Health Secretary Sajid Javid and trade minister Penny Mordaunt all said they would like this to happen.\n\nBut the prime minister's spokesperson played down the immediate prospect of this happening, saying it was important to be \"responsible\" at a time when finances were in \"very difficult position following the global pandemic\".\n\nThey added that plans for further tax cuts would be set out \"as soon as it is fiscally responsible to do so\".\n\nThere were no unfriendly questions from Tory MPs about his future to the PM in the chamber, but in a column in the Times newspaper, Conservative former cabinet minister David Davis accused Mr Johnson of \"letting things slide\" and warned him to \"get his act together\" quickly or leave office.", "Wizz Air chief executive Jozsef Varadi said staff should go \"the extra mile\"\n\nWizz Air is facing a backlash from pilot unions after the airline's boss appeared to call on crew to work through fatigue.\n\nChief executive Jozsef Varadi said staff should go \"the extra mile\" when tired so that the airline could avoid cancelling flights.\n\nPilot unions said flying when fatigued is dangerous and his comments showed a \"deficient safety culture\".\n\nBut Wizz Air said Mr Varadi was addressing all workers not just pilots.\n\nLike some airlines, Wizz Air has been forced to cancel flights over the recent Jubilee bank holiday which coincided with schools' half-term break because of \"widespread shortages in staff\".\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Varadi told workers: \"Now that everyone is getting back into work, I understand that fatigue is a potential outcome of the issues but once we are starting stabilising the rosters, we also need to take down the fatigue rate.\n\n\"I mean, we cannot run this business when every fifth person of a base reports sickness because the person is fatigued. We are all fatigued but sometimes it is required to take the extra mile.\"\n\nMr Varadi added, \"The damage is huge when we are cancelling the flights, it's huge. It is reputational damage of the brand and it is the other financial damage, transactional damage because we have to pay compensation for that.\"\n\nThe European Cockpit Association, which has been pushing for union recognition at Wizz Air, shared a short clip of Mr Varadi's address.\n\nIt said the comments encouraged pilots to fly when fatigued, and called on regulators to step in.\n\n\"It's like handing the car keys to a drunk driver,\" the union said, adding it showed a \"deficient safety culture\" at the airline.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by European Pilots This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMartin Chalk, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa), said that \"fatigue has been shown, in many studies, to have effects on a person's thinking and decision making similar to alcohol\".\n\n\"No-one supports pilots or other safety sensitive staff working with alcohol in their system,\" he said, adding that he was \"very surprised by the apparent views of Mr Varadi on fatigue\".\n\nHe called on Mr Varadi to clarify his comments, and that if he really believed pilots should fly when fatigued, \"he should consider whether he is in the right job\".\n\nWhen airline pilots are very tired \"it can be life or death\", he added. \"People's lives are important, and we don't squander them for no reason - definitely not for profit.\"\n\nThere are restrictions on the number of hours air crew are supposed to work.\n\nRules state that air crew should not fly, and should not be required to fly, if they are in a state of fatigue which could endanger passengers or the aircraft.\n\nWizz Air denied that Mr Varadi was specifically targeting pilots but was speaking to all staff. It said in a statement: \"Our crew unavailability has been very low, at 4%. In this context, going the extra mile to minimise disruption was discussed.\n\n\"What this does not mean is compromising safety. Wizz Air and the airline industry are highly regulated, and safety has, and always will be, our first priority.\"\n\nIt added: \"This clip has been edited from an all staff briefing - not pilots only, but also cabin crew and all office employees - on key business updates and current challenges facing aviation.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nIsle of Man TT race organisers have confirmed that they named the wrong French sidecar competitor as having died in an incident on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement, they said rider Cesar Chanal had now been confirmed as having died in the crash during lap one of the first sidecar race of 2022 on the Mountain Course.\n\nOn Saturday, they wrongly said passenger Olivier Lavorel had died.\n\nHe remains in a critical condition in Aintree Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nIn the statement, organisers said: \"An initial identification procedure was conducted using established procedures and would appear to have resulted in a mistaken identification.\n\n\"We now believe it was Cesar Chanal who died at the scene of the accident on Saturday, 4 June. Olivier remains in a critical condition and continues to receive treatment.\"\n\nBoth competitors' families had now been informed and a \"thorough review of the processes relating to the identification of competitors will take place in due course,\" it added.\n\nThe incident took place less than a mile from the start line between the bottom of Bray Hill and Quarterbridge.\n\nIt led to the race being red-flagged, and the remainder of the day's schedule abandoned.\n\nThe races are organised by ACU Events Limited on behalf of the Isle of Man government's Department for Enterprise (DfE).\n\nThe statement by organisers added: \"One of the competitors sustained injuries that would not support life and was sadly declared dead at the scene. The second competitor was unconscious with severe injuries.\n\n\"The injured competitor was treated at the roadside before being transferred to Noble's Hospital, and then airlifted to a specialist hospital in Liverpool to receive treatment.\n\n\"An initial identification procedure was conducted using established procedures and would appear to have resulted in a mistaken identification.\"\n\nThe statement concluded: \"Our thoughts are with the family and loved ones of both Olivier and Cesar at this truly devastating time.\n\n\"We ask that people do not speculate on social media.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Isle of Man Constabulary confirmed officers would now be \"investigating the racing incident and the events leading up to it, and the aftermath\" on behalf of the island's coroner of inquests.\n\nBoth the DfE and the Isle of Man government have declined to comment at this stage.\n\nAlthough new to the TT, the pair have been regular competitors in the French F1 and F2 National Sidecar Championships, recording several podium finishes.\n\nTwo other competitors have died during the 2022 Isle of Man TT.\n\nWelsh rider Mark Purslow died in a crash in practice last week while Northern Ireland rider Davy Morgan suffered fatal injuries in an accident on Monday.", "Paul Gambaccini, Sir Cliff Richard and Daniel Janner QC take their campaign to Parliament\n\nSir Cliff Richard has made an impassioned plea to MPs and peers to grant anonymity for sexual offences suspects before they are charged.\n\nAt a meeting in the House of Lords, he spoke of \"how desperate it is to be accused of something you never did\".\n\nAnd he urged politicians to back a change in the law to protect people who are wrongly accused.\n\nPolice raided the singer's home in 2014 as part of an investigation into a sex assault claim. He was never arrested.\n\nHe told the meeting how the media coverage of the allegations had \"nearly destroyed\" him and that he would never fully get over it.\n\nBut he said he wanted the law to be changed to help \"regular people\" who had endured similar ordeals.\n\nSir Cliff successfully sued the BBC for breach of privacy over its coverage of the police raid, which it filmed from a helicopter and broadcast.\n\nCurrently, alleged victims of sexual offences receive lifelong anonymity but there is no law against naming a suspect.\n\nThe College of Policing advises officers not to name those arrested or suspected of any crime, \"save in exceptional circumstances where there is a legitimate policing purpose for doing so\".\n\nOnce a person is charged, they are normally named by police, but the media often names those who have been arrested but not charged.\n\nCampaign group FAIR (Falsely Accused Individuals for Reform) has called for pre-charge naming of sexual offence suspects to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales.\n\nThe group, backed by Sir Cliff and other high profile figures including DJ Paul Gambaccini, have drafted an amendment that would outlaw the practice.\n\nOpponents of anonymity argue that naming people under investigation for sex offences encourages other alleged victims to come forward.\n\nBut Mr Gambaccini told the meeting the police should be professional enough to build a case without encouraging \"bandwagoners\" with \"frivolous\" allegations.\n\n\"This is not the way you run a justice system. You don't throw out names and see who gets accused,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe group's proposed legislation would allow sexual offences suspects to be named if the courts believed they represented a threat in the \"present moment\", he added.\n\nMr Gambaccini was arrested over sex abuse allegations in 2013 but the case was dropped a year later.\n\nFormer Tory MP Harvey Proctor, who had his home raided and was publicly named during Scotland Yard's probe into fabricated claims of a VIP paedophile ring at Westminster, said the campaigners were \"united for a common cause to return fairness to our criminal justice system\".\n\nBut in a statement Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: \"This is not the first time these calls have been considered by parliamentarians.\n\n\"They've previously been rejected as a step backwards - one that would send a message to sexual offence victims that they are less likely to be believed than victims of any other crime.\"\n\nShe added that the legal system needed to be \"open and transparent\" to maintain public confidence.\n\n\"We urge these men to instead use their positions of power and status to highlight the real issue - that our criminal justice system is stacked against survivors, the vast majority of whom are women.\"\n\nFAIR is hoping its draft amendment will be added to a future criminal justice bill by a sympathetic peer.\n\nLabour peer Lord Campbell Savours, who hosted the meeting, said he believed it had a \"good chance\" of being passed by the Lords but would probably be blocked in the Commons by \"very articulate women MPs who feel very strongly that the law should not be weakened\".\n\nA number of other peers, including leading barrister Lord Pannick, and Conservative MPs Nigel Evans and Esther McVey, also backed the proposals, as did Christine Hamilton, who was at the meeting with former MP husband Neil.\n\nThe Hamiltons faced sex assault allegations in 2001, which were dropped by police.", "While many parts of Asia grew richer over the last three decades Japan's prosperity stagnated\n\nAs a child growing up in Japan, things very rarely seemed to get more expensive.\n\nMy favourite lunch was always available for a 500 yen coin ($3.90; £3.10) and it remained that way until 2021. The same for shoes or clothes, little changed.\n\nI was taught to save, save and save, and repeatedly warned that the value of our family home had collapsed in the 1990s, when the property market crashed.\n\nThis painful financial loss meant my parents, and many others like them, were never able to sell their house again or upgrade it.\n\nBut when prices for everyday items don't increase, people don't actively spend money.\n\nCompanies, in turn, respond by not increasing salaries, which lowers consumer demand and prices further. When you cannot get a pay rise, you don't rush out to go shopping very often.\n\nTaken altogether, this slows an entire country's economic growth - a vicious cycle Japan has been trapped in for decades.\n\nWhile many parts of Asia grew richer, Japan's wealth stagnated. Japan's gross domestic product per capita - the country's economic output per person - remained stuck at the same level since the 1990s. By 2010, China had overtaken it as the world's second-biggest economy.\n\nFor decades, with little success, the country's central bank has tried to stimulate growth to get Japanese to \"spend more, invest more, the wage goes up and the price goes up in tandem moderately\", explains Nobuko Kobayashi, a partner with EY-Parthenon.\n\nIn April, the benchmark measure for consumer prices rose 2.1%, enough that inflation this year is expected to finally hit the Bank of Japan's 2% target, after three decades of essentially no rise at all.\n\nHowever, the jump has nothing to do with domestic economic policy. It has been driven largely by higher import costs, a global increase in raw material and energy prices - pushed higher by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.\n\nMs Kobayashi even warns it could mark \"the start of bad inflation, because wages have not gone up yet\". In fact, average salaries have hardly risen for over three decades, so things are about to get painful for shoppers.\n\nJapanese workers' take-home pay has improved very little since the 1990s\n\nWhile post-Covid there are many governments battling rising prices and a higher cost of living, it comes as a huge shock to Japan, where people have been used to decades of stable prices.\n\nWhen the price of Japan's everyday snack - umaibo - which was always priced at 10 yen ($0.075; £0.06) since its creation 43 years ago - went up by 20%, it sent a shockwave through the nation.\n\nIn a society which believes in sharing social burdens, increasing prices has become something of a cultural taboo.\n\nSo much so that Yaokin, the company which makes the popular snack, had to launch an ad campaign explaining why it had to increase the price.\n\nBut it was inevitable and one by one, everything from mayonnaise and bottled drinks to beer has become more expensive. According to Teikoku databank, prices for more than 10,000 food items are set to go up by an average of 13% this year.\n\nSnack maker Yaokin launched an ad campaign to explain the price hike\n\nAnd here, Japan has a really tricky problem: central banks across the rest of the world have responded to soaring prices by incrementally raising interest rates to help keep inflation in check. The Bank of Japan has held rates at rock bottom for years.\n\nIf there is a significant gap in interest rates between Japan and other major economies, such as the US, the Japanese currency sharply weakens. The yen recently slid to 20-year-lows against the dollar.\n\nA weaker yen means that imported items - crucially oil and gas - cost even more.\n\n\"Consumers are not accustomed to accepting inflation,\" says Takeshi Niinami, who is the chief executive of Suntory Holdings, known for Japanese whiskies Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu, as well as beer and non-alcoholic beverages such as bottled water and coffee.\n\nThe company has recently announced a price hike across most of its product range from October, to give itself time to discuss these increases with its distributors. Mr Niinami puts this down to the global supply chain crunch, caused by the pandemic and China's recent lockdowns.\n\n\"Overall, it has been accepted. But there is still a challenge from big retailers,\" he says.\n\nSuntory CEO Takeshi Niinami says the company raised prices of its products due to supply chain issues\n\nPart of the rationale behind the government's efforts to promote inflation in the Japanese economy has been to try to push wages higher.\n\n\"There's huge pressure from society and the government to raise wages, but we need to increase productivity,\" says Mr Niinami.\n\n\"But it's difficult to increase productivity all of a sudden. We have so many peers in one industry, so we have to consolidate.\"\n\nMr Niinami says Japan also needs to invest in new sectors such as green innovation or healthcare to stimulate the economy, and create new jobs to boost average salaries. He also hopes that the government will do more to attract foreign investors.\n\nBut all that will take time and job creation is just one of many issues Japan has been grappling with for decades.\n\nThe only silver lining of a weaker yen in the short term could be an influx of international tourists keen to spend their money in Japan, although the borders are only just starting to reopen after Covid.", "Former patients who may have come into contact with someone diagnosed with tuberculosis are being offered precautionary screening by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC News NI, those affected have been told the contact happened at ward 2F in the Royal Victoria Hospital in March 2019.\n\nTuberculosis can affect the lungs as well as other organs.\n\nThe infection is usually treated through antibiotics.\n\nAccording to the health trust, the risk of having the infection is very low but those contacted are being invited to attend screening as a precaution.\n\nThe letter also explained that while the infection was uncommon in Northern Ireland, a small number of cases were diagnosed every year.\n\nA woman who received a letter told BBC News NI it came as a shock and that she was very concerned as it went back to 2019.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be identified, said she lived with two people who were asthmatic and vulnerable.\n\n\"It is impossible for me to trace my footsteps over the past three years and I will probably worry until I am told that the X-ray is clear,\" she said.\n\n\"What I don't understand is why it took so long for them to contact those who are possibly affected.\"\n\nBelfast Health Trust said those identified were a \"low risk close contact of a patient who has since tested positive for tuberculosis when they were an inpatient\".\n\nIt said that \"the risk to all patients is very low\" as tuberculosis was not as easily transmitted as other infections and the patients identified were exposed for fewer than eight hours.\n\nIt added: \"All patients contacted have been offered a screening appointment as a precaution.\"\n\nPatients may have come into contact with the infection at a Royal Victoria Hospital ward\n\nThe trust did not answer a number of questions asked by BBC News NI, including how many people had been sent a letter and if it affected people across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe statement said those identified were a \"low risk close contact of a patient who has since tested positive for tuberculosis when they were an inpatient\".\n\nDedicated clinics will hold screenings for those affected starting on Monday 27 June at Belfast City Hospital.\n• None Persistent cough may be TB not Covid, doctor warns", "Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt reporting from close to where he was abused\n\nAn anti-lockdown protester has been sentenced after a BBC journalist was chased and called a traitor near Downing Street.\n\nJoseph Olswang, 39, was part of a group of people who shouted abuse at Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt on 14 June 2021.\n\nOlswang was given a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard he has bipolar disorder and was in the midst of a manic episode at the time.\n\nAt a previous hearing Olswang, of Richmond-upon-Thames, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment to Mr Watt.\n\nHe was found guilty of the same offence against PC Agnes Matvejeva. He had shouted at the Metropolitan Police officer for 35 minutes and called her a \"Brownshirt Nazi\" and \"evil scum\".\n\nJoseph Olswang was also ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work\n\nOlswang had been part of a group demonstrating against the government's extension of coronavirus restrictions in England by four weeks.\n\nFootage shared on social media showed demonstrators shouting abuse in the face of Mr Watt, who was wearing a BBC lanyard, as he tried to walk down the street behind a line of police officers.\n\nIn mitigation, Olswang's barrister Eleanor De outlined his health issues, adding that the pandemic had \"created a perfect storm for a mental health crisis\".\n\nPolice and demonstrators faced each other outside Downing Street\n\nDistrict Judge Daniel Sternberg described what happened as \"disgraceful\".\n\nHe told Olswang: \"You were part of a group of individuals who styled themselves as protesters but were doing very little more than harassing journalists and police officers - who were going about their business - and making their lives very unpleasant indeed.\"\n\nOlswang was banned from Whitehall and Parliament Square for 18 months and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and undertake 20 days of rehabilitation. He was also told to pay £1,748 in compensation and costs.\n\nFive others who are accused of the same public order offence are due to stand trial later this month.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police stand outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh as abortion-rights advocates protest on 11 May 2022\n\nA California man is facing a charge of attempted murder after his arrest near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nNicholas John Roske, 26, had planned to murder a Supreme Court justice and was armed with a pistol and tactical knife, court documents said.\n\nThe suspect was taken into custody at about 01:00 local time (06:00 BST).\n\nProtection for the justices has been beefed up ahead of a landmark ruling on US abortion rights.\n\nAccording to an affidavit filed in US District Court, Mr Roske was spotted by two US Deputy Marshals while getting out of a taxi in front of a Supreme Court justice's home.\n\nCarrying a suitcase and a backpack, Mr Roske turned to walk down the street.\n\nSoon after, local emergency services took a call from a man who identified himself as Mr Roske.\n\nMr Roske said he was having suicidal thoughts, had a gun and had come from California to \"kill a specific United States Supreme Court justice\". Local police officers were sent to the justice's home and arrested Mr Roske.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, Justice Kavanaugh and his family were at home at the time of the arrest.\n\nWhile in custody, Mr Roske said he was \"upset\" about the leaked Supreme Court document on abortion, as well as the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, according to the affidavit.\n\nHe said he believed Justice Kavanaugh might issue rulings that would loosen gun control regulations.\n\nMr Roske was found to have a Glock 17 pistol, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, crowbar and duct tape.\n\nHe was asked a series of question by a judge during a brief court appearance on Wednesday afternoon, including whether he was thinking clearly when he was arrested.\n\n\"I think I have a reasonable understanding, but I wouldn't say I'm thinking clearly,\" he responded, confirming that he was a college graduate and had been taking an unspecified medication.\n\nHe is expected back in court on 22 June.\n\nIf convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for attempted murder of a United States judge, though actual sentences for federal crimes are usually less than the maximum penalties.\n\nA White House spokeswoman said President Biden \"condemns\" the action of the individual who threatened the justice.\n\nIn May, a leaked draft decision from the top court in the US suggested it would overturn Roe v Wade - the landmark 1973 case that guaranteed abortion access across the US.\n\nThe draft ruling spurred protests nationwide, including some peaceful demonstrations outside the homes of some of the nine justices on the court.\n\nLast month, a group of about 100 people marched from the home of Justice Kavanaugh to Chief Justice John Roberts' home nearby. Both justices are conservative and seen as potentially supportive of curtailing abortion rights.\n\nThe protests led Washington lawmakers to introduce legislation to Congress that would increase protections for Supreme Court justices. The legislation has passed the Senate, but has not yet been taken up by the House of Representatives.\n\nOne Democratic senator involved in negotiations on the proposed bill said that the remaining sticking points are over the scope of who will be protected. Democrats say that other employees of the top court, who are not judges, also deserve enhanced security, Senator Chris Coons told CNN on Wednesday.\n\nIn the aftermath of the draft ruling leak last month, the US Marshals Service has been providing \"around-the-clock security\" outside the homes of all nine justices, according to the Department of Justice.\n\nThey pointed to remarks by Senator Chuck Schumer in March 2020 in which he warned Justice Kavanaugh and another Trump-nominated conservative justice \"you will pay the price\" and \"you won't know what hit you\" if they voted to undo abortion protections.\n\nMr Schumer apologised the next day and denied he was threatening the judges.\n\nThe leak of a draft Supreme Court decision last month ignited a series of protests", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nMultiple major winners Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson are in the same group at Centurion Club on Thursday The PGA Tour has suspended all of its members who are playing in this week's Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational. The tournament, being held at Centurion Club near London, is the most lucrative in the history of the game with a $25m (£20m) prize fund. Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson is among the biggest names to be affected. LIV Golf issued an immediate reply calling the PGA Tour \"vindictive\" and said this \"deepens the divide between the Tour and its members\". The statement added: \"It's troubling that the Tour, an organisation dedicated to creating opportunities for golfers to play the game, is the entity blocking golfers from playing. \"This certainly is not the last word on this topic. The era of free agency is beginning as we are proud to have a full field of players joining us in London, and beyond.\" The PGA Tour released its statement 30 minutes after play had begun at Centurion, where 48 players are competing in the first of eight planned LIV Golf invitational events. Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas, who are both playing at the PGA Tour's Canadian Open this week, welcomed the ruling. \"Anybody that's shocked clearly hasn't been listening,\" two-time major winner Thomas said. \"They took that risk going into it, whether they thought it was a risk or not. \"I have great belief and great confidence in the PGA Tour and where we're going and continuing to grow to, and those guys just aren't going to be a part of it.\" Thomas added: \"They're obviously throwing so much money at people that it's very hard to turn down. \"It doesn't matter who you are or what it is, everything has a number. They're reaching that number for some people and I hope that they don't get others. \"But I think a very strong core group of us is very stable and firm in our position, and I hope that it stays that way.\" Northern Ireland's McIlroy said: \"I think it's the right thing because these guys have broken rules and done things outside of the tournament regulations, and because of that there are going to be consequences, I guess.\" England's Ian Poulter, playing at the LIV event this week, said he would appeal the decision from the PGA Tour: \"It's a shame if they view this as something. \"When you feel you haven't done anything wrong and want to promote the game of golf, it would be incredibly disappointing if it turns out that way. \"I will appeal for sure. It makes no sense. Having two Tour cards and the ability to play golf all over the world, what's wrong with that?\" Graeme McDowell said he'd resigned from the PGA Tour \"30 minutes before I teed it up\" at the LIV event on Thursday. \"It was a difficult decision but it puts me into a less litigious situation,\" he said. \"I didn't want to resign, the PGA Tour has been great. This is about wanting to add on additional tournaments to my golf career.\" Speaking after playing on Thursday, Mickelson said: \"As I said in my press conference yesterday, any PGA Tour matters I'm not going to discuss publicly.\" Former world number one Greg Norman is the chief executive of LIV Golf, which has £1.6bn of funding from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The first seven events all have the same $25m prize fund, with the winner collecting $4m, while a team element will see the top three teams share $5m. The eighth event is a $50m team championship and will be played in October at Trump Doral in Miami. The PGA Tour had refused requests for waivers from its members wanting to play in the new series and had threatened to ban those that rebelled. This decision affects 17 players, including lifetime member Mickelson and his fellow American Dustin Johnson, who announced on Tuesday that he had resigned from the Tour. Mickelson did not deny that he had been given $200m to play in the series, while Johnson is reported to be getting $150m. Crucially, the PGA Tour has closed a loophole that would potentially have allowed players who have resigned from the tour to play events via sponsors exemptions. Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood, have, like Johnson, already resigned and will all be affected by that ruling. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said, in the statement that was issued to all members of the tour: \"In accordance with the PGA Tour's tournament regulations, the players competing this week without releases are suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA Tour tournament play, including the Presidents Cup. \"The same fate holds true for any other players who participate in future Saudi Golf League events in violation of our regulations. \"These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons. \"But they can't demand the same PGA Tour membership benefits, considerations, opportunities and platform as you. That expectation disrespects you, our fans and our partners.\" The players will be removed from the FedEx Cup points list following the end of the Canadian Open on Sunday. The European-based DP World Tour, when contacted by BBC Sport, declined to comment.\n• None Is food as addictive as drugs? Explore the latest evidence underpinning the scientific basis for overeating\n• None Joe Wicks and Russell Brand discuss fatherhood and going grey", "Train drivers are set to join thousands of other rail workers on strike threatening more major disruption to services in June and July.\n\nAslef, Britain's trade union for train drivers, announced strikes at three companies in rows over pay.\n\nIt comes after the RMT Union, which represents guards and other railway staff, said 40,000 workers from Network Rail and 13 train firms would walkout.\n\nThe separate strikes are expected to cause severe disruption across the UK.\n\nTrain driver members of ASLEF will hold their own strike over pay on 26 June at Hull Trains, at Greater Anglia on 23 June, and on Croydon Tramlink on 28, 29 June and 13 and 14 July.\n\nMeanwhile, RMT workers will take their industrial action on 21, 23 and 25 June after talks over pay and redundancies fell through.\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, said its members had not had a pay rise since 2019 and the union wanted drivers an wage increase \"in line with the cost of living, so that we are not, in real terms, worse off\".\n\n\"We are not naive. The train companies are doing very well out of Britain's railways - with handsome profits, dividends for shareholders, and big salaries for managers - and we are not going to work longer, for less,\" he said.\n\nThe various planned strikes coincide with several large events, ranging from Glastonbury Festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, to a cricket Test match between England and New Zealand taking place from 23 to 27 June.\n\nThe industrial action has been described as the \"biggest rail strike in modern history\".\n\nDowning Street has called the strikes \"selfish\" and warned such action would inflict pain on passengers during \"really tough times\".\n\nMeanwhile leaders across the theatre, live music and hospitality industries have said the move will have a devastating impact on businesses recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRMT has said Network Rail plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs as part of a £2bn reduction in spending, with the proposed job cuts including workers who maintain tracks, signals and overhead lines among other things.\n\nIt also claimed train operators had been subject to pay freezes and changes to their terms and conditions.\n\nHowever, Network Rail has said no proposals have been put forward.\n\nAslef has already agreed a 5% pay deal for drivers at Scot Rail after negotiations.\n\nElsewhere, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) has said it will ballot hundreds of workers for industrial action at train operator Avanti West Coast in a dispute over pay, conditions and job security.\n\nTSSA is demanding from Avanti a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies for 2022, no unagreed changes to terms and conditions, and a pay increase which reflects the rising cost of living.\n\nVoting will start on June 15 and close two weeks later, with the union saying strikes could start in mid-July if there is support from members.", "An organiser of a major conference aimed at getting more disabled people into work has said employers in Northern Ireland need to \"understand the depth of talent\" in the community.\n\nSeán Fitzsimons, who has muscular dystrophy, is one of the people behind the two-day Harkin Summit in Belfast.\n\nThe conference hopes to close the disability employment gap in Northern Ireland and internationally.\n\n\"It's about challenging for change,\" Mr Fitzsimons said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme, he said: \"I am very, very proud to be from the disabled community.\n\n\"I see all around me talented people that want to get into jobs, that are in jobs and want to advance, and people who are unfortunately experiencing difficulties in holding on to their jobs\".\n\nMr Fitzsimons is a lifelong disability campaigner and currently works in the civil service.\n\nHe said people with disabilities often faced barriers when looking for work and while in employment.\n\n\"There might be attitudinal barriers in relation to cultural ideas as to what disabled people are capable of and what they're not capable of,\" he said.\n\n\"There might be attitudes within the workplace where it is perceived because people have reasonable adjustment that they're doing less or that they're being treated more favourably\".\n\nHe said the conference, which is now in its second day at the International Convention Centre at the Waterfront Hall, is about \"building the community and policy around employment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Seán Fitzsimons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the two days, the event will bring together leaders and activists from across the world, as well as Northern Ireland.\n\nThe first day, on Tuesday, saw 630 in attendance from 30 countries.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey said creating employment for people with a disability was a \"crucial issue\".\n\n\"Hosting this summit, bringing together local and international leaders to build awareness, share best practice and challenge for change will ultimately help more people with disabilities and health conditions secure employment and meet their career aspirations,\" she said.\n\nThe minister said \"initiatives will flow from the conference\", which is sponsored by the Department for Communities.\n\nThese include 300 employment opportunities for young disabled people and 100 mentoring sessions between individuals and senior international leaders.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey spoke at the summit on Tuesday\n\nThe international summit was started by retired United States Senator Tom Harkin after seeing the issues experienced by his brother Frank, who is deaf.\n\nHe said: \"We have a lot to overcome and the best thing is to bring it out in the open and talk to people with disabilities, find out what they want and have an open dialogue and conversation.\n\n\"There's a lot of energy in the disability community that has been growing for a long time.\n\n\"An energy to do things different, to make sure their voices are heard and acted on\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arrest footage of Can Arslan, who killed Matthew Boorman\n\nA man who subjected his neighbours to years of anti-social behaviour before stabbing one of them to death has been jailed for at least 38 years.\n\nCan Arslan, 52, lay in wait for Matthew Boorman as he came home from work then stabbed him 27 times on his front lawn.\n\nIt was the culmination of 12 years of threats to neighbours in Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire.\n\nJudge Johannah Cutts said Arslan had \"caused terror\" as she sentenced him to life at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nMr Boorman's wife Sarah told the court her family lived a \"life of misery\" in their own home, too scared to use their garden or backdoor through fear Arslan would make threats.\n\n\"We were always on edge, I will not say his name. To me he is simply the monster next door,\" she said.\n\nMatthew Boorman, 43, was described as a very caring husband and a devoted father\n\nArslan denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but was convicted after a trial.\n\nHe admitted wounding Mrs Boorman, whom he stabbed in the leg.\n\nHe also admitted a charge of affray and the attempted murder of another neighbour, Peter Marsden.\n\nOne of Mr Boorman's three children saw the attack unfold from an upstairs bedroom on 5 October.\n\nMrs Boorman added: \"What I and my 12-year-old son witnessed that day will haunt us for as long as we live.\n\n\"Every day I wake up and my heart shatters more.\n\n\"I hear him saying 'no' as he was being stabbed and I see the man next door sitting on his body, laughing at me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Boorman suffered a deep wound to her leg as she tried to pull Arslan off her husband.\n\nThe killer then forced his way into the home of Mr Marsden and knifed him eight times, although he survived the attack.\n\nThe day before the killing, Arslan told a police officer he would murder his neighbour.\n\nJudge Cutts told the court the neighbours sought legal action in the months leading up to murder because they \"felt unsafe in their own homes\".\n\n\"They made every attempt they could within the law to prevent you (Arslan) behaving this way. A community protection notice, a council injunction,\" she said.\n\nCan Arslan was found guilty of murdering his neighbour Matthew Boorman in April\n\nJailing him for life on Thursday, Judge Cutts said his acts were a targeted and planned series of attacks of people behind the injunction.\n\n\"After your arrest you faked amnesia and mental illness to try to avoid the consequences of your actions. You caused terror to those around you.\n\n\"A campaign of harassment and abuse of the most extreme nature.\"\n\nGloucestershire Police made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in light of the many reported incidents prior to Mr Boorman's death.\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC said its investigation began in November and a misconduct notice had been served on a police constable \"in relation to their contact with Mr Arslan\".\n\n\"Such notices advise an officer their conduct is subject to investigation and do not necessarily mean any disciplinary proceedings will follow,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The child of two parents who were found murdered in Texas more than 40 years ago has been located alive and well, the state attorney general has said.\n\n\"Baby Holly\" Clouse, now 42 years old, was not found with her parents at the 1981 murder scene. The couple was not identified until 2021 using DNA tests.\n\nAt a news conference, Texas officials said they \"rejoice\" that she is safe, but the two murder cases remain open.\n\nOfficials say a mysterious religious cult may be responsible for the deaths.\n\nTina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr had moved from Florida to Texas shortly before they were found apparently murdered in the woods in Houston.\n\nIt was not until last year that they were positively identified with the help of Identifiers International, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and police in Texas, Florida and Arizona.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the Texas attorney general's newly formed Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit announced that Holly had been found after 42 years.\n\nShe now lives in Oklahoma, and is the mother of five children. Further details are not being released, in order to protect her privacy.\n\nMs Clouse first learned of her identity when she was visited at her workplace by police on Tuesday - on what would have been her father's 63rd birthday.\n\nHer grandmother called the news a \"birthday present from heaven\", in a statement released by officials.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Texas First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster said the girl was brought to a church in Arizona by two women.\n\nHe said that the foster parents who raised Holly are not suspected of playing any role in the murders.\n\n\"Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought Holly to the church,\" he said.\n\n\"They were wearing white robes and they were barefoot.\"\n\nThe members of the religious group said they believed in the separation of men and women, vegetarianism and avoidance of leather goods, Mr Webster added.\n\nThey also said they had previously left another baby at a laundrette.\n\nMr Webster added that one woman calling herself \"sister Susan\" contacted the families of both victims in 1980 or 1981, saying the couple had joined the group and gave up all of their possessions. They offered to sell them the couple's car.\n\nThe family met members of the group at the Daytona racetrack in Florida, where they confirmed that the car had belonged to Harold Dean Clouse's mother.\n\nThree members of the group were taken into police custody, Mr Webster said, but so far investigators have not managed to find any arrest report.\n\nMembers of the group are thought to have travelled throughout the south-western United States during the 1980s. Several women fitting the description of the group's members have been seen begging for food in Yuma, Arizona, Mr Webster said.\n\nAnyone with information related to the couple's disappearance or murders are asked to contact cold case officers in the Texas attorney general's office.\n\nMs Clouse is expected to travel to Florida in the coming days to be reunited with extended family members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The 52-year search for a missing girl. Video, 00:02:40The 52-year search for a missing girl", "It's now legal to grow cannabis plants and buy marijuana-infused dishes in Thailand\n\nPeople in Thailand can now grow cannabis plants at home and sell the crop after the nation removed marijuana from its banned narcotics list.\n\nThe nation is the first to advance such a move in South-East Asia, a region known for its stringent drug laws.\n\nAdvocates say the easing effectively decriminalises marijuana, but personal use for non-medical reasons is still heavily discouraged by the government.\n\nOfficials have also warned people against smoking in public.\n\nSmoking outside is viewed as a public nuisance and offenders risk fines and arrest, authorities have said.\n\nBut the government is hoping that developing a local cannabis trade will boost agriculture and tourism.\n\nIt's even giving away one million cannabis seedlings to citizens to encourage pick-up.\n\n\"It is an opportunity for people and the state to earn income from marijuana and hemp,\" said Anutin Charnvirakul, deputy prime minister and health minister, on his social media accounts last month.\n\nHe shared a photo on Facebook of a chicken dish cooked with cannabis, adding that anyone could sell the dish if they followed the rules - the main one being that products must contain less than 0.2% of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the compound that gives users that \"high\" feeling.\n\nFrom Thursday, households will be able to cultivate up to six cannabis pot plants at home if they register with authorities, and companies can also farm the plant with a permit.\n\nDiners will also be able to order cannabis-infused dishes and drinks at restaurants.\n\nRestaurants will able to freely offer cannabis-infused menus\n\nClinics across the country can also more freely offer cannabis as a treatment. Thailand was the first in Asia to legalise medicinal cannabis use in 2018.\n\nHowever, using the drug for personal use is still illegal. Officials have warned people against smoking in public, saying it's considered a public nuisance and offenders risked arrest.\n\nUnder the plan the government says it also aims to release about 4,000 prisoners convicted of cannabis-related offences.\n\nThailand, with its year-round tropical climate, has long had a history with cannabis which many locals commonly used in traditional medicines.\n\nA wider draft law on cannabis control is currently being considered in Thai parliament. Advocates believe that coming years could see a gradual relaxing on the rules governing use.\n\nSo is it legal or isn't it? As Thailand's tourist economy recovers from its long Covid slumber, many visitors will be wondering whether the new liberal regime governing cannabis means they can light up a joint wherever and whenever they please.\n\nThe answer from the government is no, you cannot smoke marijuana in public, and it is still illegal to sell or supply any extracts containing more than 0.2% of the main hallucinogenic compound THC.\n\nThe official goal is for Thailand to get a head start on its neighbours in winning a large slice of the lucrative market for health treatments using cannabis derivatives, in particular the milder compound CBD. But there is another motive; to reducing overcrowding in some of the world's most overcrowded jails.\n\nWhich means, in theory, with cultivation of the plant in any quantities now completely legalised, that the police are now unlikely to arrest people just for possession of marijuana.\n\nAlready there are hundreds of businesses in Thailand, operating even before the new law, offering a whole range of marijuana products, like restaurants putting the leaves in Thai curries. It is hard to see how the authorities can regulate how much THC they contain.\n\nThe government insists they are permitting production and consumption solely for medical, not recreational purposes, but in practice that line is already blurred.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I don't want it to happen again' - Uvalde survivor\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted through a series of measures regulating the sale of guns, but which are destined to fail in the Senate.\n\nThe new measures would bar sales of semiautomatic weapons to people under 21 and ban large-capacity magazines.\n\nBut Republican opposition in the Senate means the bill has little chance of entering law, despite a renewed focus on gun control in the wake of a series of mass shootings in the US.\n\nHours before the vote, survivors of the Uvalde school shooting gave emotional testimony to lawmakers which reduced some to tears.\n\nThe primary school shooting in the Texan city claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 young children.\n\nOne 11-year-old girl told the hearing - in pre-recorded testimony - that she had smeared her classmate's blood on herself to play dead, and graphically described the moment the gunman shot her teacher in the head.\n\nThe Uvalde attack and other recent mass killings have sparked a new round of bipartisan talks on gun control in the US Senate, but Democrats need at least 10 Republicans on board to pass any new laws.\n\nConservatives want to protect the constitutional right to bear arms and object to limiting sales of the assault-style rifles used in the Uvalde shooting.\n\nAnd while a group of Republican and Democratic senators are trying to find common ground, correspondents say that whatever they come up with is very unlikely to involve any sweeping reforms.\n\nOn Thursday, more than 220 CEOs of major companies - including Levi Strauss & Co, Lululemon and Lyft - called on the Senate \"take immediate action\" to reduce gun violence following the recent spate of shooting deaths.\n\n\"Taken together, the gun violence epidemic represents a public health crisis that continues to devastate communities - especially Black and Brown communities - and harm our national economy,\" the business leaders wrote.\n\nAdding further pressure to lawmakers, major Republican donors joined other conservative Texans in signing an open letter pushing for gun control. The letter is expected to run as a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News on Sunday and will support expanding background checks and raising the age to purchase a gun to 21.\n\nIn the House of Representatives, Wednesday's wide-ranging package of legislation, called the \"Protecting Our Kids Act\" by lawmakers, passed by 223-204 votes with just five Republicans joining Democrats in supporting the bill.\n\nIn addition to tighter controls around the sale of guns, it would also introduce a scheme allowing local government to compensate individuals who surrender high capacity magazine and strengthen existing regulations on bump stocks and untraceable ghost guns.\n\nHowever the measures cannot pass into law without approval in the Senate.\n\n\"America has lost more children from gun violence than any other cause. Does that embarrass you?\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a debate on the bill. \"To think that in our country, more children have died from gun violence than any other cause? These stories are tragically all too common in America today.\"\n\nBut House Republicans claimed the bill was an attack on citizens' constitutional rights to own a firearm.\n\n\"The speaker started by saying this bill is about protecting our kids,\" Ohio Republican Jim Jordan said. \"But this bill doesn't do it. What this bill does is take away second amendment rights, God-given rights, protected by our Constitution from law-abiding American citizens.\"\n\nBipartisan negotiations are ongoing in the Senate on more moderate measures that could gain the support of enough Republicans to pass the 60-vote threshold required in the chamber. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that the talks were making progress.\n\nBut one senior Republican, Texas Senator John Cornyn, warned on Wednesday that there are \"sticking points everywhere\".\n\nOnly a handful of the 50 Republican senators appear open to new gun legislation, with Democrats seeking narrower measures as a compromise. Senators are expected to reach a final agreement by the end of the week.\n\nProposals with the greatest public support include a \"red flag\" law that would prevent individuals with mental illness or a criminal history from purchasing firearms, and expanded background checks on gun purchasers that would include private gun sales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew McConaughey: 'This should be a nonpartisan issue'", "JJ Abrams has directed films in the Star Wars franchise\n\nA major television series from Star Wars director JJ Abrams, which was due to film in Belfast, has been cancelled.\n\nThe sci-fi drama Demimonde was set to be broadcast on the United States network HBO.\n\nCrew who had started working on the project in Belfast have been stood down.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen said they would be looking in the coming weeks for a project to replace it, and it would get back its £1m investment.\n\nJJ Abrams is best known for directing Star Wars and the Mission Impossible films.\n\nBBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme understands crew who were working in pre-production on the project were sent home while negotiations took place between JJ Abrams' production company Bad Robot and HBO.\n\nThe film industry publication The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the show was not going ahead due to \"budget issues\".\n\nThe television series was in pre-production at the Titanic Studios in Belfast, which previously housed Game of Thrones and the upcoming blockbuster film Dungeons and Dragons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was expected that Demimonde would be in the studios for more than a year, which would have provided well-paid work for local film crews.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen chief executive Richard Williams told Good Morning Ulster the production would have provided work for about 600 people.\n\nHe said it was not unusual for a project to drop out, and NI Screen would be looking for another in Los Angeles in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We've had this happen before, we had a project just to drop out before lockdown and had it replaced by Dungeons and Dragons,\" Mr Williams said.\n\n\"We'll just have to go out to find another project.\n\n\"I would be very disappointed if we didn't have a new project slated by the middle of autumn, certainly before Christmas - but time is lost, money is lost for sure.\"\n\nHe said the money the screen agency invested in the pilot - which had not yet been shot - would be recouped, adding: \"We had invested in the pilot to the tune of just over a million pounds. We will have a swift conversation with HBO to get that money retrieved.\"\n\nSecuring Demimonde to shoot in Belfast was a big coup for Northern Ireland Screen.\n\nNorthern Ireland's film and television industry has been boosted recently by securing major projects like The Northman, The School for Good and Evil, Lift and Dungeons and Dragons.\n\nHBO has been approached for comment.", "Baroness Mone, who founded the Ultimo bra company, has denied links with PPE Medpro\n\nLabour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner has asked ministers why they are refusing to release details of PPE contracts for a firm being investigated by the National Crime Agency.\n\nShe said supplier PPE Medpro was reportedly raided by police, along with the home of Tory peer Baroness Mone - who she said was linked to the firm.\n\nThere were serious questions about due diligence, she told MPs.\n\nBaroness Mone has previously denied any link to PPE Medpro.\n\nGovernment efficiency minister Jacob Rees-Mogg said there was a global shortage of personal protective equipment in the pandemic and British manufacturers provided it in \"unprecedented quantities\".\n\nBut he declined to address the specifics of PPE Medpro's contracts or any alleged connections between Baroness Mone and the firm.\n\nIn January, the House of Lords launched an investigation into her \"alleged involvement in procuring contracts for PPE Medpro\" and whether it potentially breached the code of conduct.\n\nBaroness Mone's lawyers have previously told the Guardian she had no association with the company or any involvement in the awarding of contracts.\n\nPPE Medpro was awarded two contracts to supply protective equipment in May 2020 as part of the so-called \"VIP lane\", which allowed MPs, ministers and senior officials to pass on offers of help from suppliers, who could be awarded contracts without competing bids.\n\nIn June 2020, it won another contract worth £122m to supply millions of protective gowns to the NHS. But the BBC revealed none were ever used, and the company is in dispute with the government about the contract.\n\nIt is not known if the raid by the NCA and any potential investigation are connected to PPE contracts.\n\nMs Rayner told the House of Commons that \"a Conservative peer is under investigation by the National Crime Agency over fraud\", after PPE Medpro was \"handed hundreds of millions of pounds in government contracts during the pandemic\".\n\nAngela Rayner said there were \"serious questions\" about the contracts\n\nShe said it had been reported that the company had been raided by the NCA, along with Baroness Mone's home.\n\nAnd she asked what evidence the government held and why they were \"refusing to give a single sheet of it out into the public domain\". \"What have they got to hide?\" she asked.\n\nThe Labour deputy leader accused ministers of being unwilling to answer because \"they know there is suspicion about the way they handled those contracts\".\n\nSaying that storage of unusable or unneeded PPE was costing £500,000 a day, she asked whether the government's Procurement Bill would \"prevent cronyism from corrupting our government and wasting public money\".\n\nResponding for the government, Mr Rees-Mogg said her claims were \"completely false, they have no bearing on reality\" and said they ignored the conditions at the start of the pandemic two years ago.\n\nHe said British manufacturers managed to increase domestic production of PPE from 1% of the UK's supply to more than 70%, at a time when \"everyone was calling for it, because it was urgent\".\n\nOn the morning of 27 April, the National Crime Agency executed search warrants at addresses linked to PPE Medpro in London and on the Isle of Man.\n\nThe BBC spoke to witnesses on the Isle of Man who described seeing more than 10 un-marked vehicles displaying UK number plates and officers who were wearing law enforcement-style vests entering and searching the company building in Douglas.\n\nAfter the raid, the NCA said: \"The NCA does not routinely confirm or deny the existence of investigations or the names of those who may or may not be under investigation\".\n\nBaroness Mone has not commented on the raid.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care has been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Ms Hedges said she got lucky with the shot as only had a couple of seconds to capture the seal in the dinghy\n\nThis super-relaxed seal does not have a care in the world as it appeared to have taken a dinghy for a leisurely cruise - complete with a pair of oars.\n\nKaris Hedges was returning from Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, when she saw the seal \"chilling out\".\n\nThe 26-year-old started snapping away and captured some \"lucky shots\" of the mammal in the inflatable boat.\n\nMs Hedges, from Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, said she was really surprised to see the seal.\n\nThe large animal, blatantly unbothered by its audience appeared completely relaxed.\n\nPhotos taken by Ms Hedges, who is a full-time photographer, show the brazen seal peering up towards its onlookers on 19 May.\n\nMs Hedges added that the boat was coming into shore and was moving quite quickly, so she only had a few seconds to capture the image.\n\n\"I thought it was really cute that he was totally unfazed by anyone and just chilling out without a care in the world.\n\n\"His expression is like 'and? Do you have a problem?' Like it was the most normal thing,\" she said.\n\nMs Hedges said she believed the seal had climbed into a boat's rescue dingy, adding the crew would probably have to kick out the surprise guest at the end of the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has a walrus ended up in Wales?", "The RAC has warned petrol and diesel could reach £2 a litre\n\nSoaring fuel prices have put the haulage industry in crisis with the cost of running one lorry up £20,000 on last year, a freight boss has said.\n\nLesley O'Brien, director of Freight Link Europe, said \"pretty much everything you buy comes on the back of a truck\" so customers were paying more.\n\nHer comments come as the RAC said it now costs £98 to fill the average car with petrol and £101.86 with diesel.\n\nThe motoring group has called for \"radical government intervention\".\n\nLatest figures from the RAC show the average cost of a litre of petrol rose from 177.88p on Sunday to 178.50p on Monday - a rise of 0.6p in 24 hours.\n\nOver the same period, the average diesel price rose from 185.01p to 185.20p.\n\nRAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams said: \"Drivers need to brace themselves for average fuel prices rocketing to £2 a litre which would mean a fill-up would rise to an unbelievable £110.\n\n\"We strongly urge the government to take drastic action to help soften the impact for drivers from these never-before-seen pump prices.\"\n\nLesley O'Brien said high fuel costs were being passed on to customers\n\nMotorists have been hit by record pump prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine led to an increase in the cost of oil because of supply fears.\n\nIn March, the government cut fuel duty by 5p a litre. It said this would save a car driver on average £100 a year, a van driver £200 and hauliers £1,500.\n\nIn some circumstances, haulage firms and other transport businesses can reclaim 100% of VAT on fuel paid for business purposes via HMRC.\n\nMs O'Brien told the BBC's Today programme: \"This certainly is a crisis as we've seen fuel prices escalate over the last year by 50% and no sight of a stop, so we absolutely as an industry need to keep on top of this.\n\n\"As a country we need to understand we need to support our transport industry which is the infrastructure of the whole economy,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Brien said fuel was a third of her business' running costs. This time last year, it would cost about £41,000 a year in fuel for an average articulated lorry at her company, but with prices soaring it now costs more than £61,000 a year.\n\nShe explained that her company added a fuel surcharge to its bills, to cover fluctuating prices.\n\n\"But never before has it been so high,\" she said. \"As an example, to run one of my artic vehicles is now costing me £20,000 more per year than in did last year.\"\n\nAnother firm, Countrywide Coaches told the BBC it had had to sell two coaches due to the rising price of diesel.\n\nDirector Olivia Bell from Countrywide Coaches said she had tried to mitigate rising diesel costs by putting up prices for some of her school customers - but parents ended up pulling their children off the school trip altogether.\n\nHer family-run company is now down to 14 coaches, catering to schools, private and military staff trips.\n\n\"Since September's price rise, we are paying an extra £2,000 per week in fuel costs. So we are hitting Plan B by selling coaches,\" she added.\n\nRod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association (RHA), said: \"Fuel represents over a third of a trucks operating costs yet profit margins are between 1% and 2%.\n\n\"To put this into perspective, the average 44 tonne truck gets less than two miles from a litre of fuel. That's why every penny increase makes a massive difference and as such, every penny must be made to count.\"\n\nSome 30% of fuel costs are duty taxes and the RHA wants the government to return this to \"essential users\" such as hauliers and coach operators. They could then lower their prices to customers, the RHA said.\n\nMs O'Brien said: \"If we help the haulage industry and we have an essential user rebate we will help everybody because pretty much everything you buy comes on the back of a truck and we will be able to pass that on to the end user.\"\n\nThe spiralling cost of fuel had added to pressures including a driver shortage, subsequently high salaries and an increase in companies' national insurance payments, she said.\n\nOn top of that there was an increase in lorry maintenance costs and a shortage of new lorries and parts due to a global shortage of chips.\n\nMeanwhile, a plan to name and shame petrol stations that fail to pass on a cut in fuel duty is \"still in the works\", a government source has told BBC News.\n\nA formal announcement had been expected last week, but it is understood officials at the Department for Transport are yet to finalise the policy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBritons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Brahim Saaudun are accused of being mercenaries, Russian state media says.\n\nThe court, which is not internationally recognised, is in the pro-Russian so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThe UK and Ukraine have condemned the sentences for violating international laws protecting prisoners of war.\n\nThe Britons' families have insisted they are long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not mercenaries.\n\nThe men's lawyer said they all wished to appeal against the sentence, Russia's Tass news agency reports.\n\nAll three men were charged with being mercenaries, the violent seizure of power and undergoing training to carry out terrorist activities, RIA Novosti said.\n\nThe UK government is \"deeply concerned\" over the death sentences given to Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner and was continuing to work with Ukraine to secure both men's release, Downing Street has said.\n\nA spokesman added that prisoners of war \"shouldn't be exploited for political purposes\" and pointed to the laws of war laid out in the Geneva Conventions - which confers \"combatant immunity\" on prisoners of war.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss condemned the sentencing and described it as a \"sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the families. We continue to do everything we can to support them.\"\n\nBoth the Foreign Office and Downing Street said they would do what they could to support the two Britons' release.\n\nLiz Truss is expected to discuss the situation with her Ukrainian counterpart on the telephone tomorrow.\n\nBut it is difficult to see what diplomatic pressure could meaningfully be brought to bear.\n\nSome officials fear that if London were to escalate this into a bilateral dispute with Moscow - rather than leave it to Kyiv - that could fuel the false Russian claims that the two Britons were mercenaries.\n\nIt is possible the two men could be released as part of a prisoner swap.\n\nBut previous discussions about that did not make any progress.\n\nBBC Ukraine correspondent Joe Inwood, who is monitoring events from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, said the men, all dressed in black, had stood in a cage in the separatist courtroom listening intently as their sentences were read out.\n\nMr Aslin and Mr Pinner had stood motionless with their heads bowed. In between them, Mr Brahim rocked nervously from side to side.\n\nChair of the panel of judges Alexander Nikulin is quoted by the Russian-state Interfax agency as saying: \"In passing the verdict the court was guided by not only the prescribed norms and rules, but the main, inviolable principle of justice.\"\n\nMr Aslin, 28, from Newark, in Nottinghamshire, and Mr Pinner, 48, from Bedfordshire, were captured by Russian forces in April. Their families say they were fighting in the Ukrainian military.\n\nThe younger man has a Ukrainian fiancee and both men are said to have lived in Ukraine since 2018.\n\nMr Aslin's MP, Robert Jenrick, called for the Russian Ambassador to the UK to be summoned to the Foreign Office to \"account for this egregious breach\" of international law.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Ministry told the BBC that all foreign nationals fighting for Ukraine's military who are captured have rights as prisoners of war under international humanitarian law, and Russia was \"forbidden to abuse, intimidate them or behave inhumanely with them\".\n\nA spokesman described the \"so-called trial\" of all three men as \"miserable\", adding the government would \"continue to make every effort to release all defenders of Ukraine\".\n\n\"Such public trails place the interests of propaganda above law and morality, and undermine the exchange mechanisms of war prisoners,\" he said.\n\nChairman of the foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of carrying out \"a form of hostage taking, a form of revenge\".\n\nThe Conservative MP told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"It's not a state, it's not a court and the judges are merely people dressing up and pretending.\n\n\"The reality is this is an absolutely brutal thing to do to three completely innocent people.\"\n\nThe self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, was set up by pro-Russian separatists in 2014.\n\nIt is not clear whether any executions have taken place in the breakaway republic - or if there will actually be any attempt to execute the men, the BBC's international correspondent Orla Guerin said.\n\nShe explained there was little doubt DNR officials take their orders directly from Mr Putin and that the sentences appeared to be a tactic by the Kremlin to pressure and embarrass the British government over its military support for Ukraine.\n\nPrior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Putin announced that he was recognising the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, in a move condemned by Nato and Western countries.\n\nA month into its invasion, Russia scaled back its ambitions to capture Kyiv, and instead moved its focus to Donbas.\n\nIn Severodonetsk, a focal point of the war in in recent weeks, Ukrainian troops are engaged in intense street fighting with Russia in the battle for control of the city.", "A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has told the BBC that between 100 and 200 Ukrainian troops are being killed on the front line every day.\n\nMykhaylo Podolyak said Ukraine needed hundreds of Western artillery systems to level the playing field with Russia in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nHe also said Kyiv is not ready to resume peace talks with Moscow.\n\nUkrainian troops are under relentless bombardment as Russian forces attempt to take control of the whole of Donbas.\n\n\"The Russian forces have thrown pretty much everything non-nuclear at the front and that includes heavy artillery, multiple rocket launch systems and aviation,\" Mr Podolyak said.\n\nHe repeated Ukraine's appeal for more weapons from the West, saying that the \"complete lack of parity\" between the Russian and Ukrainian armies was the reason for Ukraine's heavy casualty rate.\n\n\"Our demands for artillery are not just some kind of whim... but an objective need when it comes to the situation on the battlefield,\" he said, adding that Ukraine needs 150 to 300 rocket launch systems to match Russia - a much higher number than it has received so far.\n\nMr Podolyak also said peace talks could only resume if Russia surrendered the territory it had gained since it invaded on 24 February.\n\nUkraine says Russia has reduced the city of Severodonetsk to rubble\n\nMr Podolyak's suggestion that 100 to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are dying each day is higher than previous estimates. On Thursday, Ukraine's Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said Ukraine was losing 100 soldiers a day, and 500 more were injured.\n\nThe differing casualty figures are a sign of how difficult it is to get precise information from the battlefield.\n\nDespite the heavy losses, Mr Reznikov claimed that a high number of Russian soldiers are also being killed.\n\n\"The Kremlin continues to press by sheer mass, stumbles, faces strong rebuffs and suffers huge casualties,\" Mr Reznikov said. \"But yet still has forces to advance in some parts of the front.\"\n\nSimilarly, Luhansk regional governor Sergei Gaidai said Russians were \"dying like flies\" but echoed Mr Podolyak's claim that Ukraine is facing difficulties with a \"catastrophic\" lack of artillery.\n\nRussian forces have concentrated their assault on the city of Severodonetsk. On Wednesday Mr Zelensky said \"the fate of the Donbas is being decided there\" and officials said it has been reduced to rubble by intense Russian artillery and missile barrages.\n\nIn addition to the frontline fighting, two Britons and a Moroccan man who fought for Ukraine's armed forces were sentenced to death on Thursday by an unrecognised court in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nThey were found guilty of being mercenaries and of \"taking action towards the violent seizure of power\".", "A 21-year old university student developed heart failure after \"excessive\" consumption of energy drinks, a new report suggests.\n\nFor two years, the man drank four 500ml energy drinks a day, according to the BMJ Case Report.\n\nHe spent 58 days in hospital, including the intensive care unit which he described as \"traumatising\".\n\nBefore the hospital admission, he suffered with shortness of breath and weight loss for four months.\n\nDoctors treating him considered a number of diagnoses, but concluded: \"Energy drink-induced cardiotoxicity was felt to be the most likely cause.\"\n\nAn organ transplant was considered after tests revealed both his heart and kidneys had failed - with the kidney failure linked to a long-standing but previously undiagnosed condition.\n\nThe unnamed patient contributed to the report, and was unable to continue his university studies three months before hospital admission because of his health.\n\n\"When I was drinking up to four energy drinks per day, I suffered from tremors and heart palpitations, which interfered with my ability to concentrate on daily tasks and my studies at university.\"\n\nThe authors said recovery or relapse was difficult to predict\n\nAfter nine months his heart function has appeared to have returned with \"mildly impaired function\", but the report said it was difficult to predict recovery or potential for relapse.\n\nThe student suffered from severe migraine headaches which would \"often occur during the periods\" when he didn't have energy drinks.\n\n\"This also restricted my ability to perform day-to-day tasks and even leisurely activities such as going to the park or taking a walk,\" he said.\n\nHe felt there should be more awareness about energy drinks and the effect of their contents.\n\n\"I believe they are very addictive and far too accessible to young children. I think warning labels, similar to smoking, should be made to illustrate the potential dangers of the ingredients in energy drink,\" he added.\n\nThis comes after a separate study done by researchers at Cardiff University analysed the responses of a health survey of more than 176,000 secondary school children in Wales aged 11 to 16 between 2013 and 2017.\n\nIt found that 6% of pupils said they drank energy drinks on a \"daily\" basis - a trend which didn't change over time.\n\nThe study's lead author Dr Kelly Morgan said there was a difference in consumption between those from low and high socioeconomic groups.\n\n\"Marketing campaigns for energy drinks are often aimed at those from more disadvantaged backgrounds.\"\n\nTheir popularity was unlikely to be hit unless policy measures were \"put in place\", Dr Morgan added.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Emergency services are continuing to search the lake for the two missing people\n\nSearches are continuing for two disabled people who have been missing since a boat capsized on a lake.\n\nPolice were called to Roadford Lake near Okehampton, Devon, at 13:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said \"the vessel was carrying six occupants, four have been rescued but two disabled persons still remain unaccounted for.\"\n\nOne person remains in Derriford Hospital in a critical condition.\n\nOfficers are supporting the families of all those involved.\n\nThe MAIB said it had opened an investigation into the \"capsize of a motor vessel on Roadford Lake in Devon\".\n\nBoats are continuing to search for the missing people\n\nCoastguard, fire, ambulance and air ambulance crews were all at the scene on Wednesday, with support from the Coastguard helicopter.\n\nAll of those on the boat, which has been secured by police, were adults and believed to be local to Devon.\n\nThe Roadford Lake Activity Centre has been closed since Wednesday\n\nThe South West Lakes Trust, which runs the activity centre, said on its website the lake had been closed for the day.\n\nThe 730 acre (1.9 square mile) lake has been a reservoir since 1989 and supplies water to Plymouth and other parts of south Devon, according to Visit Dartmoor.\n\nIt is often used for kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding and sailing.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has acquired the government's first quantum computer.\n\nQuantum computers can make very complex calculations extremely quickly and their creators say they can solve the problems regular computers cannot.\n\nThe MoD will work with British company Orca Computing to explore applications for quantum technology in defence.\n\nStephen Till, of the MoD's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), called it a \"milestone moment\".\n\nThe computers found in most of our homes and workplaces process data in bits, which have a binary value of either zero or one.\n\nQuantum computers instead use a two-state unit for data processing called a qubit.\n\nThis can represent digits like one or zero simultaneously through a quantum mechanical process called superposition, letting quantum computers bridge binary digits and cope with uncertainty where regular computers cannot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nQuantum computing experts and physicists say this means that the problems combed over by average computers for years could be solved in a matter of minutes.\n\nProf Winfried Hensinger, head of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies at University of Sussex, says the true potential of quantum computers will take time to fully materialise.\n\n\"They can't actually solve any practical problems yet. They're enabling you to maybe gauge the possibilities of what working on a quantum computer would have if you can scale this machine to really large system sizes.\"\n\nBut he adds the promise of quantum computing, and the MoD's exploration of it, is still significant.\n\n\"Quantum computing can be disruptive in nearly any industry sector,\" Prof Hensinger adds.\n\n\"You can imagine that within defence, there's a lot of problems where optimisation can play a huge and very important role.\"\n\nTry explaining the ins and outs of quantum computing at a party and you may not hold your friends' attention for very long.\n\nIt is a very complex concept, and works in a completely different way to your laptop, or the phone in your pocket - or even the giant supercomputers that can process mind-boggling amounts of data in a nanosecond.\n\nThe promise of quantum computing is that it will help to solve problems that standard computers can't handle.\n\nThe idea is that it will be used in the fight against climate change, in the development of new drugs and improved artificial intelligence - and in this case, potentially to support the military.\n\nJust like the early days of standard computers though, we are at the stage where these machines are very few and very cumbersome, not least because their building blocks, qubits, have to be kept frozen.\n\nBut Orca's machine does not require this, meaning the device can be a lot smaller, and a little bit more practical.\n\nRichard Murray, chief executive of Orca Computing, says despite debate over the realities and capabilities of quantum computing, the company's work with the MoD is a \"significant vote of confidence\".\n\n\"Our partnership with MoD gives us the type of hands-on close interaction, working with real hardware which will help us to jointly discover new applications of this revolutionary new technology.\"\n\nThe MoD will work with Orca's small PT-1 quantum computer, which the company says is the first of its kind to be able to operate at room temperature, rather than require sub-zero surroundings to keep heat-sensitive qubits cool.\n\nOrca's system uses photons, or single units of light, to optimise machine learning tasks like image analysis and decision-making.\n\nMr Till says having access to Orca's quantum computer will accelerate the MoD's understanding of the technology.\n\n\"We expect the Orca system to provide significantly improved latency - the speed at which we can read and write to the quantum computer,\" he says.\n• None What is the quantum apocalypse?", "Access to abortion has been available in Northern Ireland since April 2020\n\nThe Western Trust is to recommence its early abortion services as early as July, BBC Radio Foyle understands.\n\nIt is also understood the trust has now appointed a new consultant to support the nurse-led service.\n\nThe Western Trust suspended its early abortion services in April 2021 due to \"staffing resourcing issues\".\n\nAbortion laws in Northern Ireland changed in 2020 after the UK government acted during the absence of a functioning Stormont assembly.\n\nBut services are largely limited to early medical terminations up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThose seeking abortion services not yet provided by health trusts in Northern Ireland can access services in Great Britain through arrangements funded by the Department of Health.\n\nLast month, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis instructed the Department of Health to begin the process of setting up a fully-funded abortion service for Northern Ireland.\n\nAbortion is a devolved matter but commissioning a service has been held up due to political deadlock\n\nIn April 2021, the Western Trust announced it was suspending its interim early medical abortion services as the system was \"no longer sustainable\".\n\nIt was described at the time by the trust as a \"temporary pause\" in the service.\n\nThe trust said it needed additional nursing and medical support in order to deliver the service, and that it was exploring options to resolve the issue.\n\nThe guidance on the Western Trust website for women since the suspension of services has been to contact the British Pregnancy Advisory Service if they were less than 10 weeks pregnant.\n\nIf more than 10 weeks pregnant, the Western Trust website provided guidance on seeking free abortion care in England.\n\nThe pro-choice group Alliance for Choice Derry has said since the early medical abortion service has been suspended at the trust, one person a week has contacted it for support.\n\n\"There is a lot of stress, a lot of fear, a lot of panic and it's really sad to see,\" Bethany Moore from the group said.\n\n\"We have people contacting us and saying things like: 'I thought this was all sorted and I was able to get this at home' and a lot of questions about whether they have to travel to England.\"\n\nHowever, anti-abortion group Both Lives Matter said it had \"grave concerns\" over access to abortion services in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpokeswoman Marion Woods said it was hypocritical to fund abortion services when \"there is no money there to enable women to continue with their pregnancy and then see what other options there are\".\n\nServices had been introduced in Northern Ireland, she said, \"by a bad law brought about by a bad process\".\n\nSinead McLaughlin, SDLP assembly member for Foyle, said she was disappointed it had taken so long.\n\n\"It's welcome news certainly that appointments have been made and the appropriate nurse-led service will be put in place, but my disappointment is it's taken so long,\" she said.\n\n\"When it was first paused back in April 2021 it was thought it would be paused for a couple of months.\n\n\"Now we see 14 months later that this really important women's reproductive healthcare provision has not been available to women in the Western Trust.\n\n\"That covers women right through from Enniskillen to Derry and beyond.\"\n\nThe Western Trust has apologised for the suspension of the service\n\nA spokesperson for the Western Trust said the service was paused in April 2021 due to \"staff resourcing issues\".\n\n\"In the interim, from 1 April 2022, this service has been available to anyone in the Western Trust area via our neighbouring Health and Social Care Trusts,\" they said.\n\n\"The trust is currently working to recommence the early medical abortion clinic within the next number of months in accordance with the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020.\n\n\"And have recruited to a number of vacancies to support the service going forward.\n\n\"We apologise that this service has not been in place within the Western Trust for the past year.\"\n\nThey added that the trust continues to work collaboratively with the necessary stakeholders to \"get this service in place with the appropriate support as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Department of Health said the Western Trust is \"currently finalising plans to restore its early medical abortion service in the coming months\".", "Katharine Birbalsingh wants a rethink on attitudes towards social mobility\n\nStop fixating on getting poor children to university and celebrate \"small steps up the ladder\", Boris Johnson's social mobility chief has said.\n\nKatharine Birbalsingh has been given the job of helping people born poor in the UK get more chances to succeed.\n\nIn her first major speech, she called for a different way of measuring success in life.\n\nIt was not just about \"the person who is born into a family in social housing and becomes a banker or CEO\", she said.\n\nMs Birbalsingh, who is chair of the Social Mobility Commission, called for more to be done to ensure \"a route to high skills\" for young people not going to university.\n\nResearch published by the commission last year suggested that 79% of adults across the UK thought there was a large gap between social classes.\n\nAnd 39% of those questioned said it was getting harder for people from less advantaged backgrounds to move up in society, while 23% said it was becoming easier.\n\nAhead of Ms Birbalsingh's speech, the commission said public discussion of social mobility was \"too fixated with a small minority of people from poor backgrounds getting into the best universities and elite professions\".\n\n\"Too often success has been defined as a caretaker's daughter going to Oxbridge and becoming a top surgeon,\" it added, saying Ms Birbalsingh thought that \"more attention should be given to those people taking small steps up the ladder - from the bottom and from the middle rungs\".\n\nFor instance, \"the son of a postman becoming a branch manager; the daughter of a care worker becoming a primary school teacher\" should be celebrated, the commission said.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Birbalsingh, who is also head teacher of Michaela Community School, in north-west London, said: \"We want to move away from the notion that social mobility should just be about the 'long' upward mobility from the bottom to the top.\"\n\nAnswering questions afterwards, she said: \"We imagine this idea that, oh, everyone needs to get to Oxbridge, everyone needs to be this top lawyer in the City.\n\n\"But in fact the reality is that we have a variety of children with a variety of different talents.\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC last year, Sir Peter Lampl, founder of the Sutton Trust social mobility foundation, said he thought social mobility was going into reverse, blaming widening inequality and failings in education.\n\nResponding to Ms Birbalsingh's speech, the trust's chief executive, James Turner, agreed that social mobility was \"certainly not only about access to the elites\".\n\n\"But it is also crucial that we make sure that young people from low and moderate income backgrounds gain access to the most selective schools, universities and professions,\" he added.\n\nIn its 2019 general election manifesto, the Conservative Party promised to \"level up\" the UK, part of which involved improving opportunities for children, irrespective of background.\n\nIn March last year, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced £126m in funding for work placements and training for 16 to 24-year-olds in England.\n\nBut, in May this year, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove warned that rapidly rising prices were making plans to reduce regional inequality more difficult.\n\nLabour responded by calling on the government to \"put more money in people's pockets urgently\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Colleen Snyder researched her family history during the Covid-19 pandemic, she did not expect to discover a connection to the legend of Irish giants.\n\nColleen, from Virginia in the United States, suffers from a rare genetic condition called acromegaly or gigantism.\n\nThe gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the \"Irish giant\", to grow more than 7ft 6in (2.3m) tall.\n\nMedical researchers have previously identified Mid Ulster as a \"hotspot\" where one in 150 people have the genetic mutation, compared to one in 1,000 in Belfast and one in 2,000 in the rest of the UK.\n\nColleen first developed symptoms when she was eight, but the condition was not diagnosed until she was 20.\n\nDoctors in the USA told her it was rare to develop acromegaly at such a young age.\n\n\"They would say we don't know anybody who had it so early so I knew that that was very, very unusual,\" Colleen explained.\n\n\"Through the years I kept trying to find somebody that had the same condition, get more information about it and I couldn't.\"\n\nThat was until she began to research her family history during the lockdown.\n\n\"I've always known that I've had Irish heritage and my given name is Mary Colleen which is quite an American-Irish name,\" she said.\n\nHer great-great grandfather John McGurk emigrated with his three siblings in 1861.\n\nShe thought the McGurks came from County Cork, where most ships departed for the transatlantic crossing to a new life in America.\n\nWhen she looked at her family tree she realised her ancestral home was in fact Clonoe, near Coalisland in County Tyrone, the centre of the giant gene \"hotspot\".\n\nBrendan Holland (centre) and Colleen Snyder (second from right) meeting with a group including Prof Marta Korbonits and Prof Michael Besser\n\nColleen contacted Marta Korbonits, professor of endocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, who discovered the genetic link for the Irish giant gene.\n\nShe sent the results of a DNA test to Professor Korbonits, who confirmed she had the same mutation.\n\nLiving carriers of the gene share a common ancestor who lived about 2,500 years ago.\n\nWhat is the 'giant gene'?\n\nA gene called AIP can result in a non-cancerous tumour in the pituitary gland, a pea-sized gland just below the brain.\n\nIt can lead to too much growth hormone being produced and released\n\nOnly 20% of carriers of the defective gene will develop symptoms.\n\nIn many cases it is disfiguring but it can also be life-threatening.\n\nThe condition, called acromegaly or gigantism, can be successfully treated with brain surgery and medication.\n\nProf Korbonits put Colleen in touch with Brendan Holland from Dungannon, County Tyrone, who is 6ft 9in (2.1m) and a distant relative of Charles Byrne.\n\nWithin minutes, Brendan and Colleen were talking on the phone, a moment Colleen described as \"very emotional\".\n\n\"I had been looking for 45 years for someone,\" said Colleen, \"and here's this Irish accent on the phone\".\n\n\"And all of a sudden I was talking to someone who can understand what it was like to have a pituitary tumour that causes you to have the excess growth and have all the kinds of physical problems that I had.\"\n\nColleen Snyder and her sister Cherie have been looking for the McGurk family graves at St Michael’s parish cemetery in Clonoe near Coalisland\n\nFor Brendan, speaking to Colleen was confirmation of his belief that the gene had been carried overseas by the many thousands of people who emigrated from County Tyrone.\n\n\"[Colleen] is actually a product of that immigration in 1861,\" said Brendan, \"and it just reinforced my conviction that this has to be more common than perhaps we realise.\"\n\n\"It was more than just finding somebody with the same condition, it was making a connection with someone who is fascinated by the whole story, has a shared interest in the history of it,\" he added.\n\nColleen recently made the trip to County Tyrone to meet Brendan in person and to visit the townland which the McGurks left for America more than 160 years ago.\n\nAfter more than a year of zoom calls on a computer, Colleen said the visit had revealed a \"rich world\" of giant folklore.\n\nColleen also accompanied Brendan to London to meet Prof Korbonits and others who are involved in treating and researching the condition.\n\nFor Brendan and Colleen, their shared experience is part of a mission to educate people about the importance of knowing if you have the gene so that they can be tested and treated to avoid the devastating effects which they experienced of having a tumour.\n\n\"For me, to find out that I'm the first person in the United States that they found with this, that's pretty cool, I feel great,\" said Colleen.\n\n\"It's wonderful, but wait a minute there's got to be other people.\"\n\nThey now plan to co-write a book to raise awareness amongst the Irish diaspora.", "The price of petrol saw its biggest daily jump in 17 years on Tuesday with a rise of more than 2p a litre.\n\nThe RAC motoring group said the average cost of filling a typical family car with petrol was now £99.40 and could exceed £100 as soon as Thursday.\n\nSoaring fuel prices have been driven by the war in Ukraine and moves to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian oil.\n\nWith food and energy bills also surging, many households are under pressure.\n\nThe average price of petrol rose to 180.73p per litre on Tuesday, the RAC said.\n\nMeanwhile, the average price of diesel rose by almost 1.5p to another record high of 186.57p per litre, making the cost of filling a 55-litre family car £102.61.\n\nIn March, the government announced a 5p per litre cut to fuel duty to help reduce costs for motorists.\n\nHowever, motoring groups have raised concerns retailers are not passing on the cut to customers.\n\nOn Wednesday the prime minister's official spokesman said the government was \"not confident\" this was happening at all petrol stations.\n\nHe said the government was \"continuing to look at all possible options\" and \"transparency may have an important role to play\" in ensuring the cut is passed on.\n\nIt comes after a government source told the BBC a plan to name and shame petrol stations that fail to do so is \"still in the works\".\n\nThe government says any increases in VAT receipts it gets from rising fuel prices are likely to be largely offset by reduced household spending and VAT on other items.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said if it found sufficient evidence the 5p fuel duty cut had not been passed on to drivers, then it would launch an investigation that could lead to fines for offending retailers.\n\nRAC fuel spokesperson Simon Williams said the accelerating costs of forecourt fuel was \"unprecedented\", adding it appeared prices were \"still some way from the peak\".\n\nBut he said while the average price of diesel is heading towards £2 a litre, the cost of wholesale petrol had unexpectedly dropped by about 5p a litre on Tuesday, which if sustained, could stem the flow of \"daily record petrol prices\".\n\nRetailers base their prices on the wholesale cost of petrol and diesel but there is typically a two-week lag for pump prices to reflect any changes in wholesale prices due to the time it takes for fuel to reach forecourts.\n\nMr Williams said the RAC's fuel watch data showed Asda had hiked its average petrol price by nearly 5p a litre in a single day, which he said was \"unheard of\".\n\nIn response, Asda said wholesale fuel prices had increased \"at an unprecedented rate\" and \"we will do all we can to minimise the impact of rising wholesale prices on our customers\".\n\nMeanwhile, some forecourts are already selling petrol above £2 per litre, according to price comparison website PetrolPrices.\n\nThe highest price was found to be 202.9p at BP sites on the A1 near Sunderland, the M4 near Chippenham in Wiltshire and the M6 near Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.\n\nThe AA motoring group said the 2p litre rise was a \"huge shock\", but said the speculation that petrol prices could rise to £2 per litre on average \"just gives the fuel trade licence to pile on extra cost and the misery\".\n\nFuel prices fell at the beginning of the Covid pandemic as many businesses temporarily closed and demand for energy collapsed.\n\nBut as global economies recovered, prices rose again and have surged further after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nChanges in prices at the pump are mainly determined by crude oil prices and the dollar exchange rate, because crude oil is traded in dollars.\n\nRussia is one of the world's major oil exporters and it is being targeted by economic and trading sanctions, which has led to potential supply concerns, pushing up oil prices.\n\nEU leaders have said they will block most Russian oil imports by the end of 2022 to punish Moscow, which has also had an effect on prices.\n\nThe UK - which gets 8% of its oil needs from Russia - has pledged to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year and though it is not as dependent on Russian oil as the EU is, it is impacted when global prices rise.\n\nEnergy and food prices are also being driven higher by the war in Ukraine.\n\nUK consumer prices are rising at their fastest rate for 40 years, with millions hit by an unprecedented £700-a-year increase to their energy bills in April.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 9% in April and is expected to continue to rise this year.", "Shevchenko says his mother has been able to leave Ukraine for Italy but his sister is still in Kyiv Image caption: Shevchenko says his mother has been able to leave Ukraine for Italy but his sister is still in Kyiv\n\nUkrainian football legend Andriy Shevchenko says President Volodymyr Zelensky is \"unbelievable\" and he is very proud of how his country and its people have been dealing with the war.\n\nShevchecnko, who played for teams including Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan and Chelsea, is Ukraine's record goalscorer and also managed the national team at last year's European Championship.\n\nHe said on a recent visit to Kyiv he had a \"very nice meeting with the president\", and they were positive they could defend their country and bring peace to Ukraine.\n\n\"At the most difficult time in our the history of Ukraine he has brought people together and sent a great message across the world,\" he tells BBC Radio 5 Live. \"Ukraine's people must not give up, we want our democracy we fight for our freedom and that's a massive message to everyone.\n\n\"I'm so proud how my country and the people united to stay strong and defend the country.\"\n\nThis weekend Shevchenko will play in Soccer Aid - an annual football match involving former players and celebrities. It raises money for Unicef and this year the charity says some of the money raised will go towards helping those impacted by the war.\n\n\"This event is going to help a lot of people in Ukraine,\" he says, \"especially kids, we're going to create a lot of great programmes to improve a lot of things for kids.\"\n\nShevchenko with President Zelensky at the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv last August Image caption: Shevchenko with President Zelensky at the Independence Day military parade in Kyiv last August", "The quick-thinking neighbour placed a damp cloth over the chip pan to extinguish the fire\n\nA woman \"saved the life\" of her sleeping neighbour when fire and smoke started engulfing his home in Derbyshire.\n\nDerbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said the woman spotted smoke coming from next door in Poolsbrook Avenue, Staveley.\n\nShe rushed into the home and extinguished the blaze before waking her neighbour.\n\nThe fire service said her quick-thinking \"saved his life\".\n\nFirefighters from Staveley and Clowne fire stations attended the scene at 20:45 BST on 2 June.\n\nParamedics took the occupant to hospital for precautionary checks due to smoke inhalation.\n\nThe blaze caused substantial damage to the kitchen\n\nWatch manager Dan Lewin, from Staveley Fire Station, said no smoke alarms had been installed in the property.\n\nHe said: \"I have no doubt that the quick actions of the neighbour prevented a devastating house fire that could have had fatal consequences.\n\n\"On seeing smoke coming from next door, the neighbour entered the heavily smoke logged property, making her way to the kitchen where she immediately placed a damp cloth over the chip pan to extinguish the fire.\n\n\"As there weren't any smoke alarms to wake the occupant and alert him to fire, I have no doubt the neighbours' actions saved his life.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A tiny rock fragment has hit the new James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror.\n\nThe damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in the observatory's data but is not expected to limit the mission's overall performance.\n\nJames Webb was launched in December to succeed the revolutionary - but now ageing - Hubble Space Telescope.\n\nAstronomers are due to release its first views of the cosmos on 12 July.\n\nThe US space agency Nasa said these images would be no less stunning because of what's just happened.\n\nThe incident appears to have occurred sometime between 23 and 25 May.\n\nAnalysis indicates the mirror segment known as C3 - one of the 18 beryllium-gold tiles that make up Webb's 6.5m-wide primary reflector - was struck. The contact left a \"dimple\" in the segment, Nasa told the Reuters news agency.\n\nThe speed at which things move through space means even the smallest particles can impart a lot of energy when colliding with another object. Webb has now been hit five times with this latest event being the most significant.\n\nWebb has an open design; its mirrors are not guarded by the kind of tubular baffle seen on other space telescopes, such as Hubble. Instead, the reflectors sit behind one giant sunshield that allows them to maintain the stable, cold temperatures needed to detect infrared light.\n\nThe possibility of micrometeoroid hits was anticipated and contingencies were incorporated into the choice of materials, the construction of components and the different modes of operating the telescope.\n\n\"We always knew that Webb would have to weather the space environment, which includes harsh ultraviolet light and charged particles from the Sun, cosmic rays from exotic sources in the galaxy, and occasional strikes by micrometeoroids within our Solar System,\" said Paul Geithner, technical deputy project manager at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.\n\n\"We designed and built Webb with performance margin - optical, thermal, electrical, mechanical - to ensure it can perform its ambitious science mission even after many years in space.\"\n\nEngineers will adjust the positioning of the affected mirror segment to cancel out a portion of the introduced distortion, but they can't remove it all.\n\nWebb is currently gathering observations of the Universe, near and far, to demonstrate its capabilities. Astronomers will present these pictures to the world next month.\n\nLonger term, the scientists intend to use Webb to try to see the very first stars to light up the cosmos more that 13.5 billion years ago.\n\nThey'll also train the telescope's big \"eye\" on the atmospheres of distant planets to see if those worlds might be habitable.", "Declan Clarke was found hiding under a bed when police searched his house\n\nA fly-tipper who dumped 51 tonnes of tyres on waste ground across Glasgow has been jailed for 11 months.\n\nDeclan Clarke, 30, from Dumbarton, collected tyres from garages for a fee and hired workers and vans to dispose of them in car parks and empty land.\n\nHe was fly-tipping \"on an industrial scale\" between June and November 2020, said Sheriff John McCormick.\n\nMost of the tyres were dumped at Dalsetter Crescent in Drumchapel and consumed in a fire on 24 July, 2020.\n\nGlasgow Sheriff Court heard the fire caused so much smoke it disrupted flights at Glasgow Airport.\n\nCCTV captured two white vans dumping tyres 33 times at Dalsetter Crescent in Drumchapel\n\nGlasgow City Council workers cleared the remnants two days later and found the debris consisted of 51 tonnes of tyres and 17 tonnes of household waste.\n\nAbout 500 tyres were also dumped at Gartloch Farm, near Gartcosh to the east of Glasgow, in a two-week period in October 2020, with more deposited there on one day the following month.\n\nWildlife cameras installed at the farm after previous fly-tipping incidents captured Clarke, using several different hire vans, dumping tyres on 12 occasions.\n\nHe was eventually caught after the farm's owner spotted Clarke and a boy trying to free a van stuck in mud in one of his fields.\n\nScores of other tyres were left around the Drumchapel area at Drummore Road, Glenkirk Drive and the Donald Dewar Centre.\n\nClarke also dumped tyres at Drummore Road in Drumchapel\n\nPolice searched Clarke's home on 20 November, 2020 and found him hiding under a bed.\n\nThey also discovered a key for another hire van, which was parked outside his flat and found to be full of tyres.\n\nA mobile phone seized contained messages between Clarke and owners of garages and tyre fitters which discussed collecting the tyres.\n\nThe messages appeared to indicate that Clarke was charging £1-£2 per tyre. In one, from 18 November, 2020, he stated: \"It's getting a bit hot to get rid of them.\"\n\nClarke, who had pleaded guilty at a previous court hearing in April, was not connected to the fire.\n\nSentencing Clarke, Sheriff John McCormick said his actions constituted \"fly-tipping on an industrial scale\" at a number of locations.\n\nClarke was caught on camera dumping tyres at Gartloch Farm, near Gartcosh\n\n\"The photographs and videos I saw spoke volumes,\" he said.\n\nThe sheriff said Clarke continued to dump \"tens of tonnes of tyres\" even after he knew he was a suspect.\n\nIt was \"not a victimless crime\", he added, as there was a cost to the public purse and landowners also had to make a \"substantial\" contribution to having the debris cleared.\n\nProsecutors said the cost of cleaning up Dalsetter Crescent was £7,245.16, while the estimated cost of cleaning up Gartloch Farm was £120,000 and a further £2,800 to dispose of the remaining tyres.\n\nFiona Caldwell, procurator fiscal for wildlife and environmental crime, said: \"Declan Clarke's deliberate and criminal action showed a lack of consideration for the environment and undermines legitimate waste management companies.\n\n\"There is no excuse for illegal dumping of waste and those who choose to engage in it will be brought to account for their actions.\"\n\nSgt Nigel McDonald said Clarke was \"an opportunistic criminal using his illegitimate business to collect tonnes of rubbish for a fee before just dumping them across the city\".\n\nAs well as the \"significant\" cost involved in the clear-up operation, Sgt McDonald said there had been \"serious and long-lasting environmental damage\" to several areas where tyres or waste were heaped up and set on fire.\n\n\"It is sadly highly unusual for fly-tipping cases like this to result in a custodial sentence, but it goes some way to show the seriousness of Clarke's repeated offences,\" he added.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency said anyone that witnesses fly-tipping incidents is encouraged to report it immediately through the Dumb Dumpers website or by calling 0300 777 2292.", "Boris Johnson is coming under pressure from his MPs to cut taxes after surviving a vote of confidence.\n\nThe prime minister's supporters believe the move would help rebuild unity in the Conservative Party and help people cope with the rising cost of living.\n\nBut ex-cabinet minister David Davis accused Mr Johnson of \"letting things slide\" and warned him to \"get his act together\" quickly or leave office.\n\nA No 10 source said the PM wanted to bring in tax cuts \"in the longer term\".\n\nThey added that moving too fast in this direction could push up public borrowing and debt.\n\nMr Johnson is facing MPs in the House of Commons in Prime Minister's Questions for the first time since four in 10 of his own MPs backed ousting him in a confidence vote on Monday.\n\nThe result followed months of criticism over parties that took place in Downing Street during lockdown, with the prime minister himself being fined for attending one gathering. It also came amid a rapidly rising cost of living.\n\nMr Johnson has urged his party to \"draw a line\" under questions about his leadership, but some Conservative MPs are still publicly calling on him to quit.\n\nThe prime minister, whose government has recently raised National Insurance to help deal with NHS backlogs and social care funding, is now facing pressure to announce policies that would appeal to MPs from across his party.\n\nHe is said to have hinted at reductions to the tax burden - currently at its highest level since the 1940s - when he met them before Monday's vote.\n\nAnd at Tuesday's cabinet meeting, he said: \"We will have the scope, by delivering tax cuts, I think, to deliver considerable growth in employment and economic progress.\"\n\nBut the BBC has been told that no specific measures were discussed and, on Wednesday, a No 10 source said the prime minister wanted to cut tax \"in the longer term\", but cost-of-living support and dealing with the cost of Covid measures took \"priority at this stage\".\n\nTaxpayers will get some relief next month when a National Insurance threshold rise comes into effect, bringing the amount people can earn before they start paying it up to £12,570.\n\nBut NI payments went up at the beginning of April, meaning anyone currently earning more than £9,880 a year has to pay 1.25p more in the pound.\n\nAnd businesses are also due to pay more tax, with the rate of corporation tax, on company profits, due to rise from 19% to 25% for larger firms, starting in 2023.\n\nThe autumn Budget is expected to bring some tax cuts for companies, in an effort to encourage investment.\n\nOn Tuesday, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC he wanted to see tax cuts \"as soon as is possible\" - and he was joined by his cabinet colleague, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who said on Wednesday: \"I would like to see us do more on tax cuts.\"\n\nFormer Brexit minister Lord Frost, who resigned last year, said: \"All tax rises that we brought in, and the corporation tax ones that are due to come in soon, ought to be reversed\".\n\nAnd Trade minister Penny Mordaunt told the Guardian: \"To increase revenues and growth for the nation, [the government must] cut taxes.\"\n\nBut Mr Davis, who has previously called for Mr Johnson to quit, used a Times newspaper column to criticise the prime minister's leadership style, arguing he had \"been light on detail from day one\".\n\n\"What I hope Johnson will now avoid is a set of populist policies that are drafted in the hope of shoring up our immediate popularity,\" he added.\n\n\"This may work in the very short term, but if the policy is not thought through carefully enough, it will end up with dreadful headlines as it goes wrong.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party faces tricky by-elections in the seats of Wakefield in Yorkshire and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon at the end of this month.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mr Johnson did not have \"any sense of honour\" and should resign.\n\nCampaigning in Tiverton and Honiton on Wednesday, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokeswoman Christine Jardine said: \"This is a government in crisis, too divided and weak to offer the help people need to cope with the cost-of-living emergency.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng admitted the two mid-term by-elections would be \"challenging\", but added that such contests \"generally are\" for parties in government.\n\n\"People have written off Boris Johnson for 20 years. I've read his political obituary dozens of times,\" he said. \"But I think ultimately he is a winner\".\n\nThe prime minister is also to be the subject of an inquiry by the Commons privileges committee into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown rule-breaking in Downing Street.", "Steve Rotheram said the day had quickly turned from a dream into a nightmare\n\nLiverpool's mayor has said some French police officers were seeking confrontation at last month's Champions League final in Paris.\n\nSteve Rotheram said police were quick to threaten fans with their batons.\n\nThe head of policing at the final earlier apologised for using tear gas on Liverpool fans travelling to the Stade de France but said he had no alternative.\n\nThe fiasco has prompted uproar in France as well as the UK and Spain.\n\nLiverpool fans, including families with children, were tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed outside the stadium by police ahead of the final between Liverpool and Real Madrid on 28 May.\n\nThen as they left the area, some fans were attacked by 300 to 400 local youths.\n\nThe French Senate is now investigating the incident.\n\nSpeaking to the Senate on Thursday, Mr Rotheram - who was at the final - said \"the day gradually transformed from a dream into a nightmare\".\n\n\"I saw police who were, in a way, looking to find a problem,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he had been robbed of his possessions at the event.\n\nFrench authorities blamed late arrivals and fake tickets for overcrowding and chaotic scenes before the match.\n\nLiverpool fans react as they queue to access Stade de France before Champions League Final on 28 May\n\nSpeaking earlier at the Senate, head of policing at the final Didier Lallement defended the tactics he used, insisting his \"red line\" was to save lives.\n\nUsing tear gas outside the stadium was the only means they had to get the crowd to move back without charging at them, which would have been \"devastating\", he explained. However, if his force had not dispersed the crowd, people could have died in a crush.\n\n\"I am fully aware that people acting in good faith, even families, were tear-gassed,\" he added. \"For this I am very sorry. But there was no other way.\"\n\nHe did however admit that the security operation was \"obviously a failure,\" saying \"people were pushed around or attacked even though we owed them security.\"\n\nHe said his force was not prepared for the scale of the problem that thousands of fake tickets caused.\n\nIn another development during the Senate's investigation, it emerged that all the CCTV from outside the stadium on the day of the final has been deleted.\n\nErwan Le Prévost, director of international relations at the French Football Federation (FFF) told the Senate that CCTV footage of the stadium is automatically deleted after seven days. As the footage had not been requested before the seven days were up, it was deleted. He added that the images were \"extremely violent\".\n\nThe Senate commission's co-president Laurent Lafon told AFP that as an investigation was opened a day after the game, there would have been \"plenty of time\" to request the footage. \"We need to understand what happened,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fans shared videos showing pepper spray being deployed and children crying in Paris\n\nInterior minister Gérald Darmanin has come under fire for his own response, blaming the trouble outside the stadium on \"massive, industrial-scale\" ticket fraud which caused Liverpool fans to turn up en masse.\n\nMr Lallement said the scale of fake tickets had not been considered ahead of the match. Asked why he had put the number of fake tickets at 30-40,000, the police chief admitted he may have been wrong but that was the number he had estimated at the time.\n\nLiverpool fans have complained of fearing for their safety in the crush, despite arriving hours earlier. But they have also told of local gangs from the Saint-Denis area descending on crowds after the match, stealing phones and watches and threatening them with knives.\n\nMr Lallement pledged to do everything he could to find those responsible for the post-match violence and to bring them to justice. He encouraged British and Spanish citizens to file complaints to help find those responsible.\n\nUefa eventually apologised to fans of both clubs last week for the \"frightening and distressing events\" they had witnessed. \"No football fan should be put in that situation, and it must not happen again,\" the European football governing body said in a statement.", "Aiden Aslin's family said he joined the Ukrainian Marines after moving to Mykolaiv in 2018\n\nThe family of a British man reportedly captured defending Ukraine have said footage of him shown on Russian television is \"deeply distressing\".\n\nAiden Aslin, 28, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, had been defending the battered city of Mariupol.\n\nIn a statement his family denounced \"Kremlin propaganda\" adding he was not a \"volunteer, a mercenary, or a spy\".\n\nThey said he moved to Mykolaiv in 2018 where he met his girlfriend and joined the Ukrainian Marines.\n\nThe family spoke through a statement released by their MP Robert Jenrick on Twitter.\n\nThey said: \"Aiden was making plans for his future outside the military, but like all Ukrainians, his life was turned upside down by Putin's barbarous invasion.\n\n\"He has played his part in defending Ukraine's right to self-determination.\"\n\nMr Aslin has appeared in video footage after his unit was reportedly captured.\n\nHis family said it was \"deeply distressing\" to see him looking bruised and swollen.\n\nThey said: \"Using images and videos of prisoners of war is in contravention of the Geneva Convention and must stop.\n\n\"Aiden is a much-loved young man with a strong network of friends around him and a loving wife-to-be.\"\n\nHis grandmother previously said she thought his captors were using him \"for propaganda purposes\".\n\nThe family said they were in contact with the Foreign Office.\n\nMr Johnson said he echoed his Conservative colleague's comments\n\nMr Jenrick raised his concerns about the footage in Parliament during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe asked Boris Johnson if he agreed that broadcasting it was a \"flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention\".\n\nThe Newark MP said the way Mr Aslin was being treated was illegal and the person conducting the interview was in danger of prosecution for war crimes.\n\nHe also criticised online platforms that were used to show the footage and said the videos should be taken down.\n\nMr Johnson said he echoed his Conservative colleague's comments about those that broadcast \"propaganda messages\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters were still tackling the blaze on Thursday morning\n\nOne person has been rescued after a large fire destroyed a caravan repair centre building.\n\nUp to 100 firefighters tackled the blaze, which broke out at Gilchrist Thomas Industrial Estate, Blaenavon, Torfaen, at around 22:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nPlumes of smoke were seen billowing from the fire, which has left 21 nearby properties without power.\n\nThe person who was rescued was suffering from smoke inhalation.\n\nWhile the fire is now out, crews from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service remain at the scene to dampen down and to carry out inspections to establish the cause of the fire.\n\nFirefighters were still tackling the blaze on Thursday morning\n\nOver 40 South Wales Fire and Rescue Service crews attended the scene.\n\nHead of Risk Reduction for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Jason Evans, said: \"We would also like to thank the public for their cooperation during this complex and arduous incident.\n\n\"Officers will remain at the scene for a number of hours to carry out investigations and we'd like to remind the public to proceed with caution in and around the area.\n\n\"Our crews worked tirelessly to secure the area and worked with partner agencies to bring the incident to a safe conclusion.\"\n\nGwent Police and Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed they also attended the blaze.\n\nThe fire broke out at Gilchrist Thomas Industrial Estate in Blaenavon at around 22:45 BST on Wednesday\n\nThere is still thick smoke coming from the building but everything inside has gone.\n\nBurnt out vehicles are still on the forecourt, but they are now just metal and wheels.\n\nYou can still smell the smoke, even from quite far away, carried on a windy day across Blaenavon.\n\nLocal people have been back and forth to the site, concerned about the man who had to be rescued and the people who worked here - now uncertain over what their future holds.", "A Belfast-based company aims to take a major step in the development of zero-emissions marine technology with the launch of an electric-powered workboat.\n\nAs part of a government-backed initiative, Artemis Technologies has developed an eFoiler propulsion system for its workboats.\n\nA six-passenger vessel - with a range of 60 miles - will be officially launched later.\n\nA 12-passenger boat was also designed and built in Belfast.\n\nThe company says the workboats can be recharged in one hour, create little wake and are the first commercially-viable crafts of their kind.\n\nThey can be used for port operations and to transfer crews.\n\nIn 2020, a consortium led by Artemis and including Bombardier, Belfast Harbour and Northern Ireland's universities, received a £33m government grant to develop a zero-emissions ferry.\n\nThe Pioneer of Belfast was the prototype for the workboat range\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the development of green vessels was \"a truly positive step in the fight against climate change\".\n\n\"I am delighted that such amazing technology has been developed in Northern Ireland and to have been able to see the eFoiler technology up close during a recent showcase in Belfast,\" he said.\n\nThe Belfast Maritime Consortium, a 14-member syndicate which has brought together a range of industry, academia and public bodies, is developing a commuter ferry service between Bangor and Belfast that's planned to be operating by 2024.\n\nThe intention is to operate the ferry using an electric propulsion system provided by Artemis Technologies.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Thursday's launch, Artemis chief executive Dr Iain Percy said: \"As our vessels transform the workboat and city-to-city passenger ferry sectors, Belfast and the UK will be at the forefront, creating thousands of jobs across the supply chain.\n\n\"This is a hugely significant milestone not only for us but in global decarbonisation efforts with the International Maritime Organization requiring emissions to be halved by 2050.\"\n\nSarah Kenny, who chairs Maritime UK, the national representative body for the maritime industry, said the launch showed \"our heritage as maritime pioneers will continue long into the future\".\n• None Belfast to Bangor pilot ferry to sail by 2024", "Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the new Saudi-funded golf tournament, as it prepares to get under way in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I don't want it to happen again' - Uvalde survivor\n\nA student who survived the Uvalde school shooting by covering herself in a classmate's blood has told the US Congress of the moment her teacher was killed during the massacre.\n\nHer graphic testimony left some representatives in tears.\n\n\"He told her goodnight, and shot her in the head,\" Miah Cerillo, 11, said.\n\nThe Texas primary school shooting claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 young children, and has renewed the US debate over gun laws.\n\nPast efforts to advance national gun-control regulations have often stalled.\n\nMiah's pre-recorded testimony before the congressional panel was part of a number of emotional appeals for Congress to act on gun violence.\n\nThis story contains details some readers may find distressing\n\nThe 11-year-old recalled her experience, which for her began when a teacher told students to hide after seeing the gunman.\n\nThe 18-year-old attacker shot her teacher as children took cover behind her desk and their book bags.\n\nMiah was wounded by fragments in her shoulders and head. She pretended to be dead before using her teacher's phone to call 911 and ask for police.\n\n\"I thought he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed the [her classmate's] blood and put it all over me,\" she said. \"I just stayed quiet.\"\n\nMiguel Cerrillo, father of Miah: \"She's not the same little girl\"\n\n\"I don't want it to happen again,\" she said.\n\nMiah's father, Miguel Cerrillo, said his daughter is traumatised.\n\n\"She's not the same little girl I used to play with,\" he said tearfully. \"Schools are not safe anymore. Something really needs to change.\"\n\nLawmakers also heard from the parents of Lexi Rubio, one of the students killed in the Uvalde shooting.\n\n\"Somewhere out there, a mom is hearing our testimony and thinking to herself, 'I can't imagine the pain',\" Kimberly Mata-Rubio said. \"Our reality will one day be hers, unless we act now.\"\n\nUvalde paediatrician Dr Roy Guerrero also spoke to the committee to describe the fatal injuries he witnessed.\n\n\"Two children, whose bodies had been pulverised by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. That the only clue as to their identities were the blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them,\" he recalled.\n\nHe added that lawmakers are like \"doctors and our country is the patient\".\n\n\"We are lying on the operating table, riddled with bullets like the children of Robb Elementary and so many other schools,\" he told lawmakers.\n\n\"We are bleeding out, and you are not there.\"\n\nThe testimonies came on the same day that the Department of Justice announced it would review the much-criticised police response to the shooting.\n\nIn Uvalde, the parents of two of Lexi's schoolmates - Annabell Rodriguez and Xavier Lopez - said on Wednesday the two would be buried next to each other at a local cemetery. The 10-year-olds had become sweethearts and were photographed together outside Robb Elementary just hours before the shooting.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 and ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.\n\nBut the proposal is unlikely to pass the divided Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew McConaughey: 'This should be a nonpartisan issue'\n\nOnly a handful of the 50 Republican senators appear open to new gun legislation, with Democrats seeking narrower measures as a compromise. Senators are expected to reach a final agreement by the end of the week.\n\nProposals with the greatest public support include a \"red flag\" law that would prevent individuals with mental illness or a criminal history from purchasing firearms, and expanded background checks on gun purchasers that would include private gun sales.\n\nRepublicans in the hearing argued that better school security - not gun control - was the answer.\n\nGeorgia Congressman and gun store owner Andrew Clyde said his military service taught him that \"the harder the target you are, the less likely you will be engaged by the enemy\". He also called for the creation of \"a volunteer force of well-trained and armed staff\" to assist the armed officers already stationed in schools.\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Washington DC, Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy organisation, told the BBC that the testimony of survivors and widespread public calls for change can be a \"powerful\" call to action.\n\n\"There's focus on the issue,\" she said. \"When there's a national shooting tragedy, we finally see more people in America decide they are going to get off the sidelines.\"", "Thursday's primetime special was the first of several public hearings planned by the 6 January committee.\n\nWe asked our panel of American voters what they learned from the hearing and if they plan to keep watching.\n\n\"I would have liked to see more of a visual timeline of events and more of Bill Barr and Ivanka's testimony.\n\nI am still very pessimistic about changing anyone's mind. People are so polarised and stuck in their 'boxes'. I can't imagine this changing anything\".\n\n\"I will be watching future hearings. I do believe this hearing has missed the mark on intentionality. The tone and basis of the questions need to be altered.\n\nThere needs to be more connection between the storming and its relationship to Trump, the intentions, the timeline, the planning\".\n\n\"I don't think it was as hard-hitting as they would have liked, although the invoking of some very emotional material may have caught the attention of some Americans.\n\nI will probably continue to watch. I want to see how this truly could've caused a coup or hurt our democracy. The committee needs to reformat though\".\n\n\"It’s yet too early to tell if the hearings will change any minds out there. What I learned is how the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys planned the attack in advance and scouted the place before hand.\n\nI would love to understand some key findings by the committee, so I will definitely watch again\".\n\n\"Boring. In a nutshell, I have better things to do than waste my time watching [future hearings].\n\nI didn't learn anything new and this hearing will not change anyone's minds. The only people watching it were partisan Democrats hoping to draw attention away from Biden and the Democrats' massive policy failures of the past 18 months that have our country in the pits\".", "Emergency services launched an extensive search after the capsizing was reported\n\nPolice searching for two disabled people missing since a boat capsized on a lake have found two bodies.\n\nThe boat capsized on Roadford Lake, near Okehampton, Devon, at lunchtime on Wednesday.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said they located and recovered the bodies during a \"large-scale search\".\n\nOne of the four people rescued from the boat is in hospital in a critical condition. Formal identification of the bodies is yet to take place.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) previously said \"two disabled persons\" were \"unaccounted for\".\n\nAll of those on the boat, which has been secured by police, were adults and believed to be local to Devon.\n\nPolice said they are supporting the families of all those involved.\n\nCh Supt Dan Evans said: \"This is an extremely distressing incident and our thoughts are with all of those involved and their loved ones, who we are working closely with to offer help and support wherever we can.\"\n\nFire crews were involved in the search, which was launched on Wednesday\n\nThe major search operation involved coastguard, fire and ambulance crews using specialist equipment. Drones and helicopters were also deployed.\n\nNo other boats were involved in the incident, and the MAIB said it has opened an investigation into the \"capsize of a motor vessel\".\n\nThe South West Lakes Trust said on its website the activity centre at the lake had been closed until further notice.\n\nThe 730 acre (1.9 square mile) lake has been a reservoir since 1989 and supplies water to Plymouth and other parts of south Devon, according to Visit Dartmoor.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mia is a former Calcot Services for Children support worker\n\nChildren in care have reported being groomed and sexually assaulted in homes run by a firm making huge profits.\n\nMultiple employees of Calcot Services for Children say vulnerable young people were failed.\n\nBBC News has found it made profits of 36% last year, double that of other big care providers - figures already considered excessive by a watchdog.\n\nCalcot said profits were high because of built up investment, and it prioritises safeguarding children.\n\nThe company runs eight homes, four schools and supported living accommodation in southern England. It made profits of 42% in 2020 and 36% in 2021, using an industry-standard measure.\n\nThat is more than double the average annual profit made by the biggest 15 providers of children's services in Great Britain over the past five years - as highlighted in a recent report by the government's competition watchdog. The study found that profits of 17% were much higher than would be expected if the market was operating well.\n\nThe sector is in \"crisis\" - says the providers' group, the Independent Children's Homes Association - with increasing demand for places, severe staff shortages and ballooning costs.\n\nBut children's homes are the last resort for many young people, with the foster care system often judged as inappropriate for those who have suffered the worst abuse and neglect. And the time when homes were largely managed by local councils has long gone - more than 80% are now run by private companies.\n\nThe BBC has seen leaked company records and confidential local authority briefings. It has also spoken to a dozen current and former Calcot employees. They told us the company had accepted high-risk children, who came with increased levels of funding, but did not meet all their needs and keep them safe. Our investigation found:\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, told us she was \"appalled\" by our findings and said they revealed \"actual harm\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza says the children's homes findings are \"horrendous\"\n\nOne former Calcot support worker we spoke to, Mia*, said it seemed to her that Calcot put profit before childcare and suffered from \"chronic\" under-staffing.\n\nShe felt it was all about \"getting that high-level amount of funding for children with challenging behaviour\".\n\nA letter sent to Ofsted by another member of staff echoes that claim. The whistleblower wrote: \"I don't believe they [the company] are acting in the best interest of any young people.\"\n\nMia told us one girl's needs were so acute that the local authority agreed to provide extra funding so three members of staff could continually care for her in the daytime, known as a \"three-to-one\".\n\nYet Mia says she was frequently the only staff member working with the girl. On another occasion, she said a colleague - who had also been working alone - was knocked unconscious by the teenager. Mia says the girl was later found with sharp knives in her bedroom.\n\nBut one particular incident last year caused Mia to leave the company. She says a 17-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were found undressed without supervision. According to Mia, the boy told other staff the girl had made him touch her genitals.\n\nMia says senior management assured her the incident had been reported to authorities - but Ofsted has told the BBC it wasn't. She says she then found that no record had been placed on Calcot's own incident log.\n\n\"I knew I couldn't stay in a company where the standards were so low,\" she says. \"It was just failure after failure.\"\n\nBBC News has learned of serious incidents involving other children of very high need and risk who were accepted into Calcot homes.\n\nOne teenager - a victim of sexual exploitation - was even taken from a Calcot home by a support worker and given alcohol. Tina*, who was 16, had been subject to a Deprivation of Liberty order - a court-imposed restriction on her freedom. Such measures are normally used when children are sent to secure units. The teenager was meant to have been kept inside the Calcot home for her own welfare. Shortly afterwards, she went missing for a time.\n\nAnother incident - the BBC has learned - concerns a school run by Calcot.\n\nThe building and grounds of a Calcot-run school\n\nJodie* - who has significant learning difficulties and was judged to be at significant risk of absconding - had been given a place at the school. She was also living in a Calcot children's home.\n\nShe soon fled the home with a boy - a victim of sexual abuse - and later alleged that he had raped her. After returning, Jodie continued to attend the school despite the boy living in residential quarters in the same building.\n\nShe continued to abscond and twice attempted to take her own life. Once, she reached a motorway bridge nearly half a mile away. Another time, former teacher Mohamed Abdulmohamed found her climbing over the side of a river bridge.\n\n\"I ran, grabbed her and we fell to the ground,\" he says. \"There was a good five minutes where we sat there and she was just crying.\"\n\nMohamed Abdulmohamed was the behaviour lead at one school\n\nBBC News has learned that neither of Jodie's absconding incidents was reported to Ofsted despite Calcot being obliged to do so. Three former school staff members say concerns were raised about security at the school gates, but no improvements were made at this time.\n\nCalcot told us all incidents the company is made aware of are reported to the relevant bodies. It denied concerns had been raised about school security and said new electric gates were installed - although the BBC has established this occurred many months after Jodie's suicide attempts.\n\nFormer staff at a Calcot-run school - Eton Dorney - have also questioned what thousands of pounds of specific local authority funding for pupils were spent on. They say some children, who had each been allocated up to £23,000 for one-to-one teaching, did not receive all the extra support.\n\n\"This is money from the public purse that's meant to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in society,\" says Maggie McCarthy, a former teacher at the school.\n\nMaggie McCarthy used to teach at Eton Dorney School\n\nTwo former members of Calcot's senior leadership team also told us that staff performing exceptionally challenging roles were both poorly qualified and paid. Our analysis of Calcot's accounts found it spent just 40% of its turnover on staffing costs. We found that the average spend by more than 30 other big providers was 58%. Calcot told us it has the required number of staff in its homes.\n\nWe have also learned that one teaching assistant at Eton Dorney was accused of assaulting autistic children on three occasions, and found to have turned up at an inset day smelling of alcohol.\n\nAnother member of Calcot's staff was recently jailed for abusing his position and sexual activity with a child. The man - a former member of office staff at the company - had been redeployed as a support worker. The 28-year-old was sent to a supported living home for older teenagers and was often required to stay overnight.\n\nHe groomed 17-year-old Michela* by sending her messages on social media calling her \"beautiful\" and saying he was longing for a \"cuddle\". Shortly after, he kissed her on the neck.\n\nAfter a few months, he had unprotected sex with Michela in the living room of the home while other young people were in their bedrooms. Afterwards, he went outside to smoke cannabis. Michela headed upstairs to her room and cried.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.\n\nWithin a month, she reported what had happened to another staff member and he was arrested. Michela found it hard to recover, especially as she was not immediately moved out of the home.\n\nIn messages sent to a friend at the time, she described being left feeling \"manipulated\" and \"broken\". She started self-harming and attempted to take her life.\n\nHer abuser was jailed. When asked by the BBC on the steps of the court, the former office worker said he didn't know why he had been allowed such responsibility at the Calcot home.\n\nAn allegation of rape in a Calcot home has also been made by a female support worker. She says she was attacked by a contractor while working a day shift in a property she claims was understaffed.\n\nDespite these incidents and staff concerns, which all took place in the past three years, Calcot has maintained a proud record with Ofsted - all of its children's homes and schools are rated outstanding or good by the regulator. Many of the safeguarding issues had been reported to Ofsted, including Tina being removed from her home and given alcohol - and the rape allegation made by Jodie.\n\nWe asked Ofsted why these incidents had such little impact on Calcot's ratings. It said a number of inspections and visits to Calcot homes were currently being made.\n\nThe BBC has also learnt that two homes in Doncaster, run by a different company, maintained their good Ofsted ratings until their closure was announced - despite more than 100 reports of concern having been made since 2018 to the local council and regulator. Police are now investigating allegations of abuse at the homes operated by the Hesley Group, which says it is co-operating fully with the authorities.\n\nDo you have more information about this story?\n\nYou can reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England says she is \"concerned\" that there is no mechanism to immediately flag a provider over serious safeguarding incidents.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza said the sector as a whole included some \"exceptional\" private children's homes, but unfortunately \"some of the worst providers\" were also harboured by the industry.\n\nShe said it seemed wrong that some providers were \"still allowed to make large profits\".\n\nIn all, the BBC looked at the accounts of the 32 biggest private providers of children's homes and residential special schools in England. Calcot - the 20th-largest provider - told us its recent annual profits appeared high because it had been unable to spend money on investment during the pandemic.\n\nAlthough the BBC has learned that in 2019, before Covid, the company made a 32% profit - using the same industry-standard EBITDA measure of profitability.\n\nIn a statement, Calcot Services for Children said:\n\n\"The sector is rightly subject to stringent regulation and the company prioritises safeguarding all children in its care. It has a history of more than 30 years caring for and educating vulnerable and challenging children.\n\n\"It is known for achieving positive outcomes and is highly regarded by Ofsted and the local authorities with which it works.\"\n\nCalcot added that it was grateful to the BBC \"for highlighting what it considers to be safeguarding issues\".\n\nA recent review of England's council-run children's services suggested that the government should levy a windfall tax on the 15 largest private providers.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We expect all children's homes to provide the right support, care and protection for children who live there - no private company should exploit those in need.\"\n\nIt added that it was taking steps to tackle poor-quality provision and root out bad practice.", "The dinosaur was a two-legged, crocodile-faced predator and measured more than 10m long\n\nRemains of Europe's largest ever land-based predator dinosaur have been discovered on the Isle of Wight, scientists say.\n\nPalaeontologists at the University of Southampton identified the remains, which measured more than 32ft (10m) long and lived 125 million years ago.\n\nPhD student Chris Barker, who led the research, said it was a \"huge animal\".\n\nThe remains, which include pelvic and tail vertebrae, were discovered on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe carnivore has been dubbed the \"white rock spinosaurid\", after the geological layer in which the remains were found.\n\nBone fragments, including pelvic and tail vertebrae, have been discovered\n\nThe remains of the predator were found on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight\n\n\"This was a huge animal, exceeding 10m in length and probably several tonnes in weight,\" Mr Barker said.\n\n\"Judging from some of the dimensions, it appears to represent one of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever found in Europe - maybe even the biggest yet known.\"\n\nIt would have lived at the beginning of a period of rising sea levels and would have stalked lagoonal waters and sandflats in search of food.\n\nCo-author of the research, Darren Naish, said: \"Because it's only known from fragments at the moment, we haven't given it a formal scientific name. We hope that additional remains will turn up in time.\"\n\nThe dinosaur has been dubbed the \"white rock spinosaurid\", after the geological layer in which the remains were found\n\nMost of the fossils were found by Isle of Wight dinosaur hunter Nick Chase, who died just before the Covid pandemic.\n\nJeremy Lockwood, another co-author of the study and a PhD student at the University of Portsmouth and Natural History Museum, said: \"I was searching for remains of this dinosaur with Nick and found a lump of pelvis with tunnels bored into it - each about the size of my index finger.\n\n\"We think they were caused by bone eating larvae of a type of scavenging beetle. It's an interesting thought that this giant killer wound up becoming a meal for a host of insects.\"\n\nThe discovery follows previous work on spinosaurids by the University of Southampton team, which published a study on the discovery of two new species in 2021.\n\nIsle of Wight dinosaur hunter Nick Chase (pictured centre with his children) found most of the fossils\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in New York\n\nPrince Harry has begun a High Court libel action against the publisher of the Daily Mail, his spokesperson has confirmed to the BBC.\n\nCourt documents show the Duke of Sussex filed a claim against Associated Newspapers Limited on Wednesday.\n\nIt is understood the claim relates to an article published by the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC has asked Associated Newspapers for a comment.\n\nIt comes after it was revealed last month that his wife, The Duchess of Sussex, was to receive £1 in damages from Associated Newspapers, after the Mail on Sunday was found to have invaded her privacy.\n\nThe nominal sum was set out in court documents which formally confirmed the newspaper had accepted defeat.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter that Meghan sent to her father Thomas Markle in 2018.\n\nThe media company, it transpired, will also pay an unspecified sum for a separate case of infringing her copyright.\n\nLast week, lawyers for Prince Harry said the UK will always be his home, amid a row over whether he can have police security when he visits from the US.", "Driving groups have called for more support to help drivers after the cost of filling an average family car with petrol hit £100 for the first time.\n\nThe RAC motoring group called it \"a truly dark day\" as the cost of filling a 55-litre tank reached £100.27 for petrol and £103.43 for diesel.\n\nThe RAC and its rival the AA urged the chancellor to cut VAT on fuel or to reduce fuel duty further.\n\nThe Treasury said it had provided £37bn to ease the cost of living already.\n\nRising petrol prices are putting pressure on household budgets, with energy bills and food prices also now at multi-year highs.\n\nPump prices began to soar after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February led to oil supply fears. However, there are concerns that petrol retailers are not passing on a recent 5p cut in fuel duty to consumers.\n\nAccording to the RAC, the average pump price of a litre of unleaded petrol is now 182.31p while for diesel it is 188.05p. However, the motoring group has warned this could rise to over £2 a litre soon.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: \"While fuel prices have been setting new records on a daily basis, households up and down the country may never have expected to see the cost of filling an average-sized family car reach three figures.\n\n\"A further duty cut or a temporary reduction in VAT would go a long way towards helping drivers, especially those on lower incomes who have no choice other than to drive.\"\n\nThe AA called on the government to cut fuel duty by 10p per litre immediately and introduce a \"fuel price stabiliser\", which would reduce fuel duty when petrol prices go up and increase it when they drop.\n\nThe wholesale price of petrol - the price at which supermarkets and independent forecourts buy it at - has actually dropped by 5p since 1 June, when it was £1.55 a litre, to £1.50 on Wednesday.\n\nBut motoring groups say it takes time for changes in the wholesale price to feed through to the pumps due to the way retailers buy fuel in advance.\n\nIt comes as some UK forecourts are already selling petrol above £2 a litre, according to price comparison website PetrolPrices.\n\nOn Wednesday, the highest price was found to be 202.9p a litre at BP sites on the A1 near Sunderland, the M4 near Chippenham in Wiltshire and the M6 near Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.\n\nMotorists at the BP garage at Washington services on the A1(M) on Wednesday were paying more than £2 a litre\n\nEwan, 31, told the BBC he needed a car to get to work in centre of Aberdeen, otherwise it was a one-and-a-half hour bus journey. But he said he was now paying up to £90 to fill a tank and the petrol expenses he could claim through work were no longer enough.\n\nThe civil servant, who lives alone, said it was just one more thing pushing up the cost of living and he was now \"barely\" getting by.\n\n\"I used to be able to save about £200 a month but now I am dipping into savings,\" he said. \"It makes me quite stressed out.\"\n\nThe RAC argues the Treasury could afford to offer more help, as the higher fuel prices rise, the more it collects in VAT receipts - currently around 30p per litre.\n\nIt added that despite March's fuel duty cut, the government still collects 53p in duty on every litre sold.\n\nThe government has so far ruled out cutting VAT, arguing that any increases in receipts it gets from higher fuel prices will be largely offset by reduced household spending and VAT on other items. It has no plans to cut fuel duty either.\n\nInstead, Downing Street has indicated that fuel retailers failing to pass on the 5p duty cut could be named and shamed.\n\nAnswering questions from journalists in Blackpool, Boris Johnson said: \"What I want to see is those cuts in taxation not just swallowed up in one gulp, without touching the gullet of the fuel companies, I want to see those cuts having an impact on the pumps.\n\n\"And we are watching very closely to see what happens.\"\n\nLisa Stevenson, who owns Tolladine service station near Worcester, told the BBC her prices per litre - at 197.9p for unleaded and 194.9p for diesel - were purely the result of volatile wholesale fuel prices driven by the Ukraine war.\n\nShe added that customers were now buying less fuel because of the soaring costs: \"A delivery of fuel would previously have lasted me a week to 10 days, now its 2-3 weeks.\"\n\nAlasdair Locke, chairman of Motor Fuel Group, the UK's largest independent forecourt operator, told the BBC's Today programme that his business had passed on the 5p duty cut to consumers \"immediately\".\n\n\"It would be easy if there was evidence we're just profiteering but there is no evidence of that, in fact rather the opposite. Our margins are under pressure, along with everyone else's.\"\n\nCommenting on the rising pump prices, a government spokesperson said: \"We understand that people are struggling with rising prices which is why we have acted to protect the eight million most vulnerable British families through at least £1,200 of direct payments this year with additional support for pensioners and those claiming disability benefits.\"\n\nThey added that the typical employee would save more than £330 a year through a tax cut in July, while the 5p cut to fuel duty would save a typical family £100.", "The UK has decided not to impose direct rule on the British Virgin Islands, despite a report finding gross failures of governance in the territory.\n\nThe review said the BVI's constitution should be suspended and its government dissolved amid corruption concerns.\n\nBut the foreign secretary will instead allow a new administration to implement reforms in the next two years.\n\nIf they fail to meet targets, Liz Truss has taken new powers to make imposing direct rule easier.\n\nThe former leader of the BVI, Andrew Fahie, was arrested in April for alleged drug smuggling and money laundering in the US.\n\nThe inquiry was commissioned in 2021 amid claims about corruption and misuse of taxpayers' money but was not directly connected to the arrest of Mr Fahie.\n\nLed by British judge Sir Gary Hickinbottom, the report described the state of governance in the BVI as \"appallingly bad\".\n\nHe found that millions of dollars of state funds were spent each year by politicians and ministries without proper process, there was \"serious dishonesty\" relating to sales of public property, and there was widespread abuse of appointments.\n\nIn his conclusions, Sir Gary called for a two-year suspension of the BVI constitution, cessation of the elected ministerial government and the imposition of direct rule by the UK.\n\nHe also recommended reviews of the government's welfare payments, the sale of public land, and law enforcement on the islands.\n\nOutlining her reasons for not imposing direct rule on the BVI, Ms Truss pointed to changes that have been made since Sir Gary's report in April, including the removal of Mr Fahie from his role and the creation of a new government of national unity, which has begun criminal investigations.\n\nMs Truss said she believed the BVI's new government should be given the opportunity to \"demonstrate their commitment to reform\" and implement the 48 recommendations made by Sir Gary and the further measures the administration has proposed.\n\nBut she added: \"If it becomes clear that this approach is not delivering the reform the people of the BVI want and deserve we will take action. This may require the swift implementation of the final report recommendation [imposing direct rule].\"\n\nAndrew Fahie was arrested in April on drug and money laundering charges\n\nIn May, Mr Fahie pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to launder money and import cocaine to the United States, according to Reuters news agency.", "A teacher was killed and 14 schoolchildren were injured after a car hit a crowd on a busy street in the German capital, Berlin.\n\nThe group was on a school trip to Berlin from the state of Hesse. A second teacher was seriously hurt.\n\nPolice say the driver, a 29-year-old man, was arrested at the scene.\n\nBerlin Interior Affairs Minister Iris Spranger said evidence suggested the driver was a \"mentally ill person running amok\".\n\nThe incident occurred shortly before 10:30 (08:30 GMT) in the heart of western Berlin, on one of its busiest shopping streets.\n\nThe woman who died has been identified as a schoolteacher who was on a trip with a class of teenagers from the central state of Hesse. Berlin police say she died on the spot.\n\n\"There are seriously injured people among the more than a dozen injured,\" police spokesperson Thilo Cablitz said.\n\nBad Arolsen Mayor Marko Lambion said a bus was on its way to pick up the children from Berlin. \"We're doing everything we can to bring them home,\" he said at the press conference.\n\nThe driver has dual German and Armenian citizenship and lives in Berlin. Earlier reports that he had left a note in his car were denied by officials.\n\nWitnesses described seeing a silver Renault Clio veering into a crowd of people on the pavement near Berlin's busy Kurfürstendamm shopping avenue, before driving back on to the road and crashing into a shop window.\n\nA witness who would only be named as F Kacan said the driver had abandoned the car and had taken off running but \"we were able to stop him\", AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe actor John Barrowman tweeted that he had been nearby when the incident took place and in a video posted from the scene said the car had repeatedly mounted the footpath before crashing into the storefront.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Barrowman MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarrowman told the BBC the car had careened through tables of people sitting outside having breakfast, before smashing into the storefront.\n\n\"It was just horrific\", he said. \"I saw somebody being resuscitated, I saw somebody being literally thrown onto a stretcher and put into an ambulance.\"\n\nSome 130 emergency workers went to the scene and a body lay in the middle of the road, covered in blankets.\n\nIt happened opposite Breitscheidplatz, where 12 people were killed in a terrorist attack in 2016 when a truck was deliberately driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market.\n\nBerlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said it was too early to know if the area had been chosen deliberately, but she said: \"It's a situation where you think, for God's sake, not again!\"\n\nAfter the Christmas market attack in 2016, the militant group Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the killings which had been carried out by an unsuccessful asylum seeker. He was later shot dead by police in Italy.", "The age at which people can buy tobacco and cigarettes in England should be raised year by year so that eventually no-one can buy them, a review says.\n\nThe call has been made in an independent report by ex-charity boss Javed Khan asked for by ministers.\n\nUnder the plan the age of sale would rise from 18 by one year every year so the children of today will never be allowed to buy tobacco.\n\nThe government has not agreed to the plan, but said it would consider it.\n\nHowever, sources said it was unlikely at this stage that ministers would agree to the move.\n\nSmoking rates have been falling since the 1970s. But there are still six million smokers in England - seven million across the UK.\n\nThe government has said new ideas are needed to convince the final remaining groups to quit.\n\nIt has set an ambition for England to be smoke free - defined as less than 5% of the population smoking - by 2030.\n\nAchieving that will be a huge challenge, which is why Health Secretary Sajid Javid asked former Barnardo's chief executive Mr Khan to review the current rules and approaches.\n\nThe proposal on raising the age of sale is similar to what is being introduced in New Zealand, where buying tobacco products will remain banned for anyone born after 2008.\n\nIn England, the age limit was raised from 16 to 18 in 2007.\n\nCurrently, one in nine 18 to 24-year-olds smokes, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nMinisters said they would consider the proposals as part of a wider package of measures they are looking to introduce this year to improve the health of the nation and tackle inequalities.\n\nThe report has been produced for ministers in England.\n\nBut Wales and Northern Ireland have already promised to work closely with counterparts in England over raising the legal age for smoking.\n\nThe number of deaths caused by smoking is falling - but it remains the leading cause of preventable illness and premature death and is estimated to cause a quarter of all cancer deaths.\n\nIn 2019, it accounted for 75,000 deaths in England - 15% of the total.\n\nProf Jim McManus, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said if the government was to implement the recommendations they would \"make a huge difference to the nation's health\".\n\nAnd Deborah Arnott, of the charity Action on Smoking and Health, said given the higher rates of smoking and ill-health in more deprived areas only by making \"smoking obsolete\" could the government deliver on its levelling up mission.\n\nBut Simon Clark, of smokers' lobby group Forest, criticised the recommendations.\n\n\"It will simply drive the sale of tobacco underground and consumers will buy cigarettes on the black market where no-one pays tax and products are completely unregulated.\"", "More than one in five children in England are eligible for free school meals\n\nThe number of children eligible for free school meals has risen in every English region.\n\nFigures from January show 22.5% of pupils now qualify, up from 20.8% a year earlier - an increase of 160,000, to 1.9 million - and 13.6% in 2018.\n\nAnother 800,000 children also living in poverty do not qualify for the meals, the Child Poverty Action Group says.\n\nThe government says it is spending £37bn to help families with the cost of living.\n\nLondon and the West Midlands have shown the highest increases - but the North East (29.1%) and West Midlands (26.5%) still have the highest eligibility rates.\n\nSince taking over as the principal of Shirley High School, in Croydon, south London, three years ago, Tyrone Myton has seen a significant rise in the number of his students accessing free school meals.\n\nPrincipal Tyrone Myton said free school meals had allowed him to have a hot meal when he was a child\n\nThe 42-year-old former semi-professional footballer, who became a PE teacher after an injury, told BBC News having free meals when he was a pupil had been vital.\n\n\"From my own personal experience, sometimes the hot meal that you get at school might be the only one that you get, so it's important that we are able to offer that to people that can't always afford it,\" he said.\n\nHe had been very lucky to have really caring parents but \"ultimately, they struggled as well\".\n\n\"I come from a council area in south London so I feel that we need to ensure that the gap between the haves and the have-nots doesn't grow,\" Mr Myton said.\n\nHis main concern is for children living in poverty who are not eligible.\n\nThose with \"access to a free school meal are probably in a better position that those just above the threshold\", he said.\n\n\"They really need to look at the criteria,\" Mr Myton added.\n\nLast week, 11 educational groups wrote to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, asking for an \"urgent\" expansion of the scheme, which would make all children from families receiving universal credit eligible.\n\nCurrently in England, all state-school pupils can have free school meals during term time, up to Year Two.\n\nThose in Year Three and above living in households receiving income-related benefits such as universal credit also qualify, as long as their annual household income - excluding benefits and after tax - is not above £7,400.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, this cap is £14,000.\n\nScotland and Wales have recently committed to rolling out free school meal provision to all primary pupils.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers president Paul Gosling said 45% of his pupils, at Exeter Road Community Primary School, in Exmouth, Devon, now had free school meals, following a \"shocking and stark\" rise in poverty.\n\n\"The local food bank has given me 'emergency rations' to pass on to families in crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"We have also recently noticed a rise in children coming to school tired as they have no heating on at home and find it difficult to sleep on cold nights.\"\n\nA Department for Education official said it communicated \"regularly with schools and councils so they know what is available for these children\".\n\n\"Our National School Breakfast Programme and the Holiday Activities and Food Programme are also benefiting children across the country,\" the official added.\n\nHas your family or school been affected by the rise in free-school-meals eligibility? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page but cannot see the form, submit your question or comment via the mobile version of the BBC News website or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location.", "Ryan Kelley has confirmed he was in Washington on 6 January\n\nThe FBI has arrested a Republican candidate for governor of Michigan and raided his home in connection with the 6 January Capitol riots.\n\nRyan Kelley is facing four misdemeanour charges related to the Capitol breach, including disorderly conduct,\n\nHis campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nMr Kelley, 40, has confirmed he was in Washington DC on 6 January but denied engaging in illegal activity.\n\nThe real estate agent is one of five Republicans on the August primary ballot, competing to take on Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November's general election.\n\nHis arrest on Thursday morning comes just hours before a congressional committee investigating the Capitol riots holds the first of at least six public hearings.\n\nAccording to an affidavit filed in federal court, the FBI received at least four tips between January and February 2021 from people who said Mr Kelley was at the Capitol attack. All four tipsters provided photos of a man who appeared to be Mr Kelley at the Capitol that day.\n\nThe FBI then used publicly available photos and video from the event \"to assemble a more complete record\" of Mr Kelley's actions, the affidavit said.\n\nAccording to the investigation, a man the FBI identifies as Mr Kelley is seen at points throughout the day. He is shown filming a crowd of people who are assaulting and pushing past police officers, and climbing and standing on an \"architectural feature\" of the Capitol building and waving the crowd behind him forward.\n\nCourt documents also include reports of Mr Kelley's attendance at a November \"Stop the Steal\" protest - a rallying cry for those who support the false claim that former President Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, not Joe Biden.\n\nLast year, Mr Kelley addressed claims that he entered the Capitol complex and engaged in misconduct on 6 January, calling it an \"absolutely inaccurate and slanderous accusation made by fascist Democrats\".\n\n\"Kelley has publicly confirmed his presence in Washington DC on January 6, and has made it very clear that he did not engage in any illegal activity, nor did he enter the Capitol building,\" the statement said.\n\nHe is now facing charges of knowingly entering and remaining on restricted property, disorderly conduct on restricted property, engaging in violence on restricted property and wilfully injuring property of the United States.\n\nMr Kelley is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on Thursday afternoon.\n\nOn Wednesday, a chiropractor who works just blocks away from the Capitol was arrested for his suspected role in the riot.\n\nDavid Walls-Kaufman, who has lived and worked in Washington DC's Capitol Hill neighbourhood for three decades, was arrested by the FBI. He faces four misdemeanour charges for allegedly entering the breached government building.\n\nHe is already being sued in civil court by the wife of a Washington DC police officer who died by suicide nine days after being injured in the riot - allegedly by Mr Walls-Kaufman.", "Two bears ended up in a deadly fight in Spain's Cantabrian mountains, which are home to around 350 bears.\n\nVideo footage shows a female bear protecting her cub from a larger male, before both fighting bears fall off a cliff ledge.", "On 6 January, 2021, people around the United States were shocked by images coming from the US Capitol.\n\nThe pictures - many of which were captured by news agency photojournalists on hand to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's electoral win - depicted rioters trespassing in government offices, or roaming the Senate chamber, or assaulting police officers.\n\nThis week, a House of Representatives select committee set up to investigate the events will begin public hearings aimed at piecing together what happened and who can be held accountable.\n\nWhile the committee can refer cases for prosecution, it is up to the Justice Department to determine if charges are actually filed.\n\nBut for many of the rioters, the snaps taken that day have already come back to haunt them.\n\nTo date, more than 810 have been arrested in nearly every US state and Washington DC. More than 60 so far have been sentenced to incarceration, with US officials vowing that more prosecutions are likely in the future.\n\nInvestigators are seeking public help in identifying over 350 rioters, including 250 suspected of attacking police officers.\n\nHere are five of the most iconic pictures of rioters and what's happened to them since 6 January.\n\nAmong the most widely shared images was that of Jacob Anthony Chansley, a 34-year old who referred to himself as the \"QAnon Shaman\". An ardent Trump supporter, Chansley was pictured wearing horns and a bearskin headdress during the riot, quickly becoming one of the most recognisable figures from the siege.\n\nChansley was arrested just days after the riot. In November, he was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his involvement, in addition to 36 months of supervised release. In court, Chansley said he now believes it was \"wrong\" to enter the Capitol and that he hopes to \"evolve\".\n\nHis sentence is one of the longest so far doled out to 6 January rioters. He is currently being held in a low-security federal prison in Arizona.\n\nAnother rioter, 36-year-old Florida resident Adam Johnson, was famously pictured walking - wearing a Trump beanie - between guide ropes meant for tours at the Capitol. He was carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House and posed in front of a painting depicting the surrender of British General John Burgoyne in the American Revolutionary War.\n\nJohnson, who was dubbed \"Podium Guy\" by social media users in the wake of the riot, was charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and theft of government property just days later.\n\nIn November, Johnson pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building. The other charges were dropped by prosecutors in exchange for a guilty plea.\n\nAdditionally, Johnson - who has expressed interest in writing a book - agreed to hand over any publishing profits to the government for a five-year period.\n\nEarly this year, he was sentenced to 75 days in prison and was also fined $5,000 (£3,996).\n\nAhead of his prison sentence, Johnson reportedly planned to host an \"Adam is going to prison\" party at a Florida restaurant. The event was eventually cancelled by the venue.\n\n\"Come help me celebrate my last Friday of freedom before I go to prison for the lamest charge in history,\" a Facebook page for the event read.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, Richard Barnett, was pictured sitting with one boot on a desk in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nThe image of Mr Barnett - dressed in a baseball cap and chequered shirt - went viral, as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Mrs Pelosi's desk.\n\nMr Barnett now faces multiple charges in connection with the riot, including obstruction of an official proceeding, entering a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to the charges and in April rejected the government's offer of a plea deal. He is currently not in jail.\n\nMr Barnett's trial is scheduled to begin on 6 September.\n\nA fourth rioter, Kevin Seefried, was photographed holding a Confederate battle flag while walking through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nMr Seefried and his son, Hunter, were arrested a week after the riot and hit with multiple charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds.\n\nThe father-son duo is scheduled to begin a bench trial - in which their culpability will be determined by a judge, rather than a jury - on 13 June.\n\nAaron Mostofsky, a Trump supporter, in the US Capitol on 6 January 2021\n\nThe son of a prominent and politically connected New York City judge, Aaron Mostofsky was famously pictured wearing a fur pelt as a \"caveman\" and holding a police riot shield and wooden stick inside the US Capitol during the 6 January riot.\n\nHe told the New York Post he felt that supporters of President Trump \"were cheated\" in the election.\n\n\"I don't think 75 million people voted for Trump - I think it was close to 85 million,\" he told the newspaper. \"I think certain states that have been red for a long time turned blue and were stolen, like New York.\"\n\nMostofsky was arrested in New York six days after the riot and charged with multiple offences, including theft of government property, assaulting or impeding officers and disorderly conduct.\n\nIn February, he pleaded guilty to one felony charge of civil disorder, as well as several misdemeanor charges.\n\nThree months later, he was sentenced to eight months in prison followed by 12 months of supervised release, including 200 hours of community service and $2,000 (£1,600) restitution.", "Aamir Liaquat Hussain, seen here in Karachi during the 2018 election campaign, was just 50\n\nOne of Pakistan's most prominent and contentious TV hosts, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, has died aged 50 after being found unconscious at home in Karachi.\n\nThe anchor was taken to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. A post mortem exam is being carried out.\n\nAamir Liaquat Hussain switched from televangelism to politics, becoming an MP for Imran Khan's PTI party.\n\nHis career was dogged by controversy - he gave babies to childless couples on TV and was banned for hate speech.\n\nThe outspoken anchor's personal life was public fodder too, often fuelled by his activities on social media.\n\nIn the last chapter of his life, he married for a third time but it ended publicly and acrimoniously within months. His 18-year-old bride Dania Shah filed for divorce in May, accusing him of domestic abuse and being a drug addict.\n\nHussain released a video calling the marriage a \"fiasco\" and dismissing the allegations as fake news - but he also referred to being depressed by the things said about him on social media after all he had done for Pakistan and vowed to leave the country.\n\nAamir Liaquat Hussain was known for his TV giveaways\n\nAamir Liaquat Hussain, who worked for many of Pakistan's leading media houses over his career, was undoubtedly popular with a section of the population but many others found him highly divisive.\n\nAn eloquent speaker and a great showman who guaranteed ratings, his broadcasts were well scripted, and included religious sermons - as well as frequent abuse.\n\nThere were regular complaints from those whom the televangelist named and shamed on his shows. He would accuse people of acts such as blasphemy, treachery or fornication.\n\nIn September 2008, he dedicated an entire programme to exploring the beliefs of the Ahmadis, a sect who identify themselves as Muslim and follow the teachings of the Quran but are regarded by orthodox Muslims as heretical.\n\nIn it, two scholars said that anyone who associated with false prophets was \"worthy of murder\". Within 24 hours of the broadcast, a prominent member of the Ahmadi community was shot dead in the small town of Mirpur Khas in Sindh province.\n\nThe outspoken anchor will also be remembered for sexist remarks about liberal women in Pakistan - often artists, authors or human rights activists.\n\nQuiz shows and product giveaways - cars, motorbikes and household electronics - were a big feature of his shows, and in 2013, even abandoned babies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Orla Guerin reports on the controversial TV show which has awarded babies to two childless couples\n\nHe insisted at the time that the move was aimed at giving infants a chance of a better life and was not simply an attempt to boost his ratings.\n\n\"We were already top of the ratings before we gave away a baby. We took these children from the garbage, from the trash, and delivered them to the needy people,\" Hussain said on his website, where he described himself as \"truly a legend\".\n\nAamir Liaquat Hussain was a truly larger-than-life figure who dominated the public consciousness here for two decades - both as an entertainment icon and the definitive symbol of modern Pakistani society's hypocrisy and divisions.\n\nHe found himself in the right place at the right time, at the intersection of religion, politics and showbiz. The televangelist was a game show host, a politician, an aspiring actor, a model and a brand ambassador. He also had his own clothing label.\n\nHis antics on his game shows evoked admiration and disgust in equal measure. He'd hand out prizes but was equally at ease delivering religious fatwas and issuing sometimes inciteful, sometimes false statements against journalists and others. Expletive-laden monologues were mixed with sermons on Islamic values on his programme on Geo TV, arguably the most popular religious show in Pakistan's TV history.\n\nNews of his death spread like wildfire - besides initial shock, the reaction was as divided as it had been to him while he was alive. Alongside condolences from political leaders, there was an outpouring of grief from thousands of his followers. But many Pakistanis aren't ready to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, and reminded others of his controversial statements and lurid past.\n\nThe TV host was a member of parliament from 2002 until 2008, when he was expelled by the MQM party. He served as the minister of state for religious affairs from 2004 to 2007 under then president Pervez Musharraf.\n\nAs a politician, he was involved in several rows. On one occasion, he was held hostage by students angry at his work criticising suicide bombings.\n\nOn another occasion, he declared British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdi as \"worthy of death\" - comments that eventually forced him to resign from parliament.\n\nIn 2018 he turned back to politics again, joining the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party and became a member of the National Assembly again the following year.", "Rises in the cost of living are already having a negative impact of people's health, health professionals warn.\n\nBBC News has been told of people skipping meals or cutting back on medication, because of money worries.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing says people are having to make heart-wrenching choices that compromise their health and wellbeing.\n\nAlong with GPs and hospital doctors, they warn health inequalities between rich and poor risk becoming worse.\n\nLaura Brant, 28, has already had to make some tough choices about a treatment keeping her alive.\n\nHaving lived with kidney disease since the age of seven, she has already had two kidney transplants - and now needs another.\n\nLaura is dependent on a dialysis machine to carry out the filtering process usually performed by the kidneys.\n\nWithout it, she could be dead in a week.\n\nLaura was having dialysis at home - but the machine used so much electricity and water the bills started to mount rapidly.\n\n\"I'd say that it's the straw that broke the camel's back, really, with the cost of running the dialysis machine, the water it uses, the electric,\" she says.\n\n\"And it was adding to my anxiety, like, 'How am I going to pay to do this treatment every month?'\"\n\nSo Laura switched her dialysis away from the convenience and accessibility of home to a hospital.\n\nAt first, this meant a three-hour round trip, three days a week, from her North Yorkshire home to the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle.\n\nShe has since moved to a centre 20 minutes away but this has also meant switching to an entirely new medical team - and it has not been easy.\n\n\"I'm sick of having to make choices,\" Laura says. \"And they have to be the right choices.\n\n\"If not, it's my health that's going to be affected at the end of the line - and I don't want to be any more poorly.\"\n\nAt Grey Road Surgery, in north Liverpool, one of the most deprived parts of the city, Dr Janet Bliss and her team have seen how poverty affects their patients' health.\n\nDr Janet Bliss says her patients are struggling\n\n\"For us in this part of Liverpool, it's been a significant issue for a number of years,\" she says.\n\n\"The kind of constant worrying about how you're going to pay the bills, how you're going to feed yourself, how you're going to pay for your kids' clothes, takes a toll that we could probably all relate to.\n\n\"However, it's more than that. It's not just mental health and wellbeing - it's also your physical health.\n\n\"Living in that kind of chronic stress does really bad things to your blood pressure and to your metabolism and can lead to illnesses like diabetes.\n\n\"Also, not being able to access nutritious foods makes it really difficult to keep yourself well physically.\"\n\nDr Bliss says the recent price rises are making a bad situation worse.\n\n\"It's definitely noticeable that we are getting increased patients on the list who are calling up - no food in the house is a common thing, not able to pay the bills, people facing eviction, people actually acknowledging that they're going to lose their homes.\n\n\"We're seeing people limiting the amount of meals they will eat in a week, consciously planning to miss meals.\n\n\"We're seeing people deciding to not to collect medications, not to pay for prescription items.\n\n\"We're seeing the impact on transport costs, and also things like data for your phone in order to access vital services that will support their health.\n\n\"Also, those cost of living impacts are only just filtering through and people who are on the lowest incomes will be feeling them now.\n\n\"But as the months go by, I think that's going to bite harder on people who previously would not have considered themselves on low incomes.\"\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen says nurses themselves are affected.\n\n\"Many are choosing between heating and eating,\" she says, \"and struggling to afford the petrol they need to drive to their patients' homes, potentially impacting care.\n\n\"The situation is becoming grave for many. The UK government can, and must, do more to ensure this crisis doesn't worsen the health inequalities we face in this country.\"\n\nRoyal College of Physicians president Dr Andrew Goddard says some of his respiratory-medicine colleagues are hearing of patients choosing to turn off oxygen supplies to save money.\n\n\"Respiratory disease disproportionately affects those least able to afford to improve their social circumstances,\" he says.\n\n\"It seems likely the cost of living crisis will widen this disparity further.\"\n\nIn Darlington, a mobile food club is helping people continue to eat healthily despite rising prices.\n\nMarzena Domoracka has to provide for four children\n\nOrganised by The Bread And Butter Thing, it redistributes excess food from supermarkets and other suppliers.\n\nMembers pay £7.50 a week for at least £35 worth of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, cereals, grains and pulses.\n\nHer five-month-old son will soon be weaning on to solid food.\n\n\"At the moment, I have to count every penny to make sure I've got enough for the nappies, for the cream, for the wipes,\" Marzena says.\n\n\"This saving will allow me to buy him some better veg and better fruit so he can actually have a good start in life.\n\n\"Without it, I don't know what I would do.\"\n\nA spokesman for the department of health and social care in England says the government is taking action to support households, including cutting fuel duty, raising the threshold at which people start to pay National Insurance and freezing NHS prescription charges.\n\nAre you struggling with the rising cost of living? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned Wednesday's attack on a busy Berlin street that left one person dead and 31 injured as a \"cruel rampage\".\n\nMr Scholz added that the attack, which was carried out by a 29-year-old man, had left him \"deeply saddened\".\n\nBerlin's Mayor Franziska Giffey told local media the attack was \"a dark day in the history of Berlin\".\n\nShe added that the man, who remains in police custody, is \"severely mentally impaired\".\n\nIn a short statement issued on Thursday, police said they believe the attack was \"an intentional act\" by the \"allegedly mentally ill 29-year-old\". It added that he had been travelling in his sister's car.\n\nLocal media has reported that the suspect, who has been identified as a German-Armenian man who lives in the city, is co-operating with investigators. However, Ms Giffey cautioned that he has made a series of \"confused statements\".\n\nThe Berlin state prosecutor said on Thursday that there does not seem to be a terrorism link, and that the man appeared to displaying signs of paranoid schizophrenia.\n\nThe man's sister told the German tabloid Bild that he suffers from \"serious problems\" and Berlin's top security official, Interior Minister Iris Spranger, said the \"evidence suggests this is a case of a mentally ill person running amok\".\n\nThe prosecutor has recommended the man be held in a psychiatric institution until his trial.\n\nMs Spranger said posters were found in the car used during the attack \"in which he expressed views about Turkey\", but she refuted an earlier report from Bild that a letter of confession had been found in the car. She said the reasons behind the crash will be investigated in detail by officials.\n\nAlmost all those injured were students who were on a school trip to celebrate finishing their exams. They had travelled from the small town of Bad Arolsen, in the central Hesse region of Germany. Seven of them were severely injured, but are not out of danger, the state prosecutor said.\n\nThe woman who died has been identified as their schoolteacher. Another teacher remains in a critical condition and is said to be fighting for his life.\n\nA district administrator in Hesse, Jurgen van der Horst, told Bild that \"everyone in Bad Arolsen is affected\" by the tragedy.\n\n\"It's a big school in a small town,\" Mr van der Horst said. \"Everyone knows everyone here and has contact with the families impacted.\"\n\nWitnesses described seeing a silver Renault Clio veering into a crowd of people on the pavement near Berlin's busy Kurfürstendamm shopping avenue, before driving back on to the road and smashing through a shop window at around 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nA witness who would only be named as F Kacan said the driver had abandoned the car and started to run away but \"we were able to stop him\", AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe man was not known to the security services but had been stopped by police for property offences, Bild reported.\n\nThe incident happened opposite Breitscheidplatz, where 12 people were killed in a terrorist attack in 2016 when a truck was deliberately driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market.\n\nOn Wednesday the mayor said it was too early to know if the area had been chosen deliberately, but she said: \"It's a situation where you think, for God's sake, not again!\"\n\nAfter the Christmas market attack in 2016, concrete barriers were erected near the site to prevent future attacks, but Ms Giffey admitted that it is impossible to provide such protections for \"all of the city\".", "Rishi Sunak has been accused of failing to act to save billions of taxpayers' money that has been used to pay interest on government debt.\n\nThe National Institute of Economic and Social Research think tank said the losses were due to the Treasury failing to insure against interest rate rises.\n\nIt meant higher than necessary payments on £900bn of reserves created through the quantitative easing (QE) programme.\n\nThe Treasury said it was the Bank of England's role to decide QE measures.\n\nThe Bank of England is independent from the Treasury.\n\nThe Treasury said NIESR's proposal would undermine this independence and be \"hugely damaging\" to the credibility of how public finances were managed.\n\n\"Proposals such as this risk undermining the independence of the Bank of England and forcing commercial banks to swap reserves for gilts would be an act of financial repression,\" a Treasury spokesperson said.\n\nNIESR's Prof Jagjit Chadha, told the Financial Times that Mr Sunak's failure to act had left the country with \"an enormous bill and heavy continuing exposure to interest rate risk\".\n\nThe Bank of England created £895bn of money through quantitative easing. Most of this was used to buy government bonds from pension funds and other investors.\n\nWhen those investors put the proceeds in commercial bank deposits at the Bank, it had to pay interest at its official interest rate.\n\nLast year, when the official rate was still 0.1%, NIESR said the government should have insured the cost of servicing this debt against the risk of rising interest rates.\n\nIt said interest payments have \"now become much more expensive\" and it estimates the loss over the past year at around £11bn.\n\n\"Such a lost opportunity is an unnecessary cost to the public finances at a very difficult time,\" the think tank said.\n\nIt suggested converting the debt into government bonds with longer to pay it back.\n\n\"It would have been much better to have reduced the scale of short-term liabilities earlier, as we have argued for some time, and to exploit the benefits of longer-term debt issuance. This is very much a question for the Treasury to answer,\" said Prof Chadha.\n\nThe Treasury said it would not have been commercially viable to convert such a high level of debt.\n\n\"The £11bn figure is based on the implausible assumption that it would be possible to undertake action of this scale in a single transaction,\" it added.\n\nWhile there never was a single moment where the Treasury made a decision that cost the nation £11bn, the analysis from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research does point to some costly missed opportunities.\n\nEarly last year the Treasury itself was pointing towards the shortening maturity of our national debt as a by-product of the pandemic expansion of borrowing and the Bank of England's QE policy. The UK has for the past two decades had, by international standards, many more years to repay its loans from the markets, but that was no longer the case. The Treasury was trying to explain why despite the UK borrowing record sums, interest costs were at record lows.\n\nSo a question arose - why don't they do something about it and lock-in then rock bottom interest rates for many years? It was suggested by NIESR, by Policy Exchange, by Boris Johnson's former economic adviser Gerard Lyons, among others.\n\nThe Treasury's answer is that to have done so would have interfered with the Bank of England's independence over its QE programme of buying bonds, and that it would have been commercially unviable to refinance £600bn of debt in the markets in one go. In addition, though we all know now that there has been a material rise in interest rates, back then, it would have been a bet.\n\nIn short, they say, they could not have done the transaction that would have \"saved £11bn\", and with the benefit of hindsight they might also have put money into gas futures or the used car market and \"saved\" many tens of billions more.\n\nBut the wider point does raise questions about missed opportunities. And as we enter a new era of rising interest rates, and the reversal of QE, or Quantitative Tightening, many of the fuzzy accounting questions over government debts could have a rather material impact on the economic numbers.\n\nGerard Lyons, the former chief economic adviser to Boris Johnson when the prime minister was Mayor of London, tweeted that the issue was \"all too predictable\".\n\nDr Lyons, now a senior fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank, said the \"UK should've locked into low rates, borrowing more longer dated debt and not over reliance on QE to fund the deficit\".\n\nBut Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Gordon, tweeted that the \"£11bn 'cost' should really be set against the £120bn 'benefit' that the QE process has so far yielded for the Exchequer\".\n\n\"To be fair to NIESR in their paper of last year they do acknowledge this - but this seems to have been drowned out today.\"\n\nLabour's shadow treasury minister Tulip Siddiq said: \"These are astronomical sums for the chancellor to lose, and leaves working people picking up the cheque for his severe wastefulness while he hikes their taxes in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"This government has played fast and loose with taxpayers' money. Britain deserves a government that respects public money and delivers for people across the country.\"", "Keith Willicombe says he has held off putting his prices until now\n\nDriving lessons are at risk of becoming unaffordable as rising fuel prices will be passed on to pupils, an instructor has said.\n\nKeith Willicombe, from Cardiff, said he was having to review his prices after delaying for as long as he could.\n\nHe said people were starting to be priced out of lessons.\n\nAccording to the RAC, the average price for a litre of petrol has risen to £1.82, while average price of diesel was £1.88 per litre on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cost of filling an average family car has hit £100 for the first time\n\nOn Tuesday, the price of petrol saw its biggest daily jump in 17 years, with an average rise of 2p per litre.\n\nEarlier, the cost of filling an average family car with petrol topped £100, which the RAC called a \"truly dark day\".\n\nThe motoring group also warned that fuel could cost £2 per litre soon.\n\nMr Willicombe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If you've got the money to be able to afford lessons, great. If your income is tight then you're just not going to be able to learn to drive.\"\n\nHe said in January he would normally spend about £42 to fill up his tank, which he does twice a week.\n\nBut a full tank for his car now costs £57, taking up his weekly spend on fuel to more than £100.\n\n\"The average price for a lesson in Cardiff is £32-£35 [per hour]. For someone taking 35 hours of lessons to prepare for a test, you're talking over £1,200.\n\n\"With families' budgets coming under such pressure to find that over a four-month period is an incredible amount of money to find,\" he added.\n\nHe added he had \"deliberately held back\" from any price increases until now.\n\n\"I was hoping things would settle down with the oil prices, maybe production would come along or the government would cut the duty on fuel to help out.\n\n\"But it's getting to the point where we are going to have to put our prices up in the next couple of weeks,\" he added.", "Residents in areas such as Cornwall have long complained about second-home owners pushing up housing costs.\n\nLevelling Up Secretary Michael Gove has vowed to end the \"scourge\" of unoccupied second homes, as part of government plans to boost housing.\n\nMr Gove said a new bill making it easier to charge higher council tax on empty properties in England would \"bring life back\" to communities.\n\nHe also said new powers to force landlords to rent out empty shops would regenerate urban areas.\n\nBut Labour said the legislation would not be enough to help struggling areas.\n\nThe new powers are in the government's Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which started its journey through Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has said \"levelling up\" economic imbalances between regions is a priority, but has faced criticism that its plans are vague.\n\nThe proposals over second homes are among a range of planning powers for England contained in the bill.\n\nA separate planning bill containing sweeping plans to replace England's case-by-case application system with new rules based on zones was abandoned earlier this year, after a backlash from Tory backbenchers.\n\nThe government has said it wants to redirect new housing towards under-developed \"brownfield\" areas in urban areas, and has set higher housing targets for England's 20 largest towns and cities.\n\nAmong provisions in the levelling up bill:\n\nThe new bill will also allow local authorities, from April 2024, to double council tax on owners of second homes that are furnished but unoccupied.\n\nThey will also be able to charge the higher rate on unfurnished empty properties after just one year instead of the current two.\n\nIt follows a separate announcement introducing new requirements for owners of holiday lets, who can avoid council tax and pay a reduced rate of business tax instead, to prove their properties are in fact being rented out.\n\nMinisters argue the new powers will benefit people in areas, particularly beauty spots, where second-home ownership has driven up the price and availability of local homes to buy and rent.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, said for many people in rural areas buying or renting a home had become a \"pipe dream\".\n\nHe said the government needed to go further, by making holiday lets a \"separate category\" in the planning system - which he argued would give local councils \"more control\" over housing in their areas.\n\nIn Wales, the Labour-run Welsh government plans to allow councils to charge up to four times the standard level of council tax on second homes.\n\nFor Labour, shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said the bill \"contains more aimed at dealing with housing and planning than it does on levelling up,\" and would not \"turn around\" lower economic performance outside London.\n\nShe added that under-performance reflected \"the brutal reality of a decade of underinvestment\" outside the capital.\n\nShe called for details on the government's plans for \"street votes\", which said said appeared to have been \"drawn up on the back of an envelope\".\n\nShe also urged the government to explain further proposals in the bill to replace the system by which property developers negotiate contributions towards local infrastructure and affordable housing.\n\nMinisters say their new levy will give councils more certainty about what money will be raised. However, the details have not been announced and are subject to a an ongoing consultation.\n\nMs Nandy said there was \"no clarity in the bill\" about whether the new model would raise more or less money - something MPs were \"entitled to know\" as it progresses through Parliament.", "Prince Harry said he had suffered \"substantial hurt, embarrassment and distress\"\n\nDetails of the Duke of Sussex's latest legal claim against the publishers of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday have been aired at a High Court hearing.\n\nPrince Harry is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) for libel over a February article about a dispute over his family's security arrangements.\n\nHis barrister said the story falsely suggested he had \"lied\" and \"cynically\" tried to manipulate public opinion.\n\nBut ANL said it contained \"no hint of impropriety\" and was not defamatory.\n\nThe story, published in the Mail on Sunday and online, referred to the prince's separate legal case against the Home Office over security arrangements when he and his family are in the UK.\n\nIn a written statement to Thursday's preliminary hearing, Prince Harry said it had caused him \"substantial hurt, embarrassment and distress, which is continuing\".\n\nThe prince's barrister Justin Rushbrooke said the article suggested he had \"lied in his initial public statements\" by claiming to have always been willing to pay for police protection in the UK. The story suggested \"he had only made such an offer recently, after his dispute had started and after his visit to the UK in June 2021\", Mr Rushbrooke said.\n\nHe added that the Mail on Sunday story claimed he had \"improperly and cynically tried to manipulate and confuse public opinion by authorising his 'spin doctors' to put out false and misleading statements about his willingness to pay for police protection immediately after the Mail on Sunday had revealed he was suing the government\".\n\nHe said the story also claimed the prince \"tried to keep his legal fight with the government secret from the public, including the fact that he expected British taxpayers to pay for his police protection, in a way which was improper and showed a lack of transparency on his part\".\n\nANL is disputing the claim, and the company's barrister Andrew Caldecott said the print and online versions of the article were \"essentially identical\" and were not \"defamatory\" to Prince Harry in the eyes of \"the reasonable reader\".\n\n\"There is no hint of impropriety on any sensible reading of the article,\" he said. \"The claimant is not portrayed as seeking to keep the whole action secret.\n\n\"The article does not accuse the claimant of lying in his initial statement about offering to pay for his security.\n\n\"The article does allege that the claimant's PR team spun the story (or added a gloss unduly favourable to the claimant) which led to inaccurate reporting and confusion about the nature of the claim. It does not allege dishonesty against them.\"\n\nJudge Justice Nicklin oversaw Thursday's hearing and must now decide a number of things before the case proceeds, including the meaning of parts of the article, whether they are a statement of fact or opinion, and if they are defamatory. He will deliver his ruling at a later date.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals and work to become financially independent, dividing their time between the US and UK.\n\nLast year, he accepted an apology and \"substantial damages\" from ANL after suing the company for libel over claims that he had \"turned his back\" on the Royal Marines.\n\nMeghan won a privacy claim against the company after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter that Meghan sent to her father Thomas Markle in 2018.\n\nLast weekend, Prince Harry and Meghan attended their first royal event since leaving the UK, at St Paul's Cathedral, to mark the The Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin says the West will not be able to cut itself off from Russian oil and gas for several years.\n\nHe added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be \"concreting over their oil-wells\".\n\nIt comes as a US official admitted that Russian profits on energy may be higher now than they were before the war.\n\nThe EU currently imports around 40% of its gas from Russia.\n\nThe bloc has pledged to reduce its dependency on Russian oil by 90% by the end of 2022, but so far has not made any commitments on gas.\n\nThe US has placed an embargo on all Russian energy products. The restrictions on Russian energy are designed to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine.\n\nBut rising global oil and gas prices mean that Russian profits could have risen in recent months, despite a reduction in the overall supply.\n\n\"The volume of oil is decreasing on the world market, prices are rising,\" President Putin told a group of young entrepreneurs.\n\nThat idea was echoed on Thursday by US energy security envoy Amos Hochstein.\n\nAsked at a Senate hearing if Russia could be earning more now from fossil fuels than it was before the war, Mr Hochman replied \"I can't deny that\".\n\nThursday marked the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great's birth\n\nThe Russian president was speaking on Thursday after attending an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Russian monarch Peter the Great.\n\nThe 18th Century ruler fought a long territorial war against Sweden, which Putin appeared to compare to his invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"You get the impression that by fighting Sweden he was grabbing something. He wasn't taking anything, he was taking it back,\" he told his young audience.\n\n\"It is our responsibility also to take back and strengthen,\" he said, in an apparent reference to Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on housing benefit changes: \"It's time to turn benefits to bricks.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to allow benefits to be put towards mortgages in England, as he sought to relaunch his premiership.\n\nHe made the \"benefits-to-bricks\" pledge in his first big speech since surviving a bid to oust him by Tory MPs.\n\nSpeaking in Blackpool, he also vowed to extend a scheme to allow social tenants to buy their homes.\n\nBut critics say the proposals are unworkable and would make the housing crisis worse.\n\nIn Monday's confidence vote on Mr Johnson's leadership, four in 10 Tory MPs backed getting rid of him, amid anger over widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nThere is also disquiet among Conservatives over the government's decision to raise National Insurance, while the cost of living is soaring and the public finances have been battered by the expense of dealing with Covid.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech aimed at demonstrating he has not run out of ideas and is focused on issues that most matter to voters, Mr Johnson promised more help \"over the next few weeks\" to deal with 40-year-high inflation driven by energy price rises.\n\n\"Global headwinds are strong... but our engines are stronger,\" said Mr Johnson, adding that \"we are on your side\" in cutting the cost of fuel, childcare, transport and other living expenses.\n\n\"And, while it's not going to be quick or easy, you can be confident that things will get better, that we will emerge from this a strong country with a healthy economy,\" the prime minister told the audience at Blackpool and The Fylde College.\n\nHe said \"economic growth\" was the answer and he hoped tax cuts - which have been demanded by some Tory MPs - would come \"sooner rather than later\".\n\nMr Johnson restated the government's commitment to extending a home-buying scheme, known as right to buy, to housing association tenants.\n\nHe said he wanted to extend it \"within existing spending plans\" and ensure a \"one-for-one replacement\" of each home sold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says PM's new housing policy is the \"wrong approach\"\n\nThe prime minister also said universal credit recipients would get to choose whether to spend their benefits on rent or put them towards a mortgage.\n\nThe government will explore discounting Lifetime ISA and Help to Buy ISA savings from Universal Credit eligibility rules, Mr Johnson said.\n\nCurrently, claimants are only eligible for universal credit if they have savings below £16,000, and Lifetime ISAs are included in this limit.\n\nChanging these policies would \"help millions realise the dream of home ownership\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nHousing benefits, which help low-income or unemployed people pay their rent, cost the government around £30bn a year, much of which goes to private landlords. A person is not usually eligible for the payments if they have a mortgage.\n\nThis speech was in the diary before the confidence vote on Monday but it nevertheless became a chance to try and reset Boris Johnson's premiership.\n\nThis was a prime minister who wanted to talk political plans - not personal problems.\n\nMr Johnson wants to focus on ways to help households with costs - but there are big questions about how and when the policies announced today will be delivered.\n\nThis won't be an overnight equivalent of Thatcher's council house scheme.\n\nThe PM also failed to commit to the pledge to build 300,000 houses a year in England by 2025 - something which was in the 2019 Conservative general election manifesto.\n\nIt's looked increasingly unlikely since the government dropped plans to reform the planning system in England to make it easier for developers to win approval.\n\nA reminder perhaps that housing pledges can often be easier in theory than in practice.\n\nAbout two million council homes in England have been sold under right to buy since 1980\n\nLabour's shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy questioned whether people on benefits could afford mortgage deposits, saying: \"This speech was yet more evidence that the prime minister and his tired government are out of ideas.\n\n\"You can't solve a housing crisis with back-of-the-envelope policies that have no realistic chance of success.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"Boris Johnson has lost the confidence of his party, Parliament and the country. The desperate attempt to relaunch his leadership today will do nothing to win it back.\"\n\nIt's not entirely clear how the government's right-to-buy policy is going to work:\n\nCouncil tenants in England have been able to buy their homes at a discount since 1980, when Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher introduced the policy.\n\nBut the same is not true for people renting from housing associations, unless their property was once owned by a local authority and they lived in it during this period.\n\nExtending the right to buy would \"put our rapidly shrinking supply of social homes at even greater risk,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge posed for photos with tourists, members of the public and a taxi driver\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has been spotted in central London quietly helping to sell Big Issue magazines.\n\nRetired Met Police Ch Supt Matthew Gardner shared photos of Prince William on Rochester Row, in Westminster, on his social media account.\n\nHe said his brother-in-law, Richard Hannant, had seen what he thought was a celebrity and took a distanced photo.\n\nPrince William then crossed the road and spoke to Mr Hannant while wearing the iconic Big Issue uniform.\n\nThe magazine is sold by homeless people, long-term unemployed people, and those who need money to avoid getting into debt, the Big Issue says.\n\nVendors are given five free magazines, which are then sold to the public for £3, with additional copies bought for £1.50.\n\nRichard Hannant was surprised Prince William was spotted just days after celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\n\nMr Hannant, a property manager, has since said he was on his way back to the office when he spotted the royal among a small group of people in the street.\n\nThe 47-year-old, who lives in Bath but works in London, said: \"He was amazing, he was so friendly.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think what struck me is we've just got past a massive Jubilee event and days later he's out there supporting a charity like Big Issue.\n\n\"I think it's that that I thought was most amazing because one is a worldwide event, this is just a low-key [event], literally standing on the side of the road with a homeless person.\n\n\"I was quite amazed that he could go from one massive event to such a low-key thing.\"\n\nLaura Zuikauskas had spent the weekend in London for the Jubilee\n\nIn his social media post, Mr Gardner wrote alongside the photo of his brother-in-law and the prince: \"What an honour to have a private moment with our future king who was humble and working quietly in the background, helping the most needy.\n\n\"These 'silent gestures' often go unrecognised.\n\n\"The finale to this unique occasion was when Prince William asked my brother-in-law If he wanted to buy the Big Issue, to which he replied 'I have no change'.\n\n\"At this point William produced a mobile card machine… you cannot teach that!\n\n\"Priceless, or should I say, 'princely'.\"\n\nLithuanian tourists Vitalijus and Laura Zuikauskas also met the prince on their visit to London to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\n\"We bought the magazine and had a warm chat,\" said Mr Zuikauskas. \"We wished him good luck and shook hands, and were excited that the Royal Family take big care of ordinary people.\"\n\nHe added the future king had a \"warm personality\" and they were \"excited and really happy\" to meet him.\n\nAnother social media post by black cab driver Neil Kramer also showed Prince William in the uniform posing for a photo with another Big Issue vendor.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said: \"I was charging up my taxi on Rochester Row in Westminster when I was approached by a vendor who introduced himself as William and asked would I like to buy a copy of the Big Issue.\n\n\"When I realised who it was, I was a bit shocked but of course said yes.\n\n\"He then introduced the other gentlemen with him and we had a lovely chat for 15 minutes about the charity and its work.\"\n\nMr Kramer said the prince asked him if he was a regular reader, to which he replied there was always an opportunity to buy the magazine when on a rank or charging up.\n\nRichard Hannant told Prince William they shared the same birthday, 21 June, to which the prince replied \"happy birthday\"\n\nHe added Prince William was engaging and polite, and that he never forgot his name.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have previously spoken of their involvement with charities close to their heart, often inspired by his mother, the late Princess Diana.\n\nIn 2014, he visited homeless charity Centrepoint, while in 2018 the couple went to The Passage homeless centre in Westminster.\n\nThe Big Issue has been approached for a comment.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Veteran journalist Dom Phillips has been living in Brazil for over a decade\n\nBrazil says it is stepping up its search for British journalist Dom Phillips, 57, and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, 41, after it was criticised for its slow response to their disappearance.\n\nThe two men went missing in the rainforest near Brazil's border with Peru on Sunday.\n\nNo trace has been found of them or the boat they were travelling in.\n\nThe lead investigator said his team was \"pursuing all lines of inquiry\".\n\nThere has been huge concern for the welfare of the men after it emerged that Mr Pereira had received death threats in the week before they went missing.\n\nDom Phillips' brother (right), sister (centre) and her partner (left) attended a vigil outside the Brazilian embassy on Thursday\n\nBrazilian football legend Pelé is among those who have urged the authorities to intensify to scale up their search.\n\nHe retweeted a video in which Mr Phillip's wife, Alessandra Sampaio, said she hoped that \"the love of my life\" would be found alive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInvestigators said there were now 250 members of the security forces taking part in the search, up from just about a dozen in the first days.\n\nThe search team started off very small\n\nThey said the team included divers and experts in jungle terrain. Two helicopters, more than a dozen boats and drones are also being used.\n\nSix people have been questioned in connection with the men's disappearance, but police said only one had been arrested while the others were questioned as witnesses.\n\nThey said that the arrested man had been detained during a random stop-and-search operation in the area during which he had been found illegally carrying ammunition.\n\nA local security official said that \"we have not established any connection between him and the [disappearance] for now\".\n\nLead investigator Alexandre Fontes described the area as a \"very complicated region\" which he said could only be reached by helicopter, small plane or boat.\n\nIndigenous rights groups which Mr Pereira worked with were the first to raise the alarm about the disappearance of the expert on isolated indigenous groups and the journalist.\n\nThey said that Mr Pereira had received threatening letters over his work fighting against illegal fishing in the area.\n\nBoth Mr Pereira and Mr Phillips, who has written about threats to the Amazon for publications such as The Guardian and the Washington Post, are hugely experienced and planned their journeys thoroughly. They had a new boat and plenty of fuel, the rights group said.\n\nThe area where they disappeared is home to around 6,300 indigenous people from more than 20 groups.\n\nAs well as clashes with fishermen catching protected stock, it has also seen incursions by illegal gold miners, loggers and drug traffickers who smuggle cocaine from neighbouring Peru.\n\nBoth Mr Pereira, who has worked for the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, and Mr Phillips, who was carrying out research for a book on the Amazon, documented these threats as part of their work.\n\nBrazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, has come under fire for referring to the work of the two men as an \"adventure\" and appeared to blame them for their disappearance.\n\n\"Two people in a boat in a region like that, completely wild - it's an unadvisable adventure. Anything can happen,\" he said on Tuesday.", "Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russian President Vladimir Putin was destroying millions of lives in Ukraine and Russia\n\nThe Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has told the BBC the Russian public will eventually realise their young soldiers are dying for nothing more than Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambitions.\n\nThe former world heavyweight boxing champion was attending the funeral of a well-known 24-year-old anti-corruption activist when the remarks were made.\n\nVolunteer soldier Roman Ratushny was killed in Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, on 9 June.\n\nMayor Klitschko, who won legions of fans across the world during his long record-breaking career, said the Russian leader was destroying millions of lives in both Ukraine and his own country.\n\n\"This is also a tragedy for Russians and for the Russian Federation. The people do not understand that right now, but I am sure they will realise very soon the reality. The Russians die - for what? The ambition of Putin?\"\n\nThe mayor was among hundreds of mourners who turned out to pay their respects to Mr Ratushny - who came to prominence during pro-democracy protests in 2013 against the pro-Moscow former Ukrainian government.\n\nMourners pay their respects and leave flowers on the coffin of Roman Ratushny in Independence Square\n\nHis coffin was carried into Independence Square, where friends gave tributes and dozens of mourners stepped forward to leave bouquets of flowers.\n\nAt regular intervals, the crowd shouted \"Slava Ukraini\" - Glory to Ukraine.\n\nVitali Klitschko said Western allies showing solidarity with Ukraine was \"key for peace and freedom in Europe.\"\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who returned from an unannounced trip to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, has warned that \"Ukraine fatigue\" was beginning to set in around the world.\n\nMr Johnson said allies needed to demonstrate they were giving Ukraine \"strategic resilience\".\n\nThe prime minister's visit came just a day after the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania all arrived in Ukraine to give their support to the country's ambitions to join the EU.\n\nOn Friday, the European Commission gave its own recommendation that Ukraine should be given \"candidate status,\" which would start the path to accession.\n\nSome Ukrainian officials have expressed concerns that Western allies may push their country towards a peace deal with Russia in light of the ongoing fallout from the war on food and energy supplies and the global economy.\n\nWhen I asked Mayor Klitschko if he was concerned Ukraine could be pressured to make concessions to the Russians, he said ceding Ukrainian land should not happen.\n\n\"I'm more than sure we will be ready to talk with the Russians about some compromise. If the last Russian soldier left Ukraine, it will be time to talk but not yet. Russians have to go from our homeland.\"\n\nAs one of the most recognisable Ukrainians in the world, Mayor Klitschko's voice carries weight. But the ultimate decision on if and when to enter peace talks will be down to President Zelensky and his government.", "Tobias Weller was supported by people at Endcliffe Park who had been inspired by his fundraising\n\nA young fundraiser has completed a new challenge to raise money to create accessible playgrounds near his home.\n\nTobias Weller, 11, who has cerebral palsy and autism, has taken part in challenges in his home city of Sheffield, raising more than £158,000.\n\nHis latest feat saw him use his race walker to complete a 1km (0.62 mile) walk around a Sheffield park.\n\n\"It's not right that disabled kids can't access their local playgrounds and I want to change that,\" he said.\n\nThe Tobias in the Park event saw dozens of people join him on the walk at Endcliffe Park, with money raised going towards new play equipment accessible for children with disabilities.\n\n\"Look at how many people have come to show their support,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to raise awareness and money for accessible playgrounds.\"\n\nThe money raised from his efforts will go towards making two playgrounds, including one at Endcliffe Park, more accessible.\n\nHe has raised almost £3,000 in his latest challenge.\n\nThe 11-year-old was greeted by well-wishers as he completed the challenge\n\nTobias became the youngest person to feature in the Honours List when it was announced in December and is to receive the British Empire Medal.\n\nIt comes after he raised thousands of pounds for Paces School, where he is a student, and The Children's Hospital Charity by completing an Ironman challenge.\n\nCompleted over the course of a year, he did 180km (112 miles) on his trike, a 4km (2.5 miles) swim and ran the length of a full marathon.\n\nHis mother Ruth Garbutt said she was \"absolutely delighted\" at the support for the youngster, who was inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore during the pandemic.\n\n\"If disabled kids are able to use their local playground it will make a huge difference,\" Tobias said.\n\n\"It means they can enjoy themselves. Everyone should be able to do that.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some of the women spoke about their allegations at a press conference in Tangier\n\nFour women in Morocco have filed complaints of sexual harassment against French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier.\n\nNow aged between 26 and 28, they had been employed by his firm in Tangier.\n\nThe women said they had been sacked after refusing to give in to harassment and intimidation.\n\nThe 75-year-old is under formal investigation in France for raping a minor and trafficking. He reportedly says he is the victim of blackmail.\n\nConsidered to be one of France's richest men, Mr Bouthier resigned as CEO of insurance brokers Vilavi, formerly known as Assu 2000, last month.\n\nOn Friday, the Moroccan Association for the Rights of Victims held a news conference about the allegations alleged to have occurred in Tangier between 2018 until April 2022.\n\nSome of Mr Bouthier's alleged victims appeared, wearing face masks and dark glasses to hide their identities, to tell journalists about their experiences.\n\n\"He asked to sleep with me and when I said no, he asked me to introduce him to a sister, a female cousin or a friend, saying he would give me a nice present in exchange,\" one is quoted by AFP news agency as saying.\n\nThe women also accused other French and Moroccan executives of involvement.\n\n\"Jacques on his own is not scary, but with his accomplices, above all in Tangier, that's when he's scary. So they started to harass me morally, real harassment once again, they pushed me to resign,\" another said.\n\nFrench police suspect the businessman of keeping up to seven teenagers in a flat over a number of years.\n\nThe French investigation began earlier this year when a 22-year-old woman went to a police station in the capital, Paris, saying she had been held captive by him for five years - forced to provide sex in return for food and lodging.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in Sao Paulo over Phillips and Pereira murders\n\nBritish journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were shot dead with hunting ammunition, Brazilian police have said.\n\nA day after police identified Mr Phillips' remains, the second set of remains were confirmed as those of Mr Pereira on Saturday.\n\nA third suspect in the murders has been taken into custody, police added.\n\nThe two went missing while on a reporting trip in the Javari Valley, in Brazil's Amazonas state on 5 June.\n\nTen days later, human remains were found after a suspect confessed to burying their bodies and led police to the spot where the remains were found, police said.\n\nThe suspect, a fisherman named by police as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, was the first person arrested.\n\nHis brother, Oseney da Costa, was also arrested earlier this week - he denies any involvement in the murders.\n\nA third suspect was arrested on Saturday. Jeferson da Silva Lima, also known as Pelado da Dinha, turned himself into a police station in the city of Atalaia do Norte, according to police.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper - he was in the area researching a book.\n\nMr Pereira, 41, who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nMr Pereira had received death threats prior to taking the trip, indigenous rights groups said.\n\nThe area in which they were travelling has become known for illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug-trafficking activities.\n\nThe region is known for violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people. It was these conflicts that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were documenting.", "A photo of the Duke of Cambridge grinning with his children on a family holiday in Jordan has been released to celebrate Father's Day.\n\nIt shows a relaxed Prince William with his arms around Prince George and Princess Charlotte, with Prince Louis on his shoulders.\n\nThe high-spirited four are caught mid-laughter against the rocky landscape.\n\nPosting it on Twitter, the duke and duchess wished a Happy Father's Day to the world's fathers and grandfathers.\n\nThe duke, who turns 40 on Tuesday, wears a casual, khaki-coloured outfit in the photo, taken in autumn last year.\n\nThe younger children are dressed in navy and white tops, while eight-year-old Prince George - who is third in line to the throne after his father - wears a camo print T-shirt and shorts.\n\nThe setting for the photograph, thought to be at Petra, will be familiar to film fans as the backdrop for adventure epic Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.\n\nThe Cambridges used a similar photograph for their official Christmas card last year.\n\nCatherine lived in Jordan as a child for three years when her father worked for British Airways in Amman.\n\nThis family snap, also taken in Jordan, was used on the Cambridges' Christmas card last year\n\nIt comes as the Duchess of Cornwall spoke candidly about her life and marriage in an extended interview with British Vogue magazine.\n\nCamilla, who turns 75 next month, said that being scrutinised by the press has not been easy and \"that you just have to find a way to live with it\".\n\nShe also revealed she completes the Wordle puzzle each day in competition with her granddaughter.\n\n\"She'll text me to say, 'I've done it in three', and I say, 'Sorry, I've done it in two today,\" the royal said. \"It's very satisfactory when it tells you how brilliant you are.\"", "The language in the UK military chief's letter was really remarkable; it was talking about the need to engage on the battlefield, it mentioned Russia by name.\n\nThis letter was not intended for public consumption, but it was sent very widely, so they must have known this might have come out.\n\nIn terms of how this will be received in Ukraine, they have been calling for Nato involvement in this war, but I don't think they're going to view this as a clear indication that the British Army will be getting involved.\n\nOn how the Russians might view it, they will probably take it much the same way, but if this is seen as something of a threat - and it could be - then maybe Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov would echo the sentiment he expressed in an interview last week when he was talking about Britain's desire to bring Russia to its knees, and he said: \"Go on then, do it”.\n\nThe mood music we're getting from Western capitals is that this is a conflict that is going on for the long term and that they need - Boris Johnson said it himself today - to offer military support in an ongoing basis to the Ukrainians if they're going to be able to hold on and win this war in the east.", "Last updated on .From the section International\n\nWorld governing body Fifa has teamed up with players' union Fifpro to try to identify people who target players with abusive social media posts.\n\nA report tracked 400,000 social media posts during the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020 and this year's Africa Cup of Nations.\n\nThe study found that over 50% of players received some kind of abuse.\n\nThe report found that black players who missed penalties were the most abused players in the Euro 2020 final.\n\nBBC Sport understands that England's Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka, who both missed their spot-kicks in the shootout defeat by Italy, were the players who suffered the most abuse during the Euro 2020 final.\n\n\"Our duty is to protect football, and that starts with the players who bring so much joy and happiness to all of us by their exploits on the field of play,\" said Fifa president Gianni Infantino.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is a trend developing where a percentage of posts on social media channels directed towards players, coaches, match officials and the teams themselves is not acceptable. This form of discrimination, like any form of discrimination, has no place in football.\"\n\nThe report found that most of the abuse during the two periods in question came from the players' home countries.\n\nHomophobic (40%) and racist (38%) comments made up the majority of the abuse, according to the report, with most of it remaining online.\n\nThe report also states that 90% of accounts flagged as having published abusive comments have a \"high probability\" of identification.\n\nIn response, Fifa and Fifpro are to launch a dedicated 'in-tournament moderation service' that will scan recognised hate speech terms published to identified social media accounts.\n\nOnce detected, the aim is to prevent the comment from being seen by the recipient and their followers.\n\n\"Online abuse is a societal issue and as an industry we cannot accept that this new form of abuse and discrimination affects so many people including our players,\" said Fifpro president David Aganzo.\n\n\"This collaboration recognises football's responsibility to protect the players and other affected groups against the abuse they increasingly face in and around their workplace.\"\n• None Are you stuck for Father's Day ideas? Here's some simple yet sophisticated recipes that will do the trick\n• None Is this a new exciting tournament for golf or a method to cleanse the country's global reputation?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps: \"The strike is the last thing we need and it's jumping the gun\"\n\nIt is not for the government to intervene to stop rail strikes, the transport secretary has said - despite unions calling for talks.\n\nGrant Shapps said the RMT union's request for a meeting was a \"stunt\" and the union was \"determined to go on strike\".\n\nThe union said politicians were failing to prevent its three days of industrial action next week.\n\nLabour claimed ministers wanted the strikes to go ahead to \"sow division\".\n\nStrikes will take place on almost all major lines across Britain on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, as well as on the London Underground on Tuesday.\n\nThere will also be knock-on effects on services on non-strike days, including Monday.\n\nEven rail companies whose workers are not striking will be affected, as Network Rail workers are taking action - and they look after tracks and other infrastructure.\n\nA special timetable will be in place across England, Scotland and Wales from Monday until Sunday.\n\nThe RMT said on Saturday that talks between the union and Network Rail had failed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, the RMT's Mick Lynch claimed rail operators were refusing to sit down for discussions altogether.\n\nAnd he said Network Rail, which is government-owned, was being influenced by ministers.\n\n\"It's Shapps, [Boris] Johnson and Rishi Sunak who are stopping a deal being done in this dispute,\" he said.\n\nBut Network Rail said the RMT were dismissing talks before they had finished.\n\nAmid calls for ministers to step in, Mr Shapps said negotiations had to take place between unions and employers and accused the RMT of \"trying to create some sort of class war\".\n\n\"In any pay discussion, in any negotiation over terms, over in this case modernisation, it's always the employer and the union who need to get together to speak,\" he said.\n\nAlthough most rail operators are not owned by the government, they are not entirely independent.\n\nThe government provides subsidies to the network - including £16bn to keep the railways running during the pandemic - and owns Network Rail.\n\nSteve Montgomery, who chairs the Rail Delivery Group of operators, said it was clear the industry could not keep asking the taxpayer to fund it.\n\n\"Instead of striking, we need the RMT leadership to work with us to secure a deal that is fair to our staff, fair to our passengers and fair to taxpayers,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow levelling-up secretary Lisa Nandy told BBC One's Sunday Morning show the government had got to \"get round the table\" with rail workers.\n\nShe said it was \"simply not good enough\" that ministers had not met unions since 8 March.\n\nThe blame game is in full swing ahead of next week's strikes - the biggest on the railways in a generation.\n\nThe RMT says it is taking action to protect fair pay, conditions and to prevent job cuts. Other unions are warning they might take industrial action too if they don't get pay deals they deem to be acceptable. They believe inflation means a decent pay rise is essential.\n\nBut the government is up for the fight. Grant Shapps has been scathing of the RMT, saying its leadership seems to want a class war.\n\nTreasury ministers also warn that if pay goes up too much, it could just make inflation worse.\n\nThe government says it wants to avoid the strike - but in cynical political terms, a row with a left-wing union is comfortable political ground for the Conservatives.\n\nIt's more tricky for Labour. The party's leadership says it doesn't want next week's strike to happen.\n\nBut is it backing the striking rail workers? There's been no definitive answer.\n\nHow much is a fair pay rise? That's for the negotiations, the party says.\n\nLabour says everyone should get back around the table and find a way to avoid the strike - critics will see that as fence-sitting.\n\nThe RMT - which has 40,000 members across the rail network - has said its members are unhappy about stagnated pay and proposed job losses.\n\nMr Lynch denied the union was demanding a pay hike in line with the current RPI inflation rate - which was 11.1% in April - but said any proposed rise must reflect the higher cost of living.\n\nHe pointed out to Sky News that RPI in December, when he said a deal with Network Rail should have been struck, was 7.1%.\n\nMr Lynch earlier said the union had rejected a Network Rail offer of a 2% rise with a further 1% increase linked to job cuts. The RMT recently won an 8.4% pay rise on the London Underground, it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Lisa Nandy: \"The government has got to get around the table\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used a speech at a Labour event in Warwick to suggest Mr Shapps and Prime Minister Boris Johnson wanted the strikes to go ahead.\n\n\"They want the country to grind to a halt so they can feed off the division,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said the strike would mean businesses would struggle with freight, schools exams would be hard to get to and hospital appointments would be missed.\n\n\"That's why I have said the strikes should not go ahead,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat transport spokesperson Sarah Olney said of Mr Shapps: \"Not bothering to avert a crisis is a sackable offence in any other workplace.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson warned the railway industry was \"still on life support\" with passenger numbers down 25%.\n\nThey said train travel was now a choice - not a necessity - and strikes could risk losing customers in the future.\n\nHow are the rail strikes affecting you? Do you rely on trains? Are you having to make alternative travel arrangements? Will you miss an important event? Get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Colin Furze has been making the tunnel for about a year\n\nA YouTuber has won retrospective planning permission to burrow a tunnel between his house and shed.\n\nColin Furze spent three years digging the passage by hand under his Lincolnshire garden without permission.\n\nThe subterranean structure lies 1.2m (4ft) beneath the surface and could eventually also connect to a special underground bunker he has built.\n\nMr Furze, from Stamford, said he wanted to do it because he thought \"it would be cool\".\n\nPlanning documents from South Kesteven District Council show the bunker was granted permission eight years ago.\n\nHowever, tunnels to connect his house, shed and bunker did not have permission.\n\n\"The proposal is partially retrospective with a large portion of the tunnelling works having been carried out,\" the document stated.\n\nMr Furze has been documenting his progress to his 12 million YouTube followers after beginning the tunnelling project in November 2018.\n\nInitially, the tunnel was a secret but millions have since watched his exploits, with the tunnel currently connecting his kitchen pantry with his shed.\n\nHe said the response had been positive, adding: \"If you ask people about tunnels, they love them\".\n\nThe tunnel has been supported using steel and concrete\n\nMr Furze said he built his bunker in 2015 and turned it into the \"ultimate man cave\" with a flat-screen TV, drum kit and several video consoles, which was a childhood dream of his.\n\n\"I thought wouldn't it be amazing if I could get to the bunker without having to walk down the path outside?\" he said.\n\nHe said the next part of his plans will see a digger used to connect the shed with the bunker - a distance of about 15m (49 ft) - providing further planning permission is granted.\n\nA track system was installed to help move soil away as he dug his tunnel\n\nThe tunnel has been built in stages which has included lighting, ventilation shafts and a track to help move soil away.\n\nA planning inspector visited after the plans were shared widely on Facebook, bringing the project to the attention of the council.\n\nThe parish council strongly objected to the plans which it said would cause concern regarding health and safety and subsidence.\n\nA condition was added to the granting of permission that further work was subject to the \"ground and constructions structural integrity being investigated\".\n\nA hidden hatch in an ordinary looking garden shed is the gateway to this underground extravaganza\n\nTo hear more about Mr Furze and his inventions you can listen to BBC Radio Lincolnshire's full interview.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nFina, swimming's world governing body, has voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.\n\nFina will also aim to establish an 'open' category at competitions for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.\n\nThe new policy, which was passed with 71% of the vote from 152 Fina members, was described as \"only a first step towards full inclusion\" for transgender athletes.\n\nThe 34-page policy document says that male-to-female transgender athletes could compete in the women's category - but only \"provided they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 [which marks the start of physical development], or before age 12, whichever is later\".\n\nThe decision was made during an extraordinary general congress at the ongoing World Championships in Budapest.\n\nIt means that transgender American college swimmer Lia Thomas, who has expressed a desire to compete for a place at the Olympics, would be blocked from participating in the female category at the Games.\n\nHowever, the policy does not apply to national federations or the US college championships, the NCAAs, at which Thomas recently won in the 500-yard freestyle. Instead, each national federation - including British Swimming - will need to decide if it is to implement the Fina policy.\n\nBritish Swimming told BBC Sport it would \"take time to review [the policy's] content\" before making any further comment.\n\nThe NCAA said it \"continues its evidence-based evaluation of transgender student-athlete participation in college sports\" and \"will carefully consider\" any updates to its policy.\n\nEarlier, Fina members heard a report from a transgender task force made up of leading figures from the world of medicine, law and sport.\n\n\"Fina's approach in drafting this policy was comprehensive, science-based and inclusive, and, importantly, Fina's approach emphasised competitive fairness,\" said Brent Nowicki, the governing body's executive director.\n\nFina president Husain Al-Musallam said the organisation was trying to \"protect the rights of our athletes to compete\" but also \"protect competitive fairness\".\n\nHe said: \"Fina will always welcome every athlete. The creation of an open category will mean that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so Fina will need to lead the way. I want all athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process.\"\n\nFormer Great Britain swimmer Sharron Davies, who has argued against transgender participation in women's elite swimming, told BBC Sport she was \"really proud of Fina\".\n\n\"Four years ago, along with 60 other Olympic medallists, I wrote to the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and said 'Please just do the science first' and no governing body has done the science until now,\" she said.\n\n\"That is what Fina has done. They've done the science, they've got the right people on board, they've spoken to the athletes, and coaches.\n\n\"Swimming is a very inclusive sport, we love everyone to come and swim and be involved. But the cornerstone of sport is that it has to be fair and it has to be fair for both sexes.\"\n\nAsked whether Fina's policy left trans athletes \"in limbo\" while they waited for an open category to be created, Davies praised Fina for having conversations around trans inclusion that should have \"happened five years ago\".\n\n\"Sport by definition is exclusionary - we don't have 15-year-old boys racing in the under-12s, we don't have heavyweight boxers in with the bantamweights, the whole reason we have lots of different classes in the Paralympics is so that we can create fair opportunities for everybody,\" she said.\n\n\"So that is the whole point of having classifications in sports and the only people who were going to be losing out were females - they were losing their right to fair sport.\"\n\nEx-GB swimmer Karen Pickering told BBC Radio 4: \"I empathise that there will be people who now can't compete in the category that they identify with as their gender. That is very sad and I do understand that, but in this situation inclusivity and fairness cannot be compatible and the science has shown that there is just no way to make that compatible.\"\n\nHowever, 'Athlete Ally' - an LGBT advocacy group which organised a letter of support for Thomas in February, called the new policy \"discriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles\".\n\n\"The eligibility criteria for the women's category as it is laid out in the policy polices the bodies of all women, and will not be enforceable without seriously violating the privacy and human rights of any athlete looking to compete in the women's category,\" said Anne Lieberman, the group's director of policy and programmes.\n\nAustralia's four-time Olympic champion Cate Campbell had addressed Fina before the decision was made, asking the governing body to \"uphold the cornerstone of fairness\".\n\nHowever, fellow Australian swimmer Maddie Groves has criticised Campbell's comments, asking if she was \"OK with ostracising an already marginalised group\".\n\n\"There are already gender diverse people in swimming and I'm guessing they're not feeling very accepted right now,\" Groves said on Twitter .\n\n\"Shame on everyone that supported this discriminatory and unscientific decision.\"\n\nJoanna Harper, who is studying transgender athletes for her PhD at Loughborough University and is a transgender athlete herself, says Fina's decision is not necessary to \"ensure meaningful competition for all women\".\n\n\"Currently, there are no trans women competing in swimming at an international level so effectively this ruling doesn't currently ban anyone,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"If USA Swimming adopts it, it will affect Lia Thomas, but it doesn't right now.\"\n\nShe fears an open category would increase marginalisation and discrimination, saying the introduction of such a category is \"not likely\" to work.\n\n\"It's likely to be more of a sideshow and it's not going to have the number of competitors qualifying, compared to the male or female categories,\" she said.\n\n\"Are they going to have Olympic medals for this open category? Will there be professional swimmers in an open category? I don't know for sure, it might potentially work but I doubt that it would be meaningful.\"\n• None What do the scientists say? '\n\nFina's decision follows a move on Thursday by the UCI, cycling's governing body, to double the period of time before a rider transitioning from male to female can compete in women's races.\n\nThe issue in swimming has been catapulted into the spotlight by the experiences of American Thomas.\n\nIn March, Thomas became the first known transgender swimmer to win the highest US national college title with victory in the women's 500-yard freestyle.\n\nThomas swam for the Pennsylvanian men's team for three seasons before starting hormone replacement therapy in spring 2019.\n\nShe has since broken records for her university swimming team.\n\nMore than 300 college, Team USA and Olympic swimmers signed an open letter in support of Thomas and all transgender and non-binary swimmers, but other athletes and organisations have raised concerns about trans inclusion.\n\nSome of Thomas' team-mates and their parents wrote anonymous letters supporting her right to transition, but added it was unfair for her to compete as a woman.\n\nUSA Swimming updated its policy for elite swimmers in February to allow transgender athletes to swim in elite events, alongside criteria that aim to reduce any unfair advantage, including testosterone tests for 36 months before competitions.\n\nLast year, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from New Zealand became the the first openly transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics in a different sex category to that in which they were born.\n\nSchuyler Bailar - the first transgender athlete to compete for an NCAA division one men's swimming team - was one of the swimmers to sign the open letter.\n\nSpeaking on social media about Fina's policy, he said: \"This is not about preserving fairness, it is not about protecting women's sports.\n\n\"It is about trying to exclude trans people and it continues the policing of women's bodies and sports, it continues the degradation and othering of trans people.\"\n\nWhat did the panel of experts say?\n\n\"Testosterone in male puberty alters the physiological determinants of human performance and explains the sex-based differences in human performance, considered clearly evident by age 12.\n\n\"Even if testosterone is suppressed, its performance enhancing effects will be retained.\"\n\n\"The policy emphasises that no athlete is excluded from Fina competition or setting Fina records based on their legal gender, gender identity or gender expression.\n\n\"[The proposed open category] should not become a category that adds to the already existing levels of discrimination and marginalisation against these groups.\n\n\"I see this policy as only the first step towards full inclusion and support for the participation of transgender and gender-diverse athletes in aquatic sports, and there is a lot more to be done.\"\n\nDr Sandra Hunter, an exercise physiologist specialising in sex and age differences in athletic performance\n\n\"By 14 years or older, the difference between boys and girls is substantial. That's due to the advantages experienced due to the physiological adaptations in testosterone and the possession of the Y chromosome.\n\n\"Some of these physical advantages are structural in origin such as height, limb length, heart size, lung size and they will be retained, even with the suppression or reduction of testosterone that occurs in the transition from male to female.\"\n\nSummer Sanders, former Olympic and world champion in swimming\n\n\"This is not easy. There must be categories - women's, men's and of course a category for trans women and trans men.\n\n\"Fair competition is a stronghold and staple of our community - this approach safeguards the integrity of the existing sports process in which millions of girls and women participate annually.\"\n\nThe conversation around the inclusion of transgender women in women's sport has divided opinion both inside and outside the sporting sphere.\n\nMany argue transgender women should not compete in women's sport because of any advantages they may retain - but others argue sport should be more inclusive.\n\nWorld Athletics president Lord Coe has said the \"integrity\" and \"future\" of women's sport would be \"very fragile\" if sporting organisations get regulations for transgender athletes wrong.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in April he did not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events.\n\nOn Sunday, culture secretary Nadine Dorries told radio station LBC she would \"encourage other sports\" to follow Fina's lead and that \"fairness should always trump inclusion as a principle\".\n\nThe heart of the debate on whether transgender women athletes should compete in women's sport involves the complex balance of inclusion, sporting fairness and safety - essentially, whether trans women can compete in female categories without giving them an unfair advantage or presenting a threat of injury to competitors.\n\nTrans women have to adhere to a number of rules to compete in specific sports, including in many cases lowering their testosterone levels to a certain amount, for a set period of time, before competing.\n\nThere are concerns, however, as highlighted in Fina's decision, that athletes retain an advantage from going through male puberty that is not addressed by lowering testosterone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Once we did the sound check I was 10 feet tall\"\n\nA choir performed on their biggest stage for Stereophonics fans after frontman Kelly Jones bumped into an old teacher in a supermarket.\n\nCwmbach Male Choir director Mike Thomas used to teach at Jones's school, the former Blaengwawr Comprehensive in Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThe pair met while shopping and Jones agreed they could work together after hearing the choir was celebrating its centenary in 2021.\n\n\"It's been a dream,\" said Mr Thomas.\n\nHe explained how the band's management got in touch to ask them to perform last year but that had to be postponed due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThen, two months ago, they received a request to perform at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, on Friday and Saturday, where they sang the Welsh national anthem in front of about 60,000 fans each night.\n\n\"I didn't sleep for five weeks,\" said Mr Thomas, a former deputy head and crafts teacher.\n\n\"But once we did the sound check I was 10 feet tall.\n\n\"The sound we made from the very, very start... all my apprehension went out of the window.\n\nKelly Jones invited the choir to perform after bumping into his old teacher in a supermarket\n\n\"To get an experience like that as a choir was just amazing.\"\n\nWelsh icon Sir Tom Jones also performed at the gig. It was broadcast on BBC TV on Saturday evening and is available to view on iPlayer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stereophonics' Kelly Jones rang Sir Tom Jones to see if he fancied doing a show\n\nRecalling the chance meeting with his former pupil, Mr Thomas said Jones just came up to him and said: \"Lovely so see you. How are things? How are you keeping?\"\n\n\"My son who was with me at the time... he couldn't speak for a day afterwards because he'd been in the presence of one of his major heroes,\" said Mr Thomas.\n\n\"I said Cwmbach [choir] were celebrating their centenary the following year [2021]... and I said I think it's time now that we get together and we do a concert together, imagining that it would be in a hall somewhere.\"\n\nChoir chairman and second tenor Rob Davies said it was \"electrifying\" performing on stage with the other \"boys\", aged between 24 and 89.\n\n\"It made every nerve ending in your body stand on end,\" he said.\n\n\"And when we hit that last part of the national anthem, well, I mean, if you're a Welshman and you have that passion in your heart, you're not going to get better than that.\"", "Disruption is also expected on non-strike days\n\nStriking rail workers have not been left with many options, according to a Welsh government minister.\n\nJeremy Miles said no-one \"wants to see strikes\" and urged the UK government to \"take all steps\" to stop the action.\n\nThe UK government's transport secretary accused unions of \"jumping the gun\".\n\nA handful of routes will run in Wales on strike days - 21, 23 and 25 June with Transport for Wales (TfW) services from Radyr, in Cardiff, to Treherbert, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare.\n\nA replacement bus service will take passengers from Radyr to Cardiff Central.\n\nGreat Western Railway's (GWR) Cardiff to Severn Tunnel route is the only other service that will run.\n\nDisruption is also expected on non-strike days.\n\nAlthough TfW is not in dispute with the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), it will be unable to run the vast majority of its services because of striking Network Rail staff who, for example, work as signallers on the track.\n\nNetwork Rail, which is the responsibility of the UK government, plans to cut 2,500 maintenance jobs as it tries to make £2bn of savings over the next two years.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see strikes, not even the unions, but the UK government needs to now step up,\" said Mr Miles\n\nThe RMT said the jobs were critical for safety, and cutting them would make accidents more likely.\n\nNetwork Rail said it would not consider any changes that would make the railways less safe and modernisation was needed.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, Education Minister Mr Miles, a Member of the Senedd (MS), said the Welsh government was \"obviously pleased\" TfW staff were not striking.\n\nTfW was brought under Welsh government control in 2021.\n\n\"Clearly the strikes elsewhere will have a significant disruptive impact in Wales and we are asking the UK government to do everything to avoid that disruption,\" said Mr Miles.\n\n\"When people are put in the position that the UK government have, people don't have many options.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see strikes, not even the unions, but the UK government needs to now step up,\" he added.\n\nRMT representative and Wales TUC president, Brendan Kelly, told Politics Wales his union was \"available 24/7 for productive, meaningful talks\".\n\n\"What's happened is a breakdown in those talks because Network Rail didn't bring anything really substantive to the table.\n\n\"We have much better relationship with Welsh government, much better relationship with Transport for Wales.\n\n\"We're increasing jobs in the railway and they have also given a commitment around no compulsory redundancy... because they see railways as a cornerstone and an important part of a growing Welsh economy.\n\n\"So, it's a political choice... Westminster are making a political choice to make these cuts.\"\n\nHe also said there could \"potentially\" be further strikes over the summer, as the TSSA union prepared to ballot more than 6,000 Network Rail staff from Monday.\n\nConservative Senedd Member Tom Giffard told Politics Wales it was \"really unfortunate these strikes are going ahead\".\n\n\"Network Rail and the [UK government's] Department for Transport had said that negotiations had barely started before the unions started balloting to strike...and the timing of this strike was just to maximise disruption as best it could.\n\n\"It's not so much about cuts, it's about changing the way the rail system in the UK works,\" the MS for South Wales West added.\n\n\"So, for example, there are ticket booth and operators that barely sell a ticket but they're fully manned and fully staffed around the clock and that probably isn't realistic in an era where people are using apps on their phones to buy tickets.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the unions are just stuck in the past on this one.\"", "The new head of the British Army has issued a rallying cry to troops - telling them they need to be ready to face Russia on the battlefield.\n\nGen Sir Patrick Sanders, who started the job last week, addressed all ranks and civil servants in an internal message on 16 June, seen by the BBC.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine shows the need \"to protect the UK and be ready to fight and win wars on land\", he says.\n\nHe adds the Army and allies must now be \"capable of...defeating Russia\".\n\nA defence source told the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale the tone of the message - issued on the Ministry of Defence's internal intranet - was unsurprising.\n\nThey said all armies train to fight, but the threat has clearly changed.\n\nGen Sir Patrick noted in the message that he was the first Chief of the General Staff \"since 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a major continental power\".\n\nHe added: \"Russia's invasion of Ukraine underlines our core purpose - to protect the UK and to be ready to fight and win wars on land - and reinforces the requirement to deter Russian aggression with the threat of force.\"\n\nHe noted \"the world has changed since the 24th February and there is now a burning imperative to forge an Army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle\".\n\nGen Sir Patrick also set out his goal to \"accelerate the mobilisation and modernisation of the Army to reinforce Nato and deny Russia the chance to occupy any more of Europe… we are the generation that must prepare the Army to fight in Europe once again\".\n\nGen Sir Patrick Sanders is a former Commander of Strategic Command and has commanded operations in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan\n\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed the outlook and context for the Army, which faces cuts to the workforce in the coming years.\n\nIn March 2021, the government announced a reduction in the number of soldiers it plans to have in the Army to 72,500 by 2025.\n\nDefence spending in the UK has seen an increase of £3bn a year in real terms since 2016-17, following a real-terms cut in funding of £6.6bn between 2010 and 2017.\n\nRussia spends about 4.14% of its gross domestic product on its military, while the UK spends about 2.33%, according to data from IISS Global Military Balance 2020.\n\nBefore Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs last November that he believed the era of tanks rolling through Europe was behind us.\n\nChallenged over defence spending in light of growing Russian aggression, Mr Johnson said at the time: \"We have to recognise that the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over and there are other better things we should be investing in.\"\n\nHe said enhanced air combat systems and cyber strategies were \"how warfare in the future is going to be fought... and that is where we need to be\".", "At the centre of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses is the concept of green lanes and red lanes for trade.\n\nGoods coming from Great Britain (GB) into Northern Ireland (NI) and which are staying would use the green lane.\n\nThis means there would be no checks and paperwork would be minimal.\n\nGB goods moving through NI into Ireland or the wider European Union would use the red lane and continue to be checked at NI ports.\n\nConnoisseurs of Brexit will recognise this concept from an earlier stage in the process.\n\nBack in 2018 Dr Andrew McCormick, the civil servant leading Stormont's Brexit response, wrote a paper which considered how it could work.\n\nHe has spoken about it to the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, as part of their series of interviews with Brexit players,\n\nHe identified three tests of the concept which apply equally today:\n\nThe UK government has attempted to answer at least the first two of those questions - though not in the text of the bill itself which contains no mention of green lanes or red lanes.\n\nInstead you need to look at the bill's explanatory notes and a separate briefing document.\n\nThe green lane would only require traders to provide \"ordinary commercial information\" rather than customs declarations and agri-food certificates.\n\nBut it would not be a free for all as it would be based on membership of a trusted trader scheme.\n\nThe government says this new scheme would require firms to provide \"detailed information on their operations and supply chains to support robust audit and compliance work\".\n\nPrecisely how onerous the qualifications for that scheme would be is not yet clear.\n\nOne immediate concern for NI business groups is how GB businesses would engage with such a scheme.\n\nA significant source of difficulty with the protocol has been the unpreparedness of GB suppliers selling into NI.\n\nThe government is also proposing that what it calls non-commercial goods, such as post and parcels, will automatically go through the green lane without the need for registration.\n\nPresumably this would include most online shopping purchases but this isn't spelled out.\n\nAside from the trusted trader scheme, the second level of assurance the government is offering the EU is what it calls \"robust data sharing\".\n\nIt says this would be delivered through a purpose-built IT system with information available in real time and \"well within the time taken to cross the Irish Sea\".\n\nThe third line of assurance is what the government says will be \"robust penalties\" for businesses who abuse the green lane.\n\nThat would include being kicked out of the trusted trader scheme, civil fines and criminal charges.\n\nOn Dr McCormick's third point one issue for unionists to consider is that this arrangement would mean NI was still not trading on precisely the same terms as other parts of the UK.\n\nThere will be no requirements for a business in Edinburgh to use a trusted trader scheme to sell goods to London or Cardiff. But they would have to take that additional step to get goods to Belfast.", "Pamela Hall said she hoped to see Aiden Aslin and other men captured in Ukraine released\n\nThe grandmother of a man being held prisoner in Ukraine says she is not giving up hope after he was given a death sentence.\n\nAiden Aslin was captured while fighting against Russia and sentenced as a mercenary by a court not recognised by the international community.\n\nPamela Hall said she was \"very grateful\" for the backing people in his hometown of Newark have shown.\n\nAn event to rally support for Mr Aslin was held there on Saturday.\n\nAiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim were sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court\n\nMr Aslin was captured in Mariupol in April, one of the cities most affected by the war, and was sentenced alongside Briton Shaun Pinner and Moroccan national Brahim Saaudun.\n\nMs Hall said it was \"heartbreaking\" to see their situation, and hoped public events putting the spotlight on their plight can help efforts to free them.\n\n\"Time's running out,\" she said.\n\n\"I have to have optimism, I believe it will be sorted in due course, and that there will be peace in Ukraine.\"\n\nAn event showing support for Aiden Aslin and Ukraine took place in Newark on Saturday\n\nTony Byrne said other events will be held in support of Aiden Aslin to keep up support for efforts to free him\n\nTony Byrne, who organised the event to support Mr Aslin, said he hoped to see justice prevail.\n\n\"They [Russia] say that he's a mercenary, but actually he's a legal combatant in Ukraine.\n\n\"When Russia invaded Ukraine I think it was an outrage, and I want to do what I can, in whatever small way I can.\"\n\nAnother event in support of Aiden Aslin will take place in Nottingham next week", "The spring booster jab is available until 30 June to over-75s and people with underlying conditions\n\nOver-75s and people at high risk have been urged to get a Covid booster vaccine, amid warnings of a new wave of infections in Scotland.\n\nThe spring booster jab is available until 30 June to everyone in the older age group and people over 12 if they have a weakened immune system.\n\nAbout a third of Scots in the immunosuppressed group have not yet come forward for an additional vaccine.\n\nLatest data estimates that around one in 30 people in Scotland has Covid.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that 176,900 people have the virus - about 3.36% of the population.\n\nThe spring rollout came after recommendations from UK vaccine experts who say additional jabs help boost protection for the most vulnerable.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"We are seeing higher numbers of infections across our communities at the moment which is why booster vaccination is needed to maintain the best protection for those at highest risk of severe effects from the virus.\n\n\"Vaccination has been our most effective tool against coronavirus. However, the degree of protection offered wanes over time.\n\n\"Almost 90% of over-75s and around two thirds of those who are immunosuppressed have already taken a spring booster.\n\n\"We continue to encourage everyone to receive the doses they are eligible for as and when they become available.\"\n\nClinics are open until 30 June and anyone in these groups can book online or contact the national vaccination helpline. Some health boards are also operating drop-in clinics.\n\nA wider booster programme - involving more people for other age groups - is expected this autumn.\n\nIt follows warnings last week that Scotland is facing another wave of the Covid.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Professor Jason Leitch, also announced that he had Covid for the first time.\n\nEdinburgh University public health expert, Prof Linda Bauld, said Omicron sub-lineages BA.4 and BA.5 were part of the reason for a rise in cases.\n\nShe said there had also been a \"small but not significant\" rise in the number of people in hospital.", "Eight people are now suspects in the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, police say.\n\nThree suspects have already been arrested.\n\nBut five more people who allegedly helped hide their bodies have now been identified, police told reporters.\n\nMr Phillips and Mr Pereira went missing while on a reporting trip in the remote Javari Valley in Brazil's far west on 5 June.\n\nTheir bodies were identified on Friday, after one of the suspects in custody - Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira - reportedly confessed to burying their remains and led police to a spot deep in the rainforest where their remains were found.\n\nHis brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, was also arrested, but denies any involvement.\n\nA third arrest followed on Saturday of a suspect named Jeferson da Silva Lima - also known as Pelado da Dinha - who turned himself in after going on the run, police said.\n\nBrazilian news outlet O Globo reports that the five new suspects allegedly also helped to hide the bodies in a hard-to-reach area which police would have been unlikely to find if they had not been guided to it.\n\nNo names or further details on the new suspects have been given.\n\nPolice also said on Saturday that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira had been shot by hunting ammunition. Mr Phillips was shot once, while Mr Pereira was shot three times, police added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in Sao Paulo over Phillips and Pereira murders\n\nMr Phillips - a regular contributor to the Guardian - was researching a book on the Amazon region. And Mr Pereira - who had extensive knowledge of indigenous communities - had been acting as Mr Phillips' guide and introducing him to contacts.\n\nThe Javari Valley region in which the two were travelling is home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups who live in isolation from the outside world.\n\nThe area is also known for illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug-trafficking activities.\n\nViolent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people are known to happen, and were reportedly being documented by Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira.\n\nMr Pereira had also received death threats prior to taking the trip, indigenous rights groups said.", "The ban will not apply to Russian composers who died before the collapse of the Soviet Union\n\nUkraine's parliament has voted in favour of banning some Russian music in media and public spaces.\n\nThe ban will not apply to all Russian music, but rather relates to music created or performed by those who are or were Russian citizens after 1991.\n\nArtists who have condemned Russia's war in Ukraine can apply for an exemption from the ban.\n\nThe import of books from Russia and Belarus will also be prohibited under the legislation.\n\nMany of those living in areas of east and south Ukraine have historically felt a strong connection to Russia, often speaking Russian as their first language.\n\nBut Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led many Ukrainians to want to separate themselves from Russian culture.\n\nThe bill, approved by MPs on Sunday, bans some Russian music from being played or performed on television, radio, schools, public transport, hotels, restaurants, cinemas and other public spaces.\n\nIt secured support from 303 of the 450 deputies in the Ukrainian parliament.\n\nThe document says the ban will \"minimise the risks of possible hostile propaganda through music in Ukraine and will increase the volume of national music products in the cultural space,\" BBC Monitoring reports.\n\nThe ban will apply to musicians who have or had Russian citizenship at any time after 1991 - the year Ukraine declared independence - except for those who are Ukrainian citizens or were so at the time of their death.\n\nThis means the works of long-dead Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich can still be performed.\n\nRussian artists who condemn the war in Ukraine can apply for an exemption for their music by submitting an application to Ukraine's security service. In it, they must state that they support the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine, call on Russia to immediately stop its aggression against Ukraine, and undertake to refrain from any steps that contradict these written statements, the BBC's Ukrainian Service reports.\n\nThe document also includes laws to increase the share of Ukrainian songs played on the radio to 40%, as well as increasing the use of Ukrainian in daily programmes to 75%, Ukraine's public broadcaster (Suspilne) reports.\n\nIn a parallel bill to that affecting music, books imported from Russia, Belarus and occupied Ukrainian territories will also banned, as well as material in Russian imported from other countries.\n\nThis law will ban the publishing and distributing of books written by Russian citizens (with similar exemptions to those for music) though this will not apply to books already published in Ukraine.\n\nIn addition, translations of books will only be published in Ukrainian, official EU languages or indigenous Ukrainian languages.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Dame Kelly Holmes says she is \"getting rid of that fear\" as the Olympic champion reveals she is gay.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Mirror, the 52-year-old said she was both nervous and excited about coming out.\n\n\"I needed to do this now, for me. It was my decision. I'm nervous about saying it. I feel like I'm going to explode with excitement,\" she said.\n\n\"Sometimes I cry with relief. The moment this comes out, I'm essentially getting rid of that fear.\"\n\nDame Kelly became only the third woman in history and the first Briton since Albert Hill 84 years earlier to win the 800m and 1500m Olympic double at the Athens games in 2004.\n\nShe has achieved seven gold, eight silver and four bronze Olympic, Commonwealth and European medals throughout her athletic career.\n\nShe shared the news during Pride month, which celebrates and raises awareness about LGBTQ+ communities and will this year commemorate 50 years since the UK's first Pride march.\n\nWriting on Instagram as the interview was published online, Dame Kelly said: \"I can finally breathe.\n\n\"Yes I have been petrified of putting this out - you have no idea.\n\n\"This journey has been the hardest part of life. Living with any kind of fear is debilitating\".\n\nDame Kelly said she had also filmed a documentary for ITV about helping people \"live their authentic lives\" - it airs later this month.\n\nIn her interview with the Mirror, Dame Kelly spoke of her concern that she would be punished for being gay and serving in the Army.\n\n\"I was convinced throughout my whole life that if I admitted to being gay in the Army I'd still be in trouble,\" she said.\n\nShe described an incident where the Royal Military Police searched her accommodation in what she believed to be an attempt to uncover her sexuality.\n\n\"They pulled everything out of your cupboard, turned out the beds and drawers, read letters - everything - trying to catch us out, so we could be arrested, court martialled and potentially go to jail,\" she said.\n\nDame Kelly left professional running at 18 to join the Army in the late 1980s, becoming an HGV driver and a physical training instructor.\n\nShe was awarded an MBE for services to the Army in 1998, and in 2018, she became the first person to be appointed Honorary Colonel to a regular unit, the Royal Armoured Corps.\n\nGay, transgender and bisexual people in the military faced prison if their sexuality or gender identity was discovered.\n\nThe law was changed in 2000 after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for being gay, won a case in the European Court of Human Rights.", "\"It's ok to be yourself, whether it's on the field or off the field.\"\n\nThat's the message from Cathal McGurk, one of the players from Northern Ireland's first LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA team, Aeracha Uladh.\n\nFor decades, the dominant image of the GAA was seeing men line out for the All-Ireland football and hurling finals every September.\n\nOver recent years, that has been changing with the development of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA).\n\nThe Camogie Association, which was set up in 1903. has also gone from strength to strength in the past century.\n\nBut, as in many sports, inequalities remain in gaelic games for women and the LGBTQ community.\n\nFor the first time in Northern Ireland, a club has been specifically set up to try to help break down those barriers for LGBTQ people.\n\nAeracha Uladh GAC was established at the end of April and has since gained about 50 members.\n\nCathal McGurk joined the club after seeing it advertised on social media.\n\n\"I've never been part of any gaelic team but it has always been a big part of my family,\" he said.\n\n\"My dad has been involved with the local club, my brother plays for the local club and I always wanted to get involved so I thought now is the time, I might as well.\"\n\nCathal McGurk has been inspired to join a GAA team for the first time\n\nCathal said it would be nice to see more gay men come out publicly in elite sport.\n\nIn May, Blackpool's Jake Daniels became the first professional footballer in 30 years to come out while still playing in the men's game in the UK.\n\n\"It would be nice to see more people feeling that it's ok to be who they are whether it's on the football field or off the field and just embrace it,\" Cathal said.\n\n\"We're a support group for each other as much as anything else too so we can help you as much as you're helping yourself.\"\n\nIn 2009, Cork hurler Donal Óg Cusack revealed he was gay in an autobiography, becoming the first openly gay GAA sports star in Ireland.\n\nThe three-time All-Ireland winner has spoken openly about coming out, how it affected him and his family, and the support he received from his teammates.\n\nIn 2013, Donal Óg's brother Conor Cusack came out as gay after opening up about his depression and mental health issues.\n\nTwo years later, nine-time All-Ireland winner for Cork, Valerie Mulcahy, became the first female GAA player to come out as gay and featured on Donal Óg Cusack's documentary Coming out of the Curve.\n\nThe sport also has an openly gay referee - David Gough, from County Meath, is one of gaelic games' highest-profile match officials.\n\nMartin Murray is the chairperson of Aeracha Uladh\n\nAeracha Uladh was set up by Martin Murray, who also performs as the drag artist Danu Variant.\n\nHe was originally a member of Na Gaeil Aeracha, Ireland's first LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA team in Dublin.\n\n\"Travelling up and down [from Belfast] was too much so I decided to set one up here,\" Martin said.\n\n\"I put it out on social media and there was a great response, we're now up to 650 followers at the moment and then we've got 50 members in the group.\n\n\"New players are coming out to train each week… four or five of them have experience playing when they were younger, some play socially but the majority is people who haven't played the sport before but have always had an interest or grew up watching.\"\n\nThe team's first training session was held at Jordanstown in April, hosted by Antrim GAA star Grainne McLaughlin.\n\nThey are now training twice a week and are planning friendlies for later in the summer with East Belfast GAA and Na Gaeil Aeracha in Dublin.\n\nMartin also helped organise Northern Ireland's first LGBTQ sports day at the Ulster University campus in Jordanstown earlier this month.\n\nEven though the response and feedback from players has been positive, Martin said many \"on the LGBT scene\" were apprehensive about the sports day in the beginning.\n\n\"I really had to comfort them to say it is LGBT-run so it is that kind of atmosphere,\" he said.\n\n\"Some have just had negative experiences in the past with the hetero-normative teams, for lack of a better term.\"\n\nThe GAA Official Guide outlines that all of its clubs are inclusive, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital/relationship status, religion, age or minority community and/or disability.\n\nThe GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association have also been taking steps to address inequalities and promote ladies gaelic games further, including the 20x20 campaign, with a GAA spokesperson adding that Sport Ireland and Sport NI are now creating funding for specific women-in-sport programmes.\n\nA gender diversity working group works across the three associations and there is also a full-time diversity and inclusion officer.\n\nMeanwhile, the GAA for All committee engages in a number of awareness campaigns including LGBTQ+ workshops, and assists in initiatives like wheelchair football and hurling, and inter-cultural activities, among many others.\n\nFor the first time, Ulster GAA will also be officially taking part in Belfast's Pride parade at the end of July.\n\n\"Something set up like this acknowledges and supports not only the LGBT community but also the GAA community to say 'we are ready for somebody to come out and we'll back you up, you're not alone in it',\" Martin said.\n\nFrancis Lagan joined the team in its first week and said he is \"absolutely loving the atmosphere\".\n\n\"I think a lot of ones who have come out to train have said they feel more themselves because they can actually enjoy the sport more rather than worrying about what's going on with them or what everyone else is thinking.\n\nFrancis Lagan loves the atmosphere at the club\n\nFrancis said he hopes the new team sparks further change within the GAA community and other sports to become more inclusive.\n\n\"In the past I felt it was just for men and women weren't treated the same, but I think that change is coming,\" he said.\n\n\"Change is going to happen and I hope it will be with ourselves too.\"\n\nDaniel O'Rawe joined the team without ever playing gaelic games before but said he always wanted to do it but felt \"too intimidated to join\" a team.\n\n\"When this came up I leapt at it, joined the first training session and it was great,\" he said.\n\nDaniel O'Rawe is new to GAA\n\n\"When I started I couldn't play at all but now I can do the basics at least and we've done some basic matches which are really fun.\n\n\"It's also really good socially - there must be about 20 of us who hang out at least once a week now.\"\n\nFor others considering joining but unsure whether to take the plunge or not, Daniel said to \"go for it\".\n\n\"Even if you try a session and decide you don't like it you can always join the social,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's great getting to know each other and then having people to hang out with and just chat to.\"\n\nAeracha Uladh is currently taking steps to become an affiliated club within the GAA, meaning it will be able to play in the County Antrim league and championship.", "Firefighters have been battling wildfires in parts of Spain, as the country faces its warmest early summer in decades.\n\nParts of western Europe have been experiencing extreme heat under a wave of hot air that has moved north from Africa.\n\nTemperatures in both Spain and France have broken records, putting pressure on hospitals and energy grids.", "The Dutch government has apologised to hundreds of ex-soldiers sent to defend Srebrenica during the Bosnian war.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte said the troops had been underequipped to stop the massacre and were asked to perform an \"impossible task\".\n\nIn July 1995, some 8,000 Muslim men were massacred after Dutch forces were overrun by Bosnian Serb troops.\n\nPreviously, Dutch governments have insisted fault lay with the UN for failing to provide air support.\n\nBut speaking to veterans at a military base in central Netherlands on Saturday, Mr Rutte accepted troops of the Dutchbat III peacekeeping force had struggled because \"your mandate, your equipment and the military support you received during your mission were all inadequate\" for a mission \"that ultimately proved impossible to carry out\".\n\n\"Today, I apologise on behalf of the Dutch government to all the women and men of Dutchbat III. To all of you here, and to those who are not with us today,\" Mr Rutte told veterans.\n\n\"With the greatest possible appreciation and respect for the way in which Dutchbat III kept on trying to do the right thing, under very difficult circumstances, even when that was really no longer possible.\"\n\nIn addition to the apology, soldiers deployed to Srebrenica were also given the Bronze Medal of Honour from Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren.\n\nIn July 1995, amid a campaign of genocide by Bosnian Serb forces, thousands of Muslims fled to a UN safe zone in Srebrenica. They were protected by lightly equipped Dutch troops who were quickly overrun during a Bosnian Serb advance.\n\nAfter securing the surrender of the Dutch forces, Bosnian Serb troops under General Ratko Mladic took aside men and boys aged between 12 and 77 for what they said would be an \"interrogation\".\n\nOver the next five days, the men were executed and buried in mass graves by Mladic's troops.\n\nSerbia has always denied the killings formed part of a campaign of genocide, but accepts it was a crime.\n\nMr Rutte's apology comes a year after a report made a series of recommendations into how to support the 850 troops of Dutchbat III, many of whom suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after their experiences of the war.\n\nAnd in 2019 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the Netherlands was partially liable for the deaths of some 350 men in the massacre, ruling that they had removed the men from a Dutch base despite knowing they \"were in serious jeopardy of being abused and murdered\" by Bosnian Serb forces.", "Passengers have been advised not to travel on trains unless necessary during strikes next week, with only a fifth of services due to run.\n\nNetwork Rail said about half of all rail lines will be closed when thousands of workers walk out across Britain on 21, 23 and 25 June.\n\nThe services that run will start and finish earlier, from 07:30 to 18:30.\n\nThere will be no trains at all in many places including north from Glasgow or Edinburgh and to Penzance in Cornwall.\n\n\"Make no mistake, the level of service we will be able to offer will be significantly compromised and passengers need to take that into account and to plan ahead and only travel if it's really necessary to do so,\" Network Rail boss Andrew Haines said.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns and maintains the country's railways, said there would also be no passenger services to locations including Bournemouth in Dorset, Swansea in south Wales, Holyhead in north Wales, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool in Lancashire.\n\nOpen lines include the West Coast Main Line from London to Scotland via locations such as Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nHowever, with trains running for shorter hours on strike days, final departures will be much earlier than usual. For example, the last train from Manchester to London will leave at 14:47 and the last from Norwich to London at 16:00, with the last train from London to Edinburgh at 14:00.\n\nRural and district lines will be most affected by the action.\n\nThe timetable from 20 June to 26 June is still being finalised, but the number of services is expected to be around 4,500 compared with 20,000 normally, Network Rail said.\n\nDisruption is also expected to carry over into non-strike days during the week, when only about 60% of services are expected to run.\n\nThis is due to not enough staff being on shift overnight to get services ready for the following day.\n\nA number of train operators including Southeastern, TransPennine and Avanti West Coast have urged passengers to only travel by rail if necessary, while Northern has asked people \"not to travel\" on trains between Tuesday and Sunday.\n\nSeveral large events could be affected by the strikes, ranging from Glastonbury Festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, to a cricket Test match between England and New Zealand taking place from 23 to 27 June.\n\nPensioner Linda is supposed to be travelling by train from Great Yarmouth to London for a Rolling Stones concert on 25 June.\n\nShe paid £100 per ticket but she is now unsure if there is any way for her to get there now.\n\n\"If I was to book a coach, it would cost a lot more - plus increase the travel time; two-and-a-half hours on the train becomes five to six hours on a coach,\" she told the BBC. \"And there's no way we'd get to the concert in time.\"\n\nElsewhere, Megan, a 15-year-old pupil at Bradford Grammar School, doesn't know how she will get to school.\n\n\"Both my parents work. My mum is a doctor so she's got to be in [work] really early,\" she said. \"I think we'll just have to organise lifts with someone.\"\n\n\"It's just stressful. With traffic and everyone getting a lift in, it's going to be a nightmare,\" she added.\n\nMegan is worried how she'll get to school\n\nThe school's bursar Homera Najib said about 300 pupils travel in by train from across Yorkshire and Leeds using the nearby Frizinghall station.\n\nShe has contacted parents who have to make their own alternative arrangements to get their children to school, she said.\n\n\"We know this is going to be a real inconvenience for our pupils, especially at a time when we've got public examinations going on,\" she said.\n\n\"These are the first public examinations in two years so something like this that really throws a spanner in the works doesn't help the levels of stress.\"\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT union members from Network Rail and 13 train firms plan to walk out. The industrial action, which has been described as the \"biggest rail strike in modern history\", involves union members which include railway staff such as guards and signalling operators.\n\nRMT announced the strike action last week after talks over pay and redundancies fell through.\n\nOn the first day of the planned strike on 21 June, London Underground RMT workers plan to walk out in a separate dispute over pensions and job losses.\n\nAndrew Haines, Network Rail chief executive, said talks with the union had \"not progressed as far as I had hoped\" and so preparations had begun for a strike.\n\nThe strikes may be less disruptive for commuters, with more people now able to work from home since the pandemic.\n\nBut the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said \"millions of people\", including those who cannot work remotely, students sitting exams and others travelling for summer events, would still be affected.\n\nThe mood music right now is that not enough progress has been made in negotiations to stop next week's walkouts.\n\nAssuming they go ahead, there will be disruption across the whole week.\n\nThe involvement of Network Rail signalling staff means the number of trains that can run is particularly limited.\n\nOn strike days, the signallers' replacements can only cover 12 hours, hence services will start late and finish early - where they run at all.\n\nBusy, key routes have been prioritised, meaning vast swathes of the country will be left with no services at all.\n\nNetwork Rail says next week's action will cost up to £150m in lost revenue and aborted work.\n\nThe RMT union has claimed Network Rail plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs as part of a £2bn reduction in spending, with the proposed job cuts including workers who maintain tracks, signals and overhead lines.\n\nIt also said train operators had been subject to pay freezes and changes to their terms and conditions.\n\nThe RMT has called for a meeting with the transport secretary and chancellor, saying it had become clear that the Treasury was \"calling the shots and not allowing rail employers to reach a negotiated settlement\".\n\nBut a deal is \"unlikely at the moment\", said RMT's Eddie Dempsey, who accused the government of \"relishing the thought of having a dispute to distract from some other issues\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said unions had \"gone on the record saying they don't negotiate with this government\", adding: \"They're right: they must negotiate with the employers.\"\n\nThe rail industry is under pressure to save money due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and Network Rail has said it wants to modernise working practices.\n\nIt estimated between 1,500 and 2,000 fewer staff would be needed, but insists this could be achieved through voluntary means.\n\nAs part of a separate strike, Aslef, a union representing train drivers, has announced walkouts at three companies in rows over pay on 26 June at Hull Trains, at Greater Anglia on 23 June, and on Croydon Tramlink on 28, 29 June and 13 and 14 July.\n\nWill your travel plans be affected by the strike days? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Workers at an Apple store in Maryland have voted to unionise, forming the tech giant's first retail union in the United States.\n\nThe employees of the shop in Towson passed the measure 65-33, with about a dozen abstentions.\n\nAfter the result came in, the group tweeted: \"Now we celebrate… tomorrow we keep organising.\"\n\nIt is the third Apple store to launch a union drive this year, but the first to successfully hold a vote.\n\nThe new Apple Core union - short for the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees - penned an open letter to Apple in May, saying its bid was \"about us as workers gaining access to rights that we do not currently have\", but that it did not want to \"go against or create conflict with our management\".\n\nOther Apple stores in Atlanta and New York, have also made moves toward unionisation. Staff in Atlanta, however, have delayed their planned ballot, with the union involved - the Communications Workers of America - alleging anti-union activity by the company.\n\nUnions are less common in the US than in many European countries, but are still protected in law. Forming one involves either the company voluntarily recognising a union, or workers gathering signatures from at least 30% of employees so that the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) can hold a formal election.\n\nNews outlets have alleged that Apple has hired a law firm known for its union expertise, and collated \"talking points\" for its management teams to dissuade employees from signing up to one.\n\nIn April, Motherboard released an audio recording of retail vice president Deirdre O'Brien telling employees that while she recognised the right to join a union, \"it's equally your right not to join a union\".\n\n\"I'm worried about what it would mean to put another organization in the middle of our relationship, an organization that does not have a deep understanding of Apple or our business,\" the released audio says.\n\nThe employees in Towson had the backing of a long-established union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Its president, Robert Martinez Jr, congratulated the Apple employees on what he called a \"historic victory\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Machinists Union This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"They made a huge sacrifice for thousands of Apple employees across the nation who had all eyes on this election,\" he said.\n\n\"This victory shows the growing demand for unions at Apple stores and different industries across our nation.\"\n\nApple told the AFP news agency it was declining to comment on the vote, which still has to be officially certified by the NLRB.\n\nThe Towson store's union is the latest in a string of high-profile union campaigns in the US.\n\nIn December, a successful campaign in New York saw Starbucks employees form their first union at the coffee chain in decades, which has sparked similar campaigns across many of the company's individual stores.\n\nAnd in April, Amazon saw 55% of workers at a New York warehouse vote in favour of unionisation - though Amazon is disputing that ballot and appealing for a re-run.", "Police are advising people to avoid the area\n\nThree port workers have been taken to hospital as a precaution after a chemical leak in Cardiff Bay.\n\nPeople were advised to keep doors and windows closed around Queen Alexandra Docks, Butetown.\n\nBy 17:30 BST, emergency services said there was no risk to to the public.\n\nSpecialist teams from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS) and the Welsh Ambulance Service were called out shortly after 11:00.\n\n\"The incident was a small scale gas release, which was resolved with the assistance of an on-site engineer,\" a SWFRS spokesman said.\n\n\"Three workers have been transferred to hospital for precautionary checks.\"\n\nThe ambulance service sent a rapid response car, ambulance and its hazardous area response team to the scene.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky has made his first trip to Ukraine's war-torn southern frontline, as his forces mount a slow-moving advance in the region.\n\nVisiting the hold-out city of Mykolaiv, he inspected damaged buildings and met soldiers, officials and health workers.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader also visited the western city of Odesa, which has been subjected to periodic Russian shelling since the war began.\n\nBoth cities are targets in Russia's efforts to seize the Black Sea coast.\n\nMr Zelensky has regularly met with international leaders in Kyiv since Moscow pulled its forces away from the capital city, having decided to refocus its efforts on capturing the eastern Donbas region.\n\nBut he has also defied Russian troops by going to areas where fighting has been raging, and in recent weeks has visited other front-line cities, including Kharkiv in the east.\n\n\"It is important that you are alive. As long as you live there is a strong Ukrainian wall that protects our country,\" the Ukrainian leader told troops in Odesa.\n\n\"I want to thank you from the people of Ukraine, from our state for the great work you are doing, for your impeccable service.\"\n\nIn Mykolaiv, Mr Zelensky handed out medals to soldiers and urged them to \"take care of Ukraine - the only thing we have. And take care of yourself - only you can do it\".\n\nThe city has long been a key target for Russian forces and has been subject to heavy rocket and artillery bombardments.\n\nIt also lies just 100km (62 miles) north-west of Kherson, a city occupied by Russia since the opening days of the war - but which is now subject to a slow-moving but determined Ukrainian advance.\n\nUkrainian forces have been fighting Russian troops in a slow moving advance between Mykolaiv and Kherson\n\nEarlier this week, Mykolayiv Governor Vitaliy Kim claimed Russian troops were blowing up bridges near Kherson to slow Kyiv's counteroffensive on the city.\n\nLocal officials say any Ukrainian advance is dependent on long-range weapons promised by the West arriving in time.\n\nElsewhere, the UK's Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that Russia was likely to be renewing its efforts to advance into the Donetsk region - which, alongside the Luhansk, makes up the Donbas.\n\nThe Ukrainian military said it had \"repelled Russian attacks\" near Krasnopillya, in Donetsk, and Syrotyne, in Luhansk, with operations continuing around Severodonetsk.\n\nGovernor Serhiy Haidai told AFP news agency Russian forces were \"just shelling our troop positions 24 hours a day\" in the city, now the final Ukrainian holdout in the province.\n\nAnd pro-Russian officials in the eastern, separatist-held city of Donetsk said five civilians were killed and 12 injured by Ukrainian bombardment.\n\nThe secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council has dismissed reports from certain government officials that as many as 500 Ukrainian soldiers could be dying every day.\n\nOleksiy Danilov said the officials didn't have access to the relevant information. Previously Ukrainian officials have spoken of up to 100 deaths a day.\n\nIn Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko has told the BBC his country will only enter peace talks after the \"last Russian soldier has left Ukraine\".\n\nThe former boxer said the Russian people would eventually realise their own soldiers were dying for nothing more than President Vladimir Putin's ambition.\n\nAfter returning from his trip to Kyiv on Friday, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned against \"Ukraine fatigue\" setting in, saying it was important to show that allies were standing with Ukraine for the long haul in its war against Russia.\n\nHe said it would be a \"catastrophe\" if Mr Putin was able to secure territorial gains already made.\n\nRussia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, saying it aimed to \"de-Nazify\" and \"demilitarise\" its former Soviet neighbour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: Ros Atkins on... Putin’s false Nazi claims about Ukraine\n\nIn the ferocious war which has followed, the UN says that more than 4,500 civilians have been killed and nearly 5,600 have been injured. Thousands of combatants have also been killed or injured on both sides.\n\nMore than 13 million people have fled their homes, according to the UN.\n\nThe West has responded to the invasion by imposing severe sanctions on Moscow and supplying weapons to Ukraine but has not intervened directly in the war against Russia, a nuclear superpower.", "Boris Johnson visited nearby Rhyl during the local election campaign\n\nIt was a \"disastrous result\", according to one Conservative.\n\nBefore May's local elections, Hugh Irving was one of seven Tory councillors in Prestatyn.\n\nNow he's the only one left - and by the smallest possible margin after a majority of just one vote saved his seat on Denbighshire council.\n\nWere it not for the rapport he's built with the local electorate during 30 years in local politics, his party might have been wiped out in this seaside resort.\n\n\"They were saying 'yes Hugh, we've always supported you, we know what you've done, but we're not happy',\" he said.\n\n\"I think, probably you've got to be blunt about this.\n\n\"As far as they were concerned - not necessarily me - they weren't happy about a lot of the news and reports of what I would call misdemeanours being carried out in Westminster.\"\n\nThose \"misdemeanours\" - the parties in Downing Street that broke the Covid rules - cost Welsh Tories dearly.\n\nHugh Irving is the last Tory standing in Prestatyn\n\nIn the south they lost seats in Vale of Glamorgan and lost control of Monmouthshire, the party's only Welsh council.\n\nIn Denbighshire, they slumped from first to fourth.\n\nPrestatyn and nearby Rhyl are in the Vale of Clwyd constituency. The Conservatives won the Senedd and Westminster seats from Labour in the past two elections.\n\nIt's a bit of a stretch to say Sir Keir Starmer won't get to Downing Street if he can't win the seat back, but this is a key battleground.\n\nWhich is why, a week before his party's drubbing, Mr Johnson was serving ice cream on a campaign visit to a caravan park in Rhyl.\n\nClearly Partygate blunted the appeal of such stunts. Here, as elsewhere, people were not impressed by what they heard in the news.\n\nAllison Ward: \"We are not idiots in the big wide world\"\n\nAllison Ward, who works in The Deli on the Hill on Prestatyn High Street, said: \"Somebody comes in to buy some cheese and you have these conversations and they are angry. They are disappointed.\n\n\"And also people like to feel that they are not stupid. We are not idiots in the big wide world. We don't forget these things.\"\n\nMr Irving hopes voters have got their frustrations out of their system, allowing the Conservatives enough time to recover before the next electoral test.\n\nCertainly, one woman on the high street told me she felt the media had made far too much fuss about the rule breaking.\n\nBut Labour thinks this result was a pivotal moment in a long campaign to win back territory in north-east Wales that has been ceded to Mr Johnson's Conservatives.\n\nJason McLellan says positive campaigning was behind Labour's success\n\nOne of Prestatyn's new Labour councillors, Jason McLellan, now leads Denbighshire council after the former Independent-Conservative alliance was ousted.\n\nHe was Labour's candidate for the Senedd in Vale of Clwyd last year, losing to the Conservatives by 300 votes.\n\nRather than rely on Partygate to explain the turnaround in Labour's fortunes, he prefers to credit their local manifesto and a \"positive message\" which they promoted on the doorsteps and on Facebook.\n\nBut just like the prime minister's conduct, Welsh Labour's record has been under scrutiny.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr, the area's health board, has been mired in problems.\n\nGill German, another Prestatyn councillor now on the local authority's cabinet, said: \"Because we went out and had those conversations - and some of them were robust - and we answered, people put their trust in us to carry out what they had seen Mark Drakeford doing at Welsh government level.\"\n\nLabour's Gill German says there were \"robust\" conversations with voters\n\nLabour aren't the only ones who want to talk about Mr Drakeford.\n\nThey're convinced the first minister is an electoral asset, but the Tories' opposition leader in the Senedd says his party must do more to pin the blame on him for failures in the NHS.\n\nAndrew RT Davies said voters needed reminding that the politicians ultimately responsible for well-documented problems at Denbighshire's hospital were not in London.\n\n\"What we need to be doing is far more aggressively making the case to people that when you can't get a service at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd that's not because of the Conservative government in Westminster,\" he said.\n\n\"That's because of the Labour government here in Cardiff Bay.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies launched the Welsh Conservative local election campaign in Llandudno\n\nThe local election losses have revived a debate about whether the Welsh Tories are Welsh enough.\n\nMr Davies says they need to \"build on a strong Welsh brand\".\n\nBut he dismisses a recent report in the Daily Telegraph suggesting someone in senior Welsh Conservative ranks wants to douse the party in clear blue water.\n\nClear red water was the phrase deployed by former First Minister Rhodri Morgan - and coined by his then-advisor Mr Drakeford - to distinguish Welsh Labour from Tony Blair.\n\nBut Mr Davies said Welsh Tories already had the freedom they needed to offer unique policies.\n\nLast month, for example, he put himself at odds with the UK government when he said it should cough up a fair share of HS2 funding for Wales.\n\nAs for Labour accusing the UK government of undermining the Senedd, Mr Davies said two Wales Acts - laws that transferred more power to Cardiff Bay - showed \"we have put the turbo on devolution\".\n\nWales should get a share of cash from building the HS2 high-speed rail line in England, Mr Davies says\n\nThere's probably only so much the Welsh Conservatives can do to shield themselves from the political headwinds blowing in from Westminster.\n\nMr Davies said the prime minister has his full support, but the UK government must now get on and deliver its 2019 manifesto.\n\nTo do that, Conservative MPs have decided to keep Boris Johnson in Number 10, albeit in a vote that has wounded him as a leader.\n\nVeteran councillor Mr Irving sums up the predicament like this: \"I'm content with that for the moment.\n\n\"But I think he's on probation. No doubt about that.\"", "A by-election deep in once-safe Conservative territory threatens to upend British politics. For the parties fighting it, the stakes are huge - but they're picking their battles in very different ways.\n\nIt's a hot summer morning in mid-Devon and Kayleigh Diggle stands in the bookshop she runs, feeling conflicted. The 32-year-old, who normally supports the Greens, is annoyed with the Conservative government and is considering a tactical vote for the Liberal Democrats. But the sheer relentlessness of the latter's campaign makes her recoil.\n\n\"It's their constant leafleting,\" says Kayleigh. She's sick, too, of looking at the party's Day-Glo yellow-and-black diamond-shaped posters (\"Winning here!\") everywhere she goes. \"It's very, very, over-the-top.\"\n\nVoters in Tiverton and Honiton aren't used to anyone having to fight quite this hard for their votes.\n\nSprawling from the fringes of Exmoor to a stretch of the Jurassic Coast, this cluster of villages and market towns was seen until recently as an extremely safe Conservative seat.\n\nThen erstwhile MP Neil Parish admitted watching pornography in Parliament after, by his own account, searching online for tractors.\n\nNow there's a by-election to replace him. Partygate, turmoil on the Tory benches and the cost of living crisis have made the 23 June vote a crucial test of the public's mood.\n\nAnd with another by-election taking place on the same day in the northern \"Red Wall\" battleground of Wakefield, Tiverton and Honiton has been tasked with delivering an interim verdict from the Tories' southern base on Boris Johnson's government.\n\nThe Lib Dems came third here in 2019, while the Conservative winning margin was a gargantuan 24,239. But having recently won a brace of safe Tory seats at by-elections in Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire, Lib Dem campaigners have poured into the seat.\n\nHowever, the Conservatives are also battling hard to hold on to what was theirs, albeit with a lower-key, tightly controlled strategy that couldn't be more different to the Lib Dems' electoral shock and awe.\n\nAnd despite talk of an informal alliance between opposition parties, Labour's candidate, who came second here in 2019, insists she hasn't given up the fight, either.\n\nOn Honiton's handsome Georgian High Street, Jubilee bunting flutters against the florists and tea rooms. It's here that the Lib Dems have set up one of their campaign headquarters in an empty shop unit.\n\nInside, a crudely sketched map on the wall shows where party volunteers have travelled from - Orkney, Carlisle, Kingston-upon-Hull. The party say that last weekend, 350 activists knocked on 14,000 doors.\n\nPiles of leaflets are carefully arranged into neat bundles by polling district. Canvassers are given issues specific to each area to discuss - river pollution in Axminster, for instance, or lack of dental services here in Honiton.\n\nIn charge of directing volunteers today is Chessie Flack, 24. What gives her a political identity, she says, is \"this perfect Lib Dem machine of a load of activists in socks and sandals, and they knock on every door in the constituency and they win the campaign\".\n\nBut no-one is under any illusions that overturning such a huge majority will be easy.\n\nIn a cafe across the street, the party's candidate Richard Foord empties a pile of miniature marshmallows into his hot chocolate and stirs. Bookmakers have named him the favourite to win but he knows he'll need all the energy he can summon.\n\n\"I think we can't entirely take at face value the bookies' odds as a predictor or a forecast of this election outcome,\" Foord says.\n\n\"We are absolutely working for every single vote but recognising that there's a mountain to climb, frankly.\"\n\nIn his Tattersall shirt, Foord, who lives locally, looks like he's stepped out of the pages of Country Life magazine. He has the military bearing, too, of a man who spent a decade in the Army, having risen to the rank of major. On the front page of a leaflet distributed by his campaign, he is pictured in uniform above the slogan: \"I served my country. Now I'm fighting for Devon.\"\n\nAlong with the Union Jack bunting in the window of the campaign office, this looks a lot like a pitch to the 58% of voters in the seat who voted to leave the EU.\n\nEarlier in the day I spotted Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on a train heading west, and asked if his party's \"Stop Brexit\" slogan under former leader Jo Swinson in 2019 damaged its chances here in 2022. He was emphatic that it didn't: \"Traditionally we've been strong in rural communities, Liberal Democrats have been strong in the West Country,\" said Sir Ed. \"So in many ways this is going back to where our roots are.\"\n\nIn a 1980s estate on the fringe of Tiverton, the sun blazes down on a near-empty car park outside a community centre. Half an hour ago, the phone in my pocket buzzed and a Tory press officer summoned me here to meet candidate Helen Hurford.\n\nPreviously, the Independent reported that she had been \"ordered not to speak to the media\". The Financial Times wrote that she \"was being shielded from the national media\" and the Times described her as \"somewhat elusive\".\n\nBut now a car pulls up and out steps Hurford, in a blue dress and trainers. With a broad smile, she flatly rejects the suggestion that she'd been kept hidden from the press corps.\n\n\"If you'd wanted to find me you could have just followed me around, knocking on the doors - you would have easily found me,\" she says.\n\nHer focus, she suggests, is on the residents of Tiverton and Honiton, not reporters: \"The people of the constituency come first.\"\n\nShe talks about the need to improve the area's road and rail network and support local farmers. Hurford emphasises, too, that she was born and brought up in Honiton and was the head teacher at a local school. \"She has probably taught a large part of the population around here,\" says local Conservative activist Luis Gordon.\n\nIt's not the only way in which the Conservative campaign appears to have been carefully managed. While Johnson has visited the constituency during the campaign, his appearances have been low-key and without advance fanfare.\n\nThe Lib Dems have accused the prime minister of \"hiding away\" - but equally, it makes sense for the Tories not to take risks. \"It's a small-C and big-C Conservative area,\" says Dr Hannah Bunting, a political scientist at the University of Exeter. \"It would really be remarkable if we saw the seat changing hands, even under the current conditions.\"\n\nPrivately, senior Lib Dem insiders concede that the Conservatives are taking this contest a lot more seriously than they did prior to their December 2021 defeat in North Shropshire.\n\nAnd while national issues might be a headache for the Tory campaign, it's not clear that the circumstances of Neil Parish's departure are having much of an impact. The former MP, a farmer himself, enjoyed a lot of goodwill among the agricultural community, according to Richard Tucker, chair of the local National Farmers Union.\n\n\"As farmers we felt we were well represented in this area,\" adds Tucker. At a recent NFU hustings, he says, \"all the candidates were pretty open in acknowledging that they weren't as agriculturally qualified as Neil. But they're all open to learning - well, they've got to be.\"\n\nIssues they'll need to have brushed up on include the government's new food strategy, the phasing out of taxpayer-funded direct payments to farmers under an EU scheme and the surging cost of fertiliser - all of huge concern to those working in agriculture locally.\n\nAmong those contesting the by-election are the United Kingdom Independence Party, which came second in the seat in 2015, and Reform UK, which shares some of its political DNA, having also once been led by Nigel Farage.\n\nThe Green Party, which attracted more than 2,000 votes here in 2019, is also standing again.\n\nAbove all, what seems to motivate Conservative activists is the suggestion that Labour - who are concentrating their fire on Wakefield - have agreed to give the Lib Dems a free run in Tiverton and Honiton. Both opposition parties strenuously deny there has been any kind of formal agreement.\n\nBut Chris Daw, a local councillor who has been campaigning for Hurford, is visibly riled at the notion of any stitch-up. \"It annoys me because I think, you know, let's just be honest with each other,\" she says. \"Not just put out hints. I believe they should be straight up front and say what they're doing.\"\n\nIf anyone could confirm or deny the existence of a pact, it's Liz Pole. This is the second time she has stood as Labour's candidate in Tiverton and Honiton. On the previous occasion, in 2019, she earned more than 11,000 votes while finishing second, albeit distantly.\n\nOver tea in a cafe in Cullompton, in the west of the constituency, Pole is emphatic that there has been no deal. \"That is definitely not part of my political DNA whatsoever,\" she says. \"I'm fighting to win this constituency, I want to see Labour thriving and growing.\"\n\nHowever, Pole, who runs a software business and has lived locally for 20 years, admits it's \"frustrating\" to read articles anointing the Lib Dems as the main challengers. Remarks by nearby Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw were interpreted as calling for a Lib Dem win, although Pole says his comments were \"taken a little bit out of context\".\n\nWhile Labour's big beasts, including party leader Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner, have flocked to Wakefield, it's harder to detect them in this part of Devon. Asked about this, Pole replies that she's expecting a visit from shadow food, farming and fisheries minister Daniel Zeichner - a frontbencher, certainly, but perhaps not one with the greatest box-office appeal.\n\nSo Pole is getting help from closer to home. She says Labour has activists in each of the seat's 24 wards and their campaign will go into each of them with her messages about affordable housing, the cost of living crisis and food strategy.\n\nRichard Clarke, 49, has travelled here from Cawsand, south-east Cornwall, to campaign for Pole. He says that on the doorstep, voters are receptive to what she's saying.\n\n\"People know we need a change of government - and people also know that needs to be a Labour government, because obviously you don't get Liberal governments, unless you're living in 1906,\" he says.\n\nThere's a sense among Labour's activists, however, that the by-election has come at an inopportune time for the party.\n\nBroader trends suggest traditional north-south political divides are being upended and in 2021's local elections Labour won district council seat in Honiton, its first in East Devon for more than two decades. Parish's resignation, some volunteers feel, interrupted that momentum.\n\n\"Voters are looking for a home, I think, and a by-election isn't necessarily the best time to find that,\" says retired academic Paul Furlong, 73, from Aveton Gifford in south Devon.\n\nNonetheless, Tiverton and Honiton has until Thursday to find a berth, temporary or otherwise.", "Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of London to demand action from the government on the cost of living crisis.\n\nWorkers marched to Parliament to call for better pay and conditions as part of the event organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).\n\nThe union has called for a \"decent pay rise for public sector workers\" and a £15 minimum wage.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said it had \"stepped in to ease the burden\".\n\nThe spokesman added that the government was \"helping eight million of the most vulnerable British families through at least £1,200 of direct payments this year - and giving every household £400 to help pay their energy bills\".\n\nProtesters set off from Portland Place and headed towards Parliament Square at about 12:00 BST as part of the We Demand Better march.\n\nThe TUC said its research suggested workers have lost almost £20,000 since 2008 because pay has not kept pace with inflation.\n\nGeneral secretary Frances O'Grady told BBC News that ordinary working people were saying \"enough is enough\" after over 10 years of stagnant pay.\n\n\"We want government to listen - workers are not the cause of inflation, they are suffering the impact of inflation,\" she said.\n\nBen Robinson, 25, who works for a housing charity in Brixton, south London, was at the protest.\n\nHe said some residents faced a choice \"between feeding their own kids, not themselves, their own kids, and paying rent and heating, and that is just not a choice that anyone should have to face\".\n\nTeachers joined the Trade Union Congress protest to call for better pay\n\nMembers of NASUWT, the Teachers' Union, were among those who attended the march and called for the profession to receive a \"pay uplift and an urgent rebalancing of workload\".\n\nThe union said that with living expenses surging ahead of wages, the value of teachers' pay had fallen by 19% over the last 12 years.\n\nTeacher Stephen Brown said he was attending the march because many of those in his profession were now leaving - piling on the pressure for those who stay in classrooms.\n\n\"We've had a pay freeze for the past few years... teachers are leaving the profession because they are struggling so much, they just think it's not worth it,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it was \"incredibly grateful for the continued efforts of teachers and school leaders in supporting pupils\" and work was ongoing to \"deliver pay increases and pay awards for new and experienced teachers\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman added: \"As part of our £37bn support package we're also saving the typical employee over £330 a year through the imminent National Insurance tax cut, are allowing universal credit claimants to keep £1,000 more of what they earn and have made the biggest cut to all fuel duty rates ever.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Witnesses reported seeing the Trident jet drop out of the sky\n\nA memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the UK's worst air disasters has been held.\n\nThe service took place in Staines, Surrey, to remember British European Airways flight BE548 which crashed in a field in the town killing all 118 people on board.\n\nThe Brussels-bound Trident had taken off minutes earlier from Heathrow.\n\nRelatives of those who died, members of the emergency services and local people attended Saturday's event.\n\nAlso at the service at St Mary's church in Staines was the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux, Spelthorne MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the chairman of British Airways Sean Doyle.\n\nWreaths were laid at a monument for the crash in Waters Drive, just a couple of hundred metres from the crash site.\n\nBarry Dix, who worked as a journalist at Heathrow at the time of the crash, and lived in Staines, said: \"It was such a serious incident.\n\n\"Fifty years on I still can't come to terms that this thing happened right on my doorstep.\"\n\nThe flag at Spelthorne Borough Council's Offices was flown at half-mast in memory of those who lost their lives on 18 June 1972.\n\nCouncillor Susan Doran, the Mayor of Spelthorne, said: \"The thoughts of this council are with the families of the 118 people who lost their lives.\n\n\"We also pay thanks to the emergency services at the scene who dealt with the sheer horror of the tragedy.\"\n\nAn inquiry by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found a speed error had caused the plane to stall and the aircraft was not at a sufficient height for the crew to regain control.\n\nThe fuselage ploughed into trees and the tail section landed nearby.\n\nSaturday's events were the town's last official tribute to the disaster.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Residents look for belongings in the rubble of their home after a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas\n\nWars ebb and flow. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is no exception.\n\nEarly fears of a swift conquest were succeeded by Russian retreat and Ukrainian resistance. That has now been met by a more focused Russian offensive in the east.\n\nBut 100 days on, where might this war go next?\n\nHere are five potential scenarios - they are not mutually exclusive, but all are within the bounds of plausibility.\n\nThe war might continue for months - if not years - as Russian and Ukrainian forces grind each other down.\n\nMomentum shifts to and fro as both sides make gains and losses. Neither side is willing to give up. Russia's President Putin judges he can gain by demonstrating strategic patience, gambling that Western countries will suffer from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and focus more on their economic crises and the threat from China.\n\nThe West, however, shows resolve and continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. Semi-permanent front lines are established. Steadily the war becomes a frozen conflict, a \"forever war\".\n\nMick Ryan, a retired Australian general and military scholar, says: \"There is little prospect of a crushing operational or strategic victory by either side in the short term. Neither belligerent has demonstrated the capacity to land a strategically decisive blow.\"\n\nWhat if President Putin were to surprise the world with a unilateral ceasefire? He could pocket his territorial gains and declare \"victory\".\n\nHe could claim his \"military operation\" was complete: Russian-backed separatists in Donbas protected; a land corridor to Crimea established. He could then seek the moral high ground, putting pressure on Ukraine to stop fighting.\n\n\"This is a ploy which could be used by Russia at any time, if it wants to capitalise on European pressure on Ukraine to surrender and give up territory in exchange for notional peace,\" says Keir Giles, Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank.\n\nRussia's President Putin may gamble on Western countries suffering from \"Ukraine fatigue\" and switching focus to their economies\n\nThe arguments are heard already in Paris, Berlin and Rome: no need to prolong the war, time to end the global economic pain, let's push for a ceasefire.\n\nThis, though, would be opposed by the US, the UK and much of eastern Europe, where policymakers believe Russia's invasion must fail, for the sake of Ukraine and the international order.\n\nSo a unilateral Russian ceasefire might change the narrative but not end the fighting.\n\nWhat if both Ukraine and Russia conclude they cannot achieve more militarily and enter talks for a political settlement?\n\nTheir armies are exhausted, running short of manpower and munitions. The price in blood and treasure no longer justifies further fighting. Russia's military and economic losses are not sustainable. The Ukrainian people tire of war, unwilling to risk more lives for an eternally elusive victory.\n\nWhat if the leadership in Kyiv - no longer trusting continued Western support - decide the time has come to talk? US President Joe Biden openly admits America's aim is for Ukraine to be \"in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table\".\n\nBut there may not be a battlefield stalemate for many months and any political settlement would be hard, not least because of Ukraine's lack of trust in Russia. A peace deal might not endure and could be followed by more fighting.\n\nCould Ukraine - against the odds - achieve something close to a victory? Could Ukraine force Russian troops to withdraw to where they were before the invasion?\n\n\"Ukraine will definitely win this war,\" the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky told Dutch TV this week.\n\nWhat if Russia fails to seize all Donbas and suffers more losses? Western sanctions hit Russia's war machine. Ukraine makes counter attacks, using its new long-range rockets, seizing back territory where Russian supply lines are stretched. Ukraine transforms its army from a defensive to an offensive force.\n\nThe US said it would supply Ukraine with weapons including medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)\n\nThis scenario is plausible enough for policymakers to worry already about its consequences. If Mr Putin were facing defeat, might he escalate, potentially using either chemical or nuclear weapons?\n\nThe historian Niall Ferguson told a seminar at Kings College, London recently: \"It seems unlikely to me that Putin is going to accept conventional military defeat when he has a nuclear option.\"\n\nAnd what of a possible Russian \"victory\"?\n\nWestern officials emphasise that Russia, despite early setbacks, still plans to seize the capital Kyiv and subjugate much of Ukraine. \"Those maximalist objectives remain in place,\" one official said.\n\nRussia could capitalise on its gains in Donbas, freeing up forces for use elsewhere, perhaps even targeting Kyiv once again. The sheer weight of Russian numbers come to bear. Ukrainian forces continue to suffer.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky met servicemen in the eastern Kharkiv region, where fighting has intensified\n\nPresident Zelensky already admits up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying and another 500 are wounded every day.\n\nThe people of Ukraine could divide, some wanting to fight on, others wanting to sue for peace. Some Western countries might tire of supporting Ukraine. But equally, if they thought Russia was winning, others might want to escalate.\n\nOne Western diplomat told me privately the West should test a nuclear weapon in the Pacific as a warning to Russia.\n\nThe future of this war is not yet written.", "The message appeared on screen during an interval in the show in Derry\n\nA company that provides large screens at concerts has apologised after a message appeared at a gig in Londonderry suggesting a camera would zoom in on women's chests.\n\nThe words \"CCTV Boob Watch\" were displayed on a screen at the Electric Rock concert in Derry's Ebrington Square on 2 June.\n\nThe company, Mobile Trailer Hire, has apologised for any offence caused.\n\nIt told BBC News NI, the person responsible was immediately sacked.\n\nConor Moran from Mobile Trailer Hire, a company that was working alongside Screens Ireland, told BBC Radio Foyle : \"A manager heard about it on the night and the person who was responsible - who was being used from a sub-contractor - was sacked on the spot.\n\n\"He will not be used again.\n\n\"I'm not aware at this stage if a camera did actually zoom in on anyone's chests. We apologise if any woman felt their privacy and space was being invaded.\n\n\"We will carry out an investigation and report to the relevant authorities\".\n\nHelen Hancock, who works as a breast feeding counsellor, was among those at the Derry gig.\n\nShe said the message, which appeared during an interval, \"reeked of something horrible\".\n\nIt had made her \"feel like I was back in the 1980s,\" she said.\n\n\"I work with women everyday who overcome a lot of trauma, mainly breast feeding trauma, so I am very conscious of this kind of stuff, the message this puts out there, and I am sure other people are too.\n\n\"It is just not on in Derry in this day and age, I was just embarrassed to be there\".\n\nThe concert's promoter, Robert Allen of Connected Festival, said he will not be using the big screen company again.\n\n\"When we became aware of the matter we referred it immediately to the company responsible,\" Mr Allen said.\n\n\"They have informed us they are reporting the individual responsible to the relevant authorities and as promoter of the event we will not be using their service again\".\n\nThe Connected Festival was a three-night event with the Electric Rock concert on Thursday night.", "Jim Fitton was detained while trying to leave the country in March\n\nA retired British geologist has been jailed for 15 years for attempting to remove artefacts from Iraq.\n\nJim Fitton, 66, who is originally from Bath, collected 12 stones and shards of broken pottery during a recent geology and archaeology tour of the country.\n\nMr Fitton has insisted he had no idea he was breaking Iraqi laws.\n\nThe family of Mr Fitton said they were \"absolutely shattered\" and \"heartbroken\" by the news. They urged the government to help free him.\n\n\"For a man of Jim's age, 15 years in an Iraqi prison is tantamount to a death sentence,\" the family added.\n\n\"Particularly for such a trivial and dubious crime, a crime Jim was not even aware of when he perpetrated it.\n\n\"We are raising an appeal and will continue to fight for Jim's freedom, and urge the government to support us in every way possible and to open lines of communication with us at a senior level.\"\n\nMr Fitton picked up the stone fragments from Eridu, a historically famous archaeological site in southern Iraq\n\nBath's Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse said the sentence was \"a devastating outcome for Jim and his family\".\n\n\"There is now no other option but for the Foreign Secretary to intervene at a ministerial level. The Foreign Secretary must make representations to the Iraqi Government.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously said it cannot interfere with the judicial process of another country.\n\nMr Fitton was arrested at Baghdad airport on 20 March alongside German national Volker Waldmann.\n\nHe was acquitted of the same charges as Mr Fitton.\n\nAccording to statements from customs officers and witnesses, Mr Fitton's baggage contained about a dozen stone fragments, pieces of pottery or ceramics.\n\nJim Fitton said he took the items because of his \"hobby\" but added he did not mean to do anything illegal\n\nMr Waldmann allegedly had two pieces, but at the trial's opening on 15 May denied they were his.\n\nBoth of the men, dressed in yellow clothing, told the court they were not guilty \"of trafficking antiquities\".\n\nWhen Judge Jabir Abd Jabir asked Mr Fitton why he tried to take the artefacts out of Iraq, he cited his \"hobby\" and said he did not mean to do anything illegal.\n\nThey were charged under a 2002 law against \"intentionally taking or trying to take out of Iraq an antiquity\".\n\nMr Fitton's sentence appeared to have shocked those in the court, including his defence lawyer.\n\n\"I thought the worst case scenario would be one year, with suspension,\" Mr Fitton's lawyer Thair Soud said.\n\nThe maximum sentence for removing artefacts is the death penalty.\n\nThe court decided to reduce the sentence \"because of the advanced age of the accused,\" the judge said.\n\nJim Fitton with his wife Sarijah and daughter Leila\n\nMr Fitton collected the items as souvenirs while visiting a site in Eridu, in Iraq's south east.\n\nIraqi officials have said the fragments could be considered as archaeological pieces as they date back more than 200 years.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it cannot interfere with the judicial process of another country and has made clear its opposition to the death penalty.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More cases of the rare monkeypox virus, normally found in Africa, have been confirmed in the UK, bringing the total to 302.\n\nTwenty-six other countries have also had cases, including many in Europe.\n\nHealth officials say anyone can get monkeypox, particularly if they've had close contact with someone with symptoms.\n\nThey advise contacting NHS 111 or a sexual health clinic if you have a rash with blisters on any part of the body.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency says there are currently 287 confirmed cases of monkeypox in England, 10 in Scotland, three in Wales and two in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn total, 780 cases of monkeypox have been found in recent weeks in countries where the virus is not usually present, outside of west and central Africa.\n\nSpain, Portugal, France, Canada, Australia and Mexico are just some of the countries to have been affected.\n\nPhotos of monkeypox rash lesions provided by the UK Health Security Agency\n\nThe risk to the general population is low and the symptoms usually clear up within a few weeks, but the virus can be more severe in those who are particularly vulnerable.\n\nMonkeypox is not sexually transmitted but it looks like the infection has been introduced in networks of gay and bisexual men in the UK, and that's where most cases are currently being seen.\n\nAccording to figures released last week, many of them are young men living in London.\n\nMonkeypox is not spread easily between people but it can be passed on through close contact with skin, clothes, bedding and towels. So far, no one factor linking the cases in the UK has been identified.\n\nThe latest advice is to contact NHS 111 or a sexual health clinic if you have a rash with blisters, and you've:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps was asked by the BBC's Sophie Raworth if Boris Johnson would win a confidence vote\n\nBoris Johnson would win a confidence vote on his leadership, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said, as the PM continues to face calls to resign.\n\nSome Tory MPs have told the BBC such a ballot could be triggered this week, but Mr Shapps disagreed.\n\nHe also shrugged off crowds booing the PM, saying politicians didn't expect to be \"popular all the time\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a sign voters were \"fed up\" with the government.\n\nHe argued the jeers that greeted the prime minister when he attended a Platinum Jubilee celebration were a response to the government's \"inaction\" over the cost of living crisis.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC's Sunday Morning programme, Mr Shapps said prime ministers had to make difficult decisions and not everyone would approve.\n\nHe also noted that Conservative ministers were booed at the London Olympic games in 2012, but still went on to to win the general election in 2015.\n\nHe suggested that at the next general election, voters would judge whether the government had \"done a good job as a whole\" and that decisions on Brexit, coronavirus and the economy would be what mattered to people.\n\nThe transport secretary also insisted Mr Johnson would not lose a confidence vote among his own MPs.\n\nA confidence vote would be triggered if 15% of the Conservative MPs - 54 of them - wrote letters or emails asking for one.\n\nSo far 28 Conservative MPs have publicly called on Boris Johnson to step down over revelations of widespread Covid-rule breaking in Downing Street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nHowever, only MP Sir Graham Brady - chair of the 1922 committee which represents Conservative backbench MPs - knows exactly how many have formally submitted requests for a confidence vote.\n\nSome Conservative MPs have privately told the BBC they believe the threshold for triggering a vote could happen in the coming week.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said he didn't think there would be a vote this week.\n\nAsked if the prime minister could win such a vote he said: \"Yes, he will.\"\n\nAll eyes will be on Sir Graham Brady when Parliament returns on Monday.\n\nOnly he knows how many letters have been sent in so far. That caveat cannot be overstated; nobody knows for sure what will happen over the next few days.\n\nBut, speaking to Conservative MPs this weekend, it seems many rebels think the threshold will be reached within days.\n\nWithin government, some concede a vote could be triggered in the coming days \"by accident\" - not because of a well-organised rebellion from a section of the party, but because enough disparate groups of MPs are fed up enough to submit a no confidence letter.\n\nOthers think if a tipping point isn't reached this week, the best opportunity for rebels could come later this month, after the result of two by-elections triggered by Tory MPs standing down from Parliament.\n\nWill June be a moment of truth for the Conservative Party - or another damp squib in the long running leadership psychodrama? Many Tory MPs are weighing that up as the bank holiday draws to a close.\n\nPressure on Mr Johnson to resign has been increasing since allegations emerged of parties taking place inside Downing Street while coronavirus restrictions were still in place.\n\nDuring an investigation into rule-breaking events in government buildings, the police issued a total of 126 fines to 83 people.\n\nMr Johnson himself was fined for attending a birthday party held for him in the Cabinet Room.\n\nThe prime minister did not receive a fine for attending this leaving do on 13 November 2020\n\nThe police's inquiry has been concluded, but the Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan said their rationale for fining people looks \"odd\" when taking into consideration photos released in the Sue Gray report.\n\nHe suggested a legal challenge of police decisions - launched by the Liberal Democrat politician and former senior police officer Brian Paddick - would ensure the public could see the evidence in relation to each individual case and \"resolve\" questions about why some people were fined and others not.\n\n\"What we don't want is the perception to be given that it is one rule for them, the rule-makers, and one rule for the rest of us,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment the veterans were reunited with their former interpreter\n\nA group of former soldiers have been reunited with their Afghan interpreter after winning a legal battle to allow him to settle in the UK.\n\nThe interpreter - who the BBC is calling Abdul - went into hiding after being turned away from evacuation flights following the Taliban takeover.\n\nThe Mercian Regiment veterans felt he was \"left behind\" and successfully forced a government U-turn.\n\nSeeing him again \"brought back the brotherhood\", one said.\n\nJosh Roberts, Paul Standen, Sam Knight and Vance Bacon-Sharratt - from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire - said they spent months under fire together with Abdul in Helmand Province.\n\nAfter international forces withdrew last year, the Taliban quickly regained control of the country.\n\nMany Afghans who worked for British forces were resettled in the UK via the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme.\n\nHowever, Abdul failed to get national security clearance after being rejected for a job with the US armed forces.\n\nVance Bacon-Sharratt, Paul Standen, Sam Knight and Josh Roberts met Abdul and his children on Sunday\n\nAt the time, the soldiers said it felt like they had \"left a man behind\".\n\nThey engaged a lawyer specialising in national security and prepared a case for judicial review.\n\nBefore it reached court, the Home Office agreed to review Abdul's situation, and ultimately decided he was not a security risk.\n\nAt the reunion on Sunday, Mr Bacon-Sharratt said: \"It's just been amazing... the fact that we've managed to help a family that was thousands of miles away, and we've been able to work together to get this done. It's unreal.\"\n\n\"The minute I saw him it brought back the brotherhood of what we had when we there,\" he added.\n\n\"We'd have done it for each other. We've all been through hard times and we all help each other - he's a brother, he's one of us.\"\n\nMr Knight said he was \"speechless really... lost for words. Just happy that it's all come together because there were a lot of doubts and moments when we though it wasn't going well, but we're here now with our friend.\n\n\"His family is safe - that's exactly what we wanted.\"\n\n\"I've got tears in my eyes now talking about it, if I'm honest. It's emotional, really emotional.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"During Operation Pitting we evacuated 15,000 people from Kabul and we continue to do all we can to secure safe passage and enable British nationals and eligible Afghans to leave the country.\n\n\"While we cannot comment on individual ARAP applications, we have relocated 2,900 eligible Afghans since the fall of Kabul, which means over 9,400 individuals and their dependants have been relocated to the UK since the scheme began.\n\n\"We continue to progress applications as quickly as possible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Russian troops are refusing to return to fight in Ukraine because of their experiences on the front line at the start of the invasion, according to Russian human rights lawyers and activists. The BBC has been speaking to one such soldier.\n\n\"I don't want to go [back to Ukraine] to kill and be killed,\" says Sergey - not his real name - who spent five weeks fighting in Ukraine earlier this year.\n\nHe is now home in Russia, having taken legal advice to avoid being sent back to the front line. Sergey is just one of hundreds of Russian soldiers understood to have been seeking such advice.\n\nSergey says he is traumatised by his experience in Ukraine.\n\n\"I had thought that we were the Russian army, the most super-duper in the world,\" says the young man bitterly. Instead they were expected to operate without even basic equipment, such as night vision devices, he says.\n\n\"We were like blind kittens. I'm shocked by our army. It wouldn't cost much to equip us. Why wasn't it done?\"\n\nSergey joined the army as a conscript - most Russian men between the ages of 18-27 must complete one year of compulsory military service. But, after a few months, he made the decision to sign a two-year professional contract which would also give him a salary.\n\nIn January, Sergey was sent near the border with Ukraine for what he was told would be military drills. A month later - 24 February, the day Russia launched its invasion - he was told to cross the border. Almost immediately his unit found itself under attack.\n\nAs they stopped for the evening in an abandoned farm, their commander said: \"Well, as you will have worked out by now, this is not a joke.\"\n\nA convoy of Russian military vehicles heading towards the Donbas region - 23 February 2022\n\nSergey says he was completely shocked.\n\n\"My first thoughts were 'Is this really happening to me?'\"\n\nThey were continually shelled, he says, both when moving and when parked overnight. In his unit of 50 people, 10 were killed and 10 others wounded. Almost all his comrades were under the age of 25.\n\nHe heard of Russian servicemen so inexperienced that they \"did not know how to shoot and couldn't tell one end of a mortar from another\".\n\nHe says his convoy - travelling through northern Ukraine - broke up after just four days when a bridge they were about to cross exploded, killing comrades ahead of them.\n\nIn another incident, Sergey says he had to overtake comrades trapped inside a burning vehicle in front of him.\n\n\"It was blown up from a grenade launcher or something else. It caught fire and there were [Russian] soldiers inside. We drove around it and on, firing as we went. I didn't look back.\"\n\nLocal residents by a destroyed Russian tank in Sloboda, Chernihiv, Ukraine - 8 May 2022\n\nHis unit moved on through the Ukrainian countryside, but there was a clear lack of strategy, he says. Reinforcements failed to arrive and soldiers were poorly equipped for the task of taking a large city.\n\n\"We went without helicopters - just in a column, as though we were heading to a parade.\"\n\nHe believes his commanders had planned to capture strongholds and key cities very quickly - and had calculated that the Ukrainians would simply surrender.\n\n\"We rushed forward with short overnight stays, without trenches, without reconnaissance. We didn't leave anyone in the rear, so if someone decided to come in from behind and hit us there was no protection.\n\n\"I think that [so many of] our guys died largely because of this. If we had moved gradually, if we had checked the roads for mines many losses could have been avoided.\"\n\nSergey's complaints about lack of equipment have also emerged in phone conversations alleged to be between Russian soldiers and their families, intercepted and posted online by the Ukrainian security services.\n\nAt the beginning of April, Sergey was sent back over the border to a camp on the Russian side. Troops had been withdrawn from northern Ukraine and appeared to be regrouping for an assault in the east. Later that month he received an order to return to Ukraine - but told his commander that he was not prepared to go.\n\nBanner with the letters Z and V, in support of the Russian military, on a building in Moscow - 19 May 2022\n\n\"He said it was my choice. They didn't even [try to] dissuade us, because we weren't the first,\" Sergey told the BBC. But, he had been sufficiently worried about his unit's reaction to his refusal that he decided to seek legal advice.\n\nA lawyer told Sergey and two like-minded colleagues to return their arms and go back to their unit's headquarters - where they should file a letter explaining that they were \"morally and psychologically exhausted\" and could not continue fighting in Ukraine.\n\nSergey was told that returning to the unit was important because simply leaving could be interpreted as desertion, which can result in a two-year sentence in a disciplinary battalion.\n\nArmy commanders try to intimidate contract soldiers into staying with their units, according to Russian human rights lawyer Alexei Tabalov. But he stresses that Russian military law does include clauses which allow soldiers to refuse to fight if they don't want to.\n\nHuman rights activist Sergei Krivenko says he is not aware of any prosecutions of those refusing to return to the front.\n\nThat is not to say that prosecutions are not being attempted.\n\nRussian service personnel rehearse for the Victory Day Parade in Moscow - 7 May 2022\n\nOne commander in northern Russia requested a criminal case be brought against his subordinate who would not return to Ukraine, but a military prosecutor refused to proceed, according to documents seen by the BBC. Such an action would be \"premature\" without having assessed the harm to the military service he was involved in, the prosecutor said.\n\nAnd there is no guarantee that more prosecutions might not emerge in the future.\n\nSoldiers like Sergey - reluctant to return to the front line - are not unusual, according to Ruslan Leviev, the editor of Conflict Intelligence Team, a media project investigating the experiences of the Russian military in Ukraine through confidential interviews and open source material.\n\nLeviev says his team estimates a sizeable minority of the Russian contract soldiers sent to Ukraine to fight in the initial invasion refused to go back again.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin visits soldiers wounded during the conflict in Ukraine - 25 May 2022\n\nIndependent Russian media have also been reporting hundreds of cases of soldiers refusing repeat deployments to Ukraine since the beginning of April.\n\nSeveral lawyers and human rights activists the BBC spoke to said they had been regularly offering advice to men trying to avoid returning to Ukraine. Each of our interviewees had dealt with dozens of cases and believed those soldiers were also sharing advice with their colleagues.\n\nAlthough Sergey does not want to return to the front line, he does want to complete his outstanding military service in Russia to avoid any unforeseen consequences. But that means that - while his letter of refusal to fight was accepted - there are no guarantees he won't be sent back to Ukraine during his service period.\n\n\"I can see that the war continues, it is not going away,\" he told the BBC. \"In these months [of compulsory military service] that I have left, anything - including the worst - could happen.\"", "There was a sense of resignation in the centre of Brecon after Conservative MPs voted to back Boris Johnson.\n\n“It’s almost a case of better the devil you know really,” one man told me.\n\nWe heard the sentiment more than once from people who didn’t see an obvious alternative leader in a seat the Tories reclaimed from the Liberal Democrats in 2019.\n\nDawn McIntosh says she is \"on the fence\" about Boris Johnson but is sticking with his party Image caption: Dawn McIntosh says she is \"on the fence\" about Boris Johnson but is sticking with his party\n\nAt her carpet and flooring business, Youngs, in the town centre, Dawn McIntosh said she would stick with the Conservatives.\n\nShe was “on the fence” about Johnson, but thought “now would definitely be the wrong time” to change the leader.\n\nMalcolm MacDonald, whose family have a fish stall in the town market, said the prime minister had been the subject of a “witch hunt”.\n\n“Johnson has got a lot of faults, but so has everybody,” he said.\n\n“He looks like a clown, but he’s not as big a clown as everyone thinks he is.”\n\nMalcolm MacDonald: \"He’s not as big a clown as everyone thinks he is\" Image caption: Malcolm MacDonald: \"He’s not as big a clown as everyone thinks he is\"", "The Duchess of Cambridge and her children baked the cakes for the Jubilee street party in Cardiff\n\nIt's not every day you have a royal street party - or get to eat cakes baked by princes and a princess.\n\nBut some celebrating the Platinum Jubilee had a right royal treat when they turned up to their street party in Heath, Cardiff.\n\nFairy cakes, made by the Duchess of Cambridge and her children, were left as a surprise following the the royal visit on Saturday.\n\n\"We hope you like them\", the Duke and Duchess posted on twitter.\n\n\"It was a lovely thought for the Royal children to make cakes for the children in the Heath,\" said Cardiff Lord Mayor Graham Hinchey.\n\nMr Hinchey said he met the Royal couple on Saturday at Cardiff Castle and they made the offer to provide the cakes for his community in the Heath.\n\n\"Welcoming the Royal couple and children to Cardiff was lovely, I took them through the Castle event, it was really nice and has made my week as Lord Mayor very special,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe fairy cakes arrived at a Platinum Jubilee street party in Heath, Cardiff\n\n\"It was really lovely to welcome the Duke and Duchess and to have the children come to Cardiff for their first royal visit, they were so friendly so welcoming and so relaxed,\" the lord mayor added.\n\nOn Saturday Prince George and Princess Charlotte joined their parents in the Welsh capital for their first official outing in Wales.\n\nThey met a host of performers including singer Bonnie Tyler and drumming weatherman Owain Wyn Evans, and greeted hundreds of well-wishers before leaving to head back to the celebrations in London.\n\nHundreds of people are expected to visit Cardiff's Bute Park on Sunday for the Big Jubilee Picnic, while similar events are set to take place across the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Princess Charlotte conducts orchestra at Jubilee rehearsal in Cardiff during Saturday's visit\n\nElsewhere in Wales, a planned Jubilee carnival in Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, was almost thrown into chaos after a marquee hired for the carnival was blown away by the wind on Saturday.\n\n\"The marquee, it just took off, I was trying to hang onto it but I couldn't,\" said Janett Bickley, chair of the carnival committee, who is dressed as The Queen.\n\nSunday's Jubilee carnival in Aberfan was saved after the local community centre stepped in to host\n\nHowever the celebration was saved after the local centre stepped stepped in in to host, and the party was saved.\n\n\"We've been planning this since January,\" said Ms Bickley, adding that she still expected a big turnout for the event.\n\nIt's so exciting, we had a massive venue, it was going to a festival spirit, but obviously because of weather issues we've had to relocate to the community centre.\n\nThere's going to be at least five hundred people, I don't know how we're going to fit them all in, but it's so brilliant to see everybody here smiling and bringing the community back together.\"\n\nThe jubilee carnival was saved, and the local community centre is now hosting more than 500 people\n\nMeanwhile, around 90 portions of fish and chips have been served up at a Jubilee party for veterans and residents living in Offa, Wrexham.\n\nThe party - initially meant to be held in Bellevue Park - also moved into the community centre after concerns about thunderstorms.\n\nAt the party was 97-year-old Ted Edwards - Wrexham's last remaining Normandy veteran - who said he was \"very proud\" of the Queen.\n\nTed Edwards said that the Queen - 12 months his junior - was \"still a baby\"\n\n\"The Queen was a driver in the war. She did a wonderful job,\" said Mr Edwards.\n\n\"I think she's feeling it now that she's lost her husband. I know how she feels, when I lost my wife.\"\n\nHe added that at 96, 12 months younger than him, the Queen was \"still a baby\".", "Russian state media have confirmed the death of one of Moscow's top generals during heavy fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.\n\nMaj Gen Roman Kutuzov was killed leading an assault on a Ukrainian settlement in the region, a reporter with the state-owned Rossiya 1 said.\n\nAlexander Sladkov said Gen Kutuzov had been commanding troops from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has not commented on the reports.\n\n\"The general had led soldiers into attack, as if there are not enough colonels,\" Mr Sladkov wrote on the Telegram social media app. \"On the other hand, Roman was the same commander as everyone else, albeit a higher rank.\"\n\nUkraine's military also confirmed the killing of Gen Kutuzov, without offering further details about the circumstances.\n\nHis death comes as rumours circulated on social media that a second senior officer, Lt Gen Roman Berdnikov, commander of the 29th Army, was also killed in fighting over the weekend. The BBC cannot independently verify the claims.\n\nRussian commanders have been increasingly forced to the front in an attempt to drive forward the invasion and Moscow has confirmed the deaths of four senior generals.\n\nKyiv claims to have killed 12 generals and Western intelligence officials say at least seven senior commanders have been killed.\n\nBut there has been confusion over reports of the deaths of several other Russian officers. Three generals that Ukrainian forces claimed to have killed have subsequently been reported to be alive.\n\nIn March, Ukrainian forces said Maj Gen Vitaly Gerasimov had been killed outside the country's second city of Kharkiv. However, on 23 May Russian state media said he had been awarded a state honour and dismissed reports of his death.\n\nAnother commander, Maj Gen Magomed Tushaev, also appeared to be still alive and periodically appears in videos posted to social media.\n\nAnd on 18 March, Kyiv alleged that Lt Gen Andrey Mordvichev had been killed in an airstrike in the Kherson region. However, he later appeared in a video meeting with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and on 30 May BBC Russia confirmed that he was still alive.\n\nThe deaths of generals are rarely officially acknowledged in Russia. In the case of Maj Gen Vladimir Frolov, no information about his death had appeared in state media prior to his funeral in St Petersburg in April.\n\nRussia lists military deaths as state secrets even in times of peace and has not updated its official casualty figures in Ukraine since 25 March, when it said that 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nIn March, an official within President Volodymyr Zelensky's inner circle told the Wall Street journal that a team of Ukrainian military intelligence officers had been tasked with locating and targeting Russia's officer class.\n\n\"They look for high profile generals, pilots, artillery commanders,\" the official said. They added that the officers were then targeted either with sniper fire or artillery.\n\nLast month, the New York Times reported that the US has provided intelligence to Ukraine, allowing them to target a number of the generals who have been killed in action.\n\nLt Gen Yakov Rezantsev was reportedly killed by a Ukrainian strike on the Chornobaivka airbase near the city of Kherson.\n\nHe was promoted to lieutenant general last year, and was commander of the 49th combined army of Russia's southern military district.\n\nHe is said to have taken part in Russia's military operation in Syria.\n\nMaj Gen Oleg Mityaev reportedly died somewhere near the city of Mariupol, a city in south-east Ukraine which was the scene of a protracted Russian siege.\n\nThe nationalist Azov regiment claimed to have killed him.\n\nHe was a commander of the Russian army's 150th motorised rifle division, a relatively new unit formed in 2016, and based in the Rostov region close to the Ukrainian border.\n\nUkraine claims that the unit was created in order to take part in the conflict in separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, although Russia denies that its military was involved in fighting there.\n\nMaj Gen Andrei Kolesnikov, of the 29th combined army, was killed in fighting on 11 March, according to official Ukrainian sources.\n\nThe circumstances of his death were not given.\n\nAfter Kolesnikov became the third Russian general reportedly killed in Ukraine, one western official told the Press Association that the Russian army may be suffering from low morale, which is why high-ranking military officers are moving closer to the front line.\n\nMaj Gen Andrey Sukhovetsky, a deputy commander at the same unit as Gerasimov, was reportedly killed by a sniper on 3 March.\n\nLike Gerasimov, Sukhovetsky was part of Russia's military operations in Crimea and in Syria.\n\nUnlike the other generals, Sukhovetsky's death was reported in the Russian media and Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed in a speech that a general had died in Ukraine.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party by 211 to 148.\n\nSpeaking after the results were announced, Mr Johnson said, \"it's a convincing, decisive result and what it means as a government is that we can focus on what matters to people\".\n\nAfter securing 58.8% of the total vote, with 41.2% voting against his leadership, the current rules state that he can not face another confidence vote for at least a year.", "Former cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt has urged Tory MPs to vote against Boris Johnson in Monday's vote on his leadership, as the PM and his allies seek to galvanise support.\n\nThe former health secretary said he would be \"voting for change\" in the confidence ballot.\n\nScores of Tory MPs angry about Partygate and other issues wrote to party bosses to trigger the vote.\n\nBut ahead of the vote, the PM vowed to lead Tory MPs \"to victory again\".\n\nIf most Tory MPs vote to express no confidence in him, Mr Johnson will be ousted from office and a contest will be held to replace him as leader of the party and PM.\n\nAssuming every Conservative MP casts a vote and nobody abstains, this means 180 will have to vote against Mr Johnson to topple him.\n\nThe vote has taken place is Parliament, with a result announced on Monday evening.\n\nIn a meeting of Tory MPs in Parliament before the vote, the prime minister warned that a \"pointless fratricidal debate\" risked letting Labour into government and promised that \"the best is yet to come\".\n\nHe hinted at tax cuts and pointed to previous achievements, such as delivering Brexit and support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.\n\nFormer Brexit minister Steve Baker said although the PM had made a \"strong case\" for his leadership and was likely to win, he would still vote against him.\n\nIn contrast his Tory colleague Brendan Clarke-Smith said there were \"a lot of claps for the prime minister\", who addressed issues around Partygate, integrity and trust.\n\nIn a letter sent to Tory MPs earlier, Mr Johnson said putting their confidence in him would \"put an end to the media's favourite obsession\" and allow his government to focus on voters' priorities.\n\nConfirmation of the no-confidence vote comes after more than a week of speculation over the PM's future.\n\nDiscontent among Tory MPs has grown since a highly critical report into lockdown parties in and near Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic was published last month.\n\nAn interim version of the report, written by senior official Sue Gray and published in January, prompted a trickle of Tory MPs to urge Mr Johnson to stand down.\n\nBut the full version, which laid bare the scale of Covid rule-breaking in No 10, has led to renewed calls within the party for him to resign.\n\nThere has also been unhappiness within the party over tax rises and the government's response to rising living costs.\n\nJeremy Hunt, who is among those Tory MPs seen as a potential candidate to replace the PM if a leadership contest takes place, has confirmed he will be voting against Mr Johnson later.\n\nThe former foreign secretary, who stood unsuccessfully against Mr Johnson in the 2019 Tory leadership election, tweeted that the direction of the party's leadership was \"not a debate I wanted to have now\" because of the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut he added: \"Conservative MPs know in our hearts we are not giving the British people the leadership they deserve.\n\n\"We are not offering the integrity, competence and vision necessary to unleash the enormous potential of our country.\"\n\nFellow Tory MP John Penrose also called on Mr Johnson to resign, adding he was resigning from a role as his anti-corruption champion.\n\nIn a letter posted on Twitter, he added the \"only fair conclusion\" from Ms Gray's Partygate report was that Mr Johnson had broken the ministerial rulebook's provisions on leadership.\n\nJeremy Hunt has come out against the PM ahead of the vote.\n\nHowever, cabinet ministers have expressed their support for Mr Johnson ahead of the vote later, with many of them taking similar lines in defending the prime minister's record.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries - a staunch ally of the PM - recalled conversations about the pandemic she had had with Mr Hunt when she was a health minister.\n\nMs Dorries said Mr Hunt's preparation during six years as health secretary was found wanting and inadequate, and accused him of \"destabilising the party and country to serve your own personal ambition\".\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said the PM had \"got the big calls right - securing life-saving vaccines, firing up our economy and standing up to Putin's aggression against Ukraine\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he predicted that Mr Johnson would win a \"large majority\" at tonight's vote, allowing ministers to \"get on with the job\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak added: \"From the vaccine rollout to our response to Russian aggression, the PM has shown the strong leadership our country needs.\n\n\"I am backing him today and will continue to back him as we focus on growing the economy, tackling the cost of living and clearing the Covid backlogs.\"\n\nPlenty of Tory MPs - including the rebels - expect Boris Johnson to win tonight.\n\nBut an arithmetical win is not the same as a political one. Theresa May won a confidence vote easily, but was gone within six months.\n\nWhat we will get tonight is an indisputable number: the number of Tory MPs who want the prime minister out.\n\nIt's a number that will hang around Boris Johnson's neck for the rest of his time in office.\n\nHe will argue other numbers matter far more: the nearly 14 million people who voted Conservative at the last election, and the whopping majority he won in the House of Commons.\n\nBut make no mistake: confidence votes are almost always bad news for political leaders.\n\nThe confidence vote was announced on Monday morning by Sir Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 backbench committee that organises such contests.\n\nHe confirmed he had informed the PM on Sunday that the required threshold for a vote - 15% of the party, or 54 MPs - had been hit.\n\nIf Mr Johnson wins the vote, under current Tory party rules he will be safe from a backbench challenge for a year.\n\nThe stipulation had prompted speculation that those aiming to replace the PM would have preferred a vote to take place later this month, after two tricky by-elections for the Tories in Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield.\n\nEven if he wins this evening's vote, a large number of backbenchers voting against Mr Johnson could deliver a serious blow to his authority that spells the eventual end of his premiership.\n\nHis predecessor in No 10, Theresa May, survived a confidence vote in her leadership in late 2018 but resigned six months later after failing to get her Brexit deal passed in Parliament.\n• None Partygate: What does the Sue Gray report reveal?", "The WHO says this the first time so many cases hae been reported at the same time in widely disparate areas\n\nThere have been 780 confirmed cases of monkeypox in countries where the virus is not usually found, the World Health Organization says.\n\nThat is roughly triple the 257 cases it reported a week ago.\n\nIt says the figure - for the past three weeks - is probably an underestimate and assesses the global risk level as \"moderate\".\n\nThe infection is usually mild, but this is the first time it has spread widely outside Central and West Africa.\n\nThe WHO said cases had been identified in 27 countries where it is not already \"endemic\" - meaning places it is expected to be found.\n\nMost of these new cases are in Europe and North America as well as small numbers in Mexico, Argentina, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe UK has the most cases, with 207, followed by Spain with 156 and Portugal with 138.\n\nIn its latest update, the WHO said some countries were reporting that new cases were appearing beyond known contacts of previously confirmed cases, which it said suggested chains of transmission were being \"missed through undetected circulation of the virus\".\n\n\"It is highly likely that other countries will identify cases and there will be further spread of the virus,\" it added.\n\nWhile the current risk to human health for the general public \"remains low\", the public health risk could \"become high\" if the virus becomes widespread in countries where it is not normally found, it said. No deaths have been reported as a result of the current outbreak.\n\nThe global health body said most, but not all, of the reported cases so far have involved men who have sex with men. There is no evidence that monkeypox is sexually transmitted, but it is passed on through close contact.\n\nThe organisation said many cases were not presenting with the typical clinical picture for monkeypox, with some describing pustules appearing before symptoms such as fever.\n\nMost cases of the virus clear up on their own within a few weeks. Symptoms include fever, headaches, swellings, back pain, aching muscles, as well as a rash which goes through different stages.\n\nMonkeypox can sometimes be more severe, however, and has been reported to have caused deaths in West Africa in the past.", "The experience of Liverpool football supporters at the Champions League final in Paris has been condemned by MPs as \"terrifying\" and \"chaotic\".\n\nLabour urged ministers to \"establish the facts\" over the treatment of the fans at the Stade de France on 28 May,\n\nSupporters have described heavy-handed policing, organisational chaos and overcrowding at the game.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston told the Commons he would raise concerns with his French counterpart this week.\n\nUefa, the footballing body in charge of European competitions, has already commissioned an independent review.\n\nParis is due to host the 2024 Olympics and 2023 men's Rugby World Cup. But the trouble leading up to the Champions League final have raised questions over France's suitability as a host nation.\n\nLiverpool fans faced crushing and tear gas as they waited outside the Stade de France before the match\n\nShadow Culture Secretary, Lucy Powell, said the match was \"chaotic, scary and atrociously managed\", adding the \"French authorities' handling of the final puts in doubt their ability to host such events in the future\".\n\nLiverpool fans faced long delays getting into the ground, being crushed in the queues while waiting before French authorities deployed tear gas.\n\nMPs spoke of their concerns following an urgent question in the Commons from Ian Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby.\n\nMr Byrne, who was at the final, suggested the the events in Paris could have led to a repeat of the Hillsborough disaster, which led to 97 fans losing their lives as a result of the injuries suffered in a stadium crush.\n\n\"I was there last Saturday in Paris, I was also there at Hillsborough in 1989, and I can say without any shadow of a doubt that if it was not for the magnificent efforts of the Liverpool supporters last Saturday, we could have had a disaster worse than Hillsborough.\n\n\"I witnessed first-hand the shambolic stadium management and the most hostile policing environment at a sporting event I have ever witnessed\".\n\nMr Huddleston said: \"There were clearly some logistical challenges that require explanation but we've not seen any clear justification from Uefa or the French authorities for the scenes on the ground\".\n\nHe said that evidence showed that the \"vast majority of fans behaved impeccably, waited patiently outside the stadium to get in and many then did not even make it in\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadine Dorries criticises Jeremy Hunt for challenging the prime minister \"on the day Russia sends rockets into Kyiv”\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries has accused Jeremy Hunt of \"destabilising the country\" after the Tory MP confirmed he would vote against Boris Johnson in a confidence vote.\n\nMs Dorries tweeted Mr Hunt was serving his own personal ambition after the widely-tipped leadership contender said he was \"voting for change\".\n\nThe ex-foreign secretary said his party would lose at the next election if it did not oust Boris Johnson as leader.\n\nIf the prime minister loses the vote, he will have to resign as the Conservative Party leader and a leadership election will follow.\n\nMs Dorries tweeted: \"Your duplicity right now in destabilising the party and country to serve your own personal ambition, more so...\n\n\"You've been wrong about almost everything, you are wrong again now.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nadine Dorries This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe culture secretary also accused Mr Hunt - who lost against Mr Johnson in the 2019 Tory leadership contest - of telling her the government would collapse after Brexit and he would \"swoop in\".\n\nShe added that when she was health minister, Mr Hunt told her the government should follow the pandemic response of China with mandatory two-week stays in quarantine hotels for infected people.\n\nMs Dorries also took aim at Mr Hunt over his preparedness for a pandemic when he served as health secretary from 2012 to 2018.\n\n\"Your pandemic preparation during six years as health secretary was found wanting and inadequate,\" she said.\n\nAsked about her comments, Ms Dories told the BBC: \"It's nothing I want to say, but I'm incredibly disappointed that Jeremy Hunt - who said throughout 'I'm not going to challenge the prime minister while there's a war in Ukraine' - has come out and challenged the prime minister on the day Russia sends rockets into Kiev.\"\n\nBBC political editor Chris Mason said Ms Dorries has incensed some MPs and her comments are tempting some to vote against the prime minister - because they feel they come with his endorsement.\n\nBut our political editor said one MP said he would not vote for Mr Hunt in a future leadership contest because he has attempted \"to wield the knife on the PM\" and many colleagues felt the same way.\n\nMr Hunt has been contacted for comment.\n\nJeremy Hunt said the Conservative Party would lose at the next election if it did not change leader\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Hunt said because of the war in Ukraine he did not want the party to have a leadership contest, but that the party was \"set to lose the next general election\" if it did not change leader.\n\nHe said: \"Having been trusted with power, Conservative MPs know in our hearts we are not giving the British people the leadership they deserve.\n\n\"We are not offering the integrity, competence and vision necessary to unleash the enormous potential of our country.\"", "Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, has announced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party.\n\nHe won by 211 votes to 148, and the current rules state that he can not face another confidence vote for at least a year.", "Sergei Lavrov forged close ties with Serbia before the Ukraine war\n\nA visit to Serbia by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been cancelled because three of Serbia's neighbours have refused to let his plane use their airspace.\n\nEU member Bulgaria imposed the flight ban, along with North Macedonia and Montenegro - countries hoping, like Serbia, to join the EU.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine triggered an EU airspace ban in February.\n\nMr Lavrov has blamed \"the Brussels puppeteers\" for the latest move.\n\nSerbia has not joined the EU's wide-ranging sanctions against Russia, and remains friendly with the nation. The EU and UK imposed a blanket flight ban on Russian planes - including the private jets of oligarchs - days after the 24 February invasion.\n\nLike many other European countries, Serbia relies heavily on Russian gas. Mr Lavrov was to have had talks in Belgrade with President Aleksandar Vucic on 6-7 June.\n\nIn a statement broadcast on Russian state news channel Rossiya 24, he described the decision as \"unprecedented\" and said that \"no one will be able to destroy our relations with Serbia\".\n\nHe also said: \"It seems that the Brussels puppeteers very much did not want to again give us a platform so that in the capital of Serbia we could confirm Russia's position on the problem of Kosovo and the problem of Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\n\"They probably did not want us to express support for Belgrade's initiative to realise the open Balkans project in the interests of making healthier, stronger relations between all the countries of the region.\"\n\nThe Kremlin strongly backs Serbia's refusal to recognise Kosovo's independence. Russia was angered by the Nato bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999 during the Kosovo war.\n\nIn his statement on Monday, Mr Lavrov accused Nato and the EU of wanting to \"turn the Balkans into their own project called closed Balkans.\"\n\nCommenting on the move to bar Mr Lavrov's flight, a Russian foreign ministry source said \"our diplomacy has yet to master teleportation\".\n\nSerbia's interior minister, Aleksandar Vulin, said he deeply regretted the \"obstruction\" of Lavrov's visit, adding \"Serbia is proud that it is not part of the anti-Russian hysteria\".\n\nIn early March thousands of pro-Russian Serbs marched through Belgrade, reflecting the countries' traditionally close ties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as thousands of pro-Russia Serbs march through the centre of Belgrade", "Older Mercedes M-Class models are among those being recalled\n\nGerman carmaker Mercedes-Benz is recalling almost 1m older vehicles from around the world because of potential problems with their braking system.\n\nOver the weekend, the company said it will contact owners of the vehicles as their brakes may be affected by what it called \"advanced corrosion\".\n\nThe recall affects a total of 993,407 vehicles, including 70,000 in Germany.\n\nMercedes recalled a similar number of cars last year over a safety issue with their emergency call system.\n\nThe company said the vehicles in the latest recall were built between 2004 and 2015 and were from its ML and GL series of SUVs and R-Class luxury minivans.\n\n\"We have found that in some of those vehicles, the function of the brake booster could be affected by advanced corrosion in the joint area of the housing,\" Mercedes said in a statement on Saturday.\n\n\"It might be possible for a particularly strong or hard braking manoeuvre to cause mechanical damage to the brake booster,\" it said.\n\n\"In such a very rare case, it would not be possible to decelerate the vehicle via the service brake. Thus the risk of a crash or injury would be increased,\" it added.\n\nMercedes said it is starting the recall immediately and that the process would involve inspecting the potentially faulty vehicles and replacing parts if necessary.\n\nLast February, the company recalled over 1m cars because of a defect in its \"eCall\" feature, which alerts emergency services of an accident and relays the vehicle's location.\n\nThe defect meant it was possible that a wrong location could be sent.\n\nBecause the problem was software-related, the fix was mostly done \"over the air\" - via a wireless download using the car's existing mobile data connection.\n\nThe eCall system is mandatory in the European Union for all cars sold since 2018.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theo Leggett reports from last year's International Motor Show in Munich, Germany.", "From Lysychansk, smoke could be seen rising above Severodonetsk\n\nRussian forces have entered the city of Severodonetsk, as they continue their attempts to capture the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. One of the region's governors says that the bombardment of the industrial centre is so intense that they have given up counting the casualties.\n\nJust days ago, I watched from a rooftop in Lysychansk as, on the horizon, its twin city of Severodonetsk was being bombed indiscriminately. Shells were landing every minute on its length and breath. Severodonetsk was burning.\n\nLysychansk itself has been drained of life. A few people still go out on the streets, but they are mostly deserted. Artillery fire is a regular threat. The air carried on the summer breeze is gritty with dust from smoke and pulverised buildings.\n\nHaving failed to conquer all of Ukraine, Russian forces are now targeting Donbas - made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. If Severodonetsk and Lysychansk fall, the whole of Luhansk would be occupied.\n\nHere, Russia isn't fighting a campaign of attrition, it's waging a war of oblivion. And, for the moment on this front, it is winning.\n\nSmoke rises from a bombed oil refinery in Lysychansk, 27 May\n\nSerhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, now says that all critical infrastructure in Severodonetsk has been destroyed. Previously, he suggested that Ukrainian forces may have to withdraw from the city and Lysychansk.\n\nThe scene of devastation in a third city, Rubizhne - in peacetime just a short drive to the north - shows what Russia's unrelenting artillery fire is capable of. Looking from Lysychansk into the distance, there is now a blot on the emerald green landscape. The small city is gone - scoured from the earth.\n\nThe way it fell some two weeks ago, marks an important shift in how Vladimir Putin's forces are now fighting the war. Gone are long armoured columns and tank and infantry attacks seen in the first months, in favour of large-scale artillery barrages - as many as 1500 shells a day in Rubizhne - to wipe out resistance before any ground advance.\n\nOverwhelming Russian firepower - particularly artillery - underlines the urgent need, say Ukrainian field commanders, for more advanced weapons from the West to halt the enemy advance.\n\nThe great sweep of Donbas runs along Ukraine's eastern flank from Severodonetsk in the north, ending at the southern coast around the city of Mariupol - the hard-fought over city recently captured by Russia in one of its biggest gains in the war.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Ukraine was losing 50-100 troops a day in the region. In Lysychansk, I meet private first class, Vladimir, serving with a reconnaissance unit in the country's National Guard. Russian forces are adapting, he says, first they came in \"bold and got hit hard\", now the enemy flattens what it can't capture with infantry.\n\nHe tells me of his month in Rubizhne. \"It wasn't Mariupol, but it was pretty close. It was very hard. There were a lot of losses - a lot of fighting across streets. There was also artillery, just removing those houses very fast. People were trying to hide in the basement so they had no view, no assessment of the current situation. So there were a lot of losses during that time.\"\n\nThe men and women fighting in Donbas for Ukraine are not inexperienced. Many have fought against Russian-backed separatists who, since 2014, have been trying to secede from Ukraine. But, in this new battle for the region, they face a national army - one that has large resources of men and equipment. Even for experienced fighters, the volume and nature of Russian weaponry being used in Donbas is overwhelming.\n\nI speak to another guardsman who doesn't want to give his name. \"It's not my first war,\" he says, \"I mean that one was a trench warfare, so it's a bit different [this time]. When I went to Rubizhne I saw the whole picture. It was tough. Shots with high-explosive fragmentation grenades, 82 mm calibre weapons,\" he says, stopping to draw on a cigarette.\n\nVladimir - the Ukrainian soldier - says the local population are \"30% pro-Ukrainian, 30% pro-Russian and 40% don't care\". Of course, many pro-Ukrainian residents have now fled.\n\nMore from Quentin Sommerville on the front line:\n\nSince the start of the war, military analysts have made much of Russia's rising casualty numbers and the weakness of morale among its soldiers. Casualty numbers are still rising, but Russia isn't running out of men in Donbas. Nor is the Kremlin running short of artillery shells. The explosives which are hammering Lysychansk and Severodonetsk seem in plentiful supply. The surrounding countryside too is marked like a pox with black artillery craters spreading for miles along fields and roadways.\n\n\"There's a lot of artillery,\" says Vladimir. \"Bombardments are like a nightmare, we shoot one round, they shoot 10. When our sniper is shooting, they send in a full packet of Grads on his position. So it's basically a sniper with one bullet and they send like $1,000 of artillery rounds. They really don't care how much ammunition they use.\"\n\nLike Vladimir, many of the men I met in Lysychansk were previously the defenders of Rubizhne. Having been through hell once, they say they prepared to endure it a second time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rubizhne destroyed - and Russian soldiers carry the body of a dead comrade - view from a Ukrainian drone\n\nFootage given to the BBC by a unit of the National Guard shows a landscape there which could be a recreation of World War Two devastation - lines of shelled-out houses, empty streets with only corpses and dead animals along the pathways. And there's another reminder too from that war - shellshock. Men left the town with shaking hands and limbs - and constant headaches. \"Cigarettes and coffee are all that keep them away,\" said one young lieutenant called Pasha.\n\nOn the outskirts of Lysychansk, bigger guns have arrived on the Ukrainian front line. Another unit of the National Guard are working on an M777 howitzer, newly received from the Australian government. It has two kangaroos painted on the barrel.\n\nThe gun is welcome but, as almost everyone I meet tells me, they need more. They specifically asked for longer range weapons. The US has agreed to send them far more powerful multiple launch rocket systems. They could be a game-changer in Donbas, if they arrive in time.\n\nSome Western commentators believe Ukraine should submit to end the destruction and cede its territory. But, for the weary Ukrainian defenders facing the Russian onslaught, that is unthinkable. In fact, the losses they have suffered have only galvanised their belief that the enemy must be stopped and pushed back.\n\nVladimir Putin gambled big - and lost - on taking all of Ukraine, so perhaps that explains the enormous resources he is throwing at achieving a tactical win in Donbas. But a Kremlin victory here won't mean defeat for Ukraine.\n\nI ask the unnamed guardsman, tired after months of battle, but still here at front, what it will take to win?\n\n\"There is a sky, and the sky is ours. Drones are helping a lot. Weapons have arrived and multiple rocket launchers. America, lend-lease…\" he tells me. \"The only question is time. It's time and that's it. And then everything will be Ukraine.\"", "A Ukrainian police officer inspects damaged remains of a student centre in Lysychansk destroyed in Russian shelling\n\nUkrainian forces still holding out in the eastern city of Severodonetsk are outnumbered by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\nBoth sides fought for the city in street-by-street battles on Monday as artillery shells rained from above.\n\nThe intensity of fighting there and in nearby Lysychansk has made them both \"dead cities\", Mr Zelensky said.\n\nIf captured, the two strategic targets would deliver Russian forces the entire Luhansk region in Ukraine's east.\n\nSince pulling its forces back from the Kyiv region in March, Russia has refocused its military efforts on Ukraine's eastern Donbas making slow advances there in recent weeks.\n\nDespite the Russians' superior numbers, Mr Zelensky said the Ukrainian defenders were holding out and had \"every chance\" of fighting back.\n\nSmoke and dirt rising above Severodonetsk amid intense fighting in the eastern city on Thursday between Russian and Ukrainian forces\n\nArtillery strikes have also intensified on neighbouring Lysychansk, which Mr Zelensky said he had visited on Sunday as part of a tour of the eastern front line.\n\nAn elderly resident in the city, Oleksandr Lyakhovets, said a Russian missile had struck his flat soon after, engulfing it in flames.\n\n\"They shoot here endlessly... It's a horror show,\" the 67-year-old told AFP news agency.\n\nRussian forces have made slow progress in Ukraine's eastern Donbas in recent weeks.\n\nTheir troops currently control almost all of the Luhansk region as well as a significant proportion of the neighbouring Donetsk region. The two regions make up the Donbas.\n\nFighting has been slow and bloody with both sides sustaining significant losses.\n\nRussian state media said on Sunday that one of the army's top officials, Maj Gen Roman Kutuzov, had been killed while leading an offensive on an unspecified Ukrainian town in the region.\n\nWestern countries have responded to the grinding conflict with pledges to send even more advanced, long-range weapons to Kyiv that they hope will bolster Ukraine's defensive capacity in the east.\n\nOn Monday the UK confirmed that long-range missile systems would be included for the first time in the next batch of military aid that it is sending to Ukraine.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said he considers any delivery of long-range weapons by Western countries to be a deliberate attempt to prolong the conflict. He said Russia would respond by expanding the list of targets that it was striking across Ukraine if longer-range weapons were sent to his adversaries.\n\nIn Mariupol, which was captured by Russia in May after a months-long siege, the Associated Press news agency is reporting that dozens of corpses belonging to soldiers who had been defending the city's Azovstal steel mill had finally been returned to Kyiv where they were undergoing DNA tests.\n\nOther soldiers who survived the siege were taken to Russian-controlled areas. On Monday, Mr Zelensky said that more than 2,500 of them were being held as prisoners of war.\n\nResidents in the now Russian-controlled port city have been facing a growing humanitarian crisis, compounded by severe shortages of food and water.\n\nOn Monday a Ukrainian official said contamination from decomposing corpses and rubbish had sparked a cholera outbreak - prompting a city-wide quarantine.\n\n\"We are seeing the city get closed off,\" said Petro Andryushchenko, who is an adviser to the city's mayor, to United News TV.\n\n\"The word 'cholera' is being mentioned inside the city, among occupying authorities and their handlers,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.", "Kyiv didn't feel like a city bracing itself for 150,000 Russian soldiers to cross the border into Ukraine.\n\nArriving in Kyiv in January I decided to brave the supermarket near my flat. You could get your hands on just about any kind of meat or vegetable it seemed, even a pint of beer on aisle six.\n\n\"It's all a bluff\", \"we're at war already\", were the most common responses when I asked people whether they were worried about what seemed to be the unthinkable at the time.\n\nOf course, within five weeks that all changed. Some in the West predicted Kyiv would fall within 72 hours.\n\nOver a period of 100 days the city has gone from stubborn normality, through complete darkness, and is now emerging into some sort of calm.\n\nIt's still far from what it was before the war, but it's nevertheless a picture of defiance.\n\n\"You'd better get your stuff together,\" was the short phone call I received at 04:50 on 24 February.\n\nI headed to the roof of our building.\n\nThere were regular thuds from air strikes. Low-flying jets occasionally flew overhead, and black plumes of smoke appeared on the horizon.\n\nThen, not for the last time, the howl of the siren.\n\nThe shadow of war had descended on this ancient city, and it felt almost immediate.\n\nMany of those who chose to stay in Kyiv headed underground\n\nHighways out of Kyiv were blocked by thousands of cars trying to get away from the Russian advance.\n\nPeople queued at ATMs, as well as recruitment offices for Ukraine's territorial defence. They would show ID and be issued with the now familiar yellow armband and an automatic weapon.\n\nJust before midday, President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that anyone prepared to defend Ukraine would be armed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Володимир Зеленський This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThese extraordinary words from a world leader matched the immediate threat his country faced.\n\nFrom our bomb shelter, people watched on the social media platform, Telegram, as Russian paratroopers tried to take the Hostomel air base to the north-west of Kyiv.\n\nThere was fierce fighting, and it was in this area where the new frontline formed.\n\nThe following weeks would see the Russians resort to longer-range missile strikes on central locations in the city. Kyiv's air defence systems often worked, but residential buildings were regularly hit.\n\nMore than half the city's four million population would leave. Across the country almost 15 million Ukrainians would be displaced, according to the United Nations.\n\nA direct hit on the Retroville shopping mall caused a square mile of damage\n\nThe common theme with each impact was the scale of the devastation.\n\nIn March a deadly strike left parts of the Retroville shopping mall in the north-east of the city flattened. Cladding was blown off neighbouring blocks.\n\nHere a kindergarten was damaged from shrapnel from an intercepted missile\n\nThousands of people were trapped in the fighting in surrounding towns like Irpin and Bucha.\n\nTemporary ceasefires allowed some to escape to Kyiv train station, where the majority would travel west towards cities like Lviv.\n\nMany took their chances under heavy shelling.\n\nResidents fled in terror Russia's occupation of towns just outside Kyiv\n\nThe Russian retreat allowed Kyiv to claw back some of the reality it had lost. There were no more military checkpoints in central parts of the city.\n\nExpressions of anger and fear were replaced with occasional smiles. Menus in cafes and restaurants were offering a greater choice. As the sun beamed overhead, it was like looking at Kyiv through a different filter.\n\nDespite fears at the time, the city didn't find itself under siege like Mariupol and Severodonetsk. Clear roads to the south kept blood pumping into it, keeping Kyiv alive.\n\nReprieve for the capital, however, exposed overwhelming evidence of war crimes.\n\nIn residential towns like Borodyanka not one building had been left undamaged.\n\nPolice found hundreds of soldiers and civilians in shallow graves and continue to do so.\n\nThe Kremlin has always denied committing war crimes and described this evidence as \"fake\". However, there is nothing artificial about the devastation that surrounds Kyiv.\n\nThe past few weeks has seen the city feel as normal as it has ever been. The nights are still silent with a 23:00 curfew, but the day brings more life.\n\nMuseums are open once more. Angry traffic jams are a thing again.\n\nOfficials believe the city is back to two-thirds of its original population. It certainly feels like it with busier parks, fuller theatres and subways being used to get the train once again.\n\nDespite the uncertainty remaining over whether the Russians will make another attempt on Ukraine's capital, the city seems determined to heal.\n\nWhat the next 100 days will bring is far from clear, and Ukrainians know it. Restoring normality is just as much a coping mechanism for people, as it is essential.", "The UK is sending its first long-range missiles to Ukraine, the defence secretary has said, despite a threat from Russia to the West.\n\nBen Wallace said the M270 multiple-launch rocket system will help Ukraine defend itself against Russia.\n\nThe government has not confirmed how many weapons will be sent, but the BBC understands it will be three initially.\n\nThe decision comes after the US announced last week it was also supplying a rocket system.\n\nThe move by the US to send its own M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) has already angered Moscow and on Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to expand the list of targets Russia will attack in Ukraine in response.\n\nThe UK government said the Ukrainian military will get training in the UK on how to use the launchers.\n\nThe multiple-launch rocket system can fire 12 surface-to-surface missiles within a minute and can strike targets within 50 miles (80km) with pinpoint accuracy - far further than the artillery Ukraine currently possesses.\n\nMr Wallace said the UK was taking a leading role in supplying Ukrainian troops with the \"vital weapons they need to defend their country from unprovoked invasion\".\n\nHe said: \"As Russia's tactics change, so must our support to Ukraine.\n\n\"These highly capable multiple-launch rocket systems will enable our Ukrainian friends to better protect themselves against the brutal use of long-range artillery, which Putin's forces have used indiscriminately to flatten cities.\"\n\nThe UK and US have led the way in supplying weapons to Ukraine, but giving it advanced long range rockets marks a significant shift, said the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.\n\nIt is also a recognition that Ukraine is struggling to compete against Russia's vast artillery arsenal, he added.\n\nLast week, Washington said it would supply four HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine - following receipt of guarantees they would be used for defensive purposes only and not to strike targets inside Russia. The same restriction applies to the use of the UK's M270 system.\n\nIn an interview on Russian state TV on Sunday, Mr Putin said: \"In general, all this fuss about additional arms supplies, in my opinion, has only one goal - to drag out the armed conflict as long as possible.\"\n\nThe Russian leader said that if missiles with longer ranges did arrive in Ukraine, his country would \"draw appropriate conclusions\" and \"strike at those targets that we are not striking yet\".\n\nThe warning came as explosions shook parts of Kyiv on Sunday in the first assault on the capital city for weeks, while fierce fighting for control of key towns and cities in the eastern Donbas region continues.\n\nRussia refocused its military efforts on the Donbas at the end of March after pulling back from the Kyiv region.\n\nSome of the fiercest fighting is currently in the eastern city of Severodonetsk. Capturing the city would deliver the Luhansk region to Russian forces and their local separatist allies, who also control much of neighbouring Donetsk. The two regions form the heavily industrial Donbas.\n\nOn Sunday, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said he had visited front-line troops in the eastern Donbas region to the city of Lysychansk and the town of Soledar.\n\nThe UK has also delivered more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons - known as Nlaw - which analysts believe have been critical to Ukraine driving back Russian ground assaults since the war began.\n\nOther weapon systems delivered by the government include short-range Brimstone 1 missiles, Mastiff armoured vehicles and Starstreak missile air defence systems - with the overall military support to Ukraine costing £750m so far, the government said.\n\nSeveral other countries have pledged to send advanced weapons to Ukraine. Germany has promised to send its most modern air defence system - the Iris-T - to enable Ukraine to shield an entire city from Russian air attacks.\n\nMeanwhile, a specialist team of lawyers and police officers will be offered to assist the chief prosecutor investigating alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, the Justice Secretary Dominic Raab announced on Monday.\n\nThe offer will include a Metropolitan Police officer stationed in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, in the Netherlands - who will provide the ICC's prosecutor Karim Khan with greater access to British police and military expertise.\n\nSeven lawyers experienced in international criminal law will be offered to help uncover evidence of war crimes committed in Ukraine and prosecute those responsible.\n\nThe ICC has already begun an investigation that may target senior Russian officials thought to be responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.", "Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day week trial from Monday.\n\nAbout 70 companies are taking part in what is thought to be the world's biggest pilot scheme into the working pattern over the next six months.\n\nThe experiment has been organised by a group campaigning for a shorter working week, but for no loss in wages.\n\nDuring the trial, employees will get 100% pay for 80% of the hours they would usually work, with the aim of being more productive.\n\nAcademics from Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well experts at Boston College in the US, will manage the experiment in partnership with the think tank Autonomy.\n\nCompanies ranging from office-based software developers and recruitment firms to charities and a local fish and chip shop are taking part.\n\nSam Smith says the pandemic has changed how people work\n\nSam Smith, co-founder of Pressure Drop Brewery in Tottenham, north London, said it felt \"like a good time\" for the firm to be trying different working practices.\n\n\"The pandemic's made us think a great deal about work and how people organise their lives,\" he added. \"We're doing this to improve the lives of our staff and be part of a progressive change in the world that will improve people's mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nMr Smith's challenge during the pilot scheme is pretty simple. His nine-strong team have to produce and package the same amount of beer as they do now, but in four days instead of five.\n\n\"I think it's about how you use your time,\" said Mr Smith. \"So when I talk about being productive I don't mean being faster at the task you're doing right now, it might be making use of the natural downtimes you have to prepare better for the following day.\"\n\nClare Doherty, who helps run the office for the firm, said the trial is \"fantastic\" and part of a \"natural progression of how we work\".\n\nShe explained that having worked with the business for more than four years and knowing she can do her job has led her to feeling confident she can get her work done efficiently with one day less.\n\n\"It'll take those extra few minutes of scrolling through the internet out of your day because you have to be just that bit more focused to get what you need done in the time you have,\" she said.\n\nClare Doherty says she has to be more focused\n\nMeanwhile, Craig Carmichael, who works on the shop floor, thinks an extra rest day will motivate him to work harder.\n\n\"If I know I have to get stuff done in four days' time to enjoy that extra day, I think that will be a good incentive,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe experiment, involving some 3000 UK workers, is part of worldwide initiative and is running alongside similar, smaller trials in Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\"The UK trial is historic\", said Juliet Schor, the lead researcher on the Global 4-day week project, and an economist and sociologist at Boston College.\n\n\"The basis of this movement is that there's activity going on in many workplaces, particularly white collar workplaces, that's low-productivity and that you can cut without harming the business.\"\n\nShe said the trouble with the five-day week is that work can simply expand to fit the time available.\n\n\"You can be 100% productive in 80% of the time in many workplaces, and companies adopting this around the world have shown that.\"\n\nThe researcher admitted the idea might not suit everyone and every profession, such as health care and teaching, where staff could already be over worked and stressed out.\n\nBut even if workers are just 10% more productive the economics can still stack up, she argued, if it leads to lower sickness rates, fewer staff leaving and making it easier to attract new recruits.\n\nHowever, Julian Jessop, an independent economist and fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said while he was in favour of the trial he was \"sceptical\" it would show good results across the entire economy. \"You'd have to become 25% more productive per day,\" he said.\n\n\"There are some services where a four-day working week is not a realistic option. Doctors are already struggling to provide enough GP appointments - how can they see 25% more patients in a day? And it's difficult to see how a bar person can pull 25% more pints in a day too.\"\n\nGirling Jones, a small construction recruitment firm in Exeter switched to a four-day week in January, but has also signed up to the trial\n\nProductivity is up and so are profits, the boss and company founder Simon Girling said.\n\n\"All our inputs - calls, meetings, interviews, are up... quite simply everyone is doing more in less time,\" he added.\n\nEllen Andreassen says her sleep has improved through working a four-day week\n\nStaff are happier too - Ellen Andreassen said she uses her day off to relax.\n\n\"I'm definitely more motivated. One thing I've noticed is sleep. I'm sleeping a lot better and getting up is a lot easier.\"\n\nHer colleague Josh Cockerill said spending more time with his daughter was helping him save money on nursery fees.\n\n\"You know the fact that you've got a day off in the middle of the week, it gives you more incentive to work harder towards that day off,\" he said.\n\nAfter upending daily routines through the Covid pandemic, the business was ready to try new working patterns.\n\n\"About three years ago I was lucky enough to start a four-day week and it was life changing,\" said Mr Girling.\n\nSimon Girling says his firm switched to a four-day week in January\n\n\"When we came back from the pandemic, we did a lot of research into it and I couldn't see any downside.\n\n\"I think being part of this four-day week pilot, there's going to be some really detailed stats on this. I'm not sure it would work across all industries or businesses but it's a really good opportunity for a lot of firms to change how they work and maybe improve.\"", "A vote of confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership is expected to take place later.\n\nSir Graham Brady, who chairs the Tory committee that organises such votes, is expected to announce the move shortly.\n\nSpeculation about a possible vote this week has been mounting, as Mr Johnson continues to face calls to resign over lockdown parties.\n\nA no-confidence vote will be triggered if 54 Tory MPs submit letters of no-confidence in him.\n\nFormer minister Jesse Norman is the latest to confirm he has done this.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Johnson posted on social media, Mr Norman, the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, said the PM had presided over \"a culture of casual law-breaking\" in No 10.\n\nOn Sunday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also told the BBC the prime minister would not lose a confidence vote among his own MPs.\n\nIn the 10 days since MPs returned to their constituencies for the half-term break, speculation has swirled about whether Mr Johnson will face an internal electoral battle to save his premiership.\n\nFor a confidence ballot to be triggered, 54 Tory MPs must formally put in a letter to Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, asking for one.\n\nSo far 28 Conservative MPs have publicly called on Boris Johnson to step down.\n\nOn Sunday, both Mr Shapps and Mr Scully shrugged off crowds booing the PM at the Jubilee thanksgiving service, with Mr Shapps saying politicians didn't expect to be \"popular all the time\".\n\nMr Scully told Channel 4's The Andrew Neil Show politicians had been \"booed through time immemorial\".\n\nHe added: \"We may well have a vote of confidence. If it does happen, the prime minister, I know, will face it down.\n\n\"But whatever happens, we've got to get back to governing, to tackle the things that people want us to do on a day-to-day basis, not continuing... to look back at two years previous.\"\n\nUnder Conservative Party rules, for a leadership ballot to take place 15% of the parliamentary party - currently 54 MPs - must write letters to the chair of the backbench 1922 Committee saying they no longer support the PM.\n\nIt is not known how many MPs have submitted one so far to the current chairman, Sir Graham Brady.\n\nThis is because he is notoriously discreet about what the tally of letters is at any given time.\n\nIf a confidence motion is called, a majority of Tory MPs must vote against their leader in a secret ballot for them to be removed.\n\nThis would mean in the current Parliament the rebellious MPs would need to get 180 votes in total to succeed in removing Mr Johnson.\n\nA Conservative leader who survives a confidence vote is safe from any further challenge for a year.", "Michaela McAreavey on her wedding day in 2011\n\nA man has been interviewed voluntarily in relation to a video mocking the death of Michaela McAreavey, police have said.\n\nThe 27-year-old woman was murdered on honeymoon in Mauritius in 2011.\n\nThe video emerged on social media last week of a group of people singing a song about Ms McAreavey's murder.\n\nPoliticians across Northern Ireland have condemned the content and the Orange Order has begun an inquiry. Police enquiries are continuing.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long has said she has been in contact with the PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne over the video and police are trying to determine what, if any, offences have been committed.\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Ms Long said: \"I think that - I'm sure that - everyone who is associated with the Orange Order will be relieved that those involved have resigned from the organisation because I'm sure that they would not want to be associated with the chants that were being made at the event and that were then passed around on social media, given the hurt and the offence that it caused.\n\n\"It was a shocking incident, not only because of the content of the video clip, but more so because so many people present seemed to know the song and it seemed to be something people were familiar with, suggesting that it isn't the first time that they've heard it - and I think a lot of people found that particularly chilling.\"\n\nMs Long also told the programme the incident is not \"representative of everyone who is a unionist\" but that it would be wrong to suggest that there is \"not sectarianism that cuts right across our society\".\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed when and where the footage was taken, but it was filmed in a room decorated with union flags and Orange Order paintings\n\nMichaela graduated from Queen's University on the same day in 2006 that her father, Mickey Harte, received an honorary doctorate\n\nOne man who appeared in the video has been sacked by his employer SJC Hutchinson Engineering based in Kilrea, County Londonderry.\n\nIn a statement on social media, the company said: \"The content posted online is abhorrent, divisive and we unequivocally condemn such behaviour.\n\n\"It has no place in society and we will not tolerate such conduct by any member of staff.\n\n\"We have advised the staff member that his employment has been terminated with immediate effect.\"\n\nArmagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council announced on Saturday it was investigating an employee's alleged involvement in the video.\n\nTwo other men who were involved in the video, John Bell and Andrew McDade, issued an apology through JWB Consultancy for the \"vile chant\".\n\nJWB Consultancy is run by loyalist campaigner Jamie Bryson, who has also condemned the video.\n\nSeparately, the Belfast-based football club, Linfield FC, said one of its voluntary coaches \"can be clearly identified\" in the video and his association with the club has been terminated.\n\nMs McAreavey, an Irish language teacher from County Tyrone, was the daughter of Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) football manager Mickey Harte.\n\nShe was found strangled in a bathtub at her honeymoon hotel 12 days after her wedding.\n\nHer family and husband, John McAreavey, continue to lead a campaign to bring her killers to justice, but so far no-one has been convicted over her death.", "Unite says its members want an \"inflation-related pay increase of around 10%\".\n\nArriva buses across parts of Yorkshire have been suspended due to drivers going on strike in a pay dispute.\n\nThe industrial action by Unite members started at 02:00 BST and is to last for \"for an undisclosed period of time\".\n\nPhil Bown, from the union, apologised for the disruption to passengers but said workers wanted an \"inflation-related pay increase of around 10%\".\n\nArriva said its offer was a \"significant increase\" and described the strike action as \"unjustified\".\n\nMr Bown said the pay dispute had been going on for more than eight months and that Arriva had offered between 7% and 12%, but most workers would receive the lower end of pay rise which would be 3% below the current inflation rate.\n\n\"I've got bus drivers here who are working 40 to 50 hours a week can't afford to live on the cost of living that they are,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of them are going to food banks to subsidise their income, they shouldn't have to do that - they're full-time workers.\"\n\nArriva said services across Yorkshire will be affected by the indefinite strike action\n\nGavin Peace, from Arriva, said he was \"extremely disappointed\" at the strike.\n\n\"Arriva offered a substantially improved pay offer which Unite are refusing to ballot their members on,\" he said.\n\n\"This isn't fair to our employees and communities across Yorkshire who want this issue resolved. The strike should be immediately suspended while Unite's members vote on the fair and generous offer.\"\n\nThe bus firm said it would be unable to operate services across Wakefield, Dewsbury, Castleford, Pontefract, Heckmondwike, Cleckheaton, Bradford, Leeds, Ossett, Batley, Morley, Rothwell, South Elmsall, Hemsworth, Huddersfield, Halifax, Doncaster, Selby, York and Goole.\n\nIt added that Arriva North East bus services, which operate into North Yorkshire, were not affected.\n\nArriva said pre-paid tickets would be accepted on First Bus and Transdev buses.\n\nAudrey Brown said the strike affects \"not only me, it's also schoolchildren and anyone who goes to work\"\n\nAudrey Brown, 89, lives on an estate in Wakefield that has seen all its bus services suspended due to the strike.\n\nShe said: \"I'm using the buses almost every day so I don't know what I am going to do this week.\n\n\"It just depends on when the buses are going to be back in service again.\"\n\nShe said the strike action was \"very inconvenient\", but added: \"I feel sorry for the bus drivers.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFrench Open champion Rafael Nadal says he \"doesn't want to keep playing\" if he continues to need anaesthetic injections to numb chronic foot pain.\n\nNadal, 36, won his record-extending 14th title at Roland Garros having \"no feeling\" in his left foot.\n\nThe Spaniard had multiple injections during a tournament where he won a 22nd Grand Slam title on Sunday.\n\n\"It's obvious with the circumstances that I am playing, I can't and I don't want to keep going,\" said Nadal.\n\nThe two-time Wimbledon champion says he would not play at the All England Club, where the grass-court major starts on 27 June, if a nerve-burning treatment next week cannot solve the issue.\n\nNadal suffers from Mueller-Weiss syndrome - a rare degenerative condition that affects bones in the feet - and was limping at the Italian Open just 10 days before Roland Garros began.\n\n\"I have been playing with injections on the nerves to numb the foot and that's why I was able to play during these two weeks,\" Nadal said after his 6-3 6-3 6-0 victory over Casper Ruud.\n\n\"I have no feelings in my foot, because my doctor was able to put anaesthetic injections on the nerves. That takes out the feeling on my foot.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm going to be in Wimbledon if my body is ready to be in Wimbledon. That's it. Wimbledon is not a tournament that I want to miss. I think nobody wants to miss Wimbledon. I love Wimbledon.\n\n\"If I am able to play with anti-inflammatories, yes; to play with anaesthetic injections, no. I don't want to put myself in that position again.\"\n\nNadal said he would soon have radiofrequency ablation - which uses heat on the nerve to quell long-term pain - but would have to consider surgery if that treatment did not provide a sufficient solution.\n\n\"If that works, I am going to keep going. If that doesn't work, then it is going to be another story,\" he said.\n\n\"Then I will have to ask myself if I am ready to do a major surgery that doesn't guarantee me to be able to be competitive again and could take a long time to be back.\"\n\nInjections 'only chance' to let Nadal play in Paris\n\nLast year, Nadal feared his career was over because of the condition and cut short his season last year, including missing Wimbledon and the US Open, to deal with the problem.\n\nA stress fracture of the rib also caused him to miss two months of the season shortly after his 21st major win at the Australian Open.\n\n\"As everyone knows in the world of tennis, my preparation was not ideal,\" Nadal said.\n\n\"But Roland Garros is Roland Garros. Everybody knows how much this tournament means to me, so I wanted to keep trying and to give myself a chance here.\n\n\"That's was the only way to give myself a chance here. So I did it.\"\n\nSpeaking on court, Nadal said he never thought he would still be competing at the highest level at his age.\n\n\"I never believed I would be here at 36, playing in the most important court of my career one more time in a final,\" he added.\n\n\"I don't know what can happen in the future, but I'm going to keep fighting to try to keep going.\"\n\n'What Nadal has achieved is super human'\n\nTwo days after his 36th birthday, Nadal has claimed back-to-back major titles for the first time since 2010 - when he won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in a row.\n\n\"To start the year by winning the Australian Open and French Open, it is astonishing,\" said former British number one Greg Rusedski, who was working as a BBC Radio 5 Live analyst for Sunday's final.\n\n\"In my generation, anything over 30 was bonus time and if you won a Slam over 30 it was a heck of an accomplishment. Now it seems the norm because of Nadal, [Roger] Federer and [Novak] Djokovic.\n\n\"When we first see Nadal come on the scene here in 2005, when he won for the first time, most of us thought he would be retired by the age of 27 or 28 with the physicality he plays with.\n\n\"We didn't think he would be capable to achieve what he has achieved. What he has achieved is super human.\n\n\"We will never see anybody in our lifetime achieve what he has achieved on a clay court. It is not possible.\"\n\n'Statue is not enough' - tennis and sporting world hail Nadal\n\nNadal already has a statue outside Court Philippe Chatrier - the site of his French Open wins - but Croatian former player Ivan Ljubicic said the stadium should be renamed.\n\nNadal's achievements were also recognised by Spanish football club Real Madrid - who Nadal supports - and India cricket great Sachin Tendulkar.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Teenagers who dream of being the next generation of motorcycle stars\n• None Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen on returning to their iconic Star Wars characters", "Dom Phillips talking to two indigenous men in Roraima State, Brazil in 2019\n\nThe family of veteran British journalist Dom Phillips is urging more action be taken to find him after he went missing in the Brazilian Amazon.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, disappeared along with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira in a remote rainforest area while researching a book.\n\nThe two had received threats days before vanishing on Sunday morning, say indigenous rights groups.\n\nBoth men have deep knowledge of the region.\n\nForty-one-year-old Bruno Pereira, who is currently on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, is an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nMr Phillips has been living in Brazil for more than a decade and is a long-time contributor to Britain's Guardian newspaper as well as other publications such as the Financial Times and the Washington Post.\n\nTwo indigenous rights groups sounded the alarm about the men's disappearance on Monday.\n\nIn a statement [in Portuguese], they said that the two men had been travelling by boat in the Javari Valley to interview members of an indigenous guard.\n\nThe area is located in the west of Amazonas state, near the border with Peru, and has seen incursions from illegal loggers and miners.\n\nOn Sunday, the two stopped in São Rafael, where Mr Pereira was scheduled to meet a local leader to discuss joint patrols between indigenous people and residents of riverside communities.\n\nAccording to the rights groups, Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira arrived at 06:00 local time and set off shortly afterwards towards Atalaia do Norte, a journey which takes around two hours.\n\nWhen they failed to arrive, Univaja sent out a search party at around 14:00 but found no trace of the two men along the stretch of river they had been expected to take.\n\nThe last to see them were residents of São Gabriel, a community downriver from São Rafael, who spotted their boat going past, the statement adds.\n\nPolice say they interviewed two people who are thought to be among the last to have seen the men.\n\nThe witnesses were taken to Atalaia do Nore, where they were interviewed, but no arrests were made.\n\nThe rights groups say Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were traveling in a new boat and had enough fuel to cover their journey.\n\nThey add that in the week leading up to the men's disappearance, the team had received threats.\n\n\"It wasn't the first time threats were made,\" the statement says, adding that previous instances had been reported to the police.\n\nThe area is home to more than 20 indigenous groups, who have denounced activities by illegal miners, fishers and hunters.\n\nA Funai base in the region has come under attack on a number of occasions in recent years.\n\nMr Phillips' family has been appealing to the authorities to speed up the search.\n\nHis Brazilian wife, Alessandra Sampaio, wrote \"our families are in despair, please answer the urgency of the moment with urgent actions\".\n\n\"In the forest every second counts, every second could be the difference between life and death,\" she added.\n\nMr Phillips' sister, Sian Phillips, also appealed for help in a video statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Pereira's family has also released a statement describing the \"48 hours of anguish\" they have lived through since the disappearance.\n\nThe statement says that the family is hopeful that their disappearance may be down to their boat breaking down and that the two \"are waiting for help\".\n\n\"We know that Bruno [Pereira] has extensive experience and knowledge of the region, however, time is a key factor in rescue operations, especially if they turn out to be injured.\"\n\nThe Brazilian government said that the federal police force was \"immediately mobilised\" and was \"taking all possible measures\" to find the two.\n\nBut there has been criticism of the small number of police and navy personnel deployed in what is a vast expanse of rainforest crisscrossed by rivers.\n\nThe navy only announced late on Monday that it would send a helicopter \"in addition to two vessels and a watercraft\".\n\nMr Pereira's family has insisted that it is \"essential that specialized searches are carried out, by air, river and land, with all the human and material resources that the situation requires\".", "Mr Ross said he had heard \"loud and clear\" the anger over the breaking of Covid rules in Downing Street\n\nFour Scottish Tory MPs confirmed they voted against Boris Johnson in the confidence motion which the prime minister has won.\n\nScottish leader Douglas Ross was first to reveal his intentions.\n\nScottish Borders MP John Lamont also voted against the PM, as did former Scottish Secretary David Mundell and West Aberdeenshire MP Andrew Bowie.\n\nDumfries and Galloway MP, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, supported Mr Johnson, along with David Duguid.\n\nThe confidence vote result was announced at 21:00 with Mr Johnson winning by 211 to 148.\n\nMr Ross, MP for Moray had said in January that Mr Johnson should resign over Partygate - but then withdrew the call in March because of the war in Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, he said he had heard \"loud and clear\" the anger over the breaking of Covid rules in Downing Street.\n\nJohn Lamont also announced that he has resigned as parliamentary private secretary to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss after voting against Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Bowie said he was \"utterly appalled\" by the Sue Gray report.\n\nLast month, when her report into Downing Street parties was published, Mr Ross said on balance he still believed Boris Johnson should remain as leader.\n\nHe said toppling him would cause instability that would benefit Vladimir Putin, but added the PM would still have to go if an inquiry found he had misled parliament.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Ross said the timing of the vote was \"far from ideal\" given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe said that while he had not sought to bring about the vote, it was going ahead and he had considered whether he should support the PM.\n\n\"I have heard loud and clear the anger at the breaking of Covid rules that we all did our best to follow, and even more so at the statements to parliament from the prime minister on this topic,\" he said.\n\n\"Having listened closely to people in Moray who re-elected me to represent them, and from many people across Scotland, now that this confidence vote is upon us, I cannot in good faith support Boris Johnson.\n\n\"My vote tonight will support the motion of no confidence.\"\n\nJohn Lamont, who represents Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, said that \"after considerable thought and reflection\", he had made the \"very difficult decision\" to resign as parliamentary private secretary to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss after voting against Boris Johnson.\n\nHe said: \"I have consulted widely with my constituents in the Scottish Borders. I've also received thousands of emails and had countless conversations about the prime minister's performance over the last few weeks and months.\n\n\"The events in Downing Street during the lockdown were unacceptable. People across the country have been rightly deeply angered by what went on.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise that changes have been made in Downing Street, the unfortunate reality is that the government has become overwhelmed by these events, to the detriment of my constituents and people across the United Kingdom.\n\n\"The amazing work that this government is doing in Scotland and across the UK is increasingly being overshadowed.\"\n\nHe added: \"This has been an incredibly difficult decision. I know that many colleagues have been wrestling with their conscience during today and I respect that some MPs will have reached a different conclusion.\"\n\nMr Mundell, MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, tweeted: \"After a difficult couple of years and listening to the views of my constituents, I voted tonight for a fresh start and new leadership for our country.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have six MPs in Scotland, meaning a majority are now calling for the prime minister to go.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said on Monday: \"The prime minister has my full support, and I will be voting to back him tonight.\n\n\"He is showing tremendous leadership as we face major challenges at home and abroad.\n\n\"I have no doubt that my colleagues in the parliamentary party will vote to show their confidence in the prime minister.\"\n\nDavid Duguid, MP for Banff and Buchan, also backed the prime minister.\n\nHe said: \"Since this situation arose, I've repeatedly expressed my concerns at the behaviour and culture that was reported at Downing Street and the Cabinet Office.\n\n\"It's absolutely right that there was an investigation carried out and Sue Gray's final report has acknowledged changes have already been made.\n\n\"Nothing that's happened in the last 24 hours has changed my opinion on whether or not the prime minister needs to resign so tonight I voted against the motion of no confidence.\"\n\nHe added that he felt this was in the best interests of the country \"with our recovery from the pandemic and the global inflation pressures that have yet to hit us fully\".\n\nIt was confirmed on Monday morning that a vote of confidence in Mr Johnson was to be held.\n\nA vote is triggered when at least 15% of Tory MPs write to the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs - currently Sir Graham Brady - saying they no longer have confidence in their leader.\n\nThere are 359 Conservative MPs, which means at least 54 have sent letters of no confidence. Mr Ross was not among the 54 whose letters triggered the vote.\n\nTory MPs are now gathering to vote on whether they still have confidence in their leader.\n\nMr Johnson will need at least half of Tory MPs to affirm their confidence in his leadership in order to survive the vote.\n\nThe outcome of the vote should be known about 21:00.\n\nRuth Davidson, the former Scottish Conservative leader, has already said Mr Johnson's position is untenable.\n\nOn Monday, she said Tory MP Jesse Norman was right to withdraw his support of the PM after accusing Mr Johnson of presiding \"over a culture of casual law-breaking\" in relation to Downing Street parties.\n\nScottish Tory MSP Murdo Fraser urged MPs to oust Mr Johnson, adding that the country should have a \"fresh start\" under a new leader.\n\nFellow Tory MSP Jeremy Balfour also said he did not have confidence in the prime minister.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Johnson was not fit to be PM, and \"there cannot be any more flip-flopping from Douglas Ross\", adding that Scottish Tory MPs had shown \"craven loyalty to Boris Johnson\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Douglas Ross had to stand up to Boris Johnson, while Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said Mr Ross, and his colleagues at Westminster, had to \"bring an end to Boris Johnson's utterly inept premiership\".\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said Mr Ross and other MPs had shown a lack of courage and decency by failing to oust him already.\n• None As it happened: Time to move on, says foreign secretary after PM vote", "Ben (right) has been at Disneyland Paris with his brother and their extended family\n\nBen, 17, was due home on Saturday in plenty of time to take his maths GCSE on Tuesday, but after a cancelled flight and a frantic scrabble for train tickets, he will only just make it.\n\nHe is one of thousands of British holiday-makers thought to be stranded abroad, after the cancellation of more than 100 flights over the weekend.\n\nAmong them are hundreds of school pupils and some teachers set to miss school on Monday after half-term.\n\nAnd they face an anxious journey home.\n\n\"Ben was going to have a couple of days at home to get his revision in, prepare mentally for it,\" said his mother Emma, who did not want their surnames used.\n\nAfter their EasyJet flight home from Paris was cancelled, the earliest flight back that the airline could provide was on Tuesday - too late.\n\nSo after spending hundreds of pounds on Eurostar tickets, they are now due to arrive back at home in Stockport by 11:30 BST on Monday evening, in time for the exam on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"Hopefully he'll get there. But there's no guarantee,\" she said. And EasyJet had been \"impossible to contact and completely unhelpful\", she added.\n\nThere are reports that others are even less lucky and are missing GCSE or A-level exams altogether.\n\nAirlines are being blamed for taking more bookings than they can manage with lower post-Covid staffing levels.\n\nBut the airlines themselves say the government could also have done more to support the industry during the pandemic and to speed up the process of security checks for new staff now.\n\nAndrew Crawley, chief commercial officer at American Express Global Business Travel, told the BBC's Today programme said it would be \"sensible\" for the government to temporarily change immigration rules to allow airlines to recruit overseas workers to plug staff shortages.\n\n\"Some airlines relied on EU citizens for up to 30% of their workforce, pre-Brexit, so that labour pool no longer being available adds to the challenge that we have here,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has rejected such a request from the aviation industry.\n\nHundreds of flights have been cancelled over the past week. While some families never reached their destination or arrived late, others are now finding their return flights are not operating.\n\nIt is not just exam students - younger children are missing the start of the new half-term too.\n\n\"The curriculum is packed and losing three days from school post-Covid isn't good,\" said father-of-four Joe Murray from Milton Keynes. \"There isn't time to really catch up.\"\n\nThe family had booked return flights from Tenerife to be back in time for the Jubilee celebrations but missed the whole four-day weekend after Wizz Air cancelled their return twice.\n\nJoe Murray's daughters will miss three days of school\n\n\"Wizz Air have had since last Wednesday to get us home, have cancelled once whilst we had checked in and were waiting at the gate, and the other four hours before the flight,\" Mr Murray said.\n\n\"It's not good enough,\" he added.\n\nHoliday-makers who spoke to the BBC said they were shocked at the lack of communication from the airlines.\n\nEasyJet apologised for the disruption, saying it was doing everything it could to support passengers. It has extended its customer service opening hours from 07:00 to 23:00, and said it was helping those affected find hotel accommodation.\n\nWizz Air also apologised and said passengers would be offered alternative flights, a full refund or 120% in airline credit, which it aimed to process within one week.\n\nBut the ongoing upheaval will affect children who have not even left home, with some school staff also stranded and unable to get back in time.\n\nKelly and her husband are making their way as fast as they can from Montenegro back to Lincolnshire. After their flight home was cancelled on Sunday, EasyJet offered them an alternative flight on Thursday.\n\n\"We are both teachers so have to get back,\" says Kelly. So instead they took a bus to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where they waited for more than four hours in the bus station for EasyJet to confirm their accommodation.\n\nThey will take a four-hour bus trip to Split on Monday so they can fly from there to Bristol on Tuesday. They will then get a train from Bristol to Gatwick to pick up their car and with a bit of luck be back in the classroom by Wednesday.\n\nKelly and her husband are taking buses to Dubrovnik then Split to get home two days earlier\n\n\"We do feel really let down by EasyJet,\" said Kelly. \"We wanted to get back to work as soon as we possibly could and they didn't help with that at all.\"\n\nPol, who teaches in a special educational needs school in west London has had a similar experience trying to get home from Bodrum, Turkey.\n\nThe students at his school find changes to their teaching schedule particularly upsetting, he said. So he does not want want to be away longer than he can avoid.\n\n\"People from home think a couple more days in the sun, it can't be that bad being in the Mediterranean by the sea, but the point is we're all uptight and upset and to a certain degree disgusted that in the 21st century we're dealing with a company that prides itself on being digital but there's no information.\"\n\nEasyJet said it had cancelled about 80 flights on Sunday \"due to the ongoing challenging operating environment\".\n\n\"We are very sorry and fully understand the disruption this will have caused for our customers,\" the airline said, adding it was doing everything possible to get passengers to their destinations.\n\nHow have you been affected by a recent flight cancellation? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Elon Musk has threatened to walk away from his $44bn takeover of Twitter, accusing the social media company of \"thwarting\" his requests to learn more about its user base.\n\nIn a letter filed with regulators, Mr Musk said he was entitled to do his own measurement of spam accounts.\n\nThe letter formalises a dispute that has simmered for weeks after Mr Musk declared the deal \"on hold\" pending further information.\n\nBut Mr Musk has said he believes spam and fake accounts represent a far greater share than the less than 5% of daily users that Twitter reports publicly.\n\n\"As Twitter's prospective owner, Mr Musk is clearly entitled to the requested data to enable him to prepare for transitioning Twitter's business to his ownership and to facilitate his transaction financing. To do both, he must have a complete and accurate understanding of the very core of Twitter's business model - its active user base,\" lawyer Mike Ringler wrote in the letter.\n\n\"Based on Twitter's behaviour to date, and the company's latest correspondence in particular, Mr Musk believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights,\" the letter said.\n\n\"This is a clear material breach of Twitter's obligations under the merger agreement and Mr Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement.\"\n\nThe dispute has raised more doubts about the future of the takeover, which Twitter's board approved in April.\n\n\"Twitter has and will continue to cooperatively share information with Musk to consummate the transaction in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nTwitter, which has said Mr Musk waived typical rights to due diligence in his eagerness to clinch the deal, added that it intended to complete the takeover at the agreed price and terms.\n\nMr Musk, who faces a $1bn break-up fee and possible lawsuit if he opts out, first raised the issue of the spam accounts on social media last month, saying the deal was on hold but he remained committed to the acquisition.\n\nAnalysts have said the Tesla boss might be using the issue to try to renegotiate the price or even walk away. They said Mr Musk's decision to raise the issue on social media was unconventional, making it difficult to establish how serious he was.\n\nWhen Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal defended the company's process in a series of tweets, Mr Musk responded with a poo emoji.\n\nMr Musk has said he believes that bots could account for 20% or more of Twitter users. The letter, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, confirms that the two sides have gone back and forth on the issue since early May.\n\nIt says Mr Musk merits \"reasonable cooperation\" as he tries to line up financing for the deal.\n\n\"Twitter's latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding the company's own testing methodologies, whether through written materials or verbal explanations, is tantamount to refusing Mr Musk's data requests,\" the letter says.\n\n\"Twitter's effort to characterise it otherwise is merely an attempt to obfuscate and confuse the issue.\"\n\nTexas attorney general Ken Paxton entered the debate on Monday, saying he had launched an investigation into Twitter for \"potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts\". Twitter has until 27 June to respond to his request for information.\n\nMr Musk's plans for the company have drawn intense scrutiny from regulators around the world, while raising some alarm among investors of electric car company Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX, which Mr Musk also leads.\n\nHe has lined up outside investors to help pay for the takeover and is also using equity and loans backed by his Tesla shares, which have been hit in recent weeks as market turmoil wipes billions from the values of companies including Tesla.\n\nThe decline has also made Mr Musk's offer of $54.20 per share for Twitter look even more generous. On Monday, Twitter shares were trading below $39, down 3%, though they later regained some ground. They have yet to return to the highs they hit last month shortly after Mr Musk revealed he had purchased about 9% of the firm's shares.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the letter marked the \"strongest signal yet that the Tesla founder is prepared to walk away\".\n\n\"This is a move Twitter investors have for weeks been steeling themselves for: the moment when Elon Musk's haphazard ruminations in tweets have been distilled into an official letter to regulators,\" she said. \"However, given the added volatility which has hit the tech sector since Mr Musk made his offer, it's highly likely he's after a cheaper price even if Twitter does provide the data requested in support of its initial analysis.\"", "Shortages of nurses in the NHS are posing a risk to patient safety, the Royal College of Nursing is warning.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said patients were going without the care they needed because of the problems.\n\nFeedback from the union's members in the UK cited people going without medicines and deterioration of sick patients going unnoticed as concerns.\n\nOne in 10 nurse posts in England is unfilled. But the numbers working in the NHS is rising, the government said.\n\nMs Cullen will set out her concerns in detail during her speech to the RCN's annual conference, which is getting under way in Glasgow.\n\nIt comes after the union gathered feedback from more than 20,000 nurses across the UK about their experiences during their most recent shifts.\n\nThey voiced concern about safety, the union said, with members saying patient care was being compromised.\n\nNurses cited everything from basic personal care, such as helping patients going to the toilet, through to severely ill patients getting treatment late and medicines not being given.\n\nThe feedback suggested the problems were being seen across the UK in all types of settings from hospitals to care in the community and in mental health services.\n\nHospital staff reported sometimes having to treat patients in inappropriate settings, such as waiting rooms and corridors, because of the time pressures.\n\nNurses also provided feedback setting out how the situation was affecting their wellbeing with one saying: \"Myself and my colleagues are mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted and burnt out.\"\n\nMs Cullen will tell members at the conference that \"enough is enough\".\n\n\"Don't ever think that it is normal to not have enough staff to meet the needs of patients. It is not.\n\n\"Today members are letting the full truth be known.\"\n\nMs Cullen warned the stresses on the frontline were beginning to drive nurses out of the profession.\n\nFigures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council show 25,000 nurses and midwives left the register last year in the UK - more than were trained domestically - although there are more nurses in total as a result of international recruitment.\n\n\"Staff are being driven out by the current way of working - the shortage of staff and too often the poor culture,\" Ms Cullen will say.\n\nAll parts of the UK have set out plans to increase the number of nurses working in the NHS.\n\nThe latest figures show there are now 321,000 nurses working in the NHS in England - 30,000 more than in September 2019.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said this showed that, despite the problems being documented, the government in England was over halfway to recruiting the 50,000 extra nurses it had promised by 2024.\n\n\"We're grateful to all the healthcare staff for their tireless work,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nMeanwhile, a Scottish government spokesman said student places were being expanded and there was an international recruitment drive. \"Growing our workforce is crucial,\" he added.", "Airlines including EasyJet and Wizz Air have cancelled dozens of flights as UK air travel disruption continues.\n\nEasyJet said it had cut 80 flights on Sunday, and apologised to customers for the disruption.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC the aviation industry cut too many jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and it must not oversell flights.\n\nHe said he wanted airlines to automatically compensate passengers.\n\nPassengers have faced a raft of UK flight cancellations causing disruptions for many families on half-term holidays.\n\nTen-year-old Noah and his younger sister Beau won't be in school on Monday morning after a cancelled EasyJet flight left their family stranded in Dalyan, Turkey.\n\nTheir mother, Emma, a hairdresser has had to cancel clients by text.\n\nThe family of six, including Emma's parents, spent 10 hours on Saturday night at the airport waiting to see if they would be able to fly out as planned, before finally being bussed back to the hotel at 4.30am.\n\nEasyJet offered them a flight on Thursday to Liverpool, but their car is parked at Gatwick.\n\n\"The [EasyJet] app literally says rearrange your flight or get a refund,\" says father Scott. \"So we've just spend £3,000 on a flight home tomorrow night... flying to Stanstead.\"\n\nScott and Emma have spent £3,000 on flights home, money they hope they'll be able to claim back\n\nEasyJet said it had cancelled about 80 flights on Sunday \"due to the ongoing challenging operating environment\".\n\n\"We are very sorry and fully understand the disruption this will have caused for our customers,\" the airline said, adding it was doing everything possible to get passengers to their destinations.\n\nIt said it had extended its customer service opening hours from 07:00 to 23:00, and was helping those affected find hotel accommodation.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC One's Sunday Morning programme that labour shortages were behind the travel disruption, resulting in airlines \"finding it difficult to get people on board\".\n\n\"When someone has bought a ticket for a flight, they've every right to expect that flight will take off, and not find that flight has been cancelled,\" he said.\n\n\"Airlines should be cautious about not overselling those flights, [and] where there are problems they need to fix them quickly.\"\n\nHe said the government had provided £8bn of support to the sector during the pandemic, along with furlough support, so decisions to cut staff had been made by the industry.\n\nMr Shapps added that airlines had \"cut too deep\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Clearly [the airlines] have been taken by surprise by the way in which people have returned to travel after two years of being locked down,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he wanted a \"proper charter\" for passengers so they could get \"quick and straightforward compensation or be put on other flights\".\n\nMr Shapps said he wanted a similar system to \"Delay Repay\" train passenger refunds \"where it's an automated process\".\n\nHowever, he again rejected the idea of easing aviation labour shortages by relaxing immigration requirements.\n\nAirlines have called on the government to issue special immigration visas to allow them to recruit overseas workers in the short term, as was done for the haulage and meat processing industries.\n\nThat idea was backed by London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan who said airport jobs should be opened up to people from the European Union.\n\n\"This is self-inflicted from the government. This is about Brexit plus Covid.\"\n\n\"What we don't want is this spring misery turned into summer misery,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said after the government eased immigration rules in the haulage industry only 27 lorry drivers had come over from the European Union to help ease the chronic shortage, which instead had been alleviated by government measures.\n\nGatwick Airport said that 52 departures and 30 arrivals were cancelled on Sunday.\n\nThe majority were EasyJet flights, but British Airways, Wizz Air and Vueling were also affected.\n\nFlights from Barcelona, Nice, Madrid, Belfast, Geneva, Corfu, Faro in Portugal and Glasgow were among those cancelled.\n\nA Gatwick spokesperson said the airport was \"operating normally\" but would be busy with 830 flights.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said that on a typical day you would expect to see half a dozen flights being cancelled to and from the UK, with those spread over all airlines.\n\nHe said in addition about 3,000 passengers heading for Luton on Sunday had been diverted after a power failure affected air traffic control systems.\n\nWizz Air issued a statement saying it was doing as much as it could to help passengers reach their destinations. It said several things were causing \"operational instability\" in the travel industry, including staff shortages within air traffic control, ground operations and baggage handling, security and across airports.\n\nIt offered customers affected its \"sincere apologies\" and said they would be offered alternative flights with Wizz Air, a full refund or 120% in airline credit, which it aimed to process within one week.\n\nHas your flight been cancelled at the last minute? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales overcame another monumental effort from Ukraine to qualify for their first World Cup since 1958 on a night of high emotion and drama in Cardiff.\n\nHaving beaten Scotland in an emotionally draining semi-final four days earlier, the Ukrainians - with the backdrop of their country's war with Russia - were deeply impressive once again but fell just short in their attempt to reach only a second World Cup in their history.\n\nInstead, it was Wales who achieved that feat at a delirious Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nTheir winning goal came against the run of play as Gareth Bale's first-half free-kick was inadvertently headed in by Ukraine captain Andriy Yarmolenko, a particularly cruel way for the visitors to concede having dominated before then.\n\nBoth teams tired but threw players forward in a chaotic second half, with Bale wasting a golden opportunity and substitute Brennan Johnson hitting the post for Wales.\n\nUkraine also had several chances to equalise but were repelled by the phenomenal goalkeeping of Wayne Hennessey and defending of Ben Davies.\n\nThis was not a vintage Welsh performance but they played with great resolve, and the scenes of celebration inside a deafening Cardiff City Stadium spoke of how cathartic it is for this footballing nation to rid itself of its 64-year World Cup drought.\n\nNow Wales can finally look forward to being a part of football's greatest competition in November, where England, the United States and Iran await in their group in Qatar.\n\nAs for this Ukrainian team, playing to the backdrop of Russia's invasion of their homeland, they have been an inspiration.\n\nThey were cheered on in Cardiff by their passionate supporters, including 100 refugees who were given tickets for free by the Football Association of Wales, while home fans showed their appreciation for the away side with warm applause before kick-off.\n\nHowever, Wales' mantra in the build-up to this game - as cold as it may have sounded - was that they had to take the emotion out of this occasion and temporarily put their compassion to one side.\n\nAnd they did it to realise their own, long-held dream.\n\nSince their only other World Cup appearance in 1958, Welsh football history has been littered with tales of near misses. From Scotland in 1977 and 1985 to Romania in 1993, Wales have stood on the brink of history before - only to stumble at the final hurdle.\n\nBut these are different times. This is Wales' golden era, in which their players are not burdened by that past.\n\nQualifying for Euro 2016 ended their 58-year wait for a major tournament and reaching a first semi-final in France took Welsh football to new heights.\n\nThen they followed that success by qualifying for Euro 2020 - but a World Cup is another level again.\n\nAnd while this Wales side might not be shackled by the memories of previous failures, Robert Page's men were never going to make it easy for themselves.\n\nWales started in a panic, hurrying into tackles and picking up yellow cards for Joe Allen and Daniel James inside two minutes as Ukraine controlled the early exchanges.\n\nThe visitors dominated possession and forced Hennessey into a flurry of early saves, while Oleksandr Zinchenko had a goal disallowed after shooting from a free-kick taken too quickly.\n\nWhile Ukraine's noisy blue and yellow contingent enjoyed their team's vibrant start, a sense of unease spread through the home fans at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nTheir anxiety increased as Zinchenko, orchestrating matters artfully in midfield, called Hennessey into action yet again with a firm left-footed shot from long range.\n\nAnd yet for all the Ukrainian pressure, it was Bale - who else - who conjured the moment, with some luck, which led to Wales' opening goal.\n\nPeripheral for the first half an hour, the Wales captain lashed a free-kick towards the Ukrainian goal but, as the ball seemed to be drifting wide, it was steered in by the diving Yarmolenko.\n\nUkraine's skipper thought he would have a chance to redeem himself when he appeared to be tripped by Allen inside the Wales box but, after a VAR check, no penalty was given.\n\nFortuitous as the goal might have been, Wales' lead meant that Ukraine attacked with abandon in the second half and left themselves vulnerable defensively.\n\nAaron Ramsey had a glorious opportunity as Kieffer Moore pulled the ball back to him inside the Ukrainian penalty area, but the Juventus midfielder miscued his shot wide.\n\nThe game soon become so open it was ragged, both sides exchanging chances like two punch-drunk boxers trading blows.\n\nHennessey blocked instinctively from Viktor Tsygankov, before Davies slid in to deny Yarmolenko in a goal-saving intervention that brought to mind his block against Slovakia at Euro 2016.\n\nJohnson came on to hit the post and, moments later, Bale could only shoot straight at Ukraine keeper Georgiy Buschchan from close range.\n\nThe longer Wales went without scoring a second goal, the more the nerves crept back in as Ukraine exerted more pressure.\n\nHennessey pulled off a majestic, flying save to deny Artem Dovbyk and, the more time ticked away, the more desperate the Ukrainian attacks became.\n\nTheir commitment was faultless but so was Wales' as they held firm to free a nation from its past.\n• None Mykhailo Mudryk (Ukraine) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Andrii Yarmolenko (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Serhii Sydorchuk.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrii Yarmolenko (Ukraine) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrii Yarmolenko (Ukraine) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Oleksandr Karavaev.\n• None Attempt missed. Serhii Sydorchuk (Ukraine) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Vitalii Mykolenko (Ukraine) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Wilson (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Karavaev (Ukraine) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mykola Shaparenko.\n• None Attempt saved. Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Vitalii Mykolenko with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared a picture of their daughter Lilibet after celebrating her first birthday.\n\nLilibet is seen smiling at a birthday picnic hosted by the couple at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan said they were \"incredibly touched\" by birthday wishes they received for their second child, who was named in honour of the Queen.\n\nIt comes after they visited the UK for the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nOn Friday, the Sussexes made their first public appearance in Britain together since 2020 when they attended a service of thanksgiving for the Queen at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nThe couple were also pictured watching Trooping the Colour from a window, but were not part of the carriage procession or the group of working royals and their children permitted on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.\n\nLast week, was the first opportunity for the 96-year-old monarch to meet her great-grandaughter, who was born in Santa Barbara, California, where the Sussexes now live after stepping back as senior working royals.\n\nBut there has been no confirmation whether or not the Queen has met Lilibet.\n\nLilbet has inherited the copper locks of the Duke of Sussex, who is pictured aged one with his father, the Prince of Wales\n\nLilibet, who celebrated her first birthday on Saturday, is pictured dressed in a pale blue frock with a white bow in her hair.\n\nThe photo was taken by a family friend Misan Harriman at a picnic attended by family and close friends, a spokesperson for the duke and duchess said.\n\nProfessional photographer Mr Harriman later shared a black and white snap on Twitter of Meghan holding Lilibet alongside the words: \"It was such a privilege to celebrate the 1st birthday of Lilibet with my family and hers! Joy and face painting all around.\"\n\nMr Harriman previously took black-and-white photographs of Meghan and Harry when they announced she was pregnant with their second child.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are pictured with the Princess Royal's daughter, Zara Tindall, attended a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations\n\nA spokesperson for the Sussexes said cake was also served at the picnic by the couple's wedding baker Claire Ptak.\n\nThey added that more than $100,000 (£79,800) worth of donations had been made in their daughter's honour by people around the globe to World Central Kitchen - an organisation providing meals for those affected by humanitarian, climate and community crises.\n\nThe timing of the release of this photograph seems to be part of Prince Harry and Meghan's determined efforts to keep a low profile during their Platinum Jubilee visit.\n\nLilibet's birthday was on Saturday, but the picture wasn't made public until Monday night, when the Jubilee weekend was over and when there could be no accusations of stealing the limelight from the Queen.\n\nThere are also no details of which family were there for the birthday party, which fitted in with Buckingham Palace's earlier position that any such family meetings would remain private, including any meeting with the Queen.\n\nIt's a difficult balancing act for Prince Harry and Meghan, with such intense and fiercely divided public interest surrounding them.\n\nThey're likely to be criticised if they seem to be courting attention, and blamed if they hide away.\n\nAnd over the Jubilee celebrations they appeared at the St Paul's thanksgiving service, but otherwise stayed below the radar.\n\nWith this latest photo, they kept their own news out of the spotlight until after the Queen's big weekend.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan named Lilibet after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen, the toddler's great-grandmother.\n\nHer middle name, Diana, was chosen to honour her \"beloved late grandmother\", the Princess of Wales, the couple said at the time of her birth last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Misan Harriman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe is the Queen's 11th great-grandchild and is eighth in line to the throne.\n\nHer brother Archie was born in May 2019.\n\nMeghan and Harry shared the first photograph of Lilibet in December on a festive card. Her brother, Archie, now three, is also pictured.", "Russia could look to make 'micro-scale' gains in Kharkiv, says an expert Image caption: Russia could look to make 'micro-scale' gains in Kharkiv, says an expert\n\nFighting in Ukraine has settled into a rhythm reminiscent of trench warfare in World War One, says a military analyst.\n\nJustin Crump, chief executive of security consultancy Sibylline, tells the BBC the conflict has become “micro-level” - with Russia now “lucky to capture a field in 24 hours”. This is because the defending army appears to have an advantage in any given battle at the moment.\n\nIn some places, that favours Ukrainians holding onto their territory; in others, it suits Russian troops occupying cities they’ve captured.\n\nCrump, a former British Army serviceman, says Russia appears to have slight momentum – as its troops “grind forward”. Moscow will want to capture Severodonetsk and then the remainder of the eastern Donbas region in order to declare “any sort of victory”.\n\nHe expects the Kremlin to set its sights Zaporizhzhia next, then make a fresh attempt at Kharkiv and look to capture Odesa on the south coast.\n\nRussia’s brand of attritional warfare has been seen to work, Crump says – but “nothing is inevitable” about what happens next.\n\n“Russia’s got to be able to keep paying the bill,” he says – referring to the expense of the war, as well as the human toll.\n\nAs a result of poor tactics and other shortcomings, Russia has also shown that it can only attack successfully on a single axis at a time, Crump claims.\n\nFrom the Ukrainian perspective, high-spec weapons donations from Western nations – such as missile-launchers recently promised by the US and UK – are no “silver bullet”, says Crump, because the conflict has become less precise than that.\n\nHe says there is also the question of how long Western countries keep up their support for Ukraine.\n\nBut Russia “can’t leave the frontline where it is”, he adds – suggesting that Ukraine will refuse to give up the territories currently in the hands of its enemy.\n\nThere is, therefore, the possibility of a “frozen conflict at best”.", "Archie Battersbee was found unconscious at his home in Essex on 7 April\n\nTest results on a boy with brain damage who is at the centre of a life-support dispute show parts of his brain have died, a High Court judge has been told.\n\nArchie Battersbee, 12, was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nSpecialists at the Royal London Hospital in east London said his life-support treatment should end.\n\nArchie's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, disagree, with his mum saying he was \"still in there\".\n\nA specialist, who cannot be named, told Mrs Justice Arbuthnot that the lower part of Archie's brain stem was significantly damaged and the upper part was also damaged.\n\nHe said Archie's prognosis was \"very grave\" and told the judge that the youngster's chances of recovery were \"very low\".\n\nHe said there had been no improvement since scans were taken in mid-April, but there were signs of deterioration.\n\n\"I think Archie has sustained severe enough brain damage that a point of return is unlikely,\" he told the court.\n\nArchie pictured with his mother Hollie Dance, who has asked for more time to allow her son to recover\n\nBarrister Bruno Quintavalle, representing the family, told the judge that Archie's heart was still beating.\n\nHe also there was an issue as to whether \"the correct procedure\" had been followed, and whether the family's views had been taken into account.\n\nBarrister Fiona Paterson, who is leading the legal team for Barts Health NHS Trust, the trust that governs the hospital in Whitechapel, had earlier said the scan results may be \"very hard to bear\".\n\nMrs Justice Arbuthnot has heard that Archie suffered brain damage in an incident at home in early April.\n\nMs Dance believes her son is \"still in there\" and is arguing his life support should not end\n\nHis mother, Ms Dance believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge at the time.\n\nHer son has never regained consciousness.\n\nPrevious hearings were told by specialists that they believed Archie was \"brain-stem dead\". Ms Dance has said she believed her son was \"still in there\" and that he \"needs more time\" to recover.\n\nThe final hearing for the case in the Family Division of the High Court is due to end on Wednesday.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "William and Kate's children have been hard at work baking cakes for a party in Cardiff\n\nStreet parties and celebrations have been taking place across the country, as thousands of people turn out to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe monarch's 70-year reign is being marked with four days of celebrations over the extended bank holiday weekend.\n\nHere is a selection of images, as communities gather together to enjoy the occasion.\n\nSome people in Cardiff had a chance to enjoy a cake baked by a royal - Prince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte rolled their sleeves up to produce a batch of fairy cakes.\n\nSunday's rainy weather did not dampen the mood of these seafront partygoers in Morecambe, Lancashire.\n\nOne of the youngest partygoers was in Morecambe - the appropriately dressed Sophia.\n\nPrincesses Beatrice and Eugenie joined in the fun and games at the Jubilee Big Lunch event organised by Westminster Council...\n\n...while the Countess of Wessex chatted to some children at the lunch party in Windsor.\n\nThe Windsor party is taking place on the Long Walk, leading up to the castle.\n\nLilly the corgi was one of the canine guests at the Royal Pooch Party in Manchester.\n\nUnion flag outfits were the order of the day at this party in Reading.\n\nLaura McKnight holds a cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth II as her sons Noah (5) and Louis (2) play mini golf at a picnic in Newry.\n\nThere were plenty of people - and balloons - at this street party in Cookham, Berkshire.\n\nChelsea Pensioners found themselves the focus of attention at a party near their home in west London.\n\nHundreds of people turned out for the party in Swanage, with tables stretching far along the streets.\n\nLocals also gathered to mark the occasion in Kelvindale, Glasgow.\n\nMeanwhile, in Trafford, Greater Manchester, one family had fun with fancy dress masks.\n\nIn Leicester, residents welcomed Morris dancers for some traditional entertainment.\n\nIn Belfast, people had fun dressing up in royal-themed costumes.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "The US agreed to send medium-range HIMARS rockets to Ukraine on the condition they were not used to strike over the Russian border\n\nRussia will expand the list of targets it will attack in Ukraine if Western countries send long-range weapons to Kyiv, President Vladimir Putin says.\n\nThe warning came as explosions shook parts of Kyiv on Sunday in the first air strikes on the capital for weeks.\n\nRussia says it hit tanks supplied by European countries. Ukraine says it was a railway repair plant.\n\nIn another development, a Russian general was killed in fighting in the Donbas region.\n\nRussia refocused its military efforts on the Donbas at the end of March after pulling back from the Kyiv region.\n\nAs Russia makes slow but steady progress on the ground there - hundreds of kilometres to the east - several countries have pledged to send advanced weapons to Kyiv.\n\nMost recently, the US announced it was sending the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which fires precision-guided rockets that can hit targets up to 70km (45 miles) away - far further than the artillery Ukraine currently possesses.\n\nWhite House officials say they agreed to provide the rockets only after gaining assurances from President Volodymyr Zelensky that they would not be used to attack targets inside Russia.\n\nThe package also includes helicopters, anti-tank weapons, tactical vehicles and spare parts.\n\nGermany also promised to send its most modern air defence system - the Iris-T - to enable Ukraine to shield an entire city from Russian air attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Meet the baby as old as the Ukraine war\n\nIn an interview on Russian state TV on Sunday, Mr Putin said: \"In general, all this fuss about additional arms supplies, in my opinion, has only one goal - to drag out the armed conflict as long as possible.\"\n\nThe Russian leader said what the US was supplying was \"nothing new\".\n\nBut he warned against sending missiles with longer ranges: \"If they are supplied, we will draw appropriate conclusions from this and use our weapons, of which we have enough, to strike at those targets that we are not striking yet.\"\n\nUkraine's deputy defence minister asked Western countries to keep up a steady supply of weapons to help defeat Russia.\n\n\"We have already entered into a protracted war and we will need constant support. The West must understand that its help cannot be a one-time thing, but something that continues until our victory,\" Hanna Malyar told local media.\n\nA Ukrainian service member on the front line in Donbas on Sunday\n\nSome of the fiercest fighting is currently in the eastern city of Severodonetsk. Capturing the city would deliver the Luhansk region to Russian forces and their local separatist allies, who also control much of neighbouring Donetsk. The two regions form the heavily industrial Donbas.\n\nLuhansk's governor Serhiy Haidai said Ukrainian forces held about half of Severodonetsk, having pushed Russian forces back.\n\nHe said 15,000 people remained in the city, but evacuation was \"currently impossible\".\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said he visited Lyshchansk, the town which faces Severodonetsk across the Donets river, on Sunday as part of a new tour of the front lines which also took in Zaporizhzhia in the south.\n\n\"I am proud of everybody I met, everyone I shook hands with, everyone with whom I connected and had expressed my support,\" he said in a video released by his press service.\n\nMaj-Gen Roman Kutuzov, a Russian airborne forces commander, was killed leading separatist troops of the unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic, Russian state TV reports.\n\nAccording to separatists, he was killed on Sunday at the village of Mykolaivka in the Popasna area, near Severodonetsk. The Ukrainian military said it had fought off assaults in the area on Sunday, inflicting substantial losses.\n\nRussian state TV said Kutuzov was the fourth Russian general to die in the Ukraine fighting, while Ukraine itself says it has killed as many as 12 Russian generals since the invasion began on 24 February.\n\nTens of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes, despite diplomatic efforts to bring about a ceasefire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson won Monday's vote of confidence in his leadership, although by a narrower margin than he and his allies would have hoped.\n\nOf the 359 Tory MPs in the Commons, 211 backed the prime minister, while 148 voted against him.\n\nThe vote was anonymous, so we cannot know for certain which way Tory MPs voted, but here are some of the MPs who have gone public with their opposition to Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt said he would be voting against Mr Johnson shortly after a leadership vote was announced. The former foreign secretary ran against Mr Johnson at the 2019 leadership contest, but lost out in the final round of voting. He turned down the chance to be Mr Johnson's defence secretary, instead carving out a role on the backbenches as chair of the Commons health committee.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Tories, who serves in both the Commons and the Scottish Parliament, said he had not pushed for a confidence vote in the PM, but would vote against him after listening to his constituents. He previously wrote a no confidence letter in Mr Johnson in January, before withdrawing it because of the war in Ukraine.\n\nA prominent supporter of Brexit, David Davis served as secretary of state for exiting the European Union under Theresa May but resigned over her Brexit deal. Speaking in the Commons in January and quoting Oliver Cromwell, he told the prime minister: \"You have sat there too long for all the good you have done. In the name of God, go!\"\n\nAnother prominent supporter of Brexit and former chair of the European Research Group. Mr Baker previously submitted a letter of no confidence in Theresa May and backed Boris Johnson when she stood down as prime minister. In April, he expressed anger over Partygate and told the prime minister that \"the gig is up\".\n\nA junior minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, Tobias Ellwood is a former soldier and now serves as chairman of the defence select committee. He said in early February that he had submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.\n\nMs Nokes served as immigration minister under Theresa May. She left government when Boris Johnson became prime minister and was one of the 21 Conservative MPs who had the whip removed in 2019 for voting against the government's Brexit position. She has said she submitted a letter \"a very long time ago\".\n\nFirst elected: 1987 (lost his seat in 1997 but was returned to parliament in 2001)\n\nA former cabinet minister under David Cameron. Mr Mitchell supported remaining in the EU in 2016 and has been a key critic of Boris Johnson's cuts to international development funding. He has called Partygate \"more corrosive\" than the expenses scandal and said in the Commons that the prime minister \"no longer enjoys my support\".\n\nMr Bridgen was a vocal supporter of Brexit and backed Boris Johnson in the 2019 leadership election. He has previously submitted letters of no confidence in both David Cameron and Theresa May. He submitted a letter of no confidence in Mr Johnson in January 2022 but withdrew it in March in light of the war in Ukraine. He then submitted a letter again in late May.\n\nMs Kearns sits on the executive of the influential backbench 1922 committee and was accused of being the leading figure in the \"Pork Pie plot\" to oust the PM. She confirmed publicly that she had submitted a letter of no confidence.\n\nNow a backbencher, Jeremy Wright previously served as attorney general and then culture secretary under David Cameron and Theresa May. He said in a statement on his website that Partygate had done \"real and lasting damage to the reputation not just of this government but to the institutions and authority of government more generally\". He confirmed he had submitted a letter of no confidence.\n\nOther Conservative MPs to have publicly voiced opposition to the prime minister include:", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the force's new commissioner would need to work on restoring trust and confidence\n\nSadiq Khan has described the Metropolitan Police as a force facing \"real challenges\" and \"real problems\".\n\nLondon's Labour mayor told Sophie Raworth on BBC One's Sunday Morning that evidence of \"systemic sexism, racism, homophobia, discrimination, misogyny\" had emerged in recent months.\n\nWhile he \"recognised the dedicated, decent, brave officers\" on the force he said its new commissioner would need to work at restoring trust and confidence.\n\nThe role has yet to be filled.\n\nStephen House became acting commissioner when Dame Cressida Dick quit in February after Mr Khan said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nHer departure followed a series of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman and her handling of racist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers at Charing Cross police station.\n\nDame Cressida Dick resigned after Sadiq Khan criticised her handling of racist, misogynist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers\n\nMr Khan said: \"One of the reasons why i lost confidence in the previous commissioner was my lack of confidence in her plan to address the two big issues.\n\n\"Addressing the systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny, but also the trust and confidence required from our public.\n\n\"That's one of the things that they will be checking the new commissioner for.\"\n\nWhen asked if the Met Police was a \"failing force\", Mr Khan said: \"We're losing trust and confidence, so if that's the criteria of measurement, you could say so.\n\n\"But actually, in relation to crime going down... we're making huge progress.\n\n\"The police have made really good progress in the last six years in reducing those crimes but I can't escape the fact that too many people on our city haven't got the confidence they should have in our police service.\"\n\nLast year, the Met announced an independent review of its culture and standards would be led by Baroness Casey of Blackstock.\n\nThe force said the review would examine its vetting, recruitment and training procedures, as well as looking into cases of sexual misconduct and sexual abuse allegations where those accused remain in the Met.\n\n\"This significant piece of work is part of a range of measures that aim to help restore the trust of Londoners in the aftermath of the horrific murder of Sarah Everard by a Metropolitan Police Officer and other cases that have undermined trust,\" the force said at the time.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK, France, and US leaders presented a united front at the G7 meeting in March\n\nWith Russian forces making slow, grinding progress in the eastern Donbas region and military experts speaking of a long war of attrition, have cracks started to appear in the West's support for Ukraine?\n\nAs he directs the fighting from the gleaming white halls of the Kremlin, what does Vladimir Putin make of the swirling Western debates over how best to support Ukraine, and the extent to which Russia should be punished?\n\nIn one corner, he sees governments in Britain, Poland and the Baltics calling for his unambiguous defeat.\n\n\"We need to make sure that Russia is driven out of Ukraine by the Ukrainians,\" the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last week.\n\n\"There can't be any compromising over Ukrainian territory.\"\n\nBut in the other corner, Mr Putin sees leaders in France, Germany and Italy calling for a different approach.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been reluctant to ship heavy arms and tanks to Ukraine\n\nSpeaking in early May, France's President, Emmanuel Macron, called for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and urged the West not to \"give in to the temptation of humiliation, nor the spirit of revenge\".\n\nThe following day, Italy's Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, speaking at the White House, said people in Europe wanted \"to think about the possibility of bringing a ceasefire and starting again some credible negotiations\".\n\nAfter Mr Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held an 80-minute phone call with Mr Putin on Saturday, aimed at exploring ways to enable Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea, Latvia's deputy prime minister lashed out on social media.\n\n\"It seems that there are a number of so-called Western leaders who possess the explicit need for self-humiliation, in combination with a total detachment from political reality,\" Artis Pabriks tweeted.\n\nOf course, it's the US president who really matters to the Kremlin.\n\nBut Joe Biden has given different signals at different times. Calling Putin a \"war criminal\" back in March and seeming to hint at the need for regime change in Moscow, but also reluctant this week to send Ukraine rocket systems \"that can strike into Russia\".\n\nThe former Prime Minister and President Dmitry Medvedev called that statement \"rational.\" But the US decision announced on Wednesday to send a more advanced rocket system to Ukraine was described by the Kremlin as \"adding fuel to the fire\".\n\nThe US has agreed to provide Ukraine with HIMARS missile launchers capable of hitting targets 45 miles away\n\nWith the US president prone to speak off the cuff, it generally falls to his Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, to deliver the administration's considered position.\n\nAt a recent Nato foreign ministers' meeting in Berlin, Mr Blinken said the US and its partners were \"focussed on giving Ukraine as strong a hand as possible on the battlefield, and at any negotiating table, so that it can repel Russian aggression and fully defend its independence and sovereignty\".\n\nStrong words, but how exactly do you define \"as strong a hand as possible\"? And what does \"fully\" defending Ukraine's independence and sovereignty actually mean?\n\nSo are cracks beginning to break up the veneer of Western consensus on Ukraine?\n\n\"You only have to look at the struggle to get the oil embargo,\" says Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, referring to the tortured weeks of negotiation that resulted in this week's partial EU embargo on Russian oil.\n\nAny notion that the EU will move swiftly on to Russian gas has already been dispelled. The Baltic states and Poland would like this to happen quickly, but Estonia's prime minister, Kaja Kallas, admitted this week that \"all the next sanctions will be more difficult\".\n\nAustria's chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said a gas embargo \"will not be an issue in the next sanctions package\".\n\nThe West has promised much, Kyiv argues, but delivered less.\n\nThis week's American and German promises to supply advanced multiple rocket artillery and air defence and radar systems will certainly have gone some way towards meeting the urgent demands of hard-pressed Ukrainian commanders.\n\nBut allegations of German foot-dragging over previous commitments and Joe Biden's insistence that US weapons only be used to hit Russian targets inside Ukraine cause some to wonder why the West seeks to place limits on Ukraine's war effort while Russia observes no limits at all.\n\n\"There's a kind of calibration going on,\" says Ian Bond. \"As though we're saying 'we want the Ukrainians to win but not to win too much'\".\n\nThe US supplies Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine\n\nIt's widely believed that Mr Putin launched this war confident that the West would lack the stomach for a fight. That Nato members, fresh from their humiliating exit from Afghanistan, would shy away from a new international imbroglio.\n\nSome recent reports from Moscow suggest a creeping confidence, engendered by gradual battlefield success and the belief, in the words of one source quoted by the Meduza website, that \"sooner or later, Europe will tire of helping.\"\n\nThe Kremlin may have taken heart from this week's British government warning that as many as six million British households could face power cuts if Russia shuts off gas supplies this winter.\n\nCould public anger in the West undermine support for Ukraine?\n\nIt's a danger the US Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, spelled out to members of Congress last month.\n\n\"He [Putin] is probably counting on US and EU resolve to weaken,\" she told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, \"as food shortages, inflation and energy prices get worse.\"\n\nFor all the anxieties about self-inflicted wounds and the hesitation surrounding the supply of weapons, the Western consensus over Ukraine remains remarkably intact.\n\nBut the cracks that exist could still widen.\n\n\"If either side begins to make decisive gains, then they become more of a problem,\" says Ian Bond.\n\n\"If the Russians completely break through Ukrainian lines in the east and start heading for the Dnieper River, the question of how much territory Ukraine should be willing to sacrifice to achieve a ceasefire is going to move up the agenda.\"\n\nBy the same token, if Ukrainian forces start driving the Russians back, Ian Bond says, \"there will be voices in the West saying 'don't try and recapture parts of the Donbas that the Russians have controlled since 2014'.\"\n\nIt's not a debate that seems terribly relevant just yet, but when the veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger suggested at Davos that Ukraine should consider ceding territory in order to make peace with Russia, he met with a furious response in Ukraine and beyond.\n\nA sign of anguished debates that still lie ahead.", "For six months, Tory MPs have flirted with calling a confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership.\n\nSeveral times, rebel MPs have warned the moment of truth could be near - only for many to pull back at the last minute.\n\nBut in the past two weeks, something changed.\n\nOver the past few days, the BBC spoke to several angry Conservatives.\n\nThe full Sue Gray report had pushed some over the edge, for others it was seeing the reaction of voters back in their constituencies.\n\nAmong the angriest MPs were those who had been on the doorsteps in Tiverton and Honiton - where the Liberal Democrats think they could well overturn a 24,000 majority to take the seat from the Conservatives in what should be a safe Tory area.\n\nSenior Tories told me Boris Johnson was proving a liability on the doorstep - and that lifelong Conservative voters were saying they could no longer back the party under his leadership.\n\nWhile millions partied over the bank holiday, Tory MPs were plotting.\n\nSome of those who have written to the chairman of the committee which runs the ballot, Sir Graham Brady, calling for a confidence vote forward-dated their letter - to make sure the vote didn't happen until after the Platinum Jubilee celebrations were finished.\n\nOver the weekend rebels spoke with increasing confidence about reaching the 54 target.\n\nThis vote will be a secret ballot. Nobody knows afterwards how backbenchers or ministers voted.\n\nAnd some rebels think the secrecy of the voting booth will act in their favour; allowing some to do in private what they couldn't in public.\n\nSenior critics of the prime minister have told the BBC all the Tory MPs who have concerns about the PM now have to decide.\n\nIn the words of one: \"Colleagues have to make a decision - finally they will have to make their minds up.\"\n\nIn the conversations I had this weekend, there was much speculation about who was leading the rebellion. Was it organised by a central figure, who would choose the best moment for letters to go?\n\nThe answer from several rebels was no, this wasn't organised but instead was an organic process, where MPs from different wings of the party had simply had enough.\n\nIn some ways, that should worry Number 10.\n\nDiscontent with the PM's leadership extends from his previous Brexit allies like Steve Baker and Mark Harper, to his One Nation critics like Stephen Hammond and now Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBut in other ways, that could work in the prime minister's favour; there isn't a coordinated campaign which is ready and waiting with an alternative leader.\n\nSome in government speculated this weekend that the rebels could reach the tipping point \"by accident\", because they were badly organised.\n\nIf Boris Johnson wins, under the current rules, he would be safe from another confidence vote for a year. That is good news for Number 10, because if the Tories lose the two by-elections on 23 June, there could be another crisis for the PM.\n\nThere won't, however, be another chance for Tory MPs to act as things stand. One veteran of leadership battles told me at the weekend that the rebels would be foolish to act now.\n\nBut they have. After months of \"will they, won't they\" speculation, a confidence vote is happening tonight. For Tory MPs, it's make your mind up time.\n• None Partygate: What does the Sue Gray report reveal?", "Victoria Brignell was left on a plane for more than 90 minutes\n\nGatwick Airport has apologised to a disabled passenger who was left on a plane for more than an hour and a half after it had landed.\n\nVictoria Brignell, who is quadriplegic, said she was initially told it would take 50 minutes to help her from the aircraft.\n\nHer treatment has drawn criticism from former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.\n\nMs Brignell said: \"I booked the help three months in advance, it wasn't as if I just turned up, they knew I was coming, and I reminded them two weeks ago, and still I didn't get the service that I should expect to have.\"\n\nHer friend Sonia Sodha tweeted a picture of Ms Brignell on the plane.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sonia Sodha This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Brignell said: \"I can't use my arms or legs. To get off a plane I need two people to lift me from the airplane seat into an aisle chair, which is a specially-designed narrow wheelchair to push me along the aisle off the plane, and lift me into my wheelchair waiting outside.\n\n\"My wheelchair arrived promptly, but the people who were supposed to help me get off the plane didn't turn up - they were busy elsewhere.\"\n\nShe said British Airways staff were \"fantastic\", very apologetic and brought drinks while she waited for Gatwick Airport staff to arrive.\n\nBut she said she was left unable to use the toilet and her carers could not go off duty, because of the delay.\n\nOther passengers hoping to board the plane for a different flight were also delayed.\n\nMs Brignell said: \"I have been very nervous about travelling by plane because I had heard so many horror stories about people's chairs going missing.\"\n\nShe said this was her second time flying abroad and the fourth flight she had taken.\n\nMs Brignell said British Airways staff got her off the plane and she received an apology form Gatwick via Twitter, but she plans to submit an official complaint.\n\nShe said: \"I just feel in 2022 people shouldn't be stuck on a plane for that long.\n\n\"UK airports need to get their act together and plan their staffing appropriately.\"\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson said she took direct action when she suffered a recent similar experience.\n\nShe said: \"I was flying to Berlin, the plane was two and a half hours late, but after waiting just over half an hour on board they couldn't give me any clear indication of when the assistance was going to come.\n\n\"My chair was at the gate, so I decided to get on the floor and pull myself off the plane.\"\n\nFrank Gardner said situations such as this were becoming \"depressingly familiar\" at airports\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, who uses a wheelchair, said such situations were becoming \"depressingly familiar\".\n\n\"The airports seem to be slipping back. The level of investment and effort that goes into making money at these airports isn't matched by the effort and money that needs to go into getting disabled passengers off the plane at the same time as everybody else.\"\n\nGatwick said it would launch an investigation into why Ms Brignell was left on the plane for so long.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said: \"The treatment received at Gatwick Airport was unacceptable and I would like to offer our sincere apologies to Victoria.\n\n\"This incident has been escalated and Gatwick and Wilson James, our assistance provider, are investigating how this happened as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nA spokesman for Wilson James said: \"We are deeply disappointed to have delivered a poor service on this occasion.\n\n\"While the aviation sector in particular is struggling with well-documented pressures, Ms Brignell's experience is unacceptable and falls far below our values and aims.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On stage at the Target Center in Minneapolis in 1993\n\nA founding member of the legendary US rock band Bon Jovi, former bassist Alec John Such, has died at the age of 70, the group announced.\n\nSuch played with them from 1983 to 1994, when they had such hits as You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer and Bad Medicine.\n\nHe was credited with bringing the band together and was remembered as a dear friend who was \"wild and full of life\".\n\nNo details were given of how or where he had died.\n\n\"Alec was integral to the formation of the band,\" singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi tweeted. \"To be honest we found our way to each other thru him...\"\n\nA childhood friend of drummer Tico Torres, he brought guitarist and songwriter Richie Sambora to see the band perform, Bon Jovi said.\n\n\"Today those special memories bring a smile to my face and a tear to my eye,\" he added. \"We'll miss him dearly.\"\n\nBorn in New York on 14 November 1951, Such became a familiar figure on the New Jersey music scene where the band emerged, the Associated Press reports. He originally played in a band called The Message.\n\nAs manager of the Hunka Bunka Ballroom in Sayreville, he was responsible for booking Jon Bon Jovi & The Wild Ones before joining the band himself.\n\nHe was older than his bandmates, as he remarked years later in an interview for The Asbury Park Press.\n\n\"The record company used to lie about my age,\" he said. \"I was 31 when I joined. I was a good 10 years older than the rest of the band. My sister eventually got really mad because the papers would describe her as my older sister when really she was younger.\"\n\nThe age gap was the reason he eventually left, he said.\n\n\"When I was 43, I started to get burned out. It felt like work and I didn't want to work. The reason I got into a band to begin with is because I didn't want to work.\"\n\nSuch (first on right) back with the band for the induction\n\nReplaced by Hugh John McDonald, he briefly rejoined for the band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.\n\n\"When Jon Bon Jovi called me up and asked me to be in his band many years ago, I soon realised how serious he was and he had a vision that he wanted to bring us to,\" he said at the time. \"And I am only too happy to have been a part of that vision.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlie Stayt talks to Jon Bon Jovi about thirty years in rock.", "Police were called to reports of a man armed with a screwdriver and shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road\n\nA man who was rescued from the River Thames after police used a Taser to try to restrain him has died.\n\nThe Met Police said it was called at 09:03 BST on Saturday to reports of a man shouting on Chelsea Bridge Road armed with a screwdriver.\n\nHe was rescued from the water but died in hospital that night, The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nIt is investigating the contact the Met Police had with the man who was in his early 40s.\n\nThe IOPC said investigators had obtained accounts from the officers involved and secured police body-worn video footage.\n\nSteve Noonan, IOPC director, said: \"We have spoken to the man's family to express our sincere condolences and explain our involvement.\n\n\"Our sympathies remain with them at this terrible time.\n\n\"Our independent investigation is under way into the police actions at the bridge and we have begun gathering and reviewing evidence.\"\n\nThe Met said officers \"challenged a man on Chelsea Bridge\".\n\n\"A Taser was discharged but this did not enable the officers to safely detain him,\" the force said.\n\n\"The man, who is believed to be aged in his 40s, subsequently entered the river.\"\n\nCommander Alexis Boon said: \"My thoughts are with the family of the man at this very difficult time.\n\n\"I offer my sincere condolences to them for their tragic loss.\n\n\"Officers go to work every day to keep the public safe, and so any incident in which a person comes to harm following contact with police is understandably concerning.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man critical after Taser and fall into Thames\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC political editor Chris Mason says there's \"real anger\" amongst many Conservative MPs\n\nThe festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.\n\nNot even the Platinum Jubilee could dial it down.\n\nIn fact, while the recess and the long weekend meant Conservative MPs weren't together at Westminster plotting, instead they were touring the fetes and the street parties, focus groups festooned with Union flags, and for many the feedback wasn't pretty.\n\nThe booing the prime minister was subjected to outside St Paul's Cathedral on Friday was audible proof of what opinion polls have been suggesting, his critics feel.\n\nThe simple truth is the Partygate row has incensed lots of people and a growing number of Conservative MPs felt it was behaviour that was impossible to defend.\n\nBut this is more than just wine and leaving dos.\n\nIt's what it says about the prime minister's character that unnerves so many Tory MPs.\n\nA feeling deep down that they can't trust him, and neither can huge chunks of the electorate.\n\nSome are blunt: either they remove Boris Johnson or voters remove him and them from government at the next election.\n\nI've just been talking to MP John Penrose, the Prime Minister's Anti Corruption Champion, of all people...or should I say former Anti Corruption Champion - he has resigned because, in his view, a prime minister cannot carry on having broken the Ministerial Code, something Mr Johnson insists he hasn't.\n\nJeremy Hunt, beaten by Boris Johnson in the last Conservative leadership race, has come out against him too.\n\nBut an arithmetic win is not the same as a political one.\n\nThat is why we are seeing such a coordinated effort by Boris Johnson and his supporters to suppress the number who vote against him as low as possible.\n\nThat is why the prime minister - with all the demands on his time - spent an hour this morning signing every single letter to all 359 Conservative MPs, adding personal handwritten notes to many.\n\nA prime minister doesn't do that unless they are gravely worried for their future.\n\nAs I bash away at my keyboard right now I'm just back from Parliament where I interviewed two Johnson loyalists: Attorney General Suella Braverman and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nCrikey, I said to them, things must be getting serious, cabinet ministers are going out in pairs.\n\nTheresa May won a confidence vote easily, but was gone within six months.\n\nWhat we will get tonight, at precisely 2100 BST is an indisputable number: the number of Tory MPs who want the prime minister out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: There were boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at the Jubilee thanksgiving service with his wife Carrie\n\nIt's a number that will hang around Boris Johnson's neck for the rest of his time in office.\n\nAnd so the game of expectation management is under way: Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit Opportunities Minister, insisted to me that a win by just a single vote, 180 MPs in favour of him carrying on, 179 against, would be a win and enough for him to continue.\n\nSo too did Mr Lewis and Mrs Braverman.\n\nQuite a change of tune from when Mr Rees-Mogg was trying to oust Theresa May, and reckoned her victory in a confidence vote where around a third of her colleagues failed to back her was a \"terrible result\".\n\nI'm already hearing chatter about the rebels getting their numbers into three figures, but let's see.\n\nThe prime minister will address Conservative MPs later and will argue other, bigger numbers matter far more: the nearly 14 million people who voted Conservative at the last election.\n\nHis supporters will also say a full blown leadership election - what will happen if 180 Conservative MPs vote against Mr Johnson tonight - would be \"divisive, distracting and destructive\".\n\n\"There's no plan, no strategy, no consensus on who to replace him with,\" a senior member of his team argues.\n\nAnd remember too a key thing on noisy days like this at Westminster: don't just listen to the noisy people.\n\nThere are lots of noisy people: those passionate about getting rid of Boris Johnson, those passionate about him staying.\n\nBut there are many Conservative MPs keeping their heads down.\n\nA quiet vote counts for just as much as a noisy one.\n\nBut make no mistake: confidence votes are almost always bad news for political leaders.\n\nAnd this one is no different.", "Firefighters suffered heavy loss of life in the blaze, and some are still missing\n\nBangladeshi officials have accused the operator of a container depot of exacerbating a deadly blaze by not storing chemicals safely.\n\nNine firefighters were among more than 40 people killed after fire broke out near the port city of Chittagong.\n\nOfficials said containers of hydrogen peroxide were labelled incorrectly - and firefighters doused flames with water instead of foam.\n\nThe depot's owner has yet to comment on the allegations.\n\nOn Monday, officials revised down the initial death toll from 49 to 41, saying some bodies had been counted twice.\n\nHundreds of people were injured or are still missing in the disaster at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda, 40km (25 miles) from Chittagong, and the number of dead is expected to rise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire crews try to bring the fire under control at the container depot in Chittagong, Bangladesh\n\nPurnachandra Mutsuddi, an assistant director with the local firefighting service, told the AFP news agency that as soon as the firefighters entered the depot on Saturday they unwittingly doused the hydrogen peroxide with water, setting off an explosive reaction that sent \"a container flying more than 500 feet\".\n\n\"There are some rules to keep hydrogen peroxide. Had we known this, we would never throw water. We would never take our vehicle inside the depot,\" he said.\n\nThe fire, which has now been blazing for three days, is under control but has not been extinguished completely.\n\nLocal police chief Abul Kalam Azad said that an investigation into the causes of the blaze had begun.\n\nIt remains unclear what sparked the blaze, which injured about 300 people, more than 12 of whom are in a critical condition. Two firefighters are among the missing.\n\nPeople seeking news of those unaccounted for have converged on the local hospital in Chittagong, some holding photos of their loved ones.\n\nJahanara Begum was waiting to give a sample for DNA testing to identify the remains of her son, Shahadat Hossain, who was a lorry driver.\n\n\"His father just died last year, now I have lost my son,\" she told BBC Bengali. \"He parked his truck and went to the canteen for dinner. The canteen caught fire and my son got trapped.\"\n\nShahadat Hossain had been in the canteen when fire broke out\n\nThe family of Imran Hossain Mazumdar identified his body on Monday afternoon. He had been one of the first firefighters on the scene. Mr Mazumdar leaves behind a wife who is six months pregnant, a son and a disabled daughter, his niece said.\n\nPolice spokesperson Shanewaz Khaled said it could take weeks to identify the deceased.\n\n\"If someone is missing from the fire, the families can give their samples to us,\" he told BBC Bengali. Officials had collected 23 samples for DNA testing so far, he said.\n\nThe fire broke out at around 21:00 local time (15:00 GMT) on Saturday and hundreds of firefighters, police and volunteers quickly arrived on the scene.\n\nAs they tried to extinguish the blaze a huge explosion rocked the site, engulfing many of the rescuers in flames and throwing debris and people into the air.\n\n\"The explosion just threw me some 10 metres from where I was standing. My hands and legs are burnt,\" lorry driver Tofael Ahmed told AFP news agency.\n\nThe blast was so large it was heard several kilometres away and shattered the windows of nearby buildings. One local shopkeeper told reporters that a piece of debris had flown half a kilometre and landed in his pond. He described seeing \"fireballs falling like rain\" after the explosion.", "Police body cam footage shows the officers interacting with Sean Bickings before he gets into Tempe Town Lake\n\nThree police officers in Arizona have been placed on leave after they failed to rescue a homeless man from drowning.\n\nNewly released bodycam footage and transcripts show the man, Sean Bickings, 34, getting into Tempe Town Lake last month and warning police he was \"going to drown\".\n\nBut none of the officers on the scene intervened to save him, with one heard saying: \"I'm not jumping in after you.\"\n\nMr Bickings soon slipped underwater and was later declared dead.\n\nDescribing him as \"an unsheltered Tempe community member\", city authorities called his death a \"tragedy\".\n\nThe incident took place after 05:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on 28 May, when officers responded to a call about an alleged fight between the man and his partner in the city centre.\n\nAccording to the city's statement, the couple \"cooperated fully and denied that any physical argument had taken place\".\n\nHowever, police footage showed that while officers were checking the couple's names for outstanding arrest warrants, Mr Bickings climbed over a metal fence dividing the boardwalk from the lake and entered the water.\n\nHe told the officers he was going \"for a swim\", waded in and swam towards a bridge even after they informed him swimming was not allowed in the lake.\n\nThe 12-minute bodycam video ends around this time, with a message at the end saying it has been cut short \"due to the sensitive nature of the remaining portion of the recording\".\n\nThe city instead provided a transcript of the remainder of the exchange, in which Mr Bickings repeatedly said he was on the verge of drowning and needed to be saved.\n\nThe transcript also showed officers tried to calm down Mr Bickings' companion as she grew increasingly distraught, telling her they were getting a boat.\n\nAt one point, she shouted: \"He's drowning right in front of you and you won't help.\"\n\nThe three officers involved in the incident have not been named.\n\nThey are on \"non-disciplinary paid administrative leave\" as their response is examined by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the police department of neighbouring Scottsdale.", "South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said his country would respond firmly and sternly to any provocation from the North\n\nSouth Korea and the US launched eight missiles on Monday, in response to a volley of ballistic missiles fired by North Korea the previous day.\n\nIt comes as Pyongyang continues to escalate its missile tests.\n\nSouth Korea's president Yoon Suk-yeol said his government would respond sternly to any provocation from its northern neighbour.\n\n\"We will make sure there isn't a single crack in protecting the lives and property of our people,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking at a war memorial event in Seoul, he added that North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes \"are reaching the level of threatening not only peace on the Korean Peninsula but also in Northeast Asia and the world\", according to Yonhap.\n\nThe US and South Korea regularly hold joint military exercises, which often anger North Korea.\n\nEarly on Monday, hours after North Korea had fired several missiles off its east coast, the two allies launched eight surface-to-surface Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) - one from the US and seven from South Korea.\n\nAnalysts say the moves are South Korea showing off its muscle, with the aid of US weaponry.\n\nIt is the second retaliatory display from the US and South Korea in as many weeks, with a similar move made last week after Pyongyang fired a series of missiles in the immediate aftermath of US President Joe Biden's visit to the region.\n\nSuch displays had been rare under South Korea's previous administration.\n\nPresident Yoon, who was inaugurated last month, has pledged to take a more hardline approach on North Korea.\n\nThe isolated Communist state has test-fired dozens of missiles in recent months, including an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in five years.\n\nThe UN prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear weapons tests, and has imposed strict sanctions after previous tests.\n\nOver the past months, North Korea has been testing weapons with increasing frequency. And in the past few weeks, South Korea and the United States have agreed to respond more strongly and bolster their defence.\n\nNow a cycle is starting to emerge.\n\nThis weekend, a US aircraft carrier took part in a naval drill with South Korea. The day after, North Korea fired eight missiles. Now, another day on, South Korea and the US have fired eight missiles of their own in retaliation.\n\nThe questions are over what these retaliatory drills achieve. Do they make South Korea any safer? And will they get North Korea to scale back its testing or change its behaviour in any way?\n\nWashington's real challenge is to convince North Korea to return to nuclear talks. The United States' nuclear envoy on North Korea said in Seoul on Friday that he had made very clear to the North they were ready to talk, but the North had shown no interest.\n\nInstead, North Korea appears to be preparing to conduct its first nuclear test in more than four years.\n\nTensions between the two Koreas could be about to escalate further.\n\nNorth Korean state media did not mention Pyongyang's actions on Monday - a recent break with tradition that some analysts say is due to the country focusing on managing its Covid outbreak.\n\nIts firings came a day after South Korea and the US finished customary joint military drills which have been criticised by North Korea as evidence of the US' hostile behaviour towards it.\n\n\"The allies have quickly responded to the recent missile firings with counter launches that demonstrate combined readiness for precision strikes against the origin of an attack,\" said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha University in Seoul.\n\nBut he warned that South Korea's current missile defences were \"insufficient against the expanding North Korean threat.\"", "Cancelled flights and delays at airports are fuelling anxiety among UK holidaymakers ahead of the key summer season, travel agents have warned.\n\nAdvantage Travel Partnership, a network of travel agents, said 30% of calls to its members were from people worried about future bookings.\n\nThousands of travellers are thought to be stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the Jubilee weekend.\n\nThe disruption is being driven by staff shortages across the aviation industry.\n\nThe problems are taking time to resolve and Advantage's chief executive warned there were \"no guarantees\" the situation would have improved by the summer.\n\n\"Thirty per cent of everything my members are dealing with right now are calls from very anxious holidaymakers who have bookings, whose travel plans, as far as we know right now, will take place, but they are anxious because obviously they're hearing all [about] the disruption,\" said Julia Lo Bue-Said.\n\nMs Bue-Said said airlines were already employing new staff, many of whom were already undergoing training, and that she hoped the industry would be ready by the busy summer period.\n\nHowever, Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, a union representing staff working in airports and across aviation engineering, said recent cancellations were having a \"really damaging impact\" on people's confidence.\n\n\"It would be difficult to give anybody the confidence at the present minute, that we are going to be okay by the school holidays in July,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nA sustainable long-term plan for the industry if the problems are to be resolved, he said, including better pay and conditions for workers in the sector.\n\nUp to two million people were scheduled to fly to and from the UK over the bank holiday weekend, and the vast majority of flights have operated as expected.\n\nBut several airlines have cancelled flights, with EasyJet scrapping a further 37 journeys on Monday.\n\nAccording to aviation data firm Cirium, 305 flights departing the UK were cancelled out of total of 10,662 scheduled flights over the Jubilee weekend.\n\nMost journeys - some 114 flights - were axed on Sunday and the airports worst affected were London Gatwick, London Luton and Bristol.\n\nEasyJet cancelled the most flights on Sunday, totalling 64, while Wizz Air cancelled 15 departing flights and BA axed eight.\n\nFamilies have been particularly affected by Sunday's disruption, with children stranded abroad as schools return and the exam season begins.\n\nCirium said 189 international flights were cancelled to the UK over the long weekend, with the majority from the Netherlands (39 flights), Spain and the Canary Islands (24), France (24) and Germany (21).\n\nAirlines are being blamed for taking more bookings than they can manage following steep staff cuts during the height of Covid when travel ground to a halt.\n\nBut industry leaders have argued the government could have done more to support the sector during the pandemic.\n\nIt has also called for immigration rules on hiring overseas workers to be relaxed to plug staff shortages, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ruled out such a move.\n\nMr Shapps said the government had been clear that it was up to industry leaders to tackle the problems, which were also seen at Easter, and accused airlines of having \"seriously oversold flights and holidays\".\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across Britain employed around 140,000 people, but since then thousands of jobs have been cut, including around 30,000 for UK airlines alone.\n\nMr Clancy, of the Prospect union, said the government was \"culpable\" for withdrawing pandemic-related support from airlines too soon.\n\nBut airlines had cut too many jobs, he said, and now needed to find ways to retain and recruit more workers.\n\n\"Ultimately this means fixing pay and conditions which have deteriorated significantly in recent years,\" Mr Clancy said.\n\n\"The problems we are seeing today are the result of a failed business model, unable to cope with any level of stress in the system.\n\n\"Unless the government and employers can come up with a sustainable long term plan for the aviation industry, that supports jobs and skills, then it is hard to see the situation improving.\"\n\nThe Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) said despite the recent disruption the \"vast majority of people\" have been able to fly and it expected that to be the case for the summer.\n\nABTA urged passengers to follow advice from airlines and airports for when to arrive for flights, as \"many are arriving well before check-in begins which puts additional pressure on airport services\".\n\nJen Kassel is currently stranded in Spain with her partner and three young children after her EasyJet flight was cancelled on Sunday.\n\nShe said the family had been given no explanation, but had been offered accommodation at a hotel in Benalmadena.\n\n\"The kids were really stressed,\" she said.\n\nNikolai Brooks and his wife Vicky, who live near Brighton, have been stuck at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam since Saturday after their EasyJet flight was cancelled.\n\nTheir new flight for Monday evening has already been delayed by three hours.\n\nThey have had to pay for two extra nights in a hotel near the airport, which has cost them about £600, not including food, Mr Brooks told the BBC.\n\n\"We didn't even get an email through that it had been cancelled,\" he said. \"It's more frustrating for my wife, she's a teacher and she was due back for today.\"\n\nIn a statement, EasyJet said it was \"very sorry\" for flights being cancelled and said the disruption was caused by \"the ongoing challenging operating environment\".\n\n\"Customers are being provided with options to rebook or receive a refund, as well as hotel accommodation and meals where required, along with information on how to arrange this quickly online or via the app,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nHow have you been affected by a recent flight cancellation? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "People hoping to find a property to rent are going to ever greater lengths to secure a home.\n\nAs well as having to put up more cash in advance, they're offering landlords CVs for their children and photos of their well-behaved dogs.\n\nThat's because a shortage of available homes is pushing up monthly rents, deposits and leading to bidding wars.\n\nIndustry body Propertymark says the number of rentals on the books of lettings agencies has fallen sharply.\n\nPropertymark surveyed over 440 letting agency businesses, spread across 4,000 branches UK-wide and found that on average, letting agents have seen the number of available rentals on their books halve, from over 30 to just 15.\n\nOne is agent Adam Kingswood, who says he's never known the market behave like this in two decades in the business.\n\n\"We will list a property and stop taking viewings after just a few hours,\" he says. He lets properties in The Park area of Nottingham, where the wide leafy streets and Victorian houses make it one of the city's most popular property spots.\n\n\"Out of those who turn up, the majority will want the property and in most cases the landlord has a choice of what tenant they want to go with,\" he says.\n\nAdam Kingswood says pets and kids are seen as a 'downside'\n\nThis leads to a sort of rental beauty pageant, with desperate renters vying to be chosen by landlords.\n\nNoisy pets and children can be seen as a downside, so some parents and owners are seeking to prove they're desirable tenants by providing photos or family bios. But it's money that does most of the talking.\n\n\"Two years ago, I could count on one hand the amount of times a tenant would offer above the asking price for rent,\" says Mr Kingswood. Now people regularly offer three or even six months rent in advance or an extra £50 extra a month above the asking price, he said.\n\nLast month, the annual rental survey from website Rightmove found that asking rents are already at their highest ever level, and up 11% year-on-year to £1088 per month outside the capital.\n\nTeacher Sheree Osborne moved from London to Nottingham, to save money. She loves her new flat in a converted Art Deco hotel, but she's worried that when her lease is renewed in September, she'll end up in a bidding war.\n\nSheree Osborne is worried rising rents will push her out of her home\n\n\"I'm in a vulnerable position,\" she said. \"I don't want my landlord saying I have to move out because he wants to put the rent up £200. There are people willing to pay that.\"\n\nPropertymark says that landlords are selling up, unhappy with increased costs and red tape. Others are switching from renting to offering holiday lets.\n\nLou Valdini for example, had a flat in London and two more in South Yorkshire which he rented out. He's now letting them all go.\n\n\"I feel disillusioned by the sector, it was something I enjoyed and wanted to keep doing,\" he says.\n\nBut during the pandemic one tenant stopped paying rent for sixteen months at the same time as behaving poorly towards fellow residents in the block.\n\n\"All that time I was paying the costs and mortgage, as well as getting complaints,\" Mr Valdini explains. It cost him around £20,000, he says.\n\n\"The stress was huge. And I'm not a professional big company with people working for me to sort these things. It all fell on my shoulders.\"\n\nMick Roberts is another local landlord with more than thirty properties across Nottingham. His tenants are all on housing benefits, mostly families but many pensioners.\n\nMr Roberts says he has \"a conscience\" about keeping rent down for his tenants. He has tenants so terrified their rent will go up they are too scared to ask for repairs, he says.\n\nParents are sleeping on the sofa of one-bed apartments with three children in the bed because they can't find nor afford a bigger house to rent, he adds.\n\nLandlord Mick Roberts says tenants fear asking for repairs\n\nBut while Mr Roberts is reluctant to raise rents for those already in his houses, he admits that he asks for the market rate from any new tenant. \"I've got no loyalty to that person,\" he says. \"As time goes on, we'll build up a rapport but for now it's supply and demand.\"\n\n\"There's been something like 179 new rules in the last five years,\" he says. Which means costs are rising.\n\n\"You used to be able, rightly or wrongly, to give the tenants the keys and service the boiler once a year. Now we are part landlord, part policemen, counsellor, we do debt work like a bailiff.\"\n\nChanges to taxation have made letting properties less profitable at the same time as legislation regarding maintenance and energy compliance has pushed up landlords' costs. The temporary ban on evictions during the pandemic left many landlords out of pocket, meaning an anticipated ban on \"Section 21\", which allows them to evict tenants easily, is causing concern they'll be left with limited power to protect their properties.\n\nIt may result in fewer landlords and more people homeless, Mr Roberts predicts.\n\nThe Department for Levelling-Up, Communities and Housing said \"good landlords\" had nothing to fear from the reforms, which were designed to \"give tenants greater security to challenge unreasonable rent rises and poor practice\".\n\n\"We're supporting vulnerable renters to help them meet the rising cost of living and stay in their homes, as well as investing £11.5bn to build more of the affordable, quality homes this country needs - including tens of thousands for social rent,\" the spokesperson added.\n• None Rental costs jump as workers return to the office", "\"I begin to wonder if the Tory party has a death wish.\" So says a senior supporter of Boris Johnson.\n\n\"Either we get rid of him or the electorate will get rid of us,\" says a Conservative MP who wants him out.\n\nAfter four days of bunting, union flags, Paddington Bear and Jason Donovan, yes - that is the sound of the clunk and clatter of politics returning.\n\nResuming again, a festival of guesswork to rival any fete or pageant, all focused on the prime minister's future.\n\nI am struck by a couple of things:\n\nFirstly, speaking to Mr Johnson's greatest supporters, his biggest critics, and those somewhere in between, there is a collective gloom within the Conservative Party. A feeling they are in a spot it will be hard to get out of in one piece.\n\nAnd secondly, very few within the Conservative parliamentary party would be remotely surprised if a vote of confidence happens this week.\n\nBut that doesn't mean one definitely will.\n\nA quick reminder of the rules: for the prime minister to face a vote of confidence, 15% of Tory MPs have to ask for one. They do that by writing to Sir Graham Brady, who chairs what's called the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs.\n\nAdmirable, that is, unless you're a journalist trying to find out how many letters he has been sent, and how close that total is to 54, the number needed to trigger a vote.\n\n\"It's entirely opaque,\" says a veteran of a past internal skirmish.\n\nEveryone is guessing amid an orgy of speculation.\n\nAnd if 54 is reached, a majority of Conservative MPs would have to say they no longer had confidence in Boris Johnson to remove him. That is 180 Tory MPs saying so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Boos and cheers for the PM as he arrived at St Paul's with wife Carrie\n\nThe grumblers have been dubbed the \"letterati\" by one minister I talk to, and most seem to think there isn't a huge amount of coordination between those trying to oust Mr Johnson.\n\nThat said, some who are loyal to him point a finger at supporters of Remain in the Brexit referendum and some of the 2019 intake who they accuse of going wobbly at the first sign of trouble.\n\nThe bad news, for the prime minister, is his critics don't come from a particular wing or rank of the party - they are scattered throughout it.\n\nOn the upside for Mr Johnson, as a supporter of his puts it to me, this means \"there isn't a plan, a strategy or a candidate\".\n\nIn other words, they agree on wanting Boris Johnson out, but they don't agree on much else.\n\nSo are things different from back in January, when you may remember we went through this whole rigmarole and it fizzled out?\n\nThat, of course, is possible again, but one observer inside the parliamentary party reckons things have changed since then.\n\nMPs are being invited to drinks dos by donors, there is a frisson, a momentum that isn't going away as the party contemplates life after Mr Johnson.\n\nLet's explore the gloom I'm hearing from Conservative MPs. Two long-standing figures, of polar opposite views on Boris Johnson, both mentioned 1997 to me.\n\nAs bleak a year in the modern history of the Conservative Party anyone could cite, when Tony Blair swept to power with a landslide victory for Labour.\n\n\"We are getting to the point where if these people don't stop, the public will say we hear this noise and infighting, you're a noisy cabal of narcissists and they'll stop listening,\" says one figure deeply irritated by those trying to remove the prime minister.\n\n\"We are getting dangerously close to that place in the public mind.\"\n\nAnother, keen to evict Mr Johnson from Downing Street, draws the same comparison with the mid to late 90s: the gut feeling of an impression being left with the electorate that it will be impossible to shift.\n\nBut that impression for them is around the prime minister's character, which can only change, they argue, by changing prime minister.\n\nAnd if a vote of confidence doesn't happen this week, then what?\n\nWell, there are two by-elections later this month - one in Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, the other in Wakefield in West Yorkshire - which could prove crucial.\n\nPlenty of Tory MPs fear they will lose both, the former to the Liberal Democrats, the latter to Labour.\n\nAnd then another blast of the jitters will strike.\n\nBoris Johnson was in the royal box for the Party at the Palace on Saturday night\n\nAnd, in the meantime, the speculation will rumble on.\n\nThose hoping to shore up Mr Johnson feel they have two arguments they can deploy with the undecided: Who's next? And, he'll win anyway.\n\nIn other words, there's no obvious successor and a leadership race will be nightmare for the party.\n\nPlus, more importantly they argue, if there's a vote of confidence, Boris Johnson will probably win.\n\nEven among his critics, most acknowledge this is likely.\n\nBut votes of confidence are never good news for a party leader.\n\nAnd very few Conservatives are confident there won't be one any time soon.", "Shoppers are spending less than they were a year ago, as the rising cost of living squeezes incomes, according to the body representing retailers.\n\nSales, in-store and online, fell for the second month in a row in May, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nSales rose sharply last year after pandemic restrictions eased, but that \"spending bubble\" has now burst, the BRC's Helen Dickinson said.\n\nTotal retail sales in May declined by 1.1% compared to May 2021.\n\nThat was a sharper slowdown than in April, when BRC figures showed a fall of 0.3% compared to April 2021.\n\nSales of clothing, footwear and accessories, including in fashion and beauty, rose, as people prepared for holidays and summer social occasions, including the Jubilee.\n\nBut consumers were not buying bigger ticket items, such as furniture and electronics, the BRC said, as it published its latest monthly data, which it collects from the UK's medium and larger retailers.\n\nWith inflation running at historic highs, what people are buying is costing them more. So a small drop in total sales masks a much larger drop in the volume of goods sold, once inflation is accounted for, the BRC added.\n\n\"It is clear the post-pandemic spending bubble has burst, with retailers facing tougher trading conditions, falling consumer confidence, and soaring inflation impacting consumers' spending power,\" said Ms Dickinson, the BRC's chief executive.\n\nThe fall in May marks the second consecutive month of declining retail sales, as reported by the regular BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor.\n\nIt comes at a difficult time for retailers, who are also facing rising costs, especially of energy, transport and labour, which combined were \"forcing retailers to increase their prices\", Ms Dickinson added.\n\nThe share of sales that take place online, as opposed to in physical stores, appeared to have stabilised, the BRC added. After rising sharply while pandemic restrictions were in place, online sales were \"settling\" at around 39%, compared to 30% pre-pandemic, the BRC said.\n\n\"Retailers will be hoping that a post-Jubilee and summer feel-good factor begins to improve confidence amongst some shoppers - as presently overall confidence levels are lower than sales may suggest,\" said Paul Martin, UK head of retail at KPMG.\n\nJulie Abraham, chief executive of home entertainment retailer Richer Sounds, said: \"It's tough out there for everybody.\n\n\"We've seen a definite slowdown and we're having to work that much harder to give better value than ever,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nShe added that shoppers were \"far more savvy now and looking round for a good bargain\".\n\n\"So whereas sometimes it might have been more of an impulse purchase, nowadays they're looking very carefully at what they want to buy.\"\n\nOver the four-day Jubilee bank holiday weekend, people did spend significantly more than the equivalent dates last year (which did not include a bank holiday) data from Barclaycard on Monday suggested.\n\n\"Despite wider concerns around the cost of living, the hospitality sector especially will be pleased by this welcome boost, having missed out on two years of unrestricted trading,\" said Barclaycard Payments chief executive Rob Cameron.\n\nSpending at restaurants rose 41.5% over 2-5 June. Spending was up 74.2% at pubs, bars and night clubs, while spending on entertainment was up 67.3% and spending on public transport was up 38.8%, Barclaycard Payments said, based on credit and debit card transactions.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen makes balcony appearance to end the Platinum Jubilee celebrations\n\nThe Queen has said she was \"humbled and deeply touched\" by the Platinum Jubilee celebrations held across the UK.\n\nIn a \"thank you\" letter after a concluding pageant in London, she said she remained committed to serving as monarch with the support of her family.\n\nThe Queen said despite not being at every event marking her 70-year reign: \"My heart has been with you all.\"\n\nShe was joined by three generations of her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the finale of the pageant.\n\nHer appearance rounded off a huge star-studded procession along The Mall which saw carnival floats celebrating the seven decades of her reign.\n\nMillions of people also held Jubilee parties and street lunches in towns and cities across the UK on the final day of the four-day bank holiday weekend.\n\nThe Platinum Pageant, along The Mall, was the last of the official events for the Queen's Jubilee\n\nIn a statement issued as the long weekend's events drew to a close, the Queen, who is 96, said she had been inspired by the kindness, joy and kinship she had seen over during the four-day celebration.\n\nIt said: \"When it comes to how to mark 70 years as your Queen, there is no guidebook to follow. It really is a first. But I have been humbled and deeply touched that so many people have taken to the streets to celebrate my Platinum Jubilee.\n\n\"While I may not have attended every event in person, my heart has been with you all; and I remain committed to serving you to the best of my ability, supported by my family.\n\n\"I have been inspired by the kindness, joy and kinship that has been so evident in recent days, and I hope this renewed sense of togetherness will be felt for many years to come.\n\n\"I thank you most sincerely for your good wishes and for the part you have all played in these happy celebrations.\"\n\nSunday's pageant began with a military parade with personnel from the UK's armed forces and from across the Commonwealth.\n\nThe 260-year-old Gold State Coach which carried the Queen to her coronation in 1953 rode through the streets, with the Queen appearing as a hologram inside.\n\nAs the floats made their way past during the two hour show, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George - the next three generations of monarchs - all watched from the royal box.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge later tweeted: \"Amazing display of street art, theatre, music, sport and more... what a joyous occasion!\"\n\nPrince Charles took a turn keeping Prince Louis engaged - bouncing him on his knee\n\nThe military section was followed by colourful open-top double-decker buses depicting the different decades of the Queen's reign - with a host of celebrities representing achievements in music, fashion and the arts aboard each one.\n\nThere was a peloton of 300 cyclists on bikes of all shapes and sizes, led by the Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy, and a parade of vintage cars that saw a fleet of Morris Minors in various vivid colours drive up The Mall. It was followed by a collection of James Bond cars - all moving very slowly.\n\nA fleet of vintage cars and mopeds made their way along The Mall\n\nThe car carrying Bake Off judge Prue Leith had to be pushed after it broke down\n\nKate Moss and Patsy Kensit danced on the 90s bus\n\nTV personalities, musicians, chefs, sportspeople, designers, and artists who have helped shape British culture of the last 70 years took part.\n\nAmong them were singer Cliff Richard, boxer Chris Eubank, model Naomi Campbell and athlete Sir Mo Farah.\n\nCultural icons such as the Trotters' yellow van from sitcom Only Fools and Horses, the video game character PacMan, and children's TV characters filled the streets.\n\nThe pageant also saw street theatre acts and urban dance from groups across the UK.\n\nThere was a float featuring well known children's TV characters\n\nParticipants performed a Bollywood wedding scene in one section of the parade\n\nThere was a carnival section that saw people dressed in a blaze of colours\n\nA number of enormous animal puppets depicting swans, a bull, snakes, ravens and a rainbow peacock then moved along the route.\n\nThere was a big Bollywood wedding party, with dancers parading an enormous tiered cake topped with a number of corgis, and puppets of African animals - including elephants, giraffes and flamingos.\n\nThe show ended with a performance of Perfect from Ed Sheeran, and the mass rendition of God Save the Queen.\n\nHowever, a planned flypast by the Red Arrows was cancelled due to poor weather.\n\nSo the Queen appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the final event of the Jubilee.\n\nThere was rapturous applause from a crowd, who were surprised as well as delighted to see her.\n\nAfter so many concerns about her health there had been doubts about her being there.\n\nThe Red Arrows didn't make it, because of the weather, but she made it. It seemed appropriate for such a tenacious monarch.\n\nShe arrived at the end of the pageant. That parade had been an hallucinogenic Jubilee cocktail of music, puppets, dancers, classic cars and even older celebrities.\n\nIt was baffling, brilliant and bonkers.\n\nThe Queen's appearance had its own symbolism, accompanied by those who will follow her, Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine and their children.\n\nIt felt like a bit of history and an image we'll see in the years ahead.\n\nThe event rounds off a long weekend of celebrations across the UK.\n\nSaturday night saw affectionate tributes from the Prince of Wales and national figures during the evening's Platinum Party at the Palace.\n\nStars including Diana Ross, George Ezra, Queen and Elbow performed in front of a crowd of about 22,000, and an average of nearly 12 million people in the UK watched the show on BBC One.\n\nThe Queen, who has been experiencing mobility problems in recent months, was not able to attend the event herself.\n\nBut she kicked off the event with a pre-filmed comedy sketch showing her sharing a pot of tea with Paddington Bear, where they both confessed to carrying around a marmalade sandwich.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From June 2022: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for Party at the Palace\n\nThe Platinum Jubilee events began on Thursday, with Trooping the Colour - at which the Queen also appeared on the balcony.\n\nThere was a service of thanksgiving on Friday, which she was unable to attend because of discomfort she felt on Thursday.\n\nShe had to cancel her appearance at the Epsom Derby on Saturday for the same reason.\n\nAway from Buckingham Palace, some 10 million people have been holding Big Jubilee Lunches, picnics and barbecues, across the UK.\n\nCharles and Camilla began the day by meeting guests at a street party in south London amid tables strung with union jack bunting and laden with cakes.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla did not tuck in to this table of food at the Big Jubilee Lunch at the Oval - because it was all knitted\n\nA group raised their glasses to the Queen at a street party on the seafront in Morecambe\n\nAnd in Reading, people also drank to the Queen's 70 years", "Tracy Brown says she does not know any gay Wales fans willing to travel to Qatar\n\nSome Wales football fans are to boycott the Fifa World Cup in Qatar due to the host country's stance on gay rights.\n\nWales qualified for the tournament for the first time in 64 years after winning their play-off final against Ukraine.\n\nHowever Tracy Brown, of Wales' official LGBTQ+ supporters' group, said many members did not believe it was safe to travel to the Middle East in November.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Qatar and punishable with prison sentences.\n\nIn the Senedd on Tuesday First Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales should \"not look the other way\" from human rights concerns in Qatar.\n\nMs Brown, from the Rainbow Wall supporters' group, said: \"I, for one, won't go.\n\n\"On one hand I'm stoked that we've got there, it's been a long time coming.\n\n\"If it was anywhere else in the world I would be thinking I want to be there supporting.\n\n\"But I'm going to be sat at home watching us play, because I don't feel safe to go.\"\n\nEquality campaign group Kick It Out previously announced the formation of a working group to look at inclusivity issues in Qatar.\n\nFatma Al-Nuaimi, communications executive director of Qatar's supreme committee for organising the tournament, told BBC Sport: \"It's a tournament for everyone, a tournament of firsts, and a tournament where everyone will be welcome.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2022 World Cup chief Hassan Al Thawadi tells Dan Roan hosts \"ready to welcome the world\"\n\nBut Ms Brown said that had not convinced her, or others, to change their mind.\n\n\"Just saying it's safe while a competition is on doesn't seem right,\" she said.\n\n\"So Fifa said you're safe to be yourself for the period of the World Cup, but when I leave there's still an LGBTQ+ community who pretty much live in hiding.\n\n\"They're not safe and I have to stand by my values.\n\n\"I want to go to a country where I feel safe and welcome all the time.\"\n\nWales players celebrate qualifying for their first World Cup since 1958\n\nAt first minister's questions in the Welsh Parliament Mark Drakeford said: \"We should not look the other way from reservations that we would have as a nation from some of those human rights issues that we see there.\"\n\nHe said Economy Minister Vaughan Gething raised human rights issues with Qatari authorities when he visited in May.\n\n\"We must ourselves make sure that those opportunities are not missed while the eyes of the world are on that country,\" he added.\n\nThe decision by Fifa to host the World Cup in the country has been widely criticised, with Qatar's wider record on human rights also under scrutiny.\n\nAmnesty International have also been critical of Qatar's record on gay rights, as well as its treatment of migrant workers.\n\nFelix Jakens, head of campaigns at Amnesty International UK, said the organisation had \"multiple concerns\".\n\n\"This is a time when footballers in our own country are finally coming out as gay, where there's more acceptance around LGBT people's participation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's shocking that the World Cup is being held in a country where being gay is criminalised.\"\n\nThe Independent newspaper's international editor, David Harding, worked as a journalist in Qatar for four years.\n\nHe said supporters who were planning to go to the World Cup would need to be prepared for a very different experience to previous international events.\n\n\"People will have to modify their behaviour. That is just a given, you're going to a very strict, conservative, religious country,\" he said.\n\nMr Harding said he was confident most LGBTQ+ supporters who chose to go to Qatar would not encounter serious problems, with authorities eager to avoid controversy.\n\n\"The LGBTQ community in Qatar are very angry at what Fifa and Qatari officials are doing,\" he said.\n\n\"In effect, they're saying for three weeks we'll go easy, we won't do anything, and then we'll treat Qatari LGBTQ people as bad as we treat them all the time once the World Cup is over.\n\n\"There will be some crunch points, if people wave flags or start a protest. I think these sorts of things could lead to problems. The police will not take your side if they feel you are breaking the law\".\n\nMs Brown said she did not know of any LGBTQ+ supporters from the UK who planned to travel.\n\n\"Some of my friends are part of [England's official LGBTQ+ supporters' group] the Three Lions Pride Group and they are also having the exact same conversations,\" she said.\n\n\"The vast majority of us wouldn't feel safe.\n\n\"I feel like we're missing out on a huge competition because we're choosing to be our authentic selves.\"", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks.\n\nSince the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US.\n\nSo what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making?\n\nThe UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nCurrently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces.\n\nRussia claims the system has already been used against its forces.\n\nThe UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nThe UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nIn January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model.\n\nMany military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive.\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles.\n\nThe statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km).\n\nIt is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines.\n\nIn 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces.\n\nAnalysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement.\n\n\"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\"\n\nThe donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022.\n\nThe UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers.\n\nJack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\"\n\nThe UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.\n\nNlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot.\n\nCrucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk.\n\nThe weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says.\n\nMaritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022.\n\nBrimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy.\n\nThe missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks.\n\nLaunching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson.\n\nWhen used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage.\n\n\"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\"\n\nBritain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles.\n\nMastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices.\n\nAnalysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful.\n\nIt is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively.\n\nBritain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles.\n\nStarstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nIt ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\"\n\nHe says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground.\n\nThe UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles.\n\nOther equipment supplied by the UK includes:", "The Queen returned to the balcony with the next generations of her family\n\nThe Queen was there on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the closing moment of the Jubilee weekend - as she had been there as it started.\n\nIn between there had been worries about her health - so there was a sense of surprise and excitement in the big crowd, who roared with anticipation when the windows on the famous balcony began to open.\n\nIt was a spontaneous shout of support and affection when the Queen appeared, in a weekend that otherwise had been choreographed and stage managed to the last royal detail.\n\nOnly a few hours before it had been unclear whether the Queen would be there for another balcony appearance.\n\nIn a display where nothing is accidental, she stood on the balcony beside those who would follow her, Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine and their children. It framed the dynastic moment.\n\nThey were standing together, in the same place that the Queen as a child had stood with her father and grandfather. She has been appearing on that balcony for more than 90 years.\n\nThis appearance by the Queen provided an uplifting end to the jubilee's grand finale.\n\nThe Red Arrows had to cancel the flypast because of the weather. But the Queen had made it. It seemed appropriate for such a tenacious monarch.\n\nA pen of Peppa Pigs took part in the Platinum Pageant\n\nIf the first days of the Jubilee weekend had been about pomp and splendour, and serious state ceremonies, the final push on Sunday had been a festival of the friendly and the quirky.\n\nThe pageant around the streets of central London was a mind-bending Jubilee cocktail of music, giant puppets, dance troupes, classic cars and veteran famous faces.\n\nThe crowd cheered the open-top buses representing the decades of the Queen's reign and tried to remember who those celebs used to be.\n\nAs a spectacle it was baffling, brilliant and bonkers.\n\nEarlier in the day Prince Charles and Camilla had gone to the Oval in south London for the Big Jubilee Lunch, a mini-street party celebrating the work of grassroots organisations that bring local communities together.\n\nIt was a post-pandemic call for greater neighbourliness and cohesion, with the royal couple going around the tables chatting to the guests.\n\nBy all accounts they still had Sweet Caroline echoing from Sir Rod Stewart strutting his stuff at the Platinum Party the night before.\n\nCharles and Camilla encouraged community togetherness at an event at the Oval\n\nAfter the big names at the glitzy concert, the Big Jubilee lunch was a good humoured cake-fest honouring the unsung heroes and heroines of local communities.\n\nAs the celebrations ended on Sunday, the Queen made her own thank-yous.\n\nHer message was a reminder that this was a one-off event, there had never been a Platinum Jubilee before and it's unlikely that many of us will ever see one again.\n\n\"There is no guidebook to follow,\" she said in her message.\n\nBut her comments picked out a note that might have resonated with the crowds in The Mall, or those showing support for local community groups at the Oval, that was a \"sense of togetherness\".\n\nThe windows of the balcony closed. The music stopped. The long bank holiday was ending. The headlines are unlikely to be about \"togetherness\" in the days ahead.\n\nThe last image projected was of the Queen, defying the odds to turn up despite the concerns about her age and frailty, flanked by the next generations.", "Philip has just stepped off a train from Tunbridge Wells in Kent and has joined the back of the queue for a taxi at Charing Cross station.\n\nHe is trying to see his Goddaughter in Reading and would have taken the Bakerloo line northbound to Paddington.\n\n\"Instead of costing me next to nothing, I don't know what it will cost me - but it'll be too much,\" he says clutching his newspaper.\n\n\"I'm retired so I didn't often go on these expeditions. It's having a little impact but some people will be much worse affected.\"\n\nIs he frustrated? \"Yes, I think I think that there should be negotiation, arbitration, all those things. I don't know if they have been tried but I am upset about it.\"\n\nHave you phoned ahead to tell him you're going to be late I ask?\n\n\"I haven't got a mobile telephone so it makes an impact\" he adds.", "More than 100 stations were closed on Monday, according to transport bosses\n\nCommuters have spoken of \"chaos\" on the London Underground as Tube station staff stage a 24-hour walkout.\n\nAll Tube lines were affected on Monday and about 100 stations were closed by the walkout, according to Transport for London (TfL).\n\nAbout 4,000 staff left their posts in a dispute over proposals for 600 job losses, changes to working agreements and pensions.\n\nTfL said nobody would lose their job under current proposed changes.\n\nRail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members are due to end the strike at 00.01 on Tuesday.\n\nLong queues were reported outside many stations, as commuters turned to other forms of transport.\n\nLong queues for buses and taxis were seen outside tube stations across London\n\nConstruction worker Miguel Basantes was stranded at Paddington Station as he tried to get to work in Hampstead.\n\nThe 54-year-old described the situation as \"chaos\".\n\nHe said: \"At Liverpool Street there were crowds of people, and I was waiting for 20 or 30 minutes.\n\n\"I don't know how to get to work.\"\n\n\"It's very inconvenient, especially after the Queen's Jubilee,\" said Joy Robb, who works as a NHS receptionist at Central Middlesex Hospital.\n\nMr Robb, who usually takes a northbound Bakerloo line train, said: \"All that was in my mind was the Queen's Jubilee and now I can't get to work.\"\n\nMany commuters were left frustrated by the strikes\n\nThe RMT union claims 600 jobs will be lost under the TfL plans and its members face \"detrimental\" changes to their pensions and working conditions.\n\nThe union's general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"TfL, London Underground Limited (LUL) and the Mayor of London have had ample opportunity to negotiate with the union properly to avert this strike action today.\n\n\"Their intransigence and stubbornness have left RMT members no choice but to act decisively.\"\n\nThe RMT said they were left with \"no choice but to act decisively\"\n\nTfL said there were no plans to change pensions or conditions, and nobody will lose their jobs.\n\nIt had proposed not recruiting into around 500 to 600 posts as they become vacant, in order to fulfil a previous funding agreement with the government.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the strike was \"incredibly frustrating and disappointing\".\n\n\"I know the RMT are unhappy with the deal we have from the government who attached many strings - I'm unhappy too - but the RMT should be working with me to remove these strings rather than punish Londoners,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street condemned the strike due to its impact on passengers and businesses, calling it \"deeply disappointing\".\n\nRMT members on the Tube are also taking action short of a strike until Sunday 10 July.\n\nStation staff will not work overtime, which may result in short notice station closures, the RMT said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Industrial action at British Airways could spread further across the UK as unions consult with more workers over whether to stage strikes over pay.\n\nAbout 700 mostly check-in staff at Heathrow Airport have already voted to strike over the summer holidays.\n\nBut the GMB and Unite unions are also consulting engineers and call centre staff at Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle on taking action.\n\nBA said it was \"fully committed to work together to find a solution\".\n\nOn Wednesday, hundreds of BA workers backed strike action over a 10% pay cut introduced during the pandemic.\n\nThe airline has offered staff a one-off payment, equal to 10% of their salary, but GMB members at Heathrow want the full pay cut reversed.\n\nBA said it had made an \"offer of a 10% payment which was accepted by the majority of other colleagues\". The BBC understands this includes ground operations, engineering and cabin crew workers, who are also represented by Unite and GMB.\n\nThe wider consultation ballot is separate to the Heathrow issue and about wider concerns over pay.\n\nA spokesman for the GMB, said: \"Thousands of BA engineers at Heathrow, Gatwick and in Scotland along with call centre staff in Newcastle and Manchester are in the middle of consultative ballot for possible industrial action in a row over pay.\"\n\nGMB general secretary Gary Smith told BBC Breakfast: \"I don't think this is going to stop with customer check-in staff. There are many of our members across the BA business who are sick to death of the cuts within the company.\n\n\"They've seen the company being run into the ground over many years, they are very angry about the cynical exploitation of the pandemic by the people at the top of BA and people want to see the pay and conditions restored.\"\n\nThe consultation is being undertaken to gauge turnout as well as what action workers may want to take. It is the stage before a formal ballot would take place over industrial action.\n\nHolidaymakers and other travellers risk disruption to their journeys if unions for check-in workers at Heathrow and BA are unable to reach an agreement.\n\nNearly 1.8 million BA customers are set to fly out from Heathrow during July, according to aviation data firm Cirium, during which school holidays begin across the nation.\n\nSchools in England and Wales break-up on 22 July while summer holidays in Scotland and Northern Ireland begin on 1 July.\n\nThe earliest Heathrow workers could go on strike would be from around 7 July. Unions legally have to give a company 14 days notice to prepare for action.\n\nUnions have yet to specify dates for the strike but an announcement is expected early next week.\n\nBA said: \"We will of course keep our customers updated about what this means for them as the situation evolves.\"\n\nThe company, which is owned by International Airlines Group, has already cut 10% of its flights between March and October.\n\nAirlines and airports have struggled to cope with a resurgence in demand for travel following the Covid lockdown when the industry cut thousands of jobs as international travel ground to a halt.\n\nDo you and your family have a holiday coming up? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Sammy B: The vessel bears the scars of battle\n\nExplorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII.\n\nThe USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water.\n\nTexan financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo, who owns a deep-diving submersible, discovered the \"Sammy B\" battered but largely intact.\n\nThe vessel is famed for a heroic final stand against the Japanese.\n\nThe USS Samuel B Robert before it sank: It went up against much more heavily armed opponents\n\nOutnumbered and outgunned, it managed to contain and frustrate several enemy ships before eventually going down.\n\nOf the Samuel B Roberts' 224-man crew, 89 were killed. The rest clung to life rafts for 50 hours awaiting rescue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo: \"The sailors went into battle knowing they probably wouldn't come back\"\n\nMr Vescovo, a navy reservist in his time, said it was an extraordinary honour to locate the lost ship and by doing so have the chance to retell its amazing story of heroism and duty.\n\n\"We like to say that steel doesn't lie and that the wrecks of these vessels are the last witnesses to the battles that they fought,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The Sammy B engaged the Japanese heavy cruisers at point blank range and fired so rapidly it exhausted its ammunition; it was down to shooting smoke shells and illumination rounds just to try to set fires on the Japanese ships, and it kept firing. It was just an extraordinary act of heroism. Those men - on both sides - were fighting to the death.\"\n\nThe team had to conduct a lot of research beforehand to narrow its search area\n\nIn the imagery captured by the adventurer's sub, the Limiting Factor, it's possible to see the hull structure, guns and torpedo tubes.\n\nThe Sammy B has puncture holes from Japanese shells and there is evidence in the stern quarter of one massive hit.\n\nFrom its crumpled appearance, it appears the vessel impacted the seafloor bow first.\n\nTo give a sense of how deep the resting place is, 98% of the world's ocean bottom is less than 6,000m deep. Only a few places in the great tectonic trenches go beyond 6,000m.\n\nVictor Vescovo, a private equity investor, is setting world records for deep dives in the sub Limiting Factor\n\nThe Battle Off Samar, part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, was a ferocious engagement. The intense fighting ultimately saw a heavily disrupted Japanese Imperial Navy withdraw its forces.\n\nSeveral ships from both sides were lost to the deep.\n\nLast year, Mr Vescovo managed to find the destroyer USS Johnston at a depth of 6,460m (21,180ft).\n\nThe USS Samuel B Roberts as it first appeared in the sonar survey of the seafloor\n\nIt's possible there are others even deeper than the Sammy B or the Johnston.\n\n\"There are two other American ships that have yet to be found - the USS Gambier Bay (escort carrier) and the USS Hoel (destroyer),\" said Kelvin Murray from EYOS, the company that organised and led Mr Vescovo's expedition.\n\n\"We've got historical records relating to where they may have sunk. We did take a look for the Gambier Bay, but this is detective work and these kinds of deep-ocean operations have never been conducted before. I don't want to use the phrase 'needle in a haystack', because there's a lot more research that goes into making that haystack smaller. But there's still a certain amount of luck involved in all this.\"\n\nThe USS Samuel B Roberts had a trio of torpedo tubes\n\nMr Vescovo was the first person to visit the deepest points in Earth's five oceans.\n\nHe's also climbed the highest peaks on each of the seven continents; and he recently went into space on New Shepard, the rocket and capsule system developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nEmma Raducanu's agent insists the US Open champion is not being distracted by commercial interests.\n\nMax Eisenbud, who also guided the careers of Maria Sharapova and Li Na, says Raducanu's win in New York sparked unprecedented interest from the corporate world.\n\nAnd he maintains his company IMG has \"left million of dollars off the table\" by limiting Raducanu to a maximum of 18 sponsor days a year.\n\n\"We could have done 50 days of shoots,\" Eisenbud told The Sports Desk podcast.\n\n\"I've never seen the amount of excitement and companies that wanted to be in business with Emma after the US Open.\"\n• None LISTEN: Can Raducanu shake off her US Open hangover?\n• None Are we saying goodbye to the GOATs at Wimbledon?\n\nRaducanu is a brand ambassador for nine companies, from Evian to Tiffany, and Nike to HSBC.\n\nThe contracts range from three to five years in duration, and are worth tens of millions of pounds.\n\nRaducanu's year on the court, though, has so far been less profitable. The 19-year-old has won just eight of the 19 matches she has played so far this season, and experienced a string of minor injuries.\n\nBut Eisenbud says people should not draw a link between those difficulties and her commercial interests.\n\n\"It's been a tough year,\" he admitted. \"I think she got a lot of bad luck and what really hurt her was [catching] Covid and not having a great off-season, and then she was playing catch up.\n\n\"But I think that if she had zero shoot dates, everything would be the same.\n\n\"I know from the outside, you guys want to look at all those things - but if she locked herself in the room for the whole year and didn't do anything, I think it would be the same.\"\n\nEisenbud says this is his third professional experience of something \"spectacular, special - and not normal\".\n\nThe other two were a 17-year-old Sharapova beating Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final of 2004, and Li being watched by an estimated 116 million Chinese viewers as she captured her first Grand Slam title at the French Open of 2011.\n\nEisenbud recalls renting a room for a meeting with Sharapova's father Yuri shortly after her 2004 Centre Court triumph. He says Yuri wanted to capitalise on his daughter's victory, but also ensure she stayed focused and kept winning.\n\nThe American's response was to draw up a calendar, and then strike a line through all the weeks - primarily before, during and immediately after a tournament - where they both agreed there was no time for commercial work.\n\n\"So we did this exercise through the entire year and we figured out that there was probably 18 days a year that she can give to sponsors that won't affect her tennis training or her tournament schedule,\" Eisenbud said of a player who for a decade was consistently the highest earning female athlete in the world.\n\nA few years later, Li's family decided they liked the sound of that approach, and it is a model which has now been agreed by the Raducanus.\n\n\"Again with the same philosophy,' Eisenbud continued. \"Never a week or so before a tournament, never in a tournament week and never right after the tournament. I understand how people who don't understand that philosophy could think that it is distracting her, but I think when you see how it's laid out, it really is not the case.\n\n\"Emma decided that she wants to start her shoots at 12pm or 1pm and go until 8pm or 9pm and have the option in the morning to either train or work out or do some fitness.\n\n\"Not all the days have been used of the 18. There are sponsors that have those days, but many of them don't use them.\n\n\"I would imagine by the end of the year the amount of days she uses will be around 13.\n\n\"But when the 19th day comes, and it's millions of dollars and you have got to say 'no' because you're being true to the 18 days - it's tough.\"\n• None She reigned for over 20 years but why did history try to erase her?\n• None Find out how a nap could slash your risk of heart attack by half and have an impact on your brain", "Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by his own MPs to oust him as Conservative Party leader and prime minister in a confidence vote. But the scale of the rebellion against him means he is not out of the woods yet. What's the next move for Tory rebels and Johnson loyalists?\n\nBoris Johnson used to make his party feel good. Anyone who has watched the prime minister work the crowd at a Conservative Party conference will have seen the effect he has on activists.\n\nBut that feelgood factor was hard to find among Tory MPs in Parliament this morning.\n\nBut any hope he had that his party would now move on was obliterated by the result - and the fact 41% of MPs who voted said they wanted Boris Johnson out.\n\nOne MP arriving in Parliament on Monday morning lamented simply: \"It's not good.\"\n\nThe rebellion was much bigger than many expected - and that exposes a divided party.\n\nA prominent rebel said: \"The cabinet should tell him to go but they won't because they are too weak - he kept them weak.\"\n\nIn theory, the prime minister is safe from another confidence vote for a year.\n\nUnder the current rules of the 1922 committee, which organises leadership contests, another challenge can't happen for 12 months after the incumbent wins.\n\nBut not everyone is convinced.\n\n\"All this assumption that he's safe for a year - I don't think anyone believes that,\" one backbencher told me this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee had considered changing the rules under Theresa May's premiership, to allow a second confidence a few months after she won a first.\n\nRebels are already talking about how they could force another vote on Boris Johnson's future.\n\n\"There will be huge pressure on [1922 committee chairman] Sir Graham Brady to change the rules,\" says a senior critic of the PM.\n\nIt's not guaranteed that change to the process will happen. My sources on the committee have talked of needing a period of calm.\n\nBut there are big political pitfalls ahead too, which could change minds.\n\nThe subject currently dominating talk among Tory MPs is the two by-elections later this month.\n\nOn 23 June, the Conservatives will be looking to defend Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, and Tiverton and Honiton in Devon. Labour are aiming to take back Wakefield, one of the \"Red Wall\" northern strongholds that they lost in Boris Johnson's 2019 landslide.\n\nThe Lib Dems are throwing everything they have got at Tiverton and Honiton, where the Tories have a 24,000 majority, in the hope of pulling off another upset in the so-called \"Blue Wall\" of Tory heartland seats in the south.\n\nSenior Tories fear they will lose both contests - plunging Boris Johnson's leadership into a fresh crisis.\n\nA senior rebel I spoke to this morning said his focus will now be trying to change the minds of enough Tory MPs to shift the balance of power away from the prime minister.\n\nThey believe if they can persuade 30 MPs who backed Mr Johnson in Monday night's confidence vote to switch they will be able to bring him down.\n\nAnd some argue that any by-election evidence the prime minister has become a liability at the ballot box will help that persuasion process.\n\nAnother rebel told me if they get \"caned\" in both contests, it will spark another round of concern in the parliamentary party.\n\nSome of the PM's critics do now want to move on and say that mid-term by-elections won't change their mind.\n\nTory MP Nigel Mills told the BBC: \"We had a vote yesterday, we made a decision.\"\n\nThe key point though is this; many MPs just don't think the party can move on and they're looking at what the next crisis might be.\n\nThen there's Partygate - which isn't over yet.\n\nParliament's privileges committee is due to look into whether the prime minister misled the House of Commons - and sources close to that process believe that could be damning for Mr Johnson. The committee is thought likely to report in the Autumn.\n\nIf it concludes he knowingly misled parliament, more MPs might be persuaded of the need for a new leader. It may also produce new evidence of what went on in Downing Street during lockdown - and that could be damaging too.\n\nOne opposition source told me: \"We might have to wait for the committee to bring him down… this just going to rumble on.\"\n\nThere is also a wider question for the PM about his authority. Despite his significant majority, he will now have to look over his shoulder when it comes to contentious votes and controversial policies.\n\nWill those who want him out be harder to win over?\n\nThere will be efforts to pressure the prime minister to change the way he governs in the next few weeks.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told me the PM needed to \"cut the culture war crap\".\n\nCan he turn things around?\n\n\"He can do it,\" they said, \"but he doesn't have much time.\"\n\nAnother senior backbencher said the prime minister needed to be more Conservative in his policies (for many, that means cutting taxes). Some are calling for a reshuffle, to bring different voices around the cabinet table.\n\nWithin government itself there are those who want change too.\n\nOne minister told me: \"We have a window to show we get it…Things need to change, most of all him\".\n\nBut this person isn't optimistic: \"They are still bunker mode, telling people to get into line.\"\n\nThe prime minister called Monday night's result decisive - but there are few in his party who say the same privately today.\n\nOne MP concluded: \"Keir Starmer could have picked the result. The prime minister will think he has enough to go on. The rebels will be thinking 'one last heave'\".\n\nThe Conservative Party remains divided. The leadership questions rumble on.", "Dom Phillips was writing a book on the Amazon\n\nThe bodies of UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been handed over to their families in Brazil, according to local media.\n\nThey were killed in the Amazon earlier this month while returning from an expedition in the Javari Valley.\n\nOn Thursday a fourth suspect handed himself into police in Sao Paulo.\n\nThe men's families are now planning their funerals, to be held on Friday and Sunday.\n\nBrazilian media reports that the ceremony for Bruno Pereira will take place in the city of Recife on Friday. Dom Phillips's family will hold a cremation near Rio de Janeiro on Sunday - exactly four weeks since the pair were last seen alive.\n\nAlessandra Sampaio, Mr Phillips's widow, has released a photograph of her holding his wedding ring, which police reportedly found next to his body.\n\nThe Javari Valley is an expansive and remote region in Brazil's far west, and is home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups.\n\nMr Pereira had been introducing the journalist to people he could interview for a book about the Amazon, when their boat failed to arrive near the border with Peru.\n\nMr Phillips's widow released a photograph of her holding his wedding ring\n\nThe fourth man arrested in connection with the killings, Gabriel Dantas, has given details on how the men were killed and buried.\n\nHe told officers he drove the boat that chased the two men, according to excerpts of his statement published by local media. But he claims he was not told any details about the trip or its purpose.\n\nDantas says he was given orders by another suspect - Amarildo da Costa Oliveira - who then allegedly shot Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira with a 16-gauge rifle inside their boat.\n\nDantas told officers he helped transport their bodies to be buried, with the help of other men.\n\nOliveira was the first man to be arrested following their disappearance. Police said he told them how both men were killed before leading officers to the location where their bodies were buried.\n\nHis brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, has also been arrested, but denies any involvement. Another suspect, Jeferson da Silva Lima, was arrested last week.\n\nAs well as the four men in custody, five more have been identified by police for allegedly helping to hide the men's bodies.\n\nMr Phillips had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper and was writing a book on the Amazon.\n\nMr Pereira who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon.\n\nMr Pereira had received death threats prior to taking the trip, indigenous rights groups said.\n\nThe area in which they were travelling has become known for illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug-trafficking activities.\n\nIt is also known for violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people. It was these conflicts that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were documenting.", "Mississippi has called on the Supreme Court to overturn legalised abortion in a case that directly challenges the historic 1973 Roe v Wade ruling.\n\nIf successful, America’s abortion policies could be transformed. The decision may not come until next spring.\n\nThe BBC spoke to protesters and abortion supporters outside the last abortion clinic in Mississippi.", "Two people inside the vehicle died in the incident\n\nChinese electric carmaker Nio says that two people were killed when one of its vehicles fell from the third floor of its headquarters in Shanghai.\n\nOne member of staff and a person from a partner company died in the crash.\n\nThe incident took place on Wednesday at about 17:20 local time, the firm said. The people who died were inside the vehicle as it fell from the building.\n\nNio says it immediately started an investigation into the incident in co-operation with government officials.\n\nThe third storey area from where the car fell has been variously described as a showroom, a testing facility or a car park.\n\n\"Our company has collaborated with public security department to launch the investigation and analysis of the cause of the accident. Based on the analysis of the situation at the scene, we can initially confirm that this was an accident (not caused by the vehicle),\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We feel very sad about this accident and would like to express our deepest condolences to our colleague and partner employee who lost their lives. A team has been set up to help the families,\" it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen McDonell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNio's initial statement on Weibo attracted more than 1,000 comments within half an hour, but was then taken down.\n\nThe last sentence of the statement \"not related to the vehicle itself\" triggered many angry responses from social media users.\n\nOne comment read \"it shows the cold blood of capitalism\", while another said, \"the last sentence is so indifferent. They [test drivers] came to test the vehicle, but you say [the accident] has nothing to do with the vehicle?\".\n\nYet another Weibo user said: \"It should be public security bureau to confirm if it's an accident or not.\"\n\nThe car maker has since posted a revised version of the statement, which still refers to the crash as an accident but now has \"not caused by the vehicle\" in brackets apparently to de-emphasise that part of the sentence. All the comments to the new post are now \"RIP\".\n\nNio is at the forefront of China's homegrown drive to dominate the electric vehicle industry. It has staked a lot on interchangeable batteries in its cars as a way to overcome customer concerns about frequent charging.\n\nThe company is a rival to multi-billionaire Elon Musk's US-based electric car maker Tesla, which has a major manufacturing plant in Shanghai.\n\nOne social media user posted a photo, apparently taken from a nearby building, marking with a red circle the window from which the car fell\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "At Mississippi's last abortion clinic, doctors arrive at work greeted by abuse and prayers for their souls.\n\nThe Pink House, as it's known, sits on the corner of one of Jackson's main roads. There are tall gates shielding the windows from the outside world, and music blares in an attempt to drown out the noise.\n\n\"Murderer!\" shouts one protestor. \"Turn to Christ!\" shouts another.\n\nEmployees at Jackson Women's Health Organization are not the only targets.\n\nAs a young woman makes her way through the gates, she, too, is confronted.\n\n\"Don't do this!\" a man shouts, \"Don't kill your baby!\".\n\nAmong the picketers outside the clinic are young children who hold up signs with images of what appear to be babies' limbs covered in blood.\n\nMeanwhile their parents chant prayers as they follow patients along the fence that divides them.\n\nRainbow-clad volunteers escort the patients, in an effort to protect them from the harassment.\n\nAmid the clamour, a man swerves a silver car, very slowly, along the street by the clinic entrance, with the passenger door open, up and down, slowly, again and again.\n\nKim Gibson, a seasoned volunteer escort, calls it \"stochastic terrorism\". The protestors create an atmosphere in which anything could happen, she said. All the doctors who travel from other states to work at the clinic know their colleagues have been the targets of deadly violence before.\n\nWelcome to a normal Saturday outside Jackson Women's Health Organization, the abortion clinic at the heart of a high-profile US Supreme Court case on which a ruling is expected any day now.\n\nThe court is to decide whether Mississippi can ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy - but its decision has much greater implications for millions beyond Mississippi.\n\nThe outcome is widely expected to result in the reversal of Roe v Wade, a landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to abortion across the United States.\n\nAnd here, in one of the poorest parts of the country, pro-choice campaigners say the consequences will be most acutely felt.\n\nAmanda Furdge was a struggling single mum when she found out that she was pregnant a second time. She was still breastfeeding her first baby and living with her parents having just escaped an abusive relationship.\n\n\"I knew immediately I didn't want to or intend to be pregnant due to the struggles I've just gone through already,\" Ms Furdge said.\n\n\"I didn't have the mental emotional capacity or the economic support that I needed to be raising two kids at the time\".\n\nOn a drive through the Mississippi Delta, the rows of crops and vast green fields are only interrupted by the occasional family of steel silos. Then suddenly there will be a mansion.\n\nThis is the land of the haves and have nots, with little but farmland in between.\n\nThe Delta is the poorest region of the poorest state, with the lowest number of doctors per capita across the US.\n\nWages are low here and health insurance is expensive. That combination has led to nearly 40% of the adult population becoming saddled with medical debt. When they can't pay, clinics and hospitals close, and access to healthcare gets worse.\n\nNina Ragunanthan is the only obstetrician at the Delta Health Centre in Mound Bayou\n\nThese factors have a major impact on pregnancy outcomes, campaigners and health experts say.\n\nMound Bayou is a small, now run down town in the Delta. The hospital here closed more than five years ago. There's one convenience store, a gas station, and half of the children here live below the poverty line.\n\nAt the Delta Health Centre, its only obstetrician, Dr Nina Ragunanthan, says banning abortion will lead to an increase in maternal deaths as it will force people with high-risk categories to carry pregnancies to term.\n\n\"I think what is sometimes missing in the general public discussion of abortion, is that abortion is a necessary part of reproductive care. Blindly banning abortion really puts women's lives at risk,\" she said.\n\nMoreover, government-funded care, or Medicaid, ends eight weeks after birth, while the health issues new mothers experience do not. Mississippi voted not to extend Medicaid beyond the eight weeks earlier this year.\n\n\"I think that it is truly a no brainer for our state, to care for the women and children of our state. And it's a shame that our state wasn't willing to make that investment,\" Dr Ragunanthan said.\n\nYet views on abortion from Mississippians themselves are sharply divided.\n\nJust an hour away from Mound Bayou, the town of Greenwood feels like another world. The houses are impressive with immaculately manicured lawns and the church equally so, with modern stained glass windows, a sound system outside, and air conditioning providing respite from the midday sun inside.\n\nDr Terry McMillin, an obstetrician who sings in the choir, sees a ban on abortion very differently to Dr Ragunanthan.\n\n\"I think there will be more children being given a chance at life. I don't think women's health care will be impacted\" he said. \"If we're telling people about Jesus and the laws of God, you know, maybe we shouldn't have sex outside of marriage, and we wouldn't have to make those difficult decisions.\"\n\nHe seemed unconcerned that Mississippi is one of the states that decided not to extend Medicaid for new mothers.\n\n\"That's certainly something that we may have to continue to look at, but I just don't see that as being a problem,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked if he was worried that if abortion is illegal, desperate young women would take matters into their own hands as they did before, he paused for a long time before saying: \"Again, I just don't see that happening\".\n\nDr Terry McMillin (centre) is an obstetrician who sings in his church's choir\n\nIncreasingly, women with unwanted pregnancies are turning to faith-led crisis pregnancy centres (CPC) for help - there are 30 of them in the state and only one abortion clinic.\n\nBut often the goal of a CPC is to encourage women to stay pregnant and become a mother, rather than to help them end a pregnancy - something that critics say is not always disclosed.\n\nMs Furdge turned to a CPC when she was pregnant with her second child, before she went to the Pink House to seek an abortion.\n\nAccording to Ms Furdge, the CPC she had gone to tricked her into thinking they would help her end her pregnancy.\n\nInstead, she said they kept her waiting for hours after she did a pregnancy test. Then the counsellor asked her to show them a picture of her one-year-old son.\n\nWhen she did, she said they held it up, asked her to look at it and then asked how she would feel if they killed him. She left upset and furious.\n\nStill determined to end her pregnancy, she eventually found her way to Jackson Women's Health Organisation, but was too far along to get an abortion.\n\nThe clinic doesn't perform the procedure after 16 weeks, despite Roe v Wade establishing a right to abortion up to viability, which is around 24 weeks.\n\n\"I knew then my only other option [was] to go somewhere else in another state. But I didn't have any transportation and didn't have any funds,\" she said.\n\nAmanda Furdge says she was tricked by a crisis pregnancy centre\n\nAt Birthright CPC, about a 15-minute drive from the Pink House in Jackson, the walls of the counselling room were plastered with pictures of smiling babies, and a row of life-sized plastic foetuses at various stages of gestation are displayed prominently in the counselling room.\n\nIn her nearly 30 years of volunteering, soon-to-be regional director Monica Walton has never thought someone should end a pregnancy, even deeply distressed girls who ended up here as a result of a rape.\n\n\"I don't think there's such a thing as a child that shouldn't be born. I just think the world's a better place with more children and I understand that there are higher risks,\" she said. \"But I also know that women who are in poverty do have healthy babies.\"\n\nMs Walton said Birthright CPC would never trick or actively work to prevent anyone from getting an abortion. They just want women to be aware of all the options available.\n\nBut when asked, she did not know how much an abortion would cost.\n\nThere was no problem or hardship an unwanted pregnancy could bring that couldn't be solved through counselling and prayer, she said, though she disputed the suggestion that the centre forces religion upon anyone.\n\nTheir motto, she said, was that \"we don't talk to the girls about God, we talk to God about the girls\".\n\nAmanda Furdge's children play with each other\n\nOutside Ms Furdge's small apartment, Titan and Mega, who are now eight and seven, play football on a disused tennis court, while Seven, her three-year-old, propels himself around on a tricycle with his feet, having not yet mastered the pedals.\n\nThey seem to be happy, healthy little boys and Ms Furdge appears to be a devoted mother with an easy loving relationship with her young sons.\n\nWhen asked what she would say to someone like Ms Walton, who feels she has helped many women like her to have a child they thought they didn't want, she does not mince words:\n\n\"No thanks to you!\" she said, her voice getting louder. \"No. Thanks. To. You!\"\n\nShe said she had been lucky, but others like her were less so. \"What about the young woman who's dead? What about the kids who don't have a mom? What about the child who's being abused? What about the kids in the foster care system who are suffering? So yes, we have these children but we can't support them\".", "The abortion debate has divided America - and is unlikely to be settled by this Supreme Court decision\n\nThe Supreme Court just lobbed a constitutional hand grenade into the raging culture wars in the US, igniting a fresh battle in this decades-long fight over abortion.\n\nIn a 6-3 ruling, the court found that there was no constitutional right to abortion, turning the decision of whether to allow abortions or not up to the states. Millions of women are now expected to lose access.\n\nWhile this legal ruling will change the law, it will not settle the arguments over abortion. It will inflame them.\n\nJubilant anti-abortion campaigners have achieved something that seemed practically impossible only a few years ago. They believe thousands of babies' lives will now be saved.\n\nPro-choice advocates are left utterly dismayed as they think women's rights have just been set back 50 years. Back to a time when women died as a result of illegal back-street abortions.\n\nRecent polls suggest around two-thirds of Americans did not want to see the constitutional right to abortion removed.\n\nIn such contentious times, even the lofty Supreme Court itself becomes a leading character in the narrative, not just an adjudicator. Before this ruling came out, a man with a gun and knife was arrested outside the home of one of the more conservative justices, saying he was upset by a leak of the draft ruling. Supreme Court justices now have to have security protection. That's how incendiary this issue is.\n\nThis decision was based on their interpretation of constitutional law, but it's also deeply political. When the court overturns a previous ruling it inevitably looks to critics to be more political than constitutional.\n\nThe court has a 6-3 conservative super majority, thanks to the three justices appointed by Donald Trump. He made a specific campaign promise to appoint judges who would overturn Roe v Wade - and those appointments will probably be his most lasting legacy.\n\nDonald Trump at the March for Life in 2019\n\nThe seismic political impact of the Supreme Court's ruling will be felt across all 50 states, but the immediate practical impact of much more restrictive laws is likely to happen in half of them.\n\nOne of those states is Oklahoma, which last month passed the most restrictive abortion legislation in America - a total ban from the point of conception with few exceptions.\n\nWhen I met state representative Wendi Stearman in Tulsa, she told me it is her honour and privilege to have authored the bill. She says she will be helping 4,000 unborn children every year \"to have a chance at life\".\n\nWhen I asked her if she believed the legislation will stop abortions happening in Oklahoma she said no - but that it will make them more difficult to obtain.\n\nShe argues that in all but a tiny minority of cases women can choose not to become pregnant before conception and that \"most women just use abortion as a form of contraception\".\n\nThat's an argument vehemently refuted by Andrea Gallego,, who runs an abortion clinic in Tulsa. She says the decision to have an abortion is often the hardest decision any woman will ever make.\n\nA few weeks ago her clinic was treating around 40 pregnant patients every day. When I visited, the waiting rooms and treatment facilities were completely empty. Only a few staff remain - answering calls and giving out information about clinics in other states.\n\n\"Patients have been begging for help,\" she says. \"It's devastating. These laws don't prevent abortion. They just add extra burdens to patients.\"\n\nWhat is already happening in Oklahoma will now be replicated in other states.\n\nNow that Roe v Wade is overturned, 26 states could further restrict abortion access, including 13 states that have passed so-called trigger laws, which would introduce bans immediately upon the court's decision. Less than a third of those states would include exceptions for rape of incest, according to the legislation they have already passed, or are trying to pass.\n\nDemocratic-controlled states like California and New York will cast themselves as abortion sanctuaries, welcoming women from places where the procedure has been outlawed. There are 20 states in all where abortion will remain a protected right. About 26.5 million women of childbearing age live in those states.\n\nAs abortion clinics close down in states that have outlawed the practice many more are expected to open near state borders in places where it is still allowed. Those who don't have the time or money to travel may resort to other means - such as ordering abortion-inducing pills online - even if it is illegal.\n\nThere were somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 abortions in the US in 2019. According to the Center for Disease Control, about one in six pregnancies end in abortion, and over 90% occur in the first trimester. Over half of women who get abortions are already mothers, and for most, it is their first abortion.\n\nThe court's decision could not be more timely, as Americans are set to vote for their representatives in Congress later this year.\n\nFacing a thrashing in November's elections, the Democrats hope the abortion issue will galvanise pro-choice women to come out and vote for them. But they have already failed in their attempt to get Congress to introduce legislation to grant a federal right to abortion, which would have stopped individual states from banning the procedure.\n\nEven if Democrats keep control of the House and Senate, they won't be able to overturn this court ruling.\n\nOn the other side, there are plenty of Republicans who would like to legislate for a federal abortion ban that would outlaw abortion across all states. That may be the coming battle if Republicans take control of Congress after the next election.\n\nFurther fights may be had over how this ruling affects certain types of contraception or IVF treatment. And some have questioned whether similar legal arguments can be used to undermine same-sex marriage.\n\nAmerica today feels like one country that contains two very separate nations, inhabited by two tribes that have completely different values, beliefs and goals. Now, they have just moved farther apart.", "Survivors of the earthquake in Barmal district assess the damage\n\nSurvivors of Afghanistan's deadliest earthquake in two decades say they have nothing to eat, no shelter, and fear a possible cholera outbreak. The BBC's Secunder Kermani reports from Paktika province, the hardest hit by the disaster.\n\nSearching through the debris, in what is left of his family home, Agha Jan's eyes well up with tears.\n\n\"These were my sons' shoes,\" he says, brushing the dust off them. His three young children and two wives were killed in the earthquake as they slept.\n\nAs the tremors struck in the early hours of Wednesday, Agha Jan rushed towards the room where his family was staying.\n\n\"But everything was under the rubble,\" he tells the BBC. \"Even my shovel. There was nothing I could do. I called out to my cousins to help but when we pulled my family out, they were already all dead.\"\n\nThe area around Agha Jan's village in Barmal district, Paktika province, is one of the worst affected by the earthquake, in which around 1,000 people are believed to have been killed and 3,000 more injured.\n\nAgha Jan (far left) with surviving family members in his remote village in Barmal, Paktika\n\nIt's a three-hour drive to the nearest big city, on mostly dirt roads - the remote location making it all the more difficult to transport the injured. Some had to be flown to hospital in the Taliban's military helicopters.\n\nAlmost every house in the village, generally constructed from mud and stone, appears to be badly damaged. Almost every family seems to be grieving a lost relative.\n\nHabib Gul was across the border in the Pakistani city of Karachi, working as a labourer, when he heard the news. He rushed back to his village in Barmal to discover 20 of his relatives had been killed - 18 of them in a single house.\n\n\"Whose names can I give you? So many of my relatives were martyred, three sisters, my niece, my daughter, young children.\"\n\nEvery villager we meet wants to show us the destruction to their home. Partly because they want the world to see the devastation, but also, more practically, because they are hoping their names can be added to aid distribution lists.\n\n\"If the world looks on us like brothers and helps us, we will stay here on our land,\" Habib Gul tells the BBC. \"If they don't, we will leave this place where we have spent so long with tears in our eyes.\"\n\nOverhead, military helicopters whir through the sky. They're no longer transporting injured victims but delivering supplies. Taliban officials tell us the rescue operation has been completed and is now over.\n\nThe most pressing need is shelter for the hundreds of families left homeless.\n\nAgha Jan and one of his surviving sons are pitching a large sheet of tarpaulin between wooden sticks on a piece of empty ground. Other families are in tents, flanked by the remnants of homes they worked so hard to construct.\n\nGrandfather Khalid Jan with surviving members of his family\n\nKhalid Jan is now responsible for his five young grandchildren who mill around by his feet. Their father, his son, was killed in the earthquake, along with two other of Khalid Jan's children.\n\n\"I am all they have left,\" he tells the BBC, perched on a metal charpoy - a traditional bed - underneath a tent. \"But the house and everything here has been destroyed and I will never be able to rebuild it.\"\n\nAfghan and international aid agencies are assessing the damage and delivering supplies, but this is a major and developing crisis, one which comes on top of the country's already dire humanitarian situation.\n\nThe United Nations, which is also helping support victims, is warning of the risk of a possible cholera outbreak.\n\nAt Habib Gul's village, men have gathered to offer prayers commemorating the dead. Almost 50 people have been killed out of a population of around 250. Attention will now turn to the survivors, and how fast aid can reach them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Liberal Democrat MP Richard Foord: \"It's time for Boris to go\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have won the Tiverton and Honiton by-election, overturning a Conservative majority of more than 24,000.\n\nRichard Foord won the Devon seat with more than 22,000 votes after the constituency saw a swing of almost 30%.\n\nThe former Army major said it sent a \"loud and clear message\".\n\nThe by-election was triggered when former Conservative MP Neil Parish resigned after admitting watching pornography in Parliament.\n\nMid Devon District Council said a total of 42,707 votes were cast in the by-election\n\nMr Foord said the result was an \"extraordinary and historic result which has sent a shockwave through British politics\".\n\n\"Tonight the people of Britain have spoken,\" he said.\n\n\"They've sent a loud and clear message: it's time for Boris Johnson to go, and go now.\"\n\nMr Foord also promised to \"work tirelessly\" for his new constituents, saying: \"Whether you supported me or someone else, I want to let you know I'm here to represent you and stand up for everyone in Tiverton and Honiton.\"\n\nThe overnight annihilation of all the Liberal Democrat MPs in the South West in the 2015 general election was widely credited with winning David Cameron his slim majority and overturned a decades-long status quo in which the Lib Dems were the Conservatives' equals and feared opponents.\n\nThe 2017 and 2019 elections saw a further downward spiral for the party which had held every seat in Cornwall just 10 years previously.\n\nThe once victorious Lib Dems were reduced to miserable third places and Conservative majorities grew and grew.\n\nThen, in the 2019 local elections, the party enjoyed notable successes in Devon and Somerset.\n\nThis year they wrested Somerset County Council - soon to become a unitary - from the Conservatives.\n\nNow comes this remarkable victory in Tiverton and Honiton.\n\nIf they can do that here - in a seat they'd never previously held - the Conservatives are bound to be wondering what they might capable of in seats like North Devon, St Ives and Yeovil which they'd held for decades until just seven years ago.\n\nRichard Foord (right) received more than 22,000 votes\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the \"stunning win\" should be \"a wake-up call for all those Conservative MPs propping up Boris Johnson\" and they \"cannot afford to ignore this result\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking to broadcasters 4,000 miles away in Rwanda where he is at a Commonwealth summit, said he would take responsibility, but stressed the cost-of-living crisis was the most important thing for voters, saying it is \"true that in mid-term governments post-war lose by-elections\".\n\n\"It's absolutely true we've had some tough by-election results, they've been, I think, a reflection of a lot of things, but we've got to recognise voters are going through a tough time at the moment,\" he said at a conference centre in Kigali.\n\nMr Johnson continued: \"I think as a government I've got to listen to what people are saying - in particular to the difficulties people are facing over the cost of living, which I think for most people is the number one issue.\n\n\"We're now facing pressures on the cost of living, we're seeing spikes in fuel prices, energy costs, food costs - that's hitting people.\n\n\"We've got to recognise there is more we've got to do and we certainly will, we will keep going addressing the concerns of people until we get through this patch.\"\n\nMr Foord won with 22,537 votes, beating his nearest rival, Conservative Helen Hurford, who polled 16,393.\n\nThe swing from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats saw Mr Foord secure a majority of 6,144.\n\nPrevious MP Neil Parish told BBC Radio Devon the result was \"a shock\" but \"very much a sort of national vote, really\".\n\nHe said: \"There's a lot going on out there and I'm afraid the party paid the price for it.\"\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service said Ms Hurford was ushered out of the counting hall once the result was declared just after 04:00 BST, failing to give a concession speech or speak to the press.\n\nLabour candidate Liz Pole, who came third, said people had shown \"that they have had enough of the Conservatives\".\n\nMid Devon District Council said a total of 42,707 votes were cast and the turnout was 52.3% out of an electorate 81,661.\n\nFollowing the double by-election defeat, Conservative Party co-chairman Oliver Dowden resigned with immediate effect on Friday morning.\n\nIn his letter to PM Boris Johnson, Mr Dowden said Tory supporters were \"distressed and disappointed by recent events\" and he shared their feelings. \"Somebody must take responsibility,\" he concluded\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Households are cutting back on food shopping as the rising cost of living bites into budgets.\n\nNearly half of adults surveyed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said they had bought less food in the past fortnight due to higher prices.\n\nThe price of food was also the most common reason for why those asked were seeing their monthly outgoings rising overall, the ONS said.\n\nSupermarkets Asda and Tesco have said customers are cutting back on shopping.\n\nAsda told the BBC that some shoppers are asking cashiers to stop scanning items when the till total hits £30 as they try to cut costs and also switching to budget ranges.\n\nMeanwhile, Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, has said it is seeing early signs that shoppers are changing their habits due to high inflation - the rate at which prices rise - such as buying less food and visiting more frequently.\n\nThe ONS said its feedback from supermarkets also suggested customers were spending less on their food shop because of the rising cost of living.\n\nIt found that sales in supermarkets dropped 1.5% in May, with a 2.2% fall in specialist shops such as butchers and bakers.\n\n\"Many customers are buying down, particularly with food, choosing value-range items where they might previously have bought premium goods,\" said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.\n\nRetail sales overall fell by 0.5% in May, the ONS said, and it also revised down its sales growth figure for April to 0.4% from its previous estimate of 1.4%.\n\nPrices overall are continuing to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years, with UK inflation at 9.1%, the highest level since March 1982.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe RAC motoring group revealed that the average price of a litre of petrol hit £1.90 for the first time on Thursday, while diesel was edging towards £2 a litre.\n\nFuel and energy prices are the biggest drivers of inflation, but food costs drove the most recent rise in May, with prices for bread, cereal and meat climbing.\n\nSarah Coles, senior personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the \"horror\" of April's unprecedented rise in energy bills \"swallowed a much bigger slice\" of households' income and \"kept their appetite for spending under control\".\n\n\"It's not just the rising bills of today that are worrying us, it's the prospect of even higher bills tomorrow, and fears of a looming recession, which might cause our finances to unravel entirely,\" she added.\n\nCutting back on food has emerged as the most tangible evidence of the effect of the soaring cost of living on our household finances.\n\nThis ONS report chimes with a survey commissioned by the BBC which found 56% of people asked had bought fewer groceries, and the same proportion had skipped meals.\n\nThe fact that it is food - a necessity for everyone, of course - shows how everyday life is affected, rather than just having fewer holidays or socialising less.\n\nBy the autumn and winter, the focus may well shift to people heating their homes less. But whether it is heating, eating, or both, people are going to be looking at where they can reduce their spending for some time yet.\n\nIn a BBC-commissioned survey of more than 4,000 people, 82% said they thought their wages should increase to match the rising price of goods and services.\n\nWorkers and unions have been pushing for pay rises, with strikes on the railways this week and BA workers at Heathrow voting to strike over the summer.\n\nBut the government has warned against employers handing out big increases in salaries over fears of a 1970s style \"inflationary spiral\" where firms hike wages and then pass the cost on to customers through even higher prices.\n\nThe drop in food sales comes as a long-running measure of consumer confidence recorded its lowest score since records began in 1974.\n\nMarket research firm GfK said its consumer morale index fell to -41 in June from -40 in May, below levels that have previously preceded recessions.\n\nThe ONS said that while food sales fell, fuel sales volumes rose by 1.1% in May - despite record high petrol prices.\n\nHeather Bovill, deputy director for surveys and economic indicators at the ONS, said more workers returning to the office might be the reason in the uptick in fuel sales.\n\nBut she said the rise, along with boost in clothing sales, were \"offset by falls for household goods and department stores, with retailers in these areas reporting consumer reluctance to spend due to affordability worries and higher prices.\"\n\nThe proportion of online sales slipped back in May but remains substantially higher than before the pandemic, the ONS said.\n\nHow are you cutting down on your food shopping? What items are you leaving out? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Motor industry giant Toyota is recalling 2,700 of its first mass-produced all-electric vehicles over concerns their wheels may fall off.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC that bolts on the bZ4X's wheels \"can loosen to the point where the wheel can detach from the vehicle\" after \"low-mileage use\".\n\nThe recall comes less than two months after the car was launched in Japan.\n\nCar maker Subaru also says that for the same reason it will recall 403 electric cars it developed with Toyota.\n\nOn Friday, Toyota said in a statement that it had issued a safety recall for 2,700 bZ4X SUVs in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan.\n\n\"If a wheel detaches from the vehicle while driving, it could result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"No one should drive these vehicles until the remedy is performed,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC understands that some bZ4X models have not been recalled. However, a Toyota spokesperson declined to comment on how many of the vehicle the company had manufactured.\n\nToyota said it had notified Japanese safety regulators about the defect on Thursday and the cause of the issue was \"still under investigation\".\n\nAnother Japanese car manufacturer, Subaru also said it was recalling 403 of the Solterra, its first all-electric car jointly developed with Toyota, because of concerns over loose bolts. The firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nToyota is viewed as a relative latecomer to the electric vehicle market, as compared to rival manufacturers like Tesla, which launched its first electric car 14 years ago.\n\nIt launched the bZ4X in Japan last month. The car was only available on lease \"to eliminate customer concerns regarding residual battery performance, maintenance and residual value,\" Toyota said earlier this year.\n\nThis week, the company said it would cut the number of vehicles it plans to produce next month by 50,000 to 800,000 because of a shortage of computer chips and supply disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nAlthough Toyota currently aims to manufacture a total of 9.7m vehicles around the world this year, it has signalled that it may be forced to lower that number.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Electric cars are said to be the future, but are we quite there yet?", "A senior Metropolitan police officer \"omitted key forensic evidence\" in a trial linked to the murder of a British man and the kidnap of his wife in Kenya, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe police watchdog has concluded Neil Hibberd would have a case to answer for gross misconduct had he not retired.\n\nDavid Tebbutt was killed and his wife Jude taken hostage in 2011.\n\nMr Hibberd \"absolutely disagrees with the findings\", his lawyer said.\n\nA Kenyan man, Ali Kololo, was convicted of robbery with violence and sentenced to death. This was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he remains in Mombasa's high-security Shimo La Tewa GK Prison.\n\nMr Hibberd, the detective chief inspector leading a Scotland Yard counter-terrorism team sent to Kenya to help the investigation, was a key prosecution witness at the trial. His evidence was cited by the magistrate as one of the deciding factors in the father of two's conviction.\n\nBut now the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which has been investigating the officer's role in the case since June 2018, has confirmed in a statement to the BBC that \"had the officer still been serving he would have had a case to answer for gross misconduct\".\n\nGross misconduct could lead to dismissal of a serving officer. Mr Hibberd retired in 2017.\n\nThe police watchdog for England and Wales told the BBC the officer's witness statement had \"omitted... key forensic evidence\", and that he had included details from an account given by Ali Kololo in his own witness statement when he should not have done.\n\nKenyan police took two accounts from Ali Kololo - the first was taken before Mr Hibberd joined the investigation. Ali Kololo has always alleged that his initial statement was given under torture - a claim rejected by Kenyan authorities.\n\nMrs Tebbutt told the BBC: \"I've always put my faith in the police to do the right thing, but this obviously highlighted that they haven't done the right thing.\n\n\"In fact, it highlights that there was some wrongdoings by a senior investigating officer, a senior member of the police force who really should have known better.\"\n\nHaving spent a week on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve, the couple of more than 30 years had arrived at a secluded resort on the coast, near the Somalian border. But on their first night Mrs Tebbutt awoke to the sound of David struggling with someone in the dark. She was jabbed with the barrel of a rifle and dragged down to the beach.\n\nHer kidnappers held her in Somalia for six months. She was only released after her adult son Olly negotiated a ransom deal.\n\nMrs Tebbutt says she has tried to move on but \"the one thing that is still really unsettling and unsatisfying is that Mr Kololo has been in prison for 10 years and I believe that he is innocent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Jude Tebbutt: \"They put a man in prison who shouldn't have been put in prison.\"\n\nShe had been led to believe that the case against Ali Kololo - an illiterate woodcutter and honey gatherer - was compelling. She also says she remembers Mr Hibberd telling her at the time that he was going to find the person that killed her husband if it was \"the last thing I do\".\n\nThe justice charity Reprieve, which has been working with Ali Kololo's lawyer Alfred Olaba, told the BBC that evidence given by Mr Hibberd may have contributed to a grave miscarriage of justice.\n\nIOPC documents sent to Reprieve and shared exclusively with the BBC, say: \"Having considered Mr Hibberd's seniority and experience and that he was aware of the inconclusive forensic evidence, I [the IOPC decision maker] am of the view that a reasonable tribunal could consider that it is not credible for Mr Hibberd not to have appreciated that this forensic evidence should have been included in his statement and that without it, his statement had the potential to mislead the court.\"\n\nIf a disciplinary panel had found this to be the case, the IOPC document continued, \"then it would follow that Mr Hibberd may have failed to act with integrity and in breach of his duties and responsibilities… at a level which I believe could justify dismissal\".\n\nLegislation allowing officers in England and Wales to be pursued for gross misconduct after they have retired or resigned was not introduced until eight months after Hibberd retired. As a result, no proceedings can be brought against him, the IOPC says.\n\nDet Ch Supt Dominic Murphy, the Met police's head of operations for counter-terrorism, told the BBC there was \"no avenue available\" for the force to consider further disciplinary action.\n\nMrs Tebbutt spoke to the BBC after the IOPC had completed its investigation. She said: \"He knows what he's done. They put a man in prison who shouldn't have been put in prison. So, they have to live with that.\n\n\"I did believe they would find the killer of David and the people who took me.\"\n\nMr Hibberd provided evidence to link Ali Kololo to the crime scene in his formal witness statement and oral evidence in court.\n\nIn the original complaint by Reprieve to the Metropolitan Police, which prompted the IOPC investigation, the justice charity said \"the only evidence linking Mr Kololo to the scene was the footprints from the tanga shoes. No photographs were ever produced of these prints… they did not fit Mr Kololo when he wore them in court and no forensic evidence has ever been produced to link Mr Kololo to the shoes, or the shoes to the crime scene. Mr Kololo has always denied that the shoes were his.\"\n\nReprieve says it discovered new information about the police evidence when an appeal was being prepared against Ali Kololo's conviction.\n\nDocuments obtained through a legal challenge against the Met revealed that during Mr Hibberd's investigation, a Scotland Yard footprint expert was asked to compare a photograph of a print found near the crime scene to the shoe allegedly worn by Ali Kololo.\n\nThe expert concluded that \"he could not specifically include or exclude the left shoe from item 'F' (taken from Ali Babitu Kololo) as being responsible for making the partial shoe mark\".\n\nThe IOPC says inconclusive evidence was not included in the senior officer's witness statement. Its investigation was completed in November 2021, but the findings have not yet been officially published. The BBC World Service recently interviewed Jude Tebbutt and discovered the status of the investigation when it contacted the IOPC.\n\nThe IOPC also looked at whether Mr Hibberd may have committed a criminal offence, and while it said there \"may still be a suspicion\" that he might have, it would not be appropriate to refer the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). It said, \"there is no realistic prospect of it meeting the CPS evidential standard (that there is sufficient admissible evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction).\"\n\nIn the years following the Kenyan investigation, Neil Hibberd was promoted from detective chief inspector to detective superintendent. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in late 2015.\n\nThis is just the latest travesty in a case beset by failings and impropriety\n\nAt his trial, Ali Kololo did not have a lawyer until after the prosecution had set out its case. Despite speaking no English, he had to cross-examine all of the prosecution witnesses, including Mr Hibberd. He currently relies on his pro bono lawyer, Alfred Olaba, who says Ali Kololo was convicted based on evidence (his first witness statement) he has always said was extracted through torture.\n\n\"This is just the latest travesty in a case beset by failings and impropriety,\" says Mr Olaba.\n\nReprieve said, \"the failings revealed by this [IOPC] investigation could hardly be more serious\".\n\nThe charity's director of advocacy, Dan Dolan, says Ali Kololo's life was at stake in the trial. \"By not revealing the existence of forensic evidence that did not support the prosecution's case, and instead relying upon a torture-tainted 'confession' to pin the blame on Ali Kololo, the senior Scotland Yard detective said to be a 'key witness' may have significantly misled the court.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Kenyan police, Bruno Shioso, said the claims of torture were \"incorrect\".\n\n\"The matter was professionally and competently investigated by our investigative agencies with regard to human rights respect. No complaint was ever recorded from [Ali Kololo] before our law enforcement and judicial authorities for any violations of rights and liberties.\"\n\nMr Shiosa was asked if anyone else had been convicted in relation to the murder and kidnap. \"[Ali Kololo] is the only one,\" he replied. He said there was \"no pending investigation\" to the best of his knowledge.\n\nJude Tebbutt was released on 21 March 2012 after being held captive for 192 days in Somalia\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Service told the BBC there are now changes to the way they deploy their officers abroad, compared with 2011.\n\nThe IOPC investigated additional allegations against Mr Hibberd, but found that these were either outside its jurisdiction, or there was insufficient evidence to support them.\n\nWorking with Reprieve, Alfred Olaba is now preparing for hearings at the Kenyan Court of Appeal that he hopes will take place before the end of July. He says he is optimistic that Ali Kololo will walk out a free man.\n\nEleven years after losing her husband, Jude Tebbutt has told the BBC she believes his killer is still at large.\n\n\"The real murderer of David, who can only be one of two men - and I could recognise those men today - they are somewhere, living their lives and they've got no consequences.\"\n\nJude Tebutt spoke to Lives Less Ordinary - the new podcast bringing you incredible personal stories from around the world", "Since her diagnosis, Adele Roberts has worked hard to break down stigma\n\nAdele Roberts has been named role model of the year at the British LGBT Awards after sharing her bowel cancer diagnosis.\n\nThe Radio 1 DJ has been widely praised for her openness during her treatment, after announcing she had the disease last October.\n\nSince then, she has used her platform to encourage others to be aware of the signs and symptoms.\n\nHost Sue Perkins hailed her as a \"hero\" at the ceremony in London on Friday.\n\nAccepting the award via video message, Adele thanked the LGBT community for their support during her cancer treatment.\n\nShe said: \"You've inspired me to do better and to be better...\n\n\"I understand the importance of standing up being proud, not apologising for who you are and just being that person really, that we all needed when we were younger.\n\n\"So I hope I'm doing that for anybody who's dealing with cancer.\"\n\nMs Roberts has been through intense treatment and now wears a stoma bag.\n\nIn May, Ms Roberts and her stoma - which she has named Audrey - featured on the front cover of Women's Health magazine, as a way to break down the stigma surrounding her diagnosis.\n\nThe 43-year-old has previously praised her fiancee Kate Holderness for being her \"counsellor, mentor and the best nurse ever\".\n\nLady Gaga was given the celebrity award, announced by surprise guest Dame Kelly Holmes, who recently came out as gay.\n\nSinger Alicia Keys was honoured as celebrity ally of the year after a public vote. The ally award goes to a public figure who, through their work, has shone a light on and supported LGBT issues.\n\nAccepting the award with a pre-recorded video message, she praised the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities.\n\nShe said: \"I know the powerful LGBTQI+ community has a lot to fight for, stand up to and care about, so just like all of you here tonight, I am here with you to keep showing up, representing and reminding each other we are not alone.\n\nAlicia Keys, who wasn't in attendance, accepted her award with a video message\n\n\"Let's scream at the top of our lungs, everyone deserves love, kindness, equanimity and most of all respect.\n\n\"Of course we've come a long way but there's so much more to do and there's so much more that has to happen, but that's why ceremonies like this are so important.\"\n\nOlympic diving gold medallist Tom Daley picked up the sports personality of the year award, after being nominated for speaking out against countries with anti-LGBT laws.\n\nJohannes Radebe and John Whaite at the Strictly Come Dancing 2021 semi-final\n\nThe media moment award went to Strictly Come Dancing's Johannes Radebe and his dance partner John Whaite for their performance in the 2021 semi-final.\n\nThe pair were widely praised for their contemporary dance to Adele's Hometown Glory, which they said represented what it was like growing up gay.\n\nWhaite said: \"We've come a very long way but what me and Johannes did and represented that night wasn't about us.\n\n\"It was about the community that came before us who paved away and those that will carry the torch forward.\"\n\nRepresentatives of LGBT charity and campaign group Stonewall were awarded a lifetime achievement award on behalf of their organisation by broadcaster Julian Clary.\n\nThe event is considered one of the UK's most significant awards ceremonies supporting the LGBT community and has been held annually since 2014.\n\nHost of the awards Perkins said she was looking forward to continuing the celebrations during Pride in London's 50th anniversary March on 2 July.\n\n\"It's important and it's fun,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll be there, possibly a couple of sheets to the wind, possibly with a couple of glow sticks.\n\n\"I'll be supporting some of the affiliated charities and doing my bit. It's as important as ever and long may it reign.\"", "Jennifer Dornan was murdered at her home in Lagmore in 2015\n\nThe sister of a mother-of-three who was murdered in her west Belfast home has said \"no sentence will ever be good enough\" for her killer.\n\nJennifer Dornan was found in her burnt-out home in Lagmore in August 2015. She had been stabbed three times in the chest with a knife from her kitchen.\n\nRaymond Martin Gabriel O'Neill, 44, denied murdering the 30-year-old and then setting fire to her house.\n\nOn Friday, he was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in jail.\n\nO'Neill, of Amcomri Street, Belfast, was given an automatic life sentence after a jury had unanimously convicted him of arson and murder in April.\n\nOn Friday, during a sentencing hearing to determine how long he must serve before being considered for release, a prosecution barrister said: \"This is a shocking murder; every woman's worst nightmare that a man should follow you home after a night out, break into your home and murder you.\"\n\nThe judge also gave O'Neill an indeterminate sentence of seven years for arson to be served concurrently.\n\nHe has launched an appeal against the conviction.\n\nMs Dornan's younger sister Claire hopes that her family will now \"have time to properly grieve\".\n\nJennifer Dornan's relatives embraced outside court following the jury's verdict in April\n\n\"We will never ever get over what happened to Jennifer because it's hard to understand why someone would want to kill her - she was one of a kind,\" Claire Dornan told BBC News NI.\n\nMs Dornan said her sister was murdered \"in her own home, a place where she should have felt safe\".\n\n\"I never thought it would take seven years for Raymond to be convicted of Jennifer's murder,\" she added.\n\n\"Raymond ran to the south of Ireland after he killed Jennifer and it took just over three years to extradite him back up to the north, then Covid came along and it was put back again.\n\n\"We have never given up and have fought all this time so we could get a guilty verdict.\"\n\nDuring the eight-week trial, the court was told by O'Neill that he had no memory of the night of the murder due to a stroke in October 2016, which he claimed was caused by prison staff in Dublin poisoning his juice bottle with methadone.\n\nHe also claimed he had no memory of travelling to County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland, in the days following Ms Dornan's death or of his arrest in Bundoran.\n\nClaire Dornan says O'Neill \"has lied about murdering Jennifer from day one\".\n\n\"Even to this day, he is still denying it. He has dragged this out for our family for nearly seven years.\n\n\"Raymond didn't even know Jennifer - he just followed her home and murdered her.\n\n\"It hasn't been easy for us hearing all the evidence, especially the pathologist report.\n\n\"I still wish he would admit it but I know he won't. He will never tell us why he killed Jennifer.\"\n\nClaire Dornan says her family will never get over the murder\n\nFor the Dornan family, this sentence will hopefully close the legal chapter.\n\nBut the reality remains - three young children are without a mother, a sister is without any siblings and a mother is without a daughter.\n\nThe family were already grieving before the murder - Jennifer's brother Stephen was just 23 when he died in 2009.\n\n\"My family has been massively impacted by all of this,\" Claire told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Me and my mum still haven't come to terms with it properly. Not having Jennifer in our lives has been very difficult. We all miss her.\n\n\"Jennifer was the best daughter, the best sister and the best mother to her three children.\n\n\"Her children are finding it very difficult not having their mother around and it's particularly hard at Christmas time and birthdays.\n\n\"My mum and me look after them very well - that's what Jennifer would have wanted - but they are struggling since losing their mummy.\"\n\nThe Dornan family have many fond memories of Jennifer, who Claire described as someone who \"went out of her way to help others\".\n\nShe said her older sister \"always looked after me when we were growing up\" and would \"plait my hair and pick nice clothes for me\".\n\nClaire added that she will remember better days, like days spent in Jennifer's back garden.\n\n\"She would invite me and my children up, and my mum too, and we would all sit out her back garden and have a BBQ while the kids splashed about in the paddling pool.\n\n\"Jennifer just loved spending time with her family and friends. It's memories like that I will always remember; they were the good times.\"\n\nBut Claire would love to see her sister one last time to tell her that her kids are OK.\n\n\"I would also tell her I love her and miss her every day.\"", "Anthony Albanese has promised to mend ties with France after a diplomatic row\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit Paris to \"reset\" relations with France after tensions erupted over a scrapped submarine deal.\n\nAustralia in 2021 cancelled a multi-billion dollar contract with a French firm to build the submarines.\n\nIt instead signed a new defence pact with the US and the UK, infuriating French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nHe accused then leader Scott Morrison of lying to him, briefly recalling France's ambassador in protest.\n\nMr Albanese - who was elected in May - will travel to Madrid next week for the Nato summit. He will make a detour to Paris to smooth over ties.\n\n\"It is important that a reset occur,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nThe relationship is key because France is not only a central power in Europe but - like Australia - in the Pacific too, he said.\n\n\"We've already had very constructive discussions… Next week's visit is a very concrete sign of the repair that's been done already,\" he said.\n\nAustralia earlier this month announced a €555m ($584m; £476m) settlement with France's Naval Group as compensation for scrapping the contract in favour of the Aukus deal.\n\nMr Albanese has also been invited by Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the country while in Europe.\n\nHe said his delegation was getting national security advice before making a decision: \"We don't want to cause a circumstance whereby there's risk to Australian personnel by undertaking such a visit.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year, when asked by reporters if the previous Australian PM, Scott Morrison, had been untruthful - President Macron said: \"I don't think, I know.\"", "The Lib Dems have been celebrating their big win in Tiverton and Honiton by unveiling a new prop – a big blue door.\n\nThe words \"It's time to show Boris the door\" are emblazoned across it – the Lib Dems say this is what people have been telling them on the streets of east Devon.\n\nLeader Sir Ed Davey offered his congratulations to Devon's new MP Richard Foord saying the residents \"have spoken for the British people\" by sending a loud and clear message to the PM.\n\nDavey says Johnson has lost the confidence of his own party, of the people of Tiverton and Honiton, and the PM has lost the confidence of the British people.\n\n\"Boris Johson has got to go,\" he adds.", "There has been a resounding double defeat for the Conservatives after the Lib Dems took the south-western rural stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton and Labour made a decisive return to power in the northern seat of Wakefield.\n\nOur South West political editor Martyn Oates and Yorkshire political editor James Vincent have been following the candidates and speaking to voters in the two very different communities over the past few weeks. This is what they have learned.\n\nOn the face of it, the South West is a typical rural Conservative stronghold - and from the 2015 general election until this by-election electors across the peninsula returned a Conservative MP in all but two constituencies. But Devon and Cornwall also had serious socio-economic problems even before the cost of living crisis hit.\n\nGovernment funding has singled out Cornwall for special treatment. But research by Devon County Council shows this constituency is one of several areas of Devon where productivity per head is equal to or poorer than Cornwall's - without corresponding government recognition.\n\nLow wages contrast with soaring house prices. Spiralling fuel prices are a particular concern in highly-rural constituencies like this, where a car is often seen as essential to live and work.\n\nGetting the voice of the rural South West heard in Westminster has always been a challenge - and some think that has not become easier with the present government's anxiety to help its new friends in the North.\n\n2/ Farmers on collision course with government\n\nAgriculture shapes the whole landscape of this constituency, from Exmoor to the Blackdown Hills to the Jurassic Coast. And the government has put itself on a collision course with the farming community in at least three key policy areas.\n\nFarmers say they are once again ploughing crops back into the fields because they cannot source enough foreign labour under the government's strict new immigration rules.\n\nLivestock farmers - who predominate here - are also extremely worried about the new trade deals ministers have struck with Australia and New Zealand, fearing they will be undercut by a flood of cheap foreign meat. Even the government's own analysis found the agricultural sector would suffer as a result.\n\nAnd the ending of the old EU-style farm subsidies is especially feared somewhere like this where the typically small, family farm has relied on them to stay in business.\n\nBoris Johnson's barnstorming celebrity status and his unconventional approach to high office always risked being a double-edged sword, though many saw it as the trump card which won the Conservatives their huge majority in 2019. Two-and-half years into his premiership and with the partygate row and the confidence vote fresh in voter's minds, the PM's personality loomed perhaps unusually large in this by-election.\n\nThe candidates for the three big parties all brandished impressive local credentials. But another local - the ex-MP whose resignation triggered this by-election - was arguably the other big political personality here, albeit one with no active involvement. The enduring affection for Neil Parish, a farmer himself and widely credited for working hard for this farming community, is perhaps a reminder that strong local candidates can also help make or break the political weather.\n\nMany people in Wakefield are Leeds United fans. They will always support Leeds, but might not go to games if the team is not doing very well. That's potentially what happened here with the Conservatives.\n\nPeople who are natural Conservative voters may have just stayed at home rather than voting. The low turnout did them no favours and just like fans of a beleaguered club they perhaps showed their views by not showing them at all.\n\nFor football clubs, the way they get out of that rut is by changing the manager.\n\n2/ Prime minister's no-show may have had an impact\n\nMaybe leader visits do matter in election campaigns. Sir Keir Starmer was in Wakefield a number of times. Boris Johnson was due last week - but went to Ukraine instead. As usual, you can read this both ways. Maybe the Conservatives did not want the PM in front of microphones at difficult times. But it also might have looked like they were not taking the by-election here seriously.\n\nAlso, those nearby MPs that backed the PM in the confidence vote, did so in part because he was seen as a vote winner. He helped get some MPs their first-ever job in Westminster. But in Yorkshire today, he's not a vote winner. Will he ever come to Yorkshire as PM again?\n\n3/ Are voters in the North returning to Labour?\n\nLabour can take back \"red wall\" seats. I mean, no-one here calls it the red wall, but Labour thinks they can grab them back. The Conservatives think this election was called for such a specific reason it proves nothing.\n\nLabour were favourites, but the big question was how big they could win. A narrow victory could potentially have been shrugged off by the Conservatives and seen as Labour voters not taking to Sir Keir. Nearly 5,000 is big enough for Labour to see it as evidence people are coming back to them. But there is a big difference between a by-election and a general election.", "The Conservatives and the prime minister have been dealt a major blow after the Liberal Democrats and Labour won two by-elections.\n\nIn Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, the Lib Dems achieved a seismic victory and overturned a 24,000 Tory majority with a 30% swing. Labour took back Wakefield in West Yorkshire after losing the seat to the Tories in 2019.\n\nThe Conservative Party co-chairman, Oliver Dowden, resigned. He said someone had to take responsibility for the defeats and that he shared the feelings of Tory supporters who were \"distressed and disappointed by recent events.\"\n\nBoris Johnson, who is in Rwanda for a Commonwealth summit, pledged to \"keep going\" and listen to voters' concerns.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently on a trip to Rwanda\n\nFormer Conservative leader Michael Howard has called for Boris Johnson to resign following by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton, and Wakefield.\n\nLord Howard told the BBC's World at One programme that fresh leadership was needed and urged MPs to act.\n\nMr Johnson won a confidence vote this month, which cannot be repeated for a year under current rules.\n\nBut Lord Howard said the rules should change or the cabinet should follow Oliver Dowden's example in resigning.\n\nThe peer said: \"[Mr Johnson's] biggest asset has always been his ability to win votes but I'm afraid yesterday's results make it clear that he no longer has that ability.\n\n\"The best person in the Conservative Party to judge the mood, both of the party and of the electorate, is its chairman... I think the party, and even more importantly the country, would now be better off under new leadership.\"\n\nLord Howard said Partygate had revealed an \"unacceptable\" culture that \"came from the top\".\n\nHe said: \"I think [the by-election defeats] makes clear that my view is shared by very large numbers of people in Yorkshire and Devon - places so different that I think they can reasonably be regarded as representative of the country as a whole.\"\n\nBut, given Mr Johnson wanted to stay on as leader, Mr Howard urged MPs to take matters into their own hands, suggesting frontbenchers consider quitting and backbenchers hold another confidence vote.\n\nSenior Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown earlier said there were \"difficult decisions\" to be made.\n\nLord Howard was Conservative leader from 2003 to 2005\n\nAs treasurer of the backbench 1922 Committee, he would not speculate about a potential rule change, but said he felt his own position was under pressure, despite holding a majority of more than 20,000 votes.\n\n\"We have seen a very serious and large defeat in two seats in two different areas of the country,\" he said. \"If there were a by-election in my seat tomorrow it would be difficult to hold.\"\n\nHe urged colleagues to \"think very carefully about the future\" about how to \"remedy the situation\" in time for the next election.\n\nMPs would have to listen to what Mr Johnson had to say and then \"make a judgement as to whether we think that's a satisfactory explanation or whether we should actually take steps to have a new prime minister\", adding: \"We will have to make some difficult decisions, no doubt.\"\n\nEarlier this month, 148 Conservative MPs told Mr Johnson they no longer had confidence in him as leader, leaving the prime minister weakened but still in post.\n\nThe failed challenge was criticised by veteran Tories for being uncoordinated and premature, as now those who want him to go would either need Mr Johnson to resign, or re-write of the rules to allow another vote of confidence.\n\nSir Robert Buckland, MP for South Swindon, told Sky News he had told Boris Johnson personally that he needs to \"look in the mirror and do better\" because the Conservative Party is \"about more than one man\".\n\nThe former Lord Chancellor admitted it was \"frustrating\" for those on the party's sidelines to see a \"lack of focus\" from the government, but he stopped short of calling for the prime minister's resignation, saying he did not believe \"throwing over the captain now\" would be the right response.\n\nBut there were more optimistic voices, with one source saying these results were \"priced in\".\n\nDeputy PM Dominic Raab said the government needed to be \"relentlessly focused\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think we've had distractions because of partygate, because of too much Westminster internal focus when people want to see us focused on their priorities.\"\n\nHe added: \"Yes, we're going to be relentlessly focused on delivery, not allow the distractions of recent times to take our eye off the ball.\"\n\nAnd his cabinet colleague, Home Secretary Priti Patel told Times radio that the contests had been fought against a \"difficult and challenging backdrop\".\n\nThe prime minister's message after these bruising defeats is that there is a job to do to address people's concerns, particularly around the cost of living.\n\nThe message from him and his team is that \"we will keep going\" - and there are no plans to cut short the prime minister's trips to the Commonwealth conference in Rwanda - or upcoming G7 and Nato summits.\n\nBut back home, many of his own MPs are desperate for a sign, or message to them, about how he plans to turn things around.\n\nFor some usual suspects, who have already called for him to go, these votes have solidified their view that he is not the person to lead them into the next general election.\n\nBut the ones to watch are those who have so far, publicly, been loyal but are now weighing up their options.\n\nThe Tory MPs in genuinely marginal seats - if a safe one like Tiverton can be turned, where does this leave them?\n\nAnd then there are some government ministers who, privately, have expressed discontent at the prime minister's handling of Partygate, the cost of living, and other policies including Brexit and their Rwanda asylum plan. Do they continue to peg their careers to his fortunes?\n\nIt'll be tricky for the prime minister to alleviate worries while out of the country all week. But it's a tricky dilemma for him.\n\nCome back, and this could signal a sign of panic when he wants to show he's getting on with the job. But stay away, and he leaves his own team wondering what the plan is.", "The body representing Catholic schools has accused the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) of excluding it from an event on Northern Ireland's future.\n\nThe NIO is behind a conference called A More Confident and Inclusive Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a speech at it, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the UK government was set to do more to promote integrated education.\n\nThe umbrella body for controlled schools also said it was not invited.\n\nThe Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) and Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC) described their absence as \"concerning\" and \"alarming\".\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government said the conference brought together a variety of different voices and that it would continue to engage \"across all sections of society going forward\", including with CCMS and CSSC.\n\nThe three-day conference began on Wednesday and was set up by the NIO and government agency Wilton Park.\n\nMr Lewis told the event that a new government programme would promote the benefits of integrated education to parents, teachers and pupils.\n\nBut the chairman of the CCMS, the Bishop of Derry, the Right Reverend Donal McKeown, and its chief executive, Gerry Campbell, have written to Mr Lewis criticising their exclusion from the event.\n\nIn their letter, seen by BBC News NI, they said the absence of CCMS was alarming.\n\n\"The programme asks, 'what can be done to ensure the views of all young people, from all communities, are given the opportunity and tools to engage?',\" their letter said.\n\n\"Given that the broad family of Catholic schools represents one of the largest providers of education in Northern Ireland, the notable absence of participation and involvement with the Catholic sector is alarming.\n\n\"Indeed, it is rather ironic that a conference with a focus on building inclusion is actually exclusionary in its approach.\"\n\nBishop McKeown is chairman of the CCMS\n\nBishop McKeown and Mr Campbell said CCMS strongly supported efforts to promote peace, reconciliation and understanding in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The conference programme asks the question: 'How to work together to build a confident and inclusive Northern Ireland for all?' their letter continued.\n\n\"Coupled with the exclusion of all Catholic schools and the bodies who represent them at the landmark event despite the track record of excellence and success within Catholic education, we ask the question to the Northern Ireland Office: 'Does the NIO recognise the contribution of Catholic schools to supporting our young people to reach their full potential and where does the NIO see Catholic schools within its future vision?'\"\n\nAbout 150,000 pupils go to around 450 Catholic maintained schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nControlled schools are those formerly managed mainly by the Protestant churches, which were transferred to the state in the 20th century.\n\nThere are about 450 controlled primaries and post-primaries and many have pupils from a range of backgrounds.\n\nThe umbrella body for those schools - CSSC - also said it was not invited to the NIO conference.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis spoke at the event\n\nIn a letter to principals of controlled schools, the chief executive of CSSC, Mark Baker, said it was committed to children and young people being educated together.\n\n\"We have expressed our concern that the voice of the controlled sector has not been included at this event,\" he wrote.\n\n\"We raised our concerns that any conference which includes a discussion on the future of education would be held without the voice of 49% of the schools in Northern Ireland being present.\n\n\"We were given assurances that the NIO wish to engage with the sector.\"\n\nThe two bodies had previously expressed concern about the impact of a new law requiring the Department of Education (DE) to give more \"support\" to integrated education.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"The Wilton Park conference has brought together a variety of academic, public policy, and third sector voices to consider how to work together to achieve a more confident and inclusive Northern Ireland.\n\n\"A broad range of factors are under consideration, including skills, education, the economy and social integration.\n\n\"The NIO will continue to engage across all sections of society in its work going forward, including the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools and the Controlled Schools Support Council, and bodies in the education sector.\"", "Rikki Neave was just six years old when he was murdered\n\nThe mother of a six-year-old schoolboy murdered in 1994 said \"when Rikki died, I died\".\n\nRikki Neave's naked body was found near his Peterborough home the day after he disappeared in November 1994.\n\nIn April this year, James Watson, now 41 but 13 at the time of Rikki's death, was found guilty of his murder.\n\nRikki's mother Ruth Neave - who was cleared of murder in 1996 - told a BBC documentary ahead of Friday's sentencing she wanted a police apology.\n\nWhile she was cleared of killing her son, Ms Neave was jailed for child cruelty - a charge she has subsequently claimed to have been \"bullied\" into admitting.\n\nWatson was convicted by an Old Bailey jury, seven years after a cold case investigation was opened into Rikki's murder and subsequently jailed for a minimum of 15 years.\n\nAdhesive tapings from his clothes were examined and a DNA match to Watson was made.\n\nJames Watson had been a name which cropped up during the original 1994 investigation\n\nWatson claimed he may have lifted Rikki to help him see over a fence, but police found archive TV footage showing there was no fence at the time.\n\nJurors heard Watson strangled his victim with a ligature or anorak collar to fulfil a \"morbid fantasy\" and stripped Rikki and posed his naked body in a star shape for sexual gratification.\n\nRikki Neave left for school but never came home. Decades on his killer has been jailed.\n\nMs Neave said of her son: \"He was just beautiful, smile on his face, always had a cheeky chubby face. He was good with his hands.\n\n\"He got a boombox out of a tip, he took it upstairs and it wasn't working. Probably about two or three days later he came downstairs with this box and it's playing music... I couldn't believe it.\n\n\"I just loved him so much and even thinking about it hurts.\n\n\"I just didn't think it was ever fair - why my child?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Neave, Rikki's mother, said her son \"meant the world\" to her\n\nWhile she was cleared of killing her son at a trial at Northampton Crown Court, Ms Neave was jailed for child cruelty.\n\nMs Neave said Watson's trial was \"traumatic... it brought back memories of when I was in court\".\n\n\"He used my neglect and cruelty [conviction] as his defence,\" she said.\n\n\"And he thought he could get away with it. I always said to everybody this was going to be a trial within a trial.\"\n\nMs Neave heard the news of verdict on her son's killer while she was sitting in a cafe, which she said was a \"fantastic\" moment, however, she found it difficult to register the conviction.\n\nBut she said she was now looking for an apology from Cambridgeshire Police \"for making my life hell, living under a cloud, everybody thinking I murdered my son\".\n\n\"I missed out on my children's upbringing, my grandchildren's upbringing, I'm missing out on everything thanks to Cambridgeshire Police,\" she said.\n\nRikki with his father Trevor Harvey, and Ruth Neave pictured in 1995\n\nHer husband Gary Rogers said that since the conviction his wife was \"smiling again - I haven't seen that in years\".\n\nFormer Assistant Chief Constable Paul Fullwood, senior lead for the reopened investigation, said: \"We promised Rikki's family, including Ruth, that we would find his killer and that is what we did.\n\n\"Our role was never about reviewing the work of the original team almost 30 years ago. Our goal was always justice for Rikki.\n\n\"I have apologised to the family for the length of time the investigation has taken and bringing Rikki's killer to justice.\n\n\"This is a very complex case and it was not our role to judge or look at the circumstances surrounding Rikki's life prior to his tragic death.\n\n\"The judicial process is very different to what it was in the 1990s but the principles of open justice and the responsibility of deciding whether a person is guilty or not, on the facts of a case remain the same.\n\n\"Ruth was found not guilty of Rikki's murder and when we reopened the case we did so with a fresh view.\n\n\"We are not that original team and I hope that this result will bring closure and comfort for Ruth that her son's killer has finally been found.\"\n\nYou can watch the interview with Ruth Neave as part of the BBC's The Big Cases series, available on BBC iPlayer from 18:30 BST on Friday.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Black sludge' which coated a three-mile river stretch near the plant in 2018\n\nOne of the UK's biggest cheddar cheese suppliers has been fined more than £1.5m after admitting a host of pollution and odour charges.\n\nThe Dairy Crest Ltd plant at Davidstow, Cornwall, polluted the local area over a five-year period up to 2021, killing fish and creating strong odours.\n\nThe firm, which produces Cathedral City, Clover and Country Life, said the issues had been rectified.\n\nIt was fined a total of £1.52m at Truro Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nThe judge said £272,746 costs had already been paid.\n\nThe court was told there were \"plant failures\", leaks and overspills at the company site, owned by Saputo Dairy UK.\n\nDairy Crest had previously admitted 21 of 27 charges, relating to pollution incidents and permit breaches, which were brought by the Environment Agency (EA).\n\nFish were killed in nearby rivers due to the pollution\n\nThe court heard the incidents led to odours so bad that they stopped local residents from sleeping, leaving them with headaches and vision problems.\n\nWaste was also discharged several times into the River Inny, killing fish.\n\nThe river is used for breeding Atlantic salmon and is home to native wild brown trout and smaller species like bullheads and loaches.\n\nThe Davidstow plant is where the well-known Cathedral City cheese is manufactured\n\nProsecuting, Richard Banwell from the EA said the firm failed to notify the agency about incidents.\n\nThe firm previously said the offences arose after commissioning new processes, unique in the UK.\n\nFollowing the hearing, a company spokesperson said: \"Once again, the company would like to express its sincere apologies to those who have been affected.\n\nThey added that \"considerable work has been undertaken to rectify the historic issues to which the prosecution related\" and that the company \"remains committed to supporting its local communities and becoming a better neighbour\".\n\nThe biggest employer in north Cornwall, it employs 195 workers and operates 24 hours a day, buying 1.3 million litres of milk from around 370 local farmers daily.\n\nSentencing, Judge Simon Carr said there were problems from the start but Dairy Crest continued to operate.\n\nHe also said there were senior and middle management failures and a culture of bullying and intimidation at the firm's waste water facility.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wakefield goes to the polls next Thursday in a closely-watched by-election\n\nWakefield, in West Yorkshire, was part of Labour's \"red wall\" which crumbled to the Conservatives in the 2019 general election. Sir Keir Starmer knows Labour needs to win it back in next week's by-election if his party is to convince voters it can form the next government.\n\nThe neon lights in Richard Wheater's workshop change from red to blue, and back to red again.\n\nLabour will be hoping that enough voters in Wakefield do the same next week.\n\nRichard voted Conservative for the first time in 2019, but is now having second thoughts.\n\nHe told me he had wanted Labour to ditch Jeremy Corbyn, and had cast something of a protest vote for the Tories. He's now undecided, but is listening closely to the local Labour candidate's pitch.\n\n'For me, this isn't about Boris Johnson. It's about local leadership and making things happen positively for Wakefield and its people,\" he says.\n\nAre Richard Wheater's neon signs a guide to how the polls will go?\n\nMr Wheater is one of the swing voters that will determine whether Labour can overturn the Conservative majority of 3,358, gained when they won Wakefield for the first time since 1932.\n\nThe constituency is seen not so much as a brick in the \"red wall\" of traditional Labour seats snatched by Boris Johnson's party on a promise to \"get Brexit done\" - but something of a foundation.\n\nIt's a test of whether the defection of white working-class voters, in particular, to the Conservatives in swathes of northern England is temporary or permanent.\n\nTo underline the by-election's importance to Labour, Sir Keir Starmer has already visited twice and will be back before polling day. It also suggests a high degree of confidence that his candidate will win.\n\nYou are never far from open countryside in Wakefield\n\nTo be fair, as one Conservative insider points out, the opposition parties have been given a fair wind in the two by-elections taking place in England on 23 June.\n\n\"In one seat the MP was a paedophile, in the other he was caught watching porn,\" the insider says.\n\nThe former is reference to Imran Ahmad Khan in Wakefield, sent to prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old old boy. The latter is a dig at Neil Parish, the former MP for Tiverton and Honiton - where the Liberal Democrats are the main challengers.\n\nBen Harrison, a young university graduate I met on the doorstep in Netherton, a fiercely-contested part of the Wakefield constituency, said Khan's behaviour was having a \"big impact\" on the campaign,\n\n\"It's not a good look,\" he added.\n\nLabour were not slow to highlight Khan's conviction in a leaflet entitled \"Tory shame\", with a picture of the former MP and a stark question: \"Who next?\"\n\nLabour's election leaflet angered Carole, who felt it was too negative\n\nThis had outraged Carole, who until recently tended to vote Labour, but told me she had been shocked to see a negative, attack leaflet land on her doormat.\n\nShe said she had emailed Labour to complain about the leaflet, which had not been included in the campaign literature I had requested from the party, but had not received a response.\n\n\"They can't justify it,\" she told me.\n\n\"We vote for policies and what they are going to do, not for a person. I said in my email 'Where are your policies - tell me what you are going to do?'\"\n\nLabour say they have not put out any \"attack\" literature of this kind in weeks - and only once since their candidate, Simon Lightwood, was selected.\n\nThe party is also issuing leaflets and newsletters about policies, but these are carefully targeted at different parts of what is a diverse constituency - the city of Wakefield is surrounded by former mining communities and a rural hinterland.\n\nSo, for example, while there are constituency-wide messages, such as scrapping the National Insurance rise or the need for more police, the state of local bus services is especially emphasised in the villages.\n\nBut Labour are also continuing to target personalities. Well, one personality in particular - Boris Johnson.\n\nThe party is urging traditional Conservative voters to \"lend\" their support to Labour, to help kick Mr Johnson out of Downing Street.\n\nLifelong Conservative John Dyer, a former Royal Marine, who now gets around - at breakneck pace - on a mobility scooter, told me his political allegiances were on the move too, thanks to the PM's behaviour.\n\n\"I have to say - and I hoped I don't get sued for this - but he [Boris Johnson] is an oaf.\n\n\"He is sort of the centrepiece of everything that has deteriorated. I was a great believer - and still am - in Margaret Thatcher. You may not like her, but she wouldn't lie.\"\n\nTory voter John Dyer is not impressed by the prime minister\n\nHe is not totally convinced by Sir Keir Starmer, describing him as \"not strong enough\", but said he has hopes that the Labour leader will improve.\n\nFormer Labour voters John and Jane - who have lived in Wakefield for many years - said they saw the prime minster as flawed, but still felt he was better than the alternatives.\n\n\"He [Boris Johnson] has made mistakes,\" Jane told me, \"but to be honest I don't care if he had a piece of cake at his party.\"\n\nLabour insist they have a great \"ground operation\" in Wakefield - contacting more voters than at many by-elections.\n\nBut two party members I spoke to off the record said this does not tell the whole story.\n\nJohn and Jane are sticking with Boris Johnson\n\nOne said: 'We've made a personal choice not to campaign [in the by-election] because of the selection process - not because we don't support Labour. A significant amount of our activists are doing the same. If I campaigned it would feel that I was endorsing the process.\"\n\nLeft wingers in particular felt local candidates were frozen out in favour of those approved by Labour HQ in London - 16 members of the Wakefield party executive walked out over it.\n\nThe pair I spoke to insisted that not all the local would-be candidates were \"Corbynites\".\n\nThe Conservatives selected a candidate who lives in the constituency\n\nBut they claimed local membership has fallen by a quarter since Keir Starmer became party leader, which they warned could harm the party's ability to get out the vote at a general election.\n\nLabour insisted candidate Simon Lightwood had strong local connections, having worked for MP Mary Creagh, when she held the seat, and many local activists had taken part in the selection process.\n\nThe Conservatives have also had a little local difficulty. They chose a candidate, Nadeem Ahmed, who lives in the constituency.\n\nBut the fact that he lost a vote of confidence among his Tory colleagues on the local council last year, allowed Labour to run a social media ad reminding people that 40% of Tories had no confidence in Boris Johnson.\n\nA Labour insider said it had been the most successful ad of the campaign so far.\n\nAgainst this \"less than optimal backdrop\", as one Conservative campaign insider put it, the feeling is that the Tory vote has not taken a total hammering.\n\nInterestingly, where Labour and the Conservatives agree is that polls suggesting a substantial swing to the opposition are not matched by the reality on the ground.\n\nOf course, this message is in both parties' interests - talk of a closer race might prompt longstanding Conservatives to go to the polls while for Labour, it would guard against complacency.\n\nPaymen Karimi wants Boris Johnson to put Partygate behind him\n\nIn truth, at Conservative HQ there is talk of how to \"manage\" news of a defeat. While Labour insiders expect to win, they don't think it will be \"seismic\" so they too have to manage expectations.\n\nSo far, Boris Johnson has not visited Wakefield, and I'm told front-rank government ministers tend to pop in briefly to gladhand the Conservative candidate, knock off an endorsement video and head back to Westminster.\n\nBut more than 70 Tory MPs have done the hard yards of door-knocking and leafleting in the constituency, with campaign literature pointing to police recruitment, promises on jobs, and \"taking back control of immigration\".\n\nIn a seat where nearly two thirds of voters backed Brexit, one MP from a nearby seat expressed relief but also surprise that the vote was holding up in the area where he was canvassing.\n\nThat said, the vote of confidence in the prime minister was taking place at Westminster just as people in Wakefield were receiving their postal vote forms.\n\nCampaigners say that while Partygate has hardened the views of those already disenchanted with the PM, his supporters are ready to move on.\n\nAnd the party is retaining some recent support for other reasons.\n\nPaymen Karimi, who owns a chain of restaurants in West Yorkshire employing 300 people, says was grateful to the government for the furlough scheme.\n\nHe decried what he saw as a lack of policies from Labour and praised Boris Johnson for standing up to his own backbenchers.\n\nHe even had some sympathy for the PM over Partygate, as one of his own restaurants had incurred a lockdown fine. saying it was time for the PM to \"go forward and look at the problems of the country\".\n\nThere is no shortage of options if voters decide that neither the main party of government or opposition at Westminster warrants their vote.\n\nWhich way will Wakefield go next Thursday?\n\nThe Yorkshire Party's candidate David Herdson was a Conservative until 2019 - and left after Boris Johnson became the party leader. He is campaigning for a regional parliament for Yorkshire, an expansion in house-building, and scrapping VAT on energy bills.\n\nReform UK - the former Brexit Party - say they are picking up not so much apathy as hostility towards mainstream parties particularly, though not exclusively, in former mining communities outside the city of Wakefield.\n\nTheir candidate, Chris Walsh, is campaigning for lower taxes, cheaper energy and secure borders.\n\nThe party has called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights following the legal action which grounded the migrant flight to Rwanda.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' presence isn't hugely obvious around Wakefield but they say there is no pact with Labour to keep a low profile.\n\nThey have been canvassing with an aim of building up local support, and their candidate - Jamie Needle - also ran in the 2019 election. But a spokesman added: 'We know where we can get a good result -Tiverton. It's very close there.\"\n\nHere in Wakefield the Lib Dem message on the doorstep is that \"the Conservatives have let you down\". And their leaflets call for \"urgent action on the cost of living and cleaning up the local waterways\".\n\nThe political parties aren't just fighting each other.\n\nFor all the activity on Wakefield's doorsteps, they are, they say, often met with apathy.\n\nLabour are worried in particular that people will assume that they will now win, and too many won't bother to vote.\n\nAnd perhaps that isn't entirely misplaced.\n\nJanine, who lives in affluent Newmillerdam, told me she was no fan of Boris Johnson.\n\n\"Oh he needs his nappy changing - he is a spoiled brat. He needs grounding, like I did with my children!\"\n\nSo would she be voting to try to oust him?\n\n\"I haven't voted for 10 years,\" she says, adding that in her view politicians were all useless.\n\nNext Thursday, we will know the verdict of those voters who do participate.\n\nWith a prime minister apparently put on probation by sections of his parliamentary party and grumbles within Labour's ranks about Sir Keir Starmer's style of leadership, the result in Wakefield will have a big impact at Westminster.", "The decision, released on Friday morning, will have repercussions in the US for years to come.\n\nWith the ruling, the conservative-majority court effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion.\n\nFive justices were in favour: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nChief Justice John Roberts wrote a separate opinion saying that he supported an abortion law in Mississippi at the centre of the case but he would not have overturned Roe v Wade.\n\nThe three other justices disagreed with the majority - Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kaga.\n\nHere are some key passages from the landmark ruling:\n\nQuote Message: \"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division\" from Samuel Alito, writing for the majority Supreme Court justice \"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division\"\n\nQuote Message: \"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives\" from Samuel Alito, writing for the majority Supreme Court justice \"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives\"\n\nQuote Message: “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom. Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life” from Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent Supreme Court justices “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom. Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life” Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent\n\nQuote Message: “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens” from Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent Supreme Court justices “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens” Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in the dissent", "Soldiers in east Ukraine have been under heavy bombardment for weeks\n\nUkrainian forces have been ordered to withdraw from Severodonetsk, according to the top regional official.\n\nThe eastern city has endured weeks of bombardment, as Russian forces try to take complete control of the region.\n\nA Ukrainian retreat would be significant because it would leave all of Luhansk under Russian control, except for the city of Lysychansk.\n\nLuhansk, a mainly Russian-speaking region in east Ukraine, is a key priority for President Vladimir Putin.\n\nTogether with the Donetsk region it makes up what is collectively known as the Donbas - a large, industrial area which has been the focus of a Russian-backed separatist movement since 2014.\n\nRussia's president falsely claims that Russian-speakers in the Donbas have been victims of genocide - a key justification for his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn turn, Ukraine accuses Moscow of committing genocide against the Ukrainian people with its indiscriminate bombing and shelling.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia has said the decision by EU leaders to accept Ukraine and Moldova as membership candidates will have negative consequences.\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the EU was sacrificing its democratic ideals at the expense of \"unrestrained expansion and the political and economic enslavement of its neighbours\".\n\nSeverodonetsk has been the target of intense Russian shelling for several weeks and more recently has seen fierce street battles, with Ukrainian forces gradually pushed back to the city's industrial zones.\n\nAll bridges to the city have been destroyed by Russian troops as they attempt to cut it off from Ukrainian-held territory. Ukraine's withdrawal may be a last-ditch effort to avoid being surrounded on all sides.\n\n\"Remaining in positions that have been relentlessly shelled for months just doesn't make sense,\" Luhansk regional head Serhiy Haidai told Ukrainian television.\n\n\"They [Ukrainian forces] have received orders to retreat to new positions... and continue their operations from there.\"\n\nThe city's entire infrastructure has been completely destroyed, he added, with over 90% of houses shelled and 80% of them critically damaged.\n\nSeverodonetsk district head Roman Vlasenko said Ukrainian troops were still in the city, telling Radio Liberty on Friday that a withdrawal could still take some time.\n\nHundreds of civilians are thought to remain in Severodonetsk, many seeking shelter in the sprawling Azot chemical plant. Before the war, it had a population of around 100,000 people.\n\nRussian helicopters have destroyed bridges and roads leading to Lysychansk, Serhiy Haidai says\n\nRussian forces have made advances in the areas around Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in recent days, with Ukraine's defence ministry describing the settlements to the south and southeast of the cities as the \"hottest sector of the front\".\n\nBut Mr Haidai said it would be \"very difficult\" for the Russians to seize Lysychansk because the city, which is on a hill, had \"many defensive positions\".\n\nAid can still be delivered to the city and civilians are still being evacuated, he said.\n\nUkrainian forces around the towns of Zolote and Hirske are already completely surrounded, according to Russia's defence ministry.\n\nIn a separate development on Friday, a Russian-appointed official in the occupied southern city of Kherson was killed in a car blast, Russian news agencies reported.\n\nUkraine, whose forces have made advances in the area, has not commented on the issue.\n\nSeveral Kremlin-installed officials have recently been targeted in the Kherson region, control over which allows Moscow to have a land corridor from Russia to Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thiomargarita magnifica: For comparison, a US dime coin is about 18mm across\n\nYou're supposed to need a microscope to see bacteria, right? Not Thiomargarita magnifica.\n\nThis giant cell is clearly visible to the naked eye, having the size and shape of a human eyelash.\n\nNow classified as the world's biggest bacterium, T. magnifica was discovered living on sunken, decaying mangrove tree leaves in the French Caribbean.\n\nFear not, the organism isn't dangerous and can't cause disease in humans. But do marvel at its proportions.\n\n\"These bacteria are about 5,000 times larger than most bacteria. And to put things into perspective, it is the equivalent for us humans to encounter another human who would be as tall as Mount Everest,\" said Jean-Marie Volland from the Joint Genome Institute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in the US.\n\nCentimetre-long T. magnifica is not the largest single-celled organism on Earth. That's probably a type of aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia which is 10 times longer still. But the bacterium is definitely impressive when you consider there are many, much more complex life forms on Earth that require some sort of magnification to be observed. Think of those really teeny worms and flies out there.\n\nT. magnifica was first identified back in 2009 in Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. But it was initially put to one side. Only recently have Dr Volland and colleagues got around to studying it in detail.\n\nOne key finding from their investigations concerns the way the cell organises its interior. Bacteria would normally have their DNA floating freely in the liquid, or cytoplasm, that fills their bodies.\n\nT. magnifica, on the other hand, stores its genetic material in compartments the researchers are calling pepins, from the French for fruit seeds.\n\nIt's a significant revelation because until now, the packing of DNA inside a membrane-bound compartment was considered the preserve of so-called eukaryotic cells, which are the building blocks of higher organisms such as humans, other animals and plants.\n\nT. magnifica exploits the decaying matter in the sediments around the mangroves' roots\n\nAnd T. magnifica carries a lot of DNA. If you count all the \"letters\", or bases, in its life code, or genome, there are some 12 million. But in each cell, there may be half a million copies of the genome.\n\n\"If you now take the genome size of 12 million bases, multiply that by the number of genome copies - so, half a million - you end up with approximately 6,000 giga, or billion, bases, of DNA. For comparison, a diploid human genome is approximately six giga bases in size. So this means that our Thiomargarita stores several orders of magnitude more DNA in itself as compared to a human cell,\" explained Dr Tanja Woyke, also from Lawrence Berkeley.\n\nIn all that DNA, there are clues to the drivers of the organism's great size, she added. Some genes associated with elongation seem to be duplicated and some genes ordinarily involved in division appear to be missing.\n\nThe T. magnifica filament has the shape and size of a human eyelash\n\nT. magnifica is a chemosynthetic bacterium. It makes the sugars it needs to fuel itself by oxidising the sulphur compounds produced by the rotting organic matter in the sediments of the mangrove swamp. All it needs is something solid to hang on to.\n\n\"I found them attached to oyster shells, to leaves and branches, but also on glass bottles, plastic bottles, or ropes,\" said Prof Olivier Gros, a microbiologist with the University of the Antilles.\n\n\"They just need some hard substrate to be in contact with the sulphides and in contact with the seawater to get oxygen and CO2. The highest concentration of Thiomargarita I found was on a plastic bag - unfortunately.\"\n\nThe research team has published its description of the bacterium in this week's edition of Science Magazine. The researchers concede they have much to learn about how the organism operates.\n\n\"This project has really opened our eyes to the unexplored microbial diversity that exists. We're really just scratching the surface, and who knows what interesting things we are yet to discover,\" commented Dr Shailesh Date from the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems at Menlo Park in the US.\n\nThe mangroves of the Caribbean have the perfect environment for the giant bacterium", "Price had been warned she faced jail, but was handed a community order\n\nReality TV star and former glamour model Katie Price has avoided jail after admitting breaching a restraining order against her ex-husband's fiancée.\n\nPrice sent abusive messages to Kieran Hayler about his fiancée, Michelle Penticost, in January, a court heard.\n\nShe had been warned that she faced jail after pleading guilty, but the 44-year-old was handed a community order.\n\nPrice had been banned from contacting Ms Penticost directly or indirectly under the terms of the order.\n\nShe was given an 18-month community order to carry out 170 hours of unpaid work, with an additional 20 hours for breach of a suspended sentence for driving matters.\n\nPrice was also ordered to pay £1,500 in costs.\n\nJudge Stephen Mooney told her: \"In my judgement, this offence was committed out of anger.\n\n\"The words you used were highly offensive and inflammatory.\"\n\nHe said the appropriate sentence was a medium-level community order.\n\nPrice previously denied the charges and asked for a crown court trial during a hearing at Crawley Magistrates' Court in April.\n\nBut appearing at Lewes Crown Court last month, she admitted breaching the five-year order, imposed in 2019.\n\nPrice arrived at Lewes Crown Court for sentencing with fiancé Carl Woods\n\nIt was heard her expletive-laden message to Mr Hayler may have been triggered by an Instagram post by Ms Penticost, which she denies was aimed at Price.\n\nPrice's message read: \"Tell your... girlfriend not to start on me.\n\n\"She [Ms Penticost] has a restraining order so shouldn't try antagonise me as she is in breach and I'm sure she doesn't want people knowing that she was having an affair with you behind my back.\"\n\nThe court heard the offence was committed due to Price's use of the words \"tell your\", which was an indirect attempt to communicate with Ms Penticost.\n\nPrice admitted messaging former husband Kieran Hayler with abuse about his fiancée Michelle Penticost\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Penticost said Price's actions had a \"devastating\" effect on her mental wellbeing.\n\nShe said it had been upsetting and left her feeling threatened, intimidated and vulnerable.\n\n\"The language used made me feel scared. I felt it was an attack on me,\" she said. \"The consequences are I feel she will attack me.\"\n\nDefending, Nicholas Hamblin said Price had been under a \"misunderstanding\" the restraining order had worked both ways and there had been an element of provocation.\n\nHe said Ms Price had sought help for her emotional problems and had been suffering from a \"depressive disorder and anxiety\".\n\nMr Hamblin said: \"She has two different personalities, the public one and the vulnerable one.\"\n\nHe said her vulnerable side came from spending \"every day in the public eye\".\n\nIn June 2019, Price was fined £415 after hurling abuse at Penticost and another woman in a school playground in Shipley in September 2018.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of British Airways workers at Heathrow Airport have voted to go on strike over pay.\n\nUnite and GMB union members who are mostly check-in staff backed industrial action on Thursday.\n\nA total of 700 workers are set to strike during the summer holidays, when demand from travellers is expected to be near pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe unions said the action was due to a 10% pay cut imposed during the peak of the pandemic not being reinstated.\n\nSome 500 Unite members recorded a 94.7% vote in favour of industrial action, while 95% of GMB members backed the walkouts.\n\nThe strike dates will be confirmed in the coming days.\n\nThe proposed action relates to fewer than 50% of British Airways staff based at Heathrow in customer-facing roles only, and there are other customer service workers who have not been balloted.\n\nIt is understood that if strikes go ahead, BA, which operates from terminals three and five at Heathrow, has plans to cover staff, including managers potentially dealing with check-ins.\n\nHowever, there would still be disruption for passengers, especially at terminal five, leading to cancellations, which would be focused on routes with several daily flights.\n\nThe GMB claimed that while other British Airways workers have been given a 10% bonus, \"the check-in staff have had nothing\".\n\nBA said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the result of the ballot.\n\n\"Despite the extremely challenging environment and losses of more than £4bn, we made an offer of a 10% payment which was accepted by the majority of other colleagues,\" a statement said.\n\nThe airline said it was committed to talks to \"find a solution\" with unions.\n\nThe BBC understands a 10% pay rise has been accepted by other parts of BA's business, including by ground operations, engineering and cabin crew workers, who are also represented by Unite and GMB.\n\nUnite officer Russ Ball accused BA of having \"insulted this workforce, slashing pay by 10% to restore it to managers but not to our members\".\n\nMr Ball said the airline had a \"short window of opportunity\" to up workers' pay to pre-pandemic levels or face walkouts that would \"inevitably cause severe disruption\".\n\nMeanwhile, Nadine Houghton, GMB national officer, said BA had \"tried to offer our members crumbs from the table in the form of a 10% one-off bonus payment, but this doesn't cut the mustard\".\n\n\"It's not too late to save the summer holidays - other BA workers have had their pay cuts reversed, do the same for ground and check in staff and this industrial action can be nipped in the bud,\" she added.\n\nDowning Street urged both sides \"to come together to find a settlement\", adding that strike action \"would only add to the misery being faced by passengers at airports\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the government expects BA \"to put in place contingency measures to ensure that as little disruption is caused, and that where there is disruption that passengers can be refunded\".\n\nThis is going to be a difficult summer for British Airways.\n\nIT problems and staff shortages have already hit its operations this year. Now you can add industrial action to the mix.\n\nCheck-in staff at Heathrow are set to walk out during the summer peak. The airline will have contingency plans in place, but with systems already under strain, disruption seems inevitable.\n\nThe airline insists it wants to work with staff, and that its 10% one-off bonus offer was a prelude to meaningful pay talks. It is still under pressure too - the industry has not fully recovered.\n\nBut the problem it's facing is that when the cuts were first imposed, many staff were deeply upset by what they saw as the heavy-handed approach of the airline's management.\n\nAnd now, it's pretty clear that many workers simply don't trust the word of their managers.\n\nJeff Payne worked as a BA supervisor at terminal five at Heathrow, but took voluntary redundancy in August 2020 and is now a postman in Surrey.\n\nMr Payne, who worked for the airline for 24 years, said he had the option to return to BA when international travel restarted, but decided against it when he was offered his old job for less money.\n\n\"It was £3,000 a year less than what I was being paid when I left,\" he said.\n\n\"When I left the pay was £23,000 plus shift pay, which is an extra amount you get for starting at irregular hours like 4am. When they offered me my job back it was £20,000 plus shift pay and no guarantee over what shifts we would be put on.\n\n\"To be honest it's not worth getting out of bed for. I loved working there and I do miss it.\"\n\nMr Payne said he believed BA was a \"great company\" and its staff cared for passengers, but added its bosses \"need to manage it better\".\n\nTens of thousands of passengers have been hit by airport disruption and flight cancellations in recent weeks.\n\nHundreds of flights across the UK were cancelled during the week of the Platinum Jubilee and school half-term holidays, and concerns have been raised of further travel woes during the summer.\n\nThe disruption has been caused by several factors, but staff shortages have left the aviation industry struggling to cope with resurgent demand for overseas travel.\n\nHeathrow Airport has increased its annual passenger forecast once again.\n\nThe UK's largest airport says it expects 54.4 million passengers to travel through its terminals, up by nearly nine million on the guidance it gave in December.\n\nAdditional reporting from Rozina Sini of the BBC's UGC team.\n\nAre you a BA worker who plans to strike? Do you and your family have a holiday coming up? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"There is more that we have got to do\"\n\nConservative co-chair Oliver Dowden has resigned following two by-election losses for the party to Labour and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe Lib Dems overturned a huge Tory majority in Tiverton and Honiton, Devon, their third by-election victory over Boris Johnson's party in a year.\n\nAnd Labour retook the seat of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, which it lost at the 2019 general election.\n\nThe prime minister said he would \"keep going\" and address people's concerns.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Johnson, Mr Dowden said Tory supporters were \"distressed and disappointed\".\n\nHe wrote: \"We cannot carry on with business as usual. Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office.\"\n\nMr Dowden also called his resignation \"a deeply personal decision that I have taken alone\" following a \"run of very poor results for our party\".\n\nThe by-election results follow months of criticism of the prime minister over parties in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nThey also come amid soaring inflation and concerns over the cost of living, and after a narrower-than-expected vote of confidence by Tory MPs in Mr Johnson earlier this month.\n\nSpeaking in Rwanda, where he is attending a Commonwealth heads of government meeting, Mr Johnson said: \"We've got to recognise there is more we've got to do and we certainly will.\n\n\"We will keep going, addressing the concerns of people until we get through this patch.\"\n\nAnd, in a letter to Mr Dowden, he wrote that he understood his \"disappointment\" at the by-election losses, but added that the government had been \"elected with a historic mandate just over two years ago\".\n\n\"We all take responsibility for the results and I'm determined to continue working to tackle the cost of living,\" he added.\n\nIt is understood there are no plans for the PM to return to the UK and cut short his diplomatic trip - and he has been in touch with senior members of his cabinet.\n\nSome have expressed support, with Deputy PM Dominic Raab saying the government needed to be \"relentlessly focused on delivery\".\n\nBut former Conservative leader Michael Howard told the BBC's World at One Mr Johnson should resign adding \"members of the cabinet should very carefully consider their positions\".\n\nLeader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies said prime ministers \"have to look in the mirror and ask themselves 'can they continue to deliver for their country and for the people who have put them into office?'\"\n\nBen Houchen - Conservative mayor of Tees Valley - warned his colleagues against a \"knee jerk reaction\" and said that holding a leadership challenge during a cost of living crisis would make the party look \"ridiculous\".\n\nIn Tiverton and Honiton, where former MP Neil Parish quit after he was found watching pornography in the House of Commons, the Lib Dems took 22,537 votes, beating the Conservatives by 6,144.\n\nAt the last general election, the Tories had a 24,239 majority in the mostly rural constituency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Liberal Democrat MP Richard Foord: \"It's time for Boris to go\"\n\nIn his victory speech, the Lib Dems' new MP Richard Foord said: \"Tonight, the people of Tiverton and Honiton have spoken for Britain.\n\n\"They've sent a loud and clear message: It's time for Boris Johnson to go, and go now.\"\n\nParty leader Sir Ed Davey added: \"The Liberal Democrats have made political history with this stunning win. It is the biggest by-election victory our country has ever seen.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won by-elections in Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire last year, taking what had previously been safe Conservative seats.\n\nA Conservative source called the result in Tiverton and Honiton \"disappointing but not unexpected\", telling the BBC the party was confident it could retake the seat at the next general election.\n\nNothing reeks of panic quite like a resignation letter at 5:35am.\n\nNot just any resignation letter. But the party chairman. Until now, at least, utterly loyal to Boris Johnson.\n\nHe manages five paragraphs, not one of which endorses him.\n\nSo, does he have confidence in Mr Johnson? He and his team are silent.\n\nWhat we've seen overnight in miniature is the electoral pincer movement the Conservatives most fear.\n\nLabour's return to seats like Wakefield it could once nonchalantly bank.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats planting flags in England's south west once again; a region that not long ago sent a minibus full of such MPs to Westminster.\n\nConservative MPs from the top down have the jitters this morning; the dawn decision of their former chairman quickening their pulse further.\n\nIn Wakefield, where a Labour victory had been largely expected, the party's candidate, Simon Lightwood, won by 4,925 votes.\n\nThe previous MP, Imran Ahmad Khan, resigned after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour Leader Keir Starmer: \"What a judgement this is on the Tories and Boris Johnson\"\n\nVisiting Wakefield, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the result there \"tells you that the next government is going to be a Labour government\".\n\n\"And the sooner the better,\" he added, \"because the country voted yesterday, in both by-elections, no confidence in this out-of-touch, out-of-ideas government.\"\n\nThe Conservatives were \"absolutely imploding\", he said, following Mr Dowden's resignation.\n\nBut Mr Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"My view is that the by-elections, both of them, were the result of the perfect storm of very difficult local scenarios.\"\n\nThe results had followed \"situations [involving] the previously sitting Conservative MPs\", and come amid \"national headwinds\" and \"the distractions that we've had\", he said.\n\nAt the 2019 general election, Labour lost Wakefield - one of its so-called \"red wall\" of safe seats in northern England and the Midlands - for the first time since 1932.", "Harry Gration joined BBC Look North as a presenter in 1982 and left the show in October 2020\n\nHarry Gration, the former presenter of BBC Yorkshire's Look North news programme, has died suddenly, aged 71.\n\nMr Gration joined the BBC in 1978 and Look North in 1982. He presented his last show in 2020.\n\nDuring his career, he won two Royal Television Society (RTS) awards for sports documentaries and he won the RTS Best Presenter award twice.\n\nMr Gration's wife, Helen, paid tribute to her husband, saying: \"He will forever be with us.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our three boys and I loved Harry totally. We had an awful lot of fun with him and our home was his life.\"\n\nBBC Director-General Tim Davie said: \"Harry Gration MBE was an outstanding broadcaster and commentator.\n\n\"He had a real connection with the public who saw him as one of their own.\n\n\"Loved everywhere, but especially in Yorkshire, he will be hugely missed by his many fans and friends. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nHarry Gration (right) with fellow Look North presenters Amy Garcia and Paul Hudson in 2020\n\nMr Gration, who was born in Bradford, began filing match reports for the BBC while working as a history teacher in the mid-1970s.\n\nWhile at the corporation, he reported on Match of the Day and Grandstand and commentated on several Olympic and Commonwealth Games, and also presented South Today.\n\nWhen he left the BBC in October 2020, the day before his 70th birthday, he said he had \"always lived the story\".\n\nEvents such as the death of Jo Cox, the Bradford riots, the Hillsborough disaster and recent flooding in Yorkshire had \"always affected me\", he said.\n\nHarry Gration spent nine days in 2016 tied to fellow Look North presenter Paul Hudson on a 121-mile three-legged walk\n\nMr Gration said his stand-out moments during his time at the BBC had been raising a total of over £800,000 for charity while on a tandem with fellow presenter Amy Garcia, pushing a sofa and tied to Look North colleague Paul Hudson.\n\nThe latter challenge, in 2016, saw him spend nine days on a 121-mile (193 km) three-legged walk across North, South and West Yorkshire which raised more than £190,000 for Sport Relief.\n\nIn 2013, his work in broadcasting was recognised when he was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours list.\n\nHe said the MBE was \"an overwhelming honour. Something I never thought would happen to me\".\n\n\"For a lad born in a back-to-back in Bradford, I know my mum and dad would have loved to have been around for this day,\" he added.\n\nMr Gration was appointed MBE in 2013 for services to broadcasting\n\nJason Horton, Acting Director, BBC England, said Mr Gration was \"one of the true broadcasting greats\".\n\n\"He was a natural on the television and on radio, adored by our audiences, especially as the trusted face of Look North and South Today.\n\n\"He loved news, sport, his colleagues and fundraising for Children in Need and Comic Relief. Our thoughts are with his family, his friends and everyone across the BBC who he worked with.\"\n\nAside from broadcasting, Mr Gration had been president of the Scarborough Cricket Festival, chairman of the Yorkshire Tourist Board Tourism Awards and was involved with numerous charities.\n\nHe was also a deputy lieutenant of North Yorkshire.\n\nIn July 2011, he was awarded an honorary degree by the faculty of arts at Leeds Metropolitan University, and in 2013 he was named Man of the Year at the Yorkshire Awards.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Labour MP Simon Lightwood pledges to 'restore trust' after win\n\nSir Keir Starmer has hailed his party's victory in the Wakefield by-election as a \"great result for Labour\" as it won the seat back from the Conservatives.\n\nSimon Lightwood defeated Tory candidate Nadeem Ahmed by 4,925 votes in the poll to overturn a majority of 3,358.\n\nVisiting the town on Friday, the Labour leader said voters saw a party that was \"absolutely focused on the issues affecting working people\".\n\nThe victory signifies Labour's first by-election gain since Corby in 2012.\n\nWakefield's vote followed the resignation of ex-Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan, who was jailed in May for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008.\n\nPrior to Khan's election in 2019, the constituency had been held by Labour since the early 1930s.\n\nMr Lightwood received 13,166 votes in total, with Mr Ahmed taking 8,241 - a 12.7% swing from Conservative to Labour.\n\nTurnout was 39.09%, with 27,205 ballots cast out of an electorate of 69,601.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said it was a \"great result for Labour\"\n\nOn a visit to Ossett, a market town in the West Yorkshire constituency, Mr Starmer said: \"The Tory Party is absolutely imploding.\n\n\"They know they're out of ideas and they're out of touch. If they had any decency they'd get out of the way for the next Labour government because what happened here in Wakefield was people exercising their judgment on this Conservative government and voting no confidence.\"\n\nHowever, polling expert and political scientist Professor Sir John Curtice told Radio 4's Today programme that the Wakefield result did not suggest \"any great enthusiasm\" for the Labour Party.\n\n\"The decline in the Conservative vote is more than twice as big as the rise in the Labour vote,\" he said.\n\n\"It looks as though quite a lot of voters in Wakefield who were unhappy with the Conservatives took the opportunity to vote for an independent candidate - a Tory councillor - who resigned in March, partly over Partygate.\"\n\nA total of 15 candidates competed for the Wakefield seat during the by-election\n\nMinutes after the declaration in Wakefield, the Liberal Democrats took Tiverton and Honiton in Devon from the Conservatives, overturning a majority of more than 24,000.\n\nIt takes the total number of Labour MPs in the House of Commons to 200, with the night's two by-election results meaning Prime Minister Boris Johnson's majority has fallen to 68.\n\nSpeaking on stage after the result was declared in Wakefield, winner Simon Lightwood said the result \"turned the page on Tory neglect\".\n\n\"The people of Wakefield have spoken on behalf of the British people.\n\n\"They have said, unreservedly: 'Boris Johnson, your contempt for this country is no longer tolerated.'\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the result, Mr Lightwood, who is originally from South Shields, said: \"I feel absolutely exhilarated, I feel so humbled to be returned as Wakefield's new MP.\n\n\"I think it says that Labour is making real progress, rebuilding that red wall, rebuilding the trust of the electorate and people are ready for a fresh start.\"\n\nBig smiles from Labour - quick exits from the Conservatives.\n\nLabour were nervy earlier in the night but it became clear pretty quickly that they were going to get over the line - but by how much?\n\nThey'll say a majority of nearly 5,000 is evidence they can take back seats here that they lost in 2019.\n\nThe Conservatives will point to this by-election being called for a very specific reason.\n\nBoris Johnson-supporting MPs nearby say they back him because he's an election winner.\n\nBut he's not today - does that change how his party views him?\n\nThe prime minister didn't visit this constituency during the campaign. A missed opportunity or damage limitation?\n\nThere will be plenty of analysis - but people in Wakefield who have effectively been without an MP for more than a year have now got someone talking for them at Westminster.\n\nFollowing the double by-election defeat for the Conservatives, Oliver Dowden resigned as party chairman, saying in a letter to the prime minister that \"someone must take responsibility\".\n\nSpeaking at the Wakefield count before the result, Andrea Jenkyns, Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood, said: \"I've been on the doorstep for the last month, we've had nearly 130 MPs up, only a handful of people mentioned Partygate to me.\n\n\"There's certainly apathy there, but there's certainly not love for [Keir] Starmer.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Ahmed apologised after referring to serial killer Harold Shipman in an analogy about trusting the Tory party.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "A Belfast law firm and a number of its partners will begin further defamation proceedings against the Northern Ireland secretary, according to a statement issued on Friday.\n\nIt relates to an article by Brandon Lewis on the Troubles legacy issue, published on the Conservative Home website on 9 June.\n\nThe action is being brought by KRW Law and several of its personnel.\n\nAction is also being taken against the NI Office (NIO) and the website.\n\nAn NIO spokesman said: \"It would not be appropriate to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\"\n\nThose taking the case claim the article makes \"defamatory allegations about law firms in Northern Ireland who represent clients in legacy cases\".\n\nIt is the second time KRW Law has commenced proceedings against Mr Lewis.\n\nThere is a separate, ongoing case relating to an interview Mr Lewis gave on legacy in 2020.\n\nGateley Tweed LLP, who are representing KRW Law and its solicitors Kevin Winters and Niall Murphy, issued a statement on behalf of Mr Winters to BBC News NI.\n\nIt stated that in the Conservative Home article, Mr Lewis had attacked the work of lawyers dealing with Troubles-related cases.\n\nIt went on: \"My colleagues and I can confirm we are taking defamation proceedings against him in both his personal capacity and as a government representative.\n\n\"His comments come on the back of his Tory regime's ongoing drive to stop conflict-bereaved victims getting access to justice through the courts.\n\n\"Not content with trying to lock up the courts, they now want to silence lawyers trying to keep those same courts open for conflict-affected families.\n\n\"There is a tone being struck which harks back to the toxic comments of previous Tory minister Douglas Hogg in 1989 when he accused some lawyers of being 'sympathetic to the IRA'.\n\n\"They simply don't appreciate that we get our instruction from our clients.\n\n\"To that end, any attack on 'specialist lawyers' is an attack on the victims of the conflict,\" Mr Winters stated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roe v Wade: The moment abortion rights were struck down\n\nMillions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision.\n\nThe judgement paves the way for individual states to ban the procedure.\n\nHalf are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans. Thirteen have already passed so-called trigger laws to automatically outlaw abortion.\n\nPresident Joe Biden described it as \"a tragic error\" and urged states to enact laws to allow the procedure.\n\nAfter the Supreme Court ruling, abortion access is expected to be cut off for about 36 million women of reproductive age, according to research from Planned Parenthood, a healthcare organisation that provides abortions.\n\nDemonstrators from both sides had gathered outside the court, with police keeping them apart.\n\nOne anti-abortion activist told the BBC she was \"elated\" as her side cheered the decision. \"It's not enough just to make this the law of the land. To be pro-life is to make [abortion] unthinkable,\" she said.\n\nAcross the divide, pro-choice supporters decried the decision as \"illegitimate\" and even a form of \"fascism\".\n\nThe BBC's Samantha Granville, reporting from an abortion clinic in Little Rock, Arkansas, said that as the ruling was posted, doors to the patient area were shut and the sound of distant sobbing could be heard before she was asked to leave. The state is one of those subject to a trigger law.\n\nAnti-abortion activists celebrated the announcement outside the Supreme Court\n\nThe landmark 1973 Roe v Wade case saw the Supreme Court rule by a vote of seven to two that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy was protected by the US constitution.\n\nThe ruling gave American women an absolute right to an abortion in the first three months (trimester) of pregnancy, but allowed for restrictions in the second trimester and for prohibitions in the third.\n\nBut in the decades since, anti-abortion rulings have gradually pared back access in more than a dozen states.\n\nIn its current session, the Supreme Court had been considering a case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, that challenged Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks.\n\nBy ruling in favour of the state, the conservative-majority court effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion.\n\nFive justices were firmly in favour: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nChief Justice John Roberts wrote a separate opinion saying that, whilst he supported the Mississippi ban, he would not have gone further.\n\nThe three justices who disagreed with the majority - Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan - wrote that they had done so \"with sorrow - for this court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection\".\n\nFriday's ruling amounts to a wholesale reversal of the Supreme Court's own legal precedent - an extremely rare move - and is likely to set up political battles that divide the nation.\n\nIn states where opinions on abortion are closely split - such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin - the legality of the procedure could be determined on an election-by-election basis. In others, the ruling may set off a new round of legal battles, including over whether individuals can go out of state for abortions or order abortion drugs through mail services.\n\nDenouncing the Supreme Court ruling, President Biden told women in states where it was banned to travel to those where it was not.\n\nDemocratic governors of several states including California, New Mexico and Michigan have already announced plans to enshrine abortion rights within their constitutions.\n\nGovernor of Mississippi Tate Reeves quickly welcomed the ruling, saying his state had \"led the nation to overcome one of the greatest injustices in the history of our country\".\n\n\"This decision will directly result in more hearts beating, more strollers pushed, more report cards given, more little league games played, and more lives well lived. It is a joyous day!\" he wrote.\n\nFormer Vice-President Mike Pence, a long-standing critic of Roe v Wade, urged supporters not to stop until \"the sanctity of life\" was protected by law in every state.\n\nOn the other side of the divide, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that \"the Republican-controlled Supreme Court\" had achieved that party's \"dark and extreme goal\".\n\n\"American women today have less freedom than their mothers,\" she wrote. \"This cruel ruling is outrageous and heart-wrenching.\"\n\nThe reversal of a long-standing precedent has also raised fears for other rights decided upon by the Supreme Court in the past.\n\nJustice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion, wrote: \"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell\" - referencing three landmark decisions of the past on the right to contraception, the repeal of anti-sodomy laws, and the legalisation of same-sex marriage respectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Supreme Court abortion decision must not be the final word - Biden", "Many stations, including London Bridge, were quiet on Thursday\n\nThe rail strikes this week had threatened to bring the country to a halt.\n\nBut after two days of industrial action - as well as the knock-on impact on services for the rest of the week - there is little evidence this has happened.\n\nEmpty stations, half-full trains to Glastonbury Festival, and broadly similar traffic levels mean that for the most part, it appears to have been business as usual for many people across the country.\n\nHowever, for those who can't work remotely and city centre businesses which rely on footfall from office workers and commuters, the impact has still been substantial.\n\nThe pandemic has meant many firms are now geared up to switch to remote working.\n\nAccording to official figures, 38% of workers now spend some of the week working from home.\n\nOne office workspace firm in Cheltenham has seen a 30% upturn in business this week from people booking individual day passes.\n\nClaire Storey said the rail strikes have been good for her business\n\nClaire Storey, founder of the Workplace Network in Cheltenham, says she has a lot of clients who normally commute once or twice a week but during the strikes were unable to do so, meaning they booked more days at her co-working space.\n\nOffice occupancy data across the UK on Tuesday was just 22%, compared to 40% the same day last week, according to workplace technology firm Freespace.\n\nBen Willmott, head of public policy for HR trade body the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, says more flexible ways of working have helped employees work from home with short notice.\n\n\"This takes pressure off the public transport system and reduced services for those who do have to travel to work,\" he adds.\n\nPre-pandemic, the rail strikes would have taken more of a toll on Leeds Building Society, but boss Richard Fearon says a 30% reduction in the number of people in the office went \"seamlessly\".\n\n\"In 2019, we only could accommodate about 120 people working from home but now we can accommodate 1,000 wfh and can take these things in our stride,\" he adds.\n\nWorking from home and the high cost of fuel also seem to have mitigated the impacts on the roads.\n\nThe AA says it appears most drivers have been able to go about their journeys \"without too much disruption\". AA breakdown rates are also slightly lower than usual.\n\n\"It looks like the early strike notice has given those who can work from home the chance to continue to do so while those who have to travel to work appear to have planned ahead by setting off early and car-sharing,\" a spokesperson says.\n\nThe AA's data showed some localised congestion close to major events like Glastonbury and Goodwood festivals, but it expected this to ease once festival-goers are on-site.\n\nMore drivers are also choosing to car-share, according to Liftshare.com, who are seeing a new member added to their network every minute.\n\nNational Highways also said there hadn't been a spike in traffic, with levels down 1% on Tuesday compared to 2019.\n\nLocation technology firm TomTom found congestion had increased \"only slightly\" on Thursday morning across most UK cities compared to the same time a week ago.\n\nWhen people did need to travel, many appear to have turned to other modes of transport.\n\nOn the first day of the strike there was a big jump in the number of people using cycle and e-scooter hire in London.\n\nSantander Cycle hires, which typically number about 30,000 per day, jumped to 67,000 hires on Tuesday, Transport for London said. This is the second biggest day for the scheme since it began.\n\nE-scooters in London have had around 6,500 hires per day in June but this jumped to more than 10,000 hires on Tuesday.\n\nA rise in bus use was recorded by National Express, which saw a \"significant increase\" in enquiries and bookings for strike dates. The firm said all of its services are \"very busy\" this week, with 70% of seats sold out across its UK-wide network. It anticipates this to hit close to 90% by the week's end.\n\nMeanwhile, Uber said demand in London was up by around 50% on Tuesday. However this reduced significantly on Thursday, which the company said could be an indication of more people working from home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany music fans heading to Glastonbury also appear to have heeded advice to travel on other days or find other ways of getting to the festival.\n\nThose travelling from London Paddington on Thursday morning were relieved to find the station was quiet, with plenty of space on trains.\n\nWith fewer people commuting, businesses based in city centres have been hit by reduced footfall.\n\nHigh Street footfall was 16.1% lower to 13:00 BSTon Thursday compared with the same day last week, according to retail analysts Springboard.\n\nIn central London, the drop from last week was more than double the national average.\n\nAshley Davis, who runs Morning Sunshine coffee shop at Warwick Parkway station, says the lack of footfall is \"really disheartening\".\n\n\"If this strike action does not get sorted, if the government do not get involved, we are left as collateral damage. Our bills still have to be paid every month,\" he adds.\n\nAshley Davis says businesses like his need support\n\nSo does the lack of impact on many workers mean rail unions have less power to negotiate?\n\nGemma Dale, a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University's business school, says with more office workers now able to do their job from home there is less pressure on the government to resolve the dispute than pre-pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested he's willing to wait it out - and has asked people to \"stay the course\".\n\nBut the RMT union at the centre of the dispute has said more rail strikes are \"extremely likely\" if talks between rail bosses and unions continue to fail.\n\nMs Dale points out the strike is still causing disruption for those who can't work remotely.\n\n\"It is still of course a huge issue to not have an effective rail service running across most of the country.\"", "Covid infections are continuing to rise in the UK, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.\n\nThe data suggests about 1.7 million people were estimated to have Covid in the week ending 18 June.\n\nThis is about one in 35 people - an increase of 23% on the week before.\n\nExperts say two new fast-spreading subvariants of Omicron - called BA.4 and BA.5 - are likely to be driving new infections.\n\nBA.4 and BA.5 now make up more than half of new Covid infections in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says.\n\nUKHSA officials expect more people to test positive in the next few weeks.\n\nPeople can catch the newer variants even if they have had coronavirus recently.\n\nBut BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron are not thought to be any more lethal than other types of Covid. Vaccines are still saving lives. Most people will not be very ill with Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProf Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, who until recently was England's deputy chief medical officer, told the BBC the country was in a different situation from the peaks in infections earlier in the year.\n\nHe said: \"I don't wear a face covering, but if there were circumstances where I felt it was a really closed environment, with very high crowding and very intense social interaction, then those are the situations where I might think 'should I or shouldn't I?'.\n\n\"And I think people have got to learn to frame those risks for themselves.\"\n\nThe professor, who is now pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Nottingham's faculty of medicine and health sciences, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was time to start reassessing how we think about Covid, thanks to the success of vaccines.\n\n\"In terms of its kind of lethality, the picture now is much, much, much closer to seasonal flu than it was when [coronavirus] first emerged.\n\n\"And you know, we just accept in the winter that, if you've got seasonal flu and you're poorly for a few days, it disrupts your life. And so I think we've got start to frame Covid in a little bit more of those terms.\"\n\nHe said experts would continue to watch closely for any large rises in severe illness and more people ending up in hospital or intensive care.\n\nKara Steel, senior statistician at the ONS, said the latest data suggested the largest increases in people testing positive were in Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"In England, infections increased across all age groups, with the lowest level of infection seen in school-aged children.\"\n\nThe stats are collated by testing thousands of people from UK households - whether or not they have symptoms - to estimate how much virus is around.\n\nIn the week ending 18 June, estimated Covid rates were:\n\nThe number of people in hospital and in intensive care with the virus is still below the peaks of earlier this year, but health officials are stressing vaccinations are still important.\n\nUKHSA data suggests there have been some rises in Covid in care homes, and more people over 75 are ending up in hospital than in recent weeks.\n\nUKHSA epidemiologist Dr Mary Ramsay urged people in this age group and those living in care homes to get their spring booster vaccines.\n\nShe said: \"Our data also show that 17.5% of people aged 75 years and over have not had a vaccine within the past six months, putting them more at risk of severe disease.\"\n\nBooster jabs have been available since spring, for people 75 and over, living in care homes and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I will not pretend these are brilliant results - Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson has admitted results from two by-elections were not \"brilliant\" but has vowed to keep going.\n\nHis party lost the Devon seat of Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems, and Wakefield to Labour.\n\nMr Johnson said he would \"listen and learn\" and focus on \"delivering for the people of this country\".\n\nThe two defeats prompted Conservative party chair Oliver Dowden to quit saying: \"We cannot carry on with business as usual.\"\n\nAnd ex-Conservative leader Michael Howard has said the party and the country would be \"better off\" under new leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, Lord Howard said cabinet ministers should consider resigning and that party rules should be changed to allow for a new confidence vote in the prime minister.\n\nThe prime minister survived a vote on his leadership earlier this month, but 148 of his MPs voted to oust him, leaving him weakened. Under Tory party rules, it means that a further vote of confidence cannot be held for another year.\n\nThe by-elections took place against a backdrop of public anger about Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, along with concerns over rising costs and a squeeze on wages.\n\nMr Dowden announced his resignation in the early hours of Friday morning following the defeats, saying in a letter to the prime minister that supporters were \"distressed and disappointed by recent events and I share their feelings\".\n\n\"Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office.\"\n\nOther cabinet ministers have rallied round the PM, who is currently in Rwanda attending a meeting of Commonwealth government leaders.\n\nTaking questions at a press conference in Kigali, Mr Johnson said Mr Dowden did a \"lot of good work\" but added: \"I genuinely, genuinely don't think the way forward is to focus on issues of personality whether they are mine or others.\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend these are brilliant results,\" he said adding: \"We've got to listen, we've got to learn.\n\n\"There will still be some tough times ahead, no doubt people will continue to beat me up and say this or that to attack me.\"\n\nHe said that was \"fine\" but that he would be focusing on \"delivering for the people of this country\".\n\nAs you might expect the by-election defeats came up repeatedly during the prime minister's press conference, but Boris Johnson would not accept any personal responsibility - or acknowledge that his leadership had any part to play.\n\nHe said he didn't think British politics should be about personality - but for some of his own MPs his personality is exactly the problem.\n\nSome talk about the need for a change of direction or as one put it to me earlier a \"reset\" moment, but there was little sign of that from the prime minister.\n\nHe put much of the blame on the cost of living, saying when people find it tough - they blame governments.\n\nBut while that's undoubtedly a huge issue facing the country, for some Tories Boris Johnson's style of government is an issue in itself.\n\nThe prime minister was defiant - talking about his plan and seeming keen to press on, a mood echoed by his team here in Kigali.\n\nHe suggested governments shouldn't be defined by by-elections - pointing to administrations that have survived defeats in the past. But the way he responds to these by-election losses could well prove defining.\n\nCabinet ministers including Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab have given Mr Johnson their backing.\n\nAsked if he had full confidence in the prime minister's ability to win the next election, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"Boris Johnson is our leader, is the PM and he will be taking us into the next election.\"\n\nAnd Ben Houchen - Conservative mayor of Tees Valley - warned his colleagues against a \"knee jerk reaction\" and said that holding a leadership contest during a cost of living crisis would make the party look \"ridiculous\".\n\nIn a statement, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt said she was \"disappointed\" for the party but did not specifically mention support for the prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Tiverton and Honiton - where former MP Neil Parish quit after he was found watching pornography in Parliament - the Lib Dems won with a 30% swing.\n\nThe party quashed a Conservative majority of 24,239 - the largest ever to be overturned at a by-election.\n\nSpeaking from the Devon constituency, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the Conservatives were \"chaotic\" and had \"not got the policies for our country\".\n\nThe Conservatives also suffered a loss in West Yorkshire where Labour secured a 12.7% swing to regain the Wakefield constituency by 4,925 votes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the election result was \"a clear judgment on a Conservative Party that has run out of energy and ideas\".\n\nLabour \"is back on the side of working people, winning seats where we lost before, and ready for government,\" he added.", "The star delivered a passionate and compelling performance on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage\n\nBillie Eilish has used her Glastonbury headline set to protest the US Supreme Court's decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.\n\n\"Today is a really, really dark day for women in the US,\" the 20-year-old said from the Pyramid Stage\n\n\"I'm just going to say that because I can't bear to think about it any longer.\"\n\nShe went on to dedicate Your Power, a song about older men who abuse their position, to everyone affected.\n\nOn Friday, the US Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling known as Roe v Wade that guaranteed nationwide abortion rights for women.\n\nThe decision means millions of women across the US will lose their legal right to abortion as individual states will be able to make their own laws on it.\n\nEilish was not the only performer at Glastonbury to protest the decision.\n\nEarlier in the night, indie-folk star Phoebe Bridgers made a similar statement during her festival debut on the John Peel stage.\n\n\"This is my first time here. It's surreal and amazing but I'm having a real [expletive] day,\" she said.\n\nBridgers continued by cursing the \"old\" Supreme Court justices \"who try to tell us what to do with our bodies\".\n\nEilish's dynamic and gymnastic performance went down a storm\n\nEilish's performance made her Glastonbury's youngest-ever solo headliner, at the age of 20.\n\nShe emerged on stage shortly after 22:00, amid blasts of white noise and sub-bass before launching into her opening song, Bury A Friend.\n\nProwling around the stage's catwalks and twisting her body like a character from The Exorcist, she was met by cacophonous screams and word-perfect renditions of her songs from the very first note.\n\n\"Oh boy, I love you so much,\" she told the audience, which stretched right to the back of the field in front of the Pyramid Stage.\n\nAdopting a faux English accent, she added: \"How are you doin?\"\n\nThe star's set was heavily rumoured to feature a surprise appearance from Harry Styles - but, like so many Glastonbury rumours, the gossip was one step removed from reality.\n\nThe star was joined on stage by her brother, co-writer and \"best friend\" Finneas O'Connell\n\nInstead, the show zeroed in on Eilish, who appeared with just her brother, Finneas, and a drummer on a minimal stage with a strict red and white colour palette.\n\nBetween songs, her colourful dialogue made it seem like she was talking directly to each individual member of the crowd. She led them in breathing exercises, started a reverse Mexican wave and shared her three commandments of concert-going: \"Don't be an asshole, no judgment and have fun, bitch\".\n\nThe setlist adhered closely to her ongoing Happier Than Ever world tour, which meant it was front-loaded with fan favourites like I Didn't Change My Number, NDA and Billie Bossa Nova, instead of big crowd-pleasers.\n\nIt was a brave move, but potentially alienating for casual observers - many of whom drifted off before the explosive closing numbers, Bad Guy and Happier Than Ever.\n\nFor diehards at the front, though, Eilish could do no wrong. Even a deep album cut like Goldwing was sung at full volume, threatening to drown her out,\n\n\"This is such an honour to be here, right now,\" Eilish declared them before playing When The Party's Over. \"Thank you for letting me do this. This is such a trip and a dream.\"\n\nAfter tonight, the chances of her being invited back are looking pretty solid.\n\nEilish's headline set marked the culmination of Glastonbury's first day of music, which included appearances from Primal Scream, Arlo Parks, Little Simz and Supergrass.\n\nWolf Alice only made the festival by the skin of their teeth\n\nOn the Pyramid Stage, Wolf Alice delivered a blistering performance after a last-minute, transatlantic dash to the festival.\n\nThe band had been left stranded in Los Angeles on Wednesday night after their flight home was cancelled. After a light-hearted (and failed) appeal for the loan of a private jet, they finally made it back via a connecting flight in Seattle.\n\n\"So we were in Seattle about 10 hours ago, and we were worried about all the train strikes,\" Theo Ellis told BBC News shortly before their performance.\n\nThey were eventually escorted onto the site by a squadron of quadbikes.\n\n\"It felt like we were in Mission Impossible for 13 seconds,\" said Ellis. \"But we made it and it kind of feels even more special to be here now.\"\n\n\"I still keep thinking something will happen and we won't get to play,\" added frontwoman Ellie Rowsell. \"I'm getting scared about jinxing it.\"\n\nBut they did make it onto the stage, backed by a string quartet and tearing through the down-and-dirty riffs of their opening number, Smile.\n\nAs they reached the end of their set, the chaos finally caught up with Rowsell, who lay down on the stage to summon up the energy to sing their powerful ballad Last Man On Earth, When the song ended, she looked temporarily lost and flustered, until bandmate Joff Oddie clasped her in a hug.\n\n\"We didn't know if we were going to make it today,\" she told the audience, \"so this is very surreal and we're very emotional\".\n\nSam Fender's Springsteen-esque anthems kept the crowd singing after he left the stage\n\nSam Fender, second on the bill after Billie Eilish, was also overcome by the moment, struggling to regroup between songs, until the crowd buoyed him up with full-throated singalongs to 17 Going Under and Hypersonic Missiles.\n\n\"Me and the lads have never been to Glastonbury before. Not as a punter. Not as a performer,\" he said during the set. \"Now we are doing the whole lot in one day. It's a trip.\"\n\nOther opening day highlights included Spice Girl Melanie C joining Blossoms onstage for a rabble-rousing version of Spice Up Your Life; and a blissed-out set from Crowded House, who welcomed the mid-afternoon sun with a mash-up of The Kinks' Sunny Afternoon and their own Pineapple Head.\n\n\"I had no idea how good this would be,\" said frontman Neil Finn, after leading the crowd in a mass participation version of Weather With You.\n\n\"I think we're all reinventing the way the world works here at Glastonbury. Rediscovering community, kindness, common sense,\" he continued. \"The people are rewilding.\"\n\nThe band also created a memorable Glastonbury moment when they invited out Buddy - Finn's grandson, and the son of guitarist Liam Finn.\n\nThousands of people started chanting the youngster's name as he moonwalked across the stage and pinched a microphone to join in the band's final song, I Got You.\n\nBuddy squeaked along adorably to his grandfather's music, before leaving the stage with a brief, \"Bye Bye!\"\n\nAway from the main stage, the festival was brought to a standstill by sets from Wet Leg (Park Stage) and 90s R&B legends TLC (West Holts). Both acts attracted so many fans that access roads had to be briefly closed.\n\nThe day was bookended by appeals for help from Ukraine.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky gave a pre-recorded speech on The Other Stage before festival openers The Libertines, calling on the world to \"spread the truth\" over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nZelensky said Ukraine \"will not let Russia's war break us\" and that he wants the war to stop before it \"ruins people's lives in other countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America\".\n\n\"Spread the truth about Russia's war, help Ukrainians who are forced to flee their homes because of the war,\" he added.\n\nUkraine's Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra will also play a late-night set in the Shangri-La area, starting shortly after 01:00.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The US is banning the sale of all products sold by Juul, one of the country's top e-cigarette companies.\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it did not have enough data to be sure that marketing the firm's products was \"appropriate for the protection of public health\".\n\nJuul said it would challenge the move.\n\nIt comes after other recent anti-smoking efforts by the FDA, including plans to reduce the amount of addictive nicotine allowed in cigarettes.\n\nThe agency had already barred the fruity flavours that helped make Juul a phenomenon among teenagers a few years ago.\n\n\"Today's action is further progress on the FDA's commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,\" FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf said in a statement.\n\nJuul, founded in California in 2015 by a pair of former smokers, has promoted its vaping pods as a healthier alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes.\n\nBut the products, which contain high concentrations of nicotine, raised alarm as use among teens exploded, with more than quarter of high schoolers using e-cigarettes in 2019, according to a federal survey.\n\nIn 2020 the FDA said it would require companies to submit their e-cigarette products for approval. It has since granted some of them a green light.\n\nIn its statement, the FDA said it had not received any information to suggest an \"immediate hazard\".\n\nBut it also noted the major role Juul, whose products under review had nicotine levels of 3% and 5%, still plays in the market.\n\n\"We recognise these make up a significant part of the available products and many have played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping,\" Mr Califf said.\n\nJuul said it would seek a stay of the ruling, which would allow it to keep selling as it explores options including an appeal.\n\n\"We respectfully disagree with the FDA's findings and decision and continue to believe we have provided sufficient information and data based on high-quality research to address all issues raised by the agency,\" the firm's chief regulatory officer, Joe Murillo, said in a statement.\n\n\"We intend to seek a stay and are exploring all of our options under the FDA's regulations and the law, including appealing the decision and engaging with our regulator.\n\n\"We remain committed to doing all in our power to continue serving the millions of American adult smokers who have successfully used our products to transition away from combustible cigarettes, which remain available on market shelves nationwide,\" he added.\n\nJuul has already seen its business hit by regulatory action, as officials investigated its marketing practices to teens and tightened rules on what flavours could be sold. International restrictions have also limited its expansion outside the US.\n\nAltria Group, which took a 35% stake in the company in 2018 for more than $12bn, has been forced to write off much of the value of its investment.\n\nThe firm's shares sank 9% on Wednesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported plans for the ban.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nBritish number one Emma Raducanu has been drawn against Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck in the Wimbledon first round.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who is seeded 10th, practised at the All England Club on Friday but missed a second session planned later on Court One.\n\nTwo-time champion Andy Murray, who is trying to overcome an abdominal injury, faces Australia's James Duckworth.\n\nSerena Williams starts her return to singles action after a year out against French debutant Harmony Tan.\n\nThe 40-year-old American made her comeback in the Eastbourne doubles this week but has not played singles since she was injured at Wimbledon last year.\n\nTop seed Iga Swiatek plays Croatian qualifier Jana Fett as she aims to continue her dominance of the WTA Tour.\n\nThe world number one, who won the recent French Open for a sixth title in a row, has been handed the honour of opening Tuesday's play on Centre Court.\n\nUsually that is traditionally given to the defending women's champion, but Australia's Ashleigh Barty retired earlier this year.\n\nPoland's Swiatek, 21, is aiming for a 36th straight win and could face British wildcard Sonay Kartal, who starts against Montenegro's Danka Kovinic, in the second round.\n\nTunisian third seed Ons Jabeur, who played with Williams at Eastbourne before pulling out with a knee injury, faces Swedish qualifier Mirjam Bjorklund.\n\nRomanian 16th seed Simona Halep, who has not played at Wimbledon since winning the 2019 title and was another candidate to start Tuesday's play on Centre Court, has a tough opener against Czech Karolina Muchova.\n• None Are we saying goodbye to the GOATs at Wimbledon?\n• None The winners and losers of Wimbledon points decision\n\nHow has the draw panned out for Raducanu and Murray?\n\nRaducanu is set for her first Wimbledon since winning the US Open, but has seen her preparations hampered by a side injury in recent weeks.\n\nThe teenager has won eight of the 19 matches she has played so far this season and experienced a string of minor injuries.\n\nWorld number 46 Van Uytvanck has won two grass-court titles already this month and is one of the toughest opponents Raducanu could have drawn.\n\nRaducanu could face another British player, wildcard Yuriko Miyazaki, in the second round, with Katie Swan also drawn in the same section.\n\nUnseeded Murray, 35, avoided a seeded player in the first round and will meet Duckworth for a second time in his opening match at a major after beating him in the 2018 US Open.\n\nHe could face big-serving American John Isner in the second round, with Italian 10th seed Jannik Sinner - who faces Swiss wildcard Stan Wawrinka in a far-from-ideal opener - potentially waiting in round three.\n\nBoth Raducanu and Murray will play on Monday.\n• None Raducanu 'not being distracted by commercial interests', says agent\n• None The Sports Desk: Can Raducanu shake off US Open hangover?\n\nWho are the other Brits playing?\n\nBritish men's number one Cameron Norrie, seeded ninth, starts against Spain's Pablo Andujar as he aims to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.\n\nThe 26-year-old left-hander has faced some tough draws at the majors recently and could meet Bulgaria's 18th seed Grigor Dimitrov in the third round.\n\nDan Evans, the only other British seed, plays Australian qualifier Jason Kubler.\n\nFourteen other British players are in the main draws of the singles and not one faces a seeded player in the first round.\n\nHowever, British wildcard Paul Jubb plays Australia's Nick Kyrgios in one of the most eye-catching matches.\n\nWhat else happened in the men's singles draw?\n\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic, who starts against Kwon Soon-woo, has been drawn in the opposite half to Queen's champion Matteo Berrettini.\n\nThat means Berrettini, seeded eighth, is a potential semi-final opponent for Spain's Rafael Nadal, who starts against Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo.\n\nNadal, 36, is playing Wimbledon for the first time since 2019 as he looks to follow his victories at the Australian Open and French Open with a first title at SW19 since 2010.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nAlison van Uytvanck represents one of the toughest starts imaginable for Emma Raducanu: the Belgian already has 12 wins on the grass, while the US Open champion has been limited to just seven games on the match court.\n\nIf Andy Murray is fully fit, he should not have too many complaints about his potential first week opponents. He is in the same half of the draw as Novak Djokovic, but they could not meet before the quarter-finals.\n\nSerena Williams has not played a singles match for a year so Harmony Tan, who is outside the top 100, looks a decent draw. And if Williams, Simona Halep, Coco Gauff, Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova survive the opening couple of rounds, there could be some heavyweight contests in this section of the draw.\n\nRafael Nadal, meanwhile, has Matteo Berrettini, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Stefanos Tsistipas for company in his half of the draw, which - at least on paper - creates a very challenging path to the third leg of the calendar Grand Slam.\n• None She reigned for over 20 years but why did history try to erase her?\n• None Find out how a nap could slash your risk of heart attack by half and have an impact on your brain", "Instagram is exploring new ways for teenagers to verify their age and comply with platform rules.\n\nThe Meta-owned app is testing video selfies with facial analysis software as a new age-verification method.\n\nSome users on Instagram try to skirt its 13+ age rule by editing their date of birth to make them appear over 18.\n\nBut US teens attempting this will now be given three ways to verify age: upload ID, ask three adult users to vouch for them or take a video selfie.\n\nMeta says it hopes the new methods will ensure teens have an \"age-appropriate experience\" on Instagram.\n\nThe tech giant has previously faced criticism over teen and child safety on its platforms.\n\nSeveral US states probed Instagram last year over children's experiences on the photo-sharing app, in response to leaks from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.\n\nWill Gardner OBE, chief executive of Childnet and director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, says the trial is encouraging: \"The potential is there to try and help protect children from content which isn't for them and make their internet experience more age-appropriate.\"\n\n5Rights Foundation, a UK organisation campaigning for child safety in the digital environment, says such efforts are \"long overdue\".\n\nPlatforms should \"leave behind the 'don't look don't see attitude' that has led to millions of children being put at risk\", 5Rights says, adding that \"simply knowing the age of your users is not enough.\"\n\nParents and guardians of teen Instagram users were given additional tools to supervise their child's experience on Instagram earlier this month.\n\nThey can now set up time limits and view details of any reports their child makes on the platform.\n\nTeens will also be \"nudged\" to look at other content if repeatedly viewing the same topics on Instagram's explore page, and encouraged to \"take a break\" if continuously scrolling through reels.\n\nVideo selfies have become a popular way for digital platforms - such as online banking apps - to verify users' age or identity.\n\nInstagram currently uses video selfies as one way account holders can verify their identity if they get locked out of their account.\n\nMeta has partnered with UK digital identification provider Yoti, whose technology estimates age by analysing human faces and facial features.\n\nYoti says its algorithm, trained on anonymous people's facial images and their date of birth, cannot individually identify users or anything about them, except their age.\n\nIts latest white paper, published in May, said the technology was accurate for six to 12-year-olds with an error range of 1.36 years - and an error range of 1.52 years for 13 to 19-year-olds.\n\nMeta says both companies will delete the image once a user's age has been confirmed.\n\nMeanwhile, social vouching allows users to ask three mutual followers to confirm their age. Those being asked to confirm how old a user is must be at least 18, and cannot be vouching for any other users at the time.\n\nDr Ysabel Gerrard, lecturer in digital media and society at the University of Sheffield, says Instagram's new age-verification methods are a welcome addition to just asking users to upload ID.\n\nBut she says relying on age-verification tools as a way to protect young people online can overlook why they actually try to create adult accounts in the first place.\n\n\"A lot of them are saying they're 18 on Instagram not to do bad things or view bad content,\" Dr Gerrard says.\n\n\"Being technically registered as an adult makes them feel safe because they don't think they're going to be targeted.\"\n\nFor Dr Gerrard, Instagram's new verification mechanisms raise larger questions about what helps children to feel safe on social media platforms.\n\n\"Pretending to be an adult is one of them. It's a harsh reality, but we can't pretend it's not happening.\"", "M&S wants to demolish and rebuild its Oxford Street store\n\nA row is building up over Marks & Spencer's plans to demolish and rebuild its flagship London store.\n\nMinister Michael Gove had already ordered a review into the idea due to concerns over carbon emissions from bulldozing the building.\n\nNow, landlords have said delaying the plans could threaten the appeal of Oxford Street to investors as a place of national economic importance.\n\nM&S said the revamp was needed due to changing consumer habits.\n\nIt wants to redevelop the site with a smaller shop, offices and a gym.\n\nBut that plan for the 100-year-old Art Deco store at Marble Arch ran into difficulties after Mr Gove stepped in.\n\nEarlier this week, M&S said it was \"bewildered\" by the planning review ordered by the Levelling Up Secretary.\n\nA letter from landlords and property investors, which was sent to Mr Gove on Friday, said their \"major concern\" was that the decision would undermine \"the appeal of the West End as an international centre\".\n\nThey said the West End, where the M&S store is located, draws major investors to the capital, and that London flagship stores help support \"marginal stores in other British towns and cities\".\n\nThe letter was signed by Sir Peter Rogers, the chairman of the New West End Company, which represents retailers and hoteliers. It was also signed by property investors including Royal London Asset Management.\n\nMichael Gove ordered the planning inquiry after environmental concerns were raised\n\nThe inquiry will consider the pros and cons of bulldozing and rebuilding the store compared to refitting it. A new report will then be published with the government's recommendations.\n\nM&S claims a full rebuild is needed because the way people shop has changed. It said this was made starker during the Covid pandemic, when more customers opted to buy online.\n\nThe retail giant also claimed the store is unattractive and does not offer a pleasant experience for customers or staff.\n\nM&S's director of property, technology and development, Sacha Berendji this week accused Mr Gove of blocking \"the only retail-led regeneration in the whole of Oxford Street\".\n\nHe said the building was refused listed status due to its low design quality and, while it was safe, cannot be modernised through refitting as it is three separate buildings containing asbestos.\n\nHe said that an independent assessment of the building's carbon impact across its whole lifecycle found that a new build offered higher sustainability benefits than a refit.\n\n\"On completion, [it] will be amongst the top 10% performing buildings in London,\" he added.\n\nThe revamp had been approved by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Westminster City Council but plans were then put on hold.\n\nA report into the potential carbon footprint caused by bulldozing the building had warned the environmental impact would clash with City Hall's planning guidance.\n\nThe report by architect Simon Sturgis said the plan is \"absolutely crazy\" and recommended refitting and renovating the existing shop instead.\n\nCampaigners from Save Britain's Heritage and the Architect's Journal urged Mr Gove to launch a public inquiry into the scheme in another letter signed by top names in the industry.\n\nThis letter claimed bulldozing the historic building would \"pump nearly 40,000 tonnes of C02 into the atmosphere\".\n\nIt also said the plan would destroy \"an elegant and important interwar building\".\n\n\"We should be adapting the building, not destroying it,\" it said.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said the decision to order a planning review was \"made in line with established policy\".\n\n\"It is right that a project of such significance should be considered by the independent planning inspectorate and ministers,\" a spokesperson said.\n• None Building strategy to look at embodied carbon", "When the Supreme Court ruling was leaked in May, it reverberated across the US - in both anti-abortion and pro-choice circles.\n\nSince Roe v Wade legalised abortion nationwide in 1973, many women have fought tirelessly to overturn it, believing the life of an unborn child begins at conception.\n\nOthers clung to the hope that America's highest court might uphold the almost fifty-year-old ruling that allows a woman the right to choose.\n\nAccording to a survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in March 2022, 61% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances, though support falls sharply for allowing the procedure beyond the first trimester of pregnancy. Many opponents of legal abortion say it should be legal in some circumstances.\n\nAs part of the Ask America series, we asked six women - three from each side of this debate - how they felt after reading the draft majority opinion that suggested the conservative-leaning court would overturn the national right to an abortion (the court has launched an investigation into the leak).\n\nMy first reaction to the leaked document was shock that the Supreme Court appears to be overturning Roe v Wade. As a pro-life conservative, I am used to watching the American political spectrum continuously shift farther away from my values, so I was cautiously optimistic about this apparent progress.\n\nHowever, I did immediately consider the likelihood of Congress reversing this decision by pushing legislation, or states reacting by passing extreme laws in support of things like late-term abortions.\n\nIf Roe v Wade is officially overturned I will have two reactions. First, I would be pleased and grateful at the Supreme Court making a decision that upholds the law and protects the sanctity of life.\n\nSecond, I would be relieved that the leak of this document did not successfully pressure the court to change its decision.\n\nThat is a direct attack on the Supreme Court's credibility and impartiality. I am worried to see the Court's process infiltrated by rogue political agendas.\n\nPersonally, I don't believe in abortion, but I think people should have a right to choose. Women should have autonomy over their own bodies, and I thought that legislating abortion was relegated to the past. The people who want to legislate abortion and regulate the matter say that they are pro-life. But they are only talking about the life of the baby before it's born, and not about the life of the baby after it's born. The same people who want to regulate abortion want to defund schools. Here in Missouri, our schools are failing. If you want to be pro-life, then you need to look at life after a child is born.\n\nEven if the decision comes down officially that Roe v Wade is overturned, there will still be people with unexpected pregnancies.\n\nWhether abortion is legal or illegal, there are going to be a lot of other women who, if they know that help and support are available, will happily choose life. My mission with the San Antonio Coalition for Life has always been to talk to people with an unexpected pregnancy. Our job is to make sure that we can direct them and help them by giving them the resources they need.\n\nOur job doesn't change whether abortion is legal or illegal.\n\nWe are always going to be here whether it is a life that is not quite six weeks or whether it is a life that is 13 weeks or whether it's a life at conception. Our job is to protect all innocent human life.\n\nGrowing up in a Catholic family, I thought abortion was wrong and that it was murder.\n\nBut as an adult, I support a woman's right to have one - 100%. Abortion is healthcare. It's a personal decision about a woman's own body.\n\nWhat's happening now shows that every presidential election is the most important one in a person's life because of the Supreme Court nominations.\n\nWhen President Trump was elected, he was able to get his [three] nominations on the court. So, there are consequences for elections. And this outcome is horrifying to me.\n\nRoe v Wade being overturned will be a wonderful landmark step for the pro-life movement and defending the rights of the unborn across the country. But it's just a step - it is not the end. I believe that our end goal should be to make abortion unthinkable in this country to make sure that every pregnant mother has the resources that she needs to raise her child.\n\nI am extremely happy at the prospect that Roe v Wade could be overturned. I think it is a horrible case and a wrongly decided unconstitutional case. And I think it is right that the court should overturn it.\n\nHowever, I was disturbed with how we found out, in the form of a leaked opinion. I'm worried for the integrity of the Supreme Court in the light of this.\n\nI think black women have been making prescient warnings that this could happen for years. People thought this issue had been decided, but threats began with the dismantling of voting rights more than a decade ago. What it represents is not just an attack on abortion but an attack on democracy. Women make up 50% of the country, but that's not reflected in Congress or the Senate, or in the Supreme Court. I'm a constitutional law professor. In the draft opinion, Justice Alito calls the history of abortion irrelevant. But that history matters to indigenous women. That history matters to black women who fought for control over their bodies, and for women who fought for the right to vote.\n\nI think we're staring in the face of a nation that hasn't realised equality for gender and sex - and that's not debatable.\n\nThis article was updated on 7 June with statistics from Pew to provide more context around attitudes on this debate.", "The UK is now home to more than 10% of the world population of red kites\n\nBritish-born red kites are being flown abroad in a mission to help rescue the dwindling Spanish population.\n\nThe birds of prey are threatened in parts of Spain by factors including poisoning and a lack of food.\n\nExperts have been given special permission to take 30 red kites from England and release them in the remote mountains of south western Spain.\n\nIt's hoped the birds will thrive and breed there, rescuing the population.\n\nIn the UK, the red kite has had a remarkable turnaround after almost being wiped out.\n\nA reintroduction programme in the 1980s and 1990s proved so successful that the population is now considered stable enough to support this vital conservation work.\n\nThe birds were brought to the UK from Spain and Sweden\n\nDr Ian Evans of Natural England went out to Spain in the 1990s to collect wild red kites for release in the Chiltern Hills. He said the ones returning this week may be of Spanish descent.\n\n\"Those birds we took from Spain in the '90s have done really well in Britain - we're talking 4,000-plus pairs in the UK now, which is an incredible success story,\" he told BBC News.\n\nIn the 1990s, red kites in Spain were doing well in comparison to the UK, where years of human persecution, including egg collecting, poisoning and shooting, had pushed the bird to near extinction.\n\nWhile red kites in the UK have since boomed, populations in some parts of southern Spain have gone the other way due to a number of factors.\n\nDr Evans said the reason to take the birds back to Spain and release them in the wild was to \"secure the future of kites globally\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Two of the red kites that will be sent to Spain for conservation purposes\n\nThis week 15 red kites are being flown to Madrid to be released in Extremadura and Andalusia.\n\nThe juveniles are only a few weeks old, but already have most of their feathers and can feed independently.\n\nA first batch of 15 birds has already been flown out, with the project kept under wraps until now.\n\nThe birds will perfect their flight in aviaries before being released fitted with the latest technology for monitoring how they adapt to their new habitat.\n\nThe red kite is protected under UK law\n\nThe RSPB's Duncan Orr-Ewing said 30 birds will be released this year, with plans to release 30 more birds in each of the next two years.\n\n\"You need to find 90 to 100 birds to create a sustainable population in a given area,\" he said. \"That should be sufficient to create a new breeding nucleus of the birds.\"\n\nRed kites are found across Europe and numbers have increased overall in recent years, although there are still drastic declines in southern Spain, Portugal, and locally in Germany. The UK is now home to more than 10% of the world population of red kites.\n\nThe birds being sent to Spain hail from forests in Northamptonshire. Karl Ivans, wildlife ranger manager for Forestry England, which cares for the woodlands, was involved in the original efforts to rescue British red kites.\n\n\"It's a great honour to have been involved in the project right from the start,\" he said. \"You feel really proud to do something good for the environment and for such a marvellous species.\"\n\nThe project brings together a number of conservation groups, including the RSPB, Forestry England, Natural England, Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation and Accion por el Mundo Salvaje (Amus) in Spain.", "Newly-elected MP Simon Lightwood has promised to \"restore trust\" in politics, saying the people of Wakefield, West Yorkshire were sick of the \"deceit and dishonesty of this government\".\n\nLabour has won the by-election to regain the seat it lost to the Conservatives at the 2019 general election.", "Lynn Fitch may be the lawyer to end Roe v Wade\n\nMillions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalised it nationwide. Before the court's ruling was made public, BBC News looked at the woman whose case brought about the historic decision.\n\nIn September 2021, Mississippi's chief legal officer sat down for an interview with Pro-Life Weekly, a Catholic television programme featuring anti-abortion activists.\n\nLynn Fitch looked how she almost always does during public appearances: dyed-blonde hair blow-dried straight and neat, tasteful jewellery and a monochrome suit, this time in powder blue.\n\nThe attorney general was there to celebrate. The United States Supreme Court had just announced the date it would hear her state's challenge to Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that has, for the nearly 50 years since, served as a nationwide guarantee to abortion access.\n\nThe case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, centres on a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. Under Ms Fitch's direction, the state asked the Supreme Court to uphold the law and slash the landmark Roe v Wade decision in the process. A ruling is expected this month. A leaked draft suggests it is likely that Mississippi's ban will be upheld, paving the way for other states to also outlaw abortion.\n\nMs Fitch - who declined to be interviewed - had argued that overturning Roe v Wade would be \"game-changing\", \"uplifting\" women by eliminating what she described as a false choice between family and career.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, for professional women, they wanted you to make a choice. Now you don't have to,\" she said on Pro-Life Weekly. \"You have the option in life to really achieve your dreams, your goals, and you can have those beautiful children as well.\"\n\nIf she wins the case, and Roe v Wade falls, some 40 million women may lose access to abortion, pro-choice advocates warn. It could also make Ms Fitch, a single working parent of three, a Republican superstar and poster-child for her own argument: modern women don't need abortion to have it all.\n\nMs Fitch is facing off against Jackson Women's Health Organisation - the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi\n\nAbortion was not always an animating theme of Ms Fitch's political career. When she first took public office, as Mississippi state treasurer in 2011, she pushed for legislation that would guarantee men and women were paid equally.\n\nHer convictions were shaped in many ways by her upbringing, and her experiences as a single mother, says Hayes Dent, a long-time friend and colleague, who ran her first political campaign.\n\nWhen Mr Dent first met Ms Fitch, she had just been named executive director of the Mississippi State Personnel Board, a state agency, by then-governor Haley Barbour. Mr Dent was immediately impressed.\n\n\"Having been around every major political figure in Mississippi for 40 years, I could just tell: she's going to run,\" Mr Dent said. \"And when she pulls that trigger, she's going to be successful.\"\n\nIt wasn't for another couple of years that she did, launching a campaign for state treasurer.\n\nWhen he launched her first political campaign, for state treasurer in 2011, \"she was an underdog,\" said Austin Barbour, a national GOP strategist and the nephew of former Governor Barbour.\n\nMr Dent, who had kept tabs on Ms Fitch, reached out to her in the middle of that 2011 cycle and asked to come on board her campaign.\n\n\"I said 'Look, I think you can win this race,'\" he recalled.\n\nShe accepted. The two would drive the length of the state in a day, making a handful of different stops and placing fundraiser calls in the hours between.\n\n\"Her attitude was 'what is the task at hand,'\" Mr Dent said. \"It'd be like 'Look, we've gotta go to the tobacco spitting festival.' And she'd do great! She wouldn't spit tobacco, but she was great.\"\n\nThe only reason Ms Fitch would turn down a campaign event was her kids, cutting out early to make a school basketball game or parent-teacher conference.\n\nShe was a natural campaigner, but fundraising lagged. Mr Dent drove to northern Mississippi to ask her father for a personal donation.\n\nAttorney General Fitch may become a hero on the political right\n\nBill Fitch still lived in Holly Springs, the small, rural town near the state's northern edge where Ms Fitch spent most of her childhood.\n\nHer father had inherited land on the historic Galena Plantation and used the sprawling 8,000-acre property to restore the family farm, turning it into a premier quail hunting destination. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Mississippi governors Barbour and Phil Bryant, became frequent guests.\n\nVisitors of Fitch Farms could elect to stay in the former home of Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, which Mr Fitch had bought and transported onto the property.\n\nMs Fitch has told local media of \"special\" childhood memories at her father's farm, riding horses and hunting quail.\n\nAs a teenager, she was the \"prototypical popular girl\", Mr Dent said. \"Leader, cheerleader, athletic, the whole nine yards,\" he said.\n\nShe went to the University of Mississippi, joined a sorority and graduated with a degree in business administration and later in law.\n\nWhen Mr Dent drove to her father's farm to make his pitch for a campaign donation, he said it painly: \"I told him if I left there with a big cheque, she was going to win\".\n\nShe won, and then won again four years later, securing a second term as state treasurer.\n\nIn this office, she targeted state debt, expanded access to financial education in the state, and advocated for equal pay laws (Mississippi remains the only state that does not ensure equal pay for equal work between men and women).\n\nAnd she developed her knack for connecting to voters, leaning on both her Holly Springs upbringing and an apparent ease in the public eye.\n\nIn interviews and campaign videos, Ms Fitch looks preternaturally poised. She makes easy eye contact, her speech slow and relaxed, often thanking God and her family for the opportunity to serve her state.\n\n\"Rural roots matter to voters in this state,\" said Mr Barbour, the Republican strategist. \"And she's very likeable, she just is.\"\n\nMs Fitch also helped bolster her conservative credentials with her support for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, leading Mississippi's Women for Trump coalition in 2016. When Mr Trump was in Jackson for a campaign rally, she sat in the front row.\n\nTwo years later, Ms Fitch announced she would make a bid for Mississippi Attorney General - an office that had never been held by a woman.\n\nBut she wasn't the underdog this time, gliding to victory in November 2019 with nearly 60% of the vote on a promise to uphold \"conservative values and principles\".\n\nMs Fitch, pictured in white to the right of Mr Trump, led Mississippi's Women for Trump coalition in 2016\n\nAs a devoted Republican in a solidly Republican state, where Ms Fitch stood on abortion was taken as given, even if she didn't run on it.\n\nAcross the country, about 60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to data from the Pew Research Centre. But among Mississippi Republicans, nearly 70% believe abortion should illegal in all or most cases.\n\n\"You don't run in Mississippi, you don't run in rural conservative states and not want to see Roe v Wade overturned,\" said Mr Barbour, the Republican strategist. \"It's just ingrained\".\n\nThe abortion ban before the Supreme Court was passed by Mississippi's state legislature in 2018, two years before Ms Fitch took office as Attorney General. The law, which bans abortions outright after 15 weeks, was immediately challenged in court on behalf of Jackson Women's Health Organization, Mississippi's last remaining abortion clinic.\n\nA federal district court struck down the ban, saying it was unconstitutional. In 2019, an appeals court upheld this decision.\n\nBut in June 2020, five months into the job, Attorney General Fitch petitioned the US Supreme Court to review the 15-week ban. The court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, accepted and heard the case in December of last year.\n\nNow, she's known nationally as the lawyer expected to topple Roe v Wade.\n\nAt times, Ms Fitch has said her state is merely making an argument for the rule of law: asking the Supreme Court to turn over abortion policymaking to the states. But more often, she says the case is about women's empowerment.\n\nRoe v Wade, she has said, made women believe they had to pick: family or career, not both.\n\n\"The court in Roe pitted women against our children, and woman against woman,\" she wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.\n\nThe choice is misleading and paternalistic, argued Ms Fitch. It's a position seemingly drawn from her own life: a single mother who has ascended to the highest levels of state office, while remaining devoted to her children and grandchildren.\n\n\"Being a single mom has sort of dominated her thought process, and her life experience,\" Mr Dent said. \"I think that's one of the reasons she feels so strongly about this\".\n\nIn a world without Roe v Wade, Ms Fitch said during a television interview last year, \"babies will be saved\" and mothers \"get a chance to really redirect their lives. They have all these new and different opportunities that they didn't have 50 years ago\".\n\nMs Fitch has said women will be empowered by abortion bans\n\nPro-choice activists have accused Ms Fitch of using feminist language to cover over an inherently anti-feminist policy.\n\nHer arguments lean \"heavily into false claims that they are 'empowering women'\", said Dina Montemarano, research director for NARAL Pro-Choice America. This tactic, Ms Montemarano said, is often used by anti-abortion activists to assert control over women's bodies and violate their fundamental freedoms.\n\nIn an opening brief submitted to the Supreme Court, Ms Fitch wrote of \"sweeping policy advancements [which] now promote women's full pursuit of both career and family\".\n\nBut in a counter-argument submitted to the Supreme Court, 154 economists warned that this optimism was \"premature and false\".\n\n\"Mississippi's celebration of parental leave policies is particularly bizarre, as the United States is one of only two countries without a national paid maternity leave policy,\" the economists wrote.\n\nMississippi, specifically, has no state laws mandating paid family leave. It is the poorest state in the nation and has the highest rates of both infant mortality and child poverty.\n\nBut if Roe is indeed thrown out, Ms Fitch will return to Mississippi a conservative hero.\n\n\"I'm 99% sure she will run for attorney general again,\" Mr Dent said. \"And based on how the last three years have gone, it's hard for me to imagine she'll have any Republican opposition this time\".\n\nThere are also early rumblings that she may one day run for governor. She has not yet commented on this speculation.\n\nIf she wins, Ms Fitch would be the first female governor in Mississippi's history.", "The constituency of Tiverton and Honiton stretches from the coast to Exmoor\n\nStretching from the south coast of Devon up to Exmoor, the constituency of Tiverton and Honiton has been held by the Conservatives since it was created in 1997.\n\nBut when long-standing MP Neil Parish resigned last month after watching pornography in the House of Commons chamber a by-election was prompted.\n\nDespite Labour coming second in 2019, the Lib Dems have said they are the main challenger.\n\nMum Emily Frizzel said she was struggling with rising costs\n\nWith soaring inflation and rising energy costs, there are plenty of issues for voters to have their say on.\n\nAt Seaton Coffee and Tots, I spoke to families about how they are coping and whether soaring inflation and rising energy costs would be a deciding factor on Thursday.\n\nEmily Frizzel said: \"Our wages and universal credit aren't coming up as much as everything else is. It is just a general struggle.\"\n\nShe said she had seen the cost of baby formula go up the most.\n\nAmy Dare added: \"They are not thinking about us down here.\"\n\nDeacon Becky Lovatt, of Seaton Methodist Church, said: \"The difference between how much people are being paid and what they are expected to pay for gas and electricity and particularly fuel to get to work places is going to be a key factor.\"\n\nDevon NFU chairman Richard Tucker said more and more people were talking about the by-election\n\nThis is a largely rural constituency which is why the parties in this by-election have been fighting hard to win the confidence of farmers.\n\nBut with farmers facing challenges on multiple fronts - winning them over will not be easy.\n\nBrexit has paved the way for new trade deals with rival meat producers like Australia.\n\nAnd sweeping changes to subsidies are compounding the pressures of labour shortages and rising costs.\n\nRichard Tucker, Devon National Farmers Union charir, said: \"I've never actually known a by-election or people get so into it really. More and more people are chatting about it.\n\n\"They are actually asking the same questions I've been asking myself - what's going to be put on the table? Where are we going to go? Where are we going to stand in the future? And who is going to represent us best?\"\n\nAt the 2019 general election, the Conservatives secured a majority of more than 24,000 and more than 60% of the vote.\n\nOn Thursday, eight candidates will go to the polls. They are:\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Nick Barton's salary has been increased to £595,000\n\nThe chief executive of Birmingham Airport's pay has risen by 49% pay rise, it has emerged, angering trade unions.\n\nNick Barton's annual wage increased from £399,000 to £595,000 last year.\n\nIt came after large-scale job cuts in the sector in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nJane Nellist, president of Coventry Trade Union Council, said the pay was \"absolutely disgraceful\" but airport board member John McNicholas said it was \"paying the appropriate rate\".\n\nStaff shortages, among security staff in particular, have caused major issues for travellers at Birmingham Airport which received £12.8m of public money from the government to support it during the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt also laid off 43% of its staff during the period, when the business was forced to virtually shut down. It has been seeking to fill gaps as demand for travel returns.\n\nTrade unionist Jane Nellist said the pay rise would anger \"millions of workers\"\n\nMs Nellist said Mr Barton's pay rise would make \"millions of workers angry\" and was \"yet another example of workers being told to tighten their belts, while the fat cats take the cream\".\n\nShe said with inflation rising, workers were equally in need of better pay, adding: \"If they want a pay rise it should be equal - we should all get a pay rise.\"\n\nNews of the pay rise has emerged as rail and other workers have been taking strike action in a bid to secure better deals.\n\nThe airport is part-owned by a number of councils in the region, including Coventry City Council, and Ms Nellist said it was wrong to pay the airport chief executive more at a time when local authorities were being forced to make cuts.\n\nHolidaymakers have been facing long queues at Birmingham Airport\n\nBirmingham Airport said it hoped to be back to full staffing levels by August, and explained: \"We pay our senior management in line with market rates.\"\n\nHeathrow's chief executive received an annual salary increase of 85% to almost £1.5m a year in 2021, and the boss at Manchester Airport Group had a pay rise of 25% to £2.5m.\n\nMr McNicholas, who also sits on Coventry City Council, described Mr Barton as \"a very dynamic person, full of great ideas\" and as \"someone absolutely perfect for Birmingham Airport\".\n\nHe said: \"It is paying the appropriate rate and while it may seem high for many, many people because of the current circumstance, we've also got to look to the future and ensure we have the right person in the post.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said: \"The aviation industry is responsible for making sure they have enough staff to meet demand, and we have been clear that they must step up recruitment to make sure disruption is kept to a minimum.\"\n\nDo you work at an airport? Do you and your family have a holiday coming up? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun-carrying rights, in its most important judgement on guns in over a decade.\n\nIt expands gun rights amid a fierce national debate over the issue.\n\nThe decision, which jeopardises similar regulations in states like California and New Jersey, is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.\n\nAbout a quarter of Americans live in states that could be affected if their own gun restrictions are challenged.\n\nThe court found that a New York law requiring residents to prove \"proper cause\" - or a good reason - to carry concealed firearms in public violates the US Constitution.\n\nJustice Clarence Thomas, writing on behalf of the six conservative judges who make up the court's majority, ruled that Americans have a right to carry \"commonly used\" firearms in public for personal defence.\n\nThe three liberal justices - Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer - dissented, meaning they disagreed with the majority opinion.\n\nThe court's decision clears the way for legal challenges to similar restrictions in Maryland, California, New Jersey, Hawaii and Massachusetts.\n\nIt comes amid political divisions over how to address gun violence, which were deepened by high-profile shootings at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, last month.\n\nThursday's ruling came as new legislation that would tighten access to firearms passed the US Senate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment a Republican pulls out guns during a Congress debate on new gun legislation\n\nPresident Joe Biden said he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the Supreme Court's decision, which he said \"contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should trouble us all\".\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would review other ways to restrict gun access, such as by tightening the application process for buying firearms and looking at bans at certain locations.\n\n\"We cannot allow New York to become the wild, wild west,\" he added.\n\nThe gun lobby had helped back plaintiffs in the case, Robert Nash and Brandon Koch - two New Yorkers who had applied for a concealed carry permit but were denied them, despite having licences for recreational gun ownership.\n\nMore than 390m guns are owned by civilians in the US. In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died from firearms-related injuries including homicides and suicides.\n\nThe Supreme Court decision continues a steady pattern of rulings that have expanded gun rights, holding that the right to carry firearms both at home and in public is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.\n\nEven in the shadow of the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court stood by a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nThe last landmark gun decision issued by the court was in 2010, which upheld individual gun-ownership rights within homes on a national basis.\n\nAs these court precedents pile up, it will be increasingly difficult for future Supreme Court justices to change course and interpret the Constitution as permitting broader gun restrictions.\n\nIn his dissent, Justice Breyer noted that gun violence has taken a significant number of lives in the US this year.\n\n\"Since the start of this year alone, there have already been 277 reported mass shootings - an average of more than one per day,\" he said.\n\nThe Senate meanwhile passed the first national gun control bill in nearly three decades on Thursday night by 65-33.\n\nThe new law includes measures such as expanding background checks for gun buyers under-21 and offering funding to states that have emergency programmes in place to seize guns from people deemed dangerous by a judge.\n\nThe bill will next have to clear the US House of Representatives before going to President Biden's desk for his signature.", "The mural was stolen in the early hours of 26 January 2019 and recovered 18 months later\n\nThree years after an artwork by graffiti artist Banksy was stolen from a door at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, eight people have been convicted of theft or handling stolen goods.\n\nThe mural \"sad girl\" was stencilled as a tribute to the 90 people murdered in a 2015 terror attack on the venue.\n\nA hooded gang removed it from an emergency door with angle grinders in January 2019.\n\nIt was found 18 months later in an attic at a rural farmhouse in Italy.\n\nThe mural was painted on a door that leads into an alley used as an escape route by many of the spectators who had been watching a concert by US band Eagles of Death Metal on the night of the 2015 attack.\n\nThe gang drove a white van with obscured licence plates into the alley, cut away the door and drove it away.\n\nSome of the police who took part in the investigation had responded to the attack on the Bataclan on 13 November.\n\nAcross Paris, 14 men are on trial, accused of taking part in a night of militant Islamist attacks on Paris that night, including at the Bataclan. The trial is due to end next week.\n\nThe artwork was painted on an emergency door in a side street\n\nSeven French men and an Italian, aged 31 to 58, were given jail terms ranging from a few months to four years - although parts of the sentence will be served wearing electronic tags rather than in prison.\n\nA trio in their thirties admitted to the theft. A fourth man man, described as a 41-year-old millionaire lottery-winner with a passion for street art, was convicted of helping them conceal the door in the south of France. The court rejected allegations that Mehdi Meftah was the mastermind behind the theft.\n\nAnother three men were found guilty of transporting the door and a 58-year-old hotel owner in Italy was given a six-month suspended sentence. The Banksy work was eventually moved from his hotel on the Adriatic coast to a farm 15km (nine miles) inland.\n\nThe crime provoked outrage, and Bataclan staff told the trial that the artwork had been a symbol of contemplation for Parisians and the rest of the world.\n\nBanksy's works have always been much sought-after, and \"sad girl\" was one of a number attributed to him that appeared around Paris in June 2018.\n• None Paris attacks: Who were the victims?", "We’re about to close the page - but before we go let’s take a look at what’s been happening in the aftermath of the two Tory by-election defeats.\n\nBoris Johnson says he’ll “listen and learn” and get on with the job to “continue with the work that we're doing to help people in the short term with the pressures they're facing”.\n\nThe PM's defended his record saying his government has “not only achieved remarkable things” but will “continue to do some great things for the people of this country”.\n\nHe also told a press conference in Rwanda that Oliver Dowden, who quit as Conservative Party co-chairman following the by-election results, \"did a lot of good work\".\n\nBut former Tory leader Michael Howard says Johnson should resign for the good of the Tory Party and believes the country would be better off under new leadership.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Keir Stamer reacted to his party’s victory in Wakefield saying they \"absolutely smashed it\".\n\nHe says the result was a “judgement\" on the Tory party and Johnson, adding \"they are out of touch and out of ideas\".\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats marked their big win in Tiverton and Honiton by literally showing Johnson the door.\n\nThey used the prop with the words \"It's time to show Boris the door\" emblazoned across it to emphasise what they say people on the streets of east Devon have been telling them.\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey (right) celebrates with Richard Foord, the newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton Image caption: Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey (right) celebrates with Richard Foord, the newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton", "Saltivka, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, has been relentlessly bombarded by the Russians. Among the ruins, a few residents are trying to survive.\n\nA resident of Saltivka building 54 looks down from his balcony at a shell crater beneath. \"This is the Russian world,\" he said\n\nWhen Russian shells began raining down on Saltivka in February, life in the neighbourhood's numbered apartment blocks became a lottery - one block hit, the next spared. Inside each building, the residents of each apartment survived by their own luck - one apartment turned to ash, the next untouched.\n\nAs the bombardment of Kharkiv went on - March, April, May, June - fewer and fewer buildings in Saltivka were spared. Now the neighbourhood is a ghost town. Everywhere you look, deathly black burn marks rise up from the windows where shells hit. There are multi-storey gashes in the sides of the buildings. There are neat circular holes in the roofs where shells punched through but didn't detonate. There are personal possessions strewn over the pathways between the buildings - ejected from the flats above with terrible force. And the shells are still falling.\n\nThe remains of what was an apartment block in Saltivka. Everywhere you look, there is destruction\n\nWhen they land they shake the ground and send a boom bouncing off the buildings and echoing across the empty green spaces and playgrounds. The different shells and rockets have distinctive sounds and leave distinctive pieces of shrapnel that locals have become adept at recognising. They include remnants of widely banned cluster munitions and unguided rockets. None of the weapons are precisely targeted, so nowhere in the neighbourhood is safe.\n\nWhen there is no shelling, Saltivka falls silent. \"Saltivka is like Chernobyl now,\" said Serhiy Khrystych, 44, as he washed his face with water from a plastic bottle, in building 80. \"Of course there was the radiation in Chernobyl, but it was not destroyed. We do not have the radiation but everything here is destroyed,\" he said. \"It is impossible to live.\"\n\nAll around Saltivka, burn marks rise up from the windows where fires raged. Nearly every building has been hit\n\nYet there are people living here, eking out an existence in buildings with no gas or water, in some places just one or two residents in a block of 60 or more flats. The electricity has been switched back on in some buildings in the past week, and a few people have returned from the metro stations or other shelters. But it is still a tiny fraction of Saltivka's pre-war population.\n\nAt its height, the neighbourhood - a Soviet era development for the city's industrial workers and their families - was home to somewhere between 500,000 and 800,000 people. It was full of family life.\n\n\"It was a beautiful area, there was a beautiful park and there was light in the park, and benches and a fountain,\" said Tamara Koneva, a 70-year-old pensioner living on the ground floor of a half-destroyed building. \"Now there is nothing left,\" she said.\n\nTamara sits in her bedroom in her half-destroyed building. “It was a beautiful here,\" she said. \"Now there is nothing left\"\n\nTamara's husband died in March, a month after the invasion. \"Because of the stress,\" she said. So she is mostly alone in their apartment, and nearly alone in the building. \"I miss him,\" she said. \"I don't even have the desire to go outside.\"\n\nThere is one other person in Tamara's part of the building - a 53-year-old car mechanic called Valeriy Ivanovych, who has lived here for 20 years. His flat has been spared, so far, save for small pieces of shrapnel that broke his windows and punctured his washing machine, kitchen cupboard and bedroom wall like bullets.\n\n\"Barely anybody lives in this building anymore, there is only one couple, a man, a woman and me,\" Valeriy said. \"People sometimes come to collect belongings but they don't stay.\"\n\nValeriy Ivanovych looks out from his apartment window. Only two people are left among the 18 apartments in this side of the building\n\nThe flats on Tamara and Valeriy's side of the stairwell were relatively undamaged, but a shell hit the other side directly and the apartment opposite Valeriy's was only ash, collapsed concrete and charred possessions.\n\n\"Maybe the building will have to be destroyed, because the second part of it is destroyed and the third part is very much destroyed,\" Valeriy said.\n\nHe has no work now and nowhere else to go. He shrugged. \"This is my home, I have lived here all my life,\" he said, staring out his kitchen window over the trees.\n\n\"It will be a great sadness if all these houses are destroyed because I am very used to this place.\"\n\nThe view from a destroyed Saltivka apartment. Many have been turned to little more than ash\n\nWith no utilities available in their apartments, some of the residents still living in Saltivka have created makeshift outdoor kitchens where they cook food and sit together for company. Once a day, volunteers from the food charity World Central Kitchen make their way around the neighbourhood and hand out meals in styrofoam boxes.\n\n\"Saltivka is a desert now,\" said Leon Petrosyan, a 50-year-old engineer who was carefully navigating a beaten-up black Volga around shell craters and debris, in order to hand out the food. \"The people who are left here have nowhere else to go,\" he said. \"They are trapped.\"\n\nFood delivery volunteer Leon Petrosyan smokes a cigarette. \"The people here have nowhere else to go,\" he said. \"They are trapped\"\n\nLeon stopped for a break and lit a cigarette. The food deliveries are a lifeline for the few residents in Saltivka. There are no shops open here now and for many it is the only meal they eat each day.\n\nSerhiy Zhuravliov, a 51-year-old, lifelong Saltivka resident who was helping deliver the food, said he had stayed in the neighbourhood throughout the invasion and the worst of fighting nearby, when Ukrainian troops were stationed in the residential buildings and the frontline was on the doorstep.\n\n\"At first we felt fear. Later, we got used to the sound of the shelling,\" he said. \"Now we can't go to sleep without it.\"\n\nLarisa looks out from her hallway on the 16th floor. She is worried the building will collapse\n\nLooming over Leon and Serhiy as they smoked was a 16-storey tower gouged and burned by direct hits. Up on the 16th floor, Larisa Enina looked out carefully from her hallway on to the high open air, through a gap where part of the wall used to be.\n\nThere were about 15 people left in the 143-apartment building, Larisa said. The apartment she shares with her husband and daughter was relatively undamaged, save for shrapnel holes in the windows. \"The apartment near ours burned down completely and ours remained intact,\" she said. \"It is a miracle.\"\n\nBut Larisa was worried about something else. There were big cracks in the walls on the 11th floor, she said, and she thought the building could collapse. \"It is a risk even to stand on the balcony now,\" she said.\n\nSaltivka's buildings are marked by distinctive holes from rockets and shells. Some still contain unexploded ordnance\n\nIt's also a risk to stand below. The shell hits dislodge slabs of concrete the size of cars from the top floors that slam into the pavements below with terrifying force. If you look up from the ground, you can see slabs that have been loosened but not fallen, and they sit precariously above the remaining residents.\n\nDirectly outside the entrance to one building, a massive slab had gone through four feet of pavement and earth and smashed a thick water pipe below. Roman Grynchenko, a 48-year-old car mechanic who has lived in Saltivka for 20 years, was stepping around the water-filled crater as he went in and out of the building.\n\nRoman Grynchenko's flat survived the shelling so far. Three floors above him are completely destroyed\n\nRoman eats one free meal a day now and, like most people here, gets by on government assistance - £55 per month for him, £55 for his wife, and £83 for their daughter.\n\n\"I've been living here for 20 years,\" Roman said. \"Saltivka was a peaceful district ...\"\n\nA deafening crack cut him off - the first of three shells landing nearby.\n\n\"Now there is a war,\" he said. \"You hear explosions.\"\n\nThe concrete stairwell two floors above Roman's apartment, smashed by a direct hit on the roof\n\nThe Russians attempted to seize Kharkiv in the early days of the invasion and Saltivka bore the brunt of the assault. The invaders were eventually pushed back, and the frontline now sits about 12 miles from the city centre. But Saltivka remains well within Russian artillery range, a reality made impossible to ignore by the daily shelling.\n\nAt the edge of the neighbourhood, there are still trenches where the Ukrainians dug in for the defence of the city, and chewed curbstones where their tanks mounted the pavements. They used the residential buildings for rest and for sniper positions, residents said - turning the neighbourhood into a target.\n\nMulti-storey gashes have been torn in the apartment buildings around Saltivka. They will have to be destroyed\n\nFew residents seemed to begrudge their presence. The soldiers went from building to building at the beginning asking those with children to evacuate, said Claudia Chubata, a 65-year-old resident of 33 years.\n\n\"They are our soldiers,\" she said. \"They needed to do something here for the war and they needed somewhere to rest.\"\n\nBut Kharkiv is just 20 miles from the Russian border, a traditionally Russian-leaning, Russian-speaking city, and there are pockets of sympathy towards the invaders.\n\n\"Where there is no Ukrainian military, the Russians do not shoot,\" said Boris Rustenko, a 63-year-old glass miller, born in the Soviet Union, whose building was badly damaged and burned.\n\n\"If Russia had not attacked Ukraine, Ukraine would have attacked Russia, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk,\" Boris said. \"It is very simple, Russia is just ahead.\"\n\nBoris Rustenko rests his foot on rocket shrapnel in his building. “Ukraine would have attacked Russia,\" he said. \"Russia is just ahead”\n\nBoris, like many residents of Saltivka, has relatives in Russia. In cities like Kharkiv, the Russian-backed violence that began in 2014 and the recent invasion have created smaller conflicts among family and friends.\n\n\"This is Russia, we were brothers,\" said Oleksiy, a 69-year-old builder, who didn't want to give his last name. \"We don't understand why they invaded. We have relatives there, and now what?\"\n\nRussia alone was not to blame, Oleksiy thought. The West should \"stop giving Ukraine weapons\", he said, because it was only prolonging the war.\n\nSaltivka residents collect free meals delivered once a day by a food charity. For many, it is their one meal a day now\n\nAs Oleksiy was talking, another resident standing next to him started to cry. \"We were so happy to have flats here,\" said Halyna, a 62-year-old pensioner. Her windows, directly above where she stood, were smashed. \"We were told to replace them ourselves,\" she said. The repairs would cost five times her monthly pension.\n\nLess than 10 miles away from where Halyna stood was the frontline. There are fears that Russian troops might return to Kharkiv. Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said on Sunday that Russia was once again \"trying to make Kharkiv a frontline city\".\n\nOutside Halyna's building, a few neighbours from buildings nearby were coming up to collect their daily free meal from a bench. It was late afternoon. Halyna looked on, a tear still under her eye.\n\n\"How many have been killed now?\" she said, shaking her head.\n\n\"And just boys, 18 years old. They had only just begun to live.\"", "US government lawyers threatened to quit en masse as then-President Donald Trump hounded them almost daily to help overturn his 2020 election defeat, a congressional inquiry has heard.\n\nJustice department officials said they told Mr Trump there was zero evidence for his claims of mass voter fraud.\n\nThe attorneys also testified that the president's plan to reverse his loss in key states was \"a murder-suicide pact\".\n\nThe panel is investigating last year's US Capitol riot as an attempted coup.\n\nThe House of Representatives select committee is seeking to build a case that Mr Trump's efforts to stay in power in the lead-up to the violent raid by a horde of his supporters on Congress on 6 January 2021 amounted to illegal conduct.\n\nMr Trump, a Republican, has described the inquiry as a \"kangaroo court\" designed to distract Americans from the \"disaster\" of Democratic-led governance and spiralling inflation ahead of November's mid-term elections.\n\nWith President Joe Biden's popularity at an all-time low, Mr Trump has been indicating he may run for president again in 2024.\n\nThursday's public hearing, the fifth so far, focused on a pressure campaign waged by Mr Trump against the Department of Justice - the federal agency that enforces US law and is supposed to be independent from the White House.\n\nFormer acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said Mr Trump had reached out to him \"virtually every day\" before the attack on the Capitol, where lawmakers were assembled to certify Mr Biden's election win.\n\nAccording to Mr Rosen, Mr Trump asked that the justice department issue a statement calling the election results into question, adding \"leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen\".\n\nMr Rosen said he refused. \"We did not think they were appropriate based on the facts or the law,\" he told the committee.\n\nFormer acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified that he had knocked down Mr Trump's \"arsenal of [voter fraud] allegations\" one by one in a 90-minute conversation in December 2020.\n\nCommittee member Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, noted that Trump administration officials had at one point investigated a bogus claim that Italian satellites switched votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\n\"This is one of the best examples of the lengths to which President Trump would go to stay in power, scouring the internet to support his conspiracy theories,\" he said.\n\nThe session heard that at least five allies of Mr Trump, who had supported his attempts to overturn the election, had asked for presidential pardons to protect them from any future prosecutions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Five key moments from the US Capitol riot hearing\n\nThe session also heard of an explosive Oval Office showdown on the night of 3 January 2021 between Mr Trump and three top justice department officials.\n\nMr Trump outlined a plan during the meeting to replace Mr Rosen with a loyalist named Jeffrey Clark, an environmental lawyer, who had no relevant experience to run the department, the committee heard.\n\nOn official headed paper, Mr Clark had drafted a memo advising lawmakers in states that Mr Trump narrowly lost on how to throw out their election results.\n\nPat Cipollone, then the White House counsel, had warned the letter would be \"a murder-suicide pact\", Mr Donoghue said.\n\nHe testified that he, Mr Rosen and another senior official, Steven Engel, warned the president there would be a mass exodus from the justice department if he installed Mr Clark. Mr Trump ultimately backed off the plan.\n\nThe committee said Mr Clark had refused to answer its questions, invoking his right not to self-incriminate. Thursday's hearing was held shortly after it was reported that the FBI had raided Mr Clark's home.\n\nThe BBC's Tara McKelvey, who was at the hearing, said the search of Mr Clark's property raises the possibility of criminal charges over the alleged election plot, including against the former president himself.\n\nThursday's session also heard claims that six congressional Republicans had requested pre-emptive presidential pardons from Mr Trump in case they were prosecuted after he left office for having backed his challenge to the election results.\n\nEx-White House aides named the lawmakers as Mo Brooks of Alabama, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona. None of them received pardons.\n\nTwo more open hearings will take place next month before the committee prepares a report on the Capitol attacks.\n\nThe panel cannot bring charges against the former president, but is expected to refer its findings to the justice department.", "\"We will not let Russia's war stop us,\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the crowd\n\nThe Glastonbury Festival has opened with a video message from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nIn a pre-taped message, Mr Zelensky asked for support during the ongoing Russian invasion.\n\n\"We will not let Russia's war stop us,\" he told the crowd at The Other Stage before the Libertines began their set.\n\n\"That is why we turn to you for support. I ask you to share this video with everyone whose freedom is under attack.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe asked festival-goes to \"help Ukrainians who are forced to flee their homes\" by putting \"pressure on politicians\" around the world.\n\n\"The more people who join us in defending freedom and the truth, the sooner Russia's war will end,\" he said.\n\nLibertines singer and guitarist Pete Doherty later led the audience in a chant of Zelensky's name, over the riff to The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army.\n\n\"The Zelensky thing was quite surreal, I won't lie,\" said his bandmate Carl Barat after they came off stage. \"It's a strange collision, but it made sense.\"\n\nThe Libertines attracted an audience of thousands to their mid-morning set, which ushered in Glastonbury's first full day of music. They launched straight into Up The Bracket, before reeling off tracks like Vertigo, The Ha Ha Wall and Gunga Din.\n\nThe Libertines played songs including Vertigo, Up The Bracket and The Ha Ha Wall\n\nBy the time they played Can't Stand Me Now and What Became of the Likely Lads, fans were crowdsurfing and letting off fireworks.\n\n\"That was pretty mind-blowing,\" said Barat. \"I feel a little bit stage struck. It was great just to see all those people, and to be the first on as well.\n\n\"I first came here when I was one year old and I've been here ever since, through various rights of passage - jumping over the fence with a fiver in your boots, to coming with a band and playing the Pyramid Stage, so Glastonbury's always had a special place in my heart.\"\n\nDoherty led the audience in a chant of Zelensky's name, over the riff to The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army\n\nThe Libertines were the first act to play one of the festival's main stages since 2019, following two years of Covid-related cancellations.\n\nThe virus is still having an effect this year, however, with The Chemical Brothers pulling out because Tom Rowlands is ill.\n\nThe dance duo's withdrawal on Friday came just three days after they were announced as late additions to DJ in the Arcadia area.\n\n\"We were so excited to be back in the fields and to celebrate the return of the festival,\" they said in a statement on Friday. \"We were hoping that more days rest would allow Tom to recover from Covid this hasn't so far been the case.\"\n\nMusic fans have returned to Glastonbury for the first time since 2019\n\nEarlier this week, The Damned also pulled out of their headline slot on the Avalon Stage because of Covid.\n\nElsewhere, Blossoms were joined by Mel C during their set on Friday for a performance of Spice Up Your Life.\n\nOther acts on the bill on Friday include Sam Fender, Phoebe Bridgers and main stage headliner Billie Eilish.\n\nRock group Wolf Alice made a last-minute dash to the festival after their flight from Los Angeles got cancelled on Wednesday night.\n\nAfter appealing to fans for the loan of a private jet, they finally made it to London by catching a connecting flight from Seattle.\n\nSeveral Ukrainian artists are expected to play the festival this year, including Kalush Orchestra, who won this year's Eurovision Song Contest in May.", "Rikki Neave was just six years old when he was murdered and his body found near his home on the Welland estate\n\nThe killer of a six-year-old schoolboy who evaded justice for nearly three decades has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years.\n\nRikki Neave's naked body was found posed in a star shape near his Peterborough home the day after he disappeared in November 1994. He had been strangled.\n\nIn April, James Watson, now 41 but 13 at the time, was convicted of murder.\n\nHe has been given a life sentence at the Old Bailey in London.\n\nWatson was the second person to stand trial for Rikki's murder, after the boy's mother Ruth Neave was cleared by a jury in 1996.\n\nThe judge, Mrs Justice McGowan, said the 15-year minimum prison term reflected that Watson was a child when he killed Rikki.\n\nWatson showed no emotion as he was sentenced by Mrs Justice McGowan\n\nWatson lured his victim to woods and jurors were told he strangled him with a ligature or anorak collar to fulfil a \"morbid fantasy\".\n\nSentencing the killer, who showed no emotion, the judge said: \"Rikki was a child too willing to trust and engage with strangers.\n\n\"He never had the chance to be happy and lead a normal and fulfilling life. That opportunity was denied to him by his murder.\"\n\nWatson was convicted after a cold case investigation opened in 2015, during which adhesive tapings from his clothes were examined and a DNA match to him were made.\n\nHe claimed he may have lifted Rikki to help him see over a fence, but police found archive TV footage showing there was no fence at the time.\n\nRikki Neave left for school but never came home. Decades on his killer has been jailed.\n\nWatson had been spoken to as a witness in the original investigation after he was reported as being seen with Rikki.\n\nRikki's last meal of Weetabix fixed his time of death at about midday, which meant the boy was killed shortly after being seen with Watson.\n\nA police officer lays flowers in tribute to Rikki in 1994\n\nDuring sentencing, the judge said the \"bizarre stripping and positioning of the body\" in woodland near Rikki's home on the Welland estate \"was undoubtedly done as a manifestation of that sexual interest\".\n\nBut Mrs Justice McGowan and the defence team said there was no evidence of sexual activity.\n\nJennifer Dempster QC, counsel for Watson, said her client's most substantial mitigation was his age at the time.\n\nShe said there were \"particularly sensitive matters\" in Watson's life - not aired during the trial - which made him vulnerable and she cited him being taken into care in 1993 after being assaulted by his father.\n\nMs Dempster said his education and childhood was \"affected by being let down by a variety of adults in his life who ought not to have done so\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Neave, Rikki's mother, said her son \"meant the world\" to her\n\nWhile she was cleared of killing her son, Ms Neave was jailed for seven years for child cruelty - a charge she has subsequently claimed to have been \"bullied\" into admitting.\n\nSpeaking after Watson's conviction for a BBC documentary, to be broadcast on Friday, Ms Neave said she wanted to clear her name over the cruelty conviction.\n\nShe said she was also seeking an apology from Cambridgeshire Police over the original investigation which had led to \"everybody thinking I murdered my son\".\n\nRikki with his father Trevor Harvey, and Ruth Neave pictured in 1995\n\nRikki's biological father, Trevor Harvey, died nine years ago and his sisters, Sandra Chestney and Alison Harvey, in a statement issued through police, said \"the pain of losing Rikki never left him\".\n\nRebecca Maria Harvey, Rikki's elder sister who referred to him as Rikki Lea Harvey, broke down as she addressed the court during her victim impact statement, in which she said: \"Although I was the eldest, it wasn't like that as he would look after me.\n\n\"I still wake up every day thinking it was a nightmare. I never had a brother to grow up with.\"\n\nAddressing Watson, but not using his name, she said: \"After all these years of living your life... you finally get your comeuppance and Rikki Lea Harvey finally gets justice.\"\n\nAfter the discovery of Rikki's body in Peterborough in 1994, his mother was found not guilty of his murder at Northampton Crown Court in 1996\n\nFormer Assistant Chief Constable Paul Fullwood said officers had \"made a promise that we would find the person responsible for Rikki's death and it's a promise we have kept\".\n\n\"Rikki was a kind and cheeky chap who was cruelly taken under the most horrendous of circumstances.\n\n\"His memory lives on through his family, who have to deal with his loss for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"But now they finally have answers, they know what happened and they know who took Rikki from them, and I really hope this gives them some peace.\"\n\nHe said mistakes had been made and that police initially \"charged the wrong person\" in Ms Neave, but he denied that officers missed an opportunity to charge Watson during the original investigation.\n\n\"For years Watson had hidden away,\" he said. \"Knowing he was responsible for Rikki's murder and thinking he had gotten away with it, but that is no longer the case.\"\n\nYou can watch the interview with Ruth Neave as part of the BBC's The Big Cases series, available on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of Netflix's most popular series, Bridgerton, launched its second series last month\n\nNetflix has announced another round of job cuts as it grapples with slowing growth and increased competition.\n\nThe streaming giant said it was cutting 300 more jobs - roughly 4% of its workforce - mostly in the US, after axing 150 people in May.\n\nThe moves come after the company reported its first subscriber loss in more than a decade in April.\n\nThe firm is exploring an ad-supported service and cracking down on password sharing as it tries to boost growth.\n\n\"While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth,\" Netflix said in a statement on Thursday, adding that it was continuing to hire in other areas.\n\nWhile Netflix has 220 million subscribers globally and remains the clear leader in the streaming market, it has faced fierce competition in recent years with the launch of rival platforms such as Disney Plus and Amazon's Prime Video.\n\nThe company also recently embarked on a series of price increases in the US, UK and elsewhere, which have contributed to its subscriber losses.\n\nThe firm has said it expects its subscriber count to fall by another two million in the three months to July, after dropping by 200,000 earlier this year.\n\nSurveys by Kantar research firm consistently identify saving money as the number one reason for cancelling streaming services - even in the US, where overall streaming subscriptions have held steady, unlike the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, Ted Sarandos, the company's co-chief executive, told an audience at a conference in Cannes on Thursday that Netflix was in talks with many companies as it explores new advertising partnerships to appeal to price-sensitive audiences.\n\n\"We're not adding ads to Netflix as you know it today. We're adding an ad tier for folks who say 'Hey, I want a lower price and I'll watch ads',\" Mr Sarandos said at Cannes Lions.\n\nThe job cuts at Netflix come amid rising worries in the US that the labour market boom the country has enjoyed since the pandemic is coming to an end.\n\nSigns of slowdown are particularly evident in the tech sector, where start-ups have cut nearly 27,000 workers since May - roughly double the number recorded in all of 2021, according to layoffs.fyi, which tracks publicly announced redundancies.\n\nFirms in the housing sector have also announced hundreds of cuts in recent weeks.\n\nThe head of America's central bank told members of Congress this week that its efforts to bring down rapidly rising prices by raising interest rates risk triggering a sustained economic slowdown, but were worth it to restore price stability.\n\n\"We're not trying to provoke, and don't think we will need to provoke a recession,\" Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said.\n\nBut he conceded in response to questioning, it's \"certainly a possibility\".", "Recent research has found health inequalities in the district, where life expectancy in some areas is ten years higher than others\n\nAs voters in Wakefield prepare to head to the polls on Thursday, the result will be watched closely from Westminster. BBC Yorkshire Political Editor James Vincent has looked into the sometimes surprising history of the seat once seen as a Labour stronghold and what the result could mean for the main parties and, more importantly, the people of the constituency.\n\nIn political writing they often talk about the power of repetition.\n\nThis is a very particular by-election - happening for a very particular reason - happening at a very particular time.\n\nAnd in this particular article, we'll start with why the 2019 election was such a shock.\n\nWakefield has, for most people's lifetimes, been a Labour city. Not since the Empire State Building was opened in New York 1931 had a Conservative MP been sent down to Westminster to represent this part of West Yorkshire.\n\nIn 1842 the first national trade union for miners was set up in Wakefield. Of course, looking back at the Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland's formation 180 years ago might not necessarily be that useful for guessing how people might vote in 2022. However, the National Coal Mining Museum is still tucked away in the bottom left corner of the Wakefield constituency. That heritage still means a great deal here.\n\nTo many, Wakefield was one of those places that would always vote Labour. I believe the phrase is \"red wall\". Although before 2019 no-one round here had ever heard, said or thought those words.\n\nWakefield was one of those constituencies that turned blue in 2019 and everyone sat up and noticed. But, if you look carefully, how big a shock was it?\n\nLooking even further back than 1931, the Conservatives had been very successful in Wakefield. They'd been the dominant party. And if you look at the 88 years between 1931 and 2019, when the city had a Labour MP, the Conservatives were not that far behind.\n\nIn the 50s, 60s and 70s Labour regularly had a 10,000-vote majority. But in the 1983 general election it was cut to just 360. The biggest majority Labour enjoyed in recent history was more than 14,000 in 1997.\n\nBut the Conservatives were always in second.\n\nA large area of Wakefield constituency is made up of rural areas\n\nI've talked about the city of Wakefield a lot here and most of the constituency's 69,000 voters do live there - but to the south west there is a big chunk of rural West Yorkshire.\n\nAdd to this some pretty tight majorities in the 2000s and, in Mary Creagh, a Labour MP who campaigned strongly against Brexit while her constituency voted strongly to leave. Her majority was just over 2,000 going into the general election of 2019. And the Conservatives knew they could take it.\n\nThese were just some of the particular reasons why it changed hands in 2019.\n\nThat December Imran Ahmad Khan became the new Conservative MP for Wakefield. He had been criticised for being \"parachuted' into the constituency so he turned up to one debate in full skydiving jumpsuit.\n\nIn April this year he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008. He was later jailed for 18 months.\n\nWhile his trial was being prepared people in Wakefield were essentially without anyone to speak up for them in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Conservative Party suspended him as their MP as soon as he was charged, but he remained an independent MP until he resigned his seat after his guilty verdict. He says he will appeal his conviction.\n\nIt's not often you have a by-election because the last person elected is in prison - but as I said at the start that's why we're here: a very particular reason.\n\nThere's also partygate, Boris Johnson's fine and the cost of living. The government finds itself in a particularly tricky position.\n\nThere has been an interesting game of expectation management from both the Conservatives and Labour. Two senior Conservatives told me they don't really have a chance of winning here - Labour are also playing down how well they'll do.\n\nBoth party's candidates have faced tricky times already. There was a row over Labour's selection process, with a number of local members walking out as Simon Lightwood was picked to stand.\n\nThe Conservative candidate Nadeem Ahmed has said people can still trust his party after what happened with the last MP. He told The Telegraph: \"We still trust GPs after Harold Shipman killed hundreds of people\".\n\nUnlike his boss in Downing Street, Mr Ahmed has recently lost a vote of no confidence. He was leader of the local Conservatives until last year - his colleagues decided they didn't want him any more.\n\nBecause of the very particular position voters find themselves in - how much do we read into the result?\n\nIf Labour win - but not by much - is that an open goal missed to punish the Conservatives? What will it say about Sir Keir Starmer's leadership? If the Conservatives win, what does that say about their support when their leader only has the backing of two-thirds of his own MPs? If they lose heavily, does that mean Boris Johnson's popularity as a vote winner up here is gone? Or will the party blame it on the previous MP?\n\nHow many votes will the other parties pick up from them as Labour and the Conservatives try and manage expectations?\n\nHow will the analysts look at this one? I'm afraid there are a lot of questions there. Skip forward to Friday 24th June if you want some of the answers.\n\nBut one problem will be solved; and it is the most important one.\n\nPeople in Wakefield will finally have an MP to make sure their voices are heard in Westminster at this very particular time.\n\nBelow is the full list of candidates for the Wakefield byelection (listed alphabetically by surname):", "A by-election deep in once-safe Conservative territory threatens to upend British politics. For the parties fighting it, the stakes are huge - but they're picking their battles in very different ways.\n\nIt's a hot summer morning in mid-Devon and Kayleigh Diggle stands in the bookshop she runs, feeling conflicted. The 32-year-old, who normally supports the Greens, is annoyed with the Conservative government and is considering a tactical vote for the Liberal Democrats. But the sheer relentlessness of the latter's campaign makes her recoil.\n\n\"It's their constant leafleting,\" says Kayleigh. She's sick, too, of looking at the party's Day-Glo yellow-and-black diamond-shaped posters (\"Winning here!\") everywhere she goes. \"It's very, very, over-the-top.\"\n\nVoters in Tiverton and Honiton aren't used to anyone having to fight quite this hard for their votes.\n\nSprawling from the fringes of Exmoor to a stretch of the Jurassic Coast, this cluster of villages and market towns was seen until recently as an extremely safe Conservative seat.\n\nThen erstwhile MP Neil Parish admitted watching pornography in Parliament after, by his own account, searching online for tractors.\n\nNow there's a by-election to replace him. Partygate, turmoil on the Tory benches and the cost of living crisis have made the 23 June vote a crucial test of the public's mood.\n\nAnd with another by-election taking place on the same day in the northern \"Red Wall\" battleground of Wakefield, Tiverton and Honiton has been tasked with delivering an interim verdict from the Tories' southern base on Boris Johnson's government.\n\nThe Lib Dems came third here in 2019, while the Conservative winning margin was a gargantuan 24,239. But having recently won a brace of safe Tory seats at by-elections in Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire, Lib Dem campaigners have poured into the seat.\n\nHowever, the Conservatives are also battling hard to hold on to what was theirs, albeit with a lower-key, tightly controlled strategy that couldn't be more different to the Lib Dems' electoral shock and awe.\n\nAnd despite talk of an informal alliance between opposition parties, Labour's candidate, who came second here in 2019, insists she hasn't given up the fight, either.\n\nOn Honiton's handsome Georgian High Street, Jubilee bunting flutters against the florists and tea rooms. It's here that the Lib Dems have set up one of their campaign headquarters in an empty shop unit.\n\nInside, a crudely sketched map on the wall shows where party volunteers have travelled from - Orkney, Carlisle, Kingston-upon-Hull. The party say that last weekend, 350 activists knocked on 14,000 doors.\n\nPiles of leaflets are carefully arranged into neat bundles by polling district. Canvassers are given issues specific to each area to discuss - river pollution in Axminster, for instance, or lack of dental services here in Honiton.\n\nIn charge of directing volunteers today is Chessie Flack, 24. What gives her a political identity, she says, is \"this perfect Lib Dem machine of a load of activists in socks and sandals, and they knock on every door in the constituency and they win the campaign\".\n\nBut no-one is under any illusions that overturning such a huge majority will be easy.\n\nIn a cafe across the street, the party's candidate Richard Foord empties a pile of miniature marshmallows into his hot chocolate and stirs. Bookmakers have named him the favourite to win but he knows he'll need all the energy he can summon.\n\n\"I think we can't entirely take at face value the bookies' odds as a predictor or a forecast of this election outcome,\" Foord says.\n\n\"We are absolutely working for every single vote but recognising that there's a mountain to climb, frankly.\"\n\nIn his Tattersall shirt, Foord, who lives locally, looks like he's stepped out of the pages of Country Life magazine. He has the military bearing, too, of a man who spent a decade in the Army, having risen to the rank of major. On the front page of a leaflet distributed by his campaign, he is pictured in uniform above the slogan: \"I served my country. Now I'm fighting for Devon.\"\n\nAlong with the Union Jack bunting in the window of the campaign office, this looks a lot like a pitch to the 58% of voters in the seat who voted to leave the EU.\n\nEarlier in the day I spotted Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on a train heading west, and asked if his party's \"Stop Brexit\" slogan under former leader Jo Swinson in 2019 damaged its chances here in 2022. He was emphatic that it didn't: \"Traditionally we've been strong in rural communities, Liberal Democrats have been strong in the West Country,\" said Sir Ed. \"So in many ways this is going back to where our roots are.\"\n\nIn a 1980s estate on the fringe of Tiverton, the sun blazes down on a near-empty car park outside a community centre. Half an hour ago, the phone in my pocket buzzed and a Tory press officer summoned me here to meet candidate Helen Hurford.\n\nPreviously, the Independent reported that she had been \"ordered not to speak to the media\". The Financial Times wrote that she \"was being shielded from the national media\" and the Times described her as \"somewhat elusive\".\n\nBut now a car pulls up and out steps Hurford, in a blue dress and trainers. With a broad smile, she flatly rejects the suggestion that she'd been kept hidden from the press corps.\n\n\"If you'd wanted to find me you could have just followed me around, knocking on the doors - you would have easily found me,\" she says.\n\nHer focus, she suggests, is on the residents of Tiverton and Honiton, not reporters: \"The people of the constituency come first.\"\n\nShe talks about the need to improve the area's road and rail network and support local farmers. Hurford emphasises, too, that she was born and brought up in Honiton and was the head teacher at a local school. \"She has probably taught a large part of the population around here,\" says local Conservative activist Luis Gordon.\n\nIt's not the only way in which the Conservative campaign appears to have been carefully managed. While Johnson has visited the constituency during the campaign, his appearances have been low-key and without advance fanfare.\n\nThe Lib Dems have accused the prime minister of \"hiding away\" - but equally, it makes sense for the Tories not to take risks. \"It's a small-C and big-C Conservative area,\" says Dr Hannah Bunting, a political scientist at the University of Exeter. \"It would really be remarkable if we saw the seat changing hands, even under the current conditions.\"\n\nPrivately, senior Lib Dem insiders concede that the Conservatives are taking this contest a lot more seriously than they did prior to their December 2021 defeat in North Shropshire.\n\nAnd while national issues might be a headache for the Tory campaign, it's not clear that the circumstances of Neil Parish's departure are having much of an impact. The former MP, a farmer himself, enjoyed a lot of goodwill among the agricultural community, according to Richard Tucker, chair of the local National Farmers Union.\n\n\"As farmers we felt we were well represented in this area,\" adds Tucker. At a recent NFU hustings, he says, \"all the candidates were pretty open in acknowledging that they weren't as agriculturally qualified as Neil. But they're all open to learning - well, they've got to be.\"\n\nIssues they'll need to have brushed up on include the government's new food strategy, the phasing out of taxpayer-funded direct payments to farmers under an EU scheme and the surging cost of fertiliser - all of huge concern to those working in agriculture locally.\n\nAmong those contesting the by-election are the United Kingdom Independence Party, which came second in the seat in 2015, and Reform UK, which shares some of its political DNA, having also once been led by Nigel Farage.\n\nThe Green Party, which attracted more than 2,000 votes here in 2019, is also standing again.\n\nAbove all, what seems to motivate Conservative activists is the suggestion that Labour - who are concentrating their fire on Wakefield - have agreed to give the Lib Dems a free run in Tiverton and Honiton. Both opposition parties strenuously deny there has been any kind of formal agreement.\n\nBut Chris Daw, a local councillor who has been campaigning for Hurford, is visibly riled at the notion of any stitch-up. \"It annoys me because I think, you know, let's just be honest with each other,\" she says. \"Not just put out hints. I believe they should be straight up front and say what they're doing.\"\n\nIf anyone could confirm or deny the existence of a pact, it's Liz Pole. This is the second time she has stood as Labour's candidate in Tiverton and Honiton. On the previous occasion, in 2019, she earned more than 11,000 votes while finishing second, albeit distantly.\n\nOver tea in a cafe in Cullompton, in the west of the constituency, Pole is emphatic that there has been no deal. \"That is definitely not part of my political DNA whatsoever,\" she says. \"I'm fighting to win this constituency, I want to see Labour thriving and growing.\"\n\nHowever, Pole, who runs a software business and has lived locally for 20 years, admits it's \"frustrating\" to read articles anointing the Lib Dems as the main challengers. Remarks by nearby Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw were interpreted as calling for a Lib Dem win, although Pole says his comments were \"taken a little bit out of context\".\n\nWhile Labour's big beasts, including party leader Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner, have flocked to Wakefield, it's harder to detect them in this part of Devon. Asked about this, Pole replies that she's expecting a visit from shadow food, farming and fisheries minister Daniel Zeichner - a frontbencher, certainly, but perhaps not one with the greatest box-office appeal.\n\nSo Pole is getting help from closer to home. She says Labour has activists in each of the seat's 24 wards and their campaign will go into each of them with her messages about affordable housing, the cost of living crisis and food strategy.\n\nRichard Clarke, 49, has travelled here from Cawsand, south-east Cornwall, to campaign for Pole. He says that on the doorstep, voters are receptive to what she's saying.\n\n\"People know we need a change of government - and people also know that needs to be a Labour government, because obviously you don't get Liberal governments, unless you're living in 1906,\" he says.\n\nThere's a sense among Labour's activists, however, that the by-election has come at an inopportune time for the party.\n\nBroader trends suggest traditional north-south political divides are being upended and in 2021's local elections Labour won district council seat in Honiton, its first in East Devon for more than two decades. Parish's resignation, some volunteers feel, interrupted that momentum.\n\n\"Voters are looking for a home, I think, and a by-election isn't necessarily the best time to find that,\" says retired academic Paul Furlong, 73, from Aveton Gifford in south Devon.\n\nNonetheless, Tiverton and Honiton has until Thursday to find a berth, temporary or otherwise.", "The prince was representing his mother, the Queen, at the event\n\nPrince Charles has told Commonwealth leaders he cannot describe \"the depths of his personal sorrow\" at the suffering caused by the slave trade.\n\nSpeaking in Rwanda, he said the potential of the family of nations could only be realised by acknowledging the wrongs that had \"shaped our past\".\n\nCharles added it was up to states to decide if they remained monarchies or became republics in the future.\n\nHe met Boris Johnson, amid reports he was critical of his Rwanda asylum plan.\n\nBut the prime minister refused to divulge what the pair discussed during their 15-minute meeting on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) - saying only they had a \"good old chinwag\".\n\nIn private remarks, the future king had reportedly described the UK government plan - which will see some asylum seekers sent to Rwanda to claim asylum - as \"appalling\".\n\nMr Johnson also refused to say whether the UK had already given Rwanda £120m for its participation in the scheme, but said: \"I'm confident that it will produce value for money.\"\n\nThe pair smiled for the cameras as they had morning tea together earlier on Friday\n\nThe two were representing the UK at the meeting of the 54 countries of the Commonwealth, of which the Queen is the head.\n\nThe summit of leaders was postponed in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid pandemic and has not been held for four years.\n\nIn his speech, Prince Charles - who is representing the Queen at the meeting - described how he was on a personal journey of discovery and was continuing to \"deepen my own understanding of slavery's enduring impact\".\n\nHe said he was aware the roots of the Commonwealth organisation \"run deep into the most painful period of our history\" and said acknowledging the wrongs of the past was a \"conversation whose time has come\".\n\n\"I cannot describe the depths of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many.\"\n\nThis was a significant speech by Prince Charles for two particular reasons.\n\nThe fact that he spoke about the slave trade in an African setting and to an audience which included many leaders from Africa and the Caribbean added to the resonance of his remarks.\n\nIt was, as he said, a \"conversation whose time had come\".\n\nThere was no apology as such for Britain's participation in the slave trade but there was an expression of personal sorrow.\n\nThen on the constitutional debate within some of those Commonwealth countries which still have the British monarch as head of state he acknowledged that this was a decision - to remain as monarchies or become republics - which was entirely for them.\n\nEven if they decided to transition to a new constitution (as Barbados did last November) this could be achieved with the Commonwealth framework without rancour.\n\nAll in all the impression was of a future British king and head of the Commonwealth keen to make his mark on two sensitive issues.\n\nAddressing the summit, Boris Johnson praised those behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine developed in the UK, saying 1.4 billion doses had been delivered to Commonwealth countries.\n\nHe said the pandemic, as well as \"catastrophic climate change\", posed a threat to all humanity.\n\n\"No-one understands this better than our Commonwealth friends in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, who can see the incoming tides surging ever higher up their beaches, threatening to inundate their villages and towns.\"\n\nHe said the developed world had an obligation \"to help our friends to cope with a danger they had no hand in causing\".\n\nMr Johnson, who travelled to Rwanda with his wife Carrie Johnson, spoke about the importance of education for women, saying: \"If I could imagine a silver bullet that would solve an array of problems and transform countless lives, it would be to give every girl in the world the chance to go to school.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall and Carrie Johnson met at a Violence Against Women and Girls event in Kigali\n\nThe Prince of Wales has met Rwanda President Paul Kagame during his visit\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall attended the Kigali Fashion Week during their visit to Rwanda", "John McEnroe poses for photos to celebrate Robinson's 75th anniversary of their partnership with Wimbledon in 2010\n\nRobinsons squash will no longer sponsor Wimbledon, ending a partnership which stretches back to 1935.\n\nThe soft drink company confirmed on Friday it will not be renewing its deal with the All England Lawn Tennis Club.\n\nRobinsons Lemon Barley Water was first officially introduced at Wimbledon in bottles on the steps of umpires' seats.\n\nBritain's Fred Perry and American Helen Moody won the singles titles that year and the squash became the official soft drink provider for the championships.\n\nHowever, prior to the deal, Smedley Hodgson placed Robinsons Barley Water in players' dressing rooms during the 1930s after he created a \"refreshing and hydrating drink\" combining barley crystals with real lemon juice and sugar.\n\nA spokesman for Britvic, which owns several drinks brands including Robinsons, said it was \"tremendously proud to have been such a prominent partner to this historic tournament for so many years and the wider role we have played in boosting engagement with the game of tennis in the UK\".\n\nThe company said it was looking to \"broadening our summertime reach to beyond the Wimbledon fortnight\".\n\nThe All England Lawn Tennis Club said the partnership ended by \"mutual agreement\".\n\n\"We are tremendously proud of the historic association with Robinsons over so many years, and thank them for the wider role they have played in supporting Wimbledon and tennis across the UK,\" a statement said.\n\nLast month, Britvic announced Robinsons as a three-year deal as sponsor of The Hundred, cricket's 100-ball competition, for the 2022 season.\n\nTwo decades on from making its debut on centre court, Robinsons Lemon Barley Water was appointed with a royal warrant by The Queen in 1955.\n\nMr Matthias Robinson invented Robinsons Patent Barley and Barley Groats in 1823, with the fruit drink beginning its life as a powder.", "Nike has announced plans to leave Russia, becoming the latest Western brand to quit the country since the invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nThe US sportswear giant halted online orders and closed the stores it owned in the country in March.\n\nShops run by local partners continued to operate, but the firm is winding down those agreements.\n\nNetworking giant Cisco also said it would start to fully shut down operations in Russia and Belarus.\n\nOther companies that have finalised plans to leave in recent weeks include McDonald's and Starbucks.\n\n\"Nike has made the decision to leave the Russian marketplace,\" the company said in a statement. \"Our priority is to ensure we are fully supporting our employees while we responsibly scale down our operations over the coming months.\"\n\nRussia has grown increasingly economically isolated since the invasion, as the West and allies impose sanctions and international companies head for the exits.\n\nThe country is now working on legislation that would punish foreign companies seeking to leave, allowing the government to seize their assets and impose criminal penalties, according to Reuters.\n\nNike has more than 50 stores in Russia, about a third of which are closed, according to its website.\n\nIn May, Russian media reported that the company was ending its agreement with its largest franchisee in Russia, responsible for 37 stores.\n\nNike had previously disclosed that Russia and Ukraine together accounted for less than 1% of the company's revenue.\n\nCisco said on Thursday that it had \"made the decision to begin an orderly wind-down of our business in Russia and Belarus\".\n\nThis decision will affect a few hundred employees, the US company said, adding that it wanted to ensure they are \"treated with respect\".\n\n\"Cisco remains committed to using all its resources to help our employees, the institutions and people of Ukraine, and our customers and partners during this challenging time,\" a spokesperson for the firm said.\n\nThe networking giant had already stopped business operations, including sales and services, in the region in March, taking a $200m (£160m) hit to third quarter revenues.", "Nothing reeks of panic quite like a resignation letter at 5.35am.\n\nNot just any resignation letter.\n\nBut the party chairman. Until now, at least, utterly loyal to Boris Johnson.\n\nOliver Dowden manages five paragraphs, not one of which endorses him.\n\n\"We cannot carry on with business as usual,\" he writes, \"somebody must take responsibility.\"\n\n\"I will, as always, remain loyal to…\" he says before signing off \"the Conservative Party\".\n\nLoyalty to the party means leaving Boris Johnson's side and becoming a backbencher.\n\nSo, to be clear, does he have confidence in Mr Johnson? The easiest and most direct question a reporter can ask a politician and their team.\n\nAfter all, typing the letters Y, E and S takes just a second or two. He and his team are silent.\n\nThis morning, the cabinet hold an absent prime minister's fate in their hands.\n\nBoris Johnson is thousands of miles away in Rwanda at a Commonwealth summit.\n\nAnd he will be out of the country for the next week - there are more summits to come in Germany and in Spain.\n\nLiberal Democrats victorious in former Tory stronghold of Tiverton and Honiton\n\nHe's been on the phone to cabinet ministers, and making it clear he doesn't intend to return to London.\n\nAfter a wall of silence from loads of senior ministers in the hour or two after Mr Dowden's letter, some are now talking privately.\n\nA few are offering the odd disobliging word about Mr Dowden, suggesting he never wanted to be party chairman in the first place and was very disappointed to be demoted from being culture secretary.\n\nOthers say he could well have been sacked in a reshuffle in the next few weeks anyway, and so jumped before he was pushed.\n\nHe might well argue in his defence he is doing the honourable thing as a party chairman who has failed to deliver by-election wins.\n\nOther ministers are very clear-eyed about the predicament the government finds itself in, acknowledging privately how volatile things are.\n\nOliver Dowden's resignation has transformed these by-election results from a story dominated by Conservative defeat, to one dominated by the prime minister's future.\n\nThere would have been a bit of chat along these lines anyway, but it's been electrified by Mr Dowden's decision and the manner of it.\n\nAnd we can also say Boris Johnson would only find himself in territory that could force him out if a significant number of previously loyal MPs now demand he goes, or senior cabinet ministers decide to walk.\n\nHis supporters hope that those senior enough to make a difference are also in many cases those who fancy the job themselves, and moving now would look opportunistic.\n\nSome pondered when Boris Johnson won a whopping majority back in 2019 that politics might quieten down.", "Murtaja Qureiris before his imprisonment and after\n\nHuman rights activists say Saudi Arabia has freed a prisoner who was arrested when aged 13 for suspected involvement in anti-government protests.\n\nMurtaja Qureiris had once been facing the death penalty, although he was finally sentenced to a prison term.\n\nHe was held in 2014, partly due to his alleged participation in demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2011.\n\nMr Qureiris was believed to be the youngest Saudi prisoner to be detained for involvement in political protest.\n\nVideo showed him at a protest rally with other children on bicycles in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, which is home to the kingdom's Shia Muslim minority to which he belongs.\n\nSaudi Shia have long complained of discrimination in the Sunni Muslim-majority country and of being treated as second-class citizens.\n\nEmboldened by uprisings across the Arab world, they took to the streets in protest against the Saudi authorities.\n\nThe unrest was quelled by the security forces - and a number of those involved at the time and in subsequent protests were arrested, with dozens later being executed.\n\nHuman rights groups say that Murtaja Qureiris was held for several years without being charged.\n\nThe before and after pictures of him tell his story - a child when first arrested, he is now a neatly bearded young man.\n\nWhen he was finally put on trial, he was charged with belonging to an extremist terrorist group. He was accused of accompanying his older brother, who had allegedly thrown petrol bombs at a police station. Prosecutors demanded the death penalty. Activists warned that he might even face crucifixion.\n\nA confession was produced as evidence, although Mr Qureiris maintained that this had been extracted under torture.\n\nThe case involving such a young defendant attracted international attention, which may well have played a part in ensuring that he finally received a prison sentence rather than the death penalty.\n\nOriginally for 12 years, it was subsequently reduced to eight. With time served, that meant that he was now due for release.\n\nHuman rights activists have welcomed the decision to free him, but have lamented the likely physical and psychological toll of his detention - during much of which he was in fear of execution.\n\nIn 2020, a royal decree was issued in Saudi Arabia, abolishing the death penalty for offences committed while the accused was a minor. But human rights groups have since expressed concern that this might not be observed in practice.", "Billie Eilish will be Glastonbury's first female headliner since Adele in 2016\n\nBillie Eilish will become Glastonbury's youngest ever solo headliner when she plays the Pyramid Stage on Friday.\n\nThe 20-year-old tops the bill just three years after her Glastonbury debut at a jam-packed Other Stage in 2019.\n\nThat year, her set had been upgraded from the much smaller John Peel tent after the phenomenal success of her breakout hit, Bad Guy.\n\nSpeaking from the stage, she lamented that she would never be able to experience the festival as a fan.\n\n\"This looks fun to go to,\" she said. \"I would love to go to this… My God.\"\n\nBut the star's early evening set was plagued by technical issues that overshadowed the experience for her, if not the crowd.\n\n\"Thank you for not leaving. I know you could have,\" she said towards the end of her performance.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFriday's show should be less problematic, as Eilish has been fine-tuning her live show over months of intensive touring in the US and Europe.\n\nThe star is currently in the middle of a sold out, six-show run at London's O2 Arena, where she's been playing her second album, Happier Than Ever, almost in its entirety.\n\nThe Grammy-nominated record comments on the difficulties of her sudden and extreme fame, including its effects on her mental health and relationships.\n\nOn the opening track, Getting Older, she adopts a weary sigh as she sings: \"Things I once enjoyed, just keep me employed now.\"\n\nEilish says the songs reflect on a period of depression that led to suicidal thoughts during the early stages of her career.\n\n\"I don't want to be too dark but I genuinely didn't think I'd make it to 17,\" she told CBS news in 2020.\n\nThe singer eventually sought help from her mother, Maggie Baird, who helped her access therapy. Making her second album during the pandemic also helped her combat the feelings of \"joylessness\" she'd experienced in her teens.\n\n\"All I can say now is, for anybody who isn't doing well, it will get better,\" she said. \"Have hope. I did this with fame riding on my shoulders.\n\n\"Now I love what I do and I'm me again. The good me.\n\n\"And I love fame… I love the eyes on me.\"\n\nEilish is always joined on stage by her elder brother and co-writer, Finneas O'Connell\n\nThat's been apparent at her recent UK shows, where she has been greeted with the sort of mania once reserved for the Beatles and Michael Jackson.\n\nIn London two weeks ago, she called one of her concerts to a halt after several fans passed out, overwhelmed at being in their idol's presence.\n\nWhen she plays Glastonbury, the audience will be a mixture of those diehard fans and casual onlookers - but Eilish is guaranteed to leave an impression.\n\nDespite a teenage dance injury, which affected the growth plate in her femur, she bounds across the stage with wild abandon - her legs taped up to avoid further damage.\n\n\"I love movement,\" she told the BBC in 2017. \"I love moshing.\n\n\"I always head right for the front and dig in there and mosh really hard with all the guys. None of the girls want to mosh so I'm, like, the only girl getting punched in the face.\"\n\nEilish tops the bill on the first full day of music at Glastonbury, after performances from the likes of Sam Fender, Crowded House and Robert Plant & Alison Kraus.\n\nSaturday night will see Paul McCartney headlining the Pyramid Stage - becoming the festival's oldest-ever headliner.\n\nDiana Ross plays the legend slot on Sunday afternoon, with Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar closing the festival that night.\n\nFans clamoured to see Melanie C's DJ set on Thursday night\n\nFans have endured travel chaos en route to the festival, with train strikes resulting in heavy traffic congestion on the approach to the site, at Worthy Farm in Somerset.\n\nHowever, festivalgoers who did attempt to make it to Glastonbury by rail on Thursday were pleasantly surprised by the available train capacity.\n\nThey were rewarded with sets by Sasha, Skream, Bad Boy Chiller Crew and Four Tet as music started up on the festival's smaller, outlying stages.\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C caused chaos with an early evening DJ set, that shut down the William's Green area.\n\nSporting a top with the legend, \"Alexa, play Spice Girls\", she played tracks by Dua Lipa, Megan Thee Stallion, Nirvana, Acraze and Rosalía, as well as dance remixes of Spice Up Your Life and Who Do You Think You Are?\n\nShe was followed by Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, who performed renditions of hits such as You Are Always On My Mind and Frank Sinatra's My Way with a six-piece band.\n\nThe 86-year-old was cheered as he left the stage with chants of \"We love you Michael, we do\".\n\nBastille also played a secret set, accompanied by the brass band Ol' Dirty Brasstards.\n\nAround the site, there's a sense that fans are eager to get the festivities under way, after two years in which the festival was cancelled.\n\n\"We've been in prison for two years,\" one couple told BBC News. \"We booked our tickets 991 days ago and here we are... So we are very excited.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Legendary Wales and British and Irish Lions captain and fly-half Phil Bennett has died at the age of 73.\n\nBennett was a key figure in Wales' golden era, helping them win two Five Nations Grand Slams in the 1970s.\n\nHe also starred in the Lions' historic unbeaten tour of South Africa in 1974 and produced moments of magic in his 20 appearances for the Barbarians.\n\nHe is regarded as one of the greatest players to wear the fabled number 10 shirt for Wales and the Lions.\n\nIn their statement announcing Bennett's passing, Scarlets said he was \"one of the all-time legends of the game and widely regarded as the greatest player to wear the Scarlets jersey\".\n\nBennett made eight Test appearances for the Lions over two tours, becoming only the second Welshman to captain the Lions on their 1977 tour of New Zealand.\n\nThe Llanelli RFC great won 29 caps for Wales, retiring in style in 1978 by captaining his country to a second Grand Slam in three years with victory over France in his final game.\n\nAfter retiring, Bennett became an OBE in 1979 and was inducted to the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2005.\n\nHe was a popular pundit for BBC Wales and always remained a loyal supporter of Felinfoel RFC, the amateur club of his home village where a statue of the local icon was unveiled in April.\n\nBennett's former Scarlets captain and Wales and Lions team-mate Delme Thomas said: \"He was the best fly-half I have ever seen on a rugby field.\"\n\nScarlets chairman Simon Muderack added: \"We are devastated by this news. Wherever the Scarlets travel around the world, people mention the name Phil Bennett.\n\n\"He was an icon of our sport, a rugby superstar, but someone who always remembered his roots. There was no finer ambassador of Scarlets Rugby than Phil, a player respected across the rugby world, both during his career and long after he finished playing.\n\n\"Phil was a hero and friend to so many people, not only in Llanelli and west Wales, but throughout the game and I am sure a lot of Scarlets supporters will have their own particular stories of the times they met and chatted to 'Benny'. He loved the club and epitomised the values we hold true — humility and pride in our community.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at the Scarlets, we send our heartfelt condolences to Pat, Steven. James and all of Phil's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nTributes to Bennett followed from close to home and around the world while Scarlets Official Supporters Group tweeted: \"For those wishing to pay their respects, flowers can be left at the 'Stradey Gates' at the main entrance to Parc y Scarlets.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nA dramatic week for professional golf concluded with former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel pocketing $4.75m (£3.86m) with a one-stroke victory at the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event in Hertfordshire.\n\nIn three days at the Centurion Club, the 37-year-old from Johannesburg, who won at Augusta in 2011, picked up a sum equal to the amount it has taken him the last four years to earn on the PGA Tour.\n\nBut the golf was a relative sideshow compared with the seismic impact this start up series has had on the game this week.\n\n\"All I can say is that the evolution of golf has arrived,\" LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman stated at the presentation ceremony.\n\n\"For 27 years there have been a lot of obstacles put in our path, a lot of dreams have tried to be squashed but they couldn't squash us,\" added the former world number one, who first tried to set up a world tour in the mid 1990s.\n• None All you need to know about Saudi-funded series\n• None The event that threatens to blow apart elite men's golf\n\nAfter accepting the trophy, Schwartzel who picked $4m for winning the individual competition and an additional $750,000 for being part of the winning team, said: \"Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think we could play for that much money in golf.\n\n\"As you could see I was taking a bit of heat down the stretch and there was a lot of money involved.\"\n\nLIV Golf chose the final day to announce that two more Americans have joined their cast list.\n\nAs Schwartzel was grinding his way to the $4m individual jackpot, LIV revealed 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed and 46-year-old world number 168 Pat Perez as its latest recruits.\n\nReed is a nine-times winner on the PGA Tour and currently ranked 36 in the world after only one top 10 finish this year. He will make his LIV debut at Pumpkin Ridge next month.\n\n\"I'm super excited,\" Reed told the streamed coverage of the final day. \"Being part of the evolution and change in golf is unbelievable.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old Texan added: \"Portland can't get here soon enough. I can't wait, it is going to be a blast.\"\n\nMen's professional golf has never endured a more controversial week.\n\nOn Thursday, 17 players were suspended indefinitely by the PGA Tour for taking part. Reed, Perez and Friday's recruit Bryson DeChambeau face a similar fate.\n\nBut following an uncomfortable start for several players, when the issue of Saudi Arabian sportswashing dominated the agenda, the upstart project has gathered momentum.\n\nThe staging of the event was first class with an impressive spectator village and no expense was spared in streamed coverage that benefited from an absence of ad breaks.\n\nAs the tournament reached its climax with Schwartzel bogeying the last for a closing 72 that left him seven-under-par and one clear of South African compatriot Hennie Du Plessis there were around 100,000 viewers on YouTube.\n\nThe promotional nature of the commentary may have irritated golf's die-hard viewers but was understandable given the way that LIV want to shake up the professional game.\n\nAnd there is no doubt that is exactly what they have done. The PGA Tour responded in draconian fashion by issuing bans; how the DP World Tour react is the next big question.\n\nLeading officials from the Wentworth-based circuit were spotted at the venue and this at a time when they are coming under increasing pressure from their membership.\n\nMany players are dissatisfied with dwindling playing opportunities, which they perceive to be a consequence of the tour's strategic alliance struck with the PGA Tour 18 months ago.\n\nNorman's operation is disruptive to golf's eco-system and potentially capable of testing the resilience of that transatlantic relationship.\n\nThese remain early days in the LIV story and the Saudi Arabian source of their huge financial clout remains controversial.\n\nAnd if they want to change the perception of golf and truly fashion a format that equates to T20 cricket then they must find a way to ditch playing in three balls.\n\nWith a relatively weak field, including only four of the world's top 50 players, the golf was largely turgid and proved LIV is not immune from the curse of slow play. The final round took two minutes shy of five hours.\n\nBut the inaugural event still made a significant impact. Leading golf agents and managers were conspicuous throughout the three-day tournament.\n\n\"I wasn't sure we'd ever see a shot hit,\" admitted one insider. \"But I think it now has legs and will absolutely be a big part of the landscape of professional golf. Lots of players who were on the fence would love to be involved now.\"\n\nMore players are expected to be unveiled by LIV's second tournament at Portland in Oregon starting on 30 June. The series then visits New Jersey, Boston and Chicago.\n\nThese are traditional heartlands of American golf and how the US market, brought up on a weekly fare of PGA Tour action, responds will be significant. A warm welcome is not guaranteed among the wider US population.\n\nLIV players from the United States have been heavily criticised by a 9/11 survivors group who point out that Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in the terrorist attack on 11 September, 2001 were from Saudi Arabia.\n\nTerry Strada, the chair of 911familiesunited.org, sent a letter to representatives of Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, DeChambeau, Reed and Kevin Na criticising their participation.\n\n\"Given Saudi Arabia's role in the death of our loved ones and those injured on 9/11 - your fellow Americans - we are angered that you are so willing to help the Saudis cover up this history in their request for 'respectability,'\" Strada wrote.\n\n\"When you partner with the Saudis, you become complicit with their whitewash, and help give them the reputational cover they so desperately crave.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nPhil Bennett, the legendary Wales and British and Irish Lions captain and fly-half who has died at the age of 73, elevated rugby union to an art form.\n\nFleet of foot and blessed with a brilliant rugby mind, he is regarded as one of the game's all-time greats.\n\nIn an age when international rugby was played less frequently, Bennett packed two Five Nations Grand Slams and three Triple Crowns into his 29 Wales caps.\n\nHe also captained his country and the Lions, and dazzled for the Barbarians.\n\nDuring the Baa-Baas' 1973 victory over New Zealand, Bennett demonstrated his spellbinding footwork to spark the move which culminated in a try for Gareth Edwards which is often described as the greatest in rugby union history.\n\nThe audacity to take on four All Blacks just a few metres from his own try line - and the dexterity to dance past them and leave them floundering in his wake - illustrated Bennett's genius.\n\nSo too did his try for Wales against Scotland in 1977, another sweeping team move which Bennett finished with a trademark step and run. As the esteemed commentator Bill McLaren said at the time, it was \"absolute magic\".\n\nBennett was born in Felinfoel, a village near Llanelli, on 24 October, 1948.\n\nHe worked in the local steel works during his teens and, as a promising schoolboy footballer, he was offered a trial by West Ham.\n\nOnce Bennett committed to rugby, he quickly rose to prominence with his beloved Llanelli and was a part of the team which beat the mighty All Blacks in 1972.\n\nBy that point, he was already a fully-fledged international, having made his Wales debut as the country's first replacement in 1969.\n\nBennett had to bide his time to establish himself as Wales' first-choice fly-half because the 10 jersey at the time belonged to another giant of the game, the great Barry John.\n\nWhen John retired aged only 27 in 1972, Bennett emerged from his shadow and made the fly-half position his own.\n\nHe wore 10 for the Lions on their historic unbeaten 1974 tour of South Africa, amassing 103 points and scoring a spectacular solo try in the second Test in Pretoria.\n\nEven Bennett's place in the Wales side was not guaranteed, though. In 1975 he was dropped for John Bevan, but an injury to the Aberavon fly-half opened the door for his return.\n\nWith Bennett back in the team, Wales won the Five Nations Grand Slam in 1976 and, when the career of Wales skipper Mervyn Davies ended the following year, it was Bennett who assumed the captaincy.\n\nA cheery and affable character, Bennett gave a glimpse of his tougher side when he delivered a memorable team talk before Wales' Five Nations match against England in 1977.\n\n\"They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing,\" went his passionate rallying cry.\n\n\"We've been exploited, controlled and punished by the English - and that's who you are playing this afternoon.\"\n\nLater that year, Bennett led the Lions on their tour of New Zealand and, although that series ended in defeat, there was still time for a glorious closing chapter.\n\nWith a Grand Slam on the line as France came to Cardiff on the final weekend of the 1978 Five Nations, captain Bennett rose to the occasion magnificently with two tries to lead his side to a 16-7 win and a second clean sweep in three years.\n\nAs Wales' jubilant fans celebrated a third Grand Slam of the 1970s, little did they know of the conversation Bennett was having with his half-back partner and arguably the greatest player of them all, Gareth Edwards, in the home changing room after the final whistle.\n\n\"I knew it was going to be my last game, but I didn't tell anyone beforehand,\" Bennett recalled years later.\n\n\"I didn't want this game to be about me, this was a great Welsh team, we had just achieved the triple Triple Crown and were going for a second Grand Slam in two years.\n\n\"So there was no big farewell to the crowd or anything like that.\n\n\"Afterwards, I walked into the changing room and I went up to Gareth and said thanks for everything and he replied, 'Bloody hell, you're getting out as well. Me too'.\"\n\nThat was Phil Bennett. Understated, humble, class to the last.\n\nHis final game was in 1981 after a Llanelli club career of 413 appearances with 2,535 points, including 131 tries.\n\nAfter retirement, he worked as a pundit for BBC Wales and was a regular spectator at Felinfoel RFC, his home village's amateur club and was president of his beloved Scarlets.\n\nBennett was as unassuming a presence on the touchline at Felinfoel as he was warm and approachable in the media room at the Principality Stadium.\n\nHe wore his greatness lightly, generous with his time with fans, journalists and just about anyone he ever met.\n\nWhile Bennett himself may never have sung his own praises, the sporting world recognised his special quality.\n\nHe was inducted to the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2005 and will be forever remembered as one of the best to play the game.", "Every recent mass shooting in America has been followed by an increasingly familiar political drama: Democrats call for new gun-control measures, such as a ban on assault-style weapons, and point out how the US is alone among industrialised nations in its high levels of gun violence.\n\nRepublicans counter that the right to possess firearms is enshrined in the US Constitution and that new gun-control legislation would be counterproductive.\n\nThen, because of the nature of US government, little changes on a national level.\n\n\"We have to do more to stop gun violence,\" US President Joe Biden said after the April mass shooting that killed six at a school in Nashville, Tennessee. \"It's ripping our communities apart.\"\n\nBut doing more, at least on the national level, faces a number of serious obstacles.\n\nHere's a look at some of those challenges.\n\nIn the weeks after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012, a majority of US senators supported passing legislation requiring expanded background checks for gun purchases.\n\nBut because of the filibuster - a parliamentary procedure that requires at least 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate to pass most legislation - a simple majority was not enough.\n\nAfter another school tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, the House of Representatives, then controlled by the Democrats, approved an assault-weapons ban but the measure stalled in the Senate.\n\nAlthough polls indicate majorities of Americans support such an effort, many Republican senators represent states with large pro-gun communities.\n\nAnd the Republican voters whose support lawmakers need to win primary elections (the selection process within each party) are even more opposed to reform. So unless sentiment shifts among that constituency, the Republicans are unlikely to change course.\n\nWith the House of Representatives back in Republican hands, it is more probable that the chamber will try to expand gun rights, not limit them.\n\nAlthough congressional efforts at sweeping gun control were stymied in 2015, gun-control activists made substantive progress in passing new laws at the state level.\n\nIn Connecticut, for instance, there was overwhelming support for reform from the communities still reeling from the brutality of the Sandy Hook attack. Other Democratic-controlled states - like New York, Maryland and California - passed their own legislation, closing gun-show loopholes, limiting magazine sizes and prohibiting the sale of certain types of firearms.\n\nBut the states that have the political majorities to pass gun-control regulations have already done so. And in many Republican controlled states, the momentum on the gun issue is towards less regulation, not more. In April, Florida became the 26th state - all Republican - to allow its residents to carry a concealed handgun without a government licence.\n\nDemocratic politicians in those states, frustrated by the lack of progress, have cited recent school shootings as reason to act. Nashville Mayor John Cooper denounced what he called the \"cult of the gun\" in comments made shortly after his city's violence.\n\n\"The country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that again is making it too available and too convenient and too first-of-mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts,\" he said.\n\nTennessee is one of the states with broad protections for permitless gun ownership - a fact that the state's national politicians have celebrated. In 2021, Nashville's congressional representative Andy Ogles sent a Christmas photo of his family in which all but the youngest child was carrying some type of firearm.\n\n\"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honour with all that's good,\" the congressman said in a holiday message accompanying the photo online.\n\nEven if the political calculus changes in Congress or among states hostile to enacting gun-control legislation, there is a significant and growing obstacle to any attempts at reform - the courts.\n\nIn 2008, a narrow 5-to-4 majority in the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which says \"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed\", guarantees a personal right to possess a handgun.\n\nThat interpretation, although subject to furious debate, has embedded gun ownership rights in the text of the Constitution itself. And since that decision, the courts have only become more supportive.\n\nOne of President Donald Trump's lasting legacies was to appoint hundreds of conservative judges to the federal courts, including naming three new Supreme Court justices.\n\nLast year, two Trump-appointed appellate court judges in California struck down a state law prohibiting the sale of assault rifles to those under the age of 21.\n\nThat opinion, if upheld by the Supreme Court, could be of particular relevance given that the perpetrators in Uvalde and Sandy Hook fall into that category.\n\n\"America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,\" one of the judges wrote. \"Today we reaffirm that our constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice - the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.\"\n\nLast year, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that restricts who may obtain concealed handgun licences in the next month, with Justice Clarence Thomas firmly grounding a broad right to own and carry firearms in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.\n\n\"The Second Amendment guaranteed to all Americans the right to bear commonly used arms in public subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions,\" he wrote in a 6-to-3 opinion that was joined by the five other conservative justices on the court.\n\nWith gun laws already on the books being ruled unconstitutional, it appears likely that any new laws will face legal challenges as well - and may not survive long.", "The car was found at the bottom of the cliff near Pendeen Lighthouse\n\nA man has been found dead inside a car that had gone over a cliff in Cornwall, police said.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said a body was recovered after the vehicle was found at the bottom of Pendeen cliff.\n\nOfficers said the family of Richard Mockford, 60, had been informed. He was reported missing from the Penzance area on Friday and searches were under way.\n\nPolice said the death was not being treated as suspicious and the coroner would be informed.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Police were called just before 2pm on Sunday, June 12 with reports of a vehicle being located at the bottom of Pendeen cliff in the area of Pendeen Lighthouse.\n\n\"Units attended including support from the coastguard and the ambulance service. The body of a man was found within the vehicle.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wilson revealed her new relationship on Friday, describing her partner as her \"Disney princess\"\n\nAn Australian newspaper has denied outing actress Rebel Wilson amid a storm of criticism over its reporting of her new relationship with a woman.\n\nOn Friday, Wilson said she had found her \"Disney princess\" as she shared a selfie with her partner on Instagram.\n\nBut on Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald revealed it had known about the relationship before it was public and had given Wilson two days to comment.\n\nThe Herald denied pressuring Wilson, saying it had \"simply asked questions\".\n\nBut the paper has faced criticism on social media, with LGBTQ+ campaigners saying it was unacceptable to put pressure on people to come out.\n\nIn response to a Twitter post saying it wasn't Wilson's choice to come out, the 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect among others, said it was a \"very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWilson's post about her relationship with leisurewear designer Ramona Agruma prompted a wave of congratulations from fans and famous friends - along with more than 1.6 million likes.\n\nBut a day later Andrew Hornery, a columnist at the Herald, revealed the paper had known about the relationship and contacted Wilson's representatives on Thursday morning - \"with an abundance of caution and respect\" - to request a comment.\n\nWriting in the Private Sydney column, Hornery said: \"In a perfect world, 'outing' same-sex celebrity relationships should be a redundant concept in 2022. Love is love, right?\n\n\"As Rebel Wilson knows, we do not live in a perfect world.\n\n\"So, it was with an abundance of caution and respect that this media outlet emailed Rebel Wilson's representatives on Thursday morning, giving her two days to comment on her new relationship with LA leisure wear designer Ramona Agruma, before publishing a single word.\"\n\nHornery went on to criticise Wilson, saying she instead \"opted to gazump the story\", adding that \"her choice to ignore our discreet, genuine and honest queries was, in our view, underwhelming\".\n\nBBC reporter Megha Mohan was among those on social media to criticise the paper's journalistic methods and the tone of the piece, saying: \"Still reeling from the fact that a publication gave someone a deadline to out them in 2022. Maybe I'm incredibly naive but this is what I imagined 90s gutter press was like and most journalists had huge standards change since then.\"\n\nA Stonewall spokesperson said: \"Coming out is a deeply personal decision. Whether, when and how to come out should be decided by the individual, entirely on their terms.\n\n\"It is simply not OK to 'out' LGBTQ+ people or put pressure on us to come out. Media outlets should take care not to sensationalise LGBTQ+ lives and relationships.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Megha Mohan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the Herald's editor, Bevan Shields, denied the paper had outed Wilson, saying it had made no decision about what it would have published.\n\nHe wrote: \"Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response.\n\n\"I had made no decision about whether or what to publish, and the Herald's decision about what to do would have been informed by any response Wilson supplied.\"\n\nShields added that the Private Sydney was a column \"in which the writer's interaction with his subjects is often part of the story\", adding it was not a \"standard news story\".\n\nLast month, Wilson told People magazine she had been set up with a new partner \"through a friend\" but refused to reveal their identity.\n\nShe said: \"We spoke on the phone for weeks before meeting. And that was a really good way to get to know each other.\n\n\"It was a bit old-school in that sense - very romantic.\"\n\nWilson was previously in a relationship with businessman Jacob Busch.\n\nThey made their red carpet debut as a couple in September 2020 at a gala in Monaco but appeared to confirm their split the following February.\n\nEarlier this year, Wilson followed in the footsteps of Graham Norton, Dame Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry by hosting the Bafta film awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n• None Rebel Wilson: I know what it’s like to be invisible", "Distinctive marks from a cluster munition in the roof of a car next to a playground in Kharkiv (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nRussia has killed hundreds of civilians in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and widely-banned cluster munitions, according to new research by Amnesty International.\n\nAmnesty said it had found evidence of Russian forces repeatedly using 9N210/9N235 cluster bombs, as well as \"scatterable\" munitions - rockets that eject smaller mines that explode later at timed intervals.\n\nThe BBC visited five separate impact sites in residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv and saw evidence of a distinctive, symmetrical spalling effect associated with cluster munitions. We showed images from the sites to three weapons experts, who all said the impacts were consistent with the controversial weapons.\n\n\"Those impacts are from cluster munitions, it's a classic signature,\" said Mark Hizney, a senior researcher in the arms division of Human Rights Watch, a campaign group. \"And in one image you can see a remnant of a stabiliser fin from one of the submunitions,\" he said.\n\nCCTV footage passed to the BBC by a resident at one of the sites showed successive clustered detonations - \"a very strong indicator of submunitions from a cluster weapon,\" said Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a former British Army colonel and Cambridge University weapons expert.\n\nThe spalling pattern created by cluster bomb impacts, seen in a Kharkiv residential neighbourhood (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nCluster munitions are controversial because they detonate in the air and release a cluster of smaller bombs which fall indiscriminately over a wide area, potentially putting civilians at risk.\n\nThe smaller bombs also often fail to detonate on impact, posing a threat for years to come. More than 120 countries have signed a treaty prohibiting the use of the weapons - though neither Russia or Ukraine are signatories.\n\nAt the site of one apparent cluster munition strike in Kharkiv, around a housing estate and playground in the Industrialnyi neighbourhood, the spalling effect was visible around three separate impacts on three sides of a playground.\n\nIvan Litvynyenko's wife Oksana was badly wounded in the strike and later died.\n\nLitvynyenko, 40, told the BBC the couple was walking through the playground with their five-year-old daughter when the munitions hit. Their 14-year-old son was inside their apartment.\n\n\"Suddenly I saw a flash and I heard the first explosion,\" Litvynyenko said. \"I grabbed my daughter and pressed her to a tree. My wife was about five metres away and she just dropped.\"\n\nAn impact site next to a playground where Ivan Litvynyenko's wife was hit by shrapnel. (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nOksana, 41, was hit by shrapnel that penetrated her back, chest and abdomen, puncturing her lungs and damaging her spine.\n\nShe was in intensive care for two months, until Sunday, when she died from complications from her injuries and diabetes, Litvynyenko said. \"Doctors operated on her several times but her body could not survive it,\" he said, speaking just hours after her death.\n\nDescribing the strike, Litvynyenko said he saw a \"series of explosions, lots of bombs one after another\". Two other residents who were inside their apartments at the time of the strike told the BBC they heard successive detonations when the attack happened. \"You could hear explosions over several minutes,\" said Danya Volynets, 26. \"When we came outside I could see the burning cars. It looked like everything was on fire.\"\n\nTetiana Ahayeva, a 53-year-old nurse, was standing in front of her building when the munitions hit. \"There was a sudden sound of firecrackers everywhere, lots of them, all over,\" she told Amnesty. \"We dropped to the ground and tried to find cover. Our neighbour's son, a 16-year-old boy called Artem Shevchenko, was killed on the spot. He had a hole 1cm wide in his chest. His father had a shattered hip and a shrapnel wound in his leg.\"\n\nOksana Litvynyenko with her daughter. Oksana was badly wounded in April and died on Sunday. (Family handout)\n\nDoctors at a central Kharkiv hospital said that among the victims brought in after the playground strike they saw penetrating wounds to the abdomen, chest and back, and they collected metal fragments which matched the types of pellets found in 9N210/9N235 cluster munitions. According to Amnesty, the strike on the Industrialnyi neighbourhood killed at least nine civilians and wounded 35, detonating over an area of 700 square metres.\n\nAt another residential building, in Kharkiv's Haribaldi Street area, a munition landed in the entranceway to the building, killing two elderly women and gravely wounding another. The tell-tale spalling effect could be seen around the doorway and on the path nearby.\n\nTetiana Bielova and Olena Sorokina had been sitting on a bench outside when a munition detonated nearby. They got up to enter the building but a second munition landed right in the entranceway, killing Bielova and another woman called Tetiana who was with them. Sorokina lost both her legs in the blast.\n\n\"There was a series of explosions one after another,\" said resident Nadia Kravchuk, 61, who was in the building at the time. \"I came out and saw a woman lying here face down and another other woman lying here, and next to them was Lena, who lost both her legs. She was crying out, 'I have lost my leg.'\"\n\nNadia Kravchuk looks down at damage from a munition that killed two of her neighbours (Joel Gunter/BBC)\n\nIn total, over two weeks' field research, Amnesty investigated 41 strikes in Kharkiv in which at least 62 civilians were killed and 196 wounded, the charity said. They found evidence of cluster munitions and unguided rockets killing people who were shopping, queuing for food aid, or simply walking down the street.\n\n\"These weapons should never be used,\" Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser, told the BBC. \"They cannot be pinpointed. They are area weapons. And they have a devastating effect and cause a lot of civilian death and injury.\"\n\nUse of the weapons was \"tantamount to deliberately targeting civilians,\" Rovera said. \"Russia cannot claim it does not know the effect of these types of weapons,\" she said. \"And the decision to use them shows absolute disregard for civilian life.\"\n\nRussia has previously denied using cluster munitions in Ukraine and insisted that Russian forces have only struck military targets.", "A British national has been killed in Ukraine and a second is missing, the UK Foreign Office has said.\n\nSources in Ukraine told the BBC the dead man is Scott Sibley, who is understood to have been fighting for Ukrainian forces.\n\nHe is the first British national confirmed to have been killed in the conflict and has been described as a \"friend like no other\".\n\nThe Foreign Office has not released the identity of either person.\n\nBut a spokesman said it was supporting both their families.\n\nDetails of Mr Sibley's death and how or when the second person went missing have not been given.\n\nDiplomatic sources have said it was most likely the two individuals were foreign volunteers serving with Ukrainian armed forces in either Mariupol or elsewhere in Donbas.\n\nTributes have been paid online to Mr Sibley, who is understood to be a former member of British armed forces, including on Facebook and on fundraising pages set up in his memory.\n\nA post on the Logistics Support Squadron Facebook page described him as a \"former serving soldier\" of the squadron and said he had \"showed Commando spirit until the end\".\n\nThe founder of a fundraising page described Mr Sibley, also known as Sibs, as a \"friend like no other\" and \"the bravest person I've had the pleasure to have known\".\n\n\"His life may have been cut short but he lived to the full and did things the Sibs way, right until the end,\" he wrote.\n\nThe Foreign Office spokesman said it was \"urgently seeking further information\" on the missing British national.\n\nThree former members of UK special forces were reportedly killed in March during a Russian missile attack on a military training centre near the border with Poland - but this was never confirmed.\n\nThe government urged British nationals to leave Ukraine in February and has told people not to travel to the country since Russia invaded.\n\nIn the early days of the war Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she supported individuals from the UK who might want to go to Ukraine to fight but the government has since advised against this.\n\nHundreds of former British soldiers have said they wanted to go to Ukraine to fight or help with humanitarian efforts, while others without a military background have travelled to offer support to the Ukrainians.\n\nThe authorities in Ukraine have estimated that at least 20,000 people have come from overseas to join the fight against Russia, although not all of those will be British.\n\nTwo British men who were fighting with Ukrainian forces have already been captured by Russian troops.\n\nAiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who had both lived in Ukraine since 2018, were taken captive while defending the south-eastern city of Mariupol earlier this month.", "Veteran journalist Dom Phillips has been living in Brazil for over a decade\n\nBrazilian police have found possible human remains in their search for UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.\n\nThe police say experts will analyse the \"organic material\" found in a river near the town of Atalaia do Norte in the remote Amazon rainforest.\n\nThe pair went missing while travelling by boat on a reporting trip on Sunday.\n\nBlood traces found on a boat belonging to a fisherman, who has been arrested, will also be tested.\n\nIndigenous groups say both men have received threats for their work in the region, which has seen illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking.\n\nThe Brazilian authorities have said they are hopeful of finding the two men alive, but have not ruled out any outcome, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nBoth Mr Pereira, 41, and Mr Phillips, 57, who has written for publications such as the Guardian and the Washington Post, are hugely experienced and planned their journeys thoroughly. They reportedly had a new boat and plenty of fuel.\n\nPaul Sherwood, partner of Mr Phillips' sister Sian, said reports that police had found human remains were \"shocking\" and the pair's disappearance \"suggests sinister events\".\n\n\"It is clear that there were threats and armed people in the area who issued those threats and may have been responsible for attacking them, so we obviously have to hope that wasn't the case but the evidence seems to be mounting that something like that has happened,\" Mr Sherwood said.\n\nThe blood traces were found on the boat of fisherman Amarildo da Costa, known locally as \"Pelado\", who was questioned in the town of Atalaia do Norte. He has been charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition.\n\nPolice say he was one of the last people to see Mr Pereira and Mr Phillips.\n\nPlacards outside the Brazilian embassy showed Dom Phillips (L) and Bruno Pereira\n\nA lawyer for the fisherman, Davi Oliveira, told Reuters his client was not involved in the disappearance of the two men. The same lawyer has since stepped away from the case, the news agency adds.\n\nSix other people have been questioned in connection with the men's disappearance.\n\nSome 250 members of the security forces have been taking part in the search, up from just about a dozen in the first days. They include divers and experts in jungle terrain. Two helicopters are also being used, as well as more than a dozen boats and drones.\n\nThe Brazilian government has been criticised as not acting fast enough to try to find the men.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "British Muslims hoping to make a pilgrimage to Mecca are at risk of losing thousands of pounds after the Saudi government has enforced online booking.\n\nPilgrims have been told to use a website to register their interest and that a draw will take place to choose who will go on Hajj.\n\nSome have already booked with Hajj tour operators and could lose their money.\n\nHajj is a religious requirement for all Muslims who can afford it.\n\nIt is one of the five pillars of Islam along with five daily prayers, fasting, charity and a belief in God (Allah) and in Muhammad as a prophet.\n\nThe cost of the once in a lifetime trip varies from about £6,000 to more than £10,000 and many Muslims spend years saving up for it.\n\nFamida, not her real name, is in her 30s and lives in the north west of England. She told the BBC she has been waiting to go to Mecca with members of her extended family for two years.\n\nShe had registered her interest with a local travel agent and was very excited about fulfilling an important part of her Islamic faith.\n\nFamida said she was \"heartbroken\" when she heard that she and her husband would have to book the visit online.\n\n\"It was so upsetting it actually made us cry,\" she said.\n\nFamida was also unsure about using the new digital booking system. She said she didn't know what sort of service they would receive, if they'd be able to visit all the historical sites, how much the trip would cost, and who to complain to if anything went wrong.\n\nDespite her concerns she has submitted her and her husband's name via the digital portal to say she wants to make the pilgrimage in a few weeks' time but is worried about how much time she has to prepare for it.\n\n\"If you think about it practically, no. I've got children who're at school, they attend football, madrassah, they go to madrassah, cricket, football.\"\n\nThe head of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hajj and Umrah, Yasmin Qureshi, has written to the Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah to ask for the new system to be delayed until next year.\n\nIn the letter seen by the BBC, Ms Qureshi has asked if money paid to Saudi service providers will be refunded. She has also said she is worried that Muslims who had deferred their trip in 2020 risk major financial losses if their pilgrimage is not carried out.\n\nTravel agent Mohsin Shah says the changes have had a big financial impact\n\nShe is also concerned about how and if pilgrims' money will be protected under the new scheme.\n\nMs Qureshi said: \"Certainly for this year, do not organise the portal system because it's not going to work. Who do you complain to if things don't turn out correctly?\"\n\nIt is also unclear how many Hajj visas will be allocated to the UK. Previously about 25,000 were issued every year.\n\nFigures quoted in some Arabic media suggested this number could now be halved.\n\nTravel agents in the UK who specialise in arranging Hajj tours are also worried as they will lose out financially.\n\nMohsin Shah, a Manchester based travel agent, and his London-based partner were due to take 48 pilgrims to Mecca later this month.\n\nHe said all the pilgrims now have to re-book their visit online and he doesn't know how many of them will get a visa to travel.\n\nHe charged £9,500 for a five star package and has paid money to hotels and transport providers in Mecca.\n\n\"It's a big (financial) impact (on us) because we're not sure what's going to happen and how we can arrange it because hotels were booked and transport.\"\n\nThere are 3.72 million Muslims in the UK according to figures from Office for National Statistics. All pilgrims from Europe, America and Australia must use the new online portal to book their pilgrimage.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Licensed Hajj Organisers UK, an independent industry watchdog, and the Council for British Hajjis UK for a comment. The Saudi government has also been asked to comment.", "Jordan Gatley's family shared a picture of him in Ukraine\n\nA former British soldier has been killed fighting for the Ukrainian armed forces, his family has said.\n\nJordan Gatley, who left the British army in March and travelled to Ukraine, was described as \"a hero\" by his father Dean in a tribute on social media.\n\nHe died in the battle for the eastern city of Severodonetsk, which has seen intense fighting in recent days.\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is \"supporting the family of a British man who has died in Ukraine\".\n\nMr Gatley's father wrote in a Facebook post that his son had been helping train local forces. He added that Jordan was fatally shot on the front line while defending the city and they were informed of his death on Friday.\n\nHe had gone to Ukraine to help \"after careful consideration\", he said.\n\nAccording to the Facebook post, the family \"had several messages from his team out there telling us of his wealth of knowledge, his skills as a soldier and his love of his job\".\n\n\"His team say they all loved him, as did we, and he made a massive difference to many people's lives, not only soldiering, but also by training the Ukrainian forces,\" the statement continued.\n\nDean Gatley posted a picture of him with his son in British army uniform\n\n\"Jordan and his team were so proud of the work they were doing and he often told me that the missions they were going on were dangerous, but necessary.\n\n\"He loved his job and we are so proud of him,\" Mr Gatley wrote, adding: \"He truly was a hero and will forever be in our hearts.\"\n\nMykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted that Jordan Gatley was a \"true hero\".\n\n\"We will always remember his contribution to the protection of Ukraine and the free world,\" Mr Podolyak wrote.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Gatley served in the British army as a rifleman with the Edinburgh-based third battalion of The Rifles and was discharged from the forces in March before travelling to Ukraine.\n\nThere has been fierce street fighting in Severodonetsk with heavy artillery said to be causing huge casualties for both Russian and Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe region's governor Serhiy Haidai has told Ukrainian TV that Russian shelling has caused a huge fire at a chemical plant in the city. Up to 800 civilians are hiding in underground bomb shelters at the plant, Ukrainian officials have estimated.\n\nFighting around Severodonetsk has lasted for more than three months, as Russia shifted its focus from trying to take the capital Kyiv to capturing the Luhansk and the Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine - a mostly industrial area known as Donbas.\n\nSeizing Severodonetsk and its twin city of Lysychansk would move Russia closer to its goal as it would give them control over Luhansk.\n\nMr Gatley is the second Briton to be killed in the conflict after the death of Scott Sibley in April.\n\nMr Sibley was described as a \"friend like no other\".\n\nA post on the Logistics Support Squadron Facebook page described him as a \"former serving soldier\" of the squadron and said he had \"showed Commando spirit until the end\".\n\nThe Foreign Office advises against all travel to Ukraine and the Ministry of Defence has said that Britons who go to join the fighting following the Russian invasion may be committing a criminal offence and would be liable to prosecution.\n\nIn March, the head of the British armed forces said that Britons should not go to Ukraine to fight and should find other ways to help.\n\nAdm Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC the \"sound of gunfire\" was not \"something you want to rush to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Palpable anger across our workforce\" over pay - police federation boss\n\nPolice officers in Scotland are considering what industrial action they could take after rejecting a flat £565 annual pay increase as \"derisory\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF) turned down the pay deal saying there was \"palpable anger\" among officers.\n\nThe SPF said police would not sit back while faced with a \"wall of silence\" from the government and any action they took would be \"impactful\".\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said negotiations over pay were \"ongoing\".\n\nThe dispute between the \"official side\" - the Scottish Police Authority, Police Scotland and Scottish government ministers - and staff is being handled by the Police Negotiating Board.\n\nThe SPF, which represents all officers from junior constables to chief inspectors, had asked for 3.4%.\n\nIt said the current offer amounted to about 2% for most members and 1% for its higher-earning members.\n\nAfter \"unequivocally\" rejecting the pay offer two weeks ago, the SPF said there had been no further dialogue with the negotiators.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland, SPF general secretary Calum Steele said: \"There is palpable anger across our workforce. The options we are looking at are wide and they are varied.\n\n\"They will be impactful and be in no doubt that the willingness of the police service to simply stand back and accept this derisory offer at a time that other bodies and other workers will be taking much more action than we are capable of doing - the notion that we are going to accept that and stay silent is simply a fantasy.\"\n\nPolice officers have legal limits on their ability to take industrial action, but Mr Steele said SPF members were willing to take a \"sustained reaction\" lasting \"many, many months\" unless there was a \"significant improvement\".\n\nPolice officers can be ordered to work at any time and for any duration\n\nMr Steele added: \"There are many options that are available to us. We're looking strongly at all of them.\n\n\"The goodwill that this police service runs on is undoubtedly disappearing faster than snow off the proverbial dyke.\"\n\nPolice officers can be ordered to work at \"any time, at any place, with any notice and for any duration\", he said, describing the restrictions on officers as a \"singularly unique in the public sector\".\n\n\"So whilst police officers can be ordered to undertake overtime, they can't be ordered to undertake overtime if no-one can get hold of them,\" Mr Steele added.\n\nThe pay dispute comes as the Scottish government is involved in similar negotiations with other public sector workers, including rail workers in the newly-nationalised ScotRail and local authority workers, who are being balloted for strike action in August.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Negotiations for police officer pay for 2022/23 are currently ongoing through the Police Negotiating Board and we await the outcome of those discussions.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said police officers should \"never have been pushed this far, to the point of threatening disruptive action, considering they cannot officially go on strike\".\n\nThe party's justice spokesman Jamie Greene said: \"Every effort must be made to avoid this sort of action taking place and [Scottish government] ministers cannot continue to ignore how officers feel they are not on their side.\"\n\nLast year, police officers received a £700 pay rise and a separate non-consolidated payment of £250.\n\nIn Scotland, a new constable will start on a salary of £26,737.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir Tony Blair becomes a member of the Order of the Garter\n\nSir Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall and Baroness Amos have become members of the Order of the Garter, the most senior royal order of chivalry.\n\nBut the Duke of York has not appeared in public at the ceremony in Windsor, only attending a private part of the event, after a \"family decision\".\n\nBaroness Amos becomes the first black \"knight or lady companion\" member of the order since its foundation in 1348.\n\nNew members of the order are the personal choice of the Queen.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch attended some of the private elements of \"Garter Day\" at Windsor and had posed for a photograph before the event.\n\nThe Queen attended private parts of the ceremony and posed for an official photograph\n\nEach year, members of the order - which has up to 24 people plus \"royal companions\" - gather at Windsor Castle for a colourful ceremony with music, pageantry, elaborate uniforms and a parade.\n\nMembers wear velvet robes, plumed hats and the insignia of the medieval order of chivalry.\n\nAs well as the three new members being installed, there had been speculation about whether Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, would take part, in his capacity as one of the royal members of the order.\n\nHe did attend, but kept out of the procession seen by the crowds and and only went to the investiture and a private lunch.\n\nBaroness Amos, a former Labour cabinet minister and UN under-secretary, said the honour of joining the order was \"absolutely amazing\" and she was thinking about her parents who \"worked so hard and were so supportive\".\n\nBaroness Amos becomes the first black \"knight or lady companion\" member of the order\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about reports the Prince of Wales had privately criticised sending refugees to Rwanda, she said she would not comment on Prince Charles but, in her own personal view, the policy was \"shameful\".\n\nThe honour, which is a personal gift of the Queen, comes with the status of a knight and Sir Tony Blair received his knighthood, without any publicity, from the Queen in an audience at Windsor last week.\n\nSir Tony, winner of three general elections, had been one of the longest-serving prime ministers during the Queen's 70-year reign, including the tumultuous times that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nA petition had been launched against Sir Tony receiving a knighthood, with opponents criticising his involvement in the Iraq War. Stop the War campaigners held a protest in Windsor against the honour.\n\nCamilla, Duchess of Cornwall, became a \"royal companion\" of the order\n\nThe appointments to the Order of the Garter were announced at new year, but new members are formally installed at the annual ceremony in June.\n\nIt is usually a regular date in the Queen's diary, although the ceremony had been cancelled during the pandemic.\n\nCamilla becomes one of the \"royal companions\", with her appointment seen as a personal sign of approval by the Queen.\n\nAmong the other \"knight and lady companions\" members are former prime minister Sir John Major and former MI5 director-general Baroness Manningham-Buller. The oldest member is 90-year-old Lord Morris, a former Labour cabinet member.\n\nThere was music and pageantry for a ceremony previously stopped by the pandemic\n\nThe order, instituted by Edward III, originated from medieval chivalry and senior figures around a monarch.\n\nAccording to Buckingham Palace, the current purpose is to \"honour those who have undertaken public service, who have contributed in a particular way to national life\".\n\nIn Scotland, the Order of the Thistle was founded in 1687. Two new members were recently appointed, Sir George Reid and Lady Elish Angiolini.", "President Macron who voted in Le Touquet has devoted little time in campaigning for this vote\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron is at risk of losing his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections.\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon's left-green alliance finished neck and neck with Mr Macron's Ensemble (Together), in terms of votes cast in Sunday's first round.\n\nThe president faces a battle in next week's second round to win 289 seats and keep his majority.\n\nWithin half an hour of the first projection, a sombre Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced his alliance was in the lead: \"The truth at the end of the first round is that the presidential party is beaten and defeated.\" He called on voters to turn out in force next Sunday \"to reject definitively the disastrous policies of Mr Macron's majority\".\n\nCentrist Emmanuel Macron won a second term in April, but without a majority in the Assembly he will struggle to push through reforms. He intends to raise gradually the retirement age from 62 to 65, while Mr Mélenchon vows to lower it to 60.\n\nAlthough Ensemble won 25.75% of the vote, marginally ahead of the left's 25.66%, it was still projected to dominate the National Assembly. TF1 pollster Ifop gave Ensemble 275 to 305 seats, with the green-left alliance on 175-205. Ipsos for France Télévisions said Mr Macron's alliance was heading for a lower 255-295 seats and the left 150-190.\n\nThe left-wing coalition leader voted on Sunday morning in Marseille\n\nTurnout was the lowest in modern French history. Many voters clearly decided to take advantage of the sunny weather across France, with temperatures in Paris hitting 27C. But so far the election campaign has largely failed to spark into life.\n\nMr Mélenchon has proved the exception, leading a vigorous campaign since he came a close third in the presidential election. He has built an alliance called Nupes, made up of his own far-left party France Unbowed, the Socialists, Communists and greens - with the slogan \"Mélenchon prime minister\".\n\nHis aim has been to stop the president winning the majority he needs across France's 577 constituencies. On top of lowering the retirement age, Nupes vows to freeze prices on 100 essentials and create a million jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Macron has spent the intervening weeks since he won a second term in building a new government under Elisabeth Borne, as France grapples with rising inflation and a cost of living crunch.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had one week to convince voters and win a majority. Pointing to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, she said \"we cannot risk instability\"; France's values were at risk, she said: \"We alone have a project of coherence and responsibility.\"\n\nPrime Minister Elisabeth Borne is one of 15 members of the government being challenged in this election\n\nMs Borne is one of 15 ministers who have to win their seats to stay in government. And as each constituency is an individual local race, this election is played out over two weeks. Amélie de Montchalin, the minister in charge of green transition, faces a battle to survive as an MP, as does Europe Minister Clément Beaune. Former Macron education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer was an early casualty, losing out in the Loiret area to the south of Paris.\n\nUnless a candidate wins more than 50% of the vote based on a quarter of the electorate, the race culminates in a run-off next Sunday, involving the top two candidates and anyone else who wins 12.5% of the vote.\n\nOne of Mr Mélenchon's closest colleagues, Manuel Bompard, was only denied outright victory in the first round in Marseille because of a low turnout. Green leader Julien Bayou also came close to winning through in the first round.\n\nFar-right Marine Le Pen, who was runner-up in the presidential elections, was delighted with her party's performance. Her National Rally won 18.68% of the vote with a projected 15-30 seats, higher than her current number of eight. Another far-right leader, Éric Zemmour, was knocked out of the election in the first round.\n\nThe mainstream right, which fared badly in the April vote, has focused its campaigning locally. Despite winning only 10.42% of the vote, the Republicans could win 45 to 65 seats.\n\nThe fact that one in two French voters had stayed away from the ballot box on Sunday was worrying, said political scientist Olivier Rouquan. People felt they had already expressed their opinions in the presidential election, he believed.\n\nUntil 2002, the two elections were kept apart, which meant the government was sometimes led by a different party from the president, in what became known as cohabitation. If Mr Macron loses his majority he could be forced into cohabitation with the left.", "Trystan Chambers always wanted to run away with the circus from the age of five - and now he has.\n\nWhen it came to work experience from school, he knew he wanted something different from his classmates.\n\nTrystan did 10 days of work experience at a circus in the north of Scotland, before being invited back for the whole summer.\n\nAfter fulfilling his dream, he is now a member of Cardiff-based NoFit State Circus - with a job that certainly has its ups and downs.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nA former elite acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport.\n\nEloise Jotischky says Andrew Griffiths subjected her to inappropriate weight management techniques and verbal harassment when he was her coach at Heathrow Gymnastics Club.\n\nBritish Gymnastics has admitted full liability. It has reached a settlement and Jotischky has received a full apology from the governing body's chief executive.\n\nHowever, after Jotischky had received a letter confirming British Gymnastics' admittance of liability in March, Griffiths went to the World Acrobatic Championships as a Great Britain coach.\n\nBritish Gymnastics told BBC Sport he has since cancelled his membership with the governing body and is therefore not permitted to coach, while Heathrow said he no longer works for them.\n\nGriffiths previously served a British Gymnastics suspension for inappropriate practices before he coached Jotischky but was allowed back to the sport early after appealing.\n\nBBC Sport contacted him on numerous occasions but he did not respond.\n\nIt comes as an independent investigation into allegations of abuse within British gymnastics prepares to deliver its findings.\n\nA number of current and former gymnasts alleged mistreatment at all levels of the sport in 2020.\n\nThe Whyte Report, led by Anne Whyte QC and co-commissioned by Sport England and UK Sport, is scheduled to be published imminently.\n\nJotischky, now 19, was at Heathrow between the ages of 10 and 14, training 25 hours a week as an acrobatic gymnast. She competed nationally and internationally but has since quit the sport, she says as a result of her experiences.\n\nShe alleges that between 2016 and 2018, she was left \"physically exhausted\" after being subjected to inappropriate weight management techniques by Griffiths, who put her on a diet of about 800 calories for a non-training day, and about 1,200 calories on a training day. The NHS recommends teenage girls should consume between 2,200-2,500 calories per day.\n\nGriffiths, she says, would frequently \"weight-shame\" and physically prod her, telling her she \"looked dreadful\".\n\nWhen she was 12, she weighed 46kg (7st 3lb) but alleges Griffiths decided she needed to lose 5kg (11lb).\n\n\"The weighing sessions could be more than once a week,\" Jotischky told BBC Sport's Natalie Pirks. \"It was every Saturday, but sometimes we'd also be weighed during the week as well if they didn't like the way we looked.\n\n\"We'd have to line up and step on the scales with everyone else there, and sometimes they'd announce our weight or tell us to step to the side if they weren't happy with our weight so that they could have a conversation with us afterwards.\"\n\nThis would make Jotischky so \"incredibly anxious\" that towards the end of each week her stress levels would make her feel sick. She would limit her water intake and sit in \"boiling hot\" baths to try to lose weight quickly.\n\nShe alleges Griffiths would also \"shout and scream\" at her and other gymnasts if he did not approve of their weight.\n\n\"We were sitting on the sofa just physically shaking. Having a grown man scream over you, it was terrifying,\" she said.\n\n\"I think being scared from that then contributed to my routine on a Friday night having the hot baths because I was so terrified of what was to come, the consequences of not losing weight.\"\n\nHowever, Jotischky says Griffiths' treatment of male gymnasts differed - he would buy fast food for them, which he would tell them to eat in front of the female gymnasts.\n\nIn a statement to BBC Sport, British Gymnastics said \"there is no place for abuse of any kind in gymnastics\", adding it had recently doubled the size of its safeguarding team.\n\nHeathrow Gymnastics Club said: \"Andrew Griffiths no longer works for Heathrow Gymnastics Club. The Club has 60 coaches and 1,100 children that participate happily in many gymnastic disciplines.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "The boy died in hospital after being found injured at a house in the Miles Platting area\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was found stabbed at a house in Manchester and later died in hospital has been named by police.\n\nJakub Szymanski was found injured by paramedics at an address on Bednal Avenue in Miles Platting on Thursday.\n\nA 44-year-old man from Manchester was arrested on Friday and continues to be questioned on suspicion of murder.\n\nIn a statement released by Greater Manchester Police, Jakub's family said he was a \"funny and a cheeky boy\" who loved supporting Manchester City.\n\nIt said: \"Jakub was lovingly known as Kuba to his family and Jakub to his friends. He was always a popular child making friends wherever he went due to his friendly and chatty nature.\n\n\"He always spoke his mind, he was mischievous, funny and a cheeky boy. He loved his Xbox and football, supporting Manchester City.\n\n\"He was like every other teenage boy and was helpful to so many people, even those he just met. To our family, he's our hero.\"\n\nJakub's mother, in her 40s, was also found stabbed at the scene on Thursday and taken to hospital, where she remains in a stable condition.\n\nThe 44-year-old man, who is in police custody, was arrested in Kent on Friday night and was believed to be known to Jakub and his mother, said police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alicia Smith, from GMP's Major Incident Team, said: \"We're still continuing with our investigation and last night's arrest has been a huge step in potentially getting a grieving family the answers they so badly need.\n\n\"A teenage boy who had his whole life ahead of him has tragically lost his life and not only is his mother grieving at the loss of her son, but she is also recovering from what will have been no doubt, hugely traumatic.\"\n\nShe appealed for anyone with information to get in touch with police or Crimestoppers.\n\nA large police cordon was set up at the scene on Bednal Avenue\n• None Man arrested over fatal stabbing of boy in house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ruth Llewellyn said she would decide on her day off depending on her workload from week to week\n\nA firm in Merthyr Tydfil is part of the world's biggest four-day week trial.\n\nHousing association Merthyr Valleys is one of 70 UK companies in the six-month trial which will see them work fewer hours for the same pay.\n\nEmployees say the trial could be \"life-changing\", but the company says tenants must not see a reduced service.\n\nThe aim is to gather data on how the system works in all sorts of businesses in order to encourage more employers to offer a shorter working week.\n\nThe whole 225-strong workforce, from carpenters to communications, from the chief executive to the call centre, started working fewer hours earlier this week.\n\nMarcus Powell, chair of the democratic body which represents employees and residents of the housing association to the board, said he believed the opportunity was \"life changing\".\n\nAlthough some workers wondered whether it was too good to be true, he said, there was \"lots of excitement through the organisation\".\n\n\"I think it's life changing, because on my day off I can spend more time with my family.\n\n\"I certainly don't want to be doing any housework, I'll still leave that to the weekend, but for me it's about spending more quality time with my friends and family and being able to relax on those days.\"\n\nNot everyone has decided to have one less day in the office.\n\nGerald Charles has decided to do a five-day week during term time working 09:00 to 15:00 Monday to Friday\n\nGerald Charles manages the gas contracts for the organisation and has decided to do a five-day week during term time.\n\nHe will work 09:00 until 15:00 while his daughter is at school, then during the holidays he will work a four-day week.\n\n\"It's fantastic for my personal life, it means that I'm able to take on more responsibility at home and my wife, who isn't able to do what I'm able to do, she doesn't have to worry about any more, which is fantastic. I can't fault it,\" he said.\n\nRuth Llewellyn, head of human resources, has been organising the rollout of the project.\n\nShe said she intends to work flexibly and change her day off depending on how the week pans out.\n\nShe said she would fill her time with seeing friends and family and hopes to do more of the \"general things that you struggle to fit into your working week, things like hairdressers appointments, sorting out your home insurance\".\n\nShe said they were able to offer a four-day week by being more productive in the time that they were on site.\n\n\"I think the challenge from us to our colleagues, is to ask yourselves 'why?' If you're doing something, why am I doing it? Why am I doing it this way? Is there a better way? Is there a quicker way?\n\n\"Just getting us all to focus on the time we have at work.\"\n\nDai and Gary will measure their productivity in tonnes collected\n\nDavid McLoughlin and Gary Flye are a two-person team who work for the environmental department and deal with fly-tipping across the borough. They have decided to have a Friday off.\n\nUsually they would cover the whole borough, which is 12 miles (19km) across, by going from place to place.\n\nThey will now spend more time in one place, maybe one part of the borough in the morning and another in the afternoon. They will measure their productivity in tonnes collected.\n\n\"We're trying to work a little bit smarter, a little bit harder Monday to Thursday, so we can get the nice Friday benefit,\" said Dai.\n\nHe is looking forward to taking his kids to school on his day off and having some time to relax and catch up on housework and DIY jobs.\n\nFor Gary, it is his partner that will feel the benefit.\n\n\"With me, I play a lot of sport on the weekend so my partner doesn't see me much on the weekend. She doesn't work on a Friday, so this it'll give me a chance to take her out.\n\n\"Whether that's a good thing, I don't know, but it'll keep her happy.\"\n\nEveryone at the housing association is working a four-day week or the equivalent number of hours\n\n\"I've got grand plans - whether they come off is another thing,\" said Allison Soroko, from the communications team.\n\nAt the moment, she said, her weekends were \"really busy\".\n\n\"I work Monday to Friday and I've got two kids, a husband and a dog, so the weekends are spent cooking, cleaning, shipping the kids around, so Saturdays and Sundays are really busy.\n\n\"So I'm really looking forward to having some time off just to pick up those tasks and to pinch a little bit of time for me.\"\n\nIt's clear all the employees I spoke to that they want the trial to work, but there is a risk productivity does not improve, according to Gerald Charles.\n\n\"From my point of view, it's all down to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs),\" said Mr Charles.\n\n\"I monitor what's being done daily and then what the results are at the end of the week, which tells me how things are going, so as long as we can keep up with our KPIs and we can maintain the 100% then yes, of course it will work.\n\n\"I want it to work, my wife wants it to work and everyone in the company wants it to work, so it's definitely got the full support, so why not?\"\n\nSurveys have been carried out before the trial to measure productivity in all of the company's departments. They'll be monitored throughout the six months and compared at the end to measure the success of the trial.\n\nRuth Llewellyn said: \"Our main aim is to demonstrate that there's absolutely no impact on our services. Our main measure is going to be on tenants and colleagues.\n\n\"For our colleagues, how are they feeling that it's working for them? How are they using that extra day? Is it bringing the additional wellbeing benefits that we expect it to bring? And for our tenants, are we still delivering the service that they expect? Do we need to do things differently?\"\n\nSurveys will be completed by employees and tenants throughout the trial to see what their experiences are.\n\nAll the workers we spoke to mentioned the impact of the pandemic on the way they thought and felt about their work.\n\nEmployment lawyer Fflur Jones said that before the pandemic \"we didn't know things could be done slightly differently\"\n\nFflur Jones, is an employment lawyer with Darwin Gray in Cardiff.\n\nShe said that before the pandemic, \"we didn't know things could be done slightly differently\".\n\n\"This is a great time for this to be experimented upon because there is so much dissatisfaction with the status quo.\"\n\nShe said the desire for more work-life balance was a \"phenomenon\" after the pandemic, and it is here to stay.\n\n\"It's more about the flexibility and the hours of work and the location of work now than it is about salaries, for sure.\n\n\"That comes up time and time again when people look to move. It's a proper phenomenon. And I don't think it's going to go away, particularly while there are so many roles out there, so it is the employee's market rather than the employer's being able to pick and choose who to take or to retain.\"\n\nThe pilot is being organised by 4 Day Week Global in partnership with think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week UK Campaign, and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College.\n\nWill Stronge said many kinds of work and the working day is \"elastic\" as productivity can wane due to tiredness\n\nBut can the four-day working week work for all workplaces? It can work for many according to Will Stronge from employment think tank, Autonomy, but not all.\n\n\"If you look at things like health care, teaching, social care, these are the kinds of work which actually, if you reduce their working week, they wouldn't necessarily become more productive,\" said Mr Stronge.\n\n\"That kind of work is not amenable to simply reducing the working week, you need to increase the staff count or the headcount.\n\n\"In many companies though, that's just not the case and in many kinds of work the working day is what we call elastic. So a lot can get done in a short amount of time and then in another period of the day, if staff are burnt out or tired or things just don't go their way. there can be less productive hours of the day.\n\n\"It's one of the myths about productivity, that greater productivity is achieved when you work longer hours. On a very macro economic level, that's just not the case.\"\n\nHe added that Greece and Mexico work longer hours but their economy did not perform better, while other countries such as Netherlands, Germany, France and many others worked fewer hours than in the UK but were more productive in general.\n\n\"What's really exciting about that is that researchers, such as us at Autonomy and academic researchers at Cambridge and Boston, are going to really get their hands on new data for a whole range of organisations and you can evaluate what works and what doesn't work and hopefully inform policy rollout more broadly following the trial,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You have to mobilise a political campaign to change Westminster's mind,\" Alex Salmond says\n\nNicola Sturgeon \"must fire the starting gun\" in a bid to secure another independence referendum, former first minister Alex Salmond has said.\n\nThe Scottish government is preparing to publish the first in a series of documents outlining its next steps towards indyref2.\n\nThe established route is through a Section 30 order - asking PM Boris Johnson to grant Holyrood the power to hold a referendum.\n\nThat request has so far not been made.\n\nThe first minister has consistently said that last year's Scottish election result gave the Scottish government a mandate for another referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would set out more detail \"in substance and process\" in the period ahead and that \"anyone who has any respect for democracy will understand the importance of honouring that mandate\".\n\nMr Salmond told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show programme that if Ms Sturgeon and the Scottish government were serious about winning a referendum next year, they must start campaigning for it now.\n\nThe former first minister - who led the SNP into the 2014 independence referendum - said: \"Presumably, the Scottish government are worried that Boris Johnson is going to say no. But I'd have thought you would have to kick off that campaign.\n\n\"If you know he is going to say no, then you have to let him say no and then you can do something about it.\n\n\"It's not really a strategy by just not asking the question.\n\n\"You have to ask the question if you are to mobilise a campaign - a political campaign, a legal campaign, a diplomatic campaign - to change his mind.\"\n\nLast week, the Scottish government published details of legal advice it was given on holding a new independence referendum before the end of 2023.\n\nThe papers show ministers were told they could work on policies preparing for a vote, and to test a question with the Electoral Commission.\n\nBut there was no reference as to whether Holyrood would have the power to legislate for indyref2 without the UK government's backing.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has consistently said the SNP has a mandate for a second referendum\n\nConstitutional experts have been split over the question, and there has been speculation that any attempt by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to press on with her plan to hold a referendum next year could result in a court battle between the governments in London and Edinburgh.\n\nThat is because the UK government has shown no sign that it would be willing to give the formal consent that ensured the legality of the 2014 independence referendum, in which voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45%.\n\nOpposition parties have argued that it would be a waste of public money for the government to press on with its plan for another referendum if it has already been told by its own lawyers that it does not have the powers to hold one.\n\nMr Salmond, who now leads the Alba party, told BBC Scotland that with only 18 months left until the end of next year, it was imperative to \"start pressing Westminster to accept the will of the Scottish people\".\n\nHe said: \"I would have thought this is rather a good time to put pressure on a Westminster government.", "Ronaldo denies the allegations and has never been charged\n\nA US judge has dismissed a rape allegation lawsuit against Cristiano Ronaldo because the accuser's lawyer relied on leaked and stolen records.\n\nKathryn Mayorga alleges that the Manchester United footballer raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009.\n\nHe denies the allegations and has never been charged.\n\nShe reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with the star in 2010, but has been seeking millions more than the $375,000 (£304,000) she received.\n\nMs Mayorga said that while she had agreed to the settlement shortly after the alleged incident, her emotional trauma at the time did not allow her to participate in the mediation process, and she felt pressured to accept the offer.\n\nBefore filing her complaint, Ms Mayorga's lawyer, Leslie Stovall, received \"ill-gotten\" information and documents which were confidential and privileged, US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey wrote.\n\nThe judge said the lawyer harmed Mr Ronaldo, 37, by conducting himself in \"bad faith\" through repeated use of stolen, privileged documents to prosecute the case.\n\nIn a 42-page ruling released on Friday and quoted by AFP, Judge Dorsey accused Mr Stovall of \"abuses and flagrant circumvention of the proper litigation process\" and said that as a result, \"Mayorga loses her opportunity to pursue this case.\"\n\nLast year, a magistrate judge recommended the case be dismissed due to Mr Stovall's conduct.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Stovall for comment.\n\nIn 2019, US prosecutors said Cristiano Ronaldo would not face charges over the accusations as they could not \"be proven beyond reasonable doubt\".\n\nThe Clark County District Attorney's office in Las Vegas said Ms Mayorga reported an assault in 2009, but refused to state where it had happened or who the attacker was. As a result police were unable \"to conduct any meaningful investigation\". But the allegations were investigated again in 2018 at her request.\n\nIt followed a 2017 article in German magazine Der Spiegel, which reported that in 2010, Ms Mayorga reached an out-of-court settlement with the footballer for agreeing never to go public with the allegations.\n\nMs Mayorga's lawyer said she had been inspired to re-open the case by the #MeToo movement.\n\nMr Ronaldo has not denied that the two met in Las Vegas in 2009, but said that what happened between them was consensual.\n\nThe BBC does not generally name people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but Ms Mayorga has given consent to make her name public.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We have a direct line to Moscow, says UK chief of defence staff Adm Sir Tony Radakin\n\nBritons should not head to Ukraine to fight and should instead help however they can from the UK, the head of the armed forces has said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Adm Sir Tony Radakin rejected Ukraine's call for a no-fly zone saying it would not help tactically and might escalate fighting.\n\nHe urged the West to have confidence that they were doing the \"right thing\".\n\nThe invasion was not going well, Russia was becoming less powerful and it cannot continue, he said.\n\nOn Britons wanting to join the fight, Adm Radakin said that the \"sound of gunfire\" was not \"something you want to rush to\", and urged people to support Ukraine in sensible ways from the UK.\n\nAsked whether Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had been right to say she would support any Briton who wanted to fight, he said: \"We can all understand that sentiment, and that sentiment needs to be channelled into support for Ukraine.\"\n\nSenior UK military officers are genuinely worried that some British troops - regulars or reservists - might try to join the battle in Ukraine and, in doing so, risk handing Russia a propaganda victory.\n\nLast week the Chief of Defence People, Lt Gen James Swift, sent out a message to the chain of command stressing that UK military personnel were \"not authorised\" to travel there.\n\nHe said that if there was any suspicion that troops were trying to make their way to Ukraine then it should be reported immediately to the Service Police.\n\nThe message warned that if serving British military personnel went to fight in Ukraine then they were putting not only their lives in danger but they also risked giving \"the mistaken perception\" to Russia that Britain had sent in troops to engage in hostilities.\n\nAdm Sir Tony Radakin has now underlined that message, saying it would be \"unlawful and unhelpful\".\n\nAt present the MoD does not believe there are any examples of full-time British military personnel going absent to fight in Ukraine. But it's harder for them to keep tabs on reservists who often also have another career.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Sunday Morning show, the defence chief painted a picture of Russian forces suffering from heavy losses and low morale, with kit failings and a massive military convoy stalled outside the capital, Kyiv.\n\nThe Kremlin has lost more troops in a week than the UK did in 20 years in Afghanistan, he said, and some \"lead elements of Russian forces\" have been decimated.\n\nHe described stories of soldiers whose morale had been so knocked they had abandoned the convoy destined for Kyiv to camp in the forest.\n\nUkrainian servicemen near Kyiv - a huge convoy of Russian troops has stopped its advance outside the capital\n\nOn Saturday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a fiery speech saying the West's reluctance to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine had given Russia \"a green light\" to continue bombarding towns and villages.\n\nBut Adm Radakin insisted such an intervention would not help.\n\n\"The advice that we, as senior military professionals are giving our politicians, is to avoid doing things that are tactically ineffective and definitely to avoid doing things that tactically might lead to miscalculation or escalation.\"\n\nHe said most of the shelling and destruction was coming from artillery, not Russian aircraft, and to police a no-fly zone could mean taking out Russian defence systems and shooting down Russian aircraft - leading to an escalation, he added.\n\nSpeaking later on the same programme, UK deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he understood Ukraine's cri de coeur but insisted the West had been clear all along that it would not engage in direct military confrontation.\n\nThat would give succour to Russian President Vladimir Putin's argument that he was in conflict with the West, he said.\n\nMr Putin said on Saturday that any such move to implement a no-fly zone would be seen \"as participation in an armed conflict by that country\".\n\nThe West has to maintain calmness and responsibility and not react rashly to the latest \"bizarre or ridiculous comment\" from Mr Putin, he said.\n\n\"We are prepared, we are professional armed forces, we will approach this conflict with that level of professionalism and responsibility that you would expect.\n\n\"We will also be incredibly confident in our ability to face down President Putin,\" he added.\n\nHe gave an insight into relations with his counterpart, Gen Valery Gerasimov, head of Russian armed forces, explaining the Ministry of Defence has a direct line to Moscow's operational headquarters.\n\nIt is tested every day, he said, and he has used the line to tell Gen Gerasimov they need to speak. \"I'm waiting for him to come back to me,\" he added.\n\nAdm Radakin was also asked whether the West would know beforehand whether Mr Putin would use nuclear weapons.\n\nHe said he did not want to go into detail but there had been a \"remarkable\" level of intelligence in the months leading up to the invasion.\n\n\"There are some more discreet elements in terms of warning signs if this was going to start to chart a path towards nuclear escalation,\" he said.", "Ukraine’s president says Lysychansk is already dead, along with neighboring Severodonetsk - both ghost cities now.\n\nRussia is not just destroying apartment buildings, flats and homes, it’s destroying history and the fabric of cities. This is a deliberate tactic - bomb, shell, burn, and leave nothing but scorched earth.\n\nThose who remain make brief escapes from their basements to cook outdoors. The city has no power or running water.\n\nThe city is running out of time. This is now an artillery war and Ukraine doesn’t have enough big guns or ammunition.\n\nJust a short distance away, neighbouring Severodonetsk is burning and may soon fall.\n\nUkrainian troops there are fighting building to building, street to street but all bridges to the city have now been destroyed.\n\nUkraine is facing an enemy that has learned lessons and is imposing crushing losses in battle. Troops fight on but the handful of advanced weapon systems promised by Britain and the United States may be too little, too late.\n\nHere in the Donbas region right now, it looks like a losing battle.", "It is not the first time the singer has stopped a show to ensure her fans are safe\n\nBillie Eilish briefly paused her show at London's O2 arena on Saturday after several fans got into difficulties in sweltering temperatures.\n\n\"Are you all ok?\" she asked. \"People were fainting and getting pulled out. It's hot, I know\".\n\nAfter fans said they were \"squished\", she halted the music until the pressure in front of the stage eased.\n\n\"Take a step back, give everybody some space,\" Eilish said. \"If someone looks a little woozy, just tell someone.\"\n\nShe added: \"Don't try to save feelings.\"\n\nEarlier, Eilish had asked the O2 security team to distribute water to the audience.\n\nIt is not the first time the singer has stopped a concert to check on her fans.\n\nIn February, she interrupted her Happier Than Ever tour show in Atlanta after noticing someone struggling to breathe, and refused to proceed until they could access an inhaler.\n\n\"Can we just grab one?\" she asked a crew member.\n\nLater that month, she also paused a show in New York's Madison Square Garden, telling fans: \"If you want to sit down, you are allowed. Go ahead, you're good. Sit down, take a breath.\"\n\nThe issue of crowd safety has been in the spotlight ever since 10 people were killed during a crush at Travis Scott's Astroworld festival in Houston last year.\n\nFans in the audience later criticised the response of emergency services, and asked why organisers did not call a halt to the concert.\n\nAn inquiry is currently investigating the circumstances that led to the tragedy.\n\nAt the O2 on Saturday night, fans took matters into their own hands. One group, after noticing a fellow concertgoer in trouble, formed a protective circle and turned on their phone lights to alert the security team.\n\nEilish resumed her show after three minutes. She later thanked \"all the security [and] all the staff\" at the venue, adding: \"I appreciate you\".\n\nSaturday's concert was the second of six Eilish will play at the O2, as well as headlining Glastonbury\n\nSaturday's concert was the second of six dates at the 20,000 capacity O2 arena, as Eilish continues her Happier Than Ever world tour.\n\nThe atmosphere had been feverish from the start; with the star's breathy vocals frequently drowned out by fans.\n\nBeatlemania-pitch screams punctuated the evening, whiplashing around the O2 whenever Eilish approached the edge of the stage; or when she sank to her knees during Therefore I Am; or when she picked up a fan's Pride flag and draped it over her shoulders; and even when she struggled to disentangle a scrunchie from her jet-black pigtails.\n\nIt was a reaction you'd typically expect for a boyband like BTS or One Direction - but while those groups whip up emotions with the illusory promise of romance, Eilish's songs dwell in the uncomfortable messiness of early adulthood.\n\nShe sings of nerves and depression, awkward social interactions and hopeless boyfriends. Her songs have a flair for the macabre (one features the sound of a dentist drill) and a scepticism of authority.\n\nNo wonder her lyrics resonate so powerfully with her fans.\n\n\"Singing those songs out loud was like free therapy,\" my 12-year-old remarked as we left the arena.\n\nThe star often stopped to take in the atmosphere\n\nEarly in the set, Eilish laid out her ground rules for the night: \"Don't be an asshole, do not judge anyone in here, and have fun, bitch\".\n\nShe was the biggest beneficiary of her own advice, throwing herself around the stage with the unchecked energy of a hurricane; while her legs were taped up to prevent the recurrence of an old dance injury.\n\nThe show relied entirely on her charisma, with minimal staging, lit almost exclusively in red and white.\n\nOne concession to arena spectacle was the moment Eilish climbed into a giant hydraulic crane to serenade the back of the auditorium, but she managed to subvert even that cliché, bending backwards over the safety ropes to dangle perilously over the crowd. Her insurers must have been quaking in their boots.\n\nBut maybe the most impressive feat was the way Eilish turned some of her less powerful songs into arena-filling monsters.\n\nGoldwing, a fluttering, experimental track on her second album, became a thrilling call-and-response banger; while the mumbled beats of Oxytocin briefly turned the O2 into an underground rave.\n\nElsewhere, a montage of childhood videos during Getting Older was endearing and sweet; while Your Power - a song about older men who abuse their positions - felt especially cathartic.\n\nEilish has already won seven Grammy Awards at the age of 20\n\nAll The Good Girls Go To Hell - a macabre stand-out from her debut album - was hacked down to a single verse and chorus; while her break-out songs Bellyache and Ocean Eyes were unnecessarily condensed into a brief medley.\n\nWith only two albums to her name, Eilish didn't need to short-change fans on some of their favourite songs, even if she has progressed musically since they were released.\n\nBut she ended the night on an indisputable high, with the delightfully malevolent Bad Guy (duh!) followed by Happier Than Ever, a gently-strummed break-up ballad that builds and builds to an almighty, operatic climax.\n\n\"You make me hate this city,\" the audience bellowed along at the top of their lungs.\n\nBut not tonight. Not when Billie's around.\n\nEilish will play further dates in London, Birmingham and Glasgow this week, and headlines Glastonbury on 24 June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wales players celebrate qualifying for their first World Cup since 1958\n\nSome of the Welsh national football team's staff will not travel to the World Cup in Qatar because of the country's stance on gay rights.\n\nHead of Welsh football Noel Mooney said the team would use the event as a \"platform\" to discuss human rights in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.\n\nHe is also asking Fifa and Uefa to \"think very deeply about their conscience\" when choosing host nations.\n\nQatari officials have said it would be a \"tournament for everyone\".\n\nFollowing a 1-0 victory over Ukraine, Wales has qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1958.\n\nThe decision by Fifa to host the tournament in Qatar has been widely criticised, with the country's wider record on human rights also under scrutiny.\n\nHuman rights organisation Amnesty International has \"multiple concerns\", including Qatar's record on gay rights and its treatment of migrant workers.\n\nHomosexuality is illegal in Qatar and Amnesty said women and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer or questioning) people \"continue to face discrimination in law and practice\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC Politics Wales programme, Football Association of Wales (FAW) chief executive Mr Mooney said the squad hoped to use the World Cup \"as a force for good\".\n\nFAW chief executive Noel Mooney says he does not believe it was the \"right thing\" for the team to boycott the tournament\n\nHe added: \"The consensus between the [European] Uefa nations is to use it as a platform for improvement and that's very much what we intend to do.\n\n\"We are looking forward to playing a very active role, from the FAW and the Welsh government's perspective, in airing our views.\"\n\nMr Mooney said he did not believe it was the \"right thing\" for the team to boycott the tournament.\n\nBut he said some of his friends and FAW staff members \"won't be travelling\" to Qatar because of the country's stance on gay rights.\n\nHe added: \"They're not going to go to the tournament, which is absolutely their right to do so.\n\n\"The vast, vast majority of people will go and understand also our position that it is a platform to try to improve life there and to have good dialogue on issues like human rights... and migrant workers.\n\n\"So, we're looking forward to playing a full part in that and getting clarity on any outstanding issues for travelling supporters.\"\n\nSome members of the Rainbow Wall, Wales' official LGBTQ+ supporters' group, have previously said they will not travel to Qatar to support the team.\n\nBut Mr Mooney said the Rainbow Wall \"will be front and centre of our thoughts as we plan for this World Cup\".\n\nThere is concern from LGBT communities about the World Cup being held in Qatar\n\nThe FAW boss said he was concerned about \"sports-washing\", the use of sports by governments to distract from their human rights abuses.\n\n\"We have had a World Cup in Russia in 2018 which was a massive PR success,\" Mr Mooney said.\n\n\"I think anybody who left the World Cup would say it was a great success for Russia.\n\n\"We've seen what has happened since [with Russia's invasion of Ukraine].\n\n\"There are concerns, certainly I have them, on how sport is being used as a façade, maybe, for something else.\n\n\"So, I think that the rights holders, the big global sports institutions like the Olympics, Fifa, Uefa and bodies like that, really have to think strategically and they have to think very deeply about their conscience,\" Mr Mooney added.\n\nFirst minister Mark Drakeford said Wales should use its opportunity to raise human rights issues with Qatari authorities\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd on Tuesday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales should use its opportunity to raise human rights issues with Qatari authorities \"while the eyes of the world are on that country\".\n\nMr Drakeford added: \"We are absolutely delighted that Wales will be represented at Qatar, but we should not look the other way from the reservations that we would have as a nation from some of those human rights issues that we see there.\"\n\nFatma Al-Nuaimi, communications executive director of Qatar's supreme committee for organising the tournament, previously told BBC Sport: \"It's a tournament for everyone, a tournament of firsts, and a tournament where everyone will be welcome.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Steve Rosenberg had a taste of Russia's McDonald's replacement\n\nIt's a Russian revamp of an American icon.\n\nFast food giant McDonald's pulled out of Russia in protest at the invasion of Ukraine and sold its restaurants here - more than 800 - to Russian businessman Alexander Govor.\n\nToday the first rebranded restaurants are reopening in Moscow.\n\nThere's a new name: \"Vkusno i Tochka\", which translates as \"Tasty and that's it\".\n\nGone are the Golden Arches, replaced by a stylised letter M, made out of two French fries, and a dot (or, perhaps, a burger?)\n\nGone are the Big Mac and McFlurry.\n\nBut the new owners hope customers won't notice too many differences. They held a press conference in the flagship restaurant on Pushkin Square, where the very first Moscow McDonald's opened 32 years ago.\n\n\"Our goal is that our guests do not notice a difference either in quality or ambience,\" said Oleg Paroyev, CEO of Vkusno i Tochka.\n\nThe outlet sported a slogan reading: \"The name changes, love stays.\"\n\nBut one male protester disrupted the event, saying \"bring back Big Mac!\"\n\nThe new company says the burgers' composition has not changed and the McDonald's equipment remains.\n\nBack in 1990 I was in the massive queue: it took me three hours to get in and be served. I remember the excitement. The arrival of McDonald's was a symbol of Soviet Russia embracing Western ideas, Western culture, Western food.\n\nWhat's happening here today is a symbol, too: of how Russia and the West are moving apart. And the crowd was a lot smaller.\n\nThe first McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990...\n\n...more than 30 years on it has been replaced\n\nWe're not just talking burgers. Many global brands and multinational companies have suspended business in Russia or sold up and pulled out completely, in protest at the Russian offensive in Ukraine.\n\nMr Govor, a Siberian oil magnate, aims to reopen about a quarter of the 850 rebranded McDonald's restaurants by the end of the month.\n\nLast month McDonald's announced that it would leave Russia because of the \"humanitarian crisis\" and \"unpredictable operating environment\" caused by the war.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRussia and Ukraine accounted for about 9% of McDonald's global sales last year.\n\nStarbucks, Coca Cola, Levi's and Apple are among the international brands that have left Russia or suspended sales here since the 24 February invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia is now under wide-ranging international sanctions, which are disrupting its supply chains and increasing unemployment.", "The government is preparing plans to repeal a legal ban on agency staff filling in for striking workers.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the Sunday Telegraph a potential change in legislation could allow companies to hire temporary workers to cover some roles and prevent disruption.\n\nAny intervention would not affect the rail strikes across Britain this month.\n\nBut Mr Shapps said changes could be brought in quickly to minimise future action in rail or other sectors.\n\nLabour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC One's Sunday Morning programme the proposals would make it \"less safe to travel\" and accused ministers of \"sowing chaos and sowing division\".\n\n\"The government is acting like arsonists rather than firefighters,\" she said.\n\nA war of words between rail unions and ministers has been escalating since the RMT union announced three days of strikes, after talks about pay, terms and conditions, and redundancies fell through.\n\nMr Shapps said should the action continue then \"further measures certainly would come in during this particular dispute, if it can't be resolved\".\n\n\"We will be looking at the full suite of modernisation that's required,\" he told the Telegraph. \"The country must not continue to be held to ransom.\"\n\nThe transport secretary said any change could involve secondary legislation, which can be signed off by ministers \"very fast\".\n\nMeanwhile, writing in the Sun on Sunday, Mr Shapps warned rail workers who plan to strike this month that they will not be able to work overtime on subsequent days to top-up pay they will lose as a result of taking part in the action. It is is understood this is because rail companies may decide to run restricted timetables after the strike days.\n\nDescribing the strikes as a \"disruptive and unnecessary stoppage\", he wrote: \"Rail managers and ministers are determined to ensure strikers cannot milk the system to maintain their income while inflicting misery on the public.\"\n\nDays are passing quickly until this first wave of crippling train strikes start, with no current sign of a resolution.\n\nThe suggested legislative changes won't happen for the first wave of strikes in just over a week, but if there are more, Grant Shapps hopes agency workers can fill gaps.\n\nBut 40,000 workers are walking out, and 10,000 more on London Underground.\n\nThere are a few problems.\n\nFirstly, the UK economy has a huge recruitment problem at the moment. There are record numbers of vacancies, and not enough workers to fill them. So finding 50,000 agency workers for the railways when we can't fully resource UK airports could be a challenge.\n\nSecondly, both sides of this fractious industrial dispute have said that safety problems with agency workers make this plan impossible. Unions and the rail industry say safety-critical roles like signallers, guards, drivers can't easily be covered. They say these workers don't work for agencies, they already work in the railway.\n\nMr Shapps' comments come less than a month after rail unions reacted with fury to a government threat to make strike action illegal unless a minimum number of train staff remained working during a walkout.\n\nIn response, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"We already have the most restrictive anti-democratic trade union laws in Western Europe and if the government attempts to reduce our rights further, the RMT along with the rest of the trade union movement will mount the fiercest resistance possible.\"\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT members working for Network Rail and 13 train operating companies across Britain will strike on 21, 23 and 25 June.\n\nThe RMT says train company workers had been subject to \"pay freezes, threats to jobs and attacks on their terms and conditions\".\n\nNetwork Rail plans to cut 2,500 maintenance jobs in a bid to make £2bn of savings, but the RMT argues such a move would make accidents more likely.\n\nThe union's members voted by 87% to 11% in favour of industrial action.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the country \"must not continue to be held to ransom\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis criticised the strike action and told the Sunday Morning programme that staff in the rail industry were already \"very well rewarded\".\n\n\"The median salary in the rail industry is about £46,000… against an average wage in this country of closer to £26,000,\" he said.\n\nAsked about the proposals to replace striking workers with agency staff, he said the government was \"not taking anything off the table\" but would make sure the railways were \"running properly and safely\".\n\nIn a separate dispute over pensions and job losses, the RMT's London Underground members will also strike on 21 June.\n\nThe RMT is calling it the biggest dispute for over three decades and put the industrial action down to the \"inability of the rail employers to come to a negotiated settlement\".\n\nTrain and tram drivers, part of the Aslef union, are also set to strike in three locations this month.\n\nAslef's general secretary Mick Whelan called Mr Shapps' idea \"impractical\" and asked where the agency workers would come from.\n\n\"You can't just ship in a load of signallers and train drivers,\" he said adding: \"If they are not working for the railway now they are either not medically fit, have been dismissed or don't want to do it anymore.\"\n\nChristina McAnea - general secretary of Unison - predicted the move would prompt a backlash.\n\nShe warned that her union, which represents public service workers including nurses and social workers, would be \"campaigning - doing more than campaigning - to make sure that it doesn't happen\".", "British troops are banned from travelling to join the conflict between Russia and Ukraine\n\nA small number of British soldiers have disobeyed orders and may have travelled to Ukraine to fight, the British Army has confirmed.\n\nThe soldiers were absent without leave and may have gone to Ukraine \"in a personal capacity\", the Army said.\n\n\"We are actively and strongly encouraging them to return to the UK,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nAll service personnel are banned from travelling to Ukraine until further notice.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss has previously said she supports UK civilians who might want to go to Ukraine to help fight, and that it was up to people to make their own decisions.\n\nBut the government later clarified that the Foreign Office advises against all travel to Ukraine.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence says joining the fighting may be against the law and could lead to prosecution.\n\nThe Army statement follows a report in the Sun of a 19-year-old from the Coldstream Guards who left his Windsor barracks and bought a ticket to Poland at the weekend.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has not confirmed the report but said soldiers travelling to Ukraine, whether on leave at the time or not, would face disciplinary consequences.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged foreigners to help his troops resist the Russian invasion\n\nLast week serving soldiers were warned that heading to Ukraine in response to the Russian invasion also risked giving \"the mistaken perception\" to Russia that Britain had sent in troops to fight.\n\nHundreds of former British soldiers have said they want to go to Ukraine to fight or help with medical or humanitarian efforts. Many have told the BBC they are getting mixed messages from the government about whether they should go.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged foreigners to join what he calls an \"international brigade\". It is unclear how many people have responded to his calls, but hundreds of Britons expressed their wish to volunteer.\n\nAlthough the UK has sent weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia, it has repeatedly said it would not be sending British troops to fight in Ukraine.\n\nThe West has been clear that it would not engage in direct military confrontation with Russia and countries in the Nato military alliance - including the UK - have repeatedly rejected President Zelensky's calls to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.", "Hywel Morgan died after rescuing two children who were caught in a rip current, police say\n\nA man has died after rescuing two children who got into difficulty off the coast of Wales, police say.\n\nPolice were called to Poppit Sands, near St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire at about 20:40 BST on Friday after a number of people got into difficulty.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said Hywel Morgan, 47, died after being recovered from the sea. The two children were taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nMr Morgan's family said he was a \"hero\" and a \"devoted and loving father\".\n\nMr Morgan, who was known as Hyw by family and friends, had helped rescue a group of children who were caught in a rip current.\n\nPoppit Sands beach is near St Dogmaels, which sits the other side of the River Teifi to Cardigan\n\nIn a statement issued by police, his family said: \"Hyw was a hero. Despite our pain and grief, it gives us comfort that he selflessly tried to prevent others from losing their lives.\n\n\"Hyw was a selfless individual who always gave up his time for others. He was a devoted and loving father and was loved and respected by all who knew him.\n\n\"As a family, we would now like time to grieve and would ask for privacy in which to do so.\"", "Scotland should not have food products \"forced\" on it because of the easing of regulations around gene editing, a government minister has said.\n\nThe UK government has introduced a Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill which would set different rules from the EU following Brexit.\n\nIt had asked Holyrood ministers to consider allowing gene-edited crops to be grown in Scotland.\n\nBut the idea has been dismissed by environment secretary Mairi McAllan.\n\nShe has written to UK environment secretary George Eustice and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, saying Scotland would not make the same changes as England if the bill passed.\n\nMs McAllan said the Scottish government \"will not accept any constraint on the exercise of its devolved powers to set standards within devolved policy areas\".\n\nGene editing allows scientists to change a plant or animal's DNA.\n\nScientists can engineer crops that are more disease or drought resistant, without adding genetic material from another species.\n\nUnder the UK's internal market act, anything approved for sale in one part of the UK must be available across the whole of the UK.\n\nTomatoes developed by scientists in Norwich to produce high amounts of vitamin D could be among the first gene-edited produce to go on sale.\n\nHowever, Scotland and Wales could potentially use their powers to restrict the use of genetically edited produce.\n\nIn her letter, Ms McAllan said: \"If the UK government is determined to press ahead with this legislation, it must take steps to ensure that its revisions to the definition of a GMO (genetically modified organism) do not force products on Scotland which do not meet standards here without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nGene-edited tomatoes that boost vitamin D are among the foods that could be commercially developed\n\nShe also raised concerns about the impact of the bill on Scotland's food exports to the EU.\n\n\"As your impact assessment for the Genetic Technologies (Precision Breeding) Bill acknowledges, removing gene-edited products from England's GM regulatory regime would mean divergence from the EU approach and as such could have implications for compliance costs and future trade,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The impact assessment also raises the prospect that new trade barriers could come in the form of checks and certification requirements on UK food exports entering the EU's single market.\n\n\"It states that this would not only affect products exported to the EU which contain precision-bred plant material, but also those in the same product categories which do not.\"\n\nIn turning down the UK government's offer to include Scotland in its gene editing scheme, the Scottish government is not saying \"never\".\n\nIts preference is to wait for an EU-wide review of the technology, rather than to press ahead, with England, using the policy-making freedom that Brexit allows.\n\nThat is partly political - SNP ministers opposed Brexit and want to stay closely aligned to EU rules in the hope Scotland can one day rejoin the union as an independent country.\n\nThere's also a more practical consideration - that divergence could lead to new trade barriers with the European single market if it wants to keep gene-edited produce out.\n\nThe constitutional flashpoint is the operation of UK single market rules that mean any gene-edited produce approved in England must automatically be allowed into the Scottish market.\n\nHolyrood ministers hate how that could cut across their powers to regulate what's suitable for sale and are seeking an exemption, without saying what action they might take if they don't get one.\n\nGene editing is supported by the National Farmers Union (NFU) in Scotland but Scottish ministers have consistently railed against it, aiming to keep as close as it can to EU regulations.\n\nHowever, the EU has recently launched a consultation on bringing forward similar legislation for plants, food and feed produced from new genomic technologies.\n\nUK cabinet minister George Eustice previously wrote to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, saying the new bill provided \"the opportunity to make the UK the best place in the world to invest in Agritech innovation\".\n\nHe said: \"Outside the EU we are free to follow the science.\n\n\"These precision technologies allow us to speed up the breeding of plants that have natural resistance to diseases and better use of soil nutrients so we can have higher yields with fewer pesticides and fertilisers.\n\n\"The UK has some incredible academic centres of excellence and they are poised to lead the way.\"", "The race pits man against horse over a 22.5-mile course in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys\n\nThe winner of the gruelling Man v Horse race has revealed he had been awake for 29 hours before the event after flying from Tenerife to claim victory.\n\nTrail runner Ricky Lightfoot became only the third person to win the race since it started in 1980.\n\nHe told the BBC he had woken at 06:00 BST on Friday before catching a flight to Manchester at midnight.\n\nLanding at 04:00 he travelled to Wales, arriving at Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, at 09:00 for the race start at 11:00.\n\nCrossing the line, the 6ft 4in (1.93m) athlete had no idea whether he had won as the people and animals take slightly different routes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter asking around, he discovered he had come out on top against 1,000 runners and 50 horses with a time of 2:22:23.\n\nHe took home £3,500 after beating the first horse by more than two minutes on the 22.5-mile (36km) course.\n\nThe 37-year-old Cumbrian said winning was \"pretty good, like\".\n\nAlmost there... Ricky Lightfoot on the way to victory\n\n\"It's great to win the event and beat the horse,\" he said.\n\n\"I called my partner and said: 'I beat the horse'. And she said: 'You're joking?'.\n\n\"And I said: 'No, I did.' She was like, 'oh my God!'\"\n\nThe firefighter said he had been quietly confident.\n\n\"I thought I could give the horse a good race,\" he explained.\n\nSince his win, he has been asked if he will enter the Grand National next.\n\n\"It would be great if I could win the Grand National,\" he said.\n\n\"I've never rode a horse in my life. I once rode a donkey at Blackpool Pleasure Beach though.\"\n\nAfter winning, the father of two then made his way home to Maryport, in Cumbria, as he had to be back in work at 07:30 on Sunday.\n\nRace director Mike Thomas said Mr Lightfoot, a member of Cumbria running club Ellenborough AC, beat the horses \"quite comfortably\" on Saturday.\n\nThe last time a human beat a horse in the race was in 2007, and the first time was in 2004.\n\nRicky Lightfoot, pictured left, with boss and coach Dean Pepper, was back at work as a firefighter on Sunday\n\nThe race, which returned after two years due to the pandemic, began on tarmac but took in forest tracks and open moorland.\n\nThe jackpot prize for a runner who beats the first horse and rider starts at £500 and increases by £500 each year the event takes place until it is won.\n\nThe most recent prize pot had been accumulating since 2014.", "The 340-year-old Gloucester warship was discovered after a cannon was spotted on the seabed by divers\n\nSections of a royal shipwreck found off the Norfolk coast may be recoverable from the seabed, a former head of the British Army has said.\n\nLord Dannatt, the deputy lieutenant of Norfolk, is due to chair a charity caring for items from The Gloucester.\n\nHe hopes a permanent local museum can be created to house its artefacts.\n\nThe discovery of the wreck, which nearly drowned a future king in 1682, was revealed on Friday after being kept secret for years for security reasons.\n\nThe warship ran aground off the coast of Great Yarmouth, nearly killing the Duke of York, who went on to become King James II of England.\n\nThe wreck was found by two divers in 2007 and its discovery has only just been made public after its many artefacts were carefully salvaged from the sea.\n\nMaritime expert Prof Claire Jowitt, from the University of East Anglia (UEA), said it was \"the single most significant historic maritime discovery since the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two divers say it was an \"absolute privilege\" to discover the warship\n\nLord Dannatt, the former British Army Chief of the General Staff, suggested it might be possible to raise some of the wreck.\n\n\"Whether the hull is intact I probably doubt it, but it is more likely it went down stern-first and the stern [rear] section is almost certainly intact,\" he said.\n\n\"That is probably recoverable and we may be able to bring it up to the surface like the Mary Rose - which is why we say the Gloucester is Norfolk's Mary Rose.\"\n\nLord Dannatt believes the ship's stern is intact and it might be possible to raise it from the sea floor\n\nLord Dannatt said the next stage would be to raise money to continue the site excavation.\n\n\"Building and putting into place a permanent exhibition in Great Yarmouth would be fantastic for the town, fantastic for Norfolk and fantastic for the nation,\" he said.\n\nIn the meantime, Norwich Castle Museum is planning an exhibition of some of the finds next year.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The incident happened as about 50,000 fans watched Harry Styles open his world tour in Glasgow\n\nA Harry Styles fan fell from the top tier at Ibrox Stadium during the opening show of the singer's world tour on Saturday.\n\nThe man landed in the stand below as the former One Direction star performed his encore.\n\nHe was seen by medical staff and is not believed to have been seriously injured.\n\nAbout 50,000 fans were at the sell-out gig, which was the first at Rangers FC's stadium in almost 20 years.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"Officers were made aware of a man falling from a club deck at a premises on Edmiston Drive, Glasgow, at around 10.15pm on Saturday, 11 June, 2022.\n\n\"There were no suspicious circumstances and the man was seen to by medical staff.\"\n\nFan Tracy Brown tweeted after the show: \"Still in shock after @Harry_Styles concert @Ibrox. A guy fell from the tier above onto the main stand one row in front of us. No security to be seen. I had to run to main door at street level to bring help. Everyone in shock around us and so upset. Hope guy is OK.\"\n\nHis British and European live shows were postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid.", "Russian troops in occupied Melitopol in May\n\nThe Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine say they have started handing out Russian passports to locals in two cities - Kherson and Melitopol.\n\nUkraine condemns the creation of Russian citizens on its territory as \"Russification\". President Vladimir Putin is fast-tracking the procedure.\n\nRussia's Tass news agency says the first 23 Kherson residents got Russian passports at a ceremony on Saturday.\n\nTass says thousands have applied for them, but its claim cannot be verified.\n\nThe Russian-appointed military governor in Kherson, Volodymyr Saldo, said \"all our Khersonite comrades want to receive the passport and [Russian] citizenship as soon as possible\".\n\nUkraine denounced the move as a \"flagrant violation\" of its territorial integrity, saying President Putin's decree was \"legally void\".\n\nThe policy follows Russia's distribution of passports to residents of Ukrainian regions its forces have occupied since 2014 - Crimea and much of the Donbas.\n\nRussia annexed Crimea and created self-styled \"people's republics\" in Donetsk and Luhansk - moves condemned internationally.\n\nUkraine now fears the same process is under way in areas seized by Russian forces in the current invasion. Once locals become Russians, the Kremlin can claim it has to \"protect\" them.\n\nThere are reports of Ukrainians defying a Russian order to use roubles, instead of the Ukrainian currency hryvnia, in Kherson.\n\nMelitopol is in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, most of which is now held by Russian forces, including Europe's biggest nuclear power station.\n\nIn Crimea and Russian-held Donbas - the industrial region made up of Donetsk and Luhansk - Russia has introduced the rouble and forced schools to adopt the Russian curriculum.\n\nIt has also ousted local officials appointed by Kyiv - and repeated such action in the newly-occupied areas.\n\nHeavy fighting continues to rage in the Donbas city of Severodonetsk. The Kyiv-appointed head of Luhansk, Serhiy Haidai, says Ukrainian forces are still holding the city's industrial zone, including the huge Azot chemical plant.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's winless start to their Nations League campaign continued as an experimental Three Lions side failed to break down European champions Italy in a goalless draw at Molineux.\n\nThis was a game played behind closed doors as punishment for the chaos that preceded the last meeting between these two, when Italy beat England in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley.\n\nSeveral thousand excitable schoolchildren in attendance did however provide Gareth Southgate's side a lively backdrop in Wolverhampton and almost got the goal they craved when Mason Mount crashed an effort against the crossbar in the first half.\n\nRaheem Sterling, captain for the evening with Harry Kane among the substitutes, also skewed a glorious opportunity over from close range from Reece James' whipped delivery after the break.\n\nBut the hosts also needed goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale to be alert on several occasions to stop the Azzurri inflicting another defeat on Southgate's outfit, who remain bottom of Group A3 with two points after three games.\n\nThis was the third of four games in 11 days for England, after a draw in Germany followed an opening defeat by Hungary, and saw boss Southgate make six changes from that result in Munich.\n\nThe packed schedule comes straight after a long domestic season which itself the players had little time to recover for following last summer's delayed Euros, when Southgate's side finished as runners-up to a buoyant Italy outfit.\n\nDespite that, and having taken England to the semi-finals at the 2018 World Cup, Southgate continues to divide opinion - which England manager hasn't? - and perhaps the combination of tired legs and an unfamiliar starting XI caused their lack of cohesion in attack.\n\nThe hosts were not adventurous enough, and too predictable, to trouble a well-organised but hardly vintage Italian side as much as they would have liked, with Roberto Mancini's outfit also barely recognisable from their Euros victory last summer.\n\nThat said, England will feel they had chances to win the game.\n\nTammy Abraham, who finished the season with 17 goals in Serie A, was presented a glorious chance when goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma fluffed his pass but Manuel Locatelli's last-ditch challenge threw the forward off his stride as he shaped to shoot.\n\nMount then fired against the bar after being played in by Sterling, who could only help James' enticing delivery from the right-hand side over the top himself in the second half.\n\nThat was the result of a long, patient build-up, but too often England were slow in transition and easy to defend against.\n\nAt the other end, Arsenal's Ramsdale, in for Jordan Pickford, did his future with the national team no harm by making several smart stops from a flurry of swift Italy attacks in the first half.\n\nIt means England remain without a victory over Italy since 2012, and in a competitive fixture since 1977.\n\nWhile Italy's last meeting with England saw Mancini's side crowned European champions, the Azzurri were eliminated in World Cup qualifying in a shock play-off semi-final defeat by North Macedonia in March and will not be heading to Qatar later this year.\n\nTheir Nations League campaign got off to a more promising start with a draw against Germany and victory over Hungary and they remain unbeaten after a well-earned draw in Wolverhampton, as former Manchester City boss Mancini plots for their long-term future.\n\nJust two of the players who started against England in the final at Wembley last summer began this one, but the visitors still managed to create several decent openings, especially in the first half.\n\nDavide Frattesi missed a huge chance to give them the lead in the opening moments when he slid a low effort beyond the far post, while Ramsdale produced a superb stop to keep out Sandro Tonali.\n\nGinaluca Scamacca also sliced over from a dangerous position as Italy finished the opening 45 minutes with purpose, but were unable to build on that momentum after the break.\n• None Sandro Tonali (Italy) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None James Ward-Prowse (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Mr Asim has campaigned against forced marriages and domestic violence\n\nAn imam has been dismissed as a government adviser after backing calls for a film about the Prophet Mohammed's daughter to be banned.\n\nQari Asim, 44, was removed from his role as an Islamophobia consultant after protests against the film The Lady of Heaven.\n\nSupporting the campaign \"to limit free expression\" precluded him from continuing, the government said.\n\nMr Asim said he did not attend or organise any of the protests.\n\nIn his response to the decision, published on Twitter, he said the government's contention he had acted to undermine democratic values was \"inaccurate\".\n\nMr Asim, who was appointed MBE in 2012 for building \"community harmony\" in Leeds, added he was concerned the film \"risked fuelling extremism and tension in communities that would undermine cohesion in British society\".\n\nOn Wednesday, cinema chain Cineworld cancelled all UK screenings of the film after protests outside a number of cinemas.\n\nMr Asim, imam of the Makkah Masjid mosque in Leeds, was told his appointment as deputy chair of the government's Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group had to end in a letter from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.\n\nIt said: \"Your recent support for a campaign to limit free expression - a campaign which has itself encouraged communal tensions - means it is no longer appropriate for you to continue your work with government in roles designed to promote community harmony.\"\n\nThe solicitor was told his actions were \"a clear effort to restrict artistic expression\" and that the campaign had \"led to street protests which have fomented religious hatred\".\n\nThe government said that on Monday Mr Asim had posted on Facebook: \"We have been working with many brothers and Imams across the country to liaise with the cinemas….Some Imams have taken a view to protest and others are in dialogue with the cinemas trying to resolve the situation.\"\n\nThe letter continued: \"Resolving the situation, as you made clear, meant cancelling screenings. You wrote that \"in some places we have been successful and those cinemas will no longer be showing the movie\".\n\nMr Asim was said to have advertised a protest in Leeds, with details of its timing and location.\n\nMore than 120,000 people signed a petition for The Lady of Heaven film to be pulled from UK cinemas\n\n\"This clear involvement in a campaign to limit free expression is incompatible with the role of a government adviser,\" it said.\n\n\"You will have no doubt seen reports of the scenes outside different cinema venues. These included deeply disturbing videos of sectarian chanting and anti-Shia hatred.\n\n\"As you know, anti-Shia hatred is a long-standing and very serious issue, which must be challenged at every opportunity as part of a wider effort to combat anti-Muslim hatred.\n\n\"We were disappointed to see that you failed to condemn some of the protests complicit in these behaviours.\"\n\nIn his response, Mr Asim said he remains \"fully supportive of open public dialogue and scholarly debate around historical narratives between Sunni and Shia perspective that does not fuel hatred or division in communities...\n\n\"The government's letter did not take into account my continued support for responsible free speech around controversial issues.\"\n\nHe said he \"did unequivocally condemn anti-Shia hatred\" heard at the Leeds protests to his congregation.\n\nMr Asim said the government had not contacted him before making its decision and there had been \"no opportunity to clarify any misunderstandings\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nTens of thousands of protesters have rallied across the US to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings.\n\nThose taking part at the hundreds of marches carried slogans like \"I want freedom from getting shot\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden backed the protests, calling on Congress to \"pass common sense gun safety legislation\".\n\nDespite this any attempt to change the law is likely to be blocked by Republicans.\n\nNineteen children and two adults were killed in the 24 May shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.\n\nThat attack, and another days earlier in Buffalo, New York, in which 10 people were killed, has led to renewed calls for action on gun control in the US.\n\nOn Saturday, gun safety group March For Our Lives - founded by survivors of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida - said some 450 rallies would be held across the country, including Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.\n\nThe group said it would not let politicians \"sit back\" as people continue to die.\n\nMarch For Our Lives (MFOL) said political leaders' inaction was killing Americans.\n\n\"We will no longer allow you to sit back while people continue to die,\" Trevon Bosley, a MFOL board member, said in a statement.\n\nSpeaking to protesters in Washington DC, one of the survivors of the Parkland shooting, David Hogg, said the killings of children in Uvalde \"should fill us with rage and demands for change, not endless debate, but demands for change, now.\"\n\nGarnell Whitfield, whose 86-year-old mother was killed in the racially-motivated shooting in Buffalo, New York on 14 May, told crowds in Washington: \"We are here to demand justice.\n\n\"We are here to stand with those who are bold enough to demand sensible gun legislation.\"\n\nAmong other policies, MFOL has called for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns and a national licensing system, which would register gun owners.\n\nThe theme of this rally is: This time it will be different - and that's what the thousands of protesters here in Washington DC are chanting.\n\nTeenagers Calvin Chrisfield and Ani Arzoumanian have travelled from Maryland. They tell me that members of their school sports teams have had to take shelter from gun attacks while at games. They are more hopeful than optimistic about change, but say addressing gun violence is the \"biggest push\" of their generation \"because we're the ones dying\".\n\nHafiza Kazi is holding a sign that says: \"My Muslim uncle gets more background checks than a gun.\"\n\nShe was born on the day of the mass shooting at Columbine high school. Her friend Annie DiGuglielmo believes there is new momentum now: She says she's seen some Republicans who've previously been against gun control change their mind.\n\nAnd Lindsey Erin is a primary school teacher who is adamant that teachers should not be armed, as advocated by some Republicans.\n\n\"Children hug you, they grab things on your shirt… it's a recipe for absolute disaster.\"\n\nThe first MFOL protest was held days after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, in which 14 students and three adults were killed. Organisers say it was the largest gun safety rally in one day in US history, and thousands of students across the country left their classrooms to join the demonstrations.\n\nPresident Biden, a Democrat who this month urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other gun control measures, said he supported Saturday's protests.\n\n\"Today, young people around the country once again march with @AMarch4OurLives to call on Congress to pass common sense gun safety legislation, supported by the majority of Americans and gun owners,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I join them by repeating my call to Congress: do something.\"\n\nTens of thousands of people attended rallies across the US on Saturday\n\nIn Washington DC, protesters held slogans \"Act! Fear has no place in our schools\" and \"Not one more\"\n\nIn New York, demonstrators gathered at the city's famous Brooklyn Bridge\n\nIn recent weeks, a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators have vowed to hammer out a gun control deal, though they have yet to reach an agreement.\n\nTheir effort is focused on relatively modest changes, such as incentivising states to pass \"red flag\" laws that allow authorities to keep guns from individuals deemed a danger to others.\n\nThis week the US House of Representatives voted through a series of measures regulating the sale of guns.\n\nBut Republican opposition in the Senate means the bill has little chance of entering law.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWales' Olympic champion Lauren Price made a winning start to her professional career with an impressive victory over Valgerdur Gudstensdottir.\n\nPrice, 27, won every round of the six-round bout at London's Wembley Arena.\n\nThe contest was on the undercard of British cruiserweight Richard Riakporhe's IBF world title eliminator against Italy's Fabio Turchi.\n\n\"I really enjoyed it, it's the first one and I'm buzzing, let's go again,\" Price told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I wanted to relax and I didn't want to rush my work. It was great to get six rounds under my belt. I enjoyed it, a win is a win. Thank you to everyone who supported me, bought tickets and came to watch.\"\n\nIn August, in Tokyo, Price became the first Welsh fighter, male or female, to win an Olympic Games boxing gold medal.\n\nA glittering amateur career also saw her win a world championship, as well as Commonwealth Games gold in 2018 in Australia's Gold Coast and this was a hugely impressive start to life as a professional, fighting at welterweight.\n\nEarlier this week, she said she hoped to continue a great few days for Welsh sport after Joe Cordina claimed the IBF super-featherweight title and the men's football team beat Ukraine 1-0 to qualify for the World Cup.\n\nPrice, born in Newport and who lives in Ystrad Mynach, demonstrated good footwork from the off, with Iceland's Gudstensdottir, fighting in the United Kingdom for the first time, struggling to land anything.\n\nA powerful right hook in the first round from Price was accurate with Gudstensdottir facing problems with Price's quick combinations landing regularly. By the third round Price was in complete control, comfortably picking off her opponent, who had won five and lost two of her previous seven bouts.\n\nIt became a question of whether Gudstensdottir would go the six-round distance. She took a lot of punishment towards the end of the fifth but managed to survive to hear the final bell.\n\nBefore committing to boxing, Price had won kickboxing world titles and as a talented footballer played in defence for the Wales' senior women's team.\n\nTrainer Rob McCracken was pleased with Price's work, saying: \"I thought she was great. She's been in camp for a long time and it's nice to get six rounds.\n\n\"She will only get better and learn from every fight.\"\n\nPromoter Ben Shalom added: \"I'm unbelievably happy. Rob told me she was the best female he had worked with.\n\n\"Against a very good opponent, she did brilliantly and I can't wait to see her develop.\"\n• None Young Brits are trying to make it big in luxury real estate\n• None Everything I Know About Love:", "A group of people, thought to be asylum seekers, arriving at Dover (file image)\n\nCampaigners against the government's policy to send migrants to Rwanda say they will now take their fight to the Court of Appeal on Monday.\n\nIt comes after the High Court said the first flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda could go ahead.\n\nAbout 31 people have been told they could be on that flight on Tuesday, with more planes to go later this year.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has been caught up in the row after two papers reported he had called the policy \"appalling\".\n\nThe prince is travelling to the east African country later this month to represent the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held in the capital, Kigali.\n\nClarence House, which represents the prince, reiterated that he remains \"politically neutral\" and said that it would not comment on \"supposed anonymous private conversations\".\n\nUnder the government policy, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.\n\nThe government hopes the scheme will discourage asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel, with more than 10,000 people making the dangerous sea journey so far this year.\n\nBut campaigners who brought the High Court case said they were deeply concerned for the welfare of people set to be \"forcibly deported\". They had wanted to block the first flight from leaving, as well as individual people being placed on it.\n\nSpeaking at the High Court on Friday, Mr Justice Swift said there was a \"material public interest\" in Home Secretary Priti Patel being able to carry out her policies. He said he did not consider there was any evidence asylum seekers would be ill treated.\n\nBut he said there would be a full judicial review, where the High Court will hear a challenge to the policy as a whole, before the end of July.\n\nThe first claim had been brought by lawyers on behalf of some asylum seekers, alongside the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) which represents more than 80% of Border Force staff, as well as groups Care4Calais and Detention Action.\n\nMs Patel has praised the judgement, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling it \"welcome news\".\n\nOne asylum seeker - an Iranian ex-police commander who has been held at a detention centre since arriving in the UK in May - has said he fears being killed by Iranian agents in Rwanda.\n\nThe former commander, who is not being named in order to protect his identity, was sentenced by an Iranian military court to almost five years in jail in Iran and a demotion for refusing to shoot protesters during anti-government demonstrations in 2019.\n\nWhen he was out on bail pending his appeal, the former commander escaped to Turkey, where in November 2021 he gave testimony via Skype to a UK-based rights groups' tribunal investigating alleged Iranian atrocities during the protests\n\nHe says he lived in hiding in Turkey before arriving in the UK in May. Although his face was covered when he gave evidence, he says Iran's security forces managed to identify him and persecuted his family.\n\n\"Why Rwanda? I'd rather be sent to Iran,\" he said. \"At least, I know the consequences. I can't live with uncertainty and in fear any more.\"\n\nHe has been told he will be deported on Tuesday.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union - which has called for urgent fresh talks with Ms Patel - said those being removed to Rwanda faced the risk of being sent back to the countries they had been fleeing, and where they faced persecution.\n\nJames Wilson, deputy director of campaign group Detention Action, said it was disappointed, but added there were \"some positives\" from the case - noting that six of the eight original claimants had their removal orders withdrawn by the Home Office in advance of the judgement.\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, said the charity was \"deeply concerned for the welfare of people who may be forcibly deported to Rwanda, a fate that could profoundly harm their mental health and future\".\n\nBut Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake said while the policy is not ideal, it is the only viable solution.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4: \"I don't think anybody is particularly comfortable with the situation where we are shipping asylum seekers off to a far distant land - but, nevertheless, we have got to do something that acts as a disincentive for people to make money out of other people's perilous journeys.\n\n\"In the absence of any other workable policy I don't see any other option other than to support this one.\n\nThe government's policy will see people given accommodation and support in Rwanda while their asylum application is being considered by the country. If they are successful, they can stay there with up to five years' access to education and support.\n\nThose who fail in their asylum bids in Rwanda will be offered the chance to apply for visas under other immigration routes if they wish to remain in the country, but could still face deportation.\n\nMr Justice Swift said part of the case to block the initial flights focused on the argument that Ms Patel's \"decision to treat Rwanda as a safe country is either irrational or based on insufficient investigation\".\n\nHe said this argument, along with other parts of the case, would be heard with evidence at the full judicial review, to be held across two days before the end of July.\n\nA judicial review sees a judge looking at how a decision, or action, has been made by a public body. It does not consider whether the decision itself is correct or not.\n\nUp to 130 people so far have been notified they could be flown to Rwanda at some point in the future. It emerged during the High Court hearing on Friday that removal directions for three people set to be on the first flight had been dropped by the Home Office, with two more having them cancelled.\n\nMr Justice Swift denied an injunction to the remaining two claimants trying to avoid being removed.\n\nConservative MP Peter Bone, former chairman of the all-party group against human trafficking, said he believes the scheme will work.\n\n\"These people smugglers - they're just out to make money. They don't want to get caught and they don't want to do anything difficult,\" he told BBC Radio 4.", "The AA said some people steal fuel out of desperation while others are organised and do it for profit\n\nRising petrol prices have led to an increase in fuel thefts from petrol station forecourts, according to new figures from industry experts.\n\nPetrol prices hit record highs last week, with the cost of filling a typical family car passing £100.\n\nForecourt Eye, which works with 1,000 garages in the UK, said there was a 39% increase in non-payments since January.\n\nThese included motorists driving off without paying or claiming to have forgotten their wallet.\n\nNick Fisher, chief executive of the digital debt recovery company that traces and track non-payers, said: \"This is not a good thing for anyone as more theft is going on.\"\n\nHe said forecourt theft had been rising month on month since Christmas, with a 19.5% spike in January and February, which he linked to the rising cost of fuel.\n\nThis was followed by another rise of 4.5% in March, 8% in April and a further 7% in May.\n\nThe soaring price of fuel is down to supply issues caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a weak exchange rate between the US dollar and the UK's sterling.\n\nMr Fisher said: \"At the moment, we're seeing a spike of people claiming to forget their wallets. Some people are trying to get away with it.\n\n\"Then there are people who fill up, they go buy a coffee and don't pay for the fuel. And then there's the others who put in £30 [of fuel] and just drive off.\"\n\nThe British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) is a non-profit organisation that campaigns to reduce fuel crime on UK forecourts.\n\nIt said that in the first week of June, incidents of unpaid fuel increased by 22% compared to May.\n\nClaire Nichol, its executive director, said there is \"no doubt\" that there is a link between rising fuel prices and increased incidents of forecourt fuel crime.\n\n\"Motorists claiming to have no means of payment account for 70% of incidents which re-emphasises a shift away from drive-off incidents,\" she added.\n\nThe AA's Luke Bosdet said some people are stealing fuel out of desperation while others are organised and doing it to profit.\n\nHe explained: \"The thief is someone who relies on their car, motorbike or scooter to get to or go about their work but their finances have been broken by the cost of living crisis. Stealing fuel then becomes an act of desperation.\n\n\"And then you have the organised thieves who see the high price of an essential item as highly lucrative and easily sold on.\n\n\"They will have their preferred method of stealing the fuel, whether that's putting an extra tank on the back seat and then taking the fuel from forecourts, or taking jerry cans and cutting fuel lines on cars to drain tanks in the street.\n\nThe latter will know which cars are easiest to steal from and target those.\"", "A total of 166 Covid infections in China have been linked to a single bar in the capital Beijing, officials say.\n\nA government spokesman described the outbreak as \"ferocious\".\n\nAll residents living in the area where the bar is located will be tested over the next three days.\n\nThe number of infections in the city is low by international standards but high for China, which is the world's only major economy still maintaining a \"zero Covid\" policy.\n\nThe outbreak was traced to a venue called the Heaven Supermarket Bar, in the well-known entertainment area of Sanlitun in Chaoyang district.\n\nTwo buildings housing hundreds of people in Chaoyang were put under strict lockdown on Sunday after a positive case was reported, a residential committee worker told Reuters news agency.\n\nSome people in Beijing said they were sent texts telling them to report to authorities if they had recently visited Sanlitun's bars.\n\nChinese officials have reversed the relaxation of some Covid rules in Beijing because of the outbreak.\n\nMost children in the capital will not return to school next week as originally planned, officials said.\n\nThe capital has reported 1,997 local Covid cases since 22 April.\n\nChina's overall policy of \"zero Covid\" remains in place and people catching Covid face quarantine or hospital.\n\nTheir close contacts also face the prospect of removal to quarantine and the area immediately around where they live being locked down again.\n\nThe city of Shanghai, the country's economic centre and a global trade hub, recently eased Covid curbs after a two-month lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How people in Shanghai are getting used to the 'new normal'\n• None Relief and caution as Shanghai returns to life", "Max Verstappen won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and took control of the World Championship after an engine failure on Charles Leclerc's Ferrari.\n\nLeclerc's second engine-related retirement from the lead in three grands prix leaves him trailing Verstappen by 34 points, despite six pole positions in eight races.\n\nAnd it continues the impression that Ferrari's season is falling apart after such a promising start, as Leclerc's team-mate Carlos Sainz also failed to finish following a hydraulic failure.\n\nVerstappen led team-mate Sergio Perez to a Red Bull one-two, as George Russell took third for Mercedes, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton fighting back to finish fourth.\n• None Hamilton and Vettel will continue to speak out\n• None Hamilton 'worried' about Canada after 'most painful' race\n\n'It is more than significant. I don't really have the words'\n\nLeclerc immediately lost the advantage he had earned with a dazzling pole position lap as Perez dived for the inside into Turn One after a good start.\n\nThe Ferrari then came under pressure from Verstappen, but was able to hold the Dutchman off until a virtual safety car period on lap nine caused by Sainz parking up in a run-off area.\n\nFerrari leapt on the opportunity to pit for fresh tyres, which Red Bull did not, hoping that it would vault Leclerc into the lead - which a few laps later it did.\n\nAs Leclerc dropped briefly down to third following his stop, Verstappen soon closed in on Perez and passed for the lead on lap 15, after the Mexican was told \"no fighting\". Perez stopped the next time around, and Verstappen two laps later.\n\nAfter the Red Bull drivers' stops, the race looked set to boil down to whether Leclerc, in the lead, could hold off the challenge of the Red Bulls, who would have a significant grip advantage.\n\nAnd that question would have been made all the more intriguing by a second virtual safety car when Kevin Magnussen's Haas suffered a failure in his Ferrari engine.\n\nBut by the time the Dane pulled off, Leclerc was long out of the race, a cloud of smoke erupting behind his car towards the end of lap 21.\n\n\"I am more than frustrated,\" Leclerc said. \"The first stint we weren't particularly strong at the beginning but then I was catching back Checo. I think pitting was the right choice. We were leading and then I was managing the tyres well. We just had to manage the tyres to the end and we were in the best position to do that. Another DNF. It hurts.\n\n\"It is more than significant. I don't really have the words. It is just a huge disappointment and I hope we can jump back from it and be on top of those things.\"\n\nFrom that moment on, Red Bull were in total control. Verstappen comfortably had the measure of Perez and the two cars cruised to the flag.\n\nThe heat was on as cars and drivers lined up on the grid in Baku\n\nRussell had a lonely race, inhering fourth place when Sainz retired and then third after Leclerc went out, to keep up his record of being the only driver to finish in the top five in every race this season in his first year with Mercedes..\n\nThe two Mercedes drivers stopped together under the first virtual safety car, and the slight delay to Hamilton, who was forced to wait behind his team-mate, meant he dropped back to 11th place.\n\nHe inherited a place when Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel ran wide trying to pass Esteban Ocon's Alpine, who Hamilton then passed a few laps after.\n\nHamilton then had to pass both Alpha Tauris of Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly to take a well-earned result, despite complaining that the car's bouncing on the straights was \"killing my back\".\n\nGasly took fifth, followed by Vettel, Alpine's Fernando Alonso, the McLarens of Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris - who were together for much of the race on different strategies and had a bit of radio needle as to who should be allowed to pass who - and Ocon.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nF1 flies a third of the way around the world to Montreal, for the sport's first Canadian Grand Prix since 2019, after the popular race dropped off the calendar as a result of the pandemic.", "Severodonetsk - the easternmost city still in Ukrainian hands - has for weeks been under heavy Russian shelling\n\nRussian shelling has caused a huge fire at a chemical plant in Ukraine's Severodonetsk city where \"non-stop\" fighting rages, the regional head says.\n\nSerhiy Haidai told Ukrainian TV that Saturday's blaze started after a leak of tens of tonnes of oil from damaged radiators at the Azot plant.\n\nHundreds of civilians are reportedly sheltering at the plant.\n\nSeverodonetsk has become the focal point of Russia's efforts to advance in eastern Ukraine.\n\nFighting has lasted more than three months. Russia's early attempt to capture major cities including the capital Kyiv faltered and is now instead trying to capture the Luhansk and the Donetsk regions - a vast mostly industrial area collectively known as Donbas.\n\nSeizing Severodonetsk and its twin city of Lysychansk would move Russia closer to its goal as it would give them control over Luhansk.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Haidai admitted most of Severodonetsk was now in Russian hands. The Russian military says that all of Severodonetsk's residential areas are now under its control.\n\n\"The Azot chemical plant has been under heavy shelling for hours,\" Mr Haidai said on Saturday.\n\nHe did not say whether there were any casualties and whether the blaze was later extinguished.\n\nUkrainian officials estimate that as many as 800 civilians are hiding in underground bomb shelters at the Azot plant.\n\nDescribing the current situation in Severodonetsk, Mr Haidai said it was \"difficult, but under control\".\n\n\"Our soldiers are winning in street fights, but, unfortunately, the enemy's artillery is simply dismantling - floor-by-floor - the houses used by our troops as shelters.\n\n\"So, when we push the enemy out of one street, they start using their tanks and artillery to destroy the area house-by-house,\" the Luhansk regional head said.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian troops have suffered \"very significant\" casualties in Donbas.\n\nHe also said Ukrainian forces had recaptured villages and towns in the south-eastern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine has been pleading for more weapons from its allies, warning that Russia has at least 10 times more artillery pieces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lysychansk has been bombarded by Russian artillery", "The assault has re-ignited debate about gender violence in China\n\nNine people have been arrested in China after a video went viral of a brutal attack by a group of men on women in the city of Tangshan, police say.\n\nIt has led to an outcry on social media and re-ignited debate about gender violence in China.\n\nThe incident began when a man put his hand on a woman's back in a restaurant and she pushed him away.\n\nThe man is seen striking her before others drag her outside and continue attacking as she lies on the floor.\n\nThe group of men are also seen attacking her dining partners.\n\nTwo of the women were admitted to hospital and were in a \"stable condition and not in mortal danger\", while two others sustained minor injuries, officials said.\n\nPolice in Tangshan, in northern Hebei province, said they had arrested nine people on suspicion of violent assault and \"provoking trouble\".\n\nThe attack dominated discussion on Chinese social media on Saturday, taking up the top six places of Weibo's most-discussed topics. State television called for the suspects to be severely punished.\n\n\"All of this could happen to me, could happen to any of us,\" said one commenter in a post liked over 100,000 times.\n\n\"How is this sort of thing still happening in 2022?\" wrote another. \"Please give them criminal sentences, and don't let any of them get away.\"\n\nA widely shared WeChat post took issue with the initial official framing of the attack as a simple act of violence.\n\n\"This happened in a society where violence against women is rampant,\" the anonymous post said.\n\n\"To ignore and suppress the perspective of gender is to deny the violence that people - as women - suffer.\"\n\nActs of violence against women are frighteningly common in China.\n\nTen years ago, while I was living in the country, I witnessed on multiple occasions men assaulting their partners in broad daylight. It was common to see groups of bystanders simply watching on.\n\nHistorically, many have viewed such incidents as being a private matter between a couple. Some have feared involving themselves, either for their own personal safety or because they're afraid of being implicated in a crime.\n\nChina only made domestic violence punishable by law in March 2016. Before 2001, physical abuse was not even grounds for divorce.\n\nEven though sexual violence has become more prosecutable, the atmosphere on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo is despondent. Many feel the outcome of this case will be a light sentence and a small fine.\n\nIn recent years, women have had little success in holding sexual harassment or assault to account. Few cases have been ruled in the victim's favour unless they have footage to support it, and China's persistent lockdowns over the last two years have exacerbated domestic attacks.", "Hywel Morgan has been praised for his selfless actions\n\nA man who drowned after going into the sea to rescue two children who were in difficulty has been described as \"absolutely heroic\".\n\nHywel Morgan, 47, was pulled from the sea at Poppit Sands near St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, after the alarm was raised on Friday evening.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said Mr Morgan was understood to have helped rescue children caught in a rip current.\n\nWitness Millie Cook said he gave his life to \"save others\".\n\nPolice said Mr Morgan died after being recovered from the sea. Two children were taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nMs Cook, who was on holiday in the area, described Mr Morgan as a \"credit to his family and friends\".\n\n\"My deepest condolences to them during this time,\" she added.\n\nA helicopter was seen hovering over the beach after Mr Morgan rescued the children\n\nHM Coastguard said an 11-year-old boy, who was bodyboarding, was rescued by an RNLI lifeboat crew.\n\n\"A second casualty was found by the Coastguard helicopter and brought back to shore by the Cardigan lifeboat but sadly died,\" it added.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends and the whole community following this tragedy.\"\n\nPoppit Sands RNLI said it conducted the rescues after being called out at about 19:00 BST to reports of a person on a bodyboard and a swimmer in difficulty.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at Cardigan Lifeboat Station are with the family at this time,\" it said.\n\nThe RNLI flew its flag at half mast over its Poppit Sands base on Sunday\n\nMr Morgan, known as Hyw by family and friends, has also been described as a hero by his family.\n\n\"Despite our pain and grief, it gives us comfort that he selflessly tried to prevent others from losing their lives,\" they said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nCardigan town councillor Philippa Noble said she had known Mr Morgan since they were children.\n\n\"I am not at all surprised that Hyw put himself in danger to help children in trouble and although we as a town are grieving, we are incredibly proud of him,\" she said.\n\n\"I would like to extend my sympathies to his family and friends, especially his son who Hyw adored.\n\n\"The whole town has suffered a great loss of a wonderful character.\"\n\nAnd former town councillor Yvonne O'Neill added: \"Hywel was one of a kind. A lovely person who had time for everybody.\"\n\nThe RNLI flew its flag at half mast over its station at Poppit Sands on Sunday following Mr Morgan's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women embrace at a memorial to those killed in the Uvalde mass shooting\n\nA cross-party group of US senators have agreed a framework for potential legislation on gun safety, following a spate of mass shootings.\n\nThis would include support for tougher checks for buyers aged under 21 and cracking down on illegal gun purchases.\n\nCrucially, the proposals are supported by 10 Republicans, meaning they have the numbers to be voted into law.\n\nPresident Biden said the plans were \"steps in the right direction\" but they fall far short of what he called for.\n\nPrevious attempts to tighten gun laws failed to get the required support in Congress.\n\nTens of thousands of protesters rallied across the US on Saturday to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings.\n\n\"Today, we are announcing a common sense, bipartisan proposal to protect America's children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country,\" the Senate group said in a statement.\n\n\"Families are scared, and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore their sense of safety and security in their communities.\"\n\nThe senators also called for increased investment in mental health services and school safety resources, as well as including domestic violence convictions and restraining orders in the national background check database for people buying firearms.\n\nPresident Biden urged lawmakers to pass the proposals quickly, while making clear that they did not go as far as he wanted.\n\nThe president has pushed for far bigger reforms - including a ban on assault rifles, which were used in the Texas and Buffalo mass shootings - or at least an increase in the age at which they can be purchased.\n\n\"Obviously, it does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction, and would be the most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades,\" he said in a statement.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who said the plans were \"a good first step\", said he wanted to move a bill quickly to a Senate vote once legislative details were worked out.\n\nSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said the measures showed \"the value of dialogue and cooperation\".\n\nHe added: \"I continue to hope their discussions yield a bipartisan product that makes significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country.\"\n\nDemocratic Senator Chris Murphy said a \"substantial\" part of the deal had been nailed down by negotiators, allowing the drafting of legislation to get under way on Monday, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe news has also been welcomed by some gun control activists.\n\n\"This is a first step and it's actually a lot more than I thought it would be. This is progress even if small,\" tweeted David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting and co-founder of March for Our Lives, a student-led movement focused on gun violence prevention.\n\n\"Even if it stops one Parkland it's worth it.\"\n\n\"Our grassroots army is ready to fight like hell to make sure it becomes law. 26 years for federal action on gun safety is unacceptable,\" tweeted Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy organisation.\n\nThe National Rifle Association of America (NRA) said it would respond once the full text is released but said it would \"continue to oppose any effort to insert gun control policies, initiatives that override constitutional due process protections & efforts to deprive law-abiding citizens of their fundamental right to protect themselves/loved ones into this or any other legislation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Thousands join gun control rallies across the US\n\nThe US has the highest rate of firearms deaths among the world's wealthy nations, but is a country where many cherish gun rights that are protected by the Constitution's Second Amendment to \"keep and bear arms\".\n\nThese are the first gun safety laws to receive bipartisan support of this kind in decades, with previous attempts by Democrats for strengthened controls frustrated by Republicans.\n\nAttempts to tighten the laws in the wake of a previous school shooting at Sandy Hook in Connecticut nearly a decade ago - in which 20 children and six adults were killed - failed to get the required votes in Congress.\n\nThe Senate, or upper chamber of Congress, is currently split - with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans - and legislation must have 60 votes to overcome a manoeuvre known as the filibuster.\n\nTen of the 20 senators who proposed the new measures are Republicans, meaning the proposals have the numbers needed to overcome the filibuster.\n\nThe Democrat-controlled lower chamber, the House of Representatives, this week voted through a series of measures regulating the sale of guns.\n\nBut Republican opposition in the Senate means the bill has little chance of entering law, leaving the bipartisan deal agreed on Sunday as the only realistic hope for federal measures to address firearms violence.\n• None Thousands rally across US for stricter gun laws", "Scintillating centuries from Joe Root and Ollie Pope kept England in the second Test with New Zealand on a riotous third day at Trent Bridge.\n\nRoot, in form far beyond anyone else in the world, is 163 not out, while Pope vindicated his selection at number three with 145.\n\nAfter Alex Lees fell for 67, Root and Pope flayed the New Zealand bowling in a third-wicket stand of 187.\n\nBut that was nothing compared with the entertainment provided by England captain Ben Stokes, who crashed 46 from only 33 balls.\n\nCalm was only restored late in a day when England added 383 runs, the home side ending 473-5, 80 behind New Zealand's 553.\n\nThere is still work to do for England, but they should be looking to first get level with New Zealand, then build a handy lead.\n\nTheir Sunday effort has given them a strong chance of preserving their 1-0 series advantage, and maybe even a shot at victory.\n\n'Bazball' gets England back in it\n\nThis was the day when the influence of new England Test coach Brendon McCullum has been most obviously on show.\n\nAt 90-1 overnight, 463 behind, it would have been typical of England to wilt. Instead, they attacked from the outset, with every batter looking to get after the New Zealand bowling.\n\nAided by a true surface and lightning-fast outfield, this was England playing 'Bazball' to devastating effect. The scoreboard rattled along to the delight of the energetic Trent Bridge crowd.\n\nNew Zealand did not help themselves - they missed catches off Root twice and gave a life to Ben Foakes to go with reprieves handed to Lees and Pope on Saturday, while off-spinner Michael Bracewell was underused. The Black Caps also had to deal with a back injury to fast bowler Kyle Jamieson.\n\nBut this was an exhilarating assault by England, one that has brought this Test to life and set up the possibility of a thrilling final two days.\n\nFor England to win they will have to find a way of dismissing New Zealand in their second innings - a big ask given the nature of the pitch.\n\nStill, McCullum will ask them to believe that anything is possible.\n\nPope had not batted at number three in first-class cricket before this series, but was recalled because new captain Stokes was adamant he wanted the Surrey man in his team.\n\nPope repaid the faith with his second Test century and, curiously, the first of his 14 in first-class cricket made at a ground north of the River Thames.\n\nAfter being dropped on 37 the previous evening, Pope resumed on 51 and, along with Lees, was determined to pressure the New Zealand bowling on Sunday morning.\n\nThe intent led to a number of nervy moments for both men and was Lees' undoing when he flashed to first slip after making his maiden Test half-century, but Pope grew in stature, peppering the boundaries square of the wicket on both sides.\n\nHis hundred, reached by pushing Matt Henry through the covers, came from 160 balls. At one stage, with the same bowler packing the leg side, Pope backed off to play an outrageous cut for four.\n\nPope was eventually undone after a lengthy break to change a damaged pad. He top-edged a pull off Trent Boult to long leg and was given lengthy congratulations from Root as he departed.\n\nRoot does it again\n\nRoot is so prolific that he is exhausting all the superlatives. This was his 10th century since the beginning of last year and second in as many Sundays.\n\nIt was a carefree hundred - at 116 balls the fastest of his 27 in Tests. As a result, there were loose moments - on 27 he burst the hands of second slip Tim Southee and could have been caught on 52 when a top-edged slog-sweep at Southee landed between the wicketkeeper and long leg.\n\nThere were also the classic Root characteristics. Rhythmical footwork, urgent running and sweet off drives. When he reached three figures by inside-edging Daryl Mitchell, his first reaction was to laugh.\n\nThe stand with Pope saw runs flow at nearly 4.5 an over and, after Jonny Bairstow gloved Boult behind, Root's time with Stokes bordered on carnage.\n\nThe captain ran down the pitch to the pace bowlers and launched Bracewell for a huge six, only to then hole out looking for another maximum. Sixty-one runs had been added in 56 balls.\n\nThere was still time for Root to share another 68 with Foakes, who overturned being given caught behind on eight and was dropped by Will Young at deep square leg on nine.\n\nRoot continued to attack right up to the close. His fetch from outside off stump to whip Southee through mid-on was perhaps the most audacious stroke of a remarkable day.\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"We're witnessing something special. I've known Joe for years and I really do believe he's England's greatest player.\n\n\"He's such a joy to watch and he makes batting look so easy.\n\n\"It's just that drive and determination. You've got to have an incredible appetite to just keep on scoring centuries.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali: \"During Covid when everyone was locked down, Root got all his dismissals and had a look where he can get better.\n\n\"He did this thing where he batted 30 overs on the bowling machine. Have a break. Then bat 30 overs on the machine again so it can help his concentration and he can bat the whole day. That really helped his game.\n\n\"That is why he's so good and what makes him a great, and probably our best ever player. The way he trains is the most impressive thing.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"If you haven't had the chance to watch Joe Root today, then I implore that you do because that was batting poetry. Sitting and just watching that was an absolute privilege.\"\n• None Young Brits are trying to make it big in luxury real estate\n• None Everything I Know About Love:", "Fellow Dragons from the BBC show have paid tribute to Hilary Devey\n\nDevey, who grew up in Leeds, died after a long illness on Saturday night, her publicist Benjamin Webb said.\n\nThe Bolton-born entrepreneur, who founded the multimillion-pound freight distribution business Pall-Ex in the 1990s, died at her holiday home in Morocco.\n\nMr Webb said Devey was a \"remarkable lady and an inspiration\" who was \"so proud\" of her work on Dragons' Den.\n\nHannah Wyatt, managing director for Factual Entertainment and Events at BBC Studios, said: \"Hilary Devey will always hold a unique place in the hearts of Dragons' Den viewers and the programme team.\n\n\"We are all extremely saddened by her loss and our thoughts at this time are with her family and friends.\"\n\nShe joined the popular BBC TV show in 2011 and left in 2012, going on to present Channel 4's The Intern.\n\nIn 2013 she was made a CBE for her career in business and her contribution to charity.\n\nDevey's charitable work included her position as vice-president of the Carers Trust and she was also a patron of the Stroke Association, having herself suffered a stroke in 2009.\n\nFrom age seven, Devey started helping out in the pubs and corner shop run by her parents.\n\nShe left school at 16 and later moved to London. She started work as a sales clerk in the offices of a distribution company and worked her way up through the logistics industry.\n\nHilary Devey appeared on Dragons' Den with Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis, Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones\n\nDevey came to public attention when she replaced James Caan on Dragons' Den, later saying her best investment had been a mattress-duvet for caravans, boats and trucks.\n\nBusinessman Duncan Bannatyne, who previously appeared on the show with Devey, tweeted: \"Sad to hear that @HilaryDevey has passed. So young. Too young. Rest in Peace Hilary. X\"\n\nAnother former co-star, Theo Paphitis, tweeted: \"So sad to hear of the passing of the lovely Hilary Devey. She left us all with some fantastic memories, may she rest in peace. My thoughts are with her family. x\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fellow Dragon Theo Paphitis said Devey was a \"straight-talking northern girl\" who had \"an amazing generosity of spirit\"\n\nDragons' Den presenter Evan Davis said Devey would be \"long remembered\", tweeting: \"So sorry to hear of Hilary Devey's passing. I didn't know her well, but she really brought a wonderful grit to the Den; it was quite different to anything we'd encountered and audiences loved it.\"\n\nKate Phillips, director of BBC Unscripted Content, said: \"When Hilary entered the Den in 2011 she was formidable, fiery and completely unforgettable.\n\n\"A tough talking Dragon who never minced her words, she also always saw the person behind the product and was such an encouraging mentor and investor to so many entrepreneurs.\n\n\"A hugely successful businesswoman and television expert, she will be missed by all who knew her and benefited from her wise words and experience. \"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's competition watchdog has been asked to conduct an urgent review into whether a 5p fuel duty cut is being passed on quickly enough to drivers.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has urged the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to examine the fuel market and whether there are local variations in petrol and diesel prices.\n\nThe cost of filling an average family car has now hit a record £100.\n\nIt comes as the CBI warned households will go into recession later this year.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association, which represents independent fuel retailers, said it \"welcomed transparency regarding fuel pricing\" and would co-operate with the CMA's investigation.\n\nPump prices have been rising since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February led to oil supply fears. Last week, the RAC motoring organisation said the cost of filling a 55-litre tank reached £100.27 for petrol and £103.43 for diesel.\n\nIn a letter to the CMA, Mr Kwarteng said that despite introducing a fuel duty cut \"there remains widespread concern about the pace of the increase in prices at the forecourt and, that prices may not fall as much or as fast as they rise\".\n\nAs well as looking at whether the duty cut is being passed on to consumers, Mr Kwarteng has also asked the CMA to examine \"whether the retail fuel market has adversely affected consumer interests\".\n\nThis will include investigating whether there are price variations for petrol and diesel at local forecourts.\n\n\"Drivers should be getting a fair deal for fuel across the UK,\" said Mr Kwarteng. \"Healthy competition between forecourts is key to achieving this, with competition working to keep pressure on prices.\"\n\nHe has asked for the CMA to report back to him by 7 July.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association says its members passed on the 5p fuel duty cut after it was announced in March, but wholesale fuel prices have continued to rise since then. It has left retailers \"operating on extremely tight margins\", it says.\n\nBoss Gordon Balmer said the association had requested several meetings with Mr Kwarteng \"to explain how the fuel market works\" but had not heard back.\n\n\"Our members have had to endure several [unfair] headlines in the press,\" he added. \"Therefore, the news that the minister has contacted the CMA to conduct an urgent review of the fuel market is timely.\"\n\nJack Cousens, head of roads policy at the AA, said while the group welcomed the review, \"more urgent action is needed\".\n\n\"To relieve pressure at the pumps we need an immediate 10p cut to fuel duty. That would help restore some balance ahead of the initial CMA findings due in early July.\"\n\nEdmund King OBE, president of the AA, maintains that there is space for a further fuel duty cut.\n\n\"The government is still making 8.74p more in VAT than they were this time last year,\" he told the BBC's Today programme, \"so there is money there for another possible duty cut.\"\n\nHe added that retailers should publish fuel wholesale prices alongside pump prices. \"That does seem to increase competition locally in places where it's currently done, like Austria and Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr King said price differences of up to 8p a litre were found between local garages and supermarkets.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC: \"Once we get the review of that then it will be right to look at what more, if we need to, we can do to help people to make sure it's actually getting to where we want to see that support.\"\n\nLabour said it had been calling for a CMA investigation into pump prices for some time.\n\nSetting out measures to tackle the rising cost of living, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told Times Radio: \"We know that the market for petrol and diesel is not working properly, and even when the government reduced duty back in March it was not passed onto consumers.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats urged the government to cut fuel duty in rural areas to help families bearing the brunt of record petrol prices.\n\nAnalysis of official figures by the party suggests households in rural areas pay £114 a week on transport costs, almost £40 more than those in urban areas.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit a 40-year high of 9% in April, with higher energy bills and fuel prices contributing to the increase.\n\nThe head of the UK's largest business group warned on Sunday that households will go into recession later this year as people cut spending to combat rising living costs.\n\nTony Danker, director-general of the CBI, forecast that spending on the High Street and on discretionary items will \"go negative\" and that Britons were already \"trading down\".\n\n\"It is a well-known behaviour when there's high inflation,\" Mr Danker told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme. \"They're not buying as many discretionary goods or they're buying the cheaper option in the supermarkets.\"\n\nThe CBI has significantly downgraded its growth outlook for the UK this year from 5.1% to 3.7%, blaming inflation as the \"primary source\" of the slowdown. It predicts growth of just 1% in 2023 compared with a previous forecast of 3%.\n\nMr Danker said: \"The only real thing stopping us from having a full-blown recession this year is that at the moment business investment levels are quite high.\"\n\nA recession is defined as the economy getting smaller for two consecutive quarters.\n\nHe said: \"The risk is if business investment starts to fall then the whole country could go into recession sooner than some are predicting, ie next year so I think that's why at the moment there's not a lot you can do about household spending when inflation is this high but you do need to stabilise confidence among firms so they don't stop spending too.\"", "Fiji's Nananu-I-Ra island: Many Pacific states are low-lying and prone to flooding\n\nFiji has told an Asian security summit that climate change is a bigger threat to the Pacific than military tensions.\n\n\"Machine guns, fighter jets... are not our primary security concern. The single greatest threat to our very existence is climate change,\" Fiji Defence Minister Inia Seruiratu said.\n\nHe was addressing a summit in Singapore which has focused on China-US tensions and the Ukraine war.\n\nCyclones have repeatedly battered Fiji and other low-lying Pacific countries.\n\n\"It threatens our very hopes and dreams of prosperity. Human-induced, devastating climate change,\" Mr Seruiratu told the forum, called the Shangri-La Dialogue.\n\nFloods in Fiji caused by tropic cyclones have displaced thousands of people in recent years and wrought economic havoc.\n\nPacific states have urged advanced industrialised nations to do more to combat climate change.\n\n\"Waves are crashing at our doorsteps, winds are battering our homes, we are being assaulted by this enemy from many angles,\" Mr Seruiratu told delegates.\n\nThe world is now about 1.2C warmer than it was in the 19th Century - the result of humans burning fossil fuels, which release greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide (CO2).\n\nBut much attention has focused on China's growing challenge to Western strategic interests in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nIn April China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands, causing concern in Australia, New Zealand and the US. The details of it were not disclosed.\n\nBesides the Solomons, Pacific island nations have not so far reached consensus on China's proposal for a new regional trade and security pact.", "Asos has warned that full-year profits will fall sharply as cash-strapped customers return more items to the online clothing retailer.\n\nThe company said that while sales rose in the three months to the end of May, profit had been hit by \"inflationary pressures on consumers\".\n\nAsos's chief operating officer Mat Dunn said it was \"too early\" to tell how long this behaviour would continue.\n\nBut the firm expects adjusted pre-tax profit to fall to between £20m to £60m.\n\nIt is far below Asos's prediction in January when it said annual profit was set to reach between £110m and £140m, and a sharp decline from the previous financial year when it hit £193.6m.\n\nAsos said the higher rate of returns was adding to warehouse and delivery costs. It said profit would be impacted if it had to cut prices to shift goods.\n\nOver the three months to 31 May, Asos said sales rose by 4% to £987.9m, driven by the UK and the US and the resolution of supply chain issues which had dogged its performance over the first half of its year. This \"led to an improved stock profile and increased newness and availability\".\n\nBut Mr Dunn said: \"What is now clear, based on the significant increase in returns rates that we have seen, is that this inflationary pressure is increasingly impacting our customers' shopping behaviour.\"\n\nAsos's share price plunged by 15% to a 12-year low of 987.5p following the update.\n\nOnline clothing retailer N Brown also said rising inflation - which reached a a 40-year high in April - had affected consumer confidence since the start of its financial year when its sales fell by 2.1% to £165.1m in the first quarter.\n\n\"Sales volumes since the start of the financial year have been softer, reflecting various well-documented pressures on consumer confidence, which are showing no signs of abating in the short-term,\" said N Brown's chief executive Steve Johnson.\n\n\"As these pressures persist, we expect the trading environment to remain challenging and will, therefore, continue to take actions to mitigate the effects wherever possible.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asos announced it had found a replacement chief executive after Nick Beighton resigned last October. Chief commercial officer José Antonio Ramos Calamonte is taking on the top job with immediate effect. He joined Asos nearly 18 months ago from Portugal's Salsa Jeans.\n\nAsos has also appointed Jørgen Lindemann as its new chairman. Currently a non-executive director, Mr Lindemann will take over the role from Ian Dyson who will step down on 1 August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities in Saudi Arabia have been seizing rainbow-coloured toys and children's clothing, which they claim encourage homosexuality, state TV says.\n\nAn Al-Ekhbariya report showed commerce ministry officials removing a range of items from shops in the capital Riyadh.\n\nOne official said the items \"contradict the Islamic faith and public morals, and promote homosexual colours targeting the younger generation\".\n\nThe commerce ministry tweeted separately that its teams were confiscating \"products that contain symbols and signs calling for deviation and contradicting common sense\".\n\nShops found to be selling them would face legal penalties, it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn December, authorities in neighbouring Qatar announced that they had confiscated rainbow-coloured pop-its and other toys from shops for \"bearing slogans that go against Islamic values\".\n\nAlthough Sunni Muslim-ruled Saudi Arabia has no laws regarding sexual orientation or gender identity, sexual relations outside marriage, including homosexual sex, are strictly prohibited.\n\nUnder the country's interpretation of Islamic law, consensual same-sex sexual conduct is punishable by death or flogging, depending on the perceived seriousness of the case.\n\nIt is also illegal for men to \"behave like women\" or to wear women's clothes, and vice versa, and for anyone to carry out online activity impinging on \"public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy\".\n\nShops selling the confiscated items would face legal penalties, the commerce ministry said\n\nIn April, cinemas in the kingdom did not screen the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness after Disney refused a request from Saudi authorities to cut what they called \"LGBTQ references\".\n\nA source close to Disney told AFP news agency on Tuesday that its new animated film Lightyear, which features a same-sex kiss, had also been banned in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSaudi officials have not yet confirmed such a move, but the kingdom's two main cinema chains are not advertising screenings.\n\nThe United Arab Emirates culture ministry said it had banned Lightyear on Monday \"due to its violation of the country's media content standards\".", "The claim relates to the iPhone 6 and nine other models\n\nMillions of iPhone users could be eligible for payouts, following the launch of a legal claim accusing Apple of secretly slowing the performance of older phones.\n\nJustin Gutmann alleges the company misled users over an upgrade that it said would enhance performance but, in fact, slowed phones down.\n\nHe is seeking damages of around £768m for up to 25 million UK iPhone users.\n\nApple says it has \"never\" intentionally shortened the life of its products.\n\nThe claim, which has been filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleges Apple slowed down the performance of older iPhones, in a process known as \"throttling\", in order to avoid expensive recalls or repairs.\n\nIt relates to the introduction of a power management tool released in a software update to iPhone users in January 2017, to combat performance issues and stop older devices from abruptly shutting down.\n\nMr Gutmann, a consumer champion, says the information about the tool was not included in the software update download description at the time, and that the company failed to make clear that it would slow down devices.\n\nHe claims that Apple introduced this tool to hide the fact that iPhone batteries may have struggled to run the latest iOS software, and that rather than recalling products or offering replacement batteries, the firm instead pushed users to download the software updates.\n\nMr Gutmann said: \"Instead of doing the honourable and legal thing by their customers and offering a free replacement, repair service or compensation, Apple instead misled people by concealing a tool in software updates that slowed their devices by up to 58%.\"\n\nThe models covered by the claim are the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X models.\n\nIt is an opt-out claim, which means customers will not need to actively join the case to seek damages.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said: \"We have never, and would never, do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.\"\n\nApple has been haunted by so-called \"batterygate\" for some time although it has always insisted its intentions were honourable.\n\nIts chief executive Tim Cook took the highly unusual step of apologising in 2018 to \"anybody that thinks we had any other kind of motivation\".\n\nCritics say the update pushed people into buying newer devices as their older phones dramatically slowed down when carrying out fairly standard functions like Facetime following a software update.\n\nApple says the opposite is true - it was trying to extend their lifespan. The tech giant later offered discounted replacement batteries for iPhone 6 and above.\n\nThere are two broader issues here: one is the way in which gadgets in general become obsolete comparatively quickly, as they become unable to handle the latest and most advanced software updates that drive them.\n\nThe tech firms say these updates are essential to keep devices secure and working at their best but they soon outstrip older hardware - that is, slower processors and older batteries with less power.\n\nAs batteries age they need charging more frequently, and this is the second point: the more powerful a portable device becomes, the more power-hungry it becomes. The typical life of a lithium-ion battery is 500 charge cycles.\n\nThe claim by Mr Gutmann comes two years after a similar case was settled in the United States.\n\nIn 2020, Apple agreed to pay $113m to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.\n\nThirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.\n\nMillions of people were affected when the models of iPhone 6 and 7 and SE were slowed down in 2016 in a scandal that was dubbed batterygate.\n\nAt the time, Apple declined to comment, however, it had previously said the phones were slowed to preserve ageing battery life.\n\nClaire Holubowskyj, an analyst at the research firm Enders Analysis, said issues like this may continue to crop up, given the technical limitations of ageing batteries.\n\n\"Technology in newer devices improves in leaps and bounds, not as a steady crawl, creating issues when releasing software updates which have to work on devices with often wildly different capabilities,\" Ms Holubowskyj said.\n\n\"Apple generates 84% of its revenue from selling new devices, making them reluctant to hold back updates to ensure older models keep working smoothly.\"\n\nShe added: \"Until problems of devices and software updates outlasting and exceeding the capabilities of aging batteries are resolved, this challenge will recur.\"", "Cathie Russell with her mother, who died four weeks after this picture was taken\n\nFamilies say care home residents were stripped of their human rights by being locked away from loved ones during Covid.\n\nA report commissioned by Scotland's Covid inquiry has found severe restrictions imposed in care homes \"caused great distress\" and may have contributed to some deaths.\n\nIt said families found themselves \"locked out\" of care homes.\n\nCathie Russell represents the Care Home Relatives Scotland (CHRS) group which campaigned throughout the lockdowns for more access to relatives in care homes.\n\nShe had a total of 30 minutes with her mother Rose Hamilton in the first year of the pandemic. Mrs Hamilton died in July 2021.\n\nMs Russell said: \"The distress caused to relatives does not come as a surprise to us. However I was taken aback by it not having any legal basis.\n\n\"I had always felt it was deeply wrong and it leaves me feeling how I have always felt- that care home residents' rights were thrown under a bus and no consideration was given.\n\n\"They are talking about the new national care service and saying it is all rights-based and based in human rights. We had no human rights. The state can stop you seeing your own wife, husband daughter for a year and there is nothing you can do about it.\"\n\nThe report said that the legal basis for confining residents to their rooms and banning visitors was \"unclear\".\n\nAnd it said care home residents were arguably discriminated against compared to other citizens.\n\nCathie Russell went to the Scottish parliament to call for better visiting arrangements for families\n\nThe 143-page report is one of 14 published by the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, which is chaired by Lady Poole.\n\nIt found that in the early months of the pandemic there was \"little evidence\" that the human rights of residents and their families had been considered.\n\nIt also accepted that restrictions were to a certain extent understandable, given \"the vulnerability of care home residents and the large number of deaths in the sector\".\n\nThe report was compiled by a team from Napier University's School of Health and Social Care, led by Prof Colin McKay.\n\nCHRS campaigned throughout the pandemic's lockdowns for more visits and Mrs Russell believes her mother's condition deteriorated due to lack of contact with family.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Care homes had to collate the deaths but what was done to ascertain what all this isolation and banning relatives did?\n\n\"We are not just talking visitors here, we are talking about a husband or wife of 50 years, the mothers of young adults not being able to see them.\n\n\"We never argued against restrictions, we always argued that at least one family member being allowed in. They shouldn't have been cut adrift for more than a year in many places.\"\n\nMrs Russell said the group had raised concerns early on.\n\n\"We had plenty of meetings with government ministers but the problem was we never knew who we were up against,\" she said.\n\n\"The guidance would be improved and we would think we were going to get in and then care home wouldn't let us in, then when that started to improve public health locally would lock us out.\n\n\"We were constantly up against it not knowing who was locking us out this time, But the upshot was that I didn't get into that home between 17 March one year and 16 March the following year.\"\n\nCare home residents faced a tougher time from coronavirus restrictions and families will be looking for answers from the Scottish Covid Inquiry\n\nShe believes strongly that care homes \"could and should have\" done more.\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, which represents care homes, called the new reports \"sobering\".\n\nHe said: \"The conditions laid and the restrictions imposed were extremely severe. I think most of us indicated we had to be very careful that some of the restrictions were not likely to cause more harm than they were to save lives.\n\nThe decisions around restriction and lockdown particularly for people with advanced dementia did not appropriately take into account their human rights, did not listen to consideration of individual instances, but we treated one as we treated all and that was wholly inappropriate.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"First and foremost our thoughts are with every single family who has lost a loved one during the course of the pandemic, and we recognise how difficult and painful this experience has been for staff, residents and their loved ones.\n\n\"We welcome these research reports for the public inquiry, which will help shape the areas that the inquiry will direct its efforts. We established Lady Poole's inquiry to provide scrutiny consideration on all aspects of the handling of the pandemic in Scotland, so that lessons can be learned.\n\n\"Our priority throughout the pandemic has been to save lives and we have sought to take the necessary actions, based on the latest scientific and clinical evidence, to keep people in care homes as safe as possible, given their increased vulnerability.\"\n\nThis is the first opportunity to see the evidence being considered by the public inquiry - and it's substantial.\n\nA total of 14 documents and they consider a wide range of subjects. From decision-making around social care, education, the economy to pandemic planning.\n\nThe Edinburgh Napier University report is one of the most compelling.\n\nThe report says there is evidence that care homes felt pressurised to take patients from hospital and that families had very little say in what was happening.\n\nThey question the legal basis for imposing such severe restrictions, arguing that it could be considered discrimination against this vulnerable group.\n\nAnd they say the unintended consequences of restricting visiting - leaving residents without stimulation and often stuck in their own rooms, will have caused distress, decline and even death.\n\nBalancing big decisions on limiting the spread of infection with protecting people's human rights will be just one of the themes of this public inquiry.\n\nIt will be for Lady Poole and her team to establish the facts and decide what lessons can be learned for the future.", "Food prices will rise quickly this summer due to soaring costs, grocery analysts have predicted.\n\nPrices will rise at a rate of 15% as households pay more for staples such as bread, meat, dairy and fruit and vegetables, the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) said.\n\nMore vulnerable people will skip meals, it warned.\n\nIt also predicted that prices would rise faster for longer than Bank of England estimates.\n\nThe IGD, which provides analysis to major grocers, said the UK was facing the highest cost of living pressures since the 1970s, mainly down to the Ukraine war.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia are major global grain producers - the countries together account for nearly a third of global wheat exports.\n\nSo Russia's invasion of Ukraine is pushing up grain prices as countries around the world scramble for the produce.\n\nProducts that use grains directly, such as bread, and products made of animals that are fed on grain, such as chicken, will rise quickly in price in the summer or autumn, IGD said.\n\nChickens grow quickly, so it will only take weeks for animal-feed price rises to be felt by consumers.\n\nThe squeeze on fuel and energy costs will also push food prices higher, because a lot of agriculture is very energy intensive, it said. Fertiliser prices have also nearly tripled since last year.\n\nA lot of foil and wood pulp normally come from Russia, and the war has driven up packaging prices of those materials. Plastic packaging, which is made from oil, is also more expensive.\n\nUkrainian roads, ports and warehouses have been heavily damaged in the war, and so the volume of exports will be reduced \"for years to come\" IGD said, putting pressure on supplies of sunflower oil and wheat.\n\nThe UK also faces particular problems, it said. Two-thirds of the people on the Seasonal Agricultural Workers scheme were from Ukraine last year, but this year, Ukrainian men between 18 and 60-years-old have been told to stay at home and fight.\n\nGaps are being plugged by workers from further afield, but the new workers need training, and those costs will feed into price rises, IGD said.\n\nThe UK gets about 40% of its food from outside the country, so it is exposed to global food price rises.\n\nAnd since Brexit, European Union producers are less likely to prioritise UK customers, it said.\n\nThe Bank of England expects inflation to fall back next year, but IGD said higher inflation could last longer if there are more food export bans or more trade disruption due to new Brexit border arrangements in 2023.\n\nThe rise in food prices will hit vulnerable families the hardest, IGD chief economist James Walton said.\n\n\"Sadly, many households in the UK struggled with food bills before the current inflation event began,\" he said.\n\n\"With prices for energy, motor fuel and food rising fast, more households are moving into this vulnerable group.\"\n\nHe said that IGD research had found shoppers increasingly reporting skipping meals, \"especially when there are children in the household\".\n\nMr Walton expected shoppers in general to make money-saving changes to behaviour including eating out less and more at home, planning their menus ahead of time and making fewer spontaneous buys, cooking from scratch and eating up leftovers, shopping around and splitting shops between retailers, and switching from named brands to own-label products.\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said: \"It's crucial we do everything we can to support the farming sector, that's why we have announced measures to support growers with the availability of fertiliser, and we will be bringing forward 50% of the Basic Payment Scheme [farming subsidy] payment to July.\n\n\"We also recognise the food and farming industry is facing labour challenges.\n\n\"We have given greater certainty in accessing seasonal migrant labour by extending the Seasonal Workers visa route until the end of 2024. 30,000 visas will be available in 2022, with the potential to increase by 10,000 if there is clear evidence of need.\"", "Rap artist Lil Wayne has not performed in the UK for more than 10 years\n\nAmerican rapper Lil Wayne will no longer play at the Strawberries and Creem festival after being denied entry to the UK, organisers have said.\n\nSaturday's performance was due to be his first in the UK in several years.\n\nThe 39-year-old's 2011 UK tour was cancelled after his visa application was reportedly rejected by UK border authorities due to prior convictions.\n\nThe Home Office said applications were refused for people sentenced to a year or more in custody.\n\nLil Wayne has been contacted for comment.\n\nIn a statement on their website, festival organisers said: \"Due to extreme circumstances beyond our control or influence, we are very sorry to inform you that Lil Wayne is now unable to perform at the festival...\n\n\"Lil Wayne has been refused entry to the UK directly by the Home Office in a last-minute decision. We are deeply disappointed by this sudden and negative ruling.\"\n\nThey said Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris would play a \"UK exclusive\" set on Saturday instead.\n\nRapper and actor Ludacris would perform at the festival instead, organisers said\n\nThe Home Office said it did not routinely comment on individual cases.\n\nHowever, it said: \"Any individual who has been sentenced to a custodial sentence of 12 months or more must have their application refused.\"\n\nIn 2010, the rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to gun possession.\n\nThe charges were linked to his arrest in 2007 when a gun was found on his tour bus.\n\nHe was also found to be carrying a gun and bullets when police searched a private plane in Miami in December 2019 and could have faced up to 10 years in prison.\n\nBut he was granted a full White House pardon by former US President Donald Trump on his last full day in the job.\n\nStrawberries and Creem has been running since 2014,\n\nThe music event will run for three days at Childerley Orchard in Cambridge.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly 6.5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment - a record high, latest NHS figures show.\n\nThat represents one in nine people in the population who are waiting for care such as knee and hip replacements and eye surgery.\n\nOne in 20 of them has been waiting for more than a year.\n\nBut NHS England said there were signs of progress, with fewer people waiting for tests and the number of people waiting more than two years falling.\n\nTim Mitchell, of the Royal College of Surgeons, agreed, saying there was some \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\n\"Surgical teams have been working around the clock to reduce the enormous waiting list which built up during the pandemic.\n\n\"However, there are still big challenges ahead. As people return to the NHS, demand is only getting stronger.\"\n\nHe added that there was a need for more staff to increase the amount of surgery that could be done - ministers have warned the waiting list could keep rising until 2024.\n\nThe data showed cancer services were also struggling.\n\nSome 21% waited more than two weeks for a check-up with a cancer specialist in April after an urgent referral from a GP.\n\nAnd 35% waited more than the target time of two months for treatment.\n\nProf Pat Price, co-founder of Catch Up With Cancer, said: \"It defies all reason that government can look at these cancer statistics and not see a crisis. We are desperately short of treatment capacity.\n\n\"Increasing diagnosis means nothing if all we do is pile backlog patients onto sky-high waiting lists.\"\n\nBut Prof Sir Stephen Powis, of NHS England, praised \"hard-working NHS staff\", saying significant progress was being made.\n\nHowever, he warned there was \"no doubt\" the NHS was still facing pressures, including an increasing number of Covid patients.", "A woman uses a fan to cool a child during the recent heatwave in India\n\nTwo weeks of climate talks in Germany have ended in acrimony between rich and poor countries over cash for climate damage.\n\nDeveloping countries say they are reeling from climate change caused by richer countries' emissions over hundreds of years.\n\nThey hoped to get compensation onto the official agenda for discussions by world leaders in November.\n\nBut here in Bonn they couldn't get the US and the European Union to agree.\n\n\"The climate emergency is fast becoming a catastrophe,\" said Conrod Hunte, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).\n\n\"Yet within these walls the process feels out of step with reality, the pace feels too slow,\" he told delegates at the end of the meeting.\n\nPeople being rescued from floods in China\n\nDeveloping nations say they need money to deal with the impacts of climate change, because they suffer the effects more than richer nations and have less financial capacity to cope.\n\nThey argue that the climate change they are experiencing has been caused by carbon emitted by richer countries as they developed their economies. They say that Europe and the US have a responsibility now to compensate them for this.\n\nThe US and Europe don't agree. They fear that if they pay for historic emissions it could put their countries on the hook for billions of dollars for decades or even centuries to come.\n\nThe issue is termed \"loss and damage\" and has become a running sore in these negotiations.\n\nAt last year's COP26 conference in Glasgow, island states and developing countries agreed to prioritise cuts to carbon emissions on the back of promises that richer nations would finally set up a compensation process this year.\n\nIt was a compromise they hoped would pay off.\n\nBut despite two weeks of discussions here in Bonn, they have been unable to get the issue of a funding facility on the agenda for the COP27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November.\n\n\"The compromise was based on an understanding that countries would be willing to start talking and taking decisions on dealing with how to get that finance flowing for loss and damage,\" said Alex Scott from E3G, an environmental think tank.\n\n\"And we haven't seen that come to fruition here. Instead, we've seen a workshop set up to talk about how we can fix some of the problems.\"\n\nThe EU in particular has come in for heavy criticism.\n\n\"The EU consistently blocked discussions on finance for loss and damage in Bonn,\" said Harjeet Singh, from the Climate Action Network International.\n\n\"The last two weeks exposed its hypocritical stance, with major countries like Germany sourcing new fossil fuels abroad while denying support to developing countries facing devastation from climate-induced superstorms and rising seas.\"\n\nMany participants from poorer regions of the world brought their own personal testimony of the impacts of climate change.\n\n\"We are already living with loss and damages for the last 25 years,\" said Adriana Vasquez Rodriquez from La Ruta del Clima, a Costa Rican environmental group.\n\n\"We have families who have lost their houses, their crops, their lives, and no-one is paying for that, we are running out of resources, and at the same time, we are depending on debt.\"\n\nBridging the divide between rich and poor on this issue will not be easy.\n\nWhile the question of a financial facility will now not be on the official discussions at COP27 in Egypt, developing countries are certain to continue to insist that their voices be heard on this question.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn Australian man has gone to new heights to stop his car being stolen, using a forklift to suspend the vehicle - and the alleged thief - in the air.\n\nPolice say a woman had broken into the man's home in Logan, west of Brisbane, showering and changing clothes before attempting to steal the car.\n\nShe was about to make her getaway when Brendan Mills and his family came home.\n\n\"It all unfolded in front of us so fast,\" Mr Mills told local breakfast show, Sunrise.\n\nHe saw the car door shut and the vehicle begin rolling and jumped into action.\n\n\"I asked them many times get out of the car: 'We're home, you're busted. Get out the car, you know it's over',\" he said.\n\n\"(But) they didn't want to get out.\"\n\n\"I said 'Well ok, you want to play it that way, I've got an alternative option here'.\"\n\nMr Mills had a forklift handy as he works with cars, and using it was the only way he could think to safely stop the woman driving away.\n\n\"My family were standing by watching the whole thing unfold, so you can't do anything too silly,\" he said.\n\n\"You had this immense amount of adrenaline running through the system, lots of thoughts cross your mind... I just went, 'Well, there's a forklift sitting there - why not?'\"\n\nPolice arrived shortly after to find the car still suspended in the air. It was slowly lowered, and the woman arrested.\n\nShe has been charged with burglary and unlawful use of a motor vehicle and will face court next month.", "The Bank of England now expects the economy to be weaker immediately, with a fall in the economy in this quarter, and for inflation to be even higher, going above 11% in the autumn when the energy cap resets. It will flesh out these new forecasts in August.\n\nThe rise in interest rates to its highest level since February 2009 is intended to stop the global energy price shock becoming entrenched in the UK.\n\nThe bank’s spies in every region of the economy say they do not pick up any sign of a reduction in demand for labour, and wage settlements above 5%.\n\nHence the rise to a rate that would still be considered low by historic standards, but may prove rather high to an economy, to homeowners and businesses that has become accustomed to ultra-low rates after the financial crisis.\n\nThree members of the nine-member committee voted for an even bigger rise of 0.5%, in the aftermath of the bumper 0.75% rise in rates in the US overnight.\n\nThe Bank is keeping open a path of further rises. But such is the economic squeeze and the fear of recession, that some economists predict that some of these rises could be reversed within a year.\n\nIt is a very uncertain time.", "People on the lowest incomes, as well as communities with higher ethnic minorities, are disproportionately impacted by air pollution\n\nPeople on the lowest incomes in Wales are more likely to live in areas with high air pollution, a study has shown.\n\nNeighbourhoods with higher ethnic minority populations were also disproportionately affected.\n\nCampaigners said the \"shocking\" findings showed work on new clean air laws needed to be sped up.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was bringing forward its Clean Air Bill that will introduce air quality targets for Wales.\n\nThe Friends of the Earth campaign group compared pollution data by neighbourhood with figures on levels of deprivation, car ownership, ethnicity, child population and schools.\n\nHaf Elgar, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, said it showed air pollution had become an issue of \"social justice and equality\".\n\nHaf Elgar said air pollution was heavily impacting those that contribute towards it the least\n\n\"[It affects] the most vulnerable in our society the most, those who are often doing the least to cause air pollution,\" she said.\n\nThe analysis suggested people of colour were five times more likely to live in areas with high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, and two-and-a-half times more likely to live in areas with high particulate matter pollution (PM).\n\nJoseph Carter, chairman of the Healthy Air Cymru and Asthma + Lung UK Cymru charities, said he found the study's findings to be \"shocking but not surprising\".\n\n\"To save lives, and protect our health and the environment, we must have a Clean Air Act for Wales as soon as possible,\" he added.\n\nJabeda Siddiqui said air pollution was not good for children\n\nOn the school run in the Canton area of Cardiff, Jabeda Siddiqui and her son Tabshir said traffic fumes did concern them.\n\n\"The pollution is not good for our children and babies. It would be better for people to walk or cycle,\" Ms Siddiqui said.\n\nPushing a pram in nearby Grangetown, Aderiyike, who did not provide her surname, added she would consider wearing a facemask \"to prevent us from inhaling the odours\".\n\nLisa Rees, also out for a walk with her toddler, said she could \"feel it hit you and it sticks in your throat\".\n\nShe thought one answer was to \"reduce the cost of public transport so more people take that instead of focusing on cars\".\n\nLisa Rees, from Cardiff, said she can feel the pollution stick in her throat\n\nPaula Dunster, a mother of two from Cardiff, was so concerned about pollution levels on her daily walks to and from school in the Llanedeyrn area of the city, she decided to carry out her own air quality tests.\n\n\"I did my own testing for a week back in March and on one day the levels were five times higher than the recommended limit. It just goes to show that sometimes there can be high levels,\" she said.\n\nMs Dunster said she wanted to see more monitoring and for the information to be easily accessible to help influence people's decisions about how they travel.\n\nPaula Dunster's said her tests showed pollution levels were five times higher than the recommended limit\n\nMs Dunster said the findings of the Friends of the Earth study showed the situation was \"unjust\"\n\n\"It's not fair on people - we need to do as much as we can to make sure people in these areas can stay healthy and their children too,\" she added.\n\nA new Clean Air Act for Wales has been long promised by the Welsh government, and the idea enjoys cross-party support in the Senedd.\n\nMinisters set out an idea of what could be in the new legislation in January 2021, suggesting drafting of the bill would start this year.\n\nBut clean air campaigners have argued the timetable is far too slow, and could result in new measures and targets to try to curb poor air quality not coming into force until 2026.\n\nPublic Health Wales has described air pollution as the greatest environmental risk to people's health, contributing to between 1,000 and 1,400 deaths a year in Wales.\n\nWelsh Conservative spokeswoman for climate change, Janet Finch-Saunders, said every year the government kicked \"this vital act down the road is another year that the poorest in society have to breathe polluted air\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's climate change spokeswoman Delyth Jewell described the situation as a \"social justice emergency\" that should be at the \"very top\" of the government's agenda.\"\n\nShe said: \"We are poisoning our children and this is more prevalent in place where people who are already facing more disadvantages are living. There has to be a clean air act introduced with urgency\".\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are bringing forward the Clean Air Bill for Wales Act that will introduce an air quality target setting framework that takes into account guidelines set by the World Health Organization.\n\n\"Tackling air quality and climate change together will deliver quicker, faster and fairer outcomes for people, nature and the planet.\n\n\"This will benefit everyone and especially those people living in our most deprived communities who are disproportionately affected by air pollution.\"", "Individuals on the tour photographed areas \"not typically of interest to tourists\", says the committee\n\nUS lawmakers investigating the Capitol riot have shown video of a Republican giving a tour to a man who they say returned on the day of the attack.\n\nCongressman Barry Loudermilk, the committee says, was seen with a group that includes a person who was among those outside Congress the next day.\n\nThe Georgia representative has called it a \"smear campaign\" by the committee.\n\nHe cited a letter from US Capitol Police saying there was nothing suspicious about his role in the tour.\n\nDemocrats have questioned whether some Republicans led any reconnaissance tours for visitors who later joined the raid on Congress as it met to certify President Joe Biden's election victory on 6 January 2021.\n\nBut no concrete evidence has emerged to support such a theory.\n\nThe video, released online by the Democratic-led committee on Wednesday, shows Mr Loudermilk and members of his staff leading a group of about 10 people on a tour of a House of Representatives office building, a short walk from the main Capitol building.\n\n\"Individuals on the tour photographed and recorded areas of the complex not typically of interest to tourists, including hallways, staircases, and security checkpoints,\" committee chairman and Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson said, adding that the building was closed at the time of the tour.\n\nThe congressional investigators also released video of an unidentified tour-goer outside the Capitol a day later during the riot, saying of Democratic members of Congress: \"There's no escape... we're coming for you.\"\n\nThe committee did not allege that the man actually entered the Capitol, and they have not explicitly accused Mr Loudermilk of leading a reconnaissance tour.\n\nIn his defence, Mr Loudermilk cited a letter from US Capitol Police Chief J Thomas Manger, released on Monday, which said of the tour: \"We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.\"\n\nIn a statement after the footage was released, Mr Loudermilk tweeted: \"The Capitol Police already put this false accusation to bed, yet the Committee is undermining the Capitol Police and doubling down on their smear campaign.\"\n\nHe had previously denied leading any tours on 5 January, then later said he gave one to a family with young children.\n\nThe 6 January select committee is seeking to show that former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims led directly to the attack on the US Capitol. They are due to hold another hearing on Thursday.\n\nA separate ongoing criminal investigation into the riot has led to arrests of more than 800 people overall in nearly every US state.\n\nMore than 300 people have been convicted so far. On Wednesday, a man who carried a Confederate flag into the building, as well as his adult son, were found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding.\n\nOn Wednesday, federal prosecutors unveiled a nine-page manifesto from the Proud Boys, a group that allegedly played a prominent role in the attack.\n\nThe document, titled \"1776 Returns\", laid out detailed plans for how the Capitol complex should be occupied by protesters, but did not call for any violence against law enforcement or other officials.", "In a field about six miles from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the J9 army unit is doing its grim job - digging up bodies of Russian soldiers.\n\nIn a shallow mass grave under a tree, there are six dead, piled on top of one another in a rough heap. No one here knows who buried them - local residents or retreating Russians.\n\nThe bodies are swarmed by flies and the smell is overpowering, but the members of the J9 unit and the two diggers who help them are unfazed. They are used to it.\n\nThe J9 soldiers and gravediggers, including Yurii (front right), carry the bodies out Image caption: The J9 soldiers and gravediggers, including Yurii (front right), carry the bodies out\n\nYurii, one of the gravediggers, got this job after he found five bodies buried in his own garden in a different village, and called the J9 unit to dig them up.\n\n\"I helped them dig and they liked the way I worked, because I was a gravedigger before, so now I'm helping them,\" he said.\n\nThat means going from village to village, every day, exhuming bodies - Ukrainians and Russians. These dead Russians will be taken to the morgue, sampled for identification, and eventually swapped for Ukrainian dead.\n\nYurii served in the army in the Soviet Union. \"Someone is waiting for these men – their fathers and mothers, children,\" he said. “I understand that.”", "An unnamed worker says he was beaten by the Taliban for working at the embassy\n\nMore than 100 men who worked at the British embassy in Afghanistan remain in the country, with some telling the BBC they have been beaten and tortured.\n\nThe men worked for the global security company, GardaWorld, and many had been in post for more than a decade.\n\nSeveral shared photos of injuries they say were caused by the Taliban.\n\nThe UK government says it has evacuated more than 15,000 people since last year and is working to bring more to the UK.\n\nA spreadsheet listing the names of more than 150 men who worked at the embassy and still live in the country has been seen and verified by BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nOne man, who cannot be named to protect his identity, said he was recently beaten by the Taliban because of his previous job as a guard at the embassy.\n\n\"I was sitting outside when gunmen approached me, one of [them] attacked me,\" he said.\n\n\"They said you were working for the British embassy. They started beating me and they threw me on the ground. They attacked me again and again.\"\n\n\"They attacked me again and again,\" one man said\n\nAnother former guard said a militant hit him over the head with the butt of a rifle. He says he was only released after the Taliban was convinced he no longer worked for the British.\n\nThis week, the UK government said the men would be able to apply to come to the UK from 20 June as part of its Afghan citizens resettlement scheme (ACRS), which is primarily targeted at those who assisted the UK efforts in Afghanistan.\n\nIt was officially launched in January but application requests can only be submitted from next week. Critics say that is too little, too late.\n\nA separate government scheme, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), aimed to relocate those who were employed directly by the British government, including interpreters who helped British forces.\n\nOne Afghan who came to the UK earlier this year under ARAP said many of his former colleagues from the embassy were being threatened on a daily basis. He is not being named to protect his family who remain in Afghanistan.\n\n\"I feel like the British have been disloyal,\" he said. \"They made a promise - these men worked hard for them and now their lives are at risk.\n\n\"I can't sleep or eat without thinking of what they're going through. They message me constantly asking for help.\".\n\nThis week armed forces minister James Heappey told the Commons 9,500 Afghans have already been successfully relocated to the UK under the ARAP scheme.\n\nBut he said thousands more still remained in Afghanistan. \"We think we've got about the same to go in terms of the number of people who are eligible,\" he said.\n\nThe British Embassy in Kabul has suspended operations there since the Taliban takeover\n\nThe human rights charity, Azadi, works to support and evacuate targeted Afghans. Sarah Magill, the charity's director, said there had been no explanation why it had taken so long to begin the next process.\n\n\"Through their inaction the government has caused incalculable trauma,\" she said. \"It is a deeply inhumane way to treat a body of staff entrusted to keep British ministers and civil servants safe.\"\n\nThe government has faced fierce criticism of its handling of the evacuation in Afghanistan last summer, with one group of MPs saying there had been a \"total absence of a plan for evacuating Afghans who supported the UK mission\".\n\nAt the height of the Taliban takeover the government issued a statement, saying: \"We will help all those Afghan security guards contracted through GardaWorld to protect the embassy.\n\n\"They will be granted the right to enter the UK and we are now working through the challenging logistics of getting them out of Kabul.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Our staff worked tirelessly to evacuate over 15,000 people to safety from Afghanistan within a fortnight in the biggest and fastest emergency in recent history. We are still working hard to assist the people of Afghanistan, having already helped over 4,600 individuals to leave the country since the end of the military evacuation.\n\n\"We have opened the Afghanistan Citizen Resettlement Scheme, one of the most ambitious resettlement programmes in the world and the first bespoke scheme in Europe to begin resettling evacuees and individuals.\"\n\nGardaWorld added: \"Since the closure of the British Embassy in Kabul, we have been working tirelessly with the UK government to ensure the maximum take-up for our Afghan staff on the UK resettlement schemes.\"", "A family tribute described Mr Bran (r) as a \"much-loved grandfather respected father-in-law, also a dear brother\"\n\nA chip shop owner acquitted of murdering his wife with scalding oil has died, his family has said.\n\nGeoffrey Bran, 73, walked free in 2019 after a murder trial heard his wife Mavis screamed \"Please help me\" to a friend over the phone, minutes after working with her husband in their shop.\n\nMr Bran continued serving customers as his wife desperately cried out for help.\n\nHis family said the \"beloved husband of Mavis\" would be missed by his family.\n\nMavis Bran, 69, died in hospital six days after receiving burns to 46% of her body on 23 October 2018.\n\nMr Bran faced a trial for his wife's murder but told the jury she had accidentally tipped boiling oil over herself while working in their shop together.\n\nMr Bran agreed in court that it was \"callous to the point of inhumanity\" not to check on his wife as he carried on serving at their roadside business, the Chipoteria in Hermon, Carmarthenshire.\n\nHe was acquitted by a jury after five hours at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nMr Bran died at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen on 1 June.\n\nMavis and her husband ran the chip shop together\n\nA family tribute said he died peacefully and was a \"beloved husband of the late Mavis, devoted father of Richard, Rhiannon and Rhidian, much loved grandfather, respected father-in-law, also a dear brother\".\n\nThey added he would be \"sadly missed by all his family and many friends\".\n\nIt came after friends of Mavis gave evidence she had raised fears her husband would kill her and had described a volatile relationship.\n\nThe couple met in 1980 and married in 1984. They did not have children together.\n\nMrs Bran was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea after the accident where she had surgery to remove some of her burned skin.\n\nShe developed sepsis and hypothermia and died from multi-organ failure.", "The family and friends of missing journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been calling for answers from authorities in Brazil.\n\nThe pair went missing while on a reporting trip in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday.\n\nBrazilian police have found possible human remains in their search for the two men.", "People punted along the River Cam in Cambridge as the day grew hotter\n\nThe UK has recorded its hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures set to rise on Friday, the Met Office said.\n\nNortholt, west London, saw temperatures reach 29.5C (85.1F), surpassing the previous hottest day of the year on Wednesday which saw 28.2C (82.8F).\n\nOn Friday the mercury is expected to rise to 34C in the south east of England, exceeding temperatures in parts of Jamaica and the Maldives.\n\nAcross most of England and Wales, highs of between 27C and 30C are expected.\n\nThe Met Office said the \"unusual\" temperatures for June were a result of high pressure over the southern half of the UK and a south-westerly airflow bringing warm air across the UK and Europe.\n\nThe weather has not yet beaten the record for the hottest June day ever, which was a high of 35.6C at Southampton Mayflower Park in June 1976.\n\nA woman takes a selfie in a field of poppies in Bramford, Suffolk\n\nAt South Kensington Underground Station commuters were warned to carry water with them\n\nIt comes after the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and Met Office issued a level three heat-health alert for London, the south-east and east of England, with the alert remaining in place until midnight on Saturday.\n\nAgostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at the UKHSA, said: \"During periods of hot weather, it is especially important to keep checking on those who are most vulnerable, such as older people and those with heart or lung conditions.\n\n\"Make sure to look out for signs of heat exhaustion and follow our simple health advice to beat the heat.\"\n\nA cold front is expected to push across the country from the north through the weekend, bringing a return to average temperatures in places such as Manchester and Leeds, although high temperatures are expected to remain in East Sussex and Kent, with 29C possible.\n\nFor an official heatwave to be declared there must be at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre, said climate change had increased the average temperatures of UK summers and the likelihood of experiencing more extreme temperatures during hot spells and heatwaves.\n\nHe said: \"Reaching 34C during June is a rare, but not unprecedented, event in the historical climate records for the UK.\n\n\"But if it should happen this week it would be notable that it would have occurred on three days during the last six Junes.\"\n\nThose lucky enough not to be at work took to Bridlington Beach in Yorkshire\n\nIn Soho Square in central London crowds sat in the sun", "Germany has accused Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom of attempting to push up energy prices by sharply reducing supplies.\n\nGazprom said it was limiting the amount of gas to Germany to under 70m cubic metres per day - well under half the current rate.\n\nThe reason it gave was to service equipment in the Nord Stream pipeline.\n\nBut German economy minister Robert Habeck said it was \"a political decision\" and not a technical one.\n\n\"It is obviously a strategy to unsettle and drive up prices.\"\n\nGazprom said initially on Tuesday it was cutting the Nord Stream 1 gas flow from 167m cubic metres a day to 100m but then on Wednesday announced it would be cut further to 67m cubic metres.\n\nGazprom also reduced its gas supply to Italy by around 15% on Wednesday, energy firm ENI said. Italy, like Germany, is heavily reliant on Russian gas, which accounts for 40% of its imports.\n\nThe Russian company's move came two weeks after European Union leaders agreed to block most Russian oil imports by the end of 2022 to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine.\n\nPoland, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands have already had their Russian natural gas deliveries suspended after they refused a demand for \"unfriendly countries\" to pay in Russian roubles.\n\nRussia's payment demand was seen as an attempt to boost the rouble after it was hit by Western sanctions. Greater foreign exchange demand for roubles was likely to increase demand and push up the currency's value.\n\nMr Habeck said Russia's actions showed European countries needed to end their dependency on fossil fuels urgently. In February, Germany suspended the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, shortly before Russia launched its war in Ukraine.\n\nThe minister said he would wait to see how the move affected the European and German gas markets but said suppliers had always managed to find gas from other sources.\n\n\"We don't have a supply problem in Germany either,\" he said. \"Gas will probably continue to be stored. We have made very good progress in this area in the last few days and weeks.\n\n\"However, we will certainly have to wait two or three days to get a complete overview of how things are developing now.\"\n\nIn another development on Wednesday, the EU signed a framework agreement with Israel and Egypt aimed at increasing the amount of Israeli natural gas exported to European countries.", "Researchers believe they have discovered the origins of the Black Death, more than 600 years after it killed tens of millions in Europe, Asia and north Africa.\n\nThe mid-14th Century health catastrophe is one of the most significant disease episodes in human history.\n\nBut despite years of research, scientists had been unable to pinpoint where the bubonic plague began.\n\nNow analysis suggests it was in Kyrgyzstan, central Asia, in the 1330s.\n\nA research team from the University of Stirling in Scotland and Germany's Max Planck Institute and University of Tubingen analysed ancient DNA samples from the teeth of skeletons in cemeteries near Lake Issyk Kul, in Kyrgyzstan.\n\nThey chose the area after noting a significant spike in burials there in 1338 and 1339.\n\nDr Maria Spyrou, a researcher at the University of Tubingen, said the team sequenced DNA from seven skeletons.\n\nThey analysed the teeth because, according to Dr Spyrou, they contain many blood vessels and give researchers \"high chances of detecting blood-borne pathogens that may have caused the deaths of the individuals\".\n\nThe research team were able to find the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, in three of them.\n\nDr Philip Slavin, a historian at the University of Stirling, said of the discovery: \"Our study puts to rest one of the biggest and most fascinating questions in history and determines when and where the single most notorious and infamous killer of humans began.\"\n\nThe research does have some limitations - including the small sample size.\n\nDr Michael Knapp from the University of Otago in New Zealand, who was not involved in the work, praised it as \"really valuable\", but noted: \"Data from far more individuals, times and regions... would really help clarify what the data presented here really means.\"\n\nThe researchers' work was published in the journal Nature, titled \"The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia\".\n\nPlague is a potentially lethal infectious disease that is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis that live in some animals - mainly rodents - and their fleas.\n\nBubonic plague is the most common form of the disease that people can get. The name comes from the symptoms it causes - painful, swollen lymph nodes or 'buboes' in the groin or armpit.\n\nFrom 2010 to 2015, there were 3,248 cases reported worldwide, including 584 deaths.\n\nHistorically, it has also been called the Black Death, in reference to the gangrenous blackening and death of body parts, such as the fingers and toes, that can happen with the illness.", "Free Covid tests and £500 isolation payments for those eligible are set to end in Wales\n\nIn a couple of weeks isolation support payments, free Covid tests and extra sick pay for social care workers are due to end in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said the vaccine programme had made it possible to \"learn to live safely alongside coronavirus\".\n\nUnder new plans to cope with the virus in the long term, ill people will be asked to stay at home \"where possible\".\n\nBut with many grappling with soaring living costs, how realistic is this?\n\nFrom tradespeople who cannot work from home to people with health conditions that make them vulnerable to Covid, there is concern at what the changes will mean.\n\nProfessor Richard Stanton, a virologist from Cardiff University, believes large-scale Covid isolation has come to an end.\n\n\"We can't really expect people to stay at home if they can't test for Covid, if [the Welsh government] haven't got the money to support them to do that,\" he told BBC Wales Live.\n\nProfessor Richard Stanton says he thinks a new wave of Omicron is likely\n\nProf Stanton thinks a new wave of the omicron variant is likely and although it will not be comparable to the height of the pandemic, it does bring risks.\n\n\"The big risks right now are that a significant proportion of people who catch the virus may go on to get long Covid... or they may well spread it to vulnerable relatives who may get sick with it,\" Prof Stanton added.\n\nHe believes the best way to mitigate the spread of Covid is to focus on ventilation in workplaces and on public transport.\n\nEmma Watkins said she could not afford to stay home if she was ill\n\nCare assistant Emma Watkins recently moved to Plymouth with her partner and is expecting a baby.\n\nMs Watkins, from Port Talbot, said she would have to go to work if she felt unwell as she could not survive on statutory sick pay.\n\n\"I literally can't afford to get ill because I'm still paying old debts off,\" she said.\n\n\"I know it's a bit hard to say but if I'm ill I still need to go in, and obviously we've got PPE and masks and all that.\"\n\nMs Watkins would be worried about putting others at risk but said if she did not pay her rent she would be homeless.\n\n\"I'd need to be on my death bed not to go in to work because I genuinely can't afford it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was on sick a couple of years back when I broke my foot and I had to take my cast off just to go back to work to get my bills sorted because I was having letters left, right and centre off debt collectors.\"\n\nAngelo Sperandeo, a window and door fitter from Cardiff, said considering whether to go to work in the future if he felt unwell would pose a difficult decision because he cannot work from home.\n\nAngelo Sperandeo is unable to work from home and would be forced to go to work while ill\n\n\"I'd personally go to work because I'd have no choice really. I'd obviously be thinking of people I'd be in contact with,\" he said.\n\n\"You just try and get on with life as best you can but it's always at the back of your mind.\"\n\nAlex Osborne, from Caerphilly, has multiple sclerosis (MS) and a weakened immune system.\n\nDespite having had Covid vaccinations, she said it was unlikely to give her protection because of the regular MS treatment she has.\n\nAlex Osborne wants free Covid tests to be made available to immunosuppressed people\n\n\"It brings an extra level of worry now,\" said Ms Osborne.\n\n\"People might not have any symptoms but I still ask people to check before I invite them into my house.\n\n\"If people can no longer do that for me and people like me, that's our safety net that we were using to feel comfortable meeting people… and now it's kind of being removed from us.\"\n\nMs Osborne said she wanted free Covid tests to be made available to immunosuppressed people so they can give them to people they are spending time with.\n\nDavid Bailey, chair of the British Medical Association's Welsh council, said scrapping free testing would create a \"two-tier system\" where those unable to pay are \"forced to gamble on the health of themselves and others\".\n\n\"Along with free testing for people with symptoms, it is therefore crucial that governments continue to advise symptomatic people to isolate,\" he said.\n\nStacey Rodd, an NHS administrator from Cardiff, said she would probably stay away from the workplace if she felt ill.\n\nStacey Rodd says she has the luxury of being able to work from home, but not everybody does\n\n\"I've got the luxury of being able to work from home. Other people haven't, my other half can't, he works in a shop and if he's not there the shop doesn't run,\" she said.\n\n\"It's making that call and just being sensible really. There are still vulnerable people about.\"\n\nThe Wales TUC (Trades Union Congress) said the advice to stay home if possible was \"not practical\" for tens of thousands of workers in Wales.\n\nIts general secretary, Shavannah Taj, wants the UK government to increase statutory sick pay and the Welsh government to reverse the planned scrapping of enhanced sick pay for social care workers brought in during the pandemic.\n\nWales TUC general secretary Shavannah Taj says some workers will be stuck between a \"rock and a hard place\"\n\n\"There's a cost of living emergency, people have no choice at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"You're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Let's learn something from the pandemic, let's do better.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Thanks to the success of our vaccine programme and the way people across Wales have helped to keep each other safe over the last two years, we are now able to move beyond the emergency response to the pandemic and learn to live safely alongside coronavirus.\n\n\"Whilst we have gradually and carefully moved away from the legal protections, we are keeping guidance in place to help people manage the virus. This includes the recommendation to stay at home if you are sick to stop the illness spreading.\n\n\"We have set out our plans for testing and we will keep this under review.\"\n\nThe UK government said: \"It is up to employers to determine their sick pay policies and many employers choose to pay more than the minimum level of statutory sick pay.\n\n\"The welfare system provides a strong financial safety net to those who are unwell for longer periods or disabled.\"\n\nWales Live, Wednesdays at 22:35 and available on BBC iPlayer", "UK interest rates have risen further as the Bank of England attempts to stem the pace of soaring prices.\n\nRates have increased from 1% to 1.25%, the fifth consecutive rise, pushing them to the highest level in 13 years.\n\nIt comes as finances are being squeezed by the rising cost of living, driven by record fuel and energy prices.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at a 40-year high of 9%, and the Bank warned it could surpass 11% later this year.\n\nThe Bank said rising energy prices were expected to drive living costs even higher in October, but added it would \"act forcefully\" if necessary should inflation pressures persist. Capital Economics speculates that the Bank could eventually have to raise interest rates to 3%.\n\nOne way to try to control rising prices - or inflation - is to raise interest rates. This increases the cost of borrowing and encourages people to borrow and spend less. Higher interest rates also motivate people to save more.\n\nThe June rate rise means that homeowners with a typical tracker mortgage will have to pay about £25 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages will see a £16 increase.\n\nCompared with pre-December 2021 - when the Bank announced the first in this series of rate rises - tracker mortgage customers are paying around £115 more a month, and variable mortgage holders about £73 more.\n\nHowever, about three-quarters of mortgage-holders have a fixed-rate deal, so have not been affected immediately.\n\nMeanwhile, some businesses believe rising borrowing costs may curb customer spending.\n\n\"At the moment we're not seeing it directly but we know we are a luxury,\" Julie Dalton, managing director of Gulliver's Theme Park Resorts told the BBC. \"Past experience has told us when interest rates go up we do start to suffer.\"\n\nSix of the nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise rates to 1.25%, but three backed a bigger increase to 1.5%.\n\nMinutes from the Bank's meeting also reveal that it expects the UK economy will shrink by 0.3% in the April-to-June period.\n\nHow will the latest interest rate rise affect you? Get in touch.\n\nThe Bank did not update its outlook for the July-to-September quarter, but it has said previously that expects the economy to grow during this period.\n\nIf it does, then the UK would avoid a recession this year - with a recession defined as the economy shrinking for two consecutive quarters.\n\nHowever, the Bank has also said previously that it expects the economy to shrink in the final three months of this year, during which the price cap on household energy bills is expected to be increased from £1,971 per year to about £2,800.\n\nThe rise in domestic gas and electricity bills will lift the increase in the cost of living to \"slightly above\" 11% in October, the Bank said.\n\nIt means the rate of inflation will be more than five times the Bank's inflation target of 2%.\n\nThe Bank of England now expects the economy to be weaker immediately, with a fall in the economy in this quarter, and for inflation to be even higher, going above 11% in the autumn when the energy cap resets. It will flesh out these new forecasts in August.\n\nThe rise in interest rates to its highest level since February 2009 is intended to stop the global energy price shock becoming entrenched in the UK.\n\nThe Bank's spies in every region of the economy say they do not pick up any sign of a reduction in demand for labour. Hence the rise to a rate that would still be considered low by historic standards, but may prove rather high to an economy, to homeowners and businesses that have become accustomed to ultra low rates after the financial crisis.\n\nThe Bank has also stopped giving guidance that more rate increases are on the way, and instead replaced that wording with an assurance that it will respond \"forcefully\" to any signs that inflation is becoming persistent.\n\nThree members of the nine member committee voted for an even bigger rise of 0.5%, in the aftermath of the bumper 0.75% rise in rates in the US overnight.\n\nThe Bank pointed to measures of core inflation, which strip out volatile energy prices for example, being significantly higher in the UK than in the euro area.\n\nSo the Bank is keeping open a path of further rises. But such is the economic squeeze and the fear of recession, that some economists predict some of these rises could be reversed within a year. It is a very uncertain time.\n\nIn a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said inflation was largely due to global issues such as rising prices for energy and agricultural goods, which have worsened as a result of Russia's war with Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Bailey said \"domestic factors\" also had a role in rising inflation such as the tighter labour market - there are currently a record 1.3 million job vacancies - and rising prices in the services sector, which accounts for nearly three-quarters of the UK's GDP.\n\nHe also noted that the UK's inflation rate was higher than both the eurozone and the US.\n\nMr Bailey added that because it takes some time for wholesale gas and oil prices to be reflected in household bills - when the energy regulator Ofgem changes the price cap in April and October - \"inflation is likely to peak later in the UK than in many other economies and may therefore fall back later\".\n\nOther countries are also raising interest rates in an attempt to cool rising prices.\n\nThe US central bank has just announced its biggest interest rate rise in nearly 30 years, with the Federal Reserve increasing rates by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index shed more than 600 points (2%) following the move while in the UK, the FTSE 100 fell by more than 200 points (3%) after the Bank lifted rates.\n\nBrazil, Canada, India, Australia and Switzerland have also raised rates, while the European Central Bank has outlined plans to do so later this summer.\n\nIn the UK, some urged the Bank of England to show some restraint on raising interest rates.\n\nWhile the manufacturers' association Make UK acknowledged that the Bank is \"caught between a rock and a hard place\", it said: \"Relatively low-cost borrowing is currently one of the few last lines of defence for manufacturers, with cashflow under pressure thanks to a potent cocktail of high energy, transport and raw material costs.\"\n• None What no change in rates means for your money", "The star's last album was released in 2016\n\nBeyoncé has announced what appears to be her first solo album in six years, Renaissance, due out on 29 July.\n\nIt will be the follow-up to 2016's Lemonade, a meditation on black identity and marital infidelity that topped multiple end-of-year lists.\n\nFans had been waiting for the news ever since Beyoncé deleted her social media profile pictures last week.\n\nShe put them out of their misery on Thursday morning, by sharing the words \"act i … RENAISSANCE\" on her accounts.\n\nStreaming sites including Spotify and Apple Music swiftly posted artwork for the record, offering fans the chance to pre-save the release.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Spotify This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTidal, the company owned by Beyoncé's husband Jay-Z, also shared the information but, crucially, it will not carry the album as an exclusive.\n\nLemonade, by contrast, was a Tidal exclusive for three years. Beyoncé's joint album with Jay-Z, Everything Is Love, was an exclusive for just two days in 2018.\n\nNow the relationship has been severed, a recognition that the streaming service - which has about a 2% market share - cannot deliver the numbers Beyoncé needs to dominate the charts.\n\nA listing on Apple Music suggests that Renaissance will contain 16 songs. It is not clear whether the title \"Act i\" means this will be the first of a multiple-album project, or whether the 16 tracks will be released in multiple parts.\n\nBeyoncé's charitable foundation BeyGOOD, tipped fans off that something was coming earlier this week, when it shared a montage of album covers to celebrate Black History Month in the US.\n\nHidden amongst the records was an image of a gloved hand pointing to the Brandy album B7 - the codename Beyoncé's latest record had been given by her followers.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year, the 40-year-old confirmed to Harper's Bazaar that she had begun working on new music. \"With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible. I've been in the studio for a year and a half.\"\n\nShe also discussed her habit of collaborating with dozens of people to construct songs; refining and shaping the music in her own image.\n\n\"Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. One chorus can have up to 200 stacked harmonies,\" she said.\n\n\"Still, there's nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio. After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. Yes, the music is coming!\"\n\nBeyoncé's last major project was the 2018 \"Homecoming\" concert at Coachella\n\nThe star launched her career as part of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child in 1997, before going solo in 2003. With hits like Crazy In Love, Single Ladies and Hold Up, she is one of the most successful and influential recording artists of her generation.\n\nOver the course of her career she has won 28 Grammy awards and 79 nominations, more than any other female musician.\n\nIn the six years since her last album, she has curated a soundtrack for Disney's Lion King remake and staged an historic performance at the 2018 Coachella Music Festival, which celebrated the culture of historically black colleges and universities in the US.\n\nThe concert was immortalised in a Netflix special, Homecoming, which itself won a Grammy for best music film.\n\nHer most recent musical release was the surprise single, Black Parade, which came out in 2020 as Black Lives Matter demonstrations spread across the world.\n\nThe track included powerful lyrics about black history, police brutality and the George Floyd protests, with the star singing: \"Put your fists up in the air, show black love / Need peace and reparation for my people.\"\n\nThe song was released on Juneteenth, a holiday marking the official end of slavery in the US.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChampions Manchester City face West Ham away on the opening weekend of a 2022-23 Premier League campaign that will include a mid-season break for the World Cup in Qatar.\n\nThere will be no top-flight games after the weekend of 12-13 November until 26 December because of the World Cup.\n\nThe first fixture takes place on Friday, 5 August when Crystal Palace host Arsenal.\n\nLiverpool play at promoted Fulham, with Nottingham Forest at Newcastle.\n\nForest are back in the Premier League for the first time since 1998-99.\n\nThe World Cup, which will feature both England and Wales, starts on 21 November. The final is on 18 December, eight days before the Premier League season resumes.\n\nThere are no meetings between the Premier League's so-called 'big six' on weekend of 12-13 November - the one before the World Cup - following a request by the Football Association.\n\nEngland will meet up on 14 November before flying to Qatar the following day.\n\nSpecial arrangements have been made to allow more time between games played across the three festive match rounds.\n\nThis will allow squads greater time to recover. Previously clubs were given a minimum of 48 hours between matches.\n\nAfter fixtures on 26-27 December, the following match round will be played across 29, 30 and 31 December. The New Year match round will be played on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 January.\n• None World Cup 2022: Premier League to have break of more than six weeks\n\nFirst round of fixtures in full\n\nBreak of more than six weeks\n\nThe 2022-23 season has been adjusted to accommodate the 2022 World Cup, which takes place in the middle of the domestic calendar.\n\nIt starts a week earlier than normal - 75 days after the final day of the 2021-22 campaign - and finishes a week later than usual on 28 May.\n\nFifa, world football's governing body, has already stipulated that players must be released on 14 November for the World Cup.\n\nIt means the mid-season break will last more than six weeks.\n\nThere will be 16 matchdays before Qatar - five in August, three in September, six in October and two in November.\n\nManchester City, crowned 2021-22 champions after a dramatic final-day win over Aston Villa, are favourites to retain their title after signing forward Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund for £51.2m.\n\nHaaland, 21, is set to make his Premier League debut at West Ham before City host Bournemouth and then travel to Newcastle.\n\nLiverpool, who finished one point behind the champions in 2021-22, host City on 15 October, with the return fixture at Etihad Stadium on 1 April.\n\nAfter opening the season at Newcastle, Nottingham Forest host West Ham before travelling to Everton.\n\nThe first Manchester derby of the season is on 1 October at Etihad Stadium, with United hosting their neighbours on 14 January.\n\nArsenal host the first north London derby of the season on 1 October with the return at Tottenham also on 14 January.\n\nThe first Merseyside derby of 2022-23 is at Everton on 3 September with Liverpool hosting the Toffees on 11 February.\n• None With Arsenal launching the 2022-23 season at Crystal Palace, it will be the third-successive season the Gunners are starting the Premier League campaign with a London derby.\n• None Promoted Bournemouth host Aston Villa on the opening weekend. The Cherries' first-ever Premier League game in August 2015 was a 1-0 home defeat to Villa.\n• None Everton are unbeaten in their opening Premier League match in the past 10 seasons (W4 D6).\n• None Despite relegation in 2020-21, Fulham were unbeaten across both Premier League games against Liverpool that season, drawing 1-1 at home and winning 1-0 at Anfield.\n• None Among current Premier League sides, Southampton are on the longest winless run in their opening Premier League matches of the season (P8 D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United will be opening a top-flight season against Brighton and Hove Albion for the first time in their history.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "It is one of the largest Anglo-Saxon burial grounds ever uncovered in Britain\n\nAn Anglo-Saxon burial ground with 138 graves found along the route of HS2 is one of the largest ever uncovered in the UK, experts have said.\n\nA skeleton with a weapon embedded in it, jewellery and weapons were among the finds in Wendover, Buckinghamshire.\n\nEvidence of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman activity was also found.\n\nArchaeologist Rachel Wood said the site's significance for the \"historical and archaeological understanding\" of Anglo-Saxon Britain was \"huge\".\n\nAn iron spear point was found embedded into the spine of the skeleton of a man thought to be aged between 17-24\n\nThe site contained 141 regular burials and five cremation burials. The male skeleton was found with a sharp iron object embedded into its spine, which experts believe may have caused or factored into his death.\n\nOther items unearthed in the excavation last year include 89 brooches, more than 2,000 amber beads, 51 knives, 40 buckles and 15 spearheads.\n\nA number of objects likely to have been used for grooming were also found, including toiletry sets with ear wax removers and toothpicks, tweezers, combs and even a cosmetic tube that might have been used as eyeliner or similar.\n\nDan Snow with the spearhead found in the excavations\n\nThe discoveries have been filmed for historian Dan Snow's streaming service History Hit.\n\nSpeaking on his podcast, the presenter said: \"This stunning set of discoveries on the HS2 route can tell us more about how our predecessors lived, fought and ultimately died.\n\n\"It is one of the best and most revealing post Roman sites in the country and it was thrilling to join the team as they uncovered their wonderful finds.\"\n\nA set of copper alloy small square-headed brooches from the 5th or 6th Century were uncovered\n\nA female body was found buried with an array of high quality goods such as a complete ornate glass bowl made of pale green glass, multiple rings made of copper alloy, a silver \"zoomorphic\" ring, brooches, discs, iron belt fittings and objects made of ivory.\n\nA team of about 30 field archaeologists from INFRA JV, working on behalf of HS2's contractor Fusion JV, completed field work at the site in 2021.\n\nThe high speed rail line is a divisive project but away from the politics and debates, the programme is revealing secrets about Britain's past.\n\nFor the last five years, more than 1,000 archaeologists have excavated more than 60 sites.\n\nThis latest find is being described as rare and of national significance - it's being compared to that of Sutton Hoo, where an Anglo-Saxon ship was found in 1939 and thought to be the final resting place of the 7th Century King Raedwald.\n\nFor some - even important archaeological discoveries still don't justify the construction of HS2 but for others this is chance to explore periods of our hidden history.\n\nDr Wood, lead archaeologist for Fusion JV, said: \"The significance of this site for our historical and archaeological understanding of Anglo-Saxon Britain is huge.\n\n\"It is not a site I would ever have anticipated finding - to have found one of these burials would have been astonishing, so to have found so many is quite unbelievable.\"\n\nShe described it as a unique find due its size and scale.\n\n\"We have 141 individuals here, that's quite a large cemetery for the time that we know about, and over 70% of them have been found with objects which is really unusual,\" she said.\n\n\"Normally you might find one or two individuals in a small cemetery might have a comb with them or something like that and here we have so many individuals with multiple objects from weaponry to jewellery to grooming kits.\"\n\nA set of decorated copper alloy tweezers were also discovered in the HS2 excavation\n\nA pair of small square-headed brooches were also excavated - a miniature form of the great square-headed brooch, such as the famous Chessell Down Brooch on display at the British Museum.\n\nTwo glass cone beakers that would have been used for drinking liquids such as wine were also found and suggest those buried might have had access to fine beverages from abroad.\n\nMike Court, lead archaeologist for HS2 Ltd, said: \"We are just at the beginning of our understanding of how the discoveries will improve our historical knowledge of Britain.\n\n\"The archaeological finds made at this site in Wendover will not only be of interest to the local community but are of national importance, providing a valuable insight into life in Anglo-Saxon Britain.\"\n\nThe discoveries will be featured in a programme on Dan Snow's History Hit released on Thursday.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dom Phillips lived in Brazil for more than a decade and was a contributor to the Guardian newspaper. Bruno Pereira was an expert on isolated tribes\n\nThe family of Dom Phillips say they are \"heartbroken\" after a suspect confessed to burying the bodies of the missing British journalist and the indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil.\n\nIn a statement, they thanked those who helped search for the men in a remote and dangerous region of the Amazon.\n\nThey also praised \"the courageous lives and important work\" of the pair who covered the lives of indigenous groups.\n\nMr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, were first reported missing on 5 June.\n\nMr Pereira had been introducing the journalist - who was writing a book on the Amazon - to contacts and acting as his guide when their boat failed to arrive at an expected point near the border with Peru.\n\nThe search was initially criticised by relatives and campaign groups, who called on officials to act more quickly and broaden its scope. As global outrage grew at the disappearance, the 10-day search expanded until it involved the army, navy and police.\n\nAt a news conference late on Wednesday, police said a suspect named as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira had explained in detail how both men were killed before leading officers to the place where their bodies were buried.\n\nHuman remains were then dug up. Police have said they will work with Interpol to confirm their identities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detective Eduardo Fontes said the suspect \"pointed out the place where he buried the bodies\"\n\n\"The entire reconstruction of the crime was carried out... and then we went to the place where he announced that he had buried the bodies,\" Detective Eduardo Fontes told reporters gathered in the city of Manaus.\n\nHe said the suspect had also admitted to sinking the pair's boat. The two men had taken a short trip down the Itaquai river in the far west of Brazil shortly before they were killed.\n\nMr Fontes showed a map to the media - explaining that the bodies were found 3.1km (1.9 miles) from the river, in the middle of the jungle, and that it involved a huge amount of work to get to the location.\n\nThe police also failed to praise the work of the indigenous communities who searched for the men and helped lead authorities to some of their belongings. When asked by the BBC why there was no mention of the local communities helping, they admitted it was an error and conceded that their support had been crucial.\n\nThe suspect's brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, has also been arrested in connection with the killings, but denies any involvement.\n\nMr Phillips' family said in a statement on Wednesday: \"We are heartbroken at the confirmation that Dom and Bruno were murdered and extend our deepest sympathies to Alessandra, Beatriz and the other Brazilian family members of both men.\n\n\"We are grateful to all those who have taken part in the search, especially the indigenous groups who worked tirelessly to find evidence of the attack,\" they said.\n\n\"We thank the many people who have joined us in urging the authorities to intensify the search and those who have reached out with words of comfort and sympathy,\" they added.\n\nMr Phillips' wife, Alessandra Sampaio, said in a separate statement: \"Now we can bring them home and say goodbye with love.\" She added that the confession marked the beginning of a \"quest for justice\".\n\nBriton Mr Phillips, from Merseyside, had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper. Mr Pereira, a Brazilian who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes.\n\nDom Phillips talks to two indigenous men in Roraima State, Brazil\n\nThe pair went missing in the Javari valley, in Brazil's far west, a remote region home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups. It is a refuge for these indigenous groups, who live in isolation from the outside world.\n\nBut experts say the area has become a hotbed for crime because of its remoteness and a lack of government oversight. \"What happened to Bruno and Dom is the result of an increase in organised crime, which is in turn explained by the absence of the state,\" a former Funai official told the AFP news agency.\n\nAs well as clashes with poachers catching protected fish, it has also seen incursions by illegal gold-miners, loggers and drug-traffickers who smuggle cocaine from nearby Peru and Colombia.\n\nViolence has also grown as drug-trafficking gangs battle for control of the area's waterways to smuggle cocaine.\n\nThe region - which is about the size of Portugal - is known for violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people. It was these conflicts that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira were documenting.\n\nAnd days before the pair went missing, indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing. He had repeatedly reported being threatened by loggers, miners and illegal fishermen in the past.\n\nPat Venditti, the executive director of Greenpeace UK, praised the men as \"brave, passionate and determined\".\n\n\"[They] were murdered while doing their vital work of shining a light on the daily threats indigenous people in Brazil face as they defend their land and their rights,\" he said in a statement. \"The greatest tribute we can pay Bruno and Dom now is to continue their vital work.\"", "From left to right at the table: Italian PM Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis\n\nThe leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania have backed Ukraine's bid to join the EU, saying it should be given \"immediate\" candidate status.\n\n\"Ukraine belongs to the European family,\" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a joint briefing in Kyiv.\n\nBut he added that Ukraine still had to meet the accession criteria in full.\n\nMeanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the 27-member EU would stand by Ukraine until its victory against Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's continuing aggression as a war \"against the united Europe\", adding that the \"most effective weapon\" was unity.\n\nAnd he again appealed for more heavy weapons to be sent urgently for Ukraine to be able to defend itself more effectively and liberate territories seized by Moscow since the start of the invasion on 24 February.\n\nLife is now slowly returning to Irpin - but the devastation is still seen everywhere\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the four EU leaders visited the devastated town of Irpin near Kyiv, which for several weeks was occupied by Russia.\n\nUkraine accuses Russian soldiers of committing war crimes by killing hundreds of civilians in Irpin and nearby towns such as Bucha - a claim denied by Moscow.\n\nThe visit to Kyiv comes as Russian troops are continuing their assault on the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nCapturing Severodonetsk - and its twin city of Lysychansk - has for weeks been a top military goal for Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to control all of the wider Luhansk region.\n\nPresident Macron and Chancellor Scholz, together with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, visited Ukraine for the first time since the war began.\n\nThe trip came a day before the European Commission is due to make a recommendation on whether to give Ukraine an EU candidate status. All 27 EU leaders will then discuss the issue at a summit on 23 and 24 June.\n\nSome of the bloc's members have been lukewarm about Ukraine's accession to the EU, and the words of support from France, Germany and Italy - the three EU heavyweights - could sway their position.\n\nHowever, candidacy status will only be the next step on the road to the full membership, which may take years.\n\nBefore the Kyiv visit, Ukrainian officials repeatedly criticised France, Germany and Italy for being slow in delivering weapons and placing too much focus on appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Macron said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion, suggesting that Mr Putin should have a way out of what he called a \"fundamental error\".\n\nMeanwhile in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, on Thursday criticised the EU leaders' trip on Twitter, using a dismissive slur relating to stereotypes of three of the EU nations' cuisines.\n\n\"European fans of frogs, liverwurst and spaghetti\" loved visiting Kyiv, he wrote. \"With zero use.\"", "The head of the Federal Reserve is under pressure as price rises accelerate\n\nThe US central bank has announced its biggest interest rate rise in nearly 30 years as it ramps up its fight to rein in soaring consumer prices.\n\nThe Federal Reserve said it would increase its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.\n\nThe rise, the third since March, comes after inflation in the US surged unexpectedly last month.\n\nMore hikes are expected, adding to the uncertainty facing the economy.\n\nForecasts released after the meeting showed officials expect the rate the Fed charges banks to borrow could reach 3.4% by the end of the year, the moves rippling out to the public in the form of higher borrowing costs for mortgages, credit cards and other loans.\n\nAs central banks around the world take similar steps, it marks a massive change for the global economy, where businesses and households have enjoyed years of low borrowing costs.\n\n\"Most advanced economy central banks and some emerging market central banks are tightening policy in sync,\" said Gregory Daco, chief economist at strategy consulting firm EY-Parthenon.\n\n\"That is a global environment that we've not been accustomed to in the past few decades, and that will represent ramifications for the business sector and for consumers throughout the world.\"\n\nIn the UK, where consumer prices jumped 9% in April, the Bank of England is expected to announce its fifth rate rise since December on Thursday, pushing its benchmark rate above 1% for the first time since 2009.\n\nBrazil, Canada and Australia have also raised rates, while the European Central Bank has outlined plans to do so later this summer.\n\nThe housing sector is feeling the impact of higher rates\n\nIn the US, which slashed rates to support the economy when the pandemic hit in 2020, the Fed has already raised rates twice this year, by 0.25 percentage points in March and another half point in May.\n\nAt the time, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said officials were not considering sharper rises.\n\nBut figures on Friday, which showed US inflation rising to 8.6% in May - the fastest pace since 1981 - pushed officials to move more aggressively, Mr Powell said at a press conference following this week's meeting.\n\n\"It is essential that we bring inflation down,\" he said, acknowledging that a 0.75 percentage point rise was \"unusually large\".\n\n\"Inflation has obviously surprised to the upside over the past year and further surprises could be in store,\" he said. \"We therefore will need to be nimble.\"\n\nMany analysts say the Fed is struggling to catch up, after Mr Powell and others last year dismissed price rises as a temporary problem related to supply chain issues.\n\nSince then, inflation has sharpened due to factors like the war in Ukraine and ongoing Covid-19 shutdowns in China.\n\nRecent surveys suggest the public expects the problem will continue to worsen, despite the Fed's vows to act.\n\n\"The Fed is under the gun and facing an inflation credibility test,\" said economist David Beckworth, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.\n\nIgnacio Lopez isn't convinced the Fed's moves will successfully contain price increases affecting his business\n\nIgnacio Lopez is eager to see inflation brought under control.\n\nFor the last 18 months, the Boston-based chef has been watching food prices climb as he stocks up for his restaurant. Prices for items with complicated supply chains, like packaged goods and imported cheese, are particularly under pressure, he says.\n\n\"It's crazy and it doesn't stop,\" he says. \"Every week things go up.\"\n\nThe business has raised its own prices to offset the costs, but he says he can't go too far without losing customers. So his profits are still taking a hit.\n\nHe is worried that the rate increases won't help, noting that demand remains weak due to Covid, which has cut into the after-work gatherings that used to drive his business.\n\n\"We're just going to keep managing it as tight as we can, trying not to increase our prices beyond our market and hope things calm down,\" he says.\n\nThe last time the Fed announced a rate hike of this size was 1994.\n\nThe move, which makes borrowing more expensive, is expected to cool demand and slow economic activity - in theory, easing price pressures.\n\nBut by acting late, and now moving more aggressively to compensate, policymakers face a greater chance that their actions will induce an economic downturn, Mr Daco said.\n\n\"I'm increasingly worried,\" he added. \"I wouldn't be surprised that around the turn of the year we face an environment where growth is stalling and we're pretty close to a recessionary environment, with the unemployment rate on the rise and no longer declining.\"\n\nHigher food prices are one of the factors driving up inflation\n\nMr Powell said the US is well poised to handle higher rates, pointing to still robust job growth.\n\nBut projections released by the Fed show officials expect economic growth to slow to about 1.7% this year, a full percentage point lower than they forecast in March.\n\nUnemployment, now at 3.6%, is expected to rise to 3.7% and reach 4.1% by 2024.\n\nOfficials also removed a line from their end of meeting statement - which typically shows little change - saying the labour market would remain strong as the Fed raised rates.\n\nMr Powell said the omission reflected the fact that many forces driving inflation - like the war in Ukraine - are out of the bank's control.\n\n\"So much of it is really not down to monetary policy,\" he said. \"That just didn't seem appropriate anymore so we took it out.\"\n\nWith Wednesday's rise, the rate the Fed charges banks to borrow will return to where it was before the pandemic hit in 2020, remaining relatively low by historic standards.\n\nBut the increases are already having an impact.\n\nThe average petrol price in the US has hit $5 a gallon, creating a political problem for President Joe Biden\n\nHigher rates have helped to boost demand for dollars, sending the currency up 10% since the start of the year and putting other countries, especially emerging markets with large amounts of debt in dollars, under pressure.\n\nIn the US, financial markets have slipped, with the S&P 500, which tracks hundreds of America's biggest companies, losing a fifth of its value since the start of the year, as multinationals warn that inflation and the rise in the dollar is hurting their profits.\n\nHome sales have also slowed precipitously as mortgage rates follow the Fed rate higher.\n\nData on Wednesday also showed retail sales slipped last month, as people spent more at the pump due to rising petrol costs and deferred purchases of big ticket items like cars.\n\nMr Powell said gaining control of the price increases was essential to economic stability and progress would take time.\n\n\"At the end of the day, the outlook is very uncertain,\" Mr Beckworth said. \"The Fed has to be at some level, lucky.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lord Geidt talks to parliamentary committee about resignation rumours two days before quitting\n\nThe government has published a letter from Boris Johnson's former ethics adviser Lord Geidt who resigned suddenly without explanation.\n\nLord Geidt was known to be unhappy with the prime minister's handling of Partygate and had suggested he may have broken the ministerial code.\n\nIn his letter, he says he had been asked to consider another matter that could have breached the code.\n\nDowning Street has also published the PM's reply to Lord Geidt.\n\nA friend of Lord Geidt told the BBC they feel \"deeply saddened that such an honourable and dedicated public servant has been put in a position where he feels forced to resign\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Letters to and from Boris Johnson's former ethics adviser Lord Geidt \"will speak for themselves\", says Michael Ellis.\n\nThe government announced it would publish the letters minutes before minister Michael Ellis was called to the Commons to face an urgent question on the subject.\n\nLabour shadow minister Fleur Anderson said the prime minister had \"driven both of his own hand-picked ethics advisers to resign in despair\" and added that, without reform, the position was an \"unworkable\".\n\nWilliam Wragg - Conservative MP and critic of the prime minister - asked how long it would take to find a new ethics adviser, noting that last time the recruitment process took five months.\n\nMr Ellis said the Government was \"disappointed\" by the resignation but added that the letters from both men would \"speak for themselves\".\n\nIn recent days Lord Geidt had expressed frustration over the handling of the Partygate row.\n\nHe said it was reasonable to suggest the prime minister may have breached the ministerial code by breaking Covid lockdown laws.\n\nLord Geidt has previously been critical of the prime minister over an investigation into renovations in the Downing Street flat.\n\nHe is the second ethics adviser to quit under Mr Johnson's premiership. Sir Alex Allan, who resigned from the role in 2020 after Mr Johnson chose not to accept his finding that Home Secretary Priti Patel had bullied civil servants.\n\nLord Geidt's job involved providing advice to Mr Johnson about the ministerial code. He could also investigate ministers for breaching the code - but only if asked to do so by the prime minister.\n\nThe code, which outlines the rules ministers must follow, says there is an \"overarching duty\" on them to comply with the law. If the code is broken, ministers are expected to resign.\n\nQuestions have been raised over whether Mr Johnson breached the code after he was fined in April for attending a birthday party in Downing Street in June 2020 - when Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nDespite receiving the fine, Mr Johnson said he would not resign and in a letter to Lord Geidt he said there had been \"no intent\" to break Covid regulations.\n\nIt had been reported that Lord Geidt threatened to quit last month after the publication of a report into lockdown breaches in Downing Street unless Mr Johnson issued a public explanation for his conduct.", "Crown Courts are to be upgraded with better technology while staff will receive specialist training to help with rape trials, the government says.\n\nThe pilot, in Newcastle, Leeds and London, will see independent advisers on hand in courts to support victims.\n\nEarlier this year, the police and court watchdog called for specialist rape courts to help clear a cases backlog.\n\nOne victim, who may have to wait five years for her trial, said a generation of women \"have no faith\" in the system.\n\nEarlier this year, data compiled by BBC News suggested serious sexual offences were taking the longest time on record to go through Crown Courts.\n\nElla - not her real name - is the living reality behind those statistics. In 2018, she reported to police that she had been raped. Initially police closed the investigation. But after she complained and demanded a review, suspects were charged last year.\n\nOn Tuesday, she was told her case would be delayed and wouldn't come to trial before June 2023.\n\n\"By the time I actually make it to trial it will be five years since I first reported it,\" she said. \"It's very hard to choose one word about how I feel about the whole situation.\n\n\"It will be easy to say 'angry' but that kind of doesn't cut it. Disappointed, disillusioned, tired, frustrated. It is just an incredibly tiring process to continue to fight for the basic right of being believed.\"\n\nAs part of the pilot scheme, all court staff, police and prosecutors working on cases will receive specialist trauma training.\n\nOne room in each crown court will be upgraded with the technology needed for rape trials - such as the means to show witness cross-examinations that have been pre-recorded.\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC he had no control over court listings and they had judicial independence. This means courts can't dedicate courtrooms to hear only rape cases.\n\nBut he said the courtrooms in Newcastle, Leeds and Snaresbrook in east London will have the necessary technology and training, as well as independent sexual violence advisers to support rape victims.\n\n\"They will be dedicated in prioritising those rape cases,\" he told the BBC, while visiting a rape crisis centre in Sheffield. \"We're specifically targeting areas where there are high volumes of rape and other sexual violence cases coming through, and they need those dedicated courtrooms or otherwise the backlog will grow.\"\n\nEarlier this year, a government report suggested rape victims were waiting an average of 706 days from reporting an offence to the case reaching court.\n\nFigures for the year until December 2021 for England and Wales show there had been 67,125 rapes recorded by police. In 2020-21 there were just 1,557 prosecutions. The fear is that those reporting rapes are just giving up on pursuing their attackers.\n\nThe government has said court delays have been caused by the pandemic, but barristers blame funding cuts.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMr Raab highlighted Ministry of Justice figures suggesting there was a 67% increase in the number of rape convictions in 2021, compared with 2020.\n\n\"We want to ramp up the volume of convictions - I think that will be ultimately the acid test,\" he added. \"I'm anxious to go further and faster.\"\n\nBut Ella is clear much more needs to be done: \"There's a whole generation of women that have no faith in the justice system,\" she said.\n\n\"And we're going to pass it down to our children and they're going to pass it on to theirs and it's not going to change just by making a simple structural change, by putting more specialised courts in.\"", "US actor Kevin Spacey has been given unconditional bail after appearing in a London court on four charges of sexually assaulting three men.\n\nThe 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.\n\nHe was not asked to enter pleas for the alleged offences from 2005 to 2013.\n\nMr Spacey's next appearance will be at Southwark Crown Court on 14 July for a plea and trial preparation hearing.\n\nAhead of the short preliminary hearing, the Hollywood star was steered by his legal team and two police officers through a mass of photographers and camera crews towards the court entrance.\n\nMr Spacey, dressed in a pale blue suit, dark tie and wearing glasses, was seated in the dock. His case was heard by deputy chief magistrate Tanweer Ikram.\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, who is defending Mr Spacey, said: \"Mr Spacey strenuously denies any and all criminality in this case.\"\n\nThe actor arrived at the court surrounded by an enormous scrum of cameras and journalists as he tried to get into the building.\n\nSecurity had to clear a path as he was jostled by photographers trying to film him.\n\nIn Court One, Mr Spacey, wearing a light blue suit, sat in the dock. He was asked to stand and give his name, address and date of birth.\n\nHe said he was called Kevin Spacey Fowler and was addressed by the court as Mr Fowler although his own lawyer called him Mr Spacey.\n\nAsked by the magistrate if he'd prefer to be called Mr Spacey, the actor gave a small smile and shrug, and said either was fine.\n\nThe charges were read out to him. He wasn't asked at this first court appearance to plead guilty or not guilty but his solicitor said he denies all and any criminality.\n\nThe magistrate told him he would be granted bail. After a court hearing of just half an hour, Mr Spacey left the building to face the cameras again.\n\nThe charges he is facing are:\n\nThe most serious charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent is an indictable-only offence, meaning it can only be tried in a Crown Court.\n\nMr Spacey lives in the US where he has family and a nine-year-old dog, the court heard.\n\nIn his decades-long career in films and on stage, Mr Spacey has received Oscars for American Beauty and Usual Suspects, and won acclaim for his appearance in the long-running Netflix hit, House of Cards.\n\nHe was also artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre.", "The BBC has been allowed rare access to the military nerve centre where Western powers are coordinating efforts to supply weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nIn the attic of an austere US military barracks in the German city of Stuttgart, dozens of military personnel from 26 nations are working round the clock to deliver weapons to Ukraine.\n\nFrom this room, Western allies have already helped deliver nearly $8bn (£6.6bn) worth of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine's armed forces. That's 66,000 tonnes - the equivalent of 5,000 London double-decker buses, as one British officer worked out.\n\nMost of what happens at Patch Barracks is highly classified. We are asked to leave all electronic devices behind and we are not allowed to film or talk to the Ukrainians who are part of the International Donors Coordination Cell (IDCC).\n\nMilitary personnel from dozens of countries bash the phones and pore over computer screens. They include a small team from Ukraine, led by a three-star general. At the start of each day he sets out what his country needs. The situation in the Donbas appears increasingly bleak, but here in Stuttgart there's more a sense of urgency than panic.\n\nUS M777 Howitzers have arrived in Ukraine\n\nAround one set of desks a team is tasked with locating supplies. Sometimes they'll find a nation willing to provide weapons, but will then have to track another country for the right ammunition or the means to transport them. They've now developed a database where the Ukrainians can list their priorities. Donor nations can access that information and decide what they're willing and able to supply.\n\nBrig Chris King, the senior British officer, says that military aid is being delivered by air, road, rail and sea and to multiple locations \"in order to ensure we don't have any single points of failure\".\n\nHe says that Russia has tried to step up its attacks on supply lines but there's been no \"significant\" interruption to their delivery.\n\nI ask if any supplies have been hit.\n\n\"Yes, I presume so,\" he replies.\n\nThe task of moving the weapons and ammunition across the border is left to the Ukrainians themselves, says Rear Adm Duke Heinz, the senior US commander at the IDCC.\n\n\"In Poland and the other countries, the Ukrainians come and get it - so they're the ones who determine how it gets across the border.\" Once the weapons cross the border, they can arrive at the front line \"within 48 hours\".\n\nI am confident they are not going to run out of ammunition.\n\nRecently there have been alarming warnings from Ukraine that the flow of weapons is too little and too late. As Russia continues to bombard the Donbas, pleas for more help are sounding more desperate by the day. Ukraine's deputy defence minister says that, so far, the country has only received 10% of what it has asked for.\n\nHere in Stuttgart, Rear Adm Heinz gives a very different message: \"I am confident they are not going to run out of ammunition.\"\n\nDespite the grim news from the Donbas, he says \"I wouldn't say they're losing, I'd say they're holding their own.\"\n\nUkraine's demands have changed significantly over the past few months. The IDCC was set up in late February - bringing together two separate efforts being led by the US and the UK. At the start of the war they were sending small arms and ammunition - such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. Now Ukrainians are asking for heavier weapons - artillery, multiple rocket launchers and air defence systems.\n\nIn the early days of the war the IDCC tried to source stocks of old Soviet weapons and ammunition from former Soviet bloc countries - the same systems Ukraine's armed forces had been using for decades. Brig King says those supplies have slowly been running out. There is now just one factory in Europe that produces Soviet-compatible 152mm artillery ammunition.\n\nSlowly, they have been transitioning to Nato-standard equipment. Over the past few months Ukraine has been sent more than 100 M777 US howitzers and 300,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition.\n\nThis brings an additional challenge, as Ukrainian forces need to be trained in how to use the weapons and ammunition. The IDCC is organising that training outside Ukraine. Some Ukrainian troops are now being trained in the UK on new artillery guns and British-supplied multiple rocket launchers. Simpler systems can be taught virtually, using videos and training manuals.\n\nIf we don't do enough we will sow the seeds for future conflict.\n\nNeither Rear Adm Heinz nor Brig King believe this war will be over quickly. They both say they're preparing to carry on this work for the long term. When I ask the brigadier for how long, he replies, \"It's not going to be months, I think we'll be here for a number of years.\"\n\nBut there are some within Nato who question whether the West is really geared up for a war that could go on for years. It could certainly test its unity, resolve and limited stocks of weapons and ammunition.\n\nIn Stuttgart they know the stakes couldn't be higher. Rear Adm Heinz describes the mission of providing Ukraine with weapons and ammunition as \"the most important work this command has done\" since US EUCOM (European Command) was set up in 1952.\n\nBrig King calls it \"a generational moment\" and says the choice is stark: \"We either help Ukraine to fight or we accept that, maybe not straight away but in the next few years, we're going to be fighting somewhere else. If we don't do enough we will sow the seeds for future conflict.\"\n• None 'The war has destroyed three generations'", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nWarning: This article contains some description of graphic injuries and abuse.\n\nIssues of physical and emotional abuse within gymnastics in Britain were \"systemic\", an independent investigation has found.\n\nThe Whyte Review, co-commissioned by UK Sport and Sport England, was released on Thursday and found gymnast wellbeing and welfare \"has not been at the centre of British Gymnastics' culture\".\n\nAthletes were made to train on injuries, punished for needing the toilet, sat on by coaches, shouted and sworn at and had their bags searched for food.\n\nThe review said the difficulties now facing British Gymnastics, the sport's national governing body, are \"borne of inadequate practice and procedure\", and reflect a culture which was the product of \"the way in which people behaved and were allowed to behave\".\n• None 'This was child abuse' - gymnasts react to report\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Will this be a turning point for welfare in sport?\n\nThere was a sense, it added, that British Gymnastics had \"not only failed to prevent or limit such behaviours but had condoned some of them in the pursuit of national and international competitive success\".\n\nThe former chief executive of British Gymnastics, Jane Allen, who retired in December 2020, was criticised in the report for a \"lack of leadership\" and an \"organisational failure to appreciate the central importance of athlete welfare\".\n\nIn a statement, she said she was \"deeply sorry I didn't do more for everyone - especially the athletes - to feel supported, able to speak up and heard\".\n\nThe Whyte Review was commissioned in 2020 following allegations of abuse and mistreatment within gymnastics in Britain.\n\nUK Sport and Sport England said they \"welcomed\" the report and \"accepted and endorsed\" its recommendations - adding gymnastics' continued funding will \"depend on its new leadership teams making significant changes to the sport\" in the timeline set out in the Whyte Review.\n\nBritish Gymnastics said it wanted to \"wholeheartedly apologise\" to gymnasts who had suffered and that it would \"not shy away from doing what is needed\".\n\nIn addition to her 17 recommendations, Anne Whyte QC said a sports ombudsman would be \"an obvious step in the right direction\".\n\nShe also stipulated that the British Gymnastics board publish details of its progress in complying with her recommendations at six, 12 and 24-month intervals, with the expectation that \"most if not all of them\" are implemented within two years.\n\nIn the report, Whyte said: \"I hope that the findings in this report will allow the gymnast community to feel that the failures of the past have been publicly recognised and enable the sport to move forward and make positive changes.\"\n\nShe added: \"I am confident that the sport of gymnastics is already undergoing change for the good.\"\n\nWhat did the review find?\n\nThe review, which focused on the period from August 2008 to August 2020, received more than 400 submissions, including 133 from current and former gymnasts, and conducted 190 interviews.\n• None More than 40% described physically abusive behaviour towards gymnasts by coaches, including physical chastisement, inappropriate training on injury, overstretching to the point of distress and withholding food, water and access to the toilet.\n• None More than 50% reported an element of emotional abuse by coaches, such as swearing, name calling, use of belittling language and gaslighting.\n• None Some 30 submissions included allegations of sexual abuse, such as sexual assault, sexual remarks, inappropriate touching and kissing as a punishment.\n• None More than 25% included reference to excessive weight management.\n\nThe review states the \"vast majority\" of reports about physically and emotionally abusive behaviour related to female gymnasts, and such behaviour was more prevalent at the elite end of the sport.\n\nOn weight management, it said \"the tyranny of the scales was coach-led and quite unnecessary\".\n\nNo individual coaches were named in the report, in which Whyte said the scale of emotional abuse was \"far larger than British Gymnastics had appreciated\".\n\nDuring the 12-year period covered by the review - during which British Gymnastics received more than £38m in UK Sport funding - the governing body received approximately 3,800 complaints.\n\nThe review also pointed to the recruitment of coaches from, or from countries influenced by, the former Soviet Union, whose \"technical skill and experience was sometimes accompanied by an attitude to the gymnast which was autocratic and dismissive and left athletes feeling like commodities\".\n\nWhat were some of the examples given of abuse?\n• None One former elite gymnast described being made to stand on the beam for two hours because she was frightened to attempt a skill. Some gymnasts were strapped to bars for extended periods of time while others were made to climb the rope because they needed the toilet or exceeded a break time.\n• None One gymnast was deliberately dropped from equipment and dragged across the gym floor by their arms, while others were pressured to train on injuries, including broken bones.\n• None One gymnast recalls at the age of seven being sat on by a coach, while a parent reported two coaches at once pushing their child's legs down into a split. An international competitor recalled their coach sitting on a gymnast's back, forcing their hips into the floor and then lifting up their knee.\n• None Verbal comments made to gymnasts included that they were \"a waste of space\", \"a joke\" and \"pathetic\" - while in relation to excessive weight management, comments included \"you look like a whale\", \"you look like you have a beer belly\", and \"your thighs are disgusting\".\n• None Some coaches went to damaging length to control what gymnasts ate and weighed. Gymnasts had their weights publicly announced, were told to send photographs to prove they had lost weight, and had their lunch packs and bags searched for food. Gymnasts would hide food, including in ceiling tiles, and were told \"not to eat grapes\" because \"they are the highest-fat fruit\".\n• None As a result, a \"significant\" number of gymnasts developed dysfunctional relationships with food, weight and body image, and reports of purging were not uncommon in the submissions.\n\nWhyte said the \"unacceptable culture\" described in the report \"will not be fully eradicated until the national and international leadership within the sport publicly recognise its existence\".\n\nWhat are the recommendations?\n\nRecommendations to British Gymnastics focus on four key areas: safeguarding and welfare, complaints handling, standards and educations, and governance and oversight.\n• None All club owners and managers should have mandatory safeguarding training, and high-performance gymnasts should have access to an independent disclosure service and dedicated welfare officer outside their club.\n• None British Gymnastics must have a fit-for-purpose case management system that covers number and nature of complaints, and must ensure all welfare-related complaints about employed coaches are independently investigated.\n• None The organisation should appoint a director of education and increase its direct contact with registered clubs.\n\nWhat have the governing bodies said?\n\nA joint statement from UK Sport and Sport England said: \"The gymnasts' experiences shared in this review are harrowing and distressing to read. No-one in sport should ever be subjected to such abuse.\n\n\"We want to publicly acknowledge and thank all of those who were courageous in coming forward. Your voices are heard. You have played a vital part in fundamentally shaping the future of gymnastics in Britain, to help make it safe and inclusive for future generations to come.\n\n\"Duty of care to athletes and participants is the responsibility of national governing bodies. British Gymnastics clearly fell short of this.\n\n\"At this time, our intention is to continue to fund British Gymnastics, as we believe that withdrawing funding would not only prevent them from implementing the vital changes outlined in the report but also negatively impact on the support to and wellbeing of gymnasts now.\n\n\"However, we are clear that continued funding for British Gymnastics will depend on its new leadership team making significant changes to the sport, to the timelines set out in the report's recommendations.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics' chief executive Sarah Powell, who has been in the post since October, said gymnasts' experiences as detailed in the review were \"not acceptable\" and she found the report \"emotional\" reading.\n\nShe said it was a \"watershed moment\" for not just gymnastics, but safeguarding across all sports.\n\n\"Gymnastics will be different because of the bravery of the gymnasts who stood up,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"British Gymnastics accepts all of the recommendations and key findings. We will not shy away from doing what is needed.\n\n\"I want to wholeheartedly apologise to the gymnasts who have suffered as a result of us not working to the standards we set ourselves. We are sorry.\"\n\nShe added: \"Let me be clear; there is no place for abuse of any kind in our sport and coaching standards of the past will not be those of the future.\n\n\"We will build a new culture and ensure the gymnast's voice is at the heart of all we do. We will change gymnastics for the better.\"\n\nWhy was the review commissioned?\n\nUK Sport and Sport England commissioned the independent review - led by Anne Whyte QC - in July 2020 after allegations of mistreatment in gymnastics. The review formally began the following month.\n• None Gymnasts' wellbeing and welfare is (and has been) at the centre of the culture of British Gymnastics, its registered clubs and member coaches and if not, why not.\n• None Safeguarding concerns and complaints have been dealt with appropriately in the sport of gymnastics and if not, why not.\n• None Gymnasts, or their parents, carers or guardians, have felt unable to raise complaints with appropriate authorities and if so, why.\n\nThe review also investigated the \"nature and volume of complaints received by British Gymnastics\", the governing body's approach to resolving the complaints, and its culture and practices.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nThe Whyte Review report did not mention individual coaches or athletes.\n• July 2020: is among a number of gymnasts to make the first allegations of a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport of gymnastics.\n• None say abusive behaviour in gymnastics training became \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\", while then-British Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen says she is \"appalled and ashamed\" by the allegations.\n• None criticises British Gymnastics for the time it has taken to investigate a formal complaint she made in 2019.\n• None A helpline is launched by the NSPCC and British Athletes Commission to support gymnasts. It receives more than 120 calls in its first five weeks.\n• None steps aside after allegations are made against her. Both denied the allegations made against them.\n• None alleges gymnasts are \"treated like pieces of meat\".\n• September 2020: - are temporarily suspended pending investigation. Both denied the allegations made against them. Their temporary suspension has since been lifted.\n• November 2020: British Gymnastics sets up an independent complaints process to oversee allegations of mistreatment by athletes.\n• February 2021: A group of 17 start legal action against British Gymnastics. A further 20 later join the group claim.\n• June 2021: Sarah Powell is named British Gymnastics chief executive, and says she is \"under no illusions about the scale of change needed\" to improve the culture at the organisation.\n• August 2021: British Gymnastics chairman Mike Darcey apologises to the gymnastics community for failing to act on allegations of mistreatment.\n• April 2022: was pulled from Great Britain's coaching squad just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics after a serious allegation was made against her. She denied wrongdoing.\n• May 2022: from her position with immediate effect. Previous claims against her were not upheld and her suspension was lifted, but another independent investigation is ongoing into \"further historical complaints\".\n• June 2022: Eloise Jotischky is the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport, with the organisation admitting full liability.\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCharges have been brought against \"a number of individuals\" by English cricket's governing body in relation to allegations of racism at Yorkshire.\n\nThe accused, who have not been named, could be banned or fined by the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nYorkshire itself has also been charged with breaching the anti-racism rules.\n\nDetails of abuse first surfaced in September 2020 when former player Azeem Rafiq said discrimination left him feeling suicidal.\n\n\"In matters of this nature, our normal practice is not to identify individuals charged at this stage,\" said the ECB.\n\nYorkshire said the \"allegations relate to charges as far back as 2004 up until 2021\".\n\nIn a statement, the County added: \"The club will need the cooperation of those in position during this time in order to fully consider and respond to the matters raised.\"\n\nSince Rafiq's accusations became public, 16 members of staff have left Yorkshire in a widespread overhaul of its senior leadership.\n\nThe ECB said it had carried out a \"thorough and complex\" investigation to establish the grounds for the charges against both the county and the individuals involved.\n\nIt said the charges arose from alleged breaches of a directive regarding \"conduct which is improper or which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any cricketer into disrepute\" and its anti-discrimination code.\n\nThe governing body expects hearings to take place in September or October and for the outcome of each case to be published after decisions are reached.\n\n\"It is standard practice for the cricket discipline commission disciplinary panel to publish its decisions and written reasons in full following the hearing,\" the ECB added.\n\n\"I welcome today's announcement by the ECB and hope we can move to the hearing quickly,\" said Rafiq.\n\n\"This has been another gruelling but unfortunately necessary process. It has been a long two years since I went public about my experiences, but I hope this all means that no young player ever goes through such pain and alienation again.\n\n\"My preference would be for this hearing to take place publicly, but I am hopeful that we are at least nearing a point where there will be some sense of closure for my family and me.\"\n\nBBC Sport understands Rafiq is himself likely to be charged at a later date over historical anti-Semitic posts on social media.\n\nRafiq apologised and said he was \"deeply ashamed\" for using the language in Facebook messages in 2011, which emerged after his appearance in front of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nRafiq gave an interview to ESPN Cricinfo in September 2020 alleging \"institutional racism\" at Yorkshire had left him close to taking his own life.\n\nYorkshire launched \"a formal investigation\" in response and, a year later, an independent panel upheld seven of the 43 allegations made by Rafiq.\n\nHowever the panel's report was not published and no player, employee or executive faced disciplinary action as a result of its findings.\n\nThe outcome sparked widespread criticism and in November 2021 the ECB suspended Yorkshire from hosting international matches at Headingley \"until it has clearly demonstrated that it can meet the standards expected\".\n\nClub chairman Roger Hutton stepped down, as did chief executive Mark Arthur.\n\nWhen approached by BBC Sport, the ECB declined to name any individuals charged.\n\nFormer Yorkshire and England captain Michael Vaughan, who works as a pundit for BBC Sport and others, revealed he had been accused of making racist comments to Rafiq and others players, but has repeatedly denied the claims.\n\nVaughan told the BBC he never made racist comments while at the county. He admitted regret at some tweets he had sent in the past.\n\nLater in November, Rafiq gave details of the racist abuse he suffered to a committee of MPs, claiming captain Gary Ballance and bowler Jack Brooks had used racist nicknames for team-mates.\n\nBallance admitted using racist language, adding that he \"deeply regretted\" doing so.\n\nRafiq also mentioned the attitudes of Tim Bresnan, Andrew Gale and Matthew Hoggard towards him at the club.\n\nBresnan has denied \"frequently making racist comments\", saying it is \"absolutely not true.\"\n\nThe ECB has not named those charged.\n\nRafiq's testimony has been backed by others.\n\nEx-Pakistan seamer Rana Naved-ul-Hasan said he had encountered the same prejudice during his two stints with the county while former Yorkshire academy players Irfan Amjad and Tabassum Bhatti have also shared their experiences of racism.\n\nEngland bowler Adil Rashid said he, like Rana Naved and Rafiq, had heard Vaughan make a racist comment.\n\nIn December, head coach Gale and director of cricket Martyn Moxon were among 16 people to leave the club.\n\nGale won a claim for unfair dismissal - alongside second-team coach Ian Dews, bowling coach Rich Pyrah, academy lead Richard Damms and strength and conditioning coaches Ian Fisher and Peter Sim.\n\nThe ECB announced a wide-ranging review into racism in the sport and appointed a Muslim inclusion advisory body to help their reforms on Tuesday.\n\nHeadingley returned to the international fixture list in March after members voted through reforms to the county's leadership structure. It will host the third and final Test against New Zealand next week.", "Asylum accommodation is offered on a \"no-choice\" basis, the Home Office says\n\nAn Iranian woman whose family have been moved from Belfast to Londonderry says she cannot forgive the asylum system for the distress caused to her children.\n\nFatemah told BBC Radio Foyle they were given just a week's notice of the 75-mile move.\n\nHer children have been forced to leave school and friends behind, she said.\n\nThe Home Office said asylum accommodation is \"offered on a no-choice basis across the UK\".\n\nFatemah said she will \"never forgive\" the authorities for the distress caused to her family.\n\n\"I cannot forgive them because of the stress that my children face,\" said Fatemah, through a translator.\n\n\"I am asking, requesting government to do something and stop this kind of treatment.\"\n\nFatemah and her children, who are aged between three and 13, had been living in temporary accommodation in Belfast for the past 10 months.\n\nHer eldest daughter has now had to leave the integrated secondary school in Belfast she had been attending.\n\nFatemah's eldest daughter sat exams in an office in Derry this week\n\nThe family have been relocated to Derry by Mears Group, a company subcontracted by the Home Office to provide asylum seeker accommodation.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle via a translator, Fatemah said her family had \"been getting settled in Belfast\", her children were making friends and attending school.\n\nNow they're \"missing their friends and very distressed\".\n\nFatemah said the family were notified about the move about 20 days ago via a letter from the Mears Group, but it did not say where they were being moved to.\n\n\"We called Mears two times but didn't get any response,\" she said.\n\n\"On the day of the move, we asked the lady 'where are you going to move us?' and she said 'we still don't know'.\"\n\nFatemah said it is \"a lie\" that the asylum system makes children a priority.\n\nKoualla Yiasouma says the system is failing children\n\nNorthern Ireland's commissioner for children and young people said the asylum system \"is not delivering for children\".\n\n\"The system is not producing a level of education and care and healthcare and play and the other things that children should expect as it would give to its indigenous population,\" said Koulla Yiasouma.\n\n\"If you look at it that way, then it is a failure.\"\n\nMs Yiasouma's office estimates there are about 130 children whose families are seeking asylum currently in temporary accommodation in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Every child in Northern Ireland, regardless of their families' immigration status, has the same rights and should experience those rights to their fullest potential,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, Mears Group said due to a significant rise in the numbers of people seeking asylum, hotels are being used to accommodate people until more homes can be prioritised.\n\n\"As this family had been in the hotel for longer than others, they were prioritised for a move to a family home.\n\n\"While we understand they would have preferred to stay in Belfast, there is an acute shortage of suitable housing.\"\n\nMears Group said it has followed its legal and contractual framework, in line with Home Office procedures.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the family were prioritised to move away from hotel accommodation, and arrangements for the children's education are being made.\n\n\"Asylum accommodation is offered on a no-choice basis across the United Kingdom.\n\n\"We continue to ensure that the accommodation provided is safe, secure and leaves no one destitute and ensure it is appropriate for an individual's needs.\"", "A deep-cover Russian spy tried to infiltrate the International Criminal Court (ICC), the security service of the Netherlands says.\n\nThe man used the name Viktor Muller Ferreira and pretended to be Brazilian but was refused entry as he arrived to start work in the Netherlands.\n\nAuthorities say his real name is Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov and he is a spy for the GRU - Russian military intelligence.\n\nThe man is said to have spent years building a fake identity, before applying for an internship at the ICC in The Hague.\n\nThe Dutch security agency, the AIVD, said if he had been successful in taking up the position and infiltrate the organisation, he could have done real damage.\n\n\"The threat posed by this intelligence officer is deemed potentially very high,\" it said in a statement.\n\nTo those who knew him, Viktor Muller Ferreira was a Brazilian with an interest in international affairs. But in reality, the AIVD said, he was a particular type of Russian spy known as an \"illegal\".\n\nRussian intelligence uses the name to differentiate such officers from \"legal\" spies who are posing undercover as diplomats. Many countries use spies pretending to be ordinary people but Russia has long specialised in a type of deep-cover illegal agent who takes on an entirely different nationality. These spies pretend to be American, British, Canadian or - in the case of Ferreira - Brazilian to allow them to move in circles where Russians would be met with suspicion and therefore find it harder to operate.\n\nThe AIVD has published an extraordinary document believed to be written by Cherkasov around 2010, in which he outlines his fake identity, likely to remind him of his own cover story.\n\nThe discovery of such a document suggests a remarkable degree of sloppiness by the spy. Over four pages it goes through his family story.\n\n\"My farther (sic) came across as a very friendly and open person, but to my surprise I discovered that I blamed him for the deaths of my mother and my aunt and all the difficulties and humiliations I had to suffer in my life,\" one line reads.\n\nHe also made a reference to having to go to Ireland for the funeral of his father.\n\nIt can take between five and 10 years for an illegal agent to be trained and build their cover. Given the challenges, there are not thought to be many out there - perhaps less than 30 from the GRU, according to Western estimates.\n\nDutch security agency AIVD said if the spy had been successful in infiltrating the ICC, he could have done real damage\n\nRussian intelligence has long targeted the ICC, and Ferreira is understood to have begun pushing for an internship late last year. The court's importance has grown since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. On 3 March the ICC prosecutor opened an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.\n\nThe ICC offers some 200 unpaid internships which give candidates the opportunity to \"gain exposure to the day-to-day working environment of the ICC, and to put their knowledge and experience into practise under the supervision of working professionals.\"\n\nThe position would have provided him with valuable access.\n\n\"If the intelligence officer had succeeded in commencing employment with the ICC, he would have been able to gather intelligence there and to look for (or recruit) sources, and arrange to have access to the ICC's digital systems,\" the AIVD said in a statement.\n\nThat way he would have been able to provide a significant contribution to the intelligence that the GRU is seeking. He might also have been able to influence criminal proceedings of the ICC.\"\n\nApplying was a risk for a deep-cover spy, but it's one his bosses in Moscow must have felt was worth taking. Illegals are notoriously hard to find - he is not thought to have been spotted by the ICC - and Dutch authorities did not say how he was identified.\n\nSocial media profiles reviewed by the BBC and which are believed to belong to Ferreira reveal an extensive list of friends - including a number of international students from two institutions which he appears to have attended - Johns Hopkins University in the US and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland. Those friends have gone on to work everywhere from investment bank Goldman Sachs to think tanks and federal regulatory agencies in Washington DC. They will not have known he was a Russian spy.\n\n\"He had some accent which I couldn't place. But it wasn't Russian,\" an academic who taught him told the BBC. Ferreira is thought to have applied to the ICC as early as September 2020 but the application may have been delayed due to Covid.\n\n\"Brazil is underrepresented in ICC, so that might be my chance!,\" Ferreira said at one point.\n\nOne profile says Ferreira moved to Washington DC in August 2018 and a record shows him graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2020. Postings on social media reveal an eclectic mix of views including some which are mildly critical of Russia, which could be interpreted as an attempt to continue to build his cover.\n\nIn one case, his account appears to have even posted a report from the Bellingcat investigative group about uncovering identities online used by the GRU, a rather unusual move for someone who now stands accused of being an undercover GRU operative himself.\n\nHis cover now blown though, his future as a deep-cover spy will be over.", "Delays unloading ambulances at busy hospitals are causing serious harm to patients, a safety watchdog is warning.\n\nThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has been investigating how the long waits are delaying 999 emergency response times across England.\n\nKenneth Shadbolt, 94, waited more than five hours for an ambulance after a bad fall - an accident that proved fatal.\n\nLogs show that in his final 999 call he asked: \"Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead.\"\n\nThe BBC has been given permission from the coroner to view detailed evidence into his recent death.\n\nKen Shadbolt had been in good shape for his age.\n\nA retired factory worker and carpenter, he lived alone in a semi-detached house in the market town of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, and could often be spotted cycling around the local housing estate on his electric trike.\n\nOn the night of Wednesday, 23 March 2022, he called one of his five sons for a chat before turning in for the night.\n\nJust before 03:00, he got out of bed to go the bathroom and fell, hitting a wardrobe before collapsing on the floor.\n\nHe had hurt his hip - how badly he didn't know - and couldn't get up. He could reach his mobile on his bedside, though, and dialled 999 for help.\n\nThe BBC has seen transcripts of the three separate phone calls he made to South Western Ambulance Service that night.\n\nThe first was short and factual, covering the basic details of his injury.\n\nHe seemed calm and lucid but made clear he was in pain and needed an ambulance.\n\nHe was told by the call handler not to try to move unless he felt in danger and assured that help was \"being arranged\".\n\n\"How long will it be?\" he asked.\n\n\"I don't know, unfortunately, [but] we will try to get someone there as soon as we can,\" came the reply.\n\nHe then spoke to one of his sons who offered to drive up that night from the other side of the country.\n\nKen said he thought an ambulance was on the way, and not to worry.\n\nInternal call logs seen by the BBC show that at this point Ken was triaged as a category two emergency, meaning paramedics should arrive in 18 minutes, on average.\n\nAbout 15 minutes later, he called 999 for a second time.\n\nIt was clear by now that he was starting to worry.\n\nHe said he couldn't move his right leg and talked about an injury to his shoulder as he'd hit the floor. He was worried about his mobile phone, saying the battery \"won't last forever\".\n\n\"When I rang up 999 I thought I would get some treatment straight away,\" he told the next person on the line.\n\n\"It is still down as an emergency response,\" the call handler replied. \"We are extremely busy at the moment but we are working on getting that help to you as quickly as we possibly can, ok?\"\n\nAn internal ambulance service log seen by the BBC shows that South Western Ambulance Service was indeed busy that night.\n\nIt talks about \"high demand\" in the Gloucester area, with more than 60 patients waiting for help, some for more than eight hours.\n\nBut something else was going on at the same time.\n\nThe local A&E was very full, so paramedics arriving outside the emergency department were unable to unload their sick patients straight away.\n\nThe ambulance service log warns there were \"long delays with unloading at GRH [Gloucestershire Royal Hospital]\" that night.\n\nData seen by the BBC shows that 75% of ambulances were delayed for at least half an hour at Gloucester or its sister hospital in Cheltenham on 24 March, with 54% having to wait for more than an hour.\n\nThat handover should be completed in under 15 minutes.\n\nIf paramedics are queuing outside A&E, then they are not able to get back on the road and quickly pick up the next patient who needs help.\n\nA doctor's report into Ken's case specifically refers to \"a lack of ambulances available\" that night.\n\nAmbulances waiting to unload patients at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on 13 June, 2022.\n\nAnother hour passed before he made his third and final call to 999.\n\nIt was clear now that he was in serious pain. He felt \"terrible sick\" and said his \"breathing is going too\".\n\n\"I need an ambulance because I'm going to fade away quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nThe same reply came back: \"The ambulance service is just under a lot of pressure at the moment... we are doing our best.\n\n\"I appreciate that you've been stuck for quite some time, Ken... we've not forgotten about you at all.\"\n\nLater in the call he said he was cold and could not reach his duvet. He'd already tried phoning one of his neighbours but could not get through, and said they \"might be away\".\n\nHe was told by the 999 call handler to \"try to stay still\".\n\n\"Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead,\" he said.\n\n\"Send me the undertaker, that would be the best bet.\"\n\nHe put the phone down for the last time.\n\nKenneth Shadbolt's son Jerry says his father must have felt abandoned\n\nAn ambulance finally got to Kenneth Shadbolt's house at 08:10 that morning, four hours after that final call.\n\nBy then one of his sons had contacted a neighbour, who found him unconscious on his bedroom floor.\n\nHe arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital at 09:59, and was handed over to the trauma team.\n\nA doctor phoned the family and told them to come straight away and explained that his injuries were not survivable.\n\nKen died at 14:21 that afternoon, with the cause of death given as a \"very large subdural haematoma\" or bleed on the brain.\n\nHis son Jerry Shadbolt said: \"The doctors were saying his injuries were non-survivable but would they have been non-survivable if he'd arrived at hospital four hours earlier? I'd like an answer to that question.\n\n\"He was on his own and he knew he was on his own. He must have felt abandoned and alone on his bedroom floor. That's the most troubling part of it for me.\"\n\nJenny Winslade, executive director of quality and clinical care for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, offered her \"sincere condolences\" to the family and friends of Mr Shadbolt.\n\nShe said delays handing over patients to A&E, and busy hospitals, meant it was \"taking us too long to get an ambulance to patients\".\n\n\"This is a risk which we recognise is unacceptable,\" she said.\n\n\"We continue to work on a daily basis with our partners to ensure our crews can get back out on the road as quickly as possible, to respond to other 999 calls.\"\n\nProf Mark Pietroni, medical director and acting chief executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said local and national health systems were \"under intense pressure\" and continued to face significant challenges \"in response to unrelenting demand\".\n\nThe trust said that, currently, 240 hospital patients - out of a total of 837 beds for patients - were waiting for support to go home or be moved to other locations in the community.\n\nDoctors and paramedics have become increasingly concerned about long ambulance wait times across the UK this year.\n\nIn England as a whole, the average response for a category two emergency, such as a heart attack or stroke, was almost 40 minutes in May - more than twice as long as the 18-minute target.\n\nLast month, Dr Katherine Henderson, an A&E consultant and president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, described the situation as \"more serious than we've ever seen it\".\n\nShe said the problem is often caused by delays discharging patients from hospital wards into a care setting, which then creates a bottleneck in A&E, leaving no space for new patients arriving by ambulance.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to people who have spent hours waiting outside emergency departments this year, sometimes transferred between different ambulance vehicles because there is no room to treat them in the hospital itself.\n\nThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) says the delays are causing harm to patients, including some deaths.\n\nIts final report will be published later this year, but the interim findings - released on Thursday - show that staff who have witnessed harm to patients and their families are traumatised.\n\n\"Harm is happening on a daily basis,\" said the HSIB's national investigator Neil Alexander.\n\nHe referred to patients deteriorating in ambulances while waiting for treatment in emergency departments, and patients getting infections in hospital because they were staying there too long.\n\n\"And we are no longer using the word 'risk' in this investigation, because risk is being realised and is now harm,\" Mr Alexander said.\n\nThe government said it would carefully consider the HSIB's report and would \"respond in due course\".\n\n\"The NHS has allocated £150m of additional funding to address pressures on ambulance services, with the number of ambulance and support staff increasing by almost 40% since February 2010,\" said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\n\"We have also established a national taskforce to identify ways to reduce delayed discharges and ensure patients are only in hospital for as long as they need to be.\"\n\nYou can follow Jim on Twitter.\n\nHave you been affected by ambulance waits? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There is absolutely NO way the vice-president could reject the result of the presidential election. That may not seem like news.\n\nMost people listening to this testimony will be thinking \"no [expletive], Sherlock\"\n\nOnly a tiny handful of people around Donald Trump thought it was even remotely possible that Mike Pence could declare Trump the winner or send the results back to individual states. And we already know that those people were known by some as \"Team Crazy\".\n\nIt may seem hardly necessary to lay out all the legal, historical and constitutional arguments over why it is not possible for one person to overturn an election result.\n\nSo why are we listening to all this evidence about what legal advisers discussed and the pressure Trump piled on Pence to get him to change his mind?\n\nIt is part of the wider case the committee plan to make against Donald Trump.\n\nThey want to demonstrate not just that Trump inspired the violent attack on the Capitol on 6 Jan 2021, but that it was part of a wider, deliberate conspiracy to illegally overturn the election result. No less than an attempted coup.\n\nThe committee will return to this narrative when they draw together all the strands of their inquiry and put together what will amount to the case for the prosecution of Donald Trump.\n\nThe select committee can't try or convict Trump. They can't even bring criminal charges against him. But the attorney general can, and he has said he is watching these hearings closely. It's obvious that members of the committee think there is a case to answer.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury said it was a \"source of shame\" the Church had profited from the slave trade\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after research showed the Church of England's investment fund has links to the slave trade.\n\nThe investigation, initiated by the Church Commissioners, a charity managing the Church's investment portfolio, revealed that for more than 100 years the fund invested large sums of money in a company responsible for transporting slaves.\n\nThe fund, known in the 18th century as Queen Anne's Bounty, has now developed into a £10.1bn investment trust.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby said he was \"deeply sorry for the links\".\n\nQueen Anne's Bounty was formed in 1704 to help support poor clergy.\n\nAn examination of its accounts in 1739 showed £204,000 (estimated to be worth £443m today) had been invested in the South Sea Company.\n\nThe South Sea Company had an exclusive contract to transport slaves from Africa to Spanish colonies in South America for more than 30 years from the 1710s.\n\nIt shipped tens of thousands of slaves, with the research suggesting that an estimated 15% of them died en route.\n\nChurch investments in the South Sea Company continued well into the 19th century.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"This abominable trade took men, women and children created in God's image and stripped them of their dignity and freedom.\n\n\"The fact that some within the Church actively supported and profited from it is a source of shame.\n\n\"It is only by facing this painful reality that we can take steps towards genuine healing and reconciliation - the path that Jesus Christ calls us to walk.\"\n\nOn the one hand, the Church of England has celebrated its hand in helping bring about an end to slavery, citing the role played by Anglican Evangelical, William Wilberforce. On the other, it has had to acknowledge more and more the extent to which it profited from slavery.\n\nIn recent years, the Church has apologised for dozens of its clergymen having been revealed to have owned slaves. It has said sorry because its missionary organisation, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, owned a plantation in Barbados, branding its slaves across the chest with the word SOCIETY.\n\nNow by its own research, it has acknowledged that for decades its investment fund poured almost all its money - aside from what it used to buy land - into a company that had a monopoly on transporting slaves to South America.\n\nWith more than half of the worldwide Anglican communion now based in Africa, these admissions will be made all the more uncomfortable.\n\nThe Church of England initiated this investigation with a view to being more open about its historic dealings and says a group will now be convened to decide what its response should be. But a spokesperson would not be drawn on whether that meant more than further statements and prayers, or whether it would include discussions about financial reparations.\n\nThe research also found that the fund received numerous contributions from individuals linked to, or who profited from, transatlantic slavery and the plantation economy.\n\nThe archbishop added: \"I pray for those affected by this news and hope that we may work together to discern a new way forward.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Reverend David Urquhart, a member of the Church Commissioners' board and chair of the group overseeing the research, said the body would use the knowledge learned from the investigation to ensure its was at the \"forefront of responsible investment globally\".\n\nThe South Sea Company purchased and transported slaves from Africa to Spanish-held ports to the Spanish Americas", "Passengers have been advised not to travel on trains unless necessary during strikes next week, with only a fifth of services due to run.\n\nNetwork Rail said about half of all rail lines will be closed when thousands of workers walk out across Britain on 21, 23 and 25 June.\n\nThe services that run will start and finish earlier, from 07:30 to 18:30.\n\nThere will be no trains at all in many places including north from Glasgow or Edinburgh and to Penzance in Cornwall.\n\n\"Make no mistake, the level of service we will be able to offer will be significantly compromised and passengers need to take that into account and to plan ahead and only travel if it's really necessary to do so,\" Network Rail boss Andrew Haines said.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns and maintains the country's railways, said there would also be no passenger services to locations including Bournemouth in Dorset, Swansea in south Wales, Holyhead in north Wales, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool in Lancashire.\n\nOpen lines include the West Coast Main Line from London to Scotland via locations such as Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nHowever, with trains running for shorter hours on strike days, final departures will be much earlier than usual. For example, the last train from Manchester to London will leave at 14:47 and the last from Norwich to London at 16:00, with the last train from London to Edinburgh at 14:00.\n\nRural and district lines will be most affected by the action.\n\nThe timetable from 20 June to 26 June is still being finalised, but the number of services is expected to be around 4,500 compared with 20,000 normally, Network Rail said.\n\nDisruption is also expected to carry over into non-strike days during the week, when only about 60% of services are expected to run.\n\nThis is due to not enough staff being on shift overnight to get services ready for the following day.\n\nA number of train operators including Southeastern, TransPennine and Avanti West Coast have urged passengers to only travel by rail if necessary, while Northern has asked people \"not to travel\" on trains between Tuesday and Sunday.\n\nSeveral large events could be affected by the strikes, ranging from Glastonbury Festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, to a cricket Test match between England and New Zealand taking place from 23 to 27 June.\n\nPensioner Linda is supposed to be travelling by train from Great Yarmouth to London for a Rolling Stones concert on 25 June.\n\nShe paid £100 per ticket but she is now unsure if there is any way for her to get there now.\n\n\"If I was to book a coach, it would cost a lot more - plus increase the travel time; two-and-a-half hours on the train becomes five to six hours on a coach,\" she told the BBC. \"And there's no way we'd get to the concert in time.\"\n\nElsewhere, Megan, a 15-year-old pupil at Bradford Grammar School, doesn't know how she will get to school.\n\n\"Both my parents work. My mum is a doctor so she's got to be in [work] really early,\" she said. \"I think we'll just have to organise lifts with someone.\"\n\n\"It's just stressful. With traffic and everyone getting a lift in, it's going to be a nightmare,\" she added.\n\nMegan is worried how she'll get to school\n\nThe school's bursar Homera Najib said about 300 pupils travel in by train from across Yorkshire and Leeds using the nearby Frizinghall station.\n\nShe has contacted parents who have to make their own alternative arrangements to get their children to school, she said.\n\n\"We know this is going to be a real inconvenience for our pupils, especially at a time when we've got public examinations going on,\" she said.\n\n\"These are the first public examinations in two years so something like this that really throws a spanner in the works doesn't help the levels of stress.\"\n\nMore than 40,000 RMT union members from Network Rail and 13 train firms plan to walk out. The industrial action, which has been described as the \"biggest rail strike in modern history\", involves union members which include railway staff such as guards and signalling operators.\n\nRMT announced the strike action last week after talks over pay and redundancies fell through.\n\nOn the first day of the planned strike on 21 June, London Underground RMT workers plan to walk out in a separate dispute over pensions and job losses.\n\nAndrew Haines, Network Rail chief executive, said talks with the union had \"not progressed as far as I had hoped\" and so preparations had begun for a strike.\n\nThe strikes may be less disruptive for commuters, with more people now able to work from home since the pandemic.\n\nBut the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said \"millions of people\", including those who cannot work remotely, students sitting exams and others travelling for summer events, would still be affected.\n\nThe mood music right now is that not enough progress has been made in negotiations to stop next week's walkouts.\n\nAssuming they go ahead, there will be disruption across the whole week.\n\nThe involvement of Network Rail signalling staff means the number of trains that can run is particularly limited.\n\nOn strike days, the signallers' replacements can only cover 12 hours, hence services will start late and finish early - where they run at all.\n\nBusy, key routes have been prioritised, meaning vast swathes of the country will be left with no services at all.\n\nNetwork Rail says next week's action will cost up to £150m in lost revenue and aborted work.\n\nThe RMT union has claimed Network Rail plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs as part of a £2bn reduction in spending, with the proposed job cuts including workers who maintain tracks, signals and overhead lines.\n\nIt also said train operators had been subject to pay freezes and changes to their terms and conditions.\n\nThe RMT has called for a meeting with the transport secretary and chancellor, saying it had become clear that the Treasury was \"calling the shots and not allowing rail employers to reach a negotiated settlement\".\n\nBut a deal is \"unlikely at the moment\", said RMT's Eddie Dempsey, who accused the government of \"relishing the thought of having a dispute to distract from some other issues\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said unions had \"gone on the record saying they don't negotiate with this government\", adding: \"They're right: they must negotiate with the employers.\"\n\nThe rail industry is under pressure to save money due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and Network Rail has said it wants to modernise working practices.\n\nIt estimated between 1,500 and 2,000 fewer staff would be needed, but insists this could be achieved through voluntary means.\n\nAs part of a separate strike, Aslef, a union representing train drivers, has announced walkouts at three companies in rows over pay on 26 June at Hull Trains, at Greater Anglia on 23 June, and on Croydon Tramlink on 28, 29 June and 13 and 14 July.\n\nWill your travel plans be affected by the strike days? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pembrokeshire, along with Gwynedd, already has a 100% council tax premium on second homes\n\nAre tax hikes and rule changes in Wales already seeing more second home owners sell their properties?\n\nSome estate agents say there are signs of that, but others say not enough is being done to ensure local people can afford homes.\n\nAll councils in Wales will be able to set council tax premiums of up to 300% on second homes from April 2023.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was committed to using \"immediate and radical\" action to tackle injustices.\n\nThe changes, included in a Labour-Plaid Cymru co-operation agreement, are part of an effort to make it easier for people to afford homes where they grew up.\n\nIan Wyn-Jones, an estate agent based in north Wales, said that over the last couple of months it was clear \"changes have come, and they're working\".\n\nEstate agent Ian Wyn-Jones says the changes are already making a noticeable difference\n\n\"We're here in Cwm y Glo near Llanberis today, where the vendor is selling the property clearly because of the new regulation,\" he said.\n\n\"The people who are buying it are local first-time buyers, so in a way it's ticking all the boxes.\"\n\nBut he does not see the changes having an impact in the so-called second home \"honey pots\".\n\n\"Places like Abersoch, Trearddur Bay, Rhosneigr and Harlech - were not going to see any changes there,\" he said.\n\n\"The people there, they're not going to be fussed because the prices there are ranging from £1m up to £4m for a four or five-bedroom house.\"\n\nThis second home in Cwm y Glo, near Llanberis, was being sold to a local first-time buyer\n\nBut Mr Wyn-Jones said he believed any changes should help manage the holiday let market, not push it away, as it was an important part of the local economy.\n\n\"Every single house that's let as a holiday home, there's a little community around each one. You've got your cleaners, your marketing team, you've got everything.\"\n\nAccording to government body Stats Wales, there were a total of 23,974 second homes in Wales subject to council tax in 2022, as well as 22,140 empty homes.\n\nUnder new rules, councils will be allowed to decide which level of council tax premium is appropriate for their local circumstances, up to 300%. The current maximum is 100%.\n\nThis does not necessarily mean all councils will make an increase, or that they will increase the premium to the maximum permissible.\n\nSome councils are already charging higher levies, including 100% in Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire, which have the largest number of second homes - 3,746 and 3,794 respectively this year.\n\nThe criteria for self-catering accommodation being liable for business rates instead of council tax will also change.\n\nAt the moment properties available to let for a minimum of 140 days in any 12-month period, and actually let for at least 70 days, pay rates not council tax.\n\nUnder the changes properties must be available to let for at least 252 days, and actually let for at least 182 days to qualify.\n\nOwain Llywelyn, spokesperson for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in Wales, said the council tax increase was just \"one small step\" to address the second homes issue, and that more action was needed.\n\n\"There are many other potential measures that that could be enacted,\" he said.\n\n\"One of which is perhaps a change in the land tax transaction level from 4% to 8%.\"\n\nHe also suggested a council tax multiplier of up to 10 times for some properties, in addition to implementing rules ensuring only people living within about 35 miles of a property can purchase it.\n\nRhys Tudur, of the Hawl i fyw Adra (right to live at home) campaign, also believes further steps are needed.\n\nHe said: \"I hope the changes will make a degree of difference but I don't foresee they'll make as much of a difference as we'd hope.\n\n\"They must put in more strict measures, such as a second home tax which is implemented when a home is purchased, and in addition there should be a cap on the number of second homes in each given community.\n\n\"The government has consulted upon these measures but they've yet to act upon them, and they should do so soon.\"\n\nWelsh ministers are encouraging councils to put any extra money raised from higher taxes into increasing the amount of affordable housing.\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said the \"intended impact is to reduce the demand for second homes\" and is \"not intended as a money raising exercise by councils\".\n\n\"The council tax premiums can form part of a package that also includes planning measures and steps to reduce the number of self-catering properties being switched to business rates instead of council tax,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are committed to taking immediate and radical action using the planning, property and taxation systems to tackle the injustices in the current housing market, including the negative impact that second homes and unaffordable housing can have, and will soon have a package of proposals to tackle the various problems this presents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wayne Humphreys' fine and costs for passing this cyclist too closely were more than £1,800\n\nA motorist has been ordered to pay more than £1,800 after passing a cyclist too closely.\n\nWayne Humphreys, 77, was fined and given four penalty points for failing to leave enough space in his Audi Q8.\n\nRoad safety partnership GoSafe said the outcome showed that these submissions are taken seriously and given the appropriate amount of attention.\n\nMr Humphreys had refused to attend a course or pay a fixed penalty notice, but said the fine was \"appalling\".\n\nGoSafe said Mr Humphreys had been offered a place on a driver awareness course as an alternative to prosecution after it received footage of the incident.\n\nThe cyclist recorded the close pass on a GoPro camera and reported the incident to roads policing teams.\n\nGoSafe added that Mr Humphreys, of Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, also later failed to comply with a fixed penalty notice, resulting in the prosecution on 8 June, when he was fined £1,152 and ordered to pay £620 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.\n\nThe warehouse boss was then prosecuted at Cardiff Magistrates' Court for driving without due care and attention and ordered to pay £1,887 in a fine and costs, and received four points on his licence.\n\nMr Humphreys, said: \"The fine is absolutely appalling. I am 77 years of age and the last fine I had was 35 to 40 years ago.\n\n\"Other than that I have never had a fine and I have had a licence for 60 years.\"\n\nFollowing the narrow miss along the B4280 Pant Hirwaun outside Heol-y-Cyw, near Bridgend in September 2021, Mr Humphreys said he and his son later measured the road and claimed the gap he left for the cyclist was sufficient and safe.\n\nHe said: \"Taking into account the cyclist and his bike, there would have still been at least 4ft (1.2m) space.\"\n\nMotorists must now leave a 1.5m (5ft) gap when overtaking cyclists, as well as slowing down. The gap must be 2m (6.5ft) when passing pedestrians or horse riders.\n\nChanges in the language of The Highway Code came in to force from 29 January mean a driver is now more likely to be penalised for putting other road users in harm's way - especially if caught on camera.\n\nNew laws came into force in January\n\n\"I find it absolutely incredible this has happened. I don't know whether to appeal it or not. It will probably just cost me more money.\n\n\"This has already cost me about £4,500 with the money for the court and the solicitor. It doesn't make sense to me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGoSafe said the organisation had \"worked closely with drivers and cycling groups\" to develop Operation Close Pass, which looks to educate both drivers and cyclists on how to stay safe on our roads.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted his Partygate fine did not amount to a breach of ministerial rules\n\nBoris Johnson's ethics adviser says it is \"reasonable\" to suggest the prime minister may have breached the ministerial code after being fined for attending a lockdown party in No 10.\n\nLord Geidt did not deny he considered resigning over Mr Johnson's response to the fine by police.\n\nLast month, Lord Geidt urged the PM to explain why he had not broken the code.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, he said he was \"glad\" the PM had now addressed \"things about which I was frustrated\".\n\nLast month Mr Johnson's government made changes to the ministerial code, which outlines the conduct rules ministers must follow, including the \"overarching duty\" on them to comply with the law.\n\nThere has long been an expectation that ministers should quit their role in government if they are found to have broken the code.\n\nThe prime minister is responsible for enforcing the code, based on advice from his standards adviser, Lord Geidt, who investigates potential breaches.\n\nOn Tuesday, Lord Geidt appeared in front of the Commons Public Administration Committee to discuss the recent changes to the code and other issues related to his role.\n\nThe peer told the committee of MPs he believed he had \"new powers\" to initiate investigations of potential breaches of the code.\n\nUpdated guidance on his role says he still has to \"consult the prime minister who will normally give his consent\" for an investigation. Previously, Lord Geidt had to wait until asked by the prime minister to start an investigation.\n\nDuring the hearing, SNP MP Ronnie Cowan asked Lord Geidt if he would use his new powers to initiate an investigation into the prime minister's fine.\n\nHe said: \"I think it's reasonable that some - and indeed many people had written to me making this point - it's reasonable to say that, perhaps a fixed penalty notice and a prime minister paying for it, may have constituted not meeting the overarching duty under the ministerial code, of complying with the law.\"\n\nLord Geidt said he had never sought to open his own investigation into whether there were breaches of the code at parties in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nBut he said Mr Johnson had been \"in potential scope of the code\" on several occasions, citing an investigation into the refurbishment of the prime minister's flat, and senior civil servant Sue Gray's report into lockdown-busting events.\n\nLast month, in an annual report on ministers' interests, Lord Geidt there was a \"legitimate question\" over whether the PM's fine amounted to a breach of the code.\n\nMr Johnson responded in a letter, insisting \"there was no intent to break the regulations\" and \"I did not breach the code\".\n\nLord Geidt said he had asked the prime minister \"to speak up for his own conduct\" and was satisfied he had done so in the letter.\n\nLord Geidt published his annual report on ministers' interests last month\n\nOne committee member, Labour MP John McDonnell, suggested to Lord Geidt that his role as the PM's adviser was \"little more than a tin of whitewash\".\n\nIn reply, Lord Geidt said \"how can I defeat the impression that you are suggesting of a cosy, insufficiently independent relationship? It is very hard.\"\n\nAnd Lord Geidt conceded that his role was not truly independent, saying, \"I am asset of the prime minister\" rather than a \"free-orbiting adviser with a different source of authority\".\n\nThe changes to the code follow a review by advisory body the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which made a series of recommendations for reforms in a report.\n\nFor the first time, the code introduced the idea of a \"minor\" breach and sanctions \"which the prime minister may decide to issue in a given case\".\n\nBut Lord Geidt contested the suggestion that the code had been \"watered down\".\n\n\"That sort of interpretation is not quite correct,\" he said, calling the reforms \"fair and proportionate\".", "Diabetes patients have been warned that non-attendance at eye-test appointments puts them at greater risk of developing unnecessary sight loss.\n\nThe Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) has described the attendance rates at clinics in Northern Ireland as \"alarmingly low\" .\n\nIt said 20% to 40% of patients were not showing up for their appointments on any given day.\n\nOn Saturday afternoons that figure can be even higher.\n\nProf Tunde Peto, clinical lead for the NI Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, said the most common of many complications caused by diabetes was diabetic eye disease.\n\nDiabetes can cause cataracts early on but it can also affect the retina at the back of the eye, \"which will eventually lead to sight loss if not treated on time,\" Prof Peto explained.\n\n\"Diabetic retinopathy causes no symptoms until it can be just about too late to treat,\" she said.\n\nThe good news is that, if the disease is caught early enough through screening, treatments are available.\n\nProf Tunde Peto says the diabetic eye disease doesn't show symptoms until it has already developed\n\nIan Catlin from Ballymoney has experienced sight loss due to diabetic retinopathy.\n\nHe has had Type 1 diabetes since childhood and became aware of problems with his eyesight in his mid-30s.\n\n\"Probably when I was about 33, I started having problems and it's been slowly getting worse,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm totally blind in the left eye and I'm losing the vision in right eye slowly.\"\n\nMr Catlin explained that the blood vessels at the back of his eye burst due to the high level of blood sugars.\n\n\"I'm a joiner by trade and I can't do that anymore,\" the County Antrim man said, adding that he's lucky to have his wife and children to help him cope.\n\nIan Catlin says some people don't attend eye clinics because of fear of the unknown\n\nMr Catlin said he put off asking for medical help because of the fear of what he would be told.\n\n\"I did eventually go, but you're scared and you put your head in the sand,\" he said.\n\nDiabetes patients are sent a number of reminders of their appointments, including letters and day-before texts, Prof Peto explained.\n\nShe said appointment slots that could have been used by another patient are lost if someone doesn't turn up.\n\nThere are about 115,000 people with diabetes in Northern Ireland and that figure is increasing by 5% to 7% annually.\n\nThe eye screening programme has put on evening and weekend clinics to help deal with the numbers.\n\n\"People usually prioritise things that give them symptoms and because eye disease doesn't give symptoms until it's really late, sometimes people don't appreciate that they should be coming,\" said Prof Peto.\n\n\"If you absolutely cannot come then please cancel on time so we can give the appointment to someone else,\" she added.\n\nMr Catlin advised people who receive appointments to overcome their fears.\n\n\"Go. You need to go and you need to find if there are any abnormalities,\" he said.\n\n\"You can catch it and you can stop any severe problems happening.\"", "Lord Geidt did not look like a man in love with his job as he addressed MPs on Tuesday\n\nHis demeanour and delivery screamed exasperation, even if his words were carefully chosen. When Lord Geidt appeared before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, for the best part of two hours, he didn't look like a man in love with his job.\n\nJust over 24 hours later, in a written statement of few words and even less detail, came confirmation that he really didn't.\n\nHe was resigning, the second such ethics adviser to the prime minister to walk in the last eighteen months. It appears he had concluded his position was untenable, enough was enough.\n\nIt also appears there are more details he is privy to about what has been going on than are currently known about more widely.\n\nSo what do we know about what happened in the last few days?\n\nI'm told that on Monday, Lord Geidt met the prime minister and offered to serve in the job for another six months.\n\nHe was also asked by Boris Johnson to advise on a commercial decision the government is contemplating - and whether this would breach any existing commitments and so not be in line with the ministerial code.\n\nWe don't know the details of this yet, nor if this request contributed to his resignation, but the specific timing of his departure has left No10 baffled, given his commitment to stay.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Lord Geidt phoned the prime minister's principal private secretary to tell him he was resigning. Mr Johnson was informed of the decision at about 18:30 BST, shortly after finishing a phone call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nBut while the particular timing has surprised some in Downing Street, Lord Geidt's discomfort in the job has been evident for a while.\n\nJust last month he had said in a report that it was a legitimate question to ask if Boris Johnson had breached the ministerial code by breaking Covid laws.\n\nBut, as Lord Geidt put it, the code's \"author and guardian\" is Mr Johnson. The prime minister hadn't sought an investigation from Lord Geidt into whether he had, and was of the view that he hadn't.\n\nAs Lord Geidt put it: \"I have attempted to avoid the independent adviser offering advice to a prime minister about a prime minister's obligations under his own ministerial code.\n\n\"If a prime minister's judgement is that there is nothing to investigate or no case to answer, he would be bound to reject any such advice, thus forcing the resignation of the independent adviser. Such a circular process could only risk placing the ministerial code in a place of ridicule.\"\n\nLord Geidt also spelled out in the report that he didn't like the terms of his job - \"the prevailing arrangements still remained insufficiently independent to be able to command the confidence of the public\" as he put it.\n\nNo 10 would point out some of those arrangements have since changed. But it is also true that so too had new guidelines meaning ministers wouldn't get sacked for \"minor\" breaches of the ministerial code.\n\nNo 10 was baffled by the resignation of the PM's ethics adviser - for the second time in 18 months\n\nThe truth is we don't yet know definitively why Lord Geidt resigned, as his resignation letter has not been published - which itself is unconventional.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to write back to Lord Geidt on Thursday morning, and that reply may well be made public.\n\nWhat we do know is it wasn't just Partygate that caused headaches: a row about the renovation of the prime minister's flat led Lord Geidt to rebuke Boris Johnson for showing \"insufficient\" respect for his role.\n\nAnd remember, too, Lord Geidt's predecessor resigned as well. Sir Alex Allan walked out in November 2020 after concluding the Home Secretary Priti Patel had breached the ministerial code, which conventionally results in a resignation or sacking. And yet Ms Patel didn't leave and the prime minister didn't sack her.\n\nSo twice in a year-and-a-half, the person appointed to oversee ethics and conduct in Mr Johnson's government has given up.\n\nJust as Mr Johnson had managed to shift the political conversation away from his behaviour and on to policy, a swirl of headlines about this appears.\n\nAnd along with the headlines, comes a vacancy in government. I walked down Whitehall earlier on; I can't say I spotted a queue of people lining up to take the job on.", "Gavin Rawson attempted to rescue Nathan Walker after he fell into the tanker\n\nManagers of a food waste company have been jailed after two staff members drowned in a tanker of pig feed.\n\nNathan Walker, 19, died after falling into the tanker at Greenfeeds Limited in Normanton, Leicestershire, in December 2016, just 15 days before his son was born.\n\nGillian Leivers was jailed for 13 years, with her husband also sentenced and the firm fined £2m.\n\nLeivers was convicted of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter and a health and safety offence.\n\nIan Leivers was jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe firm, which is now in liquidation, was fined after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter, while manager Stewart Brown was given a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, for a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe sentencing took place at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nThe court heard that on 22 December, Mr Walker was tasked with cleaning a tanker containing about six tonnes of food waste.\n\nHe climbed into the tanker, but was soon overcome with carbon dioxide fumes that built up in a confined and unventilated area, leading him to collapse and drown in the pig feed.\n\nWhen he got into difficulty, his colleague Mr Rawson attempted to rescue him but also died.\n\nJudge Peter Fraser said the \"hard-working\" Mr Walker had only been at Greenfeeds for \"a few months\" but planned to leave as he was \"increasingly unhappy\" and \"scared\" doing some tasks.\n\nHe said Mr Rawson was described as \"a cheerful soul\" by his family, adding they \"are also rightly proud of how brave he was that day, dying whilst trying to rescue his work colleague\".\n\nThe court heard there was \"pandemonium\" after Mr Walker fell into the semi-liquid pig feed, with the Leivers' son also at one point attempting to rescue before using a ladder to climb out of the tanker when he could not breathe.\n\n\"Without that, he too would probably have died in the tanker,\" the judge said.\n\nThe pair died on a farm in Leicestershire three days before Christmas in 2016\n\nGreenfeeds, the Leivers and Brown were found guilty following a trial, though Brown was acquitted of two counts of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nThe judge said Greenfeeds had repeatedly been warned of the dangers involved in cleaning tankers by yard staff, but \"simply ignored\" their protests.\n\nDescribing it as \"a company which had absolutely no regard for the safety of its employees\", he said it had a \"dangerous culture\" where safety procedures were not implemented.\n\nYard staff \"hated\" cleaning the tankers and made repeated \"deputations\" to Ms Leivers for safety equipment, the judge said, but \"nothing was provided and nothing changed\".\n\n\"The inside of tankers are confined spaces, and it is dangerous to enter them without safety measures,\" he said.\n\n\"There was no safe method of working; there was no training; there was no assessment of the risks; there were no warnings given to the yard staff; there was not even a basic record kept of when someone went into one to clean it.\n\n\"The method that had been adopted at Greenfeeds for years, and which the senior management knew about, was simply climb in, clean the tanker, and take your chances.\"\n\nThe court also heard Greenfeeds had been convicted twice in 2006 for breaches after the death of an employee involved in a tanker cleaning the previous year, but Judge Fraser said this had not led to a review of its safety procedures.\n\n\"It must have been plain and obvious to [Mr and Ms Leivers] that the company needed to improve its safety measures, and by a substantial margin,\" he said.\n\n\"Tragically, the company did not observe even the most basic safety requirements.\"\n\nMr Walker's son was born 15 days after he died\n\nWhile Brown, 69 and of Fernwood Close, Mansfield, had only joined the company in March 2016 and was not senior management, the judge said he showed \"wilful blindness\" to the conditions at Greenfeeds, having cleaned the tankers himself.\n\n\"It must have been obvious how dangerous the operation at Greenfeeds was,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said Mr Leivers, 59 and of Fosse Road in Newark, showed a \"flagrant disregard for the law concerning health and safety\" and a \"wholesale dereliction of duty\" to yard staff.\n\nRegarding Ms Leivers, also of Fosse Road in Newark, he said the 60-year-old's approach to safety led to the \"completely unnecessary and avoidable deaths\", and issued \"ultimatums\" to staff who protested over conditions.\n\nHe also criticised her efforts to \"shift the blame\" on to other employees and providing \"untruthful and inaccurate\" statements to police.\n\nMr Rawson has been described as a \"hero\" by his family\n\n\"Your blatant disregard for the very high risk of death was of an extreme nature,\" he said.\n\n\"I am also of the view that your behaviour was motivated by avoiding the cost of implementing proper safety measures.\"\n\nIn addition to its fine, Greenfeeds was ordered to pay £40,000 costs, with Mr and Ms Leivers ordered to pay £9,100 and £30,000 respectively.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June.\n\nIn the Javari valley, rivers act as roads. The larger tributaries are the highways, the \"furos\" or the narrow waterways that appear in rainy season, akin to cross-country shortcuts.\n\nCommuters here are mostly fishermen, carried along the waters in simple wooden boats. The rivers are full of incredible species such as the prized - and now endangered - giant Pirarucu.\n\nIt's the beauty that has made this remote region one of the most dangerous parts of the Amazon.\n\nIllegal fishing and poaching has become rife. And being right on the border with Peru and Colombia, it's also become a well-known trafficking route for cocaine.\n\nIt was this conflict that Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were documenting.\n\nDom Phillips was writing a book on saving the Amazon. Bruno Pereira, a specialist on isolated tribes, was introducing him to his contacts and friends. Both were very familiar with the terrain.\n\nTheir disappearance has hit people here hard.\n\nMore than 1000km away from the state's capital Manaus, the community feels abandoned by the authorities.\n\nOver the last few years, there have been sweeping cuts to indigenous protection budgets. Under President Jair Bolsonaro - a man who has little time for the indigenous communities or environmental agencies - the indigenous protection agency FUNAI has been weakened, surveillance has fallen, as too have fines doled out to those who break the law.\n\nIt's against this backdrop that Bruno Pereira played such an important role in the community here. He helped register and map incidents to be able to denounce crimes to the state. Teaching people how to use drones and GPS to track the poachers and fishermen.\n\n\"The state abandoned us, not just here in the Javari Valley but in other indigenous territories too,\" says one indigenous leader.\n\nHe asks not to be identified. Their surveillance work creates enemies. \"It's the government's fault - not giving enough protection and taking the lives of innocent people,\" he adds.\n\nFurther down the river is the community of São Rafael. There is a row of a dozen wooden houses on stilts with a boardwalk running along the length of them.\n\nThis was the village that Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira visited shortly before going missing. Five minutes down river from here is Sao Gabriel, where the suspect, Amarildo da Costa, lived.\n\nEveryone in these riverside communities lives by fishing - including Amarildo. Mostly it's for their own consumption and to earn some extra money. But with overfishing in the more populated areas - and the chance to earn big money selling fish on the sly - some fishermen encroach on indigenous land to find valuable species to sell.\n\nThe indigenous territory is just 20 minutes by boat from here.\n\n\"We fish Pirarucu, it's what's around us,\" says Sao Rafael resident Juliao. \"When we're lucky we get two or three - there are a lot of fishermen here. We fish to survive.\"\n\nThere are strict rules about fishing Pirarucu because of its endangered status.\n\nBut this isn't just about good guys versus bad guys. For people who live on this river, it's about poverty and survival.\n\nAt the end of the boardwalk lives Moreno. He denies any illegal fishing goes on around here. He doesn't want to talk about the disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira either.\n\n\"I didn't know, I didn't see anything, I don't have any information,\" he says, closing up quickly. \"Nobody has anything to do with it.\"\n\nI ask him about Amarildo da Costa.\n\n\"I don't know anything,\" he repeats.\n\nThat seems unlikely. The village a few minutes drive downstream is about the same size as Sao Rafael where you can't not know everybody. But the fear is clear - say too much to outsiders and there may be consequences.\n\nOur river guide is Rubeney de Castro Alves. He and his son have been running a fishing tourism business called Javari Expeditions since 2015. It was in his hotel in the nearby town of Atalaia do Norte that the two men were staying while they were working here.\n\n\"We've seen things get worse since we started,\" he says.\n\nHis idea was to bring tourists to these communities and, through conservation, people could learn from each other. \"These communities feel more and more abandoned, they don't have any federal government support,\" he says.\n\nAnd so they're easy prey for drug-traffickers trying to co-opt locals to work for them. The cartels are a formidable enemy for anyone wanting to bring back the rule of law in this area and protect the environment.\n\nWhile people here are shocked by what's happened, there is also a sense of inevitability.\n\n\"The threats aren't a new thing,\" explains Manoel Chorimpa, a leader of the Marubo indigenous community. \"What we are seeing is a tragedy foretold.\"", "Like many Ukrainians trying to leave Russian-occupied areas, Andriy was forced to go through a process called filtration\n\nUkrainians who want to leave cities under Russian occupation cannot do so without undergoing a terrifying process known as filtration. Phones are searched, social media accounts scoured. Anything deemed incriminating can lead to beatings, civilians say, and many are forcefully sent to Russia.\n\nAndriy watched anxiously as Russian soldiers connected his mobile to their computer, trying to restore some files. Andriy, a 28-year-old marketing officer, was attempting to leave Mariupol. He had deleted everything he thought a Russian soldier could use against him, such as text messages discussing Russia's invasion of Ukraine or photos of the devastation in his city caused by weeks of relentless shelling.\n\nBut the internet in Mariupol, a once bustling port in southern Ukraine, had been cut off as part of the siege imposed by Russia, and Andriy had not been able to take down some of his posts on social media. He remembered the first days of the war, when he had shared some anti-Russian messages and speeches from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe soldiers, Andriy said, already had their focus on him. On that day in early May, when he first joined the queues for filtration in Bezimenne, a small village to the east of Mariupol, one of the Russians noticed his beard. The soldier, Andriy said, instantly assumed it was a sign that he was a fighter with the Azov regiment, a former militia in the city which once had links with the far right.\n\n\"Is it you and your brigade killing our guys?,\" Andriy was asked. He replied he had never served in the army, he started working directly after graduating, but \"they didn't want to hear it\".\n\nAs the soldiers went through his phone, they turned to his political views, and asked his opinion of Zelensky. Andriy, cautiously, said Zelensky was \"okay\", and one of the soldiers wanted to know what he meant by that. Andriy told him Zelensky was just another president, not very different from those who had come before, and that in fact, he was not very interested in politics. \"Well,\" the soldier replied, \"you should just say you aren't interested in politics.\"\n\nThey kept Andriy's phone and told him to wait outside. He met his grandmother, mother and aunt, who had arrived with him and had already been given a document that allowed them to leave. A few minutes later, Andriy said, he was ordered to go to a tent where members of Russia's security service, the FSB, were carrying out further checks.\n\nFive officers were sitting behind a desk, three wearing balaclavas. They showed Andriy a video he had shared on Instagram of a speech Zelensky had given, from 1 March. With it was a caption written by Andriy: \"A president we can be proud of. Go home with your warship!\" One of the officers took the lead. \"You told us you're neutral to politics, but you support the Nazi government,\" Andriy recalled being told. \"He hit me in the throat. He basically started the beating.\"\n\nAndriy said the soldiers found out he had shared speeches of President Zelensky after connecting his phone to their computer\n\nLike Andriy, Dmytro had his phone confiscated at a checkpoint as he tried to leave Mariupol in late March. Dmytro, a 34-year-old history teacher, said the soldiers came across the word \"ruscist\", a play on \"Russia\" and \"fascist\", in a message to a friend. The soldiers, Dmytro told me, slapped and kicked him, and \"everything [happened] because I used that word.\"\n\nDmytro said he was taken, with four other people, to a police station in the village of Nikolsky, also a filtration point. \"The highest-ranking officer punched me four times in the face,\" he said. \"It seemed to be part of the procedure\".\n\nHis interrogators said teachers like him were spreading pro-Ukrainian propaganda. They also asked what he thought about \"the events of 2014\", the year that Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and started supporting pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. He replied that the conflict was known as the Russo-Ukrainian war. \"They said Russia was not involved, and asked me whether I agreed that it was, in fact, a Ukrainian civil war.\"\n\nThe officers checked his phone again, and this time found a photo of a book which had the letter H in its title. \"We got you!\" the soldiers told Dmytro. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, claims his war in Ukraine is an effort to \"de-Nazify\" the country, and the soldiers, Dmytro said, believed he was reading books about Hitler.\n\nThe next morning, Dmytro was transferred with two women to a prison in Starobesheve, a separatist-controlled village in Donetsk. He counted 24 people in the four-bunk cell. After four days and another detailed interrogation, he was finally released, and eventually reached Ukrainian-held territory. Weeks later, he still does not know what happened to his cell mates.\n\nBack inside the tent in Bezimenne, Andriy noticed two other people with their hands tied behind them, who had been left in a corner while the officers paid attention to him. \"They started to beat me way harder,\" Andriy told me, \"everywhere\". At one point, after a blow to the stomach, he felt as if he was about to faint. He managed to sit on a chair.\n\n\"I wondered what would be better,\" he said, \"to lose consciousness and fall down or tolerate the pain further.\"\n\nAt least, Andriy thought, he had not been taken somewhere else, away from his family. Ukrainian officials say thousands of people are believed to have been sent to detention centres and camps set up in Russian-controlled areas during filtration. In almost all cases, their relatives do not know where they are being held, or why. \"I [was] very angry about everything,\" Andriy said, \"but, at the same time, I know it could've been much worse.\"\n\nHis mother tried to get into the tent, but was stopped by the officers. \"She was very nervous. She later said they had told her that my 're-education' had started,\" Andriy said, \"and that she shouldn't be worried.\" His ordeal, he told me, continued for two and a half hours. He was even forced to make a video saying \"Glory to the Russian army!\", a mockery of \"Slava Ukraini!\", the Ukrainian slogan.\n\nThe final question, Andriy said, was whether he had \"understood his mistakes\", and \"I obviously answered yes\". As he was being released, officers brought in another man, who had previously served in Ukraine's military and had several tattoos. \"They immediately pushed him to the ground and started to beat him,\" Andriy said. \"They didn't even talk to him.\"\n\n\"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic,\" Andriy said about filtration\n\nUkrainian authorities say Russian forces and Russian-backed separatists have carried out filtration in occupied territories as an attempt to establish residents' possible links with the military, law enforcement and even local government, as the invading forces try to restore services and infrastructure.\n\nMen of fighting age are particularly targeted, checked for bruises that could suggest recent use of weapons, such as on the fingers and shoulders. Strip searches are common, witnesses say, including for women. Oleksandra Matviychuk, the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, a Kyiv-based human rights group, said the process, even when not violent, was \"inhuman\". \"There's no military need for this... They're trying to occupy the country with a tool I call 'immense pain of civilian people'. You ask: 'Why so much cruelty? For what?'\"\n\nMaksym, a 48-year-old steelworker, said he was forced to strip naked while officers in Bezimenne checked even the seams of his clothes. He was asked whether he was from the Azov regiment or was a Nazi sympathiser - he denied being either - and why he wanted to leave Mariupol. \"I said, 'Actually, it's you who are on Ukrainian soil.'\" One of the officers, who he said were all Russian, reacted by hitting Maksym with the gun butt in his chest. He fell.\n\n\"I leaned my head on the ground, holding my ribs. I couldn't get up,\" he said. \"It was very painful to breathe.\"\n\nHe was taken to what he described as a \"cage\", where others were being held. He noticed that one man, a weightlifter, had a tattoo of Poseidon, the Greek god, with a trident. The soldiers, Maksym said, thought it was the Ukrainian coat of arms. \"He explained it to them but they didn't understand.\" Those detained in the \"cage\" were given no water or food, and had to urinate in a corner in front of everyone, Maksym told me. At one point, exhausted, he tried to sleep on the ground. An officer came in and kicked him in the back, forcing him to stand.\n\nPeople would be taken to be interrogated and, when they returned, \"you saw the person had been beaten,\" Maksym said. He witnessed a woman in her 40s lying in pain, apparently after being hit in the stomach. A man, who seemed to be around 50, had a bleeding lip and red bruises on his neck. Maksym believed he had been strangled. No-one in the \"cage\" asked or said anything to each other. They were afraid that FSB officers could be disguised as prisoners.\n\nAfter about four or five hours, Maksym was released and allowed to leave Mariupol. Days later, he reached safety in Ukrainian-controlled territory, and went to a hospital to treat the persistent pain in his chest. The diagnosis: four broken ribs.\n\nYuriy Belousov, who leads the Department of War at the Ukrainian general prosecutor's office, said his team had received allegations of torture and even killings during filtration. \"[It seems to be] a Russian policy which was designed in advance, and pretty well prepared,\" he told me. \"It's definitely not just a single case or [something] done by a local military guy.\"\n\nHe acknowledged it was difficult to verify the cases, or estimate the scale of the violence. The Ukrainian authorities are unable to carry out investigations in occupied territories and most victims remain reluctant to share their stories, concerned that relatives in Mariupol could be targeted if their identity is exposed.\n\nVadym, 43, who used to work at a state-owned company in Mariupol, said he was tortured in Bezimenne in March. Separatist soldiers had questioned his wife after finding out she had \"liked\" the Ukrainian army page on Facebook, and restoring a receipt on her phone of a donation she had made to them. \"I tried to stand up for her,\" he said, \"but was knocked down.\" He got up, but was beaten once more. A pattern, he said, that happened again and again.\n\nWhen Russian soldiers realised where he worked, they took Vadym to a different building. There, Vadym said, separatist soldiers asked him \"stupid things\" and started to beat him. \"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell and choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth,\" Vadym said. He vomited and fainted. \"They were furious. When I recovered consciousness, they told me to clean everything up and continued to give me electric shocks.\"\n\nThe torture, Vadym said, only stopped after Russian officers intervened. They carried out another round of questioning before finally freeing him. As Vadym left the building, he saw a young woman, who had been identified during the process as a court clerk, being carried out.\n\n\"A plastic bag was put on her head, and her hands were tied,\" Vadym said. \"Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter not to be taken away.\"\n\nVadym's release came with a condition: he would have to go to Russia. About 1.2 million people in Ukraine, including thousands of Mariupol residents, have been sent to Russia against their will since the invasion began in February, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia denies it is carrying out a mass deportation, which would constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law, and says it is simply helping those who want to go. Ukraine rejects this claim.\n\nSome of those sent to Russia have managed to escape to other countries and even return to Ukraine. How many, remains unclear. Vadym, with the help of his friends, moved to another European country - he did not want to reveal the exact location. He had lost some of his vision, he told me, and doctors said this was a result of head injuries from the beating. \"I feel better now, but rehabilitation will take a long time.\" I asked him what he thought about filtration. \"They separate families. People are being disappeared,\" he said. \"It's pure terror.\"\n\nRussia's defence ministry did not respond to several requests for comment on the allegations. The Russian government has previously denied it is carrying out war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nAndriy said his mother was told by a Russian soldier that he was going through \"re-education\"\n\nAndriy and his family have now settled in Germany, after also having been forced to go to Russia. Looking back, he believes the occupying forces seemed to be using filtration to show their \"absolute power\". Soldiers, he said, acted as if it was a \"type of entertainment\", something to \"satisfy their own ego\".\n\nI told him about another Ukrainian I had met, a 60-year-old retired engineer called Viktoriia. A soldier found out she had added a Ukrainian flag to her profile photo on Facebook, she said, and the message \"Ukraine above all.\"\n\nHe pointed his gun at her, she told me, and threatened: \"I'll put you in the basement until you rot!\" He then kicked her. Viktoriia struggled to understand why he had acted like that. \"What did I do? What right did they have?\"\n\nAndriy said he could not explain such behaviour. \"I even try to justify the process somehow. Try to convince myself there's some logic.\"\n\nBut, he said, \"there's no logic\".\n\nSome names have been changed to protect identities", "Boris Johnson said he had \"no intent to break the regulations\"\n\nBoris Johnson's standards adviser says there is a \"legitimate question\" over whether the PM broke the ministerial code after getting fined for Partygate.\n\nLord Geidt said he repeatedly told the PM's team to be ready to explain if his actions stuck within the rules - even if he thought there was no breach.\n\nBut he said the advice had not been \"heeded\", calling on Mr Johnson to set out his case to the public.\n\nThe PM said being fined by the police does not break the ministerial code.\n\nWriting to Lord Geidt, Mr Johnson said he had \"no intent to break the regulations\", and that he had been \"fully accountable to Parliament and the British people\".\n\nThe ministerial code outlines the rules government ministers must follow when in office, including the \"overarching duty\" on them to comply with the law.\n\nIf the code is broken, the convention in Westminster is for a minister to resign.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the report was \"the latest sign of the rampant sleaze engulfing Downing Street\", adding: \"This prime minister has been found out and his days are numbered.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain said it showed the PM's own ethics adviser \"no longer trusts him to tell the truth\", and that Mr Johnson was \"not fit to hold public office\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police carried out an investigation into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall after allegations surfaced towards the end of 2021.\n\nA total of 126 fines were handed out to 83 people as a result of the force's investigation into 12 events during the pandemic.\n\nAnd a wider report by senior civil servant Sue Gray revealed a drunken party culture within No 10 while the rest of the country was ordered to stay at home.\n\nMr Johnson - along with his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak - was given a fixed penalty notice by the Met for attending a birthday party thrown in his honour in June 2020.\n\nFollowing Ms Gray's report last week, the PM apologised to the Commons, saying he had been \"humbled by the whole experience\" and had learned lessons.\n\nBut pressure has continued to grow, with at least 12 MPs calling on him to resign since the report's publication.\n\nDespite some critical language in Lord Geidt's report, the Cabinet Office is stressing that he's not resigning.\n\nBut a Downing Street source would not deny reports - published in The Times - that Lord Geidt threatened to quit on Tuesday unless Boris Johnson publicly explained his conduct.\n\nThe prime minister did publish a letter, in which he denied breaching the code, insisting there was no intent to break the rules.\n\nHe went on to stress that he'd apologised.\n\nLord Geidt also reveals that he repeatedly advised the prime minister - via his officials - to address this very issue in the wake of his fine.\n\nHe adds he was assured this was conveyed to Boris Johnson. In his reply Mr Johnson says there may have been \"a failure of communication\" between their offices.\n\nThis is the latest development raising questions about Boris Johnson's conduct, at a time when almost 30 of his own MPs have publicly called on him to go.\n\nIn his annual report on ministers' interests, Lord Geidt said questions around Mr Johnson's behaviour had led to an \"impression... the prime minister may be unwilling to have his own conduct judged against\" the ministerial code.\n\nThe standards adviser said it would be \"especially difficult to inspire that trust in the ministerial code if any prime minister, whose code it is, declines to refer to it\".\n\nHe said when it came to the Partygate fine, \"a legitimate question has arisen as to whether those facts alone might have constituted a breach of the overarching duty within the ministerial code of complying with the law\".\n\nAnd even if the PM thought there was no breach, he should \"should respond accordingly, setting out his case in public.\"\n\nLord Geidt - who reports to the prime minister - said he had avoided \"offering advice\" to Mr Johnson about the PM's \"obligations under his own ministerial code\" as he would be forced to resign if Mr Johnson rejected the advice.\n\nBut after repeatedly contacting his team \"to ensure that the prime minister should publicly be seen to take responsibility for his own conduct under his own ministerial code\", the prime minister had \"made not a single public reference\" to it.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"not aware of the weight... put on the absence of an explicit reference to the ministerial code\".\n\nBut in his letter to his adviser, he insisted he had not broken it by being fined.\n\nThe PM wrote: \"I have taken full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch, and reiterate my apology to the House and to the whole country...\n\n\"I have also been clear that there was no intent to break the regulations\", he added, before saying: \"Paying a fixed penalty notice is not a criminal conviction.\"\n\nMr Johnson also said that, in his view, the same principles applied to the chancellor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sergei Lavrov speaks exclusively to the BBC about the war in Ukraine\n\nSince the Russian army attacked Ukraine nearly four months ago, thousands of civilians have been killed and whole towns reduced to rubble, while millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes.\n\nBut on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked me in the eye and told me things were not as they seemed.\n\n\"We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act.\"\n\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Lavrov has given only a few interviews to Western media.\n\nHe repeated the official Kremlin line that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Russian officials often claim that their military is \"de-Nazifying\" the country. Mr Lavrov caused uproar recently when he tried to justify the Nazi slur regarding Ukraine's president, who is Jewish, by making the ridiculous claim that Adolf Hitler had \"Jewish blood\".\n\nI quoted to him an official United Nations report about the Ukrainian village of Yahidne, in Chernihiv region, which states that \"360 residents, including 74 children and five persons with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a school… There were no toilet facilities, water…10 older people died\".\n\n\"It's a great pity,\" Mr Lavrov said, \"but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are being put under pressure by the West. And very often they're being used to amplify fake news spread by the West.\"\n\n\"Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are.\"\n\nSergei Lavrov (R) accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of Ukrainian actions in areas held by Russian separatists since 2014\n\nMr Lavrov, 72, has represented Russia on the international stage for the past 18 years, but Western sanctions have now been imposed on both him and his daughter.\n\nThe US has accused him of pursuing a false narrative of Ukraine as the aggressor, and of direct responsibility for Russia's invasion as a member of its Security Council.\n\nI then turned to Russian relations with the UK. It is on Russia's official list of unfriendly countries, and I suggested that to say relations were bad was an understatement.\n\n\"I don't think there's even room for manoeuvre any more,\" Mr Lavrov told me, \"because both [Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Liz] Truss say openly that we should defeat Russia, we should force Russia to its knees. Go on, then, do it!\"\n\nIt was last month that the UK foreign secretary said Russia's Vladimir Putin was humiliating himself on the world stage and that \"we must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mykola tied himself to a wall so he could sleep standing up\n\nWhen I asked Mr Lavrov how he viewed the UK now, he said it was \"once again sacrificing the interests of its people for the sake of political ambitions\".\n\nI asked him about two British men recently sentenced to death by Russian separatists in occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nWhen I pointed out that in the eyes of the West, it was Russia that was responsible for their fate, he responded: \"I am not interested in the eyes of the West at all. I am only interested in international law. According to international law, mercenaries are not recognised as combatants.\"\n\nI replied that the men had served in the Ukrainian armed forces and were not mercenaries, and Mr Lavrov said that should be decided by a court.\n\nHe then accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of what had been happening to civilians in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, \"when civilians were being bombed by Kyiv's troops for eight years\".\n\nI stressed that over the course of six years, the BBC had many times contacted the leadership in the separatist-run areas asking for permission to go and see what was happening. We were refused entry every single time.\n\nRussia has accused Ukraine of genocide. However, in 2021, eight civilians were killed in the rebel-held areas, according to self-proclaimed pro-Russian \"officials\", and seven the year before. While every death was a tragedy, I said, that did not constitute a genocide.\n\nI suggested that if genocide really had taken place, then the Luhansk and Donetsk separatists would have been interested in us going there. Why were we not let in, I asked.\n\nA longer version of Steve Rosenberg's interview with Sergei Lavrov will be available on Saturday - on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and around the world on BBC World News and the BBC News YouTube channel.", "Should Wales move away from sheep, wet weather and rugby motifs?\n\nWales needs a rebrand in order to get away from \"sheep, wet weather and... rugby,\" tourism industry bosses have said.\n\nZip World director Sean Taylor made the plea while saying the country should instead promote adventure tourism, food and drink and heritage sites.\n\nFocusing on culture and Welsh would also attract visitors, other bosses told the Welsh Affairs Committee.\n\nMr Taylor told MPs he thought Wales got \"overshadowed quite a bit\".\n\nHe added: \"You've got the Royal Family down in London, you've got tartan and Loch Ness in Scotland and in Ireland you've got Guinness.\n\n\"If you look at the brand in Wales it is fairly weak compared to the Irish brand and the Scottish brand in particular.\n\n\"I think we definitely need to get away from sheep, wet weather and - even as a president of my local rugby club - rugby as well, because football has come to the fore now.\"\n\nOther suggestions from tourism bosses included more use of the country's Welsh name Cymru, rather than the English version Wales.\n\n\"The language needs to be weaponised as an advantage, not a threat,\" Mr Taylor added.\n\n\"I feel like there's often negative connotations about the language. But our international and English visitors love the use of the Welsh language.\n\n\"We get school groups from England and by the time they leave they can say 'bore da', 'prynhawn da', 'croeso'. They love it, they embrace it.\"\n\nAdventure tourism, such as that on offer in Snowdonia National Park, should be highlighted more, industry leaders say\n\nZip World now has five locations in Wales, including Penrhyn Quarry, described as the fastest zip line in the world.\n\nPortmeirion Cymru's Ian Roberts said tourists who come to their Italian influenced tourist village near Porthmadog, enjoy hearing Welsh being spoken, hearing that it is vibrant and alive.\n\n\"We've always put a strong emphasis on the culture, tradition and the language. Over 90% of the people who work in Portmeirion speak Welsh,\" he said.\n\n\"We think it could be used more, including the use of the term Cymru other than Wales,\" he added.\n\nThe business leaders, who included Paul Lewin from Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway and Penderyn Distillery chief executive Stephen Davies called on the Welsh government to increase its tourism budget.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh government said: \"Wales is known as a nation that offers world-leading adventure, creative culture, a thriving language and outstanding protected landscapes.\n\n\"The focus of the Cymru Wales brand is on marketing Wales' standout strengths as a country, and showcasing them to people across the world.\"\n\nPaul Lewin from FFestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway wants the message to focus more on \"the wonderful scenery\"\n\nThey want better communication about Wales' identity and why people should visit.\n\nThe calls come as the latest figures on overseas visitors to Wales show the impact of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThere was an 89% drop in overseas visitors staying overnight in Wales in 2021, compared to 2019.\n\nThere were 116,000 overnight visits to Wales, according to the International Passenger Survey figures, published by ONS.\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff was the 17th in the top 20 towns and cities in the UK, outside London, for visits by foreign tourists, with 35,000 overnight stays. This was below Coventry, Luton and Nottingham, but above Sheffield, Chester and Bath. Manchester was top, overtaking Edinburgh for the first time.\n\nMr Lewin, who manages the UK's longest heritage railway, said: \"What is common to all the tourist attractions in Wales is the setting. It is the wonderful environment, the wonderful scenery and how accessible it is compared to many other places.\"\n\nPenderyn's Mr Davies, who exports Welsh single malt whisky to over 40 countries, said he did not get the sense Wales was \"selling itself\".\n\n\"There's a huge opportunity to improve communication with visitors that do come into Wales, because they've come here, they've made the effort. Let's keep them here or bring them back.\"", "Relatives staged a demonstration over care home visiting rules outside the Scottish Parliament in September 2020\n\nSevere restrictions imposed on care home residents in Scotland during the Covid pandemic caused \"harm and distress\" and may have contributed to some deaths, academics have said.\n\nA 143-page report has been produced by Edinburgh Napier University.\n\nIt had been commissioned by the independent inquiry into the country's handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe report says that the legal basis for confining residents to their rooms and banning visitors was \"unclear\".\n\nAnd it said care home residents were arguably discriminated against compared to other citizens.\n\nThe report is one of 14 that have been published by the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, which is chaired by Lady Poole.\n\nIt found that in the early months of the pandemic there was \"little evidence\" that the human rights of residents and their families had been considered.\n\nIt also accepts that restrictions were to a certain extent understandable, given \"the vulnerability of care home residents and the large number of deaths in the sector\".\n\nThe report was compiled by a team from the university's School of Health and Social Care, led by Professor Colin McKay.\n\nIt said: \"There is substantial evidence of the harm and distress caused to residents and their families by the restrictions imposed in care homes.\n\n\"This includes concerns that, particularly for people with dementia, being unable to maintain contact with their family exacerbated cognitive and emotional decline, potentially hastening their death.\"\n\nThe report also said: \"Overall, there is convincing evidence that while public health measures were brought in to protect the Scottish population, the impact of these changes on the daily lives of some vulnerable populations and people involved in their care were not fully considered.\"\n\nAnother report from Edinburgh University said 50% of all Covid-related deaths in Scotland between March and June 2020 had involved care home residents.\n\nIt said Scotland had the highest rate among care home residents in the UK during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nAnd it said a lack of testing before hospital patients were discharged to care homes contributed to Covid outbreaks.\n\nEdinburgh University academics looked at the impact on education\n\nA report from the University of Highlands and Islands said the inquiry should be a catalyst for change.\n\n\"The inhumane policy for care homes, where residents were unable to see their families, contained in their rooms 24/7 and where some residents died alone, should be acknowledged and not repeated,\" it said.\n\n\"Risk of infection during a pandemic must be weighed against the risk of losing humanity.\"\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that he had tried to raise concerns.\n\n\"The conditions laid and the restrictions imposed were extremely severe,\" he said.\n\n\"I think most of us indicated we had to be very careful that some of the restrictions were not likely to cause more harm than they were to save lives.\"\n\nHe also said that the planning for a potential pandemic did not involve the social care sector.\n\nHe said: \"Social care was nowhere. We were not at the table in terms of preparation for a pandemic.\n\n\"Therefore it is hardly surprising that there was insufficient guidance sensitive to the context of care homes, but guidance written for a hospital which is simply not fit for purpose for someone's own home.\"\n\nScottish Conservative social care spokesman Craig Hoy said the \"deeply worrying\" report pointed to further shortcomings in the government's response to care homes.\n\nHe added: \"It appears that as well as being lax in allowing untested patients to be discharged from hospital to care homes, the simultaneously strict restrictions imposed on those within care homes caused such harm and distress to residents that they may have led to further deaths too.\n\n\"This toxic mix of the casual and severe had deadly consequences in Scotland's care homes and it's clear lessons must be learned by SNP ministers.\"\n\nLast month, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the Scottish government had tried to create the \"safest environment possible\" in care homes early in the pandemic.\n\nA spokesperson for the inquiry said the academic papers contained the views of the authors and did not represent the position of the inquiry, which will carry out its own investigations.\n\nThe areas the reports looked at\n\nA report by Edinburgh University on education said the pandemic represented a setback for Scotland's young people.\n\nIt highlighted mental and physical health as a significant issue, and said lockdown and school closures \"exacerbated existing disadvantage\".\n\nIt also says that Scotland responded rapidly to the emergency of March 2020 and the following two years saw \"significant innovation, creativity and collaboration\".\n\nThe report says the move to online teaching provided some continuity for pupils, but there were issues around access to technology and resources.\n\nIt also pointed out that staff worked far beyond their already heavy workloads during lockdown.\n\nAnother report was produced by Edinburgh University's Usher Network for Covid-19 Evidence Reviews (Uncover) on pandemic planning\n\nIt said: \"The preparation that had taken place prior to the pandemic enabled Scotland to respond quickly on multiple fronts, from NHS intensive care capacity to legislative drafting for emergency measures.\n\n\"However, prior emergency planning exercises had also identified gaps in Scotland's readiness, including in respect of PPE availability and training, and clarity of guidance, which had not been fully addressed by the time the pandemic began.\"\n\nA report from Professor Francis Greene at the University of Edinburgh said the Scottish government had been \"ill-prepared for the pandemic\" and that its strategy had been reactive rather than proactive.\n\nIt said the support provided to businesses by the UK and Scottish governments was a \"significant factor\" in explaining the \"muted impact\" on businesses and employees.\n\nWhile the support was welcomed by Scottish businesses, there were \"significant concerns\" about fraud and losses, the targeting of such schemes, and difficulties in accessing support.\n\nAnd while support for those in need was also welcomed, there were concerns about the impact of the pandemic on the household finances of those on low incomes in the future.", "Ukraine is usually a major producer of cereals such as maize and wheat\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Africa \"a hostage\" of Russia's war during an address to the African Union (AU) on Monday.\n\nRussia's invasion, and its blockade of Ukraine's grain exports, have sparked grain and fertiliser shortages and put millions of people at risk of hunger.\n\nThe chair of the AU commission said there was an \"urgent need for dialogue\" to restore global stability.\n\nThe blockade has sent food prices soaring.\n\n\"Africa is actually a hostage... of those who unleashed war against our state\", Mr Zelensky said in his speech.\n\nHe said his government was engaged in \"complex negotiations\" to unblock grain reserves trapped in Ukraine's Black Sea ports.\n\n\"This war may seem very distant to you and your countries,\" he told the AU. \"But the food prices that are catastrophically rising have already brought [the war] to the homes of millions of African families.\"\n\nMr Zelensky's AU speech comes nearly 10 weeks after he first asked to address the continental body.\n\nThe BBC understands that 55 heads of state were invited to the virtual session, but only four attended. The rest of the countries sent representatives.\n\nAfrican countries have been divided in their response to Russia's war in Ukraine. In March, 17 African countries abstained in a UN vote to condemn the invasion.\n\nBut on Monday, AU's chairperson Macky Sall thanked Mr Zelensky for addressing the union.\n\nMr Sall said that \"Africa remains committed to respecting the rules of international law, the peaceful resolution of conflicts and freedom of trade\".\n\nInitially, the AU did not want to be addressed by Mr Zelensky, and it does not fully agree with what he's saying - they want dialogue to solve the crisis, as they always have.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Sall held talks with Russia President Vladimir Putin. He told Mr Putin that African countries are innocent victims of the war in Ukraine and Russia should help ease their suffering.\n\nFood prices across African countries have rocketed, meanwhile millions of tonnes of grain are sitting in warehouses and Ukrainian ports\n\nEarlier on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said of Russia's blockade: \"This is a real war crime, so I cannot imagine that this will last much longer.\"\n\nMr Borrell met EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss the crisis.\n\nHe described Moscow's actions as \"a deliberate attempt to create hunger in the world\".\n\nHe rejected Russia's claim that the current food crisis is a result of EU sanctions, adding that they \"don't forbid\" countries outside the EU from conducting food trade with Russia or other nations.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said that \"Russia must stop playing with global hunger\" as it seeks leverage over the West.\n\n\"Leaving cereals blocked is dangerous for stability in the world,\" she said.\n\nThe head of the Polish prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, spoke with Ukraine's infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov about changes that will speed up checks for trucks on the Polish-Ukrainian border to help export more grain from Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA floating restaurant that was a famous Hong Kong landmark has sunk, days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years.\n\nThe Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China Sea while on its way to an undisclosed location, its parent company said.\n\nAberdeen Restaurant Enterprises said it was \"very saddened by the incident\" but that no crew members were injured.\n\nThe restaurant closed in March 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic hit.\n\nMore than 3 million guests are believed to have eaten its Cantonese cuisine over the years, including the Queen, Tom Cruise and Richard Branson.\n\nIt had featured in several films - including a Bond movie - but the pandemic dealt the business a fatal blow as diners turned away.\n\nThe Jumbo restaurant was an iconic landmark of Hong Kong, however had not been profitable since 2013\n\nMarine engineers had been hired to inspect the floating restaurant before the trip, and \"all relevant approvals\" had been obtained, the owners said.\n\nThe vessel was due to stay at an undisclosed location while it awaited a new operator.\n\nBut it sank on Sunday near the Paracel Islands after it \"encountered adverse conditions\" and began to take on water, Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises said.\n\n\"The water depth at the scene is over 1,000 metres, making it extremely difficult to carry out salvage works,\" it added.\n\nWhile the pandemic was the final straw for the restaurant, it had faced financial issues for years.\n\nOperator Melco International Development said last month the business had not been profitable since 2013 and was making large losses.", "It was only after Olly Stephens was murdered, in a field outside his home in Reading, that his mum and dad realised the violent and disturbing world their son had been exposed to through his phone. For BBC Panorama, reporter Marianna Spring investigates the role social media played in his death and exposes how a 13-year-old's social media accounts can be recommended violent videos and knives for sale.\n\nLast January, Amanda and Stuart Stephens watched their son from separate windows as he left home, not realising it would be the last time. Olly wandered over to a field, Bugs Bottom, opposite their house - sliders on his feet, his phone in hand.\n\nFifteen minutes later, he had been murdered.\n\nThat phone he was holding would provide the answers to what had happened.\n\nOlly was stabbed to death by two teenage boys in a field behind his house, after they recruited a girl online to lure him there. The entire attack had been planned on social media and triggered by a dispute in a social media chat group.\n\nHis parents were shocked to discover the murky world of violence and hate that their son and his friends had inhabited through their phones.\n\nI decided to investigate the role social media played in what happened to Olly - and what 13-year-olds like him are being exposed to.\n\n\"They hunted him, tracked him and executed him through social media,\" Stuart tells me as we sit together on their sofa in their home in Reading.\n\n\"Social media is not guilty of the murder, but it did nothing to protect him, and without it he'd still be here.\"\n\nThames Valley Police say Olly's story stands out because of the huge role social media played in the case. And they fear that the evidence of bullying, and violent videos featuring knives found on the killers' phones, is just \"the tip of a very large iceberg\".\n\nI set out to uncover what young teenagers are seeing on social media by creating a fake account as a 13-year-old on five social media sites popular with that age group.\n\nUsing an AI-generated photograph, we set up accounts for a 13-year-old boy, consulting one of Olly's friends and public accounts belonging to young teenagers in Reading. We wanted to see what a 13-year-old engaging with popular topics for his age - from sport and gaming to drill music and anti-knife crime content - would be exposed to and recommended.\n\nWe also wanted to test whether social media sites moderate videos and images of knives similar to those shared by the children convicted of murdering Olly.\n\nAfter running our dummy account experiment for two weeks, with it liking and following content suggested across the social media sites, as well as his original interests - the results were striking:\n\nTap to see the content shown to a '13-year-old' on different social media platforms The account followed content popular with young teenagers, including sport, gaming, drill music, cars, anti-knife crime pages plus tributes to Olly Stephens. Instagram repeatedly offered the 13-year-old's account knives for sale in the shop. Other inappropriate content included a person posing with a sword. YouTube repeatedly recommended videos glorifying gang killings and stabbings, as well as showing off knives and weapons. Facebook recommended groups glorifying knives, as well as promoting guns and pornography. After searching for anti-knife crime content, the account was shown groups, pages and videos selling and glorifying blades on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. When we tested moderation, TikTok was the only social media site that removed a post we shared showing a knife.\n\nWhen Olly left the house that day he reassured Amanda he had his phone location switched on, so she'd know where he was. It was the Sunday after Christmas, and the family were preparing to go back to work and school the next day. Amanda expected Olly back before dark.\n\nBut shortly after he left home there was a knock on the door. It was a boy Olly knew. Amanda couldn't quite take in what he was saying.\n\n\"I thought, 'Did he just say Olly's been stabbed?'\"\n\nStuart and Olly's older sister dashed out to the field opposite their home, where Olly was lying in a pool of blood. Amanda followed after them.\n\n\"I just held his hand and asked him not to leave me,\" Stuart says.\n\nFriends, neighbours, dog walkers all tried to help, but it was too late. He died in that field.\n\n\"I still look for his feet in the morning at the end of the bed because they would hang over the end,\" Stuart says. Not seeing them there hits him every time.\n\nOlly's bed is still made up with his favourite duvet cover. Amanda still buys him sweets, and when she vacuums Olly's room - something he used to hate - she still mutters, \"I'll only be a minute.\"\n\nOlly's bedroom is filled with cards from well-wishers - his teddy Tarzan is on his bed\n\nJust before he was murdered, Olly had been diagnosed with autism and, at that time, he most enjoyed gaming and listening to music in his bedroom.\n\nThe night after his murder, looking through social media posts about Olly and screengrabs his friends shared with their daughter, Stuart and Amanda began to realise the role social media had played in what happened.\n\n\"It's this secret world where you can do and say exactly what you want,\" Amanda says. \"It was a world that we had no idea existed [and] that he was being attacked by it.\"\n\nAmanda, who would normally use the tracker on Olly's phone to make sure he made it home safely, now found herself using it to check his phone made it into the hands of the police. She followed the signal as it travelled with Olly's body to hospital and then again when it was taken to Thames Valley police station.\n\nDetective Chief Inspector Andy Howard was tasked with investigating the world inside that phone. It's a case he describes as unprecedented because 90% of the evidence at Olly's murder trial came from mobile phones - and no child witnesses had to take the stand.\n\n\"We were really taken aback by the amount of digital evidence,\" he explains.\n\nThere was enough to convict two boys - aged 13 and 14 at the time - of murder last November. The 13-year-old girl who led him to the park was convicted of manslaughter.\n\nWatch Panorama - A Social Media Murder: Olly's Story at 8pm on BBC One\n\nWhat struck the police initially about the mountain of videos, photos and screengrabs they began to sift through was the persona that 13- and 14-year-olds linked to the case were presenting online, so at odds with the suburban reality they were living.\n\nThere were images shared on Instagram of people holding knives, with balaclavas on and hoods up.\n\nThe police also found videos of knives being flicked and shown off, and of boys linked to Olly's murder attacking one another, which DCI Howard told Panorama he believes were being shared \"openly and very regularly\" on Instagram and Snapchat.\n\n\"There is certainly a very unhealthy attraction to filming, recording, acts of really quite serious violence,\" DCI Andy Howard says.\n\nIt was a video posted on Snapchat showing an attack called \"patterning\" that was the catalyst in a chain of events that led to Olly losing his life.\n\nThames Valley Police explained that patterning is the humiliation of a young person which is filmed or photographed and then shared on social media. It's forwarded on and on, shared across different social media sites, multiplying the embarrassment for the victim.\n\nIn the weeks before he was killed, Olly had seen an image of a younger boy being humiliated and tried to alert the boy's older brother by forwarding it on to him.\n\nWhen two boys who were in a Snapchat group with Olly became aware he had passed it on, they were furious.\n\nDCI Howard says those boys thought Olly had been \"snitching, grassing on them\", and that led to the fallout.\n\nPolice also found hundreds of Snapchat voice notes from the two boys who fell out with Olly. In them, they discuss attacking Olly and try to recruit a girl to set him up.\n\nThe 13-year-old girl who agreed to do this knew Olly in real life, and had met the two boys involved online. Although they all lived locally, they met for the first time on the day of the murder.\n\nThe language those convicted used in the voice notes is shocking, with comments like, \"You're going to die tomorrow Olly,\" and \"I'll just give him bangs [hit him] or stab him.\" What's also chilling is their casual and cold tone.\n\nIn one voice note, the girl says, \"[Male 2] wants me to set him up so then [Male 2] is gonna bang him and pattern him and shit. I'm so excited you don't understand.\"\n\nNone of these voice notes appear to have been picked up by Snapchat - and under the social media app's own policy, it's not possible to report a private message or voice note like this to the site, only the account sending it.\n\nThe evidence gathered by the police is just the information required to prosecute - but DCI Andy Howard fears they have only scratched the surface in this case. In his view, it's likely those involved were regularly exposed to violent content - and desensitised to it.\n\nA recent study by the Huddersfield University's Applied Criminology and Policing Centre backs up that idea, finding that social media was a key factor in almost a quarter of crimes committed by under-18s. Most of these were acts of violence that started with confrontation online.\n\nIn our own investigation, within two weeks of following the kind of content 13-year-olds in Reading follow on their accounts, our imaginary teenager was recommended posts of people showing off knives, knives for sale and videos glorifying violence.\n\nThat happened on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube - while on TikTok and Snapchat, the accounts were not recommended this kind of content.\n\nAll of these social media sites say that they protect teenage users.\n\nMeta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, says it restricts what under-18s can see of \"content that attempts to buy or sell bladed weapons\".\n\nYouTube says it \"may add an age restriction\" to content that includes \"harmful or dangerous acts that minors could imitate\". Our account only encountered one video with an age restriction.\n\nSome of the images and videos of knives were similar to those found on the phones of Olly's killers. We wanted to test what happens when a 13-year-old shares a post like that on social media.\n\nOur fake accounts were private, so as not to expose anyone else to this image and video of a knife.\n\nNo action was taken against the post showing off a knife that was shared on the 13-year-old's account on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat.\n\nTik Tok, however, did remove the post for violating its guidelines on dangerous acts - and the account was warned that it was close to being suspended. That suggests it is possible to detect and remove this type of content shared by a profile under 18. We have now deactivated the accounts.\n\nOur experiment revealed something else striking. Some adverts being promoted to the account on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram were based on his interests and, at times, age-appropriate. That seems to suggest that data from young teenage users can be used to target them - but then isn't being used to protect them from harmful content showing knives and violence.\n\nI wanted to know if the posts pushed to the 13-year-old's account were typical of what teenagers would see so I met up with Olly's friends Poppy, Patrick, Izzy, Jacob and Ben at Olly's memorial bench, metres from where he was stabbed.\n\nBen had helped me set up the fake account. He and Olly's other friends told me they started using social media long before they turned 13, the age you have to be to sign up to most of the platforms. They all say there were no attempts to verify their ages. Olly's parents say he, too, joined them before he was 13.\n\nI showed them several screen grabs from the accounts, without exposing them to too much of the content we've been recommended. But the children weren't shocked by the results at all - and admitted they all see knives and violence regularly on their social media feeds.\n\n\"I've seen bigger knives to be honest,\" Jacob says of his own social media accounts.\n\n\"We get exposed more to people kind of showing [them] off,\" Poppy explains, talking about the image people her age try to portray mainly on Instagram, as well as Snapchat.\n\nBen has seen Rambo knives, and Izzy butterfly blades, which she thinks people share because they are colourful and more appealing.\n\nThey all also describe being exposed to cyberbullying on a regular basis - including \"patterning\" - humiliation videos like the one that triggered the dispute between Olly and the boys who killed him.\n\nAll of the social media sites expressed their sympathies to Olly's family. Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, says that they \"don't allow content that threatens, encourages or coordinates violence\" and that they have \"a well-established process to support police investigations\" as they did in Olly's case. They \"will urgently investigate the examples raised in this investigation\".\n\nYouTube says it has \"strict existing policies in place to ensure that our platform is not used to incite violence\".\n\nTikTok says \"There is no such thing as 'job done' when it comes to protecting our users, particularly young people\" and it will \"continue to build policies and tools\" to help teens and their parents stay safe online.\n\nSnapchat says they \"strictly prohibit bullying, harassment and any illegal activity\" and \"provide confidential in-app reporting tools\" on the site.\n\nAmanda and Stuart want answers - and solutions - to protect other 13-year-olds on social media, and they want legislators to listen.\n\nStuart and Amanda Stephens feel more should be done to protect teenagers like Olly on social media\n\nThe online safety bill is currently passing through Parliament. \"This bill is about keeping children and young people safe,\" Secretary of State Nadine Dorries tells me.\n\nShe wasn't shocked to see the results of our experiment. \"These platforms know that knife content is being sent to young people's social media feeds,\" she says. \"They can actually put what is wrong right now.\"\n\nStuart and Amanda fear that the bill in its current form wouldn't have saved Olly. They want to see more done to verify the age of young users and to limit their exposure to harmful posts - even if the content might be legal, like the violent videos and images of knives our dummy account was recommended.\n\nDorries says exactly what is considered harmful but legal will be specified soon.\n\nBut how exactly could the bill force social media sites to address this?\n\n\"I think it's probably easier to keep to the core principle of the bill,\" Dorries says. \"The UK has to be the safest country in the world for children and young people to be online.\"\n\nThe Government is promising harsh penalties if companies don't comply.\n\n\"We will have the power to issue multi-billion pound fines and make sure that people within those organisations are criminally liable,\" says Dorries.\n\nMeanwhile, Amanda says she feels social media companies are not facing up to the reality of what's happening.\n\n\"Forget your profits, kids are killing each other,\" Stuart says.", "Yair Lapid (left) is slated to take over as prime minister from Naftali Bennett (right)\n\nIsrael is set to hold a fifth general election in under four years, after its fractured coalition government concluded it could not survive.\n\nIn a major political development, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will switch places with Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid under an existing deal.\n\nAn election could take place in late October, commentators say.\n\nThe former prime minister and current opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to return to office.\n\nMonday's announcement comes after weeks of speculation that the coalition - the most diverse in Israel's history - was on the brink of collapse.\n\nIt risked losing an important vote next week after a member of Mr Bennett's own right-wing Yamina party quit the coalition, leaving it a minority in the 120-seat Knesset (parliament).\n\nMr Bennett said he had made the \"right decision\" in the interests of Israel's security, as dissolving the Knesset extended temporary laws which were put in jeopardy by the vote.\n\nThe coalition had been teetering for weeks. Last week, Yamina MK Nir Orbach resigned from it, saying the government had failed in its main mission \"of lifting [Israelis'] spirits\" - a move which left it with only 59 seats. Others had also threatened to rebel.\n\nThe announcement on Monday night caught members of the government by surprise. The Times of Israel quoted sources as saying neither the defence nor interior ministers knew about the decision.\n\nThe bill to dissolve the Knesset will go to a vote next week. If it passes, as expected, Mr Bennett will make way for centrist Yair Lapid to become interim prime minister.\n\nThe two men formed the coalition just over a year ago after a series of inconclusive elections, ousting Mr Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader.\n\nThe coalition was stitched together from eight parties from across the political spectrum, united only by the desire to make it impossible for Mr Netanyahu to form a government.\n\nMr Netanyahu, who is currently standing trial on corruption charges which he denies, said it was \"great news for millions of Israeli citizens\".\n\n\"This government is going home,\" he said, adding that he would form \"a wide, national government\" headed by his Likud party.\n\nLast week, the results of an Israel Channel 12 TV poll indicated that a bloc led by Mr Netanyahu would win most seats in a fresh election, though still two short of a majority.", "The drug testing kit, launched in 2019, uses a mouth swab\n\nNearly 400 drug driving cases have been abandoned because of delays in processing forensic tests.\n\nSince 2019 police have been able to conduct roadside mouth swabs and request blood samples from drivers suspected of being impaired by drugs.\n\nThe authorities planned to process 1,000 blood tests a year, but demand has been double that figure.\n\nThe Scottish Police Authority (SPA) said 386 cases could not proceed as labs struggled to cope.\n\nRoadside drug detection kits issued to officers involve DrugWipes - dubbed drugalysers - to check for cannabis or cocaine.\n\nSuspected drug drivers can also be taken to a police station where, if a doctor considers driving ability to be impaired, they can be asked for a blood sample and tested for 17 substances including ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and heroin.\n\nDirector of forensic services Fiona Douglas told the authority: \"Demand for drug-driving toxicology analysis has far outstripped what was estimated when the new offence was introduced in Scotland in 2019.\n\n\"To date, more than 5,600 cases have been processed for testing and analysis. We have been working hard to manage a continued demand supported by additional investment from the Scottish government to help increase laboratory capacity and outsource a number of cases.\"\n\nThe 386 cases that could not be pursued by prosecutors had reached the current statutory 12-month time limit.\n\nThey were primarily low risk cases with no fatality. Three of them involved an injury.\n\nPolice are able to conduct roadside mouth swabs to test for cannabis and cocaine\n\nThe Scottish government has already invested about £1m to increase capacity by allowing testing to be outsourced to commercial forensic analysis providers. Work has also been done to increase in-house capacity.\n\nScottish Police Authority chairman Martyn Evans said the pressures meant about 7% of cases were not being prosecuted and it was clear that demand for the service had been underestimated.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned that 386 drug driving cases cannot be progressed to prosecution due to testing and analysis not being processed within an adequate timeframe. It is a serious failure,\" he said.\n\nPolice Scotland and the authority's forensic service have been working together since May to find solutions.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Williams said: \"We are committed to detecting and taking action against those who take drugs and drive.\n\n\"Being able to use roadside drug wipes has significantly enhanced our ability to detect those responsible and keep the public safe.\"\n\n\"Despite the current challenges around testing capacity, Police Scotland's commitment remains unchanged.\"\n\nThe SPA is due to discuss how to address the challenges at a meeting on Thursday.", "World Athletics president Lord Coe has hinted the sport could follow swimming in banning transgender women from elite female competitions, insisting \"fairness is non-negotiable\".\n\nSwimming's world governing body Fina voted on Sunday to stop trans athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.\n\nThe landmark decision set swimming apart from almost all other Olympic sports, with most using testosterone limits as a basis for inclusion.\n\nBut Lord Coe has now revealed that World Athletics is set to discuss adopting a new eligibility policy, and welcomed Fina's move.\n\n\"We see an international federation asserting its primacy in setting rules, regulations and policies that are in the best interest of its sport,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"This is as it should be. We have always believed that biology trumps gender and we will continue to review our regulations in line with this. We will follow the science.\n\n\"We continue to study, research and contribute to the growing body of evidence that testosterone is a key determinant in performance, and have scheduled a discussion on our regulations with our council at the end of the year.\"\n• None What do the scientists say?\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nUnder Lord Coe, World Athletics has already introduced rules that cap testosterone levels at five nanomoles per litre (5nmol/L) for transgender athletes and for competitors with differences in sex development (DSD) in some women's running events.\n\nAnd with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently placing responsibility on individual federations to determine eligibility criteria of their own, other sports are now bringing in tougher policies.\n\nLast week, cycling's world governing body the UCI lowered the permitted testosterone level from 5nmol/L to to 2.5nmol/L, and doubled the period of time before a transgender rider can compete to two years.\n\nBut Fina has now gone further after a report by a scientific panel said that going through male puberty meant trans women retained a \"relative performance advantage over biological females\", even after medication to reduce testosterone.\n\nIt is only the second Olympic governing body, after World Rugby in 2020, to introduce a ban on transgender competitors, but it now looks increasingly likely that track and field could follow suit.\n\nOn Monday football's world governing body Fifa also said it was \"currently reviewing its gender eligibility regulations in consultation with expert stakeholders\". But Fifa added it was \"not in a position to comment on specifics of proposed amendments to the existing regulations\".\n\n\"We've always tried to find a navigable way through. We haven't wanted to stigmatise,\" said Lord Coe, who was in Budapest as a guest of Fina as it made its decision at an extraordinary general congress at the weekend.\n\n\"But when push comes to shove, if it's a judgement between inclusion and fairness, we will always fall down on the side of fairness - that for me is non-negotiable.\n\n\"The integrity of women's sport is really, really important here, and we can't have a generation of young girls thinking there is not a future for them in the sport. So we have a responsibility…maintaining the primacy and the integrity of female competition is absolutely vital, and that's why we were at the forefront of tabling those regulations that allow as close as you can get to a level playing field.\n\n\"Those regulations are always under review… if there are events, distances or disciplines that we think are being unfairly impacted we will of course look at those again in the light of the science.\"\n\nFina's new policy means transgender American college swimmer Lia Thomas, who has expressed a desire to compete for a place at the Paris Olympics, is now blocked from participating in the female category at the Games.\n\nThe governing body says it will aim to establish an 'open' category at competitions for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.\n\nIts policy does not apply to national federations or the US college championships, the NCAAs, at which Thomas recently won the women's 500-yard freestyle. Instead, each national federation - including British Swimming - will need to decide whether it is to implement the Fina policy.\n\nBritish Swimming told BBC Sport it would \"take time to review [the policy's] content\" before making any further comment.\n\nWith the debate around the inclusion of transgender women among the most contentious in sport, Fina's decision has already divided opinion.\n\nFormer GB swimmer Karen Pickering told BBC Radio 4: \"I empathise that there will be people who now can't compete in the category that they identify with as their gender. That is very sad and I do understand that, but in this situation inclusivity and fairness cannot be compatible and the science has shown that there is just no way to make that compatible.\"\n\nFour-time Olympic champion Cate Campbell - who had addressed the governing body's members before the decision was made - asked them to \"uphold the cornerstone of fairness\".\n\nHowever, fellow Australian swimmer Maddie Groves has criticised Campbell's comments, asking on Twitter whether she was \"OK with ostracising an already marginalised group?\"\n\nA spokesperson for LGBT rights body Stonewall said: \"In sport, inclusion should always be the starting point. Everyone deserves to benefit from the sense of wellbeing and community that sport brings - and that includes trans people.\n\n\"The inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the issue of trans inclusion in elite competition only serves to perpetuate an atmosphere where trans people feel unwelcome to play community sport with friends, or go to the gym.\n\n\"Trans inclusion in sport is a complex, evolving field that requires nuanced, evidence-based discussion. A discussion weaponised by those that seek the total removal of trans people from public life does not serve sport or trans people well.\"\n\nMeanwhile, US women's football star Megan Rapinoe, one of the most influential voices in sport, has said she is \"100% supportive\" of trans inclusion.\n\n\"Show me the evidence that trans women are taking everyone's scholarships, are dominating in every sport, are winning every title. I'm sorry, it's just not happening,\" she told Time magazine .\n\n\"I have confidence that we can figure it out. But we can't start at the opposite. That is cruel. And frankly, it's just disgusting. We're putting everything through 'God forbid a trans person be successful in sports.' Get a grip on reality and take a step back.\"\n• None How did J Edgar Hoover know too much for any US president to fire him?\n• None Jonathan Agnew asks Moeen Ali all of your questions in the commentary box", "Newly elected politician Rachel Keke is reportedly the first cleaner to become a member of parliament in France.\n\nMs Keke previously was known for leading one of the longest hotel strikes in French history, successfully campaigning for fairer pay and better working conditions.\n\nSome of her supporters have dubbed her win a \"victory of the voiceless.\"", "Millions of people ranging from commuters to people heading to Glastonbury Festival will be affected by this week's rail strikes. Businesses will also be hit, with customers unable to travel or choosing to work from home.\n\n\"Since the announcement [of the strikes] we've had cancellations worth more than £500,000,\" says Tony Matharu, who owns the Blue Orchid Hotels Group.\n\nThe chain, which has several hotels in London, serves a mixture of business and leisure travellers, as well as hosting events - with all being hit by cancellations.\n\nThe strikes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday will see only one in five services running across England, Scotland and Wales, and there will also be knock-on disruption for the rest of the week.\n\nOn Tuesday, most London Underground services will also not be running due to strike action.\n\nMr Matharu says the uncertainty caused by the strikes has led customers to cancel - even if their train is still running - with many worried they may not be able to get home again.\n\nWhile some may rebook, others who had been travelling for specific events that are not being rescheduled will not, he adds.\n\nMr Matharu says the hospitality industry can \"ill afford\" such losses after the impact of Covid.\n\n\"It could prove fatal for some of those trying to recover after two ruinous years,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nTony Matharu says his hotels have been hit by a wave of cancellations since the strikes were announced\n\nThe strikes will cost the hospitality sector an estimated £540m across the week, with businesses expected to see a 20% drop in sales, according to UKHospitality, which represents the industry.\n\nIts chief executive Kate Nicholls says this is a \"huge blow\" to businesses, which are already facing challenges including soaring energy prices and staff shortages as they recover from Covid restrictions.\n\n\"Our customers and staff rely heavily on public transport to visit our venues, especially in towns and cities, where recovery is proving most difficult,\" she says.\n\nLynsey Harley, who runs Modern Standard Coffee, has already seen her orders take a hit because of the strikes.\n\nThe company, which is based in Fife, roasts speciality coffee for customers including restaurants and hotels and also has its own cafe in Edinburgh.\n\nMs Harley says customers in London and other city centres are planning for a 50% drop in trade and had cut their orders as a result.\n\n\"We've had customers tell us, we're not going to order next week because we just don't think we're going to need the product,\" she tells the BBC.\n\nFortunately some of her losses have been offset by a spike in home orders for coffee this week, with many people now able to work from home as they did during Covid lockdowns.\n\nLynsey Harley is worried about the impact of strikes on wholesale customers\n\nMs Harley thinks her cafe, which is based in a semi-residential area of Edinburgh, could also benefit from increased sales if customers choose to stay at home because of disruption to commuter trains.\n\nIt's not just businesses and commuters that will be affected by the strikes.\n\nThousands of school pupils are due to sit exams this week, including 18-year-old Seryn, who normally travels by train from Tonbridge to her school in London.\n\nBut with no services running she's had to book a hotel for three nights - costing around £500 - so she can take her A-levels.\n\n\"If I went to a friend's house that would be the only other option and I didn't want to do that because me and my parents decided that I wouldn't be able to have a good night's sleep before my exam,\" she tells the BBC.\n\nSeryn has two A-level exams this week\n\nThe BBC has contacted the RMT union, whose members are striking, for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hollie Dance, the 12-year-old's mother, said \"this is a fight for Archie's life... give him a chance\"\n\nThe mother of a 12-year-old boy in a coma said she told him they faced \"the biggest battle of our lives\" as they seek to appeal against a ruling his life-support treatment should stop.\n\nArchie Battersbee was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nLast week the High Court agreed with doctors at the Royal London Hospital that he was \"brain-stem dead\".\n\nHis relatives are back in court seeking permission to mount an appeal.\n\nThe boy's parents have said they wanted treatment to continue as his heart was still beating.\n\nArchie's mother Hollie Dance said she was \"devastated\" by the ruling that his treatment should stop.\n\nHollie Dance said she was at Archie's bedside every night and said \"he looks peaceful - he's asleep\"\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that she sleeps by his hospital bed each night.\n\n\"He's so beautiful - he's angelic. It's no different to at home. He looks peaceful - he's asleep,\" Ms Dance said.\n\nHis mother said she talked to Archie every day and had told him \"you really need to wake up now because we've got the biggest battle of our lives and it'll be really great if you actually helped me\".\n\nShe said she had felt him squeeze her hand.\n\n\"He's in there, physically, for whatever reason, whether it's locked-in syndrome, whether he's paralysed... I don't know, but I feel he's in there,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking outside the High Court last week, Hollie Dance said her \"gut instinct\" was that her son was \"still in there\"\n\nAsked if she was concerned she might be prolonging the agony for her son, Ms Dance said: \"No... I would be more worried if I gave up and spent the rest of my life thinking 'what if I'd held on just that little bit longer?'.\n\n\"I think that nobody has Archie's best interest at heart like a mother.\n\n\"Inside, I'm broken - but I've got to go fight or flight - I haven't got time to think about my feelings, my emotions at the minute, because this is a fight for Archie's life.\"\n\nAt the High Court in London last week, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment for Archie.\n\nIn a written ruling, the judge concluded Archie died at noon on 31 May based on MRI scans that day.\n\nA spokesman for campaign organisation the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting Archie's family, said relatives will use Monday's follow-up hearing at the High Court to ask the same judge to let them mount the appeal.\n\nRelatives must establish they have an arguable case before a full appeal hearing can take place.\n\nMembers of Archie's family want Court of Appeal judges to reconsider the case.\n\nIt's possible the judge will grant them permission to appeal... if she doesn't, it's possible the Court of Appeal will grant permission... and then there would be a full hearing before three judges.\n\nBut I don't want to raise Hollie Dance's hope because I think the Court of Appeal is very likely to say that the High Court judge saw all the medical evidence, she considered the law - and unless it can be shown that she made some mistake in assessing the law, it's very unlikely that they will reach a different conclusion from the conclusion that she, the High Court judge, reached.\n\nIn Archie's home city, a vigil and a one-minute silence took place on Southend's sea front on Sunday.\n\nDozens attended the event, which organisers said was held \"to show the family support within the community\".\n\nA vigil was held for Archie in Southend on Sunday\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "At the centre of the government's plan to ease the impact on businesses is the concept of green lanes and red lanes for trade.\n\nGoods coming from Great Britain (GB) into Northern Ireland (NI) and which are staying would use the green lane.\n\nThis means there would be no checks and paperwork would be minimal.\n\nGB goods moving through NI into Ireland or the wider European Union would use the red lane and continue to be checked at NI ports.\n\nConnoisseurs of Brexit will recognise this concept from an earlier stage in the process.\n\nBack in 2018 Dr Andrew McCormick, the civil servant leading Stormont's Brexit response, wrote a paper which considered how it could work.\n\nHe has spoken about it to the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, as part of their series of interviews with Brexit players,\n\nHe identified three tests of the concept which apply equally today:\n\nThe UK government has attempted to answer at least the first two of those questions - though not in the text of the bill itself which contains no mention of green lanes or red lanes.\n\nInstead you need to look at the bill's explanatory notes and a separate briefing document.\n\nThe green lane would only require traders to provide \"ordinary commercial information\" rather than customs declarations and agri-food certificates.\n\nBut it would not be a free for all as it would be based on membership of a trusted trader scheme.\n\nThe government says this new scheme would require firms to provide \"detailed information on their operations and supply chains to support robust audit and compliance work\".\n\nPrecisely how onerous the qualifications for that scheme would be is not yet clear.\n\nOne immediate concern for NI business groups is how GB businesses would engage with such a scheme.\n\nA significant source of difficulty with the protocol has been the unpreparedness of GB suppliers selling into NI.\n\nThe government is also proposing that what it calls non-commercial goods, such as post and parcels, will automatically go through the green lane without the need for registration.\n\nPresumably this would include most online shopping purchases but this isn't spelled out.\n\nAside from the trusted trader scheme, the second level of assurance the government is offering the EU is what it calls \"robust data sharing\".\n\nIt says this would be delivered through a purpose-built IT system with information available in real time and \"well within the time taken to cross the Irish Sea\".\n\nThe third line of assurance is what the government says will be \"robust penalties\" for businesses who abuse the green lane.\n\nThat would include being kicked out of the trusted trader scheme, civil fines and criminal charges.\n\nOn Dr McCormick's third point one issue for unionists to consider is that this arrangement would mean NI was still not trading on precisely the same terms as other parts of the UK.\n\nThere will be no requirements for a business in Edinburgh to use a trusted trader scheme to sell goods to London or Cardiff. But they would have to take that additional step to get goods to Belfast.", "Hollie Dance and her family have won the right to have Archie's case heard at the Court of Appeal\n\nThe parents of a 12-year-old boy have been given the right to appeal against the decision to allow his life-support treatment to end.\n\nLast week, a High Court judge ruled that Archie Battersbee was \"brain-stem dead\" and treatment could stop.\n\nHowever, following another hearing, the same judge, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, granted Archie's parents permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nHis family were \"delighted\" at the decision, a spokeswoman said.\n\nArchie was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nThe court had previously heard that he suffered brain damage during an incident which his mother believed may have been related to an online challenge.\n\nDoctors treating him at the Royal London Hospital told the High Court it was \"highly likely\" he was \"brain-stem dead\" and asked for his life-support to end.\n\nMrs Justice Arbuthnot ruled in favour of the hospital and against Archie's mother and father, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee.\n\nBut in a High Court hearing questioning that decision, she said an argument by the family's legal team that the standard of proof in relation to \"declaration of death\" should have been higher was a \"compelling\" reason for the case to be heard by appeal judges.\n\nThe Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the Royal London, said it would not make any changes to Archie's care while his parents sought further legal hearings.\n\nA High Court judge ruled last week that Archie Battersbee was dead\n\nDuring Monday's hearing, the family's barrister Edward Devereux QC outlined nine grounds of appeal.\n\nMr Devereux said for a decision of such \"gravity\", the judge should have been satisfied \"beyond reasonable doubt\" and not made a decision about Archie's treatment ending on \"the balance of probabilities\".\n\nHe also argued that the court had failed to accommodate the religious views of Archie and his family.\n\nMrs Justice Abuthnot dismissed eight of the appeal grounds but said appeal judges should consider the standard of proof issue.\n\nShe said Court of Appeal judges had never considered that issue in relation to \"declaration of death\" cases, adding there was a \"compelling\" reason for them to hear it.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, a spokeswoman for Archie's family, Ella Carter, said: \"We were all really convinced that we weren't going to get permission to appeal.\n\n\"So we're more than happy at the decision - we're delighted.\"\n\nHollie Dance said she believed her son was \"still in there\" and would continue to fight\n\nFollowing the initial High Court ruling, Archie's mother said she was \"devastated\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that she slept by his hospital bed each night and spoke to him every day.\n\nMs Dance said: \"He's in there, physically, for whatever reason, whether it's locked-in syndrome, whether he's paralysed... I don't know, but I feel he's in there,\" she said.\n\nThe High Court previously heard evidence that Ms Dance said Archie had squeezed her hand.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Downing Street has confirmed that it spoke to a newspaper before it dropped a story involving the prime minister's wife, Carrie Johnson.\n\nThe Times printed a report on Saturday saying Mrs Johnson had been offered the role of chief-of-staff to Boris Johnson while he was foreign secretary, at a time when they were in a relationship.\n\nBut the item was removed from later editions and not published online.\n\nNo 10 said it had spoken to the Times before and after the story came out.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said it had been made clear by his political colleagues in Downing Street - and by Mrs Johnson's spokesperson - that the claim was \"not true\".\n\nBut a government source told the BBC the conversation following publication had not included mention of legal action.\n\nMr Johnson, who became prime minister in 2019, served as foreign secretary from 2016 to 2018, when he resigned in protest at then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit stance.\n\nTwo sources told the BBC that Mr Johnson had floated the idea with members of his team that his now-wife could be employed as his chief-of-staff when he was foreign secretary - and said multiple aides had advised him against it.\n\nThe Times declined to comment on why it had removed its story regarding Mr and Mrs Johnson during his time at the Foreign Office.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mr Johnson had not spoken personally to deputy editor Tony Gallagher asking for it to be removed.\n\nThe journalist who wrote the Times story, Simon Walters, told the New European website that he stood by it \"100%\".\n\n\"I was in lengthy and detailed communication with No 10 at a high level, [Mr Johnson's press secretary] Ben Gascoigne and Mrs Johnson's spokeswoman for up to 48 hours before the [Times] went to press,\" he said.\n\n\"At no point did any of them offer an on-the-record denial of any element of the story.\"\n\n\"Nor have any of these three offered an on-the-record denial to me since,\" Mr Walters added. \"No 10 and Mr Gascoigne did not deny it off-the-record [meaning to be reported but not directly attributed to an individual] either.\"\n\nMr Johnson married Carrie Johnson - née Carrie Symonds - in May last year and they have two children together.\n\nMrs Johnson is a former head of communications for the Conservative Party.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Day has shown 11-year-old Evelyn how to break down barriers for deaf learners\n\nA deaf teaching assistant is to work with a deaf pupil for the first time in a mainstream school in Wales.\n\nEmma Day, 21, said she felt proud to have been appointed at Ysgol Clydau in Tegryn, Pembrokeshire.\n\nThere she will work with 11-year-old Evelyn who also has lessons translated by British Sign Language interpreters.\n\n\"The most rewarding thing is seeing Evelyn's confidence grow and how she enjoys learning through her first language, sign language,\" Emma said.\n\nEmma has previously volunteered in schools in Pembrokeshire and was awarded Student of the Year at Pembrokeshire College in 2021.\n\nNow she believes her experiences as a deaf learner will help Evelyn and hopes it will be an example of the \"next step\" in education for deaf children.\n\n\"I love my job. It's really important for deaf students, deaf children, to have education in their first language and also working with adults like myself,\" she said.\n\n\"I've got experience of the barriers I faced at that time and I got through them. Hopefully I've passed on to Evelyn that you can break down those barriers and learn.\"\n\nThe school said it was surprised to be the first in Wales to make such an appointment\n\nEmma's role is funded by Pembrokeshire council, but has extra support from a sign language interpreter in the classroom to translate lessons and access all other aspects of her role within the school.\n\n\"She helps me with my English and my maths and my sign language as well. She knows what I'm saying when I communicate,\" said Evelyn.\n\nHer father, Chris, said the support was worth the struggle to secure it.\n\n\"It's really important, especially in a rural setting, if you are deaf. You need that exposure to deaf culture,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of barriers that deaf people face and Emma is well aware of what those are and she's helping Evelyn navigate what those might be in her future as well.\n\n\"You can really see how Evelyn's confidence has increased. She signs more at home, which is really beneficial to me as Evelyn gets older I expect to get left behind somewhat in being able to understand her level of British Sign Language.\n\n\"So it's just lovely to see Evelyn blossom, especially with the move up to secondary school coming soon it's just going to benefit her so much.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five bids have been submitted to create green freeports in Scotland.\n\nMinisters want to create two special economic zones north of the border, under a scheme agreed by the Scottish and UK governments.\n\nThe successful bidders will be able to offer tax incentives and lower tariffs for areas around airports, seaports and rail terminals.\n\nThe bids received by Monday's deadline came from groups representing various regions.\n\nThey are: Clyde Green Freeport, Aberdeen City and Peterhead Green Freeport, Opportunity Inverness and Cromarty Firth, Firth of Forth Green Freeport and Orkney Green Freeport.\n\nThe bidders must set out how they will regenerate their area, create high-quality jobs and support transition to a net-zero economy.\n\nMinisters from both the Scottish and UK governments will have a say in the assessment and selection process.\n\nHolyrood Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said: \"We expect green freeports to promote regeneration in the areas selected, create high quality jobs and enhance our decarbonisation plans in the just transition to a net zero economy.\n\n\"We will now jointly assess and decide on the winning bids, following the rigorous process set out in the agreed joint prospectus in which each government has an equal say.\n\n\"Further details of the successful applicants will be set out in the coming months.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"UK freeports are a key part of the UK government's Levelling Up strategy - they will bring innovation, high-quality jobs, prosperity and regeneration for the benefit of the whole of Scotland.\"\n\nAlso called free trade zones, they are designated areas where the normal tax and tariff rules of the country in which they are based do not apply.\n\nThey allow goods to be imported, manufactured and re-exported without being subject to checks, paperwork, or import taxes, known as tariffs.\n\nThis means raw materials can be imported, then engineered into whole products for export.\n\nTypically, companies operating in the zone pay lower taxes, such as reduced VAT and lower rates of employment tax.\n\nCritics argue they simply defer the point when import tariffs are paid, which then still need to be paid at some stage.\n\nThe UK government has committed funding of £52m to the project and bidders will have to pledge to reach net zero by 2045.\n\nThe Scottish government has said that all green freeport applicants would have to stick to their commitments to net-zero targets and fair work.\n\nThe governments were previously unable to agree plans to establish freeports north of the border, after a number of sites were announced for England.\n\nScottish ministers later said they would pursue an alternative \"green freeport\" model, with additional standards around jobs and climate targets.\n\nThe two winning bids are expected to be announced this summer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oldham child sex abuse victims failed by police and council, report says\n\nChildren in Oldham were failed by the agencies meant to protect them from sexual abuse, a review has found.\n\nThe independent inquiry was set up after allegations circulated on social media that Oldham Council was covering up what it knew about grooming gangs in the town.\n\nInvestigators said there were structural flaws in Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and the council's systems which were meant to safeguard children.\n\nThey found no evidence of a cover-up.\n\nThe major report examined the way child sexual exploitation was tackled between 2011 and 2014, and found procedures were not properly followed.\n\nIt investigated the alleged grooming of children in council homes, shisha bars and by taxi drivers in Oldham.\n\nWhile concluding there was no evidence of \"widespread\" child sex abuse in those settings, or of a cover-up, the review does point out other serious failings.\n\nGMP and Oldham Council said they were \"deeply sorry\" to all those affected.\n\nThe review found that despite \"legitimate concerns\" of police and the council of the far right capitalising on the issue of grooming by \"predominantly Pakistani offenders across the country\", authorities in the town did not shy away from tackling it.\n\nRather, the council \"saw successful disruption and prosecution as the route to winning the confidence of all communities in Oldham\", the review said.\n\nHowever, the report's authors found the police and council had failed some children.\n\nNotably, they cited the case of one girl - identified only as \"Sophie\" - who was abused aged just 12 after \"significant opportunities\" were missed to protect her.\n\nShe went to Oldham police station to report being sexually assaulted in October 2006 and was told to come back when she was \"not drunk\".\n\nVictims, particularly \"Sophie\" was let down, said Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham\n\nThe girl was instead taken from the police station in a car and raped in the vehicle, then taken to a house and raped multiple times by five different men.\n\nThe report also details how Shabir Ahmed, the ring-leader of a notorious grooming gang in Rochdale, was employed by Oldham Council as a welfare rights officer and seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre.\n\nDespite multiple concerns being raised about him and his arrest for the sexual assault of children, police failed to tell his employers.\n\n\"If this had happened, it may have potentially avoided the tragic abuse of other children...,\" the report states, citing \"serious multiple failures\" by both GMP and the local authority.\n\nAhmed, identified only as \"Offender A\" in the report, is now serving a 22-year jail sentence.\n\nThe report pointed out that while most arrests for child sex offences by GMP in the period between September 2009 and July 2010 then identified the alleged offenders as being Asian, they were likely to have generally related to British men of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage.\n\nHowever, the report said Eastern European, Middle Eastern and White British men also featured.\n\nOldham Council accepted its systems had not been good enough to protect children from \"awful abuse\"\n\nThe review found the quality of case work by both police and social care had been \"generally very poor\" in 10 sample cases where child sexual exploitation concerns had been raised.\n\nThe council and GMP had agreed to review the management of those cases and \"consider whether any further action can now be taken in respect of the men who exploited these children\", it added.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the report had \"identified a number of wrongs that needed to be put right\".\n\n\"There were serious failings and victims were let down, particularly Sophie\", he said, adding: \"I will also fully support any actions to prosecute those responsible for these abhorrent crimes and [hold] to account those whose behaviour fell short of what we require.\"\n\nHe added: \"Whilst there was no evidence of a cover-up, we must not flinch from acknowledging shortcomings.\"\n\nGMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson, who was appointed last year after his predecessor quit following a damning review of the force, said: \"I want to offer my sincere apologies to everyone affected by the events considered in the report.\n\n\"Our actions fell far short of the help that they had every right to expect and were unacceptable.\n\n\"I am sorry for the hurt and ongoing trauma they have suffered because of what happened to them.\"\n\nOldham Council Leader Amanda Chadderton said she was \"deeply sorry\" that \"our services at the time were not good enough to protect vulnerable young people suffering the most awful abuse\".\n\nShe added: \"The way we work has already moved on immeasurably\".\n\nMaggie Oliver, who resigned from GMP over its handling of grooming gangs, says the report shows again \"catastrophic failings\"\n\nThe review was commissioned in November 2019 by Oldham Council. It requested that Mr Burnham and the Greater Manchester Safeguarding Standards Board's independent chair conduct a review into safeguarding practices in Oldham.\n\nThe 202-page report is authored by Malcolm Newsam, a renowned child care expert, and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective superintendent with Cambridgeshire Police.\n\nThe pair were behind Operation Augusta, which examined the handling of child sexual exploitation by the police and social services in Manchester following the death in 2003 of 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia.\n\nThe inquiry found police and social workers knew children were suffering \"the most profound abuse... but did not protect them\".\n\nMaggie Oliver, a detective who resigned from Greater Manchester Police over the way grooming cases in Rochdale were handled, said: \"Another day, yet another report about the failures of a police force to protect the most vulnerable in our society, even when there is irrefutable evidence to prosecute offenders and safeguard children.\n\n\"This report yet again clearly evidences catastrophic failings by the force.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Principality Stadium would \"relish\" the chance to host Eurovision\n\nHosting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 would be the \"cherry on the top\" of 20 years of holding enormous events, according to the Principality Stadium.\n\nCities across the UK have expressed interest in staging the 2023 contest if it ends up in the UK.\n\nOrganisers are in talks with the BBC after saying this year's winner Ukraine, which would normally stage the next event, cannot because of the war.\n\nNow the Cardiff stadium has said it would be up for the challenge.\n\nIf the stadium was to host the contest, it would be the first time it had been held in Wales.\n\nA stadium spokesman said: \"We would relish the opportunity to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 here at Principality Stadium, Cardiff.\n\n\"We have a 20-year history of successfully hosting the biggest music artists and sporting events in the world, and to add Eurovision, the world's biggest and much-loved music competition to the list, would be the cherry on top of the last two decades.\"\n\nIf Cardiff were to host the show, it would have to prove it had the right facilities and go through a bidding process.\n\nEurovision organisers say the host venue should accommodate about 10,000 spectators, be within easy reach of an international airport and have enough hotel accommodation for at least 2,000 delegates, journalists and spectators.\n\nOn the weekend Stereophonics and Tom Jones played the venue in front of 60,000 fans.\n\n\"We are a nation of singers, the land of song, and there's no better sound than a packed Principality Stadium,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"Given our history and experience as a multi-event arena, we're confident we could deliver an outstanding event, and, if the UK is a consideration for 2023, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this in detail.\"\n\nBrotherhood of Man won the 1976 competition with \"Save Your Kisses for Me\"\n\nNicky Stevens, from Brotherhood of Man, told Jason Mohammad on BBC Radio Wales it would be \"great\" if the stadium held the event.\n\nThe band won the 1976 competition with Save Your Kisses for Me.\n\nThe singer, from Carmarthen, said: \"We think of the UK, all these countries from Europe they think of London. They don't even think of Northern Ireland, or Wales or Scotland. It's always London.\n\n\"It's the biggest song contest on the planet. Which is the country that is the land of song? Which is the country where everybody has music in their blood? It's Wales.\n\n\"How lovely for visitors to learn of the Welsh culture and what we are famous for.\n\n\"Let's face it, if Cardiff can handle thousands of rugby fans on an international day the Eurovision is going to be a piece of cake.\"\n\nThis year the winner was Ukraine, with Britain's Sam Ryder coming second\n\nTraditionally, the winning country is asked to host the following year's contest.\n\nThis year the winner was Ukraine, with Britain's Sam Ryder coming second.\n\nThe show's organisers decided, after a \"full assessment and feasibility study\", that the event cannot be held in the winning country, Ukraine.\n\nThat is due to the ongoing war following Russia's invasion. So, they turned to the UK.\n\nKyiv has said it disagreed with the European Broadcasting Union's decision and would appeal.", "A murder investigation has begun after the body of a 77-year-old woman was found at a house in Cookstown.\n\nPolice were called to the property in Ratheen Avenue shortly before 11:00 BST on Sunday where the woman's body was discovered.\n\nA 45-year-old man, who was in the house, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nDetectives have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nLocal councillor John McNamee said the family and wider community have been left devastated by the killing.\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"I was devastated personally because I knew the individual and I know the wider family circle.\n\n\"This thing doesn't happen in the likes of this estate, it has never happened before and I'm sure the people here will take a long time to recover from this.\"\n\nMid Ulster assembly member Patsy McGlone said there was a \"terrible sense of shock, sadness and grief\" in Cookstown.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with her family and all those who knew her who will be devastated today,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nRyan Giggs has resigned as Wales manager \"with immediate effect\".\n\nThe former Manchester United winger, 48, stepped away from his role in November 2020 after being arrested.\n\nGiggs was later charged with using controlling behaviour and assaulting his ex-girlfriend, charges he has denied.\n\nRobert Page took over as interim Wales boss in Giggs' absence, leading them to a first World Cup finals since 1958.\n\nIn a statement, Giggs said: \"After much consideration, I am standing down from my position as manager of the Wales men's national team with immediate effect.\n\n\"It has been an honour and a privilege to manage my country, but it is only right that the Wales FA, the coaching staff and the players prepare for the tournament with certainty, clarification and without speculation around the position of their head coach.\"\n\nThe Football Association of Wales released its own statement following Giggs' announcement.\n\n\"The FAW places on record its gratitude to Ryan Giggs for his tenure as manager of the Cymru men's national team and appreciates the decision he has taken, which is in the best interests of Welsh football,\" it read.\n\n\"The full focus of the FAW and the Cymru men's national team is on the Fifa World Cup in Qatar later this year.\"\n\nFormer Wales captain Page, 47, Giggs' assistant since August 2019, took charge of matches from November 2020, leading Wales to top spot in their Nations League group.\n\nHe continued to deputise for Giggs - who was appointed by Wales in January 2018 - in March 2021 as Wales kicked off their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign.\n\nThat would culminate in a famous play-off final win over Ukraine in June 2022, booking a place at Qatar for Wales' first appearance at a World Cup finals in 64 years.\n\nWales will play England, the United States and Iran in Group B, with their opening game against the USA on 21 November.\n\nUnder Page's guidance, Wales also reached the last 16 of the Euro 2020 finals, which were delayed until 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and he is now expected to become permanent Wales boss.\n\nGiggs has pleaded not guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020.\n\nHe has also pleaded not guilty to assaulting Ms Greville causing her actual bodily harm, and common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on 1 November 2020.\n\nThe trial was originally scheduled to take place last January but was postponed until 8 August due to a lack of court space. The trial is set to last a minimum of five days.\n\nGiggs added: \"I do not want the country's preparations for the World Cup to be affected, destabilised or jeopardised in any way by the continued interest around this case.\n\n\"I am sad that we cannot continue this journey together because I believe that this extraordinary group will make the country proud at our first World Cup since 1958.\n\n\"It is my intention to resume my managerial career at a later date.\"", "The court heard there was a lull between an attack at the Tower of London and the bombings in Guildford\n\nA coroner has spoken about the \"poignant\" loss of young lives in IRA attacks in Guildford 48 years ago as an inquest resumed into five deaths.\n\nThe IRA blew up two bombs in the Surrey town, targeting soldiers in 1974.\n\nSurrey coroner Richard Travers said a \"tragic\" feature of the attack was the age of the victims.\n\nFour soldiers and a civilian - aged between 17 and 21 - died when bombs detonated at two pubs on 5 October 1974. Sixty-five people were injured.\n\nThe Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were wrongly-convicted before the IRA claimed responsibility.\n\nPen portraits were read at the inquest for 21-year-old civilian Paul Craig and soldiers Ann Hamilton, 19, Caroline Slater, 18, William Forsyth, 18, and John Hunter, 17.\n\nMs Hamilton had been big sister to two-year-old Cassandra Hamilton, who wrote about how she remembered Ann telling her stories before she tucked her into bed, with the words \"I love you Sugar\", the inquest heard.\n\nCaroline Slater, 18, Ann Hamilton, 19, William Forsyth, 18, John Hunter, 17, and plasterer Paul Craig, 21, died in the first explosion at the Horse and Groom\n\nMr Forsyth, known as Billy, had grown up in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, along with Mr Hunter.\n\nThe hearing at Woking Coroner's Court also heard that Mr Forsyth had been \"over the moon\" at becoming an uncle, while Mr Hunter's family wrote about how they never recovered from his death.\n\nThey said: \"He was prevented from falling in love, getting married, having children and grandchildren, having a career, travelling - all the things that make for a happy and fulfilling life.\"\n\nMr Travers said: \"Part of the poignant and tragic feature of this case is that those who died were so young.\"\n\nBefore the inquest, one of the key questions posed by Ms Hamilton's family was whether her sister's barracks could have been locked down and her sister protected from an ongoing IRA campaign.\n\nMr Travers heard from history expert Prof Thomas Hennessey about the IRA campaign leading up to the attacks in the Surrey garrison town.\n\nHe described how the Provisional IRA began bombing England in 1973 and how its campaign evolved over time with incidents targeting the military including an explosion at Pirbright army base and the devastating M62 coach bomb in 1974.\n\nThe court heard that between March 1973 and March 1974 there was a period of sustained terrorist activity, with 130 Provisional IRA incidents recorded in England.\n\nEarlier in the hearing, Mr Travers said the convictions of the Guildford Four meant inquests were deemed unnecessary in the 1970s.\n\nThe inquest, which is sitting without a jury, is not looking at perpetrators, the wrongful convictions or the original police investigation.\n\nIt is looking at \"preparedness for an attack of this kind\", including what security alerts were in place, events in the Horse and Groom pub, the actions of those who died, and the nature of the bomb that exploded there.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dispute - between the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) union and the companies which run Britain's railway - centres on pay, job losses and changes to workers' terms and conditions.\n\nThe RMT says plans by Network Rail - the body which owns stations, track and signals - to cut 2,500 jobs, will put safety at risk. But the industry says it has to modernise and safety will not be compromised.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group - which represents train firms - says the Covid pandemic has led to a decline in passenger numbers and while it wants to offer a pay rise to staff, the way the network operates has to change.\n\nBut the RMT says it is prepared to take industrial action \"for as long as it takes to get a settlement\" and warned strikes could take place for the next six months.\n\nIt says train operators have now made an offer, but there is no further offer from Network Rail, after one was rejected last Friday. General secretary Mick Lynch said: \"The RMT National Executive Committee has now found both sets of proposals to be unacceptable and it is now confirmed that the strike action scheduled this week will go ahead.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps, whose department oversees the operation of the network, described calls by the RMT for ministers to intervene as a \"stunt\" and accused the union of \"gunning\" for industrial action.\n\nHe said the strike was orchestrated by \"union barons\" and will cause misery and chaos to millions of commuters.", "The new head of the British Army has issued a rallying cry to troops - telling them they need to be ready to face Russia on the battlefield.\n\nGen Sir Patrick Sanders, who started the job last week, addressed all ranks and civil servants in an internal message on 16 June, seen by the BBC.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine shows the need \"to protect the UK and be ready to fight and win wars on land\", he says.\n\nHe adds the Army and allies must now be \"capable of...defeating Russia\".\n\nA defence source told the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale the tone of the message - issued on the Ministry of Defence's internal intranet - was unsurprising.\n\nThey said all armies train to fight, but the threat has clearly changed.\n\nGen Sir Patrick noted in the message that he was the first Chief of the General Staff \"since 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a major continental power\".\n\nHe added: \"Russia's invasion of Ukraine underlines our core purpose - to protect the UK and to be ready to fight and win wars on land - and reinforces the requirement to deter Russian aggression with the threat of force.\"\n\nHe noted \"the world has changed since the 24th February and there is now a burning imperative to forge an Army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle\".\n\nGen Sir Patrick also set out his goal to \"accelerate the mobilisation and modernisation of the Army to reinforce Nato and deny Russia the chance to occupy any more of Europe… we are the generation that must prepare the Army to fight in Europe once again\".\n\nGen Sir Patrick Sanders is a former Commander of Strategic Command and has commanded operations in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan\n\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed the outlook and context for the Army, which faces cuts to the workforce in the coming years.\n\nIn March 2021, the government announced a reduction in the number of soldiers it plans to have in the Army to 72,500 by 2025.\n\nDefence spending in the UK has seen an increase of £3bn a year in real terms since 2016-17, following a real-terms cut in funding of £6.6bn between 2010 and 2017.\n\nRussia spends about 4.14% of its gross domestic product on its military, while the UK spends about 2.33%, according to data from IISS Global Military Balance 2020.\n\nBefore Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs last November that he believed the era of tanks rolling through Europe was behind us.\n\nChallenged over defence spending in light of growing Russian aggression, Mr Johnson said at the time: \"We have to recognise that the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over and there are other better things we should be investing in.\"\n\nHe said enhanced air combat systems and cyber strategies were \"how warfare in the future is going to be fought... and that is where we need to be\".", "The spring booster jab is available until 30 June to over-75s and people with underlying conditions\n\nOver-75s and people at high risk have been urged to get a Covid booster vaccine, amid warnings of a new wave of infections in Scotland.\n\nThe spring booster jab is available until 30 June to everyone in the older age group and people over 12 if they have a weakened immune system.\n\nAbout a third of Scots in the immunosuppressed group have not yet come forward for an additional vaccine.\n\nLatest data estimates that around one in 30 people in Scotland has Covid.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that 176,900 people have the virus - about 3.36% of the population.\n\nThe spring rollout came after recommendations from UK vaccine experts who say additional jabs help boost protection for the most vulnerable.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"We are seeing higher numbers of infections across our communities at the moment which is why booster vaccination is needed to maintain the best protection for those at highest risk of severe effects from the virus.\n\n\"Vaccination has been our most effective tool against coronavirus. However, the degree of protection offered wanes over time.\n\n\"Almost 90% of over-75s and around two thirds of those who are immunosuppressed have already taken a spring booster.\n\n\"We continue to encourage everyone to receive the doses they are eligible for as and when they become available.\"\n\nClinics are open until 30 June and anyone in these groups can book online or contact the national vaccination helpline. Some health boards are also operating drop-in clinics.\n\nA wider booster programme - involving more people for other age groups - is expected this autumn.\n\nIt follows warnings last week that Scotland is facing another wave of the Covid.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Professor Jason Leitch, also announced that he had Covid for the first time.\n\nEdinburgh University public health expert, Prof Linda Bauld, said Omicron sub-lineages BA.4 and BA.5 were part of the reason for a rise in cases.\n\nShe said there had also been a \"small but not significant\" rise in the number of people in hospital.", "Eight people are now suspects in the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, police say.\n\nThree suspects have already been arrested.\n\nBut five more people who allegedly helped hide their bodies have now been identified, police told reporters.\n\nMr Phillips and Mr Pereira went missing while on a reporting trip in the remote Javari Valley in Brazil's far west on 5 June.\n\nTheir bodies were identified on Friday, after one of the suspects in custody - Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira - reportedly confessed to burying their remains and led police to a spot deep in the rainforest where their remains were found.\n\nHis brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, was also arrested, but denies any involvement.\n\nA third arrest followed on Saturday of a suspect named Jeferson da Silva Lima - also known as Pelado da Dinha - who turned himself in after going on the run, police said.\n\nBrazilian news outlet O Globo reports that the five new suspects allegedly also helped to hide the bodies in a hard-to-reach area which police would have been unlikely to find if they had not been guided to it.\n\nNo names or further details on the new suspects have been given.\n\nPolice also said on Saturday that Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira had been shot by hunting ammunition. Mr Phillips was shot once, while Mr Pereira was shot three times, police added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in Sao Paulo over Phillips and Pereira murders\n\nMr Phillips - a regular contributor to the Guardian - was researching a book on the Amazon region. And Mr Pereira - who had extensive knowledge of indigenous communities - had been acting as Mr Phillips' guide and introducing him to contacts.\n\nThe Javari Valley region in which the two were travelling is home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups who live in isolation from the outside world.\n\nThe area is also known for illegal fishing, mining, logging and drug-trafficking activities.\n\nViolent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people are known to happen, and were reportedly being documented by Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira.\n\nMr Pereira had also received death threats prior to taking the trip, indigenous rights groups said.", "The former health secretary said cancer had touched his family dramatically\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed that he had cancer but has since recovered.\n\nThe Conservative MP for South West Surrey said \"every member of his family\" has had the disease and that he had \"a minor one\" himself.\n\nThe chair of the health and social care select committee said cancer had \"touched his family very dramatically\".\n\nHe is now planning to take part in a three-mile (5km) race to raise money for cancer charities in July.\n\nMr Hunt, who was health secretary from 2012 to 2018, said: \"My work on the select committee has shown me there are lots of things we can do to improve our cancer survival rates.\"\n\nThe former foreign secretary, who ran against Boris Johnson in the Conservative leadership race in 2019, said: \"Cancer survival rates are getting better but the more we can do to raise money and raise awareness, the more lives we'll save.\"\n\nJeremy Hunt will take part in the Race for Life in Guildford alongside fellow MP Angela Richardson\n\nMr Hunt will take part in the Race for Life in Stoke Park, Guildford, on 24 July, representing Cancer Research UK.\n\nThe 55-year-old MP will run with Angela Richardson, the Conservative MP for Guildford.\n\nThe pair are also supporting a campaign to establish a cancer and surgical innovation centre at the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford.\n\nMs Richardson said: \"There will be few of us who have been untouched by cancer, with one in two people now developing it at some stage of our lives.\n\n\"Research into successful treatments and prevention of the disease is an overwhelming health priority.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Office of the Presidnet of Ukraine President Zelensky signed a bid for EU membership just days after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia will intensify its attacks on his country in the coming days, as Kyiv awaits news on its bid to join the EU.\n\nMembers of the bloc are expected to decide whether to award \"candidate status\" to Kyiv later this week.\n\nThe move would begin the process of Ukraine's accession to the alliance, which could take years to complete.\n\nBut Mr Zelensky warned the decision could see Russia step up its attacks.\n\nSpeaking during his nightly address from Kyiv, the Ukrainian leader said he and his advisors expect \"greater hostile activity\" from Moscow, but told citizens that his forces \"are preparing\" and are ready for any renewed assault.\n\nHe pledged to push forward with what he called Ukraine's \"historic\" ambitions to join the EU, which were endorsed by the bloc's executive, the European Commission, last week.\n\nBut now the decision rests with the European Council, a body made up of the leaders of Member States, which will meet at a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.\n\nUkrainian accession to the EU would challenge Vladimir Putin's desire to keep his neighbour out of the West's orbit\n\n\"I think it is obvious to everyone that since 1991 there have been few such fateful decisions for Ukraine as we expect now,\" Mr Zelensky said, referencing the year Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union. \"And I am convinced that only a positive decision meets the interests of the whole of Europe.\"\n\nKyiv applied to join the EU just four days after Russia launched its invasion on 24 February.\n\nOn Friday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said he has \"nothing against\" Ukraine's ambitions to join the alliance, but his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned that any move towards accession would require \"increased attention\" on Moscow's part.\n\n\"We all know about the intensification of discussions in Europe on the strengthening of the defence component of the EU,\" Mr Peskov said. \"The military, defence and security components are being discussed, and all kinds of transformations are happening there, and we are, of course, observing it all thoroughly.\"\n\nAnd Mr Zelensky warned other EU members that they too could expect retaliation from Moscow in the coming days.\n\n\"Obviously, we should expect greater hostile activity from Russia,\" he said. \"And not only against Ukraine, but also against other European countries.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader's warning comes amid an ongoing Russian assault in the east of Ukraine. Moscow's forces in the region have been attempting to take complete control of the Donbas, parts of which were already held by pro-Russian separatists prior to the outbreak of the conflict.\n\nMuch of the fighting has been concentrated around the city of Severodonetsk, which Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai told state TV Russia now controlled \"the main part\" of.\n\nThe UK defence ministry said on Sunday that despite both Russia and Ukraine conducting heavy artillery bombardments on axes to the north, east and south of the city, there has been very little change to positions on the front line.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of Nato has warned that the conflict in Ukraine could turn into a protracted conflict.\n\n\"We must prepare for the fact that it could take years,\" Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the German newspaper Bild on Saturday.\n\nBut he emphasised that the West must not let up in its support for Kyiv and warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin should reach his objectives in Ukraine the world \"would have to pay an even greater price\".\n\nHis comments were echoed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who on Sunday accused Mr Putin of resorting to a \"campaign of attrition\" and \"trying to grind down Ukraine by sheer brutality\".\n\n\"I'm afraid we need to steel ourselves for a long war,\" he wrote. \"Time is the vital factor. Everything will depend on whether Ukraine can strengthen its ability to defend its soil faster than Russia can renew its capacity to attack.\"", "The government is planning to introduce legislation this week to make it legal for employers to bring in agency staff to replace striking workers.\n\nThe new law is likely to come into force in mid-July and would not impact train strikes taking place this week.\n\nA government source told the BBC the change was needed because \"unions are threatening action across the economy\".\n\nHowever, the Trades Union Congress argue it would undermine the right to strike and create safety risks.\n\nThe plan has also been opposed by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which represents the recruitment industry.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, the organisation's head Neil Carberry said many large recruitment companies had signed up to a global commitment not to replace striking workers and that agency workers would not choose \"to cross a picket line\" because they could find work elsewhere.\n\nHe added that there was \"cold fury\" in the industry because of a lack of consultation about the planned change.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has previously argued that changing the law would ensure the country was not \"held to ransom\" in the future.\n\nUnder the government's plan, any employer - public as well as private employers including schools, councils and the NHS - would have flexibility to bring in outside staff to cover striking workers.\n\nIt would be an employer's choice whether to do so.\n\nPaul Nowak, deputy secretary general of the Trades Union Congress - the umbrella body for unions, said: \"Allowing agency staff to replace striking workers would undermine the right to strike and create genuine safety risks for the public and for the workforce.\n\n\"Having repeatedly promised a high-wage economy, ministers now seem determined to reduce workers' bargaining power and to make it harder for working people to win fair pay and conditions.\"\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds accused the Conservatives of \"driving down the rights and pay of hard working people\".\n\nThe Conservatives have also promised to introduce a law which would \"require that a minimum service operates during transport strikes\".\n\nHowever, there is currently no date for this legislation which would affect the railways and other key industries.\n\nOn Saturday protesters marched in London demanding a pay rise for public sector workers\n\nThe agency workers announcement comes as barristers - represented by the Criminal Bar Association - voted to take industrial action over pay and conditions.\n\nAnd two teaching unions are also considering asking their members if they want to strike over pay.\n\nPrices in the UK are expected to rise by 11% in the next few months and the TUC has argued that workers need to cope with cost increases.\n\nHowever, Treasury Minister Simon Clarke has warned that public sector workers should not expect \"inflation-busting pay increases\" that could risk fuelling the \"evil of inflation\".\n\n\"If we give awards which are above inflation in this landscape, then we are in a really difficult place in terms of bringing down inflation, which in turn obviously is driving the cost of living.\"", "Amy Callaghan was elected MP for East Dunbartonshire in 2019\n\nAn SNP MP has apologised after she was heard calling on colleagues to back Patrick Grady after his suspension over inappropriate behaviour.\n\nAmy Callaghan's comments emerged in an audio recording leaked to the Daily Mail newspaper.\n\nShe can allegedly be heard telling SNP MPs they should be \"rallying together\" to support Mr Grady.\n\nThe party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford also appeared to back Mr Grady.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have both called for Mr Blackford to resign over his handling of the situation.\n\nMr Grady was suspended from Parliament for two days over his actions. He was also suspended from the SNP's Westminster group for a week.\n\nThe move came after he was found to have made a sexual advance to a teenage member of the party's staff in 2016.\n\nMr Grady, a former chief whip, told the Commons he was \"profoundly sorry\" after an independent panel found he had touched and stroked the neck, hair and back of a colleague during a social event.\n\nOn the tape there is applause after Ms Callaghan apparently tells her fellow SNP MPs \"we should be rallying together around him to support him at this time\".\n\nMr Blackford replies by saying he \"would encourage\" his colleagues to give \"as much support as possible\" to Mr Grady.\n\nMr Grady told MPs he was \"profoundly sorry\" for his actions\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter Ms Callaghan, who represents East Dunbartonshire, said she was making a \"wholehearted apology\" for what she called her \"insensitive, poorly worded and misguided\" comments.\n\nShe added that the SNP was \"falling short in supporting complainants\" and said she was proposing that the party undertakes a full independent review of the way it deals with allegations of misconduct and harassment.\n\nThe handling of the complaint has drawn criticism, most notably from the victim himself, who was 17 years Mr Grady's junior.\n\nHe said he had been made to feel as though it was his fault and his life had been made a \"living hell\".\n\nIn its report, the Independent Expert Panel, which recommends punishments for MPs over bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct, wrote: \"An unwanted physical touching, with sexual intent, from a senior MP to a junior member of staff, even on a single occasion, is a significant breach of the policy.\"\n\nIt noted that Mr Grady had shown \"genuine remorse\" and made \"efforts to address his behaviour\", but recommended that he \"be suspended for two sitting days, make a public apology in the House of Commons, and a private one to the complainant\".\n\nThe panel was responding to a report by Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone, who found that Mr Grady had remained at a SNP work social event on 20 October 2016 after his fellow MPs had left.\n\nUnder the influence of alcohol, he made an \"unwanted sexual advance to the complainant that included the touching and stroking of the complainant's neck, hair, and back\", she said.\n\nMr Grady stepped aside as SNP chief whip last year after the claims about his behaviour emerged.\n\nParty leader Nicola Sturgeon said that she had previously been aware of \"a concern\", but not of any \"formal complaint\" being made.\n\nA spokesperson for the SNP Westminster parliamentary group said it accepted the recommended actions from the Independent Expert Panel.\n\n\"We welcome Mr Grady's apology and note that he previously apologised for this incident when the matter was dealt with informally in 2018,\" the spokesperson said.", "Marine Le Pen's party went from eight seats to 89 in Sunday's election\n\nThey were the big winners of France's elections, tearing apart President Emmanuel Macron's majority.\n\nThe broad left-wing alliance under Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen's far right were described as a pincer movement from the extremes by our Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield.\n\nThey are poles apart but have largely the same ambition of opposing the centrist Macron government.\n\nFor veteran far-left leader Mr Mélenchon the success of the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes) was in achieving the \"total rout\" of an \"arrogant\" president in less than a month.\n\nWinning 131 seats was a substantial achievement and he took his own France Unbowed (LFI) party from 17 seats to 79. But opinion polls had suggested Nupes could win far more and even its leader felt the results were \"rather disappointing\".\n\nHe had adopted the slogan \"Mélenchon, prime minister\", and there is no chance of that happening now even if he swears he is not leaving politics. He is no longer an elected MP and it is too early to say whether his alliance of mainstream Socialists and Greens with the far-left LFI and Communists will survive in the long term.\n\nHe has called for Nupes to become a single political grouping in the Assembly, but that's been met with a chorus of derision from the Socialists, Greens and Communists. \"There was never any question of one single group,\" said Socialist MP Pierre Jouvet.\n\nThe surprise of the elections was the success of Marine Le Pen's far right National Rally, which increased its presence in the Assembly tenfold. A look at the dark blue areas on the map shows how far they have spread from their strongholds in the deep south and Pas de Calais in the north.\n\nTheir success in 89 seats came even though Ms Le Pen was barely visible on the campaign trail in the two weeks before the vote.\n\nAnd it was unexpected because traditionally her party never does well in Assembly elections due to a so-called republican front - when mainstream voters' parties pull together to stop extreme forces winning.\n\nWhat changed this time was that the far right won more than half of its 108 run-offs with the Macron alliance Ensemble. \"Yesterday the republican front died at a local level,\" said Mathieu Gallard of pollsters Ipsos.\n\nSupporters of both left and far right loathed \"Macronism\" so much that they stopped voting against each other, he said.\n\nThat gives Marine Le Pen an unprecedented chance to influence politics in the National Assembly and, unlike Jean-Luc Mélenchon, she has decided to lead the party's biggest ever group of MPs.\n\nNational Rally MP Laurent Jacobelli said the Assembly had changed its face and would no longer be filled with a team of pro-Macron \"yes-men\" ready to accept his every proposal. \"We will be a determined, constructive opposition,\" he said.\n\nBoth parties aim to resist the president's programme of reforms, although National Rally has said it may back measures to alleviate the cost of living crisis if their own proposals are adopted.\n\nWhere the two parties are united is in opposition to the president's bid to raise gradually the retirement age from 62 to 65. The far right wants to keep it as it is, and Nupes wants to bring the pension age down to 60.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jean-Luc Mélenchon says Macron faces \"total defeat\" as he and Marine Le Pen celebrate projected gains", "The new visitor centre will have a green roof and glazed front\n\nAn ambitious Caerphilly Castle revamp has been given the go-ahead by local councillors, despite one comparing the development to Disneyland.\n\nIn a £5m revamp, the castle's Great Hall will be given a makeover and a new visitor centre will be built.\n\nThe plans are part of Cadw's five-year plan to improve the 13th Century Grade I-listed castle.\n\nCouncillor Nigel Dix raised concerns about the design of the new visitor centre, saying he was \"not a fan\".\n\n\"It's being turned into a bit of a Disneyland,\" the independent councillor for Blackwood told a planning committee meeting.\n\nThe new visitor centre will have a green roof and a glazed front, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nA reception area, café and toilets will be located on the ground floor, and staff facilities on the second. There will also be seating and play areas outside.\n\nAn artist impression of the new visitor centre\n\nCadw, the Welsh government body responsible for Wales' historical sites, aims to boost visitor capacity at the site by 30% now the plans have been approved.\n\nPlanning officer Justin Waite said: \"I appreciate the design is modern, but I think that's done on purpose so we can easily see what's new and what's historic.\"\n\nOther councillors welcomed the plans, saying the increase in visitors would have a knock-on effect for the town.\n\nThe existing visitor centre will remain as a shop and ticket office.\n\nThe Great Hall will undergo minor refurbishments including underfloor heating, but most of the refurbishment work will be done on \"Earl's Apartment\", the ruins near the Great Hall.\n\nChanges to the Great Hall and Earl's Apartment will allow for a marquee and pop-up bar to be erected when events are held at the castle.\n\nVisitor access is also set to be improved, with decking, handrails, ramps and bridges proposed throughout the grounds, as well new benches and signs.\n\nIt is unclear whether the castle will remain open during the construction work.", "Gustavo Petro is a former guerrilla and mayor of the capital city of Bogota\n\nGustavo Petro, the former mayor of Bogota and ex-rebel fighter, has become Colombia's first left-wing president.\n\nFigures show he took 50.5% of votes, defeating his millionaire rival by a close margin of around 700,000 ballots.\n\nThe result marks a major change for the country, which for decades has been led by moderates and conservatives.\n\nThe vote was held amid widespread discontent at the way the country has been run, and there were anti-government protests last year in which dozens of people died.\n\nThe 62-year-old Mr Petro hailed what he called a \"victory for God and for the people\".\n\n\"May so much suffering be cushioned by the joy that today floods the heart of the homeland,\" Mr Petro wrote on Twitter. \"Today is the day of the streets and squares.\"\n\nHis running mate Francia Marquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will become the country's first black woman vice-president.\n\nIn a video posted to social media, Mr Hernandez, who ran a non-traditional campaign that relied heavily on TikTok and other social media, conceded to Mr Petro.\n\n\"I accept the results of this election,\" he said. \"I hope that Mr Gustavo Petro knows how to run the country and is faithful to his discourse against corruption,\" he added.\n\nPresident Ivan Duque, who was barred from seeking re-election by Colombia's term limits, said on Twitter that he had called Mr Petro to congratulate him. He added that they had \"agreed to meet in the coming days to initiate a harmonious, institutional and transparent transition\".\n\nMr Petro was a member of the now disbanded M-19 movement in the 1980s. The rebel left-wing group was one of many guerrilla organisations that waged war against the state.\n\nHe spent time in jail for illegal arms possession, before joining the political opposition where he served as both a senator and congressman as well as mayor of Bogota.\n\nMr Petro ran on a radical manifesto and pledged during the campaign to fight inequality by providing free university education, pension reforms and high taxes on unproductive land.\n\nHe also pledged to fully implement a 2016 peace deal that ended a 50-year long conflict with the communist guerrilla group, Farc, and to seek negotiations with the still-active ELN rebels.\n\nAt Gustavo's results party, the atmosphere is electric. On stage, and in the crowds, people here are dancing salsa - enjoying every moment of an election like no other.\n\nIn a country that experienced decades of civil conflict, Gustavo Petro's critics highlighted his role as a former rebel, arguing his economic plans would spell disaster for the country.\n\nBut his promises of inclusion and addressing poverty resonated with this deeply unequal country.\n\nFor Ana Beatriz Acevedo, who represents displaced Afro-Colombian women, the election marks a major change for the country.\n\n\"One of the problems this country has is inequality - in black and indigenous communities, among women,\" she said. \"And they (Petro and Marquez) represent that difference - one is mixed race, one is black - and both believe in inclusion.\"\n\nIt's often a cliché to call elections historic but these really are - it's a huge departure for this conservative country and says a lot about how much the country has changed.\n\nNow Colombia will have its first ever leftist leader and alongside him, the first ever black vice-president - and that speaks volumes about the desire for a different political path.\n\nThe campaign marked Mr Petro's third run for the presidency. He finished fourth in 2010, and was comfortably defeated in a run-off by Mr Duque in 2018.\n\nWhile some of his proposals have startled investors - including a planned ban on new oil projects - many voters said they voted for him to tackle some of Colombia's intractable problems, such as corruption, widespread poverty and a surge in political violence.\n\nBut Mr Petro will face challenges from a fragmented congress, which includes representatives of more than a dozen parties.\n\n\"Given current levels of polarisation and existing political, economic, social and humanitarian crises, the Petro government will face significant challenges,\" Prof Arlene Tickner, an international relations lecturer at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, told the BBC.\n\n\"An important first step that has already been taken by the president-elect is to initiate efforts to build a broad national coalition in order to enhance his governability.\"", "Footage from China's state broadcaster, CCTV, has emerged showing a tornado striking the southern Chinese city of Foshan.\n\nBuildings, cars and local infrastructure has been damaged.\n\nOnlookers filmed the weather event as it ripped the roof off a building and tore through power cables.", "Boris Johnson had a \"minor routine operation related to his sinuses\" under general anaesthetic at a London hospital, No 10 has said.\n\nThe prime minister had the operation at 06:00 BST on Monday and was back in Downing Street at 10:00.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab would make any urgent decisions in his place.\n\nAnd he said Mr Johnson was feeling well, and was due to take meetings on Monday afternoon.\n\nIt is understood Mr Raab remains on hand to assist with any major decisions, but Mr Johnson is expected to chair a meeting of his senior ministers on Tuesday morning and travel to a gathering of Commonwealth leaders later this week.\n\nWhen questioned on how long the prime minister had experienced problems with his sinuses, his spokesperson said he wouldn't comment on Mr Johnson's medical history.\n\nAsked if the prime minister had skipped waiting lists to get his operation, the spokesman said he was \"not getting into\" that.\n\nThe operation - which was carried out on the NHS and had been \"scheduled for a while\" - was a success and not related to his previous bout of coronavirus.\n\nIn April 2020, Mr Johnson spent three nights in intensive care receiving treatment for the virus. He later said it \"could have gone either way\".\n\nDuring his hospitalisation and subsequent recovery, Mr Raab - the then foreign secretary - was in charge of running the government.", "The MP for Tottenham is under investigation for breaching the MPs' code of conduct\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy is under investigation for allegedly breaking rules for declaring financial interests.\n\nThe Parliamentary Standards probe is looking at possible breaches to the MPs' code of conduct.\n\nMPs must register changes to their financial interests within 28 days, but Mr Lammy's financial register contained interests recorded after that period.\n\nMr Lammy apologised and said he had put \"revised systems in place\".\n\nThe investigation was opened on Wednesday by Parliamentary Standards commissioner Kathryn Stone who has been looking at possible breaches in the areas of earnings, gifts and foreign travel.\n\nThe MP for Tottenham's financial register included a speech in the US on the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt also noted he received £3,280 from the Canary Wharf Group for a speech and question-and-answer session on 1 December, but it was not registered until 27 May.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Lammy said: \"David Lammy takes his declaration responsibilities seriously and as soon as this was brought to his attention he wrote to Registrar of Members' Financial Interests to apologise for the administrative errors in his office which led to late declarations in December last year.\n\n\"He has assured the registrar that he has put revised systems in place so that declarations are made in a timely manner.\"\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary joins Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in being investigated by the watchdog.\n\nSir Keir has previously insisted he was \"absolutely confident\" he had not broken the rules, and blamed the investigation on \"administrative errors\" in his office.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Jouvenal had previously been detained by Afghan authorities in 2004, when he ran a hostel in Kabul\n\nFive Britons who had been detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban have been released, the Foreign Office has said.\n\nFriends and family said former BBC cameraman Peter Jouvenal was among them, although the UK did not confirm any names.\n\nMr Jouvenal was among a number of men arrested by the Taliban last year and held on unspecified charges.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the five people released would \"soon be reunited with their families\".\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said the British nationals detained by the Taliban had no role in the UK government's work in Afghanistan.\n\nA spokesman said the five had travelled to Afghanistan against the UK government's travel advice, adding: \"This was a mistake.\"\n\nHe said: \"On behalf of the families of the British nationals, we express their apologies for any breach of Afghan culture, customs or laws, and offer their assurance of future good conduct.\n\nMr Jouvenal - who also ran a hostel in Kabul for a time as well as working for the BBC in Afghanistan - was held for more than six months, his friends and family said in a statement.\n\n\"We are grateful to the thousands of people who have supported the campaign to release him,\" they said.\n\nThey also thanked the FCDO staff who \"worked tirelessly\" for his release and requested privacy for Mr Jouvenal to reconnect with his wife and family and recover from his \"long ordeal\".\n\nOn Sunday, a diplomat at the UK Mission to Afghanistan in Doha issued a statement seeking to reassure the Afghan authorities that the UK \"does not support anyone, including Afghan nationals, seeking to achieve political change through violence\", and promising that it would \"not allow UK soil to be used to plan or prepare\" violence.", "The space station is travelling at about 17,000 mph (27,300km)\n\nA photographer has captured an image of the International Space Station silhouetted in front of the Sun.\n\nJamie Cooper, 52, realised it was expected to be visible above his home in Whilton, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, on 17 June.\n\nHe shot its \"entire transit\" across the Sun at 10:22 BST, an event which lasted less than a second, using a telescope and a high speed video camera.\n\n\"This was an opportunity not to be missed,\" he said.\n\nThree cosmonauts and four astronauts are currently deployed on the station\n\nMr Cooper, a professional photographer and keen amateur astronomer, said he was in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"There's a very narrow band where you, the space station and Sun are all in a straight line and it's about three miles wide,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd checked the data three days before and it was going to miss my house, I checked the day before and it was going to be over my house, so I was lucky.\"\n\nThe high resolution camera has captured solar granulation from gas bubbles percolating on the Sun's surface...\n\n... and sun spots are also visible\n\nThe space station was about 250 miles (400km) away when above his house and travelling at about 17,000mph (27,300km/h).\n\nMr Cooper said his very high speed video camera was shooting at 80 frames a second, compared to a normal camera speed of 25 frames.\n\nHe added: \"It's important to say I use a specialist telescope with a filter because you should never look at the Sun without a filter - it can lead to permanent blindness.\"\n\nJamie Cooper stressed the importance of using a filter when photographing the Sun\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's energy regulator has announced plans to better protect customers who pay their bills through direct debit.\n\nOfgem accused some firms of using customers' accumulated credit like an \"interest-free company credit card\".\n\nProposals include tightening the rules on the level of direct debits that suppliers can charge to \"ensure credit balances do not become excessive\".\n\nOfgem also wants to protect credit balances when suppliers fail so the costs are not picked up by customers.\n\nIt come after a string of high profile closures linked to high wholesale oil and gas costs, made worse by the war in Ukraine.\n\nAround 30 energy companies have stopped trading in the UK since August last year, including Bulb which had 1.7 million customers.\n\nOfgem said it wanted to \"prevent the kind of energy supplier failures we saw last year and to better protect consumers' money if they do fail.\"\n\nOfgem added that the closures \"put unfair and unnecessary costs and worry onto consumers\", as thousands scrambled to find out who would fill the gap left by their supplier.\n\nImproving the financial health of energy suppliers over autumn and winter would help reduce the risk of failures, Ofgem added.\n\nThe cost of moving customers to new suppliers since September 2021, including buying extra gas at short notice while prices were at record highs, as well as replacing lost customer credit balances and green levy payments, was £94 per household, according to the regulator.\n\nUnder current rules the new supplier does not get customer credit balances from the failed supplier, so the costs of replacing these balances are shared across all customer bills.\n\nThe new plans, which still need to be finalised through a consultation, would mean energy companies must protect their customers' money if they go bust and pass on the funds from accounts which are in credit to the replacement supplier.\n\nOfgem said it hoped the measures stopped \"risky behaviour\" from energy firms.\n\nJonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, said: \"Today's proposals will make sure that customers' hard-earned money is properly protected so that a company must foot the bill if it fails, rather than consumers picking up the tab.\"\n\nHe told the BBC that \"without a doubt\" some companies were using credit balances in ways they should not have last winter.\n\n\"We want to tighten those rules to make sure that's not happening,\" he added.\n\nMillions of domestic gas and electricity customers cover their bills with an identical direct debit payment every month.\n\nWhen they've paid for more energy than they've actually used, a credit balance builds up.\n\nAbout 30 companies have gone bust in the last year. Their customers were automatically transferred to new suppliers.\n\nBut, while their credit balances were honoured, the cost of doing so was covered by increasing everyone's bill.\n\nNow Ofgem is proposing that companies hold more capital so credit balances are better protected, and the tab isn't picked up by all billpayers if that supplier collapses.\n\nHigh credit balances have been a source of long-term frustration to customers, many of whom feel they simply provide a free loan to their supplier.\n\nThe regulator says these proposals should prevent excessive overpayments from ever building up.\n\nCitizens Advice said it was correct for Ofgem to tighten the rules which, up to now, had left customers picking up the cost of companies' failures.\n\n\"Ofgem has previously allowed energy suppliers to run risky business models. We're glad that it has listened to our warnings and is taking necessary steps to tackle some of the root causes of these issues,\" said Gillian Cooper, the charity's head of energy policy.\n\nChris O'Shea, chief executive Centrica - the owner of British Gas, said his company had already voluntarily ring-fenced customers' credit balances, and said regulation needed to be faster.\n\n\"We welcome this consultation but we are worried at the length of time it is taking to make the changes necessary and we urge Ofgem to work with greater urgency to protect customers fully and to prevent the events of last year ever happening again,\" he said.\n\nThe proposals mark the next step in Ofgem's wider plan to curb energy failures, which already include stricter entry requirements for new suppliers, and carrying out regular \"stress tests\" - to ensure companies are financially fit to run.\n\nPrices for oil and gas have soared in recent months, fuelled by the lifting of lockdowns and the Ukraine war.\n\nFood and fuel costs are also rising, with consumer prices increasing at their fastest rate in 40 years.\n\nThe typical UK energy bill is set to see a further rise of £800 in October, when the energy price cap - the maximum price which suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales - increases again.", "Colin Furze has been making the tunnel for about a year\n\nA YouTuber has won retrospective planning permission to burrow a tunnel between his house and shed.\n\nColin Furze spent three years digging the passage by hand under his Lincolnshire garden without permission.\n\nThe subterranean structure lies 1.2m (4ft) beneath the surface and could eventually also connect to a special underground bunker he has built.\n\nMr Furze, from Stamford, said he wanted to do it because he thought \"it would be cool\".\n\nPlanning documents from South Kesteven District Council show the bunker was granted permission eight years ago.\n\nHowever, tunnels to connect his house, shed and bunker did not have permission.\n\n\"The proposal is partially retrospective with a large portion of the tunnelling works having been carried out,\" the document stated.\n\nMr Furze has been documenting his progress to his 12 million YouTube followers after beginning the tunnelling project in November 2018.\n\nInitially, the tunnel was a secret but millions have since watched his exploits, with the tunnel currently connecting his kitchen pantry with his shed.\n\nHe said the response had been positive, adding: \"If you ask people about tunnels, they love them\".\n\nThe tunnel has been supported using steel and concrete\n\nMr Furze said he built his bunker in 2015 and turned it into the \"ultimate man cave\" with a flat-screen TV, drum kit and several video consoles, which was a childhood dream of his.\n\n\"I thought wouldn't it be amazing if I could get to the bunker without having to walk down the path outside?\" he said.\n\nHe said the next part of his plans will see a digger used to connect the shed with the bunker - a distance of about 15m (49 ft) - providing further planning permission is granted.\n\nA track system was installed to help move soil away as he dug his tunnel\n\nThe tunnel has been built in stages which has included lighting, ventilation shafts and a track to help move soil away.\n\nA planning inspector visited after the plans were shared widely on Facebook, bringing the project to the attention of the council.\n\nThe parish council strongly objected to the plans which it said would cause concern regarding health and safety and subsidence.\n\nA condition was added to the granting of permission that further work was subject to the \"ground and constructions structural integrity being investigated\".\n\nA hidden hatch in an ordinary looking garden shed is the gateway to this underground extravaganza\n\nTo hear more about Mr Furze and his inventions you can listen to BBC Radio Lincolnshire's full interview.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nFina, swimming's world governing body, has voted to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.\n\nFina will also aim to establish an 'open' category at competitions for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.\n\nThe new policy, which was passed with 71% of the vote from 152 Fina members, was described as \"only a first step towards full inclusion\" for transgender athletes.\n\nThe 34-page policy document says that male-to-female transgender athletes could compete in the women's category - but only \"provided they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 [which marks the start of physical development], or before age 12, whichever is later\".\n\nThe decision was made during an extraordinary general congress at the ongoing World Championships in Budapest.\n\nIt means that transgender American college swimmer Lia Thomas, who has expressed a desire to compete for a place at the Olympics, would be blocked from participating in the female category at the Games.\n\nHowever, the policy does not apply to national federations or the US college championships, the NCAAs, at which Thomas recently won in the 500-yard freestyle. Instead, each national federation - including British Swimming - will need to decide if it is to implement the Fina policy.\n\nBritish Swimming told BBC Sport it would \"take time to review [the policy's] content\" before making any further comment.\n\nThe NCAA said it \"continues its evidence-based evaluation of transgender student-athlete participation in college sports\" and \"will carefully consider\" any updates to its policy.\n\nEarlier, Fina members heard a report from a transgender task force made up of leading figures from the world of medicine, law and sport.\n\n\"Fina's approach in drafting this policy was comprehensive, science-based and inclusive, and, importantly, Fina's approach emphasised competitive fairness,\" said Brent Nowicki, the governing body's executive director.\n\nFina president Husain Al-Musallam said the organisation was trying to \"protect the rights of our athletes to compete\" but also \"protect competitive fairness\".\n\nHe said: \"Fina will always welcome every athlete. The creation of an open category will mean that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so Fina will need to lead the way. I want all athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process.\"\n\nFormer Great Britain swimmer Sharron Davies, who has argued against transgender participation in women's elite swimming, told BBC Sport she was \"really proud of Fina\".\n\n\"Four years ago, along with 60 other Olympic medallists, I wrote to the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and said 'Please just do the science first' and no governing body has done the science until now,\" she said.\n\n\"That is what Fina has done. They've done the science, they've got the right people on board, they've spoken to the athletes, and coaches.\n\n\"Swimming is a very inclusive sport, we love everyone to come and swim and be involved. But the cornerstone of sport is that it has to be fair and it has to be fair for both sexes.\"\n\nAsked whether Fina's policy left trans athletes \"in limbo\" while they waited for an open category to be created, Davies praised Fina for having conversations around trans inclusion that should have \"happened five years ago\".\n\n\"Sport by definition is exclusionary - we don't have 15-year-old boys racing in the under-12s, we don't have heavyweight boxers in with the bantamweights, the whole reason we have lots of different classes in the Paralympics is so that we can create fair opportunities for everybody,\" she said.\n\n\"So that is the whole point of having classifications in sports and the only people who were going to be losing out were females - they were losing their right to fair sport.\"\n\nEx-GB swimmer Karen Pickering told BBC Radio 4: \"I empathise that there will be people who now can't compete in the category that they identify with as their gender. That is very sad and I do understand that, but in this situation inclusivity and fairness cannot be compatible and the science has shown that there is just no way to make that compatible.\"\n\nHowever, 'Athlete Ally' - an LGBT advocacy group which organised a letter of support for Thomas in February, called the new policy \"discriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles\".\n\n\"The eligibility criteria for the women's category as it is laid out in the policy polices the bodies of all women, and will not be enforceable without seriously violating the privacy and human rights of any athlete looking to compete in the women's category,\" said Anne Lieberman, the group's director of policy and programmes.\n\nAustralia's four-time Olympic champion Cate Campbell had addressed Fina before the decision was made, asking the governing body to \"uphold the cornerstone of fairness\".\n\nHowever, fellow Australian swimmer Maddie Groves has criticised Campbell's comments, asking if she was \"OK with ostracising an already marginalised group\".\n\n\"There are already gender diverse people in swimming and I'm guessing they're not feeling very accepted right now,\" Groves said on Twitter .\n\n\"Shame on everyone that supported this discriminatory and unscientific decision.\"\n\nJoanna Harper, who is studying transgender athletes for her PhD at Loughborough University and is a transgender athlete herself, says Fina's decision is not necessary to \"ensure meaningful competition for all women\".\n\n\"Currently, there are no trans women competing in swimming at an international level so effectively this ruling doesn't currently ban anyone,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"If USA Swimming adopts it, it will affect Lia Thomas, but it doesn't right now.\"\n\nShe fears an open category would increase marginalisation and discrimination, saying the introduction of such a category is \"not likely\" to work.\n\n\"It's likely to be more of a sideshow and it's not going to have the number of competitors qualifying, compared to the male or female categories,\" she said.\n\n\"Are they going to have Olympic medals for this open category? Will there be professional swimmers in an open category? I don't know for sure, it might potentially work but I doubt that it would be meaningful.\"\n• None What do the scientists say? '\n\nFina's decision follows a move on Thursday by the UCI, cycling's governing body, to double the period of time before a rider transitioning from male to female can compete in women's races.\n\nThe issue in swimming has been catapulted into the spotlight by the experiences of American Thomas.\n\nIn March, Thomas became the first known transgender swimmer to win the highest US national college title with victory in the women's 500-yard freestyle.\n\nThomas swam for the Pennsylvanian men's team for three seasons before starting hormone replacement therapy in spring 2019.\n\nShe has since broken records for her university swimming team.\n\nMore than 300 college, Team USA and Olympic swimmers signed an open letter in support of Thomas and all transgender and non-binary swimmers, but other athletes and organisations have raised concerns about trans inclusion.\n\nSome of Thomas' team-mates and their parents wrote anonymous letters supporting her right to transition, but added it was unfair for her to compete as a woman.\n\nUSA Swimming updated its policy for elite swimmers in February to allow transgender athletes to swim in elite events, alongside criteria that aim to reduce any unfair advantage, including testosterone tests for 36 months before competitions.\n\nLast year, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from New Zealand became the the first openly transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics in a different sex category to that in which they were born.\n\nSchuyler Bailar - the first transgender athlete to compete for an NCAA division one men's swimming team - was one of the swimmers to sign the open letter.\n\nSpeaking on social media about Fina's policy, he said: \"This is not about preserving fairness, it is not about protecting women's sports.\n\n\"It is about trying to exclude trans people and it continues the policing of women's bodies and sports, it continues the degradation and othering of trans people.\"\n\nWhat did the panel of experts say?\n\n\"Testosterone in male puberty alters the physiological determinants of human performance and explains the sex-based differences in human performance, considered clearly evident by age 12.\n\n\"Even if testosterone is suppressed, its performance enhancing effects will be retained.\"\n\n\"The policy emphasises that no athlete is excluded from Fina competition or setting Fina records based on their legal gender, gender identity or gender expression.\n\n\"[The proposed open category] should not become a category that adds to the already existing levels of discrimination and marginalisation against these groups.\n\n\"I see this policy as only the first step towards full inclusion and support for the participation of transgender and gender-diverse athletes in aquatic sports, and there is a lot more to be done.\"\n\nDr Sandra Hunter, an exercise physiologist specialising in sex and age differences in athletic performance\n\n\"By 14 years or older, the difference between boys and girls is substantial. That's due to the advantages experienced due to the physiological adaptations in testosterone and the possession of the Y chromosome.\n\n\"Some of these physical advantages are structural in origin such as height, limb length, heart size, lung size and they will be retained, even with the suppression or reduction of testosterone that occurs in the transition from male to female.\"\n\nSummer Sanders, former Olympic and world champion in swimming\n\n\"This is not easy. There must be categories - women's, men's and of course a category for trans women and trans men.\n\n\"Fair competition is a stronghold and staple of our community - this approach safeguards the integrity of the existing sports process in which millions of girls and women participate annually.\"\n\nThe conversation around the inclusion of transgender women in women's sport has divided opinion both inside and outside the sporting sphere.\n\nMany argue transgender women should not compete in women's sport because of any advantages they may retain - but others argue sport should be more inclusive.\n\nWorld Athletics president Lord Coe has said the \"integrity\" and \"future\" of women's sport would be \"very fragile\" if sporting organisations get regulations for transgender athletes wrong.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in April he did not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events.\n\nOn Sunday, culture secretary Nadine Dorries told radio station LBC she would \"encourage other sports\" to follow Fina's lead and that \"fairness should always trump inclusion as a principle\".\n\nThe heart of the debate on whether transgender women athletes should compete in women's sport involves the complex balance of inclusion, sporting fairness and safety - essentially, whether trans women can compete in female categories without giving them an unfair advantage or presenting a threat of injury to competitors.\n\nTrans women have to adhere to a number of rules to compete in specific sports, including in many cases lowering their testosterone levels to a certain amount, for a set period of time, before competing.\n\nThere are concerns, however, as highlighted in Fina's decision, that athletes retain an advantage from going through male puberty that is not addressed by lowering testosterone.", "\"Apart from a bit of a dried nose bleed\" the rabbit was uninjured, says Mark Pearson\n\nA rabbit that was struck by a car somehow survived a 40-mile ride trapped in the vehicle's grille.\n\nMark Pearson said he was travelling at about 30mph (48km/h) when he heard a \"dreaded thump\" near the Bryncynan pub, near Nefyn, Gwynedd, on Tuesday.\n\nThe 46-year-old checked his rear-view mirror but when he saw nothing, carried on driving to work in Bangor.\n\nTo his shock, hours later a colleague told him he had a rabbit stuck in his bumper.\n\n\"[I was] thinking it would be half a rabbit,\" he said. \"I was surprised to find this lucky fella had gone through the grille and got trapped in an enclosed compartment.\"\n\nMr Pearson, who is from Pwllheli, said he went into \"Operation Bugs\" mode, removing the grille to try to get its head unstuck.\n\nMark Pearson says he removed the grille on his car to free the rabbit\n\nHe said he had to \"wrestle\" with the rabbit to grab onto it from behind, but was able to free the animal without harming it.\n\n\"Apart from a bit of a dried nose bleed, it seemed uninjured,\" he said.\n\nThe rabbit was released with a carrot in a wood near Parc Menai\n\nThe rabbit was then released into a \"wooded Shangri-la\" near Parc Menai, Bangor.\n\nMr Pearson said he gave it \"a bit of carrot as a sorry\".\n\nHe posted the story on Facebook and some people said he should have brought the rabbit back to where he had hit it.\n\n\"I thought that after and went back with a box but it ran off. Oh well, new start for it,\" he added.", "Perhaps you're reading this in a long queue for the bus. Or packed on to one of the few trains that is running.\n\nThe RMT trade union reckons the whole thing has been \"manufactured\" by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nMr Shapps claims it has been \"created by the unions.\"\n\nSo what will happen next, both on the railways and in the wider economy?\n\nThe government insists there is no point it getting directly involved in this dispute, arguing that you have to go back decades to find a cabinet minister involved in negotiations with a trade union.\n\nSources also point out there have been around 60 meetings between the industry and the RMT on the fine details of the dispute, and the transport secretary wouldn't be saying anything different were he involved.\n\nAs soon as next week we can expect ministers to introduce what is known as secondary legislation, a bolt-on to existing laws, that will allow people with the necessary transferrable skills to fill gaps left by striking workers.\n\nThe plan from ministers in the longer term is a new law that requires a \"minimum service\" to be provided when there are public transport strikes, a promise the Conservatives made in their last election manifesto.\n\nIn other words, the government is defiant - and so is the RMT.\n\nLabour argues all of this is a sign of government failure, but it finds itself in an awkward spot too.\n\nThat's because, while the government has condemned the strikes, Labour is more careful in its language. It says it wishes the strikes weren't happening, but doesn't condemn them.\n\nLabour's Kate Osborne says she'll defy the leadership by picketing with RMT members\n\nAnd now a row is brewing because a note sent to shadow ministers by the party leadership says: \"Please be reminded that frontbenchers including PPSs should not be on picket lines.\"\n\nA PPS is a parliamentary private secretary, an assistant to a frontbencher, but someone expected to toe the party line.\n\n\"Please speak to all the members of your team to remind them of this and confirm with me that you have done so,\" the note goes on.\n\nBut Labour MP Kate Osborne, herself a PPS, has tweeted: \"Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow.\"\n\nThe general secretary of the Unite union, Sharon Graham, added: \"To instruct Labour MPs not to be on picket lines with workers speaks volumes. It's time to decide whose side you're on.\"\n\nThe context here, on the railways and in the wider economy, is Covid.\n\nPassenger numbers are down by a fifth, and an expensive fifth if you are a train operating company.\n\nCommuters and business travellers, who pay a premium to travel at peak times, are not travelling as much.\n\nFor that reason, ministers argue, change is inevitable. But the union says it is absurd that there is full employment and yet falling wages.\n\nWhich brings us to the bigger picture. Prices are rising at a speed not seen in 40 years.\n\nThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, has said wages in the private and public sector can't keep up with these price rises, or inflation will get worse.\n\nThe judgement of ministers, in other words, is the only way this gets better in the medium term is for the majority of people to feel poorer in the short term.\n\nThat's quite a thing for a senior minister to say: Having less money now is a price worth paying for things getting better sooner.\n\nWhat will Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have to say?\n\nAs Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies puts it, \"the question for government is how to distribute the pain, across people and across time, not how to avoid it altogether.\n\n\"That's not possible. Different interest groups will, entirely understandably, fight their corner. But we can't all win.\"\n\nMinisters are currently trying to work out how to sell this not entirely palatable message.\n\nWe can expect a joint speech from the prime minister and the chancellor in the first couple of weeks of next month.\n\nIt currently has the working title of A Plan for a Stronger Economy, but they've got to decide precisely what they want to say in it.\n\n\"One struggles to work out what their economic policy actually is,\" one former minister tells me. \"You need to look like you know what you want to do.\n\n\"They have lots of ideas, but it mustn't look random. And it does look random at the moment.\"\n\nOne idea that has been kicked around in recent weeks is return of those Covid-era Downing Street news conferences, perhaps every fortnight, with ministers, slides, graphs and experts.\n\nSo alongside the chancellor might be an official from the Office for National Statistics, for instance.\n\nThe rationale is that this would allow ministers to \"level with people\", which is government speak for telling us bad news.", "The ban will not apply to Russian composers who died before the collapse of the Soviet Union\n\nUkraine's parliament has voted in favour of banning some Russian music in media and public spaces.\n\nThe ban will not apply to all Russian music, but rather relates to music created or performed by those who are or were Russian citizens after 1991.\n\nArtists who have condemned Russia's war in Ukraine can apply for an exemption from the ban.\n\nThe import of books from Russia and Belarus will also be prohibited under the legislation.\n\nMany of those living in areas of east and south Ukraine have historically felt a strong connection to Russia, often speaking Russian as their first language.\n\nBut Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led many Ukrainians to want to separate themselves from Russian culture.\n\nThe bill, approved by MPs on Sunday, bans some Russian music from being played or performed on television, radio, schools, public transport, hotels, restaurants, cinemas and other public spaces.\n\nIt secured support from 303 of the 450 deputies in the Ukrainian parliament.\n\nThe document says the ban will \"minimise the risks of possible hostile propaganda through music in Ukraine and will increase the volume of national music products in the cultural space,\" BBC Monitoring reports.\n\nThe ban will apply to musicians who have or had Russian citizenship at any time after 1991 - the year Ukraine declared independence - except for those who are Ukrainian citizens or were so at the time of their death.\n\nThis means the works of long-dead Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich can still be performed.\n\nRussian artists who condemn the war in Ukraine can apply for an exemption for their music by submitting an application to Ukraine's security service. In it, they must state that they support the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine, call on Russia to immediately stop its aggression against Ukraine, and undertake to refrain from any steps that contradict these written statements, the BBC's Ukrainian Service reports.\n\nThe document also includes laws to increase the share of Ukrainian songs played on the radio to 40%, as well as increasing the use of Ukrainian in daily programmes to 75%, Ukraine's public broadcaster (Suspilne) reports.\n\nIn a parallel bill to that affecting music, books imported from Russia, Belarus and occupied Ukrainian territories will also banned, as well as material in Russian imported from other countries.\n\nThis law will ban the publishing and distributing of books written by Russian citizens (with similar exemptions to those for music) though this will not apply to books already published in Ukraine.\n\nIn addition, translations of books will only be published in Ukrainian, official EU languages or indigenous Ukrainian languages.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Four Tet's best songs include Butterflies, Two Thousand and Seventeen, and Lush\n\nPioneering electronic artist Four Tet has reached a settlement in the legal battle against his former record label.\n\nThe musician, whose real name is Kieran Hebden, sued Domino Records last year over the royalties he gets paid when his music is downloaded or streamed.\n\nHe argued that the 13.5% royalty rate he was being offered was unfair, and demanded a 50% split with the label.\n\nIn a settlement, Domino agreed to the honour the 50% rate and reimbursed the musician for historic underpayments.\n\nIt was quite a reversal for the indie label, which originally responded to the case by removing several Four Tet albums from streaming services (they were later reinstated).\n\n\"It has been a difficult and stressful experience to work my way through this court case and I'm so glad we got this positive result,\" wrote Hebden in a statement announcing the settlement.\n\n\"Hopefully I've opened up a constructive dialogue and maybe prompted others to push for a fairer deal on historical contracts, written at a time when the music industry operated entirely differently.\"\n\nThe result could set a legal precedent for contract disputes in the music business; where royalty rates have been subject to heavy scrutiny since last year's inquiry into the streaming market by MPs on the Culture Select Committee.\n\nHowever, Four Tet's legal challenge was ultimately decided out of court, so any future disputes would not be able to cite a legal judgement.\n\n\"Neither the courts, nor the settlement terms, have made any determination as to how streaming should be categorised or streaming income split,\" said Domino Records in a statement, adding it was \"pleased\" that Hebden had chosen to settle the case on \"financial terms first offered to him in November 2021\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Four Tet\n\nThe dispute concerned the recording contract Hebden signed with Domino in 2001, which resulted in four albums: Pause (2001), Rounds (2003), Everything Ecstatic (2005) and There Is Love In You (2010).\n\nThe deal was signed before the advent of downloads of streams - and his dispute hinged on whether those methods of accessing his music could be defined as a \"sale\" or a \"licence\" under the terms of his contract.\n\nThe difference is far from academic because most artists receive 50% of the royalties for a licence but a much lower figure, typically between 12% and 22%, for a sale.\n\nHistorically, the difference was due to the way music was distributed: selling music in the era of CDs, vinyl and cassettes incurred huge costs in manufacturing and distribution, which meant labels needed to cover their overheads. But when music is licensed to movies, television or advertisements, artists generally get a bigger payday, on the understanding that a third party is bearing the relevant costs.\n\nAfter the advent of iTunes and Spotify, labels often argued that downloads and streams should be counted as sales.\n\nThis prompted a flurry of lawsuits, especially in the US. Most famously, the producers who discovered Eminem won a case against Universal Records that forced the label to pay the higher \"licensing\" rate when his songs were downloaded.\n\nFour Tet's case in the UK essentially made the same argument.\n\nDomino had argued that digital downloads, including streams, were considered a new technology format and Hebden was only entitled to the 13.5% royalty rate (although they have paid him as much as 18% on a discretionary basis).\n\nThe case quickly became complicated, with Hebden adding a claim for breach of contract after Domino withdrew his music from streaming services; and Domino saying they may to take the case to the High Court, which Hebden could not afford.\n\nHowever, in a statement posted on social media today, Hebden said he had been offered the 50% rate he had sought in a settlement, the details of which were made public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by Four Tet\n\n\"Domino have now agreed to treat streaming and download income as licensing income and will apply the 50% rate to streaming and download income going forward, and have reimbursed Kieran for the underpayment over recent years,\" said his lawyer, Aneesh Patel, in a statement.\n\n\"I really hope that my own course of action encourages anyone who might feel intimidated by challenging a record label with substantial means,\" added Hebden.\n\n\"Unlike Domino, I didn't work with a big law firm and luckily the case took place in the IPEC [Intellectual Property and Enterprise court] where legal costs are capped, so I was able to stand my ground.\"\n\nHebden shared images of the settlement, which showed that he would receive £56,921.08 in respect of all historical streaming and download income, dated back to July 2017, in addition to interest calculated at a rate of 5% per year.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Domino added: \"Kieran's claim arose from differing interpretations of specific clauses in a contract entered into by Kieran and Domino in 2001 in the pre-streaming era, and the application of those clauses to streaming income.\n\n\"Since 2021 Kieran has added to and pursued his claim despite numerous attempts by Domino to settle the matter.\n\n\"The case now having been settled, we are glad to be able to dedicate our full attention to resourcing and supporting our artists and we wish Kieran continued success in his career.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "George Orwell's most-known works were Animal Farm and 1984 but the writer also wrote for the BBC and numerous publications\n\nGeorge Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm is to be translated into Scots.\n\nThe book is one of nine titles to be published in the Scots language, with funding from the Scots Language Resource Network.\n\nIt has already been translated into Gaelic but this is the first time it will be able to be read in Scots.\n\nEdinburgh publisher Luath Press said it believed Mr Orwell would have been pleased with the development for his work.\n\nThe publisher said: \"We are very confident that Thomas Clark will create a superb rendering of the book in Scots, and that Orwell himself would have approved, given his comments on Scottish linguistic culture.\"\n\nOrwell wrote his best-known work, 1984, while living on a farmhouse in Barnhill on the Island of Jura.\n\nThe Scots Publication Grant is designed to support the translation of both published works and new authors.\n\nAs well as Animal Farm, the following titles have also received funding:\n\nMarjolein Robertson has been funded to write an almanac in the Shetland dialect.\n\nShetland comedian Marjolein Robertson has also received funding to write an almanac in the Shetland dialect.\n\nShe said: \"The idea of creating a Shetland almanac in dialect is something we have dreamed of for years so it is incredible to receive this grant to allow this to become a reality.\n\n\"To present to folk an exploration of our lore, history and most importantly, practices that are and can still be used to this day.\n\n\"To write this in our mother tongue allows for the descriptions, names and stories to come across in their truth and hopefully encourage the continued use of dialect in our home.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the Scottish government was pleased to support the Scots Publication Grant for a fourth year.\n\nShe said: \"There is a huge appetite for books in Scots and we have seen how this funding supports a range of exceptional Scots talent, in a variety of genres, and clearly demonstrates Scots is thriving. My congratulations to those who have been successful this year.\"", "Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis has been arrested in southern Italy on suspicion of aggravated sexual assault, Italian news agencies have reported.\n\nBrindisi prosecutors said he was also accused of \"aggravated personal injury and crimes committed to the prejudice of a young foreign woman\".\n\nThe Canadian film-maker's' lawyer Priya Chaudhry issued a statement saying he was \"totally innocent\".\n\n\"Under Italian Law, I cannot discuss the evidence,\" she said.\n\n\"That said, I am confident that all allegations will be dismissed against Mr Haggis. He is totally innocent and willing to fully co-operate with the authorities so the truth comes out quickly.\"\n\nThe ANSA and AGI agencies also report Mr Haggis has denied the allegations via another lawyer, Michele Laforgia.\n\n\"Make enquiries as soon as possible, I am totally innocent,\" he said, according to the agencies, who quoted Laforgia.\n\nMr Haggis, 69, who wrote and produced the Oscar-winning 2005 film Crash, was expected to headline the Allora Fest film festival, which kicks off on Tuesday in the city of Ostuni in the province of Brindisi.\n\nProsecutors said the alleged victim had been staying with Mr Haggis ahead of the festival.\n\n\"The suspect allegedly forced the young woman, whom he met some time ago, to undergo sexual intercourse,\" they wrote.\n\nFollowing one encounter, the woman was \"forced to seek medical care\", they added.\n\nAccording to Italy's La Repubblica newspaper, Mr Haggis is under house arrest at a hotel in Ostuni.\n\nThe Allora Fest said they \"learned with dismay and shock the news that Paul Haggis is in custody for alleged violence.\"\n\nIt added that the festival's directors \"immediately proceeded to remove any participation of the director from the event.\"\n\nMr Haggis is also known for writing and producing the film Million Dollar Baby, which also won a best picture Oscar, the year before Crash.\n\nHis other credits include writing the scripts for Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 59 people are known to have died in lightning strikes and landslides triggered by severe monsoon storms in India and Bangladesh.\n\nMillions of people have been stranded while emergency workers have struggled to reach those affected.\n\nForecasters are warning that the flooding is expected to get worse over the next few days.\n\nSome Bangladesh government officials have described the recent flooding as the country's worst since 2004.\n\nUnrelenting rains over the last week have inundated vast swathes of the country's north-east region, exacerbated by run-off from heavy downpours across mountains in neighbouring India.\n\nSchools have been converted into makeshift shelters, while troops have been deployed to evacuate households cut off from neighbouring communities as a result of rising waters.\n\nBangladesh government officials have described the floods as the country's worst since 2004\n\n\"The whole village went under water by early Friday and we all got stranded,\" Lokman, whose family lives in Companiganj village in Bangladesh, told AFP news agency.\n\n\"After waiting a whole day on the roof of our home, a neighbour rescued us with a makeshift boat. My mother said she has never seen such floods in her entire life,\" the 23-year-old added.\n\nSylhet, in northeast Bangladesh, has seen villagers wade through streets that were flooded up to their knees.\n\nA patient is moved to a higher floor as flood waters enter a hospital in Sylhet, Bangladesh\n\nIn Assam state in neighbouring India, more than 1.8 million people have been affected by floods after five days of incessant downpours.\n\nAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters he had instructed district officials to provide \"all necessary help and relief\" to those caught in the flooding.\n\n\"Our house is submerged in water. I've never seen such huge floods in my life,\" Husna Begum, a resident of Udiana village in Assam, told the BBC.\n\nThe 28-year-old has been living in a rickety plastic tent with her children since Thursday. \"There is no drinking water in the camp here. My son has a fever, but I am unable to take him to the doctor,\" she said.\n\nRonju Chowdhary, who lives in the same village, described the scale of the flooding. \"We are surrounded by water on all sides. There's water inside our homes too,\" he said.\n\nThis week's rains come as Bangladesh's Sylhet region was still recovering from its worst floods in nearly two decades in late May, when at least 10 people were killed and four million others were affected.\n\nSyed Rafiqul Haque, a former lawmaker, said Bangladesh was at risk of a humanitarian crisis with \"almost the entire Sylhet-Sunamganj belt... under water and millions of people... stranded\".\n\nSome 3.1 million people were displaced in the region, officials said, with 200,000 of them now being housed in makeshift shelters on higher ground.\n\nSeasonal monsoon rains represent a lifeline for farmers across South Asia, but typically cause deaths and destruction to property every year. Bangladesh and India have both experienced increasingly extreme weather in recent years.\n\nEnvironmentalists - while not ascribing single weather events to climate change - do warn it could lead to more disasters, especially in countries that are low-lying and densely populated.", "Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne\n\nFrance's centrist government is desperately trying to avoid political paralysis after it lost its majority in the National Assembly.\n\nPrime Minister Elisabeth Borne has spoken of an unprecedented situation and commentators have warned of France becoming ungovernable.\n\nAnd neither Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left-green alliance nor Marine Le Pen's far right are keen to work with him.\n\nMr Macron will also have to replace three ministers who lost their seats in Sunday's vote, and the prime minister's future looks increasingly under threat.\n\nThe president's allies came out in force after Sunday's election setback, widely described by commentators as a slap in the face from voters. The aim is to find a \"working majority\", either a coalition or by forging alliances with other MPs on a case-by-case basis.\n\n\"We are going to form a majority very quickly so it becomes absolute in the National Assembly,\" promised Olivier Véran, the minister in charge of parliamentary relations. Government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire extended a hand to \"all those who want us to move the country forward\".\n\nMinority governments are a rarity in France, and even when there was one in 1988 under President François Mitterrand, he was only 11 seats short of an outright majority. The ruling Ensemble alliance is 44 seats shy of the working majority so it will need to find support from mainstream MPs from both the left and right.\n\nMr Véran believes the government will be able to attract support from other political groups to get important reforms passed, particularly when it comes to the cost of living: \"I can't for a second imagine that a majority cannot emerge in the coming weeks on the spending power law.\"\n\nPresident Macron has laid out a series of plans to tackle the spiralling cost of living, including food vouchers and enhanced benefits. Another big reform is gradually raising the retirement age from 62-65, which has proved unpopular with much of the electorate.\n\nPublic Service Minister Stanislas Guerini said there should be talks with the Republicans on the mainstream right but also with anyone else \"who sees an interest in moving forward with reforms that are good for the country\". Louis Aliot, from Marine Le Pen's National Rally, said if the government included measures his party wanted, such as a cut in sales tax (VAT) then his parliamentary colleagues would \"make the effort to vote for those measures\".\n\nHowever, the initial response from the right-wing Republicans to an alliance was not good. Party chairman Christian Jacob said: \"We've campaigned in opposition, we are in opposition, we'll stay in opposition.\" Another MP, Aurélien Pradié, said he did not have same vision of society as President Macron and did not accept \"forced marriages\".\n\nThere are Republicans who might consider some sort of alliance. Former minister Jean-François Copé said he thought a pact with Mr Macron was vital to \"confront the rise of the extremes\".\n\nBut they would demand a high price from the government. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne looks increasingly under threat, barely a month after she was appointed by Mr Macron.\n\nPublicly, the government says her position is secure but there is mounting pressure for her to resign, particularly from the left.\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon is planning a motion of no confidence against her in the coming weeks, and his colleague Manuel Bompard said the government \"cannot just continue as if nothing has happened\".\n• None What now for Macron after poll setback?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor the first 10 years of her life in the UK, Aysha Aljaf relied on an interpreter.\n\nShe arrived in England in 2008 on a spouse's visa, having fled her home in Kurdistan, in northern Iraq - her husband had already gone through the UK's asylum process.\n\nThe mother of two went on to learn some English through college, but did not have the confidence to tackle conversations on her own.\n\nThat was until she moved to Scotland and discovered a group of refugee women, who met in a small church in Renfrewshire to share their sewing skills and talk amongst friends.\n\n\"When I came here, for more than nine years I was living in the UK - I can't speak,\" Aysha told the BBC. \"Everywhere I went I took an interpreter with me.\n\n\"I came to see [the sewing group], it was really fabulous. I'm so happy I found it. I came for a few days and they asked me to start teaching. I've been coming now for three and a half years. I've learned more English than in college.\n\n\"I speak because face-to-face you can talk about everything, there's more learning. My [vocabulary] is much better than before because I meet with a lot of ladies and very nice families.\"\n\nAysha went on to volunteer with the group, demonstrating how to sew toys and decorations\n\nSewing2Gether was founded in 2018 by freelance sewing tutor Gabi Cullen, who runs workshops from the Mossvale Community Church in Paisley.\n\nFunded by Renfrewshire Council, the group teaches participants about textile upcycling, helping them turn unwanted or discarded fabric into clothes, toys and gifts.\n\nIt began with just one attendee for the first few months - but now more than 40 refugee women come along to sew, make friends and develop their conversational English.\n\nAysha said the network of women has not only improved her language skills but has been willing to help her fill in forms.\n\nNow a British citizen, she has volunteered as a sewing tutor with the group and went on to secure work as a self employed seamstress.\n\nCo-founder of Sewing2Gether Corinne Watt (left) and volunteer (right)\n\nSewing2Gether, she said, is one of the most important things in her life.\n\n\"It's more important than my house,\" she said. \"Because here… I see family, friends and everyone.\n\n\"Everyone has an open heart for you each in a different way, which is why I think it's more important than everything for me - not just for me, for every refugee lady.\"\n\nThe group has so far worked with women from 25 countries, speaking 17 different languages.\n\nFlash cards with common phrases in English are incorporated into workshops, and people can chat over a hot drink and are given a lunch.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, founder Gabi Cullen said: \"One of our members said with this group, we can talk and laugh together and forget about our past. She said, just sharing the moment with good people, that's what makes it special.\n\n\"We have a library and we do travel empowerment. So if we have a member who is a bit afraid to access public transport - maybe not being able to speak English or read it or just the confidence to travel alone. We help with that, we also do a bit of advocacy work as well.\"\n\nThis year, refugee women in the group are producing an exhibition of hand-sewn \"Millie dolls\" as part of the Refugee Festival Scotland programme, from 22-25 June.\n\nThe fabric dolls represent the textile heritage of Paisley, and the tens of thousands of linen mill workers - known as 'Millies' - who worked in the industry at the peak of trading in the 20th century.\n\nThe dolls are also intended to reflect the legacy of women who pass sewing skills through generations.\n\nMillie dolls made by women at the Sewing2Gether group\n\n\"We liked what Millie represented,\" said Gabi. \"She represents a mill worker - a strong, resilient women, and we just thought that was a good connection for us.\n\n\"It's great to be able to take part in the exhibition at the Refugee Festival.\n\n\"Many of our ladies, for various reasons, cannot be photographed or filmed, so it's great to have a doll that they've made that represents them.\"\n\nAysha added: \"The festival is important because it opens our voice - you say 'we are here, not just sitting in our homes, we have a voice,' the same as each other.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail users are braced for days of disruption across England, Scotland and Wales ahead of the biggest rail strike in 30 years.\n\nThere are planned walkouts on most major lines on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday but disruption is also expected on non-strike days due to too few staff working.", "People were advised by police to avoid the area following the crash near Burton in Lonsdale\n\nTwo people have been killed in a helicopter crash in North Yorkshire, police have confirmed.\n\nThe aircraft came down in a field off Bentham Road near Burton in Lonsdale on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales just before midday, officers said.\n\nOne local farmer, who did not want to be named, said he saw \"a large plume of thick black smoke\".\n\nThe families of those involved were being supported by specially trained officers, police added.\n\nThe North Yorkshire force said it was currently unable to provide any further details about those who died in the crash.\n\nNobody else was believed to have been on board the helicopter at the time, it said.\n\nThe force added that part of Bentham Road was closed.\n\nA BBC reporter near the scene of the crash said a police cordon appeared to have been extended late on Monday afternoon. He added that several workers in hi-vis clothing could be seen around the crash site.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed its inspectors were on their way.\n\nIn a statement, the AAIB said: \"An investigation has been launched and a team of inspectors are travelling to the accident site to begin making inquiries.\"\n\nBurton in Lonsdale is near Ingleton, close to the border with Lancashire and Cumbria.\n\nPeter Thompson, chair of Burton in Lonsdale parish council, said: \"We are a rural community of about 600 people. When something like this happens, it is obviously alarming. It's very sad for everyone involved.\"\n\nBurton in Lonsdale is near the border with Lancashire and Cumbria\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk", "\"It's ok to be yourself, whether it's on the field or off the field.\"\n\nThat's the message from Cathal McGurk, one of the players from Northern Ireland's first LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA team, Aeracha Uladh.\n\nFor decades, the dominant image of the GAA was seeing men line out for the All-Ireland football and hurling finals every September.\n\nOver recent years, that has been changing with the development of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA).\n\nThe Camogie Association, which was set up in 1903. has also gone from strength to strength in the past century.\n\nBut, as in many sports, inequalities remain in gaelic games for women and the LGBTQ community.\n\nFor the first time in Northern Ireland, a club has been specifically set up to try to help break down those barriers for LGBTQ people.\n\nAeracha Uladh GAC was established at the end of April and has since gained about 50 members.\n\nCathal McGurk joined the club after seeing it advertised on social media.\n\n\"I've never been part of any gaelic team but it has always been a big part of my family,\" he said.\n\n\"My dad has been involved with the local club, my brother plays for the local club and I always wanted to get involved so I thought now is the time, I might as well.\"\n\nCathal McGurk has been inspired to join a GAA team for the first time\n\nCathal said it would be nice to see more gay men come out publicly in elite sport.\n\nIn May, Blackpool's Jake Daniels became the first professional footballer in 30 years to come out while still playing in the men's game in the UK.\n\n\"It would be nice to see more people feeling that it's ok to be who they are whether it's on the football field or off the field and just embrace it,\" Cathal said.\n\n\"We're a support group for each other as much as anything else too so we can help you as much as you're helping yourself.\"\n\nIn 2009, Cork hurler Donal Óg Cusack revealed he was gay in an autobiography, becoming the first openly gay GAA sports star in Ireland.\n\nThe three-time All-Ireland winner has spoken openly about coming out, how it affected him and his family, and the support he received from his teammates.\n\nIn 2013, Donal Óg's brother Conor Cusack came out as gay after opening up about his depression and mental health issues.\n\nTwo years later, nine-time All-Ireland winner for Cork, Valerie Mulcahy, became the first female GAA player to come out as gay and featured on Donal Óg Cusack's documentary Coming out of the Curve.\n\nThe sport also has an openly gay referee - David Gough, from County Meath, is one of gaelic games' highest-profile match officials.\n\nMartin Murray is the chairperson of Aeracha Uladh\n\nAeracha Uladh was set up by Martin Murray, who also performs as the drag artist Danu Variant.\n\nHe was originally a member of Na Gaeil Aeracha, Ireland's first LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA team in Dublin.\n\n\"Travelling up and down [from Belfast] was too much so I decided to set one up here,\" Martin said.\n\n\"I put it out on social media and there was a great response, we're now up to 650 followers at the moment and then we've got 50 members in the group.\n\n\"New players are coming out to train each week… four or five of them have experience playing when they were younger, some play socially but the majority is people who haven't played the sport before but have always had an interest or grew up watching.\"\n\nThe team's first training session was held at Jordanstown in April, hosted by Antrim GAA star Grainne McLaughlin.\n\nThey are now training twice a week and are planning friendlies for later in the summer with East Belfast GAA and Na Gaeil Aeracha in Dublin.\n\nMartin also helped organise Northern Ireland's first LGBTQ sports day at the Ulster University campus in Jordanstown earlier this month.\n\nEven though the response and feedback from players has been positive, Martin said many \"on the LGBT scene\" were apprehensive about the sports day in the beginning.\n\n\"I really had to comfort them to say it is LGBT-run so it is that kind of atmosphere,\" he said.\n\n\"Some have just had negative experiences in the past with the hetero-normative teams, for lack of a better term.\"\n\nThe GAA Official Guide outlines that all of its clubs are inclusive, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital/relationship status, religion, age or minority community and/or disability.\n\nThe GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association have also been taking steps to address inequalities and promote ladies gaelic games further, including the 20x20 campaign, with a GAA spokesperson adding that Sport Ireland and Sport NI are now creating funding for specific women-in-sport programmes.\n\nA gender diversity working group works across the three associations and there is also a full-time diversity and inclusion officer.\n\nMeanwhile, the GAA for All committee engages in a number of awareness campaigns including LGBTQ+ workshops, and assists in initiatives like wheelchair football and hurling, and inter-cultural activities, among many others.\n\nFor the first time, Ulster GAA will also be officially taking part in Belfast's Pride parade at the end of July.\n\n\"Something set up like this acknowledges and supports not only the LGBT community but also the GAA community to say 'we are ready for somebody to come out and we'll back you up, you're not alone in it',\" Martin said.\n\nFrancis Lagan joined the team in its first week and said he is \"absolutely loving the atmosphere\".\n\n\"I think a lot of ones who have come out to train have said they feel more themselves because they can actually enjoy the sport more rather than worrying about what's going on with them or what everyone else is thinking.\n\nFrancis Lagan loves the atmosphere at the club\n\nFrancis said he hopes the new team sparks further change within the GAA community and other sports to become more inclusive.\n\n\"In the past I felt it was just for men and women weren't treated the same, but I think that change is coming,\" he said.\n\n\"Change is going to happen and I hope it will be with ourselves too.\"\n\nDaniel O'Rawe joined the team without ever playing gaelic games before but said he always wanted to do it but felt \"too intimidated to join\" a team.\n\n\"When this came up I leapt at it, joined the first training session and it was great,\" he said.\n\nDaniel O'Rawe is new to GAA\n\n\"When I started I couldn't play at all but now I can do the basics at least and we've done some basic matches which are really fun.\n\n\"It's also really good socially - there must be about 20 of us who hang out at least once a week now.\"\n\nFor others considering joining but unsure whether to take the plunge or not, Daniel said to \"go for it\".\n\n\"Even if you try a session and decide you don't like it you can always join the social,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's great getting to know each other and then having people to hang out with and just chat to.\"\n\nAeracha Uladh is currently taking steps to become an affiliated club within the GAA, meaning it will be able to play in the County Antrim league and championship.", "Rules on so-called buy now pay later (BNPL) loans will be tightened up, the government says - including new guidelines on advertising and checks to ensure customers can afford to pay.\n\nApple has said it plans to launch a buy now pay later option for users of Apple Pay, initially in the US.\n\nBut critics say BNPL schemes encourage people to spend beyond their means.\n\nThe loans - used by 15 million people in the UK in 2021 - are typically spread over a number of payments.\n\nAlthough the instalments are interest free - BNPL companies make money from the retailer, usually taking a cut from sales - there may be additional charges if customers miss payments.\n\nThe main operators offering the service in the UK are Klarna, Clearpay, Laybuy and PayPal.\n\nIn September 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) commissioned a review of BNPL schemes, which recommended the industry should be regulated.\n\nA recent survey by Citizens Advice suggested many consumers were using credit cards and other forms of debt to make payments.\n\nThe charity heard from 2,288 people who had used buy now pay later during the past 12 months.\n\nIt found that 52% made repayments from their current account, but 23% used a credit card, 9% used a bank overdraft and 7% borrowed from friends and family.\n\nIn March it found that that young people, people in debt and people claiming Universal Credit, were at least twice as likely to have used BNPL to cover essentials such as food and toiletries, than other groups.\n\nUnder plans set out by the government:\n\nThe government said other forms of short-term interest-free credit, such as those used to pay for dental work or larger items like furniture, will be required to comply with the same rules.\n\nIn a statement accompanying the proposals, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, John Glen said: \"We are protecting consumers and fostering the safe growth of this innovative market in the UK.\"\n\nBut the proposals will not come into force for at least a year, with legislation scheduled for mid-2023, after which the FCA will consult on new rules.\n\nAlex Marsh, Head of Klarna UK, said he welcomed the new rules - telling the BBC the company already checked customers could afford to pay - and called for them to be brought in sooner.\n\n\"We urge the Government to move quicker than planned to implement regulation which gives additional protections to consumers from both irresponsible, unregulated BNPL providers and traditional banks disguising high interest products as 'BNPL'.\"\n\nCitizens Advice also called for faster action: \"The buy now pay later sector continues to grow at a meteoric rate, but it could now remain unregulated for years,\" Dame Clare Moriarty, its chief executive wrote.\n\nShe called on the government to \"turbo-charge\" its plans, and protect consumers sooner.", "US Open 2022: Matt Fitzpatrick wins first major at Brookline Country Club Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nEngland's Matt Fitzpatrick was swamped by his family after superbly holding off the world's best players to claim his first major title with a one-shot victory in the US Open at Brookline. The 27-year-old was also hugged by Rory McIlroy on the 18th green as he became just the third Englishman in 52 years to win the sport's second oldest major. Fitzpatrick shot a two-under 68 for a six-under total to beat world number one Scottie Scheffler (67) and Will Zalatoris (69) in a gripping battle that went to the final hole. \"It's what you grow up dreaming of,\" said Fitzpatrick. \"It's something I've worked so hard for for such a long time. I've got to give myself credit: I had so much patience.\" His win will be remembered for the stunning shot he played from a fairway bunker on the 18th. In scenes reminiscent of Sandy Lyle's final-hole bunker shot on his way to winning the 1988 Masters at Augusta National, Fitzpatrick launched a high cut at the green, the ball landing 20 feet beyond the flag and spinning a couple of feet closer. A two-putt par was then enough to spark scenes of sheer jubilation as his mum, dad and brother embraced him on the green. Sheffield-born Fitzpatrick, who also won the US Amateur title at Brookline back in 2013 joins Jack Nicklaus as the only two men to win both that and the US Open at the same venue - Nicklaus achieved the feat at Pebble Beach. He is also the first non-American to win both titles. And he joins 1970 champion Tony Jacklin and 2013 victor Justin Rose as modern-day English winners of the US Open. He is the first British winner of a men's major since Danny Willett at the 2016 Masters.\n• None Key shot to US Open win was hit and hope - Fitzpatrick Both Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris went close at last month's US PGA Championship and despite neither of them having won on the PGA Tour before this week, they did not flinch during a titanic struggle on a tense final day. Fitzpatrick holds his nerve on day of twists and turns Matt Fitzpatrick wins his first major at the US Open Masters champion Scheffler, defending champion Jon Rahm and world number three McIlroy were all within striking distance of joint overnight leaders Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris at the start of the final round in Massachusetts. But while Rahm and McIlroy's challenges faltered, Scheffler powered into the lead with four birdies in his first six holes as he looked to become just the sixth man to win the Masters and US Open in the same year, and only the second man after Tiger Woods to win this major while sitting top of the world rankings. Fitzpatrick answered with birdies on the third and fifth holes while a nervy looking Zalatoris had two bogeys to slip four shots behind the leading duo. However, two stunning irons shots led to successive birdies on the sixth and seventh holes to spark 25-year-old Zalatoris into life, and when Scheffler hit trouble around the turn and Fitzpatrick missed two short putts, all of a sudden it was Zalatoris who led by two. A huge turning point came on the 13th, though, when Fitzpatrick holed a 48-foot birdie putt to tie Zalatoris, who made a clutch par save from 12 feet. Scheffler was always lurking, but the final pair looked determined that one of them would become the 14th first-time major winner to lift the US Open trophy in the past 18 years - it was just a case of who would land that knockout blow. On the 15th, Fitzpatrick moved two clear when he made a birdie and Zalatoris a bogey, but the American cut that advantage in half with a birdie on 17 after yet another laser of an iron shot. More drama came on the final hole. Fitzpatrick hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker but the Englishman escaped brilliantly and although a two-putt par left Zalatoris needing a birdie to force a play-off, the Texan was unable to hole his effort. You would not have bet against extra holes given all three previous US Opens held at Brookline have been decided by play-offs. But Zalatoris' effort slid agonisingly wide and as he slumped to his knees, Fitzpatrick and his caddie Billy Foster embraced. It was more major agony for Zalatoris though, who finished as runner-up for the second major in a row after losing to Justin Thomas in a play-off at the US PGA Championship. 'I did not want a fairway bunker shot' Matt Fitzpatrick hits the shot that clinched his US Open title from the fairway bunker on 18 Fitzpatrick hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation in a stunning display of control and consistency, but the shot he will be remembered for is his remarkable recovery shot from the bunker on 18. \"If there's one shot I just did not want this year it's a fairway bunker shot,\" said Fitzpatrick. \"When I saw it leave the sand I couldn't be happier.\" Fitzpatrick and his family have stayed with the same American family in Boston that hosted him for his 2013 US Amateur victory - with the familiarity of the situation having a positive impact throughout the week. \"I've obviously won here twice now. I'm trying to get every tour event round here. To stay with them this week has made it so much more relaxing. There's no pressure and I've loved every minute of it.\" Rory McIlroy had yet another top-10 finish at the US Open While Rahm saw his challenge fizzle out with a final-round 74, it was another missed chance for McIlroy to add to his four major titles after an eight-year drought. McIlroy could never find any consistency in his one-under 69, following all of his three front-nine birdies with bogeys. Two late birdies pushed him up into a tied-fifth finish. It is a 16th top-10 finish, eight of them top five, in the 29 majors McIlroy has played since winning his last one in 2014 - and although frustrated he is trying to remain positive. \"I'll look back at this as another missed opportunity just as Southern Hills was, but missed opportunities are better than not contending at all, \" said McIlroy. \"So that is a positive. I have to stay patient at this point because if I just keep putting myself in position, sooner or later it's going to be my day and I'm going to get one.\" Billy Foster has previously caddied for Seve Ballesteros, Lee Westwood and Darren Clarke Among the scenes of unbridled joy on the 18th green, Fitzpatrick's veteran caddie Foster was arguably more emotional than his boss as he finally enjoyed a major victory after 40 years of carrying the bags of some of the sport's biggest stars. Foster has been on the bag of the likes of Seve Ballesteros, Lee Westwood and Darren Clarke and never won a major, and the usually stoic Yorkshireman was overcome with emotion. \"It's unbelievably emotional,\" Foster told Sky Sports. \"I'm glad someone has got that giant monkey off my back. \"It means a lot. Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve, they've had their chances over the years and (Thomas) Bjorn. \"I was caddying for him that day when he left it in the bunker at Sandwich [in 2003] and that really hurt. I thought about it for six months and it broke my heart. That has put a lot of bad memories to bed. It means everything. \"I knew he was good enough to win a major and this week he has played unbelievable and he's not putted his best, which is incredible really. \"He did my head in missing a few short putts,\" he laughed. \"He didn't need to win by four. One was enough.\"\n• None Are the risks of vaping starting to show? An 18 year old girl describes how vaping may have caused her gums to start bleeding\n• None Is this a new exciting tournament for golf or a method to cleanse the country's global reputation?", "Ed Sheeran has been the UK's most-played artist every year since 2018, except for 2020, when Dua Lipa briefly replaced him\n\nEd Sheeran was the most-played artist in the UK last year, according to new data from music licensing body PPL.\n\nThe star also had the most-played song of the year with Bad Habits.\n\nIt's the fourth time in five years that Sheeran has been named the UK's most-played artist, calculated by plays on radio, TV, pubs, clubs and shops.\n\nThe singer last topped the most-played song chart in 2017 with Shape Of You, over which he recently won a High Court copyright case.\n\nSheeran's continued success is \"a testament to the quality of his output [and] the strength of UK music at a time when the global music landscape is more competitive than ever,\" said PPL chief executive Peter Leatham.\n\nBut Bedford-born singer Tom Grennan could coming for Sheeran's crown.\n\nThe singer, who was recently hospitalised after being attacked in New York, had the second and third most-played songs of 2021.\n\nHis Calvin Harris collaboration, By Your Side, took the runner-up spot, with his solo single Little Bit of Love in third place.\n\nThe Weeknd's Blinding Lights was the fourth most-played track of 2021, even though it was originally released in November 2019.\n\nThe song, which has sold three million copies in the UK, was also recently named the biggest hit of all time on the US Billboard charts, overtaking Chubby Checker's 1960 single The Twist.\n\nAnother long-in-the-tooth chartmaker was Miley Cyrus's Midnight Sky - a modern riff on Stevie Nicks' Edge Of Seventeen - which took ninth place on the UK chart.\n\nFrench DJ David Guetta also had two tracks in the top 10: Heartbreak Anthem, a collaboration with Little Mix; and Bed, which was recorded with Raye and Joel Corry.\n\nThe feat helped him become the second most-played artist of 2021; while Dua Lipa took third place.\n\nLittle Mix, who announced an indefinite hiatus last year, also made the top 10 for the fifth year in a row.\n\nPink appeared at number 10, illustrating the enduring popularity of her back catalogue on UK radio. Last year, the PPL named the US star the UK's most-played female artist of the 21st century.\n\nThe organisation announced its charts to coincide with its annual report. It said it had collected a total revenue of £252.8m, the proceeds of which were shared between 147,000 performers and rightsholders.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Primark is to finally sell its clothes online through a new click-and-collect service for children's products.\n\nThe High Street retailer said 2,000 goods will be offered through a trial which will run out of 25 shops in the north west of England.\n\nUntil now, Primark has resisted selling its products online unlike other retailers.\n\nAs a result, the business was hit hard by Covid restrictions while stores were closed.\n\nRetail analyst Catherine Shuttleworth described Primark's move as a \"very big deal\", adding: \"Covid showed the risk of having a store-only estate\".\n\nHowever, the trial is not part of a wider plan to enable all of company's products to be sold online, according to George Weston, chief executive of Primark's parent company, Associated British Foods (ABF).\n\n\"What you will never see is the entire Primark range available for click and collect, nor any of it available for home delivery,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We are using online selling for click and collecting very selectively,\" he added. \"When they come into their local Primark store if they've purchase online, then we hope they will buy something else while they are in store as well.\"\n\nMs Shuttleworth said: \"Primark has been looking for the best way to enter the online market, but if you're late to the party - which it is - you need to do it in the most profitable way possible.\n\n\"Click-and-collect is simpler to build into your existing operation of shops, you don't need a logistics partner, and returns come straight back into the store.\"\n\nMr Weston said delivering orders to people's homes was complex, not good for the environment and a \"really expensive way of fulfilling someone's order\".\n\nABF recently revamped its UK site to give more details of in-store ranges, so customers can browse the full collection and check availability before coming into stores.\n\nABF said its new website, which launched in April, saw online traffic rise by around 60%.\n\nIt said the trial will allow customers who live nearer a smaller Primark store access to a much wider range of items.\n\n\"Our average-size stores are only able to stock a limited range and for these customers the number of options available to them will broadly double, increasing even more for customers of our small stores,\" said ABF.\n\n\"This trial will enable us to provide more fashion, licence and lifestyle products to more customers and more often.\"\n\nThe group said Primark sales increased by 81% in the three months to the end of May, when compared with last year.\n\nAll Primark stores were open during the period, unlike last year when most stores were closed until the middle of April due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe chain, which was founded in 1969, has never had an online store nor offered click-and-collect services for its products until now.\n\nThe firm has previously said this is because it would not be able to keep prices for its clothing as low if it offered home delivery.\n\nSelling items online can be costly for retailers, who often cover the costs of deliveries and returns as a way of winning customers from rivals.\n\nIt also takes longer for warehouse staff to process returned stock.\n\nWhile Primark suffered from its lack of online presence during the lockdowns, sales quickly recovered when stores reopened in April 2021.\n\nA senior executive at the firm recently told the BBC that the pandemic had \"accelerated\" changes that were already taking place between the high street and online.\n\nHowever, John Bason, finance director at Primark's parent company ABF, said he is confident that the High Street does have a future.\n\n\"Even though we were closed probably six months for the two main years of the pandemic, our customers have come back to us. That I think is very very striking,\" he added.\n\n\"So no, I think the demise of the High Street is way overstated, but it is changing. There's no doubt over it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 300kg (661lb) stingray caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented, scientists say.\n\nIt unseated the previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg) Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005.\n\nThere is no official record-keeping or database of the world's biggest freshwater fish.\n\nThe Mekong is rich in biodiversity but overfishing, dams and pollution threaten its fragile ecosystem.\n\nIt flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.\n\n\"In 20 years of researching giant fish in rivers and lakes on six continents, this is the largest freshwater fish that we've encountered or that's been documented anywhere worldwide,\" said Zeb Hogan, a biologist who leads Wonders of the Mekong, a USAID-funded conservation project.\n\n\"Finding and documenting this fish is remarkable, and a rare positive sign of hope, even more so because it occurred in the Mekong, a river that's currently facing many challenges,\" added Dr Hogan, who is also a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.\n\nThe stingray was studied and tagged before...\n\n... it was released back into the water\n\nThe conservation project works with the Cambodian Fisheries Administration to set up a network of fishermen who alert the researchers if they catch giant or endangered fish.\n\nOn the night of 13 June, a local fisherman on Koh Preah island called to tell researchers that he had caught a \"very big\" stingray - it turned out to be 3.98m long and 2.2m wide.\n\nAfter being fitted with an acoustic tag to track its future movement, the stingray was released back into the river.\n\nIt disappeared into the muddy waters of the Mekong around dusk when the moon was already up in the sky, Dr Hogan said.\n\nIn the local Khmer language, the fish is called \"Boramy\", which means full moon.\n\n\"The stingray find is evidence that the natural world can still yield new and extraordinary discoveries, and that many of the largest aquatic creatures remain woefully understudied,\" Dr Hogan said.\n\nThe giant freshwater stingray is an endangered species. This is the second giant stingray examined by the team since May - the earlier one weighed 181kg.\n\n\"When record fish are found, it means the aquatic environment is still relatively healthy. This is in contrast to what we've seen in places like the Yantgze River, where scientists reported the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish,\" Dr Hogan said.\n\n\"The Mekong's deep pools sustain life far beyond these impressive giants. Spawning in this critical habitat produces billions of fish every year which ensure the food security and livelihoods for millions of people in Cambodia and Vietnam.\"", "The Transport Secretary has rejected a request by the aviation industry to allow them to recruit workers from overseas, aviation insiders have told the BBC.\n\nCompanies asked for special immigration visas for overseas workers at a meeting with Grant Shapps on Wednesday.\n\nThousands of holidaymakers have seen their travel plans disrupted this week after flight cancellations and delays at airports.\n\nUnderstaffing is to blame, say experts.\n\nThe half-term break and bank holiday Jubilee weekend is the first major test the industry has faced since all Covid travel restrictions were lifted in March. Nearly 27,000 flights out of the UK have been scheduled between 27 May and 5 June, according to aviation data firm Cirium.\n\nHowever, the industry has struggled to recruit staff to replace those workers who lost their job or left the sector during Covid.\n\nIt has resulted in long queues at airports to get through security, check-in baggage or delays in retrieving luggage.\n\nIndustry bosses suggested to Mr Shapps that one potential fix would be to allow EU workers to cover the huge number of operational vacancies as the travel sector approaches the peak summer holidays in July and August.\n\nExecutives questioned why some creative industries can get special visas and aviation cannot.\n\nIt is understood that the government considered changes to the Shortage Occupation List but ministers discounted the idea.\n\nSome of the professions that are on the government's list include graphic designers, IT technicians, chefs and ballet dancers.\n\nInstead a working group is being set up ahead of the summer holidays \"to work through issues of shared concerns together\".\n\nThe Department for Transport declined to comment.\n\nSteve Heapy, chief executive of holiday firm Jet2, blamed Brexit for the shortage of staff.\n\n\"Brexit has taken hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people out of the employment market and that undoubtedly is having an impact,\" he told the BBC.\n\nFollowing delay at airports this week, passengers are being advised they should take just one carry-on bag on holiday with them and not check-in luggage to avoid delays.\n\nThe GMB union, which represents aviation workers, said if people don't check-in luggage it \"limits the disruption\". Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy PC Agency, said: \"The smaller the bag, the less time you spend in security queues.\"\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across the UK employed around 140,000 people, according to industry body Airlines UK.\n\nMore than 30,000 members of staff have been laid off from UK airlines alone over the past two years.\n\nThe UK labour market currently has a record number of available vacancies and the lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years.\n\nFlights departing on Thursday appear to have done so without much incident at Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester. There are scheduled to be 2,746 flights departing from UK on Thursday, equating to 479,383 available seats. Amsterdam, Dublin and Mallorca are the top destinations.\n\nWhile passengers have reported long queues again at Manchester on social media, there are no signs of cancellations.\n\nTui said that all its flights are now operating as normal after a difficult week for the UK's largest tour operator.\n\nIt cancelled six flights a day from Manchester for the entirety of June in an attempt to limit the impact of staffing levels at Swissport, which provides ground services for Tui.\n\nBA and easyJet have also cancelled flights.\n\nTui says 80% of those who had flights cancelled have now rebooked after it kept some of its stores open until midnight to allow passengers to find alternatives.", "Development of a major North Sea gas field has been approved by regulators.\n\nThe Jackdaw field, east of Aberdeen, has the potential to produce 6.5% of Britain's gas output.\n\nThe regulatory approval comes as the UK government seeks to boost domestic energy output following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nShell's proposals were initially rejected on environmental grounds in October.\n\n\"We're turbocharging renewables and nuclear, but we are also realistic about our energy needs now,\" he said on Twitter.\n\n\"Let's source more of the gas we need from British waters to protect energy security.\"\n\nUnder the new plan, Shell plans to start production from the field in the second half of 2025.\n\nThe oil and gas company said the approval came \"at a time when UK energy security is critically required.\"\n\nShell said it expected to spend £500m in the UK to develop the new facility.\n\nIt said the Jackdaw field should be able to provide gas to 1.4m British homes, and its carbon emissions should eventually be captured for storage, if a large project in Peterhead secures funding.\n\nBut environmental campaigners have condemned the move.\n\nThe activist group Greenpeace said it believed the approval could be unlawful and it was considering legal action.\n\n\"Approving Jackdaw is a desperate and destructive decision from Johnson's government, and proves there is no long-term plan,\" said Ami McCarthy, a political campaigner for Greenpeace.\n\nThe approval comes as Britain struggles with soaring energy prices in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 24 February.\n\nEnergy independence was a major theme of the UK energy strategy announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in early April.\n\nThe main focus was investing in renewable and nuclear power but it also promised new licences for gas projects in the North Sea arguing that producing gas in UK waters has a lower carbon footprint than doing so abroad.\n\nIt is understood that Shell has changed the way it processes natural gas before it brings it onshore.\n\nThe plan had been to vent excess gas at an offshore hub to reduce the corrosive CO2 content in the pipes.\n\nThe UK was one of 100 countries that pledged to cut methane gas emissions by 30% over the next 10 years.\n\nUnder the new plan Shell will bring a higher percentage of gas ashore.\n\nIt was the Cambo oil field, west of Shetland, that got the attention as world leaders gathered in Glasgow seven months ago to show their commitment to tackling climate change.\n\nCambo was the test of how serious the UK government really was. As minority partner in the development, Shell pulled out. It was expensive, in deep water, and the politics of it made it a riskier investment.\n\nIt had other projects to consider first. Jackdaw, a gas field close to existing infrastructure, was what Shell describes as a \"vanilla\" project - relatively, very straight forward.\n\nPermission to install a tie-back (subsea link) to a nearby platform had been refused last year, on the grounds that production would raise emissions unacceptably.\n\nShell appealed. It wants to capture those emissions at the carbon capture and storage plant it is helping to plan for St Fergus in Aberdeenshire (but which the UK government put on the back burner). And it plans also to re-power its offshore platforms with renewable electricity rather than burning gas.\n\nAlong with the sudden rise in concern about energy security that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, those arguments appear to have won over the UK government and its regulator.\n\nThe fight doesn't stop here. The industry saw Jackdaw as a test of whether the UK government is serious about energy security: but for environmental campaigners, it's a test of whether the UK government is serious about climate change.", "The Queen has said she is \"inspired\" by the goodwill of the nation as celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee begin.\n\nIn a Jubilee message, she thanked the public for organising events and said \"many happy memories\" would be made.\n\nMillions are gearing up for street parties to mark the monarch's 70 years on the throne over the four-day bank holiday weekend.\n\nA new official photograph of the Queen at Windsor Castle was also released.\n\nAs well as community celebrations across the country, there are a series of official events, starting with Thursday's Trooping the Colour parade and ending on Sunday with a Jubilee Pageant through London.\n\nThe monarch said: \"I continue to be inspired by the goodwill shown to me, and hope that the coming days will provide an opportunity to reflect on all that has been achieved during the last 70 years, as we look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm.\"\n\nThe portrait released along with her message was taken by Ranald Mackechnie in the Victoria Vestibule at Windsor Castle earlier this year.\n\nIt shows the Queen looking contented, sitting on a cushioned window seat at the castle which has been her main home for the last couple of years. The famous Round Tower is visible through the window.\n\nMr Mackechnie took two previous portraits of the Queen alongside the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George to mark her 90th birthday in 2016.\n\nPrinces George and Prince Louis with Princess Charlotte arrived by carriage with their mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall\n\nMore than 1,500 soldiers, with hundreds of musicians and horses, are taking part in Trooping the Colour\n\nPeople gathered on the Mall early on Thursday, with some having camped overnight\n\nThe traditional Trooping the Colour parade to mark the Queen's official birthday involves more than 1,500 officers and soldiers and 350 horses from the Household Division, as well as an RAF flypast.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch, who has mobility issues and has recently cancelled several public appearances, is likely to join members of the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace to watch the display.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are watching the parade, although they will not appear on the balcony.\n\nThe couple, who now live in the US, have a prime vantage point from the Duke of Wellington's former office, overlooking Horse Guards Parade, where they can see Prince Charles inspect the guardsmen and officers and take their salute in his mother's place.\n\nThey travelled with their children Archie, three, and Lilibet, who turns one on Saturday. Lilibet is the Queen's family nickname.\n\nThe Queen's son Prince Andrew, whose royal titles were returned to the Crown amid a lawsuit in the US, is not present.\n\nThe Platinum Jubilee celebrates something that has never happened before.\n\nNo British monarch has ever reigned for 70 years - it's a remarkable length of time on the throne.\n\nTo put it in perspective, the Queen's reign is already longer than the reigns of her four predecessors put together.\n\nHer time as monarch has stretched over multiple eras, across 14 different UK prime ministers and 14 US presidents.\n\nOlder readers might be scratching their heads finding it hard to believe it's 45 years since the Silver Jubilee and the long, hot summer of 1977.\n\nThe nearest comparison in length of reign is Queen Victoria's 63 years - and in international terms, the Queen isn't far behind the 72 years of the Sun King of France, Louis XIV.\n\nReaching the age of 96 is also unprecedented for a British monarch. The Queen is one of about 138,000 people in the UK over the age of 95, the great majority of them women.\n\nApart from Elizabeth II, only two other monarchs have even lived into their eighties - Victoria and George III.\n\nOn Thursday evening, more than 3,000 beacons will be lit across the UK and the Commonwealth in tribute to the Queen, with the Tree of Trees beacon illuminated outside the palace.\n\nThe monarch is to lead the lighting of the principal Jubilee beacon in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nAlso on Thursday the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will guest star in an episode of TV soap EastEnders, on BBC One at 19:30 BST.\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William rode on horseback during the parade\n\nHouses in Windsor - and across the country - were decorated with flags and balloons for the weekend\n\nRoyal enthusiasts began camping out on the Mall on Wednesday for a good view of the events\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla join the residents of Albert Square at their jubilee street party.\n\nAt a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday, there will be other accommodations made for the Queen's comfort, with no ceremonial journey to the event.\n\nIf the monarch does attend, she will use a different entrance rather than scaling the steps.\n\nAnd it is not certain she will make the planned trip to Epsom for the Derby on Saturday.\n\nOn that evening, the BBC's Party at the Palace concert - set on three stages in front of Buckingham Palace - will see Diana Ross, George Ezra, Alicia Keys and Nile Rodgers entertain a live crowd of 22,000 people and a television audience of millions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe last time the Royal Family appeared on the balcony was in 2019 - with Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and Prince Andrew\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds flocked to the Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace to get an early taste of the Jubilee celebrations\n\nAt the concert, heir to the throne Prince Charles and his son, the Duke of Cambridge, will pay tribute to the Queen who will be watching on television.\n\nOn Sunday there will be street parties, picnics and barbecues across the UK with more than 85,000 Big Jubilee Lunches planned.\n\nThe finale of the weekend will be the Jubilee Pageant which will make its way through the streets of the capital with a cast of 6,000 performers and close to 200 celebrities.\n\nIt will end with Ed Sheeran singing the national anthem with a choir made up of \"national treasures\" outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nAhead of the celebrations, the Queen took a short break at Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, but returned to Windsor on Tuesday.\n\nSaturday is the first birthday of Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet - who is named after the Queen's family nickname.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Princess Eugenie has led tributes to her in an article in the Spectator, describing her \"grannie\" as \"a woman who has transcended time and has been that constant rock for so many when the world can feel so fragile\".\n\nShe said she would love her son August to \"have her patience, her calmness and her kindness, while always being able to laugh at himself and keep a twinkle in his eye\".\n\nNot everyone will be celebrating the occasion. Anti-monarchy campaign group Republic said a recent poll had shown the British public \"just aren't that bothered about royal events\".\n\nSpeaking for the group, Graham Smith said: \"The Jubilee is not a national celebration, it is a carefully staged event to promote the monarchy and the royal brand.\"", "Police say a gunman killed four people in Tulsa\n\nFour people have been killed in a shooting spree at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police say.\n\nOfficers confirmed that the suspected shooter, who was armed with a rifle and a handgun, was also dead.\n\nPolice arrived at the scene on Wednesday afternoon at St Francis Hospital in three minutes - which they say ensured the death toll wasn't higher.\n\nMultiple injuries had also been confirmed, officials added.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Deputy Police Chief Eric Dalgleish said: \"Right now we have four civilians that are dead, and one shooter that is dead.\"\n\nHe said the shooter, who has not yet been identified, sustained fatal gunshot wounds which were believed to have been self-inflicted.\n\nThe suspect \"had one long gun and one hand gun on the scene at the time\", he said.\n\nNo information was available about a possible motivation for the attack.\n\nDeputy Dalgleish said that police received a call about an active shooter at 16:52 local (20:52 GMT) and arrived at the scene within three minutes.\n\n\"The officers who did arrive did hear shots in the building and that's what directed them to the second floor,\" he said.\n\nOfficers are currently interviewing witnesses throughout the building, including those who were on the second floor - where the attack took place.\n\nSpeaking to ABC News, Captain Richard Meulenberg said that by the time police arrived at the medical campus they \"found a few people have been shot\" and some of them had already died.\n\nIt was a \"catastrophic scene\", he said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has been briefed on the Tulsa shooting, White House officials also said in a statement.\n\nLast Saturday, President Biden urged Americans to make their voices heard to prevent further gun violence, following the killing of 19 children and two teachers at a school in Texas.", "French Open: Amelie Mauresmo apologises for 'out of context' comments Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAmelie Mauresmo won the Wimbledon and the Australian Open titles during her playing career French Open director Amelie Mauresmo apologised for saying women's matches were less appealing than men's and said she had been quoted \"out of context\". She had faced criticism after only one of this year's 10 night sessions featured a women's match. Her comment that men's matches had \"more attraction and appeal\" surprised women's world number one Iga Swiatek. \"I want to say sorry to the players that really felt bad about what I said,\" Frenchwoman Mauresmo, 42, said. \"The comments I made were taken out of context,\" the two-time Grand Slam champion told the Tennis Channel. \"The people who know me, who've known me on and off the court, throughout my career, throughout everything that I've done, know I'm a big fighter for equal rights and women's tennis, women in general.\" Poland's Swiatek, who will play American Coco Gauff in Saturday's French Open final, has played all of her six matches in the daytime. The only night session to feature a women's match was last Thursday, when France's Alize Cornet beat Latvian 13th seed Jelena Ostapenko in three sets. The second-round match between Alize Cornet and Jelena Ostapenko lasted one hour 41 minutes Former Wimbledon and Australian Open champion Mauresmo, in her first year as tournament director at the clay-court Grand Slam, said it was \"more difficult\" to put women's matches on late with the evening session only including one match. Mauresmo said she was looking to change the format of the sessions. \"I didn't decide to have this one match,\" she added. \"Next year to be more fair to the women's players it would be good to maybe have the possibility to put two matches or maybe a women's match plus a doubles match. \"Concerning the scheduling, specifically for the night matches, my say was that because we have one match only, it's really tougher to schedule a woman's match because we have to take into consideration the length. It's the fair thing to do for the ticketholders. \"We will try to find a better solution to be fair to everyone. We tried to modernise the event, move forward and there are some adjustments to be made.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can The Outlaws outsmart the criminal underworld?\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA heroic Ukraine roused a performance of spirit, endeavour and courage to stun Scotland and earn a historic World Cup play-off final against Wales.\n\nWith their country enshrouded in trauma amid the ongoing war with Russia, a team hauled together shone brightly at a sun-drenched Hampden.\n\nAndriy Yarmolenko and Roman Yaremchuk struck either side of half-time, before Callum McGregor gave Scotland hope late on. But Artem Dovbyk sealed a Qatar 2022 showdown in Cardiff on Sunday with the last kick of the ball.\n\nWhile images of fans watching on in war-torn Ukraine circulated, 3,500 fans bedecked in light blue and yellow - including 65 orphans invited by the Scottish FA - celebrated wildly in Glasgow on a night none will forget.\n• None 'Suffering Scotland will get back on horse'\n• None Podcast: 'Scotland were lamentable. It was going on 6-0'\n• None All the reaction from emotional night at Hampden\n\nIt was an evening which started with the lyrics of the Ukrainian national anthem striking an emotional chord at a charged Hampden.\n\nMoments after their side strode on to the pitch draped in flags of their homeland, the words which were belted out took on a whole new significance. \"The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished. Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.\"\n\nAs it transpired, luck had little to do with their team's triumph here. In perhaps their finest hour, they were peerless.\n\nThis match was a long time coming. Originally planned for March but postponed in the hope Ukraine would be capable of playing the fixture, a series of friendlies were all Olexandr Petrakov had to prepare.\n\nIt's been a gut-wrenching journey, with the tears on the face Oleksandr Zinchenko in Tuesday's pre-match news conference offering a poignant reminder to all what this game means against the backdrop of Ukraine's struggles.\n\nBut in Glasgow, there was no emotional fatigue. Not a hint of an adrenaline rush fading, not a whiff of the event getting the better of them.\n\nBarring a late rally from the hosts, Petrakov's men exposed Scotland's vulnerabilities, which were made even more pronounced by the absence of Arsenal's Kieran Tierney. The opener on 33 minutes articulated that perfectly.\n\nYarmolenko timed his run on to a through ball to perfection as Scotland's high line failed. It was just him and the whites of Craig Gordon's eyes. Those eyes soon gazed up as the ball floated sublimely over the goalkeeper's head and into the back of the net.\n\nSteve Clarke shuffled his pack at half-time, throwing on Ryan Christie. But just four minutes after the restart, Scotland were again ripped open with ease.\n\nOleksandr Karavaev was given the freedom of Mount Florida to bowl in another cross and Yaremchuk dealt with Aaron Hickey's attention without much trouble, his arching header back across goal looping in.\n\nClarke stood still at the edge of his technical area as the Benfica striker raced to his countrymen and women behind the goal.\n\nIn truth, the warning signs had been there. Gordon had denied Viktor Tsygankov on the half volley, while the Hearts goalkeeper saved from Yarmolenko at point-blank range with the game goalless.\n\nThen came the moment when Scotland saw their world flash in front of them. John McGinn, the Tartan Army's darling, was gifted a header from six yards after Georgiy Bushchan flapped at a cross. With the goal at his mercy, the Aston Villa man headed wide. He looked on in disbelief.\n\nOn the touchline, Clarke seemed unmoved, preparing two substitutes for a late charge.\n\nScotland charged but toiled still, yet with 11 minutes they were gifted a lifeline. McGregor's effort was again not dealt with by an increasingly rattled Bushchan, who palmed the ball into the air and just over the line before it was hacked clear. Hampden erupted in a primal roar of desperate hope rather than founded expectation.\n\nBut as Scotland pushed, they were even more exposed at the back. A series of long punts in the closing stages broke down, with one final roll of the dice allowing the Ukrainians to burst forward deep into injury time.\n\nSubstitute Dovbyk had all the time he wished to eventually dispatch the ball by Gordon. The Dnipro-1 forward, who has not played a competitive match since December, showed little emotion as the ball ruffled the net. Around him, his compatriots celebrated wildly on an astonishing night for Ukraine as a football team, and a nation.\n\nWhat does this mean?\n\nIn what is perhaps the finest moment for the Ukraine national team, even in victory the celebrations are against a sombre backdrop.\n\nCoach Petrakov spoke from the heart in his post-match news conference. He dedicated the result to the people of Ukraine, and they may yet have another chapter to pen in this saga on Sunday. Don't bet against it.\n\nClarke acknowledged that his team were outplayed by their opponents, and captain Andy Robertson said Scotland didn't show up. It's hard to argue with either point.\n\nFor Scotland, there have been some truly bruising moments in the pursuit of tournament football since France '98. But the sting from this one will eat away more than most.\n\nThe level of expectation surrounding the national team has been raised. Regardless of the condition of the opponents, there was a confidence that Scotland would be in Wales this Sunday.\n\nBut what we saw was reminiscent of the deflating false hope experienced at last summer's Euros, when the Czechs dealt the Scots a heavy blow. They seemed caught out by the occasion. A shot at glory did not fall through their grasp, it was yanked away.\n\nAs either Ukraine or Wales can look forward with excitement to Qatar, self reflection will be the immediate thought for Clarke and his players whatever happens in the coming days.\n• None Scotland have failed to qualify for the last six men's World Cups since 1998. Between 1974 and 1998 they missed only one of seven tournaments.\n• None Ukraine have progressed from a World Cup qualifying play-off tie for the first time at the fifth attempt, after failing in 1997, 2001, 2009 and 2013.\n• None This was only the third meeting between the sides, with Ukraine now winning two, adding to a 2-0 victory in October 2006.\n• None Yaremchuk has scored four goals in 2022 World Cup qualifying - the most of any Ukraine player. Three of those four goals have come away from home in Kazakhstan, Finland and Scotland.\n• None McGregor scored only his second goal in his 43rd game for Scotland, adding to an effort against Croatia at Euro 2020.\n• None Aged 39 years and 152 days, Gordon became the oldest player to appear for Scotland in a World Cup or World Cup qualifying match since Jim Leighton at the 1998 finals (39 years 334 days vs Morocco).\n• None Yarmolenko scored his 45th goal for Ukraine, and is now only three behind Andriy Shevchenko (48).\n\nWhile Ukraine go to Cardiff, Scotland will have to try and rouse themselves for their Nations League opener against Armenia at Hampden next Wednesday (19:45 BST), followed by trips to Ireland and Armenia in the following six days.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, Ukraine 3. Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Hickey.\n• None Attempt missed. Oleksandr Zubkov (Ukraine) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n• None Attempt missed. Grant Hanley (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by John McGinn with a cross following a corner.\n• None Mykola Shaparenko (Ukraine) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ryan Christie (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, Ukraine 2. Callum McGregor (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Johnny Depp's defamation court case against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, has concluded after six weeks, with the jury awarding the actor $10m (£8m) in compensatory damages. He was also awarded $5m in punitive damages.\n\nJurors also found that Depp had defamed Heard through his attorney and awarded her $2m.\n\nThe trial was livestreamed online and watched by millions of viewers worldwide.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNorthern Ireland's search for a first Nations League win has now stretched to 11 matches after a deflating home defeat by Greece.\n\nVisiting captain Tasos Bakasetas scored the only goal of a somewhat scrappy game at Windsor Park late in the first half.\n\nSubstitute Kyle Lafferty fired just over the crossbar with a well-hit free-kick late on as the hosts came to life in the final 25 minutes after a flat first-half performance.\n\nIan Baraclough's men are now away to Cyprus on Sunday in their second League C Group 2 match before their busy schedule takes them to Kosovo on 9 June, then they complete their opening quadruple-header at home to Cyprus on 12 June.\n• None Greece defeat Northern Ireland in Nations League opener - as it happened\n\nThursday night's result made it eight defeats and three draws in the Nations League for Northern Ireland, who are playing in the third tier of the competition for the first time after being relegated. Baraclough also has just one win in 11 matches in Belfast as manager.\n\nHe is without a number of senior players for this camp and gave a competitive debut to Fleetwood Town's Paddy Lane, while Manchester City's 18-year-old Shea Charles, one of four new call-ups, came on as a late substitute for his senior international debut.\n\nGreece's decisive goal arrived in the 39th minute when the Northern Ireland midfield failed to track the forward run of visiting captain Bakasetas.\n\nWhen Dimitris Limnios played the ball inside from the right, Bakasetas had far too much time and space on the edge of the box as he controlled the ball well and planted a fine low strike wide of Bailey Peacock-Farrell and into the far corner.\n\nThe double substitution of Lafferty and Niall McGinn on the hour-mark injected much-needed life into a low-key showing from the home side, and both subs came close to grabbing an equaliser.\n\nMcGinn hit a snapshot from the edge of the area on 66 minutes but it was straight at Benfica keeper Odisseas Vlachodimos and a few minutes later captain Steven Davis - further extending his caps record with a 135th appearance - hit a right-foot curler over the crossbar.\n\nIt looked like the stage might be set when, with five minutes remaining, the returning Lafferty stood over a free-kick 20 yards out, and his shot was well hit but it went just over the crossbar.\n\nThe 34-year-old Kilmarnock striker, who has now gone over 19 hours of international football without a goal, had returned to the squad having been left out of the last three camps by Baraclough.\n\nNorthern Ireland fail to threaten in flat first half\n\nDespite a number of senior players being unavailable for Northern Ireland, there seemed to be an upbeat mood in the camp, boosted no doubt by captain Davis signing a new contract at Rangers and speaking of how much he was looking forward to continuing to play for his country.\n\nManager Baraclough was upbeat too, once again talking up the positive aspects of having so many new and young players in his squad, and showing faith in two of them as he selected youngsters Conor Bradley and Paddy Lane at wing-back in his favoured 3-5-2 formation.\n\nFleetwood's Lane, 21, was making his first competitive start on the left, having made his debut in March, while 18-year-old Bradley of Liverpool was winning his sixth cap.\n\nBradley has impressed in his early appearances but he struggled in the first half with the home crowd not getting to see the surging forward runs that he has delivered in his early international career.\n\nLane struggled to impose himself on the left flank but both worked tirelessly throughout, even if their youthful exuberance led to them committing a few needless fouls as the visitors looked to get in behind them.\n\nNorthern Ireland as a whole simply failed to fire in the first half and were unable to mount enough attacks to put the Greeks under any pressure. The quality of ball that was being played to front pair Gavin Whyte and Shayne Lavery was poor, though Whyte did turn smartly and get a decent shot away on 18 minutes, but it was too close to goalkeeper Vlachodimos who saved.\n\nLavery got in down the right and Saville got in down the left, but each of their crosses were blocked, while Paddy McNair and Lane both hit inviting deliveries that nobody was able to convert.\n\nGreece were patient in possession without creating too many opportunities themselves, though they came close in the 23rd minute when Giorgos Giakoumakis' header on the stretch from a Lazaros Rota was saved by Bailey Peacock-Farrell.\n• None Patrick McNair (Northern Ireland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Georgios Tzavellas (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Ballard (Northern Ireland) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick McNair with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Senior royals gathered on Buckingham Palace balcony for the first time since the pandemic\n\nRoaring crowds cheered the Queen as she joined other royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the first of four days of Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nThousands flooded The Mall, waving flags in the brilliant sunshine to celebrate the Queen's 70-year reign.\n\nThe 96-year-old watched a flypast with 17 other royals and was immediately flanked by Prince Charles and four-year old great-grandson Prince Louis.\n\nThe Queen looked delighted as she and Prince Louis chatted during the event.\n\nBut the noise of the 70-aircraft flypast was too much for the young prince, who was pictured covering his ears and tightly shutting his eyes.\n\nThe parade marked the start of a long bank holiday weekend of events celebrating the Queen's reign - the longest by a British monarch.\n\nRiding on horseback and wearing the Platinum Jubilee medal with his uniform, the Prince of Wales inspected the troops in his mother's place.\n\nThe Queen, who was using a walking stick, has limited her appearances in recent months due to mobility issues.\n\nAs the soldiers marched towards Buckingham Palace at the end of the parade, the Queen emerged on to the balcony, accompanied by cheers from the crowd.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Highlights from the beginning of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations\n\nPrinces George and Prince Louis with Princess Charlotte arrived by carriage with their mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William rode on horseback during the parade\n\nA large crowd lined the Mall, some of whom had camped overnight for the best spot\n\nMore than 1,500 officers and soldiers along with 350 horses from the Household Division took part in Trooping the Colour, the first time the parade has been staged in full since the pandemic.\n\nAfter the parade, more than 70 aircraft - including Spitfires from World War Two, Apache helicopters, Typhoons and the Red Arrows - took part in the flypast over Buckingham Palace.\n\nSeveral jets flew in formation to form the number 70 in honour of the Queen's long reign\n\nThe Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, took up a position on the far right of the balcony, standing with his immediate family, meaning he was cropped out of many pictures seen on the day\n\nPrince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - flanked the monarch on the balcony - the Royal Family's first gathering there since 2019.\n\nIt had been decided only \"working royals\" would appear, which excluded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the Queen's son, the Duke of York.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan, who now live in the US, watched Trooping the Colour from a vantage point in the Duke of Wellington's former office, overlooking Horse Guards Parade.\n\nThey travelled with their children Archie, three, and Lilibet, who turns one on Saturday. Lilibet is the family nickname for the Queen.\n\nMeghan appeared at the window of the Major General's office overlooking the Trooping of the Colour\n\nPrince Harry was also spotted with Savannah Phillips and Mia Tindall at the same window\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have been keeping a very low profile and seem to be carefully avoiding any accusations of stealing the limelight.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were pictured watching the Trooping the Colour ceremony from windows above Horse Guards Parade, but mostly stayed out of sight.\n\nSince they weren't part of the Buckingham Palace balcony scene or in the carriage procession, they've largely remained under the radar and away from centre stage.\n\nThat's probably what Buckingham Palace most wanted. Because the couple attract so much public interest, both positive and negative, it could drown out the focus on the Jubilee events.\n\nThis might be about building bridges rather than making headlines, because they would have been made aware of the damage of any attention-grabbing comments or appearances.\n\nBut they are expected to be at St Paul's on Friday for the service of thanksgiving - and there is speculation about private meetings with the Queen over the weekend.\n\nIt's their daughter Lilibet's first birthday on Saturday, so it could all align for a family gathering.\n\nRead more from Sean here.\n\nSpace for public viewing filled up by mid-morning. Thousands of spectators lined the Mall and filled nearby St James' Park, waving flags and draped in union jacks.\n\nMany in the crowd saw the day as a historic moment, and spoke of their admiration for the Queen.\n\n\"She's such a strong personality,\" said Salamath Silmy, from north London. \"I always talk to my daughter about how we have to be strong like her.\"\n\nVisiting from the US, Elaine Henderson said the day represented \"everything I love about Britain\".\n\nThe parade was also briefly interrupted by protestors, claimed to be from animal rights and climate campaign group Animal Rebellion. Police arrested 12 people for obstruction of the highway.\n\nMillions of people are gearing up for street parties among other celebrations over the four-day Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Queen met with roaring crowd as she appears on Buckingham Palace balcony\n\nOn Thursday evening, more than 3,000 beacons were lit across the UK and the Commonwealth in tribute to the Queen, with the Tree of Trees beacon illuminated outside the palace.\n\nThe Queen led the lighting of the principal Jubilee beacon in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Queen touched the Commonwealth of Nations Globe to begin the beacon lighting ceremony\n\nThe Queen set off a chain of lights which lit the principal beacon, rounding off the first day of celebrations\n\nHowever, she will not attend Friday's Jubilee service at St Paul's Cathedral after experiencing discomfort at Thursday's ceremony, Buckingham Palace said, adding the decision had made with \"great reluctance\".\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla also appeared in an episode of TV soap EastEnders, on BBC One. The royal couple joined the the fictional residents of Albert Square at their Jubilee street party, in scenes filmed earlier this year.\n\nThe Red Arrows left their signature red, white and blue trails in the skies above the Mall\n\nCrowds filled the Mall, Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square in central London\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn that evening, the BBC's Party at the Palace concert - set on three stages in front of Buckingham Palace - will see Diana Ross, George Ezra, Alicia Keys and Nile Rodgers entertain a live crowd of 22,000 people and a television audience of millions.\n\nAt the concert, heir to the throne Prince Charles and his son, the Duke of Cambridge, will pay tribute to the Queen who will be watching on television.\n\nOn Sunday there will be street parties, picnics and barbecues across the UK with more than 85,000 Big Jubilee Lunches planned.\n\nThe finale of the weekend will be the Jubilee Pageant which will make its way through the streets of the capital with a cast of 6,000 performers and close to 200 celebrities.\n\nIt will end with Ed Sheeran singing the national anthem with a choir made up of \"national treasures\" outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Queen thanked the public for organising celebratory events and said \"many happy memories\" would be made.\n\n\"I continue to be inspired by the goodwill shown to me, and hope that the coming days will provide an opportunity to reflect on all that has been achieved during the last 70 years, as we look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm,\" she said in a statement.\n\nIt was the first full Trooping the Colour since 2019\n\nA royal gun salute was fired from Edinburgh Castle - with others in Cardiff Bay and Hillsborough Castle", "Bushmeat is a delicacy in parts of Nigeria, but in other places it can be a vital source of food\n\nThe Nigerian government has banned the sale of bushmeat as a precaution to stop the spread of monkeypox.\n\nSix cases have been detected in the country this month bringing to 21 the number of confirmed infections this year, the authorities said.\n\nExperts say it is possible that the virus can be caught by eating meat from an infected animal. But this is not the most common transmission route.\n\nIt occurs mostly in remote areas, near tropical rainforests.\n\nThe country has had sporadic cases since an outbreak in 2017. The virus was found mainly in the south of the country but, since 2020, it has spread to central, eastern and northern areas, the World Health Organization says.\n\nOut of the 21 confirmed cases this year, there has been one reported death of a person who had underlying conditions. But earlier this week the health authorities said \"there has been no evidence of any new or unusual transmission of the virus, nor changes in its clinical manifestation documented\".\n\nScientists are struggling to explain a recent rise in monkeypox cases in Europe, which have not been linked to travel to the African countries where it is endemic. But there are suggestions the virus has been spreading from person to person for some time undetected.\n\nMonkeypox can be spread when someone is in close contact with an infected person. The virus can enter the body through broken skin, the respiratory tract or through the eyes, nose or mouth.\n\nThose infected in the UK have been advised to avoid having sex while they have symptoms.\n\nThe animals that can pass on the virus are infected rodents, including rats and squirrels. According to health experts, this can happen if someone is bitten or touches an infected animal.\n\nBushmeat refers to any wild animal that is killed for consumption, including antelopes, chimpanzees, fruit bats, rats, porcupines and snakes.\n\nIn some remote areas of Nigeria it is a vital source of food, while in others it has become a delicacy.\n\nThere are many bushmeat markets in Nigeria and it is unclear how the ban will be implemented.\n\nThe ministry of agriculture also directed vets and its other officials to increase surveillance aimed at detecting any possible cases of monkeypox in animals.\n\nOperators of zoos, parks, conservation areas and recreational centres were reminded to make sure there was no contact between animals and humans", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jubilee beacons lit up across the globe\n\nThe Queen will not attend Friday's Jubilee service at St Paul's Cathedral after experiencing discomfort while watching Thursday's parade at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe decision was made with \"great reluctance\" after considering the \"journey and activity required\", the palace said.\n\nHowever, she did take part in a beacon lighting ceremony on Thursday evening.\n\nFour days of celebrations marking the Queen's 70-year reign began earlier.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch appeared twice on the Buckingham Palace balcony, flanked by other senior royals, as they watched a military parade and waved at thousands of well-wishers gathered on The Mall.\n\nHours after the ceremony, the palace confirmed she would not attend Friday's thanksgiving service, but said she \"would like to thank all those who made today such a memorable occasion\".\n\nThe next Jubilee event the Queen is due to attend is the derby at Epsom race course on Saturday, although it is yet not known whether she will still appear at the horse race.\n\nAt dusk on Thursday the Queen took part in a beacon-lighting event, touching a symbolic globe to start the ceremony\n\nThe Queen set off a river of lights which lit the principal beacon, rounding off the first day of celebrations\n\nThe service at St Paul's in central London will give thanks for the Queen's seven decades as monarch.\n\nSenior royals including the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will all attend, with Prince Charles officially representing the Queen.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex - who have flown over from California - will also join. It will be Prince Harry and Meghan's first royal event together since leaving the UK two years ago.\n\nHowever, Prince Andrew will be absent after testing positive for Covid.\n\nThe royals will be joined by more than 400 honours recipients, including NHS and key workers, public servants and representatives from charities and the Armed Forces.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will give a reading from the New Testament, while the sermon will be given by the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe largest church bell in the UK, the 16-tonne Great Paul, will ring continuously for four hours after the service. The event begins at 11:30 BST on Friday, with coverage starting on BBC One from 09:15.\n\nOther political attendees will include Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, cabinet members, former prime ministers and the leaders of the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nYoung people representing countries where the Queen is head of state will lead an 'Act of Commitment' to celebrate her life and reign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Soak up the atmosphere on The Mall in the highlights of Thursday's Jubilee celebrations\n\nThursday evening's beacon lighting event saw the Queen symbolically touch a globe to begin the ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe head of state illuminated the globe, sending a chain of lights from her Windsor Castle home to Buckingham Palace, where Prince William watched as a sculpture, the Tree of Trees, was bathed in light.\n\nThousands of beacons were also lit across the UK and the Commonwealth to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nBeacons were visible around Scotland to mark the occasion, with tributes being lit at landmarks from Edinburgh Castle to Ben Nevis - Britain's highest mountain.\n\nOne of the main flames to be lit in Wales was outside the Pierhead building in Cardiff Bay, where the evening's celebrations were capped with a firework display over the water.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 13 beacons were lit at Enniskillen Castle, while the building was illuminated purple and two beams of light were projected into the night sky.\n\nIn Wales, a striking dragon-shaped beacon was lit in Bagillt, Flintshire\n\nA beacon being lit at Enniskillen Castle in Northern Ireland\n\nThe service is not the first engagement the Queen has had to miss in recent months because of health problems.\n\nIn May, she missed the State Opening of Parliament because of \"episodic mobility problems\" and in February she caught Covid, which she said left her feeling \"very tired and exhausted\".\n\nWhile the Queen seemed delighted, the noise of the 70-aircraft flypast was too much for four-year-old Prince Louis\n\nThousands of people flocked to The Mall in the June sunshine to celebrate\n\nThe Queen will have pulled out of the thanksgiving service only with very great regret.\n\nShe has a deep religious faith and the service at St Paul's Cathedral would have been one of her highest priorities for the weekend.\n\nIt was thought that she was more committed to attending the church service than many of the weekend's events.\n\nBut Thursday's exertions have left her suffering from discomfort, with a recurrence of the mobility problems that have caused her to cancel events before.\n\nNow it seems the journey to St Paul's, a procession and the length of the church service have become too difficult.\n\nIt's at short notice, with the programme for the church service already printed. So it will leave a real sense of loss to have the Queen, the focal point of the service, no longer attending.", "Airline passengers should take just one carry-on bag on holiday with them and not check-in luggage to avoid delays, according to industry figures.\n\nThe GMB union, which represents aviation workers, said if people don't check-in luggage it \"limits the disruption\".\n\nHundreds of flights have been cancelled this week due to staff shortages across the sector.\n\nThe industry has met with the government to address the problems.\n\n\"It is one less thing to worry about. If people can check in online and do not take bags, that limits the disruption,\" Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB, told The Daily Telegraph.\n\n\"It's not a magic bullet but it does reduce the chance of there being problems.\"\n\nMeanwhile Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy PC Agency, said: \"The smaller the bag, the less time you spend in security queues. That would reduce the queues during the busiest weekend of the year so far.\"\n\nJohn Irving, chief executive of Liverpool Airport, said he was not advising travellers to limit their luggage. But he told the BBC's Today programme: \"I think people have to make their own decisions to be honest on what they think is right for them, whether or not that's carrying hand luggage or getting there three hours earlier than their flight.\"\n\nSo far, at least 377 flights out of the UK have been cancelled since 25 May, according to flight tracking firm Cirium, affecting thousands of people who booked holidays over the half-term break and the Jubilee bank holiday weekend.\n\nBefore Covid, airports and airlines across the UK employed around 140,000 people, according to industry body Airlines UK, but thousands of jobs were cut as travel ground to a halt.\n\nMore than 30,000 members of staff were laid off from UK airlines alone. The industry says it is now working to refill the vacancies.\n\nFollowing a meeting with the travel industry on Wednesday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he understood the sector's staffing problems but added it \"does not excuse poor planning and overbooking flights that they cannot service\".\n\nHe said airline bosses should have been preparing for a \"surge in passenger demand following two years of travel closures\".\n\nThe BBC understands that at the meeting, airlines and airports asked Mr Shapps to add industry workers to the government's shortage occupation list which would allow companies to recruit staff from overseas.\n\nDavid Evans, group joint chief executive of Collinson Group, which operates airport lounges across the UK, said Mr Shapps should reconsider.\n\n\"I think if we're going to get levels back to what we expected, if we're going to get the economy going then we've got to look again at bringing in workers from other countries,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The industry has suffered a huge amount of uncertainty throughout Covid - the sort of yoyo-ing of rules and regulations meant that a number of staff left the industry.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps met with the aviation sector to address the disruption seen at airports\n\nBut plans to quickly rehire those workers have been hit by strict background checks carried out on aviation workers.\n\nBritish Airways alone said \"thousands\" of new recruits were still waiting for their security clearance.\n\nThe aviation industry has asked for direct access to HM Revenue & Customs tax records in order to speed up the vetting process for potential new hires. Despite data privacy concerns, it is hoped that the move will remove red tape and streamline recruitment in the sector.\n\nOther ideas for avoiding travel chaos this summer were put forward in Wednesday's meeting between the government and the industry.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the Department of Transport did not elaborate on what policy proposals had been made, or accepted.", "'Evidence matters, but the jury are fans too'\n\nIf you were to take a look at social media over the past month, you'd see that to many, Heard lost in the court of public opinion weeks ago. \"What's interesting about public opinion in this case is that we can measure it,\" said journalist and author Cooper Lawrence, who has written extensively on celebrity culture. \"#JusticeForJohnnyDepp has more than 18 billion hits on TikTok. Amber Heard has only a tiny percentage of that.\" Each day of the trial, Depp would pass hundreds of screaming fans on the short walk from his car to court. Jurors had been instructed to stay offline and ignore all coverage of the case. But the noise around this case will have been hard to ignore. \"I think it will be really interesting to see how the jury responds to the cult of celebrity that's in front of them,\" Lawrence said before the verdict. \"Evidence matters, but the jury are fans, too.\"", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Russian forces have seized 20% of his country's territory, as Moscow's invasion nears its 100th day.\n\nAddressing lawmakers in Luxembourg, he added that the front line extended for more than 1,000km (621 miles).\n\n\"All combat-ready Russian military formations are involved in this aggression,\" he told MPs via videolink.\n\nRussian forces have been intensifying attacks on the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nUK defence officials say Russia has seized most of the city and are making \"steady local gains, enabled by a heavy concentration of artillery\".\n\nSeverodonetsk is the easternmost city under Ukrainian control and regional governor Serhiy Haidai said Russia was trying to break through defences in the city \"from all directions\".\n\nHowever he said Ukrainian troops were carrying out counter-attacks, \"pushing back the enemy on some streets and taking several prisoners\".\n\nIntense street-to-street fighting in the city had hampered evacuations, he said, describing such efforts as \"extremely dangerous\".\n\nIn a video address late on Thursday evening, Mr Zelensky said the situation in Donbas had not changed significantly that day but that Ukrainians had experienced \"some success\" in battles in Severodonetsk.\n\nSome 15,000 civilians remain trapped in the city, with many of them taking shelter at the massive Azot chemical plant.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Zelensky accused Russia of \"madness\" after its troops allegedly targeted the site during an artillery barrage.\n\nFurther south, the mayor of the occupied city of Mariupol has accused Russian forces of executing civil servants who have refused to collaborate with the new Moscow-backed city authority.\n\nVadym Boychenko, who was evacuated from Mariupol before it fell, said dozens of residents were being held at the Olenivka Prison and that he had received reports of locals being tortured by occupying forces. The BBC cannot verify these allegations.\n\nLast week an adviser to Mr Boychenko told CNN that at least 22,000 people had been killed during Russia's siege and bombardment of the city.\n\nIn the north-east, Russian shelling killed a woman and injured a man in Kharkiv, regional officials said.\n\nAnd in western Ukraine five civilians were hurt in missile strikes on Lviv, regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said.\n\nWestern leaders are also stepping up sanctions against key allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nUS Treasury Department officials unveiled a new raft of sanctions on Thursday, with targets including several yachts allegedly linked to Mr Putin and a cellist who allegedly acts as a middleman for the Russian leader.\n\nUS officials will seek to seize two vessels, the Russian-flagged Graceful and the Cayman islands-flagged Olympia, which were identified as personal assets of Mr Putin.\n\nThe cellist, Sergei Roldugin, is allegedly a custodian of the Russian president's offshore wealth.\n\nFive oligarchs with links to Mr Putin as well as Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova will also have any US assets frozen and are barred from doing business with US-based corporations.\n\nSergei Roldugin is allegedly a custodian of the Russian president's offshore wealth\n\nEU diplomats are said to have finalised a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow.\n\nThe sanctions, which include a limited ban on Russian oil imports, were reportedly agreed after officials accepted a Hungarian request to remove the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, from the list of targets.\n\nThe president of the European Parliament also announced a ban on Russian lobbyists entering the chamber's campus.\n\nRoberta Metsola wrote on Twitter that she was keen to deprive Moscow's representatives of the ability \"to spread their propaganda & false, toxic narratives about the invasion of Ukraine\".\n\nOn Wednesday President Joe Biden announced that the US would supply Ukraine with new long-range missiles capable of hitting targets at distances of up to 70km (45 miles).\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the US and its allies of intentionally prolonging the war and of \"adding fuel to the fire\" with the deliveries.", "The last time the Royal Family appeared on the balcony was in 2019 - including Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, and Prince Andrew\n\nFrom royal wedding kisses to celebrations at the end of wars, the balcony at Buckingham Palace in London has been the stage for national moments since Queen Victoria first stepped out there in 1851.\n\nFor the Platinum Jubilee, the balcony will once again provide the photo frame for a big occasion, with Queen Elizabeth II and 17 other members of the Royal Family due to appear on Thursday after Trooping the Colour.\n\n\"There's been a lot of chat about who is going to be there and who is not,\" says Pauline Maclaran of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy at Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\nOnly \"working royals\" and their children will appear, which excludes the Queen's son Prince Andrew, and her grandson Prince Harry, and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nThe whole of the Royal Family appeared for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977\n\nA smaller group of royals gathered for her Golden Jubilee in 2002\n\nOnly six of them appeared for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012\n\nThis is a \"tactful\" way of dealing with controversies surrounding the trio, says Prof Maclaran. Prince Andrew stepped down in the wake of the US sex assault civil court case; Prince Harry and Meghan withdrew from their royal roles and have moved to the US.\n\n\"Balcony displays are used very strategically by the Royal Family. They're very well aware this makes a statement, it's so important,\" says Prof Maclaran.\n\n\"This is one element they can control, so there are no ambiguous signals,\" she says. \"If they allowed Prince Andrew, you can imagine the response,\" she says. And for Harry and Meghan it shows there are no \"half-in, half-out\" royals.\n\nThere have been more than 40 people on the balcony on previous occasions, so limiting the numbers overall is also a deliberate choice.\n\nIt sends a message about who are the most important players on the royal stage. It's not just a line up, but a line of succession.\n\nThere are suggestions the Queen could make a second balcony appearance on Sunday, putting the succession in tight focus, alongside her heir Prince Charles, her grandson Prince William and great-grandson Prince George.\n\n\"It's all very symbolic. It shows the durability of the monarchy, even though the faces change,\" says Prof Maclaran.\n\nThe balcony is very much a royal space. Only two prime ministers have made it on to the balcony - Neville Chamberlain, after negotiating the Munich Agreement with Germany in 1938, and Sir Winston Churchill as crowds celebrated the end of war in Europe in 1945.\n\nThere are no formal rules for where people stand, but Prof Maclaran says a clear pattern is discernible.\n\nThe Queen is prominently at the front. Around her and never standing far away will be the core group of senior royals, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThere might be young children stealing the limelight by pulling faces, and there may be suspicions about some jockeying for a spot close to the Queen, but there is an underlying \"order of precedence\", says Prof Maclaran.\n\nThe only exception to the Queen being centre-stage is a royal wedding\n\nAlthough children can sometimes steal the limelight by pulling faces\n\nIt's an unspoken choreography that senior royals take their places at the central area of the balcony while the rest of the family fan out around the edges, like they're being organised into place by an invisible wedding photographer.\n\nThe only exception to the Queen being centre-stage is a royal wedding when the married couple are the balcony stars.\n\nFor the jubilee, among the 17 invited to appear will include the Queen's son and daughter-in-law Earl and Countess of Wessex and their two children, and her daughter Anne, the Princess Royal, and her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence. There will also be the Queen's cousins the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra, who carry out royal engagements on her behalf.\n\nThis is more than there were for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012. In the shadow of austerity, there were only six people on the balcony, which was seen as showing a frugal, pared-down image of royalty.\n\nThere is another important character not on the balcony - and that's the crowd.\n\nBalcony moments are about \"the public honouring the royals and royals honouring the public,\" says Heather Jones, author and history professor at University College London.\n\nFor a monarchy that depends on public consent, this is one of the biggest symbolic stages where the royal family and the public can connect.\n\nProf Jones says that on big occasions, such as the outbreak of the First World War, it has been the crowd that has demanded the appearance of the Royal Family. She says in 1914 King George V recorded in his diary that he felt the crowd had forced him to appear on the balcony, as the country prepared for war.\n\nWhen crowds were celebrating the defeat of Hitler in the Second World War, the public were so insistent that there were eight separate balcony appearances.\n\n\"There's a sense of running to Buckingham Palace, for these big national moments,\" she says.\n\nThe Queen aged one on the balcony in 1927 with her parents and grandparents\n\nAnd in 1937, centre, on the balcony for her father's coronation\n\nThe balcony works well as a platform for projecting the monarchy, says Prof Jones. It makes the royals visible but at the same time keeps a sense of distance.\n\n\"There's a kind of remoteness that's really important,\" believes Prof Jones.\n\nThey might seem accessible, but the balcony remains high and out of reach. It helps maintain that royal balancing act of wanting to be relatable as the \"national family\", but at the same elevated and special.\n\nThe crowds this weekend will expect a wave back from the balcony. But that wasn't always the case.\n\nRoyal historian Ed Owens says it wasn't until 1934 that the first wave to the crowd came from Princess Marina, the current Queen's aunt by marriage. Until then acknowledging the crowd below had been limited to \"bowing a little and smiling awkwardly\".\n\nOn newsreels after that date you can see royals experimenting with different forms of waving, including the Queen as a girl trying out the type of rotating wave that looks like unscrewing an light bulb.\n\nThere are more recent rituals. Prince Charles and Diana became the first to kiss on the balcony after their royal wedding, beginning a tradition followed by Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York and then Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nCollectively these balcony images become like a national family photograph album. Changing generations of royals mark the milestones of family life and mime their thanks to the crowd. Fashions and faces change, but the impression stays the same.\n\n\"It's such an expertly choreographed moment,\" says Mr Owens. It takes decades of practice to look so spontaneous.", "We've just heard that the Queen will not be attending the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday, after experiencing \"discomfort\" during Thursday's celebrations.\n\nHowever, Buckingham Palace said she would still take part in the beacon lighting ceremony planned for Thursday evening.\n\nThis is the next major event in the Jubilee calendar, and will see more than 3,500 fires lit across the UK and in the capitals of the 54 Commonwealth countries.\n\nIt's a dual ceremony involving the Queen and her grandson Prince William. The prince will be at Buckingham Palace, where the main beacon - the \"Tree of Trees\" - stands.\n\nIt will be lit when the Queen symbolically touches the \"Commonwealth of Nations Globe\" - a blue art piece - 22 miles away at Windsor Castle.\n\nBeacons will be lit at sites including the Tower of London, Windsor Great Park, Hadrian's Wall and on top of the UK's four highest peaks.\n\nThe lighting of the beacons will be taking place at around 21:45 BST in the UK, although some internationally are being lit at 21:15.", "Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook's parent company Meta, has announced that she is leaving the business after 14 years.\n\nMs Sandberg announced her departure in a Facebook post, saying she hoped to focus on her foundation and philanthropic work in the future.\n\nHer departure comes as Meta faces a slowdown in advertising sales and more competition from rivals such as TikTok.\n\nMs Sandberg is one of the most high-profile women in the tech industry.\n\n\"When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years,\" wrote Ms Sandberg, known as a powerful second-in-command at the company. \"Fourteen years later, it is time for me to write the next chapter of my life.\"\n\nJavier Olivan, currently Meta's chief growth officer, will take over Ms Sandberg's position in the company when she leaves.\n\nMs Sandberg, whose husband died suddenly in 2015, is getting re-married this summer. She said she planned to leave the company in the autumn but would remain on the board.\n\nFollowing her announcement, shares in Meta fell 4%.\n\nMs Sandberg joined Facebook when it was still a small company led by Mark Zuckerberg, a then-23 year-old Harvard dropout. A veteran of Google, she helped turn its advertising business into a profit powerhouse, as the company grew to include Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.\n\nLast year, the company reported more than $117bn in revenue and said more than 2.8 billion people globally used one of its apps daily.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. COO of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg on the importance of female success in the workplace\n\nBooks she wrote, including Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - which she described as a \"sort of feminist manifesto\" - made her a global celebrity.\n\nBut her star power faded as the company faced criticism for its handling of personal data in relation to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and targeted adverts as well as its moderation of social media posts.\n\nMs Sandberg, who was initially responsible for Facebook's response, appeared to acknowledge some of those challenges in her post, writing: \"The debate around social media has changed beyond recognition since those early days.\"\n\n\"To say it hasn't always been easy is an understatement. But it should be hard,\" she wrote. \"The products we make have a huge impact, so we have the responsibility to build them in a way that protects privacy and keeps people safe.\"\n\nIn his own post, Mr Zuckerberg said Ms Sandberg's departure marked the \"end of an era\", noting that it was \"unusual\" for a business partnership like theirs to last so long.\n\n\"Sheryl architected our ads business, hired great people, forged our management culture, and taught me how to run a company,\" he added. \"She created opportunities for millions of people around the world, and she deserves the credit for so much of what Meta is today.\"\n\nHe said Mr Olivan's responsibilities would differ from Ms Sandberg's, with Mr Olivan taking on a \"more traditional\" chief operating officer role that was more focused internally and operationally.\n\nMeta is facing new challenges as countries tighten social media regulations and iPhone maker Apple changes its privacy rules, hitting the social media firm's targeted ad business.\n\nGrowth in the number of Facebook users in key markets, such as the US, has been stalled, and it has lost younger users to rivals such as TikTok.\n\nMr Zuckerberg has been pushing the company to invest heavily in virtual and augmented reality platforms, which he sees as driving the firm's next phase of growth. He renamed the company Meta last year in honour of the shift to the \"metaverse\".\n\nInsider principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson said Ms Sandberg \"had an enormous impact on Facebook, Meta, and the broader business world\".\n\n\"She helped Facebook build a world-class ad-buying platform and develop ground-breaking ad formats, which enabled the company to become the second largest digital ad business in the world behind Google,\" she said.\n\n\"However, Facebook also faced huge scandals under her watch, including the 2016 election, the Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle in 2018, and the Capitol riots that took place after the 2020 election. And in 2022, Meta is facing a slowdown in user growth and ad revenue that is now testing the business foundation that the company was built on.\n\n\"The company needs to find a new way forward, and perhaps this was the best time for Sandberg to depart.\"", "The Queen has appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony as part of official celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch was seen inspecting troops returning from the Trooping the Colour ceremony.\n\nShe was joined by her cousin, the Duke of Kent, and was greeted by cheers from the crowds.", "The French international defender is accused of rape, sexual assault and attempted rape\n\nManchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been charged with another count of rape.\n\nThe 27-year-old is now accused of eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape after a new complainant came forward.\n\nMr Mendy pleaded not guilty last month to all but the latest charge, which has not yet been put to him.\n\nThe details of the latest charge can be published after a reporting restriction was lifted at Chester Crown Court.\n\nAll of the offences are alleged to have taken place at Mr Mendy's home between October 2018 and August 2021.\n\nMr Mendy, from Prestbury in Cheshire, will go on trial on 25 July along with his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, who has also entered not guilty pleas.\n\nMr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight young women, between July 2012 and August 2021.\n\nBoth men remain on bail ahead of the trial next month.\n\nMr Mendy, who has made 50 Premier League appearances for Manchester City since joining from Monaco in 2017 and has 10 international caps for France, was suspended by the club after being charged.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen has appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony as part of official celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe 96-year-old monarch was seen watching troops returning from the official Trooping of the Colour ceremony.\n\nEarlier, members of the Royal Family gathered in central London to attend the parade marking the Queen's official birthday.\n\nTrooping the Colour kicked off four days of celebrations for the Jubilee.\n\nFirst to appear were Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in a horse-drawn carriage - together with Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince Louis.\n\nPrince George, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte are the children of Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThey were followed by Prince Edward and Sophie, Earl and Countess of Wessex, and their children Viscount Severn and Lady Louise Windsor.\n\nPrince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester and a cousin of the Queen, and his wife Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester rode to the ceremony in another carriage, alongside Princess Anne's husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nThen Prince Charles, Prince William, and Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, appeared from Buckingham Palace on horseback for their central parts in Trooping the Colour. Prince Charles took the salute from guardsmen and officers at the parade.\n\nMeghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry joined other family who watched the ceremony from a balcony at Horse Guards Parade.\n\nAfter the ceremony, the family returned to Buckingham Palace. Then the Queen appeared on the balcony, with her cousin Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent.\n\nShe was then joined by senior royals for a second appearance on the balcony to watch an RAF flypast.\n\nOnly \"working royals\" and some of their children were invited to join the Queen. Seen here, from left to right: the Duke of Gloucester, and his wife Birgitte, Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent, Vice Admiral Tim Lawrence, Princess Anne, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, the Queen, Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge and her children Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and Prince George, Prince William, the Countess of Wessex, her son Viscount Severn, her daughter Lady Louise Windsor, and the Earl of Wessex.\n\nAs is often the case, the children on the balcony stole the show, in particular Prince Louis.", "The new rules, prompted by the Grenfell fire, will only apply to future development projects, not existing properties or those currently being built\n\nFive years after the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, the government has banned the specific type of cladding which allowed the blaze to spread so rapidly.\n\nMetal composite panels with an unmodified polyethylene core now cannot be used on any building of any height.\n\nThe government first received data demonstrating the danger of polyethylene-cored cladding in 2002.\n\nPreviously, the ban applied only to buildings higher than 11m (36ft).\n\nThere are new restrictions on other combustible materials, but some will be permitted on buildings under 18m (59ft), subject to a large-scale fire test.\n\nAll new residential buildings higher than 11m will have to include a secure information box, which will give fire and rescue services access to building details in case of fire, and an evacuation alert system - an alarm that can trigger an evacuation if a fire is out of control.\n\nThe changes announced on Wednesday also extend the scope of the ban on combustible materials above 18m to include hotels and boarding schools, which the government had previously chosen to exclude. Hospitals are already covered.\n\nChanges to building regulations and guidance are not retrospective, meaning the new rules will only apply to future newbuild projects, not existing properties or schemes that are already under way.\n\nIn May, the home secretary published a Fire Reform White Paper to incorporate recommendations made by the Grenfell public inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry said the controversial \"stay put\" policy - asking residents of most buildings to wait inside for rescue services, rather than leaving in the event of a fire - should be changed.\n\nHowever, Home Office papers outlined plans to keep the policy in place.\n\nBuilding and Fire Safety Minister Lord Greenhalgh said: \"We have introduced the biggest improvements to building safety in a generation, under the Building Safety Act.\n\n\"These changes will support our tough new regulatory regime - ensuring fire safety measures are incorporated into new high-rise homes and all new residential buildings meet the same safety standards.\n\n\"It does not end here and I urge the industry act quickly to update their practises in line with these new rules.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Cosby at his sentencing in Pennsylvania in 2018\n\nLess than a year after his sex assault conviction was thrown out and he walked free from prison, comedian Bill Cosby is facing another allegation in court.\n\nMr Cosby, 84, is embroiled in a civil lawsuit over a claim he sexually assaulted Judy Huth, now 64, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1975.\n\nThe case is one of the last remaining legal actions against Mr Cosby, who has faced numerous abuse claims.\n\nHe has denied any assault took place, and is not expected to testify.\n\nAccording to a lawsuit filed by Ms Huth in 2014, the incident took place when she was 16 years old, days after she met Mr Cosby at a park near Los Angeles where he was shooting a film.\n\nAfter giving her alcohol \"as part of a game\", Mr Cosby took her to the Playboy Mansion, she says.\n\nThere, Ms Huth claims Mr Cosby took her to a bedroom and forced her to perform a sex act.\n\nDuring opening statements at the court in Santa Monica, California, on Wednesday, a lawyer for Ms Huth said the comedian \"has a sense of entitlement, and no fear\".\n\nNathan Goldberg said Mr Cosby had \"pounced\" on his client and she suffered from serious anxiety after the incident.\n\nWhen other women came forward with stories of their abuse at the hands of Mr Cosby, \"it was like a cork popped out of the bottle and all of her buried feelings rushed to the surface\", Mr Goldberg added.\n\nWhile Mr Cosby's attorneys have acknowledged he met Ms Huth and went to the Playboy Mansion with her, they deny any assault took place. They also claim Ms Huth was 18, not 16.\n\nThey also question why the accuser stayed on for hours at the mansion after the alleged incident, watching a film and swimming in the pool.\n\nDefence lawyer Jennifer Bonjean dismissed Ms Huth's case as a \"fabrication\", questioning why she and a friend had preserved photos from the visit as \"mementos\" of an alleged sexual assault.\n\nMr Cosby is not required to attend the court proceedings, and is not expected to do so. His attorneys have previously said he has gone blind as a result of glaucoma. He did, however, give a video deposition.\n\nOnce known to millions as \"America's Dad\", Mr Cosby has faced dozens of accusations of sexual assault, misconduct and rape stretching back to the mid-1960s.\n\nIn 2018, he was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004 and sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.\n\nThe conviction, however, was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year. He was released from prison after serving nearly three years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara.\n\nSeveral international bodies will be asked to make the name change as part of a rebranding campaign launched by the Turkish president late last year.\n\n\"Türkiye is the best representation and expression of the Turkish people's culture, civilization, and values,\" Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in December.\n\nThe UN says it made the change as soon as it received the request this week.\n\nMost Turks already know their country as Türkiye. However the anglicised form Turkey is widely used, even within the country.\n\nState broadcaster TRT was quick to make the change as soon as it was announced last year, explaining that among the reasons for the image rebrand was the association with the bird traditionally associated with Christmas, New Year or Thanksgiving.\n\nIt also pointed out the Cambridge English Dictionary's definition of one of the meanings of the word as \"something that fails badly\" or \"a stupid or silly person\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Turkey is now 'Türkiye'\n\nAs part of the re-branding, \"Made in Türkiye\" will feature on all exported products, and in January a tourism campaign was launched with the catch-phrase \"Hello Türkiye\".\n\nThe move has been met with a mixed reaction online. While government officials support it, others say it is an ineffective distraction as the president gears up for elections next year, amid an economic crisis.\n\nIt is not uncommon for countries to change their names.\n\nIn 2020, The Netherlands dropped Holland in a rebranding move. And before that, Macedonia changed its name to North Macedonia due to a political dispute with Greece, and Swaziland became Eswatini in 2018.\n\nFurther back in history, Iran used to be called Persia, Siam is now Thailand, and Rhodesia was changed to Zimbabwe.\n\nThe Ü may be tricky for most of the international audience who don't have that letter in their alphabet but it's the same as the German Ü, like the U in pure or cue. So for an English-speaker, changing the first vowel of Turkey to a Ü and adding an E to the end (as in pet) is enough to pronounce the new name perfectly.\n\nBut why was this necessary? President Erdogan was pushing for this move for years, arguing that the country would be better represented with the Turkish name instead of sharing the same word with a bird.\n\nTurkey the bird is called by a different name in many languages, such as \"peru\" in Portuguese, while in Turkish it is \"hindi\".\n\nMany social media users refer to this fact to criticise the Turkish government's move as absurd, while others agree that it was a necessary rebranding.\n\nWe have to wait and see if people around the world will accept Türkiye instead of Turkey, Turquie or Twrci.", "Chinese military aircraft at an airshow in September 2021\n\nCanadian military aircraft operating in Asia have been repeatedly \"buzzed\" by Chinese jets at dangerously close distances, Ottawa says.\n\nCanada says that its aircrews have had to alter their path to avoid collisions while operating in international airspace near North Korea.\n\nIt has called the Chinese behaviour unprofessional and potentially risky.\n\nChina has not commented on the incidents, which Canada says are being addressed diplomatically.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he took the situation \"very seriously\" and had ordered officials to raise it with their Chinese counterparts.\n\n\"The fact that China would have chosen to do this is extremely troubling,\" he said, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nIn a statement, Canadian armed forces media relations chief Dan Le Bouthillier said that the incidents took place during Operation Neon, Canada's contribution to the implementation of United Nations sanctions against North Korea.\n\n\"In these interactions, PLAAF [People's Liberation Army Air Force] aircraft did not adhere to international air safety norms,\" Mr Le Bouthillier said.\n\n\"These interactions are unprofessional and/or put the safety of our RCAF [Royal Canadian Air Force] personnel at risk.\"\n\nThe Canadian aircraft involved - CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft - were operating from Kadena air base in Japan between 26 April and 26 May.\n\nMr Le Bouthillier added that in some instances, Canadian aircrew felt \"sufficiently at risk\" to quickly modify their own flight paths to avoid potential collisions. Chinese aircraft were reportedly close enough that their crews were \"very clearly visible\".\n\nWhile it is unclear when the buzzing incidents took place, Mr Le Bouthillier said that they are increasingly frequent.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to the Chinese government for comment.\n\nSimilar Chinese behaviour has been reported in the past by Canadian, US and other allied aircraft and vessels operating in the Pacific.\n\nIn 2017, for example, Chinese jets came within 150 feet (45 metres) of a US aircraft, a move that the US Air Force called \"unprofessional\".\n\nTwo years later, two Chinese fighters flew 1,000 feet (300 metres) past a Canadian warship.\n\nA state-owned Chinese newspaper later described the incident as a \"warm welcome\" for the Canadian forces by China's navy and air force.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoco Gauff was contesting her first Grand Slam semi-final Coverage: Live text and radio commentaries of selected matches across BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app American teenager Coco Gauff reached her first Grand Slam singles final with victory in the French Open last four, setting up a tantalising meeting with world number one Iga Swiatek. Gauff, 18, won 6-3 6-1 against unseeded Italian Martina Trevisan on the Paris clay in her maiden major semi-final. Swiatek, 21, completed a serene journey into the Roland Garros final with a 6-2 6-1 win over 20th seed Daria Kasatkina. The Pole earned a 34th successive win to move into her second major final. Swiatek, the 2020 Roland Garros champion, has dropped just one set this fortnight on the Paris clay. \"It is a pretty special moment and emotional,\" said Swiatek, who meets Gauff on Saturday. \"I am grateful to be healthy and in that place.\" Gauff, seeded 18th, was the heavy favourite against Trevisan and has become the youngest finalist at Roland Garros since Kim Clijsters in 2001. \"I think I'm in a bit of shock right now and I didn't know how to react at the end of the match,\" Gauff said. \"I have no words to describe how I feel.\" The teenage phenomenon became a global star when she reached the Wimbledon fourth round as a 15-year-old in 2019 and has now become the Grand Slam finalist that many predicted. Gauff won her maiden WTA singles title three months after Wimbledon and ended 2019 inside the top world's 100. After her quarter-final win at Roland Garros on Wednesday, she spoke about learning how to manage expectations - internally as well as externally - and how \"enjoying life\" was helping to achieve her goals on the court. Gauff's clarity of mind was particularly evident as she closed out victory against Trevisan, serving out the final game with a nerveless hold to love. Gauff edged a tight first set, where there were breaks opportunities in eight of the nine games, by winning the final three games. The American also managed to contain her frustrations. Trevisan makes a noisy groan after every shot and Gauff asked chair umpire Marijana Veljovic if making so much noise was allowed. She also had a couple of disagreements with Veljovic about line calls and where ball marks were on the clay. But Gauff put those distractions behind her in the second set. She finally broke Trevisan's serve in a lengthy fourth game and then won the next three to earn an achievement that many thought was her destiny. \"I've not been nervous all tournament, which is surprising,\" said Gauff, who has also reached the doubles semi-finals alongside fellow American Jessica Pegula. \"In the morning I go for a walk and that clears my head and after that I feel great.\" Clinical Swiatek matches Serena and has Venus in her sights Not since Serena Williams in her prime has there been as strong a favourite for a Grand Slam women's singles title as Swiatek. In a stunning start to 2022, the Polish player has won five consecutive tournaments - in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome - and taken over as the WTA world number one following Ashleigh Barty's surprise retirement. A dominating win against Kasatkina moved her alongside Williams in holding the joint second longest streak by any WTA player this century. Swiatek will equal Venus Williams' 35-match streak as the longest if she wins the Roland Garros title on Saturday. Swiatek, like she has in all of her matches so far, started strongly and broke the serve of her opponent at the first opportunity. Kasatkina responded instantly to wipe that out but the Russian gifted another opportunity to Swiatek at 15-30 in the fifth game when she hit an overhead volley well long. The gasps of the crowd indicated how bad a miss that was and that proved to be a turning point. Swiatek punished her further with a forehand winner to break for a 4-2 lead, continuing to swamp Kasatkina and clinching a 35-minute set with a crosscourt backhand winner. Kasatkina had actually lost fewer games than Swiatek in reaching the semi-final stage, but found the top seed to be a different class of opponent. A break for 3-1 in the second set indicated Swiatek was going to forge ahead for a routine win and that proved to be case. Swiatek seized upon a double fault from Kasatkina for 0-30 at 4-1, whacking clinical winners off both flanks to break and then served out victory with an ace.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can The Outlaws outsmart the criminal underworld?\n• None How did the 'Wagatha Christie' trial unfold?\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last week 10-year-old Alithia Ramirez was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire at her primary school in Uvalde, Texas.\n\nHer parents say they want the world to remember their daughter was good and kind and had dreams of healing the world with her artwork.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has ordered staff to return to the office full-time, declaring that working remotely is no longer acceptable.\n\nThe new policy was shared in emails that were leaked to social media.\n\nTesla did not respond to a request for comment on the messages, one of which appeared to be addressed to executives.\n\nPeople who are unwilling to abide by the new rules can \"pretend to work somewhere else\" Mr Musk said on Twitter, when asked about the policy.\n\n\"Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,\" he wrote in one of the emails. \"If you don't show up, we will assume you have resigned.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe emails said staff should report to work at one of the company's main offices, \"not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties\".\n\nMr Musk added that he would personally review any requests for exemptions from the policy.\n\nMr Musk said working in the office full-time was what the company asks of its factory employees and in-person collaboration was critical to the firm's success.\n\n\"There are of course companies that don't require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It's been a while,\" he said in an email, one of two that was leaked and shared on social media.\n\n\"Tesla has and will create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth. This will not happen by phoning it in.\"\n\nCompanies in many industries are wrestling with whether to allow the remote work practices that exploded during the coronavirus pandemic to continue.\n\nSome sectors, such as banking, signalled early on that they would expect staff to return to the office, while others, often in the tech industry, have said they will allow remote work indefinitely. Many places have opted for a mix.\n\nOffice occupancy in the US is at about 43%, according to data from Kastle, which runs security card access systems at thousands of buildings across the country.\n\nMr Musk is famously hard charging in his own attitude to work. He rarely takes holidays and during a crunch period for Tesla a few years ago, he slept on the factory floor.\n\n\"The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence,\" he wrote in one of the emails on the remote work policy.\n\n\"That is why I lived in the factory so much - so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt.\"\n\nMr Musk was previously on the record as having a dim view of remote work, writing on Twitter earlier this year that \"all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don't actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!\"\n\nHis comments raised the potential for a fresh clash of cultures with the staff at Twitter, which he is in the process of buying for $44bn (£35.3bn).\n\nIn March, the firm's chief executive Parag Agrawal said staff could continue to work from home \"forever\".\n\nIn a note to employees posted on the social media platform, Mr Agrawal said \"As we open back up, our approach remains the same. Wherever you feel most productive and creative is where you will work and that includes working from home full-time forever.\"\n\n\"Office every day? That works too. Some days in office, some days from home? Of course.\"", "An excerpt of the document given to the asylum seekers by the Home Office to inform them they will be flown to Rwanda on 14 June.\n\nAsylum seekers at an immigration detention centre in the UK say they went on hunger strike after being told they would be deported to Rwanda.\n\nSeventeen asylum seekers at Brook House detention centre near Gatwick Airport, Sussex, have told the BBC of an atmosphere of distress and despair among detainees.\n\nIn April the government announced plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nBut the UK Home Office says detainee welfare is of the \"utmost importance\".\n\nThe asylum seekers have shared with the BBC details of the removal notices issued.\n\nOne document, dated 1 June, identifies an asylum seeker detained in Brooke House for imminent removal to the Rwandan capital Kigali. It says he cannot appeal this decision.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has said the first deportation flight, to take people who arrived in the UK without authorisation, is to leave on 14 June - a week later than first announced.\n\nFollowing the introduction of the Nationality and Borders Act in April, the government will transfer to a \"safe third country\" - Rwanda - responsibility for providing asylum to those who arrive in the UK by irregular routes, such as crossing the English Channel in a boat from France.\n\nThe measure to fly these asylum seekers 4,500 miles (7,240km) to Rwanda is part of a £120m ($151m) deal with the central African nation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tour of the Rwandan hotel where some UK asylum seekers will stay\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one asylum seeker said he was among a group of 17 who ended a five-day hunger strike on Wednesday evening, after guards stopped providing them with sugar to mix with their water while abstaining from food.\n\nAli, who says he has family in the UK, told the BBC that his last meeting with immigration officials was about ending his hunger strike. \"The final thing they told me was 'eat so you can get on the aeroplane in good health'.\"\n\nThose who went on hunger strike include Egyptian asylum seekers, among an estimated 100 arrivals notified by the Home Office that they are to be deported to Rwanda. One group received a removal notice on Wednesday about a 14 June flight.\n\nThe deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has been criticised by opposition leaders, charities and religious leaders\n\nThe detainees said that authorities at Brook House had prohibited phones with cameras, confiscating their smartphones and providing them only with phones without access to the internet.\n\nThe BBC managed to receive a full copy of the removal notice that details their situation. The letter, more than 20 pages long, was only issued in English. However one section notes that an interpreter was present to explain its contents to an asylum seeker. The document repeatedly misspelled the man's name.\n\nTwo separate asylum seekers asked our reporter about the contents of the document, which requires their signature, due to their inability to understand its details in English.\n\nThe document says the reason for the deportation is the people arrived on an \"RHIB\" - a rigid-hull inflatable boat - and they had no documentation to prove entitlement to be in the UK\n\nThe Home Office has not confirmed how many people have been issued with removal notices. However the charity Care4Calais estimates that around 100 asylum seekers who have arrived over the last month have been warned of imminent removal from the UK.\n\nCare4Calais has identified and is offering support to more than 60 of them.\n\nA man from Syria, who is wanted for military service at home, told the BBC he was \"ready to die, but not be moved to Rwanda\".\n\nHe said: \"When I heard the news that we will be deported to Rwanda and that we will receive a five-year residence permit there I started hitting myself.\"\n\nIn response to questions about the hunger strike inside Brook House, a Home Office spokesperson said: \"The health and welfare of those in immigration detention is of the utmost importance.\n\n\"We take every step to prevent self-harm or suicide, including a dedicated welfare team on site at each immigration removal centre, responsible for identifying vulnerable individuals and providing assistance to support individuals' needs.\"\n\nAn Egyptian man told the BBC he was among the 17 who had gone on hunger strike. \"I didn't get a meeting with the Home Office without going on a hunger strike twice,\" he said.\n\n\"I had to leave my country for family disputes. I have a mental health problem from what I've witnessed in Libya on the journey here.\"\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel travelled to Rwanda to sign the deal\n\nAs part of Tuesday's announcement on flights beginning in mid-June, Home Secretary Priti Patel said \"we know attempts will now be made to frustrate the process and delay removals; I will not be deterred and remain fully committed to delivering what the British public expect.\"\n\nHowever, Steven Galliver-Andrew, a barrister working in immigration law, has told the BBC he believes the government will not keep to 14 June for the first deportation flight.\n\nHe said: \"The law which allows the government to do this doesn't appear to come into force until the 28th of June 2022.\n\n\"What they are doing can and will be challenged - and they know and expect that.\"", "Discussions are being held about making free tickets available to Sunday's World Cup play-off to Ukrainian refugees\n\nA small number of free tickets to the Wales-Ukraine World Cup play-off final will be given to Ukrainian refugees.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) and the Welsh government are in discussions on how many will be made available for Sunday's game.\n\nHome tickets at the 33,000-capacity Cardiff City Stadium have sold out.\n\nThe FAW has also invited the Ukrainian ambassador to the game, and a welcome message will be waiting for the visiting team at Cardiff Airport.\n\nThe Welsh government is believed to be helping the FAW identify refugees who have fled the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nUkraine qualified for the play-off final on Wednesday by beating Scotland 3-1. Now they will play Wales, with the winners earning a place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nWales are hoping to qualify for the tournament for the first time since 1958, while Ukraine qualified for their first and only World Cup in 2006.\n\nThe Ukrainian FA has been allocated 5% of matchday tickets, with those expected to go on sale in the coming days.\n\nIt's thought a small number of tickets for refugees will be made available in addition to the standard visiting allocation.\n\nOleksandr Zinchenko put in a commanding performance as Ukraine beat Scotland 3-1 to go through to the play-off final against Wales\n\nUkrainians Svitlana Phillips and Maryna Farrell, who were living in Wales before the conflict began, had called on the FAW to give those fleeing the war with Russia the chance to see the game.\n\nMs Phillips, a Ukrainian who has lived in Swansea for 20 years and is married a Welshman, said it would be a \"fantastic\" thing to do.\n\nShe said: \"For the last few years, people in Wales have shown such generosity to the people of Ukraine.\n\n\"So I wouldn't be surprised if it comes to that, and there would be some tickets given away and Ukrainians can come and join and celebrate and have a cheerful day.\"\n\nSvitlana Phillips had urged the FAW to think about giving her compatriots tickets.\n\nMs Farrell, originally from Lutsk, moved to Wales 14 years ago. She was visiting family in Ukraine when the Russians invaded\n\n\"I've had probably about seven phone calls this morning trying to figure out ways of getting to the match,\" she said.\n\n\"I know that Cardiff City and the FAW have been very supportive in the past, so I'm really hoping there's something that can be done.\n\n\"There is a lot of people who have already come to Wales who would absolutely love to be part of the game on Sunday. I know it will be a very emotional time for them, but it will be an unforgettable moment.\n\n\"It would be a great distraction for everyone.\"\n\nSunday's game will be at Cardiff City Stadium, with the winners qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year\n\nShe has lived in Wales for 14 years, but will be supporting Ukraine.\n\n\"Having lived in Wales for so long I do consider myself Ukrainian-Welsh; however my roots are still in Ukraine,\" she said.\n\nMs Phillips said she and her husband were going to have to fight to decide whether a Ukrainian or Welsh flag would be erected.\n\nShe said: \"I am sure that Ukrainian people will be singing the Welsh anthem, and Welsh people will be singing the Ukrainian anthem, in support of recent events and in celebration of togetherness of what we have been through.\n\n\"Welsh people in the last three months have shown absolutely incredible generosity supporting Ukraine.\n\n\"So obviously it is very important for everybody around the world, what is going on in Ukraine, but at such an event like a football game I think it is going to bring people together, unite even more.\"\n\nWelsh fans had a big pre-match party before the Wales-Poland game and raised 5,000 zloty for refugees\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh fans in Poland have raised money for Ukrainian refugees who became stuck there after Russia's invasion.\n\nWales lost 2-1 in Wroclaw on Wednesday in the Nations League.\n\nTwenty young Ukrainian footballers went there for a football tournament in February, but were never able to go home.\n\nThe visiting supporters raised about 5,000 zloty (£930) to help support the refugees.\n\nThe Notice Me foundation, a charity which usually works with children with cancer, has been looking after the young footballers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, fan Tim Hartley, who went to the match, said: \"This is just our little thank you to the people of Poland, a little something for the children of Ukraine.\n\n\"To say we really do support you, it was great to see everybody, we raffled a shirt, we had a sing-song, we raised money. It was great to see the Welsh fans supporting the charity.\"\n\nThe children are slowly being joined by their mothers and their siblings, and the charity has been building a shelter for 200 children and women who are escaping the war.\n\nIt is hoped the \"Ukrainian House\" will help the children forget about the war, and will make them feel at home in Poland.\n\nGôl Cymru visited the Ukrainian House in Poland and met some of the children who are being supported there\n\nThe charity has been building bathrooms and kitchens, bedrooms and lounges. There will also be classrooms and a kindergarten for the younger children.\n\nJacky Devis from the British Embassy in Warsaw said: \"I am delighted to see that Gôl Cymru chose to donate the funds collected by the fans to Fundacja Zobaczmnie, this money will go towards vital work supporting children.\"", "Robert Hughes has been released on parole after serving a prison sentence for child sexual abuse\n\nAustralian sitcom actor Robert Hughes will be freed from jail and deported to the UK after serving a sentence for child sexual abuse.\n\nHughes found fame for his lead role in Australian TV show Hey Dad! which aired in more than 20 countries from 1987.\n\nIn 2014 he was convicted of a string of child sexual offences - which he denied - against girls in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nThe 73-year-old was granted parole by Australian authorities on Thursday.\n\nHaving renounced his Australian citizenship, the British national will be deported to the UK, where he will live with his wife, upon his release from prison.\n\nHughes has been eligible for parole for more than two years but has twice been denied freedom over concerns about his risk to the community.\n\nHe and his family deny his crimes but, since his last bid for parole, have promised he will seek psychological treatment when released and that he will have no unsupervised contact with children.\n\nUK authorities, who have been informed of his impending release and deportation, have also since confirmed he will be monitored.\n\nThat - and a psychological assessment that Hughes has a below average risk of offending - was enough to satisfy parole authorities his risk to the community could be managed.\n\nHe will be released no later than 14 June.\n\nHughes's 2014 trial heard evidence of sexual misconduct which had spanned 20 years. He was convicted of 10 child sexual assault offences against girls aged between seven and 15.\n\nHe abused his position of trust and exploited the naivety and youth of the children, Judge Peter Zahra said in sentencing at the time.\n\n''The offender engaged in a systematic pattern of sexual abuse upon young girls over a number of years,'' he said.\n\n''His conduct was brazen... he engaged in predatory behaviour.''\n\nOn Thursday, parole judge David Frearson acknowledged the decision would be hard for the actor's victims.\n\n\"It is clear that the profound and deleterious effects on the victims… continue to this day and will probably be lifelong consequences,\" he said.\n\n\"It must be particularly galling for the victims to observe the offender's continued and obstinate denials in the face of compelling and overwhelming evidence from multiple witnesses.\"\n\nHey Dad! was hugely popular in Australia and ran for eight seasons until 1994.", "JK Rowling owns Thistlelane Ltd, which has two big forestry estates in the Borders\n\nA firm controlled by Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been accused of preventing access to paths on forestry estates in the Scottish Borders.\n\nWalkers and mountain-bikers claim that navigating a historical six-mile right-of-way has been hampered by the firm.\n\nThistlelane Ltd owns the 290-hectare Sheperdscleuh estate as well as the 306-hectare Wardlaw estate.\n\nAgents for Thistlelane rejected accusations that right-to-roam legislation had been breached.\n\nRamblers enjoying the views from the Captain's Road before the access problems\n\nThe agents, Scottish Woodlands, confirmed that talks were ongoing with community groups and access officers over \"issues\".\n\nWalkers and community leaders claim Rowling's company erected no-access signs at gates on the trail known as Captain's Road, blocked efforts to erect way-markers, threatened to lock gates, and even planted trees across the route.\n\nMountain bike enthusiast Paul Collins, who lives in the Yarrow Valley, said \"We can't now walk or cycle the original Captain's Road because of forestry, and they keep raising concerns about using the nearby forestry road as an alternative route.\n\n\"We're now at the stage where we can't follow the Captain's Road because of the action of the landowners.\"\n\nMr Collins said forestry companies at nearby Glentress were opening up great swathes of land for walkers and mountain bikers but this small right-of-way over the hills above St Mary's Loch appeared to have been closed down.\n\nNo access signs have been put on gates along the route\n\nThistlelane Ltd is under the sole directorship of JK Rowling's husband, Dr Neil Murray, and lists the person with significant control - having at least three-quarters of the shares - as the author by her married name of Joanne Kathleen Murray.\n\nThe Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.\n\nIt is named after a Napoleonic War captain, called Napier, who bought and farmed the same hills in the early 19th Century.\n\nGordon Harrison at a section of the route for planting\n\nFollowing the arrival of modern-surfaced roads in the early 20th Century, it gradually became overgrown.\n\nWith the growth in popularity of rambling and off-road biking the Captain's Road began to be used more regularly as a way up into the hills from the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.\n\nIn 2019 a missing link was re-established, with public and grant funding from the local authority and other organisations.\n\nThe opening saw around 30 walkers cross the six-mile route - and over the following months many more hikers and bikers followed in their footsteps across the scenic pass.\n\nBut during the Covid pandemic \"no access\" signs appeared.\n\nGordon Harrison, who is a former chair of the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Council, took part in the original negotiations with landowners when re-establishing sections of the Captain's Road.\n\nHe said: \"The Captain's Road has been there for a long time and when the community decided to signpost it and resurface a section, the discussions with landowners were favourable.\n\nA lengthy section of the route through a peat bog has been ‘mounded’ for saplings\n\n\"We wanted to encourage people to visit the area and either walk or cycle the route between Tushielaw and St Mary's Loch - there are some spectacular views.\"\n\nBut Mr Harrison added: \"Something has happened and I don't know what, but more recently there has been continuous hurdles put up to prevent people using the route.\n\n\"The latest is them planting saplings across the right-of-way and not offering any alternative routes - those saplings will quickly become large trees and it will be impossible to walk or cycle through there.\"\n\nFrank Garton was also heavily involved with the project to re-establish the lost section of the Captain's Road.\n\nHe said: \"We are now at the stage where you can't use the right-of-way and we are not allowed to sign-post any alternative routes.\n\n\"The entire project to connect the two paths, as well as all the grant and public funding, has been a waste of time.\"\n\nThe right-of-way as identified by Scottish Borders Council\n\nScottish Borders Council's access officers are currently in negotiations with Thistlelane's agents, Scottish Woodlands, about the right-of-way issues.\n\nA site visit is also due to take place between the agents and community leaders in the coming days.\n\nCharlotte Cavey-Wilcox, from Scottish Woodlands, denied that access rights had been breached.\n\nShe said: \"We are currently liaising closely with Scottish Forestry, Scottish Borders Council and the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company to try and resolve the issues.\n\n\"Members of the public have a right to responsible access under Scottish legislation and the terms of the Scottish Outdoor Access code and these rights have not been restricted within Shepherdscleuch Forest.\"", "There is shelling every day in Mykolaiv. The Russians are on the outskirts to the east and south, pummelling surrounding villages and forcing thousands to flee.\n\nThe wail of the air raid siren is a prelude to a thud to our right as our car makes its way through the suburbs of this major port.\n\nA plume of smoke a few kilometres away confirms the hit - another rocket.\n\nWe are following a Ukrainian Red Cross van as they try to rescue some of those coming under regular shelling: yet another busload to add to the already historic human exodus from this country.\n\nThese farewells have become a familiar sight across Ukraine over the last 100 days, but they are no less heartbreaking to watch.\n\nLiudmyla has decided it is time for her youngest children to leave. She can't let them play outside as the bombardment continues and she wants them to be somewhere safe.\n\n\"I will see them again when the bombing stops,\" she tells me. But no-one knows when that will be.\n\nMykolaiv was one of the first cities attacked when the invasion began. Russian forces came close to the city limits but were pushed back.\n\nThis region is key to Russian's strategy to cut off the entire southern coast. A breakthrough here would allow the Kremlin's forces to approach Odesa - the country's largest civilian port, 130 km (80 miles) to the west.\n\nVladimir Putin could then complete his land bridge up to Transnistria, the breakaway republic of Moldova.\n\nRead more of Laura Bicker's report from Mykolaiv here", "Rising poverty may be contributing to thousands more children going into care in England, research suggests.\n\nThe University of Liverpool study links a rise in child poverty to more than 10,000 extra children being taken into local authority care over five years.\n\nGrowing rates of child poverty were found to be largely caused by cuts to welfare support, researchers suggested.\n\nThe government says it continues to prioritise tackling deprivation and is targeting more funds at those in need.\n\nResearchers compared government data on the number of children in low-income families with rates of children entering care in England.\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Public Health, estimated that rising poverty and the pressures that placed on families led to an additional 10,351 children being removed from their homes between 2015 and 2020.\n\nIt calculates the additional short-term costs for councils at £1.4 billion.\n\nThe study also estimates that nearly 23,000 more children were put on child protection plans and nearly 52,000 more children were identified as in need.\n\nThe study found that local authorities covering deprived areas were disproportionately affected, causing deepening inequalities.\n\nThe worst-hit areas have been north-east England and parts of north-west England.\n\nResearchers said their findings \"underscore the need for an approach to child protection that explicitly addresses the socio-economic conditions of families' lives\".\n\nLast month a review of children's social care in England said the government must address child poverty rates and other factors that push youngsters into care.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Last week, the Chancellor announced a new £15 billion support package targeted towards millions of low-income households, bringing the total cost of living support to £37 billion this year.\n\n\"We have provided £6 billion in additional funding for councils to address pressures arising from the pandemic such as children's social care, ensuring the most vulnerable children and families have access to this extra support.\"\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group described the study's findings as a \"stark warning\".\n\nIts chief executive, Alison Garnham, said the need for an approach to tackle poverty that is \"more than one-off emergency payments could not be clearer\".\n\nShe said that protecting the wellbeing and life chances of children \"should be the nation's number one priority\".", "Jack Woodley's family said they were devastated by his death\n\nTen teenagers have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old man as he walked home from a funfair.\n\nJack Woodley suffered a fatal stab wound while being punched, kicked and stamped upon in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, on 16 October.\n\nHe was \"surrounded and isolated\" by the group, who were strangers to him, and chased down an alleyway beside a pub.\n\nThe youths, aged 14 to 18, will be sentenced in August, Newcastle Crown Court heard.\n\nAt the start of the trial in March, the boys all denied murder and manslaughter charges, aside from a 15-year-old who admitted manslaughter. None of them can be identified for legal reasons.\n\nJurors took more than three days to reach their unanimous verdicts and as they were read out several of the defendants looked shocked and distressed, clutching their heads and rocking back and forth.\n\nProsecutors said the youths had been intent on attacking someone at the Houghton Feast funfair on 16 October and Mr Woodley came to their attention for a \"trivial reason\".\n\nHe was challenged to a \"one on one fight\" but declined, then he and his four friends were followed by about 30 young people as they walked into the town centre.\n\nJack Woodley was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped upon before being stabbed\n\nAs Mr Woodley neared the Britannia Inn a 16-year-old boy ran up from behind and punched him in the head.\n\nOthers separated him from his friends and joined in the assault, having covered their heads moments before.\n\nAmid the frenzy of punches and kicks, there were shouts of \"get the chopper out\" and a 15-year-old boy pulled a \"Rambo-style\" knife from his trousers and stabbed Mr Woodley in the back.\n\nThe boy with the knife fled but the rest continued to rain blows on Mr Woodley and pursued him down an alley where the attack resumed.\n\nJack Woodley died in hospital a day after being attacked near the Britannia Inn in Houghton-le-Spring\n\nJurors heard that the group \"prevented him from escaping and other people from helping him\".\n\nWitnesses described the scene as like animals attacking a piece of meat, with one telling the jury it appeared to be a deliberate attempt to kill.\n\nThe onslaught lasted just over a minute and ended with Mr Woodley, who witnesses described as looking petrified, collapsing beside the pub.\n\nThe gang fled as horrified pubgoers attempted to give Mr Woodley first aid but he never regained consciousness and died the following day.\n\nOne of the 10 defendants admitted stabbing Jack Woodley with a 9in (25cm) knife\n\nSpeaking after the verdicts, Mr Woodley's mother, Zoey McGill, said: \"The trauma of reliving this whole incident over a long trial has had a devastating effect on us all.\n\n\"We feel imprisoned by our grief and trauma. We cannot see a way of recovering from this.\n\n\"The devastation of losing Jack is immense and far-reaching.\"\n\nShe said said her son had collected the keys for a new home in Sunderland the day he was attacked and was due to start a new job the following Monday.\n\nHis father, John Woodley, added: \"My son went to a fair with his girlfriend to enjoy a night out and he didn't come back.\n\n\"The pain and fear he must have endured that night is unthinkable.\n\n\"Jack had his whole life ahead of him. Those who attacked our Jack get to see their families and have a future, Jack does not.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Joanne Brooks of Northumbria Police said the case showed the \"devastating consequences\" of carrying weapons.\n\n\"Dozens of lives have been destroyed by what happened that night,\" she said.\n\n\"Look at the pain this incident has caused - not only could you take away someone else's future and destroy the lives of their loved ones, but also your own and those of your family and friends.\"\n\nAndrea Milsom, Senior Crown Prosecutor for the North East, said: \"The attack on Jack last year was as cowardly as it was senseless.\n\n\"Significantly outnumbered, Jack was chased down by a group of teenagers, some armed with weapons, before being viciously and fatally assaulted in front of his friends and other members of the public.\"\n\nThe youths have been remanded into custody ahead of sentencing.\n\nThe judge, His Honour Judge Rodney Jameson QC, excused the jurors further service for 20 years because of the amount of time they had spent on the case.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The DVSA say they have started closing down accounts not linked to driving instructors\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) says it has started to take action against companies exploiting learner drivers.\n\nA BBC investigation found that some learner drivers had paid over £200 for a practical driving test - more than double the standard fee.\n\nThe number of times a test can be changed has been reduced from 10 to the pre-pandemic limit of six.\n\nAccounts not linked to instructors on the booking system are being removed.\n\nThe DVSA is the official body that carries out driving tests in Great Britain.\n\nThe demand for driving tests caused by a backlog due to the pandemic has seen many learners turn towards a secondary market.\n\nSome are paying a nominal fee to companies which find them cancelled tests, while others are buying from sellers offering tests for vastly inflated prices.\n\nOne provider claimed to use \"AI-powered software\" to scoop up vacant test slots.\n\nDriving instructors have access to a separate part of the DVSA's booking system, which allows them to book multiple tests for their students. But the BBC found that there was little verification to check who was signing up as it was all done online.\n\nThe investigation found that tests could be swapped, meaning that operators could keep a rotating stock of tests.\n\nThe system was relatively simple to manipulate for profit, with tests booked in advance and then sold on with the buyers' details added. The BBC saw evidence of one company which booked tests encouraging driving instructors who bought tests from them to profit from learners.\n\nThe DVSA has now stopped accepting new automatic online registrations to use the service. New applications must now be done by e-mail, where they will be thoroughly checked by the agency.\n\nLoveday Ryder, the chief executive of the DVSA, said: \"We've already put in place measures to monitor and prevent bots from accessing our systems while also strengthening our firewall to tackle the issue.\n\n\"We will continue to work tirelessly to crack down on companies that are exploiting learner drivers.\n\n\"We've closed the system to new registrations and will rapidly close down accounts that do not belong to driving instructors and driving schools.\n\n\"We'll also be taking further steps to make sure all future accounts are linked to driving instructors and those with training businesses.\"\n\nThe terms and conditions of the DVSA's service are being updated to make it clear that instructors are not allowed to use it to profit from managing test bookings.\n\nIt has also started removing any accounts not linked to driving instructors from the part of its site which allows multiple test bookings.", "Robin McConnachie, pictured here with his wife, invested £12,000 in Neil Woodford's fund\n\nThree years ago, Robin McConnachie suddenly found himself unable to access money he'd invested with famed fund manger Neil Woodford.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" said the retired City banker, who had invested £12,000 in the fund which eventually collapsed.\n\nOn Friday, lawyers will file a case against the fund's administrators Link Fund Solutions, alleging they failed to properly supervise the investments.\n\nBut Link says it acted within the rules and will \"vigorously defend itself\".\n\nMr Woodford was one of the UK's most high profile stockpickers and when he set up his own managed fund, he came with an impressive reputation.\n\nAt Invesco Perpetual, where he made his name, anyone investing a pension fund of £10,000 with him at the start of his time there would have seen it grow to £250,000 by the time Mr Woodford resigned to launch his own business 26 years later.\n\nInvestors, ranging from ordinary people to pension funds, put money into the Woodford Equity Income Fund. At its peak, the fund was reportedly managing more than £10bn.\n\nBut as investors became increasingly worried about the investments being made on their behalf, many withdrew their money. More than £500m was taken out in just four weeks.\n\nThen on 3 June 2019 - three years ago today - Link froze the fund, which later collapsed.\n\n\"Link was in place to act as the referee,\" said Daniel Kerrigan, senior associate at the London firm Harcus Parker, which is bringing the case. \"They let the fund go off the rails.\"\n\nLawyers from the firm will argue Link had a duty to investors to ensure the fund was prudently managed and not overly risky. They say those duties were breached, for instance when the fund invested in unlisted start-ups instead of in large, dividend-paying stocks.\n\nBut Link says it will be \"vigorously defending\" the charges.\n\n\"A key responsibility of Link ... was, and is, to act in the best interests of all investors in the Woodford Equity Investment Fund,\" a Link spokesperson said.\n\nHe added: \"Link takes this and its other responsibilities very seriously and considers that it has acted at all times in accordance with applicable rules, as well as in the best interests of all investors, and it will continue to do so.\"\n\nIt will be up to the High Court to decide whether the fund's eventual collapse in October 2019 was Link's fault. Neither Mr Woodford himself, nor his company, is targeted by the litigation.\n\nNeil Woodford was once known as a star stockpicker\n\nA sale of the fund's assets has already allowed some money to be returned to investors.\n\nMr McConnachie has so far received just under £8000 in that process but he's hoping the lawsuit can return the rest.\n\nHaving invested into Mr Woodford's fund at Invesco Perpetual, he decided to diversify his holdings and direct some of his money in his new venture.\n\n\"He was regarded as a high-flying fund manager,\" Mr McConnachie said. \"The prospectus said the new fund will be run along similar lines.\"\n\nHe said he was so angry by the way Link acted, he decided to join the lawsuit against them.\n\n\"What Link did or didn't do is simply not acceptable and they should be called to account.\"\n\nLast year, Neil Woodford spoke publicly about the embarrassing saga, telling The Daily Telegraph he was \"very sorry for what [he] did wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"I can't be sorry for the things I didn't do. I didn't make the decision to suspend the fund, I didn't make the decision to liquidate the fund. As history will now show, those decisions were incredibly damaging to investors and they were not mine.\"\n\nMr Woodford has since set up a new investment business though it has not been welcomed by all.\n\nThe FCA has been carrying out its own investigation into the fund's collapse, and is yet to decide whether to take any action. In January, MPs urged the financial watchdog to move quickly, given the public interest in the scandal.\n\nHarcus Parker represents 7,000 investors who lost money. The initial claim against Link, lodged on Friday, represents 1,500 of those and will seek damages of an estimated £18m.\n\nA further claim relating to the same issue is being brought against Link by the firm Leigh Day. It will represent 12,000 investors.\n\n\"There are believed to be around 300,000 people affected by this issue out there,\" Mr Kerrigan said. \"We encourage people who have not signed up to do so.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen opened a new visitors centre in Dudley in 1994\n\nMillions of people will celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this weekend, but for a few it will have a personal touch.\n\nCelebrations are under way as Jubilee fever is in full swing.\n\nThe Queen has thanked the public for organising events and said \"many happy memories\" would be made.\n\nAs the nation celebrates the monarch's 70-year reign, some people in the South have shared their memories of special meetings with the Queen.\n\nHarry Dymond lives near Southampton, in Hampshire, and has seen the Queen twice in his life.\n\nHarry Dymond said he was happy to see the nation celebrating the Queen's 70-year reign\n\nHe was just 13 years old when he was chosen as a St John's Ambulance cadet to attend and help out at the Queen's coronation.\n\n\"I was so pleased and honoured to think that I would be at the coronation and could possibly see the Queen. I had no thought at that time, of course, that I might ever see her again,\" he said.\n\nBut 62 years later, he met the Queen as he received an MBE for his services to St John's Ambulance and the community.\n\n\"For that very little time you are with her, you feel like you are the only person in the world,\" Mr Dymond said.\n\n\"She's got a marvellous ability just to make you so relaxed and able to talk to her freely and simply.\"\n\nIt was when Tina Nicholls was asked to volunteer at Buckingham Palace during a hot summer day that she met the Queen.\n\nMs Nicholls said her meeting with the Queen was \"very special\"\n\nOriginally from East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Ms Nicholls travelled to London for the event.\n\n\"I went up on the day, quite nervous, not sure what to expect,\" she said.\n\nBut while she was there with other volunteers, she was told she was going to meet the Queen.\n\n\"She came down the line and she spoke to each of us in turn. We had a short chat and then she moved on,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\n\"It was the most wonderful and surreal moment of my life. I do cherish that one, it's very special to me. She is a special woman.\"\n\nBut he was head of music at a secondary school in Stourbridge, near Dudley, when he met the Queen in 1994.\n\nThe composer was asked to write a piece for the opening of the visitor centre at Dudley Town Hall.\n\nBut it was just before the event he found out that the Queen was going to open the visitor centre.\n\n\"On the day I was standing on a podium in front of a hundred primary school children who were going to sing and the Queen was sitting just behind me,\" he said.\n\nMr Block performed his piece and met the Queen afterwards.\n\n\"She asked me about the choir... it was very brief but it was memorable. I shall never forget it,\" he added.\n\nJohn Herbert, from Poole, was 23 years old when he served in the armed forces in 1963.\n\nIt was then that he met the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nJohn Herbert was serving in the armed forces in the Shetland Islands when he met the Queen\n\n\"At the time I was very young and very tense,\" he said.\n\nMr Herbert remembers being very nervous for the event and said he referred to the Duke of Edinburgh as \"your majesty\" by accident.\n\n\"I'm afraid I got completely mixed up because I was so nervous,\" Mr Herbert said.\n\nBut he added: \"I was very impressed to meet the Queen.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Amber Heard and Johnny Depp at an event together in 2015\n\n\"It wasn't meant to be a viral video. I was, like, in my pyjamas.\"\n\nYasmine Bedward, a social media manager, was speaking from a house in Jamaica about the moment her interest in the libel case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard 'blew up'.\n\n\"No one in my real life cared about my thoughts on this matter, so I turned to TikTok as we millennials do,\" said Ms Bedward, 30.\n\nHer video comparing the two psychologists who gave evidence to the celebrity libel case has now topped 4.3 million views - just a fraction below the audience figure for the evening news programme on the US television network CBS.\n\nIt has definitely \"blown up\".\n\nFor another media comparison, the number of people who watch TV news each evening in America is about 18 million. The number of views of videos on TikTok with the hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp is, at the time of this writing, about 18 billion.\n\nThe trial between two Hollywood actors turned warring ex-spouses is a reminder that when it comes to certain stories the idea of a mass media or a mainstream media dominated by a few major news organisations is beginning to look a bit creaky.\n\nIt is also, for some, deeply troubling.\n\nThere have been essentially two cases here - one decided by a jury and another by the public.\n\nAnd from its early days, it was clear the overwhelming weight of online traffic was siding with Johnny Depp and deeply suspicious of Amber Heard.\n\nThe level of doubt in polling, and from even the most cursory search of social media, was in direct contradiction of the previous libel trial in the UK, where the allegations that Ms Heard suffered domestic abuse were judged to be \"substantially true\".\n\nThe way her testimony and character has been vilified in the US trial has alarmed domestic violence campaigners.\n\nOne question now is, what impact this verdict will have? Has Mr Depp saved his career and reputation with his victory in court?\n\nBut there is also another question in the parallel \"trial by TikTok\": Who has been generating all this online traffic - and what effect has it had?\n\nJohnny Depp waving to supporters outside the courthouse on 27 May\n\nCyabra, an Israeli firm that tracks online disinformation, has been following the Depp/Heard case for weeks. It analyses accounts that are spreading memes, videos and comments and tries to assess if they are genuine members of the public.\n\nThe results so far are startling, according to the company's spokesman, Rafi Mendelsohn.\n\n\"From the beginning of the trial, we were really interested to see what people are actually saying and how much of that conversation is driven by fake accounts.\n\n\"We were amazed to see that actually nearly 11% of the conversation around the trial was driven by fake accounts, which is a very high number,\" Mr Mendelsohn said.\n\n\"To give some context, at any given conversation on average, we see maybe around 3 to 5% of the conversation involving fake accounts,\" he added.\n\nThe best comparison for a conversation with this level of bot and fake accounts would be a big election campaign, he said.\n\nAmber Heard has said she faces hundreds of death threats and online harassment each day\n\nCyabra is not alone in being interested in the level of pro-Depp online traffic.\n\nMs Heard raised the issue at the beginning of the trial, and throughout the case two Heard supporters, Cristina Taft and Daniel Brummit, have been regular visitors to the Virginia court house to voice concerns about what is happening online.\n\nThey have written a book together called Amber Heard and Bots.\n\n\"We saw new accounts and new postings in February and January,\" Ms Taft said, noting that in those two months, the Daily Mail news paper published two audio recordings of the former couple on YouTube.\n\n\"Then it went to Twitter and there are new accounts that… post like two days later,\" she said.\n\nThe problem is proving who is behind the fake accounts. All that can be said is that this pattern of fake accounts is increasingly spreading from politics to other parts of public life, according to Mr Mendelsohn of Cyabra.\n\n\"When we talk about disinformation and fake accounts, very often people think about big geopolitical campaigns, elections, politics generally,\" he said.\n\n\"But actually, what we're seeing is anyone with a global or a public reputation is a brand online, whether that's a celebrity or a consumer brand… there's an increase in the number of inauthentic profiles, but it's very difficult to know who is behind the fake accounts.\"\n\nJohnny Depp supporters taking photos outside the court on 27 May\n\nBut 11% fake still means that 89% are real. What is going on with this case?\n\nThe first obvious answer is the video feed of the courtroom.\n\nAnd it's not just the courtroom. We are seeing reaction shots of the main participants. We have been able to watch facial expressions in a way that it is impossible for even people in the room, and we have seen some extraordinary moments unrelated to the main narrative.\n\nThe sight of the doorman, Alejandro Romero, delivering his testimony via Zoom from his car while vaping and then driving off is something new even for American justice. The look on Judge Penney Azacarte's face at the end of his testimony was proof enough. It is simply compelling to watch.\n\nIt is also a puzzle. Two people arguing a completely opposed view of events that took place behind closed doors means that millions can see the evidence for themselves and make up their own mind. We can all be detectives.\n\nBut there is another and perhaps more important thing going on here. Domestic violence is an issue that touches people's lives around the planet. This case has become symbolic.\n\nFor Haider Ali in Islamabad, Pakistan, this is personal. The 27-year-old designer, whose commentary on the trial on YouTube has attracted millions of views, said he had experienced violence and identifies with what Mr Depp claims he had faced.\n\n\"I was browsing Twitter and I saw a live feed, watched it a few minutes and realised that there were a lot of things I could relate to when I heard Johnny Depp testify in court,\" he told BBC.\n\n\"Because there were a lot of similarities between Johnny Depp's case and my own. I decided to post the trial videos on my YouTube channel in the hopes to create a community of people who have also been abused,\" he said.\n\n\"My goal was to bring out people who have been silenced.\"\n\nAnd Ms Bedward, who has been getting millions of views for her TikToks, also feels personally connected.\n\n\"I just related to him [Mr Depp]... people perceive certain people in a certain way and they automatically deem them as guilty or just not a good person,\" she said.\n\n\"As a black woman in America, I experienced that…. some people are just seen as guilty without their case even being you know, proven and so I that's what brought me into it\".\n\nAnd there is another issue that has been expressed over and over again by the largely female followers of the cases. Amber Heard was an ambassador for a movement. In the wake of MeToo, she had become a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union, a charity that, among other things, represents victims of domestic abuse.\n\nFor Ms Bedward, that is deeply troubling.\n\n\"This is someone who has become the face of a movement that women have been fighting for, for years, and so to have someone be at the front of that and not be truthful is damaging to not only the organisation, but I think women overall,\" she said.\n\nSo to dismiss this case as just celebrity gossip or fan worship is to deeply misunderstand the variety of ways in which people are relating to what they are seeing.\n\nBut the scale of that reaction and its tone are also causing some to worry.\n\nDeborah Vagins, who is the head of the National Network to End Domestic Violence feels the treatment of Amber Heard will resonate widely - and not in a good way.\n\n\"Victims are watching this, and they are thinking about how will I be treated if I come forward?\" she said.\n\nThis public trial to restore a public reputation will have consequences.\n\nBut, there is also another conclusion.\n\nThis is a news story where everyone has had equal access to the source material, the journalist in court sees exactly what you see at home, the playing field has been levelled. Such access has empowered millions to engage and discuss.\n\nIt is also a news story that has broken free of the boundaries, language and stylistic conventions of traditional journalism.\n\nThere may be bots, there may be fake accounts, but the vast majority of the traffic is made up of real people who want to join a boisterous, global conversation about justice, truth and conflict in relationships.\n\nIt may not be decorous or polite, but it is a news story that has touched lives in a way that really matters to people who often feel the news is distant, dull and unconcerned with matters that affect them.\n\nThis article will likely only be read by a fraction of the number of people who have been following Ms Bedward or Mr Ali.\n\nAnd just to repeat that figure: 18 billion TikTok views.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp - the trial so far, in their own words", "Prince Harry returned to the UK with Meghan for the Jubilee celebrations\n\nFor such a high-profile couple, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have maintained a remarkably low-key presence on the first day of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's visit for the Jubilee weekend had been treated beforehand like some kind of unpredictable weather front approaching.\n\nStorms were feared. Royal officials feared the damage. But it's been very low-profile for a couple who provoke such a high level of public attention.\n\nThey watched Trooping the Colour from a window and were not part of the carriage procession or the family group allowed on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere's no escaping their big box-office status, but here they were watching from the wings.\n\nThey also dodged any airport arrival photo-fest, with suggestions the Queen sent cars to collect them from a private airport. Everything stayed under the radar.\n\nThe Queen, it is suggested, sent cars to pick up Prince Harry and Meghan from a private airport\n\nSuch a low profile is not likely to be accidental, with Prince Harry and Meghan wanting to avoid any accusations of stealing the limelight.\n\nThis is the Queen's big weekend, celebrating her 70 years as monarch, and there are likely to have been warnings about avoiding anything that could overshadow the Jubilee events.\n\nSo it's likely that Prince Harry and Meghan will have been urged to stay on-message and remain in the background, part of the backing band rather than the centre of attention.\n\nIt might be seen as building bridges. It's the Sussexes coming back to take part in a big event in a way perhaps not seen since leaving their royal roles in 2020.\n\nTheir daughter Lilibet, aged one this weekend, until this week hadn't met her great-grandmother the Queen.\n\nThis quieter approach, without appearances and interviews, might be a way of re-establishing family links and connections with home.\n\nWhile limiting the Buckingham Palace balcony to \"working royals\" meant excluding Prince Harry, Meghan and Prince Andrew, the two California-based royals were still part of the family group watching.\n\nCovid is going to keep Prince Andrew away from the Thanksgiving Service at St Paul's on Friday - an announcement on Thursday afternoon that raised some eyebrows. But Prince Harry and Meghan will be there and it will be a further sign of inclusion.\n\nIf the ambition of Buckingham Palace is for Prince Harry and Meghan to be there but not to draw attention to themselves, it won't be easy. Because there is no escaping how much public interest they generate and how easily they could start making headlines.\n\nMeghan Markle with Savannah Phillips and Mia Tindall watching Trooping the Colour\n\nIf many of the Jubilee events are rather worthy events like lighting beacons, Prince Harry and Meghan can generate media fireworks, touching on issues of race and representation, celebrity and wealth. They are a news tinderbox, even without trying.\n\nThey certainly divide opinion, provoking strong positive and negative responses. They attract and they irritate. And such interest drives media attention, not to say huge web traffic to news stories, like moths drawn to a digital light.\n\nAccording to a survey from YouGov this week, young people are more likely to be supportive of Prince Harry and Meghan. But overall the couple have lost much public sympathy in the UK, with their popularity at its lowest recorded level. But everyone has an opinion.\n\nAs the Jubilee weekend progresses there will be more attention on the Sussexes.\n\nThere have been expectations they will meet the Queen, but it's understood that any such meetings will be considered as private and any details will remain speculation.\n\nIf the appearances so far are any guide, it could be a case of cryptic smiles from a distance and a determined effort to say little. In PR terms, it might not be a bad tactic.", "The Duke of York has tested positive for coronavirus and will not attend the Queen's Jubilee thanksgiving service on Friday, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Andrew tested positive after a routine test and will miss the service \"with regret\", the palace said.\n\nIt is understood he has seen the Queen in the last few days, but not since he tested positive.\n\nAs a non-working royal, the prince did not join the Queen on the balcony during Thursday's Jubilee celebrations.\n\nHowever, he was set to join the wider Royal Family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, at a high-profile thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday.\n\nThe 62-year-old duke, who is ninth in line to the throne, was last pictured riding a horse in Windsor a day ago.\n\nPrince Andrew was last pictured riding a horse on the Royal Estate in Windsor on Wednesday\n\nThe prince stopped being a working royal when his royal titles were returned to the Crown in January, amid the fallout over his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and a US civil lawsuit.\n\nHe settled a civil sexual assault case brought against him by Virginia Giuffre, who said the duke sexually assaulted her on three occasions.\n\nThe details of the settlement have never been made public and he has consistently denied all allegations against him.\n\nThe news of his positive Covid test came as celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee began across the country.\n\nThousands of flag-waving spectators flocked to the Mall in central London to celebrate the Queen's 70 years on the throne.\n\nShe was joined by other royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a flypast in the June sunshine.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall, the Prince of Wales, Prince Louis, the Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and the Duke of Cambridge\n\nJubilee celebrations are being spread over four days of events, which began with Trooping the Colour earlier.", "Beth Harvey managed to get her money back via buy now pay later service Klarna\n\n\"Missguided is my little treat,\" said Beth Harvey who orders about once a month. But when her latest fashion parcel didn't arrive she joined a queue of customers left chasing their orders and refunds.\n\n\"I've always loved the quality of the clothing especially for a curvy woman,\" said the 25-year-old, who orders different styles and sends back what she doesn't need.\n\nBut in April she noticed her refunds weren't going through and in May her parcel didn't arrive at all.\n\nThen came the news that the fast-fashion retailer had collapsed because it owned millions of pounds to suppliers.\n\nMissguided and its sister brand, Mennace, have now been bought by Sports Direct owner Frasers Group.\n\nIt is understood 87 staff have been made redundant and 147 are expected to move over to Frasers.\n\nHowever, many customers with outstanding orders and refunds say they are still in the dark.\n\nBeth Harvey said she felt let down by Missguided\n\nFor the next eight weeks, administrators Teneo will run Missguided before its new owners take over. But Teneo won't comment on whether it will clear the backlog of customer complaints.\n\nMeanwhile, the Missguided website is still advertising offers and taking orders despite reports that its warehouse shut down last Thursday.\n\nWhen Miss Harvey asked what had happened to her order she was told an IT issue had delayed the delivery and it would get to her.\n\nThe BBC has seen multiple examples of similar messages from Missguided to customers.\n\nBut an insider claims staff were told orders were not being processed and should be cancelled and refunded with a generic response blaming IT issues.\n\n\"All orders are ultimately stuck in limbo and are being refunded if customers contact us,\" they said.\n\nMissguided told Beth Davies an IT error was to blame for her order being delayed\n\nOn Friday Miss Harvey spotted a 50% discount so ordered almost £100 worth of dresses hoping to find \"the one\" for an upcoming night out.\n\nBut her clothes have have not arrived. Miss Harvey, from Derbyshire, managed to get a refund through buy-now-pay-later service Klarna.\n\n\"It's disgusting how they've left so many women in the dark,\" she added. \"I'm an NHS worker, who works hard for their cash and I was getting really frustrated at the fact that they'd taken my money easily but it was a nightmare to get it back.\"\n\nJenessa Sawyer placed an order on Missguided US only to find the website had disappeared days later\n\nJenessa Sawyer, 23, from Maine in the US said she buys from Missguided \"religiously\" and loves their activewear and dresses.\n\n\"They're fast fashion which is convenient but the quality is pretty good and there are a good amount of options,\" she said.\n\nThe mum-of-one explained she was \"enticed\" by discounts and placed an order costing just under $100 for summer clothes on Missguided's US website.\n\nWhen she did not receive an order confirmation or her parcel she checked the app.\n\n\"The app wasn't working so I went to the website and there's absolutely nothing, it's like it never existed,\" she said.\n\nShe added the only online presence she could find for Missguided was on Twitter, where she came across many messages from other unhappy customers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It seems they're still taking orders and advertising discounts on the UK site,\" she said.\n\n\"It's strange to me as it's a big company, you feel you can trust them, you don't expect them to take off with your money.\"\n\nMiss Sawyer said she had not received a confirmation of her order from Missguided, so the only proof of her payment was with buy-now-pay later service Afterpay.\n\nBeth Davies ordered £200 of clothes from Missguided and they have not arrived\n\nBeth Davies, a 24-year-old business support manager from Sheffield, said Missguided was her go-to when she was looking for an outfit for a wedding on Saturday.\n\nShe ordered 10 items totalling almost £200 to give her options to try on and send back.\n\nWhen she didn't receive a dispatch note or her parcel she tweeted Missguided to find out what was happening.\n\nThe Manchester-based company replied saying an IT issue meant her order had not been sent by next day delivery.\n\nThe message said: \"I want to try and reassure you that your parcel is on its way…allow until Friday.\"\n\nBy then the news of Missguided's collapse had broken with i newspaper reporting the warehouse had been shut since Thursday - two days before Miss Davies placed her order.\n\n\"Yesterday I was at work feeling so frustrated. They said it's on the way when that's clearly a lie if the warehouse has been shut since last week,\" she said.\n\n\"So as it stands, I am assuming they haven't sent my items, but they happily took my money. I have asked them to cancel both orders, but haven't had a reply.\n\n\"I paid by PayPal so hopefully I will have some protection, I certainly can't afford to lose £200.\"\n\nMissguided's new owner Frasers Group said administrator Teneo was responsible for the running of the business for the next eight weeks.\n\nTeneo declined to comment on any of the claims made by customers and insiders to the BBC.", "In 2020, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp lost a UK libel lawsuit against the Sun newspaper. But on Wednesday, he won a similar lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in a US courtroom.\n\nAt the start of his recent trial, many legal experts suggested that Mr Depp had a weaker chance of winning than he did in the UK, because the US has very strong free speech protections.\n\nThe fact that the jury found that Ms Heard was guilty of defamation with an article in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse means they didn't believe her testimony.\n\nMark Stephens, an international media lawyer, told the BBC that it's \"very rare\" that essentially the same case is tried on two sides of the pond and gets different results.\n\nHe believes the main factor that influenced Mr Depp's victory in America was the fact that his US trial was before a jury while his UK trial, over an article in the British tabloid that called him a \"wife-beater\", was before a judge only.\n\n\"Amber Heard has comprehensively lost in the court of public opinion, and in front of the jury,\" he said.\n\nIn both the UK and the US trial, Mr Depp's lawyers argued that Ms Heard was lying - to make their case, they attacked her character and claimed that she was in fact the abusive partner.\n\nThis is a common defence tactic in sexual assault and domestic violence trials called \"deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender\" or \"Darvo\", said Mr Stephens.\n\nThe strategy turns the tables on the alleged victim, shifting the conversation away from \"did the accused commit abuse\" to \"is the alleged victim believable\".\n\n\"They deny that they did anything, they deny they're the real perpetrator, and they attack the credibility of the individual calling out the abuse, and then reverse the roles of the victim and the offender,\" Mr Stephens said.\n\nIn the UK trial, Mr Stephens said the judge recognised that strategy, and dismissed a lot of the evidence that did not directly address whether Mr Depp committed assault or not.\n\n\"Lawyers and judges tend not to fall for it, but it's very, very effective against juries,\" he said. Men are more likely to believe Darvo arguments, but female jurors are also susceptible.\n\n\"People have a paradigm in their mind of how a victim of abuse might be like and how they might behave, and of course we all know that's often false.\"\n\nHadley Freeman, a Guardian journalist who covered both cases, told the BBC that another major difference was the fact that the American trial was televised, turning the court case into \"almost a sports game\".\n\nEach twist and turn of the trial was watched by millions of people - many of whom turned to social media to express support for Mr Depp.\n\nOn TikTok, the hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp got about 19 billion views. The jury was instructed not to read about the case online, but they were not sequestered and they were allowed to keep their phones.\n\nMs Freeman also thinks that vitriol that the general public lobbed against Ms Heard was a \"a bit of #MeToo backlash\".\n\n\"'Believe women' seems a very long time ago when it comes to Amber Heard,\" she said.\n\nReputation: Depp v Heard. Watch key moments from the trial on iPlayer (UK-only).", "The Queen made an appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony alongside active members of the royal family, where she greeted thousands of people who gathered in London to witness the start of Platinum Jubilee celebrations.", "Amber Heard in court on 26 May\n\nAmber Heard says she felt humiliated and had faced hundreds of daily death threats after testifying at Johnny Depp's trial against her.\n\nSpeaking on the final day of the trial before closing statements, the actress said: \"Perhaps it's easy to forget, but I am a human being.\"\n\nMr Depp, 58, is suing Ms Heard, 36, over an article she wrote in which she said she was the victim of abuse.\n\nHe has repeatedly denied her claims.\n\nOver more than a month of testimony, jurors have been presented with starkly different versions of incidents that took place throughout the couple's troubled two years together.\n\nBoth actors accuse the other of being the aggressor in the relationship and have called witnesses to testify on their behalf. A number of the witnesses called by Mr Depp's team have directly contradicted Ms Heard's claims.\n\n\"I know how many people will come out and say whatever for him,\" Ms Heard said in court on Thursday. \"That's his power. That's why I wrote the op-ed. I was speaking to that phenomenon.\"\n\nMs Heard's testimony on Wednesday also led to a tense exchange with Camille Vasquez - Mr Depp's now viral lawyer - over an image of spilled wine. It is one of several pictures Ms Heard has presented, allegedly from a huge fight the couple had in 2016 which ended with Mr Depp assaulting her.\n\nAt one point, Ms Heard turned to jurors and claimed the photos had been redacted or edited by Mr Depp's lawyers to benefit her ex-husband's case.\n\n\"I'd appreciate if you wouldn't be making arguments to the jury,\" Ms Vasquez said sternly. \"I didn't ask you about anything.\"\n\nThroughout her testimony, Ms Heard repeatedly denied accusations she was lying or misled jurors during the trial.\n\nHer testimony, she added, had led to \"hundreds\" of death threats on a daily basis and forced her to \"relive the trauma\" of her marriage.\n\n\"This is horrible... this is humiliating for any human being to go through and perhaps it's easy to forget, but I am a human being,\" she said. \"As I stand here today, I can't have a career. I can't even have people associate with me because of the threats and the attacks that they will have to endure.\"\n\nMr Depp is suing Ms Heard for $50m (£40m) for a 2018 comment article she wrote in the Washington Post in which she said she was the victim of abuse.\n\nWhile he wasn't named, his attorneys have said it \"incalculably\" damaged his career. She has countersued him for $100m.\n\nClosing arguments will begin on Friday, followed by jury deliberations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Kate Moss testify: \"Did Mr Depp push you down the stairs?\"", "The crowd came from near and far - including Lea Maunder, from Germany\n\nWhen she looked up towards the Buckingham Palace balcony and saw the Queen smiling, Tiffany Scherer began to cry.\n\nThe 49-year-old had flown in from Cleveland, Ohio, to witness this moment. She wore a fascinator and carried a home-made sign that read, \"Royally obsessed,\" a description as self-aware as it was accurate.\n\nMost years she'd get up at 5am to watch Trooping the Colour - the parade to mark the official birthday of the British sovereign. But not today. There was no way she was going to miss seeing this in person on the Platinum Jubilee, marking a landmark 70 years on the throne.\n\n\"Seeing Her Majesty is something I've wanted to do all my life,\" she said. \"And today it's so much more amazing in person because of the scope of it.\"\n\nAll around, the crowd cheered. Many carried Union flags. All were here to show their goodwill to a monarch of record-breaking longevity. Tiffany's husband Chris deadpanned: \"She doesn't look a day over 90.\"\n\nTiffany and Chris Scherer had flown in from the US for the jubilee\n\nIt was a bright, clear bank holiday Thursday that marked the start of the celebrations of an unprecedented moment in British history.\n\nFour days of events began with Trooping the Colour, followed by the Queen and senior royals gathering on Buckingham Palace's balcony to watch the RAF flypast.\n\nThe crowds came from around the world and from a range of walks of life. Not all were fervent monarchists. A group of protesters briefly interrupted the ceremony before being dragged away by police. But what united most of those present was a recognition of the historic significance of the day.\n\nFor those who wanted to secure the best vantage points, an early start was a necessity. At 06:30am, Kerry Russell secured her viewing spot on The Mall.\n\nShe wore a bowler hat impaled with a Union flag and brandished another in her hand. Despite the early start she was in good cheer.\n\n\"I'm 53 - she's been here my entire life,\" said Kerry, who lives in north London. \"You just have to admire her. It's partly about celebrating her and partly about soaking up the atmosphere here today.\"\n\nAmong the spectators were many who had been touched by the Royal family in different ways. Take Bal Banga, who attributes a lifelong fascination with them to a childhood encounter.\n\n\"I saw Prince Charles when I was little,\" says Bal, 49. \"He came to Derby and he visited a Sikh temple. We all had to line up and greet him with flags.\"\n\nKerry Russell on the Queen: \"She's been here my entire life\"\n\nBal Banga had travelled from Leicester to spend the day with her son, Gavin\n\nShe'd travelled down on the train from her home in Leicester to watch the Trooping the Colour with her son Gavin, 25, who lives in London and works in telecoms. By his own admission he didn't have his mum's enthusiasm for the monarchy.\n\n\"I'm one of a newer generation,\" he said. \"I'm not a royalist. I don't care for royals.\" Nonetheless, it was an opportunity to spend time with his mum. \"The sun is shining and it's a nice day out,\" he said.\n\nLea Maunder, 22, from Halle, Germany, had arrived at 6am. She had flown in on Wednesday night, her mood undimmed despite only having one hour's sleep.\n\n\"I love the spirit of the Royal Family, I'm a big fan of the Queen,\" she said, wearing a bright red fascinator and clutching a Union Jack handbag. \"I had to dress my best for her,\" she added.\n\n\"Ever since I was a little girl I've been fascinated by all things British - I'm training to be an English teacher.\"\n\nAs the crowd thickened around the Mall, Kirsty McLaren, 26, climbed a lamppost and looked above the sea of arms all filming a marching band with their smartphones.\n\n\"It's fabulous up here,\" she said. \"I can see all the bearskins, I can see the band. And I can see all the people on the other side and their responses.\"\n\nKirsty McLaren, right, got the overnight sleeper train from St Andrew's to meet her sister, Elizabeth\n\nBee Curtis and Joshua Carter sipped Buck's Fizz as the royal carriage passed\n\nKirsty, 26, had travelled down overnight on the sleeper train from St Andrew's, Fife, where she works for a church. At London's Euston station, she met her sister Elizabeth, 32, a teacher in Essex, before making their way here.\n\nIt was the first time they'd seen each other in six months. \"We both love the Queen,\" said Elizabeth. \"We were brought up with a huge respect for her.\"\n\nAs the royal carriage swept past, Bee Curtis and Joshua Carter perched on a railing slightly above the other onlookers, sipping Buck's Fizz. Not that their elevated position gave them much of a vantage point of the royals. \"I saw their hats, which was nice,\" Bee, 27, laughed. \"Great hats though.\"\n\nCarl Wilkins came with is wife, Zoe, his three children, and their dog, Obi\n\nShazmiya Firdaus (left) and Salamath Silmy said the Queen was a role model\n\nBut for most in the crowd, getting a decent view was beside the point. Had they wanted an uninterrupted vista they could have stayed at home and watched the event on television. \"Even if you can't see anything the atmosphere is great,\" said Carl Wilkins, 43, an HGV driver, who had come along with is wife, three children, and their dog, Obi.\n\nWhat seemed to matter most of all was celebrating a woman they admired. There was also enormous sympathy for her after a difficult few years - the loss of her husband Prince Philip, the public rows over Harry and Meghan, the fallout from Prince Andrew's BBC Newsnight interview.\n\n\"She's a role model for us - the way she's managed her family and managed the Commonwealth,\" said Shazmiya Firdaus, 32, originally from Sri Lanka, but now living in Harrow, north London. \"She's such a strong personality,\" added Salamath Silmy, 35. \"I always talk to my daughter about how we have to be strong like her.\"\n\n\"It's the sense of service,\" said Kirk Paton, 42, from Cambridge. \"She's always kept above politics. When we get to Prince Charles, or rather King Charles, I just don't think I'm going to feel the same.\"\n\nAfter the parade concluded, the barriers were opened and the crowd moved slowly towards Constitution Hill and the front of Buckingham Palace. From here they could see the flypast and catch a glimpse of the Queen celebrating her 70-year-reign.\n\nWhen the monarch broke into a smile, Tiffany Scherer was not the only one there who felt the emotion of the moment.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's new era under captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum got off to a chaotic start as 17 wickets fell on the first day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nNew Zealand were bowled out for 132, only for England to slump to 116-7 in reply.\n\nFor as brilliant as England were with the ball and in the field, they were as poor with the bat as they have been in a run that has seen them win only one of their past 17 Tests.\n\nThough New Zealand won the toss, the conditions offered movement to the home side that debutant Matthew Potts and the recalled James Anderson exploited with four wickets apiece.\n\nHowever, Colin de Grandhomme's 42 not out dragged the Black Caps from 45-7, with the last three wickets adding 87 runs.\n\nStill, England were in strong positions at 59-0 and 92-2, only to lose five wickets for eight runs in a blur of inexplicable strokes.\n\nAll this on a day when Jack Leach had to be withdrawn from the match with concussion after landing awkwardly while trying to save a boundary in just the sixth over.\n\nLeach has been replaced by Lancashire leg-spinner Matt Parkinson, who started the day in Manchester and ended it on the verge of batting in his Test debut.\n• None Leach out of Test with concussion\n\nIf the expectation was that the new management would bring an all-action style to the England team, it was fulfilled on a barely believable day at Lord's, when the two sides competed to see who could put in the worse batting performance.\n\nAs everything went England's way in the morning, new skipper Stokes had few decisions to make. It may be that his most important act was to lose the toss, but there were some glimpses of an attacking intent with as many as six catchers posted in the slips.\n\nEngland utilised the conditions with a full length and caught everything - Jonny Bairstow held on to three at third slip, including two stunners.\n\nAmid the carnage, Leach was hurt, and the game was also stopped after 23 overs for applause in tribute to late Australia legend Shane Warne.\n\nFor as much as England looked reinvigorated with the ball and in the field, their batting was depressingly feeble, the rash shots all too familiar.\n\nThe late clatter of wickets was enough to drag New Zealand back into a contest that they could already have been out of.\n\nPerhaps the biggest crime of England's implosion was that New Zealand looked flattened, offering little threat, until they were given a way back into the match.\n\nIt started when Zak Crawley fell in characteristic fashion, edging a booming drive off Kyle Jamieson after playing nicely for 43.\n\nThough new number three Ollie Pope was drawn into a poke at Jamieson for only seven, all seemed calm while former captain Joe Root, who was given a rapturous reception, was at the crease.\n\nBut when Root pushed Tim Southee to gully for 11, England lost the plot.\n\nLeft-hander Alex Lees was lbw getting too far across his stumps and Stokes edged an ambitious drive, before Boult had Bairstow play on and bounced out Potts.\n\nEngland had lost five wickets in the space of 28 balls, and needed Ben Foakes and Stuart Broad to drag them to the close without sustaining further damage.\n\nFor a while, New Zealand looked a shadow of the side that won a series here 1-0 last year on the way to being crowned world Test champions - their tentative batters were preyed on by the artistry of Anderson and the energy of Potts.\n\nAnderson needed only seven balls to take Will Young's edge, with Bairstow claiming a stunning grab low to his left. 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